English Literature Questions
1. Who is the author of ‘Jane Eyre’?
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
Jane Austen
Mary Shelley
2. 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
3. Who wrote the play ‘The Way of the World’?
William Shakespeare
William Congreve
Ben Jonson
Oscar Wilde
4. Who is the author of the novel “The God of Small Things”?
Thomas Hardy
Jhumpa Lahiri
R.K. Narayan
Arundhati Roy
5. What kind of play is ‘Julius Caesar’?
romantic
anti-romantic
comedy
historical
6. ____ was both a poet and a painter.
John Keats
Spenser
William Blake
John Donne
7. 'Macbeth' by Shakespeare is -.
a poem
a novel
a play
an autobiography
8. Who is not an Irish writer?
Oscar Wilde
James Joyce
Jonathan Swift
D.W. Lawrence
9. “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n.” – Who wrote this?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Christopher Marlowe
John Milton
P. B Shelley
10. Who is the poet of the poem ‘Ozymandias’?
P. B. Shelley
William Wordsworth
S.T Coleridge
John Keat
11. O Henry was from –
Canada
America
England
Ireland
12. ‘Moby Disk’, a novel, was written by-
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mark Twain
William Faulkner
13. Where is the setting of the play ‘Hamlet’?
England
Italy
France
Denmark
14. The most famous romantic poet of English literature is-
John Dryden
Alexander Pope
William Wordsworth
T.S Eliot
15. ‘No Second Troy’ is a-
short story
novel
poem
drama
16. 'Animal Farm' is written by -.
George Orwell
Jane Austen
Henry Fielding
E.M. Forster
17. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” – Who wrote this?
William Blake
S.T Coleridge
Lord Byron
P. B Shelley
18. 'Under The Greenwood Tree' by William Shakespeare is a-
Poem
Sonnet
Drama
Story
19. 'Paradise lost' written by-
John Keats
William Shakespeare
John Milton
John Donne
20. Who is not the Modern poet?
W.B Yeats
W.H Auden
John Keats
T.S Eliot