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For God's sake hold your tongue and let me love- This line is written by
a) Emily Dickinson
b) T.S Eliot
c) Mathew Arnold
d) John Donne
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Protagonist indicates -
a) the villain in a play
b) the leading character or actor in a play
c) the clown in a play
d) the stage director of a play
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Veni, Vidi,Vici this quotation from Shakespeare's-
a) Hamlet
b) Othello
c) Marchant of Venice
d) Julius Caesar
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Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man; writting an exact man- Who said this?
a) Shakespeare
b) Bacon
c) Milton
d) Shelly
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Which is not true of an English sonnet?
a) It has fourteen lines
b) It has five feet in each line
c) It has fourten syllables in each line
d) It is written in iambic pentameter line
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Portia is famous character of Shakespeare in -
a) Hamlet
b) Macbeth
c) The Marchant of Vanice
d) Measure for Measure
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7 |
Who among the following was not poet laureate ?
a) John Dryden
b) Thomas Warton
c) Ted Hughes
d) Matthew Arnold
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Who was awarded Nobel Prize for the poem The Waste Land ?
a) D.H Lawrence
b) Lord Tennyson
c) T.S Eliot
d) William Wordsworth
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Who wrote Madame Bovary?
a) Leo Tolstoy
b) E.M Foster
c) Gustave Elaubert
d) James Joyce
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Who among the following is not a recipient of the nobel prize in literature?
a) George Bernard Shaw
b) W.B Yeats
c) William Hazlitt
d) Sully Prudhomme
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Things Fall Apart was written by-
a) W.B Yeats
b) Chinua Achebe
c) Wole Sonynka
d) V.S Naipaul
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Any one of the following pairs is literary collaborators-
a) Eliot and Pound
b) Yeats and Eliot
c) Pope and Dryden
d) Shelly and Keats
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13 |
Tess of the D'Urbervilles was written by-
a) Thomas Kyd
b) Thomas Hardy
c) Thomas Gray
d) Thomas Wyatt
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Fagin is famous character of Charles Dickens in -
a) A Tale of Two Cities
b) Great Expectations
c) Oliver Twist
d) Hard Times
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Today we love what tomorrow we hate; today we seek waht tomorrow we shun; today we desire what tomorrow we fear- who said ?
a) Alexander Pope
b) Jonathan Swift
c) Daniel Defoe
d) William Shakespeare
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerfull feeling was stated by-
a) William Wordsworth
b) John Keats
c) P.B Shelly
d) S.T Colleridge
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Yahoos is a famous character in -
a) A Tale of Two Cities
b) A Farewell to Arms
c) Gulliver's Travels
d) Man and Superman
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Who is the author of the book Nineteen Eighty Four?
a) George Eliot
b) George Orwell
c) George Herbert
d) George Chaman
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Who is called Morning Star of Reformation?
a) Alexander Pope
b) Geoffrey Chaucer
c) John Wycliff
d) William Shakespeare
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20 |
Who is the father of English Novel?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Henry Fielding
c) George Bernard Shaw
d) R.L Stevenson
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21 |
To be, or not to be; that is the question is a quote from the play-
a) Julius Caesar
b) Hamlet
c) As You Like It
d) Macbeth
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom -Who said ?
a) William Wordsworth
b) William Sidney Porter
c) William Shakespeare
d) William Blake
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The Marchant of Venice is a Shakespearean play about-
a) A Jew
b) A Roman
c) A Moor
d) A Turk
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