Literature

Literature

1.      Elegy is a poem of-                                                                                        
a. humour               b. laughter    
c. lamentation     d. celebration       

Aans: c

2.      ‘Blank verse’ is a kind of verse –                                             
a. having no rhyming end                          
b. having blanks in the verse
c. having no signifance                              
d. having no rhythmic flow                  

 Ans:a

3.      Who is the greatest modern English Dramatist?
a. Virginia Wolf     b. George Bernard Shaw
c. P. B. Shelly         d. S. T. Coleridge     

 Ans:b

4.      The ‘poet of nature’ is –                                                                                    
a.     Lord Tennyson  b. John Keats
c. Lord Byron           d. William Wordsworth   

Ans:d

5.      Shakespeare is known mostly for his-
a. poetry                 b. novels         
c. plays                   d. autobiography        

Ans:c

6.      Author of ‘A Mother in Manvile’ is-
a. Robert Herrick    b. O’ Henry    
c. P.B. Shelly          d. Majore Kinnan Rawlings    

 Ans:d

7.      Who is the author of ‘Asian Drama’?                                                              
a. Gunnar Myrdal        b. J.  L. Nehru
c. APJ Abdul Kalam  d. Hillary Clinton   

Ans:a

8.      Who is the author of ‘A Farewell to Arms’?
a. Helen Keller       b. Bertrand Russel
c. Ernest Hemingway d. Charles Dickens 

 Ans:c

9.      Who wrote “Crime and Punishment”?                 
a. Shelly                  b. Tolstoy       
c. Dostoyvosky      d. Byron     

Ans:c

10.  The book Das Capital written -                                                                   
a. William Shakespeare      b. Karl Marx
c. Charles Dickens  d. George Barnard Shaw                                    

Ans:b

11.  Who is the author of “Gulliver’s Travels”?  
a. Jonathan Swift   b. H. G. Wells            
c. D.H.Lawrence    d. Pearl S. Buck     

Ans:a

12.  “History of II World War” is written by-         
a. Winston Churchill  b. Keats      
c. Clinton                d. None of them      

Ans:a

13.  Who is the author of ‘Animal Farm’?     
a. T. More               b. G. Orwell   
c. Shakespeare        d. Dickens     

Ans:b

14.  Who wrote ‘The Odyssey and the Illiad’?                                     
a. Milton                 b. Homer        
c. Vergil                  d. Hoffman        

 Ans:b

15.  Who is the author of ‘The Jungle Book’?
a. Hans Christian Anderson  b. Erid Blyton
c. Rudyard Kipling   d. H. G.Wells          

Ans:c

16.  The author of ‘Man and Superman’ is:
a. Arther Miller       b. G.B.Shaw   c. John Milton d. William Shakespeare   

 Ans: b

17.  “The Origin of species” was written by -
a. Charles Darwin   b. Newton      
c. Gallelio               d. Mary Curie      

Ans:a

18.  ‘The Rape of Bangladesh’ MÖ‡š’i †jLK †K ? -
a. Anthony Mascarenhas       b. Mathew Arnold
c. G.B. Shaw    d. Alexander Dumas     

Ans:a

19.  Who wrote ‘The Tales of Two Cities’?                                                      
a. Charles Dickens  b. George Eliot           
c. Jane Austin         d. Thomas Hardy    

Ans:a

20.   ‘War and Peace’ is written by –    
a) Tolstoy               b) Dickens      
c) Milton                 d) Shakespeare    

 Ans: a

21.  By ‘sonnet’ we means-

a. a poem with 18 lines  b. a poem with 14 lines

c. a poem with 15 lines d. a poem with 20 lines 

Ans: b

22.  The writer of the first English dictionary is-

a. Quanter               b. Chaucer      
c. Sir. Thomas Malory d. Samuel Johnson

Ans: d

23.  Who is the modern philosopher who was awarded Novel prize for literature?

a. Dr. Kissinger      b. Lenin          
c. James Baker        d. Bertrand Russel   

 Ans: d

24.  ‘As you like it’ is a-

a. comedy               b. tragedy       
c. romance              d morality play   

Ans: a

25.  ‘Alice in Wonderland’ is written by-

a. G.B Shaw           b. G. Orwell               
c. Shakespeare        d. Dickens       

 Ans: b

26.  ‘ A passage to India’ is written by-

a. D.H Lawrence    b. E.M Foster             

c. Alex Huxly         d. Nirod e. Choudhry

Ans: b

27.  Who is the author of ‘Arabian Night’?

a. Sir Richard Burton  c. Alexander Pope

c. Smith                  d. None of these     

Ans: a

28.  ‘Brick Lane’ is written by-

a. Anita Desai         b. Shobha De             
c. Monica Ali          d. Jhumpa Lahiri    

Ans: c

29.  Who is the author of ‘Comedy of Errors’?

a. Shelly      b. G B Shaw              
c. T S Eliot d. William Shakespeare     

Ans: d

30.  ‘David Copperfield’ is written by-

a. Charles Dickens  b. William Shakespeare

c. Somerset Maugham d. O’ Henry     

Ans: a

31.  Who is the author of ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’?

a. Charles Dickens  b. Homer        

c. Lord Tennyson  d. Ernest Hemingway Ans:d

32.  Who is the writer of ‘Harry potter’ series?

a. J.K Rawling        b. Roald Dahl 

c. Polly Watson      d. Ronal Jaques    

Ans: a

33.  Who wrote ‘Hamlet’?

a. W. Summerset Maugham
b. William Wordsworth                 

c. William Shakespeare                             
d. Mathew Arnold                          

Ans: c

34.  Who is the author of ‘India Wins Freedom’?

a. Moulana  Mohammad Ali                      
b. Moulana Abul Kalam Azad      

c. Moulana Shawkat Ali                            
d. Moulana Akram Khan               

 Ans: b

35.  ‘My experience with Truth’ was written by-

a. Mahatma Gandhi  b. Michael Anderson
c. James Morris  d. George Washington   

Ans: a

36.  The author of ‘ The Old Man and the Sea’ is-

a. Kipling                b. Stevenson   
c. Hemingway        d. Pearl Buck   

Ans: c

37.  The writer of the book ‘Paradise regained’ is-

a. P.B Shelly           b. John Milton            
c. Shakespeare        d. G.B Shaw    

Ans: b

38.  Who is the author of ‘spirits of Islam’?

a. Abul Monsur Ahmed  b. Syed Amir Ali

c. Sir Syed Ahmed d. Abul kalm Azad    

Ans: b

39.  The author of ‘The Time Machine’ is-

a. T.S Eliot             b. Thomas Kyd          
c. H.G Wells           d. Robert Herrick   

Ans: c

40.  Who is the author of ‘ The God of Small Things’?

a. Orundhuti Roy   b. V.S Naipaul           

c. Jhumpa Lahiri     d. Salman Rushdi   

Ans: a