1. Who is not an Irish writer?
a) Oscar Wilde
b) James Joyce
c) Jonathan Swift
d) D.W. Lawrence
Answer: D.W. Lawrence
2. "Better to reign in Hell, than service in Heaven." -Who wrote this?
a) Geoffrey Chaucer
b) Christopher Marlowe
c) John Milton
d) P. B Shelley
Answer: John Milton
3. Who is not the Modern poet ?
a) W.B. Yeats
b) W.H. Auden
c) John Keats
d) T. S. Eliot
Answer: John Keats
4. Who is the author of the novel "The God of Small Things"?
a) Thomas Hardy
b) Jhumpa Lahiri
c) R.K. Narayan
d) Arundhati Roy
Answer: Arundhati Roy
5. 'Moby Dick', a novel, was written by.......
a) Herman Melville
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Mark Twain
d) William Faulkner
Answer: Herman Melville
6. "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?"-who wrote this ?
a) William Blake
b) S.T Coleridge
c) Lord Byron
d) P.B Shelley
Answer: P.B Shelley
7. O' Henry was from............
a) Canada
b) America
c) England
d) Ireland
Answer: America
8. Where is the setting of the play 'Hamlet'?
a) England
b) Italy
c) France
d) Denmark
Answer: Denmark
9. What kind of play is 'Julius Caesar'?
a) romantic
b) anti-romantic
c) comedy
d) historical
Answer: historical
10. Who is the author of 'Jane Eyre's?
a) Charlotte Brontë
b) Emily Brontë
c) Jane Austen
d) Mary Shelley
Answer: Charlotte Brontë
11. Which of the following novels is not written by an English writer?
a) A Passage of India
b) Sons and lovers
c) One hundred Years of Solitude
d) Pride and Prejudice
Answer: One hundred Years of Solitude
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12. Who wrote the play 'The Way of the World'?
a) William Shakespeare
b) William Congreve
c) Ben Jonson
d) Oscar Wilde
Answer: William Congreve
13. Who is the poet of the poem 'Ozymandias'?
a) P.B. Shelley
b) William Wordsworth
c) S.T Coleridge
d) John Keats
Answer: P.B. Shelley
14. The most famous romantic poet of English literature is-
a) John Dryden
b) Alexander Pope
c) William Wordsworth
d) T.S Eliot
Answer: William Wordsworth
15. _ was both a poet and a painter.
a) John Keats
b) Spenser
c) William Blake
d) John Donne
Answer: William Blake
16. "A Passage to India" is written by:
a) E.M. Forster
b) Nirad C. Chaudhuri
c) Rudyard Kipling
d) Walt Whitman
Answer: E.M. Forster
17. Who wrote Dr. Zivago?
a) Maxim Gorky
b) Boris Pasternak
c) Fyodor Dostoevsky
d) Leo Tolstoy
Answer: Boris Pasternak
18. "For God's sake, hold your tongue and let me love" occurs in a novel by:
a) Jane Austen
b) Syed Waliullah
c) Somerset Maugham
d) Rabindranath Tagore
Answer: Rabindranath Tagore
19. "September on the Jessore Road" is written by:
a) Madhusudan Dutt
b) Allen Ginsberg
c) Kaiser Haq
d) Vikram Seth
Answer: Allen Ginsberg
20. 'Was this the face that lanch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?' Who speaks the famous lines?
a) Caesar
b) Antony
c) Faustus
d) Romeo
Answer: Faustus
