History of English Literature Quiz Part 2
Question 51:
Who is called the “Father of English Poetry”?
A) William Shakespeare
B) John Dryden
C) Geoffrey Chaucer
D) John Milton
Answer: C) Geoffrey Chaucer
Question 52:
Paradise Lost was written by:
A) Alexander Pope
B) John Milton
C) William Blake
D) Edmund Spenser
Answer: B) John Milton
Question 53:
Which poet is famous for the poem Ode to a Nightingale?
A) Percy Shelley
B) William Wordsworth
C) John Keats
D) T.S. Eliot
Answer: C) John Keats
Question 54:
The term “Metaphysical poets” is associated with:
A) Romanticism
B) Neoclassicism
C) 17th-century poetry
D) Modernism
Answer: C) 17th-century poetry
Question 55:
Who wrote The Rape of the Lock?
A) William Blake
B) John Donne
C) Alexander Pope
D) Jonathan Swift
Answer: C) Alexander Pope
Question 56:
Which of the following is a morality play?
A) Everyman
B) Doctor Faustus
C) Hamlet
D) Othello
Answer: A) Everyman
Question 57:
Which of these authors is not a Victorian novelist?
A) Thomas Hardy
B) George Eliot
C) Charles Dickens
D) Virginia Woolf
Answer: D) Virginia Woolf
Question 58:
Who introduced the “stream of consciousness” technique?
A) D.H. Lawrence
B) Charles Dickens
C) Virginia Woolf
D) William Golding
Answer: C) Virginia Woolf
Question 59:
Which of the following plays was written by Christopher Marlowe?
A) Macbeth
B) Doctor Faustus
C) King Lear
D) The Spanish Tragedy
Answer: B) Doctor Faustus
Question 60:
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of:
A) Allegories
B) Sonnets
C) Short stories
D) Ballads
Answer: C) Short stories
Question 61:
Who is the author of The Faerie Queene?
A) John Milton
B) Edmund Spenser
C) William Shakespeare
D) Ben Jonson
Answer: B) Edmund Spenser
Question 62:
Who among the following is a Romantic poet?
A) T.S. Eliot
B) John Keats
C) Alexander Pope
D) John Dryden
Answer: B) John Keats
Question 63:
Which novel was written by George Orwell?
A) The Rainbow
B) Animal Farm
C) The Waves
D) Sons and Lovers
Answer: B) Animal Farm
Question 64:
Who wrote The Waste Land?
A) T.S. Eliot
B) W.B. Yeats
C) D.H. Lawrence
D) Ezra Pound
Answer: A) T.S. Eliot
Question 65:
The Elizabethan Age is known for the rise of:
A) Epic poetry
B) Tragedy and comedy in drama
C) Satirical novels
D) Allegorical prose
Answer: B) Tragedy and comedy in drama
Question 66:
Who is the author of Pride and Prejudice?
A) Charlotte Brontë
B) Jane Austen
C) Emily Brontë
D) Mary Shelley
Answer: B) Jane Austen
Question 67:
Who coined the term “negative capability”?
A) William Wordsworth
B) Samuel Coleridge
C) John Keats
D) Percy Shelley
Answer: C) John Keats
Question 68:
Who is the central character in Hamlet?
A) Claudius
B) Horatio
C) Hamlet
D) Polonius
Answer: C) Hamlet
Question 69:
Who wrote To the Lighthouse?
A) George Eliot
B) Virginia Woolf
C) E.M. Forster
D) Doris Lessing
Answer: B) Virginia Woolf
Question 70:
Which century is known as the “Age of Prose and Reason”?
A) 16th century
B) 17th century
C) 18th century
D) 19th century
Answer: C) 18th century
Question 71:
Which is Shakespeare’s last complete play?
A) Macbeth
B) Othello
C) The Tempest
D) Henry V
Answer: C) The Tempest
Question 72:
The Victorian Age lasted from:
A) 1600–1700
B) 1837–1901
C) 1750–1800
D) 1901–1950
Answer: B) 1837–1901
Question 73:
Who wrote the dystopian novel 1984?
A) Aldous Huxley
B) George Orwell
C) Ray Bradbury
D) H.G. Wells
Answer: B) George Orwell
Question 74:
Which poet wrote The Tyger and The Lamb?
A) William Wordsworth
B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C) William Blake
D) Robert Burns
Answer: C) William Blake
Question 75:
Who is the protagonist of Paradise Lost?
A) God
B) Satan
C) Adam
D) Jesus
Answer: B) Satan
Q76. Who is known as the “Father of English Poetry”?
A) William Shakespeare
B) John Milton
C) Geoffrey Chaucer
D) Edmund Spenser
Answer: C) Geoffrey Chaucer
Q77. Paradise Lost is written in which form?
A) Free verse
B) Heroic couplets
C) Blank verse
D) Spenserian stanza
Answer: C) Blank verse
Q78. Who is the author of The Faerie Queene?
A) Edmund Spenser
B) John Milton
C) Alexander Pope
D) John Donne
Answer: A) Edmund Spenser
Q79. Which literary period is known as the “Age of Reason”?
A) Romantic Period
B) Modern Period
C) Augustan Age
D) Restoration Period
Answer: C) Augustan Age
Q80. Who wrote The Rape of the Lock?
A) John Milton
B) Jonathan Swift
C) William Blake
D) Alexander Pope
Answer: D) Alexander Pope
Q81. Which work is a satire on travel and politics?
A) Robinson Crusoe
B) Tom Jones
C) Gulliver’s Travels
D) Pamela
Answer: C) Gulliver’s Travels
Q82. Doctor Faustus was written by:
A) Ben Jonson
B) Christopher Marlowe
C) William Shakespeare
D) Thomas Kyd
Answer: B) Christopher Marlowe
Q83. Which is a famous morality play?
A) Everyman
B) Hamlet
C) Volpone
D) King Lear
Answer: A) Everyman
Q84. The Romantic Age began with the publication of:
A) Ode to a Nightingale
B) Songs of Innocence
C) Lyrical Ballads
D) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Answer: C) Lyrical Ballads
Q85. Who is not a Romantic poet?
A) Percy Shelley
B) Samuel Coleridge
C) Alfred Tennyson
D) William Wordsworth
Answer: C) Alfred Tennyson
Q86. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is a line from:
A) Ode on a Grecian Urn
B) Ode to the West Wind
C) Tintern Abbey
D) The Prelude
Answer: A) Ode on a Grecian Urn
Q87. Which novel is by Jane Austen?
A) Wuthering Heights
B) Pride and Prejudice
C) Jane Eyre
D) Middlemarch
Answer: B) Pride and Prejudice
Q88. The central character in Hamlet is:
A) Claudius
B) Hamlet
C) Laertes
D) Horatio
Answer: B) Hamlet
Q89. The Victorian Age began in:
A) 1837
B) 1800
C) 1750
D) 1901
Answer: A) 1837
Q90. Ulysses was written by:
A) Virginia Woolf
B) James Joyce
C) D.H. Lawrence
D) George Orwell
Answer: B) James Joyce
Q91. The “stream of consciousness” technique was popularized by:
A) T.S. Eliot
B) George Orwell
C) Virginia Woolf
D) Thomas Hardy
Answer: C) Virginia Woolf
Q92. The Waste Land was published in:
A) 1919
B) 1922
C) 1925
D) 1930
Answer: B) 1922
Q93. Animal Farm is a satire on:
A) Capitalism
B) Nazism
C) Communism
D) Feudalism
Answer: C) Communism
Q94. Which of the following is a dystopian novel?
A) Hard Times
B) Brave New World
C) The Mill on the Floss
D) Kim
Answer: B) Brave New World
Q95. Who is the author of The Tyger?
A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B) William Blake
C) Robert Browning
D) John Keats
Answer: B) William Blake
Q96. Who coined the term “negative capability”?
A) John Keats
B) Wordsworth
C) Coleridge
D) Tennyson
Answer: A) John Keats
Q97. Which author is associated with the “Angry Young Men” movement?
A) Kingsley Amis
B) George Orwell
C) William Golding
D) Salman Rushdie
Answer: A) Kingsley Amis
Q98. Which of these is a postmodern novel?
A) A Passage to India
B) To the Lighthouse
C) Midnight’s Children
D) The Return of the Native
Answer: C) Midnight’s Children
Q99. Who wrote The Second Coming?
A) W.B. Yeats
B) T.S. Eliot
C) Ezra Pound
D) Seamus Heaney
Answer: A) W.B. Yeats
Q100. Waiting for Godot is an example of:
A) Epic Theatre
B) Absurd Drama
C) Historical Drama
D) Comedy of Manners
Answer: B) Absurd Drama
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