English Literature MCQ
21. Who wrote 'Julius Caesar'?
Francis Bacon
William Shakespeare
P.B Shelley
Bernard Shaw
22. The author of 'A Farewell to Arms' is-
Somerset Maugham
Ernest Hemingway
D. H. Lawrence
Jane Austen
23. “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n.” – Who wrote this?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Christopher Marlowe
John Milton
P. B Shelley
24. Which novel is written by an Indian novelist?
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
The Return of the Native
Things Fall Apart
Heart of Darkness
25. 'Under The Greenwood Tree' by William Shakespeare is a-
Poem
Sonnet
Drama
Story
26. The name of the tree which is not mentioned in the poem "I Have Seen Bengal's Face." Hizal Tamal Taal Bat
Hizal
Tamal
Taal
Bat
ব্যাখ্যা:
Hints: 'I Have seen Bengal's face' কবিতাটি রূপসী বাংলার কবি জীবনান্দ দাশের। তিনি তার কবিতায় Hizal, Tamal, Bat ইত্যাদি গাছের কথা উল্লেখ করেছেন কিন্তু তাল গাছের কথাটি
উল্লেখ করেননি।
27. Who wrote the play ‘The Way of the World’?
William Shakespeare
William Congreve
Ben Jonson
Oscar Wilde
28. Who is not the Modern poet?
W.B Yeats
W.H Auden
John Keats
T.S Eliot
29. 'Animal Liberation' গ্রন্থটির রচয়িতা কে?
হেগেল
কান্ট
বেন্থাম
পিটার সিঙ্গার
30. 'I am a man more sinned against than sinning'. This is uttered by-
Horatio
Hamlet
King Lear
Macbeth
31. The gist of the poem 'I Died For Beauty." is-
Love is beauty and beauty is truth. .
Truth, Beauty and Goodness come first.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
Beauty will save the world
ব্যাখ্যা:
Hints: 'I Died For Beauty' কবিতাটির beauty is truth, truth beauty! মূলভাব হলো সৌন্দর্য সত্য, সত্যই সৌন্দর্য
32. Who is not an Irish writer?
Oscar Wilde
James Joyce
Jonathan Swift
D.W. Lawrence
33. Which event influenced the literature of the Romantic period?
French Revolution
Industrial Revolution
Russian Revolution
Hundred Years' War
34. 'Paradise lost' written by-
John Keats
William Shakespeare
John Milton
John Donne
35. Which period is known as 'The Golden Age of English Literature'?
The Victorian Age
The Elizabethan Age
The Eighteen century
The Restoration period
36. Who is the author of the novel “The God of Small Things”?
Thomas Hardy
Jhumpa Lahiri
R.K. Narayan
Arundhati Roy
37. ---is written by Emily Dickinson.
To Daffodils
Oh Captain,
My Captain
I Died For Beauty
38. The short story 'The Diamond Necklace' was written by -
Guy de Maupassant
Somerset Maugham
O Henry
George Orwell
39. The line 'Frailty, thou name is woman' occurs in Shakespeare's play-
Hamlet
Macbeth
Othello
King Lear
40. Who is the most famous satirist in English literature?
Alexander Pope
Jonathan Swift
John Dryden
William Wordsworth