1. 'Renaissance' means -
a) The revival of learning
b) The revival of hard task
c) The revival of life
d) The revival of a new country
Answer: The revival of learning
2. Which of the following ages in literary history in the latest?
a) The Augustan Age
b) The Victorian Age
c) The Georgian Age
d) The Restoration Age
Answer: The Georgian Age
3. Who is not a Victorian poet?
a) Emily Dickenson
b) Tennyson
c) Arnold
d) Elizabeth Browning
Answer: Emily Dickenson
4. Addison and Steele are known for-
a) Lyrical Ballad
b) The Mirror
c) The Spectator
d) Biographia Literaria
Answer: The Spectator
5. Nobel Prize winner in literature 'Harold Pinter' is from-
a) US
b) Australia
c) UK
d) Canada
Answer: UK
6. Charles Dickens is a great -
a) poet
b) novelist
c) critic
d) play writer
Answer: novelist
7. Bertrand Russell was a British -
a) Journalist
b) Scientist
c) Philosopher
d) Astronaut
Answer: Philosopher
8. Who among the following is an English epic poet?
a) Milton
b) Shelley
c) Wordsworth
d) Keats
Answer: Milton
9. Robert Browning was a......poet.
a) Romantic
b) Victorian
c) Modern
d) Elizabethan
Answer: Victorian
10. William Shakespeare is a/an......dramatist.
a) English
b) American
c) Brazilian
d) Spanish
Answer: English
11. Shakespeare wrote-
a) poems and plays
b) plays and novels
c) plays and short stories
d) plays only
Answer: poems and plays
12. Who is called the 'poet of beauty' in English literature?
a) P. B. Shelley
b) Lord Byron
c) John Keats
d) William Wordsworth
Answer: John Keats
13. Who is called the Byron of Bengal?
a) Rabindranath Tagore
b) Jasim Uddin
c) Kazi Nazrul Islam
d) N. Datta
Answer: Kazi Nazrul Islam
14. 'A critic and Lexicographer' applies to-
a) Bradley
b) Coleridge
c) Johnson
d) Hazlitt
Answer: Johnson
15. The only medium of literature is-
a) language
b) painting
c) sculptor
d) architecture
Answer: language
16. The author of 'The Captive Lady' is-
a) John Keats
b) Michael Madhusudan Dutta
c) O' Henry
d) Leo Tolstoy
Answer: Michael Madhusudan Dutta
17. According to most of the critics who is not a romantic poet?
a) John Keats
b) T. S. Eliot
c) Rabindranath Tagore
d) William Wordsworth
Answer: T. S. Eliot
18. Who is the modern philosopher who was awarded Nobel Prize for literature?
a) Dr. Kissinger
b) Lelin
c) James Baker
d) Bertrand Russell
Answer: Bertrand Russell
19. Rabindranath Tagore won Nobel Prize for writing -
a) novels
b) plays
c) poetry
d) short stories
Answer: poetry
20. 'As You Like It' is a-
a) Comedy
b) Tragedy
c) Romance
d) Morality Play
Answer: Comedy
21. 'A Passage to India' is written by-
a) D.H. Lawrence
b) E.M. Forster
c) Alex Huxley
d) Nirod C. Choaudhury
Answer: E.M. Forster
22. Who is the author of 'A Farewell to Arms'?
a) Helen Keller
b) Bertrand Russell
c) Ernest Hemingway
d) Charles Dickens
Answer: Ernest Hemingway
23. Who is the author of 'Heaven and Earth'?
a) Lord Tennyson
b) Wordsworth
c) Lord Byron
d) John Keats
Answer: Lord Byron
24. Shakespeare's Julius Ceasar is a-
a) comedy
b) satire
c) tragedy
d) historical play
Answer: tragedy
25. 'The Origin of Species' was written by-
a) Charles Darwin
b) Newton
c) Galileo
d) Mary Curie
Answer: Charles Darwin
26. 'Paradise Lost' is an epic written by-
a) P. B. Shelley
b) John Milton
c) Shakespeare
d) G. B. Shaw
Answer: John Milton
27. 'War and Peace' is written by-
a) Tolstoy
b) Dickens
c) Milton
d) Shakespeare
Answer: Tolstoy
