English Literature MCQ
21. 'I am a man more sinned against than sinning'. This is uttered by-
Horatio
Hamlet
King Lear
Macbeth
22. Who is the most famous satirist in English literature?
Alexander Pope
Jonathan Swift
John Dryden
William Wordsworth
23. Which novel is written by an Indian novelist?
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
The Return of the Native
Things Fall Apart
Heart of Darkness
24. Who is not an Irish writer?
Oscar Wilde
James Joyce
Jonathan Swift
D.W. Lawrence
25. The short story 'The Diamond Necklace' was written by -
Guy de Maupassant
Somerset Maugham
O Henry
George Orwell
26. Who wrote 'Julius Caesar'?
Francis Bacon
William Shakespeare
P.B Shelley
Bernard Shaw
27. The gist of the poem 'I Died For Beauty." is-
Love is beauty and beauty is truth. .
Truth, Beauty and Goodness come first.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
Beauty will save the world
28. Who is not the Modern poet?
W.B Yeats
W.H Auden
John Keats
T.S Eliot
29. Who is the author of the novel “The God of Small Things”?
Thomas Hardy
Jhumpa Lahiri
R.K. Narayan
Arundhati Roy
30. The line 'Frailty, thou name is woman' occurs in Shakespeare's play-
Hamlet
Macbeth
Othello
King Lear
31. Which event influenced the literature of the Romantic period?
French Revolution
Industrial Revolution
Russian Revolution
Hundred Years' War
32. Which period is known as 'The Golden Age of English Literature'?
The Victorian Age
The Elizabethan Age
The Eighteen century
The Restoration period
33. 'Paradise lost' written by-
John Keats
William Shakespeare
John Milton
John Donne
34. The author of 'A Farewell to Arms' is-
Somerset Maugham
Ernest Hemingway
D. H. Lawrence
Jane Austen
35. “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n.” – Who wrote this?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Christopher Marlowe
John Milton
P. B Shelley
36. ---is written by Emily Dickinson.
To Daffodils
Oh Captain,
My Captain
I Died For Beauty
37. Who wrote the play ‘The Way of the World’?
William Shakespeare
William Congreve
Ben Jonson
Oscar Wilde
38. 'Under The Greenwood Tree' by William Shakespeare is a-
Poem
Sonnet
Drama
Story
39. The name of the tree which is not mentioned in the poem "I Have Seen Bengal's Face." Hizal Tamal Taal Bat
Hizal
Tamal
Taal
Bat
40. 'Animal Liberation' গ্রন্থটির রচয়িতা কে?
হেগেল
কান্ট
বেন্থাম
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