Miscellaneous Literature Mcqs - Set 4

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

a. Macbeth
b. Othello
c. Merchant of Venice
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Merchant of Venice

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2)   ‘I wandered Lonely as a cloud’ is an example of______________?

a. symbol
b. Metaphor
c. Simile
d. Metonymy
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Simile

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3)   In Shakespeare “Character is not Destiny” but “character and Destiny”. Whose comment is this ?

a. Bradley
b. Dr. Johnson
c. Nicoll
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Bradley

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4)   Who accuses Arnold of “high pamphleteering ?”

a. Eliot
b. Pater
c. I. A. Richards
d. F. R. Leavis
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: F. R. Leavis

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5)   Who is the author of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ ?

a. William Wordsworth
b. S. T. Coleridge
c. W. Somerset Maugham
d. Sir Walter Scott
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: S. T. Coleridge

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6)   Yahoo’s according to Gulliver were______________?

a. European
b. Indians
c. American
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: European

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7)   William Blake’s /Songs of ‘counterbalance his ‘Songs of Experience’ ?

a. Love
b. childhood
c. Inexperience
d. Innocence
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Innocence

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8)   What is the term Utopia ?

a. a hat of a king
b. a day dreamer
c. a lotus eater
d. an ideal state which does not exist in real
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: an ideal state which does not exist in real

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9)   ‘SARTOR RESARTUS’ is a prose work by________________?

a. John Ruskin
b. Carlyle
c. Bacon
d. Lamb
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Carlyle

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10)   ‘Lucy Gray’ is a poem written by_______________?

a. Wordsworth
b. Keats
c. None of these
d. All of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Wordsworth

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11)   Who is the writer of the poem ‘Andrea Del Sarto’ ?

a. William Shakespeare
b. Shelley
c. Wordsworth
d. Robert Browning
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Robert Browning

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12)   The novel ‘The Jungle Book’ is written by_______________?

a. R. K. Narayan
b. Edin Blyton
c. Rudyard Kipling
d. H. G. Wells
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Rudyard Kipling

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13)   Who is the author of ‘The Rape of Bangladesh’ ?

a. Anthony Mascarenhas
b. Mathew Arnold
c. G. B. Shaw
d. Alexander Dumas
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Anthony Mascarenhas

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14)   ‘Renaissance’ means___________________?

a. the revival of learning
b. the revival of hard task
c. the revival of life
d. the revival of new country
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: the revival of learning

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15)   The central idea of ‘Ozymandias’ is that______________?

a. all things, both great and small,will perish
b. man is mortal,art immortal
c. imagination is stronger than fact
d. history repeats
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: all things, both great and small,will perish

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16)   In Shakespeare’s Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is a remark by________________?

a. Nicoll
b. Goddord
c. Bradley
d. Coleridge
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Bradley

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17)   Which year William Shakespeare was born ?

a. 1564 AD
b. 1773 AD
c. 1809 AD
d. 1923 AD
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 1564 AD

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18)   ‘Lapis Lazuli’ is __________________?

a. A Poem
b. Drama
c. None of these
d. A Poem
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: A Poem

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19)   In “The Gift of the Magi” Della is presented as_____________?

a. a loving wife
b. a snobbish wife
c. a hypocritical wife
d. a sacrificing wife
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: a sacrificing wife

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20)   Who wrote the book ‘Lord Jim: A Tale ?

a. Oscar Wilde
b. Joseph Conrad
c. Thomas Hardy
d. Rudyard Kipling
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Joseph Conrad

Explanation:
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