English Literature MCQ
1. What kind of play is ‘Julius Caesar’?
romantic
anti-romantic
comedy
historical
2. In which poem does the following line appear? "If Winter comes, can Sping be far behind?
Ode to the West Wind
To a Skylark
Ode to Autumn
Ode to a Nightinglale
3. Where is the setting of the play ‘Hamlet’?
England
Italy
France
Denmark
4. Which of the followings is not a play written by William Shakespeare?
Machbeth
Pride and Prejudice
King Lear
The Tempest
5. Which novel is not written by Jane Austen?
Emma
Sense and Sensibility
Persuasion
Little Women
6. ‘No Second Troy’ is a-
short story
novel
poem
drama
7. The most famous romantic poet of English literature is-
John Dryden
Alexander Pope
William Wordsworth
T.S Eliot
8. Who is the author of novel '1984'?
H.G. Wells
Arthur C . Clarke
Issac Asimov
George Orwell
9. The poem 'The Solitary Reaper' is written by-
William Blake
William Shakespeare
William Congreve
William Wordsworth
10. 'Macbeth' by Shakespeare is -.
a poem
a novel
a play
an autobiography
11. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” – Who wrote this?
William Blake
S.T Coleridge
Lord Byron
P. B Shelley
12. 'Jane Eyre' is a novel written by- ries
Jane Austen
Emily Bronte
Charlotte Bronter.
Virginia Woolf
13. ____ was both a poet and a painter.
John Keats
Spenser
William Blake
John Donne
14. Who is the poet of the poem ‘Ozymandias’?
P. B. Shelley
William Wordsworth
S.T Coleridge
John Keat
15. O Henry was from –
Canada
America
England
Ireland
16. Who is the author of ‘Jane Eyre’?
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
Jane Austen
Mary Shelley
17. 'A rose by any other name would smell as sweet is a famous phrase from William Shakespeare's-
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Romeo and Juliet
Antony and Cleopetra
Twelfth Night
18. Which of the following novels is not written by an English writer?
A Passage of India
Sons and Lovers
One hundred Years of Solitude
Pride and Prejudice
19. ‘Moby Disk’, a novel, was written by-
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mark Twain
William Faulkner
20. 'Animal Farm' is written by -.
George Orwell
Jane Austen
Henry Fielding
E.M. Forster