1. The author of Beowulf is
(a) Bede (b) Cynewulf(c) Chaucer (d) Unknown
2. The Anglo-Saxon period is often said to be from 450 to......
(a) 900 (b) 1000 (c) 1050 (d) 1100
3. The name of the monster in Beowulf is
(a) Gomanzo (b) Grendel (c) Frankenstein (d) Mephistophilis
4. Who says "Life, life, eternal life"?
(a) Christian (b) Maggie (c) Henchard (d) Chaucer's Parson
5. Beatrice was the woman whose love inspired a man to write an immortal poem. Who was that man?
(a) Shelley (b) Shakespeare (c) Homer (d) Dante
6. Charles I was executed in
(a) 1648 (b) 1645 (c) 1649 (d) 1650
7. Alexander Pope died in
(a) 1740 (b) 1742 (c) 1744 (d) 1743
8. Burns was born in
(a) England (b) Ireland (c) Scotland (d) France
9. "To a Mountain Daisy" is a poem by
(a) Wordsworth (b) Shelley (c) Keats (d) Burns
10. Who wrote: "The Devil's Disciple"?
(a) Galsworthy (b) Barrie (c) Shaw (d) Fry
11. George Eliot believed in
(a) A moral law (b) Promiscuity of sex (c) Violent Revolution (d) Indiscriminate fate
12. "A foundling" is a part of the name of the novel
(a) Amelia (b) David Copperfield (c) Oliver Twist (d) Tom Jones
13. Who wrote "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"?
(a) Walter Raleigh (b) Trollope (c) Smollett (d) Edward Gibbon
14. Richard Hooker was a prose writer of the
(a) Victorian period (b) Romantic period (c) Elizabethan period (d) Chaucerian age
15. Sir Walter Raleigh died in
(a) 1622 (b) 1621 (c) 1618 (d) 1623
16. D' Artagnan is a character in
(a) The Three Musketeers (b) Don Quixote (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) War and Peace
17. Alexander Dumas was
(a) an English writer (b) an American writer (c) a French writer (d) a German writer
18. Who said about Wordsworth, "He uttered nothing base"
(a) Keats (b) Coleridge (c) Byron (d) Tennyson
19. Which one was not one of the Lake poets?
(a) Shelley (b) Wordsworth (c) Southey (d) Coleridge
20. Emma appeared in
(a) 1816 (b) 1815 (c) 1817 (d) 1820
21. Mrs. Browning's book "Sonnets from the Portuguese" is an inspiring book of
(a) nature poems (b) metaphysical poems (c) love poems (d) didactic poems
22. D.G. Rossetti was the son of
(a) An Italian painter (b) A German poet (c) A French nobleman (d) An English peasant
23. The translation of Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister" appeared in
(a) 1822 (b) 1820 (c) 1832 (d) 1824
24. In 'The Doctor's Dilemma' Shaw makes fun of
(a) teachers (b) physicians (c) painters (d) politicians
25. The Theory of Catharsis is associated with
(a) Plato (b) Dryden
(c) Aristotle (d) Sidney
26. Who wrote 'In Defence of Poetry'?
(a) T.S. Eliot (b) Yeats (c) Keats (d) Shelley
27. 'The Playboy of the Western World' is a play by
(a) Barrie (b) Synge (c) Fry (d) Eliot
28. For the best condensation of a novel Arnold Bennet won a prize of
(a) £ 100 (b)£ 50 (c) £ 25 (d) £ 20
29. Who wrote:
"The year's at the spring.
And day's at the morn."
(a) Tennyson (b) Robert Browning (c) Keats (d) Swinburne
30. The Ring and the Book contains how many more lines than the Iliad?
(a) about three thousand (b) about two thousand (c) about four thousand (d) about five thousand
31. In which poem do the following lines occur? "...Do not all charms fly
At the mere touch of cold philosophy?"
(a) Ode To A Grecian Urn (b) The Eve of St. Agnes (c) Lamia (d) Hyperion
32. Boswell was born in
(a) 1732 (b) 1740 (c) 1735 (d) 1742
33. 'Silent Woman' is a play by
(a) Marlowe (b) Shakespeare (c) Ben Jonson (d) Lyly
34. The Duchess of Malfi was published in
(a) 1632 (b) 1635 (c) 1625 (d) 1623
35. The Scene of Beowulf is laid in
(a) England (b) France(c) Spain (d) None of these
36. Pap is a character in
(a) Great Expectations(b) Huckleberry Finn (c) Silas Mariner (d) The Mocking Bird
37. A Mad Tea Party takes place in
(a) Don Quixote (b) The Three Musketeers (c) Robinson Crusoe (d) Alice in Wonderland
38. What was the name of the girl whom Kalidas loved?
(a) Shakuntala (b) Nagini (c) Kamini (d) Savitri
39. "Kidnapped" was written by
(a) Dickens (b) Thackeray (c) Hardy (d) R.L. Stevenson
40. Mr. Collins is a character in
(a) Sense and Sensibility (b) Pride and Prejudice (c) Emma (d) Hard Times
41. 'The Prisoner of Zenda' was written by
(a) Sterne (b) Trollope (c) Anthony Hope (d) George Eliot
42. What was the full name of Cervantes
(a) Jim Cervantes (b) John Cervantes (c) Miguel de Cervantes
(d) Sir Roger Cervantes
43. The letter referred to in 'The Scarlet Letter is
(a) A (b) B (c) L (d) M
44. Robert Frost lived for some time in
(a) France (b) Germany (c) England (d) Italy
45. Besides being a poet, Chaucer was
(a) a trader (b) a manufacturer (c) a teacher (d) a diplomat
46. Bacon's essays were influenced by
(a) Montesque (b) Montaigne (c) Boccaccio (d) Pascal
47. Charles Lamb worked as a
(a) clerk (b) seaman (c) teacher (d) mechanic
48. Who wrote: "Keep right on to the end of the road."
(a) Shakespeare (b) Milton (c) Sir Harry Lauder (d) Chaucer
49. Who said: "Two men look out through the same bars:
One sees the mud, and the one the stars."
(a) Chaucer (b) Keats (c) Milton (d) Frederick Langbridge
50. In which book does the following line appear: "What a falling off was there."
(a) King Lear (b) Othello (c) Hamlet (d) Antony and Cleopatra
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