Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 42 (20 MCQs)

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1. Riders to the Sea is written by an Irish dramatist-

Correct Answer: C) J.M Synge.

2. Who is the hero of Paradise Regained

Correct Answer: A) Christ.

3. Which of the following is a 19th century woman novelist?

Correct Answer: D) George Eliot.

4. What is 'Parable'?

Correct Answer: A) An allegorical story usually containing a moral lesson.

5. 'Verslibre' is called as:

Correct Answer: A) Free Verse.

6. Which of the following poet was not awarded the Nobel Prize?

Correct Answer: D) Milton.

7. Keats belong to .....

Correct Answer: B) Nineteenth century.

8. Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate in:

Correct Answer: C) 1850.

9. The phrase 'trunk less legs' in the poem 'Ozymandias' refers to .....

Correct Answer: C) Legs without body.

10. To whom did Edmund Spencer dedicate his sonnet sequence?

Correct Answer: C) Elizabeth Boyle.

11. Who wrote an epic 'The Faerie Queen'?

Correct Answer: A) Edmund Spenser.

12. The Good Earth has been written by-

Correct Answer: D) Pearl S. Buck.

13. Who awarded Pulitzer Prize to Robert Frost?

Correct Answer: B) John F. Kennedy.

14. Jane Austen was a/an?

Correct Answer: C) Novelist.

15. 'Songs of Experience' written by Blake was published in:

Correct Answer: B) 1794.

16. 'Water, water, everywhere, not a drop to drink' the composer of .....

Correct Answer: B) S. T. Coleridge.

17. 'O Lady! We receive but what we give'-has been quoted from

Correct Answer: D) Dejection: An Ode.

18. Who is the writer of "Absalom and Achitophel" ?

Correct Answer: C) John Dryden.

19. William Faulkner was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:

Correct Answer: A) 1949.

20. In iambic pentameter, which syllable in the foot is stressed?

Correct Answer: B) Second.