English Literature MCQ I GIC Lecturer Exam English Practice Set PDF

 English Literature MCQ I GIC Lecturer Exam English Practice Set PDF

1.     Who among the following is called the father of English prose?

(a)  Wyatt

(b) Bacon

(c)  More

(d) Wycliffe

Ans: (d)

2.     The Jacobean tragedy is called

(a)  Love tragedy

(b) Sober tragedy

(c)  Tragedy of blood

(d) Historical tragedy

Ans: (c)

3.     The Begger’s  Opera (1728) was written by

(a)  Samuel Garth

(b) John Gay

(c)  John Dryden

(d) Ben Jonson

Ans: (b)

4.     The Prelude is an epic of

(a)  Society

(b) Christianity

(c)  War

(d) Self

Ans: (d)

5.     A Pageant and other Poems was written by

(a)  Christina Rossetti

(b) (D)G Rossetti

(c)  Oscar Wilde

(d) William Morris

Ans: (a)

6.     Choose from the following the dramatist’s-duo, who led the revolt against sentimental comedy?

(a)  Joseph Addison and Dr. Johnson

(b) Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Sheridan

(c)  Colley Cibber and Huge Kelley

(d) James Thomson and Samuel Richardson

Ans: (b)

7.     The Mysteries of Udolpho published in 1794 is a Gothic romance written by-

(a)  Ann Radcliffe

(b) Dorothy Richardson

(c)  Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

(d) Dorothy Wordsworth

Ans: (a)

8.     Who among the following is called the father of classical comedy in England?

(a)  Shakespeare

(b) Ben Jonson

(c)  Webster

(d) Lyly

Ans: (b)

9.     Addison’s Cato is a

(a)  Comedy

(b) Mask

(c)  Epic

(d) Tragedy

Ans: (d)

10.            Literally  “the Gothic Romance” means

(a)  The novel of idea

(b) The Novel written in Greek Language

(c)  The Novel of Terror

(d) The Novel Of Crime

Ans: (c)

11.            Which of the following novels is considered the best of Thackeray?

(a)  The History of Pendennis (1848-50)

(b) Vanity fair (1847-48)

(c)  The book of Snobs (1849)

(d) The History of Henry Esmond (1852)

Ans: (b)

12.            Who is known for effecting humour and pathos in his prose?

(a)  Leigh Hunt

(b) Thomas De Quincey

(c)  William Hazlitt

(d) Charles Lamb

Ans: (d)

13.            “Michael” of Wordsworth was

(a)  Was include later in Lyrical Ballads

(b) Was not include in Lyrical Ballads

(c)  Was never included in Lyrical Ballads

(d) Included in Lyrical Ballads

Ans: (a)

14.            Spencer’s satirical poem is

(a)  The Faerie Queen

(b) Epithalamion

(c)  Prothalamion

(d) Mother Hubbard’s Tale

Ans: (d)

15.            The term “Poulter’s  Measure” was coined by

(a)  Surrey

(b) Shakespeare

(c)  Sidney

(d) Gascoigne

Ans: (d)

16.            The subtitle of Jonson’s Volpone (1605) is

(a)  The Vulture

(b) The Crow

(c)  The Fox

(d) The Tiger

Ans: (c)

17.            Defoe’s fiction is known for its

(a)  Gothicism

(b) Impressionism

(c)  Realism

(d) Romanticism

Ans: (c)

18.            Who defined novel as “comic epic poem in prose”?

(a)  Fielding

(b) Forster

(c)  Richardson

(d) Defoe

Ans: (a)

19.            Browning’s poem “The Lost Leader” was written when Wordsworth

(a)  Left the Lake District

(b) Published the Prelude

(c)  Returned from France

(d) Became the Poet Laureate

Ans: (d)

20.            William Morris is best known by which of the following?

(a)  Signs of Change (1888)

(b) Earthly Paradise (1868-70)

(c)  News from Nowhere (1891)

(d) A Dream of John Ball (1888)

Ans: (c)


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