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

`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

`Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield` is taken from the poem written by- Option A: Robert Browning , Option B: Matthew Arnold , Option C: Alfred Tennyson, Option D: Lord Byron, correct answer is: Alfred Tennyson

“Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav`n.” Who wrote this? Option A: Geoffrey Chaucer , Option B: Christopher Marlowe , Option C: John Milton, Option D: P. B. Shelley, correct answer is: John Milton

Tennyson`s `In Memoriam` is an elegy on the death of- Option A: John Milton , Option B: John Keats , Option C: Arthure Henry Hallam, Option D: Sydney Smith, correct answer is: Arthure Henry Hallam

Where do the following lines occur in? `Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea…….` Option A: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , Option B: Kubla khan , Option C: The Nightingle, Option D: The Dungeon, correct answer is: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

`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

`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.

Who is not a romantic poet? Option A: P. B Shelley , Option B: S. T. Coleridge , Option C: John Keats, Option D: T. S. Eliot, correct answer is: T. S. Eliot

Who is not a modern poet? Option A: W. B. Yeats , Option B: W. H. Auden , Option C: John Keats, Option D: T. S. Eliot, correct answer is: John Keats

`Sweet Helen make me immortal with a kiss.` The sentence has been taken from the play- Option A: Remeo and Juliet , Option B: Caesar and Cleopatra , Option C: Doctor Faustus, Option D: Antony and Cleopatra, correct answer is: Doctor Faustus

`For God`s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.` This line is written by- Option A: Emily Dickinson , Option B: T.S. Eliot , Option C: Mathew Arnold, Option D: John Donne, correct answer is: John Donne

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

“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

`Shylock` is a character in the play- Option A: Twelfth Night , Option B: The Merchant of Venice , Option C: Romeo and Juliet, Option D: Measure of Measure, correct answer is: The Merchant of Venice

In Shakespeare`s play Hamlet, Hamlet was prince of- Option A: Norway , Option B: Britain , Option C: Denmark, Option D: France, correct answer is: Denmark

O`Henry was from- Option A: Canada , Option B: America , Option C: England, Option D: Ireland, correct answer is: America

`What`s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet`- Who said this? Option A: Juliet , Option B: Romeo , Option C: Portia, Option D: Rosalind, correct answer is: Juliet

Of the following authors, who wrote an epic? Option A: John Milton , Option B: Jane Mansfield , Option C: William Cowper, Option D: William Shakespeare, correct answer is: John Milton

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

Adela Quested and Mrs. Moore are characters from the novel- Option A: David Copperfield , Option B: The Return of the Native , Option C: A Passage to India, Option D: Adam Bede, correct answer is: A Passage to India

Where is the setting of the play `Hamlet`? Option A: England , Option B: Italy , Option C: France, Option D: Denmark, correct answer is: Denmark

`Man`s love is of man`s life a thing apart, `Tis woman`s whole existence.`- This is taken from the poem of- Option A: P.B Shelley , Option B: Lord Byron , Option C: John Keats, Option D: Edmund Spenser, correct answer is: Lord Byron

The literary term `euphemism` means– Option A: vague idea , Option B: in offensive expression , Option C: a sonnet, Option D: wise saying, correct answer is: in offensive expression

`Vanity Fair` is a novel written by- Option A: D. H. Lawrence , Option B: William Makepeace Thackeray , Option C: Joseph Conrad, Option D: Virgina Woolf, correct answer is: William Makepeace Thackeray

`Time held me Green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.` These lines have been quoted from Dylan Thomas` poem- Option A: The Flower , Option B: Fern Hill , Option C: By Fire, Option D: After the Funeral, correct answer is: Fern Hill

`No Second Troy` is a- Option A: short story , Option B: novel , Option C: poem, Option D: drama, correct answer is: poem

Who translated the `Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam` into English? Option A: Thomas Carlyle , Option B: Edward Fitzgerald , Option C: D.G. Rossetti, Option D: William Thackeray, correct answer is: Edward Fitzgerald

The play `The Spanish Tragedy` is written by– Option A: Thomas Kyd , Option B: Christopher Marlowe , Option C: Shakespeare, Option D: Ben Jonson, correct answer is: Thomas Kyd