English Literature Mcqs Practice Test

Question 1

Which of the following writers would be an appropriate subject for a class on “The Literature of the British Empire” ?

Accepted Answer

D. Any of these

Question 2

Which of the following periods of English literature came last ?

Accepted Answer

B. The Commonwealth Period

Question 3

He was not a Renaissance writer________________?

Accepted Answer

D. Sir Thomas Malory

Question 4

Which poet did NOT write during the 16th century ?

Accepted Answer

D. Thomas Carew

Question 5

Which of the following poets wrote during the Victorian period but was not published until the 20th century ?

Accepted Answer

B. Gerard Manley Hopkins

Question 6

Who wrote first ?

Accepted Answer

C. Howard, Earl of Surrey

Question 7

Which work was published first ?

Accepted Answer

A. Blake’s “Songs of Innocence”

Question 8

Which period of literature came first ?

Accepted Answer

D. Restoration

Question 9

The Bronte sisters wrote during this period______________?

Accepted Answer

D. Victorian

Question 10

Jane Austen wrote during this period________________?

Accepted Answer

D. Regency

Question 11

Who wrote the poem ’The Seven Ages’ ?

Accepted Answer

C. William Shakespeare

Question 12

The prevailing feature of Chaucer’s humour is its__________________?

Accepted Answer

A. urbanity

Question 13

What was the nationality of OscarWilde ?

Accepted Answer

A. Irish

Question 14

In 1905, VirginiaWoolf began to write for which publication ?

Accepted Answer

A. The Time’s Literary Supplement

Question 15

On liberty was written by_______________?

Accepted Answer

D. Mill

Question 16

Geoffrey Chaucer served which king ?

Accepted Answer

C. Edward III

Question 17

Maggie is the central character in George Eliot’s________________?

Accepted Answer

C. The Mill on the Floss

Question 18

What do you mean by Burlesque ?

Accepted Answer

A. a satiric caricature of the characters

Question 19

Who served as an Irish senator for two terms? A___________ Wilde?

Accepted Answer

C. Yeats

Question 20

‘All good poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ who made this statement ?

Accepted Answer

C. Wordsworth