Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 59 (20 MCQs)

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1. 'The Metaphysical Poets' is a critical essay by:

Correct Answer: B) T. S. Eliot.

2. Who is the author of the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'

Correct Answer: A) Jules Verne.

3. 'Oedipus Rex' is written by-

Correct Answer: D) Sophocles.

4. The treatise 'On Liberty' was written by:

Correct Answer: C) Mill.

5. What book argues that the state must have central authority to manage behavior?

Correct Answer: B) Leviathan.

6. Who was the greatest dramatist of English literature?

Correct Answer: C) William Shakespeare.

7. "Gyre" is a favorite symbol with

Correct Answer: B) Yeats.

8. Why does the tiger snarl?

Correct Answer: A) To show his anger and helplessness.

9. "The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more." These lines are from the poem

Correct Answer: A) The Solitary Reaper by Wordsworth.

10. Who was 'Poet Laureate'?

Correct Answer: A) Alfred Tennyson.

11. Pulitzer Prize was first awarded in the year

Correct Answer: C) 1917.

12. For which one Toni Morrison won Nobel Prize?

Correct Answer: A) Beloved.

13. What is Quinzaine?

Correct Answer: D) A fifteen line stanza.

14. Total number of categories for which Pulitzer Prize has been awarded

Correct Answer: D) 21.

15. Maggie is the central character in George Eliot's:

Correct Answer: C) The Mill on the Floss.

16. Who is known for his theory of psycho-analysis?

Correct Answer: A) Sigmund Freud.

17. Where does the tiger look at in the night?

Correct Answer: B) Brilliant stars.

18. Henry Higgins is a character in:

Correct Answer: A) Pygmalion.

19. When was John Wycliffe born? -When did John Wycliffe die?

Correct Answer: A) 1330-1384.

20. What the term Renaissance refers?

Correct Answer: A) Revival or rebirth.