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Who wrote the poem `Ozymandias`? Option A: Thomas Hardy , Option B: Robert Frost , Option C: P.B Shelley, Option D: Edmund Spenser, correct answer is: P.B Shelley

Who is the author of `Jane Eyre`? Option A: Charlotte Bronte , Option B: Emily Bronte , Option C: Jane Austen, Option D: Mary Shelley, correct answer is: Charlotte Bronte

`The Rape of the Lock` by Alexander Pope is a/an- Option A: epic , Option B: ballad , Option C: mock-heroic poem, Option D: elegy, correct answer is: mock-heroic poem

`To be, or not to be that is the question,` – is a famous soliloquy from – Option A: Macbeth , Option B: King Lear , Option C: Othello, Option D: Hamlet, correct answer is: Hamlet

Clym Yeobringht is the protagonist of the novel–– Option A: David Copperfield , Option B: A passage of India , Option C: Adam Bede, Option D: The Return of the Native, correct answer is: The Return of the Native

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

`Why, then, `its none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.` This extract is taken from the drama- Option A: King Lear , Option B: Macbeth , Option C: As You Like It, Option D: Hamlet, correct answer is: Hamlet

Which of the following novels is not written by an English writer? Option A: A Passage to India , Option B: Sons and Lovers , Option C: Once Hundred Years of Solitude, Option D: Pride and Prejudice, correct answer is: Once Hundred Years of Solitude

Which of the following is not an American poet? Option A: Robert Frost , Option B: W.B. Yeats , Option C: Emily Dickinson, Option D: Langston Hughes, correct answer is: W.B. Yeats

The most famous satirist in English literature is– Option A: Jonathan Swift , Option B: Alexander Pope , Option C: Joseph Addison, Option D: Richard Steel, correct answer is: Jonathan Swift

Desdemona is a character in the following Shakespearean play: Option A: Macbeth , Option B: Othello , Option C: Hamlet, Option D: King Lear, correct answer is: Othello

Who wrote the play `The Way of the World`? Option A: William Shakespeare , Option B: William Congreve , Option C: Ben Jonson, Option D: Oscar Wilde, correct answer is: William Congreve

William Shakespeare was born in – Option A: 1616 , Option B: 1664 , Option C: 1564, Option D: 1493, correct answer is: 1564

`Jacobean Period` of English Literature refers to– Option A: 1558-1603 , Option B: 1625-1649 , Option C: 1603-1625, Option D: 1649-1660, correct answer is: 1603-1625

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