📚English Literature MCQs
English Literature MCQs
496 MCQs1
The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is known as______________?
ACaleron
BCorneille
CCouperin
DMoliere
2
World War I affected the writing of many authors. Which of the following poets would not have been touched by that event ?
AT.S. Eliot
BSiegfried Sassoon
CWilfred Owen
DOscar Wilde
3
This work was written before the other three choices ?
ABede’s “An Ecclesiastical History of the English People”
BJulian of Norwhich’s “Book of Showings”
CChaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”
DSir Thomas More’s “Utopia”
4
Which of the following literary sub periods does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period ?
AThe Restoration
BJacobean Age
CThe Augustan Age
DThe Age of Sensibility
5
Historical events often influence literature. Which of the following did NOT occur during the Restoration period ?
ACharles II was restored to the throne
BThe French Revolution
CThe Great Fire of London
DThe Exclusion Bill Crisis
6
Which one of the following writers is not woman ?
AEmily Bronte
BJane Austen
CRobert Browning
DNone of these
7
Shirley, Jane Eyre, Villete were written by_______________?
AE Bronte
BJ Austen
CBronte
DNone of these
8
Who is the writer of ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ ?
AGeorge Bernard Shaw
BChristopher Marlowe
CLord Tennyson
DWilliam Shakespeare
9
James Joyce’s famous novel_____________?
ARoots
BUlysses
CTom Jones
DRebecca
10
‘On Heroes and Hero…worship is written by________________?
AHuxley
BCarlyle
CRuskin
DMill