English Multiple Choice Questions(MCQs) and Answers | English Quiz Set 22
Questions
1
In one of Marlowe’s plays the hero is warned not “to practise more than heavenly power permits.” Identify the play.
Answer: Doctor Faustus
2
What was the title of the collection of short stories published by James Joyce in 1914 ?
Answer:Dubliners
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3
Patrick White’s classic work Voss is based on the story of a _____ explorer.
Answer:German
4
In “Tradition and Individual Talent” Eliot describes the workings of the poet’s mind in terms of which of the following ?
Answer: A chemical reaction
5
Who among the following wrote an immensely powerful play about the remapping of Irish places with new British names ?
Answer:Brian Friel
6
Identify the term among the following which does not relate to a movement in art or literature.
Answer:Empiricism
7
“Kubla Khan” is thought to have been written in 1797, but it was not published until 1816. Who persuaded Coleridge to publish it ?
Answer:Byron
8
In Restoration comedy, character names often reveal character traits. What trait does the name Sir Wilfull Witwoud reveal ?
Answer: A desire to be thought of as witty
9
From the following list identify the two novels published by John Henry Newman
I. The Grammar of Assent
II. Apologia pro vita sua
III. Loss and Gain
IV. Callista
The right combination according to the code is :
Answer:III and IV
10
Consider the following lines form Beowulf :
What literary device does the poet use in these lines ?
A few miles from here
a frost-stiffened wood waits and keeps watch above a mere.
Answer: Personification
11
Which of the following plays of Bernard Shaw attacks Darwinism ?
Answer:Back to Methuselah.
12
In King Lear to which woman has Edmund sworn his love ?
Answer: both Goneril and Regan
15
What is the rhyme scheme of the Shakespearean sonnet ?
Answer:ababcdcdef ef gg
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