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The document summarizes information about English literature from the Old English period to the Renaissance period. It provides details about key authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, and others. It also gives information about important works including Beowulf, Canterbury Tales, and sonnets. The Renaissance period marked a rebirth of learning that started in Italy and influenced English literature.

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The Old English Period to The Renaissance Period

01. Which is the oldest period in English Literature?


--Anglo-Saxon

02. Which one of the following is first long poem in English?


-- Beowulf

03. Choose the right answer: Chaucer is the representative poet of-

14th century

04. Who is known as the father of English poetry?


-- Chaucer

05. Who is the father of Modern English Poetry?


-- Geoffrey Chaucer

06. "The Canterbury Tales" are told by-


-- Geoffrey Chaucer

07. The Canterbury Tales is as alive and---today as it was nearly 600 years ago.
-- appealing

08. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote—


-- Canterbury Tales

09. Who is considered to be the father of English Poem?


-- Geoffrey Chaucer

10. Who translated the Bible into English for the first time?

-- John Wycliffe

11. Who translated „The New Testament‟?

-- John Wycliffe

12. "Renaissance" means—


-- rebirth
13. "Renaissance" means —
-- the revival of learning

15. The beginning of the Renaissance may be traced to the city of—
-- Florence

16. Renaissance is — word.

-- an Italian

17. Where did the Renaissance start from?

-- Italy

18. The main feature of the Renaissance is


-- Humanism

19. Who is the 'University Wits' in the following list?


-- Robert Greene

20. Elizabethan tragedy is centred on-


-- revenge

21. Which period is known as 'the golden age' of English


Literature?
-- the Elizabethan Age

22. Who wrote the plays “The Tempest‟ and “The Mid Summer Night‟s Dream”?
-- William Shakespeare

23. Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about—


-- 2000 years ago

24. Shakespeare is known mostly for his-


-- plays

25. Which of the following is a play by Shakespeare —

-- King Lear

26. William Shakespeare was an English dramatist and poet of the----- century.
-- sixteenth

27. Which of the following plays is by William Shakespeare?


-- Measure for Measure

28. „Shakespeare‟ is the writer of—

-- The Tempest

29. A sonnet is a lyric poem of—


-- 14 lines

30. William Shakespeare is the author of—


-- King Lear

31. “Twelfth Night” is—

-- a comedy

32. Which book is a Tragedy?

-- Hamlet

33. „Macbeth‟ is —
-- a play

34. William Shakespeare is the author of-


-- King Lear

35. Which is not true of an English sonnet?


-- It has fourteen syllables in each line

36. William Shakespeare is a famous—


-- dramatist

37. The play „Romeo and Juliet‟ was written by-


-- William Shakespeare

38. Who wrote „The Tempest‟?


-- William Shakespeare

39. Romeo and Juliet is a—


-- Tragedy
40. William Shakespeare is not the author of—
-- White Devil

41. The poem „Under the Green Wood Tree‟ was written by—
-- William Shakespeare

42. Macbeth is a — by Shakespeare.


-- play

43. Who is the greatest dramatist of all times?


--William Shakespeare

44. Which of the following is a „Comedy‟ written by Shakespeare?

-- As You Like It

45. Who is the writer of „The Merchant of Venice‟?


-- William Shakespeare

46. Which is known as Shakespeare‟s Swansong?


-- The Tempest

47. „To be or not to be that is the question‟ From which novel the above sentence has
been taken?
-- Hamlet

48. One of the following plays is not a tragedy-

-- Tempest

49. Shakespeare was born in the year---


-- 1564

50. William Shakespeare is a famous ___ century English Playwright.


-- sixteenth

51. Shakespeare‟s King lear‟ is a ___


--Tragedy
52. In what year did Shakespeare die?
-- 1616 AD

53. Shakespeare wrote brilliant---


-- dramas

54. Hamlet is __
-- a tragedy by Shakespeare

55. „The Merchant of Venice‟ is a drama by __

-- William Shakespeare

56. Shakespeare‟s „Julius Caesar‟ is a --


-- tragedy

57. Who wrote the world famous tragic play „King Lear‟?
-- Shakespeare

58. মমননর চচচধমরনর "মমখর রমনন বসসকরণ" ককর চলখকর অনমবকদ?


-- William Shakespeare

59. Hamlet by Shakespeare is ----


-- a tragedy

60. Who is the author of „The Taming of the Shrew‟


-- Shakespeare

61. Hamlet is a __ by Shakespeare.


-- play

62. Shakespeare lived during the reign of -


-- Elizabeth i

63. Shakespearean play consists of -----


-- five acts

64. ঈশরচন সবদদকসকগররর "ভকসনসবলকস" চককন বইএর অনমবকদ?


-- The Comedy of Errors

65. „The Faerie Queene‟ is an---

-- Epic
66. Shakespeare‟s Macbeth is a ------
--Tragedy

67. „Comedy of Errors‟…

-- William Shakespeare

68. Shakespeare was famous for all but one of the following ----

-- Bourgeois Drama

69. „Dr. Faustus‟ was written by--

-- Christopher Marlowe

70. Christopher Marlowe is Shakespeare‟s


-- predecessor

71. What is the full name of the tragedy „Dr. Faustus‟?

-- The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

72. The beginning of the Renaissance may be traced to the country of—
-- Italy

73. A great playwright of Shakespeare time was-


-- Christopher Marlowe

74. Francis Bacon is a/an---


-- Essayist

75. Who is considered to be the father of English prose?


-- John Wyclif

76. Where is expressed the view that 'There is a divinity that shapes our, ends?'
-- In Hamlet

77. Who is called the poet of poets?

-- Edmund Spenser
78. Who wrote an epic „The Faerie Queen‟?

-- Edmund Spenser

79. Macbeth is written by--


William Shakespeare

80. Who wrote „The Ruins of Time‟?

-- Edmund Spenser

81. Who among the following was an English Renaissance Poet?


-- Sir Philip Sidney

82. Who wrote „An Apology for Poetry‟?

-- Sir Philip Sidney

83. Which of the following school of literature is connected with a medical theory?
-- Comedy of humours

84. „Silent Woman‟ written by---


-- Ben Jonson

85. Why is the poet so sad to see the Daffodils in „The Daffodils‟?

-- The poet is sad because the flowers remind him of his own death.

86. "I wandered lonely as a cloud‟ is an example of --


-- Simile

87. In „To Daffodils‟, human life is compared with:


―Morning‘s dew

88. ―Hasting day” in To Daffodils means- -- hurriedly passing day

89. Which two things of nature does Robert Herrick find similar to

human beings and daffodils?


-- summer‘s morning‘s dew

90. In the poem „To Daffodils‟ the poet weeps over---


Short-lived human life

91. Which word seems out of place?

-- cauliflower

92. The last line of “To daffodils” is


-- Ne‘re to be found again

93. Who used the term 'The Metaphysical poet'?

-- Samuel Johnson

94. Who is a Metaphysical poet?

-- Cowley

95. Who is not called the Metaphysical poet?

-- Alfred Tennyson

96. Who was a friend of John Milton?

-- Andrew Marvell

97. Who wrote the poem 'The Definition of Love.'

-- Andrew Marvell

98. The poem 'To His Coy Mistress' was written by-

-- Andrew Marvell

99. Who is the representative of the metaphysical poets?

-- John Donne
100. 'The Good Morrow' is a poem by-

-- John Donne

101. Who wrote the poem 'The Sun Rising'?

-- John Donne

102. Who is called the 'poet of love'?

-- John Donne

103. 'The Flea' by John Donne is-

a religious poem

104. Who was both a poet and a Priest?

-- George Herbert

105. Who wrote the poem 'The Collar'?

-- George Herbert

106. The poem 'Easter Wings' written by-

-- George Herbert

107. "To be or not to be, that is the ___ ."


-- question

108. Cowards die___ before their death.


-- many times

109. 'Knowledge is power' was stated by-


-- Hobbes

110. 'Frailty, Thy name is woman'-- in which of the following plays you find this?
-- Hamlet
111. 'Sweet are the uses of adversity' was stated by---
-- Shakespeare

112. 'To be or not to be' is the beginning of a famous soliloquy from-

-- Hamlet

113. 'Good face is the best letter of recommendation' was stated by--

-- Queen Elizabeth

114. 'Fair daffodils! We weep to see/ You haste away so soon;


As yet the early rising sun
Has not attained his noon.'
Who is the writer to these beautiful lines?

-- Robert Herrick

115. 'Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; writing an exact man' Who
said this?
-- Bacon

116. 'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed
and digestd.' Said-
-- Francis Bacon

117. 'Veni, Vidi, Vici' this quotation from Shakespeare's-


-- Julius Caesar

118. 'Cowards die many times before their death,'


-- Julius Caesar

119. „Faerie Queene‟ is a/an —


-- epic

120. 'All the perfumes of Arabian will not sweeten this little hand's is a quotation
from--
-- Macbeth
121. Who said 'Cowards die many times before their death.
-- Shakespeare

122. Calliban is a Character in—

-- Tempest

123. Brutus is a famous character of Shakespeare in—

-- Julius Caeser

124. 'Ophelia' is an important character in the Shakespearean play?

-- Hamlet

125. 'Blow, Blow thou winter wind/ Thu art not so unkind As man‟s ingratitude;/
They tooth is not so keen,
Although they breath be rude.'
These are a few lines of a poem of a great poet. Who is the poet?

-- W. Shakespeare

126. Who is called the poet of poets?


-- Edmund Spenser

127. Shylock is a character of—


-- The Merchant of Venice

128. Who is known as the father of English poetry? /Who is called the father of
English Poetry?
-- Chaucer

129. Who is the father of Modern English Poetry?


-- Geoffrey Chaucer

130. Who is considered to be the father of English Poem?


-- Geoffrey Chaucer
131. 'There are more things in heaven and earth,
Horatio,/ Than are dreamt of in our philosophy.' is taken from--
-- Hamlet

132. Who wrote “The Spanish Tragedy”?


-- Thomas Kyd

133. Robert Herrick was an English--


-- Poet

134. A poem of fourteen lines is called—


-- Sonnet

135. 'The Merchant of Venice' is a Shakespearean play about-


-- a Jew

136. 'Frailty the name is woman'-- is a famous dialogue from.


-- W. Shakespeare

137. Shakespeare's „Measure for Measure‟ is a successful---


-- Tragi-comedy

138. The sentence 'Who would have thought Shylock was so unkind?' expresses—
-- wonder

139. A Machiavellian character is—


-- a selfish person

140. '____' is Shakespeare's last play.


-- Tempest

141. Who has written the play 'Volpone'?


-- Ben Jonson

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


-- Iambic pentameter

143. Which of the following is not apoetic tradition?


-- The Occult
144. Othello gave Desdemona____ as a token of love:
-- Handkerchief

145. When a speaker speaks his thoughts aloud, it is called-

-- soliloquy

146. Soliloquy means -


-- talking to oneself

147. What is the meaning of 'Soliloquy'?


-- long self speech by an actor

148. A drama is a/an --


-- magical performnces on the stage

149. A tragedy does not have ____


-- an octave-sestet division

150. Comedy is -
-- a lignt play with a happy ending.

151. A comedy does not have__


-- catharsis

152. The hero or central character of a literary work is __


-- Protagonist

153. 'Protagonist' indicates__


-- the leading character or actor in a play

154. 'Melodrama' is a kind of play of-


-- violent and sensational themes

155. What is catastrope?


-- The tragic end of dramatic events
156. Climax is related to-
-- Drama

157. 'Much Ado About Nothing' is written by __

-- William Shakespeare

158. What is an act in a play?


-- a major division in the action of a play

159. 'Phoenix' is __
-- a mythical bird regenerating from ashess

160. Who is the 'Univesrsity Wits' in the following list?


-- Robert Greene

161. Andrew Marvell was a-


-- Metaphysical poet

162. Who, among the following playwrights, is Shakespeare's contemporary?

-- Christopher Marlowe

163. Shakespeare was not__.

-- a story writer

164. Which of the following is not true about Shakespeare?

-- Novelist

165. William Shakespeare wrote-

-- sonnets, tragedies and comedies

166. In Shakespearean tragedy, the hero is


-- a high ranking man
167. Ben Jonson introduced-
--comedy of humours

168. "Better three hours too soon than a minute too late" was said by-

-- Shakespeare

The Neoclassical Period(1660-1798)

01. 'Elegy Written is a Country Churchyard' is written by-


-- Thomas Gray

02. 'Paradise Lost' attempted to----


-- Justify the ways of God to man

03. Who wrote the famous poetic line 'To err is human, to forgive is divine'?

-- Pope

04. Edmund Spenser is a ---.


-- Poet

05. Who is the composer of 'Paradise Lost'?


-- John Milton

06. 'Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.' Who said this and where?
-- Satan in "Paradise Lost"

07. 'Paradise Lost' is a/an ----


-- epic poem

08. Who of the following is a famous epic poet in English literature? / Of the
following authors who wrote an epic?
-- John Milton

09. 'Paradise Regained' is an epic by-

-- John Milton
10.Who wrote 'Lycidas'?
-- John Milton

11. Who wrote 'Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise'?


-- Thomas Gray

12. Who is famous for his elegies?


-- Thomas Gray

13. Who wrote 'Gulliver's Travels'?


-- Jonathan Swift

14. 'A Voyage of Lilliput' is written by-


-- Jonathan Swift

15. Jonathan Swift is the author of-


-- Gulliver's Travels

16. The first English Dictionary was compiled by-


Samuel Johnson

17. Edmund Burke belonged to-


-- 18th century

18. The Romantic Age began with the publication of-


--Lyrical Ballads

19. 'To err is human, to forgive is divine' is written by-


-- Pope

20. Who was the famous mock-heroic poet in English literature?

-- Alexander Pope

21. The First English novel, Pamela has been written by-
-- Samuel Richardson

22. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding was first published in-


-- the 1st half of 18th century

23. 'A little learning is a dangerous thing' is a quotation from-

-- Alexander Pope
24. Who is considered to be the father of English novel?
-- Henry Fielding

25. Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Man" is a-


--Poem

26. Who wrote first English dictionary?/ Who is the author of the

first English dictionary?


-- Samuel Johnson

27. Who is the most famous satirist in English literature?


-- Jonathan Swift

28. Poet Alexander Pope's famous work-


-- The Rape of the Lock

29. "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,


And waste its sweetness in the desert air.'- -- Thomas Gray

30. A lexicographer is a person who writes-


-- Dictionaries

31. Paradise Regained is an epic written by-


-- Milton

32. Who was the famous mock-heroic poet in English literature?

-- Alexander Pope

33. Who is considered to be the father of English novel?


-- Henry Fielding

34. Who has written the poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?
-- Thomas Gray

35. 'Restoration period' in English literature refers to -


-- 1660

36. A mornful poem written on the death of someone's love is called_


-- elegy
37. Addison and Steele are known for-
-- The Spectator

38. 'A critic and lexicographer' applies to-


-- Johnson

39. An epic is based on__ performed by a hero.


-- heroic deeds

40. A 'canto' is -
-- a division of an epic

41. A novel in the form of letters is called-


-- epistolary novel

42. The narrator of a novel written in the third person is called -

narrator.
-- an omniscient

43. A work which has a meaning behind the surface meaning is__

-- an allegory

44. What is the meaning of the word 'Dirge'?


-- a song expressing grief, lamentation and mourning

45. Goethe is the greatest poet of___.


-- Germany

The Romantic Period (1798-1832)

01. Who is known as "the poet of nature" in English literature?


-- William Wordsworth

02. The poem 'The Solitary Reaper' is written by-


-- W. Wordsworth

03. Which of the following writers belongs to the Romantic period in English
literature?
-- S.T. Coleridge

04. The Romantic age in English literature began with the publication of---.
-- Preface of Lyrical Ballads

05. Ballad is —
-- a kind of short lyrical poem

06. 'Child is the father of man' is taken from the poem of---.
-- W. Wordsworth

07. The year 1798 is famous for---


-- Publication of lyrical ballads

08. Pioneer/s of Romanticism is/are-


-- Wordsworth & Coleridge

09. "Water, water, everywhere, not a drop to drink" is written by-


-- Coleridge

10. "Child is the father of man" is taken from the writings of —


-- W. Wordsworth

11. Romanticism is mainly connected with--


Love and beauty

12. Which is known as Romantic Period of English literature?

-- 1798-1832

13. Most important feature of a romantic poetry is/are--


-- Subjectivity & Imagination

14. 1798-1832 is known as----in English Literature.


-- The Romantic Age

15. Who of the following was both a poet and painter?


-- William Blake

16. The author of 'Songs of Innocence and of Experience' is--

-- William Blake
17. Who among the following is not a novelist?
-- Blake

18. One of the four mentioned below is not poet of Romantic age-
-- William Blake

19. William Wordsworth was a—


-- Poet

20. Why were The Daffodils in Wordsworth's I wandered Lonely as

a Cloud dancing?
-- There was a strong wind

21. In "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud" Wordsworth compares the

daffodils with—
-- the stars of the milky way

22. William Wordsworth is pre-eminently—


-- a poet of nature

23. The Daffodils is a poem written by—


-- William Wordsworth

24. Lyrical Ballads was published in the year-.


-- 1798

25. In 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' the daffodils gave the poet.

-- a great deal of pleasure

26. Who is contemporary poet of William Wordsworth?


-- S.T. Coleridge

27. Who is known as "the poet of nature in English literature"?


- William Wordsworth

28. In "The Solitary Reaper" what does the word solitary mean?
-- romantic

29. Wordsworth is a — poet.


-- romantic
30. The Solitary Reaper is a—
-- romantic poem

31. "Written in March" is a poem composed by-


-- William Wordsworth

32. Wordsworth was inspired by—


-- the French Revolution

33 Who wrote the poem "Solitary Reaper?"


-- Wordsworth

34. William Wordsworth wrote—


-- The Lucy Poems

35. Who wrote poem about Lucy?


-- William Wordsworth

36. Who wrote poem about 'Lucy'?


-- William Wordsworth

37. "The Daffodils" is a/an--


-- poem

38. The literary work "Kubla Khan" is—


-- a verse by Coleridge

39. P.B. Shelley is known as—


-- Romantic Poet

40. Who is the author of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?


-- S.T. Coleridge

41. Who was English poet addicted to opium?—


-- S.T. Coleridge

42. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a-


-- poem
43. Who wrote Prometheus Unbound?
-- Shelley

44. The phrase "trunk less legs" in the poem "Ozymandias" refers
-- legs without body

45. The statue of Ozymandias is—


-- in a desert

46. In Ozymandias, who saw the statue of Ozymandias?


-- a traveller

47. The central idea of "Ozymandias" is that—


-- all things, both great and small, will perish

48. In Shelly's "Ozymandias" frown, and sneer of cold command" are seen on—.
-- Shattered visage

49. "Ode to the west wind" is by—


-- Shelley

50. One of the following was a Romantic poet-


-- Shelley

51. A famous English poet who was professionally known as man of medicine is--
-- Keats

52. In Shelley's "Ozymandias" the words, 'My name is ozymandias,

king of kings' are inscribed on—


-- the pedestal of the statue

53. What lies half sunk in the sand in Shelley's Ozymandias?

-- broken head of a statue

54. In Ozymandias the poet says, 'I met a traveller— an—land.'


-- from, antique

55. Who is known as Poet of Skylark and Wind?

-- P B Shelley
56. Who is called the 'poet of beauty'?
-- John Keats

57. 'Ode to Autumn' was written by---


-- Keats

58. In the poem Ozymandias who calls Ozymandias "King of

Kings"?
Ozymandias himself

59. Keats belong to -


-- Nineteenth century

60. Poet of sensuousness-


-- John Keats

61. 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'-- Who is the poet of the poem?

-- Keats

62. The poet of 'Romantic Age' is--


-- John Keats
63. John Keats is primarily a poet of-
-- Beauty

64. Who died by tuberculosis?


-- John Keats

65. Who wrote 'Ode to a Nightingale?'


-- Keats
66. মমতমদ হরচ সনছকই 'A Short Sleep' উসকসট ককর?
-- Keats

67. John Keats was a---- poet?


-- Romantic
68. John Keats is known as a romantic poet. So is--
-- Lord Byron

69. Who is the author of 'Heaven and Earth'?


-- Lord Byron
70. Who is sometimes called 'Rebel Poet?'

-- Lord Byron

71. Who wrote the poem 'Don Juan'?


-- Lord Byron

72. Who is the author of 'Pride and Prejudice'? / Pride and Prejudice' is

written by--
-- Jane Austen

73. Which is not a play?


-- Pride and Prejudice

74. Jane Austen is the writer of--


-- Emma

75. 'Essays of Elia' was written by-


-- Charles Lamb

76. Charles Lamb was--


-- an essayist

77. 'If winter comes, can spring be far behind?' These lines were written by_
-- Shelley

78. Who wrote 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty'?


-- Keats

79. 'Our Sweetest songs are those that tell of a sadest thoughts is a

quotation from Shelley's --


-- Ode to a skylark

80. They__ in never-ending--


-- stretched, line

81. 'The Trumpet of prophecy! O wind. If winter comes, can spring be far behind?'
Who is the poet of these lines?
-- P. B. Shelley

82. 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever' was stated by---


-- John Keats
83. 'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her' is a quotation of--
-- Wordsworth

84. If Winter comes, can spring be far behind? is a line from---.


-- Shelley's Ode to West Wind

85. If Winter comes, can --- be far behind?


-- Spring

86. 'Ten thousand saw I at a glance' Who said this?


-- Wordsworth

87. 'The music in my heart I bore/ Long after it was heard no more.' These lines are
from the poem---
-- The Solitary Reaper by Wordsworth

88. Identify the Poet of the verse: 'Our sweetest songs are those that

tell of saddest thought.'


-- P. B. Shelley

89. 'Ten thousand saw I at a glance

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.'

What is the poet William Wordsworth referring to?


-- daffodils

90. Which ode begins with the lines?

'My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains.

My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.'


-- Ode to a Nightingale

91. Who has written?

'He prayeth best, who loveth best

All things great and small.'


-- Coleridge
92. 'Poet are unacknowledged legislators of the world'-- Who told it?
-- Shelley

93. Who is known as 'the poet of nature in English literature'?


-- William Wordsworth

94. Who was a 'poet laureate?


-- William Wordsworth

95. Who of the following was both a poet and painter?


-- Blake

96. Who is called the 'poet of beauty'?


-- John Keats

97. Poet of sensuousness--


-- John Keats

98. John Keats is primarily a poet of--


-- Beauty

99. The central idea of “I wandered lonely as a cloud” is that:


-- we can find solace in nature

100. “Ten thousand saw I at a glance” is an example of-


-- hyperbole

101. "The waves beside them danced" (from 'I wandered lonely as a

cloud') is an example of:


-- personification

102. The speaker of “I wandered lonely as a cloud" saw:


-- golden daffodils

103. William Hazlitt is a/an --


-- Essayist

104. Who wrote "Biographia Literaria"?


-- S.T. Coleridge

105. P.B. Shelley's 'Adonais' is an elegy on the death of -


-- John Keats
106. What figure of speech do you find in "budding beauty"?
-- Alliteration

107. Which of the following chronologycally in order-


-- Chaucer, Spenser, Shelley, Swinburae

108. Romantic poets are so called because _


-- they are connected more with heart than with head

109. In the poem "Ozymandias", The phrase "king of kings" is an example of-
irony

110. The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as

known to be -
simile

111. Whose dying words were, 'Crito, I owe a cock to Asceleping; will you remember
to the debt’.
Socretes

112. The 'merit' in the sentence 'The boy showed his merit by making twenty mistakes
in ten minutes' is an example of -
irony

113. The sentence, "Death, thou shalt not die'' is an example of__.

-- parsonification

114. Which of the following is a story in verse?


-- ballad

115. Prosody signifies the systematic study of __?


-- Versification

The Victorian Period(1831-1901)

01. 'David Copperfield' is a / an ----- novel.


-- Victorian
02. London town is found a living being in the work of- .
-- Charles Dickens

03. Who wrote 'Patriotism'?


-- Sir Walter Scott

04. Who excels in dramatic monologue?


-- Robert Browning

05. Who wrote the book 'Ivan Hoe'?


-- Sir Walter Scott

06. Which poetry is written by Sir Walter Scott?


-- Patriotism

07. In which century was the Victorian period?


-- 19th century

08. The Victorian age is named after-


-- Queen Victoria

09. Tennyson‟s 'In Memoriam' is-


-- an elegy

10. Who wrote the poem 'Ulysses'?


-- Alfred Tennyson

11. Tennyson wrote--


-- The Lotus-Eaters

12. 'The Falcon' is a comedy by-

-- Alfred Tennyson

13. Which of the following ages in literary history is the latest?


-- The Victorian Age

14. Browning was the composer of any of the following poems-


-- Andrea Del Sarto

15. Who is the poet of the Victorian age?


-- Matthew Arnold
& Robert Browning
16. Who among the following is not a recipient of the Nobel prize in Literature?
-- Robert Browning

17. The poem 'The Patriot' is written by-


-- Robert Browning

18. Browning wrote--


-- Rabbi Ben Ezra

19. Who is a Victorian Poet?

-- Matthew Arnold

20. 'The Scholar Gipsy' wrote by-


-- Matthew Arnold

21.Who is a French authors?


-- Alexandre Dumas

22. Matthew Arnold belongs to--


-- Victorian Age

23. Who is the author of the novel 'Three Musketeers?


-- Alexandre Dumas

24. 'Vanity Fair' is a ----


-- novel

25. Vanity Fair is a novel by--


-- Thackeray

26. The writer of David Copperfield is-


-- Charles Dickens

27. Who wrote the two famous novels, 'David Copperfield' and 'A Tale of
Two Cities'?
-- Charles Dickens

28. Charles Dickens was the writer of---


-- David Copperfield

29. A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by-


-- Dickens

30. Charles Dickens is a great-


-- novelist

31. Which book is written by Charles Dickens?


-- David Copperfield

32. Charles Dickens is not the novelist for one of the following-
-- Treasure Islam

33. Who did not receive Nobel Prize in Literature.


-- Leo Tolstoy

34. One of the four mentioned below is not a novelist of Modern Age in English
Language. Who is he?
-- Charles Dickens

35. Who is the author of the book "War and Peace?'


-- Leo Tolstoy

36. Leo Tolstoy is a-- novelist.


-- Russian

37. 'War and Peace' an epic late of Napoleonic invasion is written by-

-- Leo Tolstoy

38. The central idea of 'Under the greenwood tree' is that:


-- life in nature is simple and free

39. In 'Under the greenwood tree' which of the following is

mentioned as an 'enemy'?
-- forest

40. The Return of the native is written by-


-- Thomas Hardy

41. 'Sherlock Holmes' was written by---


-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

42. Who created the detective 'Sherlock Holmes'?


-- Sir A Conan Doyle
43. 'Govt. of the people, by the people for the people' was observed by-
-- Abraham Lincoln

44. 'You may fool some of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the
people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all time' was stated by-
-- Abraham Lincoln

45. 'Give me good mothers, I will give you a good nation' was the observation of-
Napoleon

46. Who is not Poet Laureate?


-- Robert Browning

47. Who was a peot Laureate after William Wordsworth?


-- Alfred Tennyson

48. Who is the author of “The Origin of Species,”


-- C. Darwin

49. Who is the author of "Arabian Nights"? -- Sir Richard Burton

50. Robert Browning was a ___ poet. Fill in the gap with appropriate word.
-- Victorian

51. The appropriate meaning of the word 'monologue' is -.


-- a long speech in a play spoken by one actor especially when alone

52. 'A song embodying religious and sacred emotions.'


-- Hymn

53. A novel is not written in ___.


-- rhyme

54. Who is the father of Short story?


-- Ellan Poe

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