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`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

“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

`Was this the face that launch`d a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?` Who speaks the famous lines? Option A: Caesar , Option B: Antony , Option C: Faustus, Option D: Romeo, correct answer is: Faustus

Who is the author of the novel `The God of Small Things`? Option A: Thomas Hardy , Option B: Jhumpa Lahiri , Option C: R. K. Narayan, Option D: Arundhati Roy, correct answer is: Arundhati Roy

`Ulysses` is a novel written by- Option A: Joseph Conrad , Option B: Thomas Hardy , Option C: Charles Dickens, Option D: James Joyce, correct answer is: James Joyce

Who among the following Indian English writers is famous novelist? Option A: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak , Option B: R.K. Narayan , Option C: Nissim Ezekiel, Option D: Kamala Das, correct answer is: R.K. Narayan

Who is not a Victorian poet? Option A: Alfred Tennyson , Option B: Robert Browning , Option C: William Wordsworth, Option D: Matthew Arnold, correct answer is: William Wordsworth

“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

`Pip` is the protagonist in Charles Dickens` novel- Option A: A Christmas Carol , Option B: A Tale of Two Cities , Option C: Oliver Twist, Option D: Great Expectations, correct answer is: Great Expectations

The Character `Alfred Doolittle` is taken from Shaw`s play titled- Option A: Pygmalion , Option B: Man and Superman , Option C: The Doctor’s Dilemma, Option D: Mrs. Warren’s Profession, correct answer is: Pygmalion

`Moby Dick` a novel, was written by- Option A: Herman Melville , Option B: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Option C: Mark Twain, Option D: William Faulkner, correct answer is: Herman Melville

The short story `The Diamond Necklace` was written by- Option A: Guy de Maupassant , Option B: O Henry , Option C: Somerset Maugham, Option D: George Orwell, correct answer is: Guy de Maupassant

The word `Panegyric` means – Option A: Criticism , Option B: Elaborate praise , Option C: Curse, Option D: High sound, correct answer is: Elaborate praise

Which of the following novels was written by George Orwell? Option A: 1984 , Option B: Brave New World , Option C: A clockwork Orange, Option D: For Whom the Bell Tolls, correct answer is: 1984

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

The poem `The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock` is written by- Option A: W. B. Yeats , Option B: T. S. Eliot , Option C: Walter Scott, Option D: Robert Browning, correct answer is: T. S. Eliot

“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” Who wrote this? Option A: William Blake , Option B: S. T. Coleridge , Option C: Lord Byron, Option D: P. B. Shelley, correct answer is: P. B. Shelley

`All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.`- Who said this? Option A: Macbeth , Option B: Lady Macbeth , Option C: Lady Macduff, Option D: Macduff, correct answer is: Lady Macbeth

Which period is known as `The golden age of English literature`? Option A: The Victorian age , Option B: The Elizabethan age , Option C: The Restoration age, Option D: The Eighteenth Century, correct answer is: The Elizabethan age

The poem “To his Coy Mistress” Was written by: Option A: Andrew Marvell , Option B: John Donne , Option C: George Herbert, Option D: Henry Vaughan, correct answer is: Andrew Marvell

`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

`Lady Chatterley`s Lover` was written by the author of- Option A: Lord Jim , Option B: The Rainbow , Option C: Ulysses, Option D: A Passage to India, correct answer is: The Rainbow

“A Passage to India” is written by: Option A: E.M. Forster , Option B: Nirad C. Chaudhuri , Option C: Rudyard Kipling, Option D: Walt Whitman, correct answer is: E.M. Forster

Who is the poet of the poem `Ozymandias`? Option A: S. T. Coleridge , Option B: P. B. Shelley , Option C: William Wordsworth, Option D: John Keats, correct answer is: P. B. Shelley

`Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, Where are they? Think not of them, thou hast the music too .`- Who wrote this? Option A: William Wordsworth , Option B: Robert Browning , Option C: John Keats, Option D: Samuel Coleridge, correct answer is: John Keats