Legends Of English Literature MCQs

Which kind of writing is “Gulliver’s Travels”?

(a) Satire

(b) Tragedy

(c) Thrilling story

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Satire


Which is written by Hemingway?

(a) The Jew of Malta

(b) The Rivals

(c) The Sun Also Rises

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: The Sun Also Rises


The Heroine of “Pride and Prejudice” is:

(a) Elizabeth

(b) Emme

(c) Lydia

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Elizabeth


“Hyperion” of John Keats may be classified as which of the following?

(a) An Ode

(b) An Epic

(c) Sonnet

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: An Epic


which of the following is written by T.S. Eliot?

(a) The Pasture

(b) Birches

(c) The Waste Land

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: The Waste Land


Who considers, “Hamlet” to be an Artistic failure?

(a) A.C. Bradley

(b) Kermode

(c) T.S. Eliot

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: T.S. Eliot


In Which genres did the Victorian Literature achieve its greatest success?

(a) Lyric poetry

(b) Epic poetry

(c) Drama

(d) The Essay

(e) The Novel

Question’s Answer: Lyric poetry


In his poetry, Tennyson is:

(a) A mirror of the Romanticism Romantics

(b) The Representative Poet of the Victorian Age

(c) One of the younger

(d) The best Nature Poet

Question’s Answer: The Representative Poet of the Victorian Age


“She cannot fade, though Though thou hast not thy. For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair”, The above two lines have been taken from:

(a) Ode on a Grecian Um

(b) A thing of beauty

(c) La Belle Dame Sans merci

(d) John Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale

Question’s Answer: Ode on a Grecian Um


The lines “The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew. The furrow followed free” occur in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s:

(a) Kubla Khan

(b) None of these

(c) The Ancient Mariner

Question’s Answer: The Ancient Marine


Who wrote “Jane Eyre”?

(a) Anne Bronte (English novelist)

(b) Emile Bronte

(c) Charlotte Bronte

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Charlotte Bronte


What is the name of Wordsworth’s long poem?

(a) The Prelude

(b) Don Juan

(c) The Canterbury Tales

Question’s Answer: The Prelude


A poem mourning someone’s death is known as:

(a) A Fable

(b) An Elegy

(c) An Epic

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: An Elegy


“All good poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”. Who made this statement?

(a) William Wordsworth

(b) De Quincey

(c) P.B. Shelley

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: William Wordsworth


“The crown of wild Olive” is the creation of ________ ?

(a) Charles Lamb (English essayist)

(b) John Ruskin

(c) Carlyle

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: John Ruskin


Who wrote “The Second Coming”?

(a) W.B. Yeats

(b) T.S. Eliot

(c) E. Spencer

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: W.B. Yeats


Gulliver’s Travels is written by ___ .

(a) Charles Dickens

(b) Jonathan Dr Jonathan Swift

(c) Chaucer

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Jonathan Dr Jonathan Swift


Which author is a dramatist?

(a) T.S Eliot

(b) Lord Byron

(c) Ben Johnson

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Ben Johnson


Which is not a play by William Shakespeare?

(a) Hamlet

(b) Dr. Faustus

(c) Macbeth

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Dr. Faustus


Which is the popular and most reading elegy written by Shelley?

(a) In Memorium

(b) Lycidas

(c) Thyrsis

(d) Adonais

Question’s Answer: Adonais


“The Elgin Marbles” motivated  the John Keats to write _____ .

(a) Endymion

(b) Lamia

(c) Ode to Melancholy

(d) Ode to a Grecian Urn

Question’s Answer: Ode to a Grecian Urn


The line written by John Keats “She dwells with beauty, beauty that must die” occurs in ___________.

(a) Lamia

(b) Ode to a Grecian Urn

(c) Endymion

(d) Ode on Melancholy

Question’s Answer: Ode on Melancholy


Maggie is the central character in  Eliot (English novelist)’s ________ ?

(a) Adam Bede

(b) The Mill on the Floss

(c) Silas Marner

(d) Middle March

Question’s Answer: The Mill on the Floss


The line “Beauty is truth, truth Beauty, that’s all” occurs in Keat’s poem:

(a) Ode To a Nightingale

(b) Ode To Autumn

(c) Ode To Psyche

(d) Ode on a Grecian Um

Question’s Answer: Ode on a Grecian Um


When the poem “The Waltz” by Byron was published?

(a) 1877

(b) 1815

(c) 1814

(d) 1813

Question’s Answer: 1813


Which of the following is the author of the  poem “The Giaour”?

(a) Lord Byron

(b) William Wordsworth

(c) John Keats (English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets)

(d) Robert Browning (English poet)

Question’s Answer: Lord Byron


In which novel of G. Eliot’s novel, Philip Wakem, Aunt Pullet and Tom Tulliver are the characters?

(a) Silas Marner

(b) The Mill on the Floss

(c) Middle March

(d) Adam Bede

Question’s Answer: The Mill on the Floss


Which of the following writers is not a woman?

(a) Robert Browning (English poet)

(b) Jane Austen

(c) Emile Bronte

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Robert Browning (English poet)


Earnest Hemingway has written:

(a) Pride and Prejudice

(b) Mr. Chips

(c) Old Man and the Sea

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Old Man and the Sea


“In Memorium” by Tennyson is:

(a) A Dramatic Lyric

(b) A Collection of Elegies

(c) A Lyric

(d) An Elegy

(e) None of these

Question’s Answer: An Elegy


The poem “The Marriage Of Heaven and Hell” was the creation of

(a) P.B. Shelley

(b) W. Blake

(c) Robert Browning (English poet)

(d) Lord Byron

(e) None of these

Question’s Answer: Lord Byron



The poem “The Bride of Abydos” by Byron was published in which year?

(a) 1810

(b) 1812

(c) 1877

(d) 1813

Question’s Answer: 1813



“Specimen of English Dramatic Poets Who Lived About The Time of William Shakespeare” by Charles Lamb (English essayist) is a _________ .

(a) Critical work

(b) long poem

(c) Novel

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Critical work


“The Essays of Elia” by Charles Lamb (English essayist) appeared collectively in which year?

(a) 1823

(b) 1870

(c) 1820

(d) 1824

Question’s Answer: 1823


The subsequent volume of “The essays of Elia” introduced in _____.

(a) 1830

(b) 1831

(c) 1834

(d) 1833

Question’s Answer: 1833


The poem “Lara” by Byron was published in which year?

(a) 1813

(b) 1816

(c) 1822

(d) 1814

Question’s Answer: 1814


“The Adventure’s of Ulysses,a Novel by James Joyce” is the creation of ________ ?

(a) Charles Lamb (English essayist)

(b) R. Browning

(c) T.S. Eliot

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Charles Lamb (English essayist)


Which is not a work by Charles Lamb (English essayist)?

(a) Beauty and the Beast

(b) The Waste Land

(c) None of these

Question’s Answer: The Waste Land


The poem “Parisina” by Byron was published in which year?

(a) 1815

(b) 1877

(c) 1814

(d) 1816

Question’s Answer: 1816


The first man of letters was the  _______ , who encouraged John Keats.

(a) Leigh Hunt

(b) Percy Bysshe Shelley

(c) William Wordsworth

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Leigh Hunt


The “Restoration Poetry” was mostly written in the ____ .

(a) Heroic Couplet

(b) Blank Verse

(c) None of these

Question’s Answer: Heroic Couplet


“Classical age” is divided into how many periods?

(a) Three distinct periods

(b) Two distinct periods

(c) Four distinct periods

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Three distinct periods


________writes the poem “The Curse of Minerva”.

(a) Percy Bysshe Shelley

(b) Browning

(c) Byron

(d) John Keats (English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets)

(e) None of these

Question’s Answer: Byron


When the poem “The Curse of Minerva” by Byron was published?

(a) 1810

(b) 1811

(c) 1866

(d) 1812

Question’s Answer: 1812


The poem “Lara” was the creation of ________ ?

(a) Lord Byron

(b) Chaucer

(c) John Milton

(d) Scott

(e) None of these

Question’s Answer: Lord Byron


When the poem “The Giaour” by Byron was published?

(a) 1812

(b) 1813

(c) 1814

(d) 1815

Question’s Answer: 1813


The poems “Parisina” was the creation of ________ ?

(a) Lord Byron

(b) Percy Bysshe Shelley

(c) T.S. Eliot

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Lord Byron


The pamphlet “The necessity of Atheism” was the creation of ________ ?

(a) Percy Bysshe Shelley

(b) W. Blake

(c) Robert Browning (English poet)

(d) Lord Byron

Question’s Answer: Percy Bysshe Shelley


Northanger Abbey by Jane Austin was published in which year?

(a) 1820

(b) 1819

(c) 1818

(d) 1821

Question’s Answer: 1818


Who is author of “Biographia Literaria”?

(a) Byron

(b) John Keats

(c) Wordsworth

(d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question’s Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Who described Samuel Taylor Coleridge as The most impressive talker of his age?

(a) Charles Lamb (English essayist)

(b) William Hazlitt (English essayist)

(c) Carlyle

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: William Hazlitt (English essayist)


On whose death Charles Lamb (English essayist) wrote. “Never saw I his likeness nor probably the world can see again”?

(a) Byron

(b) Wordsworth

(c) William Hazlitt (English essayist)

(c) None of these

Question’s Answer: Byron


When Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge was published?

(a) 1816

(b) 1866

(c) 1818

(d) 1817

Question’s Answer: 1817


Who wrote the book “Christabel”?

(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(b) Wordsworth

(c) Byron

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Who is the writer of “The Lay of the Last Minstrel” (narrative poem)?

(a) Robert Browning (English poet)

(b) Scott

(c) John Keats (English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets)

(d) Byron

Question’s Answer: Scott


“The Lay of the Last Minstrel” (narrative poem) by Scott was published in which year?

(a) 1804

(b) 1807

(c) 1806

(d) 1805

Question’s Answer: 1805


“The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border was the creation of ________ ?

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Scott

(c) Chaucer

(d) John Milton

Question’s Answer: Scott


“The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border” by Scott was published between:

(a) 1802-5

(b) 1877-79

(c) 1802-3

(d) 1802-6

Question’s Answer: 1802-3


When the poem “Marmion” by Scott was published?

(a) 1805

(b) 1806

(c) 1899

(d) 1808

Question’s Answer: 1808


The poem “The Lady of the Lake” by Scott was published in which year?

(a) 1810

(b) 1809

(c) 1808

(d) 1811

Question’s Answer: 1810


Which century is the “Classical Age” in English literature?

(a) Twentieth Century

(b) Nineteenth Century

(c) Eighteenth Century

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Eighteenth Century


Which age is the “Augustan Age” in English Literature?

(a) The Age of Dryden

(b) The Age of Pope

(c) (a) & (b)

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: The Age of Pope


Who wrote the book “Characters of William Shakespeare’s play”?

(a) William Hazlitt (English essayist)

(b) Carlyle

(c) Charles Lamb (English essayist)

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: William Hazlitt (English essayist)


Jane Austin’s first novel was ____ .

(a) Pride and Prejudice

(b) Persuation

(c) Sense and Sensibility

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Pride and Prejudice


The later half of the 18th century is known as:

(a) The Age of Dryden

(b) The Age of Pope

(c) The Age of Johnson

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: The Age of Johnson


Who wrote the book “The Pilgrim’s progress”?

(a) Defoe

(b) Oliver Goldsmith

(c) Bunyan

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Bunyan


Who wrote the book “The Alchemist” which is book on comedy?

(a) Ben Johnson

(b) Jonathan Dr Jonathan Swift

(c) Samuel Richardson

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Ben Johnson


Some critics call the Romantic Revival as the _____ .

(a) Renaissance of Surprise

(b) Renaissance of Wonder

(c) Renaissance of Amazement

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Renaissance of Wonder


The Romantic Tale of Mazeppa by Byron was published in which year?

(a) 1821

(b) 1832

(c) 1820

(d) 1819

Question’s Answer: 1819


Lord Byron began to write his masterpiece “Don Juan” in which year?

(a) 1819

(b) 1817

(c) 1815

(d) 1820

Question’s Answer: 1819


A tragedy “Marino Faliero” by Byron was introduced in  which year?

(a) 1827

(b) 1821

(c) 1831

(d) 1820

Question’s Answer: 1820


The poets of the Romantic age can be classified into:

(a) Two Groups

(b) Five Groups

(c) Four Groups

(d) Three Groups

Question’s Answer: Three Groups


Samuel Taylor Coleridge pass away in which year?

(a) 1836

(b) 1841

(c) 1834

(d) 1837

Question’s Answer: 1834


Who was made the “Poet Laureate” in 1813?

(a) Robert Southey

(b) Lord Byron

(c) Tennyson

(d) William Wordsworth

Question’s Answer: Robert Southey


Who called poetry “The expression of the imagination”.

(a) John Keats (English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets)

(b) Robert Browning (English poet)

(c) Lord Byron

(d) Percy Bysshe Shelley

Question’s Answer: Percy Bysshe Shelley


These lines “Is there so small a range in the present strength of manhood, that the high imagination cannot freely fly” occur in John Keats:

(a) Sleep and Poetry

(b) Lamia

(c) Endymion

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Sleep and Poetry


Which is a work by Lamb?

(a) Lyrical Ballads

(b) Tales From William Shakespeare

(c) The Prelude

(a) None of these

Question’s Answer: Tales From William Shakespeare


______  tales are there in “Tales from William Shakespeare” by Lamb.

(a) Twenty tales

(b) Eighteen tales

(c) Twenty-two tales

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Twenty tales


Charles’s sister Mary Lamb was ________ .

(a) Ten years older than her brother

(b) Eight years older than her brother

(c) Five years older than her brother

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Ten years older than her brother


Charles Lamb (English essayist) pass away in which year?

(a) 1834

(b) 1833

(c) 1847

(d) 1835

Question’s Answer: 1834


How many months after the death of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Lamb (English essayist) pass away?

(a) Nine months

(b) Six months

(c) Eight months

(d) Five months

Question’s Answer: Five months


“The Prisoner of Chillon” by Lord Byron was published in which year?

(a) 1816

(b) 1814

(c) 1812

(d) 1817

Question’s Answer: 1816


Byron’s dramas are all written in which year?

(a) Blank Verse

(b) Ottava Rima Stanza

(c) Both a & b

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Blank Verse


The tragedy drama “The Two Foscari” by Byron was published in which year?

(a) 1820

(b) 1822

(c) 1821

(d) 1823

Question’s Answer: 1821


“Don Juan” is the creation of ________ ?

(a) John Keats

(b) Shelley

(c) Byron

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Byron


Byron’s drama “Sardanapalus” was published in which year?

(a) 1820

(b) 1822

(c) 1821

(d) 1823

Question’s Answer: 1821


When did Byron conceive the idea of throwing himself into the struggle for the independence?

(a) 1823

(b) 1822

(c) 1824

(d) 1825

Question’s Answer: 1823


“Cain, a mystery” by Byron was published in which year?

(a) 1820

(b) 1821

(c) 1822

(d) 1823

Question’s Answer: 1821


Which is a novel by Thomas Hardy?

(a) The Return of the Native the Sea

(b) Mrs. Dalloway

(c) Old Man and

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: The Return of the Native the Sea


Which of the following is not a novel by Hardy?

(a) Heart of Darkrtess

(b) Pickwick Papers

(c) Far From The Madding Crowd

(d) Both (a) & (b)

Question’s Answer: Both (a) & (b)


“The Dream” by Byron introduced in _____.

(a) 1813

(b) 1815

(c) 1817

(d) 1816

Question’s Answer: 1816


The first of Byron’s Ottava Rima Poem, “Beppo”, introduced in _____.

(a) 1818

(b) 1816

(c) 1815

(d) 1819

Question’s Answer: 1818


Charles Lamb (English essayist) was born in which year?

(a) 1777

(b) 1776

(c) 1775

(d) 1771

Question’s Answer: 1775


Which was the Lamb’s native city?

(a) London

(b) Paris

(c) Cobenhaven

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: London


“Don Juan” by Byron is written in _______ .

(a) Ottava Rima

(b) Heroic couplet

(c) Blank verse

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Ottava Rima


William Makepeace Thackeray (British novelist) was born in which year?

(a) 1810

(b) 1815

(c) 1812

(d) 1811

Question’s Answer: 1811


“Henry Esmond” was published in which year?

(a) 1852

(b) 1851

(c) 1853

(d) 1854

Question’s Answer: 1852


William Makepeace Thackeray (British novelist) pass away in which year?

(a) 1863

(b) 1864

(c) 1862

(d) 1865

Question’s Answer: 1863


Carlyle’s translation of “Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship” was published in which year?

(a) 1823

(b) 1826

(c) 1825

(d) 1824

Question’s Answer: 1824


“The Life of Schiller” by Carlyle was published in which year?

(a) 1825

(b) 1824

(c) 1826

(d) 1827

Question’s Answer: 1825


When the “Victorian Era” lasted?

(a) 1830-1850

(b) 1830-1890

(c) 1860-1895

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: 1830-1890


The “Victorian Age” exhibits very interesting and complex mixture of two opposing elements:

(a) Romanticism and Modelism

(b) Classicism and Romanticism

(c) None of these

Question’s Answer: Classicism and Romanticism


“Romanticism” (if it can be pinpointed) is usually assumed to date from:

(a) Publication of on

(b) Publication of Lyrical ballads and its Preface

(c) The Reform

(d) The beginning

Question’s Answer: Publication of Lyrical ballads and its Preface


Lamb moved at the South Sea House to work with a city merchant in which year?

(a) 1791

(b) 1795

(c) 1792

(d) 1793

Question’s Answer: 1791


For _________, Lamb filled in ledgen for the East India Company.

(a) Thirty years

(b) Thirty-five years

(c) Thirty-three years

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Thirty-three years


Charles Lamb (English essayist) was confined to a mental institution for a short time in which year?

(a) 1795

(b) 1799

(c) 1793

(d) 1796

Question’s Answer: 1795


How much time was spent by Mary Lamb in a lunatic asylum?

(a) Approximately a year

(b) 6 months

(c) 2 years

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Approximately a year



Charles Lamb (English essayist) and Mary Lamb lived in Islington, Enfield and Edmonton from which year?

(a) 1823

(b) 1822

(c) 1824

(d) 1825

Question’s Answer: 1823


What was the martial status of Charles Lamb (English essayist)?

(a) Never Happily married

(b) in a living relationship

(c) Happily married

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Never Happily married


Charles Lamb (English essayist) started writing poetry in the early ______ .

(a) 1780s

(b) 1770s

(c) 1795s

(d) 1790s

Question’s Answer: 1790s


Which was the profession of Lamb’s father?

(a) Mason

(b) Doctor

(c) Clerk

(d) Teacher

Question’s Answer: Clerk


When Lamb started work as a clerk?

(a) 1795

(b) 1789

(c) 1788

(d) 1790

Question’s Answer: 1789


Lamb wrote “The Adventures of Ulysses,a Novel by James Joyce” in which year?

(a) 1808

(b) 1807

(c) 1809

(d) 1810

Question’s Answer: 1808


Elizabeth Gaskell  pass away in which year?

(a) 1868

(b) 1866

(c) 1867

(d) 1865

Question’s Answer: 1865


Mary Barton: “A Tale of Manchester Life” was the creation of ________ ?

(a)  Eliot (English novelist)

(b) Charlotte Bronte

(c) Elizabeth Gaskell

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Elizabeth Gaskell


“Specimens of English dramatic poets who lived about the time of William Shakespeare” by Lamb was published in which year?

(a) 1802

(b) 1805

(c) 1808

(d) 1809

Question’s Answer: 1808


Lamb started contributing signed by “Elia” to the essays London Magazine in which year?

(a) 1820

(b) 1818

(c) 1821

(d) 1822

Question’s Answer: 1820


Charles Lamb (English essayist) was a:

(a) Critic

(b) Poet

(c) Essayist

(d) All of the above

Question’s Answer: All of the above


Charles Lamb (English essayist) wrote sonnets for the “Morning Post” together with which of the following?

(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(b) Wordsworth

(c) Byron

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge


“Tales from William Shakespeare” by Lamb and Mary was published in which year?

(a) 1808

(b) 1811

(c) 1810

(d) 1809

Question’s Answer: 1809


“Poetry For children” by Charles Lamb (English essayist) and Mary Lamb was published in which year?

(a) 1808

(b) 1811

(c) 1809

(d) 1813

Question’s Answer: 1809


Emily pass away in which year?

(a) 1847

(b) 1849

(c) 1848

(d) 1850

Question’s Answer: 1848


Mary Barton: “A Tale of Manchester Life” was published in which year?

(a) 1848

(b) 1846

(c) 1845

(d) 1850

Question’s Answer: 1848


Lamb wrote “Beauty And The Beast” in which year?

(a) 1810

(b) 1813

(c) 1812

(d) 1811

Question’s Answer: 1811


Lamb’s sister Mary, in a fit of insanity, stabbed both their parents in which year?

(a) 1798

(b) 1797

(c) 1796

(d) 1799

Question’s Answer: 1796


Anne Bronte (English novelist) was born in which year?

(a) 1822

(b) 1821

(c) 1820

(d) 1826

Question’s Answer: 1820


Anne Bronte (English novelist) pass away in which year?

(a) 1847

(b) 1851

(c) 1850

(d) 1849

Question’s Answer: 1849


Elizabeth Gaskell  was born in which year?

(a) 1810

(b) 1809

(c) 1813

(d) 1815

Question’s Answer: 1810


“Sylvia’s Lovers” by Elizabeth Gaskell  was published in which year?

(a) 1863

(b) 1867

(c) 1861

(d) 1864

Question’s Answer: 1863


“Life of Charlotte Bronte” written by Elizabeth Gaskell  was published in which year?

(a) 1856

(b) 1859

(c) 1858

(d) 1857

Question’s Answer: 1857


“Cranford” by Elizabeth Gaskell  first appeared serially in Household words from:

(a) 1850-53

(b) 1851-53

(c) 1852-55

(d) 1851-54

Question’s Answer: 1851-53


English poet “Alfred Tennyson” was born in which year?

(a) 1807

(b) 1809

(c) 1811

(d) 1810

Question’s Answer: 1809


Lord McCauley was born in which year?

(a) 1801

(b) 1800

(c) 1802

(d) 1803

Question’s Answer: 1800


Lord McCauley pass away in which year?

(a) 1850

(b) 1851

(c) 1860

(d) 1859

Question’s Answer: 1859


Who wrote the book “The Study of Celtic Literature”?

(a) Matthew Arnold

(b) McCauley

(c) John Ruskin

Question’s Answer: Matthew Arnold


Tennyson won the Chancellor’s medal at Cambridge in which year?

(a) 1827

(b) 1828

(c) 1830

(d) 1829

Question’s Answer: 1829


Tennyson became “Poet Laureate” in which year?

(a) 1851

(b) 1850

(c) 1852

(b) 1853

Question’s Answer: 1850


Tennyson happily married in which year?

(a) 1848

(b) 1849

(c) 1851

(d) 1850

Question’s Answer: 1850


The poem “The Princess” is the creation of ________ ?

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Tennyson

(c) Byron

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Tennyson


Which is a poem by Tennyson?

(a) Enoch Arden

(b) Don Juan

(c) To Milton

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Enoch Arden


Which is not a poem by Tennyson?

(a) The Princess

(b) Desert Places

(c) Enoch Arden

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Desert Places


Tennyso was raised to the peerage as  Lord Tennyson in which year?

(a) 1884

(b) 1883

(c) 1885

(d) 1886

Question’s Answer: 1884


“Ruth” by Elizabeth Gaskell  was published in which year?

(a) 1852

(b) 1855

(c) 1854

(d) 1853

Question’s Answer: 1853


“North and South” by Elizabeth Gaskell  was published in which year?

(a) 1853

(b) 1854

(c) 1855

(d) 1856

Question’s Answer: 1855


The poem “Strayed Reveller” was the creation of ________ ?

(a) Tennyson

(b) Robert Southey

(c) Matthew Arnold

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Matthew Arnold


The poem “Thyrsis” by Matthew Arnold is:

(a) A Sonnet

(b) An Elegy

(c) A Ballad

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: An Elegy


The poem “The cry of children” is the creation of ________ ?

(a) Robert Browning (English poet)

(b) Elizabeth Barrette

(c) W. Blake

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Elizabeth Barrette


Elizabeth Barretté became Mrs.Browning in which year?

(a) 1847

(b) 1846

(c) 1848

(d) 1849

Question’s Answer: 1846


Who wrote the book “The Life of John Sterling”?

(a) William Hazlitt (English essayist)” va

(b) John Ruskin

(c) Carlyle

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Carlyle


“Pre-Raphaelite Movement” took place in English poetry in the:

(a) Later Victorian Period

(b) Mid Victorian Period

(c) Early Victorian Period

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Later Victorian Period


  1. Eliot’s first work on fiction appeared when she was of:

(a) Thirty-eight

(b) Thirty-seven

(c) Thirty

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Thirty-eight


“The Modern Age” in English literature started from:

(a) 1900-71

(b) 1900-61

(c) 1900-81

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: 1900-61


“Crossing The Bar” is a poem by:

(a) Lord Byron

(b) W. Blake

(c) Tennyson

(d) Robert Browning (English poet)

Question’s Answer: Tennyson


The lines “The year’s at the spring, and day’s at the morn, Morning’s at seven, the hill side’s dew pearled” occur in Browning’s:

(a) Pippa Passes

(b) Andrea Del Sarto

(c) My Last Duchess

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Pippa Passes


Which century in England is known as the “Classical Age” or the “Augustan Age”?

(a) Twentieth Century

(b) Nineteenth Century

(c) Eighteenth Century

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Eighteenth Century


In English literature the period from 1660 to 1700 is known as the:

(a) Period of Restoration

(b) Period of Renaissance

(c) Classical Period

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Period of Restoration


“Period of Restoration” in English literature is known as the:

(a) Age of Dryden

(b) Age of Johnson

(c) Age of Pope

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Age of Dryden


These lines. “Greater love path no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” occur in Dickens:

(a) A Tale of Two Cities

(b) Bleak House fo

(c) Hard Times

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: A Tale of Two Cities


Who wrote the book “Vanity Fair”?

(a) Charles Dickens

(b) G. Eliot

(c) William Makepeace Thackeray (British novelist)

(d) None of these yu

Question’s Answer: William Makepeace Thackeray (British novelist)


The period from 1600-1660 in English Literature is known as the:

(a) Puritan Age

(b) The Age of Milton

(c) Both (a) & (b)

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Both (a) & (b)


“Maud”: A Monodrama is the creation of ________ ?

(a) William Wordsworth

(b) Shelley

(c) Tennyson

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Tennyson


Which is not a poem by Tennyson?

(a) The Road Not Taken

(b) Enoch Arden

(c) In Memorium

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: The Road Not Taken


“Enoch Arden” is the creation of ________ ?

(a) Tennyson

(b) Browning

(c) W. Blake

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Tennyson


Which century is known as the “Victorian Age“?

(a) 18th Century

(b) 20th Century

(c) 19th Century

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: 19th Century


How many plays were written by William Shakespeare?

(a) 35 Plays

(b) 45 Plays

(c) 40 Plays

(d) 37 Plays

Question’s Answer: 37 Plays


William Shakespeare work as a dramatist extended over some:

(a) 30 years

(b) 25 years

(c) 24 years

(d) 25 years

Question’s Answer: 24 years


Who wrote the book “As You Like It”?

(a) Dryden

(b) William Shakespeare

(c) Spenser

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: William Shakespeare


Browning’s “Dramatis Personae” was published in which year?

(a) 1867

(b) 1865

(c) 1864

(d) 1868

Question’s Answer: 1864


Tennyson’s first important work appeared in

(a) 1836

(b) 1834

(c) 1835

(d) 1833

Question’s Answer: 1833


“In Memoriam” is the creation of ________ ?

(a) Robert Frost

(b) Tennyson

(c) Robert Browning (English poet)

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Tennyson


Which is not a poem by Tennyson?

(a) Enoch Arden

(b) Idylls of the king

(c) The Echoing Green

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: The Echoing Green


Tennyson’s activity as a poet extended over more than:

(a) Fifty years

(b) Sixty-five years

(c) Fifty-five years

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Fifty-five years


“The Princess” by Tennyson was published in which year?

(a) 1849

(b) 1848

(c) 1847

(d) 1850

Question’s Answer: 1847


“In Memoriam” by Tennyson is:

(a) A Philosophic Elegy

(b) A Ballad

(c) A Sonnet

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: A Philosophic Elegy


Which is a poem by Tennyson?

(a) Idylls of the King

(b) Andrea Del-Sarto

(c) Birches

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Idylls of the King


“In Memoriam” by Tennyson was published in which year?

(a) 1852

(b) 1851

(c) 1850

(d) 1853

Question’s Answer: 1850


“Maud” A Monodrama was published in which year?

(a) 1854

(b) 1850

(c) 1855

(d) 1856

Question’s Answer: 1854


Which of following is a poem by the Tennyson?

(a) Mending wall

(b) In Memorium

(c) Stopping by Wood on a Snowy Evening

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: In Memorium


Who wrote the book “Julius Ceasar”?

(a) Chaucer

(b) Milton

(c) William Shakespeare

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: William Shakespeare


William Shakespeare belongs to the:

(a) Elizabethan Age

(b) Victorian Age

(c) Romantic Age

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Elizabethan Age


“Enoch Arden” by Tennyson was published in which year?

(a) 1862

(b) 1866

(c) 1865

(d) 1864

Question’s Answer: 1864


“Idylls of the King” by Tennyson was published in which year?

(a) 1884

(b) 1887

(c) 1886

(d) 1885

Question’s Answer: 1885


The first four installments of the “Idylls of the King” were published in which year?

(a) 1858

(b) 1861

(c) 1860

(d) 1859

Question’s Answer: 1859


The last installment of the Idylls of the King was published in which year?

(a) 1885

(b) 1884

(c) 1883

(d) 1886

Question’s Answer: 1885


Tennyson’s “Idylls of the King” was published in which year?

(a) Twelve Installments

(b) Ten Installments

(c) Thirteen Installments

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Twelve Installments


“Idylls of the King” is the creation of ________ ?

(a) Tennyson

(b) Robert Burns

(c) John Keats (English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets)

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Tennyson


Which is a poem by Tennyson?

(a) Fra Lippo Lippi

(b) Ode To The West Wind

(c) Enoch Arden

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Enoch Arden


Who wrote the play “Harold”?

(a) Tennyson

(b) Oscar Wilde

(c) G.B. Shaw

Question’s Answer: Tennyson


“Harold” by Tennyson was published in which year?

(a) 1875

(b) 1878

(c) 1877

(d) 1876

Question’s Answer: 1876


“Becket” was the creation of ________ ?

(a) Tennyson

(b) Samuel Beckett

(c) Ibsen

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Tennyson


“The Becket” by Tennyson was published in which year?

(a) 1883

(b) 1886

(c) 1885

(d) 1884

Question’s Answer: 1884


Which is a poem by Alfred Tennyson?

(a) Arms and the Man

(b) Harold

(c) Ulysses,a Novel by James Joyce

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Ulysses,a Novel by James Joyce


Which is not a play by Tennyson?

(a) The Becket

(b) Queen Mary

(c) Pygmalion

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Pygmalion


Which is a play by Tennyson?

(a) The Importance of Being Earnest

(b) An Ideal Husband

(c) The Backet

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: The Backet


Which is not a play by Tennyson?

(a) Harold

(b) Queen Mary

(c) Waiting For Gadot

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Waiting For Gadot


Tennyson pass away in which year?

(a) 1890

(b) 1891

(c) 1893

(d) 1892

Question’s Answer: 1892


Tennyson became Poet Laureate succession to: in

(a) Robert Southey

(b) William Wordsworth

(c) Dryden

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: William Wordsworth


The play “Queen Mary” is the creation of ________ ?

(a) Tennyson

(b) G.B. Shaw

(c) Ibsen

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Tennyson


“Queen Mary” by Tennyson was published in which year?

(a) 1874

(b) 1877

(c) 1876

(d) 1875

Question’s Answer: 1875


Which is a play by Tennyson?

(a) Queen Mary

(b) The sea

(c) Hedda Gabler

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Queen Mary


Poetry is defined as spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings by:

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(c) Shelley

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Wordsworth


Who wrote the book “After Strange Gods”?

(a) G.B. Shaw

(b) T.S. Eliot

(c) Robert Frost

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: T.S. Eliot


Fortinbras is a character of the play:

(a) Hamlet

(b) Othello

(c) King Lear

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Hamlet


“Idylls of the King” was the creation of ________ ?

(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(b) Tennyson

(c) P.B. Shelley

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Tennyson


Tennyson was a:

(a) Poet and Play Wright

(b) Essayist

(c) Novelist

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Poet and Play Wright


“Paradise Lost” is an epic by:

(b) Milton

(a) Spenser

(c) Chaucer

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Milton


Ernest Hemingway wrote:

(a) Mr.Chips

(b) Old Man and the Sea

(c) Pride and Prejudice

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Old Man and the Sea


“After Apple Picking” is the creation of ________ ?

(a) Robert Browning (English poet)

(b) G. B. Shaw

(c) Robert Frost

(d) Tennyson

Question’s Answer: Robert Frost


Which is not a play by William Shakespeare?

(a) Tempest

(b) King Lear

(c) Pygmalion

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Pygmalion


Desert Places is a _________ .

(a) Poem

(b) Play

(c) Novel

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Poem


Who wrote “Preface to William Shakespeare”?

(a) Sir Philip Sydney

(b) Dr. Johnson

(c) Dryden

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Dr. Johnson


“Hero and Hero worship” was the creation of ________ ?

(a) Carlyle

(b) Ruskin

(c) J.S. Mill

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Carlyle


“The Sequel of Locksley Hall Sixty Years After” by Tennyson was published in which year?

(a) 1885

(b) 1888

(c) 1887

(d) 1886

Question’s Answer: 1886


“Locksley Hall” by Tennyson was published in which year?

(a) 1841

(b) 1844

(c) 1843

(d) 1842

Question’s Answer: 1842


“Rabbi Ben Ezra” was the creation of ________ ?

(a) Tennyson

(b) Matthew Amold

(c) Browning

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Browning


“Unto This Last” is a book written by:

(a) Ruskin on Social Reforms

(b) Carlyle on Moral Reforms

(c) Mill on Economic Reforms

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Ruskin on Social Reforms


For whom it is said, “Sensuousness is a paramount bias of his genius”?

(a) John Keats (English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets)

(b) W. Blake

(c) Tennyson

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: John Keats (English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets)


“Sensuousness” in John Keats Connotes:

(a) The return to nature

(b) The play of imagination

(c) The cult of beauty

(d) The use of senses

Question’s Answer: The use of senses


The year 1798 marks:

(a) The beginning of the “French Revolution”

(b) The publication of “Biographia Literaria”

(c) The beginning of the “Reign of Terror”

(d) The  publication of the “Lyrical Ballads”

Question’s Answer: The  publication of the “Lyrical Ballads”


William Shakespeare inspired John Keats to compose:

(a) Ode To Melanchol

(b) Lamia

(c) Sleeping Beauty

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: None of these


Who wrote the book “The Bride of Lammermoor”?

(a) Walter Scott

(b) Dickens

(c) Jane Austin

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Walter Scott


“The Waverley Novels” by Scott consists of:

(a) Twenty-seven novels and five tales

(b) Twenty-five novels and five tales

(c) Twenty-three novels and five tales

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Twenty-seven novels and five tales


The advertisement added to the “Lyrical Ballads” was published in which year?

(a) 1800

(b) 1798

(c) 1802

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: 1800


When was the poem “Tintern Abbey” written?

(a) 1798

(b) 1775

(c) 1793

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: 1798


A poem which consists of fourteen lines is known as:

(a) An ode

(b) A Sonnet

(c) A Ballad

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: A Sonnet


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

(a) The Importance of Being Earnest

(b) The Family Reunion

(c) The Rock

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: The Importance of Being Earnest


“Murder in the Cathedral” is the creation of ________ ?

(a) Yeats

(b) David Herbert Lawrence

(c) T.S. Eliot

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: David Herbert Lawrence


What is the meaning of “Pantheism” to Wordsworth?

(a) His interest in God

(b) Interest in Nature

(c) Pleasures in reflection about God

(d) Manifestation of God in Objectives of Nature

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


Who is the writer of “Auguries of Innocence”?

(a) W. Blake

(b) P.B. Shelley

(c) John Keats

(d) Robert Browning (English poet)

Question’s Answer: W. Blake


Edward Fitzgerald’s “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” motivates Browning want to write the ______ .

(a) Rabbi Ben Ezra

(b) The Last Ride Together

(c) Easter Day

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Rabbi Ben Ezra


“The Last Ride Together” is a _________ .

(a) A Novel by G. Eliot

(b) An Essay by Charles Lamb (English essayist)

(c) A Monologue by Robert.Browning

(d) A Play by Oscar Wilde

Question’s Answer: A Monologue by Robert.Browning


Who wrote the book “On Liberty”?

(a) John Ruskin

(b) J.S. Mill

(c) William Makepeace Thackeray (British novelist)

(d) Carlyle

(e) None of these

Question’s Answer: J.S. Mill


Francis Bacon pass away in which year?

(a) 1625

(b) 1629

(c) 1627

(d) 1626

Question’s Answer: 1626


Who wrote the book “Ancient Mariner”?

(a) Byron

(b) John Keats

(c) None of these

(d) S.T Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question’s Answer: S.T Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Lord Byron pass away at which age ?

(a) Thirty-six

(b) Thirty-five

(c) Thirty

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Thirty-six


“The Vision of Judgment” by Byron is written in which year?

(a) Heroic Couplet

(b) Ottave Rima

(c) Blank Verse

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Ottave Rima


Robert Southey pass away in which year?

(a) 1841

(b) 1843

(c) 1842

(d) 1844

Question’s Answer: 1843


The “Victorian Age” can be dated by Which events and years?

(a) Mill’s “On liberty” (1859) to end of century (1900)

(b) Tennyson’s poems, chiefly “Lyrical” (1830) to death of Queen Victoria (1901)

(c) Birth of Tennyson (1809) to his death (1892)

(d) Reform Bill (1832) to end of Boer War (1902)

Question’s Answer: Tennyson’s poems, chiefly “Lyrical” (1830) to death of Queen Victoria (1901)


Who wrote the poem “Tear, Idle Tears”?

(a) Robert Browning (English poet)

(b) Lord Byron

(c) Tennyson

(d) W. Blake

Question’s Answer: Tennyson


Matthew Amold was born in which year?

(a) 1822

(b) 1820

(c) 1824

(d) 1826

Question’s Answer: 1822


Who was the first poet of the group of “Lake Poets”?

(a) Percy Bysshe Shelley

(b) William Wordsworth

(c) Robert Southey

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: William Wordsworth


Who was the second poet of group of “Lake Poets”?

(a) Robert Browning (English poet)

(b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(c) John Keats (English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets)

Question’s Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Which romantic poets belong to the “Scott Group”?

(a) Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey

(b) Walter Scott, Campbell and Thomas Moore

(c) Shelley, John Keats, Bryon

Question’s Answer: Walter Scott, Campbell and Thomas Moore


Which romantic poets belong to the “Lake Group”?

(a) Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Robert Southey

(b) Shelley, Lord Byron, Browning

(c) Walter Scott, Campbell,Thomas Moore

Question’s Answer: Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Robert Southey


Who is known as a “Pure Poet”?

(a) Percy Bysshe Shelley

(b) Lord Byron

(c) William Wordsworth

(d) John Keats (English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets)

Question’s Answer: John Keats (English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets)


Who wrote the book “The Faerie Queen”?

(a) Spenser

(b) Chaucer

(c) Alexander Pope (English poet)

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Spenser


The poem “Isabella” by John Keats is:

(a) A Narrative Poem

(b) An ode

(c) A Sonnet

(d) A Ballad

Question’s Answer: A Narrative Poem


Who wrote the book “La Belle Dame Sans Merd”?

(a) John Keats (English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets)

(b) Lord Byron

(c) Robert Southey

(d) William Wordsworth

Question’s Answer: John Keats (English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets)


Who showed regard for the poets of the 18th century in his poetry?

(a) Scott

(b) Percy Bysshe Shelley

(c) Lord Byron

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Lord Byron


Who was the third poet of the group. of Lake poets?

(a) William Wordsworth

(b) Robert Southey

(c) S.T Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Robert Southey


William Hazlitt (English essayist) was bom in which year?

(a) 1780

(b) 1779

(c) 1778

(d) 1781

Question’s Answer: 1778


William Hazlitt (English essayist) pass away in which year?

(a) 1828

(b) 1833

(c) 1829

(d) 1832

Question’s Answer: 1832


The essay”The Spirit of the Age”, is the creation of ________ ?

(a) De Quincy

(b) William Hazlitt (English essayist)

(c) Carlyle

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: William Hazlitt (English essayist)


Who wrote the book “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater”?

(a) William Makepeace Thackeray (British novelist)

(b) William Hazlitt (English essayist)

(c) De Quincy

(d) Carlyle

Question’s Answer: De Quincy


“The Talisman” by Scott was published in which year?

(a) 1828

(b) 1826

(c) 1827

(d) 1825

Question’s Answer: 1825


Scott’s first historical novel was:

(a) Quentin Durward

(b) Kenilworth

(c) Ivanhoe

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Ivanhoe


The “Victorian Age” started from:

(a) 1820-1900

(b) 1832-1900

(c) 1825-1900

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: 1832-1900


“Victorian Age” is often divided into:

(a) Four Periods

(b) Three Periods

(c) Two Periods

(d) Five Periods

Question’s Answer: Two Periods


“Break, Break, Break” is the creation of ________ ?

(a) Tennyson

(b) Robert Browning (English poet)

(c) W. Blake

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Tennyson


The “Second Generation” of the Byron.romantic poets (Shelley,John Keats) was dead by:

(a) 1825

(b) 1820

(c) 1830

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: 1825


Matthew Arnold pass away in which year?

(a) 1887

(b) 1889

(c) 1888

(d) 1890

Question’s Answer: 1888


“The Waverley Novels” by Scott were written in how many years?

(a) Fifteen years

(b) Twenty years

(c) Eighteen years

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Eighteen years


Thomas de Quincy pass away in which year?

(a) 1859

(b) 1858

(c) 1857

(d) 1860

Question’s Answer: 1859


Who was the most popular writer of the “Gothic” novel during the Romantic age?

(a) Mrs. Ann Radcliff

(b) Charles Robert Maturin

(c) Mathew Gregory

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Mrs. Ann Radcliff


The novel “The Antiquary” is the creation of ________ ?

(a) Sir Walter Scott

(b)  Eliot (English novelist)

(c) Jane Austin

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Sir Walter Scott


“The French Revolution” by Carlyle was published in which year?

(a) 1836

(b) 1835

(c) 1837

(d) 1838

Question’s Answer: 1836


Carlyle delivered a series of lectures in which year?

(a) 1840

(b) 1838

(c) 1839

(d) 1837

Question’s Answer: 1837


“Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches” by Carlyle was published in which year?

(a) 1848

(b) 1845

(c) 1847

(d) 1846

Question’s Answer: 1845


“Life of John Sterling” by Carlyle was published in which year?

(a) 1851

(b) 1853

(c) 1852

(d) 1850

Question’s Answer: 1851


“Agnes Grey” was the creation of ________ ?

(a) Emily Bronte

(b) Anne Bronte (English novelist)

(c) Charlotte Bronte

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Anne Bronte (English novelist)


“Agnes Grey” was published in which year?

(a) 1850

(b) 1848

(c) 1849

(d) 1847

Question’s Answer: 1847


Emily Bronte was born in which year?

(a) 1818

(b) 1817

(c) 1816

(d) 1819

Question’s Answer: 1818


“Past and Present” by Carlyle was published in which year?

(a) 1824

(b) 1845

(c) 1844

(d) 1843

Question’s Answer: 1843


“Chartism” by Carlyle was published in which year?

(a) 1841

(b) 1840

(c) 1842

(d) 1843

Question’s Answer: 1840


“The French Revolution” is a work by:

(a) John Ruskin

(b) Carlyle

(c) William Makepeace Thackeray (British novelist)

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Carlyle


“Latter Day Pamphlets” by Carlyle was published in which year?

(a) 1850

(b) 1849

(c) 1851

(d) 1852

Question’s Answer: 1850


“Sartor Resartus The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh” by Carlyle appeared in Fraser’s Magazine between:

(a) 1833-36

(b) 1833-34

(c) 1833-35

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: 1833-35


“The Elements of Drawing” by John Ruskin was published in which year?

(a) 1852

(b) 1854

(c) 1857

(d) 1856

Question’s Answer: 1856


“The Elements of Perspective” by Ruskin was published in which year?

(a) 1859

(b) 1858

(c) 1857

(d) 1860

Question’s Answer: 1859


Thomas Hardy abandoned novel writing in which year?

(a) 1895

(b) 1897

(c) 1896

(d) 1898

Question’s Answer: 1896


“The History of Frederick II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great” was published in which year?

(a) 1858-65

(b) 1858-66

(c) 1858-64

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: 1858-65


Carlyle’s series of lectures was published as “On. Heroes. Hero- Worship and the Heroic in History” in which year?

(a) 1840

(b) 1843

(c) 1842

(d) 1841

Question’s Answer: 1841


Hardy resumed the practice of verse at the age of nearly:

(a) Fifty

(b) Eighty

(c) Seventy

(d) Sixty

Question’s Answer: Sixty


“The Dynasts” by Hardy is:

(a) An epic-drama

(b) A Doem

(c) A novel

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: An epic-drama


“Wuthering Heights” was published in which year?

(a) 1846

(b) 1848

(c) 1847

(d) 1849

Question’s Answer: 1847


“The Dynasts” by Hardy was completed in which year?

(a) 1902

(b) 1908

(c) 1906

(d) 1909

Question’s Answer: 1908


Charlotte Bronte was born in.

(a) 1815

(b) 1816

(c) 1817

(d) 1818

Question’s Answer: 1816


Charlote Bronte pass away in which year?

(a) 1857

(b) 1856

(c) 1855

(d) 1858

Question’s Answer: 1855


“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte introduced in _____.

(a) 1850

(b) 1848

(c) 1849

(d) 1847

Question’s Answer: 1847


Who wrote the book “Wuthering Heights”?

(a) Charlotte Bronte

(b) Anne Bronte (English novelist)

(c) Emily Bronte

(d) W.B. Yeats

Question’s Answer: Emily Bronte

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