English Literature MCQ
221. Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' is an elegy on the death of -
John Milton
John Keats
Arthur Henry Hallam
Sydney Smith
222. Othello is a Shakespeare's play about-
A Jew
A Roman
A Turk
A Moor
223. Of the following authors, who wrote an epic?
John Milton
William Cowper
Jane Mansfield
William Shakespeare
224. Who among the following writers is not a Nobel Laureate?
T.S. Eliot
Toni Morrison
Grahame Greene
William Faulkner
225. Who translated the 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' into English?
Thomas Carlyle
D. G. Rossetti
Edward Fitzgerald
William Thackeray
226. The play Arms and the Man is by-
James Joyce
George Bernard Shaw
Samuel Beckett
Arthur Miller
227. The short story "The Diamond Necklace' was written by-
Guy de Maupassant
Somerset Maugham
George Orwell
OHenry
228. William Shakespeare was born in -
1616
1664
1564
1493
229. Who is the author of 'Man and Superman'?
G.B. Shaw
Thomas Hardy
Ernest Hemingway
Charles Dickens
230. 'Ulysses' is a novel written by -
Joseph Conrad
Charles Dickens
Thomas Hardy
James Joyce
231. Who worte the poem 'The Good-Morrow'?
George Herbert
Andrew Marvell
John Donne
Henry Vaug
232. Who is known as 'the poet of nature' in English literature?
Lord Tennyson
John Milton
William Wordsworth
John Keats
233. Which of the following is not an American poet?
Robert Frost
W.B.Yeats
Emily Dickinson
Langston Hughes
234. 'Gitanjali' of Rabindranath Tagore was translated by-
W. B. Yeats
Robert Frost
John Keats
Rudyard Kipling
235. 'The Rape of the Lock' by Alexander Pope is a/an -
ballad
mock-heroic poem
elegy
epic
236. 'A Christams Carol' is a - by Charles Dickens.
ballad sketch
story historical
novel
short novel
237. 'Jacobean Period' of English Literature refers to -
1558-1603
1625-1649
1603-1625
1649-1660
238. 'A Passage to India' is written by-
E. M. Forster
Rudyard Kipling
Galls Worthy
A. H. Auden
239. The most famous satirist in English literature is -
Jonathan Swift
Joseph Addison
Alexander Pope
Richard Steel
240. Who is not a Victorian poet?
Matthew Arnold
Alexander Pope
Alfred Tennyson
Robert Browning