Famous playwright, poet & others Mcqs - Set 14

1)   “ A man can die but once” is one of quote of following plays ?

a. Henry 6 part three
b. Henry 4 part two
c. Henry 6 part one
d. Henry 4 part one
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Henry 4 part two

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2)   Following are the characters of: Apemantus, Alcibiades, Flavius, Lucullus, Sempronius ?

a. Coriolanus
b. Cymbeline
c. Timon of Athens
d. Winter’s tale
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Timon of Athens

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3)   Hamlet consist of _____________acts?

a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 6
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 5

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4)   Which of Shakespeare’s play features Sir John Falstaff ?

a. The merry wives of Windsor
b. Troilus and Cressida
c. King John
d. Titus Andronicus
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The merry wives of Windsor

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5)   ____________was father of Desdemona ?

a. Othello
b. Brabantio
c. Iago
d. Gratiano
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Brabantio

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6)   Which of the following tragedy is not written by Shakespeare ?

a. Hamlet
b. Macbeth
c. King Lear
d. King Oedipus
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: King Oedipus

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7)   Who was villain in Othello ?

a. Claudius
b. Iago
c. Egeus
d. None of above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Iago

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8)   Which of the following is the earliest comedy of Shakespeare ?

a. A mid summer night’s dream
b. Much ado about nothing
c. As you like it
d. Love’s labour’s lost
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Love’s labour’s lost

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9)   Who in Hamlet suggests that one should neither be a lender nor a borrower ?

a. Gertrude
b. Polonius
c. Horatio
d. Hamlet
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Polonius

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10)   The style of Paradise Lost is ?

a. more Latin than most poems
b. more spontaneous than thought out
c. more satirical than spontaneous
d. more dramatic than lyrical
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: more Latin than most poems

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11)   Which of Shakespeare’s characters exclaims; ‘Brave, new, world!’ ?

a. Ferdinand
b. Antonio
c. Miranda
d. Prospero
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Miranda

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12)   O, you are sick of self-love’ Who is referred to in these words in Twelfth Night ?

a. Orsino
b. Sir Andrew
c. Sir Toby
d. Malvolio
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Malvolio

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13)   The Romantic Revival in English Poetry was influenced by the ?

a. French Revolution
b. Glorious Revolution of1688
c. Reformation
d. Oxford Movement
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: French Revolution

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14)   Which of the following is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen ?

a. Sense and Sensibility
b. Mansfield Park
c. Sandition
d. Persuasion
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sandition

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15)   Browning’s famous poem ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’ is included in ?

a. Dramatis Personae
b. Dramatic Idyls
c. Asolando
d. Red Cotton Night-Cap Country
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Dramatis Personae

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16)   Who said ‘Keats was a Greek’ ?

a. Wordsworth
b. Coleridge
c. Lamb
d. Shelley
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Coleridge

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17)   When Wordsworth’s ‘Immortality Ode’ was first published in 1802, it had only ?

a. Stanzas I to IV
b. Stanzas I toV
c. Stanzas I to VI
d. Stanzas I to VII
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Stanzas I toV

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18)   ‘Heaven lies about us in our infancy’. This line occurs in the poem ?

a. Immortality Ode
b. Tintern Abbey
c. The Second Coming
d. Leda and the Swan
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Immortality Ode

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19)   “The rarer action is in virtue that in vengeance.” This line occurs in ?

a. Hamlet
b. Henry IV,Pt I
c. The Tempest
d. Twelfth Night
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The Tempest

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20)   Thackeray’s “Esmond” is a novel of historical realism capturing the spirit of ____________?

a. the Medieval age
b. the Elizabethan age
c. the age of Queen Anne
d. the Victorian age
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: the Medieval age

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21)   Essays of Ella are ?

a. full of didactic sermonising
b. practically autobiographical fragments
c. remarkable for their aphoristic style
d. satirical and critical
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: practically autobiographical fragments

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22)   Sir John Falstaff is one of Shakespeare’s greatest ?

a. comic figures
b. historical figures
c. romantic figures
d. tragic figures
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: comic figures

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23)   Pride and Prejudice was originally a youthful work entitled ?

a. ‘Last Impressions’
b. ‘False Impressions’
c. ‘First Impressions’
d. ‘True Impressions’
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: ‘First Impressions’

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24)   “The better part of valour is discretion” occurs in Shakespeare’s ?

a. Hamlet
b. Twelfth Night
c. The Tempest
d. Henry IV, Pt I
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Henry IV, Pt I

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25)   The title of Carlyle’s ‘Sartor Resartus’ means ?

a. Religious Scripture
b. Seaside Resort
c. Tailor Repatched
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Seaside Resort

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26)   The most notable characteristic of Keats’ poetry is ?

a. Satire
b. Sensuality
c. Sensuousness
d. Social reform
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sensuousness

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27)   “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” The above lines have been taken from ?

a. The Waste Land
b. Tintern Abbey
c. The Second Coming
d. Prayer for My Daughter
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The Second Coming

Explanation:
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28)   Who wrote “Biographia Literaria” ?

a. Byron
b. Shelley
c. Coleridge
d. Lamb
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Coleridge

Explanation:
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29)   Tracts for the Times relates to ?

a. The Oxford Movement
b. The Pre-Raphaelite Movement
c. The Romantic Movement
d. The Symbolist Movement
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The Oxford Movement

Explanation:
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30)   Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem ‘Ode to the West Wind’ ?

a. Rime royal
b. Ottava rima
c. Terza rima
d. Spenserian Stanza
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Terza rima

Explanation:
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31)   What was the cause of William’s death in Sons and Lovers ?

a. An accident
b. An overdose of morphia
c. Suicide
d. Pneumonia
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Pneumonia

Explanation:
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32)   Who calls poetry “the breadth and finer spirit of all knowledge” ?

a. Wordsworth
b. Shelley
c. Keats
d. Coleridge
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Wordsworth

Explanation:
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33)   “Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale.” Who speaks the lines given above in Twelfth Night ?

a. Duke Orsino
b. Malvolio
c. Sir Andrew Aguecheek
d. Sir Toby Belch
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sir Toby Belch

Explanation:
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34)   Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory ?

a. A teacher
b. A clerk
c. A thief
d. A dentist
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: A thief

Explanation:
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35)   Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson “Faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.” ?

a. Oxymoron
b. Metaphor
c. Simile
d. Synecdoche
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Oxymoron

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36)   Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry ?

a. Sir Thomas Wyatt
b. William Shakespeare
c. Earl of Surrey
d. Milton
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Earl of Surrey

Explanation:
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37)   Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner ?

a. The Stones of Venice
b. The Two Paths
c. The Seven Lamps of Architecture
d. Modem Painters
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Modem Painters

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38)   Carlyle’s work On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History is a course of ?

a. six lectures
b. five lectures
c. four lectures
d. seven lectures
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: five lectures

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39)   Who, among the following writers, was not educated at Christ’s Hospital School, London ?

a. Charles Lamb
b. William Wordsworth
c. Leigh Hunt
d. S. T. Coleridge
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Charles Lamb

Explanation:
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40)   The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in ?

a. 1823
b. 1826
c. 1834
d. 1833
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 1833

Explanation:
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