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QN1: who wrote Dramatic Lyrics (1842), Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845), Men and Women (1855), Dramatis Personae (1864), Dramatic Idylls (1879-80)

a. Sir Walter Scott

b. Jane Austen

c. Horace Walpole

d. none of these

Answer

Answer: d. none of these

QN2: ___was one of the greatest prose-writer of the period. He was imbued with the spirit of Puritanism. To him goes the credit of being the precursor of the English novel. His greatest work is The Pilgrim’s Progress.

a. John Bunyan

b. Dryden

c. John Milton

d. none of these

Answer

Answer: a. John Bunyan

QN3: ___dealt with themes of epic magnitude. The heroes and heroines possessed superhuman qualities. The purpose of this tragedy was didactic-to inculcate virtues in the shape of bravery and conjugal love. It was written in the ‘heroic couplet’ in accordance with the heroic convention derived from France that ‘heroic metre’ should be used in such plays. In it declamation took the place of natural dialogue. Moreover, it was characterised by bombast, exaggeration and sensational effects wherever possible.

a. Mystery Plays

b. Mock Epic

c. Comedy Of Manners

d. Heroic Tragedy

Answer

Answer: d. Heroic Tragedy

QN4: …who worked in collaboration, were the originators of the periodical essay.

a. The Bronte sisters.

b. Keats and Shelly

c. Coleridge and Shelley

d. Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele

Answer

Answer: d. Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele

QN5: He was a poet from the Romantic age who was addicted to Opium and made supernatural his special domain which was an important aspect of the Romantic Movement. Who is this poet?

a. keats

b. Wordsworth

c. Coleridge

d. Southey

Answer

Answer: c. Coleridge

QN6: He was an invalid, of small sature and delicate constitution, whose bad nerves and cruel headaches made his life, in his own phrase, a ‘long disease’. Moreover, being a Catholic he had to labour under various restrictions. But the wonder is that in spite of his manifold handicaps, this small, ugly man has left a permanent mark on the literature of his age. He was highly intellectual, extremely ambitious and capable of tremendous industry. The Rape of the Lock, is in some ways his masterpiece.

a. Addison

b. Alexandar Pope

c. John Gay

d. Jonathan Swift

Answer

Answer: b. Alexandar Pope

QN7: He was an invalid, of small sature and delicate constitution, whose bad nerves and cruel headaches made his life, in his own phrase, a ‘long disease’. Moreover, being a Catholic he had to labour under various restrictions. But the wonder is that in spite of his manifold handicaps, this small, ugly man has left a permanent mark on the literature of his age. He was highly intellectual, extremely ambitious and capable of tremendous industry. The Rape of the Lock, is in some ways his masterpiece.

a. Addison

b. Alexandar Pope

c. John Gay

d. Jonathan Swift

Answer

Answer: b. Alexandar Pope

QN8: It was in this time period that the novel began its rise in popularity. The availability of cheap paper made mass publication possible. Serialized novels and magazines were popular with the masses. Contrived plot twists such as strained coincidences and romantic triangles were often utilized. This time period also saw a heightened conflict between the rich and the poor. In poetry elegies were extremely popular. what is the name of the time period ?

a. romatic era

b. victoran age

c. Renaissance

d. modern period

Answer

Answer: b. victoran age

QN9: Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quince are prose writers from which age?

a. Victorian age

b. Romantic Age

c. Elizabethan Era

d. Modern Age

Answer

Answer: b. Romantic Age

QN10: Lyrical Ballads is written by___?

a. keats

b. Shelley

c. Wordsworth

d. Coleridge

Answer

Answer: c. Wordsworth

QN11: Pick out the odd one.

a. Christabel

b. Kubla Khan

c. The Solitary Reaper

d. The Ancient Mariner

Answer

Answer: c. The Solitary Reaper

QN12: Pick out the odd one.

a. Hard Times

b. lolita

c. vanity fair

d. Jude The obscure

Answer

Answer: d. Jude The obscure

QN13: Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen belong to which group of modern poets?

a. War Poets

b. Lake Poets

c. Georgian Poets

d. none of these

Answer

Answer: a. War Poets

QN14: The gothic Novels The Mysteries of Udolpho and the Italian are written by___

a. Bram stoker

b. Mrs. Ann Radciffe

c. Mary Shelley

d. Horace Walpole

Answer

Answer: b. Mrs. Ann Radciffe

QN15: The Lake Poets belonged to which period?

a. Romantic Age

b. Victorian age

c. Elizabethan Era

d. none of these

Answer

Answer: a. Romantic Age

QN16: The major theme of … was nature. The authors from this period saw patterns and meaning in the natural world around them. This was a time of lyrical ballad. Also, this period brought to popularity the gothic horror novel.

a. Neo classical period

b. Romantic period

c. Elizabethan Era

d. Victorain period

Answer

Answer: b. Romantic period

QN17: The name ‘restoration’ comes from the crowning of …, which marks the restoring of the traditional English monarchical form of government following a short period of rule by a handful of republican governments

a. James II

b. Charles II

c. Queen Elizabeth

d. King Lear

Answer

Answer: b. Charles II

QN18: The Rivals (1775) and The School for Scandal (1777) are famous comedies written by___?

a. Richard Brinsely Sheridan

b. Henry Fielding

c. Ben Jonson

d. Daniel Defoe

Answer

Answer: a. Richard Brinsely Sheridan

QN19: These were shockingly explicit works that were created after almost two decades of live performances being outlawed in England. What are we talking about?

a. Restoration Comedies

b. Theatre of the Absurd

c. Naturalistic Plays

d. All of these

Answer

Answer: a. Restoration Comedies

QN20: what is the time span of the Victorian Era?

a. 1500-1642

b. 1832-1900

c. 1500-1660

d. 1900-1980

Answer

Answer: b. 1832-1900

QN21: what was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans?

a. Lewis Caroll

b. Emily Dickenson

c. Mary Shelley

d. George Elliot

Answer

Answer: d. George Elliot

QN22: which one among the follwing is not a novel by Thomas Hardy

a. Under the Greenwood Tree

b. Middlemarch

c. Far From The Madding Crowd

d. The Mayor of Casterbridge

Answer

Answer: b. Middlemarch

QN23: which one of the follwing is not a lake poet?

a. Wordsworth

b. Keats

c. Coleridge

d. Southey

Answer

Answer: b. Keats

QN24: which one of the follwing is not a poet from the Victorian Era?

a. T.S. Elliot

b. Robert Browning

c. Alfred Tennyson

d. Thomas Hardy

Answer

Answer: a. T.S. Elliot

QN25: who among the following is a Bronte?

a. charlotte

b. Emily

c. Anne

d. All of these

Answer

Answer: b. Emily

QN26: Who defined poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”

a. Wordsworth

b. Coleridge

c. Keats

d. Shelley

Answer

Answer: a. Wordsworth

QN27: Who ruled England during the Protectorate/ Commonwealth period?

a. Queen Elizabeth I

b. Henvy VIII

c. King Charles I

d. Oliver Cromwell

Answer

Answer: d. Oliver Cromwell

QN28: Who wrote A thing of beauty is a joy for ever?

a. John Keats

b. George Gordon Byron

c. William Wordsworth

d. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Answer

Answer: a. John Keats

QN29: Who wrote Childe Harold Pilgrimage ?

a. Lord George Gordon Byron

b. William Wordsworth

c. Thomas Campbell

d. Sir Walter Scott

Answer

Answer: a. Lord George Gordon Byron

QN30: who wrote the poem The Wasteland?

a. A.E.Housman

b. T.S. Elliot

c. Mathew Arnold

d. Ezra Pound

Answer

Answer: b. T.S. Elliot

QN31: Who wrote the poems The SecongComing and like The Wanderings of Oisin?

a. T.S. Elliot

b. W. B Yeats

c. Alfred Tennyson

d. Alfred Edward Houseman

Answer

Answer: b. W. B Yeats

QN32: Find the odd one out.

a. Hard Times.

b. lolita

c. vanity fair

d. Jude The obscure

Answer

Answer: d. Jude The obscure

QN33: They tried to reform society through the medium of the periodical essay. They performed this work in a gentle, good-humoured manner, and not by bitter invective. They made the people laugh at their own follies and thus get rid of them. So they were, to a great extent, responsible for reforming the conduct of their contemporaries in social and domestic fields. Their aim was moral as well as educational.

a. Coleridge and Wordsworth

b. Keats and Shelly

c. Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele

d. All of these

Answer

Answer: c. Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele

QN34: ___ is the earliest literary journalist in the English language. He wrote on all sorts of subjects-social, political, literary, and brought out about 250 publications. He owes his importance, in literature, however, mainly to his works of fiction which were simply the offshoots of his general journalistic enterprises. As a journalist he was fond of writing about the lives of famous people who had just died, and of notorious adventurers and criminals. At the age of sixty he turned his attention to the writing of prose fiction, and published his first novel-Robinson Cruso-the book by which he is universally known.

a. Daniel Defoe

b. Alexandar Pope

c. John Gay

d. Jonathan Swift

Answer

Answer: a. Daniel Defoe

QN35: Who wrote Gulliver’s Travel?

a. John Milton

b. Alexandar Pope

c. John Gay

d. Jonathan Swift

Answer

Answer: d. Jonathan Swift

QN36: ___ is a popular author from the Victorian Era.

a. Charles Dickens

b. william Langland

c. Virginia Woolf

d. wordsworth

Answer

Answer: a. Charles Dickens

QN37: ___is a Victorian dramatist.

a. William Congreve

b. Ben Jonson

c. Oscar Wilde

d. Samuel Beckett

Answer

Answer: c. Oscar Wilde

QN38: ___is credited with the writing of the first modern novel-Pamela or Virtue Rewarded.

a. Henry Fielding

b. Samuel Richardson

c. Jonathan Swift

d. Daniel Defoe

Answer

Answer: b. Samuel Richardson

QN39: Doctor Faustus is a play written by … ?

a. William Shakespeare

b. John Milton

c. Ben Jonson

d. Christopher Marlowe

Answer

Answer: d. Christopher Marlowe

QN40: During his first five or six years of novel-writing Scott confined himself to familiar scenes and characters. The novels which have a local colour and are based on personal observations are Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, Old Mortality and The Heart of Midlothian. His first attempt at a historical novel was Ivanhoe (1819) followed by Kenilworth (1821), Quentin Durward (1823), and The Talisman (1825). He returned to Scottish antiquity from time to time as in The Monastery (1820) and St. Ronan’s Well (1823). Who are we talking about here?

a. Sir Walter Scott

b. Jane Austen

c. Horace Walpole

d. none of these

Answer

Answer: a. Sir Walter Scott