1. Thomas Nashe’s known pseudonym was:
A. Martin Marprelate
B. Pierce Penniless
C. Jack Wilton
D. Philomusus
2. "The Unfortunate Traveller" (1594) is a:
A. Gothic novel
B. Sentimental novel
C. Picaresque novel
D. Historical romance
3. The protagonist of "The Unfortunate Traveller" is:
A. Tom Jones
B. Jack Wilton
C. Roderick Random
D. Moll Flanders
4. Jack Wilton serves under the reign of:
A. Edward VI
B. Henry VII
C. Henry VIII
D. James I
5. Thomas Hardy wrote most of his major novels between:
A. 1850–1870
B. 1871–1897
C. 1898–1915
D. 1860–1880
6. "Jude the Obscure" (1895) is Hardy’s:
A. First novel
B. Historical novel
C. Last novel
D. Comic novel
7. The hero of "Jude the Obscure" is:
A. Tess Durbeyfield
B. Michael Henchard
C. Jude Fawley
D. Gabriel Oak
8. Francis Bacon served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor under:
A. Elizabeth I
B. Charles I
C. James I
D. Henry VIII
9. Morality plays primarily use characters that are:
A. Historical figures
B. Comic types
C. Allegorical abstractions
D. Mythical gods
10. Which medieval dramatic form focuses on the struggle between good and evil for the human soul?
A. Mystery play
B. Miracle play
C. Morality play
D. Interlude
11. The golden age of English drama is the:
A. Restoration Age
B. Jacobean Age
C. Elizabethan Age
D. Victorian Age
12. English drama was revolutionized during the:
A. Medieval Age
B. Elizabethan Age
C. Augustan Age
D. Romantic Age
13. 'Elizabethan drama' is also known as:
A. Court drama
B. Renaissance drama
C. Classical drama
D. Neo-classical drama
14. John Wycliffe is called the “morning star” of:
A. Renaissance
B. Humanism
C. English Reformation
D. Romanticism
15. "The Legend of Good Women" was written by:
A. Langland
B. Gower
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Lydgate
16. "The Legend of Good Women" belongs to the genre of:
A. Epic
B. Dream vision
C. Allegory
D. Romance
17. 'Iambic pentameter' consists of:
A. 8 syllables
B. 10 syllables
C. 12 syllables
D. 14 syllables
18. A 'heroic couplet' is written in:
A. Trochaic tetrameter
B. Blank verse
C. Rhymed iambic pentameter
D. Free verse
19. "Gorboduc" is the first English:
A. Comedy
B. Chronicle play
C. Tragedy
D. History play
20. "Gorboduc" was written by:
A. Marlowe & Kyd
B. Norton & Sackville
C. Shakespeare & Jonson
D. Lyly & Peele
21. 'Senecan tragedy' is known for:
A. Comic relief
B. Revenge, ghosts, long speeches
C. Chorus songs
D. Realism
22. The poet known as Ireland’s “national bard” is:
A. Yeats
B. Thomas Moore
C. Swift
D. Goldsmith
23. "Lalla Rookh" (1817) was written by:
A. Byron
B. Shelley
C. Thomas Moore
D. Keats
24. Who translated Virgil’s Aeneid into Middle Scots as The Eneados (1513)?
A. William Dunbar
B. John Barbour
C. Gavin Douglas
D. Robert Henryson
25. 'Chivalric romance' typically deals with:
A. Social realism
B. Knights, love, adventure, honour
C. Political satire
D. Domestic life
26. The final novel written by Thomas Hardy is:
A. Tess of the d’Urbervilles
B. The Mayor of Casterbridge
C. Jude the Obscure
D. The Woodlanders
27. Which philosopher–writer is regarded as the first modern anarchist?
A. Rousseau
B. Paine
C. William Godwin
D. Bentham
28. Samuel Taylor Coleridge edited the periodical:
A. The Spectator
B. The Rambler
C. The Friend
D. The Tatler
29. The “father of Romanticism” in English literature is:
A. Wordsworth
B. Coleridge
C. William Blake
D. Rousseau
30. The lady addressed in "Dejection: An Ode" is:
A. Dorothy Wordsworth
B. Sara Hutchinson
C. Mary Lamb
D. Caroline Bowles
31. Coleridge was addicted to:
A. Alcohol
B. Tobacco
C. Opium
D. Cocaine
32. “The Black Woman” was written by:
A. Chinua Achebe
B. Leopold Senghor
C. Soyinka
D. Ngugi
33. "Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples" was written by:
A. Byron
B. Percy Bysshe Shelley
C. Keats
D. Coleridge
34. The poet known as the “visionary poet” is:
A. Keats
B. Wordsworth
C. William Blake
D. Shelley
35. The “poet of melancholy” is:
A. Wordsworth
B. John Keats
C. Gray
D. Shelley
36. Nissim Ezekiel is considered the father of:
A. Indian English drama
B. Modern Indian English poetry
C. Indian English fiction
D. Postcolonial criticism
37. The father of Old English poetry is:
A. Chaucer
B. Caedmon
C. Cynewulf
D. Bede
38. The “pessimistic poet” refers to:
A. Shelley
B. Keats
C. Thomas Hardy
D. Byron
39. Which poem earned Milton the title “the Lady of Christ’s College”?
A. Comus
B. L’Allegro
C. Lycidas
D. Il Penseroso
40. “Art is twice removed from reality” was said by:
A. Aristotle
B. Horace
C. Plato
D. Longinus
41. Milton served as Latin Secretary to:
A. Charles I
B. Charles II
C. Oliver Cromwell
D. James II
42. Horace’s most famous works include:
A. Ars Poetica & Odes
B. Odes, Satires, Epistles
C. Metamorphoses
D. Georgics
43. “The second most important English dramatist after Shakespeare during James I” refers to:
A. Marlowe
B. Ben Jonson
C. Webster
D. Middleton
44. "Bartholomew Fair" is a:
A. Tragedy
B. Romance
C. Jacobean comedy
D. Morality play
45. "Bartholomew Fair" was written by:
A. Middleton
B. Shakespeare
C. Ben Jonson
D. Marston
46. Ben Jonson published his collected works under the title:
A. Plays and Poems
B. The Workes of Benjamin Jonson
C. Folio Edition
D. Dramatic Works
47. Richard Meighen was a:
A. Poet
B. Dramatist
C. Publisher
D. Critic
48. Augustan literature roughly ends with the death of:
A. Dryden
B. Johnson
C. Pope and Swift
D. Addison and Steele
49. "An Essay on Criticism" was written by:
A. Dryden
B. Alexander Pope
C. Johnson
D. Swift
50. “A Summer Night” and “Dover Beach” are poems by:
A. Tennyson
B. Browning
C. Matthew Arnold
D. Hopkins