1. Who is not an Irish writer?
a)
Oscar Wilde
b)
James Joyce
c)
Jonathan Swift
d)
D.W. Lawrence
Answer:
D.W. Lawrence
2. "Better to reign in Hell, than service in Heaven." -Who wrote this?
a)
Geoffrey Chaucer
b)
Christopher Marlowe
c)
John Milton
d)
P. B Shelley
Answer:
John Milton
3. Who is not the Modern poet ?
a)
W.B. Yeats
b)
W.H. Auden
c)
John Keats
d)
T. S. Eliot
Answer:
John Keats
4. Who is the author of the novel "The God of Small Things"?
a)
Thomas Hardy
b)
Jhumpa Lahiri
c)
R.K. Narayan
d)
Arundhati Roy
Answer:
Arundhati Roy
5. 'Moby Dick', a novel, was written by.......
a)
Herman Melville
b)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
c)
Mark Twain
d)
William Faulkner
Answer:
Herman Melville
6. "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?"-who wrote this ?
a)
William Blake
b)
S.T Coleridge
c)
Lord Byron
d)
P.B Shelley
Answer:
P.B Shelley
7. O' Henry was from............
a)
Canada
b)
America
c)
England
d)
Ireland
Answer:
America
8. Where is the setting of the play 'Hamlet'?
a)
England
b)
Italy
c)
France
d)
Denmark
Answer:
Denmark
9. What kind of play is 'Julius Caesar'?
a)
romantic
b)
anti-romantic
c)
comedy
d)
historical
Answer:
historical
10. Who is the author of 'Jane Eyre's?
a)
Charlotte Brontë
b)
Emily Brontë
c)
Jane Austen
d)
Mary Shelley
Answer:
Charlotte Brontë
11. Which of the following novels is not written by an English writer?
a)
A Passage of India
b)
Sons and lovers
c)
One hundred Years of Solitude
d)
Pride and Prejudice
Answer:
One hundred Years of Solitude
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12. Who wrote the play 'The Way of the World'?
a)
William Shakespeare
b)
William Congreve
c)
Ben Jonson
d)
Oscar Wilde
Answer:
William Congreve
13. Who is the poet of the poem 'Ozymandias'?
a)
P.B. Shelley
b)
William Wordsworth
c)
S.T Coleridge
d)
John Keats
Answer:
P.B. Shelley
14. The most famous romantic poet of English literature is-
a)
John Dryden
b)
Alexander Pope
c)
William Wordsworth
d)
T.S Eliot
Answer:
William Wordsworth
15. _ was both a poet and a painter.
a)
John Keats
b)
Spenser
c)
William Blake
d)
John Donne
Answer:
William Blake
16. "A Passage to India" is written by:
a)
E.M. Forster
b)
Nirad C. Chaudhuri
c)
Rudyard Kipling
d)
Walt Whitman
Answer:
E.M. Forster
17. Who wrote Dr. Zivago?
a)
Maxim Gorky
b)
Boris Pasternak
c)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
d)
Leo Tolstoy
Answer:
Boris Pasternak
18. "For God's sake, hold your tongue and let me love" occurs in a novel by:
a)
Jane Austen
b)
Syed Waliullah
c)
Somerset Maugham
d)
Rabindranath Tagore
Answer:
Rabindranath Tagore
19. "September on the Jessore Road" is written by:
a)
Madhusudan Dutt
b)
Allen Ginsberg
c)
Kaiser Haq
d)
Vikram Seth
Answer:
Allen Ginsberg
20. 'Was this the face that lanch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?' Who speaks the famous lines?
a)
Caesar
b)
Antony
c)
Faustus
d)
Romeo
Answer:
Faustus