English Lecturer 100 Mcqs Set-1 Page 5

English Lecturer Test 100 Important Mcqs Set-1

81- "To be, or not to be, that is the ______":

A. idea

B. question

C. thought

D. important

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Answer : B. question

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82- Which age is known as the Age of Pope?

A. Romantic Age

B. Victorian Age

C. Augustan Age

D. Modern Age

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Answer : C. Augustan Age

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83- Who is famous for his elegies?

A. Thomas Gray

B. John Keats

C. Lord Byron

D. Robert Browning

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Answer : A. Thomas Gray

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84- "The Deserted Village" was written by:

A. William Blake

B. Thomas Gray

C. Alexander Pope

D. Oliver Goldsmith

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Answer : D. Oliver Goldsmith

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85- Who wrote "Tess of the d'Urbervilles"?

A. Thomas Hardy

B. Charles Dickens

C. George Eliot

D. D.H. Lawrence

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Answer : A. Thomas Hardy

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86- Which play features the famous line "To be or not to be; that is the question"?

A. Hamlet

B. Macbeth

C. King Lear

D. Othello

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Answer : A. Hamlet

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87- Who was Shakespeare's wife?

A. Anne Hathaway

B. Jane Austen

C. Emily Brontë

D. None of them

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Answer : A. Anne Hathaway

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88- In which town and city was Shakespeare born?

A. London

B. Oxford

C. Stratford-upon-Avon

D. All of them

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Answer : C. Stratford-upon-Avon

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89- In what year was Shakespeare born?

A. 1558

B. 1564

C. 1658

D. 1660

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Answer : B. 1564

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90- Who wrote "Beowulf"?

A. Caedmon

B. Cynewulf

C. Venerable Bede

D. None of them

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Answer : D. None of them

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91- Anglo-Saxon people were mainly:

A. Warriors

B. Hunters

C. Travelers

D. All of them

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Answer : D. All of them

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92- What is the chief work of "Caedmon"?

A. Paraphrase

B. Juliana

C. Le Morte d’Arthur

D. Elene

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Answer : A. Paraphrase

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93- Who was regarded as the "Founder of English Prose"?

A. Venerable Bede

B. Geoffrey Chaucer

C. Caedmon

D. King Alfred the Great

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Answer : D. King Alfred the Great

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94- Who wrote "Hard Times"?

A. Charlotte Brontë

B. Shakespeare

C. Charles Dickens

D. George Bernard Shaw

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Answer : C. Charles Dickens

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95- "Wuthering Heights" was written by:

A. Mr. Earnshaw

B. Catherine

C. Emily Brontë

D. None of them

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Answer : C. Emily Brontë

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96- "Far from the Madding Crowd" is a novel by:

A. George Eliot

B. Thomas Hardy

C. Dickens

D. Jane Austen

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Answer : B. Thomas Hardy

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97- Who wrote "Sons and Lovers"?

A. Thomas Hardy

B. James Joyce

C. D.H. Lawrence

D. E.M. Forster

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Answer : C. D.H. Lawrence

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98- Who wrote the first English dictionary?

A. Izaak Walton

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Thomas Hardy

D. None of them

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Answer : B. Samuel Johnson

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99- 'A Voyage to Lilliput' is written by:

A. R.L. Stevenson

B. Thomas Hardy

C. Jonathan Swift

D. William Wordsworth

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Answer : C. Jonathan Swift

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100- "A Passage to India" was written by:

A. E.M. Forster

B. D.H. Lawrence

C. Joseph Conrad

D. Virginia Woolf

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Answer : A. E.M. Forster

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