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English Quiz Series 3 - 13.11.2021

Total questions: 51

Worksheet time: 28mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Richard Carstone, Ada Clare is a character from Dickens’s novel ____.

a)

David Copperfield

b)

Bleak House 

c)

Dombey and Sons

d)

Oliver Twist

2.

Bloom, Leopold Paula and his wife Molly are characters in Joyce’s ________ novel.

a)

Stephen Hero

b)

Egoist

c)

Ulysses 

d)

Portrait of an artist as a young man

3.

Boldwood a character in Hardy’s 'Far from the Madding Crowd' was a _____ .

a)

Joker

b)

Labourer

c)

Preacher

d)

Farmer   

4.

In which year did Heinrich Boll the German author got the Nobel Prize?

a)

1972 

b)

1971

c)

1973

d)

1975

5.

"The Book of Duchess", a dream-poem of 1334 lines was written by ______ .

a)

Goldsmith

b)

Shakespeare

c)

Chaucer         

d)

Spenser

6.

Bosola is a character in which Webster’s play?

a)

White Devil

b)

Northward Hoe

c)

A Late Murder

d)

Duchess of Malfi 

7.

Bertolt Brecht was a ________ dramatist and poet.

a)

Russian

b)

German   

c)

French

d)

Italian

8.

"Brighton Rock" is a novel by _____ .

a)

Naipaul

b)

Forester

c)

Huxley

d)

Graham Greene 

9.

"The Broken Heart" is a tragedy by _______ .

a)

John Ford 

b)

John Webster

c)

Marlow

d)

Congreve

10.

Sir Thomas Browne was a____ by profession.

a)

Lawyer

b)

Priest

c)

Doctor

d)

Teacher

11.

Mr. Brownlow is a character in Dickens's ______ Novel.

a)

Hard Times

b)

Oliver Twist 

c)

Pickwick Papers

d)

David Copperfield

12.

"Cadenus and Vanessa" is a poem written by _____ .

a)

Swift     

b)

Dickens

c)

Thackeray

d)

Hardy

13.

"Cain a Mystery" is a poetic drama by ______ .

a)

Dryden

b)

Shelley

c)

Byron 

d)

Keats

14.

Kingsley Amis Novel "Lucky Jim" is a ____ novel.

a)

Comedy

b)

Campus 

c)

Tragic Comedy

d)

Tragic

15.

Albert Camus lived between ______ year.

a)

1913-1960

b)

1900-1947

c)

1910-1911

d)

None

16.

"The Case is Altered" is a comedy by _______ .

a)

Jonson

b)

Marlowe

c)

Congreve

d)

Middleton

17.

Who wrote "Sohrab and Rustom"?

a)

Byron

b)

Keats

c)

Arnold

d)

Yeats

18.

'Child Ronald to the Dark Tower Came' is a poem by _______ .

a)

Rosseti

b)

Browning   

c)

Tennyson

d)

Shelley

19.

Naom Chomsky is a professor of _______ .

a)

Literature

b)

Philosophy

c)

History

d)

Language 

20.

"Colin Clouts Come Home Again" an allegorical pastoral was written by _____ .

a)

Shakespeare

b)

Spenser   

c)

Chaucer

d)

John Donne

21.

William Collins is a character in Jane Austen’s _______ novel.

a)

Mansfield Park

b)

Emma

c)

Pride and Prejudice   

d)

Sense and Sensibility

22.

"The Counters Cathleen" a play in blank verse was written by ______ .

a)

T.S Eliot

b)

Shelley

c)

W.B. Yeats 

d)

  None

23.

"The Country Wife" by Wycherley is a _______ .

a)

Tragedy

b)

Comedy

c)

Romance

d)

None

24.

The Criterion an influential literary periodical launched as a quarterly was edited by _________ .

a)

T.S. Eliot 

b)

W.B Yeats

c)

Ted Hughes

d)

Wallace Stevens

25.

"The Critic" is a comedy by ________ .

a)

Congreve

b)

Sheridan

c)

Marlowe

d)

Jonson

26.

'Crossing the Bar' a poem in ____ stanzas by Lord Tennyson.

a)

Three

b)

Six

c)

Five

d)

Four     

27.

"Culture and Anarchy" is______ by Mathew Arnold.

a)

Novel

b)

Play

c)

Poetry

d)

Criticism 

28.

'I wandered lonely as a cloud' is a line from Wordsworth's _________ poem.

a)

Michael

b)

Excursions

c)

Daffodils       

d)

Prelude

29.

Where was G.V. Desani born?

a)

Nairobi   

b)

 Bombay

c)

New York

d)

Trinidad

30.

"The Deserted Village" by Goldsmith was published in the year ____ .

a)

1790

b)

1760

c)

1740

d)

1770 

31.

"The Devil is an Ass" is a comedy by ______ .

a)

Jonson 

b)

Marlowe

c)

Fletcher

d)

Congreve

32.

"The Excursion" by Wordsworth is in ____ books.

a)

Three

b)

Seven

c)

Five

d)

Nine

33.

"Eyeless in Gaza" is a novel by _____ .

a)

Iris Murdoch

b)

Sheldon

c)

A. Huxley 

d)

J.Huxley

34.

Frederick is _______ in Shakespeare’s 'As You Like It'.

a)

Duke

b)

Sailor

c)

King

d)

None

35.

Sigmund Freud was born in ______ .

a)

Bulgaria

b)

Germany

c)

Moravia

d)

England

36.

Friar Truck is one of the principal characters in

a)

Friar Bungay

b)

Robin Hood

c)

The Friend

d)

None

37.

"A Game of Chess" is a comedy by _______ .

a)

Galsworthy

b)

Marlowe

c)

Fry

d)

Middleton 

38.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in the year ______ .

a)

1999

b)

1984

c)

1982   

d)

1981

39.

Andre Gide is a ______ author.

a)

Italian

b)

French 

c)

British

d)

Swedish

40.

Andre Gide was awarded Nobel Prize in the year ______ .

a)

1949

b)

1948

c)

1947 

d)

None

41.

The Glatisant Beast is the creature in ______ .

a)

Canterbury Tales

b)

Faerie Queene

c)

Paradise Lost

d)

Morte De Arthur 

42.

Prince Hal is a character in Shakespeare's play _________ .

a)

Macbeth

b)

Henry IV   

c)

Henry V

d)

Hamlet

43.

'The Hind and the Panther' is a poem by _________ .

a)

Coleridge

b)

Shelley

c)

Dryden   

d)

Pope

44.

Hogarth Press was founded in _____ .

a)

1918

b)

1919

c)

1916

d)

1917 

45.

"The Holy Fair" is a poem by _____ .

a)

Burns 

b)

Coley

c)

Donne

d)

Herbert

46.

"Hours of Idleness" is a collection of Poems by _______ .

a)

Shelley

b)

Byron 

c)

Coleridge

d)

Wordsworth

47.

"Kubla Khan" a poem by Coleridge is also called ______ .

a)

The Kraken

b)

Lovers

c)

A vision in a Dream   

d)

A Vision

48.

"The Kraken" is a short poem by ______ .

a)

Shelley

b)

Rossetti

c)

Browning

d)

Tennyson   

49.

"La Belle Dams Sans Merci" by Keats is a __________ .

a)

Ballad

b)

Drama

c)

Story

d)

Poem

50.

"Lady Susan" is a novel by ________ .

a)

Trollope

b)

G.Eliot

c)

Jane Austen

d)

Hardy

51.

Name & Email Id

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