English Literature | Quick reading with mock test| history of English Literature | mock test with answer
History of English Literature | Mock Test with answer
1. Globe and the Rose theatres are associated with -
A. William Shakespeare
B. Christopher Marlow
C. George Chapman
D. Ben Jonson
Ans. A
2. Shakespeare writes the following lines:
" Brutus: Peace! Count the clock. Cassius: The clock has stricken three " in -
A. As You Like It
B. Twelfth Night
C. Romeo and Juliet
D. Julius Caesar
ans. D
P. B. Shelley wrote the elegy "Adonais" on the death of-
A. John Milton
B. John Keats
C. John Donne
D. Ben Jonson
Ans. A
Quick Reading | English Literature | Highly recommended MCQ for entrance
1. “The Owl and the Nightingale” (c. 1220), in which two birds, the symbols of love and religion, debate their respective values.
2. David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779)
3. John Donne compared two separated lovers to the twin legs of a compass in his poem :
“The Anniversary.”
4. Plato called Archilochus :
“the prince of Sages”.
The War of Roses was fought between -
The House of York and The House of Lancaster
5. The followers of Wycliffe were called
- “ the Lollards”
7. George Eliot’s pen name is -
Mary Ann Evans
8. A Doll’s House is a three act play in prose by - Henrik Ibsen.
9. A House’s Tale is a novel by -
Mark Twain
10. 'A Tale of a Tub' is a satire by - Jonathan Swift
11. Aeschylus is often described as “the father of tragedy”.
12. Who translated Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey? - Alexander Pope
Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' is dedicated to - John Caryll
The Rape of the Lock was published in- 1712
; with a revised version published in 1714. It is a mock epic which satirizes high society quarrel between Arabella Fermor (Belinda) and Lord Petre. Belinda is compared to the Sun in the poem. “An Essay on Criticism” (1711) and “Windsor Forest” (1713) are also his works.
13. 'Arms and the Man' is a comedy by-
George Bernard Shaw
14. Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts is the final novel by published in 1941 shortly after her suicide.
15. George Bernard Shaw’s Candida set in the month of October.
16. Confidence is a novel by Henry James in 1879.
17. Death in Venice (1912) is a novella by German author Thomas Mann.
18. Dream of Four to Middling Women is Samuel Beckett’s first novel. It is an autobiographical novel. The main character Belacqua is a writer and teacher in the novel.
19. Edgar Allan Poe began his own journal “The Penn”. ( Later it was renamed as “The Stylus”)
20. Thomas Hardy first employed the term “Wessex” in Far from the Madding Crowd.
21. Franklin Evans or The Inebriate is the only novel ever written by Walt Whitman.
22. George Bernard Shaw is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in literature ( 1925) and an Oscar (1938). Shaw wrote 63 plays. His first novel Immaturity was written in 1879 but last one to be printed in 1931. His last significant play was In Good King Charles Golden Days.
23. George Eliot’s pen name was Mary Ann Evans. Her works- Adam Bede(1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1866), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch(1871-72), Daniel Doronda (1876).
24. Jonathan Swift wrote “Drapier’s Letters” in 1724.
25. Gustav Flaubert was a French writer and well known for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857).
26. Happy Days is a play in two acts by Samuel Beckett. Winnie, Willie are the characters in the play.
27. Henrik Ibsen is often regarded to as “the father of realism” and one of the founders of Modernism in Theatre.
28. Love in Several Masques was Henry Fielding’s first play.
29. Chaucer lived during the reigns of : Edward III, Richard II and Henry IV
30. William Langland was the closest contemporary of - Chaucer
31. The Hundred Year's War was fought between - England and France.
