1. Lord of the Flies was written by ________.
a) William Shakespeare
b) William Wordsworth
c) William Golding
d) T.S. Eliot
Answer: William Golding
2. What does the idiom "take someone to task" mean?
a) To give someone a task to do
b) To praise someone for his task
c) To rebuke someone
d) To appoint someone
Answer: To rebuke someone
3. What is the meaning of "French leave"?
a) Leave on holidays
b) Spending time in France
c) Leave without permission
d) Emergency leave
Answer: Leave without permission
4. The passive form of "Who did the work?" is—
a) By whom the work was done?
b) Whom had the work done by?
c) By whom was the work done?
d) Who was the work done?
Answer: By whom was the work done?
5. Choose the correct sentence.
a) Where have you born?
b) Where are you born?
c) Where were you born?
d) Where did you born?
Answer: Where were you born?
6. Doctor Faustus is _______.
a) a comedy
b) a tragedy
c) a historical novel
d) an absurd play
Answer: a tragedy
7. She works hard. What part of speech is the underlined word?
a) Adjective
b) Adverb
c) Verb
d) Noun
Answer: Adverb
8. John Keats wrote _______.
a) Ode to the West Wind
b) Ode on a Grecian Urn
c) Tintern Abbey
d) The Ancient Mariner
Answer: Ode on a Grecian Urn
9. ________ others is a great deed.
a) To help
b) Help
c) To helping
d) To have helped
Answer: To help
10. He as well as his parents ______ spending vacation abroad.
a) are
b) is
c) will
d) can
Answer: is
11. I love reading books and ______ football.
a) to play
b) play
c) playing
d) to have played
Answer: playing
12. John Milton is known as the ______.
a) Poet of Nature
b) Epic Poet
c) Lake Poet
d) Metaphysical Poet
Answer: Epic Poet
13. Charles Dickens was an English ______.
a) poet
b) playwright
c) politician
d) novelist
Answer: novelist
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14. Choose the correct spelling.
a) Repeatition
b) Repeatation
c) Repetition
d) Ripitetion
Answer: Repetition
15. The synonym of the word "spectacular" is—
a) ugly
b) spacious
c) spatial
d) breathtaking
Answer: breathtaking
16. What type of sentence is "Do or die"?
a) Complex
b) Simple
c) Compound
d) Exclamatory
Answer: Compound
17. These books ______ me.
a) belongs to
b) belong to
c) are belonged by
d) belongs by
Answer: belong to
18. Who wrote The Ancient Mariner?
a) John Keats
b) William Wordsworth
c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
d) P.B. Shelley
Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
19. Who wrote Ode to the West Wind?
a) John Keats
b) P.B. Shelley
c) T.S. Eliot
d) Byron
Answer: P.B. Shelley
20. Who wrote Tintern Abbey?
a) William Blake
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) William Wordsworth
d) John Keats
Answer: William Wordsworth
21. Who is called "The Father of English Tragedy"?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Christopher Marlowe
c) Ben Jonson
d) John Dryden
Answer: Christopher Marlowe
22. Christopher Marlowe belonged to the ______ period.
a) Victorian
b) Romantic
c) Elizabethan
d) Modern
Answer: Elizabethan
23. Which of the following is a novel by Charles Dickens?
a) Paradise Lost
b) Great Expectations
c) Doctor Faustus
d) Ode on a Grecian Urn
Answer: Great Expectations
24. "Hard" in the sentence "She works hard" is—
a) Noun
b) Verb
c) Adverb
d) Adjective
Answer: Adverb
25. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" is quoted from—
a) To Autumn
b) Paradise Lost
c) Ode on a Grecian Urn
d) Tintern Abbey
Answer: Ode on a Grecian Urn
