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Here are the questions and their correct answers in plain text:
1. Question: In which century was Piers Plowman written?
Answer: 14th
2. Question: Geoirey Chaucer served which king?
Answer: Edward III
3. Question: The 18th century work ’Tom Jones” was written by whom?
Answer: Henry Fielding
4. Question: In 1905, Virginia Woolf began to write for which publication?
Answer: The Time’s Literary Supplement
5. Question: Joyce’s novel ’Ulysses’ takes place over what period of time?
Answer: 24 hours
6. Question: What was the nationality of Oscar Wilde?
Answer: Irish
7. Question: Who wrote the poem “Requiem"?
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson
8. Question: the prevailing feature of Chaucer’s humour is its
Answer: urbanity
9. Question: who is the first great English critic-poet?
Answer: Sir Philip Sidney
10. Question: HYMN TO ADVERSITY is a poem by
Answer: Thomas Gray
11. Question: Who wrote the poem ’The Seven Ages’?
Answer: William Shakespeare
12. Question: who write the story “Story Teller” ?
Answer: Saki
13. Question: Jane Austen wrote during this period
Answer: Regency
14. Question: One of these men did NOT write during the Restoration period. Who?
Answer: Sir Walter Scott
15. Question: The Bronte sisters wrote during this period
Answer: Victorian
16. Question: Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw them because they are often
convenient. The majority of English literary periods are named after:1
Answer: Monarchs or political events
 17. Question: Which period of literature came first?
Answer: Restoration
18. Question: In what language did Shakespeare write?
Answer: Modern English
19. Question: Which work was published first?
Answer: Blake’s “Songs of Innocence”
20. Question: Which of the following works was written before the all-important Battle of Hastings?
Answer: Beowulf
21. Question: Who wrote first?
Answer: Howard, Earl of Surrey
22. Question: Which work was completed last?
Answer: John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”
23. Question: Which of the following poets wrote during the Victorian period but was not published until
the 20th century?
Answer: Gerard Manley Hopkins
24. Question: This work was NOT originally published in the 20th Century.
Answer: Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
25. Question: Which poet did NOT write during the 16th century?
Answer: Thomas Carew
26. Question: Historical events often influence literature. Which of the following did NOT occur during
the Restoration period?
Answer: The French Revolution
27. Question: He was not a Renaissance writer.
Answer: Sir Thomas Malory
28. Question: Which of the following literary sub-periods does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period?
Answer: Jacobean Age
29. Question: Which of the following periods of English literature came last?
Answer: The Commonwealth Period
30. Question: This work was written before the other three choices.
Answer: Bede’s “An Ecclesiastical History of the English People”
31. Question: Which of the following writers would be an appropriate subject for a class on “The
Literature of the British Empire”?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling
32. Question: World War I affected the writing of many authors. Which of the following poets would not
have been touched by that event?2
Answer: Oscar Wilde
33. Question: The period of maturation, intellectual growth and social graces during the Renaissance is
called the:
Answer: Enlightenment
34. Question: The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is known as:
Answer: Moliere
35. Question: The first Englishwoman to earn her living as a playwright was:
Answer: Aphra Behn
36. Question: The most important element of a Tragedy?
Answer: Plot
37. Question: “But God’s eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone.” In which poem do these
lines appear?
Answer: Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)
38. Question: Modern age is an age of
Answer: Conflicts and Controversies
39. Question: Who is the author of ‘A Brief History of Time’?
Answer: Stephen Hawking
40. Question: ‘O Captain! My Captain!’ is a poem written by
Answer: Walt Whitman
41. Question: What do you mean by Quatrain?
Answer: a stanza of four lines
42. Question: Find the Odd man out?
Answer: The Falcon
43. Question: “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty” is stated by
Answer: Keats
44. Question: Who is the writer of the poem ‘A Grammarian’s Funeral’?
Answer: Robert Browning
45. Question: The treatise ‘On Liberty’ was written by:
Answer: Mill
46. Question: ‘Of Human Bondage’ is written by
Answer: Somerset Maugham
47. Question: Who wrote "Shakespeare’s Later Comedies’?
Answer: A.C. Bradley
48. Question: The Rape of the Lock is a:
Answer: Parody
49. Question: ‘Tom Jones’ by Henry Fielding was first published in
Answer: the first half of 18th century
50. Question: One of the following was a Romantic poet
Answer: Shelley
51. Question: The period between 1660 to 1750 is known as:
Answer: The Restoration
52. Question: ‘Paradise Lost’ was written by
Answer: Milton
53. Question: ‘On Heroes and Hero worship is written by:
Answer: Thomas Carlyle
54. Question: Who is known as the national poet of England
Answer: William Shakespeare
55. Question: James Joyce’s famous novel
Answer: Ulysses
56. Question: Who is the writer of ‘The Two Voices’?
Answer: A. Lord Tennyson
57. Question: Who is the writer of ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’?
Answer: A. Lord Tennyson
58. Question: Who is known as an anti-romantic novelist in the Romantic Age?
Answer: Jane Austen
59. Question: Shirley, Jane Eyre, Villete were written by:
Answer: C. Bronte
60. Question: Who is the writer of ‘The Ring of the Book’?
Answer: Robert Browning
60. Question: Who is the writer of ‘The Ring of the Book’?
Answer: Robert Browning
61. Question: Edmund Spenser is a
Answer: poet
62. Question: Which one of the following writers is not woman?
Answer: Robert Browning
63. Question: Who is the author of ‘India Wins Freedom’?
Answer: Abul Kalam Azad
64. Question: Which is called the Victorian Age:
Answer: 19th Century
65. Question: “Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of
will”, is a statement by:
Answer: Coleridge
66. Question: Find the Odd man out?
Answer: All for Love: John Milton
67. Question: ‘Adela’ is a character from
Answer: A Passage to India
68. Question: The period of English literature from 1660 to the end of the century is called:
Answer: Restoration Period
69. Question: Firdausi was the poet of
Answer: Persian
70. Question: ‘Vanity Fair’ is a novel by
Answer: Thackeray
71. Question: The character of Little Neil is a creation of:
Answer: Dickens
72. Question: What did Robert Frost’s father do?
Answer: journalist
73. Question: “Justice delayed is justice denied” was stated by
Answer: Gladstone
74. Question: Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of:
Answer: Architect
75. Question: Who wrote ‘The Spanish Tragedy’?
Answer: Thomas Kyd
76. Question: Byron’s journey to Spain, Malta, Albania and Greece resulted in the production of the first
two cantos of his poem:
Answer: Childe Herald’s Pilgrimage
77. Question: Who wrote ‘Crime and Punishment’?
Answer: Dostoyevsky
78. Question: When Alfred Lord Tennyson was born?
Answer: 1809
79. Question: Who was a friend of John Milton?
Answer: Andrew Marvell
80. Question: The literary figure who had the most pronounced effect on Keats was:
Answer: Dante
81. Question: In his poetry Tennyson is:
Answer: The representative poet of Victorian Age
82. Question: Catharsis refers to the term
Answer: arouse of pity and fear
83. Question: Which book wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize
Answer: The Luminaries
84. Question: What do you mean by Archaism?
Answer: obsolete words
85. Question: Would you tell Sordelo (Browning) as a:
Answer: Dramatic Lyrics
86. Question: Wordsworth was appointed as poet Laureate in:
Answer: 1843
87. Question: Which one of the following is a comedy?
Answer: All’s Well that Ends Well
88. Question: ’Picture of Dorian Gray ’ was written by
Answer: Oscar Wilde
89. Question: From 1st January 2007, how many digits contains in ISBN (International Standard Book
Number)
Answer: 13
90. Question: Who is the author of the novel ‘The Golden Age’?
Answer: Tahmima Anam
91. Question: Famous romantic poets were
Answer: Six
92. Question: What the term Elegy refers?
Answer: a song of lamentation
93. Question: Who was more under the influence of Godwin’s philosophy of life?
Answer: Shelley
94. Question: Which University presented the Pulitzer Prize
Answer: Columbia University
95. Question: Keats’ widespread appeal is to the Reader’s interest in the supernatural.
Answer: False
96. Question: ‘Paradise Lost’ was written by
Answer: John Milton
 97. Question: Total number of sonnets written by Shakespeare
Answer: 154
98. Question: ‘Love and Friendship’ is written by
Answer: Jane Austen
99. Question: Which year Geoirey Chaucer was born?
Answer: 1340 AD
100. Question: Who is the author of the drama ‘You never can tell’?
Answer: G.B. Shaw
101. Question: Who was American poet?
Answer: Robert Frost
102. Question: Which one is not a science fiction writer
Answer: Victor Hugo
103. Question: Who wrote ‘Hard Times’ and ‘A tale of two Cities’?
Answer: Charles Dickens
104. Question: “Undo this Button” is a line from Shakespeare’s:
Answer: King Lear
105. Question: We find Subjective Elements in?
Answer: All
106. Question: Who is the writer of ‘Lorna Doone’?
Answer: Blackmore
107. Question: Browning is famous for his:
Answer: Dramatic Monologues
108. Question: Adonis is modeled on:
Answer: Bion’s lament for Adonis
109. Question: ‘Lycidas’ is written by
Answer: John Milton
110. Question: In Shakespeare tragedy, the hero is
Answer: a high ranking man
111. Question: Poetry is defined as ‘Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling’ by:
Answer: Wordsworth
112. Question: Shakespeare was born in:
Answer: 1564
113. Question: In Memoriam by Tennyson is:
Answer: an elegy
 114. Question: The Novel of Lawrence banned by the government was:
Answer: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
115. Question: “Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.”-
Who told it?
Answer: Bacon
116. Question: In which age is ‘The Puritan Period’ included?
Answer: The Renaissance
117. Question: Who Is known as the Father of English Poetry
Answer: Geoirey Chaucer
118. Question: Who wrote the book ‘Ivan Hoe’?
Answer: Sir Walter Scott
119. Question: Synecdoche refers to the term
Answer: a thing stands for whole thing
120. Question: Simile is the direct comparison between two
Answer: dissimilar things
121. Question: Who is the author of “Around the World in Eighty Days”?
Answer: Jules Vernet
122. Question: Shaw died at the age of:
Answer: 95
123. Question: The poem “Wind” is written by:
Answer: Ted Hughes
124. Question: Childe Harold was written by:
Answer: Byron
125. Question: What is an Epic?
Answer: a long narrative poem
126. Question: ‘The Metaphysical Poets’ is a critical essay by:
Answer: T. S. Eliot
127. Question: Who is the author of ‘Animal Farm’?
Answer: George Orwell
128. Question: ‘The Age of Chaucer’ ranges from-
Answer: 1340-1400
129. Question: Who is the writer of the poem ‘Nun Priest’s Tale’?
Answer: Geoirey Chaucer
130. Question: What do you mean by Heroic Couplet?
Answer: a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter
131. Question: The poet of ‘Romantic Age’ is
Answer: John Keats
132. Question: ‘April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliot’s:
Answer: The Wasteland
133. Question: What do you mean by Stanza?
Answer: a subdivision of a poem
134. Question: ‘Andrea Del Sarto’ is a poem written by:
Answer: Browning
135. Question: The shepherd in “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is
Answer: romantic
136. Question: Tradition and Individual Talent is a critical essay by:
Answer: T. S. Eliot
137. Question: Which of the following is illustrative of Ruskin’s interest in social economy?
Answer: Unto this Last
138. Question: ‘Paradise Lost’ and ‘Paradise Regained’ are written by
Answer: John Milton
139. Question: ‘The Medal’ by John Dryden is a/an
Answer: satire
140. Question: "After Apple Picking" is written by:
Answer: Robert Frost
141. Question: T. Hardy is:
Answer: A fatalist
142. Question: Who is famous for representing London in his novels.
Answer: Dickens
143. Question: Who of the following was both a poet and painter?
Answer: William Blake
144. Question: Who after the publication of a poem, awoke and found himself famous?
Answer: Lord Byron
145. Question: ‘The Lotus Eaters’ was written by
Answer: Tennyson
146. Question: Who wrote ‘The Adventures of Augie March’?
Answer: Saul Bellow
147. Question: ‘Elegy’ is
Answer: song of lamentation
148. Question: Which was the oldest period in English literature?
Answer: Anglo-Saxon
149. Question: ‘Prometheus Unbound’ is a lyrical drama by
Answer: Shelley
150. Question: Shaw’s ‘Man and Superman’ is an example of:
Answer: Comedy of Ideas
151. Question: All that glitters is not gold. You have heard often this told. This maxim is included
in Shakespeare’s
Answer: Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare’s
152. Question: Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ was published in:
Answer: 1602
153. Question: Emile Zola is a famous
Answer: French Novelist
154. Question: Which of the following is written by P. B. Shelly?
Answer: To a skylark
155. Question: is the school of literary writings is a medical theory.
Answer: Comedy of Humours
156. Question: Jane Austen is the writer of
Answer: Emma
157. Question: The University Wits were:
Answer: Playwrights
158. Question: ‘Sweet are the uses of adversity’ was stated by
Answer: Shakespeare
159. Question: Hardy is a:
Answer: Pessimist
160. Question: Eliot was influenced by:
Answer: Ezra Pound
161. Question: Who is the first great modernist of English Literature?
Answer: Robert Browning
162. Question: Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about
Answer: 2000 years ago
163. Question: Who wrote the poem ‘Solitary Reaper’?
Answer: William Wordsworth
 164. Question: The novel ‘Talisman’ is written by
Answer: Sir Walter Scott
165. Question: Lord Byron was born in:
Answer: 1788
166. Question: ‘Macbeth and Oedipus’ is by:
Answer: Earnest Jones
167. Question: Who wrote the book ‘Lord Jim: A Tale?
Answer: Joseph Conrad
168. Question: Who is called the father of English Poetry?
Answer: G. Chaucer
169. Question: In “The Gift of the Magi” Della is presented as
Answer: a sacrificing wife
170. Question: Which of the following would a Romantic Poet be most likely to use?
Answer: An "airy fairy"
171. Question: ‘Lapis Lazuli’ is:
Answer: A Poem
172. Question: ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’ is written by:
Answer: Walter Scott
173. Question: Which year William Shakespeare was born?
Answer: 1564 AD
174. Question: Who of the following is a playwright?
Answer: G.B. Shaw
175. Question: In Shakespeare’s Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and
Destiny is a remark by:
Answer: Bradley
176. Question: ‘The Alchemist’ is written by
Answer: Ben Johnson
177. Question: The central idea of ‘Ozymandias’ is that
Answer: all things, both great and small, will perish
178. Question: Who propounds "the touchstone method"
Answer: Arnold
179. Question: ‘Renaissance’ means
Answer: the revival of learning
180. Question: Who is the Writer of The White Tiger?
Answer: Arobinda Adigha
181. Question: Who is the author of ‘The Rape of Bangladesh’?
Answer: Anthony Mascarenhas
182. Question: Who is considered to be the father of English novel?
Answer: Henry Fielding
183. Question: The novel ‘The Jungle Book’ is written by
Answer: Rudyard Kipling
184. Question: “Blow, blow thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind.”-Example of?
Answer: Couplet
185. Question: Who is the writer of the poem ‘Andrea Del Sarto’?
Answer: Robert Browning
186. Question: Who is the writer of ‘Harold’?
Answer: A. Lord Tennyson
187. Question: ‘Lucy Gray’ is a poem written by:
Answer: Wordsworth
188. Question: The kind Claudius was killed by:
Answer: Hamlet
189. Question: ‘SARTOR RESARTUS’ is a prose work by:
Answer: Carlyle
190. Question: ‘Hero and Hero worship’ was written by:
Answer: Carlyle
191. Question: What is the term Utopia?
Answer: an ideal state which does not exist in real
192. Question: Henry Higgins is a character in:
Answer: Pygmalion
193. Question: William Blake’s /Song’s of ‘ counterbalance his ‘Songs of Experience’.
Answer: Innocence
194. Question: Who is contemporary of William Shakespeare?
Answer: Christopher Marlowe
195. Question: Yahoo’s according to Gulliver were:
Answer: European
196. Question: A poem of fourteen lines is called
Answer: Sonnet
197. Question: Who is the author of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’?
Answer: S. T. Coleridge
198. Question: Who is the father of English Literature?
Answer: Geoirey Chaucer
199. Question: Who accuses Arnold of "high pamphleteering"
Answer: F. R. Leavis
200. Question: A poem mourning someone’s death is called:
Answer: Elegy
201. Question: In Shakespeare “Character is not Destiny” but “character and Destiny”. Whose
comment is this?
Answer: Bradley
202. Question: What is the feature of Romantic poetry?
Answer: Imagination
203. Question: ‘I wandered Lonely as a cloud’ is an example of
Answer: Simile
204. Question: Who is called the ‘Mock heroic poet’?
Answer: Alexander Pope
205. Question: Which of the following is not a tragedy written by Shakespeare?
Answer: Merchant of Venice
206. Question: Who is the first modern novelist?
Answer: Samuel Richardson
207. Question: What is the name of Wordsworth’s long poem?
Answer: The Prelude
208. Question: The literary work ‘Kubla khan’ is
Answer: a verse by Coleridge
209. Question: Who wrote poem about Lucy?
Answer: William Wordsworth
210. Question: Who is the author of the book ’Around the World in Eighty Days’
Answer: Jules Verne
211. Question: What is Quinzaine?
Answer: a fifteen line stanza
212. Question: ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ Who is the poet of the poem?
Answer: Keats
213. Question: Which on of the following is first long poem in English?
Answer: Beowulf
 214. Question: The Romantic Age began with publication of
Answer: Lyrical Ballads
215. Question: What is an Elgy?
Answer: a lamentation
216. Question: T. Hardy is:
Answer: A fatalist
217. Question: Gunter Grass got Nobel Prize in-xviii
Answer: 1999
218. Question: Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of
age
Answer: Romantic
219. Question: "The Crown of Wild Olive", is written by:
Answer: Ruskin
220. Question: "In Memoriam" is :
Answer: an elegy
221. Question: Who is the writer of ‘Comedy of Errors’?
Answer: William Shakespeare
222. Question: “Tales from Shakespeare” is written by:
Answer: Lamb
223. Question: ‘Ode to Autumn’ was written by
Answer: Keats
224. Question: What the term Blank Verse refers-
Answer: having no rhyming end
225. Question: Who is the author of the famous book ‘The Judgment’ is
Answer: Kuldip Nayer
226. Question: What is ‘Parable’?
Answer: an allegorical story usually containing a moral lesson
227. Question: Which one is not by Shakespeare?
Answer: Knowledge is power.
228. Question: Who is the representative of the metaphysical poets?
Answer: John Donne
229. Question: ’Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter’ is a line from
Answer: Ode on a Grecian Urn
230. Question: Who is the author of ‘Sherlock Holmes’?
Answer: Sir Arthur Canon Doyle
231. Question: ‘The Rainbow’ is a novel written by:
Answer: D.H. Lawrence
232. Question: What do you mean by Phonetics?
Answer: study of speech sounds
233. Question: Who is the author of ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’?
Answer: Ernest Hemingway
234. Question: In Poem Daiodils ‘Sprightly Dance’ means
Answer: lively dance
235. Question: Find the Odd man out?
Answer: Riders to the Sea : John Millington Synge
236. Question: On which novel, the Sherlock Holmes character was first appeared
Answer: A Study in Scarlet
237. Question: The prose of the Romantic period had a tendency to:
Answer: Allow the writer to draw on his own personality
238. Question: ‘I count religion but a childish toy’ is a line from Marlowe’s play:
Answer: The Jew of Malta
239. Question: What is Robert Frost famous Journal?
Answer: The Atlantic Monthly
240. Question: Who is the author of “The Origin of Species”?
Answer: Charles Darwin
241. Question: Who is the author of ‘Man and Superman’?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
242. Question: Adam Bede is a:
Answer: Novel
243. Question: Dickens’ first novel which focused on the specific social ills was:
Answer: Oliver Twist
244. Question: “The Conduct of the Allies’ is a famous work of:
Answer: Jonathan Swift
245. Question: In which city the play of Shakespeare’ Romeo and Juliet’ is set in
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245. Answer: Verona
246. Question: Who is the writer of The Restoration Period?
Answer: John Dryden
 247. Question: The line ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ occurs in which one of Keats’ following
poems:
Answer: Ode to Grecian Urn
248. Question: The beginning of the renaissance may be traced to the city
Answer: Florence
249. Question: The Essays of Elia was first published in book form in
Answer: 1823
250. Question: ‘Hearing’ a colour or ‘Seeing’ a smell is an example of:
Answer: Synaesthesia
251. Question: “A long poem is a combination of short poems.” Who has held the above opinion?
Answer: Wordsworth
252. Question: Poet Alexander Pope’s famous work
Answer: The Rape of Lock
253. Question: Who is the writer of ‘Vision of Sin’?
Answer: A. Lord Tennyson
254. Question: Who is an American author?
Answer: All
255. Question: Macbeth is a
Answer: play
256. Question: ‘Written in March’ is a poem composed by
Answer: William Wordsworth
257. Question: The statue of ‘Ozymandias’ is
Answer: in a desert
258. Question: A poem which consists of fourteen line is called:
Answer: A Sonnet
259. Question: ‘Exiles’ is a
Answer: Play
260. Question: The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnms are:
Answer: Friendship and benevolence
261. Question: Eliot worked for Faber and Faber as a/an:
Answer: Editor
262. Question: James Joyce’s narrative technique is known as
Answer: stream of consciousness
263. Question: Who is the writer of The Restoration Period?
Answer: Aphra Ben
264. Question: Who have written the book ’The Godfather’
Answer: Mario Puzo
265. Question: George Bernard Shaw is
Answer: a playwright
266. Question: Who represents Pride in Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’:
Answer: None of these
267. Question: ‘Satanic Verses’ is written by
Answer: Salman Rushdie
268. Question: The ‘Merchant of Venice’ Written by Shakespeare is
Answer: a drama
269. Question: ‘Hamlet and Oedipus’ was written by:
Answer: Earnest Jones
270. Question: defines a play as a just and lively image of human nature.
Answer: Dryden
271. Question: Hardy’s Nature is:
Answer: Indifferent
272. Question: Who is the writer of The Caroline Period?
Answer: Robert Herrick
273. Question: What do you mean by Hyperbole?
Answer: an overstatement about something
274. Question: Yeats was
Answer: Both
275. Question: Hellenism of Keats connotes:
Answer: his love of Greek culture and art
276. Question: Which poet emphasized on rustic language in Poetry?
Answer: William Wordsworth
277. Question: Which poem of Tennyson was particularly like by Queen Victoria?
Answer: In Memoriam
278. Question: The literary work of ‘Kubla Khan’ is
Answer: a verse by Coleridge
279. Question: Hyperion is a/an poem
Answer: Epic
280. Question: has a super abundant wealth of words and superfluous ornaments
Answer: Hyperbole
281. Question: ‘The quality of Mercy is not strained’ the line is taken from
Answer: Merchant of Venice
282. Question: The poem ‘The Patriot’ is written by
Answer: Robert Browning
283. Question: ‘The Revolt of Islam’ was written by:
Answer: Shelley
284. Question: The ‘Poet Laureate’ is
Answer: the Court Port England
285. Question: “To be, or not to be, that is the question”-Where do you find this quotation?
Answer: Hamlet
286. Question: Utopia is an ideal state written by
Answer: Thomas More
287. Question: “not of an age, but for all time”-was told about Shakespeare by whom?
Answer: Ben Johnson
288. Question: What is a plot?
Answer: arrangement of the incidents
289. Question: Who is called the Bird of Avon?
Answer: William Shakespeare
290. Question: What is anthology?
Answer: collection of poems
291. Question: What the term Renaissance refers?
Answer: revival or rebirth
292. Question: Jane Austen’s other writings are:
Answer: All of these
293. Question: The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is:
Answer: Titus Andronicus
294. Question: Who is the hero of Paradise Regained
Answer: Christ
295. Question: Wordsworth is a poet.
Answer: romantic
296. Question: Who said ‘Cowards die many times before their death’?
Answer: Shakespeare
297. Question: Which one of the following poets was appointed Poet Laureate in the year 1813?
Answer: Wordsworth
298. Question: Whose real name was Mary Anne Evans?
Answer: George Eliot
299. Question: A person who writes about his own life writes –
Answer: an autobiography
300. Question: Who wrote the fantasy novel ’The Lord of the Rings’
Answer: J. R. R. Tolkien
301. Question: What is Epistolary Novel?
Answer: a novel of correspondence among the characters
302. Question: The Professor was the first novel by:
Answer: Charlotte Bronte
303. Question: ‘The Excursion’ was written by:
Answer: Wordsworth
304. Question: Who wrote ‘Kubla Khan’?
Answer: Coleridge
305. Question: Famous Irish poet and dramatist is
Answer: W.B. Yeats
306. Question: ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is a play written by:
Answer: T.S. Eliot
307. Question: Who is the writer of The Augustan Period?
Answer: Samuel Richardson
308. Question: The Poet Laureate is
Answer: the court poet of England
309. Question: How many chapters are in the Qur’an
Answer: 114
310. Question: Who wrote ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’?
Answer: John Keats
311. Question: The age tended to favour the taste and search for truth in art:
Answer: Romantic
312. Question: What do you mean by Beast Fable?
Answer: a fictional story of animal characters
313. Question: What do you mean by Diction?
Answer: choice of words for writing
314. Question: Romanticism is mainly connected with
Answer: excitement and sensation
315. Question: Which one is the world’s longest-running play
Answer: The Mousetrap
316. Question: ‘Essays of Elia’ was written by
Answer: Charles Lamb
317. Question: Negative Capability to Keats, means
Answer: To empathize
318. Question: In which of the following Genres did Victorian Literature achieve its greatest
success:
Answer: The Novel
319. Question: Who is the author of ‘Heaven and Earth’?
Answer: Lord Byron
320. Question: ‘All good poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ who made this
statement?
Answer: Wordsworth
321. Question: Novel which is not written by D. H Lawrence.
Answer: Ullysses
322. Question: Who served as an Irish senator for two terms?
Answer: Yeats
323. Question: Tennyson was:
Answer: a Victorian
324. Question: What do you mean by Burlesque?
Answer: a satiric caricature of the characters
325. Question: Tennyson wrote
Answer: The Lotus Eaters
326. Question: Maggie is the central character in George Eliot’s:
Answer: The Mill on the Floss
327. Question: On liberty was written by:
Answer: Mill
328. Question: "For art’s sake alone I would not face the toil of writing a single sentence". Who
said it
Answer: G. B. Shaw
329. Question: ‘kubla khan’ is a poem which reflects a strain in Choleridge’s poetry.
Answer: Intellectual
330. Question: “David Copperfield” was written by:
Answer: Dickens
331. Question: Paradise Lost is
332. Answer: an epic
333. Question: Which of the following is a ‘comedy’ written by Shakespeare?

Answer: As You Like It

334. Question: Keats was born in

Answer: 1795

335. Question: Who is the greatest modern English dramatist?

Answer: George Bernard Shaw

336. Question: The Charge of the Light Brigade” (Tennyson) commemorates:

Answer: The Crimean War

337. Question: Romanticism expressed a restlessness of

Answer: Soul

338. Question: ‘The Revolt of Islam’ was written by:

Answer: Shelley

339. Question: Who was a blind poet

Answer: Homer

340. Question: Who is the writer of The Elizabethan Period?

Answer: Sir Thomas Wyatt

341. Question: Who is the author of ‘The Jungle Book’?

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

342. Question: The correct date of French Revolution:

Answer: 1789

343. Question: Representative Poet of Victorian Age

Answer: Alfred Tennyson

344. Question: ‘Animal Farm’ is written by?

Answer: George Orwell

345. Question: Who gave the aesthetic theory of Art For Arts’ Sake:

Answer: Oscar Wilde

Answer: 1576

347. Question: The sea battle of actium takes place in the play

Answer: Antony and Cleopatra

348. Question: Shakespeare was died?

Answer: 1616

349. Question: The Crown of Wild Olive is written by:

Answer: Ruskin

350. Question: ‘The importance of Being Earnest’ was written by:

Answer: Oscar Wilde

351. Question: Who is the villain in “Hamlet”?

Answer: Claudius

352. Question: Who is the most satirist in English Literature?

Answer: Jonathon swift

353. Question: Who is the author of ‘Heaven and Earth’?

Answer: Lord Byron

354. Question: The period from 1649-1660 is known as

Answer: Commonwealth period

355. Question: “Mortality is a private and costly luxury” is said by

Answer: Henry Adams

356. Question: For whom it is said: “sensuousness is a paramount bias of his genius”:

Answer: Keats

357. Question: Keats is prominently a man of:

Answer: Sensations

358. Question: With which theatre in London Shakespeare was associated with

Answer: The Globe

359. Question: “Fire and Ice” is written by:

Answer: Frost
360. Question: Who is known for his theory of psychoanalysis?

Answer: Sigmund Freud

361. Question: ‘O Lady! We receive but what we give’-has been quoted from

Answer: Dejection: An Ode

362. Question: consists of nine eight five foot iambic lines followed by an iambic line of six
fed with rhyme scheme ab ab bc bcc:

Answer: Spenserian Stanza

363. Question: P. B. Shelly wrote his elegy named ‘Adonais’ mourning over whose death.

Answer: John Keats

364. Question: Who is called the ‘Poet of Beauty’?

Answer: John Keats

365. Question: Who wrote ‘Ode to a Nightingale’?

Answer: John Keats

366. Question: Find the Odd one.

Answer: Toni Morrison : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

367. Question: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is written by?

Answer: Jane Austen

368. Question: The poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ is composed by?

Answer: T.S. Eliot

369. Question: Who has defined tragedy as “an imitation of an action”?

Answer: Aristotle

370. Question: “A passage to India” is written by:

Answer: Forster

371. Question: Who is well known for his translation of ‘Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam’ into
English?

Answer: Edward Fitzgerald

372. Question: “Tear Idle Tears” is a poem by:

Answer: Tennyson

373. Question: What do you mean by Lampoon?

374. Question: Who became the poet Laureate of England and Ireland during the reign of
Queen Victoria?

Answer: Alfred Tennyson

375. Question: “We die As hours do, and dry Away Like to the summer’s rain;” is stated
by

Answer: John keats

376. Question: Who is the composer of the ‘Lycidas’?

Answer: John Milton

377. Question: The Prelude was written in”

Answer: 1805

378. Question: Who of the following was both a poet and painter?

Answer: William Blake

379. Question: ‘The Faerie Queene’ is an

Answer: Epic

380. Question: ‘A little learning is a dangerous thing’ is a quotation from An Essay on

Answer: Alexander Pope

381. Question: Oedipus is written by the dramatist

Answer: Sophocles

382. Question: What type of book ‘The Woman’ is

Answer: Novel

383. Question: ‘Apologie for Poetrie’ is written by:

Answer: Philip Sidney

384. Question: Philip Waken, Aunt Pallet and Tom Tulliver are the characters of G. Eliot’s
novel:

Answer: The Mill on the Floss

385. Question: In ’ I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud’ Wordsworth compares the daffodils

Answer: the stars of the milky way

Answer: Short-lived human life

387. Question: Who is the writer of The Augustan Period?

Answer: Alexander Pope

388. Question: Byron’s Poetry is ambiguous and has a vividness of phrasing which
sometimes reaches the point of abstraction:

Answer: True

389. Question: Besides the French Revolution the effect on Romantic Revolution:

Answer: Industrial Revolution

390. Question: Poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. It takes it origin from
emotions recollected in tranquility. Who has given the description of the poetry?1

Answer: Wordsworth

391. Question: One of the following authors, one is French. Who is he?

Answer: Alexander Dumas

392. Question: Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate in:

Answer: 1850

393. Question: Who is the first person to receive nobel prize in literature

Answer: Sully Prudhomme

394. Question: Prologue refers

Answer: preface to writing

395. Question: Shakespeare was famous for all but one of the following

Answer: Tragi-Drama

396. Question: When did Frost died?

Answer: 1963

397. Question: A figure of speech which contains an exaggeration for emphasis is called:

Answer: Hyperbole

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

Answer: Atheist
399. Question: Which word seems out of place?

Answer: cauliflower

400. Question: Who is the author of the drama,’You never can tell’?

Answer: George Bernard Shaw

401. Question: Which one is the world’s longest novel

Answer: Remembrance of Things Past

402. Question: ’ Fair seed time had my soul’ is from

Answer: None of these

403. Question: is the animating force in the work of C. Bronte

Answer: Idealism

404. Question: What do you mean by Panegyric or Eulogy?

Answer: a writing of praising distinguished persons

405. Question: Who is considered to be the father of English prose?

Answer: Francis Bacon

406. Question: A dominant theme in Hardy’s novels is:

Answer: fatalism

407. Question: Who is the

Answer: Robert Browning

409. Question: A Machiavellian character is a

Answer: cunning person

410. Question: ‘How can we know the dancer from the dance’? This line written by Yeats
is taken from:

Answer: Among School Children

411. Question: ‘Importance of Being Earnest’ was written by:

Answer: Oscar Wilde

412. Question: Who is the author of ‘The Old Man and the Sea’?

Answer: E. Hemingway

413. Question: ‘They in never-ending ’

414. Question: Byron’s first published collection was called:

Answer: Hours of Idleness

415. Question: What do you mean Ode?

Answer: a lyric poem