CSS English Literature MCQs

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

(a) Byron

(b) Tennyson

(d) Keats

Question’s Answer: Byron

Sensuousness in Keats Connotes;

(a) The cult of beauty

(b) The play of imagination

(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

(d) G. Mill

Question’s Answer: G. Mill

Which poem by Tennyson is a monodrama?

(a) Maud

(b) Break, Break, Break

(d) Crossing the Bar

Question’s Answer: Maud

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

(a) Wilde

(b) Byron

(d) Wordsworth

Question’s Answer: Wilde

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

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Byron

(d) Keats

Question’s Answer: Wordsworth

Which is the famous elegy written by Shelly:

(a) Adonais

(b) Lycidas

(d) Thyrsis

Question’s Answer: Adonais

The moral choice is everything in the works of:

(a) G. Eliot

(b) Dickens

(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

(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

(d) Hard times

Question’s Answer: Hard times

The image of the feme fatale dominates the poetry of:

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Byron

(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

(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

(d) The Grecian Urn

Question’s Answer: Lamia

Would you tell Sordello (Browning) as a:

(a) Dramatic Lyric

(b) Dramatic Monologue

(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

(d) Southey

Question’s Answer: Southey

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

(a) Shelley

(b) Southey

(d) Byron

Question’s Answer: Southey

Little Time is a character in Hardy’s:

(a) The return of the native

(b) Mayor of Casterbridge

(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

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: The Crimean War

Which is a dramatist?

(a) Byron

(b) Ben Johnson

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Ben Johnson

Which is not a play by Shakespeare?

(a) Dr. Faustus

(b) Macbeth

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Dr. Faustus

Earnest Hemingway has written:

(a) Pride and Prejudice

(b) Mr. Chips

(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

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Jonathan Swift

Shakespeare’s Hamlet is:

(a) Comedy

(b) A Tragedy

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: A Tragedy

E.M. Foster is a:

(a) Playwright

(b) Poet

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Novelist

Who was known aesthete?

(a) Ruskin

(b) Russell

(d) J.S. Mill

Question’s Answer: Huxley

The Recluse was proudly written by:

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Coleridge

(d) Southey

Who is famous for representing London in his novels?

(b) Dickens

(a) Thackeray

(d) W. Scott

Question’s Answer: Dickens

Dorothy was the gifted sister of:

(a) R. Browning

(b) Shelley

(d) Coleridge

“In Memoriam” is:

(a) an ode

(b) a sonnet

(d) Neither

Question’s Answer: an elegy

Tennyson was:

(a) a romantic

(b) a Pre-Raphaelite

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: a victorian

A dominant theme in Hardy’s Novels is:

(a) Fatalism

(b) Romanticism

(d) Classicism

Question’s Answer: Fatalism

The Frankenstein is a novel by:

(a) W. Scott

(b) Lewis

(d) None of A, B, and C

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

(a) W. Scott

(b) Coleridge

(d) Wordsworth

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

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Coleridge

(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

(d) Tess of the d’Urbervilles

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

(a) C. Bronte

(b) Hardy

(d) Jane Austen

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

(a) Childe Harold

(b) Queen Mab

(d) The Recluse

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

(a) Huxley

(b) Russell

(d) None of A, B, and C

Ruskin

“The Pickwick papers” is a novel by:

(a) Charles Dickens

(b) Jane Austen

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(d) None of A, B, and C

W.B. Yeats

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

(a) Ophelia

(b) Desdemona

(d) Cordelia

Ophelia

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

(a) Early 16th Century

(b) 17th 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

(d) None of A, B, and C

Pygmalion

Which following writers is not a women?

(a) Robert Browning

(b) Jane Austen

(d) None of A, B, and C

Robert Browning

Which is the last of Shakespeare’s great tragedies?

(a) Macbeth

(b) Hamlet

(d) King Lear

King Lear

Who is the Villain in “Hamlet”?

(a) Claudius

(b) Iago

(d) None of A, B, and C

Claudius

Who kills Macbeth in the Play “Macbeth”?

(a) Macduff

(b) Banquo

(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

(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

(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

(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”

(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

(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

(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

(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)

(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

(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

(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”

(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

(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

(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

(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”

(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

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Milton

Which is not a play by Shakespeare?

(a) Tempest

(b) King Lear

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Pygmalion

Who is the author of “After Strange Gods”?

(a) Eliot

(b) Robert Frost

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Eliot

“After Apple Picking” is written by:

(a) Robert Frost

(b) Robert Browning

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Robert Frost

Which is not a dramatist?

(a) Eliot

(b) Ben Johnson

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Eliot

Who is the Villain in ‘Hamlet”?

(a) Horatio

(b) Claudius

(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

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Palmer D.J.

Who is the heroine of ‘Hamlet’?

(a) Ophelia

(b) Portia

(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.

(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

(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

(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

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Wordsworth

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

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Byron

(d) T.S. Eliot

Question’s Answer: Arnold

The Revolt of Islam was proudly written by:

(a) Shelley

(b) Coleridge

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Shelley

‘The Lotus Eaters’ was proudly written by:

(a) Tennyson

(b) Byron

(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

(d) T.S. Eliot

Question’s Answer: Browning

Ruskin is famous for:

(a) A Social Reformer

(b) Being a Critic of Art

(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

(d) None of A, B, and C

The Mill on the Floss

“Intellectual Beauty” is written by:

(a) P.B. Shelley

(b) Huxley

(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

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: John Bunyan

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