1. Which country was the birthplace of the influential poet and playwright T. S. Eliot?
a)
Ireland
b)
Englad
c)
USA
d)
Wales
Answer:
USA
Explanation:
T. S. Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, before moving to Europe and eventually settling in Britain.
2. Who Wrote A Farewell to Arms?
a)
George Bernard Shaw
b)
John Milton
c)
William Wordsworth
d)
Ernest Hemingway
Answer:
Ernest Hemingway
3. Who is the Most famous satirist in English literature?
a)
Charles Dickens
b)
Jonathan Swift
c)
Herman Melville
d)
Ernest Hemingway
Answer:
Jonathan Swift
4. Who is the Author of The God of Small Things?
a)
Christopher Marlowe
b)
Arundhati Roy
c)
Herman Melville
d)
Rabindranath Tagore
Answer:
Arundhati Roy
5. Who is the Author of the dystopian novels 1984?
a)
Herman Melville
b)
Jonathan Swift
c)
George Orwell
d)
Herman Melville
Answer:
George Orwell
6. Who is the Author of the Animal Farm?
a)
George Orwell
b)
Jonathan Swift
c)
Herman Melville
d)
Herman Melville
Answer:
George Orwell
7. Who is the Author of Macbeth?
a)
George Orwell
b)
William Shakespeare
c)
T.S Elliot
d)
Jonathan Swift
Answer:
William Shakespeare
8. Who wrote The Old Man and the Sea, and The Sun Also Rises?
a)
Ernest Hemingway
b)
G.B Shaw
c)
George Orwell
d)
William Shakespeare
Answer:
Ernest Hemingway
9. Who wrote The Merchant of Venice?
a)
William Shakespeare
b)
Ernest Hemingway
c)
G.B Shaw
d)
Jonathan Swift
Answer:
William Shakespeare
10. Shylock is the character of...............
a)
he Sun Also Rises
b)
The Merchant of Venice
c)
Macbeth
d)
The Tempest
Answer:
The Merchant of Venice
11. Measure for Measure is a.........
a)
Play
b)
Comedy
c)
Drama
d)
History
Answer:
Comedy
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12. Which of the following writers belong to the Elizabethan period?
a)
Christopher marlowe
b)
Alexander Pope
c)
John Dryden
d)
Samuel Beckett
Answer:
Christopher marlowe
13. To be, or not to be, that is the question - is a famous dialogue from-
a)
Othello
b)
Romeo and Juliet
c)
Hamlet
d)
Macbeth
Answer:
Hamlet
14. The killing of albatross in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was indicative of -
a)
a trigger-happy Mariner
b)
the essential irrationality of man
c)
a superstitious Mariner
d)
the Mariner as a skillful fowler
Answer:
the essential irrationality of man
15. Which novel chronicles intense, destructive love fueling multigenerational cruelty & obsession?
a)
Jane Eyre
b)
Emma
c)
Wuthering Heights
d)
Persuasion
Answer:
Wuthering Heights
16. Which of these is not characteristic of English Romantic Poetry?
a)
Everyday language
b)
Expression of feelings rather than action or plot
c)
Ordinary life
d)
Inane and gaudy phraseology
Answer:
Inane and gaudy phraseology
17. In William Shakespeare's play As You Like It, the Seven Ages of Man speech was delivered by-
a)
Oliver
b)
Orlando
c)
Jaques
d)
Rosalind
Answer:
Jaques
18. The shortest period of English Literature is........
a)
The Romantic Period
b)
The Elizabethan period
c)
Jacobean Period
d)
Victorian Period
Answer:
The Romantic Period
19. In which of these poems did Matthew Arnold express a pessimistic worldview, reflecting on a world full of conflicts and lacking in joy, evincing an implicit criticism of Victorian era's aggressive spirit?
a)
Scholar Gipsy
b)
Dover Beach
c)
Rugby Chapel
d)
Immortality
Answer:
Dover Beach
20. As You Like It by..
a)
John Dryden
b)
Samuel Beckett
c)
Alexander Pope
d)
William Shakespeare
Answer:
William Shakespeare