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Who among the following poets has been called “the Romantic Paradox”?

(a) Byron

(b) Tennyson

(c) Shelley

(d) Keats

Question’s Answer: Byron


Sensuousness in Keats Connotes;

(a) The cult of beauty

(b) The play of imagination

(c) The use of senses

(d) The return to nature

Question’s Answer: The use of senses


The subjugation of Women (1969) is an important text of:

(a) G. Elliot

(b) Byron

(c) Hardy

(d) G. Mill

Question’s Answer: G. Mill


Which poem by Tennyson is a monodrama?

(a) Maud

(b) Break, Break, Break

(c) Ulysses

(d) Crossing the Bar

Question’s Answer: Maud


“Art for arts sake” found its true. adherent in:

(a) Wilde

(b) Byron

(c) Browning

(d) Wordsworth

Question’s Answer: Wilde


Who believed that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions?

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Byron

(c) Blake

(d) Keats

Question’s Answer: Wordsworth


Which is the famous elegy written by Shelly:

(a) Adonais

(b) Lycidas

(c) In Memoriam

(d) Thyrsis

Question’s Answer: Adonais


The moral choice is everything in the works of:

(a) G. Eliot

(b) Dickens

(c) Hardy

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Dickens


Who after the publication of a poem,awoke and found him self-famous?

(a) Shelley

(b) Browning

(c) Keats

(d) Byron

Question’s Answer: Byron


It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the worst,…, is the opening of Dickens’s.

(a) A Tale of Two Cities

(b) David Copperfield

(c) Oliver Twist

(d) Hard times

Question’s Answer: Hard times


The image of the feme fatale dominates the poetry of:

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Byron

(c) Keats

(d) Tennyson

Question’s Answer: Keats


Which is illustrative of Ruskin’s interest in social economy?

(a) The Seven Lamps

(b) The Stones of Venice

(c) Unto this Last

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Unto this Last


The Elgin Marbles inspired Yeats to write:

(a) Endymion

(b) Ode to Melancholy

(c) Lamia

(d) The Grecian Urn

Question’s Answer: Lamia


Would you tell Sordello (Browning) as a:

(a) Dramatic Lyric

(b) Dramatic Monologue

(c) Tragic Drama

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Dramatic Lyric


Which following poets was appointed Poet Laureate in the year 1813:

(a) Tennyson

(b) Byron

(c) Wordsworth

(d) Southey

Question’s Answer: Southey


Which following poets named the Romantic poets as the “pound poets”:

(a) Shelley

(b) Southey

(c) Keats

(d) Byron

Question’s Answer: Southey


Little Time is a character in Hardy’s:

(a) The return of the native

(b) Mayor of Casterbridge

(c) Jude the Obscure

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Jude the Obscure


“The Charge of the Light Brigade” (Tennyson) commemorates:

(a) The Boer War

(b) The Crimean War

(c) The battle of Trafalgar

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: The Crimean War


Which is a dramatist?

(a) Byron

(b) Ben Johnson

(c) Eliot

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Ben Johnson


Which is not a play by Shakespeare?

(a) Dr. Faustus

(b) Macbeth

(c) Hamlet

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Dr. Faustus


Earnest Hemingway has written:

(a) Pride and Prejudice

(b) Mr. Chips

(c) Old Man and the Sea

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Old Man and the Sea


Who is the author of the Gulliver’s Travels?

(a) Charles Dickens

(b) Jonathan Swift

(c) Chaucer

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Jonathan Swift


Shakespeare’s Hamlet is:

(a) Comedy

(b) A Tragedy

(c) a and b

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: A Tragedy


E.M. Foster is a:

(a) Playwright

(b) Poet

(c) Novelist

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Novelist


Who was known aesthete?

(a) Ruskin

(b) Russell

(c) Huxley

(d) J.S. Mill

Question’s Answer: Huxley


The Recluse was proudly written by:

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Coleridge

(c) W. Blake

(d) Southey


Who is famous for representing London in his novels?

(b) Dickens

(a) Thackeray

(c) Hardy

(d) W. Scott

Question’s Answer: Dickens


Dorothy was the gifted sister of:

(a) R. Browning

(b) Shelley

(c) Wordsworth

(d) Coleridge


“In Memoriam” is:

(a) an ode

(b) a sonnet

(c) an elegy

(d) Neither

Question’s Answer: an elegy


Tennyson was:

(a) a romantic

(b) a Pre-Raphaelite

(c) a victorian

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: a victorian


A dominant theme in Hardy’s Novels is:

(a) Fatalism

(b) Romanticism

(c) Naturalism

(d) Classicism

Question’s Answer: Fatalism


The Frankenstein is a novel by:

(a) W. Scott

(b) Lewis

(c) Mrs. Shelley

(d) None of A, B, and C


“The Rime of the Ancient Marner” was proudly written by:

(a) W. Scott

(b) Coleridge

(c) Shelley

(d) Wordsworth


An element of the super natural is present in the poetry of:

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Coleridge

(c) Browning

(d) Byron


In which novel by Hardy are “Hayshope”, “Flint Comb Ash” and “Stonehenge” used as backdrop:

(a) A Pair of Blue Eyes

(b) Judge the Obscure

(c) Return of the Native

(d) Tess of the d’Urbervilles


“The Wuthering Heights” is a famous novel written by:

(a) C. Bronte

(b) Hardy

(c) Emile Bronte

(d) Jane Austen


Don Juan is an ironic replica of the very subject of:

(a) Childe Harold

(b) Queen Mab

(c) Prometheus

(d) The Recluse


Who is the most illustrious representative of the doctrine of utilitarianism?

(a) Huxley

(b) Russell

(c) Ruskin

(d) None of A, B, and C

Ruskin


“The Pickwick papers” is a novel by:

(a) Charles Dickens

(b) Jane Austen

(c) Thackery

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Charles Dickens

Which following is not a tragedy written by Shakespeare?

(a) Macbeth

(b) Merchant of Venice

(c) Othello

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Merchant of Venice

Who is the author of the “Jane Eyre”?

(a) Anne Bronte

(b) Emile Bronte

(c) Charlotte Bronte

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Charlotte Bronte

After whom is the Elizabethan Age named?

(a) Elizabeth II

(b) Elizabeth I

(c) Elizabeth Browning

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Elizabeth I

What is the name of Wordsworth’s long poem?

(a) The Prelude

(b) Don Juan

(c) The Canterbury Tales

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: The Prelude

A poem mourning some one’s death is called:

(b) Elegy

(a) Fable

(c) Epic

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Elegy

Who is the author of the “The Second Coming””?

(a) W.B. Yeats

(b) Eliot

(c) E. Spencer

(d) None of A, B, and C

W.B. Yeats

Who is the heroine of Shakespeare’s Play ‘Hamlet’?

(a) Ophelia

(b) Desdemona

(c) Portia

(d) Cordelia

Ophelia

What period in English Literature is called the “Augustan Age”?

(a) Early 16th Century

(b) 17th Century

(c) Early 19th Century

(d) Early 18th Century

Early 18th Century


Which play among the following plays is not blank verse:

(a) Pygmalion

(b) The Jew of Malta

(c) Hamlet

(d) None of A, B, and C

Pygmalion


Which following writers is not a women?

(a) Robert Browning

(b) Jane Austen

(c) Emily Bronte

(d) None of A, B, and C

Robert Browning


Which is the last of Shakespeare’s great tragedies?

(a) Macbeth

(b) Hamlet

(c) Othello

(d) King Lear

King Lear


Who is the Villain in “Hamlet”?

(a) Claudius

(b) Iago

(c) Horatio

(d) None of A, B, and C

Claudius


Who kills Macbeth in the Play “Macbeth”?

(a) Macduff

(b) Banquo

(c) Duncan

(d) None of A, B, and C

Macduff


Wordsworth’s Poetry always reflects:

(a) The creation of an original philosophy

(b) An endorsement of the scientific tradition

(c) The creation of abstract concepts

(d) An examination of extraneous matters

(e) His belief in a world to come

Question’s Answer: The creation of an original philosophy


The literary figure that had the most pronounced affect on Keats was:

(a) Dante

(b) Wordsworth

(c) Shakespeare

(d) Shelley

Question’s Answer: Shakespeare


The prose of the Romantic period had a tendency to:

(a) Advance and writer to draw on his own personality

(b) Be brooding and meditative

(c) Allow the writer to draw on his own personality

(d) Objectify the issue in terms of a cause

Question’s Answer: Objectify the issue in terms of a cause


Which would a Romantic Poet be most likely to use?

(a) A “feathered chorister”

(b) A “Member of the plumy race”

(c) An Airy fairy

(d) A “tenant of the sky”

(e) A “bird”

Question’s Answer: An Airy fairy

Romanticism (if it can be pinpointed) is usually assumed to date from:

(a) Publication of “Intimations of Immortality”

(b) The beginning of Queen Victoria’s reign

(c) Publication of “Lyrical Ballads” and its preface

(d) The Reform Bill of 1832

(e) 1800-1801

Question’s Answer: Publication of “Lyrical Ballads” and its preface

Charles Lamb’s “Dream Children” is notable for its:

(a) Whimsical Pathos

(b) Humor

(c) Crushing tragedy

(d) Cynicism

Question’s Answer: Whimsical Pathos


Shelly was a firm believer in all of the following except:

(a) Personal freedom

(b) Human conducts based on conviction

(c) The power of love

(d) The individual responsibility to Society

Question’s Answer: Human conducts based on conviction


The Victorian age can be dated by Which events and years:

(a) Mills “on liberty” (1859) to end of century (1900)

(b) Reform Bill (1832) to end of Boer War (1902)

(c) Tennyson’s Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830) to death of Queen Victoria (1901)

(d) Birth of Tennyson (1809) to his death (1892)

Question’s Answer: Tennyson’s Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830) to death of Queen Victoria (1901)


Wordsworth’s Poetry always reflects:

(a) The creation of abstract concepts

(b) An endorsement of the scientific tradition

(c) His belief in a world to come.

(d) An examination of extraneous matters

(e) The creation of an original philosophy

Question’s Answer: The creation of an original philosophy


Byron’s Poetry is ambiguous and has a vividness of phrasing which sometimes reaches the point of

abstraction:

(a) Partially true

(b) False

(c) True

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: True


Which works had the greatest influence on the Victorian Age?

(a) Mill’s, “On Liberty”

(b) Ruskin’s “The Stones of Venice”

(c) Darwin’s “Origin of Species”

(d) Tennyson’s “In memoriam”

Question’s Answer: Tennyson’s “In memoriam”


Shelley’s poetry used all of the following components for themes except:

(a) Worship of God

(b) Passion

(c) Narcissism

(d) Emotional self-indulgence

Question’s Answer: Worship of God


In Which Genres did Victorian Literature achieve its greatest success:

(a) Drama

(b) Epic Poetry

(c) The Essay

(d) The Novel

Question’s Answer: The Novel


Romanticism (if it can be pinpointed) is usually assumed to date from:

(a) Publication of “Intimations ofImmortality”

(b) Publication of “Lyrical Ballads” and its preface

(c) The Reform Bill of 1832

(d) The beginning of Queen Victoria’s reign

(e) 1800-1801

Question’s Answer: Publication of “Lyrical Ballads” and its preface


Which would a Romantic Poet be most likely to use?

(a) A “feathered chorister”

(b) A “member of the plumy race”

(c) An “airy fairy”

(d) A “tenant of the sky”

(e) A “bird”.

Question’s Answer: An “airy fairy”


Paradise Lost is an epic by:

(a) Milton

(b) Chaucer

(c) Spenser

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Milton


Which is not a play by Shakespeare?

(a) Tempest

(b) King Lear

(c) Pygmalion

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Pygmalion


Who is the author of “After Strange Gods”?

(a) Eliot

(b) Robert Frost

(c) Shaw

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Eliot


“After Apple Picking” is written by:

(a) Robert Frost

(b) Robert Browning

(c) Both (a) and (b)

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Robert Frost


Which is not a dramatist?

(a) Eliot

(b) Ben Johnson

(c) S. Backet

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Eliot


Who is the Villain in ‘Hamlet”?

(a) Horatio

(b) Claudius

(c) lago

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Claudius

Who is the author of the “Shakespeare’s Later Comedies”?

(a) A.C. Bradley

(b) Dr. Johnson

(c) Palmer D.J.

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Palmer D.J.


Who is the heroine of ‘Hamlet’?

(a) Ophelia

(b) Portia

(c) Cordelia

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Ophelia


Who is the author of the ‘Common Pursuit”?

(a) E.M. Forster

(b) Cecil, D.

(c) Leavis, F.R.

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Leavis, F.R.


Ernest Hemingway wrote:

(a) Old Man and the Sea

(b) Pride and Prejudice

(c) Mr. Chips

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Old Man and the Sea


Importance of Being Earnest’ was proudly written by:

(a) Browning

(b) O. Wilde

(c) Blake

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: O. Wilde


Lucy Gray’ is a poem and who is the poet?:

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Coleridge

(c) Keats

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Wordsworth


Who said this “poetry is the Criticism of life”:

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Byron

(c) Arnold

(d) T.S. Eliot

Question’s Answer: Arnold


The Revolt of Islam was proudly written by:

(a) Shelley

(b) Coleridge

(c) Wordsworth

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Shelley


‘The Lotus Eaters’ was proudly written by:

(a) Tennyson

(b) Byron

(c) Blake

(d) Keats

(e) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Tennyson


‘Andres del Sarto’ is a poem and who is the poet?:

(a) Tennyson

(b) Keats

(c) Browning

(d) T.S. Eliot

Question’s Answer: Browning


Ruskin is famous for:

(a) A Social Reformer

(b) Being a Critic of Art

(c) A Moral Teacher

(d) All of A, B, and C

A Social Reformer


Stephen Guest is an important character in ONE of the following novels of G.Eliot:

(a) Silas Marner

(b) Adam Bede

(c) The Mill on the Floss

(d) None of A, B, and C

The Mill on the Floss


“Intellectual Beauty” is written by:

(a) P.B. Shelley

(b) Huxley

(c) Bertrand Russell

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: P.B. Shelley


Who is the author of the “The Pilgrim’s Progress”?

(a) Daniel Defoe

(b) John Bunyan

(c) Dryden

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: John Bunyan

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