28/02/2026
500 TOP MCQs FOR LECTURER ENGLISH TEST
(SPSC, KPSC, PPSC, FPSC Preparation)
SECTION A: LINGUISTICS (MCQs 1-50)
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BASIC LINGUISTICS
1. Linguistics is the ________ study of language.
A) Artistic
B) Scientific
C) Philosophical
D) Literary
Answer: B) Scientific
2. A linguist studies language structure, usage, and ________ over time.
A) Variation
B) Writing
C) Translation
D) Teaching
Answer: A) Variation
3. Language is an arbitrary system of sounds, signs and symbols used by human beings for ________.
A) Writing
B) Communication
C) Thinking
D) Recording
Answer: B) Communication
4. How many elements of language are there?
A) Four
B) Five
C) Six
D) Seven
Answer: C) Six
5. The scientific study of language and its functions/structure is called ________.
A) Literature
B) Linguistics
C) Philology
D) Grammar
Answer: B) Linguistics
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PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY
6. The study of speech sounds and their production is called ________.
A) Phonology
B) Phonetics
C) Morphology
D) Syntax
Answer: B) Phonetics
7. The study of pronunciation system and their interpretation is called ________.
A) Phonetics
B) Phonology
C) Semantics
D) Pragmatics
Answer: B) Phonology
8. Phonetics deals with ________.
A) Word structure
B) Sentence structure
C) Speech sounds
D) Meaning
Answer: C) Speech sounds
9. Phonology deals with ________.
A) Sound production
B) Pronunciation system
C) Word formation
D) Sentence formation
Answer: B) Pronunciation system
10. The branch of linguistics dealing with speech sounds is ________.
A) Morphology
B) Syntax
C) Phonetics
D) Semantics
Answer: C) Phonetics
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MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX
11. The study of internal structure of words is called ________.
A) Syntax
B) Morphology
C) Semantics
D) Pragmatics
Answer: B) Morphology
12. Morphemes are studied in ________.
A) Phonetics
B) Phonology
C) Morphology
D) Syntax
Answer: C) Morphology
13. The study of the structure of sentences is called ________.
A) Morphology
B) Syntax
C) Semantics
D) Pragmatics
Answer: B) Syntax
14. "Syntactic Structures" is the study of ________.
A) Word formation
B) Sentence structure
C) Sound system
D) Meaning
Answer: B) Sentence structure
15. Words are studied in ________.
A) Phonetics
B) Morphology
C) Syntax
D) Pragmatics
Answer: B) Morphology
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SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS
16. The study of literal meaning is called ________.
A) Pragmatics
B) Semantics
C) Syntax
D) Phonology
Answer: B) Semantics
17. The study of contextual/situational meaning of speaker is called ________.
A) Semantics
B) Pragmatics
C) Syntax
D) Morphology
Answer: B) Pragmatics
18. Semantics deals with three types of meaning: Grammatical, Lexical and ________.
A) Structural
B) Intonational
C) Contextual
D) Situational
Answer: B) Intonational
19. Pragmatics doesn't follow ________ rules.
A) Grammar
B) Language
C) Social
D) Cultural
Answer: B) Language
20. The study of literal meaning of words and sentences is ________.
A) Pragmatics
B) Semantics
C) Phonology
D) Morphology
Answer: B) Semantics
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TYPES OF SEMANTIC MEANING
21. How many types of semantic meaning are there?
A) Five
B) Six
C) Seven
D) Eight
Answer: C) Seven
22. Conceptual meaning is a type of ________.
A) Phonology
B) Syntax
C) Semantic meaning
D) Pragmatics
Answer: C) Semantic meaning
23. Which is NOT a type of semantic meaning?
A) Conceptual meaning
B) Connotative meaning
C) Syntactic meaning
D) Thematic meaning
Answer: C) Syntactic meaning
24. Social meaning falls under ________.
A) Phonetics
B) Semantic meaning
C) Morphology
D) Syntax
Answer: B) Semantic meaning
25. Affective meaning is related to ________.
A) Sounds
B) Structure
C) Emotions/feelings
D) Writing
Answer: C) Emotions/feelings
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MACRO/APPLIED LINGUISTICS
26. Applied Linguistics tries to offer solutions to ________ problems.
A) Theoretical
B) Practical
C) Historical
D) Literary
Answer: B) Practical
27. The study of language role, behavior and use in society is called ________.
A) Psycholinguistics
B) Sociolinguistics
C) Neurolinguistics
D) Computational Linguistics
Answer: B) Sociolinguistics
28. William Labov is the father of ________.
A) Psycholinguistics
B) Sociolinguistics
C) Neurolinguistics
D) Pragmatics
Answer: B) Sociolinguistics
29. The total knowledge, aptitude and behavior shared by members of a group is called ________.
A) Language
B) Culture
C) Society
D) Community
Answer: B) Culture
30. The study of language beyond the level of sentence is called ________.
A) Syntax
B) Discourse Analysis
C) Semantics
D) Morphology
Answer: B) Discourse Analysis
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PSYCHOLINGUISTICS AND NEUROLINGUISTICS
31. The study of relation between language and mind is called ________.
A) Sociolinguistics
B) Psycholinguistics
C) Neurolinguistics
D) Computational Linguistics
Answer: B) Psycholinguistics
32. Psycholinguistics deals with mental processes of planning, production and ________ of speech.
A) Comprehension
B) Translation
C) Writing
D) Recording
Answer: A) Comprehension
33. The study of relationship between language and brain is called ________.
A) Psycholinguistics
B) Sociolinguistics
C) Neurolinguistics
D) Pragmatics
Answer: C) Neurolinguistics
34. Psycholinguistics is the ________ study of language.
A) Social
B) Psychological
C) Historical
D) Computational
Answer: B) Psychological
35. Neurolinguistics focuses on language and ________.
A) Mind
B) Brain
C) Society
D) Culture
Answer: B) Brain
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OTHER BRANCHES OF LINGUISTICS
36. The study of language from computational models is called ________.
A) Forensic Linguistics
B) Computational Linguistics
C) Stylistics
D) Lexicography
Answer: B) Computational Linguistics
37. The study of principles to understand spoken language for legal purposes is called ________.
A) Stylistics
B) Forensic Linguistics
C) Semiotics
D) Graphetics
Answer: B) Forensic Linguistics
38. Languages which depend on situation are studied in ________.
A) Lexicography
B) Stylistics
C) Semiotics
D) Philology
Answer: B) Stylistics
39. The study of signs and symbols and how they are used is called ________.
A) Semantics
B) Semiotics
C) Syntax
D) Stylistics
Answer: B) Semiotics
40. The study of language history and change in written form is called ________.
A) Historical Linguistics
B) Applied Linguistics
C) Computational Linguistics
D) Forensic Linguistics
Answer: A) Historical Linguistics
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SPECIALIZED LINGUISTICS
41. Graphetics is the study of ________.
A) Speech sounds
B) Writing system
C) Word formation
D) Sentence structure
Answer: B) Writing system
42. Lexicography deals with ________.
A) Sounds
B) Choice of words
C) Sentence structure
D) Meaning
Answer: B) Choice of words
43. Philology is another name for ________.
A) Historical Linguistics
B) Applied Linguistics
C) Sociolinguistics
D) Psycholinguistics
Answer: A) Historical Linguistics
44. Semantics has two main parts: Lexical-Semantics and ________.
A) Structural Semantics
B) Phrasal-Semantics
C) Contextual Semantics
D) Formal Semantics
Answer: B) Phrasal-Semantics
45. Lexical-Semantics means ________ meaning.
A) Sentence
B) Words
C) Contextual
D) Situational
Answer: B) Words
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LINGUISTICS: KEY TERMS
46. Phrasal-Semantics means ________ meaning.
A) Word
B) Sentence
C) Sound
D) Structure
Answer: B) Sentence
47. Noam Chomsky is known for his theory of ________.
A) Structuralism
B) Generative Grammar
C) Behaviorism
D) Functionalism
Answer: B) Generative Grammar
48. Chomsky introduced the concept of ________ Grammar.
A) Traditional
B) Universal
C) Descriptive
D) Prescriptive
Answer: B) Universal
49. The father of Sociolinguistics is ________.
A) Noam Chomsky
B) William Labov
C) Ferdinand de Saussure
D) Leonard Bloomfield
Answer: B) William Labov
50. Chomsky was born in ________.
A) 1918
B) 1928
C) 1938
D) 1948
Answer: B) 1928
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SECTION B: CLASSICAL PERIOD (MCQs 51-65)
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HOMERIC/HEROIC PERIOD (1200-800 BCE)
51. The Classical or Greco-Roman Period lasted from ________.
A) 1200 BCE-455 CE
B) 800-200 BCE
C) 200 BCE-455 CE
D) 70-455 CE
Answer: A) 1200 BCE-455 CE
52. Homeric or Heroic Period was from ________.
A) 1200-800 BCE
B) 800-200 BCE
C) 200-455 BCE
D) 70-455 CE
Answer: A) 1200-800 BCE
53. Homer was the author of ________.
A) The Aeneid
B) The Iliad and The Odyssey
C) The Metamorphoses
D) The Republic
Answer: B) The Iliad and The Odyssey
54. The Iliad and The Odyssey were passed along ________.
A) In written form
B) Orally
C) Through manuscripts
D) Through translations
Answer: B) Orally
55. The Heroic Period is named after ________.
A) Plato
B) Aristotle
C) Homer
D) Virgil
Answer: C) Homer
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CLASSICAL GREEK PERIOD (800-200 BCE)
56. Classical Greek Period lasted from ________.
A) 1200-800 BCE
B) 800-200 BCE
C) 200 BCE-455 CE
D) 70-455 CE
Answer: B) 800-200 BCE
57. The fifth century (499-400 BCE) is renowned as ________.
A) The Golden Age of Rome
B) The Golden Age of Greece
C) The Silver Age
D) The Bronze Age
Answer: B) The Golden Age of Greece
58. The three great Greek tragedians are Aeschylus, Sophocles and ________.
A) Homer
B) Plato
C) Euripides
D) Aristotle
Answer: C) Euripides
59. Sophocles wrote the famous work ________.
A) The Republic
B) Oedipus
C) The Iliad
D) The Odyssey
Answer: B) Oedipus
60. Plato wrote ________.
A) Poetics
B) The Republic
C) The Aeneid
D) Metamorphoses
Answer: B) The Republic
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CLASSICAL ROMAN PERIOD (200 BCE-455 CE)
61. Classical Roman Period lasted from ________.
A) 1200-800 BCE
B) 800-200 BCE
C) 200 BCE-455 CE
D) 70-455 CE
Answer: C) 200 BCE-455 CE
62. Rome conquered Greece in ________.
A) 146 BCE
B) 200 BCE
C) 455 CE
D) 70 CE
Answer: A) 146 BCE
63. Virgil wrote the epic ________.
A) The Iliad
B) The Odyssey
C) The Aeneid
D) Metamorphoses
Answer: C) The Aeneid
64. Ovid wrote ________.
A) Ars Poetica
B) The Metamorphoses
C) The Aeneid
D) Institutio Oratoria
Answer: B) The Metamorphoses
65. Horace wrote ________.
A) The Metamorphoses
B) The Aeneid
C) Ars Poetica
D) The Republic
Answer: C) Ars Poetica
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SECTION C: OLD ENGLISH PERIOD (MCQs 66-85)
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OLD ENGLISH PERIOD: BASIC FACTS
66. Old English Period/Anglo-Saxon Age lasted from ________.
A) 450-1066
B) 1066-1500
C) 1500-1600
D) 1600-1660
Answer: A) 450-1066
67. The Germanic tribes that invaded England were Angles, Saxons and ________.
A) Normans
B) Jutes
C) Vikings
D) Celts
Answer: B) Jutes
68. The Celts (Britons) were invaded by ________ in 450.
A) Romans
B) Normans
C) Germanic tribes
D) French
Answer: C) Germanic tribes
69. Anglo-Saxon literature is primarily ________ literature.
A) Written
B) Oral
C) Religious
D) Secular
Answer: B) Oral
70. Old English poetry is ________ type.
A) Short lyric
B) Long narrative religious
C) Dramatic
D) Satirical
Answer: B) Long narrative religious
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OLD ENGLISH: THEMES AND STYLE
71. Themes of Anglo-Saxon poetry include Battles, Conflicts, Struggle, Bloodshed and ________.
A) Love
B) Supernaturalism
C) Comedy
D) Romance
Answer: B) Supernaturalism
72. Most of the Old English literary works are ________.
A) Signed
B) Anonymous
C) Translated
D) Religious
Answer: B) Anonymous
73. Strong belief in ________ is reflected in Anglo-Saxon poetry.
A) Fate
B) God
C) Love
D) Science
Answer: A) Fate
74. Anglo-Saxon poetry used more ________ and less similes.
A) Metaphors
B) Personification
C) Alliteration
D) Hyperbole
Answer: A) Metaphors
75. The repetition of consonant sounds is called ________.
A) Assonance
B) Alliteration
C) Rhyme
D) Kennings
Answer: B) Alliteration
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OLD ENGLISH: KEY TERMS AND EVENTS
76. Compound words used in Old English poetry are called ________.
A) Alliterations
B) Kennings
C) Metaphors
D) Similes
Answer: B) Kennings
77. Anglo-Saxons converted to Christianity in the ________.
A) 400s-500s
B) 590s-700
C) 700s-800s
D) 800s-900s
Answer: B) 590s-700
78. Saint Augustine established Monastery at Canterbury in ________.
A) 597
B) 590
C) 600
D) 731
Answer: A) 597
79. Venerable Bede wrote Ecclesiastical History of English People in ________.
A) 597
B) 670
C) 731
D) 871
Answer: C) 731
80. Alfred the Great became King in ________.
A) 597
B) 731
C) 871
D) 1042
Answer: C) 871
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OLD ENGLISH: NOTABLE FIGURES
81. Alfred the Great is called the father of English ________.
A) Poetry
B) Prose
C) Drama
D) Novel
Answer: B) Prose
82. The earliest long epic poem of Old English is ________.
A) The Wanderer
B) The Seafarer
C) Beowulf
D) The Canterbury Tales
Answer: C) Beowulf
83. Beowulf has ________ lines.
A) 2082
B) 3082
C) 4082
D) 5082
Answer: B) 3082
84. The first poet of Old English was ________.
A) Cynwulf
B) Caedmon
C) Venerable Bede
D) Alfred the Great
Answer: B) Caedmon
85. Caedmon wrote Biblical stories/verses in his ________.
A) Poems
B) Hymns
C) Epics
D) Sonnets
Answer: B) Hymns
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SECTION D: MIDDLE ENGLISH AGE (MCQs 86-130)
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MIDDLE ENGLISH: BASIC FACTS
86. Middle English Age lasted from ________.
A) 450-1066
B) 1100-1500
C) 1500-1600
D) 1600-1660
Answer: B) 1100-1500
87. Middle English Age is divided into Anglo-Norman Age and ________.
A) The Age of Chaucer
B) The Renaissance Age
C) The Puritan Age
D) The Restoration Age
Answer: A) The Age of Chaucer
88. Anglo-Norman Age lasted from ________.
A) 1066-1340
B) 1340-1400
C) 1400-1500
D) 1500-1558
Answer: A) 1066-1340
89. The Age of Chaucer lasted from ________.
A) 1066-1340
B) 1340-1400
C) 1400-1500
D) 1500-1558
Answer: B) 1340-1400
90. The Battle of Hastings took place on ________.
A) 14th October, 1065
B) 14th October, 1066
C) 14th October, 1067
D) 14th October, 1070
Answer: B) 14th October, 1066
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MIDDLE ENGLISH: HISTORICAL EVENTS
91. King William I the Conqueror defeated ________ in the Battle of Hastings.
A) Alfred the Great
B) Harold
C) Edward
D) Richard
Answer: B) Harold
92. William the Conqueror came from ________.
A) Germany
B) Normandy, France
C) Denmark
D) Norway
Answer: B) Normandy, France
93. French rulers ruled over England for ________ years.
A) 200
B) 300
C) 400
D) 500
Answer: C) 400
94. In Middle Ages, ________ was the language of religion.
A) French
B) English
C) Latin
D) German
Answer: C) Latin
95. ________ was the official language for three centuries.
A) Latin
B) English
C) French
D) German
Answer: C) French
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MIDDLE ENGLISH: DEVELOPMENT
96. University of Oxford and Cambridge were established in the ________ century.
A) 12th
B) 13th
C) 14th
D) 15th
Answer: B) 13th
97. English was declared as official language in ________.
A) 1066
B) 1295
C) 1362
D) 1453
Answer: C) 1362
98. The English Parliament was established in ________.
A) 1066
B) 1295
C) 1362
D) 1453
Answer: B) 1295
99. The Black Death (plague) occurred in ________.
A) 1348-1349
B) 1295-1296
C) 1362-1363
D) 1453-1454
Answer: A) 1348-1349
100. The Feudal System collapsed after ________.
A) The Battle of Hastings
B) The Black Death
C) The Crusades
D) The Reformation
Answer: B) The Black Death
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MIDDLE ENGLISH: LITERARY CHARACTERISTICS
101. The three main literary subjects of Middle English period are Love, Chivalry and ________.
A) War
B) Religion
C) Nature
D) Politics
Answer: B) Religion
102. The spirit of ________ dominates the Middle English Age.
A) Romance
B) Realism
C) Naturalism
D) Classicism
Answer: A) Romance
103. ________ was discarded in Middle English poetry.
A) End-rhyme
B) Stressed alliteration
C) Pentameter
D) Humour
Answer: B) Stressed alliteration
104. ________ and satire were brought into practice in Middle English.
A) Alliteration
B) Kennings
C) Humour
D) Epic
Answer: C) Humour
105. The Dark Ages ended around ________.
A) 1340-1400
B) 1450-1500
C) 1500-1558
D) 1558-1603
Answer: B) 1450-1500
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GEOFFREY CHAUCER: BIOGRAPHY
106. Geoffrey Chaucer is called the Father of English ________.
A) Drama
B) Literature
C) Novel
D) Criticism
Answer: B) Literature
107. Chaucer was born in ________.
A) 1330
B) 1340
C) 1343
D) 1350
Answer: C) 1343
108. Chaucer died in ________.
A) 1387
B) 1400
C) 1410
D) 1420
Answer: B) 1400
109. Chaucer's grave was moved to Westminster in ________.
A) 1400
B) 1500
C) 1566
D) 1600
Answer: C) 1566
110. Chaucer married Philippa in ________.
A) 1359
B) 1366
C) 1369
D) 1387
Answer: B) 1366
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CHAUCER: WORKS AND STYLE
111. Chaucer's best-known work is ________.
A) The Book of Duchess
B) The House of Fame
C) The Canterbury Tales
D) Troilus and Criseyde
Answer: C) The Canterbury Tales
112. Chaucer started The Canterbury Tales in ________.
A) 1369
B) 1387
C) 1388
D) 1398
Answer: C) 1388
113. Chaucer first used ________ in English Literature.
A) Blank verse
B) Heroic Couplet
C) Free verse
D) Sonnet
Answer: B) Heroic Couplet
114. Chaucer introduced ________ literature to England.
A) French
B) Italian
C) German
D) Spanish
Answer: B) Italian
115. Chaucer was influenced by Dante, Petrarch and ________.
A) Boccaccio
B) Virgil
C) Homer
D) Aristotle
Answer: A) Boccaccio
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CHAUCER'S THREE PERIODS
116. Chaucer's literary career is divided into ________ periods.
A) Two
B) Three
C) Four
D) Five
Answer: B) Three
117. Chaucer's first period is called the ________ period.
A) English
B) Italian
C) French
D) Latin
Answer: C) French
118. Chaucer's second period is called the ________ period.
A) English
B) Italian
C) French
D) Latin
Answer: B) Italian
119. Chaucer's third period is called the ________ period.
A) English
B) Italian
C) French
D) Latin
Answer: A) English
120. The Book of Duchess belongs to Chaucer's ________ period.
A) French
B) Italian
C) English
D) Latin
Answer: A) French
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CHAUCER: KEY WORKS
121. Troilus and Criseyde was adopted from Boccaccio's ________.
A) The Love Stricken One
B) The Decameron
C) The Filostrato
D) The Divine Comedy
Answer: A) The Love Stricken One
122. The Parliament of Fowls tells how birds assemble on ________.
A) New Year's Day
B) St. Valentine's Day
C) Christmas Day
D) Easter Day
Answer: B) St. Valentine's Day
123. The Legend of Good Women was written in ________.
A) 1369-1374
B) 1374-1380
C) 1380-1386
D) 1386-1400
Answer: C) 1380-1386
124. The House of Fame was written in ________.
A) 1369-1374
B) 1374-1380
C) 1380-1386
D) 1386-1400
Answer: B) 1374-1380
125. Chaucer has been called the "Prince of ________."
A) Poets
B) Plagiarists
C) Writers
D) Dramatists
Answer: B) Plagiarists
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OTHER MIDDLE ENGLISH WRITERS
126. John Gower's most important work is ________.
A) Piers the Plowman
B) Confession Amantis
C) The Canterbury Tales
D) Le Morte d'Arthur
Answer: B) Confession Amantis
127. William Langland wrote ________.
A) Confession Amantis
B) A Vision of Piers the Plowman
C) The Canterbury Tales
D) Le Morte d'Arthur
Answer: B) A Vision of Piers the Plowman
128. John Wycliffe is called "The Morning Star of ________."
A) Renaissance
B) Reformation
C) Revolution
D) Restoration
Answer: B) Reformation
129. John Wycliffe translated the Bible from Latin into English in ________.
A) 1066
B) 1295
C) 1382
D) 1453
Answer: C) 1382
130. John Wycliffe's followers were called ________.
A) Puritans
B) Lollards
C) Cavaliers
D) Metaphysicals
Answer: B) Lollards
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SECTION E: RENAISSANCE AGE (MCQs 131-170)
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RENAISSANCE: BASIC FACTS
131. The Renaissance Age in England lasted from ________.
A) 1066-1500
B) 1500-1600
C) 1600-1660
D) 1660-1700
Answer: B) 1500-1600
132. Renaissance is a French word meaning ________.
A) Revival
B) Birth
C) Light
D) Knowledge
Answer: A) Revival
133. Renaissance began in ________ with the fall of Constantinople.
A) 1066
B) 1295
C) 1453
D) 1476
Answer: C) 1453
134. Constantinople fell to the ________.
A) Romans
B) Turks
C) Normans
D) French
Answer: B) Turks
135. The Sultan who conquered Constantinople was ________.
A) Mehmet
B) Saladin
C) Akbar
D) Babur
Answer: A) Mehmet
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ELIZABETHAN AGE
136. The Elizabethan Age lasted from ________.
A) 1500-1558
B) 1558-1603
C) 1603-1625
D) 1625-1649
Answer: B) 1558-1603
137. Elizabethan Age is also called the ________ Age of English Literature.
A) Silver
B) Golden
C) Bronze
D) Iron
Answer: B) Golden
138. The Age of Shakespeare lasted from ________.
A) 1558-1590
B) 1590-1616
C) 1616-1625
D) 1625-1649
Answer: B) 1590-1616
139. The first poetry of the Renaissance Age was ________.
A) The Faerie Queene
B) Tottel's Miscellany
C) Utopia
D) The Shepherd's Calendar
Answer: B) Tottel's Miscellany
140. Tottel's Miscellany was published in ________.
A) 1500
B) 1557
C) 1558
D) 1590
Answer: B) 1557
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TUDOR DYNASTY AND WAR OF ROSES
141. Tudor Dynasty Period lasted from ________.
A) 1455-1485
B) 1485-1558
C) 1558-1603
D) 1603-1625
Answer: B) 1485-1558
142. The War of Roses was fought between 1455-________.
A) 1465
B) 1475
C) 1485
D) 1495
Answer: C) 1485
143. The House of Lancaster was represented by the ________ rose.
A) White
B) Red
C) Yellow
D) Pink
Answer: B) Red
144. The House of York was represented by the ________ rose.
A) White
B) Red
C) Yellow
D) Pink
Answer: A) White
145. The first King of Tudor Dynasty was ________.
A) Henry VII
B) Henry VIII
C) Edward VI
D) Mary I
Answer: A) Henry VII
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UNIVERSITY WITS
146. University Wits were a group of ________ intelligent writers.
A) 5
B) 6
C) 7
D) 8
Answer: C) 7
147. The term "University Wits" was coined by ________.
A) George Saintsbury
B) T.S. Eliot
C) Samuel Johnson
D) John Dryden
Answer: A) George Saintsbury
148. Christopher Marlowe was the top writer among ________.
A) Metaphysical Poets
B) University Wits
C) Cavalier Poets
D) Lake Poets
Answer: B) University Wits
149. Christopher Marlowe was a graduate of ________.
A) Oxford
B) Cambridge
C) London University
D) Dublin University
Answer: B) Cambridge
150. Thomas Kyd was less educated among ________.
A) Metaphysical Poets
B) University Wits
C) Cavalier Poets
D) Lake Poets
Answer: B) University Wits
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: BIOGRAPHY
151. William Shakespeare was born on ________.
A) 23 April, 1556
B) 23 April, 1564
C) 23 April, 1616
D) 23 April, 1566
Answer: B) 23 April, 1564
152. Shakespeare died on ________.
A) 23 April, 1616
B) 23 April, 1564
C) 23 April, 1625
D) 23 April, 1603
Answer: A) 23 April, 1616
153. Shakespeare was born in ________.
A) London
B) Stratford-upon-Avon
C) Canterbury
D) Oxford
Answer: B) Stratford-upon-Avon
154. Shakespeare's wife was ________.
A) Anne Hathaway
B) Mary Arden
C) Elizabeth Boyle
D) Anne More
Answer: A) Anne Hathaway
155. Shakespeare married at the age of ________.
A) 16
B) 18
C) 20
D) 22
Answer: B) 18
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SHAKESPEARE: CAREER
156. Shakespeare's theatre company was called ________.
A) King's Men
B) Lord Chamberlain's Men
C) Admiral's Men
D) Queen's Men
Answer: B) Lord Chamberlain's Men
157. Shakespeare's theatre was called ________.
A) The Red Lion
B) The Theatre
C) Globe Theatre
D) The Rose
Answer: C) Globe Theatre
158. Shakespeare's Globe Theatre was built in ________.
A) 1590
B) 1599
C) 1600
D) 1603
Answer: B) 1599
159. Shakespeare retired from public life in ________.
A) 1603
B) 1610
C) 1613
D) 1616
Answer: B) 1610
160. The years 1585-1592 in Shakespeare's life are called ________.
A) Early Years
B) Lost Years
C) Productive Years
D) Final Years
Answer: B) Lost Years
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SHAKESPEARE: WORKS
161. Shakespeare wrote ________ sonnets.
A) 37
B) 154
C) 150
D) 300
Answer: B) 154
162. Shakespeare wrote ________ plays.
A) 37
B) 154
C) 150
D) 300
Answer: A) 37
163. Shakespeare's four great tragedies are Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and ________.
A) Romeo and Juliet
B) Macbeth
C) Julius Caesar
D) Antony and Cleopatra
Answer: B) Macbeth
164. The longest tragedy of Shakespeare is ________.
A) Macbeth
B) Othello
C) Hamlet
D) King Lear
Answer: C) Hamlet
165. Hamlet has ________ lines.
A) 1787
B) 3082
C) 4942
D) 5000
Answer: C) 4942
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SHAKESPEARE: COMEDIES AND ROMANCES
166. Shakespeare's first comedy was ________.
A) The Merchant of Venice
B) Comedy of Errors
C) Twelfth Night
D) As You Like It
Answer: B) Comedy of Errors
167. The shortest Shakespeare play is ________.
A) Hamlet
B) Macbeth
C) Comedy of Errors
D) The Tempest
Answer: C) Comedy of Errors
168. Shakespeare's four great comedies include Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice and ________.
A) As You Like It
B) Comedy of Errors
C) Love's Labour's Lost
D) The Tempest
Answer: A) As You Like It
169. Shakespeare's Roman plays include Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and ________.
A) Hamlet
B) Titus Andronicus
C) Macbeth
D) Othello
Answer: B) Titus Andronicus
170. Shakespeare's last play was ________.
A) The Tempest
B) The Two Noble Kinsmen
C) Cymbeline
D) Pericles
Answer: B) The Two Noble Kinsmen
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SECTION F: CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (MCQs 171-180)
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171. Christopher Marlowe is called the Father of English ________.
A) Poetry
B) Tragedy
C) Comedy
D) Drama
Answer: B) Tragedy
172. Marlowe was born in ________.
A) 1563
B) 1564
C) 1565
D) 1566
Answer: B) 1564
173. Marlowe died at the age of ________.
A) 27
B) 28
C) 29
D) 30
Answer: C) 29
174. Marlowe's most famous play is ________.
A) Tamburlaine the Great
B) Dr. Faustus
C) The Jew of Malta
D) Edward II
Answer: B) Dr. Faustus
175. Marlowe pioneered ________ in English drama.
A) Rhyme
B) Blank verse
C) Free verse
D) Heroic couplet
Answer: B) Blank verse
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176. The phrase "No Marlowe, No Shakespeare" indicates Marlowe's influence on ________.
A) Jonson
B) Shakespeare
C) Chaucer
D) Milton
Answer: B) Shakespeare
177. Marlowe attended ________ University.
A) Oxford
B) Cambridge
C) London
D) Dublin
Answer: B) Cambridge
178. Marlowe was born in ________.
A) London
B) Stratford
C) Canterbury
D) Oxford
Answer: C) Canterbury
179. Marlowe's work Tamburlaine the Great is about a ________ conqueror.
A) Roman
B) Greek
C) Scythian
D) Persian
Answer: C) Scythian
180. Marlowe belongs to the group called ________.
A) Lake Poets
B) University Wits
C) Metaphysical Poets
D) Cavalier Poets
Answer: B) University Wits
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SECTION G: BEN JONSON AND OTHER RENAISSANCE WRITERS (MCQs 181-190)
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181. Ben Jonson is called the father of ________ poetry.
A) Romantic
B) Classical
C) Metaphysical
D) Modern
Answer: B) Classical
182. Ben Jonson became the first unofficial ________.
A) Poet Laureate
B) Dramatist
C) Critic
D) Novelist
Answer: A) Poet Laureate
183. Ben Jonson died and was buried in ________.
A) St. Paul's Cathedral
B) Westminster Abbey
C) Canterbury Cathedral
D) Stratford Church
Answer: B) Westminster Abbey
184. Ben Jonson's followers are called the "Sons of ________".
A) Ben
B) Shakespeare
C) Donne
D) Milton
Answer: A) Ben
185. Edmund Spenser is called the "Poet's Poet" by ________.
A) Charles Lamb
B) John Dryden
C) Alexander Pope
D) William Wordsworth
Answer: A) Charles Lamb
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186. Spenser's masterpiece is ________.
A) The Shepherd's Calendar
B) The Faerie Queene
C) Amoretti
D) Epithalamion
Answer: B) The Faerie Queene
187. Sir Philip Sidney was called by Queen Elizabeth "the ________ of her crown."
A) Jewel
B) Pearl
C) Diamond
D) Gem
Answer: A) Jewel
188. Sir Francis Bacon is called the Father of English ________.
A) Poetry
B) Drama
C) Essay
D) Novel
Answer: C) Essay
189. Bacon was inspired by French writer ________.
A) Voltaire
B) Montaigne
C) Rousseau
D) Hugo
Answer: B) Montaigne
190. Bacon published his first edition of essays with ________ essays in 1597.
A) 10
B) 38
C) 58
D) 100
Answer: A) 10
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SECTION H: PURITAN AGE (MCQs 191-215)
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PURITAN AGE: BASIC FACTS
191. The Puritan Age lasted from ________.
A) 1500-1600
B) 1600-1660
C) 1660-1700
D) 1701-1745
Answer: B) 1600-1660
192. The Puritan Age is also called the Age of ________.
A) Shakespeare
B) Milton
C) Dryden
D) Pope
Answer: B) Milton
193. The 17th century is known as the ________ Century.
A) Golden
B) Troubled
C) Silver
D) Dark
Answer: B) Troubled
194. Queen Elizabeth I died in ________.
A) 1600
B) 1603
C) 1610
D) 1625
Answer: B) 1603
195. The Gunpowder Plot occurred in ________.
A) 1603
B) 1605
C) 1610
D) 1625
Answer: B) 1605
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JACOBEAN, CAROLINE AND INTERREGNUM
196. Jacobean Age lasted from ________.
A) 1500-1558
B) 1558-1603
C) 1603-1625
D) 1625-1649
Answer: C) 1603-1625
197. Caroline Age lasted from ________.
A) 1603-1625
B) 1625-1649
C) 1649-1660
D) 1660-1700
Answer: B) 1625-1649
198. The Civil War was fought from ________.
A) 1640-1648
B) 1642-1651
C) 1651-1660
D) 1660-1685
Answer: B) 1642-1651
199. Interregnum Age lasted from ________.
A) 1603-1625
B) 1625-1649
C) 1649-1660
D) 1660-1700
Answer: C) 1649-1660
200. Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector in ________.
A) 1649
B) 1653
C) 1658
D) 1660
Answer: B) 1653
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PURITAN AGE: CHARACTERISTICS
201. Puritans banned theatres from ________.
A) 1640-1660
B) 1642-1660
C) 1650-1660
D) 1660-1700
Answer: B) 1642-1660
202. The first official female playwright in English history was ________.
A) Aphra Behn
B) Virginia Woolf
C) Jane Austen
D) George Eliot
Answer: A) Aphra Behn
203. Aphra Behn was also called ________.
A) Agent 160
B) Agent 150
C) Agent 170
D) Agent 180
Answer: A) Agent 160
204. The literary movements of Puritan Age include School of Spenser, Metaphysical School and ________.
A) Lake School
B) Cavalier Poets
C) Pre-Raphaelites
D) Symbolism
Answer: B) Cavalier Poets
205. Cavalier means ________.
A) Parliamentarian
B) Royalist
C) Puritan
D) Republican
Answer: B) Royalist
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JOHN MILTON: BIOGRAPHY
206. John Milton was born in ________.
A) 1600
B) 1608
C) 1610
D) 1616
Answer: B) 1608
207. John Milton died in ________.
A) 1660
B) 1667
C) 1674
D) 1700
Answer: C) 1674
208. Milton became completely blind in ________.
A) 1650
B) 1652/53
C) 1660
D) 1667
Answer: B) 1652/53
209. Paradise Lost was published in its first edition in ________.
A) 1660
B) 1667
C) 1674
D) 1700
Answer: B) 1667
210. Paradise Lost was published in its second edition in ________.
A) 1667
B) 1674
C) 1700
D) 1710
Answer: B) 1674
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MILTON: WORKS AND TITLES
211. Paradise Lost has ________ books in the second edition.
A) 10
B) 12
C) 14
D) 8
Answer: B) 12
212. Milton is called the "Master of the ________ Style."
A) Grand
B) Simple
C) Plain
D) Metaphysical
Answer: A) Grand
213. Milton is called the "Poet of the ________ Party."
A) King's
B) Devil's
C) God's
D) Parliament's
Answer: B) Devil's
214. Milton is called the "________ Poet of England."
A) Great
B) Blind
C) Epic
D) Religious
Answer: B) Blind
215. Milton's other notable works include Paradise Regained and ________.
A) The Faerie Queene
B) Samson Agonistes
C) The Canterbury Tales
D) Dr. Faustus
Answer: B) Samson Agonistes
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SECTION I: JOHN DONNE (MCQs 216-225)
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216. John Donne was born in ________.
A) 1572
B) 1573
C) 1580
D) 1600
Answer: A) 1572
217. John Donne died in ________.
A) 1625
B) 1631
C) 1640
D) 1660
Answer: B) 1631
218. John Donne is the leader of the ________ school.
A) Classical
B) Metaphysical
C) Romantic
D) Modern
Answer: B) Metaphysical
219. Donne became Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in ________.
A) 1615
B) 1621
C) 1631
D) 1640
Answer: B) 1621
220. Donne became a priest in the Church of England in ________.
A) 1615
B) 1621
C) 1631
D) 1640
Answer: A) 1615
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221. Donne's famous poem "A Valediction: Forbidding ________."
A) Love
B) Mourning
C) Sorrow
D) Parting
Answer: B) Mourning
222. Donne's famous Holy Sonnet begins "Death, be not ________."
A) Afraid
B) Proud
C) Strong
D) Cruel
Answer: B) Proud
223. Donne wrote "John Donne, Anne Donne and ________" on a window.
A) Undone
B) Alone
C) Gone
D) None
Answer: A) Undone
224. Donne's poetry can be divided into Amorous, Metaphysical and ________.
A) Religious
B) Satirical
C) Political
D) Lyrical
Answer: B) Satirical
225. Donne's poem "The Flea" is an example of ________ poetry.
A) Romantic
B) Metaphysical
C) Classical
D) Modern
Answer: B) Metaphysical
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SECTION J: RESTORATION AGE (MCQs 226-245)
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RESTORATION AGE: BASIC FACTS
226. Restoration Age lasted from ________.
A) 1600-1660
B) 1660-1700
C) 1701-1745
D) 1745-1798
Answer: B) 1660-1700
227. The Restoration Age is also called the Age of ________.
A) Milton
B) Dryden
C) Pope
D) Johnson
Answer: B) Dryden
228. Charles II became king on ________ May, 1660.
A) 29th
B) 30th
C) 31st
D) 1st
Answer: A) 29th
229. This day (May 29, 1660) was called ________ Day.
A) Restoration
B) Oak Apple
C) Royal
D) King's
Answer: B) Oak Apple
230. The Restoration is also called the ________ Revolution.
A) Bloody
B) Glorious
C) French
D) American
Answer: B) Glorious
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RESTORATION AGE: CHARACTERISTICS
231. John Dryden became the first official Poet Laureate in ________.
A) 1660
B) 1668
C) 1700
D) 1688
Answer: B) 1668
232. Restoration writers imitated ________ writers.
A) French
B) Italian
C) German
D) Spanish
Answer: A) French
233. New literary forms introduced in Restoration Age were Satire and ________.
A) Sonnet
B) Heroic couplet
C) Blank verse
D) Free verse
Answer: B) Heroic couplet
234. Restoration comedy was also popular, known as ________ comedy.
A) Romantic
B) Restoration
C) Classical
D) Modern
Answer: B) Restoration
235. Aphra Behn was a notable ________ of the Restoration Age.
A) Poet
B) Dramatist
C) Novelist
D) Critic
Answer: A) Poet
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JOHN DRYDEN: BIOGRAPHY
236. John Dryden was born in ________.
A) 1608
B) 1631
C) 1640
D) 1700
Answer: B) 1631
237. John Dryden died in ________.
A) 1668
B) 1700
C) 1744
D) 1750
Answer: B) 1700
238. Dryden was buried in ________.
A) St. Paul's
B) Westminster Abbey
C) Canterbury
D) Stratford
Answer: B) Westminster Abbey
239. Dryden married Lady Elizabeth Howard in ________.
A) 1660
B) 1663
C) 1668
D) 1670
Answer: B) 1663
240. Dryden's best work "All for Love" was written in ________.
A) 1668
B) 1677
C) 1681
D) 1687
Answer: B) 1677
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DRYDEN: WORKS
241. Dryden's political satire is ________.
A) All for Love
B) Absalom and Achitophel
C) The Hind and the Panther
D) Marriage à la Mode
Answer: B) Absalom and Achitophel
242. Absalom and Achitophel was written in ________.
A) 1677
B) 1681
C) 1687
D) 1700
Answer: B) 1681
243. Dryden's doctrinal poem is ________.
A) Absalom and Achitophel
B) The Hind and the Panther
C) All for Love
D) Marriage à la Mode
Answer: B) The Hind and the Panther
244. Dryden's plays can be divided into three categories: Political satires, Doctrinal poems and ________.
A) Comedies
B) Tragedies
C) Fables
D) Lyrics
Answer: C) Fables
245. Dryden is called the "Father of English ________."
A) Poetry
B) Drama
C) Criticism
D) Novel
Answer: C) Criticism
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SECTION K: 18TH CENTURY (MCQs 246-285)
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18TH CENTURY: DIVISIONS AND NAMES
246. The 18th Century in English literature lasted from ________.
A) 1660-1700
B) 1701-1798
C) 1745-1798
D) 1701-1745
Answer: B) 1701-1798
247. The 18th Century is divided into Neo-Classical Age and Age of ________.
A) Dryden
B) Sensibility
C) Pope
D) Johnson
Answer: B) Sensibility
248. The Neo-Classical Age lasted from ________.
A) 1660-1700
B) 1701-1745
C) 1745-1798
D) 1798-1824
Answer: B) 1701-1745
249. The Age of Sensibility lasted from ________.
A) 1701-1745
B) 1745-1798
C) 1798-1824
D) 1832-1901
Answer: B) 1745-1798
250. The 18th Century is also called the Age of ________.
A) Reason
B) Romance
C) Revival
D) Restoration
Answer: A) Reason
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NAMES OF THE AGE
251. The 18th Century in literature is called the ________ Age.
A) Augustan
B) Elizabethan
C) Victorian
D) Modern
Answer: A) Augustan
252. The 18th Century in visual arts is called the ________ Age.
A) Augustan
B) Neo-Classical
C) Romantic
D) Modern
Answer: B) Neo-Classical
253. The 18th Century in general is called the Age of ________.
A) Enlightenment
B) Romance
C) Revival
D) Restoration
Answer: A) Enlightenment
254. The 18th Century is also called the "Age of ________" because crimes were at their peak.
A) Reason
B) Scandal
C) Prose
D) Satire
Answer: B) Scandal
255. The chief glory of the 18th Century was not poetry but ________.
A) Drama
B) Prose
C) Novel
D) Criticism
Answer: B) Prose
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CHARACTERISTICS OF CLASSICISM
256. Classicism believes poetry should be guided by ________.
A) Emotion
B) Reason
C) Imagination
D) Passion
Answer: B) Reason
257. According to Classicism, the role of the poet is that of the ________.
A) Creator
B) Teacher
C) Dreamer
D) Critic
Answer: B) Teacher
258. Classical poetry should be written according to ________ rules.
A) No
B) Fixed
C) Changing
D) Flexible
Answer: B) Fixed
259. Coffee House culture started in the ________ Century.
A) 17th
B) 18th
C) 19th
D) 20th
Answer: B) 18th
260. Coffee House culture led to the publication of ________.
A) Books
B) Magazines
C) Newspapers
D) Novels
Answer: B) Magazines
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ALEXANDER POPE: BIOGRAPHY
261. Alexander Pope was born in ________.
A) 1688
B) 1700
C) 1744
D) 1750
Answer: A) 1688
262. Alexander Pope died in ________.
A) 1700
B) 1744
C) 1745
D) 1750
Answer: B) 1744
263. Pope suffered from ________.
A) Asthma
B) Tuberculosis
C) Diabetes
D) Blindness
Answer: B) Tuberculosis
264. Pope's height was ________ feet due to disease.
A) 5.6
B) 4.6
C) 5.0
D) 4.0
Answer: B) 4.6
265. Pope joined the Scriblerus Club in ________.
A) 1700
B) 1712
C) 1713
D) 1744
Answer: C) 1713
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POPE: WORKS
266. Pope's famous work "The R**e of the Lock" was written in ________.
A) 1711
B) 1712
C) 1713
D) 1744
Answer: B) 1712
267. "The R**e of the Lock" satirizes the ________ of the upper class.
A) Intelligence
B) Frivolity
C) Morality
D) Education
Answer: B) Frivolity
268. Pope's "An Essay on Criticism" was written in ________.
A) 1711
B) 1712
C) 1713
D) 1744
Answer: A) 1711
269. Pope's "An Essay on Man" deals with ________.
A) Morality
B) Virtue
C) Human nature
D) Society
Answer: C) Human nature
270. Pope's first work was ________.
A) The R**e of the Lock
B) Pastorals
C) An Essay on Criticism
D) The Dunciad
Answer: B) Pastorals
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DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON
271. Dr. Samuel Johnson dominated the Age of ________.
A) Pope
B) Sensibility
C) Dryden
D) Milton
Answer: B) Sensibility
272. Johnson wrote the first Dictionary of English language in ________ years.
A) 5
B) 8
C) 10
D) 12
Answer: B) 8
273. Johnson's first successful work was ________.
A) Vanity of Human Wishes
B) London
C) Dictionary
D) Lives of Poets
Answer: B) London
274. Johnson's most famous poem is ________.
A) London
B) Vanity of Human Wishes
C) The Traveller
D) The Deserted Village
Answer: B) Vanity of Human Wishes
275. Johnson wrote biography of ________ poets.
A) 42
B) 52
C) 62
D) 72
Answer: B) 52
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OTHER 18TH CENTURY WRITERS
276. Jonathan Swift was a famous ________ of the 18th Century.
A) Poet
B) Novelist
C) Dramatist
D) Critic
Answer: B) Novelist
277. Oliver Goldsmith was a poet born in ________.
A) 1667
B) 1728
C) 1716
D) 1672
Answer: B) 1728
278. Thomas Gray was a poet born in ________.
A) 1667
B) 1728
C) 1716
D) 1672
Answer: C) 1716
279. Joseph Addison was born in ________.
A) 1667
B) 1672
C) 1716
D) 1728
Answer: B) 1672
280. Richard Steele was born in ________.
A) 1667
B) 1672
C) 1716
D) 1728
Answer: B) 1672
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18TH CENTURY: HISTORICAL EVENTS
281. The Union of England and Scotland took place in ________.
A) 1701
B) 1707
C) 1745
D) 1757
Answer: B) 1707
282. The French Revolution began in ________.
A) 1775
B) 1789
C) 1798
D) 1800
Answer: B) 1789
283. The American Revolution took place in ________.
A) 1775
B) 1789
C) 1798
D) 1800
Answer: A) 1775
284. The Seven Years War with France was fought in ________.
A) 1757-1763
B) 1775-1783
C) 1789-1799
D) 1812-1815
Answer: A) 1757-1763
285. The Union of Great Britain and Ireland took place in ________.
A) 1707
B) 1775
C) 1800
D) 1812
Answer: C) 1800
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SECTION L: ROMANTIC AGE (MCQs 286-340)
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ROMANTIC AGE: BASIC FACTS
286. The Romantic Age lasted from ________.
A) 1701-1745
B) 1745-1798
C) 1798-1824
D) 1832-1901
Answer: C) 1798-1824
287. The Romantic Age began with the publication of ________.
A) Lyrical Ballads
B) The Prelude
C) Biographia Literaria
D) Prometheus Unbound
Answer: A) Lyrical Ballads
288. Lyrical Ballads was published in ________.
A) 1789
B) 1798
C) 1800
D) 1810
Answer: B) 1798
289. The Romantic Age ended with the first ________ act in 1832.
A) Reform
B) Education
C) Parliament
D) Factory
Answer: A) Reform
290. The term "Romantics" was coined by the ________ brothers.
A) Schlegel
B) Grimm
C) Wordsworth
D) Coleridge
Answer: A) Schlegel
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CHARACTERISTICS OF ROMANTIC AGE
291. The Romantic Age was influenced by the ________ Revolution.
A) American
B) French
C) Industrial
D) All of these
Answer: D) All of these
292. Romantic poets wrote on expression of personal feelings and emotions in ________ language.
A) Complex
B) Plain and simple
C) Ornate
D) Classical
Answer: B) Plain and simple
293. Romantic writers turned towards ________.
A) Society
B) Nature
C) Politics
D) Religion
Answer: B) Nature
294. ________ is a main source of poetry in the Romantic Age.
A) Reason
B) Imagination
C) Logic
D) Science
Answer: B) Imagination
295. The Romantic Age idealized ________ life.
A) Urban
B) Rural
C) Court
D) Industrial
Answer: B) Rural
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LITERARY MOVEMENTS OF ROMANTIC AGE
296. The Lake School poets were Wordsworth, Coleridge and ________.
A) Keats
B) Shelley
C) Southey
D) Byron
Answer: C) Southey
297. The Scott Group included Thomas Campbell, Moore and ________.
A) Wordsworth
B) Coleridge
C) Sir Walter Scott
D) Southey
Answer: C) Sir Walter Scott
298. The Young Group included Lord Byron, P.B. Shelley and ________.
A) Wordsworth
B) Coleridge
C) Keats
D) Southey
Answer: C) Keats
299. John Keats is called the ________ poet.
A) Lake
B) Chameleon
C) Rebel
D) Revolutionary
Answer: B) Chameleon
300. William Blake started writing Songs of Innocence in ________.
A) 1785
B) 1789
C) 1794
D) 1798
Answer: A) 1785
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
301. William Wordsworth was born in ________.
A) 1770
B) 1772
C) 1792
D) 1795
Answer: A) 1770
302. Wordsworth died in ________.
A) 1824
B) 1834
C) 1850
D) 1870
Answer: C) 1850
303. Wordsworth became Poet Laureate in ________.
A) 1798
B) 1843
C) 1850
D) 1852
Answer: B) 1843
304. Wordsworth's longest poem "The Prelude" was published in ________.
A) 1798
B) 1805
C) 1850
D) 1852
Answer: C) 1850
305. Wordsworth believed that Nature is a living soul and heals the heart, a belief called ________.
A) Deism
B) Pantheism
C) Atheism
D) Theism
Answer: B) Pantheism
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
306. S.T. Coleridge was born in ________.
A) 1770
B) 1772
C) 1792
D) 1795
Answer: B) 1772
307. Coleridge died in ________.
A) 1824
B) 1834
C) 1850
D) 1870
Answer: B) 1834
308. Coleridge is called the Poet of ________.
A) Nature
B) Supernaturalism
C) Beauty
D) Revolution
Answer: B) Supernaturalism
309. Coleridge's longest work in literary criticism is ________.
A) Lyrical Ballads
B) Biographia Literaria
C) The Rime of Ancient Mariner
D) Christabel
Answer: B) Biographia Literaria
310. Coleridge's best lecture was on ________ in 1802.
A) Shakespeare
B) Hamlet
C) Milton
D) Chaucer
Answer: B) Hamlet
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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
311. P.B. Shelley was born in ________.
A) 1770
B) 1772
C) 1792
D) 1795
Answer: C) 1792
312. Shelley died at the age of ________.
A) 25
B) 29
C) 32
D) 35
Answer: B) 29
313. Shelley died in a ________ accident.
A) Carriage
B) Boating
C) Horse riding
D) Fire
Answer: B) Boating
314. Shelley's elegy on the death of John Keats is ________.
A) Adonais
B) Lycidas
C) In Memoriam
D) Thyrsis
Answer: A) Adonais
315. Shelley was expelled from Oxford for writing ________.
A) Queen Mab
B) The Necessity of Atheism
C) Prometheus Unbound
D) The Cenci
Answer: B) The Necessity of Atheism
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JOHN KEATS
316. John Keats was born in ________.
A) 1770
B) 1772
C) 1792
D) 1795
Answer: D) 1795
317. Keats died at the age of ________.
A) 25
B) 26
C) 27
D) 28
Answer: A) 25
318. Keats suffered from ________.
A) Tuberculosis
B) Asthma
C) Diabetes
D) Blindness
Answer: A) Tuberculosis
319. Matthew Arnold said about Keats: "Flint and ________."
A) Iron
B) Steel
C) Stone
D) Rock
Answer: A) Iron
320. Keats's famous odes include "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on a ________ Urn."
A) Grecian
B) Roman
C) Greek
D) Italian
Answer: A) Grecian
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OTHER ROMANTIC POETS
321. Lord Byron was born in ________.
A) 1770
B) 1788
C) 1792
D) 1795
Answer: B) 1788
322. Lord Byron died in ________.
A) 1821
B) 1824
C) 1832
D) 1850
Answer: B) 1824
323. Walter Scott is called the Poet of ________ love.
A) Romantic
B) Medieval
C) Courtly
D) Divine
Answer: B) Medieval
324. William Blake was born in ________.
A) 1757
B) 1770
C) 1772
D) 1792
Answer: A) 1757
325. Blake's Songs of Innocence was published in ________.
A) 1789
B) 1794
C) 1798
D) 1800
Answer: A) 1789
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JANE AUSTEN
326. Jane Austen was born in ________.
A) 1775
B) 1785
C) 1795
D) 1805
Answer: A) 1775
327. Jane Austen died in ________.
A) 1817
B) 1824
C) 1832
D) 1850
Answer: A) 1817
328. Jane Austen is called ________ in the Romantic Age.
A) Romantic novelist
B) Anti-romantic novelist
C) Gothic novelist
D) Historical novelist
Answer: B) Anti-romantic novelist
329. Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice" was written in ________.
A) 1797
B) 1814
C) 1816
D) 1817
Answer: A) 1797
330. Jane Austen's other novels include Emma, Mansfield Park and ________.
A) Sense and Sensibility
B) Wuthering Heights
C) Jane Eyre
D) Middlemarch
Answer: A) Sense and Sensibility
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ROMANTIC AGE: CHARLES LAMB
331. Charles Lamb was born in ________.
A) 1775
B) 1785
C) 1795
D) 1805
Answer: A) 1775
332. Charles Lamb died in ________.
A) 1824
B) 1834
C) 1845
D) 1850
Answer: B) 1834
333. Lamb wrote under the pseudonym ________.
A) Elia
B) Boz
C) Currer Bell
D) George Eliot
Answer: A) Elia
334. Lamb's sister ________ stabbed their mother to death.
A) Mary
B) Anne
C) Elizabeth
D) Dorothy
Answer: A) Mary
335. Lamb's "Tales from Shakespeare" was written with his sister in ________.
A) 1807
B) 1808
C) 1809
D) 1810
Answer: A) 1807
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ROMANTIC AGE: KEY FACTS
336. Wordsworth and Coleridge are called the ________ Poets.
A) Lake
B) Romantic
C) Revolutionary
D) Nature
Answer: A) Lake
337. The Industrial Revolution started during the ________ Age.
A) Classical
B) Romantic
C) Victorian
D) Modern
Answer: B) Romantic
338. The Reign of Terror in Europe was during the ________ Age.
A) Classical
B) Romantic
C) Victorian
D) Modern
Answer: B) Romantic
339. William Blake is called the ________ poet.
A) Mystic
B) Rebel
C) Revolutionary
D) Nature
Answer: A) Mystic
340. Lord Byron is called the ________ Poet.
A) Mystic
B) Rebel
C) Revolutionary
D) Nature
Answer: B) Rebel
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SECTION M: VICTORIAN AGE (MCQs 341-390)
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VICTORIAN AGE: BASIC FACTS
341. The Victorian Age lasted from ________.
A) 1798-1824
B) 1832-1901
C) 1901-1939
D) 1945-Today
Answer: B) 1832-1901
342. The Victorian Age is named after Queen ________.
A) Elizabeth
B) Victoria
C) Mary
D) Anne
Answer: B) Victoria
343. Queen Victoria reigned from ________.
A) 1832-1901
B) 1837-1901
C) 1832-1837
D) 1901-1910
Answer: B) 1837-1901
344. The Victorian Age is called the Age of ________ and Prosperity.
A) Peace
B) War
C) Revolution
D) Change
Answer: A) Peace
345. The Victorian Age is also called the Second ________.
A) Renaissance
B) Restoration
C) Revival
D) Revolution
Answer: A) Renaissance
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VICTORIAN AGE: HISTORICAL EVENTS
346. The Chartist Movement (1838-1848) demanded voting rights for ________.
A) Women
B) Working class
C) Landowners
D) Aristocrats
Answer: B) Working class
347. The Crimean War was fought from ________.
A) 1848-1850
B) 1853-1856
C) 1870-1872
D) 1876-1878
Answer: B) 1853-1856
348. The Education Act was passed in ________, making education compulsory.
A) 1832
B) 1870
C) 1876
D) 1901
Answer: B) 1870
349. Queen Victoria became Empress of India in ________.
A) 1837
B) 1876
C) 1877
D) 1901
Answer: B) 1876
350. The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria was in ________.
A) 1876
B) 1877
C) 1887
D) 1897
Answer: C) 1887
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VICTORIAN AGE: CHARACTERISTICS
351. The Victorian Age is famous for ________.
A) Poetry
B) Drama
C) Novels
D) Criticism
Answer: C) Novels
352. Charles Darwin published "Origin of Species" in the ________ Age.
A) Romantic
B) Victorian
C) Modern
D) Restoration
Answer: B) Victorian
353. The main theme of Victorian novels was class and ________ hierarchy.
A) Social
B) Political
C) Religious
D) Cultural
Answer: A) Social
354. The clash between faith/religion and reason/science was prominent in the ________ Age.
A) Romantic
B) Victorian
C) Modern
D) Restoration
Answer: B) Victorian
355. The 1890-1900 period in the Victorian Age is called the ________ 90s.
A) Gay
B) Nervous
C) Golden
D) Silver
Answer: B) Nervous
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LITERARY MOVEMENTS OF VICTORIAN AGE
356. The Oxford Movement began in ________.
A) 1832
B) 1833
C) 1848
D) 1890
Answer: B) 1833
357. The Oxford Movement was related to the ________.
A) Church of England
B) Catholic Church
C) Puritan Church
D) Methodist Church
Answer: A) Church of England
358. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in ________.
A) 1833
B) 1848
C) 1890
D) 1901
Answer: B) 1848
359. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood had ________ members.
A) 5
B) 7
C) 9
D) 11
Answer: B) 7
360. The leader of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was ________.
A) William Holman Hunt
B) John Everett Millais
C) Dante Gabriel Rossetti
D) Thomas Woolner
Answer: C) Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
361. Alfred Lord Tennyson was born in ________.
A) 1809
B) 1812
C) 1840
D) 1850
Answer: A) 1809
362. Tennyson died in ________.
A) 1850
B) 1892
C) 1901
D) 1910
Answer: B) 1892
363. Tennyson became Poet Laureate in ________.
A) 1843
B) 1850
C) 1892
D) 1901
Answer: B) 1850
364. Tennyson's most important work "In Memoriam" was written in memory of ________.
A) His mother
B) Arthur Hallam
C) Queen Victoria
D) His father
Answer: B) Arthur Hallam
365. "In Memoriam" was published in ________.
A) 1833
B) 1850
C) 1862
D) 1883
Answer: B) 1850
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ROBERT BROWNING AND ELIZABETH BROWNING
366. Robert Browning was born in ________.
A) 1806
B) 1812
C) 1840
D) 1850
Answer: B) 1812
367. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in ________.
A) 1806
B) 1812
C) 1840
D) 1850
Answer: A) 1806
368. Robert Browning is famous for his ________.
A) Sonnets
B) Dramatic Monologue
C) Epic poetry
D) Lyrical poetry
Answer: B) Dramatic Monologue
