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Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) on English Literature from All Ages: Old English, Middle English, Restoration, Romantic, Victorian, Modern and Post Modern Periods.
Renaissance” is a:
What is the meaning of “Renaissance”:
Renaissance first came to the:
a)France
b)Italy
c)England
d)Rome
Ans. B
Which of the following are University wits:
a)John Gower and Robert Peele
b)John Skelton and Thomas lodge
c)John Lyly and Robert Greene
d)John Donne and Thomas Nashe
Ans. C
Which century is known as Dawn of Renaissance:
a)14 th
b)15 th
c)16 th
d)14 th and 16 th
Ans. B
Who among the following was born in 1422?
a)William Caxton
b)Robert Henry
c)John Lyly
d)Thomas more
Utopia was first printed in:
a)1615
b)1516
c)1517
d)1518
Ans. B
Who translated Utopia in English language:
a)Thomas More
b)Thomas lodge
c)Ralph Robinson
d)William Tyndale
Ans. C
The first complete version of Bible in English language was made by:
a) Wycliffe
b)Thomas more
c)John Lyly
d)Robert Greene
Ans. A
Who gave the slogan "back to nature"?
A. Rousseau
B. Cowper
C. Keats
D. Wordsworth
Ans. D
What was the cause of William's death in 'Sons and Lovers'?
A. An accident
B. An overdose of morphia
C. Suicide
D. Pneumonia
Ans. D
Which of the following novels is a picaresque novel ?
A. Mrs. Dalloway
B. Pamela
C. To the Lighthouse
D. Joseph Andrews
Ans. D ( by Henry Fielding )
The Lyrical Ballads came out in the year __.
A. 1795
B. 1797
C. 1798
D. 1799
Ans. C
Who accompanies Wordsworth to Tintern Abbey ?
A. Dorothy
B. Coleridge
C. Fanny
D. Lucy
Ans. A
Who of the following was an opium addict ?
A. Southey
B. Coleridge
C. Keats
D. Wordsworth
Ans. C
"If winter comes, can spring be far behind" has been uttered by ___.
A. Keats
B. William Blake
C. Wordsworth
D. Shelley
Ans. D
Which novelist is known for using 'stream of consciousness' technique ?
A. Somerset Maugham
B. Richardson
C. Virginia Woolf
D. Joseph Andrews
Ans. C
Santiago is the hero in ___.
A. Farewell to Arms
B. The Old Man and the Sea
C. For Whom The Bell Tolls
D. None of the above
Ans. B
Epistolary novel is a novel ______.
A. which is written in the form of letters
B. which is based on a letter written by a great man
C. which is based on fanciful stories of ghosts
D. which is ancient fiction
Ans. A
Who is well known for his optimism ?
A. Tennyson
B. Shelley
C. Browning
D. Arnold
Ans. B
Top 50 MCQs on Old English Period, Middle English Period, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Jacobean, Romantic, Victorian Modern and Post Modern Period in English Literature | MCQ with Answers >> English Literature
'Essays of Dramatic Poesy' is a/an___.
A. Drama
B. Epic
C. Essay
D. Novel
Ans. A
Who wrote 'Essays of Dramatic Poesy' ?
A. Congreve
B. Pope
C. Dryden
D. Tennyson
Ans. C
'My Last Duchess' is a/an ___.
A. Epic
B. Ode
C. Dramatic monologue
D. Sonnet
Ans. C
Wessex is associated with ___.
A. Shakespeare
B. Keats
C. Eliot
D. Hardy
Ans. D
Angel Clare is a character in Hardy's ___.
A. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
B. Far from the Madding Crowd
C. Desperate Remedies
D. Under the Greenwood Tree
Ans. A
Mathew Arnold's views on poetry and Criticism are discussed in ___?
A. Scholar Gypsy
B. Culture and Anarchy
C. Preface to the Poem
D. None of the above
Ans. B
The novel 'Sons and Lovers' by D. H. Lawrence is a/an ____ .
A. Gothic Novel
B. Autobiographical novel
C. Historical novel
D. Social Nobel
Ans. B
Poetry is " a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a Criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty" who said this ?
A. Arnold
B. Aristotle
C. Plato
D. Keats
Ans. B
Who wrote the biography "Life of Samuel Johnson" ?
A. Oliver Goldsmith
B. Lord Byron
C. James Boswell
D. Auden
Ans. C
When was the printing press started in England?
A. 1463
B. 1467
C.1476
D. 1466
Ans. C
Who brought the printing press to England ?
Malory
B. Caxton
C. Barclay
D. Lydgate
Ans. B
Who called Chaucer 'The Father of English Poetry' ?
A. Dr. Johnson
B. Ben Jonson
C. Dryden
D. Coleridge
Ans. C
Which poem of Robert Browning was published on the day of his death ?
A. Pauline
B. The Ring and the Book
C. Dramatic Idyls
D. Asolando
Ans. D
Who wrote under the pseudonym of Mark Twain ?
A. Samuel Johnson
B. Samuel Coleridge
C. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
D. Wordsworth
Ans. C
The war of the Roses began in the year ___.
A. 1345
B. 1445
C. 1545
D. 1455
Ans. D
Who said "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world" ?
A. Dryden
B. Shelley
C. Alexender Pope
D. Wordsworth
Ans. B
Which modern English poet was influenced by Hindu Philosophy ?
A. Ezra pound
B. Stephen Gosson
C. W. H. Auden
D. T. S. Eliot
Ans. D
Who said " Classicism is health and Romanticism is disease" ?
A. Goethe
B. Arnold
C. Pope
D. Dr. Johnson
Ans. A
Which one was the first English Daily Newspaper ?
A. The News Chronicle
B. The Daylight Paper
C. The Daily Newspaper
D. The Daily Courant
Ans. D
Who called Wordsworth ' a moral eunuch' ?
A. Coleridge
B. Tennyson
C. Shelley
D. Byron
Ans. C
When did Wordsworth visit 'Tintern Abbey' first ?
A. 1795
B. 1793
C. 1792
D. 1796
Ans. B
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