Who was called ‘a reed through which all things blew to music”?
(a) Swinburne
(b) Morris
(c) D.G. Rossetti
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Swinburne
A.C. Swinburne was born in
(a) 1837
(b) 1836
(c) 1835
(d) 1838
Question’s Answer: 1837
If you were April’s lady.
And I were lord in May
We’d throw with leaves for hours
And draw for days with flowers.’
These lines occur in Swinburne’s
(a) “Atalanta in Calydon”
(b) “A Match”
(c) “Poems and Ballads”
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: “A Match”
Stevenson’s first masterpiece was published in 1883.
(a) Kidnapped
(b) Weir of Hermiston
(c) Beach of Falesa
(d) Treasure Island
Question’s Answer: Treasure Island
Which fiction of Stevenson illustrates the doubleness of man’s nature?
(a) Treasure Island
(b) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(c) Weir of Hermiston
(d) Kidnapped
Question’s Answer: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Swinburne’s “Atlanta in Calydon” is a
(a) Comedy
(b) Tragi comedy
(c) Tragedy
(d) History
Question’s Answer: Tragedy
Swinburne’s “Atlanta in Calydon”, a beautiful lyric drama is modelled on
(a) English tragedy
(b) Roman tragedy
(c) Greek tragedy
(d) Spanish tragedy
Question’s Answer: English tragedy
“Songs before Sunrise” is a well- known work of
(a) Morris
(b) D.G. Rossetti
(c) Edith Sitwell
(d) A.C. Swinburne
Question’s Answer: A.C. Swinburne
R.L. Stevenson 112. R.L. Stevenson was born in
(a) 1860
(b) 1870
(c) 1840
(d) 1850
Question’s Answer: 1850
Besides being a novelist, Stevenson was also a/an
(a) Essayist
(b) Historian
(c) Poet
(d) Philosopher
Question’s Answer: Essayist
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a
(a) Satire
(b) Romance
(c) Modern allegory
(d) Fable
Question’s Answer: Modern allegory
Treasure Island was published in a
(a) Periodical
(b) British Journal
(c) London daily
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: London daily
An Inland Voyage written in 1878, is a work of
(a) Kipling
(b) Chesterton
(c) Conrad
(d) Stevenson
Question’s Answer: Stevenson
Travels with a Donkey, a travel book has been written by
(a) George Gissing
(b) Stevenson
(c) George Moore
(d) Rudyard Kipling
Question’s Answer: Stevenson
Besides St. Ives, which novel was left unfinished at Stevenson’s death?
(a) Weir of Hermiston
(b) The Master of Ballantrae
(c) Kidnapped
(d) An Inland Voyage
Question’s Answer: Weir of Hermiston
Which novel by Stevenson was left unfinished by his early death?
(a) Treasure Island
(b) St. Ives
(c) Kidnapped
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: St. Ives
Stevenson’s Underwoods is a volume of
(a) Poems
(b) Stories
(c) Essays
(d) Hymns
Question’s Answer: Poems
New Arabian Nights, written in 1882 is a work of
(a) Butler
(b) Stevenson
(c) Kipling
(d) H.G. Wells
Question’s Answer: Stevenson
Whose novels mark a return to the pure romanticism of Walter Scott?
(a) Stevenson
(b) Meredith
(c) Hardy
(d) Oscar Wilde
Question’s Answer: Stevenson
The novels The Master of Ballantrae and David Balfour have been written by
(a) Hardy
(b) Conrad
(c) H.G. Wells
(d) Stevenson
Question’s Answer: Stevenson
Who is a writer of novel of adventure?
(a) Kipling
(b) Meredith
(c) Hardy
(d) Stevenson
Question’s Answer: Stevenson
Who formulated a philosophy of receptivity to works of art as a means of enriching human experience through responses of the sensibilities?
(a) Ruskin
(b) Swinburne
(c) Morris
(d) Walter Pater
Question’s Answer: Walter Pater
The Core of Pater’s thinking can be found in the famous ‘Conclusion’ to his work
(a) Essay on Style
(b) Studies in the History of the Renaissance
(c) Marius, the Epicurean
(d) Imaginary Portraits
Question’s Answer: Studies in the History of the Renaissance
The novel Treasure Island has been written by
(a) Stevenson
(b) H.G. Wells
(c) Conrad
(d) Oscar Wilde
Question’s Answer: Stevenson
Marius, the Epicurean, a well-known novel has been written by
(a) Meredith
(b) Walter Pater
(c) Wilde
(d) Hardy
Question’s Answer: Walter Pater
Essay on Style, a critical work has been composed by
(a) John Symonds
(b) Matthew Arnold
(c) Walter Pater
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Walter Pater
The expression ‘hedonistic aestheticism’ is related to
(a) Swinburne
(b) Walter Pater
(c) Meredith
(d) Morris
Question’s Answer: Walter Pater
Wilde’s play The Importance Earnest was published in
(a) 1890
(b) 1893
(c) 1895
(d) 1898
Question’s Answer: 1895
Oscar Wilde was born in Ireland in
(a) 1858
(b) 1856
(c) 1854
(d) 1860
Question’s Answer: 1854
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a written by Wilde.
(a) Short story
(b) Drama
(c) Poem
(d) Novel
Question’s Answer: Novel
Oscar Wilde pass away in France in
(a) 1898
(b) 1902
(c) 1900
(d) 1905
Question’s Answer: 1900
Who has paid explicit tribute to Keats and Shelley in his poem “The Garden of Eros”?
(a) Morris
(b) A.E. Housman
(c) Robert Bridges
(d) Oscar Wilde
Question’s Answer: Oscar Wilde
In which work of Wilde, the cruelty of sexual passion has been in a realistic manner?
(a) The Importance of Being Earnest
(b) Salome
(c) De Profundis
(d) Windermere’s Fan
Question’s Answer: Salome
Which work of Oscar Wilde was written in imprisonment?
(a) A Woman of No Importance
(b) The Happy Prince
(c) The Duchess of Padua
(d) De Profundis
Question’s Answer: De Profundis
Which play of Wilde was first written in French?
(a) The Duchess of Padua
(b) An Ideal Husband
(c) A Woman of No Importance
(d) Salome
Question’s Answer: Salome
Which work of Wilde reflects his aestheticism in all its aspects? of Being
(a) The House of Pomegranates
(b) The Picture of Dorian Gray
(c) De Profundis
(d) The Happy Prince
Question’s Answer: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Which author, being charged with a breach of morality spent two years in penal servitude?
(a) Oscar Wilde
(b) Walter Pater
(c) Swinburne
(d) Arthur Symons
Question’s Answer: Oscar Wilde