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1. Marlow died of?
(A). Illness
(B). stabbing
(C). poisoned
(D). Hanged
Right Answer: B
2. Which was Marlowe's first play?
(A). Dr.Faustus
(B). Tamburlaine
(C). The Tragedy of Dido
(D). The Jew of Malta,
Right Answer: B
3. In which town was Shakespeare born?
(A). London
(B). Cambridge
(C). Stratford
(D). Oxford
Right Answer: C
4. How many children did Shakespeare have?
(A). 3
(B). 5
(C). 8
(D). 12
Right Answer: A
5. How many plays did William Shakespeare write?
(A). 36
(B). 37
(C). 38
(D). 39
Right Answer: B
6. What was Shakespeare's first play?
(A). King Lear
(B). Henry VI
(C). The Tempest
(D). Romeo and Juliet
Right Answer: B
7. How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write?
(A). 110
(B). 154
(C). 175
(D). 187
Right Answer: B
8. How many photographs exist of William Shakespeare?
(A). 2
(B). 4
(C). 1
(D). 0
Right Answer: A
9. Shakespeare died on?
(A). 23rd April 1616
(B). 25th April 1616,
(C). 28th April 1616
(D). 30th April 1616
Right Answer: A
10. Shakespeare died at the age of
(A). 48
(B). 52
(C). 60
(D). 63
Right Answer: B
11. How many times suicide occurs in Shakespeare's plays?
(A). 7
(B). 9
(C). 11
(D). 13
Right Answer: D
12. The line "To be or not to be" comes from which play?
(A). Macbeth
(B). Twelfth Night
(C). A Midsummer Night's dream
(D). Hamlet
Right Answer: D
13. Was the Globe…
(A). A Roman Amphitheater.
(B). An Elizabethan Theater.
(C). An Elizabethan sports stadium.
(D). A famous map of the world.
Right Answer: B
14.
(A).
(B).
(C).
(D).
Right Answer:
15. Which of these was not one of Shakespeare's plays?
(A). Titus Andronicus
(B). The Tempest
(C). Cymbeline
(D). Shakespeare in love
Right Answer: D
16. Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote,"My salad days, when I was green in judgment." come from?
(A). Antony and Cleopatra
(B). Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
(C). The Winters Tale
(D). The Merry Wives of Windsor
Right Answer: A
17. Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote,"Neither a borrower nor a lender be" come from?
(A). Cymbeline
(B). Hamlet
(C). Titus Andronicus
(D). Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Right Answer: B
18. Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" come from?
(A). King Lear
(B). As You Like It
(C). The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII
(D). The Life and Death of King John
Right Answer: A
19. In what year was the First Folio published?
(A). 1626
(B). 1621
(C). 1623
(D). 1629
Right Answer: C
20. What nationality was Shakespeare?
(A). Italian
(B). English
(C). Scottish
(D). Greek
Right Answer: B
21. In which century was Shakespeare born?
(A). 16th
(B). 14th
(C). 15th
(D). 17th
Right Answer: A
22. which famous Shakespeare play does the quote "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" come from?
(A). The Merry Wives of Windsor
(B). Othello, the Moor of Venice
(C). Pericles, Prince of Tyre
(D). King Henry the Sixth, Part II
Right Answer: D
23. Which river is associated with Shakespeare's birth place?
(A). The Thames
(B). The Avon
(C). The Tyburn
(D). The Seven
Right Answer: B
24. Which famous play does the quote,"When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?" come from?
(A). The Taming of the Shrew
(B). King Lear
(C). The Tempest
(D). Macbeth
Right Answer: D
25. How many of Shakespeare's plays are classified as histories?
(A). 7
(B). 10
(C). 14
(D). 18
Right Answer: B
26. The group of four plays known as the "major tetralogy" is:
(A). Richard III, King John, Henry VIII, 1 Henry VI
(B). 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, Richard III
(C). King John, Henry V, Richard II, Richard III
(D). Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V
Right Answer: D
27. In 1613 the Globe Theater burned down during a production of which play?
(A). King John
(B). Richard II
(C). Henry VIII
(D). Henry V
Right Answer: C
28. Complete the following famous line from Hamlet: Something is rotten in the state of...
(A). England
(B). Venice
(C). Denmark
(D). Maine
Right Answer: C
29. Which of the following characters does not appear in Hamlet?
(A). Polonius
(B). Gertrude
(C). Claudius
(D). Miranda
Right Answer: D
30. Where was Hamlet studying before he returned to Denmark?
(A). Wittenberg
(B). Oslo
(C). London
(D). Dublin
Right Answer: A
31. How are Polonius and Laertes related?
(A). Father/son
(B). Uncle/nephew
(C). Cousin/cousin
(D). Brother/brother
Right Answer: A
32. What is the name of the playlet Hamlet stages for Claudius?
(A). Slings and Arrows
(B). Vice of Kings
(C). The Murder of Gonzago
(D). The Slaying of Lucianus
Right Answer: C
33. Who says, "Good night, sweet prince,/And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."?
(A). Fortinbras
(B). Marcellus
(C). Chorus
(D). Horatio
Right Answer: D
34. How does Queen Gertrude die?
(A). Accidentally stabbed by Laertes.
(B). Drowns in the river outside the castle.
(C). Suffers a fatal heart attack while watching Hamlet fight Laertes.
(D). Poisoned by drinking from Hamlet's cup.
Right Answer: D
35. Who does Polonius send to spy on Laertes in Paris?
(A). Francisco
(B). Gorgonzola
(C). Reynaldo
(D). Samson
Right Answer: C
36. Who is Voltimand?
(A). Ambassador to the King of Norway from the King of Denmark
(B). Hamlet's cousin
(C). Ambassador to the King of Denmark from the King of Norway
(D). Assassin in the service of Fortinbras
Right Answer: A
37. What poison does Claudius pour into the ear of Hamlet's father, causing his death?
(A). Burdock
(B). Hebenon
(C). Baneberry
(D). Hemlock
Right Answer: B
38. How many soliloquies does Hamlet deliver?
(A). 2
(B). 4
(C). 7
(D). 9
Right Answer: C
39. In which country is Macbeth set?
(A). Spain
(B). Denmark
(C). Scotland
(D). Canada
Right Answer: C
40. Who is traveling with Macbeth when he first encounters the Three Witches?
(A). Macduff
(B). Mercutio
(C). Lady Macbeth
(D). Banquo
Right Answer: D
41. At the beginning of the play, the Scots are at war with which country?
(A). Norway
(B). Prussia
(C). Iceland
(D). Poland
Right Answer: A
42. Macbeth hires assassins to murder Banquo's son, named...
(A). Angus
(B). Ross
(C). Fleance
(D). Lennox
Right Answer: C
43. How does Lady Macbeth explain her husband's wild behavior at the banquet?
(A). She tells the guests that Banquo's ghost is haunting Macbeth.
(B). She tells the guests that Macbeth has had too much to drink.
(C). She informs the guests that Macbeth is ill.
(D). She reveals that Macbeth is overcome with grief over the death of Duncan.
Right Answer: C
44. Which of the following is not an apparition shown to Macbeth by the Witches:
(A). An armed head.
(B). A bloody dagger floating in mid-air.
(C). A bloody child.
(D). A child crowned, with a tree in his hand
Right Answer: B
45. Who tells Macbeth, "The queen, my lord, is dead."?
(A). Seyton
(B). Siward
(C). The Doctor
(D). Caithness
Right Answer: A
46. Shakespeare"s father died in:
(A). 1600
(B). 1601
(C). 1602
(D). 1603
Right Answer: B
47. Shakespeare joined the Chamber lain's Men Theatrical Company as a:
(A). Actor and playwright
(B). Playwright and poet
(C). Playwright and writer
(D). None of above
Right Answer: C
48. How many from his plays were published in his lifetime:
(A). Only sixteen
(B). Only seventeen
(C). Only eighteen
(D). Only nineteen
Right Answer: B
49. In which year Globe theater got fire and destroyed?
(A). 1610
(B). 1611
(C). 1612
(D). 1613
Right Answer: D
50. Shakespeare dedicated his long narrative poem Venus and Adonis to---------------.
(A). Henry Wriothesley, the third earl of Southampton
(B). Thomas Wriothesley,forth earl of Southampton
(C). William Fitzwilliam, first earl of Southampton
(D). Henry Wriothesley, the second earl of Southampton
Right Answer: A
51. During which period London theaterrs remained closed on account of the plague?
(A). 1592
(B). 1593
(C). 1594
(D). 1595
Right Answer: B
52. Which roles have played by Shakespeare in Hamlet and As you like it?
(A). Fortinbras, Corin
(B). Leartus, Silvius
(C). Osric, Touchstone
(D). Ghost, Old servant Adam
Right Answer: D
53. In ....... year Shakespeare bought the largest house in Stratford, called New place:
(A). 1595
(B). 1996
(C). 1597
(D). 15598
Right Answer: C
54. In 1599 which famous actor and his brother Cuthbert set a new playhouse on the Bank side,
called the Globe?
(A). Augustine Phillipps
(B). John Heimnge
(C). Henry Condell
(D). Richard Burbage
Right Answer: D
55. In Shakespeare's literary output, the period 1604-1608 is the period of:
(A). Comedy plays
(B). Historical plays
(C). Great Tragedies
(D). None of above
Right Answer: B
56. "Under the green wood tree" is a song in:
(A). Love's labour's lost
(B). As you like it
(C). A mid Summer night's dream
(D). Much ado about nothing
Right Answer: B
57. :Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show
To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe.
He was not of an age, but for all time".
Who wrote above lines for Shakespeare:
(A). Jonson
(B). Bacon
(C). Wordsworth
(D). none of above
Right Answer: A
58. Seven Ages of Man appears in " As you like it". Which character's speech it is?
(A). Amiens
(B). Orlando
(C). Oliver
(D). Jaques
Right Answer: D
59. "To be or not to be that is the question", is famous line of which of Shakespeare's plays?
(A). Othello
(B). Macbeth
(C). Hamlet
(D). King Lear
Right Answer: C
60. Following are the lines of:
"I'm your wife if you marry me
If not, I'll die your maid to be your fellow
You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you deny or not".
(A). Hamlet
(B). Romeo and Juliet
(C). Tempest
(D). Othello
Right Answer: C
61. Which of the following are characters of "Much ado about nothing":
(A). Hero, Borachio, Antonio, Claudio, Leonato
(B). Hero, Orlando, Antonio, Claudio, Leanato
(C). Mirrinda, Borachio, Antonio, Claudio, Leanato
(D). Hero, Boradio, Antonio, Claudio, Horatio
Right Answer: A
62. Which of the following is in correct sequel ?
(A). Comedy of errors, A mid summer night's dream, Much ado about nothing, Henry 6 part three.
(B). A mid summer night's dream,Romeo and Juliet, As you like it, King Lear,Pericles.
(C). All's well that ends well, The tempest, As you like it, As you like it,A mid summer night's dream,Much ado about no thing.
(D). King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Measure for measure, Henry 8, Romeo and Juliet.
Right Answer: C
63. Who was killed by Hamlet unintentionally?
(A). Leartus
(B). Polonius
(C). Forinbras
(D). Horatio
Right Answer: B
64. Who is second Prince of Arragon in "Much ado about nothing"?
(A). Leonato
(B). Balthasar
(C). Don John
(D). Don Pedro
Right Answer: D
65. Which character spoke following lines?
"What's Montague? It is nor hand nor foot,
Nor arm nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man, O be some other name!
What's in a name?
That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet,"
(A). Desdemona
(B). Juliet
(C). Rosalind
(D). Hero
Right Answer: B
66. Who is the second attending gentlewoman on Hero? Ursula and_________.
(A). Margaret
(B). Emilia
(C). Helena
(D). Celia
Right Answer: A
67. " Some born great, some achieve greatness
And some have greatness thrust upon them".
Above lines are taken from which of following plays?
(A). Macbeth
(B). Othello
(C). Twelfth night
(D). As you like it
Right Answer: C
68. Which of the following play was written in 1601?
(A). Othello
(B). Hamlet
(C). King Lear
(D). Macbeth
Right Answer: B
69. "Antony and Cleopatra" and "Macbeth" was in:
(A). 1606
(B). 1607
(C). 1608
(D). 1609
Right Answer: A
70. Which of the following was written first:
(A). Henry six
(B). Henry seven
(C). Henry five
(D). None of above
Right Answer: A
71. Which of the following are King Lear's daughters?
(A). Desdemona, Goneril and Cordelia
(B). Goneril, Ophelia and Regan
(C). Goneril, Regan and Cordelia
(D). Regan, Cordelia and Beatrice
Right Answer: C
72. Shakespeare wrote _____ plays?
(A). 32
(B). 34
(C). 36
(D). 38
Right Answer: C
73. With the accession of King James to the English throne, Lord Chamberlain's Man was renamed:
(A). King Lear
(B). Gentleman
(C). King's Man
(D). None of above
Right Answer: C
74.
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(B).
(C).
(D).
Right Answer:
75. Uneasy lies the head that_____( King Henry four, part two):
(A). Wears a crown
(B). Wears a hat
(C). Wears a wig
(D). none of these
Right Answer: A
76. The epigraph of The Waste Land is borrowed from?
(A). Virgil
(B). Fetronius
(C). Seneca
(D). Homer
Right Answer: D
77. Who called ‘The Waste Land ‘a music of ideas’?
(A). Allen Tate
Richards
(B). J. C. Ransom
(C). I.
(D). F. R Leavis
Right Answer: A
78. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ‘Unreal City’ in the first and third
sections from?
(A). Baudelaire
(B). Irving Babbit
(C). Dante
(D). Laforgue
Right Answer: C
79. Which of the following myths does not figure in The Waste
Land?
(A). Oedipus
(B). Grail Legend of Fisher King
(C). Philomela
(D). Sysyphus
Right Answer: D
80. Joe Gargery is Pip’s?
(A). brother
(B). brother-in-Jaw
(C). guardian
(D). cousin
Right Answer: C
81. Estella is the daughter of?
(A). Joe Gargery
(B). Abel Magwitch .
(C). Miss Havisham
(D). Bentley Drumnile
Right Answer: A
82. Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi?
(A). Sesame and Lilies
(B). The Seven Lamps of Architecture
(C). Unto This Last
(D). Fors Clavigera
Right Answer: C
83. Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?
(A). Catholicism
(B). Protestantism
(C). Paganism
(D). Buddhism
Right Answer: A
84. One important feature of Jane Austen’s style is?
(A). boisterous humour
(B). humour and pathos
(C). subtlety of irony
(D). stream of consciousness
Right Answer: B
85. The title of the poem ‘The Second Coming’ is taken from?
(A). The Bible
(B). The Irish mythology
(C). The German mythology
(D). The Greek mythology
Right Answer: A
86. The main character in Paradise Lost Book I and Book II is?
(A). God
(B). Satan
(C). Adam
(D). Eve
Right Answer: B
87. In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel’s mother’s name is?
(A). Susan
(B). Jane
(C). Gertrude
(D). Emily
Right Answer: D
88. The twins in Lord of the Flies are?
(A). Ralph and Jack
(B). Simon and Eric
(C). Ralph and Eric
(D). Simon and Jack
Right Answer: A
89. Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a
(A). lawyer
(B). postman
(C). Judge
(D). School teacher
Right Answer: A
90. What does ‘I’ stand for in the following line?
‘To Carthage then I came’
(A). Buddha
(B). Tiresias
(C). Smyrna Merchant
(D). Augustine
Right Answer: A
91. The following lines are an example……… of image.
‘The river sweats
Oil and tar’
(A). visual
(B). kinetic
(C). erotic
(D). sensual
Right Answer: C
92. Which of the following novels has the sub-title ‘A Novel Without a Hero’?
(A). Vanity Fair
(B). Middlemarch
(C). Wuthering Heights
(D). Oliver Twist
Right Answer: A
93. In ‘Leda and the Swan’, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan?
(A). Mars
(B). Hercules
(C). Zeus
(D). Bacchus
Right Answer: C
94. Who invented the term ‘Sprung rhythm’?
(A). Hopkins
(B). Tennyson
(C). Browning
(D). Wordsworth
Right Answer: A
95. Who wrote the poem ‘Defence of Lucknow’?
(A). Browning
(B). Tennyson
(C). Swinburne
(D). Rossetti
Right Answer: C
96. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue?
(A). The Tempest
(B). Henry IV, Pt I
(C). Hamlet
(D). Twelfth Night
Right Answer: A
97. Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be,or not to be; that is the question’
occurs in?
(A). Act II, Scene I
(B). Act III, Scene III
(C). Act IV, Scene III
(D). Act III, Scene I
Right Answer: D
98. Identify the character in The Tempest who is referred to as an honest old counselor
(A). Alonso
(B). Ariel
(C). Gonzalo
(D). Stephano
Right Answer: C
99. What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night?
(A). Or, What is you Will
(B). Or, What you Will
(C). Or, What you Like It
(D). Or, What you Think
Right Answer: B
100. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare, according to T. S.
Eliot, is ‘artistic failure’?
(A). The Tempest
(B). Hamlet
(C). Henry IV, Pt I
(D). Twelfth Night
Right Answer: B
101. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I?
(A). Earl of Northumberland
(B). Earl of March
(C). Earl of Douglas
(D). Earl of Worcester
Right Answer: A
102. Paradise Lost was originally written in?
(A). ten books
(B). eleven books
(C). nine books
(D). eight books
Right Answer: D
103. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with?
(A). Darcy
(B). Wickham
(C). William Collins
(D). Charles Bingley
Right Answer: B
104. Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical Sublime’?
(A). William Wordsworth
(B). P.B.Shelley
(C). S. T. Coleridge
(D). John Keats
Right Answer: C
105. Who is commonly known as ‘Pip’ in Great Expectations?
(A). Philip Pirrip
(B). Filip Pirip
(C). Philip Pip
(D). Philips Pirip
Right Answer: C
106. The novel The Power and the Glory is set in?
(A). Mexico
(B). Italy
(C). France
(D). Germany
Right Answer: A
107.
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(B).
(C).
(D).
Right Answer:
108. Which of the following is Golding’s first novel?
(A). The Inheritors
(B). Lord of the Flies
(C). Pincher Martin
(D). Pyramid
Right Answer: B
109. Identify the character who is a supporter of Women’s Rights in Sons and Lovers?
(A). Mrs. Morel
(B). Annie
(C). Miriam
(D). Clara Dawes
Right Answer: A
110. Vanity Fair is a novel by?
(A). Jane Austen
(B). Charles Dickens
(C). W. M. Thackeray
(D). Thomas Hardy
Right Answer: C
111. Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on the death of?
(A). Milton
(B). Coleridge
(C). Keats
(D). Johnson
Right Answer: C
112. Which of the following is the first novel of D. H. Lawrence?
(A). The White Peacock
(B). The Trespasser
(C). Sons and Lovers
(D). Women in Love
Right Answer: A
113. In the poem ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘dearest friend’ refers to?
(A). Nature
(B). Dorothy
(C). Coleridge
(D). Wye
Right Answer: B
114. Who, among the following, is not the second generation of British
Romantics?
(A). Keats
(B). Wordsworth
(C). Shelley
(D). Byron
Right Answer: B
115. Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad?
(A). Work Without Hope
(B). Frost at Midnight
(C). The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(D). Youth and Age
Right Answer: C
116. Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet—
(A). P. B. Shelley
(B). Charles Lamb
(C). Hazlitt
(D). Coleridge
Right Answer: A
117. Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to?
(A). Leigh Hunt
(B). Milton
(C). Shakespeare
(D). Thomas Chatterton
Right Answer: A
118. The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in?
(A). 1823
(B). 1826
(C). 1834
(D). 1833
Right Answer: D
119. Which of the following poets does not belong to the ‘Lake School’?
(A). Keats
(B). Coleridge
(C). Southey
(D). Wordsworth
Right Answer: A
120. Who, among the following writers, was not educated at Christ’s Hospital School,
London?
(A). Charles Lamb
(B). William Wordsworth
(C). Leigh Hunt
(D). S. T. Coleridge
Right Answer: A
121. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’?
(A). Tennyson
(B). Charles Lamb
(C). Lockhart
(D). T. S. Eliot
Right Answer: D
122. Tennyson’s poem ‘In Memoriam’was written in memory of?
(A). H. Hallam
(B). Edward King
(C). Wellington
(D). P. B. Shelley
Right Answer: A
123. Who, among the following, is not connected with the Oxford Movement?
(A). Robert Browning
(B). John Keble
(C). E. B. Pusey
(D). J. H. Newman
Right Answer: C
124. Identify the work by Swinburne which begins “when the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces..”?
(A). Chastelard
(B). A Song of Italy
(C). Atalanta in Calydon
(D). Songs before Sunrise
Right Answer: C
125. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History is a course of?
(A). six lectures
(B). five lectures
(C). four lectures
(D). seven lectures
Right Answer: B
126. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’?
(A). Johnson
(B). Cromwell
(C). Shakespeare
(D). Luther
Right Answer: B
127. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner?
(A). The Stones of Venice
(B). The Two Paths
(C). The Seven Lamps of Architecture
(D). Modem Painters
Right Answer: D
128. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of?
(A). Charles Dickens
(B). Anthony Trollope
(C). W. H. White
(D). B. Disraeli
Right Answer: D
129. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’—
(A). Tennyson
(B). Browning
(C). Swinburne
(D). D. G. Rossetti
Right Answer: D
130. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as?
(A). Spenserian Stanza
(B). Ballad
(C). Ottava Rima
(D). Rhyme Royal
Right Answer: C
131. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry?
(A). Sir Thomas Wyatt
(B). William Shakespeare
(C). Earl of Surrey
(D). Milton
Right Answer: C
132. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by?
(A). The Pre-Raphaelites
(B). Ruskin
(C). Pater
(D). Matthew Arnold
Right Answer: D
133. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson “Faith un-faithful kept him falsely true.”
(A). Oxymoron
(B). Metaphor
(C). Simile
(D). Synecdoche
Right Answer: A
134. W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem?
(A). Sailing to Byzantium
(B). Byzantium
(C). The Second Coming
(D). Leda and the Swan
Right Answer: A
135. Who is Pip’s friend in London?
(A). Pumblechook
(B). Herbert Pocket
(C). Bentley Drummle
(D). Jaggers
Right Answer: D
136. Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory?
(A). A teacher
(B). A clerk
(C). A thief
(D). A dentist
Right Answer: C
137. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ is a quotation from?
(A). Milton
(B). William Shakespeare
(C). T. S. Eliot
(D). Ruskin
Right Answer: B
138. “Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale.” Who speaks the lines given above in Twelfth Night?
(A). Duke Orsino
(B). Malvolio
(C). Sir Andrew Aguecheek
(D). Sir Toby Belch
Right Answer: D
139. In Paradise Lost, Book I, Satan is the embodiment of Milton’s?
(A). Sense of injured merit
(B). Hatred of tyranny
(C). Spirit of revolt
(D). All these
Right Answer: C
140. Who calls poetry “the breadth and finer spirit of all knowledge”?
(A). Wordsworth
(B). Shelley
(C). Keats
(D). Coleridge
Right Answer: A
141. Twelfth Night opens with the speech of?
(A). Viola
(B). Duke
(C). Olivia
(D). Malvolio
Right Answer: B
142. What was the cause of William’s death in Sons and Lovers?
(A). An accident
(B). An overdose of morphia
(C). Suicide
(D). Pneumonia
Right Answer: D
143. Which poem of Coleridge is an opium dream?
(A). Kubla Khan
(B). Christabel
(C). The Ancient Mariner
(D). Ode on the Departing Year
Right Answer: A
144. Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem ‘Ode to the West Wind’?
(A). Rime royal
(B). Ottava rima
(C). Terza rima
(D). Spenserian Stanza
Right Answer: C
145. The phrase ‘Pathetic fallacy’ is coined by?
(A). Milton
(B). Coleridge
(C). Carlyle
(D). John Ruskin
Right Answer: D
146. Tracts for the Times relates to?
(A). The Oxford Movement
(B). The Pre-Raphaelite Movement
(C). The Romantic Movement
(D). The Symbolist Movement
Right Answer: A
147. The Chartist Movement sought?
(A). Protection of the political rights of the working class
(B). Recognition of chartered trading companies
(C). Political rights for women
(D). Protection of the political rights of the middle class
Right Answer: A
148. Who wrote “Biographia Literaria”?
(A). Byron
(B). Shelley
(C). Coleridge
(D). Lamb
Right Answer: C
149. Who was “Fortinbras”?
(A). Claudius’s son
(B). Son to the king of Norway
(C). Ophelia’s lover
(D). Hamlet’s Mend
Right Answer: B
150. How many soliloquies are spoken by Hamlet in the play Hamlet?
(A). Nine
(B). Five
(C). Seven
(D). Three
Right Answer: C
(A). Illness
(B). stabbing
(C). poisoned
(D). Hanged
Right Answer: B
2. Which was Marlowe's first play?
(A). Dr.Faustus
(B). Tamburlaine
(C). The Tragedy of Dido
(D). The Jew of Malta,
Right Answer: B
3. In which town was Shakespeare born?
(A). London
(B). Cambridge
(C). Stratford
(D). Oxford
Right Answer: C
4. How many children did Shakespeare have?
(A). 3
(B). 5
(C). 8
(D). 12
Right Answer: A
5. How many plays did William Shakespeare write?
(A). 36
(B). 37
(C). 38
(D). 39
Right Answer: B
6. What was Shakespeare's first play?
(A). King Lear
(B). Henry VI
(C). The Tempest
(D). Romeo and Juliet
Right Answer: B
7. How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write?
(A). 110
(B). 154
(C). 175
(D). 187
Right Answer: B
8. How many photographs exist of William Shakespeare?
(A). 2
(B). 4
(C). 1
(D). 0
Right Answer: A
9. Shakespeare died on?
(A). 23rd April 1616
(B). 25th April 1616,
(C). 28th April 1616
(D). 30th April 1616
Right Answer: A
10. Shakespeare died at the age of
(A). 48
(B). 52
(C). 60
(D). 63
Right Answer: B
11. How many times suicide occurs in Shakespeare's plays?
(A). 7
(B). 9
(C). 11
(D). 13
Right Answer: D
12. The line "To be or not to be" comes from which play?
(A). Macbeth
(B). Twelfth Night
(C). A Midsummer Night's dream
(D). Hamlet
Right Answer: D
13. Was the Globe…
(A). A Roman Amphitheater.
(B). An Elizabethan Theater.
(C). An Elizabethan sports stadium.
(D). A famous map of the world.
Right Answer: B
14.
(A).
(B).
(C).
(D).
Right Answer:
15. Which of these was not one of Shakespeare's plays?
(A). Titus Andronicus
(B). The Tempest
(C). Cymbeline
(D). Shakespeare in love
Right Answer: D
16. Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote,"My salad days, when I was green in judgment." come from?
(A). Antony and Cleopatra
(B). Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
(C). The Winters Tale
(D). The Merry Wives of Windsor
Right Answer: A
17. Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote,"Neither a borrower nor a lender be" come from?
(A). Cymbeline
(B). Hamlet
(C). Titus Andronicus
(D). Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Right Answer: B
18. Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" come from?
(A). King Lear
(B). As You Like It
(C). The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII
(D). The Life and Death of King John
Right Answer: A
19. In what year was the First Folio published?
(A). 1626
(B). 1621
(C). 1623
(D). 1629
Right Answer: C
20. What nationality was Shakespeare?
(A). Italian
(B). English
(C). Scottish
(D). Greek
Right Answer: B
21. In which century was Shakespeare born?
(A). 16th
(B). 14th
(C). 15th
(D). 17th
Right Answer: A
22. which famous Shakespeare play does the quote "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" come from?
(A). The Merry Wives of Windsor
(B). Othello, the Moor of Venice
(C). Pericles, Prince of Tyre
(D). King Henry the Sixth, Part II
Right Answer: D
23. Which river is associated with Shakespeare's birth place?
(A). The Thames
(B). The Avon
(C). The Tyburn
(D). The Seven
Right Answer: B
24. Which famous play does the quote,"When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?" come from?
(A). The Taming of the Shrew
(B). King Lear
(C). The Tempest
(D). Macbeth
Right Answer: D
25. How many of Shakespeare's plays are classified as histories?
(A). 7
(B). 10
(C). 14
(D). 18
Right Answer: B
26. The group of four plays known as the "major tetralogy" is:
(A). Richard III, King John, Henry VIII, 1 Henry VI
(B). 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, Richard III
(C). King John, Henry V, Richard II, Richard III
(D). Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V
Right Answer: D
27. In 1613 the Globe Theater burned down during a production of which play?
(A). King John
(B). Richard II
(C). Henry VIII
(D). Henry V
Right Answer: C
28. Complete the following famous line from Hamlet: Something is rotten in the state of...
(A). England
(B). Venice
(C). Denmark
(D). Maine
Right Answer: C
29. Which of the following characters does not appear in Hamlet?
(A). Polonius
(B). Gertrude
(C). Claudius
(D). Miranda
Right Answer: D
30. Where was Hamlet studying before he returned to Denmark?
(A). Wittenberg
(B). Oslo
(C). London
(D). Dublin
Right Answer: A
31. How are Polonius and Laertes related?
(A). Father/son
(B). Uncle/nephew
(C). Cousin/cousin
(D). Brother/brother
Right Answer: A
32. What is the name of the playlet Hamlet stages for Claudius?
(A). Slings and Arrows
(B). Vice of Kings
(C). The Murder of Gonzago
(D). The Slaying of Lucianus
Right Answer: C
33. Who says, "Good night, sweet prince,/And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."?
(A). Fortinbras
(B). Marcellus
(C). Chorus
(D). Horatio
Right Answer: D
34. How does Queen Gertrude die?
(A). Accidentally stabbed by Laertes.
(B). Drowns in the river outside the castle.
(C). Suffers a fatal heart attack while watching Hamlet fight Laertes.
(D). Poisoned by drinking from Hamlet's cup.
Right Answer: D
35. Who does Polonius send to spy on Laertes in Paris?
(A). Francisco
(B). Gorgonzola
(C). Reynaldo
(D). Samson
Right Answer: C
36. Who is Voltimand?
(A). Ambassador to the King of Norway from the King of Denmark
(B). Hamlet's cousin
(C). Ambassador to the King of Denmark from the King of Norway
(D). Assassin in the service of Fortinbras
Right Answer: A
37. What poison does Claudius pour into the ear of Hamlet's father, causing his death?
(A). Burdock
(B). Hebenon
(C). Baneberry
(D). Hemlock
Right Answer: B
38. How many soliloquies does Hamlet deliver?
(A). 2
(B). 4
(C). 7
(D). 9
Right Answer: C
39. In which country is Macbeth set?
(A). Spain
(B). Denmark
(C). Scotland
(D). Canada
Right Answer: C
40. Who is traveling with Macbeth when he first encounters the Three Witches?
(A). Macduff
(B). Mercutio
(C). Lady Macbeth
(D). Banquo
Right Answer: D
41. At the beginning of the play, the Scots are at war with which country?
(A). Norway
(B). Prussia
(C). Iceland
(D). Poland
Right Answer: A
42. Macbeth hires assassins to murder Banquo's son, named...
(A). Angus
(B). Ross
(C). Fleance
(D). Lennox
Right Answer: C
43. How does Lady Macbeth explain her husband's wild behavior at the banquet?
(A). She tells the guests that Banquo's ghost is haunting Macbeth.
(B). She tells the guests that Macbeth has had too much to drink.
(C). She informs the guests that Macbeth is ill.
(D). She reveals that Macbeth is overcome with grief over the death of Duncan.
Right Answer: C
44. Which of the following is not an apparition shown to Macbeth by the Witches:
(A). An armed head.
(B). A bloody dagger floating in mid-air.
(C). A bloody child.
(D). A child crowned, with a tree in his hand
Right Answer: B
45. Who tells Macbeth, "The queen, my lord, is dead."?
(A). Seyton
(B). Siward
(C). The Doctor
(D). Caithness
Right Answer: A
46. Shakespeare"s father died in:
(A). 1600
(B). 1601
(C). 1602
(D). 1603
Right Answer: B
47. Shakespeare joined the Chamber lain's Men Theatrical Company as a:
(A). Actor and playwright
(B). Playwright and poet
(C). Playwright and writer
(D). None of above
Right Answer: C
48. How many from his plays were published in his lifetime:
(A). Only sixteen
(B). Only seventeen
(C). Only eighteen
(D). Only nineteen
Right Answer: B
49. In which year Globe theater got fire and destroyed?
(A). 1610
(B). 1611
(C). 1612
(D). 1613
Right Answer: D
50. Shakespeare dedicated his long narrative poem Venus and Adonis to---------------.
(A). Henry Wriothesley, the third earl of Southampton
(B). Thomas Wriothesley,forth earl of Southampton
(C). William Fitzwilliam, first earl of Southampton
(D). Henry Wriothesley, the second earl of Southampton
Right Answer: A
51. During which period London theaterrs remained closed on account of the plague?
(A). 1592
(B). 1593
(C). 1594
(D). 1595
Right Answer: B
52. Which roles have played by Shakespeare in Hamlet and As you like it?
(A). Fortinbras, Corin
(B). Leartus, Silvius
(C). Osric, Touchstone
(D). Ghost, Old servant Adam
Right Answer: D
53. In ....... year Shakespeare bought the largest house in Stratford, called New place:
(A). 1595
(B). 1996
(C). 1597
(D). 15598
Right Answer: C
54. In 1599 which famous actor and his brother Cuthbert set a new playhouse on the Bank side,
(A). Augustine Phillipps
(B). John Heimnge
(C). Henry Condell
(D). Richard Burbage
Right Answer: D
55. In Shakespeare's literary output, the period 1604-1608 is the period of:
(A). Comedy plays
(B). Historical plays
(C). Great Tragedies
(D). None of above
Right Answer: B
56. "Under the green wood tree" is a song in:
(A). Love's labour's lost
(B). As you like it
(C). A mid Summer night's dream
(D). Much ado about nothing
Right Answer: B
57. :Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show
To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe.
He was not of an age, but for all time".
Who wrote above lines for Shakespeare:
(A). Jonson
(B). Bacon
(C). Wordsworth
(D). none of above
Right Answer: A
58. Seven Ages of Man appears in " As you like it". Which character's speech it is?
(A). Amiens
(B). Orlando
(C). Oliver
(D). Jaques
Right Answer: D
59. "To be or not to be that is the question", is famous line of which of Shakespeare's plays?
(A). Othello
(B). Macbeth
(C). Hamlet
(D). King Lear
Right Answer: C
60. Following are the lines of:
"I'm your wife if you marry me
If not, I'll die your maid to be your fellow
You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you deny or not".
(A). Hamlet
(B). Romeo and Juliet
(C). Tempest
(D). Othello
Right Answer: C
61. Which of the following are characters of "Much ado about nothing":
(A). Hero, Borachio, Antonio, Claudio, Leonato
(B). Hero, Orlando, Antonio, Claudio, Leanato
(C). Mirrinda, Borachio, Antonio, Claudio, Leanato
(D). Hero, Boradio, Antonio, Claudio, Horatio
Right Answer: A
62. Which of the following is in correct sequel ?
(A). Comedy of errors, A mid summer night's dream, Much ado about nothing, Henry 6 part three.
(B). A mid summer night's dream,Romeo and Juliet, As you like it, King Lear,Pericles.
(C). All's well that ends well, The tempest, As you like it, As you like it,A mid summer night's dream,Much ado about no thing.
(D). King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Measure for measure, Henry 8, Romeo and Juliet.
Right Answer: C
63. Who was killed by Hamlet unintentionally?
(A). Leartus
(B). Polonius
(C). Forinbras
(D). Horatio
Right Answer: B
64. Who is second Prince of Arragon in "Much ado about nothing"?
(A). Leonato
(B). Balthasar
(C). Don John
(D). Don Pedro
Right Answer: D
65. Which character spoke following lines?
"What's Montague? It is nor hand nor foot,
Nor arm nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man, O be some other name!
What's in a name?
That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet,"
(A). Desdemona
(B). Juliet
(C). Rosalind
(D). Hero
Right Answer: B
66. Who is the second attending gentlewoman on Hero? Ursula and_________.
(A). Margaret
(B). Emilia
(C). Helena
(D). Celia
Right Answer: A
67. " Some born great, some achieve greatness
And some have greatness thrust upon them".
Above lines are taken from which of following plays?
(A). Macbeth
(B). Othello
(C). Twelfth night
(D). As you like it
Right Answer: C
68. Which of the following play was written in 1601?
(A). Othello
(B). Hamlet
(C). King Lear
(D). Macbeth
Right Answer: B
69. "Antony and Cleopatra" and "Macbeth" was in:
(A). 1606
(B). 1607
(C). 1608
(D). 1609
Right Answer: A
70. Which of the following was written first:
(A). Henry six
(B). Henry seven
(C). Henry five
(D). None of above
Right Answer: A
71. Which of the following are King Lear's daughters?
(A). Desdemona, Goneril and Cordelia
(B). Goneril, Ophelia and Regan
(C). Goneril, Regan and Cordelia
(D). Regan, Cordelia and Beatrice
Right Answer: C
72. Shakespeare wrote _____ plays?
(A). 32
(B). 34
(C). 36
(D). 38
Right Answer: C
73. With the accession of King James to the English throne, Lord Chamberlain's Man was renamed:
(A). King Lear
(B). Gentleman
(C). King's Man
(D). None of above
Right Answer: C
74.
(A).
(B).
(C).
(D).
Right Answer:
75. Uneasy lies the head that_____( King Henry four, part two):
(A). Wears a crown
(B). Wears a hat
(C). Wears a wig
(D). none of these
Right Answer: A
76. The epigraph of The Waste Land is borrowed from?
(A). Virgil
(B). Fetronius
(C). Seneca
(D). Homer
Right Answer: D
77. Who called ‘The Waste Land ‘a music of ideas’?
(A). Allen Tate
Richards
(B). J. C. Ransom
(C). I.
(D). F. R Leavis
Right Answer: A
78. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ‘Unreal City’ in the first and third
sections from?
(A). Baudelaire
(B). Irving Babbit
(C). Dante
(D). Laforgue
Right Answer: C
79. Which of the following myths does not figure in The Waste
Land?
(A). Oedipus
(B). Grail Legend of Fisher King
(C). Philomela
(D). Sysyphus
Right Answer: D
80. Joe Gargery is Pip’s?
(A). brother
(B). brother-in-Jaw
(C). guardian
(D). cousin
Right Answer: C
81. Estella is the daughter of?
(A). Joe Gargery
(B). Abel Magwitch .
(C). Miss Havisham
(D). Bentley Drumnile
Right Answer: A
82. Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi?
(A). Sesame and Lilies
(B). The Seven Lamps of Architecture
(C). Unto This Last
(D). Fors Clavigera
Right Answer: C
83. Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?
(A). Catholicism
(B). Protestantism
(C). Paganism
(D). Buddhism
Right Answer: A
84. One important feature of Jane Austen’s style is?
(A). boisterous humour
(B). humour and pathos
(C). subtlety of irony
(D). stream of consciousness
Right Answer: B
85. The title of the poem ‘The Second Coming’ is taken from?
(A). The Bible
(B). The Irish mythology
(C). The German mythology
(D). The Greek mythology
Right Answer: A
86. The main character in Paradise Lost Book I and Book II is?
(A). God
(B). Satan
(C). Adam
(D). Eve
Right Answer: B
87. In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel’s mother’s name is?
(A). Susan
(B). Jane
(C). Gertrude
(D). Emily
Right Answer: D
88. The twins in Lord of the Flies are?
(A). Ralph and Jack
(B). Simon and Eric
(C). Ralph and Eric
(D). Simon and Jack
Right Answer: A
89. Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a
(A). lawyer
(B). postman
(C). Judge
(D). School teacher
Right Answer: A
90. What does ‘I’ stand for in the following line?
‘To Carthage then I came’
(A). Buddha
(B). Tiresias
(C). Smyrna Merchant
(D). Augustine
Right Answer: A
91. The following lines are an example……… of image.
‘The river sweats
Oil and tar’
(A). visual
(B). kinetic
(C). erotic
(D). sensual
Right Answer: C
92. Which of the following novels has the sub-title ‘A Novel Without a Hero’?
(A). Vanity Fair
(B). Middlemarch
(C). Wuthering Heights
(D). Oliver Twist
Right Answer: A
93. In ‘Leda and the Swan’, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan?
(A). Mars
(B). Hercules
(C). Zeus
(D). Bacchus
Right Answer: C
94. Who invented the term ‘Sprung rhythm’?
(A). Hopkins
(B). Tennyson
(C). Browning
(D). Wordsworth
Right Answer: A
95. Who wrote the poem ‘Defence of Lucknow’?
(A). Browning
(B). Tennyson
(C). Swinburne
(D). Rossetti
Right Answer: C
96. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue?
(A). The Tempest
(B). Henry IV, Pt I
(C). Hamlet
(D). Twelfth Night
Right Answer: A
97. Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be,or not to be; that is the question’
occurs in?
(A). Act II, Scene I
(B). Act III, Scene III
(C). Act IV, Scene III
(D). Act III, Scene I
Right Answer: D
98. Identify the character in The Tempest who is referred to as an honest old counselor
(A). Alonso
(B). Ariel
(C). Gonzalo
(D). Stephano
Right Answer: C
99. What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night?
(A). Or, What is you Will
(B). Or, What you Will
(C). Or, What you Like It
(D). Or, What you Think
Right Answer: B
100. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare, according to T. S.
Eliot, is ‘artistic failure’?
(A). The Tempest
(B). Hamlet
(C). Henry IV, Pt I
(D). Twelfth Night
Right Answer: B
101. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I?
(A). Earl of Northumberland
(B). Earl of March
(C). Earl of Douglas
(D). Earl of Worcester
Right Answer: A
102. Paradise Lost was originally written in?
(A). ten books
(B). eleven books
(C). nine books
(D). eight books
Right Answer: D
103. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with?
(A). Darcy
(B). Wickham
(C). William Collins
(D). Charles Bingley
Right Answer: B
104. Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical Sublime’?
(A). William Wordsworth
(B). P.B.Shelley
(C). S. T. Coleridge
(D). John Keats
Right Answer: C
105. Who is commonly known as ‘Pip’ in Great Expectations?
(A). Philip Pirrip
(B). Filip Pirip
(C). Philip Pip
(D). Philips Pirip
Right Answer: C
106. The novel The Power and the Glory is set in?
(A). Mexico
(B). Italy
(C). France
(D). Germany
Right Answer: A
107.
(A).
(B).
(C).
(D).
Right Answer:
108. Which of the following is Golding’s first novel?
(A). The Inheritors
(B). Lord of the Flies
(C). Pincher Martin
(D). Pyramid
Right Answer: B
109. Identify the character who is a supporter of Women’s Rights in Sons and Lovers?
(A). Mrs. Morel
(B). Annie
(C). Miriam
(D). Clara Dawes
Right Answer: A
110. Vanity Fair is a novel by?
(A). Jane Austen
(B). Charles Dickens
(C). W. M. Thackeray
(D). Thomas Hardy
Right Answer: C
111. Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on the death of?
(A). Milton
(B). Coleridge
(C). Keats
(D). Johnson
Right Answer: C
112. Which of the following is the first novel of D. H. Lawrence?
(A). The White Peacock
(B). The Trespasser
(C). Sons and Lovers
(D). Women in Love
Right Answer: A
113. In the poem ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘dearest friend’ refers to?
(A). Nature
(B). Dorothy
(C). Coleridge
(D). Wye
Right Answer: B
114. Who, among the following, is not the second generation of British
Romantics?
(A). Keats
(B). Wordsworth
(C). Shelley
(D). Byron
Right Answer: B
115. Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad?
(A). Work Without Hope
(B). Frost at Midnight
(C). The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(D). Youth and Age
Right Answer: C
116. Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet—
(A). P. B. Shelley
(B). Charles Lamb
(C). Hazlitt
(D). Coleridge
Right Answer: A
117. Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to?
(A). Leigh Hunt
(B). Milton
(C). Shakespeare
(D). Thomas Chatterton
Right Answer: A
118. The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in?
(A). 1823
(B). 1826
(C). 1834
(D). 1833
Right Answer: D
119. Which of the following poets does not belong to the ‘Lake School’?
(A). Keats
(B). Coleridge
(C). Southey
(D). Wordsworth
Right Answer: A
120. Who, among the following writers, was not educated at Christ’s Hospital School,
London?
(A). Charles Lamb
(B). William Wordsworth
(C). Leigh Hunt
(D). S. T. Coleridge
Right Answer: A
121. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’?
(A). Tennyson
(B). Charles Lamb
(C). Lockhart
(D). T. S. Eliot
Right Answer: D
122. Tennyson’s poem ‘In Memoriam’was written in memory of?
(A). H. Hallam
(B). Edward King
(C). Wellington
(D). P. B. Shelley
Right Answer: A
123. Who, among the following, is not connected with the Oxford Movement?
(A). Robert Browning
(B). John Keble
(C). E. B. Pusey
(D). J. H. Newman
Right Answer: C
124. Identify the work by Swinburne which begins “when the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces..”?
(A). Chastelard
(B). A Song of Italy
(C). Atalanta in Calydon
(D). Songs before Sunrise
Right Answer: C
125. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History is a course of?
(A). six lectures
(B). five lectures
(C). four lectures
(D). seven lectures
Right Answer: B
126. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’?
(A). Johnson
(B). Cromwell
(C). Shakespeare
(D). Luther
Right Answer: B
127. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner?
(A). The Stones of Venice
(B). The Two Paths
(C). The Seven Lamps of Architecture
(D). Modem Painters
Right Answer: D
128. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of?
(A). Charles Dickens
(B). Anthony Trollope
(C). W. H. White
(D). B. Disraeli
Right Answer: D
129. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’—
(A). Tennyson
(B). Browning
(C). Swinburne
(D). D. G. Rossetti
Right Answer: D
130. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as?
(A). Spenserian Stanza
(B). Ballad
(C). Ottava Rima
(D). Rhyme Royal
Right Answer: C
131. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry?
(A). Sir Thomas Wyatt
(B). William Shakespeare
(C). Earl of Surrey
(D). Milton
Right Answer: C
132. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by?
(A). The Pre-Raphaelites
(B). Ruskin
(C). Pater
(D). Matthew Arnold
Right Answer: D
133. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson “Faith un-faithful kept him falsely true.”
(A). Oxymoron
(B). Metaphor
(C). Simile
(D). Synecdoche
Right Answer: A
134. W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem?
(A). Sailing to Byzantium
(B). Byzantium
(C). The Second Coming
(D). Leda and the Swan
Right Answer: A
135. Who is Pip’s friend in London?
(A). Pumblechook
(B). Herbert Pocket
(C). Bentley Drummle
(D). Jaggers
Right Answer: D
136. Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory?
(A). A teacher
(B). A clerk
(C). A thief
(D). A dentist
Right Answer: C
137. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ is a quotation from?
(A). Milton
(B). William Shakespeare
(C). T. S. Eliot
(D). Ruskin
Right Answer: B
138. “Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale.” Who speaks the lines given above in Twelfth Night?
(A). Duke Orsino
(B). Malvolio
(C). Sir Andrew Aguecheek
(D). Sir Toby Belch
Right Answer: D
139. In Paradise Lost, Book I, Satan is the embodiment of Milton’s?
(A). Sense of injured merit
(B). Hatred of tyranny
(C). Spirit of revolt
(D). All these
Right Answer: C
140. Who calls poetry “the breadth and finer spirit of all knowledge”?
(A). Wordsworth
(B). Shelley
(C). Keats
(D). Coleridge
Right Answer: A
141. Twelfth Night opens with the speech of?
(A). Viola
(B). Duke
(C). Olivia
(D). Malvolio
Right Answer: B
142. What was the cause of William’s death in Sons and Lovers?
(A). An accident
(B). An overdose of morphia
(C). Suicide
(D). Pneumonia
Right Answer: D
143. Which poem of Coleridge is an opium dream?
(A). Kubla Khan
(B). Christabel
(C). The Ancient Mariner
(D). Ode on the Departing Year
Right Answer: A
144. Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem ‘Ode to the West Wind’?
(A). Rime royal
(B). Ottava rima
(C). Terza rima
(D). Spenserian Stanza
Right Answer: C
145. The phrase ‘Pathetic fallacy’ is coined by?
(A). Milton
(B). Coleridge
(C). Carlyle
(D). John Ruskin
Right Answer: D
146. Tracts for the Times relates to?
(A). The Oxford Movement
(B). The Pre-Raphaelite Movement
(C). The Romantic Movement
(D). The Symbolist Movement
Right Answer: A
147. The Chartist Movement sought?
(A). Protection of the political rights of the working class
(B). Recognition of chartered trading companies
(C). Political rights for women
(D). Protection of the political rights of the middle class
Right Answer: A
148. Who wrote “Biographia Literaria”?
(A). Byron
(B). Shelley
(C). Coleridge
(D). Lamb
Right Answer: C
149. Who was “Fortinbras”?
(A). Claudius’s son
(B). Son to the king of Norway
(C). Ophelia’s lover
(D). Hamlet’s Mend
Right Answer: B
150. How many soliloquies are spoken by Hamlet in the play Hamlet?
(A). Nine
(B). Five
(C). Seven
(D). Three
Right Answer: C
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