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WorksheetsLITERATURE PART 2
Total questions: 200
Worksheet time: 2hrs 45mins
Someone in whom the main character confides
foil
confidante
antagonist
dynamic
This character changes during the course of a novel or a story. This change in character or his/her outlook is permanent.
static
round
dynamic
foil
These characters are well-developed and complex figures in a story. They are more realistic, and demonstrate more depth in their personalities.
flat
round
developed
dynamic
Thsi character types does not change during a story. Also, he or she usually only reveals one or two personality traits.
2d
flat
static
undeveloped
This character is a flat character that is instantly recognisable by readers. Like a flat character, the character does not undergo any development throughout the story.
stereotypical
stock
protagonist
static
This character remains the same throughout the whole story. Even the events in the novel do not change character’s outlook, perceptions, habits, personality, or motivations.
dynamic
round
flat
static
Which of these novels did Dickens NOT write?
The Great Gatsby
A Tale of Two Cities
A Christmas Carol
Oliver Twist
Romanticism is love for ...
Nature
Lover
Monarchy
What was the name of Wordsworth's collaboration with Coleridge?
"Lines Composed above Tintern Abbey"
Lyrical Ballads
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Myth of Nature
Wordsworth was named the __________ in 1843.
"best of all poets"
stamp distributor
national poet
poet laureate
Which of the following characterize Wordsworth's poetry?
Love of materialism
Love of capitalism
Love of nature
Love of independence
Ten thousand I saw at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
This line refers to
inward eye
milky way
pensive mood
daffodils
Who wrote Wessex poems?
Thomas Hardy
Emma Gifford
Wordsworth
Mary Hutchinson
In the Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge composed
4 poems
2 poems
Where is the Mariner's ship driven by the wind?
to the equator
to the North Pole
to the South Pole
to hell
The poem 'Christabel' is a ...
Sonnet
Ode
Monologue
Balad
Who wrote Kubla Khan?
Coleridge
Keats
Shelley
Keats died of ----------
Cholera
Stroke
Tuberculosis
Flue
"A Thing of Beauty is Joy Forever" is written by
John Milton
PB Shelley
William Blake
John Keats
"Negative Capability" means...
A rational thinking
Having a pesimisic view of the world
Access to beauty withouth any pressure
Hate towards nature and beauty
From where has this poem A Thing of Beauty been taken?
From Keats' work- and Endymion:A poetic Romance
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on melancholy
Ode on indolence
Who is Endymion?
An office boy
A worker
A young Shepherd
A young child
Which one of the following is a verse drama written by Shelley?
Epipsychidion
Alaster
Prometheus Unbound
Adonais
... is the author of "Frankenstein
Lord Byron
Percy Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Shelley
The poem "A laughing song" is written by ____________.
William Shakespear
William Wetmore Story
William Blake
William Charles
Who wrote a Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels?
Andrew Swift
William Shakespeare
Geoffrey Chaucer
Jonathan Swift
The revolution of 1688 was called ‘Glorious’ because
it was bloodless
it was the triumph of the monarchy
it was modelled on Louis XIV’s France
it was committed to toleration
The Tories
were descendants of the Parliamentarians
became the Liberal party
were for religious toleration
were favourable to the Stuarts
During the Glorious revolution the Whigs
were favourable to William of Orange
were favourable to the Stuarts
were favourable to George I
were not interested at all
Pamela or Virtue Rewarded
is an epistolary novel
is a real story
celebrates chastity
was written by Jonathan Swift
Poetry that focuses on meaning more than lyricism is ___________.
Modern
Post-modern
Romantic
Metaphysical
Renaissance
A metaphysical conceit is an unusual __________________.
plot device
extended metaphor
rhyme scheme
poetic meter
word choice
John Donne, one of the metaphysical poets, wrote in all of the following styles except ______________.
sonnets
sermons
songs
essays
elegies
During the English Civil War, the Cavaliers supported which side?
Parliament
Monarchy
Democracy
Oligarchy
Anarchy
A common theme of Cavalier poetry is _______________.
carpe nightem
carpe spring
carpe diem
carpe autumn
carpe carpe
What was the disease that ruined his health?
cancer
tuberculosis
syphilis
diabetes
What was the satire "The Dunclad" celebrating?
dullness
consideration
sincerity
success
The narrator tells Belinda to stop mourning the lock because
Belinda will die someday soon too
The Muse will keep it safe from harm
It will have eternal fame
It has become a comet that will return
What happens to the lock of hair at the end of the poem?
The lock becomes lost and then turns into a star.
Belinda screams at the Baron until he is forced to return it.
It becomes lost and goes to the moon with the other lost things.
When Belinda dies, it turns to dust.
What is the title of John Milton's epic poem about the fall of mankind?
Hamlet
Paradise Lost
Gulliver's Travels
Areopagitica
In what year did the Restoration period begin?
1660
1770
1694
1760
What genre of poetry is "The Rape of the Lock"?
Epic
Mock Epic
Verse Fable
Elegy
"A Modest Proposal" is a...
Satirical Essay
Periodical Essay
Sonnet
Mock Epic
Paradise Lost was written to...
justify God's ways to man.
glorify Satan.
retell biblical events.
retell a true story.
Johnson's piece entitled "London, A Poem" is described as:
long, angry and political
sad, thoughtful, and dark
wordy, thoughtless, and dull
long, hopeful, and whimsical
It is considered as the shortest and simplest of the narrative poems.
Epic
Ballad
Psalm
Metrical Tales
It seeks to arouse mirth by laughable lines. An exaggerated comedy.
Farce
Comedy
Pick up lines
Melodrama
Wordsworth calls himself "a worshipper of nature" in his poem___________
Immortality ode
Tintern abbey
The prelude
The solitary reaper
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is a______
Picturesque novel
Domestic novel
Gothic novel
Historical novel
Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?
John Keats
Lord Byron
Solan
Sappho
In Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" where were the 3 gallons going?
A funeral
Wedding
Market
To the races
The theme of Tennyson's poem "The Princess" is
Queen Victoria coronation
Industrial revolution
Women's education and rights
Rise of democracy
What is the subtitle of the play" Twelfth Night"?
Or, what is you will
Or, what you will
Or, what you like it
Or, what you think
"Brevity is the soul of wit "is a quotation by
Milton
William Shakespeare
TS Eliot
Ruskin
The Pre- Raphaelite poets where mostly indebted to the poets of the__________
Puritan movement
Metaphysical school
Neo classical age
Romantic revival
'Vanity fair ' is a novel by
Jane Austen
Charles Dickens
W m Thackeray
Thomas hardy
It is a type of fictional prose which is longer than a short story but shorter than a novel.
Essay
Legend
Novella
Tale
It is a type of lyric poems that laments the dead.
Elegy
Epic
Ode
Sonnet
A poem with no metre or rhyme
Lyric
Free verse
Narrative
The word 'literature' comes from the Latin word _________________________.
letra
litera
littera
literate
A type of narrative poem which often has the theme of heroism and is lengthy.
ballad
elegy
epic
sonnet
A type of drama in which the fate of the main character ends unhappily.
comedy
farce
melodrama
tragedy
An element of fiction which tells the angle from which the story is told.
characters
point of view
setting
theme
Which is the fictional town created by R K Narayan?
Valappadu
Aleppy
Malgudi
Uduppi
Apart from RK Narayan, there are two other writers credited with creating what is the Modern Indian English Novel. Who are they?
Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth and Raja Rao
Salman Rushdie and Mulk Raj Anand
Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao
Who is the author of the novel, A Suitable Boy?
Salman Rushdie
Vikran Seth
Rohinton Mistry
Amitav Ghosh
The fictional town of Malgudi was first introduced in
Swami and Friends
The Bachelor of Arts
The English Teacher
The Guide
“Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.”
- “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson
metaphor
personification
simile
hyperbole
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.”
personification
hyperbole
simile
alliteration
How many novels did Jane Austen write?
6
5
4
10
How old is Emma at the start of the novel?
17
19
20
25
This is an easy one, just to get started: what are the names of the Bennett girls in order from oldest to youngest.
Elizabeth, Jane, Kitty, Lydia, Mary
Mary, Jane, Lydia, Kitty, Elizabeth
Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, Lydia
How does Mr. Darcy offend Elizabeth at the first ball?
He refuses to dance with her.
He insults her father.
He dances with Jane too often.
What is the name of Darcy's little sister?
Anna
Diana
Georgiana
Lydia
Who did Lydia Bennet elope with?
Mr. Bingley
Mr. Darcy
Mr. Collins
Mr. Wickham
Mark Twain
John Keats
Samuel Clemens
Lord Byron
P.B. Shelley
George Orwell
David Hume
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Eric Arthur Blair
Boz
Charles Dickens
Francis Bacon
Thomas Hardy
Dr. Johnson
Ellis Bell
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
J.K.Rowling
Anne Bronte
Feminism. Her prolific work made her a rival to Tennyson as a candidate for Poet Laureate in 1850 after the death of Wordsworth.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Stephenie Meyer
Kate Chopin
Jane Austen
Queen Victoria lived from ___ to ___.
1837-1901
1801-1888
1825-1897
1840-1912
Females used _______________ if they wrote anything other than a romance or poetry.
maiden names
married titles
pseudonyms
abbreviated first names
In the 1880s and 1890s, the Victorian novel became more _____________.
scientific
abstract
realistic
poetic
This subgenre was full of horror and darker elements.
Silver Fork
Gothic
Satire
Newgate
Who wrote Wuthering Heights?
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Anne Bronte
Virginia Woolf
The biography of Charlotte Brönte was written by her friend…
Elisabeth Gaskell
Charles Dickens
Oscar Wilde
George Elliot
One of the most famous novel of Elisabeth Gaskell was…
North and South
Far from the madding crowd
The cry of children
Sonnets from the portuguese
This author wrote about his travels and adventures.
R.L. Stevenson
Oscar Wilde
Lewis Carroll
Charles Dickens
……………………………. was a spokesman for the Aesthetic movement, which advocated art for art’s sake.
Oscar Wilde
Charles Dickens
Lewis Carroll
Rudyard Kipling
Who wrote Great Expectations?
Dan Brown
Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
Edgar Allan Poe
Who wrote Jane Eyre?
Emily Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
William Faulkner
Charles Dickens
Who is the author of Tess of the d'urbervilles?
Charles Dickens
Dan Brown
Thomas Hardy
William Shakespeare
What is the meaning of the word isolation?
in a crowd
left alone
packaging that keeps something cold
Fill in the blank: The author uses _______ to suggest what may happen next in the story.
Forward showing
Foreshadowing
Similes
Cats
This is when the questioner knows the answer already, or an answer is not actually demanded
rhetorical question
dialogue question
rhyming question
a feeling of thoughtful sadness, typically with no obvious cause
melancholy
melon ball
mellifluous
What is the name of Ulysses son
Penelope
Pylos
Telemachus
Telegonus
The conflict of a story is...
The problem
The solution
The beginning
The message or moral
When a reader figures out where the story takes place, they are discovering the...
Protagonist
Climax
Symbol
Setting
Who is Henry Higgins?
A professor of language
A detective
An opera singer
A retired naval officer
Which one of these titles were written by Mark Twain?
Alice in Wonderland
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Giving Tree
The Borrowers
Sometimes people call Mark Twain...
The Teacher of Writing
The Father of American Literature
The Grandpa of Books
The King of Rock n Roll
What is T.S Eliot's full name?
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Thompson Stile Eliot
Thomas Sterns Eliot
Tom Steamers Eliot
Hamartia
The "tragic flaw". Causes the protagonist to break a divine or moral law which leads to disaster
The discovery. Results in an increase of self-awareness or self-knowledge.
The reversal of fortune. The character drops from high to low.
The pathos of the audience. They pity and fear the character. This can happen through purgation, purification, or clarification.
Anagnorisis
The "tragic flaw". Causes the protagonist to break a divine or moral law which leads to disaster
The discovery. Results in an increase of self-awareness or self-knowledge.
The reversal of fortune. The character drops from high to low.
The pathos of the audience. They pity and fear the character. This can happen through purgation, purification, or clarification.
Peripeteia
The "tragic flaw". Causes the protagonist to break a divine or moral law which leads to disaster
The discovery. Results in an increase of self-awareness or self-knowledge.
The reversal of fortune. The character drops from high to low.
The pathos of the audience. They pity and fear the character. This can happen through purgation, purification, or clarification.
Catharsis
The "tragic flaw". Causes the protagonist to break a divine or moral law which leads to disaster
The discovery. Results in an increase of self-awareness or self-knowledge.
The reversal of fortune. The character drops from high to low.
The pathos of the audience. They pity and fear the character. This can happen through purgation, purification, or clarification.
In what period did the novel really become the dominant literary form?
The Renaissance
The Victorian era
The Modern era
The Romantic era
Which list puts 3 literary movements in the correct order?
Post-Modernism, Modernism, The Medieval Period
Victorianism, Modernism, The Enlightenment
Modernism, Victorianism, Romanticism
Renaissance, The Enlightenment, Romanticism
What is often considered the first work of literature in the English language?
Romeo and Juliet
The Canterbury Tales
Beowulf
The Waste Land
Which centuries was The Renaissance Period?
15th - 17th
16th - 17th
14th-17th
13th-17th
Which period has the theme "arts for the art's sake"?
The Medieval Period
The Renaissance Period
The Victorianism
The Modernism
Which two authors were key contributors to the English Renaissance?
William Shakespeare/ Ben Johnson
John Milton/ George Orwell
William Wordsworth/ Virginia Woolf
MacDuff/ MacBeth
What was the name for the expatriate artists who left the United States after World War I?
Traitors
The War Generation
The Lost Generation
Lost Artists
Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in
1911
1912
1913
1914
Who is the author of Glimpses of World History and the Discovery of India?
MK Gandhi
Rajgopalchari
B.G Tilak
Jawaharlal Nehru
This book is written by
Mahatma Gandhi
Radhakrishnan
Jawaharlal Nehru
Sardar Patel
Which of these books is written by Shashi Tharoor?
Midnight's Children
Train to Pakistan
Two Lives
Why I Am a Hindu
“Don't touch the hot cooker," my mother sai
My mother promised me to touch the hot cooker
My mother warned me not to touch the hot cooker
My mother suggested me not touching the hot cooker.
. My mother reminded me of touching the hot cooker.
'God of Small Things' is written by
Henry Lewis Dezerio
Eunus Desuza
Bhabani Bhattacharya
Arundhati Roy
What is the nickname of Sarojini Naidu?
Nightingale of India
Saroj
Poet
Mrs. Naidu
Taslima Nasreen has written
Lajja
The God of Small Things
Suitable Boy
Songs Offerings
Who wrote 'Child is the father of man?
Lord Byron
John Keats
Shakespeare
William Wordsworth
Who wrote original Panchatantra?
Vishnu Sharma
Kalidasa
Tulsidas
Samudra Gupt
Who wrote this book?
Salman Rushdie
Aravind Adiga
Shakespeare
Jules Verne
This book is written by
Manmohan Singh
APJ Abdul Kalam
R K Narayan
Sidney Sheldon
Which of the following is not an autobiography?
Which Prize is awarded to writers of full- length Novels?
Booker Prize
Pulitzer Prize
Costa Book Award
National Book Award
Which Award is given to those in Newspaper or online journalism, literature or music?
Pulitzer Prize
Booker Prize
Sahitya Academi Award
Costa Book Award
My jeans ........... old.
is
are
was
Most of the work ........... finished.
is
are
has
have
Mumps........... an infectious disease.
is
are
has
All information about the new product ........... confidential.
is
are
were
Nobody ............ Indian here.
speak
speaks
are speaking
Everybody ............ the answer.
know
knows
The number of inches in a foot ............12.
is
are
was
were
Both of them ............ the flute very well.
play
plays
playing
She..........French since she was 7.
have learnt
has learnt
learns
The student, as well as the committee members,.............excited.
is
are
The chairperson or the CEO ..............the proposal before proceeding.
approve
approves
The student or the committee members .............every day.
write
writes
The committee members or the student ...............every day.
writes
write
Every one of the shirts ...........a green collar.
has
have
Sandals and towels .........essential gear for a trip to the beach.
is
are
I ————————- for five hours.
a) Have been working
b) Has been working
c) Was working
d) Am working
A new hotel ________ by them.(Present Perfect)
has been built
had been built
have been built
will be built
"He will come tomorrow".
She told me that he ________ tomorrow.
is coming
will come
would come
"I see the clouds.". He told me that she ________ the clouds.
sees
is seeing
saw
"I loved him very much".
My sister told me that she ________ him very much.
was loving
had loved
would love
Q1. An individual who is unable to express or interact easily
A) Extrovert
B) Introvert
C) Ambivert
D) None of the Above
Q5. Shikha spends a lot of money on clothes. Her cousins call her a:
A) Frugal
B) Economical
C) Miser
D) Spendthrift
Q7. Anita works really hard for the upliftment of poor children. She even donates half of her salary to NGOs. She is:
A) Philanthropist
B) Selfish
C) Tightfisted
D) None of the Above
Q9. It is impossible to see through it.
A) Translucent
B) Fragile
C) Opaque
D) Transparent
Very eager to learn
Voracious
Laborious
Generous
Conscious
A space traveller
technocrat
astronomer
astrologer
astronaut
The science of earthquakes
seismology
meteorology
anthropology
geology
one who cannot die
immortal
eternal
acrobat
a child of unusual or remarkable talent
acrobat
prodigy
funambulist
study of mankind
ornithology
anthropology
Zoology
a person who can use both hands
orator
ambidexter
funambulist
a person who compiles dictionary
lexicographer
stenographer
calligrapher
a person with a beautiful and elegant handwriting
typographer
paragrapher
calligrapher
the power of reading the thoughts of others
retinopathy
psychopathy
telepathy
Partner in crime
Acronym
Addendum
Abstruse
Accomplice
