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The Old English Period to The Renaissance Period

01. Which is the oldest period in English Literature?


--Anglo-Saxon

02. Which one of the following is first long poem in English?


-- Beowulf

03. Choose the right answer: Chaucer is the representative poet of-

14th century

04. Who is known as the father of English poetry?


-- Chaucer

05. Who is the father of Modern English Poetry?


-- Geoffrey Chaucer

06. "The Canterbury Tales" are told by-


-- Geoffrey Chaucer

07. The Canterbury Tales is as alive and---today as it was nearly 600 years ago.
-- appealing

08. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote—


-- Canterbury Tales

09. Who is considered to be the father of English Poem?


-- Geoffrey Chaucer

10. Who translated the Bible into English for the first time?

-- John Wycliffe

11. Who translated „The New Testament‟?

-- John Wycliffe

12. "Renaissance" means—


-- rebirth
13. "Renaissance" means —
-- the revival of learning

15. The beginning of the Renaissance may be traced to the city of—
-- Florence

16. Renaissance is — word.

-- an Italian

17. Where did the Renaissance start from?

-- Italy

18. The main feature of the Renaissance is


-- Humanism

19. Who is the 'University Wits' in the following list?


-- Robert Greene

20. Elizabethan tragedy is centred on-


-- revenge

21. Which period is known as 'the golden age' of English


Literature?
-- the Elizabethan Age

22. Who wrote the plays “The Tempest‟ and “The Mid Summer Night‟s Dream”?
-- William Shakespeare

23. Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about—


-- 2000 years ago

24. Shakespeare is known mostly for his-


-- plays

25. Which of the following is a play by Shakespeare —

-- King Lear

26. William Shakespeare was an English dramatist and poet of the----- century.
-- sixteenth

27. Which of the following plays is by William Shakespeare?


-- Measure for Measure

28. „Shakespeare‟ is the writer of—

-- The Tempest

29. A sonnet is a lyric poem of—


-- 14 lines

30. William Shakespeare is the author of—


-- King Lear

31. “Twelfth Night” is—

-- a comedy

32. Which book is a Tragedy?

-- Hamlet

33. „Macbeth‟ is —
-- a play

34. William Shakespeare is the author of-


-- King Lear

35. Which is not true of an English sonnet?


-- It has fourteen syllables in each line

36. William Shakespeare is a famous—


-- dramatist

37. The play „Romeo and Juliet‟ was written by-


-- William Shakespeare

38. Who wrote „The Tempest‟?


-- William Shakespeare

39. Romeo and Juliet is a—


-- Tragedy
40. William Shakespeare is not the author of—
-- White Devil

41. The poem „Under the Green Wood Tree‟ was written by—
-- William Shakespeare

42. Macbeth is a — by Shakespeare.


-- play

43. Who is the greatest dramatist of all times?


--William Shakespeare

44. Which of the following is a „Comedy‟ written by Shakespeare?

-- As You Like It

45. Who is the writer of „The Merchant of Venice‟?


-- William Shakespeare

46. Which is known as Shakespeare‟s Swansong?


-- The Tempest

47. „To be or not to be that is the question‟ From which novel the above sentence has
been taken?
-- Hamlet

48. One of the following plays is not a tragedy-

-- Tempest

49. Shakespeare was born in the year---


-- 1564

50. William Shakespeare is a famous ___ century English Playwright.


-- sixteenth

51. Shakespeare‟s King lear‟ is a ___


--Tragedy
52. In what year did Shakespeare die?
-- 1616 AD

53. Shakespeare wrote brilliant---


-- dramas

54. Hamlet is __
-- a tragedy by Shakespeare

55. „The Merchant of Venice‟ is a drama by __

-- William Shakespeare

56. Shakespeare‟s „Julius Caesar‟ is a --


-- tragedy

57. Who wrote the world famous tragic play „King Lear‟?
-- Shakespeare

58. মমননর চচচধমরনর "মমখর রমনন বসসকরণ" ককর চলখকর অনমবকদ?


-- William Shakespeare

59. Hamlet by Shakespeare is ----


-- a tragedy

60. Who is the author of „The Taming of the Shrew‟


-- Shakespeare

61. Hamlet is a __ by Shakespeare.


-- play

62. Shakespeare lived during the reign of -


-- Elizabeth i

63. Shakespearean play consists of -----


-- five acts

64. ঈশরচন সবদদকসকগররর "ভকসনসবলকস" চককন বইএর অনমবকদ?


-- The Comedy of Errors

65. „The Faerie Queene‟ is an---

-- Epic
66. Shakespeare‟s Macbeth is a ------
--Tragedy

67. „Comedy of Errors‟…

-- William Shakespeare

68. Shakespeare was famous for all but one of the following ----

-- Bourgeois Drama

69. „Dr. Faustus‟ was written by--

-- Christopher Marlowe

70. Christopher Marlowe is Shakespeare‟s


-- predecessor

71. What is the full name of the tragedy „Dr. Faustus‟?

-- The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

72. The beginning of the Renaissance may be traced to the country of—
-- Italy

73. A great playwright of Shakespeare time was-


-- Christopher Marlowe

74. Francis Bacon is a/an---


-- Essayist

75. Who is considered to be the father of English prose?


-- John Wyclif

76. Where is expressed the view that 'There is a divinity that shapes our, ends?'
-- In Hamlet

77. Who is called the poet of poets?

-- Edmund Spenser
78. Who wrote an epic „The Faerie Queen‟?

-- Edmund Spenser

79. Macbeth is written by--


William Shakespeare

80. Who wrote „The Ruins of Time‟?

-- Edmund Spenser

81. Who among the following was an English Renaissance Poet?


-- Sir Philip Sidney

82. Who wrote „An Apology for Poetry‟?

-- Sir Philip Sidney

83. Which of the following school of literature is connected with a medical theory?
-- Comedy of humours

84. „Silent Woman‟ written by---


-- Ben Jonson

85. Why is the poet so sad to see the Daffodils in „The Daffodils‟?

-- The poet is sad because the flowers remind him of his own death.

86. "I wandered lonely as a cloud‟ is an example of --


-- Simile

87. In „To Daffodils‟, human life is compared with:


―Morning‘s dew

88. ―Hasting day” in To Daffodils means- -- hurriedly passing day

89. Which two things of nature does Robert Herrick find similar to

human beings and daffodils?


-- summer‘s morning‘s dew

90. In the poem „To Daffodils‟ the poet weeps over---


Short-lived human life

91. Which word seems out of place?

-- cauliflower

92. The last line of “To daffodils” is


-- Ne‘re to be found again

93. Who used the term 'The Metaphysical poet'?

-- Samuel Johnson

94. Who is a Metaphysical poet?

-- Cowley

95. Who is not called the Metaphysical poet?

-- Alfred Tennyson

96. Who was a friend of John Milton?

-- Andrew Marvell

97. Who wrote the poem 'The Definition of Love.'

-- Andrew Marvell

98. The poem 'To His Coy Mistress' was written by-

-- Andrew Marvell

99. Who is the representative of the metaphysical poets?

-- John Donne
100. 'The Good Morrow' is a poem by-

-- John Donne

101. Who wrote the poem 'The Sun Rising'?

-- John Donne

102. Who is called the 'poet of love'?

-- John Donne

103. 'The Flea' by John Donne is-

a religious poem

104. Who was both a poet and a Priest?

-- George Herbert

105. Who wrote the poem 'The Collar'?

-- George Herbert

106. The poem 'Easter Wings' written by-

-- George Herbert

107. "To be or not to be, that is the ___ ."


-- question

108. Cowards die___ before their death.


-- many times

109. 'Knowledge is power' was stated by-


-- Hobbes

110. 'Frailty, Thy name is woman'-- in which of the following plays you find this?
-- Hamlet
111. 'Sweet are the uses of adversity' was stated by---
-- Shakespeare

112. 'To be or not to be' is the beginning of a famous soliloquy from-

-- Hamlet

113. 'Good face is the best letter of recommendation' was stated by--

-- Queen Elizabeth

114. 'Fair daffodils! We weep to see/ You haste away so soon;


As yet the early rising sun
Has not attained his noon.'
Who is the writer to these beautiful lines?

-- Robert Herrick

115. 'Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; writing an exact man' Who
said this?
-- Bacon

116. 'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed
and digestd.' Said-
-- Francis Bacon

117. 'Veni, Vidi, Vici' this quotation from Shakespeare's-


-- Julius Caesar

118. 'Cowards die many times before their death,'


-- Julius Caesar

119. „Faerie Queene‟ is a/an —


-- epic

120. 'All the perfumes of Arabian will not sweeten this little hand's is a quotation
from--
-- Macbeth
121. Who said 'Cowards die many times before their death.
-- Shakespeare

122. Calliban is a Character in—

-- Tempest

123. Brutus is a famous character of Shakespeare in—

-- Julius Caeser

124. 'Ophelia' is an important character in the Shakespearean play?

-- Hamlet

125. 'Blow, Blow thou winter wind/ Thu art not so unkind As man‟s ingratitude;/
They tooth is not so keen,
Although they breath be rude.'
These are a few lines of a poem of a great poet. Who is the poet?

-- W. Shakespeare

126. Who is called the poet of poets?


-- Edmund Spenser

127. Shylock is a character of—


-- The Merchant of Venice

128. Who is known as the father of English poetry? /Who is called the father of
English Poetry?
-- Chaucer

129. Who is the father of Modern English Poetry?


-- Geoffrey Chaucer

130. Who is considered to be the father of English Poem?


-- Geoffrey Chaucer
131. 'There are more things in heaven and earth,
Horatio,/ Than are dreamt of in our philosophy.' is taken from--
-- Hamlet

132. Who wrote “The Spanish Tragedy”?


-- Thomas Kyd

133. Robert Herrick was an English--


-- Poet

134. A poem of fourteen lines is called—


-- Sonnet

135. 'The Merchant of Venice' is a Shakespearean play about-


-- a Jew

136. 'Frailty the name is woman'-- is a famous dialogue from.


-- W. Shakespeare

137. Shakespeare's „Measure for Measure‟ is a successful---


-- Tragi-comedy

138. The sentence 'Who would have thought Shylock was so unkind?' expresses—
-- wonder

139. A Machiavellian character is—


-- a selfish person

140. '____' is Shakespeare's last play.


-- Tempest

141. Who has written the play 'Volpone'?


-- Ben Jonson

142. Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?


-- Iambic pentameter

143. Which of the following is not apoetic tradition?


-- The Occult
144. Othello gave Desdemona____ as a token of love:
-- Handkerchief

145. When a speaker speaks his thoughts aloud, it is called-

-- soliloquy

146. Soliloquy means -


-- talking to oneself

147. What is the meaning of 'Soliloquy'?


-- long self speech by an actor

148. A drama is a/an --


-- magical performnces on the stage

149. A tragedy does not have ____


-- an octave-sestet division

150. Comedy is -
-- a lignt play with a happy ending.

151. A comedy does not have__


-- catharsis

152. The hero or central character of a literary work is __


-- Protagonist

153. 'Protagonist' indicates__


-- the leading character or actor in a play

154. 'Melodrama' is a kind of play of-


-- violent and sensational themes

155. What is catastrope?


-- The tragic end of dramatic events
156. Climax is related to-
-- Drama

157. 'Much Ado About Nothing' is written by __

-- William Shakespeare

158. What is an act in a play?


-- a major division in the action of a play

159. 'Phoenix' is __
-- a mythical bird regenerating from ashess

160. Who is the 'Univesrsity Wits' in the following list?


-- Robert Greene

161. Andrew Marvell was a-


-- Metaphysical poet

162. Who, among the following playwrights, is Shakespeare's contemporary?

-- Christopher Marlowe

163. Shakespeare was not__.

-- a story writer

164. Which of the following is not true about Shakespeare?

-- Novelist

165. William Shakespeare wrote-

-- sonnets, tragedies and comedies

166. In Shakespearean tragedy, the hero is


-- a high ranking man
167. Ben Jonson introduced-
--comedy of humours

168. "Better three hours too soon than a minute too late" was said by-

-- Shakespeare

The Neoclassical Period(1660-1798)

01. 'Elegy Written is a Country Churchyard' is written by-


-- Thomas Gray

02. 'Paradise Lost' attempted to----


-- Justify the ways of God to man

03. Who wrote the famous poetic line 'To err is human, to forgive is divine'?

-- Pope

04. Edmund Spenser is a ---.


-- Poet

05. Who is the composer of 'Paradise Lost'?


-- John Milton

06. 'Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.' Who said this and where?
-- Satan in "Paradise Lost"

07. 'Paradise Lost' is a/an ----


-- epic poem

08. Who of the following is a famous epic poet in English literature? / Of the
following authors who wrote an epic?
-- John Milton

09. 'Paradise Regained' is an epic by-

-- John Milton
10.Who wrote 'Lycidas'?
-- John Milton

11. Who wrote 'Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise'?


-- Thomas Gray

12. Who is famous for his elegies?


-- Thomas Gray

13. Who wrote 'Gulliver's Travels'?


-- Jonathan Swift

14. 'A Voyage of Lilliput' is written by-


-- Jonathan Swift

15. Jonathan Swift is the author of-


-- Gulliver's Travels

16. The first English Dictionary was compiled by-


Samuel Johnson

17. Edmund Burke belonged to-


-- 18th century

18. The Romantic Age began with the publication of-


--Lyrical Ballads

19. 'To err is human, to forgive is divine' is written by-


-- Pope

20. Who was the famous mock-heroic poet in English literature?

-- Alexander Pope

21. The First English novel, Pamela has been written by-
-- Samuel Richardson

22. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding was first published in-


-- the 1st half of 18th century

23. 'A little learning is a dangerous thing' is a quotation from-

-- Alexander Pope
24. Who is considered to be the father of English novel?
-- Henry Fielding

25. Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Man" is a-


--Poem

26. Who wrote first English dictionary?/ Who is the author of the

first English dictionary?


-- Samuel Johnson

27. Who is the most famous satirist in English literature?


-- Jonathan Swift

28. Poet Alexander Pope's famous work-


-- The Rape of the Lock

29. "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,


And waste its sweetness in the desert air.'- -- Thomas Gray

30. A lexicographer is a person who writes-


-- Dictionaries

31. Paradise Regained is an epic written by-


-- Milton

32. Who was the famous mock-heroic poet in English literature?

-- Alexander Pope

33. Who is considered to be the father of English novel?


-- Henry Fielding

34. Who has written the poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?
-- Thomas Gray

35. 'Restoration period' in English literature refers to -


-- 1660

36. A mornful poem written on the death of someone's love is called_


-- elegy
37. Addison and Steele are known for-
-- The Spectator

38. 'A critic and lexicographer' applies to-


-- Johnson

39. An epic is based on__ performed by a hero.


-- heroic deeds

40. A 'canto' is -
-- a division of an epic

41. A novel in the form of letters is called-


-- epistolary novel

42. The narrator of a novel written in the third person is called -

narrator.
-- an omniscient

43. A work which has a meaning behind the surface meaning is__

-- an allegory

44. What is the meaning of the word 'Dirge'?


-- a song expressing grief, lamentation and mourning

45. Goethe is the greatest poet of___.


-- Germany

The Romantic Period (1798-1832)

01. Who is known as "the poet of nature" in English literature?


-- William Wordsworth

02. The poem 'The Solitary Reaper' is written by-


-- W. Wordsworth

03. Which of the following writers belongs to the Romantic period in English
literature?
-- S.T. Coleridge

04. The Romantic age in English literature began with the publication of---.
-- Preface of Lyrical Ballads

05. Ballad is —
-- a kind of short lyrical poem

06. 'Child is the father of man' is taken from the poem of---.
-- W. Wordsworth

07. The year 1798 is famous for---


-- Publication of lyrical ballads

08. Pioneer/s of Romanticism is/are-


-- Wordsworth & Coleridge

09. "Water, water, everywhere, not a drop to drink" is written by-


-- Coleridge

10. "Child is the father of man" is taken from the writings of —


-- W. Wordsworth

11. Romanticism is mainly connected with--


Love and beauty

12. Which is known as Romantic Period of English literature?

-- 1798-1832

13. Most important feature of a romantic poetry is/are--


-- Subjectivity & Imagination

14. 1798-1832 is known as----in English Literature.


-- The Romantic Age

15. Who of the following was both a poet and painter?


-- William Blake

16. The author of 'Songs of Innocence and of Experience' is--

-- William Blake
17. Who among the following is not a novelist?
-- Blake

18. One of the four mentioned below is not poet of Romantic age-
-- William Blake

19. William Wordsworth was a—


-- Poet

20. Why were The Daffodils in Wordsworth's I wandered Lonely as

a Cloud dancing?
-- There was a strong wind

21. In "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud" Wordsworth compares the

daffodils with—
-- the stars of the milky way

22. William Wordsworth is pre-eminently—


-- a poet of nature

23. The Daffodils is a poem written by—


-- William Wordsworth

24. Lyrical Ballads was published in the year-.


-- 1798

25. In 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' the daffodils gave the poet.

-- a great deal of pleasure

26. Who is contemporary poet of William Wordsworth?


-- S.T. Coleridge

27. Who is known as "the poet of nature in English literature"?


- William Wordsworth

28. In "The Solitary Reaper" what does the word solitary mean?
-- romantic

29. Wordsworth is a — poet.


-- romantic
30. The Solitary Reaper is a—
-- romantic poem

31. "Written in March" is a poem composed by-


-- William Wordsworth

32. Wordsworth was inspired by—


-- the French Revolution

33 Who wrote the poem "Solitary Reaper?"


-- Wordsworth

34. William Wordsworth wrote—


-- The Lucy Poems

35. Who wrote poem about Lucy?


-- William Wordsworth

36. Who wrote poem about 'Lucy'?


-- William Wordsworth

37. "The Daffodils" is a/an--


-- poem

38. The literary work "Kubla Khan" is—


-- a verse by Coleridge

39. P.B. Shelley is known as—


-- Romantic Poet

40. Who is the author of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?


-- S.T. Coleridge

41. Who was English poet addicted to opium?—


-- S.T. Coleridge

42. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a-


-- poem
43. Who wrote Prometheus Unbound?
-- Shelley

44. The phrase "trunk less legs" in the poem "Ozymandias" refers
-- legs without body

45. The statue of Ozymandias is—


-- in a desert

46. In Ozymandias, who saw the statue of Ozymandias?


-- a traveller

47. The central idea of "Ozymandias" is that—


-- all things, both great and small, will perish

48. In Shelly's "Ozymandias" frown, and sneer of cold command" are seen on—.
-- Shattered visage

49. "Ode to the west wind" is by—


-- Shelley

50. One of the following was a Romantic poet-


-- Shelley

51. A famous English poet who was professionally known as man of medicine is--
-- Keats

52. In Shelley's "Ozymandias" the words, 'My name is ozymandias,

king of kings' are inscribed on—


-- the pedestal of the statue

53. What lies half sunk in the sand in Shelley's Ozymandias?

-- broken head of a statue

54. In Ozymandias the poet says, 'I met a traveller— an—land.'


-- from, antique

55. Who is known as Poet of Skylark and Wind?

-- P B Shelley
56. Who is called the 'poet of beauty'?
-- John Keats

57. 'Ode to Autumn' was written by---


-- Keats

58. In the poem Ozymandias who calls Ozymandias "King of

Kings"?
Ozymandias himself

59. Keats belong to -


-- Nineteenth century

60. Poet of sensuousness-


-- John Keats

61. 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'-- Who is the poet of the poem?

-- Keats

62. The poet of 'Romantic Age' is--


-- John Keats
63. John Keats is primarily a poet of-
-- Beauty

64. Who died by tuberculosis?


-- John Keats

65. Who wrote 'Ode to a Nightingale?'


-- Keats
66. মমতমদ হরচ সনছকই 'A Short Sleep' উসকসট ককর?
-- Keats

67. John Keats was a---- poet?


-- Romantic
68. John Keats is known as a romantic poet. So is--
-- Lord Byron

69. Who is the author of 'Heaven and Earth'?


-- Lord Byron
70. Who is sometimes called 'Rebel Poet?'

-- Lord Byron

71. Who wrote the poem 'Don Juan'?


-- Lord Byron

72. Who is the author of 'Pride and Prejudice'? / Pride and Prejudice' is

written by--
-- Jane Austen

73. Which is not a play?


-- Pride and Prejudice

74. Jane Austen is the writer of--


-- Emma

75. 'Essays of Elia' was written by-


-- Charles Lamb

76. Charles Lamb was--


-- an essayist

77. 'If winter comes, can spring be far behind?' These lines were written by_
-- Shelley

78. Who wrote 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty'?


-- Keats

79. 'Our Sweetest songs are those that tell of a sadest thoughts is a

quotation from Shelley's --


-- Ode to a skylark

80. They__ in never-ending--


-- stretched, line

81. 'The Trumpet of prophecy! O wind. If winter comes, can spring be far behind?'
Who is the poet of these lines?
-- P. B. Shelley

82. 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever' was stated by---


-- John Keats
83. 'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her' is a quotation of--
-- Wordsworth

84. If Winter comes, can spring be far behind? is a line from---.


-- Shelley's Ode to West Wind

85. If Winter comes, can --- be far behind?


-- Spring

86. 'Ten thousand saw I at a glance' Who said this?


-- Wordsworth

87. 'The music in my heart I bore/ Long after it was heard no more.' These lines are
from the poem---
-- The Solitary Reaper by Wordsworth

88. Identify the Poet of the verse: 'Our sweetest songs are those that

tell of saddest thought.'


-- P. B. Shelley

89. 'Ten thousand saw I at a glance

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.'

What is the poet William Wordsworth referring to?


-- daffodils

90. Which ode begins with the lines?

'My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains.

My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.'


-- Ode to a Nightingale

91. Who has written?

'He prayeth best, who loveth best

All things great and small.'


-- Coleridge
92. 'Poet are unacknowledged legislators of the world'-- Who told it?
-- Shelley

93. Who is known as 'the poet of nature in English literature'?


-- William Wordsworth

94. Who was a 'poet laureate?


-- William Wordsworth

95. Who of the following was both a poet and painter?


-- Blake

96. Who is called the 'poet of beauty'?


-- John Keats

97. Poet of sensuousness--


-- John Keats

98. John Keats is primarily a poet of--


-- Beauty

99. The central idea of “I wandered lonely as a cloud” is that:


-- we can find solace in nature

100. “Ten thousand saw I at a glance” is an example of-


-- hyperbole

101. "The waves beside them danced" (from 'I wandered lonely as a

cloud') is an example of:


-- personification

102. The speaker of “I wandered lonely as a cloud" saw:


-- golden daffodils

103. William Hazlitt is a/an --


-- Essayist

104. Who wrote "Biographia Literaria"?


-- S.T. Coleridge

105. P.B. Shelley's 'Adonais' is an elegy on the death of -


-- John Keats
106. What figure of speech do you find in "budding beauty"?
-- Alliteration

107. Which of the following chronologycally in order-


-- Chaucer, Spenser, Shelley, Swinburae

108. Romantic poets are so called because _


-- they are connected more with heart than with head

109. In the poem "Ozymandias", The phrase "king of kings" is an example of-
irony

110. The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as

known to be -
simile

111. Whose dying words were, 'Crito, I owe a cock to Asceleping; will you remember
to the debt’.
Socretes

112. The 'merit' in the sentence 'The boy showed his merit by making twenty mistakes
in ten minutes' is an example of -
irony

113. The sentence, "Death, thou shalt not die'' is an example of__.

-- parsonification

114. Which of the following is a story in verse?


-- ballad

115. Prosody signifies the systematic study of __?


-- Versification

The Victorian Period(1831-1901)

01. 'David Copperfield' is a / an ----- novel.


-- Victorian
02. London town is found a living being in the work of- .
-- Charles Dickens

03. Who wrote 'Patriotism'?


-- Sir Walter Scott

04. Who excels in dramatic monologue?


-- Robert Browning

05. Who wrote the book 'Ivan Hoe'?


-- Sir Walter Scott

06. Which poetry is written by Sir Walter Scott?


-- Patriotism

07. In which century was the Victorian period?


-- 19th century

08. The Victorian age is named after-


-- Queen Victoria

09. Tennyson‟s 'In Memoriam' is-


-- an elegy

10. Who wrote the poem 'Ulysses'?


-- Alfred Tennyson

11. Tennyson wrote--


-- The Lotus-Eaters

12. 'The Falcon' is a comedy by-

-- Alfred Tennyson

13. Which of the following ages in literary history is the latest?


-- The Victorian Age

14. Browning was the composer of any of the following poems-


-- Andrea Del Sarto

15. Who is the poet of the Victorian age?


-- Matthew Arnold
& Robert Browning
16. Who among the following is not a recipient of the Nobel prize in Literature?
-- Robert Browning

17. The poem 'The Patriot' is written by-


-- Robert Browning

18. Browning wrote--


-- Rabbi Ben Ezra

19. Who is a Victorian Poet?

-- Matthew Arnold

20. 'The Scholar Gipsy' wrote by-


-- Matthew Arnold

21.Who is a French authors?


-- Alexandre Dumas

22. Matthew Arnold belongs to--


-- Victorian Age

23. Who is the author of the novel 'Three Musketeers?


-- Alexandre Dumas

24. 'Vanity Fair' is a ----


-- novel

25. Vanity Fair is a novel by--


-- Thackeray

26. The writer of David Copperfield is-


-- Charles Dickens

27. Who wrote the two famous novels, 'David Copperfield' and 'A Tale of
Two Cities'?
-- Charles Dickens

28. Charles Dickens was the writer of---


-- David Copperfield

29. A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by-


-- Dickens

30. Charles Dickens is a great-


-- novelist

31. Which book is written by Charles Dickens?


-- David Copperfield

32. Charles Dickens is not the novelist for one of the following-
-- Treasure Islam

33. Who did not receive Nobel Prize in Literature.


-- Leo Tolstoy

34. One of the four mentioned below is not a novelist of Modern Age in English
Language. Who is he?
-- Charles Dickens

35. Who is the author of the book "War and Peace?'


-- Leo Tolstoy

36. Leo Tolstoy is a-- novelist.


-- Russian

37. 'War and Peace' an epic late of Napoleonic invasion is written by-

-- Leo Tolstoy

38. The central idea of 'Under the greenwood tree' is that:


-- life in nature is simple and free

39. In 'Under the greenwood tree' which of the following is

mentioned as an 'enemy'?
-- forest

40. The Return of the native is written by-


-- Thomas Hardy

41. 'Sherlock Holmes' was written by---


-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

42. Who created the detective 'Sherlock Holmes'?


-- Sir A Conan Doyle
43. 'Govt. of the people, by the people for the people' was observed by-
-- Abraham Lincoln

44. 'You may fool some of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the
people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all time' was stated by-
-- Abraham Lincoln

45. 'Give me good mothers, I will give you a good nation' was the observation of-
Napoleon

46. Who is not Poet Laureate?


-- Robert Browning

47. Who was a peot Laureate after William Wordsworth?


-- Alfred Tennyson

48. Who is the author of “The Origin of Species,”


-- C. Darwin

49. Who is the author of "Arabian Nights"? -- Sir Richard Burton

50. Robert Browning was a ___ poet. Fill in the gap with appropriate word.
-- Victorian

51. The appropriate meaning of the word 'monologue' is -.


-- a long speech in a play spoken by one actor especially when alone

52. 'A song embodying religious and sacred emotions.'


-- Hymn

53. A novel is not written in ___.


-- rhyme

54. Who is the father of Short story?


-- Ellan Poe

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