Literature Quiz - 300 Multiple Choice Questions

Literature Quiz -300 MCQs

 

1.     Which poem ends 'I shall but love thee better after death'?

a.     How do I love thee                                           

b.     Ode to a Grecian urn

c.      In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes        

d.     Let me not to the marriage of true minds

 

2.     Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?

a.     John Keats         

b.     Lord Byron              

c.      Solan                       

d.     Sappho

 

3.     Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?

a.     Nature               

b.     Epics            

c.      Sonnets       

d.     Nonsense

 

4.     In Coleridge's poem 'The rime of the Ancient Mariner' where were the three gallants going?

a.     A funeral           

b.     A wedding              

c.      Market                    

d.     To the races

 

5.     Harold Nicholson described which poet as 'Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners' ?

a.     e. e. Cummings             

b.     T. S. Elliot               

c.      John Greenleaf Whittier     

d.     Walt Whitman

 

6.     What was strange about Emily Dickinson?

a.     She rarely left home                                        

b.     She wrote in code

c.      She never attempted to publish her poetry     

d.     She wrote her poems in invisible ink

 

7.     Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?

a.     Boer War           

b.     Second World War             

c.      Korean War             

d.     First World War

 

8.     Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?

a.     Betjeman                      

b.     Hughes                    

c.      Marvel                     

d.     Larkin

 

9.     Which American writer published 'A brave and startling truth' in 1996

a.     Robert Hass                  

b.     Jessica Hagdorn      

c.      Maya Angelou        

d.     Micheal Palmer

 

10.  Who wrote about the idyllic 'Isle of Innisfree'?

a.     Dylan Thomas               

b.     Ezra Pound             

c.      W. B. Yeats              

d.     e. e. cummings

 

11.  A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry

a.     rhyme scheme         

b.     meter                       

c.      alliteration

 

12.  The repetition of similar ending sounds

a.     alliteration              

b.     onomatopoeia        

c.      rhyme

 

13.  Applying human qualities to non-human things

a.     personification        

b.     onomatopoeia        

c.      alliteration

 

14.  The repetition of beginning consonant sounds

a.     rhyme                      

b.     onomatopoeia        

c.      alliteration

 

15.  A comparison of unlike things without using a word of comparison such as like or as

a.     metaphor                

b.     simile                       

c.      personification

 

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

a.     Metaphor                

b.     simile                       

c.      personification

 

17.  Using words or letters to imitate sounds

a.     alliteration              

b.     simile                       

c.      onomatopoeia

 

18.  a description that appeals to one of the five senses

a.     imagery                   

b.     personification        

c.      metaphor

 

19.  A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters

a.     lyric                          

b.     free verse                

c.      narrative

 

20.  A poem with no meter or rhyme

a.     lyric                          

b.     free verse                

c.      narrative

 

21.  A poem that generally has meter and rhyme

a.     Lyric                         

b.     free verse                

c.      narrative

22.  Sylvia Plath married which English poet?

a.     Masefield                     

b.     Causley       

c.      Hughes        

d.     Larkin

 

23.  Carl Sandburg 'Planked whitefish' contains what kind of imagery?

a.     Sea scenes       

b.     Rural Idyll                

c.      War             

d.     Innocent childhood

 

24.  Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819?

a.     Emily Dickinson           

b.     Paul Dunbar                        

c.      John Greenleaf Whittier     

d.     Walt Whitman

 

25.  In 1960 'The Colossus' was the first book of poems published by which poetess?

a.     Elizabeth Bishop          

b.     Sylvia Plath             

c.      Marianne Moore    

d.     Laura Jackson

 

26.  In his poem Kipling said 'If you can meet with triumph and . . . . . . . . '?

a.     Glory                

b.     Ruin            

c.      Disaster                   

d.     victory

 

27.   Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry?

a.     Assonance                   

b.     Onomatopoeia                    

c.      Rhyme         

d.     Grammar

 

28.  True or false: Writing predates poetry.

a.     True    

b.     False

 

29.  What is the earliest surviving European poem?

a.     The Homeric epic        

b.     The Gilgamesh epic            

c.      The Deluge epic      

d.     The Hesiodic ode

 

30.  Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?

a.     The Epic           

b.     The Comic               

c.      The Occult              

d.     The Tragic

 

31.  What is the study of poetry's meter and form called?

a.     Prosody                       

b.     Potology     

c.      Rheumatology        

d.     Scansion

 

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

a.     Alliterative verse         

b.     Sonnet form            

c.      Iambic pentameter             

d.     Dactylic hexameter

 

33.  Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?

a.     William Carlos Williams          

b.     Emily Dickinson      

c.      G.M.Hopkins           

d.     Robert Frost

 

34.   Who wrote this famous line: 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day/ Thou art more lovely and more temperate…'

a.     TS Eliot             

b.     Lord Tennyson        

c.      Charlotte Bronte                 

d.     Shakespeare

 

35.   From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?

a.     The 12th    

b.     The 14th        

c.      The 17th    

d.     The 19th

 

36.  From which of Shakespeare's plays is this famous line: 'Did my heart love til now?/ Forswear it, sight/ For I never saw a true beauty until this night'

a.     A Midsummer Night's Dream    

b.     Hamlet    

c.      Othello    

d.     Romeo and Juliet

 

37.   What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?

a.     Alliterative    

b.     Epic    

c.      Acrostic    

d.     Haiku

 

38.  Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom?

a.     Sir Walter Scott    

b.     William Butler Yeats    

c.      Henry Longfellow    

d.     Robert Burns

 

39.   How has Stephen Dunn been described in 'the Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry?

a.     A poet of middleness                    

b.     Capturing a sense of spiritual marooness

c.      One of the leading prairie poets        

d.     Has some distinction as a critic

 

40.   'The Cambridge school' refers to a group who emerged when?

a.     The 1900's    

b.     The 1960's    

c.      The 1920's    

d.     The 1930's

 

41.  Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city?

a.     Vancouver        

b.     Toronto    

c.      Ottawa    

d.     Montreal

42.  Which of the following words describe the prevailing attitude of High-Modern Literature?

a.     Skeptical        

b.     Authoritative    

c.      Impressionistic    

d.     Confident    

e.     Both a & c

 

43.  Which Welsh poet wrote "Under Milk Wood?"

a.     Anthony Hopkins    

b.     Richard Burton    

c.      Tom Jones    

d.     Dylan Thomas

 

44.  Who wrote Canterbury Tales?

a.     Geoffrey Chaucer    

b.     Dick Whittington   

c.      Thomas Lancaster    

d.     King Richard II

 

45.  Who wrote "The Hound of the Baskervilles?"

a.     Agatha Christie    

b.     H Ryder-Haggard    

c.      P D James    

d.     Arthur Conan Doyle

 

46.  William Shakespeare is not the author of:

a.     Titus Andronicus    

b.     Taming of the Shrew    

c.      White Devil    

d.     Hamlet

 

47.   ___________is a late 20th century play written by a woman?

a.     Queen Cristina    

b.     Top Girls    

c.      Camille    

d.     The Homecoming

 

48.  Which of the following writers wrote historical novels?

a.     Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte            

b.     Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

c.      Wordsworth and Coleridge                

d.     Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

 

49.  Who wrote "Ten Little Niggers?"

a.     Sir Arthur Conan Doyle    

b.     Irvine Welsh    

c.      Agatha Christie    

d.     None of above

 

50.  Which of the following are Thomas Hardy books?

a.     The Poor Man and the Lady    

b.     The Return of Native    

c.      Chollttee    

d.     None of the above

 

51.  Which of the following is not a work of John Keats?

a.     Endymion    

b.     To some ladies    

c.      To hope    

d.     None of above

 

52.  Who wrote the poems, "On death" and "Women, Wine, and Snuff?"

a.     John Milton    

b.     John Keats    

c.      P.B. Shelley    

d.     William Wordsworth

 

53.  "Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden."This is an extract from:

a.     Paradise Lost    

b.     Paradise Regained    

c.      Samson Agonistes    

d.     Divorce Tracts

 

54.  William Shakespeare was born in the year:

a.     1564    

b.     1544    

c.      1578    

d.     1582

 

55.  Which of the following is not a Shakespeare tragedy?

a.     Titus Andronicus    

b.     Othello    

c.      Macbeth    

d.     Hamlet    

e.     None of the above

 

56.  Who wrote 'The Winter's Tale?'

a.     George Bernard Shaw    

b.     John Dryden    

c.      Christopher Marlowe    

d.     William Shakespeare

 

57.  What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?

a.     No difference. Simply two different ways in referring to the same thing.

b.     A simile is more descriptive.

c.      A simile uses as or like to make a comparison and a metaphor doesn't.

d.     A simile must use animals in the comparison.

 

58.  What is the word for a "play on words"?

a.     pun        

b.     simile        

c.      haiku        

d.     metaphor

 

59.  Which represents an example of alliteration?

a.       Language Arts        

b.       Peter Piper Picked Peppers

c.       I like music.            

d.       A beautiful scenery with music

 

60.  What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?

a.       Personification        

b.       Hyperboles    

c.       Alliteration    

d.       Onomatopoeia

 

61.  The theme is ...?

a.     a plot.        

b.     an character        

c.      an address    

d.     the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.

 

62.  Concentrate on these elements when writing a good poem.

a.       characters, main idea, and theme        

b.       purpose and audience

c.       theme, purpose, form, and mood.    

d.       rhyme and reason

 

63.  Which is not a poetry form?

a.       epic    

b.       tale    

c.       ballad    

d.       sonnet

 

64.  Which is an example of a proverb?

a.       Get a "stake" in our business.                  

b.       You can't have your cake and eat it, too

c.       The snow was white as cotton.                

d.       You're driving me crazy.

 

65.  Which is an exaggeration?

a.       Alliteration       

b.       Haiku        

c.       Hyperbole        

d.       Prose

 

66.  Which of the following is not a poet?

a.     William Shakespeare    

b.     Terry Saylor    

c.      Elizabeth B. Browning    

d.     Emily Dickinson

 

 

67.  Who has defined 'poetry' as a fundamental creative act using languages?

a.     H. W. Longfellow    

b.     Ralph Waldo Emerson    

c.      Dylan Thomas    

d.     William Wordsworth

 

68.  What is a sonnet?

a.     A poem of six lines            

b.     A poem of eight lines

c.      A poem of twelve lines        

d.     A poem of fourteen lines

 

69.  What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as?

a.     Prosody       

b.     Allegory        

c.      Scansion        

d.     Assonance

 

70.  Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem?

a.     Onomatopoeia        

b.     Metonymy        

c.      Alliteration        

d.     Hyperbole

 

71.  There was aware of her true love, at length come riding by - This is a couplet from the Bailiff's Daughter of Islington. What figure of speech is used by the poet?

a.     Metaphor        

b.     Synecdoche        

c.      Euphemism        

d.     Irony

 

72.  Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas?

a.     Hindu    

b.     Celtic        

c.      Arabic        

d.     Arameic

 

73.  Complete this Shakespearan line - Let me not to the marriage of true minds bring:

a.     Impediments        

b.     Inconveniences        

c.      Worries        

d.     Troubles

 

74.  Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form?

a.     Jintishi        

b.     Villanelle        

c.      Ode        

d.     Tanka

 

75.  What is the title of the poem that begins thus - 'What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare'?

a.     Comfort       

b.     Leisure    

c.      Relaxation    

d.     Tranquility

 

76.  Which of the following is not an English poet (i. e.  from England)?

a.     Victor Hugo    

b.     Alexander Pope    

c.      John Milton    

d.     Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

77.  Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?

a.     William Blake

b.     William Shakespeare

c.      William Morris

d.     William Wordsworth

 

78.  What is a funny poem of five lines called?

a.     Quartet

b.     Limerick

c.      Sextet

d.     Palindrome

 

79.  How did W. H. Auden describe poetry?

a.     An awful way to earn a living

b.     A game of knowledge

c.      The soul exposed

d.     An explosion of language

 

80.  Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry?

a.     Light verse

b.     Romantic

c.      Political satire

d.     War poems

 

81.  Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?

a.     Denver

b.     St Louis

c.      Cuba

d.     Toronto

 

82.  Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess?

a.     Carolyn Kizer

b.     Mary Oliver

c.      Sylvia Plath

d.     Marianne Moore

 

83.  How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?

a.     24

b.     31

c.      21

d.     28

 

84.  In what form did Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood' first become known?

a.     Book of poetry

b.     A radio play

c.      A stage play

d.     a short film

 

85.  The magazine 'Contemporary Poetry and Prose' was inspired by which exhibition?

a.     The Festival of Britain

b.     The Surrealist Exhibition

c.      People of the 20th Century

d.     Drawing the 20th CEntury

 

86.  Why did 'Poetry Quarterly' cease publication in 1953?

a.     Owner convicted of fraud

b.     Fall in Sales

c.      Rise in taxation on magazines

d.     Shortage of paper

 

87.  Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better known as what?

a.     Politician

b.     Dramatist

c.      Novelist

d.     Architect

 

88.  Of which poet was it said 'Even if he's not a great poet, he's certainly a great something'?

a.     Elliot

b.     Kipling

c.      Cummings

d.     Brooke

 

MIDDLE AGES

 

89.  Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450?

a.     the Normans

b.     the Geats

c.      the Celts

d.     the Anglo-Saxons

e.     the Danes

 

90.  Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066?

a.     French

b.     Norwegian

c.      Spanish

d.     Hungarian

e.     Danish

 

91.  Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures?

a.     Beowulf

b.     Arthur

c.      Caedmon

d.     Augustine of Canterbury

e.     Alfred

 

92.  Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and in court of law?

a.     tenth

b.     eleventh

c.      twelfth

d.     thirteenth

e.     fourteenth

 

93.  Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336?

a.     Henry II

b.     Henry III

c.      Henry V

d.     Louis XIV

e.     Edward III

 

94.  Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?

a.     Bede

b.     Sir Thomas Malory

c.      Geoffrey Chaucer

d.     Caedmon

e.     John Gower

 

95.  What was vellum?

a.     parchment made of animal skin

b.     the service owed to a lord by his peasants ("villeins")

c.      unrhymed iambic pentameter

d.     an unbreakable oath of fealty

e.     a prized ink used in the illumination of prestigious manuscripts

 

96.  Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in:

a.     the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

b.     the Norman Conquest of 1066.

c.      the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

d.     the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

e.     the wave of contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476.

 

97.  What is the first extended written specimen of Old English?

a.     Boethius's Consolidation of Philosophy

b.     Saint Jerome's translation of the Bible

c.      Malory's Morte D’Arthur

d.     Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People

e.     a code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert

98.   Who was the first English Christian king?

a.     Alfred

b.     Richard III

c.      Richard II

d.     Henry II

e.     Ethelbert

 

99.  In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance?

a.     banishment to Asia

b.     everlasting shame

c.      conversion to Christianity

d.     mild melancholia

e.     being buried alive

 

100.Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with:

a.     nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.

b.     bewilderment and visceral loathing.

c.      admiration and elegiac sympathy.

d.     bigotry and shallow triumphalism.

e.     the deepest reluctance.

 

101.The use of "whale-road" for sea and "life-house" for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry?

a.     symbolism

b.     simile

c.      metonymy

d.     kenning

e.     appositive expression

 

102.Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry?

a.     Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct.

b.     Its formal and dignified use of speech was distant from everyday use of language.

c.      Irony is a mode of perception, as much as it was a figure of speech.

d.     Christian and pagan ideals are sometimes mixed.

e.     Its idiom remained remarkably uniform for nearly three centuries.

 

103.Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry?

a.     embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine

b.     repetition of parallel syntactic structures

c.      ironic understatement

d.     stress on every third diphthong

e.     a compound of two words in place of a single word

 

104.How did Henry II, the first of England's Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France?

a.     the Battle of Hastings

b.     Saint Patrick's mission

c.      the Fourth Lateran Council

d.     the execution of William Sawtre

e.     his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine

 

105.Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England?

a.     Latin

b.     Dutch

c.      French

d.     Celtic

e.     English

 

106.Which twelfth-century poet or poets were indebted to Breton storytellers for their narratives?

a.     Geoffrey Chaucer

b.     Marie de France

c.      Chrétien de Troyes

d.     a and c only

e.     b and c only

 

107.To what did the word the roman, from which the genre of "romance"emerged, initially apply?

a.     a work derived from a Latin text of the Roman Empire

b.     a story about love and adventure

c.      a Roman official

d.     a work written in the French vernacular

e.     a series of short stories

 

108.Popular English adaptations of romances appealed primarily to

a.     the royal family and upper orders of the nobility

b.     the lower orders of the nobility

c.      agricultural laborers

d.     the clergy

e.     the Welsh

 

109.What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain?

a.     the reign of King Arthur

b.     the coronation of Henry II

c.      King John's seal of the Magna Carta

d.     the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine

e.     the defeat of the French by Henry V

 

110.Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for

a.     courtiers entering the service of Richard II

b.     translators of French romances

c.      women who have chosen to live as religious recluses

d.     knights preparing for their first tournament

e.     witch-hunters and exorcists

 

111.The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200?

a.     They were written for sophisticated and well-educated readers.

b.     Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin and French.

c.      Their readers' primary language was English.

d.     a and c only

e.     a and b only

 

112.In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the "flowering"of Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers?

a.     Geoffrey of Monmouth

b.     the Gawain poet

c.      the Beowulf poet

d.     Chrétien de Troyes

e.     Marie de France

 

113.Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury?

a.     Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform.

b.     The common people were still essentially pagan.

c.      They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic.

d.     The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.

e.     a and c only

 

114.Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife?

a.     Dante's Divine Comedy

b.     Boccaccio's Decameron

c.      The Dream of the Rood

d.     Chaucer's Legend of Good Women

e.     Gower's Confessio Amantis

 

115.Who is the author of Piers Plowman?

a.     Sir Thomas Malory

b.     Margery Kempe

c.      Geoffrey Chaucer

d.     William Langland

e.     Geoffrey of Monmouth

 

116.What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V?

a.     the Battle of Agincourt

b.     the Battle of Hastings

c.      the Norman Conquest

d.     the Black Death

e.     the War of the Roses

 

117.Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues?

a.     the short story

b.     the heroic epic

c.      the morality play

d.     the romance

e.     the limerick

 

118.Which of the following statements about Julian of Norwich is true?

a.     She sought unsuccessfully to restore classical paganism.

b.     She was a virgin martyr.

c.      She is the first known woman writer in the English vernacular.

d.     She made pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago.

e.     She probably never met Margery Kempe.

 

119.Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir Lancelot?

a.     Julian of Norwich

b.     Margery Kempe

c.      William Langland

d.     Sir Thomas Malory

e.     Geoffrey Chaucer

 

120.which of these is magnum opus of Chaucer?

a.     Troilus and Criseyde

b.     House of fame

c.      The canterbury tales

d.     Parliament of fowls.

 

121.Where were the pilgrims going in the canterbury tales?

a.     To the shrine of St. Peter at canterbury cathedral

b.     To the shrine of saint Thomas becket at canterbury cathedral

 

122. in which language the stories of canterbury tale are written?

a.     French

b.     Latin

c.      Middle English

d.     English

 

123.Chaucer's franklin was guilty of which sin?

a.     Lust

b.     Corruption

c.      Theft

d.     Gluttony

 

124.How many languages did Chaucer know?

a.     2

b.     4

c.      1

d.     5

 

125.from which language the name ''Chaucer'' has been driven?

a.     French

b.     Latin

c.      Italian

d.     English

 

126.Where did Chaucer bury?

a.       Westminster abbey

b.       Kent church

c.       chapel at Windsor

 

127.Chaucer was imprisoned during----------------------?

a.       hundred years' war

b.       Black death

c.       Peasant revolt

 

128.how many children Chaucer had?

a.       4

b.       1

c.       0

d.       2

129.what was the occupation of Chaucer's father?

a.        leather merchant

b.       civil servant

c.        a vintner

 

130.Chaucer became a page to which king's daughter-in-law?

a.     Edward III

b.     Richard II

c.      Henry IV

 

131.which of these is not certain about Chaucer?

a.     his birth date

b.     his death year

c.      his father's name

 

132.which of these kings was not served by Chaucer?

a.     Edward III

b.     Henry II

c.      Richard II

 

133.what was the duration of hundred year's war?

a.       a.1300 to 1350

b.       b.1337 to 1453

c.       c. 1302 to 1343

 

134.what did Chaucer's wife use to do?

a.     lady-in-waiting to Queen Philip pa of Hainaut

b.     nurse of royal court

c.      governess to Henry IV

 

135.one of Chaucer's daughter was............?

a.     a musician

b.     an astronomer

c.      a nun

 

136. in which year Chaucer was imprisoned by the French?

a.     1360

b.     1357

c.      1378

 

137.Chaucer was fined in 1367 or 1366 for..............?

a.     beating a friar in a London Street

b.     for writing poetry against the church

c.      for crossing the border of Great Britain

 

138.Chaucer was made in-charge of many palaces, which of these was not in his charge?

a.     Westminster Palace

b.     Tower of London

c.      St. George's chapel at Windsor

d.     Buckingham Palace

 

139.Chaucer acted as a controller of custom during.............?

a.     1374 to 1385

b.     1350 to 1360

c.      1360 to 1400

 

140.Chaucer was released from legal action by ........................ in a deed of May 1, 1380 from rape and abduction?

a.     Miss Cecily Champaigne

b.     Philippa de Roet of Flanders

c.      Agnes de Compton

 

141.Chaucer became a member of Parliament in...........?

a.     1386

b.     1300

c.      1343

 

142.Chaucer buried in a corner of Westminster, which came to know as.........?

a.     Chaucer's corner

b.     poet's corner

c.      legend's corner

 

143.what was Chaucer's profession?

a.     a poet

b.     a merchant

c.      a civil servant

 

The Life and Works of Christopher Marlowe (Elizabethan era)

 

144.One of Marlowe's earliest published works was his translation of the epic poem 'Pharsalia', written by which Roman poet?

a.     Ovid

b.     Lucan

c.      Virgil

d.     Horace

 

145.Marlowe's poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' begins with the line "Come live with me and be my love"; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line?

a.     William Shakespeare

b.     Thomas Kyd

c.      John Dryden

d.     John Donne

 

146.In Marlowe's play, what was the name of the Jew of Malta?

a.     Lazarus

b.     Solomon

c.      Barabas

d.     Shylock

 

147.How many years of happiness was Dr Faustus promised by the Devil?

a.     16

b.     20

c.      24

d.     28

 

148.Which of these Kings was the subject of a play by Marlowe?

a.     Henry V

b.     Richard III

c.      Edward II

d.     John

 

149.One of Marlowe's most famous poems was an account of which lovers?

a.     Anthony and Cleopatra

b.     Hero and Leander

c.      Troilus and Cressida

d.     Apollo and Hyacinth

 

150.Marlowe's play 'Tamburlaine the Great' was based loosely on the life of which Asian ruler?

a.     Zhu Yuanzhang

b.     Genghis Khan

c.      Timur

d.     Kublai Khan

 

151.What was the title of the play by Marlowe that portrayed the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572?

a.     The Massacre at Berlin

b.     The Massacre at Rome

c.      The Massacre at Copenhagen

d.     The Massacre at Paris

 

152.In the title of Marlowe's play, of where was Dido the Queen?

a.     Troy

b.     Carthage

c.      Sparta

d.     Persia

 

153.Christopher Marlowe was England's first official Poet Laureate.

a.     True

b.     False

(It was John Dryden-appointed in 1670)

 

 

DR.FAUSTUS BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

154.In what country is 'Dr Faustus' based?

a.     a)England

b.     b)Italy

c.      c)France

d.     d)Germany

 

155.When, is it estimated, was 'Dr Faustus' first performed?

a.     a)1594

b.     b)1604

c.      c)1590

d.     d)1593

 

156.At what famous university is Faustus a scholar?

a.     a)Wittenburg

b.     b)Sorbonne

c.      c)Heidelberg

d.     d)Cambridge

 

157.Faustus' servant shares his name with a famous German composer. Who?

a.     a)Bach

b.     b)Schumann

c.      c)Beethoven

d.     d)Wagner

 

158.Faustus asks two magicians to aid him in summoning the devil. What are their names?

a.     a)Valdes and Cornelius

b.     b)Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

c.      c)Troilus and Cressida

d.     d)Pyramus and Thisbe

 

 

159.Through his magic, Faustus is visited first by which of the devil's angels?

a.     a)Mephastophilis

b.     b)beelzebub

c.      c)Aamon

 

160.What does Faustus promise to the devil in exchange for great knowledge, riches and power for a period of 24 years?

a.     a)his body

b.     b)his house

c.      c)his soul

d.     d)his horse

 

161.Which of the following qualities would most accurately describe Faustus' character at the beginning of the play?

a.     a)kind

b.     b)stupid

c.      c)sensitive

d.     d)arrogant

 

162.Which powerful figure does Faustus ridicule with his new-found powers?

a.     a)The Pope

b.     b)The Holy Roman Emperor

c.      c)The King of England

d.     d)The King of France

 

163.At the end of the play, Faustus is dragged down to hell, begging to repent.

a.     a)True

b.     b)False

 

164."Renaissance" is a:

a.     a)French word

b.     b)Italian word

c.      c)Greek word

d.     d)Spanish word

 

165.What is the meaning of "Renaissance":

a.     a)Rebirth, revival and re-awaking

b.     b)Reveal, revel and reverie

c.      c)Raillery, renunciation and recoup

 

166.Renaissance first came to the:

a.     a)France

b.     b)Italy

c.      c)England

d.     d)Rome

 

167.Which of the following are University wits:

a.     a)John Gower and Robert Peele

b.     b)John Skelton and Thomas lodge

c.      c)John Lyly and Robert Greene

d.     d)John Donne and Thomas Nashe

 

168.University Wits were those who:

a.     a)Had training at two universities

b.     b)gave curriculum of two universities

c.      c)Erected two universities

d.     d)Not studied in any universities

 

169.Which century is known as Dawn of Renaissance:

a.     a)14 th

b.     b)15 th

c.      c)16 th

d.     d)14 th and 16 th

 

170.Who born in 1422:

a.     a)William Caxton

b.     b)Robert Henry

c.      c)John Lyly

d.     d)Thomas more

 

171.Utopia was first printed in:

a.     a)1615

b.     b)1516

c.      c)1517

d.     d)1518

 

172.Who translated Utopia in English language:

a.     a)Thomas More

b.     b)Thomas lodge

c.      c)Ralph Robinson

d.     d)William Tyndale

 

173.The first complete version of Bible in English language was made by:

a.     a)Wyclif

b.     b)Thomas more

c.      c)John Lyly

d.     d)Robert Greene

174.Who took Degree at fifteen from Cambridge in 1518?

a.     a)Thomas Nash

b.     b)Thomas More

c.      c)Thomas lodge

d.     d)Thomas Wyatt

 

175.Who wrote "Mirror for Magistrates"?

a.     a)Thomas Sacville

b.     b)Thomas Wyatt

c.      c)Thomas lodge

d.     d)Thomas Kyde

 

176.Philip Sidney was born on 30th November:

a.     a)1553

b.     b)1554

c.      c)1555

d.     d)1550

 

177."Astrophel and Stella" is a:

a.     Allegory

a.     Epic

a.     c)Sonnet

b.     d)Ballad

 

178.Greville was biographer of:

a.     a)Edmund Spencer

b.     b)John Donne

c.      c)Sir Philip Sidney

d.     d)John Milton

 

179."The Prince Of Poets in his time", on whom grave the inscription is given?

a.     Sir Philip Sidney

b.     John Milton

c.      Edmund Spencer

d.     John Donne

 

180.What is Faerie Queene:

a.     An allegory

b.     An epic

c.      A ballad

d.     A sonnet

 

181. In whose reign Morality plays began?

a.     Henry five

b.     Elizabeth one

c.      Henry six

d.     Henry eight

 

182.Which book Edmund Spenser dedicated to the Philip Sidney:

a.     The Faerie Queene

b.     The shepheaedes Calendar

c.      Complaints

d.     Colin Clouts come home again

 

183.Which poet was first who used metaphysical poetry among his contemporaries:

a.     Edmund Spenser

b.     John Milton

c.      John Donne

d.     Sir Philip Sidney

 

184.The first regular English comedy, based on the model of the Latin comedy, is attributed to?

a)Nicholas Udall

b)Thomas Colwell

c)Lord Burghley

 

185.Thomas kyd (1558-95) achieved great popularity with which of his first work?

a)The Rare Triumphs of love and fortune

b)The Spanish Tragedy

c)Jeronimo

d)Cornelia

 

186.Marlowe born in________

a)1562

b)1563

c)1564

d)1565

 

187.In "the tragic history of Doctor Faustus". Faustus was a :

a) German scholar

b)French scholar

c)Spanish scholar

d)Greek scholar

 

188.Who wrote "The Massacre at Paris"?

a)Shakespeare

b)Christopher Marlowe

c)Edmund Spenser

d)john Milton

 

189.Who wrote "The Massacre at Paris"?

a)Shakespeare

b)Christopher Marlowe

c)Edmund Spenser

d)john Milton

 

190.Who wrote "The Massacre at Paris"?

a)Shakespeare

b)Christopher Marlowe

c)Edmund Spenser

d)john Milton

 

191.Who succeeded Lyly?

a)Robert Greene

b)John Milton

c)Philip Sidney

d)Christopher Marlowe

 

192.Which of the Marlowe's plays were written in collaboration with Thomas Nash?

a)Queen of Carthage and The passionate Shepherd.

b)The tragedy of Dido and Queen of Carthage.

c)The passionate Shepherd and The tragedy of Dido.

d)Queen of Carthage and The Massacre of Paris.

 

193.Who was the son of a rich London merchant and born in 1557?

a)Thomas Nash

b)Thomas lodge

c)Thomas Kyd

d)Thomas Hardy

 

194.The collection of the papers and correspondence of a well-to-do Norfolk family is known as:

a) Letters to the Margret Paston

b) Margret Paston to John Paston

c) The Paston letters

d) To John Paston

 

 

195.Who wrote "Holy Sonnets"?

a.     a)Edmund Spenser

b.     b)John Donne

c.      c)Shakespeare

d.     d)John Milton

 

196.Who wrote following lines: "........ I am involved in mankind: and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

a.     a)John Donne

b.     b)John Milton

c.      c)Earnest Hemingway

d.     d)D.H. Lawrence

 

197."On his blindness", a collection of sonnets is written by:

a.     a)Edmund Spenser

b.     b)John Milton

c.      c)Shakespeare

d.     d)Sir Philip Sidney

 

198."Paradise lost" was lost by:

a.     a)Eve

b.     b)Adam

c.      c)Both a and b

d.     d)Satan

 

199.In "Paradise regained" who regained the paradise?

a.     a)Satan

b.     b)Jesus

c.      c)Adam and Eve

d.     d)Only Adam

 

200.Which of the following published in 1579 and although it placed Spencer immediately in the highest rank of living writers?

a.     a)Colin clouts come home again

b.     b)Faerie queen, first three books

c.      c)The Shepherd's calendar

d.     d)Faerie queen, second three books

 

201.Spencer married in June 11, 1594 to --------------------------------------?

a.     Elizabeth Wilton D/O Lord Grey De Wilton

b.     b)Elizabeth Raleigh D/O Walter Raleigh

c.      c)Elizabeth Boyle D/O James Boyle

d.     d)Elizabeth Boyle D/O Richard Boyle

 

202.John Donne's "The Anniversaries" is a:

a.     a)An elegy in two parts

b.     b)An epic in three parts

c.      c)A ballad in four parts

d.     d) None of these

 

203.Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance?

a.     a)Marlowe

b.     b)Milton

c.      c)Spencer

d.     d)Johnson

 

204.During Spencer's visit to his Kinsfolk in Lancashire he felt in love a woman and who figures as__________________ much of his work:

a.     a)Rosalind

b.     b) Belinda

c.      c)Both a and b

d.     d)None of above

 

205.William Shakespeare born on:

a.     a)26 April 1567

b.     b)26 April 1566

c.      c)26 April 1565

d.     d)26 April 1564

 

206.William Shakespeare was....... child of John and Mary:

a.     a)second

b.     b)fourth

c.      c)third

d.     d)fifth

 

207. He married to the Anne Hathaway at the age of_______ in______.

a.     a)18, 1582

b.     b)17, 1581

c.      c)16, 1580

d.     d)15, 1579

 

208.Which of the following statement is correct:

a.     a)Shakespeare's first child Susanna was born in 1583.

b.     b)In 1585 twins were born and named Hamnet and Judith.

c.      c) both a and b.

d.     d) None of above.

 

209. Ann Hathaway was _________ years older than Shakespeare:

a.     a)7

b.     b)8

c.      c)9

d.     d)10

 

210. After __________ years of his marriage he left his native town and try his fortune in the great city of London.

a.     a)two

b.     b)three

c.      c)four

d.     d)five

 

211.Shakespeare's only son Hamnet died in------------?

a.     1595

b.     1596

a.     1597

b.     1598

 

212.Shakespeare is buried inside the:

a.     a)Westminster Abbey

b.     b)Trinity Church

c.      c)Protestant Cemetery

d.     d)None of above

 

213.By -------- Shakespeare had established himself in London as an actor and dramatist:

a.     a)1590

b.     b)1591

c.      c)1592

d.     d)1593

 

214.Who declared him as Britain's greatest dramatist in 1598?

a.     a)Queen Elizabeth

b.     b)Francis Meres, a lawyer

c.      c)Burbage, an actor

d.     d)King James

 

215.Shakespeare made Stratford his regular home in:

a.     a)About 1611

b.     b) About 1610

c.      c)About 1609

d.     d) About 1608

 

Christopher Marlowe

 

216.What is Christopher Marlowe's Nationality?

a.     a)British

b.     b)German

c.      c)Dutch

d.     d)American

 

217.What was the occupation of Christopher Marlowe's father?

a.     a)Carpenter

b.     b)Civil servant

c.      c)Cobbler

d.     d)Farmer

 

218.From where Christopher Marlowe received his early Education? Corpus Christi College

a.     a)Cambridge

b.     b)oxford

c.      c)witternburg

d.     d)Harvard

 

219.Marlow died of?

a.     a)Illness

b.     b)stabbing

c.      c)poisoned

d.     d)Hanged

 

220.Which was Marlowe's first play?

a.     a)Dr.Faustus

b.     b)Tamburlaine

c.      c)The Tragedy of Dido

d.     d)The Jew of Malta,

 

William Shakespeare(1564 - 1616) (Elizabethan Period)

221.In which town was Shakespeare born?

a.     a)London

b.     b)Cambridge

c.      c)Stratford

d.     d)Oxford

 

222.How many children did Shakespeare have?

a.     1)3

b.     2)5

c.      3)8

d.     4)12

 

223.How many plays did William Shakespeare write?

a.     a)36

b.     b)38

c.      c)37

d.     d)39

 

224.What was Shakespeare's first play?

a.     a)King Lear

b.     b)Henry VI

c.      c)The Tempest

d.     d)Romeo and Juliet

 

225.How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write?

a.     a)110

b.     b)154

c.      c)175

d.     d)187

 

226.How many photographs exist of William Shakespeare?

a.     a)2

b.     b)4

c.      c)1

d.     d)0

 

227.Shakespeare died on?

a.     a)23rd April 1616

b.     b)25th April 1616,

c.      c)28th April 1616

d.     d)30th April 1616

 

228.Shakespeare died at the age of

a.     a)48

b.     b)52

c.      c)60

d.     d)63

 

229.How many times suicide occurs in Shakespeare's plays?

a.     a)7

b.     b)9

c.      c)11

d.     d)13

 

230.The line "To be or not to be" comes from which play?

a.     a)Macbeth

b.     b)Twelfth Night

c.      c)A Midsummer Night's dream

d.     d)Hamlet

 

231. Was the Globe…

a.     A Roman Amphitheater.

b.     An Elizabethan Theater.

c.      An Elizabethan sports stadium.

d.     A famous map of the world.

 

232.Is there is a monument of Shakespeare in Stratford today?

a.     a)True

b.     b)False

 

233.Which of these was not one of Shakespeare's plays?

a.     a)Titus Andronicus

b.     b)The Tempest

c.      c)Cymbeline

d.     d)Shakespeare in love

 

234.Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote, "My salad days, when I was green in judgment." come from?

a.     a)Antony and Cleopatra

b.     b)Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

c.      c)The Winters Tale

d.     d)The Merry Wives of Windsor

 

235.Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" come from?

a.     a)Cymbeline

b.     b)Hamlet

c.      c)Titus Andronicus

d.     d)Pericles, Prince of Tyre

 

236.Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" come from?

a.     a)King Lear

b.     b)As You Like It

c.      c)The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII

d.     d)The Life and Death of King John

 

237.In what year was the First Folio published?

 

a.     a)1626

b.     b)1621

c.      c)1623

d.     d)1629

 

238.What nationality was Shakespeare?

a.     a)Italian

b.     b)English

c.      c)Scottish

d.     d)Greek

 

239.In which century was Shakespeare born?

a.     a)16th

b.     b)14th

c.      c)15th

d.     d)17th

 

240.which famous Shakespeare play does the quote "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" come from?

 

a.     a)The Merry Wives of Windsor

b.     b)Othello, the Moor of Venice

c.      c)Pericles, Prince of Tyre

d.     d)King Henry the Sixth, Part II

 

241.Which river is associated with Shakespeare's birth place?

 

a.     a)The Thames

b.     b)The Avon

c.      c)The Tyburn

d.     d)The Seven

 

242.Which famous play does the quote,"When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?" come from?

 

a.     The Taming of the Shrew

b.     King Lear

c.      The Tempest

d.     Macbeth

 

243.How many of Shakespeare's plays are classified as histories?

a.     7

b.     10

c.      14

d.     18

 

 

244.The group of four plays known as the "major tetralogy" is:

a.     Richard III, King John, Henry VIII, 1 Henry VI

b.     1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, Richard III

c.      King John, Henry V, Richard II, Richard III

d.     Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V

 

 

245.In 1613 the Globe Theater burned down during a production of which play?

a.     King John

b.     Richard II

c.      Henry VIII

d.     Henry V

 

Hamlet

246.Complete the following famous line from Hamlet: Something is rotten in the state of...

a.    England

b.   Venice

c.    Denmark

d.   Maine

 

247.Which of the following characters does not appear in Hamlet?

a.    Polonius

b.   Gertrude

c.    Claudius

d.   Miranda

 

248.Where was Hamlet studying before he returned to Denmark?

a.    Wittenberg

b.   Oslo

c.    London

d.   Dublin

 

249.How are Polonius and Laertes related?

a.    Father/son

b.   Uncle/nephew

c.    Cousin/cousin

d.   Brother/brother

 

250.    What is the name of the playlet Hamlet stages for Claudius?

a.    Slings and Arrows

b.   Vice of Kings

c.    The Murder of Gonzago

d.   The Slaying of Lucianus

 

251.    Who says, "Good night, sweet prince,/And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."?

a.    Fortinbras

b.   Marcellus

c.    Chorus

d.   Horatio

 

252.    How does Queen Gertrude die?

a.    Accidentally stabbed by Laertes.

b.   Drowns in the river outside the castle.

c.    Suffers a fatal heart attack while watching Hamlet fight Laertes.

d.   Poisoned by drinking from Hamlet's cup.

 

253.Who does Polonius send to spy on Laertes in Paris?

a.     Francisco

b.     Gorgonzola

c.      Reynaldo

d.     Samson

 

254.Who is Voltimand?

a.     Ambassador to the King of Norway from the King of Denmark

b.     Hamlet's cousin

c.      Ambassador to the King of Denmark from the King of Norway

d.     Assassin in the service of Fortinbras

 

255.What poison does Claudius pour into the ear of Hamlet's father, causing his death?

a.     Burdock

b.     Hebenon

c.      Baneberry

d.     Hemlock

 

256.How many soliloquies does Hamlet deliver?

a.     a)2

b.     b)4

c.      c)7

d.     d)9

 

MACBETH

257.  In which country is Macbeth set? a) Spain b) Denmark c) Scotland d) Canada   258.  Who is traveling with Macbeth when he first encounters the Three Witches? a) Macduff b) Mercutio c) Lady Macbeth d) Banquo   259.  At the beginning of the play, the Scots are at war with which country? a) Norway b) Prussia c) Iceland d) Poland   260.  Macbeth hires assassins to murder Banquo's son, named... a) Angus b) Ross c) Fleance d) Lennox   261.  How does Lady Macbeth explain her husband's wild behavior at the banquet? a) She tells the guests that Banquo's ghost is haunting Macbeth. b) She tells the guests that Macbeth has had too much to drink. c) She informs the guests that Macbeth is ill. d) She reveals that Macbeth is overcome with grief over the death of Duncan.   262.  Which of the following is not an apparition shown to Macbeth by the Witches: a) An armed head. b) A bloody dagger floating in mid-air. c) A bloody child. d) A child crowned, with a tree in his hand     263.  Who tells Macbeth, "The queen, my lord, is dead."? a) Seyton b) Siward c) The Doctor d) Caithness   264.  Shakespeare’s father died in: a) 1600 b) 1601 c) 1602 d) 1603   265.  Shakespeare joined the Chamberlain's Men Theatrical Company as a: a) Actor and playwright b) Playwright and poet c)Playwright and writer d)None of above   266.  How many from his plays were published in his lifetime: a) Only sixteen b) Only seventeen c) Only eighteen d) Only nineteen   267.  In which year Globe theatre got fire and destroyed? a)1610 b)1611 c)1612 d)1613   268.  Shakespeare dedicated his long narrative poem Venus and Adonis to---------------. a) Henry Wriothesley, the third earl of Southampton b) Thomas Wriothesley, fourth earl of Southampton c)William Fitzwilliam, first earl of Southampton d) Henry Wriothesley, the second earl of Southampton   269.  During which period London theaterrs remained closed on account of the plague? a) 1592 b) 1593 c) 1594 d) 1595   270.  Which roles have played by Shakespeare in Hamlet and As you like it? a) Fortinbras, Corin b)Leartus, Silvius c)Osric, Touchstone d) Ghost, Old servant Adam   271.  In ....... year Shakespeare bought the largest house in Stratford, called New place: a) 1595 b) 1996 c) 1597 d) 1598 272.  In 1599 which famous actor and his brother Cuthbert set a new playhouse on the Bank side,

called the Globe? a) Augustine Phillipps b) John Heimnge c) Henry Condell d) Richard Burbage 273.  In Shakespeare's literary output, the period 1604-1608 is the period of: a) Comedy plays b) Historical plays c) Great Tragedies d) None of above   274.  "Under the green wood tree" is a song in: a) Love's labour's lost b) As you like it c) A mid Summer night's dream d) Much ado about nothing 275.  Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time". Who wrote above lines for Shakespeare: a) Jonson b) Bacon c) Wordsworth d) none of above 276.  Seven Ages of Man appears in " As you like it". Which character's speech it is? a) Amiens b) Orlando c) Oliver d) Jaques 277.  "To be or not to be that is the question", is famous line of which of Shakespeare's plays? a) Othello b) Macbeth c) Hamlet d) King Lear 278.  Following are the lines of: "I'm your wife if you marry me If not, I'll die your maid to be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you deny or not". a) Hamlet b) Romeo and Juliet c) Tempest d) Othello 279.  Which of the following are characters of "Much ado about nothing": a) Hero, Borachio, Antonio, Claudio, Leonato b) Hero, Orlando, Antonio, Claudio, Leanato c) Marinda, Borachio, Antonio, Claudio, Leanato d) Hero, Boradio, Antonio, Claudio, Horatio 280.  Which of the following is in correct sequel ? a)Comedy of errors, A midsummer night's dream, Much ado about nothing, Henry 6 part three. b)A midsummer night's dream, Romeo and Juliet, As you like it, King Lear, Pericles. c)All's well that ends well, The tempest, As you like it, As you like it, A midsummer night's dream, Much ado about nothing. d)King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Measure for measure, Henry 8, Romeo and Juliet.   281.  Who was killed by Hamlet unintentionally? a) Laertus b)Polonius c) Fortinbras d) Horatio 282.  Who is second Prince of Arragon in "Much ado about nothing"? a) Leonato b) Balthasar c) Don John d) Don Pedro 283.  Which character spoke following lines? "What's Montague? It is nor hand nor foot, Nor arm nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man, O be some other name! What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet," a) Desdemona b) Juliet c) Rosalind d) Hero 284.  Who is the second attending gentlewoman on Hero? Ursula and_________. a) Margaret b) Emilia c) Helena d) Celia 285.  " Some born great, some achieve greatness And some have greatness thrust upon them". Above lines are taken from which of following plays? a) Macbeth b) Othello c) Twelfth night d) As you like it 286.  Which of the following play was written in 1601? a) Othello b) Hamlet c) King Lear d) Macbeth 287.  "Antony and Cleopatra" and "Macbeth" was in: a) 1606 b)1607 c)1608 d)1609 288.  Which of the following was written first: a) Henry six b) Henry seven c) Henry five d) None of above 289.  Which of the following are King Lear's daughters? a) Desdemona, Goneril and Cordelia b) Goneril, Ophelia and Regan c)Goneril, Regan and Cordelia d) Regan, Cordelia and Beatrice 290.  Shakespeare wrote _____ plays? a) 32 b) 34 c) 36 d) 38   291.  With the accession of King James to the English throne, Lord Chamberlain's Man was renamed?

a.     a)King Lear

b.     b) Gentleman

c.      c) King's Man

d.     d) None of above

 

292.Uneasy lies the head that_____( King Henry four, part two):

a.     Wears a crown

b.     Wears a hat

c.      Wears a wig

d.     none of these

 

293.The epigraph of The Waste Land is borrowed from?

a.     Virgil

b.     Petronius

c.      Seneca

d.     Homer

 

294.Who called ‘The Waste Land ‘a music of ideas’?

a.     Allen Tate

b.     J. C. Ransom

c.      I. A. Richards

d.     F. R Leavis

295.T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ‘Unreal City’ in the first and third

sections from?

a.     Baudelaire

b.     Irving Babbit

c.      Dante

d.     Lafforgue

 

296.Which of the following myths does not figure in The Waste Land?

a.     Oedipus

b.     Grail Legend of Fisher King

c.      Philomela

d.     Sisyphus

 

297.Joe Gargery is Pip’s?

a.     brother

b.     brother-in-Jaw

c.      guardian

d.     cousin

 

298.Estella is the daughter of?

a.     Joe Gargery

b.     Abel Magwitch .

c.      Miss Havisham

d.     Bentley Drumnile

 

299.Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi?

a.     Sesame and Lilies

b.     The Seven Lamps of Architecture

c.      Unto This Last

d.     Fors Clavigera

 

300.Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?

a.     Catholicism

b.     Protestantism

c.      Paganism

d.     Buddhism

 

301.One important feature of Jane Austen’s style is?

a.     boisterous humour

b.     humour and pathos

c.      subtlety of irony

d.     stream of consciousness

 

302.The title of the poem ‘The Second Coming’ is taken from?

a.     The Bible

b.     The Irish mythology

c.      The German mythology

d.     The Greek mythology