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“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

The character, Elizabeth Bennett, appears in the novel–– Option A: Pride and Prejudice , Option B: Tess of the D′llrberville , Option C: Wuthering Heights, Option D: Jane Eyre, correct answer is: Pride and Prejudice

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

Who wrote Dr. Zivago? Option A: Maxim Gorky , Option B: Boris Pastornak , Option C: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Option D: Leo Tolstoy, correct answer is: Boris Pastornak

The most famous romantic poet of English Literature is- Option A: John Dryden , Option B: Alexander Pope , Option C: William Wordsworth, Option D: T. S. Eliot, correct answer is: William Wordsworth

Who is the central character of `Wuthering Height“ by Emily Bronte? Option A: Mr. Earnshaw , Option B: Catherine , Option C: Heathcliff, Option D: Hindley Earnshaw, correct answer is: Heathcliff

Don Juan was composed by––– Option A: W B Yeats , Option B: E.B. Browning , Option C: George Gordon Byron, Option D: Alexander Pope, correct answer is: George Gordon Byron

`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

The play `The Birthday Party` is written by- Option A: Samuel Beckett , Option B: Henry Livings , Option C: Harold Pinter, Option D: Arthur Miller, correct answer is: Harold Pinter

“For God`s sake, hold your tongue and let me love” occurs in a novel by: Option A: Jane Austen , Option B: Syed Waliullah , Option C: Somerset Maugham, Option D: Rabindranath Tagore, correct answer is: Rabindranath Tagore

___ was both a poet and a painter. Option A: John Keats , Option B: Spenser , Option C: William Blake, Option D: John Donne, correct answer is: William Blake

`The old order changeth, yielding place to new.` – This line is extracted from Tennyson`s poem- Option A: The Lotos Eaters , Option B: Tithonus , Option C: Locksley Hall, Option D: Morte d’ Arthur, correct answer is: Morte d’ Arthur

`Ulysses is a poem written by–– Option A: Robert Browning , Option B: Wordsworth , Option C: S.T. Coleridge, Option D: Alfred Tennyson, correct answer is: Alfred Tennyson

“September on the Jessore Road” is written by: Option A: Madhusudan Dutt , Option B: Allen Ginsberg , Option C: Kaiser Huq, Option D: Vikram Seth, correct answer is: Allen Ginsberg

What kind of play is `Julius Ceasar`? Option A: romantic , Option B: anti-romantic , Option C: comedy, Option D: historical, correct answer is: historical

Who worte the poem `The Good-Morrow`? Option A: George Herbert , Option B: Andrew Marvell , Option C: John Donne, Option D: Henry Vaughan, correct answer is: John Donne

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

Who is the author of the first scientific romance `The Time Machine`? Option A: H. G. Wells , Option B: Samuel Butler , Option C: Henry James, Option D: George Moore, correct answer is: H. G. Wells

Who is not an Irish writer? Option A: Oscar Wilde , Option B: James Joyce , Option C: Jonathan Swift, Option D: D. H. Lawrence, correct answer is: D. H. Lawrence

Who is the author of `Man and Superman`? Option A: Ernest Hemingway , Option B: G.B. Shaw , Option C: Charles Dickens, Option D: Thomas Hardy, correct answer is: G.B. Shaw

`A Christmas Carol` is a ___ by Charles Dickens. Option A: ballad , Option B: sketch story , Option C: historical novel, Option D: short novel, correct answer is: short novel

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