MCQ’s on English (Lecturership Written Test)

Literary terms
1- Which has corrective purpose, expressed through a critical mode which ridicules or
otherwise attacks those conditions needing reformation in the opinion of the satirist?
a) irony b) hyperbole c) satire d) allegory
2 - How many lines does a sonnet have?
a) 10 b) 14 c) 12 d) they vary
3- Which is a type of protracted symbolism?
a) alliteration b) irony c) satire d) allegory
4- An extended narrative poem recounting actions, travels, adventures, and heroic episodes
and written in a high style is……..
a) sonnet b) heroic couplet c) epic d) ballad
5- What type of poem is Virgil’s “Aeneid”?
a) an epic b) a heroic couplet c) a sonnet d) a ballad
6- Samuel Richardson’s “Pamela” is ………………….?
a) an Epistolary novel b) an historical novel
c) a detective novel d) romantic novel
7- The substitution of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt
one is called ------------.
a) connotation b) denotation c) exaggeration d) euphemism
8- The metrical foot having an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable is called……….….
a) trochee b) dactyl c) anapest d) iambus
9- An actor’s speech, directed to the audience, that is not supposed to be heard by other
actors on stage is called …………………. .
a) soliloquy b) monologue c) aside d) speech
10- A character in a story or poem who deceives, frustrates, or works against the main
character, or hero/heroine in some way is called ……………….. .
a) protagonist b) antagonist c) speaker d) alter ego
11- ……………………… is the final outcome of the main complication in a play or story.
a) climax b) denouement c) anticlimax d) catastrophe
12- …………………… is a literary device that is used when a character reveals his or her
innermost thoughts and feelings, those that are hidden throughout the course of the story
line, through a poem or a speech.
a) aside b) dramatic monologue c) colloquy d) soliloquy
13- A type of literature defined as a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation,
usually for one who has died is called …………………. .
a) eulogy b) elegy c) blank verse d) eloquent speech
14- An extravagant exaggeration is called ………………………. .
a) extravagance b) requiem c) hyperbole d) eloquence
15- A literary term referring to how a person, situation, statement, or circumstance is not
as it would actually seem is ………………..
a) extravagance b) irony c) hyperbole d) eloquence
16- …………….. is a figure of speech which substitutes one term with another that is being
associated with the that term.
a) anatomy b) irony c) hyperbole d) metonymy
17- Alexander Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock” is an instance of ……………………. .
a) fine poetry b) ironic poetry c) inverted epic d) onomatopoeia
18- The rhythmic pattern produced when words are arranged so that their stressed and
unstressed syllables fall into a more or less regular sequence, resulting in repeated patterns
of accent is called ………………. .
a) foot b) versification c) meter d) personification
19- …………….a foot or unit of poetry consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a
single stressed syllable.
a) dactyl b) anapest c) rhyming couplet d) anaphora
20- verse structure that includes nine feet is called …………….. .
a) Dimeter b) Trimeter c) Heptameter d) Nonameter
Poetry
1-How many female characters are there in The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales?
a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4
2- Chaucer is called ----------------------------------------- .
a) a poet b) the father of English poetry c) the third English poet d) the boring poet
3- Chaucer mentions ……………………….. in his work.
a) a great flood b) a horrible tempest c) black death d) a stormy rain
4- Chaucer used ------------------- in his poetry.
a) verse b) heroic couplet c) blank verse d) free verse
5- Which poet turned blind?
a) Chaucer b) Byron c) Pope d) Milton
6- Pope is famous for ---------------------- .
a) irony b) satire c) drama d) allegory
7- The Rape of the Lock is a --------------------------------- .
a) a social treatise b) a social document c) a social poem d) a social satire
8- Milton reviewed ------ themes before finalizing the fall of Man in Paradise Lost.
a) 100 b) 200 c) 99 d) 150
9- Chaucer has idealized the ------------- in The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
a) clerk b) Merchant c) Miller d) Parson
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Drama

Novel

Criticism

Grammar
1- Any group of

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

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which century were Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales written?

'Jane Eyre' was written by which Bronte sister?

hat is the book 'Lord of the Flies' about?

The following taboo phrases were used by which writer?

"I fart at thee", "shit on your head', "dirty bastard"

Geoffrey Chaucer
served which
king?

a. Richard III

b. James 1

c. Edward III

d. Henry II

The 18th century work 'Tom Jones'was written by whom?

a. Samuel Johnson

b. Henry Fielding

c. John Donne

d. Tobias Smollett

Joyce's novel 'Ulysses' takes place over what period of time?

a. A week

b. 24 hours

c. A lifetime

d. 6 months

John Milton wrote 'Paradise lost' during which century?

a. 15th

b. 16th

c. 17th

d. 18th

shakespear's twelfth
night is what type of
work

a. comedy

b. tragedy

c. heroic

d. none

the prevailing feature of chaucer's humour is its

a. urbanity

b. crudity

c. triviality
 d. sancity

who is the first great english critic-poet?

a. shakespear

b. arnold

c. sidney

d. chaucer

"A thing of beauty is joy for ever " written by

a. Byron

b. John Keats

c. Sheely

d. Wordsworth

the contemporary of shakespeare is

a. Ben Johnson

b. Cowley

william
c.
wordsworth

d. Longman

Middle English Literature lasted upto

a. 1370s

b. 1450s

c. 1640s

d. 1470s

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