This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 16 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which work was the most famous of Geoffrey Chaucer? A) The Book of the Duchess. B) Anelida and Arcite. C) The Canterbury Tales. D) Parlement of Foules. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Canterbury Tales. 2. "Thought Fox" is written by: A) Ted Hughes. B) Heaney. C) Sylvia Plath. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ted Hughes. 3. 'The Waste Land' is a/an? A) Epic. B) Poem. C) Novel. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poem. 4. Hemingway was a great fan of: A) Cricket. B) Baseball c softball. C) Football. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Baseball c softball. 5. The last line of 'To daffodils' is ..... A) Ne'er to be seen again. B) Vanish like summer's rain. C) Ne're to be found again. D) As quack a growth of meet decay. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ne're to be found again. 6. The image of the femme fatale dominates the poetry of: A) Wordsworth. B) Keats. C) Byron. D) Tennyson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Keats. 7. Which sonnet form has three quatrains and a couplet? A) Shakespearean/English. B) Petrarchan/Italian. C) Neither. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shakespearean/English. 8. Who translated the Bible into English for the first time? A) Nicolas Udall. B) Thomas Norton. C) John Wycliffe. D) Edmund Spenser. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Wycliffe. 9. What the term Elegy refers? A) A song of lamentation. B) A song of pleasure. C) A hymn. D) A praiseworthy song. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A song of lamentation. 10. Oedipus is written by the dramatist- A) Aristophanes. B) Homer. C) Ovid. D) Sophocles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sophocles. 11. Which of the following periods of English literature came last? A) The Elizabethan Age. B) The Commonwealth Period. C) The Jacobean Age. D) The Middle English Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Commonwealth Period. 12. What is a Miracle Play? A) A play of tragedy. B) A play of comedy. C) A play in fiction. D) A supernatural religious drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A supernatural religious drama. 13. Which of the following writer rejected Nobel Prize? A) Samuel Becket. B) Heaney. C) Leo Tolstoy. D) Ja Paul Satre. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ja Paul Satre. 14. In 1905, Virginia Woolf began to write for which publication? A) The Time's Literary Supplement. B) The Lady's Home Journal. C) Strand Magazine. D) Reader Magazine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Time's Literary Supplement. 15. What important event happened for women in 1920? A) They were allowed to keep their own last names. B) They were allowed to work in business offices. C) They were allowed to vote. D) They were allowed to earn equal pay with men. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They were allowed to vote. 16. The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is: A) The Taming of the Shrew. B) As you Like it. C) Two Gentlemen of Verona. D) Titus Andronicus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Titus Andronicus. 17. Who is known as the father of English drama? A) Henry Fielding. B) William Shakespeare. C) Geoffrey Chaucer. D) Robert Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Shakespeare. 18. Who wrote 'The Nun's Priest's Tale'? A) Shelley. B) T.S. Eliot. C) Chaucer. D) Donne. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chaucer. 19. What is an Epigram? A) A terse and witty statement. B) A short fiction. C) A long poem. D) A wise man. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A terse and witty statement. 20. How many during of times Robert Frost taught? A) 1916 to 1928. B) 1926 to 1938. C) 1916 to 1938. D) 1916 to 1948. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1916 to 1938. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMiscelleneous Questions Quiz 1Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 2Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 3Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 4Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 5Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 6Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 7Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 8Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 9Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books