Free Printable English Quiz Series 5

1.

The theatres were reopened in 1660. When were they closed last?

a)

1616

b)

1642

c)

1650

d)

1652

2.

‘Don Juan’ is a poem by ________ .

a)

Byron

b)

Keats

c)

Shelley

d)

Wordsworth

3.

The “Circulating Libraries” were popular during ________ .

a)

18^th Century

b)

17^th Century

c)

19^th Century

d)

Both A and C

4.

"Savitri" an epic in blank verse was written by _______ .

a)

Toru Dutt

b)

Tagore

c)

Sri Aurobindo

d)

Sarojini Naidu

5.

The Great Tradition was written by _______ .

a)

G. Wilson Knight

b)

T.S.Eliot

c)

F.R.Leavis

d)

Allen Tale

6.

'Rape of the Lock' by Pope contains ___ cantos.

a)

Two

b)

Three

c)

Four

d)

Five

7.

Who wrote ‘The rising of the moon’?

a)

Lady Gregory

b)

W.B.Yeats

c)

John Osborne

d)

Harold Pinter

8.

‘Cry the beloved country’ is written by _______ .

a)

Nadine Gordimes

b)

Alan Paton

c)

Alodus Huxley

d)

J.D.Salinger

9.

Shakespeare’s sonnets are in the following form:

a)

Three quatrains and a couplet

b)

An octave and sestet

c)

Both ‘a’ and ‘b’

d)

None of these

10.

The ‘prefaces’ of Shaw to his own plays are very popular.

a)

Yes

b)

No

c)

Perhaps

d)

None of these

11.

"I regard myself as an Indian poet writing in English". Who said these words about his own poetry?

a)

Nissim Ezekiel

b)

Sujata Bhatt

c)

K.N.Daruwalla

d)

Kamala Das

12.

Who is the author of 'Glimpses of World history and the discovery of India'?

a)

M.K.Gandhi

b)

J.L.Nehru

c)

Rajagopalachari

d)

B.G.Tilak

13.

The Accession of Queen Victoria was in _________ .

a)

1837

b)

1832

c)

1827

d)

1822

14.

The following was the editor of ‘The Criterion’.

a)

C.D.Narasimhaiah

b)

M.Sivarama Krishna

c)

T.S.Eliot

d)

None of these

15.

Who was the founder of Bharatiya Janapith?

a)

C.Rajagopalachari

b)

S.P.Jain

c)

K.M.Munshi

d)

G.D.Birla

16.

Who wrote 'Prince and the Pauper'?

a)

Mark Twain

b)

Oscar Wilde

c)

Jane Austen

d)

George Eliot

17.

Arnold wrote, “With him is born our real poetry” Who does ‘him’ refer to?

a)

Spenser

b)

Shakespeare

c)

Chaucer

d)

Wordsworth

18.

The Authorised Bible was dedicated to ________ .

a)

Jesus Christ

b)

Charles I

c)

Charles II

d)

James I

19.

What is threnody?

a)

Victory song

b)

Marriage song

c)

Song sung at death

d)

Song Sung at birth of son

20.

When did W.B.Yeats receive Nobel prize for literature?

a)

1921

b)

1920

c)

1923

d)

1922

21.

The word ‘Elia’ is associated with _________ .

a)

Charles Lamb

b)

William Hazlitt

c)

Thomas De Quincey

d)

None of these

22.

The Phrase, Waverly novels is associated with _______ .

a)

Henry Fielding

b)

Jane Austen

c)

Walter Scott

d)

None of these

23.

T.S.Eliot was awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in the year ______.

a)

1947

b)

1948

c)

1949

d)

1950

24.

Name James Joyce’s the only play _____ .

a)

Pigmalion

b)

Ulysses

c)

Exiles

d)

Finnegan’s Wake

25.

The name of the fictional inn where the pilgrims in ‘The Canterbury Tales’ met is ________ .

a)

Tabard

b)

Canterbury

c)

Southwark

d)

None of these

26.

Who is the author of ‘The Sword and the Sickle’?

a)

Shoba De

b)

Arun Joshi

c)

Mulk Raj Anand

d)

Amrita Pritam

27.

‘Lollards’ are the followers of the following Protestant and Reformation leader?

a)

John Wycliffe

b)

King Edward

c)

Martin Luther King

d)

James II

28.

The phrase, ‘Willing suspension of disbelief’ is associated with _____ .

a)

Wordsworth

b)

Coleridge

c)

Keats

d)

Byron

29.

Who wrote plays that were all tragedies?

a)

Shakespeare

b)

Ben Johnson

c)

Marlowe

d)

None of these

30.

Who was the first Poet Laureate in England?

a)

Alexander Pope

b)

John Dryden

c)

William Wordsworth

d)

Lord Tennyson

31.

Which was Samuel Johnson’s last literary work?

a)

English Dictionary

b)

Life of Poet Savage

c)

Preface to Shakespeare

d)

Lives of English Poets

32.

Who coined the term ‘objective correlative’?

a)

William Empson

b)

F.R.Leavis

c)

I.A.Richards

d)

T.S.Eliot

33.

The term, “Science Fiction” was popularized by _______ .

a)

Ernest Ackerman

b)

J.R.R.Tolkein

c)

Hugo Gernsback

d)

None of these

34.

Name the story that Chaucer told during the pilgrimage.

a)

Tale of Melibens

b)

The Parson’s Tale

c)

He did not tell a story

d)

None of these

35.

The New Critics believe in ______ .

a)

The view of autonomy of literature

b)

Psychological approach

c)

Both a and b

d)

None of these

36.

The Archetypal Approach is associated with _______ .

a)

Northrop Frye

b)

William Empson

c)

W.K.Wimsat

d)

None of these

37.

Who is known as a ‘Ploughman poet’?

a)

Thomas Gray

b)

William Blake

c)

Robert Burns

d)

None of these

38.

How much time did Sir Walter Scott took to write his first novel ‘Waverley’?

a)

3 days

b)

3 weeks

c)

3 months

d)

3 years

39.

The phrase, 'Collective Unconscious' is associated with _______ .

a)

Sigmund Freud

b)

C.G. Jung

c)

Both a and b

d)

None of these

40.

Who was the first editor of Daily News which started in 1846?

a)

Dickens

b)

Browning

c)

Shelley

d)

Hardy

41.

Who wrote ‘The Apprentice’?

a)

V.S.Naipaul

b)

Ved Mehta

c)

Dom Moraes

d)

Arun Joshi

42.

Which was Kamala Markandeya’s first Novel?

a)

A Handful of Rice

b)

A Silence of Desire

c)

Some Inner Fury

d)

Nectar in a Sieve

43.

Who wrote ‘The Admirable Crichton’?

a)

James Barrie

b)

T.S.Eliot

c)

I.A.Richards

d)

Allen Tate

44.

Who said “The proper study of mankind is man”?

a)

Dryden

b)

Dr. Johnson

c)

Shakespeare

d)

Pope

45.

Parody is a form of ________ .

a)

Imitation

b)

Burlesque

c)

Both a and b

d)

None of these

46.

Wilkie Collins is _______ .

a)

A historical novelist

b)

A Picaresque novelist

c)

A detective novelist

d)

None of these

47.

How many Christian names did Oscar Wilde have?

a)

3

b)

5

c)

4

d)

6

48.

Who was also known as ‘Swan of lichfield’?

a)

Philip Sidney

b)

Dryden

c)

Johnson

d)

Anna Seward

49.

Who among the following refused Nobel Prize?

a)

Pablo Neruda

b)

Boris Pasternak

c)

Albert Camus

d)

Jean Paul Sartre

50.

Who started the Left Book Club?

a)

Karl Marx

b)

Lenin

c)

Victor Gollancz

d)

T.S.Eliot

51.

Name & Email Id

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English Quiz Series 5 - 15.11.2021

Total questions: 51

Worksheet time: 28mins

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