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201. What is Quinzaine ?

A. a fourteen line stanza 206. In Shakespeare “Character is not
B. a twenty line stanza Destiny” but “character and Destiny”. Whose
C. a thirteen line stanza comment is this ?
D. a fifteen line stanza A. Bradley
Answer: Option D. a fifteen line stanza B. Dr. Johnson
C. Nicoll
202. Who wrote poem about Lucy ? D. None of these
A. S. T. Coleridge Answer: Option A. Bradley
B. P. B. Shelley
C. William Wordsworth 207. Who accuses Arnold of “high
D. Lord Byron pamphleteering?”
Answer: Option C. William Wordsworth A. Eliot
B. Pater
203. What is the name of Wordsworth’s long C. I. A. Richards
poem ? D. F. R. Leavis
A. The Canterbury Tales Answer: Option D. F. R. Leavis
B. Don Juan
C. The Prelude 208. Who is the author of ‘The Rime of the
D. None of these Ancient Mariner’ ?
Answer: Option C. The Prelude A. William Wordsworth
B. S. T. Coleridge
204. Which of the following is not a tragedy C. W. Somerset Maugham
written by Shakespeare ? D. Sir Walter Scott
A. Macbeth Answer: Option B. S. T. Coleridge
B. Othello
C. Merchant of Venice 209. Yahoo’s according to Gulliver
D. None of these were______________?
Answer: Option C. Merchant of Venice A. European
B. Indians
205. ‘I wandered Lonely as a cloud’ is an C. American
example of______________? D. None of these
A. symbol Answer: Option A. European
B. Metaphor
C. Simile 210. William Blake’s /Songs of
D. Metonymy ‘counterbalance his ‘Songs of Experience’ ?
Answer: Option C. Simile A. Love
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B. childhood 215. The novel ‘The Jungle Book’ is written

C. Inexperience by_______________?
D. Innocence A. R. K. Narayan
Answer: Option D. Innocence B. Edin Blyton
C. Rudyard Kipling
211. What is the term Utopia ? D. H. G. Wells
A. a hat of a king Answer: Option C. Rudyard Kipling
B. a day dreamer
C. a lotus eater 216. Who is the author of ‘The Rape of
D. an ideal state which does not exist in real Bangladesh’ ?
Answer: Option D. an ideal state which A. Anthony Mascarenhas
does not exist in real B. Mathew Arnold
C. G. B. Shaw
212. ‘SARTOR RESARTUS’ is a prose work D. Alexander Dumas
by________________? Answer: Option A. Anthony Mascarenhas
A. John Ruskin
B. Carlyle 217. ‘Renaissance’
C. Bacon means___________________?
D. Lamb A. the revival of learning
Answer: Option B. Carlyle B. the revival of hard task
C. the revival of life
213. ‘Lucy Gray’ is a poem written D. the revival of new country
by_______________? Answer: Option A. the revival of learning
A. Wordsworth
B. Keats 218. The central idea of ‘Ozymandias’ is
C. None of these that______________?
D. All of these A. all things, both great and small,will perish
Answer: Option A. Wordsworth B. man is mortal,art immortal
C. imagination is stronger than fact
214. Who is the writer of the poem ‘Andrea D. history repeats
Del Sarto’ ? Answer: Option A. all things, both great
A. William Shakespeare and small,will perish
B. Shelley
C. Wordsworth 219. In Shakespeare’s Tragedies Character
D. Robert Browning is not Destiny but there is Character and
Answer: Option D. Robert Browning Destiny is a remark by________________?
A. Nicoll
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B. Goddord A. 1788
C. Bradley B. 1789
D. Coleridge C. 1790
Answer: Option C. Bradley D. 1791
Answer: Option A. 1788
220. Which year William Shakespeare was
born ? 225. Who wrote the poem ‘Solitary Reaper’ ?
A. 1564 AD A. William Wordsworth
B. 1773 AD B. P. B Shelley
C. 1809 AD C. Lord Byron
D. 1923 AD D. John Keats
Answer: Option A. 1564 AD Answer: Option A. William Wordsworth
221. ‘Lapis Lazuli’ is __________________? 226. Who is the first great modernist of
A. A Poem English Literature ?
B. Drama A. Roger Bacon
C. None of these B. Robert Browning
D. A Poem C. Geoffrey Chaucer
Answer: Option A. A Poem D. Cynewulf
Answer: Option D. Cynewulf
222. In “The Gift of the Magi” Della is
presented as_____________? 227. Hardy is a__________________?
A. a loving wife A. Pessimist
B. a snobbish wife B. Meliorist
C. a hypocritical wife C. Mystic
D. a sacrificing wife D. None of these
Answer: Option D. a sacrificing wife Answer: Option A. Pessimist
223. Who wrote the book ‘Lord Jim: A Tale ? 228. The University Wits
A. Oscar Wilde were_______________?
B. Joseph Conrad A. Poets
C. Thomas Hardy B. Playwrights
D. Rudyard Kipling C. Novelists
Answer: Option B. Joseph Conrad D. None of these
Answer: Option B. Playwrights
224. Lord Byron was born
in________________?
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229. ______________is the school of C. song of lamentation

literary writings is a medical theory ? D. short story
A. Comedy of Manners Answer: Option C. song of lamentation
B. Theater of the Absurd
C. Heroic Tragedy 234. ‘The Lotus…Eaters’ was written
D. Comedy of Humours by________________?
Answer: Option D. Comedy of Humours A. Tennyson
B. Browning
230. Emile Zola is a C. Blake
famous__________________? D. None of these
A. English novelist Answer: Option A. Tennyson
B. American Novelist
C. Irish novelist 235. Who of the following was both a poet
D. French Novelist and painter ?
Answer: Option D. French Novelist A. Keats
B. Donne
231. All that glitters is not gold. You have C. William Blake
heard often this told. This maxim is included D. Spenser
in Shakespeare’s__________________? Answer: Option C. William Blake
A. Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare’s
B. Shakespeare’s Tempest 236. T. Hardy is_______________?
C. Shakespeare’s Much ado about nothing. A. A social reformer
D. None of these B. A satirist
Answer: Option A. Merchant of Venice / C. A fatalist
Shakespeare’s D. A lover of nature
Answer: Option C. A fatalist
232. ‘Prometheus Unbound’ is a lyrical
drama by__________________? 237. ‘The Medal’ by John Dryden is
A. Shelley a/an________________?
B. Shakespeare A. play
C. Sophocles B. satire
D. Euripedes C. prose
Answer: Option A. Shelley D. translation
Answer: Option B. satire
233. ‘Elegy’ is______________________?
A. Historical poem 238. Which of the following is illustrative of
B. figurative story Ruskin’s interest in social economy ?
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A. The Seven Lamps Answer: Option A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Unto this Last
C. The Stones of Venice 243. Who is the author of ‘Animal Farm’ ?
D. None of these A. Thomas More
Answer: Option B. Unto this Last B. George Orwell
C. Boris Pasternak
239. The shepherd in “The Passionate D. Charles Dickens
Shepherd to His Love” Answer: Option B. George Orwell
is_________________?
A. sentimental 244. What is an Epic ?
B. practical A. a short poem
C. irresponsible B. a long narrative poem
D. romantic C. a historical poem
Answer: Option D. romantic D. a prose composition
Answer: Option B. a long narrative poem
240. What do you mean by Stanza ?
A. a division of drama 245. Childe Harold was written
B. a division of novel by_______________?
C. a division of story A. Byron
D. a subdivision of a poem B. Shelley
Answer: Option D. a subdivision of a C. Tennyson
poem D. None of these
Answer: Option A. Byron
241. The poet of ‘Romantic Age’
is_______________? 246. Shaw died at the age
A. D.H. Lawrence of_______________?
B. John Milton A. 75
C. John Keats B. 95
D. None of these C. 105
Answer: Option C. John Keats D. none of these
Answer: Option B. 95
242. Who is the writer of the poem ‘Nun
Priest’s Tale’ ? 247. Simile is the direct comparison
A. Geoffrey Chaucer between two________________?
B. Cynewulf A. similar things
C. Robert Browning B. dissimilar things
D. Shelley C. elaborate comparison
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D. contradictory things B. a high ranking man

Answer: Option A. similar things C. a sacrilegious man
D. none of these
248. Who wrote the book ‘Ivan Hoe’ ? Answer: Option B. a high ranking man
A. O’ Henry
B. R L Stevenson 253. Adonis is modeled
C. Ernest Hemingway on________________?
D. Sir Walter Scott A. Bion’s lament for Adonis
Answer: Option D. Sir Walter Scott B. Lycidas
C. In Memoriam
249. In which age is ‘The Puritan Period’ D. None of these
included ? Answer: Option A. Bion’s lament for
A. The Renaissance Adonis
B. The Non-classical
C. The Romantic 254. Who is the writer of ‘Lorna Doone’ ?
D. The Modern A. H.G. Wells
Answer: Option A. The Renaissance B. Blackmore
C. T. S. Eliot
250. The Novel of Lawrence banned by the D. Jane Austen
government was_________________? Answer: Option B. Blackmore
A. Sons and Lovers
B. Lady Chatterley’s Lover 255. “Undo this Button” is a line from
C. Women in Love Shakespeare’s________________?
D. The Rainbow A. Hamlet
Answer: Option B. Lady Chatterley’s Lover B. Othello
C. King Lear
251. Shakespeare was born D. Julius Caeser
in_______________? Answer: Option C. King Lear
A. 1570
B. 1564 256. Which one is not a science fiction
C. 1590 writer_________________?
D. None of these A. H. G. Wells
Answer: Option B. 1564 B. Victor Hugo
C. Hugo Gernsback
252. In Shakespeare tragedy, the hero D. Jules Verne
is________________? Answer: Option B. Victor Hugo
A. an ordinary man
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257. ‘Love and Friendship’ is written Answer: Option A. Tahmima Anam

by___________________?
A. Francis Bacon 262. ’Picture of Dorian Gray ’ was written
B. Jane Austen by__________________?
C. Jonathan Swift A. Oscar Wild
D. None B. Hardy
Answer: Option B. Jane Austen C. George Eliot
D. None of these
258. ‘Paradise Lost’ was written Answer: Option A. Oscar Wild
by__________________?
A. Mathew 263. Wordsworth was appointed as poet
B. Robert Browning Laureate in_______________?
C. John Milton A. 1843 b…1844
D. W B Yeats B. 1845
Answer: Option C. John Milton C. 1846
D. none of these
259. Which University presented the Pulitzer Answer: Option A. 1843 b…1844
Prize_______________?
A. Columbia University 264. What do you mean by Archaism ?
B. Yale University A. modern mode of words
C. New York University B. up-to-date words
D. Harvard University C. literary words
Answer: Option A. Columbia University D. obsolete words
Answer: Option D. obsolete words
260. What the term Elegy refers ?
A. a song of lamentation 265. Catharsis refers to the
B. a song of pleasure term_______________?
C. a hymn A. characters in play
D. a praiseworthy song B. animals in play
Answer: Option A. a song of lamentation C. sympathy to others
D. arouse of pity and fear
261. Who is the author of the novel ‘The Answer: Option D. arouse of pity and fear
Golden Age’ ?
A. Tahmima Anam 266. The literary figure who had the most
B. Pearl S. Bark pronounced effect on Keats
C. Virginia Woolf was_______________?
D. Jane Austen A. Dante
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B. Shakespeare
C. Wordsworth 271. The character of Little Neil is a creation
D. Shelley of______________?
Answer: Option B. Shakespeare A. Hardy
B. Eliot
267. When Alfred Lord Tennyson was born ? C. Oscar Wilde
A. 1809 D. Dickens
B. 1810 Answer: Option D. Dickens
C. 1811
D. 1812 272. Firdausi was the poet
Answer: Option A. 1809 of________________?
A. Persian
268. Who wrote ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ ? B. English
A. John Lyly C. French
B. Thomas Kyd D. Italy
C. Robert Green Answer: Option A. Persian
D. Christopher Marlowe
Answer: Option B. Thomas Kyd 273. ‘Adela’ is a character
from_______________?
269. Byron’s journey to Spain, Malta, A. A Passage to India
Albania and Greece resulted in the B. Paradise Lost
production of the first two cantos of his C. Hamlet
poem_______________? D. Doctor Faustus
A. cain Answer: Option A. A Passage to India
B. Childe Herald’s Pilgrimage
C. Don Juan 274. “Poetry is not like reasoning, a power
D. the prisoner of Chillon to be exerted according to the
Answer: Option B. Childe Herald’s determination of will”, is a statement
Pilgrimage by______________?
A. Wordsworth
270. “Justice delayed is justice denied” was B. Shelley
stated by______________? C. Coleridge
A. Shakespeare D. Arnold
B. Emerson Answer: Option B. Shelley
C. Gladstone
D. Disraeli 275. Who is the author of ‘India Wins
Answer: Option C. Gladstone Freedom’ ?
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A. Ghandhi 280. Who is known as the national poet of

B. Nehru England_________________?
C. Jinnah A. William Wordsworth
D. Abul Kalam Azad B. John Keats
Answer: Option D. Abul Kalam Azad C. William Shakespeare
D. T. S. Eliot
276. Edmund Spenser is Answer: Option C. William Shakespeare
a_________________?
A. poet 281. ‘Paradise Lost’ was written
B. dramatist by________________?
C. artist A. Shakespeare
D. scientist B. Milton
Answer: Option A. poet C. Coleridge
D. Keats
277. Who is the writer of ‘The Ring of the Answer: Option B. Milton
Book’ ?
A. Shelley 282. The period between 1660 to 1750 is
B. Robert Browning known as___________________?
C. William Shakespeare A. The Age of Classicism
D. Wordsworth B. The Restoration
Answer: Option B. Robert Browning C. The age of Milton
D. None of these
278. Who is known as an anti-romantic Answer: Option B. The Restoration
novelist in the Romantic Age ?
A. Charles Lamb 283. ‘Tom Jones’ by Henry Fielding was first
B. Jane Austen published in______________?
C. William Hazlitt A. the first half of 19th century
D. Oliver Goldsmith B. the first half of 18th century
Answer: Option B. Jane Austen C. the 2nd half of 18th century
D. 19th century
279. Who is the writer of ‘The Two Voices’ ? Answer: Option B. the first half of 18th
A. A. Lord Tennyson century
B. George Bernard Shaw
C. William Shakespeare 284. Who wrote “Shakespeare’s Later
D. Christopher Marlowe Comedies’ ?
Answer: Option A. A. Lord Tennyson A. A.C. Bradley
B. Palmer D.J.
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C. Dr.Johnsofl A. Pessimism and Cynicism

D. None of these B. Conflicts and Controversies
Answer: Option B. Palmer D.J. C. Subjectivity
D. All of the above
285. The treatise ‘On Liberty’ was written Answer: Option B. Conflicts and
by_____________? Controversies
A. Ruskin
B. Lamb 290. The first Englishwoman to earn her
C. Mill living as a playwright was______________?
D. Oscar Wilde A. Nell Gwynn
Answer: Option C. Mill B. Aphra Behn
C. Lady Teazle
286. Who is the writer of the poem ‘A D. Ann Hathaway
Grammarian’s Funeral’ ? Answer: Option B. Aphra Behn
A. Shelley
B. William Shakespeare 291. The period of maturation, intellectual
C. Wordsworth growth and social graces during the
D. Robert Browning Renaissance is called the____________?
Answer: Option D. Robert Browning A. aristocracy
B. New Age
287. Find the Odd man out ? C. Reformation
A. Ulysses D. Enlightenment
B. The Falcon Answer: Option D. Enlightenment
C. The Virginians
D. On Liberty 292. Which of the following writers would be
Answer: Option B. The Falcon an appropriate subject for a class on “The
Literature of the British Empire” ?
288. ‘O Captain! My Captain!’ is a poem A. Rudyard Kipling
written by______________? B. Edward Fitzgerald
A. Robert Frost C. Charlotte Bronte
B. Emily Dickinson D. Any of these
C. Mark Twain Answer: Option D. Any of these
D. Walt Whitman
Answer: Option D. Walt Whitman 293. Which of the following periods of
English literature came last ?
289. Modern age is an age A. The Elizabethan Age
of______________? B. The Commonwealth Period
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C. The Jacobean Age 298. Which work was published first ?

D. The Middle English Period A. Blake’s “Songs of Innocence”
Answer: Option B. The Commonwealth B. Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”
Period C. Lord Byron’s “Don Juan”
D. Sir Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe”
294. He was not a Renaissance Answer: Option A. Blake’s “Songs of
writer________________? Innocence”
A. William Shakespeare
B. Sir Philip Sidney 299. Which period of literature came first ?
C. Christopher Marlowe A. Regency
D. Sir Thomas Malory B. Victorian
Answer: Option D. Sir Thomas Malory C. Romantic
D. Restoration
295. Which poet did NOT write during the Answer: Option D. Restoration
16th century ?
A. John Skelton 300. The Bronte sisters wrote during this
B. William Shakespeare period______________?
C. Sir Thomas Wyatt A. Regency
D. Thomas Carew B. Restoration
Answer: Option D. Thomas Carew C. Romantic
D. Victorian
296. Which of the following poets wrote Answer: Option D. Victorian
during the Victorian period but was not
published until the 20th century ? 301. Jane Austen wrote during this
A. Christina Rossetti period________________?
B. Gerard Manley Hopkins A. Restoration
C. Elizabeth Barret Browning B. Victorian
D. Ted Hughes C. Middle English
Answer: Option B. Gerard Manley Hopkins D. Regency
Answer: Option D. Regency
297. Who wrote first ?
A. George Eliot 302. Who wrote the poem ’The Seven Ages’
B. Christopher Marlowe ?
C. Howard, Earl of Surrey A. John Milton
D. William Shakespeare B. Geoffrey Chaucer
Answer: Option C. Howard, Earl of Surrey C. William Shakespeare
D. Edward Gibbon
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Answer: Option C. William Shakespeare B. James 1

C. Edward III
303. The prevailing feature of Chaucer’s D. Henry II
humour is its__________________? Answer: Option C. Edward III
A. urbanity
B. crudity 308. Maggie is the central character in
C. triviality George Eliot’s________________?
D. sanctity A. Adam Bede
Answer: Option A. urbanity B. Middle March
C. The Mill on the Floss
304. What was the nationality of OscarWilde D. Silas Morner
? Answer: Option C. The Mill on the Floss
A. Irish
B. Scottish 309. What do you mean by Burlesque ?
C. French A. a satiric caricature of the characters
D. English B. a drama
Answer: Option A. Irish C. a satiric person
D. an allegorical statement
305. In 1905, VirginiaWoolf began to write Answer: Option A. a satiric caricature of
for which publication ? the characters
A. The Time’s Literary Supplement
B. The Lady’s Home Journal 310. Who served as an Irish senator for two
C. Strand Magazine terms? A___________ Wilde?
D. Reader Magazine A. Shaw
Answer: Option A. The Time’s Literary B. Ibsen
Supplement C. Yeats
D. none of these
306. On liberty was written Answer: Option C. Yeats
by_______________?
A. Carlyle 311. ‘All good poetry is spontaneous
B. Macaulay overflow of powerful feelings’ who made this
C. Godwin statement ?
D. Mill A. Shelly
Answer: Option D. Mill B. De Quincey
C. Wordsworth
307. Geoffrey Chaucer served which king ? D. None of these
A. Richard III Answer: Option C. Wordsworth
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A. Shakespeare
312. In which of the following Genres did B. wordsworth
Victorian Literature achieve its greatest C. John Keats
success_______________? D. Eliot
A. Epic Poetry Answer: Option C. John Keats
B. Lyric Poetry
C. The Essay 317. The Poet Laureate
D. The Novel is_________________?
Answer: Option D. The Novel A. the best poet of the country
B. a winner of Noble Prize in Poetry
313. ‘Essays of Elia’ was written C. the court poet of England
by______________? D. a classical poet
A. William Hazlitt Answer: Option C. the court poet of
B. Emily Dickinson England
C. Emily Bronte
D. Charles Lamb 318. Murder in the Cathedral’ is a play
Answer: Option D. Charles Lamb written by___________?
A. Shakespeare
314. Romanticism is mainly connected B. Marlowe
with______________? C. Oscar Wilde
A. excitement and sensation D. T.S. Eliot
B. love and beauty Answer: Option D. T.S. Eliot
C. job and tiredness
D. expectation and depression 319. Who wrote ‘Kubla Khan’ ?
Answer: Option A. excitement and A. Coleridge
sensation B. Shelley
C. Wordsworth
315. What do you mean by Beast Fable ? D. Keats
A. a fictional story of animal characters Answer: Option A. Coleridge
B. a short story
C. a long narrative prose 320. The Professor was the first novel
D. a soft style epic by________________?
Answer: Option A. a fictional story of A. Emily Bronte
animal characters B. Charlotte Bronte
C. Anne Bronte
316. Who wrote ‘Beauty is truth, truth D. Jane Austen
beauty’ ? Answer: Option B. Charlotte Bronte
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C. Persuasion
321. Who wrote the fantasy novel ’The Lord D. All of these
of the Rings’ ? Answer: Option D. All of these
A. J. R. R. Tolkien
B. Peter Jackson 326. What is anthology ?
C. C. S. Lewis A. collection of poems
D. J. K. Rowling B. collection of insects
Answer: Option A. J. R. R. Tolkien C. fish cultivation
D. study of poetry
322. Whose real name was Mary Anne Answer: Option A. collection of poems
Evans ?
A. Jane Austen 327. What is a plot ?
B. Charlotte Bronte A. an idea about writing
C. George Eliot B. the choice of words
D. Joseph Conrad C. choice of poem
Answer: Option C. George Eliot D. arrangement of the incidents
Answer: Option D. arrangement of the
323. Who said ‘Cowards die many times incidents
before their death’ ?
A. Shakespeare 328. Utopia is an ideal state written
B. Franklin by_______________?
C. Carlyle A. Thomas Gray
D. Alexander Pope B. William Shakespeare
Answer: Option A. Shakespeare C. George Bernard Shaw
D. Thomas More
324. Who is the hero of Paradise Answer: Option D. Thomas More
Regained_______________?
A. Christ 329. The ‘Poet Laureate’
B. Satan is______________?
C. The Paritan Church A. the best poet of the country
D. None of these B. a winner of the Noble Prize in poetry
Answer: Option A. Christ C. the Court Port England
D. a classical poet
325. Jane Austen’s other writings Answer: Option C. the Court Port England
are______________?
A. Sense and Sensibility 330. The poem ‘The Patriot’ is written
B. Emma by_______________?
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A. Alfred Tennyson 335. Who is the writer of The Caroline

B. Robert Browning Period ?
C. Mathew Arnold A. Robert Herrick
D. John Donne B. Caedmon
Answer: Option B. Robert Browning C. Dante
D. Cynewulf
331. has a super abundant wealth of words Answer: Option A. Robert Herrick
and superfluous ornaments_____________?
A. Hyperbole 336. defines a play as a just and lively
B. Metaphor image of human nature ?
C. Rhetoric A. Dr. Johnson
D. None of these B. Shakespeare
Answer: Option A. Hyperbole C. Dryden
D. Coleridge
332. The literary work of ‘Kubla Khan’ Answer: Option C. Dryden
is_________________?
A. a history by Vincent Smith 337. The ‘Merchant of Venice’ Written by
B. a verse by Coleridge Shakespeare is________________?
C. a drama by Oscar Wilde A. A novel
D. a short story by Somerset Maugham B. a short story
Answer: Option B. a verse by Coleridge C. a poem
D. a drama
333. Which poet emphasized on rustic Answer: Option D. a drama
language in Poetry ?
A. John Keats 338. James Joyce’s narrative technique is
B. William Wordsworth known as______________________?
C. William Blake A. stream of consciousness
D. Thomas Gray B. psycho-analysis
Answer: Option B. William Wordsworth C. Objective Co-relative
D. Symbolism and Mysticism
334. Yeats was______________? Answer: Option A. stream of
A. Victorian poet consciousness
B. a modern poet
C. Both 339. Who have written the book ’The
D. None of these Godfather’
Answer: Option C. Both A. Mario Puzo
B. Francis Ford Coppola
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C. Marlon Brando
D. Mark Winegardner 344. ‘Written in March’ is a poem composed
Answer: Option A. Mario Puzo by_______________?
A. William Wordsworth
340. James Joyce’s narrative technique is B. William Congreve
known as______________? C. William Blake
A. stream of consciousness D. William Shakespeare
B. psycho-analysis Answer: Option A. William Wordsworth
C. Objective Co-relative
D. Symbolism and Mysticism 345. Who is an American author ?
Answer: Option A. stream of A. R.W. Emerson
consciousness B. H.D. Thoreau
C. Henry W. Longfellow
341. The Cardinal virtues of the D. All 4
Houyhnhnms are__________________? Answer: Option D. All 4
A. Friendship and benevolence
B. Bitterness and revenge 346. Poet Alexander Pope’s famous
C. Hatred and jealousy work_________________?
D. None of these A. The Rape of Lock
Answer: Option A. Friendship and B. The Deserted Village
benevolence C. Spectator
D. Man was made to mourn
342. The beginning of the renaissance may Answer: Option A. The Rape of Lock
be traced to the city____________?
A. Venice 347. ‘Hearing’ a colour or ‘Seeing’ a smell is
B. London an example of______________?
C. Paris A. Oxymoron
D. Florence B. Synaesthesia
Answer: Option D. Florence C. Sensuousness
D. Contrast
343. A poem which consists of fourteen line Answer: Option B. Synaesthesia
is called________________?
A. A Sonnet 348. Who is the writer of The Restoration
B. An Ode Period ?
C. A ballad A. Robert Herrick
D. None of these B. Jeremy Taylor
Answer: Option A. A Sonnet C. John Dryden
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D. Thomas Hobbes A. Dr. Faustus

Answer: Option C. John Dryden B. The Jew of Malta
C. Tamburlaine
349. “The Conduct of the Allies’ is a famous D. Edward II
work of_____________? Answer: Option B. The Jew of Malta
A. Jonathan Swift
B. Samuel Johnson 354. In Poem Daffodils ‘Sprightly Dance’
C. Oliver ‘Goldsmith means________________?
D. None of these A. ugly dance
Answer: Option A. Jonathan Swift B. nonsense dance
C. lively dance
350. Adam Bede is a______________? D. nice dance
A. Play Answer: Option C. lively dance
B. Novel
C. Poem 355. What do you mean by Phonetics ?
D. none of these A. study of speech sounds
Answer: Option B. Novel B. study of language and rules
C. study of insects
351. On which novel, the Sherlock Holmes D. study of meaning and syntax
character was first Answer: Option A. study of speech sounds
appeared_________________?
A. The Hound of the Baskervilles 356. Who is the author of ‘Sherlock Holmes’
B. The Sign of the Four ?
C. The Valley of Fear A. John Gay
D. A Study in Scarlet B. Sir Arthur Canon Doyle
Answer: Option D. A Study in Scarlet C. Dylan Thomas
D. Somerset Maugham
352. Who is the author of “The Origin of Answer: Option B. Sir Arthur Canon Doyle
Species” ?
A. Charles Darwin 357. Who is the representative of the
B. A. Pope metaphysical poets ?
C. T. Hardy A. Samuel Johnson
D. O. Goldsmith B. John Donne
Answer: Option A. Charles Darwin C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Robert Browning
353. ‘I count religion but a childish toy’ is a Answer: Option B. John Donne
line from Marlowe’s play______________?
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358. “Tales from Shakespeare” is written C. Romantic

by________________? D. None of these
A. Shakespeare Answer: Option C. Romantic
B. Lamb
C. Lawrence 363. T. Hardy is______________?
D. Mary Anne Evans A. A satirist
Answer: Option B. Lamb B. A fatalist
C. A lover of nature
359. What is ‘Parable’ ? D. None of these
A. an allegorical story usually containing Answer: Option B. A fatalist
a moral lesson
B. the basic unit of a composition 364. The Romantic Age began with
C. a sense of distress publication of_______________?
D. none of the above A. Lyrical Ballads
Answer: Option A. an allegorical story B. My Last Duchess
usually containing C. A Tale of Two Cities
D. Canonization
360. What the term Blank Verse Answer: Option A. Lyrical Ballads
refers_____________?
A. having no rhyming end 365. ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ Who is the poet
B. having no rhythmic flow of the poem ?
C. having no significance A. Wordsworth
D. having no blanks in the verse B. Shelley
Answer: Option A. having no rhyming end C. Shakespeare
D. Keats
361. “In Memoriam” is _______________? Answer: Option D. Keats
A. an ode
B. an elegy 366. Who is the author of the book ’Around
C. a sonnet the World in Eighty Days’ ?
D. neither A. Jules Verne
Answer: Option B. an elegy B. H. G. Wells
C. Mark Twain
362. Intense emotion coupled with an D. Charles Dickens
intense display of imagery are Answer: Option A. Jules Verne
characteristics of age______________?
A. Victorian 367. The literary work ‘Kubla khan’
B. Elizabethan is_______________?
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A. a history by Vincent Smith 372. Who is the father of English Literature

B. a verse by Coleridge ?
C. a drama by Oscar Wilde A. Roger Bacon
D. a short story by Somerset Maugham B. Robert Browning
Answer: Option B. a verse by Coleridge C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Cynewulf
368. Who is the first modern novelist ? Answer: Option C. Geoffrey Chaucer
A. Samuel Richardson
B. Samuel Johnson 373. A poem of fourteen lines is
C. Samuel Beckett called________________?
D. None of the above A. Elege
Answer: Option A. Samuel Richardson B. Sonnet
C. Ode
369. Who is called the ‘Mock heroic poet’ ? D. Epic
A. Edmund Walter Answer: Option B. Sonnet
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Alexander Pope 374. Who is contemporary of William
D. Dr. Samuel Johnson Shakespeare ?
Answer: Option C. Alexander Pope A. Christopher Marlowe
B. Lord Tennyson
370. What is the feature of Romantic poetry C. John Milton
? D. All of them
A. Imagination Answer: Option A. Christopher Marlowe
B. Modernism
C. Post-modernism 375. Henry Higgins is a character
D. None of the above in________________?
Answer: Option A. Imagination A. Pygmalion
B. saint joan
371. A poem mourning someone’s death is C. Candida
called______________? D. none of these
A. Fable Answer: Option A. Pygmalion
B. Epic
C. Elegy 376. ‘Hero and Hero worship’ was written
D. None of these by______________?
Answer: Option C. Elegy A. Ruskin
B. Carlyle
C. Mill
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D. None of these C. Arundhoti Roy

Answer: Option B. Carlyle D. Kiron Dishai
Answer: Option A. Arobinda Adigha
377. The kind Claudius was killed
by________________? 382. Who propounds “the touchstone
A. Laerteus method”_______________?
B. Hamlet A. Arnold
C. Horatio B. Shelley
D. None of these C. Pope
Answer: Option B. Hamlet D. Dryden
Answer: Option A. Arnold
378. Who is the writer of ‘Harold’ ?
A. George Bernard Shaw 383. ‘The Alchemist’ is written
B. A. Lord Tennyson by_______________?
C. Christopher Marlowe A. Ben Johnson
D. William Shakespeare B. Samuel Johnson
Answer: Option B. A. Lord Tennyson C. Marlowe
D. None of them
379. “Blow, blow thou winter wind Thou art Answer: Option A. Ben Johnson
not so unkind.”-Example of ?
A. Simile 384. Who of the following is a playwright ?
B. Conceit A. Dickens
C. Metaphor B. Frost
D. Couplet C. W.B. Yeats
Answer: Option D. Couplet D. G.B. Shaw
Answer: Option D. G.B. Shaw
380. Who is considered to be the father of
English novel ? 385. ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’ is written
A. Francis Bacon by_______________?
B. Geoffery Chaucer A. Blake
C. King Alfred the Great B. Byron
D. Henry Fielding C. Tennyson
Answer: Option D. Henry Fielding D. Walter Scott
Answer: Option D. Walter Scott
381. Who is the Writer of The White Tiger ?
A. Arobinda Adigha 386. Which of the following would a
B. Salman Rushdie Romantic Poet be most likely to use ?
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A. A “member of the plumy race”

B. A “bird” 391. Eliot was influenced
C. A “tenant of the sky” by___________________?
D. An “airy fairy” A. Ezra Pound
Answer: Option D. An “airy fairy” B. Shaw
C. Hardy
387. Who is called the father of English D. none of these
Poetry ? Answer: Option A. Ezra Pound
A. Milton
B. Wordsworth 392. ‘Sweet are the uses of adversity’ was
C. G. Chaucer stated by__________________?
D. Charles Dickens A. Valtaire
Answer: Option C. G. Chaucer B. Shakespeare
C. Milton
388. ‘Macbeth and Oedipus’ is D. Tolstoy
by_________________? Answer: Option B. Shakespeare
A. W. H. Auden
B. Earnest Jones 393. Jane Austen is the writer
C. Nicoll of__________________?
D. Freud A. Jane Eyre
Answer: Option A. W. H. Auden B. Ramona
C. Emma
389. The novel ‘Talisman’ is written D. Rebecca
by_______________? Answer: Option C. Emma
A. Jane Austen
B. Charles Dickens 394. Which of the following is written by P.
C. Sir Walter Scott B. Shelly ?
D. Oliver Goldsmith A. To a skylark
Answer: Option C. Sir Walter Scott B. The Daffodils
C. Pride and Prejudice
390. Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome D. Culture and Anarchy
about____________? Answer: Option A. To a skylark
A. 1000 years ago
B. 1500 years ago 395. Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ was published
C. 2000 years ago in________________?
D. 3000 years ago A. 1602
Answer: Option C. 2000 years ago B. 1608
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C. 1610 400. Who after the publication of a poem,

D. None of these awoke and found himself famous ?
Answer: Option A. 1602 A. Shelley
B. Browning
396. Shaw’s ‘Man and Superman’ is an C. Wordsworth
example of___________? D. Keats
A. Comedy of Errors Answer: Option C. Wordsworth
B. Comedy of Manners
C. Comedy of Ideas
D. Romantic Comedy
Answer: Option C. Comedy of Ideas
397. Which was the oldest period in English

literature ?
A. Anglo-Norman
B. Anglo-Saxon
C. Chaucer’s period
D. Middle Age
Answer: Option B. Anglo-Saxon
398. Tradition and Individual Talent is a

critical essay by_______________?
A. Shelley
B. Oscar Wilde
C. T. S. Eliot
D. None of these
Answer: Option C. T. S. Eliot
399. “After Apple Picking” is written

by_______________?
A. Robert Browning
B. Robert Frost
C. both A and B
D. none of these
Answer: Option B. Robert Frost


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201. What is Quinzaine ?

B. childhood 215. The novel ‘The Jungle Book’ is written

229. ______________is the school of C. song of lamentation

A. The Seven Lamps Answer: Option A. Geoffrey Chaucer

D. contradictory things B. a high ranking man

257. ‘Love and Friendship’ is written Answer: Option A. Tahmima Anam

A. Ghandhi 280. Who is known as the national poet of

C. Dr.Johnsofl A. Pessimism and Cynicism

C. The Jacobean Age 298. Which work was published first ?

Answer: Option C. William Shakespeare B. James 1

A. Alfred Tennyson 335. Who is the writer of The Caroline

D. Thomas Hobbes A. Dr. Faustus

358. “Tales from Shakespeare” is written C. Romantic

A. a history by Vincent Smith 372. Who is the father of English Literature

D. None of these C. Arundhoti Roy

A. A “member of the plumy race”

C. 1610 400. Who after the publication of a poem,

397. Which was the oldest period in English

398. Tradition and Individual Talent is a

399. “After Apple Picking” is written

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