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