English Literature MCQs

Option A: Short Story

Option B: Novel

Option C: Play

Option D: Poem

Correct Answer: Play ✔

Option A: on a mountain

Option B: beside a river

Option C: in a desert

Option D: in a valley

Correct Answer: in a desert ✔

Option A: play

Option B: novel

Option C: an essy

Option D: poem

Correct Answer: play ✔

Option A: George Bernard Shaw

Option B: William Shakespeare

Option C: A. Lord Tennyson

Option D: Christopher Marlowe

Correct Answer: C. A. Lord Tennyson ✔

Option A: Coleridge

Option B: Keats

Option C: Wordsworth

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Wordsworth ✔

Option A: 1795

Option B: 1807

Option C: 1823

Option D: 1829

Correct Answer: 1823 ✔

Option A: Ode to Nightingale

Option B: Ode to Grecian Urn

Option C: Ode to Psyche

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Ode to Grecian Urn ✔

Option A: Milan

Option B: Verona

Option C: Turin

Option D: none of these

Correct Answer: Verona ✔

Option A: the Christmas carol

Option B: Great Expectations

Option C: oliver twist

Option D: a tale of two cities

Correct Answer: Great Expectations ✔

Option A: W. Shakespeare

Option B: George Bernard Shaw

Option C: Leo Tolstoy

Option D: Charles Dickens

Correct Answer: George Bernard Shaw ✔

Option A: The summers day

Option B: The Road not taken

Option C: The Atlantic Monthly

Option D: The Mountain Interval

Correct Answer: The Atlantic Monthly ✔

Option A: Objectify the issue in terms of a cause

Option B: Advance a single system to the public

Option C: Allow the writer to draw on his

Option D: Be brooding and meditative. own personality

Correct Answer: Objectify the issue in terms of a cause ✔

Option A: Ulysses : James Joyce

Option B: A Full Moon in March : W. B. Yeats

Option C: Drama of Ideas : T. S. Eliot

Option D: Riders to the Sea : John Millington Synge

Correct Answer: Drama of Ideas : T. S. Eliot ✔

Option A: Charles Dickens

Option B: Homer

Option C: Lord Tennison

Option D: Ernest Hemingway

Correct Answer: Ernest Hemingway ✔

Option A: Hemingway

Option B: Virginia Woolf

Option C: E.M. Forster

Option D: D.H. Lawrence

Correct Answer: D.H. Lawrence ✔

Option A: Ode on a Grecian Urn

Option B: The Prelude

Option C: Ode to Autumn

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Ode on a Grecian Urn ✔

Option A: Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

Option B: True is it that we have seen betting days.

Option C: Knowledge is power.

Option D: None of these.

Correct Answer: Knowledge is power. ✔

Option A: Anthony Mascarenhas

Option B: Amartya Sen

Option C: Kuldip Nayer

Option D: Nelson Mandela

Correct Answer: Kuldip Nayer ✔

Option A: Shelley

Option B: Keats

Option C: Byron

Option D: Blake

Correct Answer: Keats ✔

Option A: Ben Jhonson

Option B: G B Shaw

Option C: William Shakespeare

Option D: T S Eliot

Correct Answer: William Shakespeare ✔

Option A: Ruskin

Option B: J.S.Mill

Option C: C. Lamb

Option D: Russell

Correct Answer: Ruskin ✔

Option A: 1998

Option B: 1997

Option C: 1999

Option D: 2000

Correct Answer: 1999 ✔

Option A: a poem

Option B: a sonnet

Option C: an image or dummy

Option D: a lamentation

Correct Answer: an image or dummy ✔

Option A: The Wanderer

Option B: Beowulf

Option C: The Seafarer

Option D: Dream of the Road

Correct Answer: Beowulf ✔

Option A: a fourteen line stanza

Option B: a twenty line stanza

Option C: a thirteen line stanza

Option D: a fifteen line stanza

Correct Answer: a fifteen line stanza ✔

Option A: S. T. Coleridge

Option B: P. B. Shelley

Option C: William Wordsworth

Option D: Lord Byron

Correct Answer: William Wordsworth ✔

Option A: The Canterbury Tales

Option B: Don Juan

Option C: The Prelude

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: The Prelude ✔

Option A: Macbeth

Option B: Othello

Option C: Merchant of Venice

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Merchant of Venice ✔

Option A: symbol

Option B: Metaphor

Option C: Simile

Option D: Metonymy

Correct Answer: Simile ✔

Option A: Bradley

Option B: Dr. Johnson

Option C: Nicoll

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Bradley ✔

Option A: Eliot

Option B: Pater

Option C: I. A. Richards

Option D: F. R. Leavis

Correct Answer: F. R. Leavis ✔

Option A: William Wordsworth

Option B: S. T. Coleridge

Option C: W. Somerset Maugham

Option D: Sir Walter Scott

Correct Answer: S. T. Coleridge ✔

Option A: European

Option B: Indians

Option C: American

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: European ✔

Option A: Love

Option B: childhood

Option C: Inexperience

Option D: Innocence

Correct Answer: Innocence ✔

Option A: a hat of a king

Option B: a day dreamer

Option C: a lotus eater

Option D: an ideal state which does not exist in real

Correct Answer: an ideal state which does not exist in real ✔

Option A: John Ruskin

Option B: Carlyle

Option C: Bacon

Option D: Lamb

Correct Answer: Carlyle ✔

Option A: Wordsworth

Option B: Keats

Option C: None of these

Option D: All of these

Correct Answer: Wordsworth ✔

Option A: William Shakespeare

Option B: Shelley

Option C: Wordsworth

Option D: Robert Browning

Correct Answer: Robert Browning ✔

Option A: R. K. Narayan

Option B: Edin Blyton

Option C: Rudyard Kipling

Option D: H. G. Wells

Correct Answer: Rudyard Kipling ✔

Option A: Anthony Mascarenhas

Option B: Mathew Arnold

Option C: G. B. Shaw

Option D: Alexander Dumas

Correct Answer: Anthony Mascarenhas ✔

Option A: the revival of learning

Option B: the revival of hard task

Option C: the revival of life

Option D: the revival of new country

Correct Answer: the revival of learning ✔

Option A: all things, both great and small,will perish

Option B: man is mortal,art immortal

Option C: imagination is stronger than fact

Option D: history repeats

Correct Answer: all things, both great and small,will perish ✔

Option A: Nicoll

Option B: Goddord

Option C: Bradley

Option D: Coleridge

Correct Answer: Bradley ✔

Option A: 1564 AD

Option B: 1773 AD

Option C: 1809 AD

Option D: 1923 AD

Correct Answer: 1564 AD ✔

Option A: A Poem

Option B: Drama

Option C: None of these

Option D: A Poem

Correct Answer: A Poem ✔

Option A: a loving wife

Option B: a snobbish wife

Option C: a hypocritical wife

Option D: a sacrificing wife

Correct Answer: a sacrificing wife ✔

Option A: Oscar Wilde

Option B: Joseph Conrad

Option C: Thomas Hardy

Option D: Rudyard Kipling

Correct Answer: Joseph Conrad ✔

Option A: 1788

Option B: 1789

Option C: 1790

Option D: 1791

Correct Answer: 1788 ✔

Option A: William Wordsworth

Option B: P. B Shelley

Option C: Lord Byron

Option D: John Keats

Correct Answer: William Wordsworth ✔

Option A: Roger Bacon

Option B: Robert Browning

Option C: Geoffrey Chaucer

Option D: Cynewulf

Correct Answer: Cynewulf ✔

Option A: Pessimist

Option B: Meliorist

Option C: Mystic

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Pessimist ✔

Option A: Poets

Option B: Playwrights

Option C: Novelists

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Playwrights ✔

Option A: Comedy of Manners

Option B: Theater of the Absurd

Option C: Heroic Tragedy

Option D: Comedy of Humours

Correct Answer: Comedy of Humours ✔

Option A: English novelist

Option B: American Novelist

Option C: Irish novelist

Option D: French Novelist

Correct Answer: French Novelist ✔

Option A: Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare’s

Option B: Shakespeare’s Tempest

Option C: Shakespeare’s Much ado about nothing.

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare’s ✔

Option A: Shelley

Option B: Shakespeare

Option C: Sophocles

Option D: Euripedes

Correct Answer: Shelley ✔

Option A: Historical poem

Option B: figurative story

Option C: song of lamentation

Option D: short story

Correct Answer: song of lamentation ✔

Option A: Tennyson

Option B: Browning

Option C: Blake

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Tennyson ✔

Option A: Keats

Option B: Donne

Option C: William Blake

Option D: Spenser

Correct Answer: William Blake ✔

Option A: A social reformer

Option B: A satirist

Option C: A fatalist

Option D: A lover of nature

Correct Answer: A fatalist ✔

Option A: play

Option B: satire

Option C: prose

Option D: translation

Correct Answer: satire ✔

Option A: The Seven Lamps

Option B: Unto this Last

Option C: The Stones of Venice

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Unto this Last ✔

Option A: sentimental

Option B: practical

Option C: irresponsible

Option D: romantic

Correct Answer: romantic ✔

Option A: a division of drama

Option B: a division of novel

Option C: a division of story

Option D: a subdivision of a poem

Correct Answer: a subdivision of a poem ✔

Option A: D.H. Lawrence

Option B: John Milton

Option C: John Keats

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: John Keats ✔

Option A: Geoffrey Chaucer

Option B: Cynewulf

Option C: Robert Browning

Option D: Shelley

Correct Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer ✔

Option A: Thomas More

Option B: George Orwell

Option C: Boris Pasternak

Option D: Charles Dickens

Correct Answer: George Orwell ✔

Option A: a short poem

Option B: a long narrative poem

Option C: a historical poem

Option D: a prose composition

Correct Answer: a long narrative poem ✔

Option A: Byron

Option B: Shelley

Option C: Tennyson

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Byron ✔

Option A: 75

Option B: 95

Option C: 105

Option D: none of these

Correct Answer: 95 ✔

Option A: similar things

Option B: dissimilar things

Option C: elaborate comparison

Option D: contradictory things

Correct Answer: similar things ✔

Option A: O’ Henry

Option B: R L Stevenson

Option C: Ernest Hemingway

Option D: Sir Walter Scott

Correct Answer: Sir Walter Scott ✔

Option A: The Renaissance

Option B: The Non-classical

Option C: The Romantic

Option D: The Modern

Correct Answer: The Renaissance ✔

Option A: Sons and Lovers

Option B: Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Option C: Women in Love

Option D: The Rainbow

Correct Answer: Lady Chatterley’s Lover ✔

Option A: 1570

Option B: 1564

Option C: 1590

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: 1564 ✔

Option A: an ordinary man

Option B: a high ranking man

Option C: a sacrilegious man

Option D: none of these

Correct Answer: a high ranking man ✔

Option A: Bion’s lament for Adonis

Option B: Lycidas

Option C: In Memoriam

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Bion’s lament for Adonis ✔

Option A: H.G. Wells

Option B: Blackmore

Option C: T. S. Eliot

Option D: Jane Austen

Correct Answer: Blackmore ✔

Option A: Hamlet

Option B: Othello

Option C: King Lear

Option D: Julius Caeser

Correct Answer: King Lear ✔

Option A: H. G. Wells

Option B: Victor Hugo

Option C: Hugo Gernsback

Option D: Jules Verne

Correct Answer: Victor Hugo ✔

Option A: Francis Bacon

Option B: Jane Austen

Option C: Jonathan Swift

Option D: None

Correct Answer: Jane Austen ✔

Option A: Mathew

Option B: Robert Browning

Option C: John Milton

Option D: W B Yeats

Correct Answer: John Milton ✔

Option A: Columbia University

Option B: Yale University

Option C: New York University

Option D: Harvard University

Correct Answer: Columbia University ✔

Option A: a song of lamentation

Option B: a song of pleasure

Option C: a hymn

Option D: a praiseworthy song

Correct Answer: a song of lamentation ✔

Option A: Tahmima Anam

Option B: Pearl S. Bark

Option C: Virginia Woolf

Option D: Jane Austen

Correct Answer: Tahmima Anam ✔

Option A: Oscar Wild

Option B: Hardy

Option C: George Eliot

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Oscar Wild ✔

Option A: 1843 b…1844

Option B: 1845

Option C: 1846

Option D: none of these

Correct Answer: A. 1843 b…1844 ✔

Option A: modern mode of words

Option B: up-to-date words

Option C: literary words

Option D: obsolete words

Correct Answer: obsolete words ✔

Option A: characters in play

Option B: animals in play

Option C: sympathy to others

Option D: arouse of pity and fear

Correct Answer: arouse of pity and fear ✔

Option A: Dante

Option B: Shakespeare

Option C: Wordsworth

Option D: Shelley

Correct Answer: Shakespeare ✔

Option A: 1809

Option B: 1810

Option C: 1811

Option D: 1812

Correct Answer: 1809 ✔

Option A: John Lyly

Option B: Thomas Kyd

Option C: Robert Green

Option D: Christopher Marlowe

Correct Answer: Thomas Kyd ✔

Option A: cain

Option B: Childe Herald’s Pilgrimage

Option C: Don Juan

Option D: the prisoner of Chillon

Correct Answer: Childe Herald’s Pilgrimage ✔

Option A: Shakespeare

Option B: Emerson

Option C: Gladstone

Option D: Disraeli

Correct Answer: Gladstone ✔

Option A: Hardy

Option B: Eliot

Option C: Oscar Wilde

Option D: Dickens

Correct Answer: Dickens ✔

Option A: Persian

Option B: English

Option C: French

Option D: Italy

Correct Answer: Persian ✔

Option A: A Passage to India

Option B: Paradise Lost

Option C: Hamlet

Option D: Doctor Faustus

Correct Answer: A Passage to India ✔

Option A: Wordsworth

Option B: Shelley

Option C: Coleridge

Option D: Arnold

Correct Answer: Shelley ✔

Option A: Ghandhi

Option B: Nehru

Option C: Jinnah

Option D: Abul Kalam Azad

Correct Answer: Abul Kalam Azad ✔

Option A: poet

Option B: dramatist

Option C: artist

Option D: scientist

Correct Answer: poet ✔