English Literature MCQS by Sajjad Haider

English Literature MCQS by Sajjad Haider
1. The technique of dramatic monologue is used by Victorian poet

a. Tennyson
b. Arnold
c. Browning
d. Elizabeth
2. The pioneer or torch bearer of modern poetry
a. Yeats
b. A.E. Houseman
c. T.S. Eliot
d. Ezra Pound
3. Newman was a central figure of
A. Aesthetic Movement
B. Pre Raphaelite Movement
C. Transition Movement
D. Oxford Movement
4. who is called Poet of Nine o clock in the morning
a. Robert Browning
b. Robert Bridges
c. Kipling
d.T.S. Eliot
5. "Mirror for Magistrates" was written by
a) Philip Sidney
b) Thomas Sackville
c) Thomas Wyatt
d) Byron
6. Carew, Lovelace and Sucking are called Cavalier Poets because they followed
a) Ben Jonson
b) Spencer
c)Milton
d) Dryden
7. University Wits were influenced by
a) Bede
b) Petrarch
c) Machiavelli
d) Beowulf
8. A short story written in form of verse is called
a. Elegy
b. Epic
c. Balled
d. Sonnet
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9. Who used the phrase ‘Unified Sensibility?’
a. Dr. Johnson
b. Dryden
c. T.S. Eliot
d. Mathew Arnold
10. “An Essay on Criticism” by Pope is a/an
a. Essay
b. Poem
c. Novel
d. Drama
11. The cantos of The Rape of The Lock are

a. Five
b. Four
c. Six
d. Three
12. Which of the following is Alexander Pope’s personal Satire?
a. The Rape of the Lock

b. Dunciad
c. On his Mistress
d. The Essay on Man
13. The Nun’s Priest Tale is written by
a. Dryden
b. Chaucer
c. John Gower
d. John Donne
14. It was the fashion of Renaissance for the scholars to write in the form of
a. Epic
b. Allegory
c. Mock-Epic
d. Balled
15. To attribute divinity to natural objects is called
a. Supernaturalism
b. Pantheism
c. Spectisim
d. Animism
16. “Heard melodies are sweet, those unheard are sweeter” is taken from
a. Ode on Grecian Urn
b. Ode on Melancholy
c. Ode to Nightingale
d. Ode to West Wind
17. Who spiritualized nature?

a. Keats
b. Shelly
c. Wordsworth
d. Byron
18. Who intellectualized nature?

e. Keats
f. Shelly
g. Wordsworth
h. Byron
19. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty ____ that is all

Ye know on earth and all ye need to know” is taken from
a. Ode on Grecian Urn
b. Ode on Melancholy
c. Ode to Nightingale
d. Ode to West Wind
20. The quality of selfless receptivity necessary to a true poet is called

a. Objectivity
b. Negative Capability
c. Hellenism
d. Escapism
21. Oxford movement was the reaction of
a. Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
b. Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
c. Big Bang Theory
d. Quantum Theory
22. A pleasant way of referring to something unpleasant is called

a. Obscurity
b. Euphuism
c. Euphemism
d. Realism
23. Victorian age is followed by

a. Romantic Age
b. Elizabethan age
c. Modern Age
d. Classical Age
24. The leader of the imagists was

a. T.S. Eliot
b. George Eliot
c. Ezra Pound
d. A.E. Houseman
25. The poets who wrote about the World War First and its horrors are called
a. Trench Poets
b. Georgian Poets
c. Lake Poets
d. Cavalier Poets
26. A notable fact of Yeats life was his friendship with

a. George Eliot
b. Lady Gregory
c. Ezra Pound
d. Virginia Woolf
27. W.B Yeats was awarded Nobel Prize in

a. 1923
b. 1925
c.1927
d. 1929
28. Under whose influence Yeats started working for Irish nationalism.
a. Lady Gregory
b. Maud Gonne
c. Eliot
d. John O’ Leary
29. Mention the name of women who is celebrated in Yeats poetry

e. Maud Gonne
f. Lady Gregory
g. Ezra Pound
h. Virginia Woolf
30. In literature symbolist movement began in

a. England
b. France
c. Italy
d. America
31. Yeats is best known for

a. Pessimism
b. Realism
c. Symbolism
d. Optimism
32. “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen” and “Easter 1916” are written by
a. Shelly
b. Yeats
c. Keats
d. Philip Larkin
33. Who wrote “MCMXIV”?

e. Shelly
f. Yeats
g. Keats
h. Philip Larkin
34. P.B. Shelly was greatly attracted by the ideas of
a. William Golding
b. William Godwin
c. Dryden
d. Ibsen
35. Keats was a poet of past, while._______ was a poet of future

i. Coleridge
j. Shelly
k. Wordsworth
l. Byron
36. What was the month when pilgrims did march towards the Canterbury?
a. March
b. April
c. May
d. June
37. Who introduced sonnet to England

a. Petrarch
b. Shakespeare
c. Thomas Wyatt
d. The Earl of Surrey
38. Blank Verse was invented by

e. Petrarch
f. Shakespeare
g. Thomas Wyatt
h. The Earl of Surrey
39. An Epithalamion is a/an

a. A holly sonnet
b. A marriage poem
c. Serious poem
d. A trivial poem
40. Shakespeare had___________ children

a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. None
41. Shakespeare was associated the __________ theater

a. The Globe
b. The Royal Shakespeare Theatre
c. The Circle
d. The London Theatre
42. In which year Milton became blind?

a. 1642
b. 1650
c. 1652
d. 1655
43. Poem “Chaucer” is written by

a. Chaucer
b. Donne
c. Pope
d. Ted Hughes
44. How many speakers are in the poem ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”?
a. 4
b. 3
c. 2
d. 5
45. Shakespeare married to

a. Anne Hathaway
b. Maud Gonne
c. Anne Bulien
d. Marry
46. Iambic Pentameter was first used by

i. Petrarch
j. Shakespeare
k. Thomas Wyatt
l. The Earl of Surrey
47. Duessa is a character in which famous poem
a. The Rape of the Lock
b. Faerie Queen
c. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
d. The Canterbury Tales
48. Who has been called “monarch of wit”?

a. Milton
b. Pope
c. Dr. Johnson
d. John Donne
49.Who called Edmund Spencer Poets’ poet
a. Arnold
b. Wordsworth
c. Charles Lamb
d. Eliot
50.Lycidas , a pastoral elegy, written by
a. John Donne
b. John Milton
c. Mathew Arnold
d. Keats

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1. The technique of dramatic monologue is used by Victorian poet

10. “An Essay on Criticism” by Pope is a/an

11. The cantos of The Rape of The Lock are

12. Which of the following is Alexander Pope’s personal Satire?

a. The Rape of the Lock

13. The Nun’s Priest Tale is written by

17. Who spiritualized nature?

18. Who intellectualized nature?

19. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty ____ that is all

20. The quality of selfless receptivity necessary to a true poet is called

22. A pleasant way of referring to something unpleasant is called

23. Victorian age is followed by

24. The leader of the imagists was

26. A notable fact of Yeats life was his friendship with

27. W.B Yeats was awarded Nobel Prize in

29. Mention the name of women who is celebrated in Yeats poetry

30. In literature symbolist movement began in

31. Yeats is best known for

33. Who wrote “MCMXIV”?

35. Keats was a poet of past, while._______ was a poet of future

37. Who introduced sonnet to England

38. Blank Verse was invented by

39. An Epithalamion is a/an

40. Shakespeare had___________ children

41. Shakespeare was associated the __________ theater

42. In which year Milton became blind?

43. Poem “Chaucer” is written by

45. Shakespeare married to

46. Iambic Pentameter was first used by

48. Who has been called “monarch of wit”?

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