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1. Marlow died of?

(A). Illness

(B). stabbing

(C). poisoned

(D). Hanged

Correct Answer: B

2. Which was Marlowe's first play?

(A). Dr.Faustus

(B). Tamburlaine

(C). The Tragedy of Dido

(D). The Jew of Malta,

Correct Answer: B

3. In which town was Shakespeare born?

(A). London

(B). Cambridge

(C). Stratford

(D). Oxford

Correct Answer: C

4. How many children did Shakespeare have?

(A). 3

(B). 5

(C). 8

(D). 12

Correct Answer: A

5. How many plays did William Shakespeare write?

(A). 36

(B). 37

(C). 38

(D). 39

Correct Answer: B

6. What was Shakespeare's first play?

(A). King Lear

(B). Henry VI

(C). The Tempest

(D). Romeo and Juliet

Correct Answer: B

7. How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write?

(A). 110

(B). 154

(C). 175

(D). 187

Correct Answer: B

8. How many photographs exist of William Shakespeare?

(A). 2

(B). 4

(C). 1

(D). 0

Correct Answer: A

9. Shakespeare died on?

(A). 23rd April 1616

(B). 25th April 1616,

(C). 28th April 1616

(D). 30th April 1616

Correct Answer: A

10. Shakespeare died at the age of

(A). 48

(B). 52

(C). 60

(D). 63

Correct Answer: B

11. How many times suicide occurs in Shakespeare's plays?

(A). 7

(B). 9

(C). 11

(D). 13

Correct 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

Correct 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.

Correct Answer: B

14.

(A).

(B).

(C).

(D).

Correct Answer: ,,

15. Which of these was not one of Shakespeare's plays?

(A). Titus Andronicus

(B). The Tempest

(C). Cymbeline

(D). Shakespeare in love

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct Answer: A

19. In what year was the First Folio published?

(A). 1626

(B). 1621

(C). 1623

(D). 1629

Correct Answer: C

20. What nationality was Shakespeare?

(A). Italian

(B). English

(C). Scottish

(D). Greek

Correct Answer: B

21. In which century was Shakespeare born?

(A). 16th

(B). 14th

(C). 15th

(D). 17th

Correct 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

Correct Answer: D

23. Which river is associated with Shakespeare's birth place?

(A). The Thames

(B). The Avon

(C). The Tyburn

(D). The Seven

Correct 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

Correct Answer: D

25. How many of Shakespeare's plays are classified as histories?

(A). 7

(B). 10

(C). 14

(D). 18

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct Answer: C

29. Which of the following characters does not appear in Hamlet?

(A). Polonius

(B). Gertrude

(C). Claudius

(D). Miranda

Correct Answer: D

30. Where was Hamlet studying before he returned to Denmark?

(A). Wittenberg

(B). Oslo

(C). London

(D). Dublin

Correct Answer: A

31. How are Polonius and Laertes related?

(A). Father/son

(B). Uncle/nephew

(C). Cousin/cousin

(D). Brother/brother

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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.

Correct Answer: D

35. Who does Polonius send to spy on Laertes in Paris?

(A). Francisco

(B). Gorgonzola

(C). Reynaldo

(D). Samson

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct Answer: B

38. How many soliloquies does Hamlet deliver?

(A). 2

(B). 4

(C). 7

(D). 9

Correct Answer: C

39. In which country is Macbeth set?

(A). Spain

(B). Denmark

(C). Scotland

(D). Canada

Correct Answer: C

40. Who is traveling with Macbeth when he first encounters the Three Witches?

(A). Macduff

(B). Mercutio

(C). Lady Macbeth

(D). Banquo

Correct 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

Correct Answer: A

42. Macbeth hires assassins to murder Banquo's son, named...

(A). Angus

(B). Ross

(C). Fleance

(D). Lennox

Correct 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.

Correct 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

Correct Answer: B

45. Who tells Macbeth, "The queen, my lord, is dead."?

(A). Seyton

(B). Siward

(C). The Doctor

(D). Caithness

Correct Answer: A

46. Shakespeare"s father died in:

(A). 1600

(B). 1601

(C). 1602

(D). 1603

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct Answer: B

49. In which year Globe theater got fire and destroyed?

(A). 1610

(B). 1611

(C). 1612

(D). 1613

Correct 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

Correct Answer: A

51. During which period London theaterrs remained closed on account of the plague?

(A). 1592

(B). 1593

(C). 1594

(D). 1595

Correct 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

Correct Answer: D

53. In ....... year Shakespeare bought the largest house in Stratford, called New place:

(A). 1595

(B). 1996

(C). 1597

(D). 15598

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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.

Correct Answer: C

63. Who was killed by Hamlet unintentionally?

(A). Leartus

(B). Polonius

(C). Forinbras

(D). Horatio

Correct Answer: B

64. Who is second Prince of Arragon in "Much ado about nothing"?

(A). Leonato

(B). Balthasar

(C). Don John

(D). Don Pedro

Correct 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

Correct Answer: B

66. Who is the second attending gentlewoman on Hero? Ursula and_________.

(A). Margaret

(B). Emilia

(C). Helena

(D). Celia

Correct 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

Correct Answer: C

68. Which of the following play was written in 1601?

(A). Othello

(B). Hamlet

(C). King Lear

(D). Macbeth

Correct Answer: B

69. "Antony and Cleopatra" and "Macbeth" was in:

(A). 1606

(B). 1607

(C). 1608

(D). 1609

Correct Answer: A

70. Which of the following was written first:

(A). Henry six

(B). Henry seven

(C). Henry five

(D). None of above

Correct 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

Correct Answer: C

72. Shakespeare wrote _____ plays?

(A). 32

(B). 34

(C). 36

(D). 38

Correct 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

Correct Answer: C

74.

(A).

(B).

(C).

(D).

Correct 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

Correct Answer: A

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

(A). Virgil

(B). Fetronius

(C). Seneca

(D). Homer

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct Answer: D

80. Joe Gargery is Pip’s?

(A). brother

(B). brother-in-Jaw

(C). guardian

(D). cousin

Correct Answer: C

81. Estella is the daughter of?

(A). Joe Gargery

(B). Abel Magwitch .

(C). Miss Havisham

(D). Bentley Drumnile

Correct 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

Correct Answer: C

83. Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?

(A). Catholicism

(B). Protestantism

(C). Paganism

(D). Buddhism

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct Answer: A

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

(A). God

(B). Satan

(C). Adam

(D). Eve

Correct Answer: B

87. In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel’s mother’s name is?

(A). Susan

(B). Jane

(C). Gertrude

(D). Emily

Correct 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

Correct Answer: A

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

(A). lawyer

(B). postman

(C). Judge

(D). School teacher

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct Answer: A

93. In ‘Leda and the Swan’, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan?

(A). Mars

(B). Hercules

(C). Zeus

(D). Bacchus

Correct Answer: C

94. Who invented the term ‘Sprung rhythm’?

(A). Hopkins

(B). Tennyson

(C). Browning

(D). Wordsworth

Correct Answer: A

95. Who wrote the poem ‘Defence of Lucknow’?

(A). Browning

(B). Tennyson

(C). Swinburne

(D). Rossetti

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct Answer: A

102. Paradise Lost was originally written in?

(A). ten books

(B). eleven books

(C). nine books

(D). eight books

Correct Answer: D

103. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with?

(A). Darcy

(B). Wickham

(C). William Collins

(D). Charles Bingley

Correct Answer: B

104. Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical Sublime’?

(A). William Wordsworth

(B). P.B.Shelley

(C). S. T. Coleridge

(D). John Keats

Correct Answer: C

105. Who is commonly known as ‘Pip’ in Great Expectations?

(A). Philip Pirrip

(B). Filip Pirip

(C). Philip Pip

(D). Philips Pirip

Correct Answer: C

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

(A). Mexico

(B). Italy

(C). France

(D). Germany

Correct Answer: A

107.

(A).

(B).

(C).

(D).

Correct Answer: ,,

108. Which of the following is Golding’s first novel?

(A). The Inheritors

(B). Lord of the Flies

(C). Pincher Martin

(D). Pyramid

Correct 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

Correct Answer: A

110. Vanity Fair is a novel by?

(A). Jane Austen

(B). Charles Dickens

(C). W. M. Thackeray

(D). Thomas Hardy

Correct Answer: C

111. Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on the death of?

(A). Milton

(B). Coleridge

(C). Keats

(D). Johnson

Correct 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

Correct Answer: A

113. In the poem ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘dearest friend’ refers to?

(A). Nature

(B). Dorothy

(C). Coleridge

(D). Wye

Correct Answer: B

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

(A). Keats

(B). Wordsworth

(C). Shelley

(D). Byron

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct Answer: A

117. Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to?

(A). Leigh Hunt

(B). Milton

(C). Shakespeare

(D). Thomas Chatterton

Correct Answer: A

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

(A). 1823

(B). 1826

(C). 1834

(D). 1833

Correct Answer: D

119. Which of the following poets does not belong to the ‘Lake School’?

(A). Keats

(B). Coleridge

(C). Southey

(D). Wordsworth

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct Answer: A

135. Who is Pip’s friend in London?

(A). Pumblechook

(B). Herbert Pocket

(C). Bentley Drummle

(D). Jaggers

Correct 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

Correct Answer: C

137. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ is a quotation from?

(A). Milton

(B). William Shakespeare

(C). T. S. Eliot

(D). Ruskin

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct Answer: C

140. Who calls poetry “the breadth and finer spirit of all knowledge”?

(A). Wordsworth

(B). Shelley

(C). Keats

(D). Coleridge

Correct Answer: A

141. Twelfth Night opens with the speech of?

(A). Viola

(B). Duke

(C). Olivia

(D). Malvolio

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct Answer: C

145. The phrase ‘Pathetic fallacy’ is coined by?

(A). Milton

(B). Coleridge

(C). Carlyle

(D). John Ruskin

Correct 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

Correct 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

Correct Answer: A

148. Who wrote “Biographia Literaria”?

(A). Byron

(B). Shelley

(C). Coleridge

(D). Lamb

Correct 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

Correct Answer: B

150. How many soliloquies are spoken by Hamlet in the play Hamlet?

(A). Nine

(B). Five

(C). Seven

(D). Three

Correct Answer: C