l. Who wrote: "The Parliament of Foules"
(a) Chaucer (b) Gower (c) Langland (d) Dunbar
2. When did Chaucer die?
(a) 1401 (b) 1402 (c) 1400 (d) 1399
3. Of the following periods, which does not belong to Chaucer?
(a) The Period of French (b) The Period of German (c) The Period of Italian (d) The English period or
The Period of
4. Maturity Who wrote: "Epithalamion"?
(a) Chaucer (b) Milton (c) Spenser (d) Lovelace
5. In which of Shakespeare's plays does the following line appear?
"Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more."
(a) Midsummer Night's Dream (b) Merchant of Venice (c) As You Like It (d) Much Ado About Nothing
6. In which of Dryden's poems does the following line occur:
"Love is that madness which all lovers have."
(a) Aureng-Zebe (b) Absalom and Achitophel (c) The Hind and the Panther (d) The Conquest of Granada
7. Who said, "Pope's poetry exhibits always an equilibrium of many separate forces."
(a) Dryden (b) Johnson (c) Tillotson (d) Hugh Walter
8. When did Spenser die?
(a) 1592 (b) 1599 (c) 1595 (d) 1600
9. When was Milton born?
(a) 1606 (b) 1602 (c) 1608 (d) 1605
10. When did Victoria ascend the throne?
(a) In 1835 (b) In 1837 (c) In 1838 (d) In 1839
11. Queen Victoria's period in literature is generally considered to start from
(a) 1839 (b) 1840 (c) 1845 (d) 1850
12. Who wrote:
"How fast has brother followed brother,
From sunshine to the sunless land!"
(a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge (c) Shelley (d) Yeats
13. Who is the writer of: "Cast a cold eye on life, on death,
Horseman, pass by!"
(a) Wordsworth (b) Keats (c) Shelley (d) Yeats
14. Browning's Pauline was published in (a) 1832 (b) 1833 (c) 1834 (d) 1835
15. 'Sartor Resartus' was written by
(a) Oscar Wilde (b) Ruskin (c) Carlyle (d) Pafer
16. When did the French Revolution start? (a) 1788 (b) 1785 (c) 1787 (d) 1789
17. When was the slave trade abolished in England? (a) 1805 ( 1807 (c) 1806 (d) 1810
18. Which of the following writers did not belong to the 18th century?
(a) Cowper (b) Goldsmith (c) Burke (d) Pafer
19. Which one of the following poets was not a Victorian poet?
(a) Keats (b) Swinburne (c) Browning (d) Morris
20. Name of writer who "tried almost every kind of novel known to the 19th century."
(a) Charlotte Bronte (b) Emile Bronte (c) G. Eliot (d) Bulwer Lytton
21. By writing "Truce of the Bear" which country did Kipling offend?
(a) Russia (b) Germany (c) America (d) Canada
22. Which of Kipling's poems commemorates England's entrance into the First World War?
(a) Recessional (b) For All We Have and Are (c) The Ballad of Red Earl (d) Ballad of East and West
23. When did Kipling receive the Nobel Prize? (a) In 1905 (b) In 1902 (c) In 1907 (d) In 1904
24. Who was the Editor of Cornhill Magazine?
(a) Thackeray (b) Coleridge (c) Hazlitt (d) Goldsmith
25. Which of the following is not the work of Bunyan?
(a) The Holy War (b) Grace Abounding.... (c) The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
(d) Samson Agonistes
26. Shakespeare's use of prose is usually limited to
(a) asides (b) plays within plays (c) comic scenes (d) tragic scenes
27. Who said, "If Pope is not the poet, where is poetry to be found?"
(a) Dryden (b) Dr. Johnson (c) Addison (d) Steele
28. "Fans" is a humorous essay by
(a) Addison (b) Sheridan (c) Lamb (d) De Quincey
29. To commemorate whose death did M. Arnold write "Thyrsis"?
(a) Wordsworth (b) Dr. Johnson (c) Tennyson (d) Arthur Hugh Clough
30. In which year was "The Princess" published
(a) 1850 (b) 1847 (c) 1849 (d) 1848
31. In which book of "The Task" by Cowper does the following line appear?
"God made the country, and men made the town".
(a) BkI (b) Bk II (c) Bk III (d) Bk IV
32. In which book of 'The Task" does the following line appear?
"England, with all thy faults, I love thee still."
(a)Bk I (b)Bk II (c) Bk III (d) Bk IV
33. In which drama of Shakespeare does the following line appear?
"Tu-whit, tu-who--a merry note."
(a) Midsummer Night's Dream (b) Measure for Measure (c) Love's Labours Lost
(d) As You Like It
34. Where is the scene of "The Devil's Disciple" located?
(a) London (b) Manchester (c) Wessex (d) New Hampshire
35. Who wrote the following line :
"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold."
(a) Shelley (b) Wordsworth (c) Morris (d) Keats
36. Burns' father was a
(a) poor peasant (b) rich businessman (c) collier (d) bank official
37. Who took Gray abroad?
(a) Blake (b) Gladstone (c) Horace Walpole (d) Wilberforce
38. Wilberforce was mainly working for.........in the
eighteenth century
(a) prison reforms (b) the liberation of the slaves (c) women's emancipation (d) the universal franchise
39. Who wrote the lines :
"There is not flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man."
(a) Blake (b) Gray (c) Cowper (d) Goldsmith
40. Which one of the following was not a part of the general nature of the Anglo-Saxons?
(a) love of personal freedom (b) love of religion (c) fondness for lewd way of living
(d) respect for women
41. The main aspect of the Anglo-Saxon language was
(a) Vigour (b) Sweetness (c) Obscurity (d) Incoherence
42. The first important expression of melody is made in the works of
(a) Langland (b) Dunbar (c) Spenser (d) Chaucer
43. Which one among the following could not be described as the 'matter' of early verse romances
(a) Matter of France (b) Spain (c) Rome (d) Britain
44. In which year was Armada defeated? (a) 1585 (b) 1587 (c) 1588 (d) 1590
45. When did Bacon die?
(a) 1622 (b) 1626 (c) 1630 (d) 1621
46. When was first the Divine Right of Kings proclaimed? (a) 1605 (b) 1601 (c) 1604 (d) 1608
47. Who wrote the Ode, "Come Leave the Loathed Stage."?
(a) Milton (b) Massinger (c) Fletcher (d) Ben Jonson
48. How many dramatists were with Ben Jonson in fighting against the romantic tendency?
(a) He was alone (b) 2
(c) 3 (d) So many
49. Which meter has Chaucer used in his Troilus and Criseyde
(a) Iambic pentametre
(b) Rime Royal
(c) Terza Rima
(d) None of these
50. Who is the writer of 'Piers Plowman'?
(a) Chaucer (b) Dunbar
(c) Langland (d) Wyclif
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