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 Multiple Choice Question a. Robert Hass
b. Jessica Hagdorn
(Students, Answers are options in bold) c. Maya Angelou
d. Micheal Palmer
1. Which poem ends ‘I shall but love thee better after
death’? 10. Who wrote about the idyllic ‘Isle of Innisfree’?
a. How do I love thee a. Dylan Thomas
b. Ode to a Grecian urn b. Ezra Pound
c. In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes c. W. B. Yeats
d. Let me not to the marriage of true minds d. e. e. cummings

2. Which poet is considered a national hero in 11. A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in
Greece? lines of poetry
a. John keats
b. Lord Byron 1. rhyme scheme
c. Solan 2. meter
d. Sappho 3. alliteration

3. Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated 12. The repetition of similar ending sounds
with?
a. Nature 1. alliteration
b. Epics 2. onomatopoiea
c. Sonnets 3. rhyme
d. Nonsense
13. Applying human qualities to non-human things
4. In coleridge’s poem ‘The rime of the Ancient
Mariner’where were the three gallants going? 1. personification
a. A funeral 2. onomatopoeia
b. A wedding 3. alliteration
c. Market
d. To the races 14. The repetition of beginning consonant sounds

5. Harold Nicholson described which poet as ‘Very 1. rhyme

yellow and glum. Perfect manners’? 2. onomatopoeia
a. e. e. Cummings 3. alliteration
b. T. S. Elliot
c. John Greenleaf Whittier 15. A comparison of unlike things without using a
d. Walt Whitman word of comparison such as like or as
6. What was strange about Emily Dickinson? 1. metaphor
a. She rarely left home 2. simile
b. She wrote in code 3. personification
c. She never attempted to publish her poetry
d. She wrote her poems in invisible ink
16. The comparison of unlike things using the words
like or as
7. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which
conflict?
1. metaphor
a. Boer War
2. simile
b. Second World War
3. personification
c. Korean War
d. First World War
17. Using words or letters to imitate sounds
8. Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?
a. Betjeman 1. alliteration
b. Hughes 2. simile
c. Marvel 3. onomatopoeia
d. Larkin
18. a description that appeals to one of the five senses
9. Which American writer published ‘A brave and
startling truth’ in 1996 1. imagery
2. personification
 3. metaphor c. Rhyme
d. Grammar
19. A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and
characters 28. True or false: Writing predates poetry.
a. True
1. lyric b. False
2. free verse
3. narrative 29. What is the earliest surviving European poem?
a. The Homeric epic
20. A poem with no meter or rhyme b. The Gilgamesh epic
c. The Deluge epic
1. lyric d. The Hesiodic ode
2. free verse
3. narrative 30. Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
a. The Epic
21. A poem that generally has meter and rhyme b. The Comic
c. The Occult
1. lyric d. The Tragic
2. free verse
3. narrative 31. What is the study of poetry’s meter and form
called?
22. Sylvia Plath married which English poet? a. Prosody
a. Masefield b. Potology
b. Causley c. Rheumatology
c. Hughes d. Scansion
d. Larkin
32. Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what
23. Carl Sandburg ‘Planked whitefish’ contains what sort of verse?
kind of imagery? a. Alliterative verse
a. Sea scenes b. Sonnet form
b. Rural Idyll c. Iambic pentameter
c. War d. Dactylic hexameter
d. Innocent childhood
33. Which poet invented the concept of the variable
24. Which influential American poet was born in foot in poetry?
Long Island in 1819? a. William Carlos Williams
a. Emily Dickinson b. Emily Dickinson
b. Paul Dunbar c. Gerard Manly Hopkins
c. John Greenleaf Whittier d. Robert Frost
d. Walt Whitman
34. Who wrote this famous line: ‘Shall I compare
25. In 1960 ‘The Colossus’ was the first book of thee to a summer’s day/ Thou art more lovely and
poems published by which poetess? more temperate…’
a. Elizabeth Bishop a. TS Eliot
b. Sylvia Plath b. Lord Tennyson
c. Marianne Moore c. Charlotte Bronte
d. Laura Jackson d. Shakespeare

26. In his poem Kipling said ‘If you can meet with 35. From what century does the poetic form the folk
triumph and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ‘? ballad date?
a. Glory a. The 12th
b. Ruin b. The 14th
c. Disaster c. The 17th
d. victory d. The 19th

27. Which of the following is not a literary device 36. From which of Shakespeare’s plays is this famous
used for aesthetic effect in poetry? line: ‘Did my heart love til now?/ Forswear it, sight/
a. Assonance For I never saw a true beauty until this night’
b. Onomatopaea a. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
b. Hamlet
c. Othello 46. Wlliam Shakespeare is not the author of:
d. Romeo and Juliet a.Titus Andronicus
b.Taming of the Shrew
37. What is a poem called whose first letters of each c.White Devil
line spell out a word? d.Hamlet
a. Alliterative
b. Epic 47. ___________is a late 20th century play written by
c. Acrostic a woman?
d. Haiku a.Queen Cristina
b.Top Girls
38. Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom? c.Camille
a. Sir Walter Scott d.The Homecoimg
b. William Butler Yeats
c. Henry Longfellow 48. Which of the following writers wrote historical
d. Robert Burns novels?
a.Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte
39. How has Stephen Dunn been described in ‘the b.Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry? c.William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
a. A poet of middleness d.Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
b. Capturing a sense of spiritual marooness
c. One of the leading prairie poets 49. Who wrote “Ten Little Niggers?”
d. Has some distinction as a critic a.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
b.Irvine Welsh
40. ‘The Cambridge school’ refers to a group who c.Agatha Christie
emerged when? d.None of above
a. The 1900′s
b. The 1960′s 50. Which of the following are Thomas Hardy books?
c. The 1920′s a.The Poor Man and the Lady
d. The 1930′s b.The Return of Native
c.Chollttee
41. Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian d.None of the above
city?
a. Vancouver 51. Which of the following is not a work of John
b. Toronto Keats?
c. Ottowa a.Endymion
d. Montreal b.To some ladies
42. Which of the following words describe the c.To hope
prevailing attitude of High-Modern Literature? d.None of above
a.Skeptical
b.Authoritative 52. Who wrote the poems, “On death” and “Women,
c.Impressionistic Wine, and Snuff?”
d.Confident a.John Milton
e.Both a & c b.John Keats
c.P.B. Shelley
43. Which Welsh poet wrote “Under Milk Wood?” d.William Wordsworth
a.Anthony Hopkins
b.Richard Burton 53. “Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit Of that
c.Tom Jones forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into
d.Dylan Thomas the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden.”
This is an extract from:
44. Who wrote Canterbury Tales? a.Paradise Lost
a.Geoffrey Chaucer b.Paradise Regained
b.Dick Whittington c.Samson Agonistes
c.Thomas Lancaster d.Divorce Tracts
d.King Richard II
54. William Shakespeare was born in the year:
45. Who wrote “The Hound of the Baskervilles?” a.1564
a.Agatha Christie b.1544
b.H Ryder-Haggard c.1578
c.P D James d.1582
d.Arthur Conan Doyle
55. Which of the following is not a Shakespeare 64. Which is an example of a proverb?
tragedy? a) Get a “stake” in our business.
a.Titus Andronicus b) You can’t have your cake and eat it, too
b.Othello c) The snow was white as cotton.
c.Macbeth d) You’re driving me crazy.
d.Hamlet
e.None of the above 65. Which is an exaggeration?
a) Alliteration
56. Who wrote ‘The Winter’s Tale?’ b) Haiku
a.George Bernard Shaw c) Hyperbole
b.John Dryden d) Prose
c.Christopher Marlowe
d.William Shakespeare 66. Which of the following is not a poet?
a) William Shakespeare
57. What is the difference between a simile and a b) Terry Saylor
metaphor? c) Elizabeth B. Browning
a) No difference. Simply two different ways in d) Emily Dickinson
referring to the same thing.
b) A simile is more descriptive.
c) A simile uses as or like to make a comparison and
a metaphor doesn’t. 67. Who has defined ‘poetry’ as a fundamental
d) A simile must use animals in the comparison. creative act using languages?
a. H. W. Longfellow
58. What is the word for a “play on words”? b. Ralph Waldo Emerson
a) pun c. Dylan Thomas
b) simile d. William Wordsworth
c) haiku
d) metaphor 68. What is a sonnet?
a. A poem of six lines
59. Which represents an example of alliteration? b. A poem of eight lines
a) Language Arts c. A poem of twelve lines
b) Peter Piper Picked Peppers d. A poem of fourteen lines
c) I like music.
d) A beautiful scenery with music 69. What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of
a poem called as?
60. What is the imitation of natural sounds in word a. Prosody
form? b. Allegory
a) Personification c. Scansion
b) Hyperboles d. Assonance
c) Alliteration
d) Onomatopoeia 70. Which figure of speech is it when a statement is
exaggerated in a poem?
61. The theme is …? a. Onomatopeia
a) a plot. b. Metonymy
b) an character c. Alliteration
c) an address d. Hyperbole
d) the point a writer is trying to make about a
subject. 71. There was aware of her true love, at length come
riding by – This is a couplet from the Bailiff’s
62. Concentrate on these elements when writing a Daughter of Islington. What figure of speech is used
good poem. by the poet?
a) characters, main idea, and theme a. Metaphor
b) purpose and audience b. Synecdoche
c) theme, purpose, form, and mood. c. Euphemism
d) rhyme and reason d. Irony

63. Which is not a poetry form? 72. Which culture is known for their long, rhymic
a) epic poetic verses known as Qasidas?
b) tale a. Hindu
c) ballad b. Celtic
d) sonnet
c. Arabic a. Denver
d. Arameic b. St Louis
c. Cuba
73. Complete this Shakespearan line – Let me not to d. Toronto
the marriage of true minds bring:
a. Impediments 82. Ted Hughes was married to which American
b. Inconveniences poetess?
c. Worries a. Carolyn Kizer
d. Troubles b. Mary Oliver
c. Sylvia Plath
74. Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form? d. Marianne Moore
a. Jintishi
b. Villanelle 83. How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his
c. Ode death?
d. Tanka a. 24
b. 31
75. What is the title of the poem that begins thus – c. 21
‘What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to d. 28
stand and stare’?
a. Comfort 84. In what form did Dylan Thomas’s ‘Under Milk
b. Leisure Wood’ first become known?
c. Relaxation a. Book of poetry
d. Tranquility b. A radio play
c. A stage play
76. Which of the following is not an English poet (i. d. a short film
e. from England)?
a. Victor Hugo 85. The magazine ‘Contemporary Poetry and Prose’
b. Alexander Pope was inspired by which exhibition?
c. John Milton a. The Festival of Britain
d. Samuel Taylor Coleridge b. The Surrealist Exhibition
c. People of the 20th Century
77. Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as d. Drawing the 20th CEntury
most of his poems revolved around nature?
a. William Blake 86. Why did ‘Poetry Quarterly’ cease publication in
b. William Shakespeare 1953?
c. William Morris a. Owner convicted of fraud
d. William Wordsworth b. Fall in Sales
c. Rise in taxation on magazines
78. What is a funny poem of five lines called? d. Shortage of paper
a. Quartet
b. Limerick 87. Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better known
c. Sextet as what?
d. Palindrome a. Politician
b. Dramatist
c. Novelist
d. Architect
79. How did W. H. Auden describe poetry?
a. An awful way to earn a living 88. Of which poet was it said ‘Even if he’s not a great
b. A game of knowledge poet, he’s certainly a great something’?
c. The soul exposed a. Elliot
d. An explosion of language b. Kipling
c. Cummings
80. Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry? d. Brooke
a. Light verse
b. Romantic 1.which of these is magnum opus of chaucer?
c. Political satire A. Troilus and criseyde
d. War poems b. House of fame
c. The canterbury tales
81. Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his d. Parliament of fowls.
childhood?
89. Where were the pilgrims going in the canterbury a) French
tales? b) Norwegian
A. To the shrine of st. Peter at canterbury cathedral c) Spanish
b. To the shrine of saint thomas becket at canterbury d) Hungarian
cathedral e) Danish

90.in which language the stories of canterbury tale 99. Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic
are written? literature before becoming a staple subject in French,
A. French English, and German literatures?
b. Latin a) Beowulf
c. Middle english b) Arthur
d. English c) Caedmon
d) Augustine of Canterbury
91.chaucer’s franklin was guilty of which sin? e) Alfred
A. Lust
b. Corruption 100. Toward the close of which century did English
c. Theft replace French as the language of conducting
d. Gluttony business in Parliament and in court of law?
a) tenth
92. How many languages did chaucer know? b) eleventh
A.2 c) twelfth
b.4 d) thirteenth
c.1 e) fourteenth
d.5
101. Which king began a war to enforce his claims to
93.from which language the name ”chaucer” has been the throne of France in 1336?
driven? a) Henry II
A.french b) Henry III
b.latin c) Henry V
c.italian d) Louis XIV
d.english e) Edward III

94. Where did chaucer bury? 102. Who would be called the English Homer and
A.westminster abbey father of English poetry?
b.kent church a) Bede
c.chapel at windsor b) Sir Thomas Malory
95.chaucer was imprisoned during———————-? c) Geoffrey Chaucer
A.hundred years’ war d) Caedmon
b. Black death e) John Gower
c. Peasant revolt
103. What was vellum?
96 .how many children chaucer had? a) parchment made of animal skin
A.4 b) the service owed to a lord by his peasants
b.1 (“villeins”)
c.0 c) unrhymed iambic pentameter
d.2 d) an unbreakable oath of fealty
e) a prized ink used in the illumination of prestigious
MIDDLE AGES manuscripts

97. Which people began their invasion and conquest 104. Only a small proportion of medieval books
of southwestern Britain around 450? survive, large numbers having been destroyed in:
a) the Normans a) the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.
b) the Geats b) the Norman Conquest of 1066.
c) the Celts c) the Peasant Uprising of 1381.
d) the Anglo-Saxons d) the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
e) the Danes e) the wave of contempt for manuscripts that
followed the beginning of printing in 1476.
98. Words from which language began to enter
English vocabulary around the time of the Norman 105. What is the first extended written specimen of
Conquest in 1066? Old English?
a) Boethius’s Consolidation of Philosophy
b) Saint Jerome’s translation of the Bible a) the Battle of Hastings
c) Malory’s Morte Darthur b) Saint Patrick’s mission
d) Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People c) the Fourth Lateran Council
e) a code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert d) the execution of William Sawtre
e) his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine
106. Who was the first English Christian king?
a) Alfred 113. Which of the following languages did not
b) Richard III coexist in Anglo-Norman England?
c) Richard II a) Latin
d) Henry II b) Dutch
e) Ethelbert c) French
d) Celtic
107. In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of e) English
those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood
vengeance? 114. Which twelfth-century poet or poets were
a) banishment to Asia indebted to Breton storytellers for their narratives?
b) everlasting shame a) Geoffrey Chaucer
c) conversion to Christianity b) Marie de France
d) mild melancholia c) Chrétien de Troyes
e) being buried alive d) a and c only
e) b and c only
108. Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked
back on their pagan ancestors with: 116. Popular English adaptations of romances
a) nostalgia and ill-concealed envy. appealed primarily to
b) bewilderment and visceral loathing. a) the royal family and upper orders of the nobility
c) admiration and elegiac sympathy. b) the lower orders of the nobility
d) bigotry and shallow triumphalism. c) agricultural laborers
e) the deepest reluctance. d) the clergy
e) the Welsh
109. The use of “whale-road”for sea and “life-
house”for body are examples of what literary 117. What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s
technique, popular in Old English poetry? The History of the Kings of Britain?
a) symbolism a) the reign of King Arthur
b) simile b) the coronation of Henry II
c) metonymy c) King John’s seal of the Magna Carta
d) kenning d) the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine
e) appositive expression e) the defeat of the French by Henry V

110. Which of the following statements is not an 118. Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for
accurate description of Old English poetry? a) courtiers entering the service of Richard II
a) Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral b) translators of French romances
conduct. c) women who have chosen to live as religious
b) Its formal and dignified use of speech was distant recluses
from everyday use of language. d) knights preparing for their first tournament
c) Irony is a mode of perception, as much as it was a e) witch-hunters and exorcists
figure of speech.
d) Christian and pagan ideals are sometimes mixed. 119. The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and
e) Its idiom remained remarkably uniform for nearly Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose
three centuries. written around the year 1200?
a) They were written for sophisticated and well-
111. Which of the following best describes litote, a educated readers.
favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry? b) Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in
a) embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine Latin and French.
b) repetition of parallel syntactic structures c) Their readers’ primary language was English.
c) ironic understatement d) a and c only
d) stress on every third diphthong e) a and b only
e) a compound of two words in place of a single word
120. In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William
112. How did Henry II, the first of England’s Langland, the “flowering”of Middle English literature
Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern is evident in the works of which of the following
France? writers?
a) Geoffrey of Monmouth Lancelot?
b) the Gawain poet a) Julian of Norwich
c) the Beowulf poet b) Margery Kempe
d) Chrétien de Troyes c) William Langland
e) Marie de France d) Sir Thomas Malory
e) Geoffrey Chaucer
121. Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church,
beheading the archbishop of Canterbury? 128.what was the occupation of Chaucer’s father?
a) Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical a. leather merchant
religious reform. b.civil servant
b) The common people were still essentially pagan. c. a vintner
c) They believed that writing, a skill largely confined
to the clergy, was a form of black magic. 129. Chaucer became a page to which king’s
d) The church was among the greatest of oppressive daughter-in-law?
landowners. a. Edward III
e) a and c only b. Richard II
c. Henry IV
122. Which influential medieval text purported to
reveal the secrets of the afterlife? 130. which of these is not certain about Chaucer?
a) Dante’s Divine Comedy a. his birth date
b) Boccaccio’s Decameron b. his death year
c) The Dream of the Rood c. his father’s name
d) Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women
e) Gower’s Confessio Amantis 131. which of these kings was not served by
Chaucer?
123. Who is the author of Piers Plowman? a. Edward III
a) Sir Thomas Malory b. Henry II
b) Margery Kempe c. Richard II
c) Geoffrey Chaucer
d) William Langland 132.what was the duration of hundred year’s war?
e) Geoffrey of Monmouth a.1300 to 1350
b.1337 to 1453
124. What event resulted from the premature death of c. 1302 to 1343
Henry V?
a) the Battle of Agincourt 133.what did Chaucer’s wife use to do?
b) the Battle of Hastings a. lady-in-waiting to Queen Philip pa of Hainaut
c) the Norman Conquest b. nurse of royal court
d) the Black Death c. governess to Henry IV
e) the War of the Roses
134.one of Chaucer’s daughter was…………?
125. Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth a. a musician
century, personified vices and virtues? b. an astronomer
a) the short story c. a nun
b) the heroic epic
c) the morality play
135. in which year chaucer was imprisoned by the
d) the romance French?
e) the limerick a. 1360
b. 1357
126. Which of the following statements about Julian c. 1378
of Norwich is true?
a) She sought unsuccessfully to restore classical 136.chaucer was fined in 1367 or 1366
paganism. for…………..?
b) She was a virgin martyr. a. beating a friar in a London street
c) She is the first known woman writer in the English b. for writing poetry against the church
vernacular.
c. for crossing the border of Great Britain
d) She made pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, and
Santiago.
137. Chaucer was made in-charge of many
e) She probably never met Margery Kempe.
palaces,which of these was not in his charge?
a. Westminster Palace
127. Which of the following authors is considered a b. Tower of London
devotee to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir
c. St. George’s chapel at Windsor 146How many years of happiness was Dr Faustus
d. Buckingham Palace promised by the Devil?
a)16
138. Chaucer acted as a controller of custom b)20
during………….? c)24
a. 1374 to 1385 d)28
b. 1350 to 1360
c. 1360 to 1400 147) Which of these Kings was the subject of a play
by Marlowe?
139. Chaucer was released from legal action by a)Henry V
…………………… in a deed of May 1, 1380 from b)Richard III
rape and abduction? c)Edward II
a. Miss Cecily Chaumpaigne d)John
b. Philippa de Roet of Flanders
c. Agnes de Copton 148)One of Marlowe’s most famous poems was an
account of which lovers?
140. Chaucer became a member of Parliament a)Anthony and Cleopatra
in………..? b)Hero and Leander
a. 1386 c)Troilus and Cressida
b. 1300 d)Apollo and Hyacinth
c. 1343
149) Marlowe’s play ‘Tamburlaine the Great’ was
141. Chaucer buried in a corner of Westminster, based loosely on the life of which Asian ruler?
which came to know as………? a)Zhu Yuanzhang
a. Chaucer’s corner b)Genghis Khan
b. poet’s corner c)Timur
c. legend’s corner d)Kublai Khan

142. what was chaucer’s profession? 150)What was the title of the play by Marlowe that
a. a poet portrayed the events surrounding the Saint
b. a merchant Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in 1572?
c. a civil servant a)The Massacre at Berlin
b)The Massacre at Rome
c)The Massacre at Copenhagen
d)The Massacre at Paris
143)One of Marlowe’s earliest published works was
his translation of the epic poem ‘Pharsalia’, written 151)In the title of Marlowe’s play, of where was Dido
by which Roman poet? the Queen?
a)Ovid a)Troy
b)Lucan b)Carthage
c)Virgil c)Sparta
d)Horace d)Persia

144) Marlowe’s poem ‘The Passionate Shepherd to 152)Christopher Marlowe was England’s first official
His Love’ begins with the line “Come live with me Poet Laureate.
and be my love”; which other English author wrote a a)True
famous poem beginning with this line? b)False
a)William Shakespeare (It was John Dryden-appointed in 1670)
b)Thomas Kyd
c)John Dryden
d)John Donne
Dr.Faustus By Christopher Marlowe
145)In Marlowe’s play, what was the name of the
Jew of Malta? 153)In what country is ‘Dr Faustus’ based?
a)Lazarus a)England
b)Solomon b)Italy
c)Barabas c)France
d)Shylock d)Germany
154)When, is it estimated, was ‘Dr Faustus’ first 162)At the end of the play, Faustus is dragged down
performed? to hell, begging to repent.
a)1594
b)1604 a)True
c)1590 b)False
d)1593
163) ”Renaissance” is a:
155)At what famous university is Faustus a scholar? a)French word
a)Wittenburg b)Italian word
b)Sorbonne c)Greek word
c)Heidelberg d)Spanish word
d)Cambridge
164) What is the meaning of “Renaissance”:
156)Faustus’ servant shares his name with a famous a)Rebirth, revival and re-awaking
German composer. Who? b)Reveal, revel and reverie
a)Bach c)Raillery, renunciation and recoup
b)Schumann
c)Beethoven 165) Renaissance first came to the:
d)Wagner a)France
b)Italy
157)Faustus asks two magicians to aid him in c)England
summoning the devil. What are their names? d)Rome

a)Valdes and Cornelius 166) Which of the following are University wits:
b)Rosencrantz and Guildenstern a)John Gower and Robert Peele
c)Troilus and Cressida b)John Skelton and Thomas lodge
d)Pyramus and Thisbe c)John Lyly and Robert Greene
d)John Donne and Thomas Nashe
158)Through his magic, Faustus is visited first by
which of the devil’s angels? 167) University Wits were those who:
a)Had training at two universities
a)Mephastophilis b)gave curriculum of two universities
b)beelzebub c)Erected two universities
c)Aamon
159)What does Faustus promise to the devil in 168) Which century is known as Dawn of
exchange for great knowledge, riches and power for a Renaissance:
period of 24 years? a)14 th
a)his body b)15 th
b)his house c)16 th
c)his soul d)14 th and 16 th
d)his horse
169) Who born in 1422:
160)Which of the following qualities would most a)William Caxton
accurately describe Faustus’ character at the b)Robert Henry
beginning of the play? c)John Lyly
d)Thomas more
a)kind
b)stupid 170) Utopia was first printed in:
c)sensitive a)1615
d)arrogant b)1516
c)1517
161)Which powerful figure does Faustus ridicule d)1518
with his new-found powers?
171) Who translated Utopia in English language:
a)The Pope a)Thomas More
b)The Holy Roman Emperor b)Thomas lodge
c)The King of England c)Ralph Robinson
d)The King of France d)William Tyndale
172) The first complete version of Bible in English b)The shepheaedes Calendar
language was made by: c)Complaints
a)Wyclif d)Colin Clouts come home again
b)Thomas more
c)John Lyly 182) Which poet was first who used metaphysical
d)Robert Greene poetry among his contemporaries:
173) Who took Degree at fifteen from Cambridge in a)Edmund Spenser
1518? b)John Milton
c)John Donne
a)Thomas Nash d)Sir Philip Sidney
b)Thomas More
c)Thomas lodge 183) The first regular English comedy, based on the
d)Thomas Wyatt model of the Latin comedy, is attributed to ?
a)Nicholas Udall
174) Who wrote “Mirror for Magistrates”? b)Thomas Colwell
a)Thomas Sacville c)Lord Burghley
b)Thomas Wyatt
c)Thomas lodge 184)Thomas kyd (1558-95) achieved great popularity
d)Thomas Kyde with which of his first work?
a)The Rare Triumphs of love and fortune
175) Philip Sidney was born on 30th November: b)The Spanish Tragedy
a)1553 c)Jeronimo
b)1554 d)Cornelia
c)1555
d)1550 185)Marlowe born in________
a)1562
176) ”Astrophel and Stella” is a: b)1563
a) Allegory c)1564
b) Epic d)1565
c)Sonnet 186)In “the tragic history of Doctor Faustus”. Faustus
d)Ballad was a :
a) German scholar
177) Greville was biographer of: b)French scholar
a)Edmund Spencer c)Spanish scholar
b)John Donne d)Greek scholar
c)Sir Philip Sidney
d)John Milton 186)Who wrote “The Massacre at Paris”?
a)Shakespeare
178) ”The Prince Of Poets in his time”, on whom b)Christopher Marlowe
grave the inscription is given? c)Edmund Spenser
a)Sir Philip Sidney d)john Milton
b)John Milton
c)Edmund Spencer 187)After the death of Christopher Marlowe who
d)John Donne completed his unfinished poem “Hero and Leander”?
a)Shakespeare
179) What is Faerie Queene: b)Thomas Nash
a)An allegory c)George Chapman
b)An epic d)Thomas More
c)A ballad
d)A sonnet 188) Who succeeded Lyly?
a)Robert Greene
180) In whose reign Morality plays began? b)John Milton
a)Henry five c)Philip Sidney
b) Elizabeth one d)Christopher Marlowe
c)Henry six
d)Henry eight 189) Which of the Marlowe’s plays were written in
collaboration with Thomas Nash?
181) Which book Edmund Spenser dedicated to the a)Queen of Carthage and The passionate Shepherd.
Philip Sidney: b)The tragedy of Dido and Queen of Carthage.
a)The Faerie Queene c)The passionate Shepherd and The tragedy of Dido.
d)Queen of Carthage and The Massacre of Paris.
190) Who was the son of a rich London merchant and a) Elizabeth Wilton D/O Lord Grey De Wilton
born in 1557? b)Elizabeth Raleigh D/O Walter Raleigh
a)Thomas Nah c)Elizabeth Boyle D/O James Boyle
b)Thomas lodge d)Elizabeth Boyle D/O Richard Boyle
c)Thomas Kyd
d)Thomas Hardy 199)John Donne’s “The Anniversaries” is a:
a)An elegy in two parts
191) The collection of the papers and correspondence b)An epic in three parts
of a well-to-do Norfolk family is known as: c)A ballad in four parts
a)Letters to the Margret Paston d) None of these
b)Margret Paston to John Paston
c)The Paston letters 200) Who of the following is known as Child Of
d)To John Paston Renaissance?
a)Marlowe
192) Who wrote “Holy Sonnets”? b)Milton
c)Spencer
a)Edmund Spenser d)Johnson
b)John Donne
c)Shakespeare 201)During Spencer’s visit to his Kinsfolk in
d)John Milton Lancashire he felt in love a woman and who figures
as__________________ much of his work:
193) Who wrote following lines: a)Rosalind
“…….. I am involved in mankind: and therefore b) Belinda
never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for c)Both a and b
thee.” d)None of above
a)John Donne
b)John Milton 202) William Shakespeare born in:
c)Earnest Hemingway a)26 April 1567
d)D.H. Lawrence b)26 April 1566
c)26 April 1565
194) “On his blindness”, a collection of sonnets is d)26 April 1564
written by:
a)Edmund Spenser 203) William Shakespeare was……. child of John
b)John Milton and Mary:
c)Shakespeare a)second
d)Sir Philip Sidney b)fourth
c)third
195) “Paradise lost” was lost by: d)fifth
a)Eve
b)Adam 204) He married to the Anne Hathaway at the age
c)Both a and b of_______ in______.
d)Satan a)18, 1582
b)17, 1581
196) In “Paradise regained” who regained the c)16, 1580
paradise? d)15, 1579
a)Satan
b)Jesus 205) Which of the following statement is correct:
c)Adam and Eve a)Shakespeare’s first child Susanna was born in 1583.
d)Only Adam b)In 1585 twins were born and named Hamnet and
Judith.
197) Which of the following published in 1579 and c) both a and b.
although it placed Spencer immediately in the highest d) None of above.
rank of living writers?
a)Colin clouts come home again 206)Ann Hathaway was _________ years older than
b)Faerie queen, first three books Shakespeare:
c)The Shepherd’s calendar a)7
d)Faerie queen, second three books b)8
c)9
198)Spencer married in June 11, 1594 to ————— d)10
———————–? 207)After __________ years of his marriage he left
his native town and try his fortune in the great city of
London. 216)Marlow died of?
a)two a)Illness
b)three b)stabbing
c)four c)poisoned
d)five d)Hanged

208)Shakespeare’s only son Hamnet died in———— 217)Which was Marlowe’s first play?
? a)Dr.Faustus
a) 1595 b)Tamburlaine
b) 1596 c)The Tragedy of Dido
c)1597 d)The Jew of Malta,
d)1598
William Shakespeare(1564 – 1616)
209)Shakespeare is buried inside the: (Elizabethan Period)
a)Westminster Abbey
b)Trinity Church
c)Protestant Cemetery
d)None of above 218)In which town was Shakespeare born?
a)London
210)By ——– Shakespeare had established himself in b)Cambridge
London as an actor and dramatist: c)Stratford
a)1590 d)Oxford
b)1591
c)1592 219)How many children did Shakespeare have?
d)1593 1)3
2)5
211)Who declared him as Britain’s greatest dramatist 3)8
in 1598? 4)12
a)Queen Elizabeth
b)Francis Meres, a lawyer 220)How many plays did William Shakespeare write?
c)Burbage, an actor a)36
d)King James b)37
c)38
212) Shakespeare made Stratford his regular home in: d)39
a)About 1611
b) About 1610 221)What was Shakespeare’s first play?
c)About 1609 a)King Lear
d) About 1608 b)Henry VI
c)The Tempest
Christopher Marlowe d)Romeo and Juliet
213)What is Christopher Marlowe’s Nationality? 222)How many sonnets did William Shakespeare
a)British write?
b)German a)110
c)Dutch b)154
d)American c)175
d)187
214)What was the occupation of Christopher
Marlowe’s father? 223)How many photographs exist of William
a)Carpenter Shakespeare?
b)Civil servant a)2
c)Cobbler b)4
d)Farmer c)1
d)0
215)From where Christopher Marlowe received his
early Education? 224)Shakespeare died on?
Corpus Christi College a)23rd April 1616
a)Cambridge b)25th April 1616,
b)oxford c)28th April 1616
c)witternburg d)30th April 1616
d)Harvard
225)Shakespeare died at the age of c)The Famous History of the Life of King Henry
a)48 VIII
b)52 d)The Life and Death of King John
c)60
d)63 234)In what year was the First Folio published?

226)How many times suicide occurs in Shakespeare’s a)1626

plays? b)1621
c)1623
a)7 d)1629
b)9
c)11 235)What nationality was Shakespeare?
d)13
a)Italian
227)The line “To be or not to be” comes from which b)English
play? c)Scottish
a)Macbeth d)Greek
b)Twelfth Night
c)A Midsummer Night’s dream 236)In which century was Shakespeare born?
d)Hamlet
a)16th
228) Was the Globe… b)14th
a) A Roman Amphitheater. c)15th
b) An Elizabethan Theater. d)17th
c) An Elizabethan sports stadium.
d) A famous map of the world. 237)which famous Shakespeare play does the quote
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” come
229)Is there is a monument of Shakespeare in from?
Stratford today?
a)True a)The Merry Wives of Windsor
b)False b)Othello, the Moor of Venice
c)Pericles, Prince of Tyre
230)Which of these was not one of Shakespeare’s d)King Henry the Sixth, Part II
plays?
a)Titus Andronicus 238)Which river is associated with Shakespeare’s
b)The Tempest birth place?
c)Cymbeline
d)Shakespeare in love a)The Thames
b)The Avon
231)Which famous Shakespeare play does the c)The Tyburn
quote,”My salad days, when I was green in d)The Seven
judgment.” come from?
a)Antony and Cleopatra 239)Which famous play does the quote,”When shall
b)Hamlet, Prince of Denmark we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”
c)The Winters Tale come from?
d)The Merry Wives of Windsor
a) The Taming of the Shrew
232)Which famous Shakespeare play does the b) King Lear
quote,”Neither a borrower nor a lender be” come c) The Tempest
from? d) Macbeth
a)Cymbeline
b)Hamlet 240)How many of Shakespeare’s plays are classified
c)Titus Andronicus as histories?
d)Pericles, Prince of Tyre
a) 7
233)Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote b) 10
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a c) 14
thankless child!” come from?
d) 18
a)King Lear
b)As You Like It
241)The group of four plays known as the “major 249)How does Queen Gertrude die?
tetralogy” is: a) Accidentally stabbed by Laertes.
b) Drowns in the river outside the castle.
a) Richard III, King John, Henry VIII, 1 Henry VI c) Suffers a fatal heart attack while watching Hamlet
b) 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, Richard III fight Laertes.
c) King John, Henry V, Richard II, Richard III d) Poisoned by drinking from Hamlet’s cup.
d) Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V
250)Who does Polonius send to spy on Laertes in
242)In 1613 the Globe Theater burned down during a Paris?
production of which play? a) Francisco
b) Gorgonzola
a) King John c) Reynaldo
b) Richard II d) Samson
c) Henry VIII
d) Henry V 251)Who is Voltimand?
a) Ambassador to the King of Norway from the King
of Denmark
243)Complete the following famous line from b) Hamlet’s cousin
Hamlet: Something is rotten in the state of… c) Ambassador to the King of Denmark from the
a) England King of Norway
b) Venice d) Assassin in the service of Fortinbras
c) Denmark
d) Maine 252)What poison does Claudius pour into the ear of
Hamlet’s father, causing his death?
244)Which of the following characters does not a) Burdock
appear in Hamlet? b) Hebenon
a) Polonius c) Baneberry
b) Gertrude d) Hemlock
c) Claudius
d) Miranda 253)How many soliloquies does Hamlet deliver?

245)Where was Hamlet studying before he returned a)2

to Denmark? b)4
a) Wittenberg c)7
b) Oslo d)9
c) London
d) Dublin Macbeth

246)How are Polonius and Laertes related? 254)In which country is Macbeth set?

a) Father/son a) Spain
b) Uncle/nephew b) Denmark
c) Cousin/cousin c) Scotland
d) Brother/brother d) Canada

247)What is the name of the playlet Hamlet stages for 255)Who is traveling with Macbeth when he first
Claudius? encounters the Three Witches?
a) Macduff
a) Slings and Arrows b) Mercutio
b) Vice of Kings c) Lady Macbeth
c) The Murder of Gonzago d) Banquo
d) The Slaying of Lucianus
256)At the beginning of the play, the Scots are at war
248)Who says, “Good night, sweet prince,/And with which country?
flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”?
a) Fortinbras a) Norway
b) Marcellus b) Prussia
c) Chorus c) Iceland
d) Horatio d) Poland
257)Macbeth hires assassins to murder Banquo’s son, 265)Shakespeare dedicated his long narrative poem
named… Venus and Adonis to—————.
a) Angus a) Henry Wriothesley, the third earl of Southampton
b) Ross b) Thomas Wriothesley,forth earl of Southampton
c) Fleance c)William Fitzwilliam, first earl of Southampton
d) Lennox d) Henry Wriothesley, the second earl of
Southampton
258)How does Lady Macbeth explain her husband’s
wild behavior at the banquet? 266) During which period London theaterrs remained
closed on account of the plague?
a) She tells the guests that Banquo’s ghost is haunting a) 1592
Macbeth. b) 1593
b) She tells the guests that Macbeth has had too much c) 1594
to drink. d) 1595
c) She informs the guests that Macbeth is ill.
d) She reveals that Macbeth is overcome with grief 267) Which roles have played by Shakespeare in
over the death of Duncan. Hamlet and As you like it?
a) Fortinbras, Corin
259)Which of the following is not an apparition b)Leartus, Silvius
shown to Macbeth by the Witches: c)Osric, Touchstone
a) An armed head. d) Ghost, Old servant Adam
b) A bloody dagger floating in mid-air.
c) A bloody child. 268) In ……. year Shakespeare bought the largest
d) A child crowned, with a tree in his hand house in Stratford, called New place:
a) 1595
260)Who tells Macbeth, “The queen, my lord, is b) 1996
dead.”? c) 1597
a) Seyton d) 15598
b) Siward
c) The Doctor 269) In 1599 which famous actor and his brother
d) Caithness Cuthbert set a new playhouse on the Bank side,

261) Shakespeare”s father died in: called the Globe?

a) 1600 a) Augustine Phillipps
b) 1601 b) John Heimnge
c) 1602 c) Henry Condell
d) 1603 d) Richard Burbage

262) Shakespeare joined the Chamber lain’s Men 270) In Shakespeare’s literary output, the period
Theatrical Company as a: 1604-1608 is the period of:
a) Actor and playwright a) Comedy plays
b) Playwright and poet b) Historical plays
c)Playwright and writer c) Great Tragedies
d)None of above d) None of above

263) How many from his plays were published in his 271) “Under the green wood tree” is a song in:
lifetime: a) Love’s labour’s lost
a) Only sixteen b) As you like it
b) Only seventeen c) A mid Summer night’s dream
c) Only eighteen d) Much ado about nothing
d) Only nineteen
272) :Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show
264) In which year Globe theater got fire and To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe.
destroyed? He was not of an age, but for all time”.
a)1610 Who wrote above lines for Shakespeare:
b)1611 a) Jonson
c)1612 b) Bacon
d)1613 c) Wordsworth
d) none of above
273) Seven Ages of Man appears in ” As you like it”. That which we call a rose
Which character’s speech it is? By any other word would smell as sweet,”
a) Amiens a) Desdemona
b) Orlando b) Juliet
c) Oliver c) Rosalind
d) Jaques d) Hero

274) “To be or not to be that is the question”, is 281) Who is the second attending gentlewoman on
famous line of which of Shakespeare’s plays? Hero? Ursula and_________.
a) Othello a) Margaret
b) Macbeth b) Emilia
c) Hamlet c) Helena
d)King Lear d) Celia

275) Following are the lines of: 282) ” Some born great, some achieve greatness
“I’m your wife if you marry me And some have greatness thrust upon them”.
If not, I’ll die your maid to be your fellow Above lines are taken from which of following plays?
You may deny me, but I’ll be your servant Whether a) Macbeth
you deny or not”. b) Othello
c) Twelfth night
a) Hamlet d) As you like it
b) Romeo and Juliet
c) Tempest 283) Which of the following play was written in
d) Othello 1601?
a) Othello
276) Which of the following are characters of “Much b) Hamlet
ado about nothing”: c) King Lear
a) Hero, Borachio, Antonio, Claudio, Leonato d) Macbeth
b) Hero, Orlando, Antonio, Claudio, Leanato
c) Mirrinda, Borachio, Antonio, Claudio, Leanato 284) “Antony and Cleopatra” and “Macbeth” was in:
d) Hero, Boradio, Antonio, Claudio, Horatio a) 1606
b)1607
277) Which of the following is in correct sequel ? c)1608
a)Comedy of errors, A mid summer night’s dream, d)1609
Much ado about nothing, Henry 6 part three.
b)A mid summer night’s dream,Romeo and Juliet, As 285) Which of the following was written first:
you like it, King Lear,Pericles. a) Henry six
c)All’s well that ends well, The tempest, As you like b) Henry seven
it, As you like it,A mid summer night’s dream,Much c) Henry five
ado about nothing. d) None of above
d)King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Measure for measure,
Henry 8, Romeo and Juliet. 286) Which of the following are King Lear’s
daughters?
278)Who was killed by Hamlet unintentionally? a) Desdemona, Goneril and Cordelia
a) Leartus b) Goneril, Ophelia and Regan
b)Polonius c)Goneril, Regan and Cordelia
c) Forinbras d) Regan, Cordelia and Beatrice
d) Horatio
287) Shakespeare wrote _____ plays?
279) Who is second Prince of Arragon in “Much ado a) 32
about nothing”? b) 34
a) Leonato c) 36
b) Balthasar d) 38
c) Don John
d) Don Pedro 288) With the accession of King James to the English
throne, Lord Chamberlain’s Man was renamed:
280) Which character spoke following lines? a) King Lear
“What’s Montague? It is nor hand nor foot, b) Gentleman
Nor arm nor face, nor any other part c) King’s Man
Belonging to a man, O be some other name! d) None of above
What’s in a name?
290) Uneasy lies the head that_____( King Henry 299. One important feature of Jane Austen’s style is?
four, part two): (A) boisterous humour
a) Wears a crown (B) humour and pathos
b) Wears a hat (C) subtlety of irony
c) Wears a wig (D) stream of consciousness
d) none of these
300. The title of the poem ‘The Second Coming’ is
291) The epigraph of The Waste Land is borrowed taken from?
from? (A) The Bible
(A) Virgil (B) The Irish mythology
(B) Fetronius (C) The German mythology
(C) Seneca (D) The Greek mythology
(D) Homer
301. The main character in Paradise Lost Book I and
292. Who called ‘The Waste Land ‘a music of ideas’? Book II is?
(A) Allen Tate (A God
(B) J. C. Ransom (B) Satan
(C) I. A. Richards (C) Adam
(D) F. R Leavis (D) Eve

293. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ‘Unreal City’ 302. In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel’s mother’s name
in the first and third is?
sections from? (A)Susan
(A) Baudelaire (B)Jane
(B) Irving Babbit (C)Gertrude
(C) Dante (D) Emily
(D) Laforgue
303. The twins in Lord of the Flies are?
294. Which of the following myths does not figure in (A)Ralph and Jack
The Waste (B) Simon and Eric
Land? (C) Ralph and Eric
(A) Oedipus (D) Simon and Jack
(B) Grail Legend of Fisher King
(C) Philomela 304.Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a
(D) Sysyphus (A) lawyer
(B) postman
295. Joe Gargery is Pip’s? (C)Judge
(A) brother (D) School teacher
(B) brother-in-Jaw
(C) guardian 305. What does ‘I’ stand for in the following line?
(D) cousin ‘To Carthage then I came’
(A) Buddha
296. Estella is the daughter of? (B) Tiresias
(A) Joe Gargery (C) Smyrna Merchant
(B) Abel Magwitch . (D) Augustine
(C) Miss Havisham
(D) Bentley Drumnile 306. The following lines are an example……… of
image.
297. Which book of John Ruskin influenced ‘The river sweats
Mahatma Gandhi? Oil and tar’
(A) Sesame and Lilies (A) visual
(B) The Seven Lamps of Architecture (B) kinetic
(C) Unto This Last (C) erotic
(D) Fors Clavigera (D) sensual

298. Graham Greene’s novels are marked by? 307. Which of the following novels has the sub-title
(A) Catholicism ‘A Novel Without a Hero’?
(B) Protestantism (A) Vanity Fair
(C) Paganism (B) Middlemarch
(D) Buddhism (C) Wuthering Heights
(D) Oliver Twist
308. In ‘Leda and the Swan’, who wooes Leda in 317. Paradise Lost was originally written in?
guise of a swan? (A) ten books
(A) Mars (B) eleven books
(B) Hercules (C) nine books
(C) Zeus (D) eight books
(D) Bacchus
318. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with?
309. Who invented the term ‘Sprung rhythm’? (A) Darcy
(A)Hopkins (B) Wickham
(B)Tennyson (C) William Collins
(C)Browning (D) Charles Bingley
(D)Wordsworth
319. Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical Sublime’?
310.Who wrote the poem ‘Defence of Lucknow’? (A) William Wordsworth
(A) Browning (B) P.B.Shelley
(B) Tennyson (C) S. T. Coleridge
(C) Swinburne (D) John Keats
(D) Rossetti
320. Who is commonly known as ‘Pip’ in Great
311.Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has Expectations?
an epilogue? (A) Philip Pirrip
(A) The Tempest (B) Filip Pirip
(B) Henry IV, Pt I (C)Philip Pip
(C) Hamlet (D) Philips Pirip
(D) Twelfth Night
321. The novel The Power and the Glory is set in?
312. Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be,or not to be; that (A)Mexico
is the question’ (B) Italy
occurs in? (C)France
(A) Act II, Scene I (D) Germany
(B) Act III, Scene III
(C) Act IV, Scene III 323. Which of the following is Golding’s first novel?
(D) Act III, Scene I (A) The Inheritors
(B) Lord of the Flies
313. Identify the character in The Tempest who is (C) Pincher Martin
referred to as an honest old counselor (D) Pyramid
(A) Alonso
(B) Ariel 324.Identify the character who is a supporter of
(C) Gonzalo Women’s Rights in Sons and Lovers?
(D) Stephano (A) Mrs. Morel
(B) Annie
314. What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night? (C) Miriam
(A) Or, What is you Will (D) Clara Dawes
(B) Or, What you Will
(C) Or, What you Like It 325. Vanity Fair is a novel by?
(D) Or, What you Think (A) Jane Austen
(B) Charles Dickens
315. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare, (C) W. M. Thackeray
according to T. S. (D) Thomas Hardy
Eliot, is ‘artistic failure’?
(A) The Tempest 326. Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on the death of?
(B) Hamlet (A) Milton
(C) Henry IV, Pt I (B) Coleridge
(D) Twelfth Night (C) Keats
(D) Johnson
316. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I?
(A) Earl of Northumberland 327. Which of the following is the first novel of D. H.
(B) Earl of March Lawrence?
(C) Earl of Douglas (A) The White Peacock
(D) Earl of Worcester (B) The Trespasser
(C) Sons and Lovers (B) William Wordsworth
(D) Women in Love (C) Leigh Hunt
(D) S. T. Coleridge
328. In the poem ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘dearest friend’
refers to? 336. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of
(A) Nature the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’?
(B) Dorothy (A) Tennyson
(C) Coleridge (8) Charles Lamb
(D) Wye (C) Lockhart
(D) T. S. Eliot
329. Who, among the following, is not the second
generation of British 337. Tennyson’s poem ‘In Memoriam’was written in
Romantics? memory of?
(A) Keats (A) A. H. Hallam
(B) Wordsworth (B) Edward King
(C) Shelley (C) Wellington
(D) Byron (D) P. B. Shelley

330. Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a 338. Who, among the following, is not connected
ballad? with the Oxford Movement?
(A) Work Without Hope (A) Robert Browning
(B) Frost at Midnight (B) John Keble
(C) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (C) E. B. Pusey
(D) Youth and Age (D) J. H. Newman

331. Identify the writer who was expelled from 339. Identify the work by Swinburne which begins
Oxford for circulating a pamphlet— “when the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces..”?
(A) P. B. Shelley (A) Chastelard
(B) Charles Lamb (B) A Song of Italy
(C) Hazlitt (C) Atalanta in Calydon
(D) Coleridge (D) Songs before Sunrise

332. Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to? 340. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, Hero Worship and
(A) Leigh Hunt the Heroic in History is a course of?
(B) Milton (A) six lectures
(C) Shakespeare (B) five lectures
(D) Thomas Chatterton (C) four lectures
(D) seven lectures
333. The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles
Lamb was published in? 341. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture
(A) 1823 on the ‘Hero as King’?
(B) 1826 (A) Johnson
(C) 1834 (B) Cromwell
(D) 1833 (C) Shakespeare
(D) Luther
334. Which of the following poets does not belong to
the ‘Lake School’? 342. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a
defence of contemporary landscape artist especially
Turner?
(A) The Stones of Venice
(A) Keats (B) The Two Paths
(C) The Seven Lamps of Architecture
(D) Modem Painters
(B) Coleridge
(C) Southey
(D) Wordsworth 343. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to
describe the political novels of?
(A) Charles Dickens
335.Who, among the following writers, was not
(B) Anthony Trollope
educated at Christ’s Hospital School,
(C) W. H. White
London?
(D) B. Disraeli
(A) Charles Lamb
344. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, 353. “Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous,
regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’— there shall be no more cakes and ale.” Who speaks
(A) Tennyson the lines given above in Twelfth Night?
(B) Browning (A) Duke Orsino
(C) Swinburne (B) Malvolio
(D) D. G. Rossetti (C) Sir Andrew Aguecheek
(D) Sir Toby Belch
345. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each
with eleven syllables, is known as? 354. In Paradise Lost, Book I, Satan is the
(A) Spenserian Stanza embodiment of Milton’s?
(B) Ballad (A) Sense of injured merit
(C) Ottava Rima (B) Hatred of tyranny
(D) Rhyme Royal (C) Spirit of revolt
(D) All these
346. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in
English poetry? 355. Who calls poetry “the breadth and finer spirit of
(A) Sir Thomas Wyatt all knowledge”?
(B) William Shakespeare (A) Wordsworth
(C) Earl of Surrey (B) Shelley
(D) Milton (C) Keats
(D) Coleridge
347. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed
during the 1880s was not influenced by? 356. Twelfth Night opens with the speech of?
(A) The Pre-Raphaelites (A)Viola
(B) Ruskin (B) Duke
(C) Pater (C)Olivia
(D) Matthew Arnold (D) Malvolio

348. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the 357. What was the cause of William’s death in Sons
following line of Tennyson “Faith un-faithful kept and Lovers?
him falsely true.” (A) An accident
(A) Oxymoron (B) An overdose of morphia
(B) Metaphor (C) Suicide
(C) Simile (D) Pneumonia
(D) Synecdoche
358. Which poem of Coleridge is an opium dream?
349. W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of (A) Kubla Khan
eternity’ in his poem? (B) Christabel
(A) Sailing to Byzantium (C) The Ancient Mariner
(B) Byzantium (D) Ode on the Departing Year
(C) The Second Coming
(D) Leda and the Swan 359. Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous
poem ‘Ode to the West Wind’?
350. Who is Pip’s friend in London? (A) Rime royal
(A) Pumblechook (B) Ottava rima
(B) Herbert Pocket (C) Terza rima
(C) Bentley Drummle (D) Spenserian Stanza
(D) Jaggers
360. The phrase ‘Pathetic fallacy’ is coined by?
351. Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory? (A) Milton
(A) A teacher (B) Coleridge
(B) A clerk (C) Carlyle
(C) A thief (D) John Ruskin
(D) A dentist
361. Tracts for the Times relates to?
352. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ is a quotation from? (A) The Oxford Movement
(A) Milton (B) The Pre-Raphaelite Movement
(B) William Shakespeare (C) The Romantic Movement
(C) T. S. Eliot (D) The Symbolist Movement
(D) Ruskin
362. The Chartist Movement sought? 371. “Epipsychidion” is composed by?
(A) Protection of the political rights of the working (A) Coleridge
class (B) Wordsworth
(B) Recognition of chartered trading companies (C) Keats
(C) Political rights for women (D) Shçlley
(D) Protection of the political rights of the middle
class 372. “The better part of valour is discretion” occurs in
Shakespeare’s—?
363. Who wrote “Biographia Literaria”? (A) Hamlet
(A)Byron (B) Twelfth Night
(B) Shelley (C) The Tempest
(C) Coleridge (D) Henry IV, Pt I
(D) Lamb
373. Epic similes are found in which work of John
364. Who was “Fortinbras”? Milton?
(A) Claudius’s son (A) Paradise Lost
(B) Son to the king of Norway (B) Sonnets
(C) Ophelia’s lover (C) Lycidas
(D) Hamlet’s Mend (D) Areopagitica

365. How many soliloquies are spoken by Hamlet in 374. Identify the writer who used a pseudonym,
the play Hamlet? Michael Angelo Titmarsh, for much of his early
A) Nine work?
(b) Five (A) Charles Dickens
(c )Seven (B) W. M. Thackeray
(D) Three (C) Graham Greene
(D) D. H. Lawrence
366. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are
full of passionate intensity.” The above lines have 375. Pride and Prejudice was originally a youthful
been taken from? work entitled?
(A) The Waste Land (A)‘Last Impressions’
(B) Tintern Abbey (B)‘False Impressions’
(C) The Second Coming (C)‘First Impressions’
(D) Prayer for My Daughter (D)‘True Impressions’

367.William Morel in Sons and Lovers is drawn 376. Identify the novel in which the character of
after? Charlotte Lucas figures
(A) Lawrence’s father (A) Great Expectations
(B) Lawrence’s brother (B) The Power and the Glory
(C) Lawrence himself (C) Lord of the Flies
(D) None of these (D) Pride and Prejudice

368. The most notable characteristic of Keats’ poetry 377 ‘There’s a special providence in the fall of a
is? sparrow.”
(A) Satire The line given above occurs in
(B) Sensuality (A) Hamlet
(C) Sensuousness (B) Henry IV, Pt I
(D) Social reform (C) The Tempest
(D) Twelfth Night
369. The key-note of Browning’s philosophy of life
is? 378. Who said that Shakespeare in his comedies has
(A) agnosticism only heroines and no heroes?
(B) optimism (A) Ben Jonson
(C) pessimism (B) John Ruskin
(D) skepticism (C) Thomas Carlyle
(D) William Hazlitt
370. The title of Carlyle’s ‘Sartor Resartus’ means?
(A) Religious Scripture 379. Sir John Falstaff is one of Shakespeare’s
(B) Seaside Resort greatest?
(C) Tailor Repatched (A) comic figures
(D) None of these (B) historical figures
(C) romantic figures 388. “The rarer action is in virtue that in vengeance.”
(D) tragic figures This line occurs in?
(A) Hamlet
380. That Milton was of the Devil’s party without (B) Henry IV,Pt I
knowing it, was said by? (C) The Tempest
(A)Blake (D) Twelfth Night
(B) Eliot
(C)Johnson 389. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a?
(D) Shelley (A) Picaresque novel
(B) Gothic novel
381. Who called Shelley ‘a beautiful and ineffectual (C) Domestic novel
angel beating in the void his luminous wings in (D) Historical novel
vain’?
(A) Walter Pater 390. ‘Heaven lies about us in our infancy’. This line
(B) A. C. Swinburne occurs in the poem?
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) T. S. Eliot (A) Immortality Ode
(B) Tintern Abbey
382. Essays of Ella are? (C) The Second Coming
(A) full of didactic sermonising (D) Leda and the Swan
(B) practically autobiographical fragments
(C) remarkable for their aphoristic style 391. Wordsworth calls himself ‘a Worshipper of
(D) satirical and critical Nature’ in his
poem—
383. The theme of Tennyson’s Poem ‘The Princess’ (A) Immortality Ode
is? (B) Tintern Abbey
(A) Queen Victoria’s coronation (C) The Prelude
(B) Industrial Revolution (D) The Solitary Reaper
(C) Women’s Education and Rights
(D) Rise of Democracy 392. When Wordsworth’s ‘Immortality Ode’ was first
published in
384. Thackeray’s “Esmond” is a novel of historical 1802, it had only?
realism capturing the spirit of? (A) Stanzas I to IV
(A) the Medieval age (B) Stanzas I toV
(B) the Elizabethan age (C) Stanzas I to VI
(C) the age of Queen Anne (D) Stanzas I to VII
(D) the Victorian age
393. Which method of narration has been employed
385. Oedipus Complex is? by Dickens in his novel “Great Expectations”?
(A) a kind of physical ailment (A) Direct or epic method
(B) a kind of vitamin (B) Documentary method
(C)a brother’s attraction towards his sister (C) Stream of Consciousness technique
(D) a son’s attraction towards his mother (D) Autobiographical method

386. “My own great religion is a belief in the blood, 394. Who said ‘Keats was a Greek’?
the flesh as being wiser than the intellect.” Who (A) Wordsworth
wrote this? (B) Coleridge
(A)Graham Greene (C) Lamb
(B)D. H. Lawrence (D) Shelley
(C)Charles Dickens
(D) Jane Austen 395. D. G. Rossetti was a true literary
descendant of?
387 .Shakespeare makes fun of the Puritans in his (A) Keats
play? (B) Byron
(A) Twelfth Night (C) Shelley
(B) Hamlet (D) Wordsworth
(C) The Tempest
(D) Henry IV,Pt I 396. To which character in Hamlet does the following
description apply?
“The tedious wiseacre who meddles his way to his
doom.” (C)Sir Toby
(A) Claudius (D) Malvolio
(B) Hamlet
(C) Polonius 404. Hamlet is?
(D) Rosencrantz (A) an intellectual
(B) a man of action
46. Browning’s famous poem ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’ is (C) a passionate lover
included in? (D) an over ambitious man
(A) Dramatis Personae
(B) Dramatic Idyls 405. Which of Shakespeare’s characters exclaims;
(C) Asolando ‘Brave, new, world!’?
(D) Red Cotton Night-Cap Country (A) Ferdinand
(B) Antonio
397. S. T. Coleridge was an Associate of? (C) Miranda
(A) The Royal Society of Edinburgh (D) Prospero
(B) The Royal Society ofLondon
(C) Royal Society of Arts 406. Paradise Lost shows an influence of?
(D) Royal Society of Literature (A) Paganism
(B) Pre-Christian theology
398. Which of the following is an unfinished novel by (C) Christianity and the Renaissance
Jane Austen? (D) Greek nihilism
(A) Sense and Sensibility
(B) Mansfield Park 407. The style of Paradise Lost is?
(C) Sandition (A) more Latin than most poems
(D) Persuasion (B) more spontaneous than thought out
(C) more satirical than spontaneous
399.Why did Miss Havisham remain a spinster (D) more dramatic than lyrical
throughout her life in “Great Expectations”?
(A) She was poor 408. In Pride and Prejudice we initially dislike but
(B) She was arrogant later tend to like?
(C) Because she was betrayed by the bridegroom (A) Mr. Bennet
(D) She was unwilling to marry (B) Wickham
(C)Bingley
400. W. B. Yeats received the Nobel Prize for (D) Darcy
literature in the year?
(A)1938 409. Who in Hamlet suggests that one should neither
(B) 1925 be a lender nor a borrower?
(C)1932 (A)Gertrude
(D) 1923 (B) Polonius
(C)Horatio
401. The Romantic Revival in English Poetry was (D) Hamlet
influenced
by the? 410. Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Pt I contains his?
(A) French Revolution (A) senecan attitude
(B) Glorious Revolution of1688 (B) patriotism
(C) Reformation (C) love of nature
(D) Oxford Movement (D) platonic ideals

402. The Pre-Raphaelite poets were mostly indebted Plays by Shakespeare..

to the poets of the?
(A) Puritan movement
(B) Romantic revival
(C) Neo-classical age COMEDIES
(D) Metaphysical school
All’s Well That Ends Well
403. ‘O, you are sick of self-love’ Who is referred to As You Like It
in these Comedy of Errors
words in Twelfth Night? Love’s Labour’s Lost
(A)Orsino Measure for Measure
(B) Sir Andrew Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor 414) Which of the following are tragedies of
Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare?
Much Ado about Nothing a) Hamlet, Othello and Troilus and Cressida
Taming of the Shrew b) Coriolanus, Timon of Athens and Titus
Tempest Andronicus
Twelfth Night c) King Lear, Measure for measure and The merchant
Two Gentlemen of Verona of Venice
Winter’s Tale d) Macbeth, Much ado about nothing and Antony and
Cleopatra
HISTORIES
415) Which of the following tragedy is not written by
Cymbeline Shakespeare?
Henry IV, Part I a) Hamlet
Henry IV, Part II b)Macbeth
Henry V c) King Lear
Henry VI, Part I d) King Oedipus
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III 416) Othello was a :
Henry VIII a) General of England
King John b)General of Denmark
Pericles c) Prince of England
Richard II d) Prince of Denmark
Richard III
417) ————- was father of Desdemona?
TRAGEDIES a) Othello
b) Brabantio
Antony and Cleopatra c) Iago
Coriolanus d) Gratiano
Hamlet
Julius Caesar 418) Othello was sent to fight with:
King Lear a) French army
Macbeth b) German army
Othello c) Ottomans
Romeo and Juliet d) None of above
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus 419) Desdemona was killed by :
Troilus and Cressida a) Iago
b) Casio
c) Othello
d) Brabantio

420) Othello gave Desdemona ————- as a token

411) Which of the following is the earliest comedy of of love:
Shakespeare? a) Ring
a) A mid summer night’s dream b) Handkerchief
b) Much ado about nothing c) Pendant
c)As you like it d) Bengals
d)Love’s labour’s lost
421) Desdemona was :
412) “Twelfth night” is a: a) wife of Othello
a)Tragedy b) daughter of Othello
b) Comedy c) both a and b
c) Problem play d) none of above
d) Both a and b
422) ” A man can die but once” is one of quote of
413) Who was villain in Othello? following plays:
a) Claudius a) Henry 6 part three
b) Iago b) Henry 4 part two
c) Egeus c) Henry 6 part one
d) None of above d) Henry 4 part one
423) “I have no other but a woman’s reason Historical Events & Literary Events
I think him so, because I think him so”
Which of Shakespeare’s play contain above lines? 1700 Begin Of London Club
a) The two gentle men of Verona 1702 First daily newspaper
b) Merry wives of Windsor 1727 Death of Newton
c) The noble Kinsman 1775 War of American independence begins.
d) Measure for measure 1776 America declared independent.
1789 Outbreak of French Revolution.
424)” What piece of work is a man 1726 Gulliver’s Travells by Jonathan Swift.
How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, 1749 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
In form and moving how express and admirable 1766 The Vicar of wakefield by Goldsmith
In action! how like an angle 1719 Rabinson crusoe by Defoe.
In apprehension! how like a God: 1728 Beggar’s opera by Gay.
The beauty of the World, the paragon of 1712 The Rape of The Lock by Pope.
animals_____ 1740 Pamela by Richardson.
And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
Above lines are taken from Hamlet’s which act? English Rulers
a) act 1 scene two
b) act 2 scene two 1702-1714 Anne
c) act 3 scene two 1714-27 George
d) act 4 scene two I1727-1760 George II

425) Which of the following is Hamlet’s mother? Authors

a) Beatrice
b) Margaret 1667-1745 Jonathan Swift
c) Gertrude 1668-1744 Alexander Pope
d) Rosalind 1689-1761 Samuel Richardson
1707-1754 Henry Fielding
426) Following are the characters of: 1728-1774 Oliver Goldsmith
Apemantus, Alcibiades, Flavius, Lucullus, 1672-1719 Joseph Addison
Sempronius 1716-1771 Thomas Gray
a) Coriolanus 1721-59 Collins
b) Cymbeline 1700-48 Thomson
c) Timon of Athens 1731-1800 Cowper
d) Winter’s tale 1709-84 Dr. Johnson

427) Who is the heroin of The Tempest? Major Historical and Literary Events
a) Ophelia
b) Desdemona 1668. Dryden Made poet Laureate
c) Miranda 1668. Dryden’s “Essay of Dramatic Poesy.”
d) Helena 1671 Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes by
Milton.
428) Hamlet consist of ————— acts: 1670. Dryden’s”Conquest ofGranada.”
a) 3 1671. The ” Rehearsal.”
b) 4 1672. Wycherley’s” Love in aWood.”
c) 5 1675. Wycherley’s”Country Wife.”
d) 6 1677. Dryden’s “All for Love.”
1677. Wycherley’s “Plain Dealer.”
429) Which of Shakespeare’s play is his only play 1678. The Pilgrim’s Progress by Bunyan.
that has never been adopted for film or Television? 1678. All for Love by Dryden.
a) Taming of the Shrew 1678. Third part of ” Hudibras.”
b) The two Noble Kinsmen 1680. Gilbert Burnet’s ” Account ofthe Life and
c) Troilus and Cressida Death of the Earl of Rochester.”
d) Cymbeline 1681. Dryden’s “Absalom and Achitophel.”
1682. Dryden’s “The Medal,”"Mac Flecknoe,” and”
430) Which of Shakespeare’s play features Sir John Religio Laici.”
Falstaff? 1686. Dryden joined the Church of Rome.
a) The merry wives of Windsor 1686. Dryden’s poem “To the Memory of Miss Anne
b) Troilus and Cressida Killegrew.”
c) King John 1687. Dryden’s” Hind and Panther.”
d) Titus Andronicus 1687. Sir Isaac Newton’s ” Principia.”
1688. James II flees 1659 Dryden’s The Death of Cromwell
1688. Glorious Revolution 1660 Samuel Pepys begins his diary.
1689. Thomas Shadwell, made poet Laureate.
1689. Dryden’s” Don Sebastian.” 1667 Milton’s “Paradise Lost.” English poet John
Milton completes his epic poem Paradise Lost in
1689. Burnet appointed Bishop of Salisbury. 1674 after becoming blind. The work, which tells the
1691. Tillotson appointed Archbishopof Canterbury. story of Lucifer’s rebellion in heaven and Adam’s
1692. Locke made Secretary ofProsecutions. fall, is an extended meditation on humanity’s
1693. Congreve’s” Old Bachelor.” relationship with God, human nature, and the
1694. Dryden’s” Love Triumphant.” meaning of life. It is considered one of the
1694. Congreve’s” Double Dealer.” masterpieces of world literature.
1695. Congreve’s” Love for Love.”
1697. Dryden’s translation of ” Virgil-” 1678. Bunyan’s”Pilgrim’s Progress.” English Puritan
1697. Congreve’s “Mourning Bride.” John Bunyan writes the religious allegory Pilgrim’s
1698. Jeremy Collier’s ” Short View.” Progress in 1678. The work, generally considered a
1699. Dryden’s” Fables.” masterpiece in Christian and English literature,
1700. Congreve’s “Way of the World.” describes the journey of the central character, named
1706. Farquhar’s”Recruiting Officer.” Christian, through life to eventual salvation.
1707. Farquhar’s “Beaux Stratagem.”
1759. Butler’s ” Genuine Prose Remains” published. Rulers of English Throne
1775. Sheridan’s ” The Rivals,” ” St. Patrick’s Day,: 1625-49 Charles I
and” The Duenna.” 1649-60 Commonwealth the Protectorate
1777. Sheridan’s ” School for Scandal.”
1779. Sheridan’s “The Critic.” Authors of This Era
1780. Sheridan became a Member of Parliament.
1579-1625 John Fletcher
English Rulers 1593-1633 Herbert
1605-1682 Sir Thomas Browne
1660-1685 Charles II 1608-1674 John Milton
1685-1688 James II 1621-1666 Henry Vaughan
1688-1702 William & Mary 1633-1703 Samuel Pepys

Major Authors

1631-1700 John Dryden Elizabethan Period

1628-88 John Bunyan
1664-1721 Matthew Prior 431) What was the nickname of Mary I?
1633-1703 Samuel Pepys a)Bloody Mary
1664-1726 Sir John VanbraghAge of Milton b)Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
Major Historical and Literary events c)Mary, Queen of Scots
d)None of the Above
1642 Civil war begins
1642 Closure of Public Theatre 432)Who was the sister of Mary I?
1649 Charles I executed. a)Isabella
1653 Oliver Cromwell becomes Land Protector. b)Victoria
1658 Oliver Cromwell dies His son Richard succeeds. c)Anne
1660 The Restoration begins (Charles II Accession) d)Elizabeth I
1660 Anne Marshall, first woman on English stage.
1660 Theatre reopened. 433)Who was the father of the previous two?
1629 Milton’s Nativity Ode. (Questions 1 and 2?)
1631 Herbert’s Temple a)Henry VI
1633 Milton’s L’Allegro, II Penserose. b)William
1637 Milton’s Lycidas c)George III
1642 Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici d)Henry VIII
1644 Milton’s “Areopagitica.” English poet and 434)Who was the first Tudor King?
writer John Milton publishes “Areopagita,” an essay a)Henry VIII
espousing freedom of the press. Milton writes the b)Henry VII
piece in response to the censorship that is rampant in c)George III
England at the time. d)James I
435)What are the beginning and ending dates of the a)Begging
Elizabethan era? b)Money lending
a)1558-1603 c)Fortune-telling
b)1500-1520 d)Wine bottling
c)1560-1570
d)1575-1600 443)Crime was ardently followed by punishment.
Elizabethans had devised various ways to fine,
436)Who was the mother of Elizabeth I? humiliate, torture, and kill offenders. Which crime
a)Catherine of Aragon was punishable by death?
b)Jane Seymour
c)Catherine Howard a)Skipping church on Sunday
d)Anne Boleyn b)A woman screaming at her husband in public
c)Stealing a horse
437)In what year did England and Spain fight a d)Public drunkenness
famous sea battle?
a)1500 444)Religion played a pivotal part in Elizabethan life.
b)1588 Protestants, Catholics, Puritans, and other religious
c)1600 groups jostled for power and survival in uncertain
d)1575 times. In 1559, an Act of Parliament was passed
which determined the “supreme governor” of all
438)Which relative did Elizabeth I have executed? things spiritual. Who was it?
a)Anne Boleyn
b)Mary I a)The Pope in Rome
c)Mary, Queen of Scots b)Each man was his own supreme governor
d)Catherine of Aragon c)The Archbishop of Canterbury
d)Queen Elizabeth I
439)What church did Elizabeth I establish or re-
establish by law in England during her reign? 445)Elizabethan England was largely rural, with the
a)The Anglican Church majority of its population living in the verdant
b)The Roman Catholic Church countryside. Towns and cities, however, were
growing–and the most prominent of all was London.
c)Calvinism While Londoners were considered wealthy and
d)The Lutheran Church arrogant, the city was begrimed, filthy, and infested
with vermin. Where did people primarily dispose of
440) Everyone in Elizabethan England was born into their trash and wastes?
a social class. Peasants were the unluckiest of the lot:
they were denied basic comforts, security, and even a)Dump sites in the nearby country
the chance to dress well. Yep, the Statutes of Apparel b)The streets
outlined the clothes one could legally wear based on c)The underground drains
rank. Which of the following could the poor wear? d)Designated “trash” areas
a)Purple silk dresses
b)Woolen underwear 446)Elizabethans were notoriously superstitious.
c)Sable-lined cloaks They feared witches, believed in magical animals,
d)Velvet coats and sought good luck charms. What “science” did
they utilize in trying to predict and control the future?
441)Marriage was a social obligation, and for many
families a topic of obsession. Betrothals were often a)Alchemy
arranged by parents, especially for the high-class. b)Metallurgy
What criterion was considered the least important in c)Geocentricity
deciding upon a suitable match? d)Astrology
a)Property
b)Wealth 447)The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England.
c)Lineage William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and
d)Love Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous
playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music,
442) Elizabethans had many occupational choices. songs, and art were popular with noblemen and
One could become an apothecary, clerk, physician, or commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however,
even court jester. Though there seemed to be a was considered taboo in any art form. What was a
myriad of careers to choose from, most people still strictly forbidden subject?
ended up being very poor. In order to survive, what
illegal activity did a large number of citizens pursue?
a)Sexuality (c) Trochaic Heptameter
b)Criticism of the queen (d) Free-flow verse
c)Murder
d)Witchcraft 455)Elizabeth and Mary I belonged to what royal
family?
448)Staying alive was a difficult task for (a) Windsor
Elizabethans. Disease, infection, poverty, childbirth, (b) Stuart
and occupational accidents could all result in one’s (c) Tudor
untimely demise. Most people never reached the age (d) Plantagenet
of fifty. When an Elizabethan died, intricate rituals
were followed. What was NOT a funeral custom? 456) Which English king had several of his wives
killed in his obsessive quest for a male heir?
a)Long processionals
b)Mourning clothes (a) Edward VI
c)Strict simplicity (b) Richard III
d)Tolling of church bells (c) George III
(d) Henry VIII
449)Which of the following was the Tower of
London used for in the Elizabethan age? 457)What religion was Mary I?
(a) Catholic
(a) As an astronomical observation deck (b) Anglican
(b) As a storage place for grain (c) Episcopalian
(c) As a prison (d) Presbyterian
(d) As a school for the royal children
458)What religion was Mary Queen of Scots?
450)Who issued an interdict against Elizabeth? (a) Episcopalian
(b) Catholic
(a) Pope Pius V (c) Presbyterian
(b) Pope Innocent III (d) Lutheran
(c) Pope Gregory XIII
(d) Pope Boniface 459)Which work did Edmund Spenser author?
(a) The Castle of Perseverance
451) What was Elizabeth’s close circle of advisers (b) The Double
called? (c) The Metamorphoses
(d) The Faerie Queene
(a) The Star Chamber
(b) Parliament 460)Who succeeded Elizabeth I?
(c) The Privy Council
(d) The Cabinet (a) Mary Queen of Scots
(b) Charles I
452) Which of the following is a ceremony in which a (c) James I
sovereign is officially crowned? (d) Edward VI
(A) Investiture
(B) Invocation 461)Which of the following was Elizabeth known as?
(C) Gala (a) Unintelligent
(D) Coronation (b) Rude
(c) Stingy
453)Which country believed it had an “Invincible (d) Fanatic
Armada” before 1588?
(a) France 462)Which language did young Elizabeth learn in
(b) England secret?
(c) Spain (a) French
(d) The Netherlands (b) Gaelic
(c) Esperanto
454)What type of non-rhymed poetry did Christopher (d) Welsh
Marlowe pioneer?
463)Who was Edmund Spenser’s patron?
(a) Blank verse (a) The Earl of Leicester
(b) The sonnet (b) Elizabeth
(c) Lord Burleigh Jacobean Era
(d) Francis Bacon 472)In literature, some of Shakespeare’s most
powerful plays were written in that period (for
464)What was a favorite entertainment in Elizabeth’s example The Tempest, King Lear, and Macbeth), as
court? well as powerful works by John Webster and
(a) Swimming ________.
(b) Gambling a)William Shakespeare
(c) Jousting b)Ben Jonson
(d) Backgammon c)Ben Jonson folios
d)English Renaissance theatre
465)Which of the following disciplines most
fascinated Elizabeth? 473)What proceeded Jacobean era?
(a) Philology a)Elizabethan Era
(b) Alchemy b)Caroline era
(c) Zoology c)Victorian era
(d) Astrology d)Jacobean Era

466)Elizabeth’s reign was longer than that of any 474)The Jacobean era ended with a severe economic
other Tudor. When she died at the age of 69 in 1603, depression in 1620–1626, complicated by a serious
how many years had she reigned? outbreak of ________ in London in 1625.
a)35 a)Cholera
b)40 b)Tuberculosis
c)45 c)Bubonic plague
d)50 d)Plague (disease)

467)What was Elizabeth’s nickname for Sir Walter 475)The word “Jacobean” is derived from the
Raleigh? ________ name Jacob, which is the original form of
a)Waldimor the English name James.
b)Water a)Samaritan Hebrew language
c)William b)Biblical Hebrew
d)Winter c)Mishnaic Hebrew
d)Hebrew language
468)The complex ranking system that Elizabethans
believed ordered every single thing in the universe 476)The Jacobean era succeeds the ________ and
was known as: precedes the Caroline era, and specifically denotes a
a)The Great Order of Life style of architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and
b)The Great Chain of Being literature that is predominant of that period.
c)The Great System of Shakespeare a)Elizabethan era
d)The Great Sonnet Symbolism Maker b)English Reformation
c)England
469)A poem that deals in an idealized way with d)Tudor period
Shepherds and rustic life is known as:
a)A Protestant Poem 477)Jonson was also an important innovator in the
b)A Petrarchan Sonnet specialized literary sub-genre of the ________, which
c)An extended metaphor went through an intense development in the Jacobean
d)A pastoral poem era.
a)William Shakespeare
470)The term for the reaction against corruption in b)Ben Jonson
the Catholic Church was known as: c)Masque
a)The Protestant Revolution d)A Midsummer Night’s Dream
b)The Protestant Reformation 478)the first fire-breathing dragon in English
c)The Protestant Restoration literature occurs in which Old English epic poem.
d)The Protestant Resolution
a)Iliad
471)What is the name for a shift in tone or meaning b)Odyssey
of a sonnet c)Beowulf
a)Octave d)Canterbury Tales
b)Volta
c)Iambic Pentameter 479)What are the beginning and ending dates of the
d)Petrarchan reign of James I ?
a)1592-1608
b)1603-1625 b)Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”
c)1607-1627 c)Lord Byron’s “Don Juan”
d)1608-1639 d)Sir Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe”

480)Famous satiric drama,Volpone,is written by? 488)Which of the following works was written before
a)Sir Walter Scot the all-important Battle of Hastings?
b)Christopher Marlow a)Beowulf
c)Ben Johnson b)Canterbury Tales
d)George Herbert c)The Domesday Book
d)Sons and Lovers
481)The foremost poet of Jacobean era was?
a)John Milton 489)Who wrote first?
b)Charles Bacon
c)John Donne a)George Eliot
d)Herbert Spencer b)Christopher Marlowe
c)Howard, Earl of Surrey
482)“The Jacobean Era” refers to a period of time in d)William Shakespeare
the early 17th century in which of the following
countries? 490)Which work was completed last?
a) Jordan a)John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”
b) England b)George Herbert’s “The Temple”
c)Malaysia c)William Shakespeare’s “Tempest”
d)Tunisia d)Ben Jonson’s “Volpone”

>>>The foremost poets of the Jacobean era, Ben 491)One of these men did NOT write during the
Jonson and John Donne, are regarded as the Restoration period. Who?
originators of two diverse poetic traditions—the a)John Milton
Cavalier and the metaphysical. b)Thomas Otway
c)Sir Walter Scott
English Literature(In General) d)John Dryden

483) Literary divisions are not always exact, but we 492)The Bronte sisters wrote during this period.
draw them because they are often convenient. The a)Regency
majority of English literary periods are named after: b)Restoration
a)The leading characteristic of the age c)Romantic
b)Monarchs or political events d)Victorian
c)The primary author of the age
d)The language of the age 493)Which of the following poets wrote during the
Victorian period but was not published until the 20th
484)Which period of literature came first? century?
a)Regency a)Christina Rossetti
b)Victorian b)Gerard Manley Hopkins
c)Romantic c)Elizabeth Barret Browning
d)Restoration d)Ted Hughes

485)In what language did Shakespeare write? 494)This work was NOT originally published in the
a)Middle English 20th Century.
b)German a)Henry James’s “The Ambassadors”
c)Old English b)Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
d)Modern English c)E.M. Forster’s “A Room With A View”
d)Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway”
486)Jane Austen wrote during this period.
a)Restoration 495)Which poet did NOT write during the 16th
century?
b)Victorian a)John Skelton
c)Middle English b)William Shakespeare
d)Regency c)Sir Thomas Wyatt
d)Thomas Carew
487)Which work was published first?
a)Blake’s “Songs of Innocence” 496)Historical events often influence literature.
Which of the following did NOT occur during the C) Reformation
Restoration period? D) Enlightenment
504)The most popular French playwright, Jean
a)Charles II was restored to the throne Baptiste Poquelin, is known as:
b)The French Revolution A) Caleron
c)The Great Fire of London B) Corneille
d)The Exclusion Bill Crisis C) Couperin
D) Moliere
497)He was not a Renaissance writer.
505)The first Englishwoman to earn her living as a
a)William Shakespeare playwright was:
b)Sir Philip Sidney A) Nell Gwynn
c)Christopher Marlowe B) Aphra Behn
d)Sir Thomas Malory C) Lady Teazle
D) Ann Hathaway
498)Which of the following literary sub-periods does
NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period? The Life Of John Milton(Caroline Period-The
Renaissance)
a)The Restoration (1608-1674)
b)Jacobean Age 506.In which city was Milton?
c)The Augustan Age a)Norwich
d)The Age of Sensibility b)York
c)London
499)Which of the following periods of English d)Canterbury
literature came last?
507. When was John Milton born?
a)The Elizabethan Age a) 22 April 1600
b)The Commonwealth Period b) 19 August 1604
c)The Jacobean Age c) 6 June 1606
d)The Middle English Period d) 9 December 1608

500)This work was written before the other three 508. Which school did Milton attend?
choices. a)St Paul’s
b)Christ’s Hospital
c)Merchant Taylors’
a)Bede’s “An Ecclesiastical History of the English
d)Westminster
People”
b)Julian of Norwhich’s “Book of Showings”
c)Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” 509. Milton continued his studies at Cambridge.
d)Sir Thomas More’s “Utopia” Which college of the university did he attend?
a) Pembroke College
b) Trinity College
501)Which of the following writers would be an
c) Christ’s College
appropriate subject for a class on “The Literature of
d) St. Xavier’s College
the British Empire”?
a)Rudyard Kipling
b)Edward Fitzgerald 510. Edward King, a minor poet and a contemporary
c)Charlotte Bronte of Milton’s at Cambridge, was drowned at sea in
d)Any of these 1637. Milton wrote an elegy for him. What was the
title of this poem?
502)World War I affected the writing of many a)lycidas
authors. Which of the following poets would not have b)Paradise Lost
been touched by that event? c)Il penseroso
a)T.S. Eliot
b)Siegfried Sassoon 511. In 1638 and 1639 Milton traveled abroad. In
c)Wilfred Owen which country did he spend most of the time?
d)Oscar Wilde a)Germany
b)France
503)The period of maturation, intellectual growth and c)Italy
social graces during the Renaissance is called the:A) d)Spain
aristocracy
B) New Age 512. How many times did Milton marry?
a)2
b)0 521. ”Milton, thou should’st be living at this hour.
c)1 England hath need of thee.” Indeed. But who was it,
d)3 summoning his ghost?
a)Horatio Herbert Kitchener
513. John Milton was 34 when he married Mary b)William Blake
Powell. How old was she? c)William Wordsworth
a) 48 d)John Keats
b) 34
c) 22 522. The 20th century has been less kind to his
d) 17 memory. TS Eliot found his imagery distracting, and
considered his work “not serious poetry”, but it was
514. Milton was a royalist? another critic who accused him of “callousness to the
intrinsic nature of English”. Who?
True or False a)FR Leavis
b)Harold Bloom
515. Which of the following works was NOT written c)William Empson
by John Milton? d)Mariella Frostrup

a)’L'Allegro’
b)’Lycidas’ Paradise Lost By John Milton523. When was
c)’Il Penseroso’ Paradise Lost published?
d)’Absolom and Achitophel’ a) 1660
b) 1667
516. In 1634 Milton wrote a masque. What’s the c) 1658
name of that masque? d) 1654
a)’Il Penseroso’
b)’Lycidas’ 524. ”Paradise Lost” is considered a:
c)’Comus’ a) First Person Narrative
d)’The Masque of Blackness’ b)Short Story
c)Epic Poem
517. Which of these words or usages did Milton NOT d)Novel
coin?
a)Space – used to mean “outer space” 525. Satan’s name before he fell from heaven was:
b)Unaccountable a)Beezlebub
c)Pandemonium b)Michael
d)Blatant c)Lucifer
d)Belial
518. Following parliament’s victory in the civil war, 526. ’Book 1′ of ‘Paradise Lost’ presents Satan with
Milton was appointed to a position in Cromwell’s his angels fallen into Hell. When recovered, Satan
government in 1649. What was his title? awakens all his legions and speaks to them. The first
a)Heresy tsar he addresses is described as ‘one next to himself in
b)Poet laureate power, and next in crime, long after known in
c)Secretary to the Admiralty Palestine’. What’s the name of this fallen angel?
d)Secretary for Foreign Tongues a)Mammon
b)Moloch
519. As well as poetry, Milton published extensively c)Beelzebub
on politics, philosophy and religion. Which of the d)Ashtaroth
following was NOT one of his works?
527. In ‘Paradise Lost’, which angel is ordered by
a)Of Prelatical Episcopacy God to drive Adam and Eve out of Paradise? Before
b)The Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings from the he does so, he shows Adam a number of visions
Church about the future of the human race, beginning with
c)Of Practical Exorcisme Cain murdering Abel and ending with the redemption
d)Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce of mankind through Christ. Who is this angel that has
520. When did John Milton die? a large role in the finishing chapters of ‘Paradise
Lost’?
a) 4 February 1702 a)Michael
b) 2 June 1700 b)Abdiel
c) 17 April 1688 c)Rafael
d) 8 November 1674 d)Gabriel
528. Milton’s “unholy trinity” of characters includes: into many creatures. Which creature does Satan not
a)Error, Temptation, and Satan turn into?
b)Sin, Death and Temptation a)a mouse
c)Sin, Temptation, and Satan b)a cherub
d)Satan, Sin, and Death c)a toad
d)a serpent
529. The battle between God’s army and Satan’s
rebels in heaven lasted: 537. Who might be considered the friendliest and
a)One day most sociable of all God’s angels?
b)Three days a)Adam
c)Seven days b)Michael
d)One hour c)Raphael
d)Lucifer
530. In the phrase, “thy seed shall bruise our foe,” the
“seed” refers to: 538. Everyday before the Fall Adam and Eve went
a)The Tree of Knowledge out to work. What did their work consist of?
b)Adam a)Hunting and gathering food
c)Cane and Abel b)Tending to the Garden of Eden
d)Jesus Christ c)Building shelter to live in
d)Naming all God’s creatures and plants
531. In the phrase, “thy seed shall bruise our foe,”
“thy” refers to: 539. The reason for Satan’s fall might best be
a)Sin described as:
b)Eden
c)Satan a)incest
d)Eve b)lust
c)greed
532. The two archangels who serve as generals in d)pride
God’s army are:
a)Michael and Gabriel 540. The reason for Eve’s fall might best be described
b)Michael and Raphael as:
c)Raphael and Gabriel a)vanity
d)Michael and Lucifer b)lust
c)greed
533. For inspiration in writing the poem, Milton says d)pride
he depends on:
a)Wine 541. On the second day of battle in heaven, what does
b)The Holy Spirit Satan use that surprises God’s forces?
c)His favorite pen a)Catapults
d)The Son b)Artillery
c)Illusions
534. Earth is described as being connected to heaven d)The Holy Sepulcher
by a:
a)”stepping stones of clouds 542. Adam, Satan, and Eve herself are all dazzled by
b)Golden rope Eve’s:
c)Golden chain a)Wit
d)Ladder b)Beauty
c)Intelligence
535. Sin was born out of Satan’s: d)Hard work and spirituality
a)Head
b)Lust 543. The main reason for Adam’s fall might best be
c)Anger described as:
d)Rib a)lust
b)love for Eve
535. Eve before the Fall might best be described as: c)pride
a)a feminist d)money
b)uncomfortable with Adam
c)detailed oriented 544. When God sees that Adam and Eve have
d)a docile, vain creature disobeyed him, who does he send to “judge” them
and the snake?
536. Throughout the poem, Satan transforms himself a)The Son
b)The Holy Ghost (C) Genesis
c)Michael (D) Deuteronomy
d)Raphael
553. Which devil advocates a renewal of all-out war
545. Inspired by Satan’s victory over man, Sin and against God?
Death construct: (A) Belial
(B) Moloch
a)a bridge from hell to heaven (C) Mammon
b)a temple to welcome Satan back (D) Beelzebub
c)a bridge from hell to earth
d)a funnel from Eden to the gates of hell 554. What is Milton’s stated purpose in Paradise
Lost?
546. After they have both eaten from the Tree of (A) To assert his superiority to other poets
Knowledge, the first thing Adam and Eve do is: (B) To argue against the doctrine of predestination
a)Ask forgiveness from God (C) To justify the ways of God to men
b)Put some clothes on (D) To make his story hard to understand
c)Satisfy their sexual desire for each other
d)Blame each other for their Fall 555. Which of the following is not a character in
Paradise Lost?
547. The Archangel Michael might best be described (A) Night
as: (B) Agony
a)Jealous and envious (C) Discord
b)Bombastic (D) Death
c)Firm and militant
d)Kind and caring 556. Which angel wields a large sword in the battle
and wounds Satan?
548. When Michael tells Adam what will become of (A) Michael
mankind after the Fall, he is actually narrating stories (B) Abdiel
taken directly from: (C) Uriel
a)The New Testament (D) Satan is not injured
b)Homer’s epic poems
c)The Hebrew Bible 557. When Satan leaps over the fence into Paradise,
d)The Koran what does Milton liken him to?
(A) A snake slithering up a tree
549. What are the best words to describe the Garden (B) A germ infecting a body
of Eden, the weather, and nature in general, before (C) A wolf leaping into a sheep’s pen
the Fall of Adam and Eve? (D) A fish leaping out of water
a)Ordered and rational
b)Chaotic 558. Which angel tells Adam about the future in
c)Wild and unmanageable Books XI and XII?
d)Comfortable (A) Raphael
(B) Uriel
550. Which angel does Satan trick by disguising (C) Michael
himself as a cherub? (D) None of the above
(A) Michael
(B) Uriel 559. Which of the following is not found in Hell?
(C) Raphael (A) Gems
(D) Abdiel (B) Gold
(C) Oil
551. In what book does the fall take place? (D) Minerals
(A) Book VIII
(B) Book X 560. Which statement about the Earth is asserted as
(C) Book IX true in Paradise Lost?
(D) Book VII
(A) It was created before God the Son
552. In which book of the Bible does the story of (B) Earth hangs from Heaven by a chain
Adam and Eve occur? (C) The Earth is a lotus flower
(A) Leviticus (D) The Earth revolves around the sun
(B) Exodus
561. Which devil is the main architect of (C) A large sword
Pandemonium? (D) A cannon
(A) Mulciber
(B) Mammon 570. According to Paradise Lost, which of the
(C) Moloch following does God not create?
(D) Belial (A) The Son
(B) Adam and Eve
562. How many times does Milton invoke a muse? (C) Computers
(A) One (D) He creates everything
(B) Two
(C) Three 571. Who does Milton name as his heavenly muse?
(D) Four (A) Titania
(B) Urania
563. Which of the following poets does Milton (C) Virgil
emulate? (D) Michael
(A) Virgil
(B) Homer 572. What does Eve do when she first becomes
(C) Both Virgil and Homer conscious?
(D) Neither Virgil or Homer (A) Go in search of her mate
(B) Talk to the animals
564. What is the stated subject of Paradise Lost? (C) Look at her reflection in a stream
(D) Eat of the Tree of Knowledge
(A) The fight between good and evil
(B) Heaven’s battle and Satan’s tragic fall 573.Who is the main protagonist of Paradise Lost?
(C) The creation of the universe a)Satan
(D) Adam and Eve’s disobedience b)Adam
c)Eve
565. Which devil is Satan’s second-in-command? d)God

(A) Mammon 574.In how many books is Paradise Lost divided?

(B) Sin
(C) Moloch a)Nine
(D) Beezelbub b)Twelve
c)Eighteen
566. Who discusses cosmology and the battle of d)Fourteen
Heaven with Adam?
(A) God 575.Which is the longest book?
(B) Eve a)Book X
(C) Raphael b)Book VIII
(D) Michael c)Book IX
d)Book I
567. Which scene happens first chronologically?
576.In Books I-II, the rebels of Satan build the
(A) Satan and the devils rise up from the lake in Hell Pandemonium. What is it?
(B) The Son is chosen as God’s second-in-command a)The forbidden fruit
(C) God and the Son create the universe b)The capital of Heaven
(D) The angels battle in Heaven c)A beautiful garden
d)The capital of Hell
568. Which of the angels is considered a hero for
arguing against Satan? 577.The fruit of which tree were Adam and Eve
(A) Abdiel forbidden to eat?
(B) Uriel a)Tree of Life
(C) Michael b)Tree of God
(D) Raphael c)Tree of Sin
d)Tree of Knowledge
569. In an attempt to defeat God and his angels, what
do the rebel angels make? 578.Which is the shortest book?
(A) A fortress a)Book VII
(B) A catapult b)Book III
c)Book VIII c)Joseph
d)Book V d)Satan

579.Who was sent to Earth to warn Man of the 588.Who is described? “For dignity composed and
dangers he was facing? high exploit: But all was false and hollow”
a)Raphael a)Lot
b)Uriel b)Belial
c)Abdiel c)Satan
d)Beelzebub d)Moses

580.Who was the first to eat the forbidden fruit? 589. When was Paradise Lost published?
a)Adam a) 1660
b)Eve b) 1667
c)Satan c) 1658
d)Snake d) 1654

581.Which of the following is not a character in 590.When was Paradise Regained published?
Paradise Lost? a) 1671
a)Eve b) 1656
b)God c) 1669
c)Satan d) 1652
d)Jonah 591.In what country did the Renaissance begin?
a.Italy
582.What is the name of the sequel to Paradise Lost? b.France
a)Paradise Found c.England
b)Paradise Lost Twice d.Germany
c)Paradise Regained
d)Paradise Lost Again 592.who is considered as the model of the people
during the renaissance?
583.who was the companion of Adam in paradise? a.greek and austrian
a)satan b.roman and french
b)eve c.roman and greek
c)rapheal d.french and greek
d)god
593.the word renaissance means
584.Who is “till wand’ring o’er the earth”? a.the rebirth of learning or knowledge
a)Satan’s associates b.reading of books
b)Satan c.the time of astronauts
c)Adam d.the study of art
d)Eve
594.Which of the following techniques was NOT
585. Who will fall through his own “fault”? used in the Renaissance art?
a)Satan a.realism
b)God b.perspective
c)Adam c.individualism
d)Noah d.abstractioin

586.Who “headlong themselves they threw Down 595.what sparked the Renaissance?
from the verge of Heav’n”? a.The Feudal system was collapsing
a)Adam and Eve b.the “95 theses”
b)Noah and the elephant c.the Crusades
c)Rebel angels d.the Black Plague
d)Benjamin and Joseph
596.who lost the most power during the renaissance?
587. Who pondered, “How such united force of gods, a.Italian merchants
how such As stood like these, could ever know b.catholic church
repulse?”? c.black people
d.king and queen of Spain
a)Adam
b)Moses 597.Utopia was written by:
a) Cervantes
b) Machiavelli a)human nature
c) Poliziano b)God’s will
d) Thomas More c)society itself
d)the Church
598.The Prince was written to gain favor of the:
a) Pazzi Random MCQs607. In which century was Piers
b) Republic Plowman written?
c) Medici a)14th
d) Inquisition b)12th
c)10th
599.Who translated the New Testament into German d)11th
for the first time?
a) Poliziano 608. Geoffrey Chaucer served which king?
b) Cervantes a)Richard III
c) Martin Luther b)James 1
d) Alexander VI c)Edward III
d)Henry II
600.The “father of humanism” was
a)Petrarch 609. The 18th century work ‘Tom Jones” was written
b)Dante by whom?
c)Boccaccio a)Samuel Johnson
d)Pico della Mirandola b)Henry Fielding
c)John Donne
601.Renaissance thinkers argued that women should d)Tobias Smollett
be educated
a)just the same as men 610. In 1905, Virginia Woolf began to write for
b)with emphasis on science and mathematics which publication?
c)not at all a)The Time’s Literary Supplement
d)confined solely to music, dancing, and knitting b)The Lady’s Home Journal
c)Strand Magazine
602.An important feature of the Renaissance was an d)Reader Magazine
emphasis on
a)alchemy and magic 611. Joyce’s novel ‘Ulysses’ takes place over what
b)the literature of Greece and Rome period of time?
c)chivalry of the Middle Ages a)A week
d)the teaching of St. Thomas Acquinas b)24 hours
c)A lifetime
603.Which was NOT a characteristic of the d)6 months
Renaissance?
612. What was the nationality of Oscar Wilde?
a)emphasis on individuality a)Irish
b)confidence in human rationality b)Scottish
c)the emergence of merchant oligarchies c)French
d)the development of social insurance programs d)English

604.The northern Renaissance differed from the 613. Who wrote the poem “Requiem”?
Italian Renaissance a)Robert Louis Stevenson
a)growth of religious activity among common people b)William Shakespeare
b)earlier occurrence c)Samuel Johnson
c)greater appreciation of pagan writers d)John Milton
d)decline in the use of Latin
614. the prevailing feature of Chaucer’s humour is its
605.For ordinary women, the Renaissance a)urbanity
a)had very little impact b)crudity
b)greatly improved the material conditions of their c)triviality
lives d)sanctity
c)worsened their social status
d)allowed them access to education for the first time 615. who is the first great English critic-poet?
a)Shakespeare
606.Thomas More’s Utopia placed the blame for b)Arnold
society’s problems on
c)Sir Philip Sidney a)Elizabeth I
d)Chaucer b)James II
c)George II
616. HYMN TO ADVERSITY is a poem by d)William and Mary
a)Thomas gray e)Anne
b)Alexander Pope
c)Edward gibbon 624. Who became the first “prime minister” of Great
d)William Blake Britain in the reign of George II?

617. Who wrote the poem ‘The Seven Ages’? a)Henry St. John
a)John Milton b)Robert Harley
b)Geoffrey Chaucer c)John Churchill
c)William Shakespeare d)Robert Walpole
d)Edward Gibbon e)Matthew Prior

618. who write the story “Story Teller” ? 625. In the late seventeenth century, a “battle of the
a)William Wordsworth books” erupted between which two groups?
b)William Shakespeare
c)Thomas Grey a)abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery
d)Saki b)round-earthers and flat-earthers
c)the Welsh and the Scots
Restoration and The 18TH Century d)champions of ancient and modern learning
619. What happened in 1707 that would forever alter e)Oxfordians and Baconians
the relationship between England, Wales, and
Scotland? 626. Which of the following best describes the
a)the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots doctrine of empiricism?
b)the Toleration Act
c)the failed invasion of the Spanish Armada a)All knowledge is derived from experience.
d)the Bishops’ War b)Human perceptions are constructed and reflect
e)the Act of Union structures of political power.
c)The search for essential or ultimate principles of
620. Which of the following was a major factor in the reality.
unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain d)The sensory world is an illusion.
during the eighteenth century? e)God is the center of an ordered and just universe.
a)formal diplomatic relations with China
b)the exploitation of colonial resources, labor, and the 627. Against which of the following principles did
slave trade Jonathan Swift inveigh?
c)the American and French revolutions a)theoretical science
d)the creation of the bourgeois novel as a commodity b)metaphysics
e)the union of England and Wales with Scotland c)abstract logical deductions
d)a and b only
621. What was “restored” in 1660? e)a, b, and c
a)the monarchy, in the person of Charles II
b)the dominance of the Tory Party 628. Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755,
c)the “Book of Common Prayer” included more than 114,000 quotations?
d)toleration of religious dissidents a)William Hogarth
e)Irish independence. b)Jonathan Swift
c)Samuel Johnson
622. What literary work best captures a sense of the d)Ben Jonson
political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of e)James Boswell
religion, just after the Restoration?
a)Gay’s Beggar’s Opera 629. According to Samuel Johnson, “No man but a
b)Butler’s Hudibras blockhead ever wrote except for…:
c)Fielding’s Jonathan Wild a)love.”
d)Pope’s Dunciad b)honor.”
e)Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel c)money.”
d)his party.”
623. Who was deposed from the English throne in the e)fun.”
Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688?
630. What name is given to the English literary 637. Which of the following is not an example of
period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Restoration comedy?
Ovid? a)Etherege’s The Man of Mode
a)Augustan b)Wycherley’s The Country Wife
b)Metaphysical c)Behn’s The Rover
c)Romantic d)Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
d)Neo-Romantic e)Congreve’s Love for Love
e)Caesarian
638. Which group of intellectual women established
631. Horace’s doctrine “ut pictura poesis” was literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the
interpreted to mean: leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth
a)A picture is worth a thousand words. Montagu?
b)Poetry is the supreme artistic form.
c)Art should hold a mirror up to nature. a)the Behnites
d)Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art. b)the bluestockings
e)Paintings of poets should be prized over those of c)the coteries of plenty
kings. d)the Pre-Raphaelites
e)the tattlers and spectators
632. What was most frequently considered a source
of pleasure and an object of inquiry by Augustan 639. Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable
poets? London?
a)civilization a)Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
b)woman b)Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
c)God c)Behn’s Oroonoko
d)alcohol d)Richardson’s Clarissa
e)nature e)Pope’s The Rape of the Lock

633. What word did writers in this period use to 640. What London locale, where many poor writers
express quickness of mind, inventiveness, a knack for lived, became synonymous with hacks and scandal
conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving mongers?
resemblances between things apparently unlike? a)Elephant and Castle
a)wit b)Grub Street
b)sprezzatura c)Covent Garden
c)naturalism d)Cheapside
d)gusto e)Piccadilly Circus
e)metaphysics
641. With its forbidden themes of incest, murder,
634. Which of the following was probably not a stock necrophilia, atheism, and torments of sexual desire,
phrase in eighteenth-century poetry? Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto, created which
a)verdant mead literary genre?
b)checkered shade a)the revenge tragedy
c)simian rivalry b)the Gothic romance
d)shining sword c)the epistolary novel
e)bounding main d)the comedy of manners
e)the mystery play
635. Which metrical form was Pope said to have
brought to perfection? 642. Which of the following is not indebted to the
a)the heroic couplet Gothic genre?
b)blank verse a)William Beckford’s Vathek
c)free verse b)Matthew Lewis’s The Monk
d)the ode c)Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Randsom
e)the spondee d)Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian
e)William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
636. Which poet, critic and translator brought
England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700? 643. While compiling what sort of book did Samuel
a)Addison Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or
b)Bunyan Virtue Rewarded?
c)Crabbe a)a history of everyday life
d)Dryden b)an instructional manual for manners
e)Equiano c)a book of devotion
d)a book of model letters 651. Why didn’t Alexander Pope attend an English
e)a chapbook university?
a)He lived in Italy until the age of 27
644. Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard b)Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him
considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson to an invalid
have been greater than Homer? c)He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from
a)Macpherson attending
b)Merlin d)He just wasn’t bright enough
c)Decameron
d)Taliesin 652. Alexander Pope coined many a modern day
e)Ossian cliché. Which of the following did not originate with
him?
a)To err is human, to forgive divine
b)Let not the sun go down upon your wrath
c)A little learning is a dangerous thing
d)Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
645. John Donne is, in some sense, the originator of
metaphysical poetry. But who is most closely 653. John Dryden wrote “Absalom and Achitophel.”
associated with the “founding” of neoclassical Who was Achitophel, historically speaking?
poetry? a)King David’s son
a)William Wordsworth b)A Judge of Israel
b)Alexander Pope c)Bathsheba’s first husband
c)Ben Jonson d)Absalom’s advisor
d)George Herbert
654. Who did Dryden use Absalom to represent,
646. Which of the following is not generally allegorically, in his satire “Absalom and
considered to be a neoclassical poet? Achitophel”?
a)John Dryden a)The Duke of Monmouth
b)Henry Vaughan b)Charles II
c)Alexander Pope c)The Earl of Shaftesbury
d)Ben Jonson d)Cromwell

647. Which of the following is not a common feature 655. Complete this famous quote by John Dryden:
of neoclassical poetry?a)Imitation of classical forms “Who think too little, and who talk too ____”
and allusion to mythology a)often
b)An effort to represent human nature b)long
c)Use of the rhymed couplet c)much
d)Fantastic comparisons d)fast

648. Neoclassicists tended to view poetry as the result 656. What Pope poem begins, “In these deep
of genius overflowing from the mind out onto the solitudes and awful cells, / Where heav’nly-pensive
page. They also considered poetry to be an expression contemplation dwells, / And ever-musing melancholy
of the individual, inner self. reigns; / What means this tumult in a vestal’s veins?”
a)True a)The Rape of the Lock
b)False b)Solitude: An Ode
c)The Dunciad
649. Most neoclassical poets viewed the world in d)Eloisa to Abelard
terms of a strictly ordered hierarchy. What was this
hierarchy called? 657. Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his
a)The Way of the World translation of this classical epic.
b)The Foundational Ladder a)The Bahagavad Gita
c)The Order of Angels b)The Odyssey
d)The Great Chain of Being c)The Illiad
d)The Aeneid
650. He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One
of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their 658. This famous neoclassical poet wrote on
time. profound themes such as death, but he also had a
a)Ben Jonson lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in
b)Alexander Pope a tub of gold fishes.
c)Robert Herrick a)Alexander Pope
d)John Dryden b)William Collins
c)Thomas Gray b)William Shakespeare
d)Ben Jonson c)Samuel Butler
d)Samuel Taylor Coleridge
659. His “To Penthurst” is considered to be one of the
primary texts of the neoclassical movement. 667.In which work do you read: “Beauty is truth,
a)Sir John Denham truth beauty.”?
b)Ben Jonson a)Adonais
c)Thomas Carew b)Bright Star
d)John Dryden c)Ode on a Grecian Urn
d)La Bell Dame Sans Merci
660. Sir John Denham commemorated this poet,
referring to him as “Old Chaucer” who, “like the 668.Who wrote: “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A
morning star”, descends “to the shades,” so that stately pleasure dome decree…”?
“Darkness again the Age invades.” a)Samuel Taylor Coleridge
a)William Shakespeare b)Robert Browning
b)John Donne c)John Keats
c)Abraham Cowley d)Walt Whitman
d)John Dryden
669.In which work do you read: “In Xanadu did
661. What mock epic begins: “What dire offence Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree…”?
from am’rous causes springs, / What mighty contests a)Kubla Khan
rise from trivial things”? b)Hellas
a)Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe” c)The Phoenix and the Turtle
b)Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock” d)The Castaway
c)Pope’s “The Dunciad”
d)Dryden’s “Absalom and Achitophel” 670.A side note: Which drug/substance was Samuel
Taylor Coleridge addicted to?
662.When the Parliament, controlled by the puritans, a)Heroine
took power in England, one of the acts that greatly b)Cocaine
influenced Literature of that time was c)Alcohol
d)Opium

671.Who wrote: “I would prefer not to.”?

a)The closing of theatres a)Edgar Allan Poe
b)The return of the King. b)Herman Melville
c)King Arthurs’ dead c)Thomas Gray
d)King to exile d)Henry David Thoreau
672.Who wrote: “There can be no freedom or beauty
663:Who wrote: “Reader, I married him.”? about a home life that depends on borrowing and
a)Jane Austen debt.”?
b)Charlotte Bronte a)Henry David Thoreau
c)Edith Wharton b)Benjamin Franklin
d)Emily Bronte c)Robert Browning
d)Henrik Ibsen
664.Who wrote: “Things fall apart; the center cannot
hold.”? 673.In which work do you read: “There can be no
a)William Butler Yeats freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on
b)James Joyce borrowing and debt.”?
c)Thomas Moore a)A Doll’s House
d)Edgar Allan Poe b)Riders to the Sea
c)A Handful of Dust
665.In which work do you read: “Things fall apart; d)The Fatal Curiosity
the center cannot hold.”?
a)The Canturbury Tales 674.Who wrote: “My name is Ozymandias, King of
b)The Dark Angel Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!”?
c)The Wild Swans of Coole a)Lord Byron
d)The Second Coming b)Percy Bysshe Shelley
c)William Woodsworth
666.Who wrote: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”? d)Emily Dickinson
a)John Keats
675.In which work do you read: “My name is b)Emma
Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye c)Pride and Prejudice
mighty, and despair!”? d)Mansfield Park
a)The Man of Feeling
b)In Memoriam 684.What is Shakespeare’s longest play?
c)Song to Aella a)Taming of the Shrew
d)Ozymandias b)Romeo and Juliet
c)A Midsummer Night’s Dream
676.Who wrote: “That’s my last Duchess painted on d)Hamlet
the wall / looking as if she were alive.”?
a)Lord Byron 685)The poem ‘The Battle of Maldon’ celebrates
b)Oscar Wilde events which took place in the 10th century, but who
c)Robert Browning was it between
d)William Wordsworth a)Danes and English
b)Dutch and English
677.In which work do you read: “That’s my last c)Normans and English
Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were d)French and English
alive.”? 686)The Faerie Queene was written during the reign
a)Porphyria’s Lover of which monarch?
b)My Last Duchess a)James I
c)The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock b)Mary Tudor
d)Fra Lippo Lippi c)Elizabeth Tudor
d)Henry VII
678.Who wrote: “I have measured out my life with
coffee spoons.”? 687)Becky sharp was the heroine in which novel?
a)Vanity Fair
a)William Carlos Williams b)Sense and Sensibility
b)T.S. Eliot c)Pride and Prejudice
c)Ernest Hemingway d)Mansfield Park
d)Hart Crane
688) How many children were there in the Bronte
679.In which work do you read: “I have measured out family?
my life with coffee spoons.”? a)3
a)Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock b)4
b)Sonnets from the Portuguese c)5
c)Prelude d)6
d)The Last Decalogue
689)Who composed The Preludes?
680.A “classic” book is usually one that possesses a)S T Coleridge
what quality? b)William Wordsworth
a)It has universal appeal. c)William Shakespeare
b)It can stand the test of time. d)William Blake
c)It makes connections.
d)All of the above. 690)Who is termed as “The Morning Star of
Renaissance”?
681. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens a)Spenser
involves which two cities? b)John Gower
a)London and Rome c)Chaucer
b)Paris and Rome d)Langland
c)London and Paris
d)Berlin and London 691)Who began the tradition of revenge play ?
a)Goorge peele
682.The Catcher in the Rye takes place in what city? b)Samuel daniel
a)New York City c)Phineas fletcher
b)Stanford, Connecticut d)Thomas kyd
c)Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
d)Boston, Massachusetts 692)How many lines are there in a Sonnet?
a)10
683.Which book was not written by Jane Austen? b)16
a)Sense and Suspensibility c)14
d)22
693)What are the names of the two feuding families welfare and that the government should not interfere
in Romeo and Juliet? in any person’s pursuit of their personal interests?
a)Capulet And Montague a) economic independence
b)Breslow and Felsher b) the Rights of Man
c)Fuech and Goodside c) laissez-faire
d)Dawson and Hurley d) enclosure
694)Which bird did the Ancient Mariner kill? e) lazy government
a)Seagull
b)Albatross 702. What served as the inspiration for P. B.
c)Humming Bird Shelley’s poems to the working classes A Song:
d)Crow “Men of England” and England in 1819?
a) the organization of a working class men’s choral
695)What was the name of the Bronte sister’s only group in Southern England
brother? b) the Battle of Waterloo
a)Anderson c) the Peterloo Massacre
b)Branwell d) the storming of the Bastille
c)Richard e) the first Reform Bill, passed in 1832, which aimed
d)Pearson to bring greater Parliamentary representation to the
working classes
696)In which county was Jane Austin born?
a)Sussex 703. Who applied the term “Romantic” to the literary
b)Hampshire period dating from 1785 to 1830?
c)Yorkshire a) Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his
d)Norfolk poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the
697)In which Dickens novel does Pip appear? ancien régime, especially satire
a)Bleak House b) English historians half a century after the period
b)Great Expectations ended
c)A Tale of Two Cities c) “The Satanic School” of Byron, Percy Shelley, and
d)The Pickwick Papers their followers
d) Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770)
698. Which of the following English groups were e) Harold Bloom
supportive of the French Revolution during its early
years? 704. Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads
a) Tories of 1798, thus demonstrating the “spirit of the age,”
b) Republicans which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended
c) Liberals on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic
d) Radicals imagination?
e) both c and d a) Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake
b) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy B. Shelley
699. Which statement(s) about inventions during the c) William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Industrial Revolution are true? d) Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
a) Hand labor became less common with the e) Dorothy Wordsworth and Sally Ashburner
invention of power-driven machinery.
b) Velcro replaced buttons and snaps. 705. Which of the following became the most popular
c) Steam, as opposed to wind and water, became a Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s
primary source of power. claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the
d) The invention of textile processing machines inner feelings of the individual poet as “the
marked the end of the Industrial Revolution. spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”?
e) both a and c a) the lyric poem written in the first person
b) the sonnet
700. What is the name for the process of dividing c) doggerel rhyme
land into privately owned agricultural holdings? d) the political tract
a) partition e) the ode
b) segregation
c) enclosure 706. Romantic poetry about the natural world uses
d) division descriptions of nature _________.
e) subtraction a) for their own sake; to merely describe natural
phenomenon
701. Which social philosophy, dominant during the b) to depict a metaphysical concept of nature by
Industrial Revolution, dictated that only the free endowing it with traits normally associated with
operation of economic laws would ensure the general humans
c) as a means to demonstrate and discuss the only Gods have the power to fly and mortals must be
processes of human thinking taught the limitations of human existence
d) symbolically to suggest that natural objects c) Prometheus, who succeeds in stealing fire from the
correspond to an inner, spiritual world Gods and thereby surpasses the limitations placed on
e) b, c, and d humans by the Gods
d) all of the above
707. How would “Natural Supernaturalism” be best e) a and c only: Romantics were more interested in
characterized as a Romantic notion introduced by representations of humans as they were able to
Carlyle? exceed their human limitations.
a) a form of animism in which objects in the natural
world are believed to be inhabited by spirits 712. Which of the following best describes the sort of
b) a spontaneous belief in the supernatural based language and tone most often used when Romantic
upon a surprise encounter with a supernatural being writers discuss the French Revolution?
c) a process by which things that are familiar and a) snide indifference
thought to be ordinary are made to appear miraculous b) biblical reverence
and new to our eyes c) condemning censure
d) the experience of hallucinating contact with the d) satirical derision
supernatural world when taking opium e) none of the above: Romantic writers had no
e) an oxymoron that nobody understood and that interest in the French Revolution.
cannot be explained in the context of a discussion of
Romantic literature 713. Which of the following descriptions would not
have applied to any Romantic text?
708. Which setting could you not imagine a work of a) a spiritual autobiography written in an epic style
Romantic literature employing? b) a lyric poem written in the first person
a) a field of daffodils c) a comedy of manners
b) the “Orient” d) a political tract demanding labor reform
c) a graveyard e) a novel written about the intellectual and emotional
d) a medieval castle development of a monster created by a scientist
e) All of the above would be appropriate settings for
Romantic literature. 714. Which of the following poems describe or
celebrate an apocalyptic regeneration of humanity
709. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the and the world effected by the creative capacity of the
value of representing rustic life and language as well human mind?
as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral a) Coleridge’s Dejection: An Ode
poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as b) Blake’s “Prophetic Books”
the major subject and medium for poetry in general? c) Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus
a) William Blake d) Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of
b) Alfred Lord Tennyson Woman
c) Samuel Johnson e) all but d
d) William Wordsworth
e) Mary Wollstonecraft 715. Which sorts of political reform took place during
the Romantic period?
710. What is the term we now use for what the
Romantics called “mesmerism,” one of the “occult” a) Parliamentary reform, increasing representation of
practices that allowed people to explore altered states the working classes
of consciousness? b) Labor reform, improving working conditions for
a) smoking opium industrial laborers
b) hypnotism c) Voting reform, extending suffrage to men and
c) psychoanalysis women
d) dream interpretation d) Educational reform, producing a dramatic increase
e) Satanism in literacy
e) a and d only: Significant labor and voting reform
711. Romantic poets would have enjoyed, agreed would have to wait for the Victorian era and later.
with, and perhaps written about which of the
following figures as depicted? 716. Which of the following factors contributed to
a) Goethe’s Faust in Faust, who is sinful because he literature becoming a profitable business?
attempts to exceed the bounds of human knowledge a) Commercial and public lending libraries were
by making a pact with the devil but is nonetheless established in order to provide for an enlarged
redeemed in his striving to break free of the bounds reading public.
of mortality b) Education reform increased literacy, thus creating
b) Icarus, who is killed in attempting to fly because a demand for commercial and public lending
libraries. Justice
c) A new aesthetics of valuing literature for its own b) Percy Bysshe Shelley’s England in 1819
sake emphasized reading for pleasure. c) William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
d) People had more leisure time to read and more d) Sir Walter Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian
disposable income to spend on reading materials. e) all of the above
e) all of the above
723. Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than
717. Which of the following periodical publications one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel,
(reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic drama, poetry?
era? a) Percy Bysshe Shelley
a) London Magazine b) William Wordsworth
b) The Spectator c) George Gordon, Lord Byron
c) The Edinburgh Review d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
d) The Tatler e) all of the above
e) a and c only
724. Which of the following would not have been an
718. According to a theater licensing act, repealed in appropriate protagonist for a Romantic literary text?
1843, what was meant by “legitimate” drama? a) a French revolutionary
a) The dramaturge and playwright had to be related. b) a Greek or Roman mythological figure
b) All of the actors were male. c) a monster fabricated in a laboratory
c) All of the actors were British. d) a vagrant, gypsy, or any other itinerant social
d) The play was spoken. outcast
e) The play had to be a full musical or produced in e) All would have been appropriate protagonists for a
full pantomime. Romantic literary text.

719. The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the 725. In which of the following works is the social
Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace outcast represented and addressed?
Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of
the following elements? a) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein
a) supernatural phenomenon b) William Worsworth’s Lyrical Ballads
b) perversion and sadism, often involving a maiden’s c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the
persecution Ancient Mariner
c) plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, d) John Keats’s “To Autumn”
sullen landscapes e) all but d
d) secret passages, decaying mansions, gloomy
castles, and dark dungeons 726. Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic
e) all of the above poets identified with the figure of the
720. Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the a) troubadour
novel of purpose, which of the following novelists b) skald
wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the c) chorister
novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own
d) minstrel
era? e) bard
a) Fanny Burney
b) Mary Wollstonecraft 727. What did Byron deride with his scathing
c) Anna Letitia Barbauld reference to “‘Peddlers,’ and ‘Boats,’ and
d) Jane Austen ‘Wagons’!”?
e) Mary Shelley
a) the neo-classical influence of Pope and Dryden
721. Which two writers can be described as writing b) the clumsiness of Shakespeare’s plots
historical novels? c) the Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge
a) Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley d) Wordsworth’s devotion to the ordinary and
b) William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge everyday
c) Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth e) Blake’s apocalyptic visions
d) Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë
e) none of the above: Romantic novelists never wrote
historical novels.
728. Wordsworth described all good poetry as
722. Which of the following texts addresses class as a
social and economic reality? a) the rhythmic expression of moral intuition
a) William Godwin’s Inquiry Concerning Political b) the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
c) the polite patter of a corrupted age
d) the divine gift of grace e) all of the above
e) the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.
735. Which chilling novel of surveillance and
729. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the entrapment had the alternative title Things as They
value of representing rustic life and language as well Are?
as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral
poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as a) Jane Austen’s Emma
the major subject and medium for poetry in general? b) Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
c) William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
a) William Blake d) Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley
b) Alfred Lord Tennyson e) Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto
c) Samuel Johnson
d) William Wordsworth 736. Which of the following is a typically Romantic
e) Mary Wollstonecraft poetic form?

730. Which of the following was a typically a) the fractal

Romantic means of achieving visionary states? b) the figment
a) opium c) the fragment
b) dreams d) the aubade
c) childhood e) the comedy of manners
d) a and b
e) a, b and c 737. Who exemplified the role of the “peasant poet”?

731. Which philosopher had a particular influence on a) John Clare

Coleridge? b) John Keats
c) Robert Burns
a) Aristotle d) a and c only
b) Duns Scotus e) b and c only
c) David Hume
d) Immanuel Kant 738. Who in the Romantic period developed a new
e) Bertrand Russell novelistic language for the workings of the mind in
flux?
732. Which of the following was not considered a
type of the alienated, romantic visionary? a) Maria Edgeworth
b) Sir Walter Scott
a) Prometheus c) Thomas De Quincey
b) Satan d) Joanna Baillie
c) Cain e) Jane Austen
d) Napoleon
e) George III 739. Which ruler’s reign marks the approximate
beginning and end of the Victorian era?
733. Who remained without the vote following the
Reform Bill of 1832? a) King Henry VIII
b) Queen Elizabeth I
a) about half of middle class men c) Queen Victoria
b) almost all working class men d) King John
e) all of the above, in that order, with Victoria’s reign
c) all women marking the most pivotal period for England’s
d) b and c colonial efforts in India, Africa, and the West Indies
e) a, b and c
740. Which city became the perceived center of
734. Which of the following charges were commonly Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth
leveled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of century?
the Romantic era? a) Paris
b) Tokyo
a) Too many of its readers were women. c) London
b) It required less skill than other genres. d) Amsterdam
c) It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and e) New York
drama.
d) Too many of its authors were women.
741. By 1890, what percentage of the earth’s c) John Ruskin
population was subject to Queen Victoria? d) Friedrich Engels
e) Oscar Wilde
a) 1%
b) 10% 747. Which event did not occur as part of the rise of
c) 15% the British Empire under Queen Victoria?
d) 25%
e) 95% a) Between 1853 and 1880, 2,466,000 emigrants left
Britain, many bound for the colonies.
742. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by “Close thy b) In 1876, Queen Victoria was named empress of
Byron; open thy Goethe”? India.
c) To save costs and maximize profits, the day-to-day
a) Britain’s preeminence as a global power will government of India was transferred from Parliament
depend on mastery of foreign languages. to the private East India Company.
b) Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown d) From 1830 to 1870, the sum total of investments
scoundrel. abroad by British capitalists had risen from £300
c) Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and billion to £800 billion.
turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe. e) In 1867 the Canadian provinces were unified into
d) In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, the Dominion of Canada.
Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen
Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively. 748. What does the phrase “White Man’s Burden,”
e) Leave England and emigrate to Germany. coined by Kipling, refer to?

743. To whom did the Reform Bill of 1832 extend the a) Britain’s manifest destiny to colonize the world
vote on parliamentary representation? b) the moral responsibility to bring civilization and
Christianity to the peoples of the world
a) the working classes c) the British need to improve technology and
b) women transportation in other parts of the world
c) the lower middle classes d) the importance of solving economic and social
d) slaves problems in England before tackling the world’s
e) conservative landowners problems
e) a Chartist sentiment
744. Elizabeth Barrett’s poem The Cry of the
Children is concerned with which major issue
attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s 749. Which of the following best defines
and 1840s? Utilitarianism?

a) women’s rights and suffrage a) a farming technique aimed at maximizing

b) child labor productivity with the fewest tools
c) Chartism b) a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans
d) the prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of her aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest
fellow Victorians number
e) insurrection in the colonies c) a critical methodology stating that all words have a
single meaningful function within a given piece of
745. Who were the “Two Nations” referred to in the literature
subtitle of Disraeli’s Sybil (1845)? d) a philosophy dictating that we should only keep
what we use on a daily basis.
a) the rich and the poor e) a form of nonconformism
b) Anglicans and Methodists
c) England and Ireland 750. Which of the following discoveries, theories,
d) Britain and Germany and events contributed to Victorians feeling less like
e) the industrial north and the agrarian south they were a uniquely special, central species in the
universe and more isolated?
746. Which of the following novelists best represents
the mid-Victorian period’s contentment with the a) geology
burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased b) evolution
restiveness over social and political change? c) discoveries in astronomy about stellar distances
d) all of the above
a) Anthony Trollope e) tractarianism
b) Charles Dickens
751. Which of the following contributed to the a) crop; scabbard; foot; agree
growing awareness in the Late Victorian Period of the b) throne; scepter; soul; decree
immense human, economic, and political costs of c) school; scalpel; pen; set free
running an empire? d) hearth; needle; heart; obey
e) field; sword; head; command
a) the India Mutiny in 1857
b) the Boer War in the south of Africa 757. Which of the following Victorian writers
c) the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865 regularly published their work in periodicals?
d) the Irish Question
e) all of the above a) Thomas Carlyle
b) Matthew Arnold
752. Which of the following authors promoted c) Charles Dickens
versions of socialism? d) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
e) all of the above: (In addition to short fiction, most
a) William Morris Victorian novels appeared serialized in periodicals.)
b) John Ruskin
c) Edward FitzGerald 758. What best describes the subject of most
d) Karl Marx Victorian novels?
e) all but c
a) the representation of a large and comprehensive
753. Which best describes the general feeling social world in realistic detail
expressed in literature during the last decade of the b) a surrealist exploration of alternate states of
Victorian era? consciousness
c) a mythic dream world
a) studied melancholy and aestheticism d) the attempt of a protagonist to define his or her
b) sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal place in society
c) raucous celebration mixed with self-congratulatory e) a and d
sophistication
d) paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent 759. Why did the novel seem a genre particularly
e) all of the above well-suited to women?

754. Which of the following acts were not passed a) It did not carry the burden of an august tradition
during the Victorian era? like poetry.
b) It was a popular form whose market women could
a) a series of Factory Acts enter easily.
b) the Custody Act c) It was seen as a frivolous form where one
c) the Women’s Suffrage Act shouldn’t make serious statements about society.
d) the Married Women’s Property Rights Acts d) It often concerned the domestic world with which
e) the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act women were familiar.
e) all but c
755. Which contemporary discussions on women’s
rights did Tennyson’s The Princess address? 760. What was the relationship between Victorian
poets and the Romantics?
a) the grueling working conditions for women in
textile factories a) The Romantics remained largely forgotten until
b) the debate on women’s suffrage their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.
c) the need to enlarge and improve educational b) The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality
opportunities for women, resulting in the and narcissism of the Romantics.
establishment of the first women’s college in London c) The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists
d) the question of monarchical succession and if a belonging to a distant, semi-barbarous age.
woman should hold royal power d) The Victorians were strongly influenced by the
e) the establishment of a civil divorce court Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.
e) The Victorians were aware of no distinction
756. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s The Princess. between themselves and the Romantics; the
Man for the field and woman for the _____: distinction was only created by critics in the twentieth
Man for the sword and for the _____ she: century.
Man with the head and woman with the _____:
Man to command and woman to _____. 761. Experimentation in which of the following areas
of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and
allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a
different way?
a) the use of pictorial description to construct visual 767. What was the impact on literature of the
images to represent the emotion or situation of the Education Act of 1870, which made elementary
poem schooling compulsory?
b) sound as a means to express meaning
c) perspective, as in the dramatic monologue a) the emergence of a mass literate population at
d) all of the above whom a new mass-produced literature could be
e) none of the above: Victorians were not directed
experimental in their poetry. b) a new market for basic textbooks which paid better
than sophisticated novels or plays
763. What factors contributed to the increased c) a popular thirst for the “classics,” driving
popularity of nonfiction prose? contemporary writers to the margins
d) a, b and c
a) a new market position for nonfiction writing and e) none of the above
an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer
b) a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst for 768. Which text exemplifies the anti-Victorianism
trivia prevalent in the early twentieth century?
c) the forbiddingly high cost of three-volume novels
and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops a) Eminent Victorians
outside of London b) Jungle Books
d) the deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy c) Philistine Victorians
and an accompanying relativistic sense that every d) The Way of All Flesh
opinion was of equal value e) both a and d
e) c and d
769. With which enormously influential perspective
764. For what do Matthew Arnold’s moral investment or practice is the early-twentieth-century thinker
in nonfiction and Walter Pater’s aesthetic investment Sigmund Freud associated?
together pave the way?
a) eugenics
a) a renewed secularism in the twentieth century b) psychoanalysis
b) modern literary criticism c) phrenology
c) late–nineteenth-century and early–twentieth- d) anarchism
century satirical drama e) all of the above
d) the surrealist movement
e) none of the above: Victorian prose was mostly 770. Which thinker had a major impact on early-
forgotten until recently and had little impact on twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine
literature of or after its time. human identity in radically new ways?

765. Which of the following comic playwrights made a) Sigmund Freud

fun of Victorian values and pretensions? b) Sir James Frazer
c) Immanuel Kant
a) W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan d) Friedrich Nietzsche
b) Oscar Wilde e) all but c
c) George Bernard Shaw
d) Robert Corrigan 771. Which scientific or technological advance did
e) all but d not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth
century?
20th Century
a) Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity
766. Which of the following phrases best b) wireless communication across the Atlantic
characterizes the late-nineteenth century aesthetic c) the creation of the internet
movement which widened the breach between artists d) the invention of the airplane
and the reading public, sowing the seeds of e) the mass production of cars
modernism?
772. Which best describes the imagist movement,
a) art for intellect’s sake exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra
b) art for God’s sake Pound?
c) art for the masses
d) art for art’s sake a) a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way
e) art for sale words appear on the page
b) an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and
facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and c) total recall
clarity of imagery d) stream of consciousness
c) an attention to alternate states of consciousness and e) free association
uncanny imagery
d) the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility 779. Which of the following is not associated with
e) a neo-platonic poetics that stresses the importance high modernism in the novel?
of poetry aiming to achieve its ideal “form”
a) stream of consciousness
773. What characteristics of seventeenth-century b) free indirect style
Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of c) irresolute open endings
modernist poets and critics? d) the “mythical method”
e) narrative realism
a) its intellectual complexity
b) its union of thought and passion 780. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a
c) its uncompromising engagement with politics new “mythical method” in place of the old “narrative
d) a and b method” and demonstrates the use of ancient
e) a,b, and c mythology in modernist fiction to think about
“making the modern world possible for art”?
774. In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. a) Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
Auden were more _______ but less _______ than b) Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
older modernists such as Eliot and Pound. c) James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake
d) E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
a) popular; reverenced e) James Joyce’s Ulysses
b) brash; confident
c) radical; inventive 781. Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen-
d) anxious; haunting Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the
e) spiritual; orthodox heightened linguistic self-consciousness of modernist
writers?
775. Which poet could be described as part of “The a) George Orwell
Movement” of the 1950s? b) Virginia Woolf
c) Evelyn Waugh
a) Thom Gunn d) Orson Wells
b) Dylan Thomas e) Aldous Huxley
c) Pablo Picasso
d) Philip Larkin 782. Which of the following novels display postwar
e) both a and d nostalgia for past imperial glory?
a) E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
776. Which British dominion achieved independence b) Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916? c) Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
d) Paul Scott’s Staying On
e) c and d
a) the southern counties of Ireland
b) Canada
c) Ulster 783. When was the ban finally lifted on D. H.
d) India Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover, written in
1928.
e) Ghana
a) 1930
b) 1945
777. Which of the following writers did not come
c) 1960
from Ireland?
d) 2000
e) The ban has not yet been formally lifted.
a) W. B. Yeats
b) James Joyce
c) Seamus Heaney
d) Oscar Wilde
e) none of the above; all came from Ireland

778. Which phrase indicates the interior flow of

thought employed in high-modern literature?

a) automatic writing
b) confused daze