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1- Aaron’s Rod was written by—-in—-years
A- D.H Lawrence, 1922
B-Stephen King, 1970
C-Nadine Gardiner, 1970
D-None
2-Which novel by Sir Walter Scott was equal to ‘The Monastery’?
A- The Abbot
B-Lochleven Castle
C-Lady of Avenel
D-On Baile’s Strand
3- Absalom and Achitophel a poem by Dryden was written in the year
A-1681
B-1682
C-1983
D-1987
4-What do ‘Acmeism’ mean?
A- School of Russain Poetry
B-School of novelists
C-Critics
D-Linguists
5- Who wrote ‘The Campaign a poem in heroic couplets in celebration of the victory of Blenheim?
A- Joseph Addison
B-Shelley
C-Yeats
D-Keats
6- Adonais an Elegy was written on the death of
A- Keats
B-Byron
C-Shelley
D-Wordsworth
7-The Adventure of Philip was written by
A- Thackeray
B-George Eliot
C-Dickens
D-Bronte Sister
8-Who wrote ‘Three Tall Women?
A- Albee
B-Woolf
C-T.S Eliot
D-W.B Yeats
9- When was The Alchemist a comedy Jonson first published?
A-1612
B-1611
C-1610
D-1913
10-‘The World Well Lost a tragedy Dryden is better to know by
A- All for Love
B-Spanish Frayar
C-Troilus and Cressida
D-The Rehearsal
11-Alonso is the king in Shakespeare play
A- Tempest
B-Hamlet
C-Othello
D-Henry VI
12- The Amazing Marriage a novel written by
A- George Meredith
B-Salman Rushdie
C-Pearl S Buck
D- E.M Foster
13- Who wrote the novel, Amelia?
A- Henry Fielding
B-Melville
C-W.M Thackery
D-Charles Dickens
14-Hans Christian Andersen was
A- Danish
B-French
C-Italian
D-German
15—-is an incomplete poem by Chaucer in 357 lines.
A- Anelida and Arcite
B-Knights Tale
C-Troilus and Cressida
D-Wave of Bath Tale
16-Angria and Gondal are imaginary kingdoms invented by
A- Bronte’s
B-Dickens
C-George Eliot
D-Melville
17-The Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney is
A- A prose romance
B- A tragic comedy
C- A play
D-None
18-William Archer was born in
A- Scotland
B-France
C-England
D-Wales
19- Aspatria is a character in —-play.
A- The Maids Tragedy
B-The Revenge Tragedy
C-The Bride of Lammer Moor
D-None
20- Astrophel and Stella is a sequence of —–sonnets and —-songs.
A-108,11
B-185,12
C-156,25
D-None
21-Jacques, Touchstone, Celia features in —–play by Shakespeare
A- As You Like It
B-Othello
C-Hamlet
D-Tempest
22-Atalanta in Calydon is a poetic drama by
A- Swinburne
B-Marlowe
C-Jonson
D-Goldsmith
23-Athenaeum Club was founded in —-in 1824
A- London
B-Chicago
C-Moscow
D-Paris
24- Aurora Leigh is a
A- Poem
B- Drama
C-Novel
D-None
25-Edna Pontellier is a character in
A- The Awakening
B-Pride and Prejudice
C-Both
D-None
26- Bab Ballads is a collection of humorous ballads by
A- W.S Gilbert
B-Keats
C-Shelley
D-Wordsworth
27- Francis Bacon lived between
A-1561-1626
B-1578-1626
C-1550-1620
D-None
28- The life and Death of Mr.Badman is an allegory by
A- Bunyan
B-Daniel Dafoe
C-Samuel Richardson
D-Hardy
29-Honore de Balzac was a
A-Novelist
B-Poet
C-Dramatist
D-Critic
30- Bananas was
A- Literary Periodical
B-Play
C-Drama Company
D-Poem
31- Edward, Emma, and Ruben Haredale are a character in —-Dickens’s Novel.
A-Barnaby Rudge
B- Pickwick Paper
C-Oliver Twist
D-Domby and Sons
32- Bernadine is a prisoner in —-Shakespeare’s play
A- Measure for measure
B-Othello
C-Hamlet
D-Tempest
33- Barney is a Jew associate of Fagin in —-Dickens’s Novel.
A- Oliver Twist
B-Pickwick Papers
C-Little Dorrit
D-Dombey and Sons
34- Beatrice is the heroine of which Shakespeare’s play?
A- Much Ado About Nothing
B-King John
C-Henry IV
D-Othello
35- Simon De Beauvoir was
A- French
B-Italian
C-English
D-German
36- Becket is a tragedy by
A- Tennyson
B-Browing
C-Jonson
D-Goldsmith
37-Saul Bellow was born in the year
A-1915
B-1916
C-1917
D-1919
38-Bells and Pomegranates the cover titles of a series of plays and collected of shorter poems as written
A-Browning
B-Keats
C-Shelley
D-Wordsworth
39-Mr. and Mrs. Jane Elizabeth Mary Lydia are characters from Jane Austen’s Novel
A-Pride and Prejudice
B-Sense and sensibility
C-Persuasion
D-Northanger Abbey
40- Beowulf is an Old English poem of —-lines
A-3182
B-3186
C-3184
D-3154
41—was the last novel by Virginia Woolf
A- Between the acts
B-Mrs. Dalloway
C-To the Light House
D-Orlando
42- Issac Bickerstaffe was a playwright
A- Irish
B-French
C-German
D-British
43- In which novel does Orwell come across a character called Big Brother?
A-1984
B-Inside the whale
C-Burmese Days
D-The Road to Wigan Pier
44-Charles Bingley Caroline features in —-Jane Austen’s Novel
A-Pride and Prejudice
B-Emma
C-Mansfield Park
D-Persuasion
45-Biographia Literaria by Coleridge was published in
A-1817
B-1816
C-1815
D-1818
46-Who wrote Bishop Blougram’s Apology?
A- Tennyson
B-Shelley
C-Keats
D-Browning
47-Stephen Blackpool is in Dickens ‘…….. novel
A-Hard Times
B-David Copperfield
C-Oliver Twist
D-Dombey and Sons
48-William Blake lived between
A-1757-1827
B-1827-1890
C-1815-1860
D-1727-1575
49-Blandamour appears in Faerie Queene Book
A- Book IV
B-Book VI
C-Book VIII
D-Book IX
50- Blatant Beast a Monster is in Faerie Queene Book
A- Book IV
B-Book I
C-Book II
D- Book VII
51- Richard Carstone, Ada Clare is a character from- Dickens’s novel.
A- Bleak House
B-Dombey and Sons
C-David Copperfield
D-Oliver Twist
52- Bloom, Leopold Paula, and his wife Molly are characters in Joyce’s novel
A- Ulysses
B-Portrait of an artist as a young man
C-Egoist
D-Stephen Hero
53-Boldwood a character in Hard’s Far from the Madding Crowd was a
A- Farmer
B-Preacher
C-Labourer
D-Joker
54-In which year did Heinrich Boll the German author got the Nobel Prize?
A-1972
B-1971
C-1973
D-1975
55-The Book of Duchess a dream-poem of 1334 lines was written by
A- Chaucer
B-Shakespeare
C-Goldsmith
D-Spenser
56- Bosola is a character in which Webster’s play?
A- Duchess of Malfi
B-White Devil
C-Northward Hoe
D-A Late Murder
57- Bertolt Brecht was a dramatist and poet
A- German
B-French
C-Italian
D-Russian
58- Brighton Rock is a novel by
A- G. Greene
B-Huxley
C-Forester
D-Naipaul
59-The Broken Heart is a tragedy by
A-John Ford
B-John Webster
C-Marlow
D-Congreve
60-Sir Thomas Browne was a by profession
A- Doctor
B-Priest
C-Lawyer
D-Teacher
61-Mr. Brownlow is a character in Dickens Novel
A- Oliver Twist
B-Hard Times
C-Pickwick Papers
D-David Copperfield
62- Cadenus and Vanessa is a poem written by
A- Swift
B-Dickens
C-Thackeray
D-Hardy
63- Cain a Mystery is a poetic drama by
A- Byron
B-Shelley
C-Keats
D-Dryden
64- Kingsley Amio Novel Lucky Jim is a novel
A- Campus
B-Comedy
C-Tragic Comedy
D-Tragic
65-Albert Camus lived between—-year
A-1913-60 B-1900-1947 C-1910-1911 D-None
66- The case is Altered is a comedy by
A- Jonson
B-Marlowe
C-Congreve
D-Middleton
67-The Charge of Light Brigade is a poet by
A- Tennyson
B-Rosseti
C-Browning
D-Shelley
68- Child Ronald to the Dark Tower Came is a poem by
A- Browning
B-Rosseti
C-Tennyson
D-Shelley
69-Naom Chomsky is a professor r of
A- Language
B-History
C-Drama
D-Literature
70-Colin Clouts Come home again an allegorical pastoral was written by
A-Spenser
B-Chaucer
C-Doone
D-Shakespeare
71-William Collins is a character in J. Austen’s novel
A- Robert Browning
B-W.B Yeats
C-T.S Eliot
D-Shelley
72- The Counters Cathleen a play in blank verse was written by
A- W.B Yeats
B-T.S Eliot
C-Shelley
D-None
72-The Country Wife by Wycherly is a
A- Comedy
B-Tragedy
C-Romance
D-None
73- The Criterion an influential literary periodical launched as a quarterly was edited by
A- T.S Eliot
B-W.B Yeats
C-Ted Hughes
D-Wallace Stevens
74- The Critic is a comedy by
A- Sheridan
B-Congreve
C-Marlowe
D-Jonson
75- Crossing the Bar a poem in stanzas by Lord Tennyson
A- Four
B-Five
C-Six
D-Three
76- Culture and Anarchy is by Mathew Arnold
A- Criticism
B-Play
C-Poetry
D-Novel
77- I wandered lonely as a cloud is a line from Wordsworth’s poem
A- Daffodils
B-Prelude
C-Excursions
D-Michael
78- Where was G.V Desani born?
A- Nairobi
B-Bombay
C-New York
D-Trinidad
79-The Deserted Village by Goldsmith was published in the year
A-1770
B-1760
C-1740
D-1790
80- The Devil is An Ass is a comedy y
A-Jonson
B-Marlowe
C-Fletcher
D-Congreve
81- The Excursion by Wordsworth is in —-books
A- Nine
B-Seven
C-Five
D-Three
82-Eyeless in Gaza is a novel by
A- A. Huxley
B-Iris Murdoch
C-Sheldon
D-J.Huxley
83- Frederick is —-in Shakespeare’s As You Like It.
A- Duke
B-Sailor
C-King
D-None
84- Sigmund Freud was born in
A- Bulgaria
B-Germany
C-Moravia
D-England
85- Friar Truck is one of the principal characters in
A- Robin Hood
B-The Friend
C-Friar Bungay
D-None
86-A Game of Cheese is a comedy by
A- Middleton
B-Fry
C-Marlowe
D-Galsworthy
87- Gabriel Garcia Marques was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in the year
A- 1982
B-1981
C-1984
D-1999
88-Andre Gide as a
A- French
B-British
C-Swedish
D-Italian
89-Andre Gide was awarded Nobel Prize in the year
A-1947
B-1948
C-1949
D-None
90- The Glatsaunt Beast is the creature in
A- Morte De Arthur
B-Faerie Queene
C-Paradise Lost
D-Canterbury Tales
91- Prince Hal is a character in Shakespeare play
A- Henry IV
B- Henry V
C-Hamlet
D-Macbeth
92- The Hind and the Panther is a poem by
A- Dryden
B-Pope
C-Coleridge
D-Shelley
93- Hogarth Press was founded in
A-1917
B-1916
C-1919
D-1918
94- The Holy Fair is a poem by
A- Burns
B-Coley
C-Doone
D-Herbert
95- Hours of Idleness is a collection of Poems by
A- Byron
B-Shelley
C-Coleridge
D-Wordsworth
96- Kubla Khan a poem by Coleridge is also called
A- A vision in a Dream
B-Lovers
C-A Vision
D-The Kraken
97- The Kraken is a short poem by
A- Tennyson
B-Browning
C-Rossetti
D-Shelley
98- La Belle Dams Sans Merci by Keats is a
A- Ballad
B-Drama
C-Story
D-Poem
99-Lady Susan is a novel by
A- Jane Austen
B-G.Eliot
C-Hardy
D-Trollope
100- Lara is a poem by
A- Byron
B-Keats
C-Shelley
D-Wordsworth
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[wptb id="308" not found ]Ages of English Literature
- Old English Literature (450-1066)
- Middle English Literature (1066-1500)
- Age of Chaucer (1358-1400)
- Age of Revival (1400-1500)
- Elizabethan Age (1500-1600)
- Jacobean Age (1603-1625)
- Caroline Age (1625-1649)
- Restoration Age (1600-1700)
- Augustan Age (1700-1750)
- Age of Sensibility (1750-1798)
- Romantic Age (1798-1850)
- Victorian Age (1837-1901)
- Modern Age (1900-1950)
- Modernism (1925-1939)
- Post Modernism (1940-2000)
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