MCQ
2221. Who is known as 'the poet of nature' in English literature?
Lord Tennyson
John Milton
William Wordsworth
John Keats
2222. Which of the following books is written by Thomas Hardy?
The Return of the Native
Pride and Prejudice
Oliver Twist
Vanity Fair
2223. 'Gitanjali' of Rabindranath Tagore was translated by-
W. B. Yeats
Robert Frost
John Keats
Rudyard Kipling
2224. Who is the author of 'Man and Superman'?
G.B. Shaw
Thomas Hardy
Ernest Hemingway
Charles Dickens
2225. Riders to the Sea is-
a novella
a theatrical adaptation of
a poem an epic poem
a one-act play
2226. 'Jacobean Period' of English Literature refers to -
1558-1603
1625-1649
1603-1625
1649-1660
2227. Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' is a successful-
tragedy
comedy
tragi-comedy
melodrama
2228. The poem 'Isle of Innisfree' is written by-
Dylan Thomas
Ezra Pound
W.H. Auden
W.B. Yeats
2229. 'A Passage to India' is written by-
E. M. Forster
Rudyard Kipling
Galls Worthy
A. H. Auden
2230. Who worte the poem 'The Good-Morrow'?
George Herbert
Andrew Marvell
John Donne
Henry Vaug
2231. 'A Christams Carol' is a - by Charles Dickens.
ballad sketch
story historical
novel
short novel
2232. The most famous satirist in English literature is -
Jonathan Swift
Joseph Addison
Alexander Pope
Richard Steel
2233. Of the following authors, who wrote an epic?
John Milton
William Cowper
Jane Mansfield
William Shakespeare
2234. The play Arms and the Man is by-
James Joyce
George Bernard Shaw
Samuel Beckett
Arthur Miller
2235. Othello is a Shakespeare's play about-
A Jew
A Roman
A Turk
A Moor
2236. Who among the following writers is not a Nobel Laureate?
T.S. Eliot
Toni Morrison
Grahame Greene
William Faulkner
2237. Which of the following writers belong to the Elizabethan period?
Christopher Marlowe
Alexander Pope
John Dryden
Samuel Beckett
2238. Who is not a Victorian poet?
Matthew Arnold
Alexander Pope
Alfred Tennyson
Robert Browning
2239. The short story "The Diamond Necklace' was written by-
Guy de Maupassant
Somerset Maugham
George Orwell
OHenry
2240. The romantic age in English literature began with the publication of -.
Preface to Shakespeare
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Preface to Ancient Mariners
Preface to Dr. Johnson