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Competitive Exams MCQs For English Literature Test
Q.1: The famous novel “Wuthering Heights” is written by--?
- Emily Bronte
- Anne Brontë
- George Eliot
- Jane Austen
A
Q.2: “Undo this Button” is a line from which of the following Shakespeare’s play?
- Hamlet
- Othello
- King Lear
- Julius Caesar
C
Q.3: The famous poem “Lotus Eaters” is written by---?
- Robert Browning
- Dylan Thomas
- Alfred Tennyson
- John Keats
C
Q.4: The popular novel “A passage to India” is written by---?
- Robert Frost
- D. H. Lawrence
- William Faulkner
- E. M. Forster
D
Q.5: The famous line “Fair Seed time had my Soul” is taken from--?
- The Excursion
- The Prelude
- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
- Intimations of Immortality
B
Q.6: The famous quote “Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter” is taken from--------?
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Ode on Melancholy
- Intimations of Immortality
B
Q.7: The famous poet John Keats was born in----?
- 1795
- 1790
- 1745
- 1821
A
Q.8: The popular poem “Fire and Ice” is written by---?
- Oscar Wilde
- Robert Frost
- Alfred Tennyson
- Walt Whitman
B
Q.9: “Things fall apart” is a line from Yeats's poem about---?
- The Second Coming
- The First Coming
- Sailing to Byzantium
- Byzantium
A
Q.10: The famous author Jonathan Swift belongs to which era---?
- Augustan age
- Restoration age
- Romantic period
- Renaissance period
A
Q.11: The fictional island nation “Lilliput” appears in which of the following novel---?
- Gulliver’s Travels
- Treasure Island
- Oliver Twist
- Robinson Crusoe
A
Q.12: The famous poem “My Last Duchess” is written by--?
- Oscar Wilde
- Robert Browning
- William Wordsworth
- Matthew Arnold
B
Q.13: Which of the following novelist is the writer of “Ullyses”?
- James Joyce
- Oscar Wilde
- Virginia Woolf
- T. S. Eliot
A
Q.14: The famous book “Heroes and Hero Worship” was written by--?
- Oscar Wilde
- Thomas Carlyle
- John Ruskin
- Walt Whitman
B
Q.15: The famous book “Past and Present” is written by--?
- Matthew Arnold
- Charles Dickens
- John Ruskin
- Thomas Carlyle
D
Q.16: “Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling” is a definition of poetry according to---?
- Oscar Wilde
- John Keats
- William Wordsworth
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
C
Q.17: A lyric poem “Tears, Idle Tears” is written by---?
- Robert Browning
- Dylan Thomas
- Alfred Tennyson
- John Keats
C
Q.18: The famous novel “Great Expectation” was written by--?
- Oscar Wilde
- Ernest Hemingway
- Charles Dickens
- Mark Twain
C
Q.19: Which of the following novel by D.H. Lawrence was banned in the US until 1959?
- The Rainbow
- Sons and Lovers
- Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Madame Bovary
C
Q.20: Elizabeth is a character in a novel written by Jane Austen, do you know the name of this novel?
- Mansfield Park
- Jane Eyre
- Sense and Sensibility
- Pride and Prejudice
D
Q.21: The famous line “Good fences make good neighbors” is written by Robert Frost in----?
- Repairing Wall
- Home Burial
- Birches
- Mending Wall
D
Q.22: The famous play “Major Barbra” is written by---?
- Oscar Wilde
- George Bernard Shaw
- Alfred Tennyson
- H. G. Wells
B
Q.23: Charles Lamb, Leigh Hunt and William Hazlitt are--?
- Essayists
- Poets
- Dramatists
- Novelists
A
Q.24: “I am not prince hamlet” is a line written by?
- Oscar Wilde
- James Joyce
- Shakespeare
- T.S. Eliot
D
Q.25: The popular ode “Ode to West Wind” is written by---?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Mary Shelley
- Lord Byron
- John Keats
A
Q.26: Which of the following novelist belongs to the Absurd School of Drama?
- Beckett
- Pinter
- Eliot
- Shaw
A
Q.27: The fantasy novel “Picture of Dorian Gray” was written by--?
- Oscar Wilde
- John Keats
- Alfred Tennyson
- Walt Whitman
A
Q.28: The novel “To the Light House” is written by--?
- Leonard Woolf
- Dylan Thomas
- Virginia Woolf
- Hemingway
C
Q.29: When was William Wordsworth born and died?
- 1770-1850
- 1795-1821
- 1772-1800
- 1775-1855
A
Q.30: The famous art critic and writer John Ruskin belongs to which era--?
- Romantic age
- Augustan age
- Victorian era
- Modern era
C
Q.31: The famous epic poem “Don Juan” is written by--?
- Oscar Wilde
- Robert Browning
- Lord Byron
- Walter Scott
C
Q.32: The famous poem “Thought Fox” is written by---?
- Robert Browning
- Ted Hughes
- Alfred Tennyson
- John Keats
B
Q.33: The famous essay “Dream Children” was written by--?
- Mary Lamb
- Mary Shelley
- Charles Lamb
- John Keats
C
Q.34: The famous novel “Waverley” was written by--?
- Walter Scott
- Robert Browning
- William Wordsworth
- Jane Austen
A
Q.35: The popular novel “A Farewell to Arms” is written by---?
- Mark Twain
- Ernest Hemingway
- William Faulkner
- Walt Whitman
B
Q.36: In Hamlet, who said, “I am too much in the sun”?
- Claudius
- Polonius
- Gertrude
- Hamlet
D
Q.37: The famous book “Modern Painters” is written by--?
- Matthew Arnold
- Charles Dickens
- John Ruskin
- Thomas Carlyle
C
Q.38: The popular poem “Ode to Psyche” is written by---?
- Oscar Wilde
- John Keats
- Alfred Tennyson
- Walt Whitman
B
Q.39: The famous line “April is the Cruelest month of all” is written by T.S. Eliot in----?
- The Waste Land
- The Hollow Men
- Four Quartets
- Ash Wednesday
A
Q.40: The famous poem “We are Seven” is written by--?
- Oscar Wilde
- Robert Browning
- William Wordsworth
- Walter Scott
C
