English Literature

Time:
Marks: 30
Serial Question
1 Orlando is an important character in -
a) The Tempest
b) Mid Summer Night's Dream
c) As You Like It
d) Twelfth Night
Ans: 3
2 Who is the author of The Man of Destiny ?
a) Charles Dickens
b) Earnest Hamingway
c) George Bernard Shaw
d) Edmund Spenser
Ans: 3
3 Who wrote under the pseudonym Immerito ?
a) Charles Dickens
b) Edmund Spenser
c) G.B Shaw
d) Robert Frost
Ans: 2
4 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
5 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
6 Who wrote the poem Journey of the Magi ?
a) William Wordsworth
b) T.S Elliot
c) W.B Yeats
d) Thomas Gray
Ans: 2
7 Who is called Graveyard poet ?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Thomas Gray
c) Robert Frost
d) Edmund Spenser
Ans: 2
8 Famous poem An Essay on Man was written by -
a) Thomas Gray
b) John Milton
c) Alexander Pope
d) William Blake
Ans: 3
9 Dejection: An Ode was written by-
a) William Wordsworth
b) S.T Coleridge
c) William Blake
d) John Keats
Ans: 2
10 In the mid 1700s who was the first British poet that wrote elegy?
a) Ben Jonson
b) John Milton
c) Alexander Pope
d) Thomas Gray
Ans: 4
11 Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerfull feelings quote from -
a) Ben Jonson
b) William Wordsworth
c) Alexander Pope
d) John Milton
Ans: 2
12 Famous poem When Soft Voices Die was written by
a) John Milton
b) William Blake
c) P.B Shelley
d) John Keats
Ans: 3
13 Areopagitica was written by-
a) John Keats
b) S.T Coleridge
c) Charles Dickens
d) John Milton
Ans: 4
14 Brevity is the soul of wit spoken by-
a) Hamlet
b) Horatio
c) Claudius
d) Polonius
Ans: 4
15 A Shakespearean play consists of -
a) Theree Acts
b) Two acts
c) Five Acts
d) One Act
Ans: 3
16 Sweet are the uses of adversity -From which comedy the sentence has taken ?
a) Comedy of Errors
b) As You Like It
c) Twelfth Night
d) The Taming of the Shrew
Ans: 2
17 Who is the dramatist that introduced blank verse as a form of dramatic expression in his plays?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Christopher Marlowe
c) G.B Shaw
d) None of them
Ans: 2
18 One of the four mentioned below is Shakespeare's shortest play-
a) Hamlet
b) The comedy of errors
c) The Tempest
d) King Lear
Ans: 2
19 In which play would you find the character Lady Capulet?
a) Romeo and Juliet
b) The Tempest
c) Twelfth Night
d) None of them
Ans: 1
20 Marlowe's first play, which was staged on a regular commercial stage in London is -
a) Doctor Faustus
b) The Jew of Malta
c) Tambeurlaine the Great
d) Edward II
Ans: 3
21 London town is found a living being in the work of -
a) Charles Dickens
b) Earnest Hamingway
c) Thomas Gray
d) William Shakespeare
Ans: 1
22 Elizabethan tragedy is centred on -
a) Love
b) War
c) Revenge
d) Philosophy
Ans: 3
23 The poem Under the Green Wood Tree was written by
a) William Wordsworth
b) Edmund Spenser
c) William Shakespeare
d) John Keats
Ans: 3
24 Christopher Marlowe is Shakespeare's -
a) Successor
b) Predecessor
c) Contemporary
d) Mentor
Ans: 2
25 Calliban is character of Shakespeare in
a) King Lear
b) Julius Caeser
c) The Tempest
d) Hamlet
Ans: 3
26 Fools rush in where angels fear to tread - stated by
a) William Shakespeare
b) John Milton
c) Alexander Pope
d) Thomas Gray
Ans: 3
27 Who is the author of the book The Excursion-
a) William Wordsworth
b) John Keats
c) S.T Coleridge
d) William Blake
Ans: 1
28 Heard melodies are sweet but those unheared are sweeter- Who said?
a) S.T Coleridge
b) John Milton
c) William Wordsworth
d) John Keats
Ans: 4
29 Who wrote the famous poem The Spanish Gypsy ?
a) R.L Stevenson
b) Sir Philip Sidney
c) George Eliot
d) Daniel Defoe
Ans: 3