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