1. In literature, a Machiavellian character is someone who is-
a)
a wise person
b)
a cunning person
c)
a romantic person
d)
an eithical person
Answer:
a cunning person
2. Who wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?
a)
Charles Dickens
b)
George Moore
c)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
d)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Answer:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
3. "Clarissa" is the protagonist of Virginia Wolf's novel-
a)
The Voyage Out
b)
Orlando
c)
To the Lighthouse
d)
Mrs. Dalloway
Answer:
Mrs. Dalloway
4. "Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." -This is taken from the poem written by-
a)
Lord Byron
b)
Alfred Tennyson
c)
Alexander Pope
d)
Matthew Arnold
Answer:
Alfred Tennyson
5. 'The Hairy Ape' is a drama authored by-
a)
Samuel Beckett
b)
Henry Livings
c)
Irwin Shaw
d)
Eugene O'Neill
Answer:
Eugene O'Neill
6. "....that best portion of a good man;s life. His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." -This line was written by.
a)
Francis Bacon
b)
T. S. Eliot
c)
William Wordsworth
d)
John Keats
Answer:
William Wordsworth
7. Who penned "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
a)
Ernest Hemingway
b)
Samuel Butler
c)
Harper Lee
d)
Edgar Allan Poe
Answer:
Harper Lee
8. "Lady Chatterley's Lover" was written by the author of-
a)
Ulysses
b)
A Passage to England
c)
The Rainbow
d)
The Scarlet Letter
Answer:
The Rainbow
9. Who composed the poem "To His Coy Mistress"?
a)
John Donne
b)
George Herbert
c)
Andrew Marvell
d)
Sir Philip Sidney
Answer:
Andrew Marvell
10. "Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea?. -These lines have been quoted from the poem-
a)
Fern Hill
b)
The Flower
c)
After the Funeral
d)
The Waste Land
Answer:
Fern Hill
11. Who wrote the gothic horror novel "Frankenstein"?
a)
Claire Clairmont
b)
Mary Ann Lamb
c)
Mary Wollstonecraft
d)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Answer:
Mary Wollstonecraft
12. 'Jane Eyre: An Autobiography' was published by the author under the pseudonym-
a)
Actor Bell
b)
Currer Bell
c)
Ellis Bell
d)
Arthur Bell
Answer:
Currer Bell
13. Of the following, who is not an Irish writer?
a)
James Joyce
b)
Oscar Wilde
c)
thomas Hardy
d)
Jonathan Swift
Answer:
thomas Hardy
14. "Here's the smell of blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." -This is a lamentation of-
a)
Macbeth
b)
Duncan
c)
Three Witches
d)
Lady Macbeth
Answer:
Lady Macbeth
15. A famous short story, "The Necklace" was written by-
a)
Guy de Maupassant
b)
Somerset Maugham
c)
George Orwell
d)
Gustave Flaubert
Answer:
Guy de Maupassant