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QN1: Which of the following was a characteristic feature of Medieval literature?

A. A large body of personal literature.

B. Realism in representation of time and space.

C. Absence of alliteration in poetry.

D. The popular genre of the bird and the beast fable

Answer

Answer: D. The popular genre of the bird and the beast fable

QN2: Which of the following statements is incorrect regarding medieval literature?

A. Allegory was frequent and usual

B. The dream-vision convention was prevalent

C. Chaucer exploited the dream-vision convention in The Canterbury Tales.

D. here was often an undercurrent of moral and dialectic strain.

Answer

Answer: C. Chaucer exploited the dream-vision convention in The Canterbury Tales.

QN3: In Chaucer’s times the Peasant Revolt resulted in the

A. dethronement of the King

B. demolition of church as an institution

C. end of serfdom

D. rise of nationalism

Answer

Answer: C. end of serfdom

QN4: How many books Milton wrote of Paradise Lost?

A) 4

B) 8

C) 12

D) 6

Answer

Answer: C) 12

QN5: An elegy is__

A) a mournful song.

B) a joyous lyric.

C) a satire.

D) a nature poem

Answer

Answer: A) a mournful song.

QN6: Songs of Innocence is written by which following poet?

A) William Wordsworth.

B) William Shakespeare.

C) William Blake.

D) William Butler Yeats.

Answer

Answer: C) William Blake.

QN7: Henry Vaughan is known for which kind of poems?

A) Odes

B) Lyrics

C) Satires

D) Metaphysical

Answer

Answer: D) Metaphysical

QN8: Paradise Lost is written in which poetic verse/form?

A) Free Verse

B) Iambic

C) Blank Verse

D) Sonnet

Answer

Answer: C) Blank Verse

QN9: The character, who is closest to reality, in The Prologue is…

A) The Monk

B) Wife of Bath

C) The Prioress

D) The Knight

Answer

Answer: B) Wife of Bath

QN10: Who is a cheerful, well-spoken, socially pleasing person in The Prologue?

A) The Friar

B) The Knight

C) The Prioress

D) Wife of Bath

Answer

Answer: C) The Prioress

QN11: Name the most important poetic form of Renaissance literature among the following.

A. Ode

B. Sonnet

C. Ballad

D. Satire

Answer

Answer: B. Sonnet

QN12: Shakespeare has written— sonnets?

A. 156

B. 154

C. 126

D. 175

Answer

Answer: B. 154

QN13: When did Constantinople fall?

A. 1453

B. 1455

C. 1457

D. 1458

Answer

Answer: A. 1453

QN14: What does “Renaissance” stand for?

A. rebirth

B. reformation

C. restoration

D. reckoning

Answer

Answer: A. rebirth

QN15: When was Charles II restored in England?

A. 1665.

B. 1660

C. 1661

D. 1662.

Answer

Answer: B. 1660

QN16: Which are the collections William Blake is known for?

A. Songs of Melancholy.

B. Songs of Innocence.

C. Songs of Childhood.

D. Songs of Anatomy

Answer

Answer: B. Songs of Innocence.

QN17: vWhat are the Elegies written by Milton and Arnold?

A. Lycidas and Thyrsis

B. Adonis and In Memoriam

C. Thyrsis and Prelude

D. Lycidas and The Scholar Gypsy

Answer

Answer: A. Lycidas and Thyrsis

QN18: Who introduced Blank Verse in English?

A. Earl of Surrey

B. Thomas Wyatt

C. John Milton

D. John Donne

Answer

Answer: A. Earl of Surrey

QN19: Thomas Gray belongs to which century?

A. Fourteenth Century

B. Fifteenth Century

C. Sixteenth Century

D. Eighteenth Century

Answer

Answer: D. Eighteenth Century

QN20: Which of the following poets does not belong to the ‘Lake School’?

A. Keats

B. Coleridge

C. Southey

D. Wordsworth

Answer

Answer: C. Southey

QN21: Which one of the following works written by John Milton?

A. Absalom and Achitophel

B. Samson Agonites

C. Faerie Queene

D. True Love

Answer

Answer: B. Samson Agonites

QN22: Which one of the following poems composed by William Blake?

A. London

B. Lucy Gray

C. La Belle Dame Sans Merci

D. Ode to Skylark

Answer

Answer: A. London

QN23: A Sonnet consists of how many lines?

A. 18

B. 14

C. 12

D. 8

Answer

Answer: B. 14

QN24: Who is considered the father of English Literature?

A. John Milton

B. Earl of Surrey

C. Thomas Wyatt

D. Geoffrey Chaucer

Answer

Answer: D. Geoffrey Chaucer

QN25: Faerie Queen is written by which poet?

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Edmund Spencer

C. Earl of Surrey

D. John Milton

Answer

Answer: B. Edmund Spencer

QN26: The Retreat is written by which metaphysical poet?

A. Andrew Marvel

B. John Donne

C. Henry Vaughan

D. Samuel Johnson

Answer

Answer: C. Henry Vaughan

QN27: For God Sake… are the beginning lines of which poem?

A. The Cannonization

B. The Sunne Rising

C. The Retreat

D. My Coy Mistress

Answer

Answer: A. The Cannonization

QN28: Whose assistance does John Milton ask for in Paradise Lost?

A. The Heavenly Muse

B. Gabriel

C. Jesus

D. God

Answer

Answer: A. The Heavenly Muse

QN29: What is the message of Paradise Lost?

A. Satan’s evil

B. God’s will to men

C. That life is not easy

D. Good and evil

Answer

Answer: B. God’s will to men

QN30: Why was Satan cast out of heaven?

A. For stealing

B. For causing a war

C. For trying to kill God

D. For treachery

Answer

Answer: B. For causing a war

QN31: Where is Satan imprisoned?

A. Heaven

B. The moon

C. Hell

D. Hell

Answer

Answer: C. Hell

QN32: Which work of Geoffrey Chaucer is an elegy written in the memory of John of Gaunt’s first wife, Blanche?

A. Parliament of Foul

B. The Book of the Duchess

C. The Prologue to Canterbury Tales

D. Troilus and Criseyde

Answer

Answer: B. The Book of the Duchess

QN33: In which genre does Chaucer’s The Book of the Duchess belong?

A. Dream Allegory

B. Ode

C. Alliterative Verse

D. Pastoral

Answer

Answer: B. Ode

QN34: In which year did Geoffrey Chaucer born?

A. 1402

B. 1412

C. 1340

D. 1329

Answer

Answer: C. 1340

QN35: In which year did Geoffrey Chaucer die?

A. 1378

B. 1400

C. 1422

D. 1489

Answer

Answer: B. 1400

QN36: What was the name of Geoffrey Chaucer’s wife?

A. Phillipa

B. Beatrice

C. Giovanni

D. Mary

Answer

Answer: A. Phillipa

QN37: What was the name of the host at Tabard Inn in The Canterbury Tales?

A. Reeve

B. Nicholas

C. Alison

D. Harry Bailly

Answer

Answer: D. Harry Bailly

QN38: What was the name of the inn in which the pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales rested?

A. Tabard Inn

B. Harry’s Inn

C. Bailly Inn

D. Southwark Inn

Answer

Answer: A. Tabard Inn

QN39: How many tales are told in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales?

A. 23

B. 27

C. 29

D. 58

Answer

Answer: A. 23

QN40: How many pilgrims are there Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales?

A. 42

B. 29

C. 22

D. None

Answer

Answer: B. 29