Important English Literature MCQs for Public Service Commission

Of all his predecessors, the following exerted a direct influence upon Shakespeare:

(a) Robert Greene and Thomas Nash

(b) Lyly and Marlowe

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Robert Greene and Thomas Nash

Jane Austen’s other writings are:

(a) Persuasion

(b) Emma

(d) All of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: All of A, B, and C

Yahoos according to Gulliver were:

(a) Indians

(b) European

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: European

Young leading the young is like blind leading the blind who has said these words:

(a) Carlyle

(b) Bacon

(d) None of A, B, and C

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

Texts like Waiting for Godot are:

(a) Priceless

(b) Rare

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Ageless

“We are such stuff as dreams are made” Whose words are these:

(a) Philips Sydney

(b) Marlowe

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Philips Sydney

Shakespeare has written:

(a) Comedies

(b) Tragedies

(d) All of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: All of A, B, and C

Hero and Hero Worship was proudly written by:

(a) Ruskin

(b) Mill

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Carlyle

The Crown of Wild Olive is written by:

(a) Charles Lamb

(b) Carlyle

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Ruskin

Hardy’s Nature is:

(a) Indifferent

(b) Friendly

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Indifferent

Does the personal name Lucy (in wordsworth’s poetry) stand for?

(a) Dorothy

(b) Annets Vallon

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Annets Vallon

Who knows but the world may end to- night, in which of Browning’s poems the above line appears!

(a) My Last Duchess

(b) One Word More

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: The Last Ride together

The Prelude was written in

(a) 1840

(b) 1810

(d) None of A, B, and C

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

Oscar Wild believed in:

(a) Pragmatism

(b) Escapism

(d) Escapism

Question’s Answer: Pragmatism

“But God’s eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone”. In which poem do these lines appear?

(a) Prisoner of Chillon

(b) Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)

(d) None of A, B, and C (Byron)

Question’s Answer: Prisoner of Chillon

Bliss was it, in that Dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven’. Who has written these lines.

(a) Browning

(b) Shelley

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Browning

When was the poem Tintern Abbey written?

(a) 1798

(b) 1795

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: 1798

The correct date of French Revolution:

(a) 1793

(b) 1789

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: 1789

“Prophets of Nature……..

……What we have loved Other will love………”

In which poem by Wordsworth do these lines appear?

(a) One Summer Evening

(b) Excursion

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: One Summer Evening

Human situation in Hardy’s novels is controlled by:

(a) Fate

(b) Providence

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Fate

The ‘Tragic Flaw’ is also called:

(a) Catharsis

(b) Hamartia

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Hamartia

The Winters’ Tale is Shakespeare’s:

(a) Comedy

(b) Dramatic romance

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Dramatic romance

The only play by Shakespeare which conforms to the classical unites is!

(a) Hamlet

(b) Romeo and Juliet

(d) Name of these

Question’s Answer: Twelfth Night

‘Sweet Helen make me immortal with kiss’. Who has said these words?

(a) Marlowe

(b) Ben Johnson

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Shakespeare

Who did write/publish preface to lyrical ballads:

(a) Shelly

(b) Wordsworth & Coleridge

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Wordsworth & Coleridge

Proper study of Mankind is man who has said these words:

(a) Shelly

(b) Swift

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Pope

‘Supernaturalism’ was an important feature of the poetry of:

(a) Byron

(b) Wordsworth

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Wordsworth

The word renaissance means:

(a) Rebirth

(b) Revival

(d) All of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Wordsworth & Coleridge

“Man and the Superman” a novel is written by:

(a) Samuel Beckett

(b) George Bernard Shaw

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: George Bernard Shaw

Paradise Lost is written by:

(a) Swift

(b) Pope

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Milton

Money is a tie of al ties it is tie which ties and unites all ties is quotation from:

(a) Past and Present

(b) of Marriage

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: of money

Of studies an essay is written by:

(a) Montaigne

(b) Carlyle

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Francis Bacon

All is well that ends well is:

(a) Comedy

(b) Tragedy

(d) None of A, B, and C

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

The shortest play of Shakespeare is:

(a) Much ado about nothing

(b) The Winters Tale

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Much ado about nothing

Spenser was:

(a) Novelist

(b) Dramatist

(d) None of A, B, and C

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

Maggie is the central character in G.Eliot’s:

(a) Adam Bede

(b) Middle March

(d) The Mill on the Floss

(e) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: The Mill on the Floss

Hellenism of Keats’s connotes.

(a) His love of Greek culture and art

(b) His love of ancient cultures

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: His love of Greek culture and art

The line “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” occurs in which one of Keats’s following poems:

(a) Ode to Nightingale

(b) Ode to Psyche

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Ode on a Grecian Urn

The French Revolution took place in:

(a) 1793

(b) 1796

(d) None of A, B, and C

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

The Metaphysical Poets is a critical essay by:

(a) T.S. Eliot

(b) Arnold

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: T.S. Eliot

Which of following Books consists of Ruskin’s lectures?

(a) The Crown of wild olive

(b) The Stones of Venice

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: The Crown of wild olive

Who described poetry an “Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”.

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Shelley

(d) Arnold

Question’s Answer: Wordsworth

“Hero and Hero worship was proudly written by:

(a) Carlyle

(b) Ruskin

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Carlyle

In his poetry Tennyson is:

(a) The representative poet of Romantic age

(b) The representative poet of Victorian age

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: The representative poet of Victorian age

David Copperfield was proudly written by:

(a) Hardy

(b) Thackeray

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Dickens

The treatise “On Liberty” was proudly written by:

(a) Ruskin

(b) Mill

(d) None of A, B, and C

Mill

Gulliver was expelled from the land of Yahoos because he was considered:

(a) He hated their king

(b) A criminal

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: A yahoo

Yeats was a:

(a) Victorian poet

(b) A criminal

(d) None of A, B, and C

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

Who said these words in ‘The Old Man and the Sea (Novel by Ernest Hemingway)’. ‘No one should be alone in their old age’.

(a) Santiago

(b) Hemingway

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Hemingway

Santiago is an illustration of:

(a) Hemingway’s philosophy of life

(b) Hemingway’s total view of life

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Hemingway’s respect for struggle

The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnm are:

(a) Hatred and jealously

(b) Bitterness and revenge

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Friendship and benevolence

Frost is:

(a) A poet of nature and country life

(b) Poet of Country life

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: A poet of nature and country life

‘How can we know the dancer from the dancer”. This line written by Yeats is taken from:

(a) Among School Children

(b) Sailing to Byzantium

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Among School Children

Pure tragedies written by Shakespeare are:

(a) Eight

(b) Six

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Four

T.S. Eliot was a:

(a) Critic

(b) Poet

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: (a) & (b)

Shakespeare was born in:

(a) 1564

(b) 1570

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: 1564

T.S. Eliot was:

(a) Classicist

(b) Romantic

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Classicist

Shakespeare wrote:

(a) Tragedies

(b) Comedies

(d) All of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: All of A, B, and C

Shakespeare pass away in:

(a) 1616

(b) 1625

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: 1616

Who represents Pride in Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice:

(a) Miss Elizabeth

(b) Mr. Bingley

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Miss Elizabeth

‘Who represents prejudice in Jane Austen’s novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’:

(a) Miss Elizabeth

(b) Mr. Darcy

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Mr. Darcy

Who is the major male character in Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’:

(a) Mr. Bennett

(b) Mr. Darcy

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Mr. Darcy

Hamlet was killed by:

(a) Laertes

(b) Polonius

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Laertes

The king Claudius was killed by:

(a) Hamlet

(b) Laertes

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Hamlet

Jane Austen’s main theme is her novels especially in ‘Pride and Prejudice”

(a) Politicians

(b) Life of big landlords

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Love and marriage

The Central Figure among the Victorian poets is:

(a) Tennyson

(b) Keats

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Tennyson

The Faerie Queen was proudly written by:

(a) Spenser

(b) Lyly

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Spenser

Who considers Hamlet to be an Artistic failure?

(a) Eliot

(b) Bradley

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Eliot

The Crown of Wild Olive’s was proudly written by:

(a) Huxley

(b) Ruskin

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Ruskin

David Copperfield, Hard Times and Little Dorrit, all are written by:

(a) Dickens

(b) Hardy

Question’s Answer: Dickens

Browning is known for his:

(a) Blank Verse

(b) Parody

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Dramatic Monologue

Which novel is written by D.H.Lawrence:

(a) Sons and Lovers

(b) The Ice Age

Question’s Answer: Sons and Lovers

The ‘Arcadia’ by Sir Philip Sydney is a:

(a) Romance

(b) Pastoral

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Romance

Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet was published in which year?

(a) 1600

(b) 1608

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: 1600

The poem “The Triumph of life” was proudly written by:

(a) Shelley

(b) Blake

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Shelley

“Songs of Experience” written by Blake was published in which year?

(a) 1790

(b) 1820

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: 1794

Which English romantic poet admired Pope:

(a) Byron

(b) W. Wordsworth

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Byron

“The Excursion” was proudly written by:

(a) Coleridge

(b) Blake

(d) None of A, B, and C

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

“The Last Ride Together” was proudly written by:

(a) Browning

(b) Tennyson

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Browning

“A Tale of Two cities” was proudly written by:

(a) G. Eliot

(b) Hardy

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Dickens

Byron wrote “Childe Harold”.

(a) 1818

(b) 1812

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: 1818

“The Art for Art sake” theory presented by:

(a) Ruskin

(b) O. Wilde

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: O. Wilde

“The Old Familiar Face” was proudly written by:

(a) Ruskin

(b) J.S. Mill

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Charles Lamb

“The Ring and the Book” is a poem and who is the poet?:

(a) Mathew Arnold

(b) Browning

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Browning

“The Lotus-Eaters” was proudly written by:

(a) Browning

(b) Tennyson

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Tennyson

“The Stone of Venice” was proudly written by

(a) Ruskin

(b) Carlyle

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Ruskin

“The Principles of political Economy” was the main theme of the writing of:

(a) J.S. Mill

(b) Ruskin

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: J.S. Mill

“Adam Bade” is a novel written by:

(a) Dickens

(b) Hardy

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: G. Eliot

Which novel of Hardy presents “Egdon Heath” as the background of story:

(a) Return of the Native

(b) Tess of the Dueberville

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Return of the Native

Which poem of Keats contains “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter”.

(a) Ode to Autumn

(b) Ode to Melancholy

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Ode on a Grecian Um

Which of the Romantic poets is called an escapist:

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Shelley

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Keats

“The importance of Being Earnest” was proudly written by:

(a) O. Wilde

(b) Wordsworth

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: O. Wilde

Which novels of Hardy has “Clym” as the main male character?

(a) Tess of the Dueberville

(b) Mayor of Casterbridge

(d) None of A, B, and C

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

“Andrea del Sarto” is a poem and who is the poet?:

(a) Tennyson

(b) Shelley

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Tennyson

Earnest Hemingway in addition to. “Old man and the sea” had written:

(a) A farewell to arms

(b) For whom the Bell Tolls

(d) All of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: All of A, B, and C

“None but thou shalt be my paramour” these words are attributed to:

(a) Marlow’s Tamburlaine

(b) Marlowe’s Jew of Malta

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Helen of Troy-Dr. Faustus

It is for the world to decide whether you are a poet or not. For whom these words are meant.

(a) Frost

(b) Pope

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Frost

“I have suffered with those, that I saw suffering”. These Humanistic words are attributed to:

(a) Portia in Merchant of Venice

(b) Miranda in the Tempest

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Miranda in the Tempest

Famous romantic poets were:

(a) Six

(b) Four

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Six

“The quality of Mercy is not strained” the line is taken from:

(a) Shakespeare

(b) Two gentlemen of Verona

(d) Anthony and Cleopatra

(e) Midsummer’s Night Dream

Question’s Answer: Merchant of Venice

A thing of beauty is joy forever. It is composed by:

(a) Shelly

(b) Keats

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Keats

All that glitters is not gold. You have heard often this told. This maxim is included in Shakespeare’s.

(a) Shakespeare’s Much ado about nothing

(b) Shakespeare’s Tempest

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Merchant of Venice/Shakespeare’s

“Lyrical ballads” were published by:

(a) Both Coleridge and Wordsworth

(b) Wordsworth

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Both Coleridge and Wordsworth

The proper study of mankind is man. The line is taken from the work of:

(a) Pope

(b) Wordsworth

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Pope

There is no men like Showman. These views were held by:

(a) Spencer

(b) Thomas Carlyle

(d) All of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Thomas Carlyle

Your plan is a good one if a girl only wants to be married. Who said these words?

(a) Mr. Bringley

(b) Mr. Benner

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Charlotte

Mr. and Mrs. Bennet had daughters.

(a) Five

(b) Seven

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Five

Father’s of antiquities were:

(a) Aristotle

(b) Socrates

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Aristotle

In Chapter XVI the word muffled in Pride and Prejudice is used in some meaning with:

(a) Not thinking clearly

(b) Amazed

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Confused

Jane Austen in addition to Pride and prejudice had also written:

(a) Emma

(b) Sense and Sensibility

(d) All of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: All of A, B, and C

Beckett was born in Dublin Ireland:

(a) 1952

(b) 1969

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: 1906

Shakespeare’s has written:

(a) Historical Plays

(b) Comedies

(d) All of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: All of A, B, and C

To err is human, forgive is divine. Who has said these words?

(a) Dryden

(b) Swift

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Pope

“Poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling. It takes it origin from emotions recollected in tranquility”. Who has given description of the poetry”.

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Plato

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Wordsworth

Great Expectation was published in which year?

(a) 1852-1

(b) 1857-8

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: 1860-1

Restoration period was known the age of:

(a) Puritanism

(b) Paganism

(d) Satire

Question’s Answer: Satire

Jane Eyre was proudly written by:

(b) C. Bronte

(a) C. Dickens

(d) J. Austen

Question’s Answer: C. Bronte

Adonais, Prometheus and the Triumph of life are some of the beautiful poems by:

(a) W. Blake

(b) Byron

(d) None of A, B, and C

“The Crown of Wild Olive”, is written by:

(a) Ruskin

(b) J.S. Mill

(d) Russell

Mr. Rochester is the major character of:

(a) Silas Marner

(b) Jane Eyre

(d) Adam Bede

Who is the most illustrious representative of the doctrine of utilitarianism?

(a) Huxley

(b) Russell

(d) None of A, B, and C

Ruskin

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