English Literature Most Important MCQs for Test Preparations and Exams.
Paper-1
1- Lyrical Ballads opens with
a- Tintern Abbey
b- Michael
c- Dejection: an Ode
d- Rime of Ancient Mariner e- Immortality Ode.
2- Besides the French Revolution the effect on Romantic Revolution:
a- American Revolution
b- Napoleonic wars
c- Industrial Revolution
d- Peasant’s Revolt
e- The defeat of the Spanish armada.
3- William Blake’s /Song’s of ---------- counterbalance his ‘Songs of Experience’.
A- Love
b- childhood
c- past
d- Inexperience
e- Innocence
4- Geraldine is a character of the poem;
a- Lucy Grey
b- The Thorn
c- Christabel
d- Frost at midnight
e- the last of the flock
5- ‘kubla khan’ is a poem which reflects a---------strain in Choleridge’s poetry.
A- Intellectual
b- magical
c- melancholic
d- pessimistic
e- philosophical
6- Keats’ poem Endymion is based on ------ mythology.
A- Greek
b- Roman
c- celtic
d- Scandanavian
e- Indian
7- Byrob’s journey to Spain, Malta, Albania and Greece resulted in the production of the first two cantos of his poem:
a- cain
b- childe Herald’s Pilgrimage
c- Don Juan
d- the prisoner of Chillon
e- The Seige of Corinth
8- In Don Juan Byron used:
a- blank verse
b- couplets
c- ottava rima
d- refrain
e- terza rima
9- Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University on the charge of being a(n):
a- anarchist
b-aetheist
c- commonist
d- nazi
e- traitor
10- Adonais was an elegy Shelley wrote in 1821 on the death of:
a- Keats
b- Byron
c- Arthur Hugh Clough
d- Thomas Love Peacock
e- William Hazlit
11- Confessions of an English Opium Eater was written by:
a- Charles Lamb
b- John Ruskin
c- Maria Edgeworth
d- Thomas Carlyle
e- Thomas
e Quencey
12- Elia was the pseudonym used by Charles Lamb for getting his works published in:
a- London magazine
b- The New York Times
c- The Mirror
d- The spectator
e- the Sun
13- Tennyson created a medieval world in his poem:
a- in memoriam
b- the lady of Shalott
c- the lotus eaters
d- tithonus
e- Ulyssess
14- Arthur Hugh Clough became an inspiration for Mathew Arnold’s work:
a- the buried life
b- dover beach
c- culture and anarchy
d- the scholor gypsy
e- essays on criticism
15- ------------- is an attack by Ruskin on the Philistines.
A- modern painters
b- stones of Venice
c- seven lamps of architecture
e- praeterita
16- Dickens’ first novel which focused on the specific social ills was:
a- the Christmas carol
b- david copperfield
c- great expectatios
d-oliver twist
e- a tale of two cities
17- G Eliot’s novels show her concern for the character’s----------- problems.
A- economic
b- moral
c-religious
d- spiritual e social
18- Dickens’ novels combine--------- and melodrama.
A- journalism
b-philosophy
c- satire
d- science
e- religion
19- The first which Charlotte Bronte wrote was:
a- Emily
b- jane eyre
c- Shirley
d- the professor
e- villette
20- Oscar Wilde’s novel published in 1891 was entitled as:
a- the picture of dorian grey
b- the importance of being earnest
c- lady windermere’s fan
d- a woman of no importance
e- salome
Paper 2
1- Which novel is not written by Jane Austen?
A- Emma b- the chimes c- Persuation d- Mansfield Park e- none these
2- Shaw wrote more than:
a- 30 plays b- 40 plays c- 50 plays d- 60 plays e- none of these
3- Shaw died at the age of:
a- 75 b- 85 c- 95 d- 105 e- none of these
4- Jack Worthing is a character created by:
a- Shaw b- Dickens c- Browning d- Hardy e- none of these
5- Adam Bede is a:
a- Play b- Novel c- short storey d- Poem e- none of these
6- Dickens sprang to fame with a publication of:
a- Hard Times b- David Copperfield c- pickwick papers d- Great Expectations e- none of these
7- Who served as an Irish senator for two terms?
A- Wilde b- Shaw c- Ibsen d- Yeats e- none of these
8- John Bull’s Other Island is written by:
a- Shaw b- Wilde c- Hemingway d- Beckett e- none of these
9- Lilliputians symbolize excessive human:
a- Jealousy b- confidence c- pride d- Ego e- none of these
10- Houyhnhnms represent life governed by sense and:
a- moderation b- patience c- understanding d- compromise e-none of these
11- Cordelia’s chief characteristic is her:
a- beauty b- devotion c- sympathy d- kindness e- none of these
12- Henry Higgins is a character in:
a- Pygmalian b- saint joan c- major Barbara d- candida e-none of these
13- Eliot worked for Faber and Faber as a/an:
a- assistant b- director c- writer d- editor e- none of these
14- Wordsworth was appointed as poet Laureate in:
a- 1843 b-1844 c-1845 d-1846 e- none of these
15- Hemingway was a great fan of:
a- Cricket b- baseball c- softball d- football e- none of these
16- Jude the Obscure is a:
a- comedy b- tragedy c- tragic-comedy d- black comedy e- none of these
17- Eliot was influenced by:
a- Ezra Pound b- shaw c- Hardy d- Wilde e- none of these
18- Who became the poet Laureate of England and Ireland during the reign of Queen Victoria?
A- Tennyson b- Browning c- Hardy d- Lawrence e- none of these
19- Hemingway also worked as a:
a- Carpenter b- Painter c- surgeon d- Driver e- none of these
20- “Tales from Shakespeare” is written by:
a- Shakespeare b- Lamb c- Lawrence d- Mary anne evans e- none of these
Paper-3
1. Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
a. Masefield
b. Causley
c. Hughes
d. Larkin
2. Carl Sandburg 'Planked whitefish' contains what kind of imagery?
a. Sea scenes
b. Rural Idyll
c. War
d. Innocent childhood
3. Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819?
a. Emily Dickinson
b. Paul Dunbar
c. John Greenleaf Whittier
d. Walt Whitman
4. In 1960 'The Colossus' was the first book of poems published by which poetess?
a. Elizabeth Bishop
b. Sylvia Plath
c. Marianne Moore
d. Laura Jackson
5. In his poem Kipling said 'If you can meet with triumph and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '?
a. Glory
b. Ruin
c. Disaster
d. victory
6. Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry?
a. Assonance
b. Onomatopaea
c. Rhyme
d. Grammar
7. True or false: Writing predates poetry.
a. True
b. False
8. What is the earliest surviving European poem?
a. The Homeric epic
b. The Gilgamesh epic
c. The Deluge epic
d. The Hesiodic ode
9. Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
a. The Epic
b. The Comic
c. The Occult
d. The Tragic
10. What is the study of poetry's meter and form called?
a. Prosody
b. Potology
c. Rheumatology
d. Scansion
1-a 2-c 3-e 4-c 5-a 6-a 7-b 8-c 9-b 10-a 11-e 12-a 13-e 14-d 15-a 16-c 17-b 18-c 19-b 20-e
Paper-1
1- Lyrical Ballads opens with
a- Tintern Abbey
b- Michael
c- Dejection: an Ode
d- Rime of Ancient Mariner e- Immortality Ode.
2- Besides the French Revolution the effect on Romantic Revolution:
a- American Revolution
b- Napoleonic wars
c- Industrial Revolution
d- Peasant’s Revolt
e- The defeat of the Spanish armada.
3- William Blake’s /Song’s of ---------- counterbalance his ‘Songs of Experience’.
A- Love
b- childhood
c- past
d- Inexperience
e- Innocence
4- Geraldine is a character of the poem;
a- Lucy Grey
b- The Thorn
c- Christabel
d- Frost at midnight
e- the last of the flock
5- ‘kubla khan’ is a poem which reflects a---------strain in Choleridge’s poetry.
A- Intellectual
b- magical
c- melancholic
d- pessimistic
e- philosophical
6- Keats’ poem Endymion is based on ------ mythology.
A- Greek
b- Roman
c- celtic
d- Scandanavian
e- Indian
7- Byrob’s journey to Spain, Malta, Albania and Greece resulted in the production of the first two cantos of his poem:
a- cain
b- childe Herald’s Pilgrimage
c- Don Juan
d- the prisoner of Chillon
e- The Seige of Corinth
8- In Don Juan Byron used:
a- blank verse
b- couplets
c- ottava rima
d- refrain
e- terza rima
9- Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University on the charge of being a(n):
a- anarchist
b-aetheist
c- commonist
d- nazi
e- traitor
10- Adonais was an elegy Shelley wrote in 1821 on the death of:
a- Keats
b- Byron
c- Arthur Hugh Clough
d- Thomas Love Peacock
e- William Hazlit
11- Confessions of an English Opium Eater was written by:
a- Charles Lamb
b- John Ruskin
c- Maria Edgeworth
d- Thomas Carlyle
e- Thomas
e Quencey
12- Elia was the pseudonym used by Charles Lamb for getting his works published in:
a- London magazine
b- The New York Times
c- The Mirror
d- The spectator
e- the Sun
13- Tennyson created a medieval world in his poem:
a- in memoriam
b- the lady of Shalott
c- the lotus eaters
d- tithonus
e- Ulyssess
14- Arthur Hugh Clough became an inspiration for Mathew Arnold’s work:
a- the buried life
b- dover beach
c- culture and anarchy
d- the scholor gypsy
e- essays on criticism
15- ------------- is an attack by Ruskin on the Philistines.
A- modern painters
b- stones of Venice
c- seven lamps of architecture
e- praeterita
16- Dickens’ first novel which focused on the specific social ills was:
a- the Christmas carol
b- david copperfield
c- great expectatios
d-oliver twist
e- a tale of two cities
17- G Eliot’s novels show her concern for the character’s----------- problems.
A- economic
b- moral
c-religious
d- spiritual e social
18- Dickens’ novels combine--------- and melodrama.
A- journalism
b-philosophy
c- satire
d- science
e- religion
19- The first which Charlotte Bronte wrote was:
a- Emily
b- jane eyre
c- Shirley
d- the professor
e- villette
20- Oscar Wilde’s novel published in 1891 was entitled as:
a- the picture of dorian grey
b- the importance of being earnest
c- lady windermere’s fan
d- a woman of no importance
e- salome
Paper 2
1- Which novel is not written by Jane Austen?
A- Emma b- the chimes c- Persuation d- Mansfield Park e- none these
2- Shaw wrote more than:
a- 30 plays b- 40 plays c- 50 plays d- 60 plays e- none of these
3- Shaw died at the age of:
a- 75 b- 85 c- 95 d- 105 e- none of these
4- Jack Worthing is a character created by:
a- Shaw b- Dickens c- Browning d- Hardy e- none of these
5- Adam Bede is a:
a- Play b- Novel c- short storey d- Poem e- none of these
6- Dickens sprang to fame with a publication of:
a- Hard Times b- David Copperfield c- pickwick papers d- Great Expectations e- none of these
7- Who served as an Irish senator for two terms?
A- Wilde b- Shaw c- Ibsen d- Yeats e- none of these
8- John Bull’s Other Island is written by:
a- Shaw b- Wilde c- Hemingway d- Beckett e- none of these
9- Lilliputians symbolize excessive human:
a- Jealousy b- confidence c- pride d- Ego e- none of these
10- Houyhnhnms represent life governed by sense and:
a- moderation b- patience c- understanding d- compromise e-none of these
11- Cordelia’s chief characteristic is her:
a- beauty b- devotion c- sympathy d- kindness e- none of these
12- Henry Higgins is a character in:
a- Pygmalian b- saint joan c- major Barbara d- candida e-none of these
13- Eliot worked for Faber and Faber as a/an:
a- assistant b- director c- writer d- editor e- none of these
14- Wordsworth was appointed as poet Laureate in:
a- 1843 b-1844 c-1845 d-1846 e- none of these
15- Hemingway was a great fan of:
a- Cricket b- baseball c- softball d- football e- none of these
16- Jude the Obscure is a:
a- comedy b- tragedy c- tragic-comedy d- black comedy e- none of these
17- Eliot was influenced by:
a- Ezra Pound b- shaw c- Hardy d- Wilde e- none of these
18- Who became the poet Laureate of England and Ireland during the reign of Queen Victoria?
A- Tennyson b- Browning c- Hardy d- Lawrence e- none of these
19- Hemingway also worked as a:
a- Carpenter b- Painter c- surgeon d- Driver e- none of these
20- “Tales from Shakespeare” is written by:
a- Shakespeare b- Lamb c- Lawrence d- Mary anne evans e- none of these
Paper-3
1. Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
a. Masefield
b. Causley
c. Hughes
d. Larkin
2. Carl Sandburg 'Planked whitefish' contains what kind of imagery?
a. Sea scenes
b. Rural Idyll
c. War
d. Innocent childhood
3. Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819?
a. Emily Dickinson
b. Paul Dunbar
c. John Greenleaf Whittier
d. Walt Whitman
4. In 1960 'The Colossus' was the first book of poems published by which poetess?
a. Elizabeth Bishop
b. Sylvia Plath
c. Marianne Moore
d. Laura Jackson
5. In his poem Kipling said 'If you can meet with triumph and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '?
a. Glory
b. Ruin
c. Disaster
d. victory
6. Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry?
a. Assonance
b. Onomatopaea
c. Rhyme
d. Grammar
7. True or false: Writing predates poetry.
a. True
b. False
8. What is the earliest surviving European poem?
a. The Homeric epic
b. The Gilgamesh epic
c. The Deluge epic
d. The Hesiodic ode
9. Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
a. The Epic
b. The Comic
c. The Occult
d. The Tragic
10. What is the study of poetry's meter and form called?
a. Prosody
b. Potology
c. Rheumatology
d. Scansion
Paper-1 Answers
1-a 2-c 3-e 4-c 5-a 6-a 7-b 8-c 9-b 10-a 11-e 12-a 13-e 14-d 15-a 16-c 17-b 18-c 19-b 20-ePaper 2 Answers
1-b 2-d 3-c 4-b(not confirmed) 5-b 6-c 7-d 8-a 9-a(not confirmed) 10-a 11-b 12-a 13-d 14-a 15-b 16-b 17-a 18-a 19-d 20-bPaper 3 Answers
- Hughes
- War
- Walt Whitman
- Sylvia Plath
- Disaster
- Grammar
- False
- The Homeric epic
- The Occult
- Prosody
