English Literature

Time: 15 Minutes
Marks: 30
Serial Question
1 What is the name of Shakespeare's most famous sonnet sequence?
a) The Dark Lady Sonnets
b) The Fair Youth Sonnets
c) The Procreation Sonnets
d) The Rival Poet Sonnets
Ans: 2
2 Who is the main character in Shakespeare's play "Twelfth Night"?
a) Viola
b) Olivia
c) Malvolio
d) Orsino
Ans: 1
3 What is the name of the character who is killed by Macbeth in Shakespeare's play "Macbeth"?
a) Duncan
b) Banquo
c) Macduff
d) Fleance
Ans: 1
4 In which century did Shakespeare live and write?
a) 16th century
b) 17th century
c) 18th century
d) 19th century
Ans: 1
5 Which of Shakespeare's plays is based on a true story?
a) Hamlet
b) Macbeth
c) King Lear
d) Julius Caesar
Ans: 4
6 Which of the following was a major theme in Wordsworth's poetry?
a) Industrialization
b) Industrialization
c) Nature
d) Politics
Ans: 3
7 What is the title of Wordsworth's autobiographical poem?
a) The Prelude
b) The Excursion
c) Lyrical Ballads
d) Poems in Two Volumes
Ans: 1
8 Which of the following is not a poem by Wordsworth?
a) Kubla Khan
b) Ode: Intimations of Immortality
c) Lines Written in Early Spring
d) Ode to Duty
Ans: 1
9 Which of the following is not a major theme in Spenser's poetry?
a) Love
b) Politics
c) Religion
d) Nature
Ans: 2
10 What is the name of the river that runs through Spenser's poetic landscape of the Faerie Queene?
a) The Thames
b) The Seine
c) The Arno
d) The Mulla
Ans: 4
11 What was Alexander Pope's most famous poem?
a) The Rape of the Lock
b) An Essay on Man
c) The Dunciad
d) Eloisa to Abelard
Ans: 1
12 Yeats was a founding member of which literary movement?
a) Romanticism
b) Modernism
c) Realism
d) ranscendentalism
Ans: 2
13 Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in what year?
a) 1915
b) 1923
c) 1930
d) 1943
Ans: 2
14 Which of the following novels was NOT written by Charles Dickens?
a) Oliver Twist
b) Pride and Prejudice
c) Great Expectations
d) David Copperfield
Ans: 2
15 What was the pen name that Dickens used when he first began publishing his work?
a) Charles Boz
b) Samuel Pickwick
c) David Copperfield
d) Martin Chuzzlewit
Ans: 1
16 Which of the following is NOT a play written by George Bernard Shaw?
a) Pygmalion
b) Man and Superman
c) Saint Joan
d) The Importance of Being Earnest
Ans: 4
17 Which of the following is NOT a novel written by Jane Austen?
a) Emma
b) Persuasion
c) Wuthering Heights
d) Sense and Sensibility
Ans: 3
18 What is the title of Jane Austen's first published novel?
a) Sense and Sensibility
b) Northanger Abbey
c) Pride and Prejudice
d) Mansfield Park
Ans: 1
19 Which of the following was NOT written by Jonathan Swift?
a) Gulliver's Travels
b) A Tale of Two Cities
c) A Modest Proposal
d) The Battle of the Books
Ans: 2
20 What was Jonathan Swift's occupation?
a) Poet
b) Politician
c) Physician
d) All of the above
Ans: 4
21 Which of the following works is NOT written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
a) Kubla Khan
b) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
c) Lyrical Ballads
d) Paradise Lost
Ans: 4
22 Who was Coleridge's close friend and collaborator?
a) William Wordsworth
b) John Keats
c) Percy Bysshe Shelley
d) Lord Byron
Ans: 1
23 What is Francis Bacon known for?
a) His scientific method
b) His philosophy of empiricism
c) His essays
d) All of the above
Ans: 4
24 What was Keats' nationality?
a) American
b) British
c) French
d) German
Ans: 2
25 What was T.S. Eliot's nationality?
a) American
b) British
c) French
d) German
Ans: 1
26 What is Ernest Hemingway known for?
a) His poetry
b) His plays
c) His short stories and novels
d) His essays
Ans: 3
27 Which of the following is NOT a common theme in Hemingway's work?
a) War
b) Love
c) Death
d) Nature
Ans: 4
28 Which of the following works is NOT written by Percy Bysshe Shelley?
a) Ode to a Nightingale
b) Adonais
c) To a Skylark
d) Ozymandias
Ans: 1
29 Which of Shakespeare's plays features the character Caliban?
a) The Tempest
b) A Midsummer Night's Dream
c) Julius Caesar
d) Antony and Cleopatra
Ans: 1
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