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ENGLISH QUIZ

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who taught Patronus Charm to Harry Potter?

a)

Professor Dumbledore

b)

Professor Lupins

c)

Hermione Granger

d)

Professor Severus Snape

2.

Who is the author of 'Pride and Prejudice'?

a)

Jane Austen

b)

Enid Blyton

c)

Louisa May Alcott

d)

Mary Shelley

3.

Who is known as 'The Father of English Poetry'?

a)

William Wordsworth

b)

Rabindranath Tagore

c)

Ruskin Bond

d)

Geoffrey Chaucer

4.

What does Banquo think about the witches' predictions? (Macbeth)

a)

He wishes they would not come true.

b)

He dreams that they may come true, but he will do nothing about them.

c)

He doesn't believe them.

d)

He will try to make them come true, no matter what it takes.

5.

What was the original name of the great epic 'Mahabharata'?

a)

Bhagvata Purana

b)

Jaya Samhita

c)

Vishnu Purana

d)

Yajur Veda

6.

Who is the author of the book 'Wonder'?

a)

Enid Blyton

b)

Charles Dickens

c)

R. J Palacio

d)

Jane Austen

7.

Which one is not a book written by Roald Dahl?

a)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

b)

The BFG

c)

George's Marvelous Medicine

d)

Five on a treasure Island

8.

Who is the author of the Narnia series?

a)

Jacqueline Wilson

b)

Anthony Horowitz

c)

Jeff Kinney

d)

C. S. Lewis

9.

The author of Sherlock Holmes stories is..............

a)

Arthur Conan Doyle

b)

Charles Dickens

c)

Agatha Christie

d)

Michael Morpurgo

10.

Who wrote 'Child is the father of man'?

a)

Lord Byron

b)

John Keats

c)

Shakespeare

d)

William Wordsworth

11.

What is the last vision that the witches show Macbeth?

a)

A procession of eight kings

b)

A procession of bloody corpses

c)

A stain on his hand

d)

Macduff's head

12.

Who wrote this book?

a)

Salman Rushdie

b)

Aravind Adiga

c)

Shakespeare

d)

Jules Verne

13.

Do bailon ki katha, Idgah, Lottery, Poos ki raat,are the stories written by

a)

Munshi Premchand

b)

Subhadra Kumari Chauhan

c)

Suryakant Tripathi

d)

Amrita Pritam

14.

What is Lady Macbeth’s plan for killing Duncan?

a)

Drug the guards and go in the room and stab him

b)

Overpower the guards and kill Duncan in hand to hand combat.

c)

Poison Duncan at the banquet.

d)

Turn Malcolm against him and get him to do it.

15.

Who (what) did Macbeth see at the banquet table?

a)

The tree witches laughing at him.

b)

Banquo's Ghost

c)

Blood from the daggers in his wine cup.

d)

The image of Duncan's beating heart.

16.

Where was William Shakespeare born?

a)

London

b)

Birmingham

c)

Stratford-upon-Avon

17.

A dramatic play that tells the story of a character who meets an untimely and unhappy death or downfall, often because of a specific character flaw or twist of fate.

a)

tragedy

b)

comedy

c)

verse

d)

prologue

18.

'The Lord of the Rings' was written by

a)

Charles Dickens

b)

Agatha Christie

c)

J.R.R Tolkien

d)

Mark Twain

19.

Who wrote 'The Time Machine'?

a)

Herbert George Wells

b)

Mahatma Gandhi

c)

Charles Dickens

d)

Rudyard Kipling

20.

Who wrote 'War and Peace'?

a)

Leo Tolstoy

b)

Mahatma Gandhi

c)

Charles Dickens

d)

Kipling