(1) Shakespeare’s Hamlet is
(a) A tragedy
(b) Comedy
Answer (a) A tragedy
(2) Earnest Hamingway has written
(a) Old Man and the Sea
(b) Mr. Chips
(c) Pride and Prejudice
Answer (a) Old Man and the Sea
(3) Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) Chaucer
(c) Jonathan Swift
ANSWER (c) Jonathan Swift
(4) Which of the following is not a dramatist?
(a) Ben Johnson
(b) Byron
(c) Eliot
Answer (b) Byron
(5) Which of the following is not a play by Shakespeare?
(a) Hamlet
(b) Macbeth
(c) Dr. Faustus
Answer (c) Dr. Faustus
(6) E. M. Foster is a
(a) Novelist
(b) Poet(c) Playwright
Answer (a) Novelist
(7) “The Pickwick Papers” is a novel by:
(a) Jane Austen
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) Thackery
Answer (b) Charles Dickens
(8) Who wrote “Jane Eyre”?
(a) Charlotte Bronte
(b) Emile Bronte
(c) Anne Bronte
Answer (a) Charlotte Bronte
(9) After whom is the Elizabethan Age named?
(a) Elizabeth-I
(b) Elizabeth-II
(c) Elizabeth Browning
Answer (a) Elizabeth-I
(10) What is the name of Wordsworth’s long poem?
(a) The Canterbury Tales
(b) Don Juan
(c) The Prelude
Answer (c) The Prelude
(11) A poem mourning someone’s death is called:
(a) Fable
(b) Epic
(c) Elegy
Answer (c) Elegy
(12) Which of the following is not a tragedy written by
Shakespeare?
(a) Macbeth
(b) Othello
(c) Merchant of Venice
Answer (c) Merchant of Venice
(13) Who wrote “The Second Coming”?
(a) E. Spencer
(b) Eliot
(c) W. B. Yeats
Answer (c) W. B. Yeats
(14) What period in English Literature is called
the“Augustans Age”?
(a) Early 16th Century
(b) 17th Century
(c) Early 18th Century
Answer (c) Early 18th Century
(15) Which play among the following plays is not blank
verse?
(a) Hamlet
(b) The Jew of Malta
(c) Pygmalion
Answer (c) Pygmalion
(16) Which one of the following writers is not woman?
(a) Emily Bronte
(b) Jane Austen
(c) Robert Browning
Answer (c) Robert Browning
(17) Who is the villain in “Hamlet”?
(a) Horatio
(b) Iago
(c) Claudius
Answer (c) Claudius
(18) Who kills Macbeth in the play “Macbeth”?
(a) Duncan
(b) Bonquo
(c) Macduff
Answer (c) Macduff
(19) Which is the last of Shakespeare’s great tragedies?
(a) Macbeth
(b) King Lear
(c) Othello
(d) Hamlet
Answer (b) King Lear
(20) Who is the heroine of Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet”?
(a) Cordella
(b) Desdemona
(c) Portia
(d) Ophelia
Answer (d) Ophelia
