English Literature Objective Type Questions and Answers

(21) Who say, “Of all his women, Imogen is most perfect"?

[A] Eliot

[B] Lamb

[C] Mrs. Jameson

[D] Ruskin

Answer: Mrs. Jameson

(22) Who is of the view that Chaucer is not as great as the classicists?

[A] Johnson

[B] Sydney

[C] Arnold

[D] None of these

Answer: Arnold

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(23) The fall of Constantinople to the Turks took place in the year-

[A] 1535

[B] 1485

[C] 1453

[D] 1455

Answer: 1453

(24) Out of 154 sonnets, 126 of Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to - (a) Dark Lady (b) (c) Queen Elizabeth (d) Lady Penlope

[A] Mr. W.H

[B] P. Lal

[C] Vikram Seth

[D] none of the mentioned

Answer: Mr. W.H

(25) Who first used the blank-verse ?

[A] Thomas Heywood

[B] Thomas Middleton

[C] Surrey

[D] William Shakespeare

Answer: Surrey

(26) The word ‘renaissance’ seems to have been first in the book named as -

[A] Historie de France

[B] Paradise Lost

[C] Tottel’s Miscellany

[D] Utopia

Answer: Historie de France

(27) What is ‘rhyme-royal’?

[A] A quatrain with the rhyme-scheme abab

[B] The ten-syllabic line arranged in seven-line stanza

[C] The eight-syllabic line rhyming in couplet

[D] The ten-syllabic line rhyming in couplet

Answer: The ten-syllabic line arranged in seven-line stanza

(28) Who “found English a dialect and left it a language"?

[A] Sir Walter Scott

[B] Robert Southey

[C] Robert Burns

[D] Chaucer

Answer: Chaucer

(29) Totus mundus agit historian means-

[A] World is coming

[B] All the world is a history

[C] All the world is a stage

[D] History is all world

Answer: All the world is a stage

(30) Senecan plays were rendered into English by –

[A] T.W. Robertson

[B] Harley Granville-Barker

[C] John Galsworthy

[D] Heywood

Answer: Heywood

31 The term ‘Stream of Consciousness’ was first used by :

[A] Sigmund Freud

[B] James Joyce

[C] William James

[D] none of the mentioned

Answer: William James

(12) “Frailty thy name is woman !” These lines occur in -

[A] Hamlet

[B] Professor Herford

[C] William Shakespeare

[D] William Wordsworth

Answer: Hamlet

33 The first English tragedy Gorboduc was later given the title ?

[A] Ferrex and Porrex

[B] Gammer Gurton’s Needle

[C] Corpus Christi

[D] Endymion

Answer: Ferrex and Porrex

34 What is meant by ‘Denouement’ ?-

[A] The ending of a comedy

[B] The ending of a Farce

[C] The ending of a romance

[D] The ending of a tragedy

Answer: The ending of a comedy

35 Who has published his essays under the title ‘The Round Table’ ?

[A] William Hazlitt

[B] Thomas De Quincey

[C] S. T. Cleridge

[D] None of the above

Answer: William Hazlitt

36 Who called the 18th century the age of Prose and Reason ? (a) Coleridge (b) (c) Dr. Johnson (d) William Hazlitt

[A] Mathew Arnold

[B] Thomas James Farrell

[C] Henry James

[D] None of the above is correct.

Answer: Mathew Arnold

37 In Keats’s Lamia, Lamia was a -

[A] A serpent-woman

[B] An enchantress

[C] A nymph

[D] A fairy

Answer: A serpent-woman

38 Mathew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy deals with

[A] Civilization

[B] Theology

[C] Ethics

[D] Religion

Answer: Ethics

39 In Dickens’s novel, A Tale of Two Cities, the two cities referred to are -

[A] Paris and Rome

[B] Paris and Berlin

[C] London and Paris

[D] London and Athens

Answer: London and Paris

40 Wordsworth wrote a sonnet on :

[A] Milton

[B] Virginia Woolf

[C] H.G. Wells

[D] E.M. Forster

Answer: Milton

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