English Literature Quiz Part 1 – History of English Literature Quiz (50 Points)
- Who is considered the “Father of English poetry”?
A) William Shakespeare
B) Geoffrey Chaucer
C) Edmund Spenser
D) John Milton
✔️ Answer: B - Beowulf is an epic poem from which period?
A) Middle English
B) Anglo-Norman
C) Old English
D) Renaissance
✔️ Answer: C - Which of the following is a play by Christopher Marlowe?
A) Hamlet
B) Doctor Faustus
C) Othello
D) Volpone
✔️ Answer: B - The Elizabethan era is closely associated with which monarch?
A) Elizabeth I
B) Mary I
C) Victoria
D) Anne
✔️ Answer: A - Who wrote The Faerie Queene?
A) John Donne
B) Ben Jonson
C) Edmund Spenser
D) Thomas More
✔️ Answer: C - What literary form did John Milton use in Paradise Lost?
A) Blank verse
B) Rhymed couplets
C) Sonnet
D) Free verse
✔️ Answer: A - Which movement came immediately after the Restoration period?
A) Romanticism
B) Augustan Age
C) Modernism
D) Victorian Era
✔️ Answer: B - Who is the author of Pamela, considered one of the first English novels?
A) Daniel Defoe
B) Samuel Richardson
C) Jonathan Swift
D) Henry Fielding
✔️ Answer: B - A Modest Proposal was written by:
A) Alexander Pope
B) Jonathan Swift
C) Samuel Johnson
D) John Locke
✔️ Answer: B - Which poetic movement was Wordsworth part of?
A) Neoclassicism
B) Symbolism
C) Romanticism
D) Modernism
✔️ Answer: C - Who coined the phrase “willing suspension of disbelief”?
A) T.S. Eliot
B) Samuel Coleridge
C) William Blake
D) John Keats
✔️ Answer: B - Lyrical Ballads (1798) was co-authored by:
A) Wordsworth and Keats
B) Shelley and Byron
C) Wordsworth and Coleridge
D) Coleridge and Blake
✔️ Answer: C - Who is famous for the Dramatic Monologue form?
A) Robert Browning
B) Alfred Tennyson
C) Matthew Arnold
D) William Morris
✔️ Answer: A - What was the central theme of Victorian literature?
A) Industrial progress and social reform
B) Religious satire
C) War and trauma
D) Nature and mysticism
✔️ Answer: A - Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray belongs to which period?
A) Romantic
B) Victorian
C) Modernist
D) Georgian
✔️ Answer: B - Which war greatly influenced Modernist literature?
A) Napoleonic Wars
B) World War I
C) American Civil War
D) World War II
✔️ Answer: B - T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land was published in:
A) 1922
B) 1914
C) 1939
D) 1901
✔️ Answer: A - Virginia Woolf is best known for using which narrative technique?
A) Realism
B) Allegory
C) Stream of consciousness
D) Satire
✔️ Answer: C - Who wrote Waiting for Godot?
A) Samuel Beckett
B) Harold Pinter
C) Tom Stoppard
D) T.S. Eliot
✔️ Answer: A - Which poet was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948?
A) Dylan Thomas
B) W.B. Yeats
C) T.S. Eliot
D) W.H. Auden
✔️ Answer: C - The Movement in British poetry was active during:
A) 1890s
B) 1920s
C) 1950s
D) 1980s
✔️ Answer: C - Which novel by George Orwell is a satire on totalitarianism?
A) Brave New World
B) 1984
C) Animal Farm
D) Lord of the Flies
✔️ Answer: C - Who is the author of Midnight’s Children?
A) Vikram Seth
B) Salman Rushdie
C) Arundhati Roy
D) Amitav Ghosh
✔️ Answer: B - Which poet is associated with the term “Negative Capability”?
A) John Keats
B) Percy Shelley
C) William Wordsworth
D) Samuel Coleridge
✔️ Answer: A - What is the earliest surviving English poem?
A) The Seafarer
B) The Dream of the Rood
C) Caedmon’s Hymn
D) Beowulf
✔️ Answer: C
- Who wrote Robinson Crusoe, often cited as the first English novel?
A) Jonathan Swift
B) Daniel Defoe
C) Samuel Richardson
D) Henry Fielding
✔️ Answer: B - What is the name of the allegorical work by John Bunyan?
A) Paradise Lost
B) The Pilgrim’s Progress
C) Utopia
D) The Faerie Queene
✔️ Answer: B - The Metaphysical Poets include:
A) William Blake
B) John Donne
C) John Dryden
D) Thomas Gray
✔️ Answer: B - Which play begins with “If music be the food of love, play on”?
A) Hamlet
B) Twelfth Night
C) King Lear
D) Macbeth
✔️ Answer: B - Who is the author of She Stoops to Conquer?
A) Oliver Goldsmith
B) Richard Sheridan
C) Samuel Foote
D) George Farquhar
✔️ Answer: A - Which literary period is known for satire and emphasis on reason?
A) Romantic
B) Augustan
C) Victorian
D) Modernist
✔️ Answer: B - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard was written by:
A) Thomas Gray
B) William Cowper
C) William Collins
D) James Thomson
✔️ Answer: A - Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a work by:
A) William Blake
B) Robert Burns
C) William Wordsworth
D) Thomas Hardy
✔️ Answer: A - Who was known as the “Ploughman Poet”?
A) John Clare
B) Robert Burns
C) Thomas Gray
D) William Blake
✔️ Answer: B - Which novel is by Mary Shelley?
A) Jane Eyre
B) Wuthering Heights
C) Frankenstein
D) The Mysteries of Udolpho
✔️ Answer: C - Who is NOT a Brontë sister?
A) Emily
B) Anne
C) Jane
D) Charlotte
✔️ Answer: C - Which author is associated with “stream of consciousness” alongside Virginia Woolf?
A) D.H. Lawrence
B) James Joyce
C) E.M. Forster
D) George Eliot
✔️ Answer: B - Hard Times was written by:
A) Charles Dickens
B) Thomas Hardy
C) George Eliot
D) William Thackeray
✔️ Answer: A - Which Thomas Hardy novel features the character Tess Durbeyfield?
A) Jude the Obscure
B) Far from the Madding Crowd
C) The Mayor of Casterbridge
D) Tess of the d’Urbervilles
✔️ Answer: D - Which of these is a war poem by Wilfred Owen?
A) The Soldier
B) Anthem for Doomed Youth
C) In Flanders Fields
D) If—
✔️ Answer: B - What is the genre of Lord of the Flies by William Golding?
A) Dystopian
B) Fantasy
C) Allegorical Novel
D) Historical Fiction
✔️ Answer: C - Look Back in Anger is a famous play by:
A) Harold Pinter
B) Alan Bennett
C) Tom Stoppard
D) John Osborne
✔️ Answer: D - Who wrote the poem Church Going?
A) Philip Larkin
B) Ted Hughes
C) Seamus Heaney
D) W.H. Auden
✔️ Answer: A - The Angry Young Men were primarily active in which decade?
A) 1930s
B) 1950s
C) 1970s
D) 1990s
✔️ Answer: B - What is Seamus Heaney best known for?
A) Postcolonial fiction
B) Irish-themed poetry
C) Satirical novels
D) Victorian criticism
✔️ Answer: B - Which literary work begins with “April is the cruellest month”?
A) The Waste Land
B) Four Quartets
C) Prufrock and Other Observations
D) Ash Wednesday
✔️ Answer: A - Who wrote The Second Coming, famous for the line “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”?
A) W.H. Auden
B) Seamus Heaney
C) W.B. Yeats
D) Dylan Thomas
✔️ Answer: C - Which novel by E.M. Forster explores class division in Edwardian England?
A) Howard’s End
B) A Passage to India
C) Maurice
D) Room with a View
✔️ Answer: A - What’s the subtitle of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein?
A) A Gothic Tale
B) The New Prometheus
C) The Modern Prometheus
D) Science Unleashed
✔️ Answer: C - Who is the author of To the Lighthouse?
A) Virginia Woolf
B) Doris Lessing
C) Elizabeth Bowen
D) Katherine Mansfield
✔️ Answer: A
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