MCQs on The Victorian Period

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Victorian era (1837- 1901) Multiple Choice Questions in English Literature:

1. Alfred Tennyson’s poem _______ brought him a medal.

a) Two Brothers
b) Timbuctoo
c) Chiefly Lyrical
d) Isabel and Mabeline
Ans : Timbuctoo

2) Two Brothers a poem by Alfred Tennyson appeared in

a) 1827
b) 1885
c) 1876
d) 1875
Ans : 1827

3) Queen Victoria ascended the throne in ___.

a) 1821
b) 1892
c) 1837
d) 1888
Ans : 1837

4) Arthur Hallam, a close friend of Tennyson died in ___.

a) 1855
b) 1876
c) 1833
d) 1875
Ans : 1833

5) In Memorium was published in ____.

a) 1855
b) 1850
c) 1875
d) 1876
Ans : 1850

6) Maud was published in ____.

a) 1850
b) 1876
c) 1855
d) 1876
Ans : 1855

7) Strafford a tragedy was published in ____.

a) 1850
b) 1837
c) 1845
d) 1841
Ans : 1837

8) Dramatic Romances and Lyrics was published in ____.

a) 1833
b) 1845
c) 1836
d) 1841
Ans : 1845

9) "Pippa Passes" was published in ______.

a) 1833
b) 1836
c) 1845
d) 1841
Ans : 1841

10) Sordello was published in ____.

a) 1850
b) 1836
c) 1845
d) 1840
Ans: 1840

11) ____________ led to the Pre Raphaelite Movement.

a) Tennyson
b) Browning
c) Matthew Arnold
d) DG Rossettii
Ans : DG Rossettii

12) "Ballads and Sonnets" was published in___.

a) 1855
b) 1881
c) 1822
d) 1888
Ans : 1881

13) _______ was an artist and designer.

a ) John Ruskin
b) William Morris
c) Charles Dickens
d) A C Swinburne
Ans : William Morris

14) by The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs

a) John Ruskin
b) William Morris
c) Charles Dickens
d) AC Swinburne
Ans : William Morris

15) The House of the Wolfings and The Roots of the Mountains is an epic poem are the works of

a) John Davidson
b) HW Longfellow
c) William Morris
d) None of these
Ans : William Morris

16) Invictus is the work of ___

a) William Ernest Henley

b) Willia m Morris
c) D G Rossetti
d) AC Swinburne
Ans : William Ernest Henley

17. Which among the following is an elegy on the death of Abraham Lincoln?

a) I Hear American Singing
b)Stopping by Woods
c) O Captain ! My captain
d) None of these
Ans : O Captain ! My captain

18) Who translated ‘Omar Khyyam’ into English?

a) Scott Fitzgerald
b) Edgar Fawce t t
c) Edgar Fitzgerald
d) None of these
Ans : Edgar Fitzgerald

19) The work ‘Who ‘s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ is a

a) novel by Herman Melville
b) play by Edward Albee
c) a poem by Walt Whitman
d) None of these
Ans : play by Edward Albee

20) ______ wrote under the pseudonym Mark Twain

a) Samuel Langhorne
b) Robert Frost
c) Emerson
d) None of these
Ans : Samuel Langhorne

21) “I think I could turn and live with animals”. Who is the poet?

a) Robert Frost
b) Ted Hughes
c) Walt Whitman
d) Samuel Langhorne
Ans : Walt Whitman

22) Isabel Archer is the romantic heroine of

a) Catch – 22
b) The Portrait of a Lady
c) The Trail
d) The Outsider
Ans : The Portrait of a Lady

23) Grapes of Wrath is written by …..

a) F Scott Fitzgerald
b) John Steinbeck
c) Walt Whitman
d) Edgar Allan Poe
Ans : John Steinbeck

24) The Dead and The Naked is the famous work of ……

a) Adrienne Rich
b) Norman Mailer
c) Sylvia Plath
d) Eugene O’Neill
Ans : Norman Mailer

25) Mr. Zero is the main character in

a) The Adding Machine
b) The Sandbox
c) All the Kings Man
d) None of these
Ans : The Adding Machine

26) ‘Arabesque’ and ‘Tales of the Grotesque’ is a collection of stories by …..

a) Sylvia Plath
b) O’Henry
c) Edgar Allan Poe
d) None of these
Ans : Edgar Allan Poe

27) The famous American play ‘The Iceman Cometh’ was written by …

a) Eugene O’Neill
b) Robert Frost
c) Walt Whitman
d) T S Eliot
Ans : Eugene O’Neill

28) Identify the poem from the following, which was written by Robert Frost?

a) ‘Calamus’
b) ‘Blueberries’
c) Both (a) & (b)
d) None of these
Ans : ‘Blueberries’

29) ‘Leaves of Grass’, one of the classics of world poetry was the famous work of ….

a) Robert Frost
b) John Osborne
c) Walt Whitman
d) T S Eliot
Ans : Walt Whitman

30) The famous work ‘I felt a Funeral in My Brain’ was written by

a) Robert Frost
b) John Osborne
c) T S Eliot
d) Emily Dickinson
Ans : Emily Dickinson

31) who wrote ‘The Scarlet Letter’

a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
b) T S Eliot
c) Robert frost
d) None of these
Ans ; Nathaniel Hawthorne

32) Who among the following praises night as “Thou layest thy fingers on the lips of care/ And they complain no more”.

a) Walt Whitman
b) Edgar Allan Poe
c ) Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
d) John Greenleaf
Ans : Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

33) Whose lines are these,

“The unfinished window in Aladdin’s tower, unfinished must remain”?

a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
b) Henry Wadsworth
c) Edgar Allan Poe
d) John Greenleaf
Ans : Henry Wadsworth

34) “One Autumn night, in Sadbury town,

Across the meadows bare and brown, The windows of the wayside Inn…”

The above prelude has been extracted from…

a) Ichabod
b) Tales of a Wayside Inn
c) The Bridge
d) The Light House
Ans : Tales of a Wayside Inn

35) ‘Morn on the Mountain, like a summer bird, Lifts up her purple wing’. The picture of nature scattered throughout his writings. Identify his name.

a) Walt Whitman
b) John Greenleaf
c) H W Longfellow
d) None of these
Ans : H W Longfellow

36) “I give nothing as dut ies, What others give as duties, I give as loving impulses”. Whose words are these?

a) Walt Whitman
b) John Greenleaf
c) Waldo Emerson
d) Hawthorne
Ans : Walt Whitman

37) Who said “I furnish no specimens, I shower them by exhaus and mode rn continually, as nature does”

a) Ralph Waldo Emerson
b) Walt Whitman
c) Nathaniel Hawthorne
d) Eugene O’Neill
Ans : Walt Whitman

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