English Literature Quiz 6

English literature quiz

Question 1. The main idea of The Dunciad was taken from ___________. 

(A) The Hind and the Panther

(B) Religio Laici

(C) Mac Flecknoe

(D) The Medal

View Answer
(C) Mac Flecknoe

Question 2. The character of the leech gatherer appears in__________.

(A) The Recluse

(B) The Prelude Book I

(C) Laodamia

(D) Resolution and Independence

View Answer
(D) Resolution and Independence

Question 3. Table Talk is a collection of essays by ___________.

(A) Lamb

(B) Hunt

(C) Hazlitt

(D) De Quincey

View Answer
(C) Hazlitt

Question 4. Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus was written under the influence of ___________. 

(A) Italian romance

(B) German romance

(C) French romance

(D) British romance

View Answer
(B) German romance

Question 5. The image of Neptune taming the sea horse appears in ____________.

(A) Abt Vogler

(B) Prospice

(C) Andrea del Sarto

(D) My Last Duchess

View Answer
(D) My Last Duchess

Question 6. T S Eliot’s The Waste Land is dedicated to Il miglior fabro (“The better Craftsman”) which refers to ____________.

(A) Ezra Pound

(B) Baudelaire

(C) G M Hopkins

(D) Dante

View Answer
(A) Ezra Pound

Question 7. The locale of Riders to the Sea is___________.

(A) Dublin

(B) Aran Island

(C) Galway

(D) Belfast

View Answer
(B) Aran Island

Question 8. The “Bog” poems are associated with___________.

(A) Ted Hughes

(B) Elizabeth Jennings

(C) Tony Harrison

(D) Seamus Heaney

View Answer
(D) Seamus Heaney

Question 9. Edward Bond’s Bingo deals with the life of ____________.

(A) Dryden

(B) Shakespeare

(C) Ben Jonson

(D) Marlowe

View Answer
(B) Shakespeare

Question 10. Arthur Millers The Death of a Salesman is mainly about _____________.

(A) American dream

(B) American imperialism

(C) American pragmatism

(D) American transcendentalism

View Answer
(A) American dream

Question 11. The patient in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient is ___________.

(A) Almasy

(B) Caravaggio

(C) Kripal Singh

(D) Hana

View Answer
(A) Almasy

Question 12. Mimetic criticism views literary work as ___________. 

(A) Iersonalisation

(B) Depersonalisation

(C) Imitation

(D) interpretation

View Answer
(C) Imitation

Question 13. The concept of “arche writing” is developed by ___________. 

(A) Fish

(B) Foucault

(C) Derrida

(D) Paul de Man

View Answer
(C) Derrida

Question 14. A figure of speech in which two terms opposite in meaning are placed side by side in one phrase is known as  ____________.

(A) Paradox

(B) Oxymoron

(C) Sarcasm

(D) Antithesis

View Answer
(B) Oxymoron

Question 15. A stanza of eight iambic pentametres on the pattern of ab, ab, ab, cc is known as ___________. 

(A) Rhyme royal

(B) Ottava rima

(C) Tennysonian stanza

(D) Spenserian stanza

View Answer
(B) Ottava rima

Question 16. Which one of the following author – book pair is correctly matched? 

(A) J.M. Coetzee – Shame

(B) Saul Bellro – Herzog

(C) Salman Rushdie – Disgrace

(D) Elfriede Jelinek – The Pianist

View Answer
(B) Saul Bellro – Herzog

Question 17. Which novel has a nameless narrator?

(A) Invisible Man

(B) The Grapes of Wrath

(C) Moby Dick

(D) Anna Karenina

View Answer
(B) The Grapes of Wrath

Question 18. Samuel Beckett wrote ___________. 

(A) Endgame

(B) Volpone

(C) Mother Courage and Her Children

(D) A Doll’s House

View Answer
(A) Endgame

Question 19. Willy Loman is a character in _____________.

(A) A Doll’s House

(B) The Cherry Orchard

(C) Waiting for Godot

(D) The Death of a Salesman

View Answer
(D)The Death of a Salesman

Question 20. The Plough and the Stars was written by ____________. 

(A) G.B. Shaw

(B) J.M. Synge

(C) Sean O’casey

(D) Lady Gregory

View Answer
(C) Sean O’casey

Question 21. The subtitle of Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel is ____________.

(A) There was no subtitle

(B) A satire

(C) A satire on the True Blue Protestant Poets

(D) A poem

View Answer
(D) A poem

Question 22. Who of the following is not a periodical essayist?

(A) Jonathan Swif

(B) Joseph Addison

(C) Richard Steele

(D) Lancelot Andrews

View Answer
(A) Jonathan Swif

Question 23. John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys were the famous writers of ___________.

(A) essays

(B) editorials

(C) letters

(D) diaries

View Answer
(D) diaries

Question 24. Samuel Butlers Hudibras is modeled upon ___________.

(A) “Annus Mirabilis”

(B) Endymion

(C) Don Quixote

(D) Pilgrim’s Progress

View Answer
(C) Don Quixote

Question 25. Who was the last of the Christian Humanists?

(A) Oliver Cromowel

(B) John Milton

(C) John Bunyan

(D) Richard Crashaw

View Answer
(C) John Bunyan