English Literature

Prominent writers in English Literature

Time: 15 Minutes
Marks: 30

ID Question
1 What is the name of Shakespeare's most famous sonnet sequence?
ক) The Dark Lady Sonnets
খ) The Fair Youth Sonnets
গ) The Procreation Sonnets
ঘ) The Rival Poet Sonnets
2 Who is the main character in Shakespeare's play "Twelfth Night"?
ক) Viola
খ) Olivia
গ) Malvolio
ঘ) Orsino
3 What is the name of the character who is killed by Macbeth in Shakespeare's play "Macbeth"?
ক) Duncan
খ) Banquo
গ) Macduff
ঘ) Fleance
4 In which century did Shakespeare live and write?
ক) 16th century
খ) 17th century
গ) 18th century
ঘ) 19th century
5 Which of Shakespeare's plays is based on a true story?
ক) Hamlet
খ) Macbeth
গ) King Lear
ঘ) Julius Caesar
6 Which of the following was a major theme in Wordsworth's poetry?
ক) Industrialization
খ) Industrialization
গ) Nature
ঘ) Politics
7 What is the title of Wordsworth's autobiographical poem?
ক) The Prelude
খ) The Excursion
গ) Lyrical Ballads
ঘ) Poems in Two Volumes
8 Which of the following is not a poem by Wordsworth?
ক) Kubla Khan
খ) Ode: Intimations of Immortality
গ) Lines Written in Early Spring
ঘ) Ode to Duty
9 Which of the following is not a major theme in Spenser's poetry?
ক) Love
খ) Politics
গ) Religion
ঘ) Nature
10 What is the name of the river that runs through Spenser's poetic landscape of the Faerie Queene?
ক) The Thames
খ) The Seine
গ) The Arno
ঘ) The Mulla
11 What was Alexander Pope's most famous poem?
ক) The Rape of the Lock
খ) An Essay on Man
গ) The Dunciad
ঘ) Eloisa to Abelard
12 Yeats was a founding member of which literary movement?
ক) Romanticism
খ) Modernism
গ) Realism
ঘ) ranscendentalism
13 Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in what year?
a)  1915
b)  1923
c)  1930
d)  1943
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
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
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
17 Which of the following is NOT a novel written by Jane Austen?
a)  Emma
b)  Persuasion
c)  Wuthering Heights
d)  Sense and Sensibility
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
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
20 What was Jonathan Swift's occupation?
a)  Poet
b)  Politician
c)  Physician
d)  All of the above
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
22 Who was Coleridge's close friend and collaborator?
a)  William Wordsworth
b)  John Keats
c)  Percy Bysshe Shelley
d)   Lord Byron
23 What is Francis Bacon known for?
a)  His scientific method
b)  His philosophy of empiricism
c)   His essays
d)  All of the above
24 What was Keats' nationality?
a)  American
b)  British
c)  French
d)  German
25 What was T.S. Eliot's nationality?
a)  American
b)  British
c)  French
d)  German
26 What is Ernest Hemingway known for?
a)  His poetry
b)  His plays
c)  His short stories and novels
d)  His essays
27 Which of the following is NOT a common theme in Hemingway's work?
a)  War
b)  Love
c)  Death
d)  Nature
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
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