50 Important Questions part-3
1-Winterbourne appears in which Henry James’s work?
A-Daisy Miller
B-The Wings of the Dove
C-The Ambassador
D-The WIngs of the Dove
2-Which of the following poem expressed Yeat’s failure in love but success in a
career as a poet?
A-Words
B-Saling to Byzantium
C-Lake Isle of Innisfree
D-None
3-In which of her poems, Emily Dickinson used the metaphor of Cracked Cups?
A-I Cannot Live with You
B-I heard a Fly Buzz When I died
C-Because I could Not Stop For Death
D-None
4-The essay I want a wife is written by
A-Judy Brady Syfers
B-Judith Butler
C-Simon de Beauvoir
D-Kate Millett
5-Who does Harriet Smith eventually marry in Jane Austen’s novel Emma?
A-Mr. Robert Martin
B-Frank Churchill
C-Mr. Western
D-Mr. Knightley
6-Identify the literary term in the following sentences
‘I love everything about him, his personality his vice his sense of humor his magic’
A-Enumeration
B-Litotes
C-Parallelism
D-None
7-The term Malapropism has been inspired by the character Mrs. Malaprop which
appears in the work
A-The Rivals by Sheridan
B-David Copperfield
C-Oliver Twist
D-None
8-Which of the following Charles Dickens’s novel is considered autobiographical?
A-David Copperfield
B-A Life Incomplete
C-The Watchmaker
D-White Blood
9-One of the prominent writers of Punjabi literature Nanak Singh’s classic Pavitra
Pappi is translated into English with the title.
A-The Watchmaker
B-White Blood
C-Lover Marriage
D-A Life Incomplete
10-Shakespeare’s artistic words all the world’s stage are from which play?
A-As You Like It
B-The Merchant of Venice
C-Love’s Labour Lost
D-Twelfth Night
11-R.K Narayan’s fictional place in his writings is known as
A-Malgudi
B-Malleswaram
C-Lalgudi
D-None
12-Touchstone method of criticism was propounded by
A-Matthew Arnold
B-Lionel Trilling
C-Edward Said
D-None
13-‘Either I forget immediately or I never forget’ This line appears in
A-Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
B-The Room by Harold Pinter
C-Look Black in Anger by John Osborne
D-The Kitchen by Arnold Wesker
14-Love is not loved if alters hen it alteration finds or bends with the remover to
remove’ this lines from
A-Let Me Not to Marriage of The True Minds by Shakespeare
B-The Apparition by John Donne
C-My Mistress by Shakespeare
D-None
15-Which title has been taken from Shakespeare’s The Tempest?
A-Brave New World by Huxley
B-The War of the Worlds by H.G Wells
C-The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
D-The Old Wives Tale by Arnold Bennet
16-Alexander Pope’s forte of writing is
A-Satirical
B-Ironical
C-Rhythmic
D-Comical
18-The word love is blind were in which writing for the first time?
A-Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
B-Browning’s My Last Duchess
C-John Donne’s The Sun Rising
D-Shakespeare’s Romeo Juliet
19-The works Lamia Hyperion and Ode to Psyche are written by
A-John Keats
B-Lord Byron
C-Southey
D-P.B Shelley
20-Issac Bickerstaff was a pseudonym of
A-Jonathan Swift
B-William Congreve
C-James Joyce
D-Samuel Beckett
21-Essays of Elia ere published in
A-1823
B-1850
C-1800
D-1827
22-In which poem do the lines appear ”Our birth is but asleep and a forgetting”
A-Immortality ode
B-Bleak House
C-Tintern Abbey
D-Rejection An Ode
23-Lady Dedlock is a character in
A-Bleak House
B-Hard Times
C-Great EXPECTATIONS
D-David Copperfield
24-Which writer was an American but later became a British subject?
A-T.S Eliot
B-Robert Frost
C-Tennyson
D-Henry James
25-The period of Queen Victoria’s reign is
A-1837-1901
B-1830-1900
C-1890-1909
D-1899-1965
26-In which year was G.B Shaw Awarded with Nobel Prize
A-1925
B-1923
C-1924
D-1926
27-Who created the character of Mogli in the famous book The Jungle Book?
A-Rudyard Kipling
B-E.M Forster
C-G.B Shaw
D-Joseph Conrad
28-In which of the following poems by Browning, he uses the term ‘serpenting
beauty’ to describe the beauty of the female characters?
A-Andrea Del Sarto
B-My Last Duchess
C-Porphyria’s Lover
D-Fra Lippo Lippi
29-Epitaph of Eliot’s famous poem The Hollow Men Mistah Kurtz he dead’s is
taken fom
A-Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
B-D.H Lawrence’s Women in Love
C-George Eliot’s Animal Farm
D-Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory
30-Who called H.G Wells ‘the Shakespeare of science fiction?
A-Brian Aldiss
B-Virginia Woolf
C-Ted Hughes
D-William Faulkner
31-Ulysses by James Joyce is divided into
A-3 Parts and 18 Episodes
B-4 Parts and 18 Episodes
C-5 Parts and 18 Episodes
D-6 Parts and 19 Episodes
32-To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is divided into three parts. Select the odd
one out of the following
A-The Cabin
B-The Window
C-The Lighthouse
D-Times Passes
33-Who was the longest-serving poet laureate?
A-Alfred Lord Tennyson
B-John Dryden
C-John Dryden
D-Robert Southey
34-A fictional character-Judith Shakespeare is created by
A-Virginia Woolf
B-E.M Forster
C-Kate Millett
D-None
35-Which nursery rhyme could be seen in Eliot’s The Waste Land?
A-London Bridge is falling down
B-Jack and Jill
C-Humpty Dumpty
D-Ring a Roses
36-Datta, Dayadhvam Damyata is lines of
A-The Waste Land
B-The Hollow Men
C-Ash Wednesday
D-Gerontion
37-The Doll’s House is written by
A-Catherine Mansfield
B-Hnrik Ibsen
C-G.B Shaw
D-Guy De Maupassant
38-John Milton got blind at the age of
A-44
B-45
C-48
D-49
39-Who is famous for Negative Capability?
A-John Keats
B-S.T Coleridge
C-P.B Shelley
D-Lordy Byron
40-Which female writer was suggested to be chosen Poen Laureate by Robert
Browning
A-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
B-George Eliot
C-Jane Austen
D-Mary Wollstonecraft
41-What was the relation between P.B Shelley and Mary Woolstonecraft?
A-Mother in Law/Son in law
B-Husband/Wife
C-Brother/Sister
D-Mother/Son
42-Which of Chaucer’s work has been called a novel in verse?
A-Troilus and Criseyde
B-The Legend of Good Women
C-The House of Fame
D-The Parliament of Fouls
43-William Morris The Earthly Paradise closely follows the pattern of
A-Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
B-Arnold’s The Study of Poetry
C-Boccaccio’s Teseida
D-None
44-Fame is the last infirmity of the noble mind. In which Milton’s poem does this
line occur?
A-Lycidas
B-Rape of the Lock
C-Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
D-None
45-Which of Swift’s work is subtitle is written for the universal improvement of
Mankind?
A-The Battle of the Books
B-A Tale of a Tub
C-Gulliver’s Travel
D-The Draper’s Letters
46-Which of the following periodical encouraged De Quincey?
A-London Magazine
B-Edinburgh Review
C-Quarterly Review
D-None
47-To who did the Phrase ‘One of the inheritors of unfulfilled renown refers?
A-Keats
B-Coleridge
C-Shelley
D-Wordsworth
48-Which work of Elizabeth Browning is considered to be a woman’s version of
Wordsworth’s The Prelude?
A- Aurora Leigh
B-Sonnets from the Portuguese
C-The Battle of Marathon
D-Casa Guidi Windows
49-Who said about Himself ‘I Have no brains above my eyes I describe what I see?
A-Thackeray
B-Hardy
C-Dickens
D-Meredith
50-Who were the chief pioneers of psychological novels?
A-Elizabeth Gaskell
B-George Meredith
C-George Eliot
D-All of the above
