English Language and Literature Quiz - Round 1 to 5 with Answers
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
AND LITERATURE QUIZ
Quiz on
Language and Literature 1
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central School, Bhutan
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1.
When was Geoffrey Chaucer born?
2.
When did Geoffrey Chaucer die?
3.
Who was Geoffrey Chaucer?
4.
Name the poem that Geoffrey Chaucer wrote in
John of Gaunt's wife, the Duchess Blanche’s honour
5.
How many lines do
the poem The Book of the Duchesse has?
6.
When and where was John Donne born?
7.
Name the poet who followed and developed the
use of “Conceits” that was admired all
over Europe?
8.
When was John Dryden born?
9.
When did John Dryden die?
10.
Who wrote the essay Discourse Concerning
the Original and Progress of Satire
in 1693?
11.
When was Samuel Johnson born?
12.
When did Samuel Johnson die?
13.
Who wrote the poem Lives of the Poets?
When?
14.
Who wrote Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
in
1624?
16.
When did John Milton die?
17.
Name the John Milton’s first major poem?
18.
When did John Milton compose his first poem
"The Nativity Ode"?
19.
Name the elegy written by John Milton in
memory of Edward King in 1637?
20.
When was the first significant English
dictionary “Dictionary of the English Language” published?
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Answer
1.
1343
2. 1400
3. An English poet
4. The Book of the
Duchesse
5. 1334 lines in
octosyllabic couplets
6. 1572 in London
7. John Donne
8. 1631
9. 1700
10. John Dryden
11. 1709
12. 1784
13. Samuel Johnson,
1779
14. John Donne
15. 1608, London
16. 1674
17. On the Morning
of Christ's Nativity (The Nativity Ode)
18. For Christmas
1629, when he had just 21 years old.
19. Lycidas
20. 1755
Quiz on
Language and Literature 2
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central School, Bhutan
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1.
Who published the first significant English
dictionary “Dictionary of the English
Language” published?
2.
When was the first book printed in England?
3.
In which year was the Noble price for
literature fast awarded?
4.
In which year did penguin book fast come out?
5.
Who wrote Ramayana originally?
6.
When was Tagore’s Gitanjali in English version fast published?
7.
When was Shakespeare born?
8.
When did Shakespeare die?
9.
Name the author of Peter Pass?
10.
Name the first ever Poet Laureate?
11.
Who wrote "A Short History of Nearly Everything" and "Notes from a Small Island"?
12.
What English military term translates as
"little war" in Spanish?
13.
Name the other name of William Wordsworth's
Cottage in Grasmere?
14.
Who wrote the novel ‘Time Machine’?
15.
In which novel was humanity split into two
groups whereby the Eloi live above
ground, and the Morlocks below?
16.
Who wrote "Finnegan's Wake"?
17.
Between which people of particular profession
do ECLOGUES take place in literature?
18.
Who wrote the novel Dracula?
19.
Where did Dracula come ashore in England in
the novel Dracula?
20.
Who wrote the novel "Ben Hur"?
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Answer
1. Samuel Johnson
2. 1477
3. 1901
4. 1935
5. Valmiki
6. 1912
7. 1564
8. 1616
9. Sir James Barry
10. John Dryden
11. Bill Bryson
12. Guerrilla
13. Dove Cottage
14. H G Wells
15. Time Machine
16. James Joyce
17. Shepherds
18. Bram Stoker
19. Whit by
20. Lew Wallace
Quiz on
Language and Literature 3
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central School, Bhutan
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1. Who wrote the
book Harry Potter?
2. Which two
writers declined the Literature Nobel Price?
3. Who wrote
Gulliver’s Travels?
4. Who wrote the novel
‘Animal Farm’?
5. Who wrote the
Book "Four Essays on Liberty"?
6. Who was the
first Asian to win the Nobel Prize?
7. Who wrote the
preface to the English translation of Gitanjali?
8. Who personifies
England?
9. Name the famous
poet who killed herself at age thirty-one by sticking her head in a gas oven.
10. From what
language does the word ‘alphabet’ originated?
11. What is Walt
Whitman’s famous book of poetry called?
12. Who controlled
everything in George Orwell’s book, 1984?
13. What are the
three articles of the English language?
14. Who wrote The
Canterbury Tales?
15. Who wrote the
book Gandhi’s Emissary?
16. Which Bronte sister wrote 'Jane Eyre'?
17. Name two major
Romantic Novelists.
18. The Victorian
Age is marked roughly by whose reign of England from 1837-1901?
19. What is the
most distinctive and lasting literary achievement of Victorian literature?
20. Who introduced
the iambic pentameter line, the rhyming couplet and other rhymes used in
Italian poetry in English Literature?
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Answer
1. JK Rowling
2. Boris Pasternak
and Jean-Paul Sartre
3. Jonathon Swift
4. George Orwell
5. Isaiah Berlin
6. Rabindranath
Tagore
7. WB Yeasts
8. John Bull
9. Sylvia Plath
10. Greek -alpha
beta
11. Leaves of Grass
12. Big Brother
13. A, an, &
the
14. Geoffrey
Chaucer
15. Sudhir Ghosh
16. Charlotte
17. Charlotte
Bronte (1816-55) and Emily Bronte(1818-48)
18. Queen Victoria
19. The novel
20. Chaucer
Quiz on
Language and Literature 4
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central School, Bhutan
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1.
Who was the greatest of Elizabethan lyric
poets?
2.
Name one of the greatest epic works of world
literature.
3.
Name Chaucer’s first narrative poem written
shortly after the death of Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster, first wife of John
Gaunt, in September 1369.
4.
When did Jane Austen write Pride and
Prejudice?
5.
When was Jane Austen born?
6.
When did Jane Austen die?
7.
What is the biting literary tool used by
Chaucer in his Canterbury Tales?
8.
What are the three prominent characteristics
of Romanticism?
9.
Which sonnet written by Percy Bysshe Shelly
shows the story builds around the Egyptian sculpture?
10.
Which sonnet written by John Keats shows the
story builds around an antique urn?
11.
What was a medieval European conception of
nobly and chivalrously expressing love and admiration?
12.
Who popularized the term "courtly
love" first in 1883?
13.
Name the major authors of the ‘Middle Ages’ whose
works contain the literary convention of courtly love.
14.
In which medieval genres courtly love
conventions can be found?
15.
What were tempered by the Rules of Courtly Love of the ‘Middle Ages’?
16.
Who wrote the
crime novel "Ten Little Niggers"?
17.
Who wrote the
famous storybook 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
18.
Which era was considered as a golden age in
English history?
19.
Name the Romantic
poets who were also called as the Lake Poets.
20.
Name the book that
opens with the line 'All children, except one grew up'?
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Answer
1.
John Donne
2.
The Canterbury
Tales
3.
The Book of the
Duchess
4.
1813
5.
1775
6.
1817
7.
Satire
8.
Interest in the past, art, and immortality
9.
Ozymandias
10.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
11.
Courtly love
12.
Gaston Paris
13.
Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, Dante, Marie de
France, Chretien de Troyes, Gottfried von Strasburg, and Malory
14.
The lyric, the Romance, and the allegory
15. The violence and wars
16.
Agatha Christie
17.
Lewis Carroll
18. The Elizabethan era
19.
Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey
20.
Peter pan
Quiz on Language
and Literature 5
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central School, Bhutan
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1.
What are two major types of literature?
2.
What includes oral literature?
3.
What includes written literature?
4.
Why were Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey
called as Lake Poets?
5.
When did English Romanticism begin?
6.
When did English Romanticism end?
7.
What period was a revolt of the English
imagination against the neoclassical reason?
8.
Name the first and foremost English woman
novelist.
9.
Which essayist in English Romanticism wrote Essays
of Elia; Tales from Shakespeare?
10.
Who was noted for his historical novel based
on Scottish history and legends?
11.
When was William Wordsworth born?
12.
When did Wordsworth and Coleridge publish
their Lyrical Ballads?
13.
What are the masterpieces of the English
Gothic novel?
14.
Who was Geoffrey Chaucer?
15.
What type of tone did Chaucer use in his
writing?
16.
What was the age of Shakespeare when he
married to Anne Hathaway in 1582?
17.
In which poem Andrew Marvell gives the
conventional argument of the seducer?
18.
Whose name is recorded in the Oxford English
Dictionary as the first author to use many common English words in his
writings?
19.
What was Wordsworth’s greatest contribution
to English literature?
20.
Which essayist in English Romanticism wrote Biographia
Literaria?
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Answer
1. Written and oral literature
2. Oral literature includes ballads, myth, jokes, folktales
and fables
3. Written literature includes drama, novel, poetry and
nonfictional literature
4. Because they
lived and knew one another in the last few years of the 18th century
in the district of the great lakes in Northwestern England
5. 1798, with the
publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s The Lyrical Ballads
6. 1832, with
Walter Scott’s death
7. English
Romanticism
8. Jane Austen
9. Charles Lamb
10. Walt Scott
11. 1770
12. 1798
13. Frankenstein (1818) by Mary
Shelley and The Mysteries of Udolpho
(1794) by Ann Radcliffe
14. Geoffrey Chaucer was an English author, poet, philosopher,
bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat
15. Delicate,
subtle, and oblique
16. Eighteen
17. To His Coy Mistress
18. Geoffrey Chaucer
19. His poems and
his Preface to The Lyrical Ballads
20. S.T. Coleridge
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