40 Important Mcqs For The Test Of Educators And School

1.     Lyrical Ballads opens with 

a.Tintern Abbey
b.Michael
c.Dejection: an Ode
d.Rime of Ancient Mariner e- Immortality Ode.

Ans:a

2.   Besides the French Revolution the effect on Romantic Revolution:

a.American Revolution
b.Napoleonic wars
c.Industrial Revolution
d.Peasant’s Revolt
e.The defeat of the Spanish armada.

Ans:c

3.   William Blake’s /Song’s of ———-‘counterbalance his ‘Songs of Experience’.

A.Love
b.childhood
c.past
d.Inexperience
e.Innocence

Ans:e

4.   Geraldine is a character of the poem; 

a.Lucy Grey
b.The Thorn 
c.Christabel 
d.Frost at midnight
e.the last of the flock

Ans:c

5.   ‘kubla khan’ is a poem which reflects a——— strain in Choleridge’s poetry.

A.Intellectual
b.magical
c.melancholic
d.pessimistic
e.philosophical

Ans:a

6.   Keats’ poem Endymion is based on ——mythology.

A.Greek
b.Roman
c.Celtic
d.Scandinavian
e.Indian

Ans:a

7.   Byrob’s journey to Spain, Malta, Albania and

Greece resulted in the production of the first two cantos of his poem:

a.Cain
b.Childe Herald’s Pilgrimage 
c.Don Juan
d.the prisoner of Chillon 
e.The Siege of Corinth 

Ans:b

8.   In Don Juan Byron used:

a.blank verse
b.Couplets
c.Ottava rima
d.Refrain
e.Terza rima

Ans:c

9.   Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University on the charge of being a(n):

a.Anarchist 
b.Aetheist
c.Commonist
d.Nazi 
e.Traitor 

Ans:b

10. Adonais was an elegy Shelley wrote in 1821 on the death of:
a.Keats
b.Byron
c.Arthur Hugh Clough d.Thomas Love Peacock
e.William Hazlit 

Ans:a

11. Confessions of an English Opium Eater was written by:

a.Charles Lamb
b.John Ruskin
c.Maria Edgeworth
d.Thomas Carlyle
e. Quencey 
Ans:e

12. Elia was the pseudonym used by Charles Lamb for getting his works published in:

a.London magazine
b.The New York Times
c. The Mirror
d.The spectator
e.the Sun

Ans:a

13.   Tennyson created a medieval world in his poem: 
a.in memoriam
b.the lady of Shalott 
c.the lotus eaters 
d.tithonus 
e.Ulyssess

Ans:e

14.   Arthur Hugh Clough became an inspiration for Mathew Arnold’s work:

a.the buried life
b.dover beach
c.culture and anarchy
d.the scholor gypsy
e.essays on criticism

Ans:d

15. ————- is an attack by Ruskin on the Philistines.

a.modern painters
b.stones of Venice
c. seven lamps of architecture
e.praeterita

Ans:a

16.   Dickens’ first novel which focused on the specific social ills was:

a.the Christmas carol 
b.david copperfield
c.great expectations 
d-Oliver twist
e.a tale of two cities 

Ans:c

17.   G Eliot’s novels show her concern for the character’s———– problems.

a.economic
b.moral
c-religious
d.spiritual e social

Ans:b

18.   Dickens’ novels combine——— and melodrama. a.journalism
b-philosophy 
c.satire
d.  science e.religion 

Ans:c

19. The first which Charlotte Bronte wrote was: 
a.Emily
b.Jane Eyre 
c.Shirley 
d.the professor 
e.villette 

Ans:b

20. Oscar Wilde’s novel published in 1891 was entitled as:

a.the picture of dorian grey
b.the importance of being earnest 
c.lady windermere’s fan
d.a woman of no importance e.Salome

Ans:e


21-Which novel is not written by Jane Austen?

A.Emma 
b- the chimes 
c- Persuasion 
d- Mansfield Park 
e- none these


Ans:b

23. Shaw wrote more than:

a.30 plays 
b- 40 plays 
c- 50 plays 
d- 60 plays 
e- none of these

Ans:d


23. Shaw died at the age of:

a.75 
b- 85 
c- 95 
d- 105 
e- none of these 

Ans:c

24.   Cordelia’s chief characteristic is her: 
a.beauty 
b- devotion 
c- sympathy 
d- kindness 
e-none of these

Ans:b

25. Adam Bede is a:

a.Play 
b- Novel 
c- short storey 
d- Poem 
e- none of these

Ans:b

26.   Dickens sprang to fame with a publication of: 

a.Hard Times 
b- David Copperfield 
c- Pickwick papers 
d- Great Expectations 
e- none of these 

Ans:c

27.   Who served as an Irish senator for two terms? 

A.Wilde 
b- Shaw 
c- Ibsen 
d- Yeats 
e- none of these


Ans:d

28.   John Bull’s Other Island is written by:

a.Shaw 
b- Wilde 
c- Hemingway 
d- Beckett
e- none of these

Ans:a


29.   Lilliputians symbolize excessive human: 

a.Jealousy 
b- confidence 
c- pride d- Ego 
e- none of these

Ans:c

30.   Houyhnhnms represent life governed by sense and:

a.moderation 
b- patience 
c- understanding 
d-compromise 
e-none of these

Ans:a

31.   Cordelia’s chief characteristic is her: 
a.beauty 
b- devotion 
c- sympathy 
d- kindness 
e-none of these

Ans:b

32.   Henry Higgins is a character in: 
a.Pygmalion 
b- Saint Joan 
c- major Barbara 
d-Candida e-none of these

Ans:a

33. Eliot worked for Faber and Faber as a/an:


a. assistant 
b- director 
c- writer 
d- editor 
e- none of these

Ans:d

34.   Wordsworth was appointed as poet Laureate in: 
a.1843 
b-1844 
c-1845 
d-1846 
e- none of these


Ans:a

35. Hemingway was a great fan of:

a.Cricket 
b- baseball 
c- softball 
d- football 
e- none of these

Ans:b

36. Jude the Obscure is a:

a.comedy 
b- tragedy 
c- tragic-comedy 
d- black comedy 
e- none of these

Ans:b

37. Eliot was influenced by:

a.Ezra Pound 
b- Shaw 
c- Hardy 
d- Wilde 
e- none of these

Ans:a

38.   Who became the poet Laureate of England and Ireland during the reign of Queen Victoria? 
A.Tennyson 
b- Browning 
c- Hardy 
d- Lawrence e-none of these

Ans:a

39. Hemingway also worked as a:

a.Carpenter 
b- Painter 
c- surgeon 
d- Driver 
e- none of these

Ans:d


40.   “Tales from Shakespeare” is written by: 
a.Shakespeare 
b- Lamb 
c- Lawrence 
d- Mary Anne Evans 
e- none of these

Ans:b

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