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Q1. Which Poem of Coleridge is an opium dream?
1. Kubla Khan
2. Christabel
3. The Ancient Mariner
4. Ode on the Departing year

Q2. The Romantic Age Begins with the Publication of _______?

1. Lyrical Ballads
2. My Last Duchess
3. The Tale of Two Cities
4. Canonization

Q3. T.S Eliot was born in________?

1. Ireland
2. England
3. Wales
4. USA

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Q4. Browning was the composer of any of the following poems- Q7. Who is called the “Father of English Poetry”?
1. Two Voices 1. Edmund Spenser
2. The Scholar Gipsy 2. William Langland
3. Andrea del Sarto 3. Geoffrey Chaucer
4. Oenone 4. John Wycliffe

Q5. Who wrote the story “Gift of the Magi”? Q8. Author of “The Time Machine” is _____.
1. William Wordsworth 1. T.S Eliot
2. Robert Frost 2. Thomas Kyd
3. Jane Austen 3. Robert Herrick
4. O. Henry 4. H.G Wells

Q6. “Caesar and Cleopatra” is- Q9. In which century was the Victorian period?
1. A tragedy by Shakespeare 1. 17th century
2. A play by G.B Shaw 2. 18th century
3. A poem by Lord Byron 3. 19th century
4. A novel by S.T Coleridge 4. 20th century

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Q10. Who is the author of “The Jungle Book”? Q13. Who wrote the book “Doctor Zhivago”?
1. Jonathan Swift 1. Boris Pasternak
2. Leo Tolstoy 2. Leo Tolstoy
3. Rudyard Kipling 3. George Orwell
4. Charles Dickens 4. Bertrand Russell

Q11. American female novelist Pearl S. Buck got Nobel Prize in Q14. Charles Dickens is not the novelist of which of the following
1938 of the book- novels?
1. The Good Earth 1. A Tale of Two Cities
2. House Divided 2. Treasure Island
3. The Patriot 3. David Copperfield
4. De Cameron 4. Great Expectation

Q12. Elizabethan tragedy is centered on_____. Q15. “Renaissance” means-

1. Love 1. The revival of learning
2. War 2. The revival of hard task
3. Revenge 3. The revival of life
4. Philosophy 4. The revival of new country

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Q16. Who wrote the poem “The Patriot”? Q19. What is Shakespeare’s longest play ?
1. Sir Walter Scott 1. Othello
2. Robert Browning 2. Macbeth
3. Robert Herrick 3. Hamlet
4. Robert Frost 4. King Lear

Q17. who is the author of “The Taming of the Shrew”? Q20. Which of the following is a famous work of poet Alexander Pope?
1. Rudyard Kipling 1. The Rape of the Lock
2. William Shakespeare 2. Spectator
3. Jonathan Swift 3. The Deserted Village
4. Charles Dickens 4. I Wandered Lonely as a cloud

Q18. Who is the author of “Around the world in 80 Days”? Q21. Who is considered as the "Rebel Poet of English Literature”?
1. Jules Verne 1. Walter Scott
2. Christopher Marlowe 2. Lord Byron
3. Walter Scott 3. W.B Yeats
4. George Bernard Shaw 4. John Keats

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Q22. Who wrote the poem “Piers Plowman”? Q25. Most important feature of a romantic poetry is______.
1. John Wycliffe 1. Beauty
2. Geoffrey Chaucer 2. Nature
3. William Langland 3. Subjectivity
4. Edmund Spenser 4. Imagination

Q23. Who created the detective “Sherlock Holmes”? Q26. Where did the Renaissance start?
1. Charles Dickens 1. France
2. Jonathan Swift 2. Italy
3. Sir A Canan Doyle 3. England
4. Dylan Thomas 4. Germany

Q24. How many lines are there in a sonnet? Q27. Who is the poet of the poem “Ode to a Grecian urn”?
1. 12 1. William Wordsworth
2. 14 2. William Shakespeare
3. 6 3. P B Shelly
4. 8 4. John Keats

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Q28. Who wrote the book “Ivanhoe”? Q31. “Silent Woman” is written by_____.
1. O. Henry 1. John Ruskin
2. R.L . Stevenson 2. Ben Jonson
3. Ernest Hemingway 3. William Wordsworth
4. Sir Walter Scott 4. Geoffrey Chaucer

Q29. Which of these is the “Magnum Opus of Chaucer”? Q32. Wordsworth was inspired by_____.
1. Troilus and Criseyde 1. The French revolution
2. House of Fame 2. The American revolution
3. Canterbury Tales 3. The industrial revolution
4. Parliament of Fowls 4. The Russian revolution

Q30. Which English Poet was Addicted to opium? Q33. Which poetry is written by Sir Walter Scott?
1. S.T Coleridge 1. Patriotism
2. P.B Shelly 2. The Patriot
3. John Keats 3. A Frosty Night
4. William Wordsworth 4. All of the Above

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Q34. The word “Renaissance” came from which language? Q37. Who is considered to be the “Father of English Novel”?
1. Italian 1. Francis Bacon
2. French 2. Geoffrey Chaucer
3. English 3. King Alfred the Great
4. German 4. Henry Fielding

Q35. Who is called “Poet of Sensuousness”? Q38. Which of the following is a comedy written by William
1. Geoffrey Chaucer Shakespeare?
2. William Wordsworth 1. As you Like it
3. John Keats 2. King Lear
4. William Shakespeare 3. Macbeth
4. Hamlet

Q36. Francis Bacon is _______. Q39. Which period is known as Dark Ages?
1. A novelist 1. Anglo Norman
2. A dramatist 2. Age of Chaucer
3. A poet 3. Age of Bareen
4. An essayist 4. Anglo Saxon

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Q40. “Elegy written in A Country Churchyard” is written by- Q43. Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
1. William Wordsworth 1. Alliterative Verse
2. Thomas Gray 2. Sonnet Form
3. Robert Frost 3. Lambic Pentameter
4. W.B Yeats 4. Dactylic Hexameter

Q41. Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” is a ____. Q44. Who wrote the book “Utopia”?
1. Comedy 1. William Langland
2. Satire 2. Sir Thomas Malory
3. Tragedy 3. Geoffrey Chaucer
4. Historical Play 4. Sir Thomas More

Q42. Who Wrote the first comedy in English Literature ? Q45. Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
1. John Heywood 1. The Epic
2. Bishop Bale 2. The comic
3. Nicholas Udall 3. The Occult
4. Thomas More 4. The Tragic

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Q46. What was the first fruit of renaissance? Q49. Who of the following is a famous epic poet in English
1. Utopia Literature?
2. Tottel’s Miscellany 1. Charles Dickens
3. Canterbury Tales 2. John Milton
4. The Divine Comedy 3. Jonathan Swift
4. William Shakespeare

Q47. What was the oldest period of English Literature? Q50. Which was Marlowe’s First Play?
1. Anglo Norman 1. Doctor Faustus
2. Age of Chaucer 2. Tamburlaine the Great
3. Anglo Saxon 3. The Jew of Malta
4. Jacobean Period 4. Edward ||

Q48. What is a funny poem of five lines called? Q51. Who wrote “The Four P’s”?
1. Quartet 1. John Heywood
2. Limerick 2. Bishop Bale
3. Sextet 3. Nicholas Udall
4. Palindrome 4. Thomas More

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Q52. The Repetition of Beginning Consonant sound is known as- Q55. “War and Peace” is a famous novel by which writer ?
1. Personification 1. George Bernard Shaw
2. Onomatopoeia 2. Leo Tolstoy
3. Alliteration 3. Ernest Hemingway
4. Rhyme 4. Charles Dickens

Q53. Who wrote the “Waste Land”? Q56. When din the renaissance start?
1. W.B. Yeats 1. In 14th Century
2. Robert Frost 2. In 15th Century
3. W.H Auden 3. In 16th Century
4. T.S Eliot 4. In 17th Century

Q54. Who is the first sonnet writer in English Literature ? Q57. Who is the author of the prose “Le Morte D’Arthur”?
1. William Shakespeare 1. Lord Tennyson
2. Christopher Marlow 2. Thomas Malory
3. Sir Thomas Wyatt 3. William Dunbar
4. Sir Thomas More 4. Geoffrey Chaucer

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“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have
ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I
have ever known.”

- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

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