English Multiple Choice Questions(MCQs) and Answers | English Quiz Set 42
Questions
1
Identify the right chronological sequence :
Answer: Volpone – The Duchess of Malfi – A Game of Chess – The City Madam
2
‘Nasal tone’ in speech is a distinguishing feature of _______.
Answer:American English
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3
Which of the following writers did NOT receive the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
Answer:Chinua Achebe
4
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon is a significant work in
______ volumes.
Answer: 6
6
From among the Canterbury pilgrims, which group would qualify as the ‘upper class’ ?
Answer:The Knight, The Squire, The Prioress
7
What superstition around the Eve of St. Agnes is crucial to an understanding John Keat’s famous poem ?
Answer:If a virgin performed the proper ritual on St. Agnes’ Eve, she would dream of her future husband.
8
Identify the person who sets himself up as the ‘Knight’ with a pestle rather than a sword in the play The Knight of the Burning Pestle :
Answer: Ralph
9
Works like The Earthly Paradise, Dante and His Circle, Goblin Market and Other Poems and the journal, The Germ are associated with ________.
Answer:the Pre-Raphaelites
10
Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence ?
Answer: Every Man in His Humour The Shoemaker’s Holiday Antonio’s Revenge The Changeling
11
In ‘The Prologue’ to Dr. Faustus, the chorus proposes that the theme should be –
I. “cursed necromancy”
II. “audacious deeds”
III. “dalliance of love”
IV. “self-conceit”
The correct combination according to the code is
Answer: I and IV are correct
12
The centre of his plays is a proud character on Marlowe’s model, with a bold licence in speech and action, full of elaborate metaphors, phrase tumbling after phrase, as he asserts himself in the French Court. Dryden unjustly described his style as “a dwarfish thought, dressed up in gigantic words”. Who is this Jacobean playwright ?
Answer: George Chapman
13
In which poem of Donne’s is the lover’s face reflected in the eyes of his beloved ?
Answer:“The Good Morrow”
14
Though Coleridge refers to “Motivehunting of a motiveless malignity”, the “human villain” Iago is far from “motiveless”. His motives are
I. He has been disappointed of military promotion.
II. He suspects Othello of cuckolding him
III. He has been in love with Desdemona
IV. He wants to become Othello.
Find the most appropriate combination according to the code :
Answer:I and II are correct
15
Scott is known for the creation of mad, irrational witch-like women characters. From the following list pick the odd one out :
Answer:Euphemia Deans
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