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1) Who wrote “Shakespeare’s Later Comedies’ ? a. A.C. Bradley b. Palmer D.J. c. Dr.Johnsofl d. None of these
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2) The treatise ‘On Liberty’ was written by_____________? a. Ruskin b. Lamb c. Mill d. Oscar Wilde
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3) Who is the writer of the poem ‘A Grammarian’s Funeral’ ? a. Shelley b. William Shakespeare c. Wordsworth d. Robert Browning
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4) Find the Odd man out ? a. Ulysses b. The Falcon c. The Virginians d. On Liberty
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5) ‘O Captain! My Captain!’ is a poem written by______________? a. Robert Frost b. Emily Dickinson c. Mark Twain d. Walt Whitman
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6) Modern age is an age of______________? a. Pessimism and Cynicism b. Conflicts and Controversies c. Subjectivity d. All of the above
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7) The first Englishwoman to earn her living as a playwright was______________? a. Nell Gwynn b. Aphra Behn c. Lady Teazle d. Ann Hathaway
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8) The period of maturation, intellectual growth and social graces during the Renaissance is called the____________? a. aristocracy b. New Age c. Reformation d. Enlightenment
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9) Which of the following writers would be an appropriate subject for a class on “The Literature of the British Empire” ? a. Rudyard Kipling b. Edward Fitzgerald c. Charlotte Bronte d. Any of these
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10) Which of the following periods of English literature came last ? a. The Elizabethan Age b. The Commonwealth Period c. The Jacobean Age d. The Middle English Period
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11) He was not a Renaissance writer________________? a. William Shakespeare b. Sir Philip Sidney c. Christopher Marlowe d. Sir Thomas Malory
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12) Which poet did NOT write during the 16th century ? a. John Skelton b. William Shakespeare c. Sir Thomas Wyatt d. Thomas Carew
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13) Which of the following poets wrote during the Victorian period but was not published until the 20th century ? a. Christina Rossetti b. Gerard Manley Hopkins c. Elizabeth Barret Browning d. Ted Hughes
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14) Who wrote first ? a. George Eliot b. Christopher Marlowe c. Howard, Earl of Surrey d. William Shakespeare
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15) Which work was published first ? a. Blake’s “Songs of Innocence” b. Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” c. Lord Byron’s “Don Juan” d. Sir Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe”
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16) Which period of literature came first ? a. Regency b. Victorian c. Romantic d. Restoration
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17) The Bronte sisters wrote during this period______________? a. Regency b. Restoration c. Romantic d. Victorian
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18) Jane Austen wrote during this period________________? a. Restoration b. Victorian c. Middle English d. Regency
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19) Who wrote the poem ’The Seven Ages’ ? a. John Milton b. Geoffrey Chaucer c. William Shakespeare d. Edward Gibbon
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20) The prevailing feature of Chaucer’s humour is its__________________? a. urbanity b. crudity c. triviality d. sanctity
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