Collection of important MCQs on Sir Walter Scott
Walter Scott became lame when he was only:
(A) Eighteen years old
(B) Fourteen years old
(C) Eighteen months old
(D) Fourteen months old
Question’s Answer: Eighteen months old
What was Scotts’ Rokeby?
(A) A novel in verse
(B) A satirical poem
(C) A long prose work
(D) A play
Question’s Answer: A novel in verse
In the second and more successful phase of his literary career, Scott produced a number
of novels, numbering about:
(A) 18
(B) 27
(C) 20
(D) 25
Question’s Answer: 27
Scott’s most widespread novels are about which of the following?
(A) London Life
(B) Ireland
(C) Scotland
(D) England
Question’s Answer: Scotland
Most of the novels of Walter Scott are ___ .
(A) Romances
(B) Historical
(C) Narrative Verse
(D) None of these
Question’s Answer: Historical
The most successful of his novels is:
(A) Kenilworth
(B) The Monastery
(C) Guy Mannering
(D) Waverley
Question’s Answer: Waverley
“The Lay of the Last Minstrel “ written by Sir Walter Scott is a ______ .
(A)Â A Ballad
(B) A Narrative Poem
(C) A series of Sonnets
(D) A series of Lyrics
Question’s Answer: A Ballad
Scott was a great favourite of George IV who made him a Baronet in:
(A) 1910
(B) 1820
(C) 1838
(D) 1822
Question’s Answer: 1820
Within ______ literary Age Walter Scott lived and wrote.
(A) The Age of Wordsworth
(B) The Age of Pope
(C) The Age of Dryden
(D) The Age of Tennyson
Question’s Answer: The Age of Wordsworth
The idea/theme s of Scott’s historical novels cover a period of nearly:
(A) Six Centuries
(B) Eight Centuries
(C) Seven Centuries
(D) Four Centuries
Question’s Answer: Eight Centuries
Walter Scott was basically:
(A) A poet
(B) A dramatist
(C) An essayist
(D) A novelist
Question’s Answer: A novelist
John Gibbon Lockhart, the renowned novelist and poet was:
(A) Scott’s cousin
(B) Scott’s son-in-law
(C) Scott’s friend
(D) Scott’s nephew
Question’s Answer: Scott’s son-in-law
Marmion is _______.
(A) A poetical story
(B) A novelet
(C) A ballad
(D) An ode
Question’s Answer: A poetical story
The Lady of the Lake presents:
(A) A galaxy of characters
(B) A series of songs
(C) A series of exciting incidents
(D) A series of buffoonery
Question’s Answer: A series of exciting incidents
There are total _______ number of plays did Scott write?
(A) Two
(B) Four
(C) Three
(D) Five
Question’s Answer: Four
The Lord of the Isles is a powerful:
(A) A dramatic work in verse
(B) Adaptation of an old ballad
(C) Historical poem
(D) A series of adventures in verse
Question’s Answer: Historical poem
The Bride of Lammermoor is rightly famous for its:
(A) Sustained tragic intensity
(B) Enchanting romance
(C) Gothic atmosphere
(D) Poetical quality
Question’s Answer: Gothic atmosphere
Scott wrote his Lay of the Last Minstrel on the model of which of the following?
(A) Cowper’s John Gilpin
(B) Coleridge’s Christalbel
(C) La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Keats
(D) Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge
Question’s Answer: Coleridge’s Christalbel
Who is the writer of the Biography of Walter Scott?
(A) Leigh Hunt
(B) Charles Lamb
(C) Lockhart
(D) Southey
Question’s Answer: Lockhart
Where Walter Scott was born?
(A) Berwickshire
(B) Cambridge
(C) Edinburgh
(D) None of these
Question’s Answer: Edinburgh
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