This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Overview > English Literature (1) – Quiz 99 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Literature (1) Quiz 99 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What percentage of Chaucer's vocabulary is estimated to be French in origin? A) 5-10%. B) 10-15%. C) 15-20%. D) 20-25%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 20-25%. 2. The sea life is effected because of the burning of X-press Pearl A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 3. When about noon, as the sun passed the meridian, hethought he felt a little breeze of wind in his face, springingup from ..... write the direction. A) SSE. B) NNW. C) SSW. D) NNE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) SSE. 4. Vigour meaning? A) Weak. B) Strong. C) Energy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Energy. 5. Who met Caesura's ghost? A) Brutus. B) Antonio. C) Bottom. D) Claudius. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brutus. 6. The Canterbury Tales is written by? A) John Gower. B) William Langland. C) Geoffrey Chaucer. D) John Milton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Geoffrey Chaucer. 7. Life is precious, we should live A) Happily. B) By wasting. C) By squandering money. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Happily. 8. Which country's Romanticism was especially focused on drama and literary criticism? A) England. B) Italy. C) Germany. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) France. 9. Who often had funny story to tell? A) Dad. B) Mum. C) Devi. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dad. 10. She always want to stay beside me. The object of preposition above is ..... A) Object Pronoun. B) Noun. C) Adjective. D) Adverb. E) They tend. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Object Pronoun. 11. What are ballads? A) Romantic stories usually set up to be sung. B) Narrative songs that have been preserved by oral transmission. C) Poems. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrative songs that have been preserved by oral transmission. 12. What is alliterative verse? A) Words in the same line start with the same letter. B) Break, pause. C) Using metaphors. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Words in the same line start with the same letter. 13. He was so confused that he left before the lecture ..... over. A) Is. B) Was. C) Has. D) Have. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was. 14. "Talking brought me here ..... "What technique is used here? A) Irony. B) Simile. C) Visual Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 15. What evidence best supports the inference that Anil knew the narrator took his money? A) "I hurried back to the room feeling nervous.". B) "But when I took the note, I saw it was still wet from the night's rain.". C) "In the morning he would probably have given me two or three rupees to go to the cinema, but now I had it all.". D) "I smiled at Anil in my most appealing way.". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "But when I took the note, I saw it was still wet from the night's rain.". 16. What is the nationality of J.K Rowling? A) American. B) Scottish. C) British. D) Canadian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) British. 17. What did the child wanted to have from the flower shop? A) He wanted a garland of Gulmohur. B) He wanted roses. C) He wanted lilies. D) He wanted lotuses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He wanted a garland of Gulmohur. 18. ..... dawned bright and clear. A) Tenth April. B) Tenth May. C) Tenth June. D) Tenth July. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tenth May. 19. What criticism has been raised about the courtroom proceedings? A) The presiding duke is impartial. B) Portia is married to the defendant. C) Shylock is biased. D) The trial is unjust. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The trial is unjust. 20. Prothalamion is "a Spousall Verse in Honour of the Double Marriage" of: A) Elizabeth and Katherine. B) Elizabeth and Mary. C) Katherine and Mary. D) Mary and Isabella. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elizabeth and Katherine. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesEnglish Literature (1) Quiz 1English Literature (1) Quiz 2English Literature (1) Quiz 3English Literature (1) Quiz 4English Literature (1) Quiz 5English Literature (1) Quiz 6English Literature (1) Quiz 7English Literature (1) Quiz 8English Literature (1) Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books