MCQ
781. The poem 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' is written by-
W. B. Yeats
T.S. Eliot
Walter Scott
Robert Browing
782. 'Pip' is the protagonist in Charles Dicken's novel-
A Christmas Carol
A Tale of Two Cities
Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
783. Adela Quested and Mrs. Moore are characters from the novel-
David Copperfield
The Return of the Native
A Passage to India
Adam Bede
784. 'Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea. 'These lines have been quoted from Dylan Thomas' poem-
The Flower
Fern Hill
By Fire
After the Funeral
785. In Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Hamlet was prince of-
Norway
Britain
Denmark
France
786. Find out the correct passive form of the sentence 'Who taught you French?
By whom you were taught French?
By whom French was taught you?
French was taught you by whom?
By whom were you taught French?
787. The Character 'Alfred Doolittle' is taken from Shaw's play titled-
Pygmalion
Man and Superman
The Doctor's Dilemma
Mrs. Warren's Profession
788. Select the correct comparative form of the sentence 'A string of pearls was not so bright as her teeth.'
Her teeth was more brighter than a string of pearls
Her teeth were brighter than a string of pearls.
A string of pearls was brighter than her teeth.
A string of pearls were very bright than her teeth
789. 'Vanity Fair' is a novel written by-
D. H. Lawrence
William Makepeace Thackeray
Joseph Conrad
Virgina Woolf
790. Choose the word opposite in meaning to 'terse':
concise
detailed
expressive
descriptive
791. 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' was written by the author of -
Lord Jim
The Rainbow
Ulysses
A Passage to India
792. Which one is a correct sentence?
The doctor found my pulse.
The doctor took my pulse.
The doctor examined my pulse.
The doctor saw my pulse.
793. The play 'The Birthday Party' is written by-
Samuel Beckett
Henry Livings
Harold Pinter
Arthur Miller
794. Who is the author of the first scientific romance 'The Time Machine'?
H. G. Wells
Samuel Butler
George Moore
795. Identify the correct spelling:
questionnaire
questionair
questionaire
questionoir
796. 'Why, then, 'tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.' This extract is taken from the drama-
King Lear
Macbeth
As You Like it
Hamlet
797. 'Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield' is taken from the poem written by-
Robert Browning
Matthew Arnold
Alfred Tennyson
Lord Byron
798. 'Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?' Who speaks the famous lines?
Caesar
Antony
Faustus
Romeo
799. Who is not a romantic poet?
P. B. Shelley
S. T. Coleridge
John Keats
T.S. Eliot
800. 'Shylock' is a character in the play-
Twelfth Night
The Merchant of Venice
Romeo and Juliet
Measure for Measure