English Literature MCQ
1. Where is the setting of the play ‘Hamlet’?
England
Italy
France
Denmark
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. Which novel is not written by Jane Austen?
Emma
Sense and Sensibility
Persuasion
Little Women
4. ____ was both a poet and a painter.
John Keats
Spenser
William Blake
John Donne
5. ‘Moby Disk’, a novel, was written by-
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mark Twain
William Faulkner
6. What kind of play is ‘Julius Caesar’?
romantic
anti-romantic
comedy
historical
7. 'Animal Farm' is written by -.
George Orwell
Jane Austen
Henry Fielding
E.M. Forster
8. Which of the followings is not a play written by William Shakespeare?
Machbeth
Pride and Prejudice
King Lear
The Tempest
9. Who is the author of novel '1984'?
H.G. Wells
Arthur C . Clarke
Issac Asimov
George Orwell
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. Who is the author of ‘Jane Eyre’?
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
Jane Austen
Mary Shelley
13. The most famous romantic poet of English literature is-
John Dryden
Alexander Pope
William Wordsworth
T.S Eliot
14. 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
15. The poem 'The Solitary Reaper' is written by-
William Blake
William Shakespeare
William Congreve
William Wordsworth
16. '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
17. ‘No Second Troy’ is a-
short story
novel
poem
drama
18. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” – Who wrote this?
William Blake
S.T Coleridge
Lord Byron
P. B Shelley
19. 'Jane Eyre' is a novel written by- ries
Jane Austen
Emily Bronte
Charlotte Bronter.
Virginia Woolf
20. 'Macbeth' by Shakespeare is -.
a poem
a novel
a play
an autobiography