1. Who wrote Paradise Lost?
a)
William Blake
b)
Geoffrey Chaucer
c)
John Milton
d)
Alexander Pope
Answer:
John Milton
2. Hamlet is a tragedy written by—
a)
Christopher Marlowe
b)
William Shakespeare
c)
Ben Jonson
d)
Thomas Kyd
Answer:
William Shakespeare
3. The Old English epic Beowulf deals with—
a)
Romantic love
b)
Heroic battles
c)
Religious sermons
d)
Political satire
Answer:
Heroic battles
4. Who is known as the “Father of English Poetry”?
a)
William Wordsworth
b)
Geoffrey Chaucer
c)
John Donne
d)
Edmund Spenser
Answer:
Geoffrey Chaucer
5. The Romantic Age in English literature began in—
a)
1660
b)
1700
c)
1798
d)
1832
Answer:
1798
6. Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?
a)
Charlotte Brontë
b)
Jane Austen
c)
George Eliot
d)
Virginia Woolf
Answer:
Jane Austen
7. The Waste Land was written by—
a)
T.S. Eliot
b)
W.B. Yeats
c)
Ezra Pound
d)
Dylan Thomas
Answer:
T.S. Eliot
8. “To be, or not to be” is from—
a)
Macbeth
b)
Othello
c)
Hamlet
d)
King Lear
Answer:
Hamlet
9. Who wrote Dr. Faustus?
a)
Ben Jonson
b)
Christopher Marlowe
c)
Shakespeare
d)
John Webster
Answer:
Christopher Marlowe
10. The Victorian Age is named after—
a)
Queen Elizabeth
b)
Queen Anne
c)
Queen Victoria
d)
King George
Answer:
Queen Victoria
11. Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?
a)
Daniel Defoe
b)
Jonathan Swift
c)
Henry Fielding
d)
Samuel Richardson
Answer:
Jonathan Swift
12. Ode to a Nightingale was written by—
a)
Percy Shelley
b)
John Keats
c)
William Blake
d)
Byron
Answer:
John Keats
13. Who is the author of Macbeth?
a)
Shakespeare
b)
Milton
c)
Marlowe
d)
Spenser
Answer:
Shakespeare
14. The Renaissance began in—
a)
France
b)
Italy
c)
England
d)
Germany
Answer:
Italy
15. Who wrote Jane Eyre?
a)
Emily Brontë
b)
Charlotte Brontë
c)
Jane Austen
d)
George Eliot
Answer:
Charlotte Brontë
16. Animal Farm was written by—
a)
George Orwell
b)
Aldous Huxley
c)
Dickens
d)
Hardy
Answer:
George Orwell
17. Who wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
a)
Wordsworth
b)
Coleridge
c)
Keats
d)
Byron
Answer:
Coleridge
18. “Stream of consciousness” technique is associated with— a) Charles Dickens
a)
Charles Dickens
b)
Virginia Woolf
c)
Chaucer
d)
Pope
Answer:
Virginia Woolf
19. Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?
a)
Chaucer
b)
Spenser
c)
Shakespeare
d)
Milton
Answer:
Chaucer
20. The Metaphysical poets include—
a)
Wordsworth
b)
John Donne
c)
Keats
d)
Shelley
Answer:
John Donne
21. Who wrote Robinson Crusoe?
a)
Daniel Defoe
b)
Swift
c)
Pope
d)
Fielding
Answer:
Daniel Defoe
22. The author of Wuthering Heights is—
a)
Charlotte Brontë
b)
Emily Brontë
c)
Austen
d)
Eliot
Answer:
Emily Brontë
23. Doctor Faustus belongs to the—
a)
Victorian Age
b)
Renaissance
c)
Romantic Age
d)
Modern Age
Answer:
Renaissance
24. Who wrote David Copperfield?
a)
Dickens
b)
Hardy
c)
Eliot
d)
Austen
Answer:
Dickens
25. The Modern Age in English literature began around—
a)
1901
b)
1890
c)
1850
d)
1920
Answer:
1901
26. Who wrote The Tempest?
a)
Shakespeare
b)
Marlowe
c)
Jonson
d)
Webster
Answer:
Shakespeare
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27. “Ozymandias” was written by—
a)
Byron
b)
Shelley
c)
Keats
d)
Blake
Answer:
Shelley
28. Who wrote The Merchant of Venice?
a)
Shakespeare
b)
Milton
c)
Pope
d)
Chaucer
Answer:
Shakespeare
29. The novel 1984 was written by—
a)
Orwell
b)
Huxley
c)
Woolf
d)
Lawrence
Answer:
Orwell
30. Who is known as the Lake Poet?
a)
Wordsworth
b)
Pope
c)
Dryden
d)
Johnson
Answer:
Wordsworth
31. Who wrote The Prelude?
a)
Wordsworth
b)
Coleridge
c)
Keats
d)
Shelley
Answer:
Wordsworth
32. The Elizabethan Age is named after—
a)
Queen Elizabeth I
b)
Elizabeth II
c)
Victoria
d)
Mary
Answer:
Queen Elizabeth I
33. Who wrote A Tale of Two Cities?
a)
Dickens
b)
Hardy
c)
Eliot
d)
Austen
Answer:
Dickens
34. Who wrote The Faerie Queene?
a)
Spenser
b)
Milton
c)
Chaucer
d)
Donne
Answer:
Spenser
35. Waiting for Godot was written by—
a)
Samuel Beckett
b)
Eliot
c)
Shaw
d)
Wilde
Answer:
Samuel Beckett
36. Who wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray?
a)
Oscar Wilde
b)
Shaw
c)
Lawrence
d)
Huxley
Answer:
Oscar Wilde
37. The Hero of Paradise Lost is often considered—
a)
Adam
b)
Satan
c)
Eve
d)
God
Answer:
Satan
38. Who wrote Tess of the d’Urbervilles?
a)
Hardy
b)
Dickens
c)
Eliot
d)
Austen
Answer:
Hardy
39. Lyrical Ballads was written by—
a)
Wordsworth & Coleridge
b)
Keats & Shelley
c)
Pope & Dryden
d)
Milton & Blake
Answer:
Wordsworth & Coleridge
40. Who wrote Arms and the Man?
a)
G.B. Shaw
b)
Wilde
c)
Beckett
d)
Eliot
Answer:
G.B. Shaw
41. Who wrote Sons and Lovers?
a)
D.H. Lawrence
b)
Hardy
c)
Eliot
d)
Woolf
Answer:
D.H. Lawrence
42. Who wrote The Old Man and the Sea?
a)
Faulkner
b)
Ernest Hemingway
c)
Fitzgerald
d)
Steinbeck
Answer:
Ernest Hemingway
43. Who wrote The Waste Land?
a)
Yeats
b)
Pound
c)
Auden
d)
T.S. Eliot
Answer:
T.S. Eliot
44. Who wrote Heart of Darkness?
a)
Joseph Conrad
b)
Hardy
c)
Dickens
d)
Eliot
Answer:
Joseph Conrad
45. Who wrote Ulysses?
a)
Eliot
b)
Woolf
c)
James Joyce
d)
Lawrence
Answer:
James Joyce
46. Who wrote The Duchess of Malfi?
a)
Marlowe
b)
John Webster
c)
Jonson
d)
Shakespeare
Answer:
John Webster
47. Who wrote Great Expectations?
a)
Dickens
b)
Hardy
c)
Eliot
d)
Austen
Answer:
Dickens
48. Who wrote The Second Coming?
a)
Eliot
b)
W.B. Yeats
c)
Pound
d)
Auden
Answer:
W.B. Yeats
49. Who wrote Othello?
a)
Shakespeare
b)
Marlowe
c)
Jonson
d)
Milton
Answer:
Shakespeare
50. Who wrote The Importance of Being Earnest?
a)
Oscar Wilde
b)
Shaw
c)
Beckett
d)
Eliot
Answer:
Oscar Wilde