English Literature MCQ
201. P.B. Shelley's 'Adonais' is an elegy on the death of-
John Milton
S.T. Coleridge
John Keats
Lord Byron
202. Which of the following writers belong to the Elizabethan period?
Christopher Marlowe
Alexander Pope
John Dryden
Samuel Beckett
203. The play 'Candida' is by-
James Joyce
Shakespeare
G. B. Shaw
Arthur Miller
204. Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' is a successful-
tragedy
comedy
tragi-comedy
melodrama
205. The Sun Also Rises' is a novel written by-
Charles Dickens
Hermanne Melville
Ernest Hemingway
Thomas Hardy
206. The poem 'Isle of Innisfree' is written by-
Dylan Thomas
Ezra Pound
W.H. Auden
W.B. Yeats
207. The romantic age in English literature began with the publication of -.
Preface to Shakespeare
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Preface to Ancient Mariners
Preface to Dr. Johnson
208. 'Restoration period' in English literature refers to-
1560
1660
1760
1866
209. Robert Browning was a poet. Fill in the gap with appropriate word.
Romantic
Victorian
Modem
Elizabethan
210. Find the odd-man-out-
George Eliot
Thomas Hardy
Joseph Conrad
James Joyce
211. London town is found a living being in the works of-
Thomas Hardy
Charles Dickens
W. Congreve
D. H. Lawrence
212. The Merchant of Venice' is a Shakespearean play about-
a Jew
a Moor
a Roman
a Turk
213. Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
Alliterative verse
Sonnet form
Iambic pentameter
Daetylic Haxameter
214. Riders to the Sea is-
a novella
a theatrical adaptation of
a poem an epic poem
a one-act play
215. Which of the following books is written by Thomas Hardy?
The Return of the Native
Pride and Prejudice
Oliver Twist
Vanity Fair
216. Who wrote 'Biographia Literaria'?
Lord Byron
P.B. Shelley
S.T. Coleridge
Charles Lamb
217. Othello gave Desdemona - as a token of love:
Ring
Handkerchief
Pendant
Bangles
218. Which of the following writers belongs to the romantic period in English literature?
A. Tennyson
Alexander Pope
John Dryden
S.T. Coleridge
219. The poem 'The Solitary Reaper' is written by-
W.H. Auden
W. Wordsworth
W.B. Yeats
Ezra Pound
220. 'David Copperfield' is a/an-novel.
Victorian
Elizabethan
Romantic
Modern