English Literature Repeated Important MCQs

Hyperion by Keats may be classified as:

(a) An Epic

(b) Sonnet

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: An Epic

Hemingway wrote:

(a) The Rivals

(b) The Sun Also Rises

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: The Sun Also Rises

T.S. Eliot wrote:

(a) The Pasture

(b) Birches

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: The Waste Land

Gulliver’s Travels’ is a:

(a) Satire

(b) Tragedy

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Satire

Shakespeare uses soliloquy for:

(a) Establishing the theme

(b) Dramatic Purposes

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Revelation of character

Pantheism, to Wordsworth, meant;

(a) His interest in God

(b) Interest in Nature

(d) Manifestation of God in Objectives of Nature

Question’s Answer: Manifestation of God in Objectives of Nature

The Line “Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty that’s all” occurs in Keats’s poem:

(a) Ode to Nightingale

(b) Ode to Autumn

(d) Ode on a Grecian Urn

Question’s Answer: Ode on a Grecian Urn

Which elements are associated with Shelley in nature

(a) The spiritual and the musical

(b) The soft and the sweet

(d) The charming and the magical

Question’s Answer: The spiritual and the musical

Maggie is the Central Character in George Eliot’s:

(a) The Mill on the Floss

(b) Middle March

(d) Adam Bede

Question’s Answer: The Mill on the Floss

The following book consists of Ruskin’s Lectures:

(a) The Seven Lamps of Architecture

(b) The Stones of Venice

(d) Modern Painter

Question’s Answer: The Stones of Venice

Who is the writer of “Auguries of Innocence”

(a) Keats

(b) Blake

(d) Browning

Question’s Answer: Blake

Ode to Nightingale “Indicates Keats’s”?

(a) Lover for a nightingale

(b) His interest in the music of birds

(d) An experience in a real world

Question’s Answer: His escape in a word of beauty

Which thing of Sylvia caused of her popularity?

(b) Poems

(a) Novel

(d) Plays

Question’s Answer: Poems

Dickens, at his best, is known as;

(a) A delineator of the ‘Victorian Upper class

(b) A social reformer

(d) A portrait-painter of his age

Question’s Answer: A portrait-painter of his age

“The Last Ride Together” is a

(a) A novel by George Eliot

(b) A Play by Oscar Wilde

(d) A monologue by Robert Browning

Question’s Answer: A monologue by Robert Browning

Thomas Hardy is:

(a) A social satirist

(b) A fatalist

(d) A painter of English peasantry

Question’s Answer: A fatalist

Eustacia Vye is the heroine is Hardy’s:

(a) The Mayor of Caster bridges

(b) The return of the Native

(d) Jude the obscure

Question’s Answer: The return of the Native

In his poetry, Tennyson is:

(a) The best nature poet

(b) A mirror of the Romanticism

(d) The representative poet of the Victorian Age

Question’s Answer: The representative poet of the Victorian Age

The line “she dwells with Beauty Beauty that must be” occurs in Keat’s:

(a) Lamia

(b) Ode to a Grecian Urn

(d) Ode on Melancholy

Question’s Answer: Ode on Melancholy

The Character of Little Nell is a creation of:

(a) Oscar Wilde

(b) Eliot

(d) Hardy

Question’s Answer: Oscar Wilde

“Idylls of the King” is illustration to Tennyson’s deep interest in:

(a) Medieval legends

(b) The contemporary condition

(d) The role of the king

Question’s Answer: The role of the king

Negative capability to Keats, meant:

(a) To empathize

(b) Say bad things about others

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: To empathize

The heroine of Pride and Prejudice is:

(a) Emma

(b) Lydia

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Elizabeth

“The Conduct of the Allies’ is a famous work of:

(a) Oliver Goldsmith

(b) Samuel Johnson

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Jonathan Swift

After whom the Elizabethan Age is named:

(a) Elizabeth II

(b) Elizabeth I

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Elizabeth I

Who is the author of the “20” Century Views”?

(a) Abrahams. M.H.

(b) Bertrand Russell

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Palmer, D.J.

‘Desert Places’ is a:

(a) Play

(b) Poem

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Poem

William Shakespeare was born in:

(a) 1534

(b) 1564

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: 1564

Francis Bacon pass away in:

(a) 1616

(b) 1648

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: 1626

The period between 1660 to 1750 is known as:

(a) The Age of Classicism

(b) The age of Milton

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: The Restorations

The University wits were:

(a) Poets

(b) Novelists

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Playwrights

Thy, Damnation, Slumbereth, Not”. Name the writer, his book and the character who corrected/ wrote thesewords.

(a) Christopher Marlow

(b) Dr. Faustus

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Dr. Faustus

‘Unto this Last’ is a book written by:

(a) Ruskin on social reforms

(b) Carlyle on moral reforms

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Ruskin on social reforms

In Adam Jonathan birth is a:

(a) Carpenter

(b) Builder

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Both (a) & (b)

Philip Wakem, Aunt Pullet and Tom Tulliver are the characters of G.Eliot novel:

(a) Silas Mainer

(b) The Mill on the Floss

(d) Adam Bede

Question’s Answer: The Mill on the Floss

In Memoriam by Tennyson is:

(a) A dramatic lyric

(b) A collection of elegies

(d) An elegy

(e) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: An elegy

The abstract theory of utilitarianism is the theme of Dickens’ novel:

(a) Bleak House

(b) Hard Times

(d) Great Expectations

(e) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Hard Times

The Poem, ‘The marriage of Heaven and Hell’ was proudly written by:

(a) Shelley

(b) Browning

(d) Blake

(e) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Blake

‘Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty’s form Glasses itself in tempest’

(a) Roll on, Thou deep and dark Blue Ocean

(b) Waterloo

Question’s Answer: Roll on, Thou deep and dark Blue Ocean

Dickens give a tragic picture of the French Revolution in his novel:

(a) Little Dorrit

(b) A Tale of Two Cities.

(d) Hard Times

Question’s Answer: A Tale of Two Cities.

Love of political freedom, always the nobles of Byron’s passions, inspired him to write:

(a) Manfred

(b) The Island

(d) The Prisoner of Chillon

Question’s Answer: The Prisoner of Chillon

Name the character of a novel of Thomas Hardy, which is much like. Oedipus, King Lear and Faust.

(a) Gabriel

(b) Tess

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Tess

According to Mathew Arnold: “An ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous. wings in vain”. About:

(a) Keats

(b) Shelly

(d) Blake

(e) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Shelly

For whom it is said: “sensuousness is a paramount bias of high genius”.

(a) Keats

(b) Blake

(d) Shelley

(e) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Keats

A pioneer in psychological analysis in fiction is:

(a) Charles Dickens

(b) Thackeray

(d) Charlotte

(e) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: G. Eliot

An aesthetic delight in art and a streak of extreme sadistic cruelty can be observed in Browning’s Poem:

(a) Pippa Passes

(b) My Last Duchess

(d) Paracelsus

Question’s Answer: Pippa Passes

Edward Fitzgerald’s The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam inspired Browning to write:

(a) The Last Ride Together

(b) Abt Vogler

(d) Rabbi Ben Ezra

Question’s Answer: Rabbi Ben Ezra

‘Meeting at Night by Browning is a:

(a) Dramatic monologue

(b) Dramatic lyric

(d) Dramatic romance

(e) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Monologue

Yeats poetry possesses the imaginative mysticism of:

(a) Celticism

(b) Nationalism

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Celticism

G.B. Shaw’s principles of criticism are similar to those of:

(a) S. Butler

(b) Karl Marx

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Karl Marx

Which influence is shown in the work of Shaw?

(a) English

(b) German

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: French

The Waste Land is:

(a) An Allegory

(b) A Sonnet

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: None of A, B, and C

Eliot shows a bent towards:

(a) Victorianism

(b) Romanticism

Question’s Answer: Romanticism

Mrs. Dalloway is the masterpiece of:

(a) V. Woolf

(b) M. Drabble

Question’s Answer: V. Woolf

The second generation of the romantic poets (Shelley, Byron, Keats) was dead by:

(a) 1820

(b) 1830

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: 1825

The Advertisement added to the Lyrical Ballads was published in which year?

(a) 1802

(b) 1800

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: 1800

Rabbi Ben Ezra was proudly written by:

(a) Browning

(b) Tennyson

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Browning

In 1857, Mathew Arnold as Professor of Poetry at Oxford delivered his inaugural lecture in:

(a) Greek

(b) Latin

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: English

“A long poem is a combination of short poems”. Who has held the above opinion?

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Keats

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Wordsworth

All good poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings who made this statement?

(a) Wordsworth

(b) De Quincey

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Wordsworth

Who is the author of the “Preface to Shakespeare”?

(a) Dr. Johnson

(b) Dryden

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Dr. Johnson

Who belongs to the theatre of the Absurd:

(a) Oscar Wilde

(b) Ibsen

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Beckett

Who is believed to be suffering from Oedipus Complex:

(a) Macbeth

(b) Hamlet

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Oedipus

Whose comedies are called ‘Comedies of Mask’

(a) Bernard Shaw’s

(b) Ben Jonson’s

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Bernard Shaw’s

“Fortinbras” is a character of the play:

(a) Othello

(b) King Lear

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Hamlet

Which of the novels of Hemingway is called Hemingway’s Waste Land?

(a) For whom the bell tolls

(b) Farewell to Arms

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: For whom the bell tolls

‘Murder in the Cathedral is written by:

(a) T.S. Eliot

(b) Yeats

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: T.S. Eliot

‘End Game’ is written by:

(a) Hemingway

(b) Ibsen Beckett

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Somerset Mangham

Which is called the Victorian Age:

(a) 19th Century

(b) 20th Century

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: 19th Century

A poem which consists of fourteen lines is called:

(a) A ballad

(b) An Ode

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: A Sonnet

Poetry is defined as ‘Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling’ by:

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Coleridge

(d) None of A, B, and C

Wordsworth

My soul had been a lawn besprinkled O’er with flowers, and stirring Shades,and baffled dreams is an example of:

(a) Simile

(b) Metaphor

(d) None of A, B, and C

Metaphor

Lapis Lazuli’ is:

(a) A drama

(b) Novel

(d) None of A, B, and C

A poem

‘My Fair Lady’ is a Cinematic Version of:

(a) Pygmalion

(b) Getting Married

(d) None of A, B, and C

Candida

Iron, times of doubts, disputes, distraction and Fear is an example of:

(a) Alliteration

(b) Conceit

(d) None of A, B, and C

Oxymoron

‘Pleasant Pain’ is an example of: 16.

(a) Paradox

(b) Metaphor

(d) None of A, B, and C

Paradox

Which of the plays is not written by T.S Eliot:

(a) The Importance of being Earnest

(b) The Family Reunion

(d) None of A, B, and C

The Importance of being Earnest

Which of the novels is not written by Jane Austin:

(a) Emma

(b) Mansfield Park

(d) None of A, B, and C

Adam Bede

Who said ‘The true opposite of Poetry is not prose Science’.

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Coleridge

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: T.S. Eliot

Adonis is modeled on: lament for Adonis

(a) Lycidas

(b) Bion’s

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Bion’s

Who usually caricatures his characters?

(a) Dickens

(b) Hardy

(d) All of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Hardy

Tradition and Individual Talent is a critical essay by:

(a) T.S. Eliot

(b) Oscar Wilde

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: T.S. Eliot

Hardy is a:

(a) Mystic

(b) Moralist

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Pessimist

Who is one of the lake poets?

(a) Browning

(b) Blake

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Coleridge

“The first in beauty should be first in might…….., is the line spoken in Hyperion by:

(a) Hyperion

(b) Oceanus

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Oceanus

The Eve of St. Agnes is written by:

(a) Keats

(b) Tennyson

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Tennyson

Ernest DE SELINCOURT is the editor of:

(a) The Prelude

(b) Prometheus the Unbound

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: The Prelude

Hebrew Melodies is written by:

(a) Tennyson

(b) Keats

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Byron

The repetition of sounds in a sequence of words is called:

(a) Assonance

(b) Rhythm

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Lyrical Dramha

She dwells with beauty beauty that must die: is a line from:

(a) Ode to Nightingale

(b) Ode to Melancholy

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Ode to Melancholy

A Little Girl Lost is written by:

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Keats

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Blake

The first eight lines of a Sonnet are called:

(a) Sestet

(b) Octave

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Octave

‘East Coker’ is written by:

(a) T.S. Eliot

(b) Wordsworth

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: T.S. Eliot

The Revolt of Islam is a:

(a) Lyrical Dramha

(b) An epic

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Lyrical Dramha

In which poem lies the line “The One remains; the many change and a pass:

(a) Hymn to Intellectual Beauty

(b) Adonais

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Adonais

‘The child is the father of man’…..Is a line from Wordsworth’s:

(a) My heart leaps when I Behold a Rainbow in the Sky

(b) The Prelude

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: My heart leaps when I Behold a Rainbow in the Sky

Who is the author of the ‘Tales From Shakespeare’:

(a) Dr. Johnson

(b) Charles Lamb and his sister

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Charles Lamb and his sister

‘Lady Windermere’s fan’ is written by:

(a) T.S. Eliot

(b) Galsworthy

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Oscar Wilde

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