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Test for English Literature
I. Select from the lettered choice the one,
which best completes the statement or answers the questions. Write the
letter of your choice in the brackets.
1. Who was called the “ father of English poetry” and one of the greatest
narrative poets of England, was born in London about 1340.
a. John Dryden
b. Francis Bacon
c. Geoffrey Chaucer
d. Sir Gawain
2. Of the following, which one is not included among the poems written in
alliterative meter in the second half of the 14th century?
a. Pearl
b. Piers the Plowman
c. The Green Knight.
d. Beowulf
3. The story of “ ” culminates the Arthurian romances.
a. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
b. Beowulf
c. Piers the plowman
d. The Canterbury Tales
4.The so-called Metaphysical Poets include all
the following members except
a. George
Herbert b. John Donne
c. Sir Thomas Wyatt
d. Andrew Marvell
5. The masterpiece of Edmund Spenser is not a
a. romantic epic
b. political allegory c. Courtesy Book
d. romance
6. Who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama?
a. Christopher Marlowe
b. John Milton c. Edmund
Spencer d. William Shakespeare
7. English Renaissance Period was an age of
a. prose and novel
b. poetry and drama c. essays and journals
d. ballad and songs
8. Dryden established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English
verse forms, following the standard of
a. romanticism
b. humanism
c. classicism
d. neoclassicism
9. Which new genre was developed and matured by Addison and Steele in the
18th century English literature?
a. drama
b. prose
c. essay
d. novel
10. In 1714 Alexander Pope’s work The Wife of Bath appeared, which,
like his The Temple of Fame, (1715), was imitative of the works of
the same title by the 14th-century English poet
a. John Milton
b. Ben Jonson
c. Philip Sidney
d. Geoffrey Chaucer
11. The Romantic Age began with the publication of “The Lyrical Ballads”
which was written by
a. William Wordsworth
b. Samuel Johnson
c. Wordsworth and Coleridge
d. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
12.The following statements are about The
Romantic Age. Which statement is not true?
a. The Romantic Movement is characterized by the
humanitarian idealism.
b. The Romantic period is an age of radical
individualism.
c. This period is marked by the strong reaction
and protest against the bondage of rules.
d. The Romantic Age came to an end with the death of
the last well-known romantic writer Jane
Austen.
13. Which one is Byron’s political lyric?
a. The Dream b. When We
Two Parted c. She Walks in Beauty
d. Don Juan
14. The following lines are written by John Keats except
a. “I cannot see what flowers are at my
feet,”
b. “When I have fears that I may cease to
be”
c. “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:”
d. “Oh! Life me as a wave, a leaf, a
cloud!”
15. All the characters appear in Sons and Lovers except
a. Gertrude
b. Miriam
c. Sue
d. Clara
16. Which of the following writers don’t belong to English critical
realists?
a. Oliver Goldsmith
b. Charles Dickens
c. William Makepeace Thackeray
d. Thomas Hardy
17. Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel
a. Hard Times
b. A Tale of Two Cities c. David
Copperfield d. Great Expectations
18. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from Bunyan’s
masterpiece
a. Childe Harold’s
Pilgrimage b. Gulliver’s Travels
c. The Pilgrim’s Progress
d. The Canterbury Tales
19.Which of the following novels does not
belong to the “stream of consciousness” school of novel writing?
a. Ulysses
b. Portrait of a Lady c. To
the Lighthouse d. Mrs.
Dalloway
20. All the following writers are from Ireland except
a. Jonathan Swift
b. Bernard Shaw c. William Butler Yeats
d. T. S. Eliot
II. Match the works in column A and the authors in column B and write the
letter of your choice in the brackets.
A
B
1. Robinson Crusoe
A. Emily Bronte
2. David Copperfield
B. Hardy
3. The Mill on the Floss
C. Defoe
4. The Forsyte Saga
D. Dickens
5. The Waste Land
E. Virginia Woolf
6. Heart of Darkness
F. George Eliot
7. The Waves
G. More
8.Wuthering Heights
H. T.S.Eliot
9. Utopia
I. John Galsworthy
10.Tess of the D’Urbervilles
J. Joseph Conrad
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