Assignment:
1- The First Folio edition of Shakespeare's play was printed in?
A- 1623
B-1660
C-1616
D-None
2- Who is the movement poet?
A- Philip Karkin
B-Ted Hughes
C-T .S Eliot
D- W. H Auden
3-Look Back in Anger was performed in the year
A-1956
B-1957
C- 1955
D-1958
4- Who was the first recipient of the Sahitya Akademi award for English
A- R.K Narayan
B-Raja Rao
C-Bhabani Bhattacharya
D- Mulk Raj Anand
5-Who wrote Absalom Absalom?
A- William Faulkner
B-Dr. Johnson
C-Dryden
D-Fitzgerald
6- The novel No Name (1862) was written by
A- Wilkie Collins
B-Charles Kingsley
C-Anthony Trollope
D-None
7- Who is the heroine in Shakespeare ‘Temple ‘?
A- Miranda
B-Portia
C-Viola
D-Beatrice
8- Who is everyman?
A- A Morality Play
B-Essay by Camb
C- A Comedy
D-Essay by Bacon
9- ‘Light Breaks where no sun shines' is written by
A- Dylan Thomas
B-W.B Yeats
C- T.S Eliot
D- D.H Lawrence
10- Who wrote ‘Daffodils'
A-Wordsworth
B-Byron
C-Shelley
D-Keats
English Literature Test Two.
1-When was Johnson's Dictionary' Published?
A- 1955
B- 1754
C-1756
D-1757
2- Who among the following introduced sonnets?
A- Thomas Wyatt
B- Philip Sidney
C- Shakespeare
D- Spenser
3- The term ‘Negative Capability is to associate with
A- John Keats
B-Wordsworth
C- T. S Eliot
D-Shelley
4- The character, maggie figures in
A- The Mill on the Floss
B- Adam Bede
C-Silas Marner
D-None
5- The Heroic Couplet as first use by
A- Chaucer
B- Pope
C-Dryden
D-Spenser
6- Who said ‘Geography is about Maps, but biography is about chaps'?
A- E.C Bentley
B- Ogden Nash
C- E. E Cummings
D- Hilaire Belloc
7-" They also serve who stand and wait" are opening lines by
A- Milton
B- Aristotle
C- Shakespeare
D- None
8- What was the Nationality of Famous English author Oscar Wilde?
A- Irish
B-German
C- Italian
D-French
9- "Frailty, thy name is women" are from which famous Shakespeare play?
A- Hamlet
B-Tempest
C-As you like it
D- King Lear
10- Who wrote Agnes Grey?
A- Anne Bronte
B- Jane Austen
C- Charlotte Bronte
D- Emily Bronte
English Literature Test Three.
1- The Origin of Species was written in
A- 1859
B- 1857
C-1847
D-1849
2-Arnold mourns the untimely death of -- in ‘Thyrsis' an elegy.
A- Arthur Hugh Clough
B- Arthur Hallan
C-MR. W.H
D- None
3- Arnold wrote, "With him is born our real poetry" who does ‘him' refer to?
A- Chaucer
B-Shakespeare
C-Spenser
D-Wordsworth
4- Which version of the Bible did Wycliff make use of for the translation?
A- Latin
B-Greek
C-French
D-None
5- The Authorised Bible was dedicated to
A- James 1
B- Charles 2
C-Charles 3
D- Jesus Christ
6- The Beggar's Opera was written by
A- Matthew Prior
B- Samuel Butler
C- John Gray
D- None
7- When as the Reform Bill passed?
A- 1832
B-1831
C-1834
D-1830
8- When did W.B Yeats receive the Nobel prize for literature?
A-1923
B-1922
C-1920
D-1921
9- What is Milton's ‘Areopagitica'
A- A Play for the freedom of the press
B-Epic
C-Sonnet
D- Play
10- Who wrote Sohrab and Rustom?
A- Keats
B-Byron
C-Yeats
D-Mathew Arnold
English Literature Test Four
1- Alexander Pope was the undisputed master of :
A- Tragedy
B- Songs of Nature
C- Lyrical Poetry
D- Satiric and Didactic Verse
2- Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four appears in
A-1949
B-1948
C-1984
D-1947
3- What is Threnody?
A- Song Sung at Death
B- Marriage Song
C-Victory Song
D-Sung at the birth of a son
4- "Blow, Blow thou winter wind" in As You Like it is sung by----
A-Amiens
B- Rosalind
C-Orlando
D-Gelia
5- Who is Walt Whitman mourning in the poem ‘O Captian My Captian'
A- Lincoln
B- Shelley
C-Emerson
D-Washington Irving
6-Which is John Keats's first poem?
A- Stopping by Woods
B- Daffodils
C- When I have a fear
D- Endymion
7- When was Spensers ‘Faerie Queene' first published?
A- 1591
B-1590
C-1952
D-1596
8- How many Essays did the final volume of Bacon Essays contain?
A- 68
B- 58
C-48
D-38
9- Sir Walter Scott wrote which classic?
A- Ivanhoe
B- Trial
C- The Plague
D-Invisible Man
10-Charles Lamb is famous as an author of
A- Essays of Elia
B-Sonnets
C- Tragedy
D- Blank Verse