1. "She Stoops to Conquer" was written as a reaction against:
A. Tragedy
B. Romantic comedy
C. Sentimental comedy
D. Classical drama
2. The poem "The Deserted Village" mourns the decline of:
A. City life
B. Court culture
C. Rural village life
D. Aristocracy
3. "The Good-Natured Man" was first performed in:
A. 1759
B. 1762
C. 1768
D. 1773
4. Oliver Goldsmith is best remembered as a champion of:
A. Sentimentalism
B. Classical tragedy
C. Natural laughter and humane values
D. Gothic imagination
5. The 18th century in English literature is often called the:
A. Romantic Age
B. Elizabethan Age
C. Augustan Age
D. Victorian Age
6. Which genre flourished most in the 18th century?
A. Epic poetry
B. Novel
C. Morality play
D. Gothic drama
7. "Sweet Auburn” appears in:
A. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
B. The Task
C. The Deserted Village
D. The Seasons
8. "The Spectator" was edited by:
A. Swift and Pope
B. Addison and Steele
C. Johnson and Boswell
D. Dryden and Congreve
9. “Mock-heroic” means:
A. Serious epic
B. Heroic tragedy
C. Trivial subject treated grandly
D. Grand subject treated simply
10. The Scriblerus Club included:
A. Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot
B. Wordsworth, Coleridge
C. Dryden, Congreve
D. Johnson, Boswell
11. Which author wrote both poetry and drama successfully?
A. Swift
B. Pope
C. Goldsmith
D. Richardson
12. Which genre did NOT flourish in the 18th century?
A. Novel
B. Satire
C. Epic
D. Essay
13. Which is NOT an Augustan value?
A. Order
B. Reason
C. Passion
D. Restraint
14. Thomas Gray’s "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" was published in:
A. 1740
B. 1745
C. 1751
D. 1760
15. Shelley’s "Prometheus Unbound" was published in:
A. 1816
B. 1818
C. 1820
D. 1822
16. Browning’s "My Last Duchess" was published in:
A. 1835
B. 1842
C. 1849
D. 1864
17. Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poems were published mainly in:
A. 1870s
B. 1880s
C. 1918
D. 1925
18. Dylan Thomas was a poet of:
A. Georgian school
B. War poets
C. Neo-Romantic movement
D. Imagist movement
19. “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” is written in the form of a:
A. Sonnet
B. Villanelle
C. Ode
D. Elegy
20. The poem “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” was addressed to:
A. His mother
B. His wife
C. His father
D. His son
21. Which collection contains “Poem in October”?
A. 18 Poems
B. Deaths and Entrances
C. Twenty-Five Poems
D. In Country Sleep
22. . “Sweet are the uses of adversity.”
A. John Milton
B. William Shakespeare
C. Alexander Pope
D. Ben Jonson
23. The use of exaggerated statements for emphasis is called:
A. Irony
B. Metonymy
C. Hyperbole
D. Synecdoche
24. The technique of starting a story in the middle of events is called:
A. Flashback
B. Stream of consciousness
C. In medias res
D. Frame narrative
25. Samuel Taylor Coleridge planned a utopian scheme called:
A. Pantheism
B. Pantisocracy
C. Humanism
D. Idealism
26. Samuel Taylor Coleridge struggled lifelong with addiction to:
A. Alcohol
B. Laudanum (opium)
C. Tobacco
D. Morphine
27. William Wordsworth was born in:
A. 1765
B. 1768
C. 1770
D. 1775
28. William Wordsworth married:
A. Annette Vallon
B. Mary Hutchinson
C. Sara Coleridge
D. Jane Austen
29. Which poet served as Poet Laureate?
A. Keats
B. Arnold
C. Wordsworth
D. Coleridge
30. Which poet died unmarried?
A. Wordsworth
B. Arnold
C. Coleridge
D. Keats
31. “Kubla Khan” is often linked with Coleridge’s:
A. Cambridge education
B. Political speeches
C. Opium-induced dream
D. Christian theology
32. Arnold borrowed the phrase “Sweetness and Light” from:
A. Plato
B. Aristotle
C. Jonathan Swift
D. Edmund Burke
33. The phrase “Sweetness and Light” is associated with:
A. Essays in Criticism
B. Culture and Anarchy
C. Dover Beach
D. The Study of Poetry
34. In "Culture and Anarchy," Arnold criticizes which group most sharply?
A. The aristocracy
B. The working class
C. The middle class (Philistines)
D. The clergy
35. In Edmund Burke’s theory, the Sublime is associated with:
A. Harmony and pleasure
B. Beauty and proportion
C. Terror and awe
D. Love and sympathy
36. "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" by Edmund Burke was published in:
A. 1745
B. 1757
C. 1765
D. 1776
37. Edmund Burke belonged to which political party?
A. Tory
B. Whig
C. Labour
D. Radical
38. Which thinker strongly opposed Burke’s views on revolution?
A. John Locke
B. Thomas Paine
C. Jeremy Bentham
D. Adam Smith
39. Fictional character Arminius, Baron Von Thunder-Ten-Tronckh appears in:
A. Culture and Anarchy
B. Essays in Criticism
C. Friendship’s Garland
D. Literature and Dogma
40. Through "Friendship’s Garland," Arnold mainly critiques:
A. Religious orthodoxy
B. English society and complacency
C. Industrial capitalism alone
D. Romantic poetry
41. Mr. Podsnap, a symbol of complacent middle-class respectability, appears in:
A. Hard Times
B. Bleak House
C. Our Mutual Friend
D. Little Dorrit
42. Mr. Chadband, a hypocritical preacher, appears in:
A. Bleak House
B. David Copperfield
C. Great Expectations
D. Nicholas Nickleby
43. Character Mrs. Jellyby appears in:
A. Bleak House
B. Hard Times
C. Little Dorrit
D. Middlemarch
44. Beckett’s famous line “Fail again. Fail better.” comes from:
A. Waiting for Godot
B. Endgame
C. Worstward Ho
D. Krapp’s Last Tape
45. Samuel Beckett translated many of his works from French into:
A. German
B. Irish
C. English
D. Italian
46. The subtitle often associated with "Waiting for Godot" is:
A. A Comedy of Errors
B. A Tragic Farce
C. A Play in Two Acts
D. A Tragedy
47. Dickens’s attack on the Court of Chancery in "Bleak House" reflects a:
A. Romantic concern with nature
B. Victorian social reform impulse
C. Modernist skepticism
D. Postcolonial critique
48. Ruskin’s "Unto This Last" strongly influenced:
A. Adam Smith
B. Thomas Malthus
C. Mahatma Gandhi
D. Jeremy Bentham
49. Matthew Arnold’s “Philistines” mainly represent:
A. The aristocracy
B. The working class
C. The middle class
D. The clergy
50. Becky Sharp is the central character of:
A. Middlemarch
B. Vanity Fair
C. Jane Eyre
D. Tess of the d’Urbervilles