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Test for English Literature
I. Multiple choice.
1. Father of English history is
A. Bede
B Alfred the great
C Beowolf D William
the conqueror
2. In Canterbury Tales, which of the following social classes are not
mentioned?
A Knight and monks
B Carpenter and cook
C yeoman and summoner
D aristocrat and poorest peasants
3. The heroine who saved her lover against the Jewish merchant Shylock is
A Ophelia
B Portia
C Cordelia D Mrs. Macbeth
4. Which one of the following works is not written by John Milton?
A Samson Agonistes
B Paradise Lost
C Prometheus Unbound
D Paradise Regained
5. Metaphysical Poets and Cavalier Poets belong to __ century.
A 16th
B 17th
C 18th
D 19th
6. ___is considered the father of the English novel.
A Defoe
B Fielding
C Richardson D Goldsmith
7. Thomas Gray is famous for his __ under the influence of sentimentalism.
A ballads
B heroic couplet
C essays
D elegy.
8. Romantic age is the age of the following statements except
A humanitarian
idealism
B radical individualism
C age of reason
D age of imagination
9. The poem Tyger is written by __
A William Blake. B
Robert Burns. C Wordsworth
D Gordon Byron
10. Lake poets are the following poets except
A Keats
B Wordsworth C
Coleridge D Southey
11. Romanticism ended in 1832 when
A. Scott died.
B. Wordsworth died C Lamb died
D Austen died
12. All the following characters can be used to depict Darcy but
A indifference
B conceit
C pride
D hypocrisy
13. Which of the following pairs belong to the school of Critical Realism?
A Scott and Dickens
B Fielding and Hardy.
C Thackeray and George
Eliot
D Emily Bronte and Mary Lamb
14. Mary Ann Evans is the Mid-Victorian novelist__
A Jane Austen
B George Eliot C
Lessing
D Woolf
15. In Hardy’s works, themes like the following statements are efficient
except
A Pessimism
B determinism
C Naturalism D
Sentimentalism.
16. Dramatic monologue used in poetry is the great contribution given by
A Tennyson
B Browning
C Arnold
D. TS Eliot
17. “Art’s for art sake” is the slogan for __
A aestheticism
B romanticism C
Nor Classicism D Calvinism
18. Virginia Woolf and her masterpiece __ display a mature stream of
consciousness.
A Mrs. Dalloway
B Mrs. Warren’s Profession
C Emma
D the Garden Party
19. TS Eliot is famous for his
A monologue
B alliteration
C understatement D verse
drama
20. The work Waiting for Godot, the state of being lost is well depicted
by__
A Synge
B O’ Casey
C Beckett
D Bernard Shaw
II. Match the following works with the appropriate literary figures.
(10')
A. Robert Burns
a. Prometheus Unbound
B. Jane Austen
b. Lucy Poems
C. William Wordsworth
c. The Mill on the Floss
D. Thomas Hardy
d. Return to the Native
E. George Bernard Shaw
e. Gulliver’s Travels
F. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
f. Bleak House
G. Charles Dickens
g. Northanger Abbey
H. Jonathan Swift
h. Major Barbara
I. Percy Bysshe Shelley
i. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
J. George Eloit
j. My Heart’s on the Highlands
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