English Multiple Choice Questions(MCQs) and Answers | English Quiz Set 14
Questions
1
Which novel by Joseph Conrad presents a young captain who like Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner is haunted by the “vision of a ship drifting in calm and swinging in light airs, with all the crew dying slowly about her decks” and who feels “the sickness of my soul... the weight of my sins... my sense of unworthiness” ?
Answer: The Shadow Line
2
“Our almost-instinct almost true :
What will survive of us is love.”
Identify the poem by Philip Larkin that ends with the above lines :
Answer:“An Arundel Tomb”
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3
In the epilogue to Congreve’s Way of the World there is a warning :
Others there are whose malice we’d prevent,
Such, who watch plays, with scurrilous intent To
mark out who by characters are meant.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
These, with false glosses feed their own ill - nature, And
turn to libel, what was meant a satire.
What does this warning mean ?
Answer:Critics should not look for portrait of real people in the play’s characters and remember that the play is a social satire
4
Which of the following is an elegy on John Donne’s wife, who died in 1617 ?
Answer: “Holy Sonnet 17”
5
Identify from the following the work Nirad C. Chaudhuri called “the finest novel in the English language with an Indian theme”.
Answer:Kim
6
Who is the author of the poem “The Defence of Lucknow” dealing with the siege of Lucknow, one of the terrible incidents of the Indian Mutiny ?
Answer:Alfred Lord Tennyson
7
Who among the following theorists holds that metaphor and metonymy are the two fundamental structures of language ?
Answer:Roman Jakobson
8
From among the following, who are the Dashwood sisters in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility ?
I. Elinor
II. Marianne
III. Mary
IV. Amanda
The right combination according to the code is :
Answer: I and II
9
Which among the following texts can be characterised as a lesbian Bildungsroman ?
Answer: Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
10
Identify the correct chronological sequence of publication :
Answer: The Advancement of Learning – Paradise Lost – MacFlecknoe – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
12
In Shakespeare’s Macbeth who was “untimely ripped” from his mother’s womb ?
Answer: Macduff
13
Alexander Pope revised The Rape of the Lock three times. In the final revision of the poem in 1717 he inserted a speech by
Answer:Clarissa
14
Identify, from the following list, two plays written by John Webster :
I. A Woman Killed with Kindness
II. The Revenger’s Tragedy
III. The White Devil
IV. The Ducchess of Malfi
The right combination according to the code is
Answer: III & IV
15
Which of the following works by David Malouf tells the story of the Roman poet, Ovid, during his exile in Tomis ?
Answer:An Imaginary Life
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