English Literature MCQ Questions Answers Objective Model Quiz Download
English Literature MCQ Questions Answers Objective Quiz Download PDF Sample Test Set
1) Which American writer published ‘A brave and startling truth’ in 1996
a) Robert Hass
b) Jessica Hagdorn
c)Maya Angelou
d) Micheal Palmer
2) What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?
a)Alliterative
b) Epic
c)Acrostic
d) Haiku
3) What is a funny poem of five lines called?
a) Quartet
b)Limerick
c)Sextet
d) Palindrome
4) Who succeeded Lyly?
a)Robert Greene
b)John Milton
c)Philip Sidney
d)Christopher Marlowe
5) Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote,”Neither a borrower nor a lender be” come from?
a)Cymbeline
b)Hamlet
c)Titus Andronicus
d)Pericles, Prince of Tyre
6) In which century was Shakespeare born?
a)16th
b)14th
c)15th
d)17th
7) Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory?
a) A teacher
b) A clerk
c) A thief
c) A dentist
8) Who said ‘Keats was a Greek’?
a) Wordsworth
b) Coleridge
c) Lamb
c) Shelley
9) Which of the following is Hamlet’s mother?
a) Beatrice
b) Margaret
c) Gertrude
d) Rosalind
10) Which of the following was Elizabeth known as?
a) Unintelligent
b) Rude
c) Stingy
d) Fanatic
11) For whom it is said: “sensuousness is a paramount bias of his genius”:
a) Blake
b) Keats
c) Tennyson
d) Shelley
e) None of these
12) ‘Desert Places’ is a:
a) Poem
b) Play
c) Novel
13) Francis Bacon died in:
a) 1616
b) 1626
c) 1648
14) Who is the villain in “Hamlet”?
a) Horatio
b) Iago
c) Claudius
15) Which of the following poems by Tennyson is a monodrama?
a) Ulysses
b) Break, Break, Break
c) Maud
d) Crossing the Bar
16) Moral choice is everything in the works of:
a) Dickens
b) George Eliot
c) Hardy
17) Which one of the following poets was appointed Poet Laureate in the year 1813?
a) Tennyson
b) Byron
c) Southey
d) Wordsworth
18) Who believed that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotions?
a) Blake
b) Byron
c) Wordsworth
d) Keats
19) Which of the following is not a play by Shakespeare?
a) Hamlet
b) Macbeth
c) Dr. Faustus
20) In which of the following Genres did Victorian Literature achieve its greatest success:
a) Drama
b) Epic Poetry
c) Lyric Poetry
d) The Essay
(e) The Novel