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English Quiz Series - 2 - 12.11.2021

Total questions: 51

Worksheet time: 28mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"Aaron’s Rod" was written by_____in____ .

a)

D.H Lawrence, 1922 

b)

Stephen King, 1970

c)

Nadine Gardiner, 1970

d)

None

2.

Which novel by Sir Walter Scott was equal to ‘The Monastery’?

a)

On Baile’s Strand

b)

Lochleven Castle

c)

Lady of Avenel

d)

The Abbot 

3.

"Absalom and Achitophel" a poem by Dryden was written in the year ______ .

a)

1983

b)

1682

c)

1681 

d)

1987

4.

What do ‘Acmeism’ mean?

a)

School of Russian Poetry   

b)

School of novelists

c)

Critics

d)

Linguists

5.

Who wrote ‘The Campaign' a poem in heroic couplets in celebration of the victory of Blenheim?

a)

Shelley

b)

Joseph Addison

c)

Yeats

d)

Keats

6.

"Adonais" an Elegy was written on the death of _____ .

a)

Keats   

b)

Byron

c)

Shelley

d)

Wordsworth

7.

"The Adventure of Philip" was written by ______ .

a)

Thackeray   

b)

George Eliot

c)

Dickens

d)

Bronte Sister

8.

Who wrote ‘Three Tall Women'?

a)

T.S Eliot

b)

Virginia Woolf

c)

Edward Albee

d)

W.B Yeats

9.

When was "The Alchemist" a comedy by Jonson first published?

a)

1913

b)

1611

c)

1610

d)

1612 

10.

‘The World Well Lost' a tragedy by Dryden is better to known as ____ .

a)

   Spanish Frayar

b)

All for Love 

c)

Troilus and Cressida

d)

The Rehearsal

11.

Alonso is the king in Shakespeare's play _______ .

a)

Henry IV

b)

Hamlet

c)

Othello

d)

Tempest   

12.

"The Amazing Marriage" a novel written by ______ .

a)

George Meredith 

b)

Salman Rushdie

c)

Pearl S Buck

d)

E.M Foster

13.

Who wrote the novel "Amelia"?

a)

W.M Thackeray 

b)

Melville

c)

Henry Fielding   

d)

Charles Dickens

14.

Hans Christian Andersen was a/an ______ .

a)

Danish author    

b)

French author

c)

Italian author

d)

German author

15.

_______ is an incomplete poem by Chaucer in 357 lines.

a)

   Troilus and Cressida

b)

Knights Tale

c)

Anelida and Arcite

d)

Wife of Bath Tale

16.

Angria and Gondal are imaginary kingdoms invented by ____ .

a)

Melville

b)

Dickens

c)

George Eliot

d)

Bronte’s 

17.

The "Arcadia" by Sir Philip Sidney is _____ .

a)

A prose romance     

b)

A tragic comedy

c)

A play

d)

None

18.

William Archer was born in ______ .

a)

France 

b)

Scotland   

c)

England

d)

Wales

19.

Aspatria is a character in _______ play.

a)

 The Bride of Lammer Moor

b)

The Revenge Tragedy

c)

The Maids Tragedy

d)

None

20.

"Astrophel and Stella" is a sequence of____ sonnets and ____ songs.

a)

156,25

b)

185,12

c)

108,11

d)

None

21.

Jacques, Touchstone, Celia features in the play ___ by Shakespeare.

a)

Tempest  

b)

Othello

c)

Hamlet

d)

As You Like It 

22.

Atalanta in 'Calydon' is a poetic drama by____ .

a)

Swinburne   

b)

Marlowe

c)

Jonson

d)

Goldsmith

23.

Athenaeum Club was founded in ____ in the year 1824.

a)

Moscow

b)

Chicago

c)

London   

d)

Paris

24.

"Aurora Leigh" is a ________ .

a)

Poem 

b)

Drama

c)

Novel

d)

None

25.

Edna Pontellier is a character in _________ .

a)

The Awakening 

b)

Pride and Prejudice

c)

Both

d)

None

26.

'Bab Ballads' is a collection of humorous ballads by _______ .

a)

 Keats

b)

W.S Gilbert

c)

Shelley

d)

Wordsworth

27.

Francis Bacon lived between ______ .

a)

1561-1626   

b)

1578-1626

c)

1550-1620

d)

None

28.

"The life and Death of Mr.Badman" is an allegory by ______ .

a)

     Samuel Richardson

b)

Daniel Dafoe

c)

Bunyan

d)

Hardy

29.

Honore de Balzac was a _________ .

a)

Novelist   

b)

Poet

c)

Dramatist

d)

Critic

30.

Bananas was a ________ .

a)

    Poem

b)

Play

c)

Drama Company

d)

Literary Periodical

31.

Edward, Emma, Ruben Haredale are characters in ______ Dickens Novel.

a)

Pickwick Paper

b)

Barnaby Rudge 

c)

Oliver Twist

d)

Domby and Sons

32.

Bernadine is a prisoner in Shakespeare's play ________ .

a)

Hamlet

b)

Othello

c)

Measure for measure

d)

Tempest

33.

Barney is a Jew associate of Fagin in _____ Dickens Novel.

a)

Oliver Twist 

b)

Pickwick Papers

c)

Little Dorrit

d)

Dombey and Sons

34.

Beatrice is the heroine of which Shakespeare’s play?

a)

Much Ado About Nothing 

b)

King John

c)

Henry IV

d)

Othello

35.

Simon De Beauvoir was a/an _______ .

a)

 English

b)

Italian

c)

French 

d)

German

36.

'Becket' is a play by _______ .

a)

Tennyson

b)

Jean Anouilh

c)

Jonson

d)

Goldsmith

37.

Saul Bellow was born in the year _______ .

a)

1916

b)

1915   

c)

1917

d)

1919

38.

Bells and Pomegranates the cover titles of a series of plays and collection of shorter poems was written by _______ .

a)

Wordsworth

b)

Keats

c)

Shelley

d)

Browning

39.

Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, Jane, Elizabeth, Mary and Lydia are characters from which Jane Austen's Novel ?

a)

Sense and sensibility

b)

Persuasion

c)

Pride and Prejudice

d)

Northanger Abbey

40.

Beowulf is an Old English poem of ______ lines.

a)

3154

b)

3184

c)

3186

d)

3182 

41.

___________ was the last novel by Virginia Woolf.

a)

Mrs. Dalloway

b)

Between the Acts   

c)

To the Light House

d)

Orlando

42.

Issac Bickerstaffe was a/an ______ playwright.

a)

German

b)

French

c)

Irish 

d)

British

43.

In which novel of Orwell we come across a character called Big Brother?

 

a)

1984     

b)

Inside the whale

c)

Burmese Days

d)

The Road to Wigan Pier

44.

Charles Bingley, Caroline features in Jane Austen's Novel ____ .

a)

Persuasion

b)

Mansfield Park

c)

Emma

d)

Pride and Prejudice   

45.

"Biographia Literaria" by Coleridge was published in _______ .

a)

1818

b)

1817   

c)

1816

d)

1815

46.

Who wrote 'Bishop Blougram’s Apology'?

a)

Keats

b)

Shelley

c)

Tennyson 

d)

Browning

47.

Stephen Blackpool is in Dickens novel ___ .

a)

Dombey and Sons

b)

Hard Times 

c)

David Copperfield

d)

Oliver Twist

48.

William Blake lived between

a)

1727-1575

b)

1827-1890   

c)

1757-1827

d)

1815-1860

49.

Blandamour appears in Faerie Queene Book ________ .

a)

Book IX

b)

Book VIII

c)

Book VI

d)

Book IV   

50.

Blatant Beast a Monster is in "Faerie Queene" Book _____ .

a)

Book VII

b)

Book I

c)

Book IV     

d)

Book II

51.

Name & Email Id

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