PG ENGLISH WEEKEND TESTS AND GRAND TESTS
Practice
Test – 1
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CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWERS FOR THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
1. My father ____for a walk in every
morning.
a. go b. Went
c. Gone d. Goes
2. The
students _______lunch in the canteen.
a. having b. Are having
c. Was having d. Have
3. She
_______ yet.
a. has returned b. Have returned
c. Has not returned d. Have not returned
4. How long __________________waiting for?
a. have you been b. has you been
c.
you have been d. you has been
5. Who
_______________you English ?
a. teach b. Taught
c. Teached d. Teaching
6. At the
time when it happened, I _________to the opera a lot.
a. went b. Am going
c. Was going
d. Go
7. Laura
repaired her glasses because her brother ________them.
a. had broken b. Has broken
c.
Have broken d. Had been broken
8. I ______ you if you say that word again.
a. am hitting b. Will be hitting
c.
Will hit d. Will hitting
9. This
time tomorrow I ________ a discussion with my boss.
a. will have b. Will be have
c. Will be having d. Am having
10. The fire _________ destroyed the whole
building before the fireman arrived.
a. will have b. Will has
c. will d. Will be
11. I read
___ amazing story yesterday.
a. a b. An
c.
The d. None of the above
12. My
brother doesn’t eat _____ chicken.
a. a b. An
c. The
d. None of the above
13. I live in ______ apartment ._____apartment is
new.
a. a, an b. An ,a
c.
An, the d. The, an
14. Sara
can play ____ guitar.
a. a b. An
c. The d. None
15. I was in___
Japanese restaurant.____ restaurant served good food.
a. a, an b. A , the
c. An ,a d. The, a
16. He
said that he was very pleased ______my work.
a. at b. For
c. With d. Through
17. He poured the tea _____ the mug.
a. into b. On
c. In d. Inn
18. The
new term begins ___ June 1st.
a. at b. On
c. In
d. From
19. They
are called ___ different names.
a. with b. By
c. For d. Through
20. This
is a comfortable house to live ____.
a. at b. On
c. For d. Through
21. Did
she do her duty ? [ change into voice ]
a. was she done her duty ?
b. Was her duty done by her ?
c. had her duty done by her ? d. Has her duty done by her ?
22. She
has learned her lessons. [ change into
voice ]
a. her lessons has learned by her
b.
her lessons have
been learned by her
c. her lessons had been learned by her
d.
her lessons has been learned by her
23. Have you finished the report ?(change into voice.)
a. Has the report finished by you ?
b. Has the report been finished
by you ?
c. Had the report been finished by you ?
d. Have the report finished by you
?
24. Her
silence worries me. [ change into voice
]
a. I am worrying about her silence. b. I am worried about her silence.
c. I have worried about her silence. d. I had worried about her silence .
25. They
will hire some people to do the job. [ change into voice ]
a. Some people will be hiring to do the
job b. Some people will have hired
to do the job
c. Some people will be hired to do the
job d. Some people will have hiring
to do the job
26. Raj
asked me, ‘’ Did you see the cricket match on T.V. last night ‘’ (change speech]
a. Raj asked me if I had seen the cricket match on TV the previous night.
b. Raj asked me if I saw the cricket
match on TV the previous night.
c. Raj asked me did I see the cricket
match on TV last night.
D. Raj asked me whether I had seen the
cricket match on TV last night.
27. James
said to his mother, ‘’ I am leaving for New York tomorrow ‘. (change speech)
a. James told his mother he is leaving
for New York tomorrow.
b. James told his mother that he was
leaving for New York the next day.
c. James told his mother he would be
leaving for New York the next day.
d. James told his mother that he was
leaving for New York tomorrow.
28. I
asked to him, ‘’why don’t you work hard ? ‘’ [ change into speech ]
a. I asked
him why didn’t you work hard.
b. I asked him why he didn’t work hard.
c. I asked him why he wouldn’t work hard. d. I asked him why he wasn’t working hard.
29. He
said to her, ‘’ what a hot day ! ‘’ [ change into speech ]
a. He exclaimed sorrowfully that it was
hot day. b. He told her that it was
a hot day.
c.
He exclaimed that it was a hot day. d. He said that it was hot day.
30. The
Priest said , ‘’ Be quiet and listen to my words .’’ [ change into speech ]
a. The Priest said them to be quiet and
listen to his words.
b. The Priest told them that they should
be quiet and listen to his words.
c.
The Priest urged them to be quiet and to listen to his words.
d. The Priest said they should be quiet
and listen to him.
31. No
other boy is as ____as James .[ Degrees
of comparison ]
a. tall b. Taller
` c. Tallest d. None
32. Very
few books are as ____ as David Copperfield. [ Degrees of comparison ]
a. popular b. More popular
c. Most
popular d. Very popular
33. Milk
is ____ than any other food. [ Degrees of comparison ]
a. nourishing b. More nourishing
c. Most nourishing d. good nourishing
34.
Solomon was _____ than any other king. [ Degrees of comparison]
a. wise b. Wiser
c. Wisest d. More wise
35. Radium
is one of the ____ metals. [ Degrees of comparison]
a. valuable b. More valuable
c. Most valuable d. Very
valuable
36. It was Sam who paid for the drinks. [
Sentences ]
a. Simple sentences b. Complex sentences
c. Compound sentence d. None
37. When
all else fails , read the user manual . [ sentences ]
a. Simple sentences b. Complex sentences
c. Compound sentence d. None
38. He
will never leave home because he hasn’t got the courage.[ sentences ]
a. Simple sentences b. Complex sentences
c. Compound sentence d. None
39. I
guess she just doesn’t respect you. [ sentences ]
a. Simple sentences b. Complex sentences
c. Compound sentence d. None
40. I have
been on rather too many planes and trains recently. [ sentences ]
a. Simple sentences b. Complex sentences c. Compound sentence d. None
DIRECTIONS
: In the following question, some part of the sentences may have errors . Find
out which part of the sentences has an error and select the appropriate option
. If a sentence is free from error, select ‘ No error’.
41.Once
appointed by the President ,( A )/ the
council of members ( B ) / as responsible
( C )/ to the house. ( D ) / No error ( E )
42. The
time has come for policy makers ( A ) / in India to understand the damage ( B )
/ which is caused as a result of ( C ) /
a vast gap in perception and reality.
( D ) / No error( E ).
43.
The perception of security ( A ) / held by the power elites
( B ) tends to ignore the basic reality that ( c ) / contradictions of civil society have grown
since nuclear explosion . ( D ) / No error(E).
44. Since
two days , ( A ) / I have not taken ( B ) / the breakfast ( C ) / but dinner .
( D ) / No error (E).
45. Any coalition , ( A ) / which contains Miss. Jayalalitha as a major ally ( B ) / and Ms. Mamata as a minor partner ( C ) do not need outside support . ( D ) / No error ( E )
46. They
have lived here from march.
a. since b. For
c. In d. At
47.He
thought he will do some good work.
a. will b. Would
c. Shall d. Should
48. He is
the same man who came here yesterday.
a. the b. So
c. As d. That
49. His
both brothers are doctors.
a. both brothers b. Brothers both
c. His both
d. both his
50. of the
two students , the one from Nepal is the
best.
a. better b. More better
c. Most better d. than better.
KEY
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1-10 |
11-20 |
21-30 |
31-40 |
41-50 |
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1.D |
11.B |
21.B |
31.A |
41.C |
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2.B |
12.D |
22.B |
32.A |
42.C |
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3.C |
13.C |
23.B |
33.B |
43.C |
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4.A |
14.C |
24.B |
34.B |
44.C |
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5.B |
15.B |
25.C |
35.C |
45.D |
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6.C |
16.C |
26.A |
36.B |
46.A |
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7.A |
17.A |
27.B |
37.B |
47.B |
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8.C |
18.B |
28.B |
38.B |
48.C |
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9.C |
19.B |
29.C |
39.B |
49.D |
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10.A |
20.C |
30.C |
40.A |
50.A |
Practice Test - 2
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Choose
the correct answer for the following questions
1.“Beowulf”,
an important piece of literature of old English period is a/an
a) Lyrical ballad b) classical epic
c) prose narrative d) Anglo Saxon epic
2. who
rendered an incalculable service to the English Language in the later 14th
century?
a) Dante b) Spencer
c) Shakespeare d) Chaucer
3. The
life span of Geoffrey Chaucer is
a) 1330-1400 b) 1340-1400
c) 1350-1410 d) 1330-1410
4.
Shakespeare wrote ------------sonnets in total
a) 134 b)144
c)154 d)164
5. Who wrote
paradise lost?
a) Milton b) Dryden
c) DeQuincy d) Spencer
6. The
leader of the metaphysical school was
a) Milton b) John Donne
c) Spencer d) Dryden
7. “The
way of the world” was written by
a) Wycherley b) Congreve
c) Dryden d) Farquhar
8. Which
kind of poetry was dominant in the Augustan age
a) Epic poetry b) Lyric poetry
c) Satiric poetry d) Romantic poetry
9. Who
called the Augustan age as the “age of prose and reason”
a) Mathew Arnold
b) Dr Samuel Johnson
c) Joseph Addison
d)
Charles lamb
10. “The
Gulliver travels” and “the battle of books” were written by
a) Addison
b) Jonathan swift
c) Dryden
d) Daniel Defoe
11. Which
of the following is a mock epic?
a) pilgrim’s progress
b) Robinson Crusoe
c) “the rape of the lock”
d) Gulliver travels
12. “Songs
of the innocence” and “songs of the experience” are the works of
a) words worth
b)Crabbe
c) burns
d) Blake
13. What
is a picaresque novels?
a) a novel whose hero is a knight
b)
a novel whose hero is a villain
c) a novel whose hero is a wandering rogue
d)
a novel whose hero is hen-pecked
14. “lyrical ballads” opens with
a) words worth “tintern abbey”
b) Coleridge’s “rime of the ancient mariner”
c) words worth’s “the prelude”
d)
Coleridge’s “Biographia Literaria”
15.
“Biographia literaria” is written by
a) William Blake
b) Thomas Carlyle
c) S.T Coleridge
d) words worth
16. Ode on
the intimations of immortality has
a) 96 lines
b) 144 lines
c)186 lines
d) 200 lines
17. Mary Lamb was the ---------of Charles lamb
a) daughter
b) sister
c) mother
d) friend
18. who
collaborated with Charles lamb in “tales from Shakespeare”?
a) mary lamb
b) Thomas de quince
c) William Hazlitt
d) heigh hunt
19. Mathew
Arnold id best known for his
a) poetry
b) drama
c) novel
d) criticism
20. the
Victorian age was essentially the age of
a) poetry
b) fiction
c) prose and novel
d)prose and poetry
21. restoration
period lasted from------------to -------------
a) 1629-1700
b) 1700-1740
c) 1650-1700
d) 1660-1700
22. the
Augustan age lasted from -----------to--------------
a) 1700-1745
b) 1600-1700
c) 1700-1743
d) 1700-1740
23. the
romantic period lasted from----------to-----------
a) 1600-1629
b) 1798-1832
c) 1700-1745
d) 1700-1830
24. the
modern period lasted from -------------to-------
a) 1914-present day
b) 1900-1920
c) 1914-1950
d)
1914-1980
25. the
period of Elizabethan age is
a)1548-1602
b) 1552-1560
c)1558-1603
d)1558-1600
26. during
the Victorian period, women were regarded
a) superior
b) inferior
c)junior
d)senior
27. the
Victorian age was essentially a period of
a) peace for England
b) prosperity for England
c) peace and prosperity for England
d)
none of these
28. the
Victorian era covers the period of
a) 50 years
b) 52 years
c) 54 years
d) 55 years
29. during
the period of 18thcentury , one of the following declined
a) poetry
b) novel
c) fiction
d) drama
30. at the
age 16, Alexander pope started composing
a)poetry
b) prose
c) novels
d) pastorals
31. The
period from 1660 to 1700 is designated as
a)The age of Dryden
b) The age of Chaucer
c) The age Milton
d) The age of words worth
32. In
which period the royal society was established
a)Restoration period
b)Chaucer’s period
c)Elizabethan period
d) The age of Milton
33. Who
was called literacy luminous star in the restoration age
a)Dryden
b) Congreve
c)Shakespeare
d)Chaucer
34. During
the age of Milton, who has classified the literacy forms of poetry
a)Milton
b)E.Albert
c)Voltaire
d)Chaucer
35. Which
was the most typical play house of the
Elizabethan age
a)Globe
b) The halls of royal palaces
c) The inns of court
d) Public theatres
36. In
which period there was a steep decline in dramatic Production
a)The restoration period
b) The Jacobean period
c)Shakespearean period
d)The age
of Milton
37. Who
patronized drama during the Elizabethan period
a)Lords
b)Kings
c) Feudal lords
d) Dramatists
38. Who
used the word “renaissance” first
a)Jules Michelet
b)Marlowe
c) Chaucer
d)
Petrarch
39.To
which period did manhood of renaissance belong to
a)The period of preparation
b)The Jacobean period
c)The Caroline period
d)Elizabethan period
40. The
renaissance started in
a)France
b)America
c)Italy
d)England
41. The
Elizabethan age is the golden age of
a) The English novel
b)The English prose
c)French literature
d) The English drama
42. Which
age is known as the age of English pulpit
a) The age of Milton
b) The age of Chaucer
c) The age of Shakespeare
d)The age of Dr Johnson
43. The
restoration period is said to have started from
a)1660
b)1625
c)1645
d)1675
44. The
“age of restoration” is so called because
a)James-II was restored to English throne
b)Charles-II was restored to English throne
c)The theatres were Restored in that age
d)
None of the above.
45. Who
called the Augustan age as the: age of prose and reason”
a)Mathew Arnold
b)Dr Samuel Johnson
c) Joseph Addison
d) Romantic poetry
46. Which
kind of poetry was dominant in the Augustan age
a) Epic poetry
b) Lyric poetry
c) Satiric poetry
d) Romantic poetry
47. Which
of the following dialects became the standard English in Chaucer time
a) The northern
b) The southern
c) The east midland
d) The west mid land
48.The
period of 60 years from 1830 to 1890 is known as
a) The romantic revival
b) Neo classical age
c) Victorian age
d) Age of reason
49.
Restoration age begins in
a)1590
b)1640
c)1660
d)1670
50. The
romantic age in England is distinguished for its
a) Horror novels
b) Political fiction
c)Verse drama
d) Lyrical poetry
KEY
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1.
d 2.
d 3.
c 4.
c 5.
a 6.
b 7.
b 8.
c 9.
a 10. b
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11. c 12. d 13. c 14. b 15. c 16. d 17. b 18. a 19. d 20. c |
21. d 22. a 23. b 24. a 25. c 26. d 27. c 28. d 29. d 30. d |
31. a 32. a 33. a 34. b 35. a 36. b 37. c 38. a 39. d 40. c |
41. d 42. a 43. a 44. b 45. a 46. c 47. c 48. c 49. c 50. a
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Practice
Test -3
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1. How many plays did William Shakespeare write?
a) 10
b) 15
c) 24
d) 37
2. How many Acts are in William
Shakespeare’s plays?
a) Three
b) Four
c) Five
d) Six
3. Who is the Shrew in the play The
Taming of the Shrew?
a) Bianca
b) Cleopatra
c) Katherine
d) Matilda
4. Which play has the characters Cordelia, Goneril and Regan?
a) Pericles
b) King Lear
c) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
d) Cymbeline
5. Which is the last play written by William
Shakespeare?
a) As you like it
b) Two Gentlemen from Verona
c) Henry V
d) The Tempest
6.In
which century was Chaucer born?
a)12th
b)13th
c)14th
d)15th
7.What is the title of Chaucer's
best-known work?
a)The Canterbury Tales
b)The Salisbury Tales
c)The Winchester Tales
d)The York Tales
8.What is the title of the earliest of
Chaucer's poems, written sometime between 1369 and 1372?
a)The Book of the Abbess
b)The Book of the Countess
c)The Book of the Duchess
d)The Book of the
Governess
9.In The Canterbury Tales, what
is the name of the inn where the pilgrims meet before their journey?
a)The Tabard
b)The Talbot
c)The Tivoli
d)The Tolbooth
10.Chaucer's father and grandfather were both .............
a)Bakers
b)Brewers
c)Butchers
d)Vintners
11.What name is now given to the
language in which Chaucer worked
a)Early English
b)Middle English
c)New English
d)Old English
12. In The Canterbury Tales, who is
a little deaf after a blow to the head from one of her husbands?
a)The Wife of Bath
b)The Wife of Bristol
c)The Wife of Dorchester
d)The Wife of Exeter
13.Which is the first of The
Canterbury Tales
a)The Cook's Tale
b)The Friar's Tale
c)The Knight's Tale
d)The Merchant's Tale
14.Which of the tale tellers has a
conspicuous hairy wart?
a)The Coachman
b)The Miller
c)The Tailor
d)The Weaver
15.Chaucer served in the English army
under which king?
a)Henry III
b)Edward II
c)Edward III
d)Richard II
16.) When did John Milton publish Tenure
of Kings and Magistrates?
a) 1649
b) 1642
c) 1638
d) 1620
17) In whose memory did John Milton write Me thought
I saw my late espoused saint?
a) Oliver Cromwell
b) Mary Powell
c) Katherine Woodcock
d) Charles I
18) When was Paradise
Lost published?
a) 1660
b) 1667
c) 1658
d) 1654
19.
Which book was about the temptation of Christ? [ ]
a)Paradise lost
b)Samson Agonists
c) Paradise Regained
d)L’Allegro
20.What
is the meaning of Milton's work Samson Agonistes? [ ]
a) Wrestler
b) Theist
c) Antagonist
d) Atheist
21.
How old was Milton when he wrote “On the Morning of Christs Nativity
a)54 b) 32
c)21 d)43
22.
Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece belong to?
a)Historical Plays
b) Tragedies
c) Narrative Poems
d) Comedies
23.
Which term is often used to call England's national poet, William Shakespeare?
a) Supreme Poet
b) Master Dramatist
c) Bard of Avon
d) Bard of London
24.
Who criticized Shakespeare by calling him an “upstart crow” ?
a)Thomas Nashe
b)Robert Greene
c)Christopher Marlowe
d)George Peele
25. Who wrote the play the alchemist
a. Ben Johnson
b. Shakespeare
c. Thomas Nash
d. Carlyle
26.Who
is the author of the New Atlantis?
a. Bacon
b. John Lyly
c. Thomas more
d. Sydney
27.Which one of Milton's senses were lost during writing his works?
a. Vision
b.Voice
b. Hearing
c. Taste
28.. Where was Francis Bacon born?
a) Liverpool
b) London
c) Cambridge
d) Paris
29. Which ancient philosopher does Bacon particularly attack?
a)Aristotle
b)Plato
c)Pythagoras
d)Anaxagoras
30."Reading
maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man." said
by?
a)Montaigne
b)Deloney
c)Lodge
d)Bacon
31.What
is the main elements in Webster's plays, The White Devil and The
Duchess of Malfi?
a)Murder b) Reason
c)Friendship d)History
32.Sir
Thomas Wyatt was written by ?
a)John Webster & Decker
b)Bacon
c)Milton
d)Shakespeare
33.
John Webster's tragicomedy The Fair Maid of the Inn was written in
collaboration with ?
a)Fletcher and Massinger.
b) Bacon and Johnson
c)Bacon and Fletcher
d)Ford and Bacon
34.Who is called as the father of empiricism
a)Webster b) Milton
c)Bacon
d)Chaucer
35.Who wrote
of truth”?
a)Chaucer b)Keats
c)John
Gower d)Bacon
36 . The Jaw bean dramatist who wrote the white devil….
a)Jhon webster b) Shakespeare
c) Bacon d) Milton.
37. He is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humor
a)Ben Johnson b)John Lyly
c)Bacon d)Chaucer
38.Who
popularized the comedy of humors.
a)Bacon b)Shakespeare
c)Ben Johnson d)Milton
39.
Which English monarch’s court dis Johnson Prosper…
a)Charles I b)Charles II
c)James I
d)James II
40.
Volpone is a ….
a)tragedy b)comedy
c)
tragicomedy d)None
41.Bacon was educated at which college ?
a)Trinity b) Harward
c)Oxford
d)London
42.Who wrote Novum Organum ?
a)Webster b) King lear
c)Swift
d)Bacon
43.
What are the four liquids mentioned in comedy of humor ?
a) Blood, phlegm , yellow bile (choler), and black bile
b)Blue bile ,red bile ,phlegm , bile
c)Pink bile , blood, water ,choler
d)None
44.who
composed the roman tragedy Appius and Virginia.
a)John Webster
b)William Langland
c)Chaucer
d)king Lear
45.Shakespeare
was born on ?
a)15 April 1564
b)23 May 1566
c)18 June 1657
d)16 July 1770
46.
All that glitters is not gold is said by
a)Shakespeare
b)wordsworth
c)campbell
d) keats
47.
“frailty thy name is woman’’ is a quote from the play ?
a)Macbeth
b)Hamlet
c)Lear
d)Romeo and
Juliet
48.Who
was born on 22 January 1561,
a)Wordsworth
b)Bacon
c)Ben Johnson
d)Chaucer
49.Duchess
of Malfi is considered to be ?
a) Revenge tragedy
b)Tragi comedy
c)Comedy
d)Tragedy
50. Ben Johnson was born on ?
a)11 June 1572,
b)12 june1638
c)10 may 1556
d)21 may 1567
KEY
1)
d 2) c 3)b 4)d
5) b 6) c 7) a 8) c 9)
a 10)d
11)b 12)a 13)c
14)b 15)c 16)a 17)c 18)b 19)c 20)a
21)c 22)c 23)c 24)b 25)a 26)a 27)a
28)b 29)a 30)d
31)a 32)a 33)a 34)c 35)d 36)a 37)a
38)c 39)c 40)b
41)a 42)d 43)a 44)a 45)a 46)a 47)b
48)b 49)a 50)a
Practice Test -4
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ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
1.Andrew Marvell was born on
a.1621
b.1521
c.1721
d.1821
2. Who Relinquished command
of the parliamentary army
to Cromwell
a. William grave
b. Andrew Marvell
c. John Dryden
d. John ray
3. Marvell’s first poem’s was written in
a. Latin
b. Greek
c. Spanish
d. French
4.What
was the probably best known
poem of Andrew
Marvell?
a.To his coy mistress
b. Upon Appleton house
c.To my lord fair fax
d.The green and the gold
5. What is the famous poem of the Andrew Marvell?
a.Horatian ode
b.Bermudas
c.The garden
d.to
the virgins, to make much of time.
6. Who is
known as the England’s first poet Laurate in 1668.
a. Andrew Marvell
b. John Dryden
c. William Congreve
d. Alexander pope
7. John
Dryden was born in the year
a.1631
b.1731
c.1831
d.1931
8.
Which
is the famous book by John Dryden .
a.All for love
b. Marriage -a-la mode
c. Absalom& Achitophel
d. Mac Flecknoe
9. How many plays written by John Dryden.
a.30
b.40
c.50
d.
60
10. Who is
called a neoclassical critic?
a. Andrew Marvell
b. John Dryden
c. Alexander Pope
d. Thomas Gray
11. Alexander
pope belongs to ______ century?
a. 17th
b.18th
c. 19th
d. 20th
12. Who is known as the satirical & discursive
poet.
a. John Dryden
b. Thomas gray
c. Alexander pope
d. Andrew
Marvell
13. Who is called one of the most epigrammatic of
all English authors ?
a. Thomas Gray
b. Andrew Marvell
c. John Dryden
d. Alexander pope
14. Which is the famous book for pope ?
a. Gallery of portraits
b. The rope of the lock
c. Eloisa to Abelard
d. The Dunciad
15. ‘’ Fools
rush in where angels fear to tread” this Quote said by
a. Andrew Marvell
b. Alexander Pope
c. Thomas Gray
d. John Dryden
16. Name the
famous dramatist in English.
a. Thomas gray
b. William Congreve
c. Andrew Marvell
d. Alexander Pope
17. What did
William Congreve of write?
a. Love for love
b. The way of the world
c. The mourning Bride
d. All of the above
18. Who is the
father of comedy of manners?
a. B.C .Horace’s
b. T.S.Eliot
c. John Gray
d. William Wordsworth
19. ’’Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure married in haste, we repent at leisure’’ this quote said by?
a. John Dryden
b. Shakespeare
c. William Congreve
d. Andrew Marvell
20. “William
Congreve ’’ was born in the year ?
a.1588
b.1688
c.1788
d.1888
21. Who is called as self-critical writer.
a. William con
b. Thomas grey
c. Andrew Marvell
d. Alexander
pope
22. What is
the famous book written by ‘’Thomas gray’’ ?
a) An elegy written in a country church yard
b)
Elegy written in a country
c) Designs by Mr R. Bentley
d) The letters of Thomas grey
23. ‘’Poetry
in thoughts that breathe, and words that burn ‘’ said by
a. Thomas grey
b. T.S.Eliot
c. Andrew Marvell
d.
Alexander pope
24. "Thomas Gray ‘’ was born in the year
a.1516
b.1616
c.1716
d.1816
25. ’’And weep
the more, because I weep in rain’’ this quote is by?
a)Thomas grey
b.Alexander pope
c.William Congreve
d.Andrew Marvell
26. Which
English poet did Marvell publicly defend in print by contributing a poem
praising his epic style?
a)George chapman
b. Edmund Spenser
c. john Milton
d. sir Phillip Sidney
a. Joseph smith
b. William people
c. Marcus Milton
d.William Thwaites
28. Which of
the following poets
is also part of the metaphysical school of poetry ?
a. John Donne
b. John Milton
c. William Shakespeare
d. John Dryden
29. Which 20th
century critic and poet is responsible for renewing interest in Marvell’s work?
a. T.S.Eliot
b. William Empson
c. Cleanth brooks
d. Northrop Fyre
30. Which
poetic device is Marvell best known for
?
a. Pathetic fallacy
b. Elaborate conceit
c. Bombast
d. stichomythia
31. Which poem
did john Dryden write for the coronation of Charles II ?
a.Themedall
b.The hind and the panther
c.Religionlaici
d.To his sacred majesty
32. which poem
written by john Dryden regarding
successor to Charles II angered Whigs ?
a. Absalom and achitophel
b.Eleonara
c. love triumphant
d.Cleomenes
33. When was
john Dryden poet laureate?
a.1640 -1648
b.1701 -1715
c.1690 -1700
d.1668
-1688
34. Which play
did john Dryden write in 1665?
a. secret love
b.The Indian emperor
c. All for love
d.The conquest of Granada
35. When was
john Dryden born?
a.2feb 1641
b. 15 may 1636.
c.19 Aug 1631
d.15 Dec 1628
36. Who is the
author of “The way of the world”?
a. William Congreve
b. Chaucer
c. Aristotle
d. William Shakespeare
37. What is
Ratafia?
a. A kind of pants
b. A flower
c.A street-urchin
d. A liqueur
38. Which
British university figures in William
words worth’s prelude?
a. Durham
b. Glasgow
c. Cambridge
d. oxford
39. The rape
of the lock is a parody of which epic poem?
a. paradise lost
b. The Aeneid
c. The odyssey
d. The Iliad
40. Arabella Fermor
was the historical inspiration for which character ?
a. Thalestris
b. Clarissa
c. Belinda
d.Ariel
41. From which
Shakespeare play does pope take the name ‘’Ariel” ?
a. Macbeth
b. the tempest
c. A midsummer night’s dream
d. twelfth night
42. Which
character is named for an Amazonian queen in Greek mythology?
a. clarissa
b. Thalestris
c.Umbriel
d.Belinda
43. To what does the term “billet-do ox “refer?
a. A love letter
b. cosmetics
c. A sweet pastry
d. Belinda’s dog
44. pope’s reference to “mighty rage” is an allusion to the fury of which epic hero in Homer’s the Iliad ?
a. Menelaus
b. Agamemnon
c. Achilles
d. hector
45.
from what do pope’s
“mighty contests” arise?
a. mighty rage
b. Amorous causes
c. Trivial things
d.
tasks so bold
46.
what was the name of
Thomas gray’s most famous poem?
a. Elegy written in a country churchyard
b. the progess of
poesy
c. the bard
d.
ode on a distant prospect of Eton college
47.
which of the following
subjects did Thomas gray dislike?
a. French
b. Greek
c. Latin
d. mathematics
48. In whose praise did Thomas gray compose installation ode?
a. king of England
b . Archbishop of Canterbury
c. Duke of Grafton
d. prince of wales
49. When was Elegy written in a country churchyard
published?
a. 1751
b. 1702
c. 1738
d. 1712
50. who was
with Thomas Gray during European four of 1739 -1741 and quarreled and
separated in Italy?
a. Richard west
b. Horace Walpole
c. Horace Mann
d. Thomas Ashton
Practice Test – 5
1.
Who said “Cousin Swift, you will never be a
poet”?
a) Pope
b) Addison
c) Dryden
d) Steele
2. Theory of poetic diction is by--------
a)Coleridge
b)Swift
c)Wordsworth
d)Keats
3. What is epistolary novel?
a) It is written in the form of letters
b) a collection of short stories
c)A group of pamphlets
d) none of the above
4. Which
of these was not a "Lake poet"?
a)Southey
b)Wordsworth
c) Coleridge
d) Keats
5.
The work written jointly by Wordsworth and
Coleridge helped to launch the Romantic Age?
a)Kubla Khan
b)Tintern Abbey
c)Lyrical Ballads
d)The Prelude
6.
In which the famous work Lyrical Ballads
published?
A)1792
B)1778
C)1769
D)1798
7.
When was William Wordsworth appointed poet
laureate?
A)1839
B)1847
C)1843
D)1861
8.
Which work of Wordsworth is generally
considered to be his magnum opus?
A) Lyrical Ballads
B)The Prelude
C)Guide to the Lakes
D)Laodamia
9.
In which work Coleridge introduced the term
'willing suspension of disbelief'?
A)The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
B)Christabel
C)Biographia Literaria
D)Kubla Khan
10. To what
was Coleridge addicted?
a)Opium
b)Cocaine
c)Mushrooms
d)Alcohol
11. In what
year did Johnson publish his “Dictionary of the English Language”?
a)1745
b)1755
c)1765
d)1775
12. Which ballad by Samuel Coleridge has the lines "Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink"?
a) Limbo
b) Kubla Khan
c) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
d) seasons
13.
What is “the lamb” a symbol of in the poem?
a)innocence
b)disillusionment
c)evil
d)corruption
14.
Which bird was killed in The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner?
a) Sparrow
b) Parrot
c) Eagle
d) Albatross
15.
How many poets were included in Samuel
Johnson's "Lives of the Poets"?
a) 42
b)62
c)52
d)22
16.
"We Are Seven", "Solitary
Reaper", "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" are famous poems by?
a) Coleridge
b) Wordsworth
c)Blake
d)Johnson
17.
‘Christabel’, ‘Dejection an ode’ and ‘Frost at
midnight’ are poems by......
a) Coleridge
b) Wordsworth
c)Blake
d)Johnson
18.
Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Tyger and the
Lamb are famous poems by_____
a) Coleridge
b) Wordsworth
c)Blake
d)Johnson
19. Who defined poetry as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings______
a) Coleridge
b) Wordsworth
c)Blake
d)Johnson
20.
Which of these was not a "Lake
poet"?
a)Robert Southey
b) Wordsworth
c)Coleridge
d) John Keats
21.
Dr. Primrose
is a famous character from
Goldsmith’s_
a) The citizen of the world
b) The good nature man
c) The vicar of wake field
d) The deserted village
22.
She stoops to conquer(1773) by Oliver Goldsmith is a/an_
a)Allegory
b)Short poem
c)Idyll
d)Drama
23. Which of
the following were not written by Swift?
a)A modest Proposal
b)Drapier Letters
c)Cadenus and Vannessa
d) Pamela
24. Dr.
Johnson wrote a poem ‘London’ in_
a)Blank verse
b)Heroic Couplet
c)Quatrains
d)Sonnet form
25. Dr.
Johnson’s first play ‘Irene’was a-------------
A)Tragi-comedy
B)Blank verse tragedy
C)sentimental comedy
D)Farce
26. Who called the 18th century ‘ the age of prose and reason
A)Johnson
B)Dryden
C)Arnold
D)T.S. Eliot
27. Johnson
wrote a play to pay for the charge of his mother’s funeral, which one-------
a)Irene
b)Rasselas
c)The life of savage
d)Shakespeare
28. ‘The
deserted village’ by goldsmith is a/an ----------
a)Drama
b)Novel
c)Poem
d)Essay
29. Who edited
the periodical called ‘The Bee’
A)Johnson
B)Addison
c)Steele
d)Goldsmith
30. ‘The mistakes of a night’ is the other title of the play----------------
a)She stoops to conquer
b)The deserted village
c)Vicar of Wakefield
d)Good natured man
31.
Who loves everything that is old, old friends,
old times, old manners, old books, old wine
a)Mr. Hard Castle
b)Kate
c)Marlowe
d)Tony Lumpkin
32. Who said
to pope “I heartily hate and detest the animal called man” ?
a)William Blake
b)John Bunyan
c)Swift
d)Edmund
Burke
33.
In Gulliver’s Travels, the hero
meets........... in Lilliput.
a)dwarfs
b)giants
c) philosophers
d) horses
34. In
Gulliver’s Travels, the hero meets with the.............. in Brobdingnag.
a)dwarfs
b)giants
c) philosophers
d) horses
35. Johnson’s
‘London’ &‘ Vanity of human wishes ‘ are an imitation of...........’s satire
a)Virgil
b) Juvenal
c)Horace
d) Homer
36. Who said—‘’if pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ‘’?
a)Dryden
b)Johnson
c)Arnold
d)Blake
37. “Glumdaclitch” is a character in ----
a) Gulliver’s travel
b) A tale a tub
c) The battle of the books
d) Roderick random
38.
Who is known as ‘The Sage of Highgate’’
a)Byron
b) Wordsworth
c)Shelley
d) Coleridge
39.
Who defines romanticism as “Addition of
strangeness to beauty”?
a)Dunton
b) Pater
c) Wordsworth
d) Goethe
40.
Who defines romanticism as “The Renaissance of
wonder”?
a) Dunton
b) Pater
c) Goethe
d) Wordsworth
41.
Who said ‘’Classicism is health, Romanticism
is a disease ?
a) Dunton
b) Pater
c) Goethe
d) Keats
42.
‘It is
beauteous evening calm and free’ is a sonnet by.....,
a)Wordsworth
b) Shakespeare
c) Wyatt
d)Surrey
43.
Coleridge’s
‘Ode on dejection ‘ is addressed to ---------
a)Sara Hutchinson
b) Wordsworth
c)Shelley
d) Keats
44.
‘Kubla Khan’ narrates Kubla as the king of
----
a)France
b) China
c)England
d) Russia
45.
Who said “Milton was of
the Devils party without knowing it”.
a)Byron
b) Wordsworth
c)Shelley
d) Blake
46.
Which is age is known as age
of revolutions?
a)Neo classical
b) Romantic
c)Elizabethan
d)Chaucer
47.
“Novel of fear, terror and
ruined castles” began in Romantic age is?
a)Epistolary
b) Jacobin
c)Gothic
d)Sensation
48. Which of the following is not a second generation Romantic writer?
a)Shelly
b) Byron
c)Wordsworth
d)Keats
49.
Who said “Wordsworth’s poetry is Egoistic Sublime”?
a)Shelly
b) Byron
c)Coleridge
d)Keats
50.
Who coined the term
“sweetness and light”?
a)Goldsmith
b) Swift
c) Johnson
d)Wordsworth
Key:
Practice Test-6
1) Tennyson was born on
a) 1810
b) 1809
c)1808
d)1818
2) The best known poem of Tennyson a)In Memoriam
b) The princess
c) Idylls of the king
d) Enoch Arden
3) The
author of “In memoriam ‘’
a) Keats
b) Tennyson
c) Shelley
d) Wordsworth
4) Arnold
pleads for method
a) Touchtone
b) Touchstone
c) Touchnone
d) Touchwood
5) Tennyson‘s The lady of Shallot is
a)A dramatic lyric
b) A narrative poem
c) An epic
d) A romance
6) Who wrote the essay “John Keats ‘’?
a)Arnold
b) Shelley
c) T.S. Eliot
d) Walter Pater
7) What was shallot ?
a) A Warrior
b) An Island
c) Capital town of England
d) A
Lady
8) Tennyson was called as a
a) Romantic poet
b) Modern poet
c) Representative poet
d) Critic
9) Tennyson was born at?
a) Landport
b) Lincolnshire
c) Arbury farm
d) Dumfriesshire
10) Which was Tennyson‘s first published book
a) Morte’d.Arthur
b) poems of two brothers
c) The lady of shallot
d)
Ulysses
11) Ulysses also known as
a)Pantheon
b) Mr. Peterson
c) Orpheus
d)
Odysseus
12) Tennyson became poet laureate in
a) 1850
b) 1855
c) 1876
d) 1833
13) How did Mathew Arnold die?
a)Heart failure
b) Carriage accident
c) Drowning
d) Diabetes
14) Duke is
a)Very gentle
b) Kind hearted
c) Very brave& Chivalrous
d)
Greedy and cruel
15) Who was Andrea Del Sarto ,on whom Browning
has written a dramatic monologue
a)A renowned painter
b) A renowned musician
c) A renowned artisan
d) A renowned actor
16) The poetry is a distinction between &
a)Imagination & Fancy
b) Critic & Creation
C) Stanza and rhyme
d) sound and unsound
17) What was the name of Arnold’s first book of poetry
a) New Poems
b) The Strayed Reveller
c) Empedocles on Etna
d) The scholar-gipsy
18) Which of the following monologue is written
by Browning
a) Andrea del Sarto
b) Maud
c) Locksley hall
d) Ulysses
19) Who is the speaker in “My last Duchess”
a) The poet
b) The duke of Ferrara
c) The envoy
d) The count
20) My last duchess is a/an
a) Elegy
b) ballad
c) Dramatic monologue
d) ode
21) Robert
Browning was a
a) Victorian poet
b) later romantic poet
c) Romantic poet
d) later
Victorian poet
22) To
Arnold, poetry is a
a) Criticism of life
b) criticism of nature
c) Criticism of world
d) criticism of
human
23) Who is the author of My last Duchess
a) Robert frost
b) Robert Browning
c) Alfred Tennyson
d) T.S.Eliot
24) Mathew Arnold was born on
a) 24 Dec 1822
b) 24 Dec 1823
c) 24 Dec 1824
d) 24 Dec 1825
25) Which novel of Dickens is called the most
worthless.
a) Bleak house
b) Little dorrit
c) The child’s history of England
d) Hard times
26)
Dickens works have
a) Humour and pathos
b) neither humour
nor pathos
c) Humour but no pathos
d)
pathos but no humour
27) Most
of Dickens characters are generally
a) Flat
b) round
c) multi-dimensional
d)
none of these
28)
William Makepeace Thackeray was born on
a) 1810
b) 1811
c) 1820
d)
1813
29. Mathew Arnold regarded as the father of
a) Modern literature
b) Criticism
c) Modern literary criticism
d) Poetry
30. In which the following novels action takes place in Paris and London a) A tale of two cities
b) Oliver Twist
c)Great expectations
d)David
Copperfield
31. The Falcon is a comedy by
a) Emily Bronte
b) Charlotte Bronte
c) Robert Browning
d)Alfred Tennyson
33. Dickens’s, A tale of two cities is considered
a) Historical novel
b) Regional novel
c) Tragic novel
d) Psychological novel
34. Which was the first novel of Charles dickens
a) Pickwick Papers
b) Oliver twist
c)Hard times
d)David Copperfield
35. Browining was the composer of any of the
following poems
a) Two voices
b) The scholar gipsy
c) Andrea del sarto
d) Denone
36. Philip –Pirrip is a character in charles
Dicken’s novel
a) A tale of two cities
b) Great Expectations
c) Oliver twist
d) David Copperfield
37. Mathew Arnold belongs to
a) Romantic age
b) Victorian age
c) Puritan age
d) Modern age
38. “To be or not to be” is the
a) Meaning
b) question
c) Dilemma
d) issue
39. ’love is not a feeling to pass away like the
balmy breath of a summer Day’’ is in
a) A child’s hymn
b) Lucy’s song
c) The lvy green
d) The song of the Wreck
40. The
poem the Patriot is written by
a) Alfred Tennyson
b) Robert Browning
c) Mathew Arnold
d) John Donne
41. The
idea that poetry ‘is a criticism of life’ was propounded by
a) Robert Browning
b)Alfred Tennyson
c)Walter Pater
d) Mathew Arnold
42. Uriah
Heep is a character in
a) David Copperfield
b) Bleak house
c) Oliver twist
d) Great Expectations
43. A
canto is
a) an act of a play
b) a part of play
c) a chapter of a novel
d) a division of an epic
44. The French Revolution was written by
a) Shakespeare
b) Keats
c) Thomas Carlyle
d)Oliver twist
45. In memoriam contains lyrics
a) 130
b) 131
c) 140
d) 141
46. In which novel does Dickens mitigate the
evils of private schools
a) Nicholas Nickleby
b) Oliver twist
c) Great Expectations
d) the Pickwick Papers
47. Pippa passes is a
a) Play
b) novel
c) Poem
d) Short
story
48. Which of the following novels of Charles
Dickens is most Autobiographical
a) A tale of two cities
b) David Copperfield
c) Hard times
d)
Pickwick papers
49. The hard times is divided into books
a) 3
b) 4
c) 5
d) 6
50. Who is the father of English literature
a) William Shakespeare
b) Jonathan swift
c) Stephen Leacock
d)Alexander pope
Key:
1)a 11)d 21)a 31)d 41)d
2)a 12)a 22)a 32)a
42)a
3)b 13)a 23)b 33)a
43)d
4)b 14)d 24)a 34)a
44)c
5)b 15)a 25)c 35)c
45)b
6) a 16)d 26)a 36)d
46)a
7)b 17)b 27)a 37)b
47)a
8) c 18)a 28)b 38)c
48)b
9) b 19)b 29)c 39)b
49)a
10)b 20)c 30)a 40)b
50)a
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