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English Literature Quiz

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is meant by 'Denouement'?

a)

The ending of a romance

b)

The ending of a comedy

c)

The ending of a tragedy

d)

The ending of a farce

2.

Who first used the blank-verse?

a)

Surrey

b)

Wyatt

c)

Spenser

d)

Shakespeare

3.

Who found "English a dialect and left it a language"?

a)

John Trevisa

b)

Chaucer

c)

Dante

d)

Boccaccio

4.

The story of Sohrab and Rustum is taken from

a)

Omar Khayyam

b)

Folk Literature

c)

Firdausi

d)

The Arabian Nights

5.

Which was the last play written by Shakespeare?

a)

Cymbeline

b)

Macbeth

c)

Othello

d)

The Tempest

6.

The term "Stream of Consciousness" is associated with

a)

William James

b)

James Joyce

c)

Virginia Woolf

d)

Sigmund Freud

7.

Wyclif's Bible is a translation of

a)

Greek Texts

b)

Latin Texts

c)

Hebrew Texts

d)

Anglo-Saxon Texts

8.

Who is known as the "peasant poet"?

a)

John Clare

b)

Robert Burns

c)

Robert Southey

d)

Sir Walter Scott

9.

The mystery plays dealt with

a)

Biblical Themes

b)

Medieval Themes

c)

Moral Themes

d)

Philosophical Themes

10.

Who is called the Father of English Classical Comedy?

a)

Thomas Middleton

b)

Ben Jonson

c)

William Shakespeare

d)

Thomas Heywood