English literature quizzes
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The following incomplete statements of English literature quizzes followed by four options. Choose the most appropriate option.
21: Poem “The winding sTAR” WAS COMPOSED BY________.
(A) T.S Eliot
(B) Edith Sitwell
(C) None of these
(D) W.B.Yeats
22: The period of “university wits” was a little more than________.
(A) 5 years
(B) 6 years
(C) 10 years
(D) None of these
23: Four history plays were written by_________.
(A) Marlow
(B) John Lyly
(C) Peelo
(D) Shakespeare
24: “Importance of Being Earnest ” was written by__________.
(A) James Joyce
(B) Arnold
(C) Oscar Wild
(D) T.S.E liot
25: The central idea of the song”Go and Catch a Falling Star” by Donne focuses on :
(A) Women’s passion in love
(B) Kindness of women
(C) None of these
(D) Women’s faithlessness
26: Thomas Moore’s “Utopia ” was origionally written in__________.
(A) Latin
(B) Freanch
(C) Spanish
(D) English
27: Linguistics deals with_______.
(A) Semantics
(B) Morphology & Syntax
(C) Phonetics & Phenology
(D) A, B, and C
27: We studies Language varieties in :
(A) Psycho linguistics
(B) Socio linguistics
(C) Applied Linguistics
(D) Historical Linguistics
28: English language has __________phonemes in its sound system.
(A) 24
(B) 23
(C) 44
(D) 54
29: Robert Frost’s poem “The Road not taken”is a poem with the idea of__________.
(A) Duality
(B) Optional
(C) Dogmatism
(D) Both A and B
30: Hardy is believe to be a _______.
(A) optimist
(B) Pessimist
(C) Pragmatist
(D) A and B
31: The masterpiece poem composed by T.S.Eliot is_____.
(A) East Coker
(B) The Hollow Man
(C) The Wasteland
(D) Ash Wednesday
32: “Barchester tower “is a famous novel written by:
(A) Hardy
(B) George Eliot
(C) Trollope
(D) None of these
33: A short story that teaches moral of spiritual lesson is called__________.
(A) A moral story
(B) A fantasy
(C) A tragedy
(D) A parable
34: Sylvia Plath’s poems are noted for their personal imagery and intense_______.
(A) Grip
(B) Dedication
(C) Grief
(D) Focus
35: Sylvia Plath became popular because of her_______.
(A) Poetry
(B) Drama
(C) Novel
(D) Plays
36: Syntactic is concerned with_________.
(A) Phonetics
(B) Socio Linguistics
(C) Phonology
(D) Syntax
37: “The comedy of errors” was written during______.
(A) 1584-1600
(B) 1588-1594
(C) 1594-1608
(D) 587-1100
38: Oedipus Rex focuses on role of__________.
(A) Chance
(B) Miscalculation
(C) Fate
(D) None of these
39: Which of the following is a tragicomedy?
(A) Winter’s Tale
(B) Hamlet
(C) Othello
(D) King Lear
40: Bertrand Russel was_________.
(A) Agonist
(B) Rationalist
(C) A fantasy
(D) Both A and B
41: “The new Atlantis” is a kind of novel describing another Utopia as seen by_______.
(A) Dryden
(B) T.S.Eliot
(C) Bacon
(D) None of these
42: I have taken all knowledge to be my province is the claim of______.
(A) Bacon
(B) Aristotle
(C) Wordsworth
(D) Keats
43: Huxley’s pessimism about the large-scale social organization was dependent by the ________.
(A) Black death
(B) Decline of Church
(C) Outbreak of 2nd World War
(D) None of these
44: In Gulliver’s Travels Swift paints a dark picture of:
(A) Religion
(B) Poetry
(C) political institutions and manners
(D) Drama
45: tragic history of Dr.Faustus opens with_____.
(A) Dr.Faustus is in his study room
(B) Chorus
(C) Call Mephitophilies
(D) The speech of Wagner
46: Whom does the Satan discover the next angel in rank?
(A) Mammon
(B) Eve
(C) Belial
(D) Beelzebub
47: What does Lady Catherine forbid Elizabeth to do?
(A) Marry Bingley
(B) To resist Rosings
(C) Marry Darcy
(D) See Wickham
48: Pride and Prejudice depicts__________marriages in all:
(A) 4
(B) 5
(C) 7
(D) 8
49: Jane Austen’s “limited range” has been compared to___________inches of ivory:
(A) 2
(B) 4
(C) 6
(D) 10
50: Francis Bacon was born on________in London.
(A) March 27, 1567
(B) Febraury13, 1678
(C) January 22, 1561
(D) September 3, 1561
51: Bacon says that “an ungracious son_______—the mother.
(A) Disturbs
(B) Shames
(C) Blame
(D) Tease
52: Gulliver loves:
(A) Writing
(B) Adventure
(C) Travelling
(D) Fighting
53: Lady Catherine de Bourgh is Darcy’s _________.
(A) sister
(B) Mother
(C) First Wife
(D) Aunt
54: To which Bennet daughter does Mr.Collins propose for marriage?
(A) Mary
(B) Elizabeth
(C) Lydia
(D) Jane
55: In his childhood Russel was interested in.
(A) Mathematics
(B) Chemistry
(C) Physics
(D) Psychology
56: Francis Bacon came of_____________.
(A) Art loving family
(B) Aristocratic family
(C) Middle class family
(D) Poor family
57: We are both going_______the same job.
(A) after
(B) for
(C) before
(D) down
58: She slipped and went _____with a bump.
(A) before
(B) again
(C) down
(D) in
59: Entrammel synonym?
(A) arrange
(B) enter
(C) extricate
(D) entangle
60: Which of the following is not a modernist art movement?
(A) Dadaism
(B) Realism
(C) Surrealism
(D) symbolism
61: What was the origin of the race of Nissim Ezekiel?
(A) Indian Christian
(B) Bani israel
(C) Latin American
(D) Dravidian
62: Who is the author of the un vanquished?
(A) William Cuthbert Faulkner
(B) O’Henry
(C) F.Scott Fitzgerald
(D) None of these
63: Which among the following novels of Dickens was left unfinished?
(A) Bleak House
(B) A Tale of Two Cities
(C) The mystery of Edwin Droop
(D) The Old Curiosity Shop
64: Who is “Thyrsis ” in the poem of the same name?
(A) Arthur Hallam
(B) Edward king
(C) P.B.S helly
(D) Arthur Hugh Clough
65: Sohrab and Rustum was Written by ?
(A) Swinburne
(B) Wrodsworth
(C) Mathew Arnold
(D) None of these
66: Willing suspension of disbelief is a phrase?
(A) T.S.Eliot
(B) Arnold
(C) Dryden
(D) Coleridge
67: An Alexenderine is verse line in?
(A) A dactylic tetrameter
(B) A trochaic meter
(C) An iambic hexameter
(D) Hexameter
68: The Alchemist is a?
(A) Tragedy
(B) Novel
(C) Book on chemistry
(D) Comedy
69: The numerous haunt of flies on summer eaves, The figure of speech is__________.
(A) Metaphor
(B) Hyperbole
(C) Onomatopoeia
(D) Simile
70: Bucolic refers to?
(A) The poet who imitates pope
(B) The poet who imitate Wordsworth
(C) The poet who wrote pastoral poetry
(D) the poet who wrote in praise of bear
