1. The French Revolution had the strongest influence on which group of English writers?
A. Metaphysical Poets
B. Augustan poets
C. Romantic poets
D. Pre-Raphaelites
2. The Industrial Revolution most directly contributed to the rise of:
A. Epic poetry
B. Periodical press
C. Court drama
D. Pastoral writing
3. Which writer bridged journalism, theatre criticism, and fiction writing in the 19th century?
A. Matthew Arnold
B. Charles Lamb
C. Charles Dickens
D. Walter Pater
4. The periodical The Edinburgh Review is best known for:
A. Fiction serialization
B. Radical political satire
C. Critical essays and reviews
D. Dramatic criticism
5. Which theatre was associated with the Lord Chamberlain’s Men in the late 16th century?
A. The Globe
B. The Rose
C. The Curtain
D. The Swan
6. Which writer reacted against Restoration theatre conventions by advocating moral drama?
A. William Wycherley
B. Jeremy Collier
C. John Dryden
D. Aphra Behn
7. The Licensing Act of 1737 directly affected:
A. Periodical writing
B. Novel publication
C. Theatrical performances
D. Pamphlet literature
8. Which poem is subtitled “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” and emphasizes memory and moral development?
A. Wordsworth’s "Tintern Abbey"
B. Wordsworth’s The Prelude
C. Coleridge’s Christabel
D. Keats’s Hyperion
9. Keats’s Hyperion is an unfinished epic that draws primarily on:
A. Roman mythology
B. Greek mythology
C. Medieval legend
D. Biblical narrative
10. Sensuous imagery and aesthetic richness are most central to the poetry of:
A. Wordsworth
B. Coleridge
C. Keats
D. Wordsworth & Coleridge
11. Which poet’s long poem is an autobiographical epic in blank verse?
A. Coleridge – Christabel
B. Keats – Hyperion
C. Wordsworth – The Prelude
D. Keats – Endymion
12. The “willing suspension of disbelief” is most closely linked with:
A. Wordsworth’s poetic diction
B. Coleridge’s theory of imagination
C. Keats’s aesthetic theory
D. Shelley’s lyrical idealism
13. Which poet best represents the Victorian conflict between faith and doubt?
A. William Wordsworth
B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. Alfred Tennyson
D. John Keats
14. Alfred Tennyson became Poet Laureate in:
A. 1830
B. 1850
C. 1855
D. 1860
15. Tennyson’s "Idylls of the King" is a:
A. Series of epic poems based on Arthurian legend
B. Collection of dramatic monologues
C. Romantic lyric sequence
D. Satirical essay-poem
16. Which poet is associated with “psychological realism” in poetry?
A. Tennyson
B. Browning
C. Keats
D. Shelley
17. "Psychological realism" is primarily associated with:
A. 17th-century metaphysical poetry
B. 18th-century satire
C. 19th–20th century novels
D. Romantic lyric poetry
18. Which novelist is most famously linked with psychological realism?
A. Jane Austen
B. Henry James
C. Charles Dickens
D. George Eliot
19. T.S. Eliot was born in:
A. 1885
B. 1888
C. 1890
D. 1892
20. "Pride and Prejudice" was published in:
A. 1796
B. 1797
C. 1813
D. 1815
21. Which term refers to a novel focusing on social critique and moral reform?
A. Pastoral novel
B. Sentimental novel
C. Social novel
D. Gothic novel
22. The first edition of Henry James’s "The Portrait of a Lady" appeared in:
A. 1880
B. 1881
C. 1885
D. 1887
23. The term “bildungsroman” refers to:
A. Gothic horror novels
B. Novels of moral and psychological development
C. Satirical prose essays
D. Romantic lyric sequences
24. The essay “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” was written by:
A. Matthew Arnold
B. T.S. Eliot
C. John Ruskin
D. Samuel Johnson
25. The “social novel” movement flourished in:
A. Romantic Age
B. Victorian Age
C. Modern Age
D. Renaissance
26. The term “modernist novel” is best exemplified by:
A. Eliot’s The Waste Land
B. Joyce’s "Ulysses"
C. Austen’s Emma
D. Dickens’s Bleak House
27. The original title of Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice" was:
A. First Impressions
B. Second Thoughts
C. Sense and Sensibility
D. Emma
28. The Atlantic Monthly (US, Boston) was founded in:
A. 1830
B. 1857
C. 1865
D. 1870
29. Joyce’s Ulysses was first published in:
A. 1904
B. 1918
C. 1922
D. 1925
30. Jane Austen’s Emma was published in:
A. 1805
B. 1815
C. 1816
D. 1818
31. The first serialized installment of "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens appeared in:
A. March 1852
B. April 1852
C. May 1852
D. June 1852
32. "All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players” is primarily a:
A. Metaphor
B. Allegory
C. Hyperbole
D. Irony
33. In “She sells sea-shells by the sea-shore,” the repetition of the initial consonant sound is called:
A. Alliteration
B. Assonance
C. Consonance
D. Onomatopoeia
34. The first edition of Shakespeare’s First Folio was published in:
A. 1615
B. 1623
C. 1628
D. 1632
35. Which Victorian magazine first published works of Thackeray?
A. Macmillan’s Magazine
B. Fraser’s Magazine
C. The Cornhill Magazine
D. Blackwood’s Magazine
36. Coleridge’s unfinished narrative poem about Geraldine is:
A. Christabel
B. Kubla Khan
C. Rime of the Ancient Mariner
D. Dejection
37. Keats’s unfinished epic inspired by Greek mythology is:
A. Endymion
B. Hyperion
C. The Eve of St. Agnes
D. Lamia
38. George Eliot’s real name is:
A. Mary Wollstonecraft
B. Mary Ann Evans
C. Charlotte Brontë
D. Elizabeth Gaskell
39. The Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto" was written by:
A. Ann Radcliffe
B. Horace Walpole
C. Mary Shelley
D. Matthew Lewis
40. The term “Romanticism” was first systematically used as a literary category in English criticism in the:
A. Late 18th century
B. Early 19th century
C. Mid-19th century
D. Early 20th century
41. The concept of “negative capability” was articulated in _____________ by Keats:
A. A critical essay
B. A preface
C. A private letter
D. A public lecture
42. Samuel Johnson’s "Lives of the Poets" belongs to which genre?
A. Autobiography
B. Literary biography
C. Memoir
D. Critical manifesto
43. Which century witnessed the rise of women novelists as a literary force in England?
A. 17th century
B. 18th century
C. 19th century
D. 20th century
44. Who among the following was NOT associated with the Lake Poets?
A. William Wordsworth
B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. Robert Southey
D. Lord Byron
45. Who wrote "An Apology for Poetry"?
A. Ben Jonson
B. Sir Philip Sidney
C. Edmund Spenser
D. Thomas Lodge
46. Which writer rejected Victorian moral earnestness in favor of aestheticism?
A. Dickens
B. Ruskin
C. Wilde
D. Arnold
47. Who among the following was both poet and critic in the Victorian Age?
A. Robert Browning
B. Matthew Arnold
C. Alfred Tennyson
D. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
48. Which writer bridged Romanticism and Victorianism?
A. Keats
B. Shelley
C. Tennyson
D. Blake
49. Which of the following pairs is CORRECTLY matched?
A. Ben Jonson – Arcadia
B. Sidney – Every Man in His Humour
C. Spenser – Spenserian stanza
D. Lodge – The Faerie Queene
50. Which writer is associated with the concept of “humours comedy"?
A. Thomas Lodge
B. Edmund Spenser
C. Ben Jonson
D. Sir Philip Sidney