1. The Renaissance in England began in:
A. 1350
B. 1485
C. 1603
D. 1700
2. Romantic Age began with:
A. Death of Pope
B. French Revolution (1789)
C. Reform Act
D. Battle of Waterloo
3. Victorian Age began in:
A. 1815
B. 1832
C. 1837
D. 1850
4. “Make it new” is a slogan of:
A. Eliot
B. Pound
C. Yeats
D. Auden
5. Gerard Manley Hopkins invented:
A. Blank verse
B. Sprung rhythm
C. Ottava rima
D. Terza rima
6. Tintern Abbey emphasizes:
A. Ecstasy
B. Memory and growth
C. Nationalism
D. Heroic action
7. Which of the following is NOT written by Rudyard Kipling?
A. Kim
B. If—
C. The Jungle Book
D. The Mayor of Casterbridge
8. Who wrote “I Remember, I Remember”?
A. Robert Southey
B. Thomas Hood
C. Robert Burns
D. Rupert Brooke
9. The poem “I Remember, I Remember” is primarily about:
A. A soldier recalling war memories
B. Nostalgia for childhood and contrast with adult life
C. A lover remembering a past affair
D. The history of England
10. Sonnet 18 (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”) is written by:
A. John Donne
B. William Shakespeare
C. Edmund Spenser
D. Philip Sidney
11. Who is known as the father of the Pre-Raphaelite movement?
A. William Holman Hunt
B. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
C. John Everett Millais
D. Ford Madox Brown
12. John Everett Millais is best known as:
A. A Victorian novelist
B. A Pre-Raphaelite painter
C. A Romantic poet
D. A Cubist sculptor
13. Blank verse is best defined as:
A. Unrhymed iambic pentameter
B. Rhymed couplets
C. Irregular syllabic verse
D. Octave and sestet sonnet form
14. Ottava rima is a stanza form consisting of:
A. 6 lines rhyming ababcc
B. 8 lines rhyming abababcc
C. 9 lines rhyming ababbcbcc
D. 4 lines, cross rhyme
15. “April is the cruellest month” is an example of:
A. Paradox
B. Oxymoron
C. Allusion
D. Metaphor
16. Browning’s "My Last Duchess" uses:
A. Heroic couplets
B. Dramatic monologue
C. Blank verse
D. Ottava rima
17. The phrase “Winter kept us warm” appears in:
A. Four Quartets
B. The Waste Land
C. Prufrock
D. Ash Wednesday
18. Hermeneutics primarily deals with:
A. Fictional structure
B. Interpretation of texts
C. Linguistic deviation
D. Genre classification
19. Which term refers to a poem mourning someone’s death?
A. Ode
B. Elegy
C. Idyl
D. Lament
20. Browning’s favorite form of poetry was:
A. Ode
B. Dramatic Monologue
C. Sonnet
D. Ballad
21. Who among the following served as a school inspector like Arnold?
A. Hopkins
B. Wordsworth
C. De Quincey
D. Hazlitt
22. Wordsworth’s lifelong friend and collaborator was:
A. Coleridge
B. Southey
C. Lamb
D. Hazlitt
23. Cubism originated in:
A. Literature
B. Visual arts
C. Architecture
D. Theatre
24. Who published the first manifesto of Surrealism in 1924?
A. André Breton
B. Guillaume Apollinaire
C. Paul Éluard
D. Salvador Dalí
25. The Age of Chaucer is also called:
A. Silver Age
B. The Morning Star of Renaissance
C. The Augustan Age
D. Caroline Age
26. Who defined poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”?
A. Keats
B. Arnold
C. Wordsworth
D. Byron
27. Twelfth Night opens with Duke Orsino’s famous speech beginning with:
A. “All the world’s a stage”
B. “If music be the food of love, play on”
C. “O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here!”
D. “Now is the winter of our discontent”
28. Which of the following is NOT a pastoral elegy?
A. Adonais
B. Thyrsis
C. Lycidas
D. Ulysses
29. “Areopagitica” was addressed to:
A. King Charles I
B. Parliament of England
C. The Archbishop of Canterbury
D. The University of Oxford
30. Structuralism began with the ideas of:
A. Foucault
B. Derrida
C. Saussure
D. Barthes
31. Which poet is associated with the Imagist Movement?
A. W. B. Yeats
B. Ezra Pound
C. Tennyson
D. Arnold
32. Who is known as the “Father of Elegy”?
A. Thomas Gray
B. John Milton
C. Richard Lovelace
D. Simonides of Ceos
33. The famous line “That strain again! It had a dying fall” appears in which play?
A. As You Like It
B. The Tempest
C. Twelfth Night
D. Much Ado About Nothing
34. The Faerie Queene is written in:
A. Rime Royal
B. Spenserian stanza
C. Ottava rima
D. Terza rima
35. The Spenserian stanza consists of:
A. 8 lines of iambic pentameter
B. 9 lines, the first 8 in iambic pentameter and the 9th in alexandrine
C. 10 rhyming couplets
D. 7 lines in trochaic metre
36. Edmund Spenser is often called:
A. The Poet’s Poet
B. The Bard of Avon
C. The Hermit of Laurels
D. The Father of Elegy
37. Who called Shakespeare “an upstart crow”?
A. Thomas Nash
B. Robert Greene
C. Ben Jonson
D. Sidney
38. Which author used the pen name "Boz”?
A. Daniel Defoe
B. Charles Dickens
C. Thackeray
D. Hardy
39. Who said, “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings”?
A. Wordsworth
B. Shelley
C. Keats
D. Byron
40. Who wrote the essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent”?
A. Arnold
B. Eliot
C. Leavis
D. Richards
41. The Restoration of monarchy in England took place in:
A. 1649
B. 1660
C. 1688
D. 1707
42. Utopia by Thomas More was published in:
A. 1516
B. 1498
C. 1525
D. 1540
43. Pamela—the first English novel—was published in:
A. 1719
B. 1740
C. 1759
D. 1776
44. Who described the novel as “a large, loose, baggy monster”?
A. Henry James
B. E. M. Forster
C. Conrad
D. Dickens
45. Who is known as the “Poet Laureate of India in English”?
A. Tagore
B. Toru Dutt
C. Sarojini Naidu
D. Nissim Ezekiel
46. Pride and Prejudice was published in:
A. 1798
B. 1800
C. 1813
D. 1820
47. Who wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"?
A. Langston Hughes
B. Toni Morrison
C. Baldwin
D. Ellison
48. Who among the following won the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A. George Orwell
B. William Golding
C. Graham Greene
D. Eliot
49. Charles Dickens died in:
A. 1865
B. 1870
C. 1880
D. 1890
50. The Booker Prize was established in:
A. 1960
B. 1965
C. 1969
D. 1975