1. Who is known as the 'Father of English Poetry'?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Geoffrey Chaucer
c) John Milton
d) Christopher Marlowe
Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer
2. What is the period from 1558 to 1603 in English literature called?
a) The Renaissance Period
b) The Elizabethan Period
c) The Jacobean Period
d) The Romantic Period
Answer: The Elizabethan Period
3. Who is the author of the famous tragedy 'Hamlet'?
a) Christopher Marlowe
b) William Shakespeare
c) Ben Jonson
d) John Webster
Answer: William Shakespeare
4. Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' is a —
a) Tragedy
b) Comedy
c) History play
d) Problem play
Answer: Problem play
5. Who wrote the epic 'Paradise Lost'?
a) John Milton
b) John Keats
c) Percy Bysshe Shelley
d) William Wordsworth
Answer: John Milton
6. Who is considered the 'Father of English Prose'?
a) Francis Bacon
b) John Wycliffe
c) William Tyndale
d) King Alfred
Answer: John Wycliffe
7. "To be or not to be, that is the question" — This famous soliloquy is from which play?
a) Macbeth
b) Othello
c) Hamlet
d) King Lear
Answer: Hamlet
8. Who is known as the 'Poet of Nature' in English literature?
a) John Keats
b) Lord Byron
c) William Wordsworth
d) P. B. Shelley
Answer: William Wordsworth
9. Who wrote the famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
a) Charlotte Bronte
b) Jane Austen
c) George Eliot
d) Virginia Woolf
Answer: Jane Austen
10. The romantic age in English literature began with the publication of —
a) Lyrical Ballads
b) Preface to Shakespeare
c) Ode to the West Wind
d) Adonais
Answer: Lyrical Ballads
11. Who is known as the poet of 'Sensuousness'?
a) Lord Byron
b) John Keats
c) P. B. Shelley
d) William Wordsworth
Answer: John Keats
12. Who wrote the poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'?
a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
b) William Wordsworth
c) Robert Southey
d) Lord Tennyson
Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
13. Who is the author of 'David Copperfield'?
a) Charles Dickens
b) Thomas Hardy
c) George Bernard Shaw
d) Leo Tolstoy
Answer: Charles Dickens
14. Who wrote the famous dystopian novel '1984'?
a) Aldous Huxley
b) George Orwell
c) H. G. Wells
d) Virginia Woolf
Answer: George Orwell
15. Who is the only laureate to win both the Nobel Prize in Literature and an Oscar?
a) George Bernard Shaw
b) T. S. Eliot
c) Ernest Hemingway
d) W. B. Yeats
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
16. What is the noun form of the word 'Brief'?
a) Briefly
b) Brevity
c) Briefness
d) Briefing
Answer: Brevity
17. Identify the correct plural form of 'Ox'.
a) Oxes
b) Oxen
c) Oxis
d) 选项ঘ) Oxens
Answer: Oxen
18. Which one is a collective noun?
a) Team
b) Player
c) Water
d) Kindness
Answer: Team
19. What kind of noun is 'Honesty'?
a) Proper Noun
b) Common Noun
c) Material Noun
d) Abstract Noun
Answer: Abstract Noun
20. Fill in the blank: "He is ______ M.A."
a) a
b) an
c) the
d) 选项ঘ) no article
Answer: an
21. Choose the correct sentence.
a) He is senior than me.
b) He is senior to me.
c) He is more senior than me.
d) He is senior from me.
Answer: He is senior to me.
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22. What is the superlative degree of 'Bad'?
a) Badder
b) Baddest
c) Worse
d) Worst
Answer: Worst
23. Change the voice: "Who is calling me?"
a) By whom am I called?
b) By whom am I being called?
c) Who am I being called by?
d) By whom was I being called?
Answer: By whom am I being called?
24. What is the passive form of "Do it"?
a) Let it be done.
b) Let it do.
c) It should be done.
d) Let it be do.
Answer: Let it be done.
25. Choose the correct antonym for 'Optimistic'.
a) Hopeful
b) Pessimistic
c) Cheerful
d) Positive
Answer: Pessimistic
26. What is the synonym of 'Cordial'?
a) Hostile
b) Friendly
c) Cold
d) Rude
Answer: Friendly
27. Identify the correct spelling.
a) Lieutenant
b) Lieutenent
c) Leutenant
d) Luitenant
Answer: Lieutenant
28. Identify the correct spelling.
a) Committee
b) Commitee
c) Comittee
d) Committe
Answer: Committee
29. What is the meaning of the idiom 'A bed of roses'?
a) A painful life
b) A life of text and ease
c) A bed full of flowers
d) An impossible dream
Answer: A life of text and ease
30. What does the idiom 'Burning question' mean?
a) An unimportant matter
b) A matter of hot debate
c) A question about fire
d) A solved problem
Answer: A matter of hot debate
31. Complete the sentence: "If it rains, we ______ stay at home."
a) will
b) would
c) would have
d) had
Answer: will
32. Choose the correct preposition: "He died ______ overeating."
a) of
b) by
c) from
d) for
Answer: from
33. Fill in the blank: "The headmaster and secretary ______ present at the meeting."
a) was
b) were
c) are
d) have
Answer: was
34. "Black Sheep" means —
a) A black coloured sheep
b) A disgraceful person
c) A lucky person
d) 选项ঘ) An honest man
Answer: A disgraceful person
35. What is the past participle form of the verb 'Fly'?
a) Flew
b) Flown
c) Flyed
d) Flying
Answer: Flown
36. Which one is a reflexive pronoun?
a) Himself
b) He
c) Who
d) Each
Answer: Himself
37. What part of speech is the word 'Beautifully'?
a) Noun
b) Adjective
c) Adverb
d) Verb
Answer: Adverb
38. Identify the correct sentence.
a) Each of the boys have come.
b) Each of the boys has come.
c) Each of the boy has come.
d) Each of the boys were come.
Answer: Each of the boys has come.
39. What is the meaning of 'Call it a day'?
a) Start a new day
b) Stop working on something
c) Invite someone
d) Good day
Answer: Stop working on something
40. Who wrote the romantic poem 'Ode to the West Wind'?
a) John Keats
b) P. B. Shelley
c) William Wordsworth
d) Lord Byron
Answer: P. B. Shelley
