l. The Victorian Period is marked by
(a) Great political upheavals (b) Great social security (c) Great wars (d) Economic deprivation
2. In this play the hero demanded more food from the authorities
(a) Great Expectations (b) David Copperfield (c) Pickwick Papers (d) Oliver Twist
3. Swift is known mainly as
(a) an essayist (b) a poet (c) a satirist (d) a short story writer
4. Who wrote the line :
"Slow rises worth by poverty depressed"?
(a) Shakespeare (b) Wordsworth (c) Dr. Johnson (d) Matthew Arnold
5. Who is the writer of the novel "The Village"
(a) Khushwant Singh (b) Anita Desai (c) Mulk Raj Anand (d) R.K. Narayan
6. The most famous writer of the heroic couplet is
(a) Dryden (b) Chaucer (c) Spenser (d) Pope
7. Who wrote: "Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter"?
(a) Shelley (b) Keats (c) Pope (d) Wordsworth
8. Who used the term "Egotistical sublime" for
Wordsworth's poetry?
(a) Keats (b) Shelley (c) Coleridge (d) Tennyson
9. Into how many acts did Marlowe originally divide his "Dr. Faustus"
(a) five (b) two (c) four (d) one (no division)
10. Shakespeare died in
(a) 1620 (b) 1616 (c) 1606 (d) 1610
11. Macflecknoe is a poem written by
(a) Dryden (b) Pope (c) Tennys (d) Yeats
12. Who wrote 'Everyman in His Humour'
(a) Shakespeare (b) Jonson (c) Milton (d) Keats
13. 'Indian Jugglers' is an essay by
(a) De Quincey (b) Gardiner (c) Hazlitt (d) Lamb
14. In which poem did Tennyson say "Ring out the old, ring in the new"
(a) Mand (b) Ulysses (c) In Memoriam (d) The Brook
15. Who wrote 'The Gropes of Wrath'?
(a) Pearl Buck (b) Hemingway (c) Virginia Woolf (d) John Steinbeck
16. Who rendered into English the ancient Greek tragedy "Atlanta in Calydon"
(a) Swinburne (b) Shelley (c) Tennyson (d) Arthur Hugh Clough
17. The Deserted Village was written by (a) Cowper (b) Goldsmith (c) Keats (d) Johnson
18. 'Savitri' is an epic written by
(a) Tagore (b) Prem Chand (c) Aurobindo (d) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
19. The anthem "Vande Mataram" occurs in
(a) Godan (b) Anand Math (c) Gora (d) Train to Pakistan
20. 'All Fool's Day' is an essay written by
(a) Charles Lamb (b) Hazlitt (c) A.G. Gardiner (d) R.C. Stevenson
21. The drama Tamburlaine is written by
(a) Shakespeare (b) Marlowe (c) Lyly (d) Green
22. The book "Appreciations" was written by
(a) Morris (b) Arnold (c) Walter Pater (d) Christina Rossetti
23. "Strife" describes the strike by
(a) factory workers (b) office workers (c) teachers (d) students
24. "The Admirable Crichton" was written by
(a) Steinbeck (b) T.S. Eliot (c) Trollope (d) James Barrie
25. "The Death of a Salesman" was written by
(a) James Barrie (b) Eugene O'Neill (c) Arthur Miller (d) None of these
26. Which king of England was beheaded
(a) James I (b) James II (c) Charles I (d) Charles II
27. The Restoration period is said to have started from
(a) 1660 (b) 1676 (c) 1625 (d) 1645
28. Who gave up writing poetry for a long period for the sake of struggle for democracy
(a) Shakespeare (b) Donne (c). Milton (d) Yeats
29. Who wrote "The Lady's Not for Burning"
(a) Barrie (b) Christopher Fry (c) Robert Bridges (d) T.S. Eliot
30. Who wrote the poem "Brahma"
(a) T.S Eliot (b) Emerson (c) Whitman (d) Frost
31. The writer of Walden is
(a) Tennyson (b) Whitman (c) Thoreau (d) Frost
32. In 'Sons and Lovers' Lawrence has depicted the life of
(a) factory workers (b) miners (c) farmers (d) animals
33. Who wrote Kim?
(a) Kipling (b) Tagore (c) Lawrence (d) Narayan
34. 'The Hairy Ape' is a famous play by
(a) Barrie (b) Eugene O'Neill (c) Christopher Fry (d) T.S. Eliot
35. Who at the time of his death asked a friend of his to pay his debt (a cock) after his death?
(a) Plato (b) Aristotle (c) Socrates (d) Alexander
36. Who is the writer of Frankenstein
(a) George Eliot (b) Jane Austen (c) Mary Shelley (d) Emile Bronte
37. Which poem was conceived in a dream?
(a) Ode to the West Wind (b) Kubla Khan (c) Ode to a Nightingale (d) Lucy Gray
38. Lines from a poem by which poet was found written on the writing pad of Jawaharlal Nehru after his death?
(a) Whitman (b) Tagore (c) Sarojini Naidu (d) Frost
39. Who wrote his own epitaph:
"Here lies the one whose name is writ in water?"
(a) Byron (b) Southey (c) Keats (d) Yeats
40. Who wrote the 'Cries of Children
(a) Robert Browning (b) Elizabeth Barrett (c) Thomas Hood (d) Cowper
41. Which poet is known as a poet's poet?
(a) Shakespeare (b) Milton (c) Spenser (d) Shelley
42. Bohemia is a place in the drama
(a) Macbeth (b) Everyman in His Humour (c) The Winter's Tale (d) Tempest
43. Caliban is a character in
(a) Hamlet (b) Merchant of Venice (c) The Admirable Crichton (d) Tempest
44. Who wrote the maximum number of sonnets
(a) Shakespeare (b) Milton (c) Sidney (d) Wordsworth
45. Which character in The Merchant of Venice' said, 'The quality of mercy is not strained,"
(a) Bassanio (b) Portia (c) Jessica (d) Antonio
46. Adonais is the eulogy written on the death of
(a) Coleridge (b) Byron (c) Keats (d) Wordsworth
47. Oedipus Complex is expressed most strongly in
(a) David Copperfield (b) Great Expectations (c) Pride and Prejudice (d) Sons and Lovers
48. Who was addicted to opium taking
(a) Keats (b) Wordsworth (c) Coleridge (d) T.S. Eliot
49. Who wrote Mother
(a) Tolstoy (c) Chekhov (b) Maxim Gorky (d) Hardy
50. Who is associated with Malgudi
(a) Narayan (b) Anand (c) Manohar Malgonkar (d) Anita Desai
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