George Eliot MCQs

By: Prof. Dr. Fazal Rehman | Last updated: May 6, 2025

1. Which is not a novel by George Eliot?
(A) Joseph Andrews
(B) Gulliver’s Travel
(C) The Mill on the Floss
(D) Both (A) & (B)

2. Who gave the following comment about George Eliot? “George Eliot believed that a work of art not only may, best must, exercise also an ethical influence.”
(A) Leslie Stephen
(B) A.E. Baker
(C) David Cecil
(D) None of A, B, and C

3. Who in the following is not a contemporary of George Eliot?
(A) Thackeray
(B) Swift
(C) Dickens
(D) None of A, B, and C

4. George Eliot’s “Amos Barton” was completed in:
(A) 1855
(B) 1858
(C) 1857
(D) 1856

5. George Eliot’s “Mr. Gilfil’s Love Story” began in:
(A) 1856
(B) 1855
(C) 1850
(D) 1857

6. Who is the author of “Silas Marner”?
(A) George Eliot
(B) Henry Fielding
(C) William Fullmer
(D) None of A, B, and C

7. George Eliot was a:
(A) Elizabethan Novelist
(B) Modern Novelist
(C) Victorian Novelist
(D) None of A, B, and C

8. With whom did George Eliot live in an unmarried union till 1878?
(A) Herbert Spencer
(B) Charles Bray
(C) G. H. Lewes
(D) None of A, B, and C

9. George Eliot and Lewes returned to England in:
(A) 1855
(B) 1854
(C) 1853
(D) 1856

10. George Eliot’s “Janet’s Repentance” was written in:
(A) 1855
(B) 1858
(C) 1856
(D) 1857

11. George Eliot’s “Amos Barton”, “Janet’s Repentance” and “Mr. Gilfil’s Love Story” were published in book form in:
(A) 1858
(B) 1857
(C) 1859
(D) 1860

12. George Eliot went to Weimar with Lewes in:
(A) 1854
(B) 1853
(C) 1852
(D) 1855

13. George Eliot’s “Adam Bede” was published in which year?
(A) 1858
(B) 1859
(C) 1860
(D) 1861

14. George Eliot went to Spain in:
(A) 1866
(B) 1869
(C) 1868
(D) 1867

15. George Eliot began writing “The Spanish Gypsy” in:
(A) 1868
(B) 1867
(C) 1869
(D) 1870

16. George Eliot’s “The Mill on the Floss” was published in which year?
(A) 1859
(B) 1862
(C) 1861
(D) 1860

17. George Eliot’s “Brother Jacob” was published in which year?
(A) 1862
(B) 1863
(C) 1865
(D) 1864

18. George Eliot’s “Felix Holt the Radical” was published in which year?
(A) 1867
(B) 1866
(C) 1868
(D) 1869

19. George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” was published in:
(A) 1870
(B) 1876
(C) 1875
(D) 1872

20. George Eliot’s “The Lifted Veil” was published in which year?
(A) 1857
(B) 1858
(C) 1859
(D) 1860