1. Waiting for Godot was written by—
a)
T. S. Eliot
b)
Harold Pinter
c)
W. B. Yeats
d)
Samuel Beckett
Answer:
Samuel Beckett
2. The Victorian Age began in—
a)
1832
b)
1837
c)
1848
d)
1857
Answer:
1837
3. Who is the author of To the Lighthouse?
a)
Virginia Woolf
b)
George Eliot
c)
E. M. Forster
d)
Jane Austen
Answer:
Virginia Woolf
4. Who is called the father of English poetry?
a)
William Wordsworth
b)
William Shakespeare
c)
Geoffrey Chaucer
d)
John Milton
Answer:
Geoffrey Chaucer
5. The Romantic Age in English literature began in—
a)
1732
b)
1790
c)
1745
d)
1798
Answer:
1798
6. Who wrote The Tempest?
a)
George Herbert
b)
Samuel Johnson
c)
John Webster
d)
William Shakespeare
Answer:
William Shakespeare
7. “April is the cruellest month…” — This line is taken from:
a)
Ode to the West Wind
b)
The Second Coming
c)
Tintern Abbey
d)
The Waste Land
Answer:
The Waste Land
8. Tintern Abbey is written by-
a)
William Wordsworth
b)
Robert Browning
c)
John Milton
d)
John Webster
Answer:
William Wordsworth
9. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” — The lines are from:
a)
Ode to a Nightingale
b)
Ode on Melancholy
c)
Ode on a Grecian Urn
d)
To Autumn
Answer:
Ode on a Grecian Urn
10. “The Child is father of the Man;” — This line occurs in:
a)
Tintern Abbey
b)
My Heart Leaps Up
c)
Intimations of Immortality
d)
The Prelude
Answer:
My Heart Leaps Up
11. “Frailty, thy name is woman!” — This line is spoken by:
a)
Othello
b)
King Lear
c)
Hamlet
d)
Macbeth
Answer:
Hamlet
12. Who is the heroine of Pride and Prejudice?
a)
Jane Eyre
b)
Emma Woodhouse
c)
Elizabeth Bennet
d)
Catherine Earnshaw
Answer:
Elizabeth Bennet
13. The subtitle of Frankenstein is:
a)
A Tale of Terror
b)
The Gothic Horror
c)
The Modern Prometheus
d)
The Scientific Monster
Answer:
The Modern Prometheus
14. Who wrote A Passage to India?
a)
D. H. Lawrence
b)
Graham Greene
c)
Henry James
d)
E. M. Forster
Answer:
E. M. Forster
15. Waiting for Godot belongs to which dramatic movement?
a)
Realism
b)
Theatre of the Absurd
c)
Symbolism
d)
Expressionism
Answer:
Theatre of the Absurd
16. Who killed King Duncan?
a)
Lady Macbeth
b)
Banquo
c)
Macbeth
d)
Malcolm
Answer:
Macbeth
17. Pride and Prejudice is written by—
a)
Emily Brontë
b)
George Eliot
c)
Jane Austen
d)
Charlotte Brontë
Answer:
Jane Austen
18. Who is the heroine of 'As You Like It'?
a)
Ophelia
b)
Catherine
c)
Portia
d)
Rosalind
Answer:
Rosalind
19. Great Expectations was written by—
a)
Thomas Hardy
b)
George Eliot
c)
Charles Dickens
d)
Henry James
Answer:
Charles Dickens
20. “Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night;” — The lines are written by:
a)
William Blake
b)
William Wordsworth
c)
S.T Coleridge
d)
P.B Shelly
Answer:
William Blake