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The story of `Moby Dick` centres on- Option A: a mermaid , Option B: a whale , Option C: a crocodile, Option D: a shark, correct answer is: a whale

`He prayeth best, who loveth best.` Who said it? Option A: John Milton , Option B: John Donne , Option C: Lord Byron, Option D: S.T. Coleridge, correct answer is: S.T. Coleridge

`Paradise Lost` attempted to- Option A: justify the ways of man to God. , Option B: show that Satan and God have equal power. , Option C: justify the ways of God to man., Option D: explain why both good and evil are necessary., correct answer is: justify the ways of God to man.

“Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!” The extract is taken from P.B. Shelley`s poem- Option A: The Cloud , Option B: To a Skylark , Option C: Ode to the West Wind, Option D: Adonais, correct answer is: Ode to the West Wind

Who wrote the short story `The Ant and the Grasshopper`? Option A: Guy de Maupassant , Option B: W. Somerest Maugham , Option C: J.K. Rawlings, Option D: O’Henry, correct answer is: W. Somerest Maugham

Francis Bacon is an illustrious- Option A: essayist , Option B: dramatist , Option C: novelist, Option D: journalist, correct answer is: essayist

`Sweet are the uses of adversity` is quoted from shakespear`s- Option A: Julias Caesar , Option B: Macbeth , Option C: Comedy of Errors, Option D: As you Like it, correct answer is: As you Like it

Alexander Pope`s `Essay on Man` is a- Option A: novel , Option B: treatise , Option C: short story, Option D: poem, correct answer is: poem

“Life`s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more.” These memorable lines in Shakespearen tragedy are spoken by- Option A: Lady Macbeth , Option B: Banquo , Option C: Duncan, Option D: Macbeth, correct answer is: Macbeth

“All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.” This extract is taken from W.B. Yeats poem titled- Option A: No second Troy , Option B: Easter 1916 , Option C: The Second Coming, Option D: The Wild Swans at Coole, correct answer is: Easter 1916

The poetic drama `Murder in the Cathedral` was written by- Option A: Harold Pinter , Option B: G.B. Shaw , Option C: T.S. Eliot, Option D: Samuel Beckett, correct answer is: T.S. Eliot

`All for Love` is a drama written by- Option A: John Dryden , Option B: William Congreve , Option C: John Bunyan, Option D: Francis Bacon, correct answer is: John Dryden

Caliban is an important character from Shakespear`s- Option A: Hamlet , Option B: The Tempest , Option C: Macbeth, Option D: Othello, correct answer is: The Tempest

`Caesar and Cleopatra` is- Option A: a tragedy by William Shakespeare , Option B: a poem by Lord Byron , Option C: a play by Bernard Shaw, Option D: a novel by S.T. Coleridge, correct answer is: a play by Bernard Shaw

Who wrote the picaresque novel titled `Tom Jones`? Option A: Samuel Richardson , Option B: Horace Walpole , Option C: Henry Fielding, Option D: Laurence Sterne, correct answer is: Henry Fielding