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