English Lecturer Test 100 Important Mcqs Set-1

21- Poet of sensuousness is:

A. Byron
B. John Keats
C. Wordsworth
D. P.B. Shelley

Answer : B. John Keats

22- John Keats is primarily a poet of:

A. Beauty
B. Nature
C. Love
D. Revolution

Answer : A. Beauty

23- Who wrote "War and Peace"?

A. Thomas Hardy
B. Robert Browning
C. W.H. Auden
D. Leo Tolstoy

Answer : D. Leo Tolstoy

24- "Pygmalion" was written by:

A. T.S. Eliot
B. Harold Pinter
C. George Bernard Shaw
D. A. Oscar Wilde

Answer : C. George Bernard Shaw

25- 'The Rape of the Lock' was written by:

A. Alexander Pope
B. Shelley
C. Wordsworth
D. Keats

Answer : A. Alexander Pope

26- 'Hamlet' is a type of:

A. Play
B. Poem
C. Prose
D. Novel

Answer : A. Play

27- The play 'The Spanish Tragedy' is written by:

A. Ben Jonson
B. Shakespeare
C. Thomas Kyd
D. Christopher Marlowe

Answer : C. Thomas Kyd

28- Who had written the play 'Volpone'?

A. John Webster
B. Ben Jonson 
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. William Shakespeare

Answer : B. Ben Jonson

29- Who wrote "Murder in the Cathedral"?

A. W.B. Yeats
B. T.S. Eliot
C. Samuel Beckett
D. Ezra Pound

Answer : B. T.S. Eliot

30- "All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand" is a quotation from:

A. Hamlet
B. Othello
C. King Lear
D. Macbeth

Answer : D. Macbeth

31- "Moby Dick" is the story of:

A. A crocodile
B. A whale 
C. A shark
D. A mermaid

Answer : B. A whale

32- "The Luncheon" is a:

A. Novel
B. Short story
C. Poem
D. Scientific article

Answer : B. Short story

33- "The Waste Land" was published in:

A. 1914
B. 1918
C. 1922
D. 1930

Answer : C. 1922

34- Who wrote "Ulysses"?

A. James Joyce
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Joseph Conrad
D. D.H. Lawrence

Answer : A. James Joyce

35- "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" is a line from:

A. Ode to the West Wind
B. Rime of the Ancient Mariner
C. Don Juan
D. Ode to Autumn

Answer : A. Ode to the West Wind

36- Who wrote 'Paradise Lost'?

A. John Dryden
B. John Osborne
C. John Milton
D. William Shakespeare

Answer : C. John Milton

37- Who wrote the poem "The Good-Morrow"?

A. P.B. Shelley
B. T.S. Eliot
C. George Herbert
D. John Donne

Answer : D. John Donne

38- Which is known as "The Golden Age of English Literature"?

A. The Victorian Age
B. The Elizabethan Age
C. The Restoration Age
D. None of them

Answer : B. The Elizabethan Age

39- Who wrote "The Importance of Being Earnest"?

A. J.M. Synge
B. Samuel Beckett
C. Oscar Wilde
D. George Bernard Shaw

Answer : C. Oscar Wilde

40- Brutus is a famous character of Shakespeare in:

A. King Lear
B. Julius Caesar
C. The Tempest
D. Hamlet

Answer : B. Julius Caesar

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