1. A writer’s pen name is also called:
A. Homonym
B. Pseudonym
C. Antonym
D. Patronym
2. A writer’s greatest or most important work is called:
A. Magnum opus
B. Preface
C. Edition
D. Appendix
3. Fielding co-founded the Bow Street Runners, which were:
A. Actors
B. Police force
C. Writers’ club
D. Theatre owners
4. “Tom Jones” is a:
A. Tragic novel
B. Picaresque novel
C. Epistolary novel
D. Gothic novel
5. Mathew Arnold belonged to which age?
A. Romantic Age
B. Neo-classical Age
C. Victorian Age
D. Modern Age
6. “Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!” appears in:
A. The Cloud
B. To a Skylark
C. Ozymandias
D. The Witch of Atlas
7. Shelley’s long lyrical drama is:
A. Prometheus Unbound
B. Queen Mab
C. Adonais
D. Alastor
8. Writers like T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce belong to the:
A. Victorian Age
B. Romantic Age
C. Modern Age
D. Renaissance
9. The Jacobean Age is known for:
A. Courtly love poetry
B. Darker tragedies
C. Gothic novels
D. Satirical essays
10. Which period is also called the “Age of Shakespeare”?
A. Medieval
B. Renaissance
C. Neo-classical
D. Romantic
11. The English Renaissance roughly spans:
A. 1400–1500
B. 1500–1660
C. 1660–1798
D. 1798–1832
12. "The Waste Land" by T. S. Eliot was published in:
A. 1918
B. 1922
C. 1928
D. 1933
13. George Orwell’s "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was published in:
A. 1945
B. 1947
C. 1949
D. 1952
14. When was Samuel Johnson’s "Dictionary of the English Language" published?
A. 1746
B. 1750
C. 1755
D. 1761
15. “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” is written by:
A. Shelley
B. Keats
C. Wordsworth
D. Blake
16. A novel that presents an ideal/imaginary perfect society is called:
A. Dystopian novel
B. Utopian novel
C. Gothic novel
D. Campus novel
17. A novel written in the form of letters is called:
A. Epistolary novel
B. Psychological novel
C. Historical novel
D. Sentimental novel
18. A “foil” in literature refers to:
A. A comic character
B. A character who contrasts with another to highlight traits
C. A symbolic object
D. A poetic device
19. “Death of the Author” is a theory proposed by:
A. M. H. Abrams
B. Ferdinand de Saussure
C. Roland Barthes
D. Cleanth Brooks
20. A “metaphor” is a figure of speech that involves:
A. Comparison using “like” or “as”
B. Indirect criticism
C. Direct comparison without “like” or “as”
D. A humorous imitation
21. Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics, foundational for Structuralism, was published posthumously in:
A. 1906
B. 1916
C. 1926
D. 1936
22. Roland Barthes published his essay “The Death of the Author” in:
A. 1955
B. 1965
C. 1967
D. 1971
23. “Defamiliarization” is a concept introduced by:
A. Roland Barthes
B. Viktor Shklovsky
C. Jacques Derrida
D. T. S. Eliot
24. Which Native American writer is known for the novel Tracks (1988) and Love Medicine (1984)?
A. Joy Harjo
B. Louise Erdrich
C. Simon Ortiz
D. Gerald Vizenor
25. "Fools Crow" (1986) by James Welch reflects the history and culture of the:
A. Hopi tribe
B. Blackfeet tribe
C. Choctaw tribe
D. Creek tribe
26. Joy Harjo, the first Native American U.S. Poet Laureate, belongs to which tribal nation?
A. Cherokee
B. Sioux
C. Muscogee (Creek)
D. Iroquois
27. Shakespeare’s Macbeth was written around:
A. 1592
B. 1606
C. 1612
D. 1623
28. "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy was published in:
A. 1995
B. 1996
C. 1997
D. 1998
29. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty” appears in which poem?
A. To Autumn
B. Ode to a Grecian Urn
C. Ode to a Nightingale
D. Bright Star
30. Who called Shakespeare “Sweet Swan of Avon”?
A. Wordsworth
B. Milton
C. Ben Jonson
D. Dryden
31. Which writer was expelled from Oxford for writing The Necessity of Atheism?
A. Lord Byron
B. Shelley
C. John Keats
D. Thomas De Quincey
32. Who said “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever”?
A. Coleridge
B. Wordsworth
C. Shelley
D. Keats
33. George Orwell’s real name is:
A. Eric Arthur Blair
B. Joseph Rudyard Kipling
C. David Herbert Lawrence
D. Thomas Stearns Eliot
34. Which novelist was known for his naval experiences reflected in Billy Budd and Moby Dick?
A. Herman Melville
B. Mark Twain
C. Stephen Crane
D. Henry James
35. Who introduced the term “Archetype” into literary criticism?
A. I. A. Richards
B. Northrop Frye
C. Roland Barthes
D. Roman Jakobson
36. Which writer famously kept pet bears at Oxford?
A. Coleridge
B. Byron
C. Shelley
D. Keats
37. The term Bildungsroman refers to:
A. A novel of manners
B. A novel of childhood adventures
C. A novel of growth and development
D. A war novel
38. “The heart of the matter” and “The Power and the Glory” were written by:
A. E. M. Forster
B. Graham Greene
C. Somerset Maugham
D. Joseph Conrad
39. Which American author is known for the term “Lost Generation”?
A. T. S. Eliot
B. Ezra Pound
C. Gertrude Stein
D. Ernest Hemingway
40. “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” is spoken in which poem?
A. Locksley Hall
B. Ulysses
C. In Memoriam
D. Break, Break, Break
41. George Orwell’s Animal Farm was published in:
A. 1939
B. 1943
C. 1945
D. 1947
42. Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot premiered in:
A. 1945
B. 1950
C. 1953
D. 1957
43. Which British poet had a club foot since childhood?
A. Keats
B. Shelley
C. Wordsworth
D. Byron
44. Which poet became blind in his later life?
A. Edmund Spenser
B. John Milton
C. Andrew Marvell
D. Dryden
45. Who served as the Poet Laureate of England for 10 years (1984–1994)?
A. Ted Hughes
B. Philip Larkin
C. Seamus Heaney
D. Carol Ann Duffy
46. Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children was published in:
A. 1978
B. 1981
C. 1984
D. 1990
47. Which playwright had a career as an actor before becoming a writer?
A. Christopher Marlowe
B. William Shakespeare
C. Ben Jonson
D. Congreve
48. The Brontë sisters grew up in the isolated village of:
A. Haworth
B. Bath
C. Winchester
D. Sunderland
49. Which writer was born in India and later became a famous British author?
A. G. B. Shaw
B. Rudyard Kipling
C. Oscar Wilde
D. D. H. Lawrence
50. The modernist movement in English literature is generally considered to have begun around which event?
A. The Industrial Revolution (1760)
B. The French Revolution (1789)
C. World War I (1914)
D. The Great Depression (1929)