MCQS Bank 4 (Literature)
MCQS Bank 4 (Literature)
MCQS Bank 4 (Literature)
6. “My wayward husband hath a hundred times wooed me to steal it, but she
so loves the token—
For he conjured her she should ever keep it”—
Who is the speaker of the utterance?
a. Gertrude
b. Emilia
c. Rosalind
d. Desdemona
Ans: b. Emilia
10. Which novel of Charles Dickens is set in London and Paris before and during the French
Revolution?
a. Oliver Twist
b. A Tale of Two Cities
c. Great Expectations
d. Hard Times
Ans: b. A Tale of Two Cities
11. “NOW, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts.”
The above is the opening line of ____________.
a. David Copperfield
b. Little Dorrit
c. Great Expectations
d. Hard Times
16. Who opined the following: “Wordsworth is the greatest poet only "after
Shakespeare and Milton from Elizabethan to present time"?
a. Matthew Arnold
b. Dr. Samuel Johnson
c. Ben Jonson
d. T. S. Eliot
Ans: a. Matthew Arnold
d. Middlemarch
Ans: d. Middlemarch
19. Who said: “Shakespeare had nowhere written more than six consecutive lines of good
poetry”?
a. Dr. Johnson
b. Dryden
c. Mr. Arnold
d. Ben Jonson
Ans: a. Dr. Johnson
d. Cassius
Ans: c. Iago
31. Who has defined 'poetry' as ‘a fundamental creative act using languages’?
a. H. W. Longfellow
b. Ralph Waldo Emerson
c. Dylan Thomas
d. William Wordsworth
Ans: c. Dylan Thomas
36. Who among the female characters in The Canterbury Tales criticises the
patriarchal society?
a. The Prioress
b. The Second Nun
c. The Wife of Bath
d. The First Nun
Ans: c. The Wife of Bath
39. Ivanhoe (1 81 9), set in 1 2th-century England, marked a move away from
his focus on the local
history of Scotland. Who wrote this novel?
a. George Orwell
b. Walter Scott
c. Margaret Atwood
d. Saul Bellow
Ans: b. Walter Scott
40. “Boold was hir face, and fair, and reed of hewe” and “Gat-tothed was she,
smoothly for to seye.”
The above given lines best describes:
a. The Wife of Bath
b. The Prioress
c. The Second Nun
d. The First Nun
Ans: a. The Wife of Bath
42. The tale of Ceyx and Alcyone appears in which of the following works?
a. The Book of the Duchess
b. House of Fame
c. Parliament of Fowls
d. Troilus and Cressida
Ans: a. The Book of the Duchess
44. Who is the speaker of the following utterance in Chaucer’s The Legend of
Good Women?
a. God of Love
b. Alceste
c. Venus
d. Cupid
Ans: b. Alceste
c. Macbeth
d. Othello
Ans: a. Hamlet
48. ______ was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary work, He was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal
of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three
times and he received the National Book Foundation's life time Medal for
Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1 990. Who is he?
a. Rohinton Mistry
b. Alice Walker
c. Saul Bellow
d. T.S. Eliot
Ans: c. Saul Bellow
49. Who among the Shakespearean characters uttered the following to whom?
“Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportion’d thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.”
a. Polonius to Laertes
b. Polonius to Reynaldo
c. King Lear to Goneril
d. King Lear to Regan
Ans: a. Polonius to Laertes
c. Stern
d. Stuart
Ans: b. Sterns
61. _____ said “The Athenians might not have another opportunity of sinning
against philosophy as they had already done in the person of Socrates”
a. Plato
b. Aristotle
c. Longinus
d. Horace
Ans: b. Aristotle
c. King Lear
d. Lady Macbeth
Ans: a. Macbeth
63. ____ was the first to use the term “Mimesis” in connection with poetry.
a. Plato
b. Aristotle
c. Longinus
d. Horace
Ans: a. Plato
64. Who is the speaker of the following utterance: “Imperious Cæsar, dead
and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.”
a. Hamlet
b. Othello
c. King Lear
d. Horatio
Ans: a. Hamlet
66. “When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves
blaze forth the death of princes.”
These famous lines appear in:
a. Macbeth
b. Henry IV
c. Antony and Cleopatra
d. Julius Caesar
Ans: d. Julius Caesar
b. Mark Antony
c. Brutus
d. Cassius
Ans: a. Julius Caesar
70. Who is the speaker of the famous statement: “O judgment! Thou art fled
to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason.”
a. Portia
b. Mark Antony
c. Rosalind
d. Cassius
Ans: b. Mark Antony
72. Whose act is referred to by Mark Antony when he said: “This was the most
unkindest cut of all.”
a. Cinna
b. Cassius
c. Marcus
d. Brutus
Ans: d. Brutus
d. Paul de Man
Ans: a. Jacques Derrida
75. Who coined the term “intentional fallacy” and “affective fallacy”?
a. T. S. Eliot
b. William Empson
c. W. K. Wimsatt
d. Cleanth Brooks
Ans: c. W. K. Wimsatt
78. Who, among the following English playwrights, scripted the film
Shakespeare in Love?
a. Harold Pinter
b. Alan Bennett
c. Caryl Churchill
d. Tom Stoppard
Ans: d. Tom Stoppard
80. Who has remarked that “Chaucer found English a dialect and left it a
language”?
a. Legouis
b. Hadow
c. Lang
d. Lowes
Ans: d. Lowes
b. Elaine Showalter
c. Luce Irigarey
d. Susan Sontag
Ans: b. Elaine Showalter
88. ‘Kenning’ is
a. Literary device
b. poetic form
c. compound metaphor common to Old Germanic Poetry
d. Stylistic device
Ans: c. compound metaphor common to Old Germanic Poetry
93. In which of his essays does Homi Bhabha discuss the ‘discovery’ of
English in colonial India?
a. “Signs taken for Wonders”
b. “Mimicry”
c. “Nation and Narration”
94. The term ‘the comedy of menace’ is associated with the early plays of
a. Arnold Wesker
b. John Arden
c. Harold Pinter
d. David Hare
Ans: c. Harold Pinter
95. Post modernism is at once a continuation of and a break away from _____
a. Structuralism
b. Deconstruction
c. Feminism
d. Modernism
Ans: d. Modernism
99. Which among the Shakespeare’s plays can be rightly called “Pastoral
Comedy”?
a. The Winter’s Tale
b. Midsummer Night’s Dream
c. Much Ado About Nothing
d. Troilus and Cressida