MCQ
10501. Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
Alliterative verse
Sonnet form
Iambic pentameter
Daetylic Haxameter
10502. Who wrote first English dictionary?
Boswell
Ben Jonson
Samuel Jonson
Milton
10503. The Merchant of Venice' is a Shakespearean play about-
a Jew
a Moor
a Roman
a Turk
10504. Othello gave Desdemona - as a token of love:
Ring
Handkerchief
Pendant
Bangles
10505. Which of the following writers belongs to the romantic period in English literature?
A. Tennyson
Alexander Pope
John Dryden
S.T. Coleridge
10506. The poem 'The Solitary Reaper' is written by-
W.H. Auden
W. Wordsworth
W.B. Yeats
Ezra Pound
10507. The Sun Also Rises' is a novel written by-
Charles Dickens
Hermanne Melville
Ernest Hemingway
Thomas Hardy
10508. London town is found a living being in the works of-
Thomas Hardy
Charles Dickens
W. Congreve
D. H. Lawrence
10509. Find the odd-man-out-
George Eliot
Thomas Hardy
Joseph Conrad
James Joyce
10510. 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
10511. 'David Copperfield' is a/an-novel.
Victorian
Elizabethan
Romantic
Modern
10512. Who wrote the plays, The Tempest' and 'The Mid Summer Night's Dream'?
Ben Johnson
John Dryden
Christopher
William Shakespeare
10513. 'Restoration period' in English literature refers to-
1560
1660
1760
1866
10514. Which of the following books is written by Thomas Hardy?
The Return of the Native
Pride and Prejudice
Oliver Twist
Vanity Fair
10515. Robert Browning was a poet. Fill in the gap with appropriate word.
Romantic
Victorian
Modem
Elizabethan
10516. Who wrote 'Biographia Literaria'?
Lord Byron
P.B. Shelley
S.T. Coleridge
Charles Lamb
10517. P.B. Shelley's 'Adonais' is an elegy on the death of-
John Milton
S.T. Coleridge
John Keats
Lord Byron
10518. Who wrote the two famous novels, 'David Copperfield' and 'The Tale of Two Cities'?
Thomes Hardy
Jane Austen
George Eliot
Charles Dickens
10519. Find the odd-man-out-
The Bluest
Eye Sula
As I Lay Dying
A Mercy
10520. The play 'Candida' is by-
James Joyce
Shakespeare
G. B. Shaw
Arthur Miller