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