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English Quiz Series 1 - 11.11. 2021

Total questions: 51

Worksheet time: 28mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who wrote the famous poem 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' (1855)?

a)

Lord Alfred Tennyson

b)

Christopher Marlowe

c)

Johannes Gutenberg

d)

Rene Descarte

2.

Which of the following is a ceremony in which a sovereign is officially crowned?

a)

Investiture

b)

Invocation

c)

Gala

d)

Coronation

3.

Which work was not originally published in the 20th Century?

a)

Henry James's "The Ambassadors"

b)

Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"

c)

E.M Forster's "A Room with A View"

d)

Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway"

4.

Which King began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336?

a)

Henry II

b)

Henry V

c)

Louis XIV

d)

Edward III

5.

Which poet did NOT write during the 16th century?

a)

John Skelton

b)

William Shakespeare

c)

Sir Thomas Wyatt

d)

Thomas Carew

6.

The word "Jacobean" is derived from the ________ name Jacob, which is the original form of the English name James.

a)

Samaritan Hebrew

b)

Biblical Hebrew

c)

English

d)

Hebrew

7.

What is the book 'Lord of the Flies' about?

a)

A round trip around the USA

b)

A swarm of killer flies

c)

Schoolboys on the desert island

d)

None of the above

8.

Who wrote 'The Winter's Tale’?

a)

George Bernard Shaw

b)

John Dryden

c)

Christopher Marlowe

d)

William Shakespeare

9.

Which school did Milton attend?

a)

St.Paul's

b)

Christ's Hospital

c)

Merchant Taylors'

d)

Westminster

10.

Who would be called the English Homer and Father of English poetry?

a)

Bede

b)

Sir Thomas Malory

c)

Geoffrey Chaucer

d)

Caedmon

11.

William Shakespeare was born in the year _______ .

a)

1564

b)

1544

c)

1578

d)

1582

12.

Which of the following literary sub-periods does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period?

a)

The Restoration

b)

The Jacobean Age

c)

The Augustan Age

d)

The Age of Sensibility

13.

Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?

a)

Boer War

b)

Second World War

c)

Korean War

d)

First World War

14.

Who is known as “The Poet of Nature” in English literature?

a)

Lord Tennyson

b)

John Milton

c)

William Wordsworth

d)

John Keats

15.

Who is the author of “A Farewell to Arms”?

a)

T. S. Eliot

b)

John Milton

c)

George Bernard Shaw

d)

Ernest Hemingway

16.

Who wrote the tragic play “King Lear”?

a)

George Bernard Shaw

b)

William Shakespeare

c)

Christopher Marlowe

d)

John Milton

17.

“Paradise Lost” was written by_____.

a)

Mathew Arnold

b)

Robert Browning

c)

John Milton

d)

W.B Yeats

18.

Who compiled the English dictionary for the first time?

a)

Samuel Butler

b)

Alexander Pope

c)

William Wordsworth

d)

Samuel Johnson

19.

“The Merchant of Venice” is a Shakespearean play about ______.

a)

A Jew

b)

A Moor

c)

A Roman

d)

A Turk

20.

Who of the following was both a poet and painter?

a)

Keats

b)

Donne

c)

Blake

d)

Spenser

21.

Shakespeare is known mostly for his ________ .

a)

Poetry

b)

Novels

c)

Autobiography

d)

Plays

22.

Who is called the “Poet of Beauty”?

a)

Edmund Spenser

b)

P. B. Shelly

c)

John Keats

d)

William Wordsworth

23.

Who is the modern philosopher awarded Nobel Prize for Literature?

a)

James Baker

b)

Dr. Kissinger

c)

Bertrand Russell

d)

Lenin

24.

In which year Shakespeare died?

a)

1570 AD

b)

1580 AD

c)

1630 AD

d)

1616 AD

25.

Who is the author of "Animal Farm"?

a)

Ernest Hemingway

b)

George Orwell

c)

Boris Pasternak

d)

Charles Dickens

26.

Who is the author of the book "Of Human Bondage"?

 

a)

Charles Dickens

b)

Somerset Maugham

c)

Jane Austen

d)

D.H Laurence

27.

Charles Dickens is a great______.

a)

Poet

b)

Critic

c)

Playwright  

d)

Novelist

28.

Who is the author of the book "A Brief History of Time"?

 

a)

Stephen Hawking

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Newton

d)

Chadwick

29.

Who is the greatest modern English Dramatist?

 

a)

William Shakespeare

b)

George Bernard Shaw

c)

Ernest Hemingway

d)

S.T Coleridge

30.

"Gulliver's Travels" was written by _______.

 

a)

Jonathan Swift

b)

Leo Tolstoy

c)

Rudyard Kipling

d)

Charles Dickens

31.

Who was a statesman but awarded Nobel Prize in Literature?

a)

Joseph Stalin

b)

Richard Nixon

c)

Winston Churchill

d)

Franklin Roosevelt

32.

Which period is known as "The Golden Age of English Literature"?

a)

The Victorian Age

b)

The Eighteenth Century

c)

The Restoration Age

d)

The Elizabethan Age

33.

Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?

 

a)

Betjeman

b)

Hughes

c)

Marvel  

d)

Larkin

34.

Who is the most famous satirist in English literature?

a)

Alexander Pope

b)

Jonathan Swift

c)

William Wordsworth

d)

Samuel Butler

35.

Who is the movement poet?

 

a)

Philip Larkin 

b)

Ted Hughes

c)

T .S Eliot

d)

W. H Auden

36.

‘Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines’ is written by ____.

 

a)

T.S Eliot

b)

W.B Yeats 

c)

Dylan Thomas

d)

D.H Lawrence

37.

Who wrote ‘Daffodils’?

a)

Wordsworth

b)

Byron

c)

Shelley

d)

Keats

38.

"Look Back in Anger" was performed in the year ________ .

a)

1958

b)

1957 

c)

1955

d)

1956 

39.

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

40.

The novel "No Name" (1862) was written by _______ .

a)

Charles Kingsley

b)

Wilkie Collins 

c)

Anthony Trollope 

d)

None

41.

When was Johnson’s Dictionary’ Published?

a)

1755

b)

1754

c)

1756

d)

1757

42.

Who among the following introduced sonnets?

a)

Shakespeare

b)

Philip Sidney

c)

Thomas Wyatt 

d)

Spenser

43.

The term ‘Negative Capability' is associated with ____.

a)

John Keats

b)

Wordsworth

c)

T. S Eliot

d)

Shelley

44.

The character Maggie figures in ____.

a)

Silas Marner

b)

Adam Bede

c)

The Mill on the Floss

d)

None

45.

The Heroic Couplet is first used by ____.

a)

Spenser

b)

Pope

c)

Dryden

d)

Chaucer

46.

Who said ‘Geography is about Maps, but biography is about chaps’?

a)

Eric Bentley 

b)

Ogden Nash

c)

E. E Cummings

d)

Hilaire Belloc

47.

"They also serve who stand and wait” is said by ____.

a)

Aristotle 

b)

Milton 

c)

Shakespeare

d)

None

48.

What was the Nationality of famous English author Oscar Wilde?

a)

Italian 

b)

German

c)

Irish 

d)

French

49.

"Frailty, thy name is women” is from which famous Shakespeare's play?

a)

Hamlet

b)

Tempest

c)

As you like it

d)

King Lear

50.

Who wrote Agnes Grey?

a)

Anne Bronte 

b)

Jane Austen

c)

Charlotte Bronte

d)

Emily Bronte

51.

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