English Literature

Exam on Previous Topics-02

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Marks: 30

ID 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
2 Who is the author of The Man of Destiny ?
a)  Charles Dickens
b)  Earnest Hamingway
c)  George Bernard Shaw
d)  Edmund Spenser
3 Who wrote under the pseudonym Immerito ?
a)  Charles Dickens
b)  Edmund Spenser
c)  G.B Shaw
d)  Robert Frost
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
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
6 Who wrote the poem Journey of the Magi ?
a)  William Wordsworth
b)  T.S Elliot
c)  W.B Yeats
d)  Thomas Gray
7 Who is called Graveyard poet ?
a)  William Wordsworth
b)  Thomas Gray
c)  Robert Frost
d)  Edmund Spenser
8 Famous poem An Essay on Man was written by -
a)  Thomas Gray
b)  John Milton
c)  Alexander Pope
d)  William Blake
9 Dejection: An Ode was written by-
a)  William Wordsworth
b)  S.T Coleridge
c)  William Blake
d)  John Keats
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
11 Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerfull feelings quote from -
a)  Ben Jonson
b)  William Wordsworth
c)  Alexander Pope
d)  John Milton
12 Famous poem When Soft Voices Die was written by
a)  John Milton
b)  William Blake
c)  P.B Shelley
d)  John Keats
13 Areopagitica was written by-
a)  John Keats
b)  S.T Coleridge
c)  Charles Dickens
d)  John Milton
14 Brevity is the soul of wit spoken by-
a)  Hamlet
b)  Horatio
c)  Claudius
d)  Polonius
15 A Shakespearean play consists of -
a)  Theree Acts
b)  Two acts
c)  Five Acts
d)  One Act
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
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
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
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
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
21 London town is found a living being in the work of -
a)  Charles Dickens
b)  Earnest Hamingway
c)  Thomas Gray
d)  William Shakespeare
22 Elizabethan tragedy is centred on -
a)  Love
b)  War
c)  Revenge
d)  Philosophy
23 The poem Under the Green Wood Tree was written by
a)  William Wordsworth
b)  Edmund Spenser
c)  William Shakespeare
d)  John Keats
24 Christopher Marlowe is Shakespeare's -
a)  Successor
b)  Predecessor
c)  Contemporary
d)  Mentor
25 Calliban is character of Shakespeare in
a)  King Lear
b)  Julius Caeser
c)  The Tempest
d)  Hamlet
26 Fools rush in where angels fear to tread - stated by
a)  William Shakespeare
b)  John Milton
c)  Alexander Pope
d)  Thomas Gray
27 Who is the author of the book The Excursion-
a)  William Wordsworth
b)  John Keats
c)  S.T Coleridge
d)  William Blake
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
29 Who wrote the famous poem The Spanish Gypsy ?
a)  R.L Stevenson
b)  Sir Philip Sidney
c)  George Eliot
d)  Daniel Defoe