English Literature Mcqs 301 to 350

 Part-7

301. The main character in Paradise Lost Book I and Book II is?

(A God

(B) Satan

(C) Adam

(D) Eve

302. In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel’s mother’s name is?

(A)Susan

(B)Jane

(C)Gertrude

(D) Emily

303. The twins in Lord of the Flies are?

(A)Ralph and Jack

(B) Simon and Eric

(C) Ralph and Eric

(D) Simon and Jack

304.Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a

(A) lawyer

(B) postman

(C)Judge

(D) School teacher

305. What does ‘I’ stand for in the following line?

‘To Carthage then I came’

(A) Buddha

(B) Tiresias

(C) Smyrna Merchant

(D) Augustine

306. The following lines are an example……… of image.

‘The river sweats

Oil and tar’

(A) visual

(B) kinetic

(C) erotic

(D) sensual

307. Which of the following novels has the sub-title ‘A Novel Without a Hero’?

(A) Vanity Fair

(B) Middlemarch

(C) Wuthering Heights

(D) Oliver Twist

308. In ‘Leda and the Swan’, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan?

(A) Mars

(B) Hercules

(C) Zeus

(D) Bacchus

309. Who invented the term ‘Sprung rhythm’?

(A)Hopkins

(B)Tennyson

(C)Browning

(D)Wordsworth

310.Who wrote the poem ‘Defence of Lucknow’?

(A) Browning

(B) Tennyson

(C) Swinburne

(D) Rossetti

311.Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue?

(A) The Tempest

(B) Henry IV, Pt I

(C) Hamlet

(D) Twelfth Night

312. Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be,or not to be; that is the question’

occurs in?

(A) Act II, Scene I

(B) Act III, Scene III

(C) Act IV, Scene III

(D) Act III, Scene I

313. Identify the character in The Tempest who is referred to as an honest old counselor

(A) Alonso

(B) Ariel

(C) Gonzalo

(D) Stephano

314. What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night?

(A) Or, What is you Will

(B) Or, What you Will

(C) Or, What you Like It

(D) Or, What you Think

315. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare, according to T. S.

Eliot, is ‘artistic failure’?

(A) The Tempest

(B) Hamlet

(C) Henry IV, Pt I

(D) Twelfth Night

316. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I?

(A) Earl of Northumberland

(B) Earl of March

(C) Earl of Douglas

(D) Earl of Worcester

317. Paradise Lost was originally written in?

(A) ten books

(B) eleven books

(C) nine books

(D) eight books

318. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with?

(A) Darcy

(B) Wickham

(C) William Collins

(D) Charles Bingley

319. Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical Sublime’?

(A) William Wordsworth

(B) P.B.Shelley

(C) S. T. Coleridge

(D) John Keats

320. Who is commonly known as ‘Pip’ in Great Expectations?

(A) Philip Pirrip

(B) Filip Pirip

(C)Philip Pip

(D) Philips Pirip

321. The novel The Power and the Glory is set in?

(A)Mexico

(B) Italy

(C)France

(D) Germany

323. Which of the following is Golding’s first novel?

(A) The Inheritors

(B) Lord of the Flies

(C) Pincher Martin

(D) Pyramid

324.Identify the character who is a supporter of Women’s Rights in Sons and Lovers?

(A) Mrs. Morel

(B) Annie

(C) Miriam

(D) Clara Dawes

325. Vanity Fair is a novel by?

(A) Jane Austen

(B) Charles Dickens

(C) W. M. Thackeray

(D) Thomas Hardy

326. Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on the death of?

(A) Milton

(B) Coleridge

(C) Keats

(D) Johnson

327. Which of the following is the first novel of D. H. Lawrence?

(A) The White Peacock

(B) The Trespasser

(C) Sons and Lovers

(D) Women in Love

328. In the poem ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘dearest friend’ refers to?

(A) Nature

(B) Dorothy

(C) Coleridge

(D) Wye

329. Who, among the following, is not the second generation of British

Romantics?

(A) Keats

(B) Wordsworth

(C) Shelley

(D) Byron

330. Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad?

(A) Work Without Hope

(B) Frost at Midnight

(C) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

(D) Youth and Age

331. Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet—

(A) P. B. Shelley

(B) Charles Lamb

(C) Hazlitt

(D) Coleridge

332. Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to?

(A) Leigh Hunt

(B) Milton

(C) Shakespeare

(D) Thomas Chatterton

333. The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in?

(A) 1823

(B) 1826

(C) 1834

(D) 1833

334. Which of the following poets does not belong to the ‘Lake School’?

 (A) Keats

(B) Coleridge

(C) Southey

(D) Wordsworth

335.Who, among the following writers, was not educated at Christ’s Hospital School,

London?

(A) Charles Lamb

(B) William Wordsworth

(C) Leigh Hunt

(D) S. T. Coleridge

336. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’?

(A) Tennyson

(8) Charles Lamb

(C) Lockhart

(D) T. S. Eliot

337. Tennyson’s poem ‘In Memoriam’was written in memory of?

(A) A. H. Hallam

(B) Edward King

(C) Wellington

(D) P. B. Shelley

338. Who, among the following, is not connected with the Oxford Movement?

(A) Robert Browning

(B) John Keble

(C) E. B. Pusey

(D) J. H. Newman

339. Identify the work by Swinburne which begins “when the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces..”?

(A) Chastelard

(B) A Song of Italy

(C) Atalanta in Calydon

(D) Songs before Sunrise

340. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History is a course of?

(A) six lectures

(B) five lectures

(C) four lectures

(D) seven lectures

341. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’?

(A) Johnson

(B) Cromwell

(C) Shakespeare

(D) Luther

342. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner?

(A) The Stones of Venice

(B) The Two Paths

(C) The Seven Lamps of Architecture

(D) Modem Painters

343. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of?

(A) Charles Dickens

(B) Anthony Trollope

(C) W. H. White

(D) B. Disraeli

344. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’—

(A) Tennyson

(B) Browning

(C) Swinburne

(D) D. G. Rossetti

345. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as?

(A) Spenserian Stanza

(B) Ballad

(C) Ottava Rima

(D) Rhyme Royal

346. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry?

(A) Sir Thomas Wyatt

(B) William Shakespeare

(C) Earl of Surrey

(D) Mi©n

347. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by?

(A) The Pre-Raphaelites

(B) Ruskin

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(D) Matthew Arnold

348. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson “Faith un-faithful kept him falsely true.”

(A) Oxymoron

(B) Metaphor

(C) Simile

(D) Synecdoche

349. W. ©Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem?

(A) Sailing to Byzantium

(B) Byzantium

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(D) Leda and the Swan

350. Who is Pip’s friend in London?

(A) Pumblechook

(B) Herbert Pocket

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(D) Jaggers

Answer Keys

301 (B) Satan

302 (D) Emily

303 (A)Ralph and Jack

304. (A) lawyer

305. (A) Buddha

306. (C) erotic

307. (A) Vanity Fair

308. (C) Zeus

309. (A)Hopkins

310. (C) Swinburne

311l (A) The Tempest

312. (D) Act III, Scene I

313. (C) Gonzalo

314. (B) Or, What you Will

315. (B) Hamlet

316. (A) Earl of Northumberland

317 (D) eight books

318. (B) Wickham

319 (C) S. T. Coleridge

320. (C)Philip Pip

321. (A)Mexico

323. (B) Lord of the Flies

324. (A) Mrs. Morel

325. (C) W. M. Thackeray

326. (C) Keats

327. (A) The White Peacock

328. (B) Dorothy

329. (B) Wordsworth

330. (C) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

331. (A) P. B. Shelley

332. (A) Leigh Hunt

333. (D) 1833

334. (A) Keats

335 (A) Charles Lamb

336. (D) T. S. Eliot

337 (A) A. H. Hallam

338. (C) E. B. Pusey

339. (C) Atalanta in Calydon

340 (B) five lectures

341. (B) Cromwell

342. (D) Modem Painters

343. (D) B. Disraeli

344. (D) D. G. Rossetti

345. (C) Ottava Rima

346. (C) Earl of Surrey

347. (D) Matthew Arnold

348. (A) Oxymoron

349. (A) Sailing to Byzantium

350. (D) Jaggers

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