1.Every type of person found in medieval England in various classes, trades, and professions is the description of __________.
a).Epithalamion
b).The Book of Job
c).Dr. Faustus
d).The Canterbury Tales
2.Chaucer’s Literary career has been divided into three periods, The Canterbury Tales is written in ________.
a).French Period
b).Italian Period
c).English Period
d).Greek Period
3.How many stories had been written in Canterbury Tales when Chaucer died in 1400?
a).2
b).4
c).24
d).120
4How many stories are unfinished of twenty four stories which had been written by Chaucer ?.
a).2
b).4
c).8
d).24
5.Which poem illustrate ideal art, art is truth, and art is permanent?
a).Ode to the West Wind
b).Ode to Autumn
c).Ode on a Grecian Urn
d).Ode to Dejection
6.Thirty travellers telling two stories each way on their pilgrimage to ____________.
a).Southwark
b).London
c).Canterbury
d).Worchester Cathedral
7.In which play the author gives his audience the sleazy quintessence of a scandal loving society?
a).She stoops to conquer
b).The way of the World
c).The School for Scandal
d).All for Love
8.Which of the following inspired Coleridge to write ‘Kublakhan’?
a).Hakluyt’s Posthumus
b).The principal Voyages
c).The unfortunate Traveller
d).Pandosto
9.Who said ‘I have taken all knowledge to be my province’
a).Coleridge
b).Geoffrey Chaucer
c).Sir Philip Sydney
d).Francis Bacon
10.Which is called as ‘noblest monument of English prose’?
a).King James Bible
b).Bacon’s Essays
c).Canterbury Tales
d).Apologie for Poetrie
11.Which ode gloriously evoke the fall season?
a).Ode to the West Wind
b).Ode to Autumn
c).Ode on a Grecian Urn
d).Ode to Dejection
12.Who wrote ‘one English book and one only, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness and that book is the Bible’?
a).Job
b).Mathew Arnold
c).Alexander Pope
d).Samuel Johnson
13.Choose the correct option of The Faerie Queene: (1). First three books in 1590, (2). Books IV-VI in 1596,(3). It is comparable in scope to Dante’s Divine Comedy, (4). Allegorical book, (5). Red Cross Knight stands for ‘Holiness’, (6). Spencer devised an eight line stanza, (7). All the eight lines are in iambics hexameter.
a).All are correct
b).123457 correct
c).12345 correct
d).12347 correct
14.Spenserian stanza’s rhyme scheme is _______.
a).Ababbcbc
b).Abcabcbcc
c).Abbacddcc
d).Ababbcbcc
15.The last line of Spenserian stanza in _________.
a).Iambic Pentameter
b).Trochiac Meter
c).Iambic octometer
d).Iambic hexameter
16.Which of the following called as the ‘Tribe of Ben’?
a).Metaphysical Poets
b).Jacobean Poets
c).Lake Poets
d).Cavalier Poets
17.Whose poems deal with both secular and religious themes? His ‘The Canonization’ is a philosophical love poem?
a).John Donne
b).Andrew Marvell
c).George Herbert
d). Alexander Pope
18.Which poems makes a mystical religious experience of joining of the souls of two lovers
a).The Rape of the Lock
b).The Canonization
c).The Ecstasy
d).To his Coy Mistress
19.Which of Milton’s early poem describes the contemplative man?
a).L’Allegro
b).Il Penseroso
c).Lycidas
d).Aeropagitica
20.Which is not the poem of John Milton?
a).L’Allegro
b).Il Penseroso
c).Lycidas
d).Aeropagitica
21.Paradise Lost is Milton’s monumental epic poem, in _______.
a).Iambic pentameter
b).Blank verse
c).Rime Royal
d).Heroic Couplet
22.Which of the poem is based on an actual quarrel between two families?
a).The Rape of the Lock
b).Prothalamion
c).To His Coy Mistress
d).Morte D' Arthur
23.Which of the following work is an example of carpe diem poem?
a).To His Coy Mistress
b).Ode on a Grecian Urn
c).Byzantium
d).Andrea Del Sarto
24.Which is the reflection of the poet’s pessimism at the loss of religious faith in his time?
a).Dover Beach
b).The Scholar Gypsy
c).Jude the Obscure
d).The Power and the Glory
25.Which is the first English ‘Revenge Tragedy’ out doing Senecan in violent horror?
a).All for Love
b).Samson Agonistes
c).The Alchemist
d).The Spanish Tragedy
26.When was the first of four folio editions published?
a).1611
b). 1616
c).1623
d).1632
27.This problem comedy has Angelo offer to save the life of the condemned Claudio in exchange for sexual favours from his sister Isabella?
a).Measure for Measure
b).She stoops to conquer
c).All for Love
d).Antony and Cleopatra
28.Characters Ariel, a spiritual creature, and Caliban who represents the baser side of human nature are in?
a).She stoops to conquer
b).All for Love
c).Dr. Faustus
d).The Tempest
29.Overpowering ambition is in _______.
a).The Tempest
b).Macbeth
c).Antony and Cleopatra
d).Measure for Measure
30.Which work is called by Dr. Samuel Johnson as ‘the most attractive of all ludicrous compositions’?
a). The Rape of the Lock
b).The Canonization
c).The Ecstasy
d).To his Coy Mistress
31.The tragic love affair between the noble hero Antony and Queen Cleopatra destroys Antony, but transforms Cleopatra from a selfish, wanton girl to a true queen who dies triumphantly is in ______.
a).The Tempest
b).Macbeth
c).Antony and Cleopatra
d).Measure for Measure
32.The character Subtle claims to be a magician, who can change base metal to gold, is in _________.
a).The Power and the Glory
b).The School for Scandal
c).Tom Jones
d).The Alchemist
33.This is an allegory of the journey through life of Christian, the principal character, in _____.
a).Dr. Faustus
b).Faerie Queene
c).The Book of Job
d).The Pilgrim's Progress
34.Which is a version of the Antony and Cleopatra story, and it concentrates on the lives of the royal pair?
a).Faerie Queene
b).All for Love
c).The way of the World
d).The Pilgrim's Progress
35.Who wrote about Dryden ‘Dryden found the English speechless and he gave them speech’?
a).TS Eliot
b).Mathew Arnold
c).Samuel Johnson
d).James Boswell
36.Which of the following work is ‘the highest life is much the dullest, it affords little humour and entertainment’ and it’s author shows a dislike of high society?
a).Tom Jones
b).The Power and the Glory
c).Emma
d).Jude the Obscure
37.The novel is suitable for ‘comic epic poem in prose’
a).Tom Jones
b).The Power and the Glory
c).Emma
d).Jude the Obscure
38.Who praised Henry Fielding for his ‘high notions of the dignity of an art which he may be considered as having founded’?
a).Sir Walter Scott
b).Mathew Arnold
c).TS Eliot
d).George Eliot
39.Which is a ‘mock epic’ with an exaggerated epic form, but trivial subject?
a).The Wreck of the Deutschland
b).The Waste land
c).The Pulley
d).The Rape of the Lock
40.Which poem has the result of Lord Petre’s clipping a lock of miss Arabella’s hair?
a).The Rape of the Lock
b).Prothalamion
c).To His Coy Mistress
d).Morte D' Arthur
41.To whom did the author describe as ‘a heroine whom no one but myself will like very much’?
a).Estella
b).Sue Bridehead
c).Dorothea Brooke
d).Emma
42.Which is the play abounding in elegantly stated wit, with a well manipulated intrigue that leads to a famous scene involving a screen, this play’s writer died in 1816.
a).She stoops to conquer
b).The way of the World
c).The School for Scandal
d).All for Love
43.Which one determines how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure?
a).Lyrical Ballads
b).A Defence of Poetry
c).Apologie for Poetrie
d).The Study of Poetry
44.Which is not related and not a theory of ‘Preface to the Lyrical Ballads’?
a).Purest form in simple rural life
b).Recollected tranquillity
c).Belief of ‘the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’
d).Attacks social morality as interpreted by organized religion
45.Which is the blank verse autobiography?
a).Wuthering Heights
b).Prelude
c).Biographia Literaria
d).Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
46. It is a fragment of fantastic imagery based on an opium-induced dream?
a).Ode to Dejection
b).Kubla Khan
c).Tintern Abbey
d).Ode to Autumn
47.Which is not correct one of Adonais
a).It is a pastoral elegy
b).Elegy on Shelley
c).Adapts the myth of Adonais
d).Celebration rebirth into an ideal platonic world
48.Which novel has two comic creations, Mr.Woodhouse and Miss Bates?
a).Emma
b).Wuthering Heights
c).Great Expectations
d).Middle March
49.Which novel indicates society for not allowing freedom to intellectual and cultural pursuits?
a).To the Light House
b).Jude the Obscure
c).Middle March
d).None of the above
50.Which novel satirizes authors own desperate lower-middle class passion to rise to gentleman’s status?
a).Wuthering Heights
b).Great Expectations
c).Jude the Obscure
d).The Power and the Glory
51.Which novel illustrates the hero’s longing for an education is frustrated and doomed?
a).Wuthering Heights
b).Great Expectations
c).Jude the Obscure
d).The Power and the Glory
52.It is included the intellectual confusion of his age and idealizes a young oxford student who has ‘integrity of the spirit’?
a).Dover Beach
b).The Scholar Gypsy
c).The Power and the Glory
d).Jude the Obscure
53.Who is brave towards God but is coward towards men?
a).Jealousies person
b).Liar
c).Envier
d).Unambitious person
54. Who is the historical figure which Bacon used in his essay ‘Of Friendship’?
a).Queen Elizabeth
b).Earl of Lancaster
c).Julius Ceaser
d).Henry IV
55.It ridicules the vices, vanities, and follies of the humans, primarily gullibility induced by greed in the man.
a).The Alchemist
b).The Spanish Tragedy
c).Samson Agonistes
d).Tom Jones
56.Who challenges God that, if given permission to punish the man, Job will turn and curse God?
a).Gabriel
b).Satan
c).Zophar
d).Moses
57.How many days Job’s friends sitting with Job in silence ?
a).One
b).Three
c).Seven
d).Thirteen
58.Who promises to show Faustus hell?
a). Lucifer
b).Belzebub
c).Mephostophilis
d).Robin
59.Who wrote the letter in blood to Hieronimo about how his was murdered?
a).Isabella
b).Bellimperia
c).Pedringano
d).Lorenzo
60.Who had turned lunatic in The Spanish Tragedy?
a).Lorenzo
b).Isabella
c).Bellimperia
d).Andrea
61.Who is tobacconist and just starts his new shop in the street in The Alchemist?
a).Dapper
b).Abel Drugger
c).Lovewit
d).Sir Epicure Mammon
62.How many days after did Satan return to the Garden of Eden after he was caught and banished by Gabriel in book IX?
a).three days
b).Eight days
c).Thirty days
d).Fifty days
63.Manoa is character in _________.
a).Paradise lost
b).Samson Agonistes
c).The way of the World
d).The Book of Job
64.Which of the following work has the metaphor of a ‘Vegetable love’?
a).Canonisation
b).The Ecstasie
c).To His Coy Mistress
d).All for Love
65.Which of the following work has metaphorically mechanical title?
a).The way of the World
b).The Ecstasie
c).The Pulley
d).The Rape of the Lock
66.According Samuel Johnson, which of Milton’ s work is ‘the diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, and the numbers unpleasing’?
a).Lycidas
b).Comus
c).Paradise Lost
d).On his Blindness
67.Which of the following is Miton’s masque
a). Lycidas
b).Comus
c).Paradise Lost
d).On his Blindness
68.Who always comes with good news in Pilgrim’s Progress?
a).Evangelist
b).Christian
c).Pliable
d).Mr. Legality
69.Which of the following is not a part of place in Pilgrim’s Progress?
a).City of Destruction
b).Slough of Despond
c).Wicket Gate
d).Caleb Grave
70.Who is the Irish man in Tom Jones?
a).Mr. Fitzpatrick
b).Mr. Dowling
c).Thwackum
d).Partridge
71.What does Tom get thrown into jail for?
a).Offending a noblewoman
b). Public drunkenness
c). Stealing a silver candlestick
d).Stabbing Fitzpatrick
72. Sir Oliver Surface disguises himself as a money lender named ________to investigate Charles's spending habits ?
a).Mr. Premium
b).Snake
c).Moses
d).Mr. Candour
73.This play has opened with a conversation at chocolate house.
a).All for Love
b).The School for Scandal
c).The way of the World
d).She stoops to conquer
74.Lady Wishfort, who is __________ years old, is vain and susceptible to false flattery.
a).35
b).45
c).55
d).65
75.Christ's Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago presents an account of his _________life.
a).Working
b).School
c).College
d).Profession
76.Who defined poetry as ‘the expression of the imagination’?
a).Sir Philip Sydney
b).William Wordsworth
c).Shelley
d).Coleridge
77.This line exerted from Tintern Abbey ‘Here, under this dark sycamore, and view’, sycamore represents
a).Large Tree
b).Dark Devil
c).Black river
d).Hot water
78.This line exerted from ‘Ode to the West Wind’, ‘Of some fierce Maenad, even from the dim verge Of the horizon to the zenith's height, The locks of the approaching storm’. Which is one of the wild, savage women who hang out with the god Dionysus in Greek mythology?
a).Maenad
b).Verge
c).Horizon
d).Zenith
79.‘Andrea del Sarto‘ by Robert Browning was published in the collection, ________.
a).Men and Women
b).Dramatic Personae
c).Bells and Pomegranates
d).Asolando: Fancies and Facts
80. Who asks Lucrezia to come and sit with him for a moment without fighting, in poem begins?
a).Michelangelo
b).Raphael
c). Andrea del Sarto
d).Lucrezia’s cousin
81.‘none of woman born / shall harm Macbeth’ which witch says to Macbeth?
a).Bloody child
b).Floating head
c).An armed head
d).Crowned child
82.To whom did Miranda says ‘If you’ll sit down, I’ll bear your logs the while. Pray, give me that. I’ll carry it to the pile’
a).Ferdinand
b).ArielCaliban
c).Caliban
d).Prospero
83.‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’ this line appeared in _____
a).Antony and Cleopatra
b).Tempest
c).Henry IV
d).Macbeth
84.How does Isabella respond when Angelo asks her to lose her virginity with him at first time?
a).She accepts very first time
b).She replied I will come tomorrow
c).She would rather die
d).She slap him
85.Who begs the gravedigger to let her see Children last time?
a).Jude Fawley
b).Sue Bridehead
c).Arabella Donn
d).Aunt Drucilla
86.Who wants to go to the Lighthouse in ‘To the Lighthouse’?
a).Lily Briscoe
b).Mrs. Ramsay
c).Jasper Ramsay
d).James Ramsay
87.Which of the following character remains unmarried at the end in Emma?
a).Miss Bates
b).Mr. Elton
c).Harriet Smith
d).Mr. Knightly
88.What do ghosts represent in Wuthering Heights?
a).The power of the past
b). The eternal nature of love
c). The ambiguity of an afterlife
d). The influence of nature
89.In Fielding’s ‘Tom Jones’, who saved the life of Mrs.Waters from the villain Northerton?
a).Tom
b).An Oldman
c).Allworthy
d).Blifil
90.In Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer, she is to conquer whom?
a).Tony Lumpkin
b).Mr. Hardcastle
c).Hastings
d).Marlowe