English Literature

Time: 12 Minutes
Marks: 20
Serial Question
1 Who is considered to be the father of English novel ?
a) Francis Bacon
b) Geoffrey Chaucer
c) King Alfred the Great
d) Henry Fielding
Ans: 4
2 Who among the following is not novelist?
a) Thomas More
b) Jane Austen
c) Joseph Conrad
d) Mathew Arnold
Ans: 4
3 Who is Samuel Jonson ?
a) Novelist
b) Essayist
c) Dramatist
d) Critics
Ans: 4
4 Emily Bronte is a -
a) Poet
b) Critic
c) Novelist
d) Dramatist
Ans: 3
5 One of the four mentioned below is not a novelist of Modern Age in Englsih language . Who is he ?
a) H.G Wells
b) Charles Dickens
c) Rudyard Kipling
d) T.S Elliot
Ans: 2
6 Who is called the father of both the regional and the historical novel ?
a) Walter Scott
b) Henry Fielding
c) Daniel Defoe
d) Samuel Richardson
Ans: 1
7 Who is the father of Modern English Poetry ?
a) Cynewulf
b) Geofrrey Chaucer
c) Robert Browning
d) T.S Elliot
Ans: 2
8 Who is called the father of Modern English Criticism?
a) Alexander Pope
b) Ben Jonson
c) Sir Thomas Wyatt
d) John Dryden
Ans: 4
9 Who is the father of English Learning ?
a) Alfred the Great
b) Chaucer
c) Venerable Bede
d) John Wycliffe
Ans: 3
10 What was the real name of the great American short-story writer, O Henry ?
a) Samuel L Clemens
b) William Sydney Porter
c) Fitz-James O Brien
d) William Huntington Wright
Ans: 2
11 Virginia Woolf belogns to -
a) The Edwardian Period
b) The Gerogian Period
c) The Post Modern Period
d) None of them
Ans: 2
12 Who among the following is not belongs to Agustan Periodr?
a) Daniel Defoe
b) Jonathan Swift
c) William Congreve
d) Henry Fielding
Ans: 4
13 Who is called the father of Revenge Tragedy ?
a) Ben Jonson
b) John Done
c) Thomas Kyd
d) G.B Shaw
Ans: 3
14 Who among the following is not dramatist ?
a) Nicholas Udall
b) Thomas Kyd
c) John Wbster
d) Edmund Burke
Ans: 4
15 Robert browning belongs to-
a) Romantic Age
b) Victorian Age
c) Puritan Age
d) Modern Age
Ans: 2
16 Who is the poet of the Victorian poet ?
a) Helen Keller
b) Matthew Arnold
c) Lord Byron
d) Thomas Gray
Ans: 2
17 In which century was the Victorian period ?
a) 17th Century
b) 18th Century
c) 19th Century
d) 20th Century
Ans: 3
18 Who was both a poet and a priest ?
a) William Blake
b) John Milton
c) William Cowper
d) George Herbert
Ans: 4
19 Who is the most famous satirist in English literature ?
a) Alexander Pope
b) Jonathan Swift
c) William Wordsworth
d) Butler
Ans: 2
20 Alone, alone, all, alone Alone on a wide, wide sea. is an example of -
a) Assonance
b) Aside
c) Anaphora
d) Apostrophe
Ans: 1
21 Who among the following is not an Irish writer?
a) Oscar Wilde
b) W.B Yeats
c) Samuel Beckett
d) Sir Walter Scott
Ans: 4
22 The Elizabethan period of English literature refers to -
a) 1558-1603
b) 1603-1625
c) 1625-1649
d) 1649-1660
Ans: 1