Oliver Goldsmith MCQs [English Literature & Famous Authors]

Collection of important MCQs on Oliver Goldsmith

Who stoops to conquer in the play ‘She Stoops to Conquer”?

(A) Miss Neville

(B) Miss Williams

(D) A Maid

Question’s Answer: Miss Hardcastle

On his grave the following epitaph was written: ‘A gentle master who left scarcely any kind of writing untouched. Who is the writer of this Epitaph?

(A) Garrick

(B) Dr. Johnson

(D) Reynolds

Question’s Answer: Dr. Johnson

To ____ , Goldsmith dedicate his play ‘She Stoops to Conquer ?

(A) Lord Chesterfield

(B) Joshua Reynolds

(D) Dr. Samuel Johnson

Question’s Answer: Dr. Samuel Johnson

Goldsmith belongs to _______ literary age.

(A) The Age of Johnson

(B) The Age of Pope

(D) The Age of Wordsworth

Question’s Answer: The Age of Johnson

Goldsmith travelled over the Continent for two years supported only:

(A) By playing on his flute

(B) By reading aloud his poems and singing songs

(D) None of these

Question’s Answer: By playing on his flute

literary age was so poor and supportless that for some time he _____

(A) served as a bookseller’s hack but left it

(B) lived with professional beggars

(D) took to writing articles to local Papers

Question’s Answer: lived with professional beggars

Goldsmith’s first work published under his name of ______ .

(A) The Good Natured Man

(B) The Vicar of Wakefield

(D) The Traveller

Question’s Answer: The Traveller

She Stoops to Conquer was published in:

(A) 1780

(B) 1774

(D) 1775

Question’s Answer: 1774

Goldsmith was born in which country?

(A) Scotland

(B) England

(D) Border of England-Scotland

Question’s Answer: Ireland

The alternative title of ___was given by Goldsmith to She Stoops to Conquer

(A) The Errors of a Night

(B) The Mistakes of a Night

(D) The Follies of a Night

Question’s Answer: The Mistakes of a Night

Who said of Goldsmith that He wrote like an angel but talked like poor Poll’ ?

(A) Beanclerk

(B) Garrick

(D) Newberry

Question’s Answer: Beanclerk

The Deserted Village was written by Goldsmith in the memory of which of the following?

(A) His father who had pass away not long before

(B) His brother who had pass away a few months earlier

(D) It refers to no particular village

Question’s Answer: His brother who had pass away a few months earlier

What is Goldsmith’s ‘The Good Natured Man’ ?

(A) A Narrative Poem

(B) A Play

(D) A Satire in Verse

Question’s Answer: A Play

Name the work which Goldsmith left unfinished on account of his death:

(A) The Vicar of Wakefield

(B) The Good Natured Man

(D) The Deserted Village

Question’s Answer: Retaliation

At the age of ___ Goldsmith pass away.

(A) Fifty-six

(B) Fifty-eight

(D) Forty-six

Question’s Answer: Forty-six

What is Goldsmith’s The Bee?

(A) A Short Poem

(B) A Prose Pamphlet

(D) A Periodical

Question’s Answer: A Periodical

What is Retaliation?

(A) A Galaxy of Animated Reparties

(B) A Prose Romance

(D) A Novel

Question’s Answer: A Galaxy of Animated Reparties

But finally he found both a sheltering rock and literary recognition by writing:

(A) An account of his continental tours

(B) A history of France

(D) Writing articles in National Journals

Question’s Answer: A history of England

Goldsmith published a series of letters under the title The Letters of a Citizen of the World.”

They were professed to have been written by:

(A) A French Traveller

(B) A Roman Traveller

(D) A Japanese Traveller

Question’s Answer: A Chinese Traveller

What is Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer?

(A) A Satire on Hero Worship

(B) A Farce

(D) A Comedy

Question’s Answer: A Comedy

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