Reading Mode - Model Test- 09 (English Literature)

1. In literature, a Machiavellian character is someone who is-

a) a wise person

b) a cunning person

c) a romantic person

d) an eithical person

Answer: a cunning person

2. Who wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?

a) Charles Dickens

b) George Moore

c) Harriet Beecher Stowe

d) Nathaniel Hawthorne

Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe

3. "Clarissa" is the protagonist of Virginia Wolf's novel-

a) The Voyage Out

b) Orlando

c) To the Lighthouse

d) Mrs. Dalloway

Answer: Mrs. Dalloway

4. "Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." -This is taken from the poem written by-

a) Lord Byron

b) Alfred Tennyson

c) Alexander Pope

d) Matthew Arnold

Answer: Alfred Tennyson

5. 'The Hairy Ape' is a drama authored by-

a) Samuel Beckett

b) Henry Livings

c) Irwin Shaw

d) Eugene O'Neill

Answer: Eugene O'Neill

6. "....that best portion of a good man;s life. His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." -This line was written by.

a) Francis Bacon

b) T. S. Eliot

c) William Wordsworth

d) John Keats

Answer: William Wordsworth

7. Who penned "To Kill a Mockingbird"?

a) Ernest Hemingway

b) Samuel Butler

c) Harper Lee

d) Edgar Allan Poe

Answer: Harper Lee

8. "Lady Chatterley's Lover" was written by the author of-

a) Ulysses

b) A Passage to England

c) The Rainbow

d) The Scarlet Letter

Answer: The Rainbow

9. Who composed the poem "To His Coy Mistress"?

a) John Donne

b) George Herbert

c) Andrew Marvell

d) Sir Philip Sidney

Answer: Andrew Marvell

10. "Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea?. -These lines have been quoted from the poem-

a) Fern Hill

b) The Flower

c) After the Funeral

d) The Waste Land

Answer: Fern Hill

11. Who wrote the gothic horror novel "Frankenstein"?

a) Claire Clairmont

b) Mary Ann Lamb

c) Mary Wollstonecraft

d) Mary Wollstonecraft

Answer: Mary Wollstonecraft

12. 'Jane Eyre: An Autobiography' was published by the author under the pseudonym-

a) Actor Bell

b) Currer Bell

c) Ellis Bell

d) Arthur Bell

Answer: Currer Bell

13. Of the following, who is not an Irish writer?

a) James Joyce

b) Oscar Wilde

c) thomas Hardy

d) Jonathan Swift

Answer: thomas Hardy

14. "Here's the smell of blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." -This is a lamentation of-

a) Macbeth

b) Duncan

c) Three Witches

d) Lady Macbeth

Answer: Lady Macbeth

15. A famous short story, "The Necklace" was written by-

a) Guy de Maupassant

b) Somerset Maugham

c) George Orwell

d) Gustave Flaubert

Answer: Guy de Maupassant

Model Test- 09 (English Literature)