History of English Literature MCQs

By: Prof. Dr. Fazal Rehman | Last updated: May 8, 2025

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1. . Which is the period of the French Revolution?



2. . Slave trade was abolished in England in which year?



3. . The trial of Warren Hastings took place in



4. . American Declaration of Independence took place in



5. . The war of Austrian succession took place in



6. . When did the conquest of India begin under General Clive?



7. . When did George III succeed the throne?



8. . The cynical and corrupt practices of Walpole, the premier of the first Tory cabinet, were replaced by the more enlightened policies of Pitt in which year?



9. . The Town and Country Mouse is a creation of



10. . The Treaty of Paris was signed in the year



11. . Which is the first tragedy written in English?



12. . Queen Elizabeth had been reigning nearly _____ years when William Shakespeare was born.



13. . John William Shakespeare (William Shakespeare’s father) happily married Mary Arden in



14. . Gorboduc was written in



15. . Marston, Chapman, and Webster passed away in the year



16. . William Shakespeare passed away during the reign of



17. . Boccaccio first attempted prose adventure The Decameron in



18. . Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France resulted in which of the following?



19. . When did the Great Fire of London take place?



20. . How many years ago was the Empire of Babylon at its zenith?



21. . Who wrote The Four Ages of Poetry?



22. . Who wrote the book Heroic Idylls?



23. . Walter Landor’s Count Julian is a



24. . The Four Ages of Poetry was an attack on



25. . The Old English Baron is a novel by



26. . The Absentee is the best novel by



27. . When was the Westminster Review released?



28. . The Edinburgh Review was founded in



29. . Ancient Spanish Ballads was produced by



30. . Sidney Smith’s Wit and Wisdom came out in



31. . Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh is



32. . Which among the following was not a creation of John Clare?



33. . Tales from Shakespeare was released in the year



34. . The Road to Ruin is a sentimental comedy by



35. . Punch was produced by



36. . When was John Woodvil released?



37. . The Recess was the creation of



38. . When was the Reform Bill passed?



39. . Queen Victoria became the Empress of India in



40. . The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria’s reign was celebrated in



41. . The accession of George V took place in



42. . Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne of England after



 

Period Time Frame Key Characteristics Famous Authors and Works
Old English (Anglo-Saxon) 450-1066 Oral tradition, epic poetry, Christian themes, use of Old English Beowulf (Anonymous), The Seafarer (Anonymous)
Middle English 1066-1500 Feudalism, chivalric romance, religious themes, courtly love, use of Middle English Geoffrey Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous)
Renaissance 1500-1660 Revival of classical learning, humanism, exploration, individualism, use of Early Modern English William Shakespeare (Hamlet, Macbeth), Christopher Marlowe (Doctor Faustus), Edmund Spenser (The Faerie Queene)
Elizabethan Era 1558-1603 Flourishing of drama and poetry, focus on humanism and the complexities of life and love William Shakespeare (Sonnet 18, Romeo and Juliet), Ben Jonson (Volpone)
Jacobean Era 1603-1625 Darker themes, exploration of human flaws, metaphysical poetry John Donne (The Flea), Thomas Middleton (The Changeling)
Caroline Age 1625-1649 Courtly culture, poetry focused on love and loyalty, metaphysical and cavalier poets John Milton (Lycidas), Robert Herrick (To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time)
Commonwealth/Interregnum 1649-1660 Puritanism, religious and political writings, decline in drama John Milton (Paradise Lost), Andrew Marvell (To His Coy Mistress)
Restoration 1660-1700 Comedy of manners, satirical works, heroic drama, beginnings of the novel John Dryden (Absalom and Achitophel), Aphra Behn (Oroonoko)
18th Century/Enlightenment 1700-1798 Rationalism, satire, the novel, development of journalism, neoclassicism Jonathan Swift (Gulliver’s Travels), Alexander Pope (The Rape of the Lock), Samuel Johnson (Dictionary of the English Language)
Romantic Period 1798-1837 Emphasis on emotion, nature, individualism, rebellion against industrialization William Wordsworth (Lyrical Ballads), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner), Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)
Victorian Era 1837-1901 Social criticism, realism, focus on morality and family, exploration of social class issues Charles Dickens (Great Expectations), Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre), Thomas Hardy (Tess of the d’Urbervilles)
Edwardian Era 1901-1914 Continuation of Victorian themes, more critical of social norms, rise of modernism E.M. Forster (A Room with a View), H.G. Wells (The War of the Worlds)
Modern Period 1914-1945 Experimental styles, stream of consciousness, disillusionment post-WWI, existential themes James Joyce (Ulysses), T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land), Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway)
Postmodern Period 1945-present Fragmentation, unreliable narrators, metafiction, blending of genres, questioning of traditional narratives Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot), Salman Rushdie (Midnight’s Children), Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale)

 

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