English Literature

Time: 8 Minutes
Marks: 15
Serial Question
1 Who is the University Wits in the following list ?
a) William Shakespeare
b) THomas Gray
c) Robert Greene
d) Jhon Dryden
Ans: 3
2 The Spanish Tragedy is written by ?
a) Thomas Kyd
b) William Shakespeare
c) Cristopher Marlowe
d) Ben Johnson
Ans: 1
3 What is an act in a play?
a) a unit of act on with no change of place or time
b) the rising action of a play
c) a major division in the action of a play
d) conversation of character is in a play
Ans: 3
4 Paradise Regained is an epic by -
a) Jhon Keats
b) P.B Shelly
c) Jhon Milton
d) William Blake
Ans: 3
5 Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and wste its sweetnes in the desert air- Stated by ?
a) Thomas Gray
b) Keats
c) Wordsworth
d) Shelly
Ans: 1
6 Death,thou shalt not die -is an example of-
a) Simile
b) metaphor
c) irony
d) personification
Ans: 4
7 Who was a Poet Laureate after William Wordsworth ?
a) Alfred Tennyson
b) Ben Jonson
c) Jhon Dryden
d) Edmund Spenser
Ans: 1
8 The Return of the native is written by-
a) Aldus Huxley
b) Alexander Dumas
c) Somerset Maugham
d) Thomas Hardy
Ans: 4
9 Gerontion is a poem by-
a) T.S Eliot
b) W.B Yeats
c) Mattew Arnold
d) Robert Browning
Ans: 1
10 Who is a Metaphysical poet ?
a) Cowley
b) Thomas Kyd
c) Ben Johnson
d) John Webster
Ans: 1
11 Jacobean Period of English Literature refers to -
a) 1558-1603
b) 1625-1649
c) 1603-1625
d) 1649-1660
Ans: 3
12 Which of the following is not a poetic tradition ?
a) The Epic
b) The Comic
c) The Tragic
d) The Occult
Ans: 4
13 The Faerie Queene is a -
a) Elegy
b) Epic
c) Sonnet
d) Poem
Ans: 2
14 Good face is the best letterof recommendation was stated by -
a) Queen Vitoria
b) Queen Elizabeth
c) Queen Anne
d) Queen Marry
Ans: 2
15 Who is the poet of victorian age ?
a) Lord Byron
b) THomas Gray
c) Matthew Arnold
d) None of them
Ans: 3