HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE MCQs

1.Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry?

a. assonance

b. Conjunction

c. Grammar

d. rhyme

2.Writing predates poetry.

a. FALSE

b. TRUE

c.

d.

3.What is the earliest surviving European poem?

a. Gilgamesh Epic

b. Hesiodic epic

c. Homeric Epic

d. Deluge Epic

4.Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?

a. Tragic

b. Occult

c. comic

d. Epic

5.What is the study of poetry’s meter and form called?

a. Epic

b. foot

c. Prosody

d. potology

6.Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?

a. Sonnet form

b. Iambic pentameter

c. Dyctalic hexameter

d. Alliteration

7.Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?

a. Robert Frost

b. W.C.Williams

c. DickinsonHopkins

d.

8.When did the Romantic period starts in England ?

a. 1998

b. 1798

c. 1698

d. 1898

9.”Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit…With loss of Eden.”

a. Paradise Lost

b. Paradise Regained

c.

d.

10.William Shakespeare was born in the year:

a. 1544

b. 1572

c. 1582

d. 1564

11.A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry

a. meter

b. rhyme scheme

c. Alliteration

d.

12.Queen Elizabeth was the first and last _______ empress of England

a. Heroic

b. foresighted

c. Virgin

d. Gaiety

13.1st world war started in __________.

a. 1915

b. 1913

c. 1918

d. 1914

14.Victorian age starts in ____________.

a. 18th century

b. 17th century

c. 16th century

d. 19th century

15.A contrast of puritan age and Restoration age is ______________.

a. moral

b. economical

c. religious

d. worldly

16.The comparison of Elizabethan age and Victorian age is _________.

a. religious

b. prosperity

c. industrial

d. squalor

17.Protestants locked and banned _______.

a. universities

b. Theatres

c. churches

d. banks

18.Heroic tragedy was written by _____________ in Restoration period.

a. Shakespeare

b. Eliot

c. John Dryden

d. Johnson

19.A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters.

a. Sonnet form

b. narrative

c. lyric

d. free verse

20.A poem with no meter or rhyme

a. sonnet

b. free verse

c. narrative

d. lyric

21.A poem that generally has meter and rhyme

a. free verse

b. narrative

c. lyric

d. elegy

22.Sylvia Plath married which English poet?

a. Larkin

b. Causley

c. Hughes

d. Masefield

23.Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?

a. sonnet

b. pentameter

c. hexameter

d. Alliteration

24.Who wrote Canterbury Tales?

a. Richar II

b. Geoffery chaucer

c. Lancester

d. Whittington

25.The term ‘stream of comsciousness’ was first used by ________.

a. Virginnia woolf

b. William james

c. james Joyce

d. sigmund Fruad

26.”Frailty thy name is woman” this line occurs:

a. Kong Lear

b. Macbeth

c. Hamlet

d. Othello

27.The first English tragedy DORBODUC was later given the title?

a. Ferrex and Porrex

b. Corpus Christi

c. Endamion

d.

28.What is meant by ‘denouement’?

a. Comedy ending

b. Farce ending

c. Tragedy ending

d.

29.Who called the 18th century the age of prose and reason?

a. hazlitt

b. Johnson

c. Methew Arnold

d. Coledridge

30.Wordsworth wrote a sonnet on:

a. Shakespeare

b. Sidney

c. Ben Johnson

d. Milton

31.Who “found English a dialect and left it a language”

a. Chaucer

b. Dante

c. Boccaccio

d.

32.The Romantic age was the age of

a. epic

b. Drama

c. Lyric

d. Prose

33.Pozzo is a character in __________.

a. waiting for Godot

b. End Game

c. MotherCourage

d.

34.Who consider literature as super structure _________.

a. Marxists

b. Structuralist

c. Feminists

d.

35.Whi is credited with the coinage of the phrase ‘lost generation”?

a. Gertrude Stein

b. Hamingway

c. fitzgerald

d.

36.Who is of the view that Chaucer is not as great as the Classists?

a. Arnold

b. Sidney

c. Johnson

d.

37.Who first used the blank-verse?

a. Surrey

b. Wyatt

c. spencer

d.

38.The word ‘renaissance’ seems to have beenfirst in the book named as _—-?

a. Historia de france

b. Tottel’s Miscelleny

c. Utopia

d.

39.Out of 154 sonnets, 126 of shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to____.

a. Dark Lady

b. Lady Penpole

c. Mr. W.H

d. Queen Elizabeth

40.keats Was very much influenced by Spencer and

a. Liegh Hunt

b. Southey

c. Shelley

d.

41.Which was the last play written by Shakespeare?

a. The tempest

b. Cambeliene

c. Othello

d.

42.Senecan plays were rendered into English by __________.

a. Sphocles

b. Heywood

c. nashe

d. Marlowe

43.When did the Reformation begin in England?

a. 1471

b. 1355

c. 1420

d. 1377

44.Which one of the following is the most important theatre of the Elizabeth age?

a. The Curtain

b. The Globe

c. The Rose

d. The Theatre

45.The Hundred’s Years war began in the year _________.

a. 1348

b. 1356

c. 1327

d. 1338

46.Who gave the Romantic period the title of The Renaissance of Wonder in Poetry?

a. William Shakespeare

b. Theodore Watts

c. Professor herford

d. William Wordsworth

47.The Globe was set on fire in the year _____________.

a. 1612

b. 1620

c. 1616

d. 1613

48.The puritan attack on Elizabeth took place in the year _________.

a. 1568

b. 1590

c. 1558

d. 1579

49.Ernest Hamingway was greatly influenced by Ezra Pound and ______.

a. T. J. Farrell

b. Gertrude Stein

c. T.S.Eliot

d. Henry James

50.Which English ruler exiled by himself?

a. George III

b. George II

c. Charles II

d. Charles I

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