Literature

Which period is known as “The golden age of English literature”?

a)      The Victorian age

b)      The Elizabethan age

c)       The Restoration age

d)      The Eighteenth Century

Ans. b [38^th BCS]

‘Jacobean Period’ of English Literature refers to-

a)      1558-1603

b)      1625-1649

c)       1603-1625

d)      1649-1660

Ans. c [38^th BCS]

Where do the following lines occur in?

“Alone, alone, all, all alone,

Alone on a wide, wide sea…….”

a)      The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

b)      Kubla Khan

c)       The Nightingale

d)      The Dungeon

Ans. a [38^th BCS]

‘For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.’

This line is written by-

a)      Emily Dickinson

b)      T.S. Eliot

c)       Mathew Arnold

d)      John Donne

Ans. d [38^th BCS]

Who is the author of ‘Man and Superman’?

a)      G.B. Shaw

b)      Thomas Hardy

c)       Ernest Hemingway

d)      Charles Dickens

Ans. a [38^th BCS]

The most famous satirist in English literature is-

a)      Jonathan Swift

b)      Alexander Pope

c)       Joseph Addison

d)      Richard Steel

Ans. a [38^th BCS]

Of the following authors, who wrote an epic?

a)      John Milton

b)      Jane Mansfield

c)       William Cowper

d)      William Shakespeare

Ans. a [38^th BCS]

Who is not a Victorian poet?

a)      Mathew Arnold

b)      Alexander Pope

c)       Robert Browning

d)      Alfred Tennyson

Ans. b [38^th BCS]

The play ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ is written by-

a)      Thomas Kyd

b)      Christopher Marlowe

c)       Shakespeare

d)      Ben Johnson

Ans. a [38^th BCS]

Who among the following Indian English writers is a famous novelist?

a)      Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

b)      R.K. Narayan

c)       Nissim Ezekiel

d)      Kamala Das

Ans. b [38^th BCS]