01. William Halitt is a -
a. Novelist
b. Essayist
c. Dramatist
d. Poet
02. Which Indian English writter wrote 'A Suitable Boy ' ?
a. Nirod Chaudhuri
b. Jhumpa Lehri
c. Anita Desai
d. Vikram Seth
03. 'Our sweetest song are those that tell of saddest thoughts' -Who is the poet ?
a. Kippling
b. Wordsworth
c. Shelley
d. Byron
04. The last line of "To daffodils" is -
a. Ne'er to be seen again
b. Vanish like summer's rain
c. Ne'er to be found again
d. As quick a growth to meet decay
05. 'Ballad' is---
a. a kind of short narrative poem
b. a kind of short condoling poem
c. a kind of short love poem
d. a rhymic verse
06. The first English novel, Pamela, has been written by -
a. Daniel Defoe
b. Henry Fielding
c. Samuel Richardson
d. Sir Walter Scott
07. Emily Bronte is a --- ?
a. Poet
b. Critic
c. Novelist
d. Scientist
08. Hamlet by Shakespeare is -
a. a comedy
b. a tragic-comedy
c. an epic
d. a tragedy
09. 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever' was stated by -
a. John Keats
b. William Shakespeare
c. Bacon
d. Milton
10. Who was English poet addicted to opium ?
a. S.T. Coleridge
b. P.B. Shelly
c. John Keats
d. S. Buck
11. Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Man" is a -
a. Novel
b. Treatise
c. Short story
d. Poem
12. One of the four mentionedbelow is not a Novelist of modern age in English Language. Who is he ?
a. H.G Wells
b. Charles Dickens
c. Rudyard Kipling
d. T.S. Elliot
13. A famous English poet who was Professionally known as a man of medicine is ---- ?
a. Shelley
b. Keats
c. Milton
d. Pope
14. Of the following authors who wrote an epic ?
a. Jane Mansfield
b. John Milton
c. William Cowper
d. William Shakespeare
15. Francis Bacon is a/an -
a. Novelist
b. Dramatist
c. Poet
d. Essayist
16. William Shakespeare is a famous-- Century English Playwright.
a. nineteenth
b. sixteenth
c. fifteenth
d. twelfth
Answer: 1. B, 2. D, 3. C, 4. D, 5. A, 6. C, 7. C, 8. D, 9. A, 10. A, 11. D, 12. B, 13. B, 14. B, 15. D, 16. B
