English Multiple Choice Questions(MCQs) and Answers | English Quiz Set 38

Questions
1 The Round Table is a collection of essays jointly written by ________.
1 Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
2 Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt
3 William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt
4 William Hazlitt and Thomas de Quincey

Answer: William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt
2 Dylan Thomas is associated with the group _______.
1 The New Apocalypse
2 The Black Arts
3 The Movement
4 Deep Image Poetry

Answer:The New Apocalypse

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3 Which of the following writers writes from Canada ?
1 V.S. Naipaul
2 Margaret Atwood
3 Derek Walcott
4 James Joyce

Answer:Margaret Atwood
4 A Young Lady’s Entrance into the World is the sub-title of _______.
1 Belinda
2 Cecilia
3 Evelina
4 Camilla

Answer: Evelina
5 “The old order changeth, yielding place to new” is from ________.
1 “Morte d’Arthur”
2 “Idylls of the King”
3 “Paracelsus”
4 “Asolando”

Answer:“Idylls of the King”
6 Which of the following cannot be classified as fantasy fiction ?
1 The Inheritors (William Golding)
2 The Magus (John Fowles)
3 The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkein)
4 The History Man (Malcolm Bradbury)

Answer:The History Man (Malcolm Bradbury)
7 Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a work associated with _______.
1 Wilhelm von Humboldt
2 Ernst Cassirer
3 Immanuel Kant
4 Battista Vico

Answer:Ernst Cassirer
8 Which of the following facts is NOT true of Spenser ?
1 He is a kind of English Homer, telling stories of heroic confrontations.
2 He fashioned an original verse form : The Spenserian Stanza.
3 He opposed England’s break with the Roman Catholic Church.
4 He is a Christian poet.

Answer: He opposed England’s break with the Roman Catholic Church.
9 William Blake developed the ideas of “Prolifics” and “Devourers” in
1 Jerusalem
2 Milton
3 Marriage of Heaven and Hell
4 Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

Answer:Marriage of Heaven and Hell
10 Surrealism is associated with
1 Ernst Cassirer
2 Tristan Tzara
3 Henrik Ibsen
4 Andre Breton

Answer: Andre Breton
11 “And miles to go before I sleep” is a line from a poem by
1 Emily Dickinson
2 Walt Whitman
3 Ralph Waldo Emerson
4 Robert Frost

Answer: Robert Frost
12 “All Rising to Great Place is by a _____ staire.” (Francis Bacon)
1 Murky
2 Winding
3 Crooked
4 Sinister

Answer: Winding
13 In Jeremy Collier’s 1698 pamphlet attacking the immorality and profaneness of the English stage, who among the following was the principal target ?
1 William Congreve
2 John Dryden
3 John Vanbrugh
4 William Wycherley

Answer:John Vanbrugh
14 Charles Dickens’s visit to the United States produced _________.
1 Hard Times
2 Nicholas Nickleby
3 Martin Chuzzlewit
4 Oliver Twist

Answer:Martin Chuzzlewit
15 Who among the following is a working-class poet ?
1 John Betjeman
2 Tony Harrison
3 Thom Gunn
4 Robert Graves

Answer:Tony Harrison

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