Q101. Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?
A) William Langland
B) Geoffrey Chaucer
C) Thomas Malory
D) John Gower
Answer: B) Geoffrey Chaucer
Q102. In which century did Chaucer write?
A) 11th
B) 12th
C) 13th
D) 14th
Answer: D) 14th
Q103. Piers Plowman is attributed to which author?
A) Geoffrey Chaucer
B) William Langland
C) John Skelton
D) Robert Henryson
Answer: B) William Langland
Q104. Which of the following is a medieval romance?
A) Beowulf
B) The Faerie Queene
C) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
D) Everyman
Answer: C) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Q105. Who introduced the sonnet form to English literature?
A) Sir Thomas Wyatt
B) William Shakespeare
C) Edmund Spenser
D) John Milton
Answer: A) Sir Thomas Wyatt
Q106. Which meter is predominantly used in Shakespearean sonnets?
A) Trochaic tetrameter
B) Dactylic hexameter
C) Iambic pentameter
D) Anapestic trimeter
Answer: C) Iambic pentameter
Q107. Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta is a:
A) Comedy
B) History
C) Tragedy
D) Farce
Answer: C) Tragedy
Q108. Who wrote Volpone?
A) John Webster
B) Ben Jonson
C) Thomas Dekker
D) Thomas Middleton
Answer: B) Ben Jonson
Q109. What is the genre of Shakespeare’s The Tempest?
A) Comedy
B) Tragedy
C) History
D) Tragicomedy
Answer: D) Tragicomedy
Q110. Which play by Shakespeare features the characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
A) Macbeth
B) Hamlet
C) Othello
D) King Lear
Answer: B) Hamlet
Q111. Areopagitica is a defense of:
A) Monarchy
B) Religious conformity
C) Freedom of the press
D) Classical education
Answer: C) Freedom of the press
Q112. Who wrote Pilgrim’s Progress?
A) Daniel Defoe
B) John Bunyan
C) Jonathan Swift
D) Samuel Pepys
Answer: B) John Bunyan
Q113. Which is considered the first English novel?
A) Pamela
B) Robinson Crusoe
C) Gulliver’s Travels
D) The Pilgrim’s Progress
Answer: B) Robinson Crusoe
Q114. What is the main theme of Pamela by Samuel Richardson?
A) War
B) Religion
C) Class struggle
D) Virtue rewarded
Answer: D) Virtue rewarded
Q115. Who is the author of The Seasons?
A) Thomas Gray
B) James Thomson
C) William Collins
D) Edward Young
Answer: B) James Thomson
Q116. The Graveyard Poets are associated with which century?
A) 16th
B) 17th
C) 18th
D) 19th
Answer: C) 18th
Q117. Who is the author of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard?
A) William Cowper
B) Thomas Gray
C) Edward Young
D) Oliver Goldsmith
Answer: B) Thomas Gray
Q118. Which work was a collaboration between Wordsworth and Coleridge?
A) Don Juan
B) Lyrical Ballads
C) Songs of Experience
D) Hyperion
Answer: B) Lyrical Ballads
Q119. Who wrote the autobiographical epic The Prelude?
A) John Keats
B) William Wordsworth
C) Percy Shelley
D) Lord Byron
Answer: B) William Wordsworth
Q120. Who wrote Adonais, an elegy for John Keats?
A) Wordsworth
B) Byron
C) Coleridge
D) Shelley
Answer: D) Shelley
Q121. Which novel by Charles Dickens critiques industrialism?
A) Great Expectations
B) Hard Times
C) Bleak House
D) Oliver Twist
Answer: B) Hard Times
Q122. Which Victorian writer is known for Dover Beach?
A) Alfred Tennyson
B) Matthew Arnold
C) Robert Browning
D) Thomas Hardy
Answer: B) Matthew Arnold
Q123. Which novel by Thomas Hardy is set in Egdon Heath?
A) Tess of the d’Urbervilles
B) The Mayor of Casterbridge
C) Far from the Madding Crowd
D) The Return of the Native
Answer: D) The Return of the Native
Q124. Oscar Wilde’s only novel is:
A) The Importance of Being Earnest
B) Lady Windermere’s Fan
C) The Picture of Dorian Gray
D) Salome
Answer: C) The Picture of Dorian Gray
Q125. Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion inspired which musical?
A) Oliver!
B) My Fair Lady
C) Les Misérables
D) Sweeney Todd
Answer: B) My Fair Lady
Q126. Who is considered the first major English dramatist?
A) William Shakespeare
B) Thomas Kyd
C) Christopher Marlowe
D) John Bale
Answer: C) Christopher Marlowe
Q127. Astrophel and Stella is a sonnet sequence by:
A) William Shakespeare
B) Edmund Spenser
C) Sir Philip Sidney
D) John Donne
Answer: C) Sir Philip Sidney
Q128. Who coined the phrase “willing suspension of disbelief”?
A) William Blake
B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C) Matthew Arnold
D) Percy Shelley
Answer: B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Q129. Which poem begins with “Tyger Tyger, burning bright”?
A) The Lamb
B) The Tyger
C) London
D) Kubla Khan
Answer: B) The Tyger
Q130. The Rivals was written by:
A) Richard Brinsley Sheridan
B) Oliver Goldsmith
C) William Congreve
D) George Farquhar
Answer: A) Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Q131. She Stoops to Conquer is a:
A) Tragedy
B) Comedy
C) Farce
D) History play
Answer: B) Comedy
Q132. In which century was the King James Bible published?
A) 15th
B) 16th
C) 17th
D) 18th
Answer: C) 17th
Q133. Who wrote To His Coy Mistress?
A) Andrew Marvell
B) John Donne
C) Robert Herrick
D) Richard Lovelace
Answer: A) Andrew Marvell
Q134. Which poem contains the line “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may”?
A) To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
B) To His Coy Mistress
C) The Garden
D) A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Answer: A) To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Q135. Who is the author of The Battle of the Books?
A) Jonathan Swift
B) Alexander Pope
C) Daniel Defoe
D) Joseph Addison
Answer: A) Jonathan Swift
Q136. Who wrote Essay on Man?
A) John Dryden
B) Samuel Johnson
C) Alexander Pope
D) William Blake
Answer: C) Alexander Pope
Q137. The Tatler and The Spectator were co-founded by:
A) Pope and Swift
B) Addison and Steele
C) Defoe and Johnson
D) Goldsmith and Fielding
Answer: B) Addison and Steele
Q138. Who wrote The Deserted Village?
A) Thomas Gray
B) Oliver Goldsmith
C) William Cowper
D) James Thomson
Answer: B) Oliver Goldsmith
Q139. Tom Jones is a novel by:
A) Henry Fielding
B) Samuel Richardson
C) Tobias Smollett
D) Laurence Sterne
Answer: A) Henry Fielding
Q140. The novel Tristram Shandy is known for its:
A) Gothic elements
B) Realism
C) Stream-of-consciousness
D) Digressive style
Answer: D) Digressive style
Q141. Which poet was made Poet Laureate in 1850?
A) Robert Browning
B) William Wordsworth
C) Alfred Lord Tennyson
D) Matthew Arnold
Answer: C) Alfred Lord Tennyson
Q142. Which play is part of the Wakefield Cycle?
A) Everyman
B) Noah’s Ark
C) Doctor Faustus
D) The Spanish Tragedy
Answer: B) Noah’s Ark
Q143. What genre is Beowulf?
A) Elegy
B) Epic
C) Romance
D) Ballad
Answer: B) Epic
Q144. Which century is known as the Elizabethan Age?
A) 15th
B) 16th
C) 17th
D) 18th
Answer: B) 16th
Q145. What is the subtitle of Frankenstein?
A) The Last Man
B) The Modern Prometheus
C) The First Monster
D) The Gothic Tale
Answer: B) The Modern Prometheus
Q146. Which Brontë sister wrote Wuthering Heights?
A) Charlotte
B) Emily
C) Anne
D) All of them
Answer: B) Emily
Q147. George Eliot is the pen name of:
A) Mary Ann Evans
B) Jane Austen
C) Emily Brontë
D) Elizabeth Barrett
Answer: A) Mary Ann Evans
Q148. What is the setting of A Passage to India?
A) South Africa
B) India
C) England
D) Egypt
Answer: B) India
Q149. Which modernist writer created the character Leopold Bloom?
A) D.H. Lawrence
B) T.S. Eliot
C) James Joyce
D) Virginia Woolf
Answer: C) James Joyce
Q150. Who is the author of Look Back in Anger?
A) Harold Pinter
B) Tom Stoppard
C) John Osborne
D) Samuel Beckett
Answer: C) John Osborne
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