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
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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
