Charles Lamb Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

1. In his essay Christ Hospital Five and Thirty years Ago Lamb has recorded his impressions of the place and a boy. Who was he?

1. Sir Walter Scott
2. Robert Browning
3. S. T. Coleridge
4. Wordsworth

2. Lamb had a rare circle of friends, which of the following were not included in it?

1. Coleridge
2. Hazlitt
3. Wordsworth
4. Tennyson

3. What is the name of the play that Charles Lamb the great essayist wrote?

1. Dream-children
2. John Woodville
3. South Sea-house
4. The Cenci

4. Which is a famous contribution by Charles Lamb?

1. Essays of Elia
2. Blank Verse
3. Tragedy
4. Sonnets

5. Which is a romantic novel written by Charles Lamb?

1. Klosterheim
2. Rosamund Gray
3. Absentee
4. Cranford

6. Which of Charles Lambs friend said, Lamb was the most delightful, the most provoking and the most sensible of men who always made the best pun and the best remarks in the course of the evening.?

1. Hazlitt
2. Coleridge
3. Bacon
4. Wordsworth

7. Which of the following is a prose-poem by Lamb?

1. South Sea House
2. Rosamund Gray
3. Dream-Children
4. Adventures of Ulysses

8. Which of the following is true about Lamb?

1. He had an elder brother, John
2. He was a fellow pupil of Coleridge
3. He contributed jokes, puns and squibs daily to a newspaper
4. All the above

9. Which of the following works directed interest towards Shakespeares contemporaries?

1. Tales of Shakespeare
2. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets Contemporary with Shakespeare
3. London Magazine
4. Essays of Elia

10. Which of the following works he authored in collaboration with his sister Mary?

1. Essays of Elia
2. Tales of Shakespeare
3. Rosamond Gray
4. Dream-children