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