English Novel MCQs
Name the writer Who is the author of the for the stage in collaboration with Stevenson?
(a) Kipling
(b) William Henley
(c) Shaw
(d) Wells
Henley is chiefly a contemporary of
(a) Carlyle
(b) Kipling
(c) Ruskin
(d) Chesterton
Question’s Answer: Kipling
William Ernest Henley, a contemporary of Kipling, has the temperament of
(a) Traditionalism
(b) Imperialism
(c) Socialism
(d) Realism
Question’s Answer: Imperialism
Henley’s collection of poems A Book of Verses was published in which year?
(a) 1886
(b) 1888
(c) 1887
(d) 1889
Question’s Answer: 1888
Which writers led the life of an invalid?
(a) Kipling
(b) Kingsley Amis
(c) Carlyle
(d) William Henley
Question’s Answer: William Henley
Rudyard Kipling was born in
(a) 1860
(b) 1857
(c) 1870
(d) 1865
Question’s Answer: 1865
Rudyard Kipling was born in
(a) England
(b) India
(c) America
(d) Scotland
Question’s Answer: India
Kipling’s first published volume, which had been in verse was
(a) Ballad of East and West
(b) Barrack-Room Ballads
(c) Departmental Ditties
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Departmental Ditties
Life’s Handicap and Many Inventions- these volumes of short stories were written by
(a) Stevenson
(b) Hardy
(c) Meredith
(d) Kipling
Question’s Answer: Kipling
Kipling is a writer of
(a) Willie Winkie
(b) The White Stocking
(c) The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
(d) Wandering Willie’s Tale
Question’s Answer: Willie Winkie
The Brushwood Boy is a novelette written by
(a) Oscar Wilde
(b) Chesterton
(c) Conrad
(d) Kipling
Question’s Answer: Kipling
Kipling was essentially the poet
(a) Soldiers
(b) Sailors
(c) Fighters
(d) Both (a) and (b)
Question’s Answer: Both (a) and (b)
“The Barrack Room Ballads”. “The Seven Seas”. “The Five Nations” – these poems have been written by
(a) Hopkins
(b) Francis Thompson
(c) Kipling
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Kipling
Besides being a novelist, Kipling was also a/an
(a) Dramatist
(b) Poet
(c) Essayist
(d) Journalist
Question’s Answer: Poet
Kipling, in his mastery of rhythm,comes close to
(a) Swinburne
(b) Rossetti
(c) Morris
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Swinburne
‘But there is neither East nor West, When two strongmen stand face to face,
Though they came from the end of the earth’. These lines occur in the poem of
(a) Morris
(b) Kipling
(c) Amold
(d) Swinburne
Question’s Answer: Kipling
Which poem was proudly written by Kipling to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897?
(a) “Recessional”
(b) “Fuzzy Wuzzy”
(c) “Gunga Din”
(d) “The Mary Gloster”
Question’s Answer: “Recessional”
Which writers has been a considerable traveller?
(a) Arnold Bennett
(b) HG. Wells
(c) G.K. Chesterton
(d) Rudyard Kipling
Question’s Answer: Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Book has been written by
(a) Gissing
(b) George Moore
(c) Stevenson
(d) Rudyard Kipling
Question’s Answer: Rudyard Kipling
Which work of Kipling contains the stories of the British in India?
(a) Plain Tales from the Hills
(b) Puck of Pook’s Hill
(c) The Jungle Book
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Plain Tales from the Hills
Kim is a well-known novel in English written by
(a) Stevenson
(b) Kipling
(c) Anthony Trollope
(d) Samuel Butler
Question’s Answer: Kipling
The Imperialistic note is prominent in the works of
(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) Galsworthy
(c) G.B. Shaw
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Rudyard Kipling
The only romance Kipling wrote is
(a) The Friend
(b) Captains Courageous
(c) The Devil and the Deep Sea
(d) The Naulakha
Question’s Answer: The Naulakha
The novel The Man Who Was Thursday has been written by
(a) Joseph Conrad
(b) Rudyard Kipling
(c) G.K. Chesterton
(d) H.G.Wells
Question’s Answer: G.K. Chesterton
Heretics, Orthodoxy and What’s Wrong with the World?- these are Chesterton’s’
(a) Essays
(b) Poems
(c) Philosophical works
(d) Criticisms
Rudyard Kipling received the Nobel Prize for Literature in the year
(a) 1907
(b) 1906
(c) 1905
(d) 1908
Question’s Answer: 1907
Kipling tried his hand on a Gothic tale of mystery and”” horror in
(a) Captains Courageous
(b) The Tomb of His Ancestors
(c) The Mark of the Beast
(d) The Man Who Was Thursday
Question’s Answer: The Mark of the Beast
The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by
(a) George Moore
(b) William Henley
(c) Kipling
(d) G.K. Chesterton
Question’s Answer: G.K. Chesterton
Chesterton’s The Father Brown Stories is a collection of
(a) stories
(b) Love stories
(c) Historical stories
(d) Religious stories
Question’s Answer: stories
Philosophical works Chesterton’s full name is
(a) George Kingsley Chesterton
(b) George Keith Chesterton
(c) Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(d) Gilbert Kent Chesterton
Question’s Answer: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In his novels of character, H.G. Wells portrays
(a) Lower class
(b) Middle class
(c) Upper class
(d) Lower middle class
Question’s Answer: Lower middle class
The novels like Kipps and The History of Mr. Polly have been written by
(a) Joseph Conrad
(b) H.G. Wells
(c) Kipling
(d) Arnold Bennett
Question’s Answer: H.G. Wells
The book An Experiment Autobiography has been written by
(a) H.G. Wells
(b) Hardy
(c) Bennett
(d) Shaw
Question’s Answer: H.G. Wells
In which novel of H.G. Wells there is a reference of a young woman who rebels against the social evils?
(a) Tono Bungay
(b) Ann Veronica
(c) The World of William Clissold
(d) Kipps
Question’s Answer: Ann Veronica
The Invisible Man is a well known work of
(a) Arnold Bennett
(b) Butler
(c) H.G. Wells
(d) Gissing
Question’s Answer: H.G. Wells
The Time Machine is a well-known novel written by
(a) Hardy
(b) Meredith
(c) Stevenson
(d) H.G. Wells
Question’s Answer: H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells formed a novel technique of
(a) Technical exploration
(b) Historical inclination
(c) Scientific romance
(d) All
Question’s Answer: Scientific romance
H.G. Wells was born in
(a) 1864
(b) 1870
(c) 1868
(d) 1866
Question’s Answer: 1866
H.G. Wells’ First and Last Things is a work of
(a) History
(b) Philosophy
(c) Polity
(d) Sociology
Question’s Answer: Philosophy
Tono Bungay is a famous novel of
(a) Stevenson
(b) H.G. Wells
(c) Kipling
(d) Oscar Wilde
Question’s Answer: H.G. Wells
The voluminous book Outline of History has been written by
(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) Samuel Butler
(c) James M. Barrie
(d) H.G. Wells
Question’s Answer: H.G. Wells
Wells’ The New Machiavelli portrays the struggle between
(a) Life and death
(b) Political ambition
(c) Love and hatred
(d) Politics and philosophy and love
Question’s Answer: Political ambition
My Days and Dreams is an autobiography of
(a) Mary Arnold
(b) Edward Carpenter
(c) H.G. Wells
(d) E.F. Benson
Question’s Answer: H.G. Wells
Wells’ well-known novel The Time Machine was published ill
(a) 1890
(b) 1898
(c) 1895
(a) 1900
Question’s Answer: 1895
Mr. Hoopdriver is a character in Wells’ novel
(a) The Wheels of Chance
(b) Kipps
(c) Mr. Lewisham
(d) The Time Machine
Question’s Answer: The Wheels of Chance
Which work of H.G. Wells presents a realistic portrayal of English society in the dark days of the First World War?
(a) The Time Machine
(b) The Wheels of Chance
(c) Mr. Britling sees it Through
(d) Tono Bungay
Question’s Answer: Mr. Britling sees it Through
In H.G. Wells’ Tono Bungay, Tono Bungay’ is the name of a
(a) Person
(b) Medicine
(c) Village
(d) Town
Question’s Answer: Medicine
Conrad’s novels deal with the adventure and romance of
(a) Mountain life
(b) Social life
(c) Jungle life
(d) Sea life
Question’s Answer: Sea life
Which writer was strongly influenced by the literature of France?
(a) Wells
(b) Conrad
(c) Kipling
(d) Oscar Wilde
Question’s Answer: Conrad
In Wells’ The History of Mr. Polly,Polly is a
(a) Teacher
(b) Doctor
(c) Banker
(d) Shopkeeper
Question’s Answer: Shopkeeper
Which work of H.G. Wells reminds us of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels?
(a) The Sea Lady
(b) The Food of the Gods
(c) The Day of the Comet
(d) The Island of Dr. Moreau
Question’s Answer: The Food of the Gods
Which work of Wells centres round certain developments of modern journalism?
(a) The First Man in the Moon
(b) The Day of the Comet
(c) The Wonderful Visit
(d) The Invisible Man
Question’s Answer: The Wonderful Visit
Conrad’s main concern was with
(a) Plot
(b) Characters
(c) Story
(d) Effect of events on the persons involved
Question’s Answer: Effect of events on the persons involved
Mr. Kurtz is a: character in Conrad’s
(a) Lord Jim
(b) Under Western Eyes
(c) Nostromo
(d) Heart of Darkness
Question’s Answer: Heart of Darkness
Which novel of Conrad has its setting in Tsarist Russia?
(a) Typhoon
(b) Under Western Eyes
(c) Heart of Darkness
(d) Lord Jim
Question’s Answer: Under Western Eyes
The Nigger of the Narcissus Lord Jim, a well-known novel has been written by
(a) H.G. Wells
(b) Bennett
(c) Conrad
(d) Stevenson
Question’s Answer: Conrad
In which novel of Conrad, there appears a French officer?
(a) Almayer’s Folly
(b) Lord Jim
(c) The Nigger of the Narcissus
(d) The Secret Agent
Question’s Answer: Lord Jim
Which writer was bom of Polish parents in the Ukraine?
(a) Kipling
(b) Bennett
(c) Stevenson
(d) Conrad
Question’s Answer: Conrad
Under Western Eyes, a novel dealing with life in the Ukraine under the Tsar’s domination, has been written by
(a) Bennett
(b) Kipling
(c) Conrad
(d) Barric
Question’s Answer: Conrad
Conrad’s first novel Almayer’s Folly was published in
(a) 1890
(b) 1894
(c) 1892
(d) 1896
Question’s Answer: 1894
In which work of Conrad, the extravagant loyalty of man to man has been shown?
(a) Lord Jim
(b) Typhoon
(c) Youth
(d) The Nigger of the Narcissus
Which novelists was born in the year of Sepoy Mutiny?
(a) H.G. Wells
(b) Joseph Conrad
(c) Bennett
(d) Galsworthy
Question’s Answer: Joseph Conrad
Which novel of Conrad has a Malayan background?
(a) The Nigger of the Narcissus
(b) Lord Jim
(c) An Outcast of the Islands
(d) Heart of Darkness
Question’s Answer: An Outcast of the Islands
Which novelist was a seafarer for twenty years?
(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) H.G. Wells
(c) Joseph Conrad
(d) G.B. Shaw
Question’s Answer: Joseph Conrad
Which writer was known for his passion for the sea?
(a) Galsworthy
(b) Conrad
(c) H.G. Wells
(d) Kipling
Question’s Answer: Conrad
In which novel of Conrad, there is a scene of a ship, laden with pilgrims, sinking?
(a) The Nigger of the Narcissus
(b) An Outcast of the Islands
(d) Lord Jim
Question’s Answer: Lord Jim
In which of Conrad’s novel, the sea plays no part?
(a) Under Western Eyes
(b) An Outcast of the Islands
(c) Typhoon
(d) Jim
Question’s Answer: Under Western Eyes
Which novel of Conrad is a vast study of a South American country ‘Costaguana”?
(a) Under Western Eyes
(b) The Nigger of the Narcissus
(c) Nostromo
(d) Almayer’s Folly
Question’s Answer: Nostromo
Korzeniowski’ is the surname of
(a) Wells
(b) Kipling
(c) Galsworthy
(d) Conrad
Question’s Answer: Conrad
‘French is the only modern language fit for literature.’ Who said this?
(a) Shaw
(b) Galsworthy
(c) Conrad
(d) Kipling
Question’s Answer: Conrad
Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea.
These lines echo the philosophy of which writer?
(a) J.M. Barrie
(b) Conrad
(c) H.G. Wells
(d) Chesterton
Question’s Answer: Conrad
Which work of Conrad verges on melodrama?
(a) Victory
(b) Typhoon
(c) Under Western Eyes
(d) The Nigger of the Narcissus
Question’s Answer: Victory
Truth about an Author is an autobiography of
(a) Stevenson
(b) Butler
(c) Bennett
(d) Conrad
Question’s Answer: Bennett
Clayhanger, a well known novel of Bennett, has been written in
(a) 1910
(b) 1909
(c) 1908
(d) 1911
Question’s Answer: 1910
Which of Conrad’s novels is considered to be the best?
(a) Victory
(b) Almayer’s Folly
(c) Under Western Eyes
(d) The Nigger of the Narcissus
Question’s Answer: The Nigger of the Narcissus
The Mirror of the Sea is Conrad’s
(a) Autobiography
(b) Short story
(c) Essay
(d) Novel
Question’s Answer: Autobiography
The Secret Agent is a famous novel by
(a) H.G. Wells
(b) Samuel Butler
(c) Arnold Bennett
(d) Joseph Conrad
Question’s Answer: Joseph Conrad
The Old Wives’ Tale is a work of
(a) Lawrence
(b) Arnold Bennett
(c) Samuel Butler
(d) Thomas Hardy
Question’s Answer: Arnold Bennett
Bennett has a fascination towards reading the French models particularly
(a) Zola
(b) Maupassant
(c) Bergson
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Maupassant
Bennett is known mainly for his
(a) Criticisms
(b) Short stories
(c) Novels
(d) Both (a) and (b)
Question’s Answer: Criticisms
Which author was greatly influenced by French culture?
(a) Joseph Conrad
(b) John Galsworthy
(c) J.M. Barrie
(d) Arnold Bennett
Question’s Answer: Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett was born in the year
(a) 1861
(b) 1863
(0) 1911
(d) 1865
Question’s Answer: 1911
Bennett’s first popular book Anna of the Five Towns was published in
(a) 1900
(b) 1895
(c) 1905
(d) 1910
Question’s Answer: 1900
Mrs. Baines, a character of Bennett appears in
(a) Old Wives’ Tale
(b) Clayhanger
(c) Anna of the Five Towns
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Old Wives’ Tale
Which is Arnold Bennett’s first novel?
(a) Clayhanger
(b) The Pretty Lady
(c) Anna of the Five Towns
(d) A Man from the North
Question’s Answer: A Man from the North