Selected and Most Important MCQs On English Literature

Selected and Most Important MCQs On English Literature

Q1. Addison's tragedy 'Cato’ has been called-

1. The Last Of The Elizabethan Tragedy
2. The Tomb Of The Heroic Plays
3. The Grave Of English Tragedy
4. The Burial Of Classical Tragedy

Q2. “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact “

In which play do these lines occur?

1. As you Like It
2. Much Ado About Nothing
3. A Midsummer Night's Dream
4. Twelfth Night

Q3. “This rough magic, here I abjure,,,I will break my staff

Who speaks these words

1. Dr. Faustus
2. Nick Bottom
3. Prospero
4. Miranda

Q4. Who knows the world may end tonight ?

These lines are taken from

1. Rabbi Ben Ezra
2. Pippa Passes
3. The last Ride Together
4. Ulysses

Q5. What was the name of the Periodical brought out by Daniel Defoe?

1. The Review
2. The Idler
3. The Morning News
4. The Tatler

Q6. Whose Essays have appeared under the title Midnight On The Desert?

1. Daniel Defoe
2. John Ruskin
3. J.B. Pristeley
4. E. V. Lucas

Q7. Who is considered to be the most important Historical novelist of the Romantic period?

1. Jane Austen
2. Walter Scott
3. Maria Edgeworth
4. John Galt

Q8. Referring to one of his novels, Jonathan Swift said, “Good God, what a genius I had when I wrote that book.” Which novel was he referring to?

1. A Tale Of Tub
2. The Battle Of Books
3. Gulliver Travels
4. Cadenus and Vanesa

Q9. Which of the following novels is called “a novel without a hero” ?

1. Mill On The Floss
2. Northanger Abbey
3. Vanity Fair
4. Pickwick Papers

Q10. Which of the following novels of D. H. Lawrence has autobiograhical overtones?

1. Women in Love
2. Rainbow
3. Sons and lovers
4. The White Peacock

Q11. The wasteland is a series of

1. 3 poems
2. 4 poems
3. 5 poems
4. 6 poems

Q12. T.S. Eliot's line:

“Sweet Thames runs softly till I end my Song” is quotes from a poem by :

1. Shakespeare
2. Donne
3. Wordsworth
4. Spenser

Q13. In which year Ruskin bond achieved Padma Bhushan

1. 2012
2. 1998
3. 2014
4. 2000

Q14. Who wrote the famous play the sleepwalkers

1. Nissim ezekiel
2. Raja Rao
3. Kamala Das
4. Shiv. k Kumar

Q15. “No ! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be.”

From which poem of Eliot is this line quoted

1. The love song of Alfred Prufrock
2. Gerontion
3. Ash Wednesday
4. A Cooking Egg

Q16. What kind of play is Murder In The Cathedral ?

1. A Stage play written for Canterbury
2. A Romantic Tragedy
3. A Literary Play
4. A  Revenge Play

Q17. Which of the following series of essays started the vogue of journalistic Literature?

1. The Tatler
2. The Guardian
3. The Spectator
4. The Rambler

Q18. “The most perfect gift that fitted Addison was his sense of humour.” Who holds this view ?

1. Delighton
2. Macaulay
3. Dr. Johnson
4. Cazamian

Q19. Which of Elliot Poem ends with these lines ?

“This is the way the world ends”

1. The Hollow Men
2. Ash Wednesday
3. Gerontion
4. Wasteland

Q20. Shaw's The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is :

1. A Novel
2. A Full Length Drama
3. A Short Story
4. A one Act Play

Q21. Where was Wordsworth born?

1. Cockermouth
2. Cocour plate
3. Cockrell hill
4. Cockershire

Q22. Lucy poem by William Wordsworth refers to

1. Early poems of Wordsworth
2. A group of five lyrics by Wordsworth
3. Poem by Wordsworth in collaboration with Coleridge
4. Wordsworth humorous poem

Q23. “.....for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils…….where the cricket sings.”

From which Poem are these lines quoted ?

1. Byzantium
2. Coole park
3. The Secret Rose
4. The Lake Of Innisfree

Q24. “Wisdom is the property of the dead” From which poem of W.B.Yeats are these lines quoted ?

1. The Three Bushes
2. Lapis Lazuli
3. A prayer for Old Age
4. The Gyres

Q25. The phrase religion of the blood is associated with

1. Virginia woolf
2. James Joyce
3. D. H. Lawrence
4. E. M. Forster

Q26. Which of the following was the first play by Harold pinter

1. The room
2. The care taker
3. The birthday party
4. The homecoming

Q27. What is Yeat’s In The SevenWoods ?

1. A Collection of Poems
2. A Series of Verse tales
3. A collection of Essays
4. A Lyrical play

Q28. What is Lawrence's The Mortal Coil ?

1. A Collection Of Stories
2. A Collection Of Poems
3. A Collection Of Essays
4. A Travel Book

Q29. Which of the following is a Poetical Collection Of Hardy ?

1. Poems of the past and the Present
2. Ballads and Poems
3. The Sphinx
4. The Songs of the Cold

Q30. Hardy's characters are types, though not without individuality. Whose view is this

1. Jean Brooks
2. D. H. Lawrence
3. H. C. Duffin
4. David Cecil