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History of English Literature

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Spenser celebrated his wedding in ....

a)

Epithalamion

b)

Faerie Queene

c)

Prothalamion

d)

Amoretti

2.

Which of the following statement is NOT TRUE?

a)

In 'Defence of Poesie' Sidney celebrates classics.

b)

Robert Greene developed 'euphuism'.

c)

Marlowe has written one man type of tragedy.

d)

Shylock's character is inspired from the Jew of Malta.

3.

Which of the following is not written by Shakespeare?

a)

Paradise Lost

b)

Venus and Adonis

c)

Othello

d)

Macbeth

4.

'Venus and Adonis' is a (a)   by Shakespeare.

5.

Choose the correct pair

a)

Hamlet - Cordelia

b)

Othello - Desdemona

c)

King Lear - Ophelia

d)

Measure for Measure - Isabella

6.

Who is the author of 'Grace Abounding' ?

4 lines
7.

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”

So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.


Which of the following CORRECT with reference to the above passage?

a)

Alice’s sister is tired of reading.

b)

Alice is tired of reading.

c)

Alice does not find the book interesting as there is no pictures or conversation.

d)

Alice’s sister does not find the book interesting as there is no pictures of conversation

8.

Who is the author of 'The Plague'?

4 lines
9.

Tick the Nobel Prize Winner writers...

a)

Alice Munro

b)

RK Narayan

c)

Doris Lessing

d)

Rabindranath Tagore

10.

How interesting and useful was the quiz?

a)

Very Good

b)

Good

c)

Average

d)

Boring