English Literature MCQs Quiz Multiple Choice Questions & Answers

1. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the Hero as King?

1. Johnson
2. Cromwell
3. Shakespeare
4. Luther

2. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I?

1. Earl of Northumberland
2. Earl of March
3. Earl of Douglas
4. Earl of Worcester

3. Who wrote the poem Defence of Lucknow?

1. Browning
2. Tennyson
3. Swinburne
4. Rossetti

4. Who, among the following writers, was not educated at Christs Hospital School, London?

1. Charles Lamb
2. William Wordsworth
3. Leigh Hunt
4. S. T. Coleridge

5. Who, among the following, is not connected with the Oxford Movement?

1. Robert Browning
2. John Keble
3. E. B. Pusey
4. J. H. Newman

6. Who, among the following, is not the second generation of British Romantics?

1. Keats
2. Wordsworth
3. Shelley
4. Byron

7. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as?

1. Spenserian Stanza
2. Ballad
3. OttavaRima
4. Rhyme Royal

8. Carlyles work On Heroes, HeroWorship and the Heroic in History is a course of?

1. six lectures
2. five lectures
3. four lectures
4. seven lectures

9. Estella is the daughter of?

1. Joe Gargery
2. Abel Magwitch
3. Miss Havisham
4. Bentley Drumnile

10. Graham Greenes novels are marked by?

1. Catholicism
2. Protestantism
3. Paganism
4. Buddhism

11. Hamlets famous speech To be,or not to be; that is the question occurs in?

1. Act II, Scene I
2. Act III, Scene III
3. Act IV, Scene III
4. Act III, Scene I

12. Identify the character in The Tempest who is referred to as an honest old counselor

1. Alonso
2. Ariel
3. Gonzalo
4. Stephano

13. Identify the character who is a supporter of Womens Rights in Sons and Lovers?

1. Mrs. Morel
2. Annie
3. Miriam
4. Clara Dawes

14. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of love and loss—

1. Tennyson
2. Browning
3. Swinburne
4. D. G. Rossetti

15. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson Faith un-faithful kept him falsely true.

1. Oxymoron
2. Metaphor
3. Simile
4. Synecdoche

16. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner?

1. The Stones of Venice
2. The Two Paths
3. The Seven Lamps of Architecture
4. Modem Painters

17. Identify the work by Swinburne which begins when the hounds of spring are on winters traces..”?

1. Chastelard
2. A Song of Italy
3. Atalanta in Calydon
4. Songs before Sunrise

18. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry?

1. Sir Thomas Wyatt
2. William Shakespeare
3. Earl of Surrey
4. Milton

19. Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet

1. P. B. Shelley
2. Charles Lamb
3. Hazlitt
4. Coleridge

20. In Leda and the Swan, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan?

1. Mars
2. Hercules
3. Zeus
4. Bacchus

21. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with?

1. Darcy
2. Wickham
3. William Collins
4. Charles Bingley

22. In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morels mothers name is?

1. Susan
2. Jane
3. Gertrude
4. Emily

23. In the poem Tintern Abbey, dearest friend refers to?

1. Nature
2. Dorothy
3. Coleridge
4. Wye

24. Joe Gargery is Pips?

1. brother
2. brother-in-Jaw
3. guardian
4. cousin

25. Keatss Endymion is dedicated to?

1. Leigh Hunt
2. Milton
3. Shakespeare
4. Thomas Chatterton

26. Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a

1. lawyer
2. postman
3. Judge
4. School teacher

27. One important feature of Jane Austens style is?

1. boisterous humour
2. humour and pathos
3. subtlety of irony
4. stream of consciousness

28. Paradise Lost was originally written in?

1. ten books
2. eleven books
3. nine books
4. eight books

29. Shelleys Adonais is an elegy on the death of?

1. Milton
2. Coleridge
3. Keats
4. Johnson

30. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term Unreal City in the first and third sections from?

1. Baudelaire
2. Irving Babbit
3. Dante
4. Laforgue

31. Tennysons poem In Memoriamwas written in memory of?

1. A. H. Hallam
2. Edward King
3. Wellington
4. P. B. Shelley

32. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by?

1. The Pre-Raphaelites
2. Ruskin
3. Pater
4. Matthew Arnold

33. The epigraph of The Waste Land is borrowed from?

1. Virgil
2. Fetronius
3. Seneca
4. Homer

34. The following lines are an example .......... of image. The river sweats Oil and tar

1. visual
2. kinetic
3. erotic
4. sensual

35. The main character in Paradise Lost Book I and Book II is?

1. God
2. Satan
3. Adam
4. Eve

36. The novel The Power and the Glory is set in?

1. Mexico
2. Italy
3. France
4. Germany

37. The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in?

1. 1823
2. 1826
3. 1834
4. 1833

38. The term the Palliser Novels is used to describe the political novels of?

1. Charles Dickens
2. Anthony Trollope
3. W. H. White
4. B. Disraeli

39. The title of the poem The Second Coming is taken from?

1. The Bible
2. The Irish mythology
3. The German mythology
4. The Greek mythology

40. The twins in Lord of the Flies are?

1. Ralph and Jack
2. Simon and Eric
3. Ralph and Eric
4. Simon and Jack

41. Vanity Fair is a novel by?

1. Jane Austen
2. Charles Dickens
3. W. M. Thackeray
4. Thomas Hardy

42. W. B. Yeats used the phrase the artifice of eternity in his poem?

1. Sailing to Byzantium
2. Byzantium
3. The Second Coming
4. Leda and the Swan

43. What does I stand for in the following line? To Carthage then I came

1. Buddha
2. Tiresias
3. Smyrna Merchant
4. Augustine

44. What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night?

1. Or, What is you Will
2. Or, What you Will
3. Or, What you Like It
4. Or, What you Think

45. Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi?

1. Sesame and Lilies
2. The Seven Lamps of Architecture
3. Unto This Last
4. Fors Clavigera

46. Which of the following is Goldings first novel?

1. The Inheritors
2. Lord of the Flies
3. Pincher Martin
4. Pyramid

47. Which of the following is the first novel of D. H. Lawrence?

1. The White Peacock
2. The Trespasser
3. Sons and Lovers
4. Women in Love

48. Which of the following myths does not figure in The Waste Land?

1. Oedipus
2. Grail Legend of Fisher King
3. Philomela
4. Sysyphus

49. Which of the following novels has the sub-title A Novel Without a Hero?

1. Vanity Fair
2. Middlemarch
3. Wuthering Heights
4. Oliver Twist

50. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue?

1. The Tempest
2. Henry IV, Pt I
3. Hamlet
4. Twelfth Night