Multiple Choice Questions

English Literature & Linguistics

Q: Biographia Literaria by Coleridge was published in:
A) 1816
B) 1817
C) 1818
D) 1819
Q: Who is the author of "Christabel"?
A) Wordsworth
B) Coleridge
C) Byron
D) None of these
Q: Who is the writer of "The Lay of the Last Minstrel"?
A) Scott
B) Robert Browning
C) John Keats
D) Byron
Q: "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" by Scott was published in:
A) 1804
B) 1805
C) 1806
D) 1807
Q: "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border was written by:
A) Wordsworth
B) John Milton
C) Chaucer
D) Scott
Q: "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border was published between:
A) 1802-3
B) 1802-4
C) 1802-5
D) 1802-6
Q: The poem "Marmion" by Scott was published in:
A) 1805
B) 1806
C) 1808
D) 1809
Q: The poem "The lady of the Lake" by Schott was published in:
A) 1808
B) 1809
C) 1810
D) 1811
Q: The first man of letters who encouraged Keats was:
A) P.B. Shelley
B) Leigh Hunt
C) W. Wordsworth
D) None of these
Q: "Classical Age" is divided into:
A) Two distinct periods
B) Three distinct periods
C) Four distinct periods
D) None of these
Q: The "Classical Age" in English Literature is:
A) Eighteenth Century
B) Nineteenth Century
C) Twentieth Century
D) None of these
Q: "Augustan Age" in English Literature is called the:
A) The Age of Dryden
B) The Age of Pope
C) a & b
D) None of these
Q: The later half of the 18th Century is called:
A) The Age of Johnson
B) The Age of Pope
C) The Age of Dryden
D) None of these
Q: Who is the author of "The Alchemist" which is book on comedy?
A) Jonathan Swift
B) Ben Johnson
C) Richardson
D) None of these
Q: Who is the author of "The Pilgrim's Progress"?
A) Defoe
B) Bunyan
C) Goldsmith
D) None of these
Q: Some critics call the Romantic Revival as the:
A) Renaissance of Wonder
B) Renaissance of Surprise
C) Renaissance of Amazement
D) None of these
Q: Who called poetry "The expression of the imagination"?
A) John Keats
B) P.B Shelley
C) Lord Byron
D) Robert Browning
Q: These lines "Is there so small a range in the present strength of manhood, that the high imagination cannot freely fly" occur in Keats:
A) Endymion
B) Lamia
C) Sleep and Poetry
D) None of these
Q: The poets of the Romantic Age can be classified into:
A) Two Groups
B) Three Groups
C) Four Groups
D) Five Groups
Q: Coleridge died in:
A) 1834
B) 1835
C) 1836
D) 1837
Q: Who was made the "Poet Laureate"in 1813?
A) W. Wordsworth
B) Lord Byron
C) Tennyson
D) Southey
Q: Which of the following is a work by Lamb?
A) Tales from Shakespeare
B) Lyrical Ballads
C) The Prelude
D) None of these
Q: How many tales are there in "Tales from Shakespeare" by Lamb?
A) Eighteen Tales
B) Twenty Tales
C) Twenty-two Tales
D) None of these
Q: Charle's sister Mary Lamb was:
A) Five years older than her brother
B) Eight years older than her brother
C) Ten years older than her brother
D) None of these
Q: Charles Lamb died in:
A) 1832
B) 1833
C) 1834
D) 1835
Q: How many months after the death of Coleridge, Charles Lamb died?
A) Five months
B) Six months
C) Eight months
D) Nine months
Q: "The Prisoner of Chillon" by Lord Byron was published in:
A) 1812
B) 1814
C) 1816
D) 1817
Q: "The Dream" by Byron appeared in:
A) 1813
B) 1815
C) 1816
D) 1817
Q: The first of Byron's Ottava Rima poem, "Beppo" appeared in:
A) 1815
B) 1816
C) 1818
D) 1819
Q: Lord Byron began to write his masterpiece "Don Juan" in:
A) 1815
B) 1817
C) 1819
D) 1820
Q: A tragedy "Marino Faliero" by Byron appeared in:
A) 1820
B) 1821
C) 1822
D) 1823
Q: Byron's dramas are all written in:
A) Ottava Rima Stanza
B) Blank Verse
C) a & b
D) None of these
Q: The tragedy drama "The Two Foscari" by Byron was published in:
A) 1820
B) 1821
C) 1822
D) 1823
Q: "Don Juan" is written by:
A) Keats
B) Byron
C) Shelley
D) None of these
Q: Byron's drama "Sardanapalus" was published in:
A) 1820
B) 1821
C) 1822
D) 1823
Q: When did Byron conceive the idea of throwing himself into the struggle for the independence?
A) 1822
B) 1823
C) 1824
D) 1825
Q: "Cain, a mystery" by Byron published in:
A) 1820
B) 1821
C) 1822
D) 1823
Q: "Don Juan" by Byron is written in:
A) Blank Verse
B) Heroice Couplet
C) Ottava Rima
D) None of these
Q: Thackeray was born in:
A) 1810
B) 1811
C) 1812
D) 1813
Q: Thackeray's book "Vanity Fair" was published in:
A) 1846-47
B) 1847-48
C) 1847-49
D) None of these
Q: The novel "Henry Esmond" was written by:
A) Charles Dickens
B) Thackeray
C) Thomas Hardy
D) None of these
Q: "Henry Esmond" was published in:
A) 1851
B) 1852
C) 1853
D) 1854
Q: Thackeray died in:
A) 1862
B) 1864
C) 1863
D) 1865
Q: Claryle's translation of "Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship" was published in:
A) 1823
B) 1824
C) 1825
D) 1826
Q: The exodus of Greek scholars and artists from their country and their settlement in Rome is Technically called?
A) Reformation
B) Revival
C) Renaissance
D) Resurrection
Q: Renaissance best flourished in England in
A) Chaucer's Age
B) Restoration Age
C) Elizabethan Age
D) Augustan Age
Q: The first tragedy written in English
A) King Lear
B) Edward II
C) Hamlet
D) Gorboduc
Q: Gorboduc was written in
A) 1561
B) 1555
C) 1540
D) 1562
Q: The first English tragedy written by Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton was
A) Gorboduc
B) Everyman
C) New Custom
D) King John
Q: Of the five acts of Gorboduc, Thomas Sackville wrote the
A) First and second
B) Second and third
C) Third and fourth
D) Fourth and fifth

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