Who is considered to be the first of the women novelists?
(a) Jane Austen
(b) Virginia Woolf
(c) F. Burney
(d) George Eliot
Question’s Answer: F. Burney
Timon” is a poem by
(a) Rochester
(b) Goldsmith
(c) Pope
(d) Smart
Question’s Answer: Rochester
“The Spleen” is a
(a) Short story
(b) Essay
(c) Pindaricode
(d) Play
Question’s Answer: Pindaricode
Which age is considered to be the golden age pamphleteering? of political
(a) Restoration
(b) Victorian
(c) Augustan
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Augustan
Who said: “Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains”?
(a) Francis Bacon
(b) J.J. Rousseau
(c) Socrates
(d) E. Burke
Question’s Answer: J.J. Rousseau
The concept of ‘Royal divine right” was supported by
(a) Whig party
(b) Tory party
(c) Dryden
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Tory party
The Wealth of Nations is a prose work on economics, written by
(a) Addison
(b) Adam Smith
(c) Burke
(d) Gibbon
Question’s Answer: Adam Smith
The eighteenth century in English literature is also called
(a) The age of excessive passion
(b) The age of reason
(c) The age of puritanism
(d) The age of sentimentalism
Question’s Answer: The age of reason
“Song to David” is a poem by
(a) C. Smart
(b) Gay
(c) Matthew Prior
(d) Pope
Question’s Answer: C. Smart
Evelina is a novel by
(a) Fielding
(b) G. Eliot
(c) Austen
(d) Burney
Question’s Answer: Burney
The Biography of Johnson was proudly written by
(a) Sheridan
(b) Goldsmith
(c) James Boswell
(d) George Eliot
Question’s Answer: James Boswell
Douglas is a tragedy by
(a) John Home
(b) Dr. Johnson
(c) Collins
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: John Home
Which poem is known as a ‘rhymed gazette”?
(a) “London”
(b) “The Wasteland”
(c) “The Campaign”
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: “The Campaign”
Which following is a characteristic of the Augustan Age?
(a) Moderation
(b) Tolerance
(c) Common sense
(d) All of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: All of A, B, and C
The Scribbler’s Club was an association of
(a) Tory wits
(b) Whig wits
(c) Pope and Swift
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Tory wits
The Critic, a Tragedy Rehearsed is à
(a) Sentimental comedy
(b) Farce
(c) Tragedy
(d) Restoration tragedy
Question’s Answer: Farce
Matthew Prior’s Alma is an imitation of
(a) Paradise Lost
(b) Hudibras
(c) Emma
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Hudibras
Jack of Newbury is a novel about
(a) The weaver’s craft
(b) A farmer
(c) The shoemaker’s trade
(d) Washerman
Question’s Answer: The weaver’s craft
Ulysses, the hero o: Homer’s Odyssey.was the king of
(a) Sparta
(b) Rome
(c) Athens
(d) Ithaca
Question’s Answer: Ithaca
The Gentle Craft is about
(a) Washerman
(b) The art of farming
(c) The weaver’s.craft
(d) The shoemaker’s trade
Question’s Answer: The shoemaker’s trade
Who is author of the Moss House, a book for children?
(a) Blake
(b) Swift
(c) Agnes Strickland
(d) Lamb
Question’s Answer: Agnes Strickland
The Sick Lady Cure is a comedy by
(a) Sheridan
(b) Cibber
(c) Steele
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Cibber
The Invisible Man is a picaresque novel by
(a) Thackeray
(b) Thomas Mann
(c) Ralph Ellison
(d) Fielding
Question’s Answer: Ralph Ellison
John Gay’s “Black-eyed Susan” is a
(a) Play
(b) Novel
(c) Ballad
(d) Short-story
Question’s Answer: Ballad
The hero of the poem “The Campaign” is
(a) Marlborough
(b) Neander
(c) Steele
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Marlborough
‘Love’s Last Shift is a Sentimental comedy by
(a) Goldsmith
(b) Collins
(c) Steele
(d) Cibber
Question’s Answer: Cibber
Which following is a parody of the style and ideas of Bolingbroke?
(a) A Vindication of Natural Society
(b) The Life of Samuel Johnson
(c) Cecilia
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: A Vindication of Natural Society
Thomas used… in his The Castle of Indolence.
(a) Heroic couplets
(b) Terza rima
(c) Spenserian stanza
(d) Chaucerian stanza
Question’s Answer: Spenserian stanza
Fingal and Temora were written by
(a) Crabbe
(b) Pope
(c) Macpherson
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Macpherson
The Vindication of the Rights of Women is a milestone in the history of
(a) Feminism
(b) Neo-Classicism
(c) Logism
(d) Romanticism
Question’s Answer: Feminism
J.J. Rousseau pass away in
(a) 1763
(b) 1775
(c) 1766
(d) 1778
Question’s Answer: 1778
The Poetical Sketches came out in
(a) 1785
(b) 1783
(c) 1786
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1783
Who poisoned himself with arsenic when he was only eighteen?
(a) Burns
(b) Macpherson
(c) Thomas Chatterson
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Thomas Chatterson
Whig party was in favour of
(a) Purposelessness
(b) Pre-eminence of personal freedom
(c) Dictatorship
(d) Love at first sight
Question’s Answer: Pre-eminence of personal freedom
The year 1776 was associated with
(a) Invention of steam engine
(b) The War of the Roses
(c) American independence
(d) None
Question’s Answer: American independence
The Natural History of Selborne was proudly written by
(a) Gilbert White
(b) William Paley
(c) Adam Smith
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Adam Smith
The freedom of the press was restored in the year
(a) 1701
(b) 1682
(c) 1712
(d) 1721
Question’s Answer: 1701
The Times acquired this name in 1788. What was its name earlier?
(a) The Telegraph
(b) Daily Universal Register
(c) Sunday Mirror
(d) Tatler
Question’s Answer: Daily Universal Register
The Pre-Romantics were influenced by the Middle Ages.
(a) May be
(b) No
(c) Yes
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Yes
The Circulating Libraries were popular during
(a) The 18th century
(b) The 19th century
(c) The 17th century
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The 18th century
James II ascended the throne after
(a) James I
(b) Charles II
(c) Charles I
(d) Cromwell
Question’s Answer: Charles II
Vathek is a fiction by
(a) Smollett
(b) Fielding
(c) M. G. Lewis
(d) William Beckford
Question’s Answer: William Beckford
Who pictured Boswell as being a knavish buffoon?
(a) Macaulay
(b) Ruskin
(c) Arnold
(d) Rossetti
Question’s Answer: Macaulay
The Sentimental comedy was a reaction against the
(a) Comedy of manners
(b) Romantic comedies
(c) Renaissance
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Comedy of manners
The Married Philosopher is a sentimental comedy by
(a) Johnson
(b) Dryden
(c) Sheridan
(d) John Kelly
Question’s Answer: John Kelly
The Neo-classical Age in English Literature follows the models of
(a) Anglo-Saxon Literature
(b) Greek Literature
(c) Roman Literature
(d) The Elizabethan Literature
Question’s Answer: Roman Literature
Which following was not written by Matthew Prior?
(a) Alma
(b) The Thief and the Cordelier
(c) To Chloe
(d) The Chameleon
Question’s Answer: Alma
The Agony and The Ecstasy is a biography of
(a) Galsworthy
(b) Michelangelo
(c) Poe
(d) Emerson
Question’s Answer: Michelangelo
Don Quixote is a work by
(a) Boccacio
(b) Dante
(c) Cervantes
(d) Rossetti
Question’s Answer: Cervantes
The Mysteries of Udolpho is a
(a) Historical novel
(b) Gothic novel
(c) Picaresque novel
(d) Domestic novel
Question’s Answer: Gothic novel
The Rights of Man was proudly written by
(a) Thomas Paine
(b) Dr. Johnson
(c) Coleridge
(d) Robert Clive
Question’s Answer: Thomas Paine
The Castle of Indolence was proudly written by
(a) William Collins
(b) James Thomson
(c) Oliver Goldsmith
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: James Thomson