English literature

Time: 12 Minutes
Marks: 20
Serial Question
1 Who wrote Biographia Literaria ?
a) William Wordsworth
b) S.T Coleridge
c) John Keats
d) P.B Shelly
Ans: 2
2 Why are The Daffodils in Wordsworth's I wandered Lonely as a Cloud dancing ?
a) The Poet was day dreaming
b) The flowers had cheerful company
c) The sea waves beside them had gone wild
d) There was a strong wind
Ans: 4
3 Who said Beauty is truth, truth beauty?
a) William Wordsworth
b) W.B Yeats
c) John Keats
d) S.T Coleridge
Ans: 3
4 Most important feature of a romantic poetry is-
a) Beauty
b) Nature
c) Subjectivity
d) None of them
Ans: 3
5 Who wrote the play The Borderers?
a) John Keats
b) William Wordsworth
c) T.S Eliot
d) W.B Yeats
Ans: 2
6 Who has written - He prayeth best, who loveth best All things great and small-
a) John Keats
b) T.S Elliot
c) P.B Shelley
d) S.T Coleridge
Ans: 4
7 Poet of sensuousness-
a) P.B Shelly
b) John Keats
c) S.T Coleridge
d) William Wordsworth
Ans: 2
8 T.S Eliot is an English poet who is famous for the senuousness. What do T.S stand for -
a) Thomas Stearns
b) Thomas Stearnas
c) Thomas Stearnas
d) Thomas Streans
Ans: 1
9 Who wrote the famous poem The Second Coming ?
a) William Wordsworth
b) S.T Coleridge
c) T.S Eliot
d) W.B Yeats
Ans: 4
10 Identify the poet of the verse Our sweetest songs are those hat tell of saddest thought-
a) John Keats
b) P.B Shelly
c) W.B Yeats
d) William Wordsworth
Ans: 2
11 What is the life span of William Wordsworth?
a) 1760-1840
b) 1770-1850
c) 1780-1860
d) 1785-1865
Ans: 2
12 Who wrote Ode to a Nightngale?
a) P.B Shelly
b) John Keats
c) William Wordsworth
d) S.T Coleridge
Ans: 2
13 Ten thousand saw I at a glance - Who said this?
a) S.T Coleridge
b) P.B Shelly
c) T.S Eliot
d) William Wordsworth
Ans: 4
14 The literary work Kubla Khan is -
a) a history
b) a dram
c) a verse
d) a short story
Ans: 3
15 Wordsworth is a ----poet
a) classical
b) modern
c) romantic
d) Greek
Ans: 3
16 When did T.S Eliot get Nobel Prize for Literature?
a) 1994
b) 1958
c) 1948
d) 1944
Ans: 3
17 Wordsworth became a Poet Laureate in-
a) 1842
b) 1843
c) 1848
d) 1852
Ans: 2
18 One of the four mentioned below is not P.B Shelly's poem- Which on ?
a) Ozymandias
b) When Soft Voices Die `
c) Ode to Fancy
d) Ode to Skylark
Ans: 3
19 Famous poem Rainbow was written by -
a) William Wordsworth
b) S.T Coleridge
c) P.B Shelley
d) T.S Elliot
Ans: 1
20 The Cocktail Party was written by -
a) W.B Yeats
b) P.B Shelly
c) John Keats
d) T.S Elliot
Ans: 4
About Us

BCS is a competitive exam. Preliminary is the first step. If you want to go beyond this step, you must prepare well. The purpose of this test is to assist you with our preliminary, written, and viva experiences so that you can prepare well.

Contact Us

Email: mcqindex@gmail.com