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
- 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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