English literature MCQ for BPSC
The monster Grendel appears in which one of the following poems?
(A) Beowulf
(B) Historia Regum Britanniae
(C) Roman de Brut
(D) More than one of the above
(E) None of the above
The Owl and the Nightingale had been written primarily for which one of the following classes of the audience?
(A) English nuns
(B) Women recluses who had chosen the solitary life
(C) English queens
(D) More than one of the above
(E) None of the above
Who is the narrator of the poem, Phyllyp Sparowe ?
(A) Dame of Margery
(B) William Thynne
(C) Earl of Surrey
(D) More than one of the above
(E) None of the above
Which one of the following works speaks of a government controlled by a self-perpetuating oligarchy?
(A) The History of King Richard III
(B) In Praise of Folly
(C) Utopia
(D) More than one of the above
(E) None of thea above
Which one of the following poems had been written as an allegorical lament on the death of the first wife of John of Gaunt?
(A) The Book of the Duchess
(B) The Legend of Good Women
(C) Troilus and Criseyde
(D) More than one of the above
(E) None of the above
“Come, let me write. “And to what end?” To ease A burthened heart. “How can words ease, which are The glasses of thy daily vexing care?”
The above verse has been in which one of the following poems?
(A) Astrophil and Stella
(B) Arcadia
(C) A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres
(D) More than one of the above
(E) None of the above
