English Literature

1. ‘The Good Earth’ has been written by

a. Pearl S. Buck b. George Eliot

c. Charles d. Viginia Wolff

2. The First English novel, Pamela has been written by·

a. Daniel Defoe

b. Samuel Richardson

c. Henry Fielding

d. Sir Walter Scott

3. Who is known as the father of English poetry?

a. Alexander Pope

b. John Keats

c. Charles Dickens

d. Geoffrey Chaucer

4. Who was both a poet and a Priest?

a. George Herbert

b. Andrwe Marvell

c. Edmund Spencer

d. Robert Browning

5. ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’is written by·

a. Robert Tennyson

b. Pearl S. Buck

c. Harriet Beecher Stowe

d. Thomas Hardy

6. Pride and Prejudice’ is written by·

a. Emily Bronte b. Jane Austen

c. Charlotte Bronte d. Charles Dickens

7. Who among the following is a dramatist?

a. G. B. Shaw b. E. M. Forster

c. T. S. Eliot d. Stephen Spender

8. Who wrote ‘The End of History and the Last Man’?

a. M. Francis Fuïuama

b. Robert Frost

c. Samuel Huntington

d. David Lynn

9. Helen of Troy was the wife of·

a. Agamemnon b. Achilles

c. Menelaus d. Ulysses

10. Who is the ‘University Wits’ in the following list?

a. William Shakespeare

b. Thomas Gray

c. Robert Greene

d. John Dryden

11. Who wrote the short story ‘The Gift of the Magi’?

a. William Wordsworth

b. Nixon

c. Jane Austen

d. O’ Henry

12. Elizabethan tragedy is centred on-

a. love b. war

c. revenge d. philosophy

13. Calliban is a Character in·

a. King Lear b. Tempest

c. Man and Superman

d. Othello

14. Who wrote the book ‘The Kite Runner’?

a. Salman Rushide

b. KhaledHosseini

c. OrhanPamuk

d. John Milton

15. ‘Silent Woman’ written by·

a. John Ruskin b. Daniel Defoe

c. Ben Jonson d. Robert Browning

16. The poem ‘To His Coy Mistress’ was written by·

a. John Keats

b. Andrwe Marvell

c. John Milton

d. William Shakespeare

17. ‘Justice delayed is justice denied’ was state by·

a. Shakespeare b. Emerson

c. Gladstone d. John Keats

18. Who wrote the poem ‘Solitary Reaper’?

a. William Wordsworth

b. P.B. Shelley

c. John Keats

d. William Shakespeare

19. The author of ‘Road to Freedom’ is·

a. James Baker b. Bertrand Russell

c. Dr. Kissinger d. Vladimir Lenin

20. Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’ is a·

a. comedy b. satire

c. tragedy d. historical play

Answers : 1a, 2b, 3d, 4a, 5c, 6b, 7a, 8c, 9c, 10c, 11d, 12c, 13b, 14b, 15c, 16b, 17c, 18a, 19b, 20c.

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