Questions

Here are the multiple-choice questions (MCQs) based on the provided questions and answers:
1. "_______ - wrongly believing that other people are trying to harm you or are saying bad things
about you."
A) Paranoid
B) Introverted
C) Wise
D) Cynical
Answer: A) Paranoid
2. "_______ - having the knowledge or experience to make good and sensible decisions and
judgments."
A) Paranoid
B) Wise
C) Educated
D) Cynical
Answer: B) Wise
3. "_______ - having studied and learned a lot of things to a high standard."

A) Wise
B) Educated
C) Cynical
D) Introverted
Answer: B) Educated
4. "_______ humor - sarcastic; mocking."

A) Paranoid
B) Wise
C) Educated
D) Cynical
Answer: D) Cynical
5. "_______ - a quiet, shy person who prefers to be alone rather than with other people."
A) Paranoid
B) Wise
C) Educated
D) Introverted
Answer: D) Introverted
6. Margaret Atwood won the ________ twice for The Blind Assassin in 2000 and The Testaments in
2019."
A) Nobel Prize
B) Pulitzer Prize
C) Booker Prize
D) Man Booker International Prize
Answer: C) Booker Prize
Sure, here are the multiple-choice questions (MCQs) based on the provided questions and answers:
1. Bosola is a character in **-** Which play by John Webster?

A) The White Devil
B) The Duchess of Malfi
C) The Malcontent
D) The Devil's Law Case
**Answer: B) The Duchess of Malfi**
2. "To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." lines
from **-** Which poem by William Wordsworth?
A) Ode to Duty
B) Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
C) Ode on Intimations of Immortality
D) The Prelude
**Answer: C) Ode on Intimations of Immortality**
3. The heavenly muse in Book VII of Paradise Lost is **-** Who according to Greek mythology?
A) Clio
B) Urania
C) Calliope
D) Erato
**Answer: B) Urania**
4. The Dance of Eunuchs (poem) by **-** Which Indian poet?

A) Kamala Das
B) Rabindranath Tagore
C) Arundhati Roy
D) Sarojini Naidu
**Answer: A) Kamala Das**
5. The Old Man and the Sea recounts the 84 days adventure of **-** Who?
A) Santiago
B) Hemingway
C) Cortez
D) Magellan
**Answer: A) Santiago**
6. Original title of Mulk Raj Anand's Gauri is **-** What?

A) The Old Woman and the Cow
B) The Sacred Cow
C) The Lost Cow
D) The Lonely Cow
**Answer: A) The Old Woman and the Cow**
7. Interpretive community **-** Who introduced this concept in literary theory?

A) Jacques Derrida
B) Michel Foucault
C) Stanley Fish
D) Roland Barthes
**Answer: C) Stanley Fish**
8. Who says about Sidney, "He sends up the joyous fireworks of the Italian Renaissance. His colors
are enthusiastic, Neo-Platonic, and ideal"? **-** Which literary critic?
A) Northrop Frye
B) Cleanth Brooks
C) Wimsatt
D) Harold Bloom
**Answer: C) Wimsatt**
9. The Philosophy of Composition is written by **-** Which American author?

A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Herman Melville
D) Henry James
**Answer: B) Edgar Allan Poe**
10. The phrase "union of heart and head" strikes the keynote of the theory of criticism of **-**
Whose theory?
A) Wordsworth's theory of imagination
B) Coleridge's theory of imagination
C) Shelley's theory of imagination
D) Keats's theory of imagination
**Answer: B) Coleridge's theory of imagination**
11. Rewrite rules is related to **-** What concept in linguistics?

A) Syntax
B) Morphology
C) Semantics
D) Pragmatics
**Answer: A) Syntax**
12. Valentine and Proteus are gentlemen in **-** Which Shakespearean play?
A) Much Ado About Nothing
B) Romeo and Juliet
C) The Two Gentlemen of Verona
D) Hamlet
**Answer: C) The Two Gentlemen of Verona**
13. Who was the first translator of Virgil's work (Aeneid) into English? **-** Who?
A) Geoffrey Chaucer
B) Edmund Spenser
C) Gawin Douglas
D) John Milton
**Answer: C) Gawin Douglas**
14. Which work by Foucault is based on the text he submitted for his doctorate in 1960? **-** What
is the title of the work?
A) Discipline and Punish
B) The Archaeology of Knowledge
C) Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
D) The Order of Things
**Answer: C) Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason**
15. The Order of Things -- the book that established Foucault's reputation in France was published in
the year **-** Which year?
A) 1960
B) 1963
C) 1966
D) 1970
**Answer: C) 1966**
1. "Don Juan" has how many cantos?

A) 10
B) 12
C) 16
D) 20
Answer: C) 16
2. "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" was written by which author?

A) T. S. Eliot
B) William Wordsworth
C) John Keats
D) W. B. Yeats
Answer: A) T. S. Eliot
3. In 1992, a middle-aged Jimmy returned to the stage in which play?

A) Look Back In Anger
B) Death of a Salesman
C) A Streetcar Named Desire
D) Waiting for Godot
Answer: A) Look Back In Anger
4. Who is the central character in Eugene O'Neill's "The Hairy Ape"?

A) John Smith
B) Bob Smith
C) Harry Jones
D) Tom Brown
Answer: B) Bob Smith
5. The novel "The French Lieutenant's Woman" features which central characters?
A) James Smith and Mary Johnson
B) Charles Smithson and Sara Woodruff
C) William Brown and Emily White
D) Thomas Miller and Elizabeth Green
Answer: B) Charles Smithson and Sara Woodruff
6. Who is the author of "I Felt a Funeral in my Brain"?
A) Andrew Bird
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Robert Frost
D) Sylvia Plath
Answer: B) Emily Dickinson
7. What is the full title of Sri Aurobindo's work Savitri?

A) A Tale of Love and Loss
B) A Poem of Light
C) A Legend and a Symbol
D) An Epic Journey
Answer: C) A Legend and a Symbol
8. Who said, "Form is everything, it is the secret of life"?

A) Oscar Wilde
B) William Shakespeare
C) Charles Dickens
D) Jane Austen
Answer: A) Oscar Wilde
9. What term refers to a sudden radiance or revelation while observing a commonplace object?
A) Epiphany
B) Revelation
C) Enlightenment
D) Illumination
Answer: A) Epiphany
10. The error of interpreting a work by reference to the plan or design of the author is termed as
________.
A) Authorial Interpretation
B) Literary Design Theory
C) Intentional Fallacy
D) Authorial Intent
Answer: C) Intentional Fallacy
11. Who was the editor of the Daily News?

A) William Wordsworth
B) Charles Dickens
C) Virginia Woolf
D) George Orwell
Answer: B) Charles Dickens
12. Name an unfinished work by Virginia Woolf.

A) To the Lighthouse
B) Orlando
C) Between the Acts
D) Mrs. Dalloway
Answer: C) Between the Acts
13. Name an incomplete work of Milton.

A) Paradise Lost
B) Samson Agonistes
C) Areopagitica
D) History of Britain
Answer: D) History of Britain
14. Who wrote "The Siege of Krishnapur"?

A) J. G. Farrell
B) Salman Rushdie
C) Arundhati Roy
D) V. S. Naipaul
Answer: A) J. G. Farrell
15. Bernard Shaw boldly confronts two contemporary woman issues in which works?
A) Arms and the Man
B) Mrs. Warren's Profession and Pygmalion
C) Man and Superman
D) Candida
Answer: B) Mrs. Warren's Profession and Pygmalion
Certainly! Here's the Multiple-Choice Question (MCQ) format using the provided questions and
answers:
1. A term applied to language which strikes the ear as smooth, pleasant, and musical is ________.
A) Euphony
B) Cacophony
C) Harmony
D) Melody
**Answer: A) Euphony**
2. Who is the mad woman in Jane Eyre?

A) Bertha Mason
B) Mrs. Reed
C) Adele Varens
D) Helen Burns
**Answer: A) Bertha Mason**
3. The 3 sections of To the Lighthouse are ________, ________, and ________.

A) The Window, Time Passes, and The Lighthouse
B) The Arrival, The Gathering, and The Departure
C) The Beginning, The Middle, and The End
D) The Morning, The Afternoon, and The Evening
**Answer: A) The Window, Time Passes, and The Lighthouse**
4. The name of the painter in To the Lighthouse is ________.

A) Lily Briscoe
B) Mrs. Ramsay
C) Charles Tansley
D) Augustus Carmichael
**Answer: A) Lily Briscoe**
5. Who is the editor of Jane Austen's novels and letters?

A) William Gifford
B) John Murray
C) Charlotte Brontë
D) Emily Dickinson
**Answer: A) William Gifford**
6. Who is the founder of the Martian School of Poetry?

A) Christopher Reid
B) Ted Hughes
C) Philip Larkin
D) Seamus Heaney
**Answer: A) Christopher Reid**
7. Who is the heroine of The Mill on the Floss?

A) Maggie Tulliver
B) Tom Tulliver
C) Philip Wakem
D) Lucy Deane
**Answer: A) Maggie Tulliver**
8. What is Floss in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss?

A) The River
B) A Character's Name
C) A Town
D) A Plantation
**Answer: A) The River**
9. Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is set in ________ Town, Nigeria.
A) Igbo
B) Lagos
C) Abuja
D) Kano
**Answer: A) Igbo**
10. George Orwell's allegory on the failure of Russian Socialism under Stalin is ________.
A) Animal Farm
B) 1984
C) Homage to Catalonia
D) Burmese Days
**Answer: A) Animal Farm**
Here's a set of multiple-choice questions based on the provided questions and answers:
1. Who is known as “The Poet of Nature” in English literature?

A) Lord Tennyson
B) John Milton
C) William Wordsworth
D) John Keats
Answer: C) William Wordsworth
2. Who is the most famous satirist in English literature?

A) Alexander Pope
B) Jonathan Swift
D) Samuel Butler
Answer: B) Jonathan Swift
3. Who is the author of “A Farewell to Arms”?
A) T. S. Eliot
B) John Milton
C) George Bernard Shaw
D) Ernest Hemingway
Answer: D) Ernest Hemingway
4. Who wrote the world-famous tragic play “King Lear”?

A) George Bernard Shaw
C) Christopher Marlowe
D) John Milton
Answer: B) William Shakespeare
5. “Paradise Lost” was written by_.

A) Mathew Arnold
B) Robert Browning
C) John Milton
D) W.B Yeats
Answer: C) John Milton
6. Who compiled the English dictionary for the first time?

A) Samuel Butler
B) Alexander Pope
D) Samuel Johnson
Answer: D) Samuel Johnson
7. “The Merchant of Venice” is a Shakespearean play about ______.

A) a Jew
B) a Moor
C) a Roman
D) a Turk
Answer: A) a Jew
8. Who of the following was both a poet and painter?

A) Keats
B) Donne
C) Blake
D) Spenser
Answer: C) Blake
9. Shakespeare is known mostly for his-

A) Poetry
B) Novels
C) Autobiography
D) Plays
Answer: D) Plays
10. Who is called the “Poet of Beauty”?

A) Edmund Spenser
B) P. B. Shelly
C) John Keats
D) William Wordsworth
Answer: C) John Keats
11. Who is the modern philosopher who was awarded Nobel Prize for Literature?
A) James Baker
B) Dr. Kissinger
C) Bertrand Russell
D) Lenin
Answer: C) Bertrand Russell
12. In which year Shakespeare died?

A) 1570 AD
B) 1580 AD
C) 1630 AD
D) 1616 AD
Answer: D) 1616 AD
13. Who is the author of "Animal Farm"?

A) Ernest Hemingway
B) George Orwell
C) Boris Pasternak
D) Charles Dickens
Answer: B) George Orwell
14. Who is the author of the book "Of Human Bondage"?

A) Charles Dickens
B) Somerset Maugham
C) Jane Austen
D) D.H Laurence
Answer: B) Somerset Maugham
15. Charles Dickens is a great______?

A) poet
B) critic
C) playwright
D) novelist
Answer: D) novelist
16. Who is the author of the book "A Brief History of Time"?
A) Stephen Hawking
B) Albert Einstein
C) Newton
D) Chadwick
Answer: A) Stephen Hawking
17. Who is the greatest modern English Dramatist?

A) William Shakespeare
B) George Bernard Shaw
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) S.T Coleridge
Answer: B) George Bernard Shaw
18. "Gulliver's Travels" was written by :?

A) Jonathan Swift
B) Leo Tolstoy
C) Rudyard Kipling
D) Charles Dickens
Answer: A) Jonathan Swift
19. Who was a statesman but awarded Nobel Prize in Literature?

A) Joseph Stalin
B) Richard Nixon
C) Winston Churchill
D) Franklin Roosevelt
Answer: C) Winston Churchill
20. Which period is known as "The Golden Age of English Literature"?

A) The Victorian Age
B) The Eighteenth Century
C) The Restoration
D) The Elizabethan Age
Answer: D) The Elizabethan Age
Certainly! Here are the multiple-choice questions based on the provided information:
1. The lines "and there I shut her wild wild eyes with kisses four" occurs in which poem?
A) The Waste Land
B) La Belle Dame Sans Merci
C) Ode to a Nightingale
D) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Answer: B) La Belle Dame Sans Merci
2. "Holy Living and Holy Dying" was written by whom?

A) John Bunyan
B) Thomas Browne
C) Jeremy Taylor
D) John Donne
Answer: C) Jeremy Taylor
3. Who is the famous 16th-century translator of Ovid's Metamorphoses?

A) Sir Arthur Golding
B) John Florio
C) Thomas North
D) Thomas Wyatt
Answer: A) Sir Arthur Golding
4. A comically brisk effect is achieved in Samuel Butler's satirical poem "Hudibras" by the use of
what?
A) Blank verse
B) Sonnet form
C) Mock-heroic verse
D) Free verse
Answer: C) Mock-heroic verse
5. What term used by Mikhail Bakhtin describes the relativity and vitality of the novel?
A) Monologue
B) Monophony
C) Polyphony
D) Epiphany
Answer: C) Polyphony
6. What is a stanza of 9 lines with the last line having 12 syllables called?
A) Petrarchan Stanza
B) Spenserian Stanza
C) Terza Rima
D) Ottava Rima
Answer: B) Spenserian Stanza
7. Which character is modeled on the "king of nonsense" Thomas Shadwell?

A) Mac Flecknoe
B) Gulliver
C) Falstaff
D) Tartuffe
Answer: A) Mac Flecknoe
8. What is the title of Horace Walpole's gothic novel that is often called the "nightmare of Walpole"?
A) The Mysteries of Udolpho
B) Frankenstein
C) Castle of Otranto
D) Dracula
Answer: C) Castle of Otranto
9. In which year was Samuel Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare published?

A) 1739
B) 1765
C) 1800
D) 1850
Answer: B) 1765
10. What is an example of comparative criticism?
A) Preface to the Fable
B) Critique of Pure Reason
C) The Golden Bough
D) The Interpretation of Dreams
Answer: A) Preface to the Fable
11. In which year was The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin published?
A) 1809
B) 1837
C) 1859
D) 1882
Answer: C) 1859
12. Who is the President of the Immortals in Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles?
A) Angel Clare
B) Alec d'Urberville
C) Mr. Brocklehurst
D) He concluded his sport with Tess
Answer: D) He concluded his sport with Tess
13. Name the characters Faith, Hope, and Giant Despair from which literary work?
A) The Faerie Queene
B) The Canterbury Tales
C) Pilgrim's Progress
D) Paradise Lost
Answer: C) Pilgrim's Progress
14. What is referred to as the "age of Gilded Age"?

A) 1790
B) 1832
C) 1865
D) 1890
Answer: D) 1890
15. From which work does the line "Terrible beauty is born" by W. B. Yeats come from?
A) The Second Coming
B) Sailing to Byzantium
C) Easter 1916
D) The Tower
Answer: C) Easter 1916
16. Who is a member of the Spectator Club?

A) Sir Roger de Coverley
B) Mr. Pickwick
C) Sherlock Holmes
D) Holden Caulfield
Answer: A) Sir Roger de Coverley
17. According to Aristotle, what is the soul of tragedy?

A) Character
B) Language
C) Thought
D) Plot
Answer: D) Plot
18. Which play features the character Enobarbus?

A) Julius Caesar
B) Hamlet
C) Antony and Cleopatra
D) Macbeth
Answer: C) Antony and Cleopatra
19. According to A. C. Bradley, what is destiny?

A) Character
B) Thought
C) Plot
D) Language
Answer: A) Character
20. Who is the author of The Playboy of the Western World?

A) Samuel Beckett
B) J. M. Synge
C) Sean O'Casey
D) Brian Friel
Answer: B) J. M. Synge
21. Where was Murder in the Cathedral first performed in 1935?

A) Westminster Abbey
B) St. Paul's Cathedral
C) Canterbury Cathedral
D) York Minster
Answer: C) Canterbury Cathedral
22. What are Bernard Shaw's plays often called?

A) Plays of Action
B) Plays of Ideas
C) Plays of Emotion
D) Plays of History
Answer: B) Plays of Ideas
23. Who did Aziz supposedly assault in the caves in "A Passage to India"?
A) Mrs. Moore
B) Fielding
C) Adela
D) McBryde
Answer: C) Adela
24. What narrative technique is used in Mrs. Dalloway?

A) Third-person limited
B) Omniscient
C) Stream of Consciousness
D) Epistolary
Answer: C) Stream of Consciousness
25. Who said "the poetry is in the pity"?

A) Wilfred Owen
B) T. S. Eliot
C) W. B. Yeats
D) Ezra Pound
Answer: A) Wilfred Owen
Sure, here are multiple-choice questions (MCQs) based on the provided questions and answers:
1. Jonathan Swift’s patron is:

A) Sir William Temple
B) Sir Walter Scott
C) Sir Thomas More
D) Sir Francis Bacon
Answer: A) Sir William Temple
2. Who wrote "The Cock Crows at Night"?

A) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Sylvia Plath
D) Robert Browning
Answer: A) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
3. The Roman writer inspired by Elizabethan plays is:
A) Ovid
B) Virgil
C) Horace
D) Seneca
Answer: D) Seneca
4. "Heroes and Hero Worship" is by:

A) Thomas Hardy
B) Thomas Carlyle
C) Thomas More
D) Thomas Jefferson
Answer: B) Thomas Carlyle
5. Who suggested Pope to write "The Rape of the Lock"?

A) John Crayle
C) Alexander Pope
D) Samuel Johnson
Answer: A) John Crayle
6. Spenser celebrates his wedding in:

A) Sonnet 18
B) Epithalamion
C) Paradise Lost
D) The Canterbury Tales
Answer: B) Epithalamion
7. "Lives of the Poets" is by:

A) Samuel Johnson
C) John Milton
D) Geoffrey Chaucer
Answer: A) Samuel Johnson
8. Miriam in "Sons and Lovers" is:

A) The mother of Paul Morel
B) The sister of Paul Morel
C) The lover of Paul Morel
D) The aunt of Paul Morel
Answer: B) The sister of Paul Morel
9. Dorothy Richardson used which technique in her writing?

A) Epistolary novel
B) Stream of consciousness
C) Gothic elements
D) Historical fiction
Answer: B) Stream of consciousness
10. The name of Sophie’s father in "Tom Jones" is:

A) Captain Fitzwilliam
B) Captain Fitzpatrick
C) Captain Wentworth
D) Captain Hook
Answer: B) Captain Fitzpatrick
11. Children of Alice called father:

A) William
B) Henry
C) James
D) Edward
Answer: A) William
12. Who is considered the wisest, brightest, and meanest according to the text?
A) Men
B) Children
C) Women
D) Elders
Answer: C) Women
13. "Pamela" is written in which form?

A) Novel
B) Drama
C) Epic
D) Epistolary novel
Answer: D) Epistolary novel
14. Items that indicate grammar categories in phrase structure are called:
A) Sentences
B) Paragraphs
C) Words
D) Constituents
Answer: D) Constituents
15. "Swasika" is a poem by:

B) John Keats
C) Rabindranath Tagore
D) Robert Frost
Answer: C) Rabindranath Tagore
16. Stephen Gosson wrote "__________ against Poetry"?

A) A Defense
B) A School of Abuse
C) An Ode
D) A Manifesto
Answer: B) A School of Abuse
17. "The Jew of Malta" is by:

B) Christopher Marlowe
C) Ben Jonson
D) Thomas Kyd
Answer: B) Christopher Marlowe
18. The lyrical ballad was published in:

A) 1678
B) 1798
C) 1888
D) 1998
Answer: B) 1798
19. Stephen's Ulysses denotes a mythical character:

A) Telemachus
B) Odysseus
C) Penelope
D) Athena
Answer: A) Telemachus
20. The Restoration period in literature is around:

A) 1500
B) 1600
C) 1660
D) 1700
Answer: C) 1660
21. The land of small men in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is called:

A) Brobdingnag
B) Laputa
C) Lilliput
D) Houyhnhnms
Answer: C) Lilliput
Here are the multiple-choice questions (MCQs) based on the provided questions and answers:
1. Thomas Hardy introduced Wessex in which work?

A) Tess of the d'Urbervilles
B) Jude the Obscure
C) Far from the Madding Crowd
D) The Mayor of Casterbridge
**Answer: C) Far from the Madding Crowd**
2. The subtitle for women writers in 19th-century literature is?

A) With Courage
B) Beyond Boundaries
C) Without "the"
D) Empowering Voices
**Answer: C) Without "the"**
3. The first mention of Shakespeare’s play is found in?

A) Quarto edition
B) First Folio (1623)
C) A scholarly journal
D) A private letter
**Answer: B) First Folio (1623)**
4. Who wrote "Sonnet from the Portuguese"?

A) Emily Dickinson
B) Sylvia Plath
C) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
D) Christina Rossetti
**Answer: C) Elizabeth Barrett Browning**
5. Which type of sonnet has ten and a half stanzas?

A) Petrarchan Sonnet
B) Spenserian Sonnet
C) Curtal Sonnets
D) Shakespearean Sonnet
**Answer: C) Curtal Sonnets**
6. "Totels miscellany" was published in?

A) 1572
B) 1557
C) 1603
D) 1598
**Answer: B) 1557**
7. Blank verse was introduced in which work?

A) Tamburlaine
B) The Spanish Tragedy
C) Doctor Faustus
D) Edward II
**Answer: C) Doctor Faustus**
8. Who wrote "Deserted Village"?

A) Jonathan Swift
B) Oliver Goldsmith
C) Samuel Johnson
D) Alexander Pope
**Answer: B) Oliver Goldsmith**
9. Masque is used highly in works by whom?
B) John Milton
D) Geoffrey Chaucer
**Answer: B) John Milton**
10. Satan is depicted as ruling hell and leading the fallen angels in which epic poem?
A) Beowulf
B) The Divine Comedy
C) Paradise Lost
D) The Iliad
**Answer: C) Paradise Lost**
11. Belinda is a character in which poem?

A) The Waste Land
B) The Prelude
C) The Rape of the Lock
D) Don Juan
**Answer: C) The Rape of the Lock**
12. Which poem contains the line "We can die by it if not live by it"?
A) Ode to a Nightingale
B) Ode on a Grecian Urn
C) Ode to the West Wind
D) Ode to Autumn
**Answer: C) Ode to the West Wind**
13. Who coined the phrase "Carpe diem"?

A) Virgil
B) Horace
C) Ovid
D) Juvenal
**Answer: B) Horace**
14. Who wrote the "Holy Sonnets"?

B) John Donne
C) Andrew Marvell
D) George Herbert
**Answer: B) John Donne**
15. In Samson Agonistes, what does "Agonistes" mean?

A) Warrior
B) Hero
C) Struggle or Competition (in Greek)
D) Conqueror
**Answer: C) Struggle or Competition (in Greek)**
16. In Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel," Zimri is a parallel to whom?

A) David
B) Solomon
C) Absalom
D) Charles II
**Answer: D) Charles II**
17. What is the subtitle of "The Prelude" by William Wordsworth?

A) An Ode to Nature
B) The Growth of a Poet's Mind
C) Reflections on Life
D) A Journey through Time
**Answer: B) The Growth of a Poet's Mind**
Here's the multiple-choice question based on the provided questions and answers:
1. Who introduced "THE MINUTES OF EDUCATION" bill in the British Parliament?

A) Charles Lamb
B) Thomas Babington Macaulay
C) Winston Churchill
D) I. A. Richards
Answer: B) Thomas Babington Macaulay
2. What was the pen name of Charles Lamb?

A) Elia
B) Ben Johnson
C) Thomas Babington Macaulay
D) Winston Churchill
Answer: A) Elia
3. Which great British statesman received the Nobel Prize in Literature?

A) John Dryden
B) James Hogg
C) Ben Johnson
Answer: D) Winston Churchill
4. According to I. A. Richards, what were the two uses of language?

A) Scientific and Referential
B) Motive and Referential
C) Motive and Scientific
D) Literary and Scientific
Answer: B) Motive and Referential
5. Who is the character "Ms. Malaprop" in?

A) The Rivals
B) Aureng Zebe
C) Riders to Sea
D) Romeo and Juliet
Answer: A) The Rivals
6. "Aureng Zebe" is a work written by whom?

A) John Dryden
B) Charles Lamb
C) Ben Johnson
D) Thomas Babington Macaulay
Answer: A) John Dryden
7. Who is the famous comedy humorist?

A) John Dryden
B) Charles Lamb
C) Ben Johnson
D) Thomas Babington Macaulay
Answer: C) Ben Johnson
8. Actresses were introduced during which period?

A) The Victorian Era
B) The Elizabethan Age
C) The Restoration Period
D) The Romantic Era
Answer: A) The Victorian Era
9. Who is the missing son of Mauriah in J.M. Synge's "Riders to Sea"?

A) Bartley
B) Thomas Babington Macaulay
C) Ben Johnson
Answer: A) Bartley
10. Plays in which characters are personifications of abstract supporting characters are called?
A) Morality Plays
B) Mystery Plays
C) Miracle Plays
D) Passion Plays
Answer: A) Morality Plays
11. Medieval plays in English based on the Bible were called?

A) Mystery Plays
B) Morality Plays
C) Miracle Plays
D) Passion Plays
Answer: A) Mystery Plays
12. Which of Shakespeare's plays is the only one to have a chorus?

A) Romeo and Juliet
B) Macbeth
C) Othello
D) Hamlet
Answer: A) Romeo and Juliet
Here are the multiple-choice questions based on the provided information:
1. "Lady we receive what we give" is from the poem "DEJECTION: AN ODE" by whom?
B) Percy Bysshe Shelley
C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D) John Keats
Answer: C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2. The subtitle of the poem "KUBLA KHAN" is:

A) "A Vision in a Dream"
B) "A Fragment"
C) Both A and B
D) None of the above
Answer: C) Both A and B
3. The three Upanishad terms used by T.S. Eliot in "The Waste Land" are:
A) DATTA
B) DAYADHVAM
C) DAMYATA
D) All of the above
Answer: D) All of the above
4. According to Bacon, what are "hostages to fortune"?

A) Wife and children
B) Wealth and possessions
C) Fame and glory
Answer: A) Wife and children
5. "EMINENT VICTORIANS" was written by:

A) Virginia Woolf
B) Lytton Strachey
C) George Orwell
D) Charles Dickens
Answer: B) Lytton Strachey
6. Total freedom of expression is the theme of Milton's:

A) Paradise Lost
B) Areopagitica
C) Lycidas
D) Comus
Answer: B) Areopagitica
7. The book by Ruskin which was influenced by Gandhi is:

A) Modern Painters
B) The Seven Lamps of Architecture
C) Unto This Last
D) The Stones of Venice
Answer: C) Unto This Last
8. According to Arnold, "19th-century British society consists of":

A) Philistines and Barbarians
B) Aristocrats and Elites
C) Intellectuals and Artists
Answer: A) Philistines and Barbarians
9. "THE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD" was written by:

A) Charles Dickens
B) Jonathan Swift
C) Oliver Goldsmith
D) Samuel Johnson
Answer: C) Oliver Goldsmith
10. The king in "Idles and the King" is:

A) King Lear
B) King Arthur
C) King Richard III
D) King Henry VIII
Answer: B) King Arthur
Here are the multiple-choice questions based on the provided information:
1. Goldsmith' s "She Stoops to Conquer" is a reaction against:
A) Epic poetry
B) Sentimental comedy
C) Tragedy
D) Romantic poetry
Answer: B) Sentimental comedy
2. "M
easure for M
easure" is a tragicomedy set in:
A) Athens
B) London
C) Vienna
D) Paris
Answer: C) Vienna
3. The refrain of Spenser's "Prothalamion" is:
A) "Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song."

B) "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may."
C) "To be or not to be, that is the question."
D) "O what a tangled web we weave."
Answer: A) "Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song."
4. Herrick, Lovelace, and Suckling are known as:
A) Romantic Poets
B) Metaphysical Poets
C) Cavalier Poets
D) Modernist Poets
Answer: C) Cavalier Poets
5. The subtitle of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" is:
A) A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented
B) Love in the Time of Cholera
C) The Scarlet Letter
D) Pride and Prejudice
Answer: A) A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented

6. Philip Larkin was a __________ by profession.
A) Doctor
B) Engineer
C) Teacher
D) Librarian
Answer: D) Librarian
7. Dylan Thomas is called a __________.
A) Romantic poet
B) Classicist poet
C) Modernist poet
D) Metaphysical poet
Answer: C) Modernist poet
8. Husband of Lil in "The Wasteland" is __________.
A) Albert
B) John
C) Edward
D) William
Answer: A) Albert
9. The second folio edition of Shakespeare's plays was published in:
A) 1609
B) 1623
C) 1632
D) 1645
Answer: C) 1632
10. Robert Burns used the __________ in his poems.
A) French dialect
B) German dialect
C) Scottish dialect
D) Irish dialect
Answer: C) Scottish dialect
11. The name of the schoolmaster in "Hard Times" is:
A) Thomas Gradgrind
B) Ebenezer Scrooge
C) Oliver Twist
D) David Copperfield
Answer: A) Thomas Gradgrind
12. The name of Hamlet's mother is:
A) Ophelia
B) Cordelia
C) Gertrude
D) Desdemona
Answer: C) Gertrude
13. The date of publication of "The Wasteland" is:
A) 1910
B) 1920
C) 1922
D) 1930
Answer: C) 1922
14. "James Joyce's Ulysses" (novel) was published in:

A) 1915
B) 1920
C) 1922
D) 1930
Answer: C) 1922
15. The Biblical name of the Lord of the Flies is:
A) Lucifer
B) Beelzebub
C) Mephistopheles
D) Satan
Answer: B) Beelzebub
16. "In Memoriam A.H.H." by Alfred, Lord Tennyson is an elegy on the death of his Cambridge friend:
A) Arthur Henry Hallam
C) John Keats
D) Percy Bysshe Shelley
Answer: A) Arthur Henry Hallam

17. "Bell Imperia" is the sister of __________ (in Thomas Kyd's "The Spanish Tragedy").
A) Romeo
B) Macbeth
C) Othello
D) Lorenzo
Answer: D) Lorenzo
18. "Dissociation of Sensibility" is associated with:
A) T. S. Eliot
C) John Keats
Answer: A) T. S. Eliot
19. The heroine of "Pride and Prejudice" is:
A) Catherine Earnshaw
B) Jane Eyre
C) Elizabeth Bennet
D) Emma Woodhouse
Answer: C) Elizabeth Bennet
20. The author of "I Remember, I Remember" (poem) is:
A) Robert Burns
C) Philip Larkin
D) Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Answer: C) Philip Larkin
21. "Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood" was founded in the year:
A) 1832
B) 1848
C) 1856
D) 1865
Answer: B) 1848
22. Who said of Dryden, "He found it brick and left it marble"?
A) Samuel Johnson
C) John Keats
Answer: A) Samuel Johnson
23. "Butler's Hudibras" is a satire on:
A) Puritanism
B) Catholicism
C) Monarchy
D) Democracy
Answer: A) Puritanism
Certainly! Here are the multiple-choice questions (MCQs) based on the questions and answers
provided:
1. "A far cry from Africa" is by:

A) Derek Walcott
B) Langston Hughes
C) Maya Angelou
D) Wole Soyinka
Answer: A) Derek Walcott
2. "A handful of Dust" is by:
A) Evelyn Waugh
B) Salman Rushdie
C) Graham Greene
D) J.M. Coetzee
Answer: A) Evelyn Waugh
3. "A handful of Rice" is by:

A) Kamala Markandeya
B) Arundhati Roy
C) Anita Desai
D) R.K. Narayan
Answer: A) Kamala Markandeya
4. "A Handful of Dates" is by:

A) Tayeb Salih
B) Naguib Mahfouz
C) Jhumpa Lahiri
D) Chinua Achebe
Answer: A) Tayeb Salih
5. Who is the Morning star of Renaissance?

A) Geoffrey Chaucer
C) John Milton
D) Dante Alighieri
Answer: A) Geoffrey Chaucer
6. Who is the morning star of Reformation?

A) John Wycliffe
B) Martin Luther
C) John Calvin
D) Thomas More
Answer: A) John Wycliffe
7. Who is the Morning star of Romanticism?

A) William Blake
D) Lord Byron
Answer: A) William Blake
8. Who is the Morning star of Elizabethan theatre?

A) Christopher Marlowe
B) Ben Jonson
C) Thomas Kyd
D) Francis Bacon
Answer: A) Christopher Marlowe
1. "Which work by Brian O'Nolan was posthumously released in 1967?

A) At Swim Two Birds
B) The Third Policeman
C) The Dalkey Archive
D) An Béal Bocht
Answer: A) At Swim Two Birds"
2. "In which year did Brian O'Nolan's work 'The Third Policeman' get published?
A) 1937
B) 1939
C) 1945
D) 1952
Answer: B) 1939"
Certainly! Here are the multiple-choice questions (MCQs) based on the provided information:
1. "Animal Farm" (1945) was written by:
A) George Orwell
B) Yukio Mishima
C) John Grisham
D) Leo Tolstoy
Answer: A) George Orwell
2. "Burmese Days" (1934) was written by:

A) George Orwell
B) Anthony Burgess
C) Kingsley Amis
D) James Hogg
3. "Inside the Whale" (1940) was written by:

A) George Orwell
B) Yukio Mishima
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Kingsley Amis
4. "The Clockwork Orange" (1962) was written by:

A) George Orwell
B) Anthony Burgess
C) John Grisham
D) Leo Tolstoy
Answer: B) Anthony Burgess
5. "The Old Devils" (1986) was written by:

A) George Orwell
B) Anthony Burgess
C) Kingsley Amis
D) James Hogg
Answer: C) Kingsley Amis
Certainly! Here's a multiple-choice question (MCQ) format using the provided questions and answers:
1. Who is known as the "Father of English Poetry"?

A) William Tyndale
B) Michel de Montaigne
C) Sir Francis Bacon
D) Geoffrey Chaucer
Answer: D) Geoffrey Chaucer
2. Who is referred to as the "Father of English Prose"?

A) Michel de Montaigne
B) Sir Francis Bacon
C) William Tyndale
D) Geoffrey Chaucer
Answer: C) William Tyndale
3. Who is often called the "Father of Essays"?

A) William Tyndale
B) Michel de Montaigne
C) Sir Francis Bacon
D) Geoffrey Chaucer
Answer: B) Michel de Montaigne
4. Who is recognized as the "Father of English Essays"?

A) Michel de Montaigne
C) William Tyndale
D) Geoffrey Chaucer
Answer: B) Sir Francis Bacon
5. Who is credited as the "Father of English Grammar"?

A) Lindley Murray
C) William Tyndale
D) Michel de Montaigne
Answer: A) Lindley Murray
6. Who is known as the "Father of Tragedy"?

A) Aristophanes
B) Aeschylus
C) Sophocles
D) Euripides
Answer: B) Aeschylus
7. Who is regarded as the "Father of Comedy"?

A) Aristophanes
B) Aeschylus
C) Sophocles
D) Euripides
Answer: A) Aristophanes
8. Who is considered the "Father of English Criticism"?

A) John Dryden
B) Charles Baudelaire
C) Michel de Montaigne
D) Geoffrey Chaucer
9. Who is known as the "Father of Impressionist Criticism"?

A) Charles Baudelaire
B) John Dryden
C) Michel de Montaigne
D) Geoffrey Chaucer
Answer: A) Charles Baudelaire
10. Who is the author of the novel "Exit West" (2017)?

A) Mohsin Hamid
B) Patrick McGrath
C) Mark Haddon
D) Penelope Lively
Answer: A) Mohsin Hamid
11. Who authored the gothic fiction novel "Asylum" (1996)?

A) Mohsin Hamid
B) Patrick McGrath
C) Mark Haddon
D) Penelope Lively
Answer: B) Patrick McGrath
12. Who wrote the novel "Spider" (1990)?

A) Mohsin Hamid
B) Patrick McGrath
C) Mark Haddon
D) Penelope Lively
Answer: B) Patrick McGrath
13. The mystery novel "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" (2003) is written by
whom?
A) Mohsin Hamid
B) Patrick McGrath
C) Mark Haddon
D) Penelope Lively
Answer: C) Mark Haddon
14. "Moon Tiger" (1987) is a novel authored by whom?
A) Mohsin Hamid
B) Patrick McGrath
C) Mark Haddon
D) Penelope Lively
Answer: D) Penelope Lively
Certainly! Here are the MCQs based on the provided information:
Here is the MCQ format using the questions and answers provided:
1. What is the first book in the Harry Potter series?

A) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1997)
B) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998)
C) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999)
D) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000)
Answer: A) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997)
2. Which book is the second installment in the Harry Potter series?

A) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997)
Answer: B) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998)
3. What is the title of the third book in the Harry Potter series?
Answer: C) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999)
4. Which book is the fourth in the Harry Potter series?
Answer: D) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000)
5. What is the title of the fifth book in the Harry Potter series?
D) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003)
Answer: D) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003)
6. Which book is the sixth installment in the Harry Potter series?

D) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005)
Answer: D) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005)
7. What is the title of the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series?
A) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007)
B) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003)
C) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000)
D) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999)
Answer: A) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007)
1. Em and the Big Hoom (2012) is a novel written by ________. The book won The Hindu
Literary Prize in 2012.
A) Jerry Pinto
B) Arundhati Roy
C) Salman Rushdie
D) Vikram Seth
Answer: A) Jerry Pinto
2. ________ is a poetry collection by Jerry Pinto.
A) The White Tiger
B) The God of Small Things
C) Asylum and Other Poems
D) The Inheritance of Loss
Answer: C) Asylum and Other Poems
3. The Secret of the Nagas is a novel by ________. It is the second book of Shiva Trilogy.
A) Chetan Bhagat
B) Amish Tripathi
C) Vikram Chandra
D) Ravi Subramanian
Answer: B) Amish Tripathi
4. ________ is the collection of poems by Anita Nair.
A) The God of Small Things
B) Malabar Mind
C) Midnight's Children
Answer: B) Malabar Mind
5. Aravind Adiga is an Indo-Australian writer who won the 2008 Man Booker Prize for his novel
________.
A) The White Tiger
B) The God of Small Things
C) Midnight's Children
Answer: A) The White Tiger

6. Robert Henryson and William Dunbar were known as the ________.
A) English Romantics
B) Scottish Chaucerians
C) American Transcendentalists
D) French Symbolists
Answer: B) Scottish Chaucerians
1. Who is the author of the novel "Em and the Big Hoom"?
A) Henry VIII
B) Jerry Pinto
C) René Descartes
D) Democritus
Answer: B) Jerry Pinto
2. Who is called the Defender of Faith?

A) Jerry Pinto
B) Henry VIII
C) René Descartes
D) Democritus
Answer: B) Henry VIII
3. Who is considered the pioneer of modern philosophy?

A) Jerry Pinto
B) Henry VIII
C) René Descartes
D) Democritus
Answer: C) René Descartes
4. Who is known as the Laughing Philosopher?

A) Democritus
B) Henry VIII
C) René Descartes
D) Heraclitus
Answer: A) Democritus
5. Who is referred to as the Weeping Philosopher?

A) Democritus
B) Henry VIII
C) René Descartes
D) Heraclitus
Answer: D) Heraclitus
These multiple-choice questions cover various topics such as literature, history, and philosophy based
on the information provided.
British Author
Here are 6 multiple-choice questions (MCQs) based on the information provided:
1. Who is the author of the novel "The Swimming Pool Library"?

A) Alan Hollinghurst
B) Beryl Bainbridge
C) Penelope Fitzgerald
D) Sebastian Faulks
- Answer: A) Alan Hollinghurst
2. Which novel was written by Penelope Fitzgerald?
A) The Swimming Pool Library
B) The Folding Star
C) The Line of Beauty
D) The Bookshop
- Answer: D) The Bookshop
3. Which novel is NOT written by Alan Hollinghurst?

B) The Folding Star
D) The Bookshop
- Answer: D) The Bookshop
4. Who authored the novel "Birdsong"?

A) Alan Hollinghurst
B) Beryl Bainbridge
C) Penelope Fitzgerald
D) Sebastian Faulks
- Answer: D) Sebastian Faulks
5. Which novel was published earliest among the given options?

B) The Folding Star
D) Birdsong
- Answer: D) The Bottle Factory Outing (1974) by Beryl Bainbridge
6. Which novel by Alan Hollinghurst was published most recently?

B) The Folding Star
- Answer: C) The Line of Beauty (2004)
Here are multiple-choice questions (MCQs) based on the provided information:
1. Who is known as the Father of Historical Novelist?

A) Sir Walter Scott
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Mateo Alemán
D) James Boswell
**Answer: A) Sir Walter Scott**
2. Who is considered the Father of Detective Story?

A) Sir Walter Scott
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Mateo Alemán
D) James Boswell
**Answer: B) Edgar Allan Poe**
3. Who is referred to as the Father of Picaresque Novel?

A) Sir Walter Scott
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Mateo Alemán
D) James Boswell
**Answer: C) Mateo Alemán**
4. Who is known as the Father of Modern Biography?

A) Sir Walter Scott
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Mateo Alemán
D) James Boswell
**Answer: D) James Boswell**
5. Who is acknowledged as the Father of English Dramatic Poesy?

A) Sir Walter Scott
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Mateo Alemán
D) Ben Jonson
**Answer: D) Ben Jonson**
1. Which work by Sir Philip Sidney serves as a powerful defense against Stephen Gosson's An
Apologie for Poetrie?
A) Arcadia
B) The Vanity of Dogmatizing
C) Hero and Hero Worship
D) An Apologie for Poetrie
**Answer: D) An Apologie for Poetrie**
2. Which play by Kyd was used by Shakespeare in writing Hamlet?

A) The Spanish Tragedy
B) She Stoops to Conquer
C) The Vanity of Dogmatizing
D) Hero and Hero Worship
**Answer: A) The Spanish Tragedy**
3. Who is the author of Hero and Hero Worship?

A) Sir Philip Sidney
B) Thomas Carlyle
C) Joseph Glanvill
D) Stephen Spender
**Answer: B) Thomas Carlyle**
4. What was She Stoops to Conquer a reaction against?
A) Restoration Comedy
B) Hero and Hero Worship
C) The Vanity of Dogmatizing
D) An Apologie for Poetrie
**Answer: A) Restoration Comedy**
5. Who wrote The Vanity of Dogmatizing?

A) Thomas Carlyle
B) Sir Philip Sidney
C) Joseph Glanvill
D) Stephen Spender
**Answer: C) Joseph Glanvill**
6. Which work is the source of Arnold's Scholar Gypsy according to the provided information?
A) The Vanity of Dogmatizing
B) An Apologie for Poetrie
C) Arcadia
D) She Stoops to Conquer
**Answer: A) The Vanity of Dogmatizing**
7. Who is known as the Father of Aesthetics?

A) Joseph Glanvill
B) Walter Pater
C) Sir Philip Sidney
D) Thomas Carlyle
**Answer: B) Walter Pater**
8. Was Oscar Wilde a disciple of Walter Pater?

A) Yes
B) No
**Answer: A) Yes**
9. In which play by Shakespeare does Enobarbus have an unhistorical prominence according to the
provided information?
A) Hamlet
D) Antony and Cleopatra
**Answer: D) Antony and Cleopatra**
10. Which work by T. S. Eliot refers to Brihadaranyaka Upanishad?

D) The Wasteland
**Answer: D) The Wasteland**
11. What is accentual rhythm?

A) A rhythm counted by syllables
B) A rhythm counted by regular feet
C) A rhythm counted by stresses
D) A rhythm counted by syllables and stresses
**Answer: C) A rhythm counted by stresses**
12. When did the leveling of inflections take place according to the provided information?
A) During the Old English period
B) During the Middle English period
C) During the Renaissance period
D) During the Victorian period
**Answer: B) During the Middle English period**
13. Who is the author of Arcadia?

B) Thomas Carlyle
C) Joseph Glanvill
D) John Bunyan
**Answer: A) Sir Philip Sidney**
14. Who are the daughters of Basilius in Arcadia?

A) Philoclea and Pamela
B) Hero and Hero Worship
C) Enobarbus and Cleopatra
D) Valentine and Proteus
**Answer: A) Philoclea and Pamela**
15. What is Grace Abounding?

A) A play by Shakespeare
B) A novel by Charles Dickens
C) The spiritual autobiography of John Bunyan
D) The autobiography of Stephen Spender
**Answer: C) The spiritual autobiography of John Bunyan**
16. What does Lives of Poets begin with?

A) Abraham Cowley
C) Thomas Carlyle
D) Joseph Glanvill
**Answer: A) Abraham Cowley**
17. Who wrote The Pilgrim's Progress?

A) John Bunyan
C) Thomas Carlyle
D) Joseph Glanvill
**Answer: A) John Bunyan**
18. How many stages are undertaken by the Christian pilgrim in The Pilgrim's Progress?
A) 2 stages
B) 3 stages
C) 4 stages
D) 5 stages
**Answer: C) 4 stages**
19. Who is Atticus a caricature of?

A) Walter Pater
C) Joseph Glanvill
D) Addison
**Answer: D) Addison**
20. Who wrote Female Quixote or The Adventures of Arabella?

A) Thomas Carlyle
C) Charlotte Lennox
D) John Bunyan
**Answer: C) Charlotte Lennox**
21. Which character appears in Nicholas Nickleby?

A) Oliver Twist
B) Mr. Snap
C) Albatross
D) Waverly
**Answer: B) Mr. Snap**
22. What bird is killed in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?

A) Parrot
B) Albatross
C) Crow
D) Hawk
**Answer: B) Albatross**
23. What is the first novel by Sir Walter Scott?

A) Waverly
C) The Pilgrim's Progress
D) The Newcomes
**Answer: A) Waverly**
24. Who is Sir Leicester Dedlock in Dickens' novel Bleak House?

A) The protagonist
B) The antagonist
C) A supporting character
D) The narrator
**Answer: C) A supporting character**
25. What is the subtitle of Oliver Twist?

A) The Parish Boy's Progress
C) The Pilgrim's Progress
D) The Newcomes
**Answer: A) The Parish Boy's Progress**
26. Which of Thackeray's novels features an Indian Army Officer as the protagonist?
A) Vanity Fair
B) Bleak House
C) The Newcomes
D) The Vanity of Dogmatizing
**Answer: C) The Newcomes**
27. What is the autobiography of Stephen Spender?
B) The Parish Boy's Progress
C) World Within the World
D) The Pilgrim's Progress
**Answer: C) World Within
Here are the multiple-choice questions (MCQs) based on the provided information:
1. Who is called "The Female Quixote" in literature?

A) Charlotte Lennox
B) Tabitha Gilman Tenney
C) Richard Graves
D) Graham Greene
Answer: A) Charlotte Lennox
2. Who is the author of the play "The Duchess of Padua"?

A) John Webster
B) Oscar Wilde
C) Miguel de Cervantes
D) Ben Jonson
Answer: B) Oscar Wilde
3. Who wrote the novel "The Return of Ulysses"?

A) Claudio Monteverdi
B) Graham Greene
C) James Joyce
D) Nicholas Rowe
Answer: A) Claudio Monteverdi
4. Who is known for "The Spiritual Quixote"?

A) Richard Graves
B) Charlotte Lennox
C) Tabitha Gilman Tenney
D) Oscar Wilde
Answer: A) Richard Graves
5. Which work is associated with Lord Byron?

A) Antigone (poem)
B) The Alchemist (play)
C) Don Quixote (novel)
D) The Duchess of Malfi (play)
Answer: A) Antigone (poem)
6. Who is the author of "The Alchemist" novel?

A) Paulo Coelho
B) Miguel de Cervantes
C) Richard Graves
D) John Webster
Answer: A) Paulo Coelho
7. Which literary work is related to James Joyce?

A) Ulysses (poem)
B) The Return of Ulysses (play)
C) The Alchemist (novel)
D) The Duchess of Malfi (play)
Answer: B) The Return of Ulysses (play)
8. Who wrote the play "The Duchess of Malfi"?

A) John Webster
B) Graham Greene
C) Oscar Wilde
D) Charlotte Lennox
Answer: A) John Webster
9. Who is known for "Female Quixotism"?

A) Tabitha Gilman Tenney
B) Richard Graves
C) Miguel de Cervantes
D) Charlotte Lennox
Answer: A) Tabitha Gilman Tenney
10. Which literary work is associated with Alfred Tennyson?

A) Ulysses (poem)
B) The Alchemist (play)
C) The Duchess of Malfi (play)
D) Monsignor Quixote (novel)
Answer: A) Ulysses (poem)
Here are the multiple-choice questions (MCQs) based on the given points:
1. Who is referred to as "The Literary Badboy of Victorian Fiction"?

A) Oscar Wilde
C) Edmund Spenser
D) John Dryden
**Answer: A) Oscar Wilde**
2. Which poet is known as the "Touchstone of English Poetic Sensibility"?

A) Oscar Wilde
C) Edmund Spenser
D) John Donne
**Answer: B) William Wordsworth**
3. Who is described as "The Child of Renaissance & Reformation"?
B) Edmund Spenser
C) Walter Scott
D) John Dryden
**Answer: B) Edmund Spenser**
4. Who is called "The Poet’s Poet" according to Charles Lamb?

A) Oscar Wilde
C) Edmund Spenser
D) John Dryden
**Answer: C) Edmund Spenser**
5. Who is known as "The Glorious John"?

A) Oscar Wilde
C) Edmund Spenser
D) John Dryden
**Answer: D) John Dryden**
6. Which author is referred to as "The Great Unknown"?

A) Oscar Wilde
C) Walter Scott
D) John Donne
**Answer: C) Walter Scott**
7. Who is known as "Indian Scott"?

A) Oscar Wilde
C) Walter Scott
D) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
**Answer: D) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay**
8. Which Indian writer is called "Indian Shakespeare"?

A) Kalidas
C) Edmund Spenser
D) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
**Answer: A) Kalidas**
9. Who is referred to as "High Priest of Nature"?

A) Oscar Wilde
C) Edmund Spenser
D) John Donne
**Answer: B) William Wordsworth**
10. Who is known as the "Monarch of Wit"?

A) Oscar Wilde
C) John Donne
D) Walter Scott
**Answer: C) John Donne**
11. Which poet is called the "English Virgil"?

A) Oscar Wilde
C) John Dryden
D) Daniel Defoe
**Answer: C) John Dryden**
12. Who is regarded as the "First Romantic Critic"?
A) William Hazlitt
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
D) Robert Owen
**Answer: A) William Hazlitt**
13. Who is known as the "Sweet Swan of Avon"?

A) Oscar Wilde
C) Edmund Spenser
D) John Donne
**Answer: B) William Shakespeare**
14. Who is considered the "Grandfather of Modern Detective Fiction"?

A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Daniel Defoe
C) John Dryden
D) Ralph Waldo Emerson
**Answer: A) Edgar Allan Poe**
15. Which author is referred to as the "Grandfather of English Novel"?

A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Daniel Defoe
D) John Donne
**Answer: B) Daniel Defoe**
16. Who is known as the "Father of Bengali Fiction"?

A) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
B) John Donne
C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
D) Robert Owen
**Answer: A) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay**
17. Who is regarded as the "Father of Australian Novel"?

A) Joseph Furphy
C) John Dryden
D) Daniel Defoe
**Answer: A) Joseph Furphy**
18. Which figure is considered the "Father of American Transcendentalism"?

A) Ralph Waldo Emerson
B) Edgar Allan Poe
D) John Donne
**Answer: A) Ralph Waldo Emerson**
19. Who is known as the "Father of English Socialism"?

A) Robert Owen
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) William Shakespeare
D) Daniel Defoe
**Answer: A) Robert Owen**
Sure, here are multiple-choice questions (MCQs) based on the provided information:
1. Who is the author of the play "The Winter's Tale"?

A) D. H. Lawrence
B) Dylan Thomas
D) James Joyce
Answer: C) William Shakespeare
2. Which author wrote a poem titled "A Winter's Tale"?

A) D. H. Lawrence
B) Dylan Thomas
D) Ogden Nash
Answer: A) D. H. Lawrence
3. Who is the author of the novel "Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man"?

A) D. H. Lawrence
B) Dylan Thomas
C) James Joyce
D) Linda Huf
Answer: C) James Joyce
4. Which author wrote a short story titled "Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog"?
A) Dylan Thomas
B) Joseph Heller
C) Ogden Nash
D) Robert Southey
Answer: A) Dylan Thomas
5. Who is the author of the novel "Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man"?

A) D. H. Lawrence
B) Dylan Thomas
C) Joseph Heller
D) Robert Southey
Answer: C) Joseph Heller
6. Which author wrote a poem titled "Portrait of an Artist as a Prematurely Old Man"?
A) D. H. Lawrence
B) Ogden Nash
C) James Joyce
D) Robert Southey
Answer: B) Ogden Nash
7. Who is the author of the poem "A Vision of Judgement"?

A) D. H. Lawrence
B) Dylan Thomas
C) Robert Southey
D) Ogden Nash
Answer: C) Robert Southey
1. Who is the author of the poem "The Vision of Judgement"?

A) Lord Byron
B) Ben Jonson
C) Jonathan Swift
D) Sylvia Plath
**Answer: A) Lord Byron**
2. Which playwright wrote the play "A Tale of a Tub"?

A) Lord Byron
B) Ben Jonson
C) Jonathan Swift
D) Sylvia Plath
**Answer: B) Ben Jonson**
3. Who authored the prose satire "A Tale of a Tub"?

A) Lord Byron
B) Ben Jonson
C) Jonathan Swift
D) Sylvia Plath
**Answer: C) Jonathan Swift**
4. Which poet wrote the poem titled "Tale of a Tub"?

A) Lord Byron
B) Ben Jonson
C) Jonathan Swift
D) Sylvia Plath
**Answer: D) Sylvia Plath**
5. Who authored the satire "The Man in the Moon"?

A) Lord Byron
B) Ben Jonson
C) William Henry Ireland
D) John Lyly
**Answer: C) William Henry Ireland**
6. Which playwright wrote the play "The Woman in the Moon"?

A) Lord Byron
B) Ben Jonson
C) John Lyly
D) William Henry Ireland
**Answer: C) John Lyly**
7. Who is the author of the work "The Elephant in the Moon"?

A) Lord Byron
B) Ben Jonson
C) Samuel Butler
D) H. G. Wells
**Answer: C) Samuel Butler**
8. Who wrote the novel "The First Men in the Moon"?

A) Lord Byron
B) Ben Jonson
C) Jonathan Swift
D) H. G. Wells
**Answer: D) H. G. Wells**
9. Who authored the book "The Woman in the Moon"?

A) Lord Byron
B) Ben Jonson
C) Richard Maurer
D) William Henry Ireland
**Answer: C) Richard Maurer**
Sure, here are multiple-choice questions (MCQs) based on the information provided:
1) Who is called as Prose Whitman?

A) Walt Whitman
C) Eugene O'Neil
Answer: A) Walt Whitman
2) Who is the Ibsen of the West?

A) Eugene O'Neil
C) Walt Whitman
Answer: A) Eugene O'Neil
3) Storm scene appears in which Shakespeare play, scene, and act?

A) Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2
B) Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2
C) King Lear, Act 3, Scene 2
D) Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 1
Answer: C) King Lear, Act 3, Scene 2
4) Mercy Episode or Trial scene appears in which Shakespeare play, scene, and act?
A) The Merchant of Venice, Act 4, Scene 1
Answer: A) The Merchant of Venice, Act 4, Scene 1
5) Nunnery Scene appears in Shakespeare’s which play, act, and scene?

A) Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1
B) Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2
Answer: A) Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1
6) Graveyard Scene appears in Shakespeare’s which play, act, and scene?

A) Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1
B) The Winter's Tale, Act 3, Scene 2
Answer: A) Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1
7) Bedchamber appears in Shakespeare’s which play, act, and scene?

A) Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 2
B) Othello, Act 5, Scene 2
D) The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2
Answer: A) Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 2; B) Othello, Act 5, Scene 2
8) Porter scene appears in Shakespeare’s which play, act, and scene?
D) The Merchant of Venice, Act 4, Scene 1
Answer: A) Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3
9) Sleepwalk scene appears in Shakespeare’s which play, act, and scene?

Answer: A) Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 1
10) Recognition scene appears in Shakespeare’s which play, act, and scene?
A) The Winter's Tale, Act 3, Scene 2
B) Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2
D) The Merchant of Venice, Act 4, Scene 1
Answer: A) The Winter's Tale, Act 3, Scene 2
11) Balcony scene appears in Shakespeare’s which play, act, and scene?
A) Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2
Answer: A) Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2
12) Shipwreck Scene appears in Shakespeare’s which play, act, and scene?
A) The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2
B) Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 2
Answer: A) The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2; B) Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 2
13) Auction scene appears in which play, act, and scene?

A) The School for Scandal, Act 4, Scene 3
B) The Way of the World, Act III, Scene 3
C) The Merchant of Venice, Act 4, Scene 1
D) King Lear, Act 3, Scene 2
Answer: A) The School for Scandal, Act 4, Scene 3
14) Screen scene appears in which play, act, and scene?

A) The Way of the World, Act III, Scene 3
B) The School for Scandal, Act 4, Scene 3
D) King Lear, Act 3, Scene 2
Answer: A) The Way of the World, Act III, Scene 3
15) Stoning Baby scene appears in which play, act, and scene?
A) The Way of the World, Act III, Scene 3
B) The School for Scandal, Act 4, Scene 3
D) Not provided in the given information
Answer: D) Not provided in the given information
16) Spider and bee episode in which play, act, and scene?
A) The Battle of the Books
Answer: A) The Battle of the Books
17) Scaffold scene appears in which play, act, and scene?

A) The Scarlet Letter
Answer: A) The Scarlet Letter
18) In which play, does the "Rejection scene" occur?

Answer: D) Pride and Prejudice,
Here are multiple-choice questions (MCQs) based on the provided information along with the correct
answers:
1) Who is known as the Nightingale of India?

A) Sarojini Naidu
B) Wole Soyinka
C) Emily Dickinson
D) George Herbert
- Answer: A) Sarojini Naidu
2) Who is considered the first Protestant of England?

A) King Henry VIII
B) Jeremy Taylor
C) George Herbert
D) Desiderius Erasmus
- Answer: A) King Henry VIII
3) Who is often referred to as Nigeria’s Shaw?

A) Wole Soyinka
B) T. S. Eliot
D) Agatha Christie
- Answer: A) Wole Soyinka
4) Who is known as the "Shakespeare of Divines"?
A) Jeremy Taylor
B) Desiderius Erasmus
C) Edmund Spenser
D) George Herbert
- Answer: A) Jeremy Taylor
5) Who is sometimes called the "Little Lord Keeper"?

A) Lord John Russell
B) Lala Lajpat Rai
C) T. S. Eliot
- Answer: A) Lord John Russell
6) Who is referred to as the "Queen of Blues"?

A) Bessie Smith
B) Emily Dickinson
C) George Herbert
D) Edmund Spenser
- Answer: A) Bessie Smith
7) Who is known as the "Firebrand of India"?

A) Lala Lajpat Rai
B) Agatha Christie
C) Desiderius Erasmus
D) George Herbert
- Answer: A) Lala Lajpat Rai
8) Who is often called the "Old Possum"?

A) T. S. Eliot
B) Emily Dickinson
C) George Herbert
D) Edmund Spenser
- Answer: A) T. S. Eliot
9) Who is referred to as the "Nun of Amherst"?

A) Emily Dickinson
B) Sarojini Naidu
C) George Herbert
D) Jeremy Taylor
- Answer: A) Emily Dickinson
10) Who is associated with being the "Gander of Cockermouth"?

B) King Henry VIII
C) Sarojini Naidu
D) Lala Lajpat Rai
- Answer: A) William Wordsworth
11) Who is known as the "Last Augustan"?

A) Alexander Pope
C) George Herbert
- Answer: A) Alexander Pope
12) Who is often called the "Saint of Metaphysical School"?

A) George Herbert
B) Wole Soyinka
C) T. S. Eliot
D) Agatha Christie
- Answer: A) George Herbert
13) Who is referred to as the "Last Great Renaissance Poet"?
A) Edmund Spenser
B) Jeremy Taylor
C) Desiderius Erasmus
D) George Herbert
- Answer: A) Edmund Spenser
14) Who is known as the "Prince of Humanists"?

A) Desiderius Erasmus
B) T. S. Eliot
C) George Herbert
- Answer: A) Desiderius Erasmus
15) Who is associated with being the "Queen of Crime" or the "Duchess of Death"?
A) Agatha Christie
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Jeremy Taylor
D) Lala Lajpat Rai
- Answer: A) Agatha Christie
16) Who is related to the Kailyard School?

A) J.M. Barrie
C) George Herbert
- Answer: A) J.M. Barrie
Here are multiple-choice questions based on the information provided:
1. Which novel by Anitha Nair features Akila, a woman who travels to Kanyakumari?
A) Ladies Coupe
B) Cut like Wound
C) The Better Man
D) Lesson in Forgetting
**Answer: A) Ladies Coupe**
2. Who is the detective protagonist in the novel "Cut like Wound" (2012)?
A) Akila
B) Inspector Gowda
C) Koman
D) Meera Shenoy
**Answer: B) Inspector Gowda**
3. In which novel by Anitha Nair does Koman, a famous Kathakali dancer, appear?
A) Ladies Coupe
B) Cut like Wound
C) The Better Man
D) Lesson in Forgetting
**Answer: C) The Better Man**
4. Who is the housewife protagonist in the novel "Lesson in Forgetting"?

A) Akila
B) Inspector Gowda
C) Koman
D) Meera Shenoy
**Answer: D) Meera Shenoy**
Certainly, here are multiple-choice questions based on the information provided:
1. Who is the author of the poem "PASSAGE TO INDIA" published in 1879?

A) Walt Whitman
B) E.M. Forster
C) Nirad C. Chaudhuri
D) Edward Gibbon
**Answer: A) Walt Whitman**
2. Which author wrote the novel "A PASSAGE TO INDIA," published in 1924?
A) Walt Whitman
B) E.M. Forster
D) Edward Gibbon
**Answer: B) E.M. Forster**
3. Who authored the book "A PASSAGE TO ENGLAND," published in 1959?

A) Walt Whitman
B) E.M. Forster
D) Edward Gibbon
**Answer: C) Nirad C. Chaudhuri**
4. Which work is associated with Edward Gibbon and was published in 1776?
A) PASSAGE TO INDIA
B) A PASSAGE TO ENGLAND
C) THE DECLINE AND FALL OF ROMAN EMPIRE
D) THE DECLINE AND FALL OF ROMANTIC IDEAL
**Answer: C) THE DECLINE AND FALL OF ROMAN EMPIRE**
5. F.L. Lucas is known for writing which book published in 1936?

A) PASSAGE TO INDIA
B) A PASSAGE TO ENGLAND
C) THE DECLINE AND FALL OF ROMAN EMPIRE
D) THE DECLINE AND FALL OF ROMANTIC IDEAL
**Answer: D) THE DECLINE AND FALL OF ROMANTIC IDEAL**
6. Who penned the novel "DECLINE AND FALL," published in 1928?

A) Walt Whitman
B) E.M. Forster
D) Evelyn Waugh
**Answer: D) Evelyn Waugh**
1. Who is the author of the novel "Conningsby: The New Generation"?

A) Benjamin Disraeli
B) William Makepeace Thackeray
C) Elizabeth Gaskell
D) Charlotte Bronte
- **Answer: A) Benjamin Disraeli**
2. Which novel has the subtitle "The Two Nations"?

A) Conningsby
B) Sybil
C) Vanity Fair
D) The Virginians
- **Answer: B) Sybil**
3. "Vanity Fair" is subtitled as:

A) The New Generation
B) A Tale of the Last Century
C) A Novel Without a Hero
D) An Every-Day Story
- **Answer: C) A Novel Without a Hero**
4. Who authored the novel "The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century"?
C) Elizabeth Gaskell
D) Charlotte Bronte
- **Answer: B) William Makepeace Thackeray**
5. "Wives and Daughters" is subtitled as:

A) The Two Nations
B) An Autobiography
C) An Every-Day Story
D) A Tale of Manchester Life
- **Answer: C) An Every-Day Story**
6. Who wrote the novel "Jane Eyre: An Autobiography"?

C) Charlotte Bronte
D) Charles Dickens
- **Answer: C) Charlotte Bronte**
7. What is the subtitle of Charles Dickens' novel "Oliver Twist"?

B) A Ghost Story of Christmas
C) The Parish Boy's Progress
D) A Study of Provincial Life
- **Answer: C) The Parish Boy's Progress**
8. "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens has the subtitle:

B) A Ghost Story of Christmas
C) Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
D) A Study of Provincial Life
- **Answer: B) A Ghost Story of Christmas**
9. Which novel has the subtitle "Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography"?

A) Alton Locke
B) Middlemarch
C) Uncle Tom's Cabin
D) Lord Jim
- **Answer: A) Alton Locke**
10. Who is the author of the novel "Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life"?
C) George Eliot
D) Harriet Beecher Stowe
- **Answer: C) George Eliot**
Certainly, here are the remaining multiple-choice questions (MCQs) based on the information
provided:
11. What is the subtitle of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe?
B) The Two Nations
C) Life Among the Lowly
D) A Tale of the Seaboard
- **Answer: C) Life Among the Lowly**
12. Who is the author of the novel "Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard"?
C) Joseph Conrad
D) George Eliot
- **Answer: C) Joseph Conrad**
13. What is the subtitle of Joseph Conrad's novel "The Secret Agent"?
B) A Tale of the Seaboard
C) A Simple Tale
D) A Confession
- **Answer: C) A Simple Tale**
14. "The Shadow-Line" by Joseph Conrad has the subtitle:

B) A Tale of the Seaboard
C) A Simple Tale
D) A Confession
- **Answer: D) A Confession**
15. Who is the author of the novel "Lord Jim: A Tale"?

C) Joseph Conrad
D) George Eliot
- **Answer: C) Joseph Conrad**
16. Which novel has the subtitle "A Tale of Manchester Life"?
A) Mary Barton
B) Madame Bovary
C) The Stars My Destination
D) The Cat and Shakespeare
- **Answer: A) Mary Barton**
17. "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert is subtitled as:

B) The Two Nations
C) Provincial Manners
D) Tiger! Tiger!
- **Answer: C) Provincial Manners**
18. What is the subtitle of "The Stars My Destination" by Alfred Bester?

A) Tiger! Tiger!
B) The New Generation
C) A Tale of India
D) His Fifty Years of Exile
- **Answer: A) Tiger! Tiger!**
19. Who authored the novel "Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile"?
C) Herman Melville
D) Alfred Bester
- **Answer: C) Herman Melville**
20. What is the subtitle of Raja Rao's novel "The Cat and Shakespeare"?
A) A Tale of Manchester Life
B) A Confession
C) A Tale of India
D) Stories
- **Answer: C) A Tale of India**
21. "The Policeman and the Rose" by Raja Rao has the subtitle:
B) The Two Nations
C) A Tale of India
D) Stories
- **Answer: D) Stories**
22. What is the subtitle of "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway?
A) Fiesta
B) The Two Nations
C) Provincial Manners
D) Tiger! Tiger!
- **Answer: A) Fiesta**
1. Who is the author of "The Wanderer: Female Difficulties (1814)"?

A) Frances Burney
B) Clara Reeve
C) Mary Shelley
D) Eliza Pope
**Answer: A) Frances Burney**
2. Which book is subtitled "Memoirs of an Heiress (1792)"?

A) The Wanderer: Female Difficulties
B) Cecilia
C) The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story
D) Frankenstein: Modern Prometheus
**Answer: B) Cecilia**
3. Who authored "The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story (1778)"?

A) Frances Burney
B) Clara Reeve
C) Mary Shelley
D) Eliza Pope
**Answer: B) Clara Reeve**
4. Which novel is also known as "Modern Prometheus (1818)"?
B) Cecilia
D) Frankenstein
**Answer: D) Frankenstein**
5. Who wrote "Henry and Julietta, or, Virtue Rewarded: a Tale, Founded on Fact (1818)"?
A) Frances Burney
B) Clara Reeve
C) Mary Shelley
D) Eliza Pope
**Answer: D) Eliza Pope**
6. Which book is subtitled "The Weaver of Raveloe (1861)"?

B) Cecilia
C) Silas Marner
D) Frankenstein
**Answer: C) Silas Marner**
7. "Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School (1872)" is written by whom?
A) Thomas Hardy
B) George Eliot
C) Mary Shelley
D) Eliza Pope
**Answer: A) Thomas Hardy**
8. Which novel is subtitled "A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented (1891)"?

A) Tess of D'Urbervilles
B) Silas Marner
D) Frankenstein
**Answer: A) Tess of D'Urbervilles**
9. Who authored "Mayor of Castorbridge: Life and Death of Man of Character (1886)"?
A) Thomas Hardy
B) George Eliot
C) Mary Shelley
D) Eliza Pope
10. "The Dynast: An Epic Drama of War with Napoleon in Three Parts, Nineteen Acts and One
Hundred and Thirty Scenes (1904)" is written by whom?
A) Thomas Hardy
B) George Eliot
C) Mary Shelley
D) Eliza Pope
Here is a multiple-choice quiz based on the information provided:
1. Who wrote The Better Man?

A) Anita Nair
B) Aravind Adiga
C) Iqbal
D) Yogesh A. Murthy
**Answer: A) Anita Nair**
2. The eccentric character in The Better Man who helped the retired official transform is:
A) One-screw-loose-Bhasi
B) Balram Halwai
C) Iqbal
D) Yogesh A. Murthy
**Answer: A) One-screw-loose-Bhasi**
3. The subtitle of Anita Nair's sixth novel Idris is:
A) Keeper of the Light
B) The White Tiger
C) Between the Assassinations
D) Last Man in Tower
**Answer: A) Keeper of the Light**
4. The Puffin Book of World Myths and Legends is written by:

A) Anita Nair
B) Aravind Adiga
C) Iqbal
D) Yogesh A. Murthy
**Answer: A) Anita Nair**
5. Who is the Indo-Australian writer who won the 2008 Man Booker Prize?
A) Anita Nair
B) Aravind Adiga
C) Iqbal
D) Yogesh A. Murthy
**Answer: B) Aravind Adiga**
6. Who wrote the novel The White Tiger?

A) Anita Nair
B) Aravind Adiga
C) Iqbal
D) Yogesh A. Murthy
7. The protagonist of Aravind Adiga's novel The White Tiger is:

B) Balram Halwai
C) Iqbal
D) Yogesh A. Murthy
**Answer: B) Balram Halwai**
8. Balram Halwai's letter written in 7 consecutive nights is addressed to:

B) Balram Halwai
C) Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao
D) Ashok
**Answer: C) Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao**
9. When does Balram acquire the title "The White Tiger"?

A) After committing a murder
B) After winning a lottery
C) After writing a letter to the Prime Minister
D) After meeting Iqbal
**Answer: A) After committing a murder**
10. Which Muslim poet does Balram Halwai quote about the slave "They remain slaves because they
can't see what is beautiful in the world"?
A) Anita Nair
B) Aravind Adiga
C) Iqbal
D) Yogesh A. Murthy
**Answer: C) Iqbal**
11. Who does Balram strike dead with a bottle?

B) Balram Halwai
C) Iqbal
D) Ashok
**Answer: D) Ashok**
12. Which novel according to its author "attempts to catch the voice of the men you meet as you travel
through India, the voice of the colossal underclass"?
A) The Better Man
B) The White Tiger
C) Idris
D) Last Man in Tower
**Answer: B) The White Tiger**
13. Between the Assassinations and Last Man in Tower are novels by:
A) Anita Nair
B) Aravind Adiga
C) Iqbal
D) Yogesh A. Murthy
14. Between the Assassinations (2000) which takes place in the fictional town Kittur is a collection of
short stories.
A) True
B) False
**Answer: B) False**
15. Between the Assassinations bears considerable similarity with Aravind Adiga's novel The White
Tiger.
A) True
B) False
**Answer: A) True**
16. What is the real name of Masterji, the retired school teacher in the novel Last Man in Tower?
B) Balram Halwai
C) Iqbal
D) Yogesh A. Murthy
**Answer: D) Yogesh A. Murthy**
Sure, here are multiple-choice questions (MCQs) based on the information provided along with the
answers:
1. Which work by Monica Ali follows the life of Nazneen, a Bangladeshi woman married to Chanu,
an older man?
A) Alentejo Blue
B) In the Kitchen
C) Brick Lane
D) Untold Story
**Answer: C) Brick Lane**
2. Who is the midwife in Brick Lane who claims to be twenty years old?
A) Mrs. Chowdhury
B) Mrs. Nasreen
C) Mrs. Islam
D) Mrs. Begum
**Answer: C) Mrs. Islam**
3. What does Chanu call the tattoo lady who lives in the opposite flat?
A) Woman of Ill Repute
B) Lady of the Ink
C) Inked Neighbor
D) Tattooed Lady
**Answer: A) Woman of Ill Repute**
4. Chanu uses the proverb “A blind uncle is better than no uncle” to describe whom?
A) Father-in-law
B) Brother-in-law
C) Uncle-in-law
D) Cousin-in-law
**Answer: A) Father-in-law**
5. Who is the sister of Nazneen in Brick Lane, living a carefree life in Bangladesh?
A) Hasina
B) Farida
C) Ayesha
D) Salma
**Answer: A) Hasina**
6. Which two words make up the English vocabulary of Nazneen initially in the novel?
A) "Yes" and "No"
B) "Hello" and "Goodbye"
C) "Please" and "Thank you"
D) "Sorry" and "Excuse me"
**Answer: A) "Yes" and "No"**
7. Who is the leader of the Bengal Tigers in Brick Lane?

A) Karim
B) Nasir
C) Ali
D) Hasan
**Answer: A) Karim**
8. "Alentejo Blue," "In the Kitchen," and "Untold Story" are novels by:
A) Monica Ali
B) Salman Rushdie
C) Jhumpa Lahiri
D) Arundhati Roy
**Answer: A) Monica Ali**
9. Which novel by Monica Ali features Portuguese mama Rosa?

A) Untold Story
B) In the Kitchen
C) Alentejo Blue
D) Brick Lane
**Answer: B) In the Kitchen**
10. Who is the chef of the Imperial Hotel in "In the Kitchen"?
A) Michael Smith
B) David Jones
C) Gabriel Lightfoot
D) Simon Brown
**Answer: C) Gabriel Lightfoot**
11. Who is the young attractive woman who enters Gabriel's life and changes the course in "In the
Kitchen"?
A) Maria
B) Elena
C) Lena
D) Sofia
**Answer: C) Lena**
Certainly, here are the multiple-choice questions (MCQs) based on the provided information along
with the answers:
1. Who is the author of the play "Edward II"?

B) Edward Bulwer Lytton
C) P. B. Shelley
D) Muhammad Iqbal
**Answer: A) Christopher Marlowe**
2. Which author wrote the play "Edward I"?

C) P. B. Shelley
D) Muhammad Iqbal
**Answer: B) Edward Bulwer Lytton**
3. Who penned the poem "The Revolt of Islam"?

C) P. B. Shelley
D) Muhammad Iqbal
**Answer: C) P. B. Shelley**
4. Which poet wrote "The Prayer of Islam"?

C) P. B. Shelley
D) Muhammad Iqbal
**Answer: D) Muhammad Iqbal**
5. Who is the author of the autobiography "The Confessions"?

A) Saint Augustine of Hippo
B) Thomas De Quincey
C) S. T. Coleridge
D) Alphonse De Lamartine
**Answer: A) Saint Augustine of Hippo**
6. "The Confessions of an English Opium Eater" is an autobiography by whom?

C) S. T. Coleridge
**Answer: B) Thomas De Quincey**
7. Who wrote the essay "Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit"?

C) S. T. Coleridge
**Answer: C) S. T. Coleridge**
8. Which author's memoir is titled "The Confessions of a Young Man"?

C) S. T. Coleridge
**Answer: D) Alphonse De Lamartine**
9. "The Confessions of a Lover" is an autobiographical novel by whom?

C) S. T. Coleridge
**Answer: D) Alphonse De Lamartine**
10. Who is the author of the novel "The Confessions of a Mask"?

A) Yukio Mishima
B) John Grisham
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Thomas Mann
**Answer: A) Yukio Mishima**
11. Which author wrote the novel "The Confession"?

A) Yukio Mishima
B) John Grisham
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Thomas Mann
**Answer: B) John Grisham**
12. "A Confession" is a scholarly work by whom?
A) Yukio Mishima
B) John Grisham
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Thomas Mann
**Answer: C) Leo Tolstoy**
13. Who authored the novel "Confession of Felix Krull"?

A) Yukio Mishima
B) John Grisham
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Thomas Mann
**Answer: D) Thomas Mann**
14. Which author wrote the novel "The Confessions of Nat Turner"?
A) Yukio Mishima
B) John Grisham
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) William Styron
**Answer: D) William Styron**
15. "The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner" is a novel by whom?
A) Yukio Mishima
B) John Grisham
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) James Hogg
**Answer: D) James Hogg**
Here is a multiple-choice quiz using the questions and answers provided:

1. Who wrote "A Discourse of English Poetrie"?
A) William Webbe
C) Thomas Campion
D) George Puttenham
2. Who wrote "An Apology for Poetry / The Defense of Poesy"?

B) John Dryden
C) Percy Bysshe Shelley
D) Thomas Lodge
3. Who wrote "Observations in the Art of English Poesie"?

A) William Webbe
C) Thomas Campion
D) George Puttenham
4. Who wrote "The Arte of English Poesie"?

A) William Webbe
C) George Puttenham
5. Who wrote "An Essay of Dramatic Poesy"?

A) John Dryden
D) Thomas Lodge
6. Who wrote "A Defense of Poetry"?

A) Percy Bysshe Shelley
B) Thomas Campion
C) Sir Philip Sidney
D) William Webbe
7. Who wrote "A Defense of Poetry, Music and Stage Plays"?

A) Thomas Lodge
B) G. K. Chesterton
C) Edmund Spenser
D) Thomas Heywood
8. Who wrote "A Defense of Nonsense"?

A) G. K. Chesterton
C) John Dryden
D) Thomas Heywood
9. Who wrote "A Defense of Rhyme"?

A) Samuel Daniel
C) Thomas Love Peacock
D) Edmund Spenser
10. Who wrote "The Four Ages of Poetry"?

A) Thomas Love Peacock
B) Thomas Campion
C) John Dryden
D) George Puttenham
11. Who wrote "An Apology for Actors"?

A) Thomas Heywood
B) William Webbe
D) G. K. Chesterton
12. Who wrote "A Praise of Poetry"?

A) Edmund Spenser
B) Thomas Lodge
C) Samuel Daniel
D) George Puttenham
Sure, here are multiple-choice questions (MCQs) based on the provided information:
1. Who is the author of "Wolf Hall"?

A) Hilary Mantel
B) Mark Haddon
C) Alan Hollinghurst
D) Pat Barker
A) Hilary Mantel
2. Which book was written by Sebastian Faulks?

A) Wolf Hall
B) A Spot of Brother
D) Birdsong
D) Birdsong
3. Who wrote the novel "A Summer Bird Cage"?

A) Hilary Mantel
B) Mark Haddon
C) Alan Hollinghurst
D) Margaret Drabble
D) Margaret Drabble
4. Which book is associated with Pat Barker?

A) Wolf Hall
B) A Summer Bird Cage
C) Union Street
D) Birdsong
C) Union Street
5. Alan Hollinghurst is the author of which novel?

A) Wolf Hall
D) Birdsong
6. Margaret Drabble wrote which book?

A) Wolf Hall
D) A Summer Bird Cage
D) A Summer Bird Cage
Certainly! Here are multiple-choice questions based on the provided information:

1. "Spring" is a poem by whom?
A) Gerard Manley Hopkins
D) John Keats
Answer: A) Gerard Manley Hopkins
2. Who wrote "Ars Poetica"?

A) Horace
B) Virgil
C) Ovid
D) Seneca
Answer: A) Horace
3. "Candida" is a satirical play by whom?

A) George Bernard Shaw
B) Oscar Wilde
C) Samuel Beckett
D) Harold Pinter
Answer: A) George Bernard Shaw
4. "Electra" is a tragedy by whom?

A) Sophocles
B) Euripides
C) Aeschylus
D) Aristophanes
Answer: A) Sophocles
5. "Distant Drum" is an autobiographical novel by whom?

A) Malgonkar
B) R. K. Narayan
C) Arundhati Roy
D) Salman Rushdie
Answer: A) Malgonkar
6. "The Professor: A Tale" is a novel by whom?

A) Charlotte Bronte
B) Jane Austen
C) Emily Bronte
D) Charles Dickens
Answer: A) Charlotte Bronte
7. "The Professor" is a poem by whom?

A) Nissim Ezekiel
B) T. S. Eliot
C) Robert Frost
D) Langston Hughes
Answer: A) Nissim Ezekiel
8. "Hard Times" is a novel by whom?

A) Charles Dickens
B) George Eliot
C) Thomas Hardy
D) William Makepeace Thackeray
Answer: A) Charles Dickens
9. "My Life and Hard Times" is an autobiography by whom?

A) James Thurber
B) Mark Twain
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
Answer: A) James Thurber
10. "The Invisible Man" is a novel by whom?
A) H.G. Wells
B) Jules Verne
C) Mary Shelley
D) Bram Stoker
Answer: A) H.G. Wells
11. "Invisible Man" is by whom?

A) Ralph Ellison
B) Toni Morrison
C) James Baldwin
D) Zora Neale Hurston
Answer: A) Ralph Ellison
12. "Old Wives' Tale" is a poem by whom?

A) Jenny Xie
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Sylvia Plath
D) Maya Angelou
Answer: A) Jenny Xie
13. "Old Wives' Tale" is a novel by whom?

A) Arnold Bennett
B) Virginia Woolf
C) D.H. Lawrence
D) Thomas Hardy
Answer: A) Arnold Bennett
14. "Scholar Gypsy" is a poem by whom?

A) Matthew Arnold
C) John Keats
Answer: A) Matthew Arnold
15. "The Spanish Tragedy" is a play by whom?

A) Thomas Kyd
D) Ben Jonson
Answer: A) Thomas Kyd
16. "The Spanish Gypsy" is a poem by whom?

A) George Eliot
B) Robert Browning
C) Lord Byron
D) Alfred Lord Tennyson
Answer: A) George Eliot
17. "The Spanish Gypsy" is a play by whom?

A) Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
D) Ben Jonson
Answer: A) Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
18. "Eastward Ho" is a play by whom?

A) George Chapman, Ben Jonson, John Marston
D) Ben Jonson
Answer: A) George Chapman, Ben Jonson, John Marston
19. "Westward Ho" is a play by whom?

A) Thomas Dekker and John Webster
D) Ben Jonson
Answer: A) Thomas Dekker and John Webster
20. "Northward Ho" is a play by whom?

A) Thomas Dekker, John Webster, and Thomas Middleton
D) Ben Jonson
Answer: A) Thomas Dekker, John Webster, and Thomas Middleton
21. "Westward Ho" is a poem by whom?

A) John Douglas Sutherland Campbell
B) Robert Frost
C) Langston Hughes
D) Emily Dickinson
Answer: A) John Douglas Sutherland Campbell
22. "Religio Medici" is a philosophical poem by whom?

A) Sir Thomas Browne
B) John Donne
C) Andrew Marvell
D) Edmund Spenser
Answer: A) Sir Thomas Browne
23. "Religio Laici" is a poem by whom?

A) John Dryden
B) Alexander Pope
C) Jonathan Swift
D) Samuel Johnson
1. "Lolita" is a novel by whom?

A) William Faulkner
B) Vladimir Nabokov
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) Ernest Hemingway
Answer: B) Vladimir Nabokov
2. "Reading Lolita in Tehran" is a memoir by whom?

A) Azar Nafisi
B) Salman Rushdie
C) Khaled Hosseini
D) Orhan Pamuk
Answer: A) Azar Nafisi
3. "Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran" is a scholarly work by whom?
A) Azar Nafisi
B) Fatemeh Keshavarz
C) Elif Shafak
D) Orhan Pamuk
Answer: B) Fatemeh Keshavarz
4. "Istanbul: Memories and the City" is a memoir by whom?

A) Orhan Pamuk
B) Elif Shafak
C) Azar Nafisi
D) Fatemeh Keshavarz
Answer: A) Orhan Pamuk
5. "Bastard of Istanbul" is a novel by whom?
A) Orhan Pamuk
B) Elif Shafak
C) Fatemeh Keshavarz
D) Azar Nafisi
Answer: B) Elif Shafak
6. "Odyssey" is a work by whom?

A) Plato
B) Socrates
C) Homer
D) Aristotle
Answer: C) Homer
Certainly! Here are the multiple-choice questions (MCQs) based on the information you provided:
1. "The lines 'Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle; she died young' is from which work?
A) The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
B) Hamlet by William Shakespeare
C) Othello by William Shakespeare
D) Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Answer: A) The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
2. Who refers to Oxford as "that sweet city with her dreaming spires"?
A) John Keats
C) Matthew Arnold
D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Answer: C) Matthew Arnold
3. D. G. Rossetti is known as a:
A) Novelist
B) Poet and Painter
C) Playwright
D) Sculptor
Answer: B) Poet and Painter
4. Who wrote the play "Riders in the Sea"?
A) John Synge
C) Henrik Ibsen
D) Oscar Wilde
Answer: A) John Synge

5. "Look Back in Anger" is a play written by:
A) Arthur Miller
B) Tennessee Williams
C) John Osborne
D) Harold Pinter
Answer: C) John Osborne
6. "Blindness" is a novel written by:
A) Jose Saramago
B) Henry Greene
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Franz Kafka
Answer: A) Jose Saramago
7. Who authored the novel "Seeing"?
A) Jose Saramago
B) Henry Greene
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Franz Kafka
Answer: A) Jose Saramago
8. "Seeing is Believing" is a scholarly work by:
A) Arthur Berger
B) Arthur Miller
C) Arthur Conan Doyle
D) Arthur C. Clarke
Answer: A) Arthur Berger
9. Who is the author of "The Pardoner’s Tale"?
A) John Wain
B) Geoffrey Chaucer
D) John Webster
Answer: B) Geoffrey Chaucer
10. "The Passionate Pilgrim" is a poetry collection by:
A) William Jaggard
D) William Blake
Answer: A) William Jaggard
11. Who wrote the short story collection "A Passionate Pilgrim"?
C) Henry James
D) Leo Tolstoy
Answer: C) Henry James
12. "Who Do You Think You Are" is a short story collection by:
A) Alice Munro
B) Virginia Woolf
C) Sylvia Plath
D) Margaret Atwood
Answer: A) Alice Munro

13. Who authored the poem "O where are you going"?
A) W. H. Auden
B) T. S. Eliot
C) Dylan Thomas
D) Robert Frost
Answer: A) W. H. Auden
14. "Do With Me What You Will" is a novel by:
A) Joyce Carol Oates
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) Toni Morrison
Answer: A) Joyce Carol Oates
15. Who wrote the play "The Prodigal"?
A) Jack Richardson
B) Eugene O'Neill
C) Arthur Miller
D) Tennessee Williams
Answer: A) Jack Richardson
16. "The Iliad" is an epic attributed to:
A) Homer
B) Virgil
C) Ovid
D) Sophocles
Answer: A) Homer
17. "My Name is Red" is a novel by:
A) Orhan Pamuk
B) Salman Rushdie
C) Haruki Murakami
D) Milan Kundera
Answer: A) Orhan Pamuk
18. Which novel by Orhan Pamuk is similar to "The Name of the Rose"?
A) My Name is Bosnia
B) My Name is Red
C) My Name is Khan
D) My Name is Asher Lev
Answer: B) My Name is Red
19. "The Prodigal Daughter" is a novel by:
A) Jeffrey Archer
B) Danielle Steel
C) Stephen King
D) John Grisham
Answer: A) Jeffrey Archer
20. Who is the author of the novel "Prodigal Child"?
A) David Moulton
B) Charles Dickens
C) Emily Bronte
D) Jane Austen
Answer: A) David Moulton
21. "An Iliad" is a short story collection by:

A) Alessandro Baricco
B) J. D. Salinger
C) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
D) Leo Tolstoy
Answer: A) Alessandro Baricco
22. Who wrote the novel "My Name is Bosnia"?
A) Madeleine Gagnon
B) Margaret Atwood
C) Toni Morrison
D) Zadie Smith
Answer: A) Madeleine Gagnon
1. HOLY THURSDAY (poem) - William Blake

2. ASH WEDNESDAY (poem) - T.S. Eliot
3. CINDER THURSDAY (parody) - Herbert Palmer
4. DAFFODILS (poem) - William Wordsworth
5. TO DAFFODILS (poem) - Robert Herrick
6. DAFFODILS ECLOGUE (poem) - Michael Drayton
7. THIS YEAR DAFFODILS (book) - Girija Shettar
8. IMAGINE COMMUNITIES (book) - Benedict Anderson
9. IMAGINARY HOMELANDS (essay) - Salman Rushdie
10. IMAGINARY CONVERSATION (book) - Walter Savage Landor
Certainly, here are the multiple-choice questions (MCQs) based on the provided information:
1. "Strangers and Brothers" is a novel by whom?

A) C. P. Snow
B) Bebe Moore Campbell
C) Ivy Compton-Burnett
D) Dorothy Richardson
**Answer: A) C. P. Snow**
2. "Brothers and Sisters" is a novel by whom?

A) C. P. Snow
**Answer: B) Bebe Moore Campbell**
3. "Men and Wives" is a novel by whom?

A) C. P. Snow
**Answer: C) Ivy Compton-Burnett**
4. "Parents and Children" is a novel by whom?

A) C. P. Snow
5. "Elders and Betters" is a novel by whom?

A) C. P. Snow
6. "Pilgrimage" is a novel sequence by whom?

A) C. P. Snow
**Answer: D) Dorothy Richardson**
7. "The Pilgrimage" is a novel by whom?

A) C. P. Snow
D) Paulo Coelho
**Answer: D) Paulo Coelho**
8. "Pilgrimage" is a poem by whom?

A) C. P. Snow
D) Natasha Trethewey
**Answer: D) Natasha Trethewey**
Here are the multiple-choice questions (MCQs) based on the provided information:
1. "The Shepherd's Calendar" is a poem by whom?
A) Edmund Spenser
B) John Gay
C) Michael Drayton
D) John Keats
Answer: A) Edmund Spenser
2. "The Shepherd's Week" is a poem by whom?

A) Edmund Spenser
B) John Gay
C) Michael Drayton
D) John Keats
Answer: B) John Gay
3. "The Shepherd's Garland" is a poem by whom?

A) Edmund Spenser
B) John Gay
C) Michael Drayton
D) John Keats
Answer: C) Michael Drayton
4. "Ode on Melancholy" is a poem by whom?

A) Edmund Spenser
B) John Gay
C) Michael Drayton
D) John Keats
Answer: D) John Keats
5. "The Hamlet" is a novel by whom?

A) William Faulkner
B) William Hazlitt
C) S. T. Coleridge
D) Martin Luther
Answer: A) William Faulkner
6. "Table Talk" is an essay collection by whom?

A) William Faulkner
B) William Hazlitt
C) S. T. Coleridge
D) Martin Luther
Answer: B) William Hazlitt
7. "Table Talk" is an essay by whom?

A) William Faulkner
B) William Hazlitt
C) S. T. Coleridge
D) Martin Luther
Answer: C) S. T. Coleridge
8. "Table Talk" is an essay by whom?

A) William Faulkner
B) William Hazlitt
C) S. T. Coleridge
D) Martin Luther
Answer: D) Martin Luther
9. "Ghosts" is a play by whom?

A) Henrik Ibsen
B) Paul Auster
C) Joseph Conrad
D) Charles Cummings
Answer: A) Henrik Ibsen
10. "Ghost" is a novel in which trilogy?
A) The Shadow Line
B) Typhoon
C) The New York Trilogy
D) Northanger Abbey
Answer: C) The New York Trilogy
11. "The Shadow Line" is a novel by whom?

A) William Faulkner
B) Joseph Conrad
C) Jane Austen
D) Thomas Love Peacock
Answer: B) Joseph Conrad
12. "Typhoon" is a novel by whom?

A) William Faulkner
B) Joseph Conrad
C) Jane Austen
Answer: B) Joseph Conrad
13. "Typhoon" is a book by whom?

A) Joseph Conrad
B) Charles Cummings
C) Jane Austen
Answer: B) Charles Cummings
14. "Northanger Abbey" is a novel by whom?

A) Joseph Conrad
B) Charles Cummings
C) Jane Austen
Answer: C) Jane Austen
15. "Nightmare Abbey" is a novel by whom?

A) Joseph Conrad
B) Charles Cummings
C) Jane Austen
Answer: D) Thomas Love Peacock
16. "Nightmare Alley" is a novel by whom?

A) William Faulkner
B) Joseph Conrad
C) William Lindsay Gresham
D) Larry Browne
Answer: C) William Lindsay Gresham
17. "Father and Son" is a novel by whom?

A) William Faulkner
B) Joseph Conrad
C) William Lindsay Gresham
D) Larry Browne
Answer: D) Larry Browne
18. "Father and Son" is a memoir by whom?

A) Joseph Conrad
B) Charles Cummings
C) Edmund Gosse
D) Larry Browne
Answer: C) Edmund Gosse
1.Utopia: Of a republic's best state and of the new island (1516) - Thomas Moore
2. Timber or Discoveries(1641) - Ben Jonson
3. Table talk (1821)- William Hazlitt
4. Culture and anarchy: An essay in political and social criticism (1868)- Mathew Arnold
5. Wheel of fire(1930)- Wilson knight
6. Mad woman in the attic: The woman writer and the 19th century literary imagination (1979)-
Sandra Gilbert and Susan gubar
Here are the multiple-choice questions based on the opening lines and their respective answers:
1. "1802 I have just returned from the visit to my landlord the solitary neighbor that I shall be troubled
with" is the opening line of which novel?
A) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
B) Beloved by Toni Morrison
C) Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
D) Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Answer: A) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
2. "124 spiteful" is the opening line of which novel?

Answer: B) Beloved by Toni Morrison
3. "A screaming comes across the sky" is the opening line of which novel?
Answer: C) Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
4. "All this happened more or less" is the opening line of which novel?
Answer: D) Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
5. "Call me Ismael" is the opening line of which novel?

D) Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Answer: D) Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
6. "Happy families are alike" is the opening line of which novel?

B) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Answer: B) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
7. "He was an old man who fished alone" is the opening line of which novel?
A) The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Answer: A) The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
8. "I am a sick man" is the opening line of which novel?

C) Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Answer: C) Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
9. "I'm an invisible man" is the opening line of which novel?

A) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Answer: A) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
10. "I had the story bit by bit" is the opening line of which novel?
A) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Answer: A) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
11. "The following day no one died" is the opening line of which novel?
A) Death at Intervals by Jose Saramago
Answer: A) Death at Intervals by Jose Saramago
12. "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain" is the opening line of which novel?
A) Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Answer: A) Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
13. "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was
born..." is the opening line of which novel?
A) The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Answer: A) The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
14. "It is a truth universally acknowledged" is the opening line of which novel?
A) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Answer: A) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
15. "It was a bright cold day in April" is the opening line of which novel?
A) 1984 by George Orwell
Answer: A) 1984 by George Orwell
1. Manju Kapur's novel that won the Commonwealth Prize in the year 1999 is ______.
A) Difficult Daughters (1998)
B) Custody
C) A Married Woman
D) The Immigrant
**Answer: A) Difficult Daughters (1998)**
2. Who is the New Woman in Difficult Daughters?

A) Virmati
B) Ida
C) Kasturi
D) Shakuntala
**Answer: A) Virmati**
3. Who reconstructs Virmati’s history in retrospect?

A) Virmati
B) Ida
C) Kasturi
D) Shakuntala
**Answer: B) Ida (daughter of Virmati)**
4. Where did Virmati go to study rejecting the confinements of her mother, Kasturi’s world of
marriage and childbearing?
A) Lahore
B) Delhi
C) Mumbai
D) Kolkata
**Answer: A) Lahore**
5. What is the name of the cousin who inspires Virmati to rise above her limitations?
A) Shakuntala
B) Kasturi
C) Ida
D) Raman
**Answer: A) Shakuntala**
6. Custody is the novel written by?

A) Manju Kapur
B) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
C) Anita Desai
D) Arundhati Roy
**Answer: A) Manju Kapur**
7. In the novel Custody, who leaves Raman for another man?

A) Shagun
B) Astha
C) Ida
D) Virmati
**Answer: A) Shagun**
8. In A Married Woman, _________ dissatisfied, begins an affair with the widow of a political
activist?
A) Astha
B) Shagun
C) Ida
D) Virmati
**Answer: A) Astha**
9. Which novel by Manju Kapur centres on a thirty-year-old English lecturer Nina, living with her
widowed mother in New Delhi?
A) The Immigrant
B) Difficult Daughters
C) Custody
D) Home
**Answer: A) The Immigrant**
10. The Banwari family with the traditional business of selling sarees collapses in their fortune with
the arrival of jeans and salwar kameez in Manju Kapur’s _______.
A) Difficult Daughters
B) Custody
C) Home
D) A Married Woman
**Answer: C) Home**
LAST LINES
Certainly! Here are the MCQs based on the provided questions and answers:
1. "So that in the end there was no end” is a line from which novel?
A) The Tree of Man (1955) - Patrick White
B) A Farewell to Arms (1929) - Ernest Hemingway
C) Gone with the Wind (1936) - Margaret Mitchell
D) The Quiet American (1956) - Graham Greene
Answer: A) The Tree of Man (1955) - Patrick White
2. "After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain" is a line
from which novel?
Answer: B) A Farewell to Arms (1929) - Ernest Hemingway
3. "Tomorrow I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day" is a line
from which novel?
Answer: C) Gone with the Wind (1936) - Margaret Mitchell
4. "Everything had gone right with me since he had died but now I wished there existed someone to
whom I could say that I was sorry" is a line from which novel?
C) The Quiet American (1956) - Graham Greene
D) Native Son (1940) - Richard Wright
Answer: C) The Quiet American (1956) - Graham Greene
5. "He heard the ring of steel against steel as a far door clanged shut" is a line from which novel?
A) Native Son (1940) - Richard Wright
B) The Tree of Man (1955) - Patrick White
C) A Farewell to Arms (1929) - Ernest Hemingway
Answer: A) Native Son (1940) - Richard Wright
6. "Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman" is written by whom?

A) Oscar Wilde
B) Robert Louis Stevenson
D) H.G. Wells
Answer: A) Oscar Wilde
7. "The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale" is written by whom?

A) Oscar Wilde
D) H.G. Wells
Answer: B) Robert Louis Stevenson
8. "Arms and the Man: An Anti-Romantic Hero" is written by whom?

A) Oscar Wilde
D) H.G. Wells
Answer: C) George Bernard Shaw
9. "Candida: A Mystery" is written by whom?

A) Oscar Wilde
D) H.G. Wells
Answer: C) George Bernard Shaw
10. "Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul" is written by whom?
A) Oscar Wilde
D) H.G. Wells
Answer: D) H.G. Wells
11. "Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow" is written by whom?
A) Oscar Wilde
D) Ted Hughes
Answer: D) Ted Hughes
Certainly! Here are multiple-choice questions (MCQs) based on the given information:
1. "The Divine Comedy" is a famous epic poem written by:

B) Dante Alighieri
C) Geoffrey Chaucer
D) Homer
Answer: B) Dante Alighieri
2. Who is the author of the poem "Digging"?

A) Robert Frost
B) Seamus Heaney
D) Emily Dickinson
Answer: B) Seamus Heaney
3. "Church Going" is a poem written by:
A) T.S. Eliot
B) Sylvia Plath
C) Philip Larkin
D) W.B. Yeats
Answer: C) Philip Larkin
4. "Ambulance" is a work by which author?

A) Sylvia Plath
C) Hugh Miller
D) Samuel Beckett
Answer: C) Hugh Miller
1. "Epithalamion" is a poem written by:

A) Edmund Spenser
B) Joan Naviyuk Kane
C) Margaret Cavendish
D) J. G. Ballard
Answer: A) Edmund Spenser
2. "The Blazing World" is a science fiction novel by:

A) Margaret Cavendish
B) J. G. Ballard
C) David Malouf
D) Michael Crichton
Answer: A) Margaret Cavendish

3. "The Lost World" is a science fiction action novel written by:
A) Michael Crichton
B) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
C) Geoffrey Chaucer
D) John Day
Answer: A) Michael Crichton
4. "The Parlement of Foules" is a poem by:

A) Geoffrey Chaucer
B) John Day
D) Wilkie Collins
Answer: A) Geoffrey Chaucer
5. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a poem by:

A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B) Virginia Woolf
C) Wilkie Collins
D) Noel Coward
Answer: A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
6. "To the Lighthouse" is a novel by:

A) Virginia Woolf
B) Wilkie Collins
C) Noel Coward
D) Agatha Christie
Answer: A) Virginia Woolf

7. "The Mousetrap" is a play by:
A) Agatha Christie
B) William Maginn
C) Ben Jonson
D) James Hogg
Answer: A) Agatha Christie
8. "Every Man in His Humour" is a play by:

A) Ben Jonson
B) William Maginn
C) Yukio Mishima
D) John Grisham
Answer: A) Ben Jonson
9. "The Crystal World" is a science fiction novel by:

A) J. G. Ballard
B) Michael Crichton
C) Margaret Cavendish
D) David Malouf
Answer: A) J. G. Ballard
10. "The Lighthouse" is a play by:

A) Wilkie Collins
B) Noel Coward
C) Agatha Christie
D) Virginia Woolf
Answer: A) Wilkie Collins

11. "The Lost World" is a science fiction novel by:
A) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
B) J. G. Ballard
C) Michael Crichton
D) Margaret Cavendish
Answer: A) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
12. "The Parliament of Bees" is a poem by:

A) John Day
B) Geoffrey Chaucer
D) Edmund Spenser
Answer: A) John Day
13. "Every Man out of His Humour" is a play by:

A) Ben Jonson
B) William Maginn
C) Yukio Mishima
D) John Grisham
Answer: A) Ben Jonson
14. "The Rat Trap" is a play by:

A) Noel Coward
B) Agatha Christie
C) Wilkie Collins
D) Virginia Woolf
Answer: A) Noel Coward

15. "The Great World" is a novel by:
A) David Malouf
B) Margaret Cavendish
C) J. G. Ballard
D) Michael Crichton
Answer: A) David Malouf
16. "The Rime of the Ancient Waggonere" is by:

A) William Maginn
B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C) Geoffrey Chaucer
D) John Day
Answer: A) William Maginn

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6. Original title of Mulk Raj Anand's Gauri is **-** What?

7. Interpretive community **-** Who introduced this concept in literary theory?

9. The Philosophy of Composition is written by **-** Which American author?

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7. Interpretive community - Who introduced this concept in literary theory?

9. The Philosophy of Composition is written by - Which American author?

11. Rewrite rules is related to - What concept in linguistics?

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