1. : When did Lamb produce his Essays of Elia?
(A) 1823
(B) 1829
(C) 1797
(D) 1805
2. : What is the cause of popularity of English essayist Charles Lamb?
(A) Essays of Elia
(B) Short Stories
(C) Lyrics
(D) Tales from William Shakespeare
3. : Jane Austen and Charles Lamb (English essayist) were born in the same year, i.e.
(A) 1770
(B) 1772
(C) 1785
(D) 1775
4. : Who had an afflicted sister?
(A) Charles Lamb (English essayist)
(B) Wordsworth
(C) Scott
(D) William Shakespeare
5. : Who wrote, “For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die”?
(A) John Keats
(B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(C) Lamb
(D) Shelley
6. : Which author viewed all of reading as a kind of romantic journey into new and pleasant countries?
(A) Leigh Hunt
(B) Charles Lamb (English essayist)
(C) De Quincey
(D) William Hazlitt (English essayist)
7. : Who is the author of Rosamund Gray?
(A) Lamb
(B) Dickens
(C) Johnson
(D) Kipling
8. : Whose work, along with Lamb’s, had a significant impact on John Keats’ final and greatest collection of poetry?
(A) De Quincey
(B) William Hazlitt (English essayist)
(C) Leigh Hunt
(D) P. B. Shelley
9. : The Specimens of English Dramatic Poets was the creation of
(A) Addison
(B) William Hazlitt (English essayist)
(C) Lamb
(D) Bacon
10. : John Woodvil is a drama by
(A) Shelley
(B) Wordsworth
(C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(D) Lamb
11. : Leigh Hunt wrote continuously for more than
(A) 15 years
(B) 20 years
(C) 30 years
(D) 25 years
12. : William Hazlitt (English essayist)’s The Spirit of the Age was released in the year
(A) 1820
(B) 1825
(C) 1823
(D) 1822
13. : Confessions of an English Opium Eater was the creation of
(A) Leigh Hunt
(B) Thomas Cooper
(C) Robert Southey
(D) De Quincey
14. : Which author has been called “the psychologist of style”?
(A) Leigh Hunt
(B) Thomas De Quincey
(C) Charles Lamb (English essayist)
(D) John Keats (English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets)
15. : Of the following works of De Quincey, which is a novel?
(A) Suspiria de Profundis
(B) The English Mail Coach
(C) Klosterheim
(D) Joan of Arc
16. : Leigh Hunt, a poet linked with John Keats, was born in 1784 and passed away in
(A) 1850
(B) 1859
(C) 1849
(D) 1840
17. : In whose works was life seen as nebulous and chaotic?
(A) Leigh Hunt
(B) John Keats (English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets)
(C) Thomas De Quincey
(D) P. B. Shelley
18. : According to whom, “Not to sympathize is not to understand”?
(A) Addison
(B) De Quincey
(C) Eliot
(D) Arnold
19. : Which periodical founded in 1820 encouraged De Quincey?
(A) Blackwood’s Magazine
(B) London Magazine
(C) Fraser’s Magazine
(D) Edinburgh Review
20. : Which of these authors was an opium addict?
(A) Charles Lamb (English essayist)
(B) Leigh Hunt
(C) Thomas De Quincey
(D) William Hazlitt (English essayist)
21. : Which work of De Quincey reveals his grotesque humour?
(A) The Revolt of the Tartars
(B) Confessions of an English Opium Eater
(C) Murder Known as
(D) The English Mail Coach
22. : When was Thomas De Quincey born?
(A) 1782
(B) 1785
(C) 1790
(D) 1783
23. : Who fled the Manchester Grammar School after concluding that the instruction was much below his level of ability?
(A) Lord Byron
(B) Thomas De Quincey
(C) Leigh Hunt
(D) Charles Lamb (English essayist)
24. : Literary Reminiscences is the most illuminating critical work of
(A) Thomas De Quincey
(B) Lord Byron
(C) Leigh Hunt
(D) William Hazlitt (English essayist)