English Language and Literature Quiz - Round 6 to 10 with Answers
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
AND LITERATURE QUIZ
Quiz on
Language and Literature 6
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central School, Bhutan
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1.
When
was John Milton's masque Comus performed at a grand ceremonial occasion
in Ludlow castle?
2.
Which
work of Jane Austen dealt with the standards of the times and the issues
concerning women, including the pressures of society to marry, female
dependency on men, and lack of individualism?
3.
To
which mythology do Ares belong?
4.
How
many years did Ulysses wander after the siege of Troy?
5.
Who
wrote the Odyssey?
6.
Who is
famous for the character Sherlock Holmes?
7.
Who
invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’ in English?
8.
Name
the first fully-realized English novel?
9.
What do
you mean by Renaissance?
10.
Which
era was a cultural movement that stressed emotion, imagination and
individuality?
11.
In
which novel did Jane Austen open with the famous ironic sentence, "It is a
truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good
fortune must be in want of a wife."?
12.
Which
poem expresses the Tennyson’s concept of faith and immortality?
13.
Who
wrote the poem The Lotus Eaters?
14.
Who
wrote the dramatic monologue Fra Lippo Lippi?
15.
What in
poetry is characteristic of metaphysical poetry as a style?
16.
Who was
famous in the 18th Century for his wit in response to insults?
17.
What is
the difference between Wordsworth and Coleridge as nature poet?
18.
Who
wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843?
19.
Whose
chief subject is the contrast between human pretensions and human weakness?
20.
What is
the major work of William Makepeace Thackeray?
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Answer
1.
1634
2.
Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility
3.
Greek mythology
4.
20 years
5.
Homer
6.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7.
William Shakespeare
8.
Pamela by Samuel Richardson
9.
The period of European history at the close
of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from
the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries
10.
Romantic era
11.
Pride and
Prejudice
12.
In Memoriam
13.
Alford Lord Tennyson
14.
Robert Browning
15.
Wit
16.
John Wilkes
17.
Wordsworth looks at nature as benign and a
reflection of god where as Coleridge sees a kind of symbolism in its object
that deviates from the benign nature of Wordsworth
18.
Charles Dickens
19.
William Makepeace Thackeray
20.
Vanity Fair, 1847
Quiz on
Language and Literature 7
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central School, Bhutan
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1.
When did the modern lyric poetry in English
begin?
2.
Who begin the modern lyric poetry in English?
3.
Who was the first great English dramatist
during the Renaissance?
4.
How many lines
does a sonnet have?
5.
What nationality
was Robert Louis Stevenson, writer of 'Treasure Island'?
6.
What did the Victorian novelists believe
about human nature?
7.
Name the first the first English novel
written by George Eliot concerned with the intellectual life.
8.
When did Thomas
Hardy write Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
9.
When was Henry James born?
10.
When did Henry James die?
11.
What exploration and development of Henry
James have greatly influenced subsequent writers of fiction?
12.
Which novel did Henry James write in 1903?
13.
Who wrote Tom
Sawyer in 1876?
14.
When was the novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin written?
15.
Name the greatest war novels written by Stephen
Crane in 1895.
16.
Name Jane Austen’s novel written in 1811?
17.
When did Jane Austen write Pride and
Prejudice?
18.
What are the elements of comedies of William
Shakespeare?
19.
Which famous writer believed in the words of
Swift that real art lies in the concealment of art?
20.
Who is the author of ‘Book of Humour’?
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Answer
1.
16th century
2.
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) and Henry
Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)
3.
Marlowe
4.
14 lines
5.
Scottish
6.
The Victorian novelists believed that human
nature is fundamentally good and lapses are errors of judgment corrected by
maturation
7.
Middlemarch
8.
1891
9.
1843
10.
1916
11.
His exploration of point of view and his
development of stream of consciousness technique
12.
The Ambassadors
13.
Mark Twain
14.
1899
15.
The Red Badge of Courage
16.
Sense and
Sensibility
17.
1813
18.
The elements of comedies of William
Shakespeare are:
·
Lovers
struggle to overcome obstacles,
·
Has lots of
Puns,
·
Has stock
characters,
·
Mistaken
Identity,
·
Twist of the
plot very cleverly, and
·
Has happy endings
19.
Geoffrey Chaucer
20.
Ruskin Bond
Quiz on
Language and Literature 8
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central School, Bhutan
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1.
Into how many periods is English
linguistically divided?
2.
What are the three periods of English period?
3.
What does English Renaissance theatre refer
to?
4.
What do you mean by English Renaissance?
5.
Who were the notable English musicians of English Renaissance?
6.
Who is the representative poet of English
romanticism?
7.
Which writer’s hero was known as “Byronic
Hero”?
8.
What do you mean by “Byronic Hero”?
9.
In Northanger Abbey, What does Jane
Austen parodies?
10.
Which is the first
Harry Potter book?
11.
Who wrote Pygmalion?
12.
Who is the author of ‘Book of Humour’?
13.
Whose poetry is distinguished by the
simplicity and purity of his language?
14.
In which ballad Coleridge tells a story of a
sorcerer who casts a spell over a pure young girl?
15.
What does the term "Elizabethan
theatre" covers?
16.
Who was considered as the source of the
English vernacular tradition and the "father" of modern English
literature?
17.
Who is often considered as “the prophet of
modern society”?
18.
Who was considered as the first of the
aphoristic writers of the English essay?
19.
In whose poetry the elements of Victorian
life reflected?
20.
What are the three great principles of
Bacon’s Essay?
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Answer
1.
Three periods
2.
The three periods of English period are: Old
English, Middle English, and The Modern English
3.
English Renaissance theatre refers to the
theatre of England, largely based in London, which occurred between the
Reformation and the closure of the theatres in 1642
4.
It was a cultural
and artistic movement in England dating from the early 16th century to the
early 17th century
5.
Thomas Tallis, Thomas Morley, William Byrd
and John Dowland
6.
William Wordsworth
7.
Byron
8.
He is a proud, mysterious rebel figure of
noble origin
9.
The Gothic literary style that was popular
during the 1790s
10.
Harry Potter and
the Philosopher’s stone
11.
Bernard Shaw
12.
Ruskin Bond
13.
William Wordsworth
14.
Christabel
15.
The term "Elizabethan theatre"
covers only the plays written and performed publicly in England during the reign
of Queen Elizabeth
16.
Geoffrey Chaucer
17.
Ruskin Bond
18.
Bacon
19.
Mathew Arnold
20.
The three great principles of Bacon’s Essay
are:
·
Man in relation to the World and Society,
·
Man in relation to himself, and
·
Man in relation to his Maker and Unseen
World.
Quiz on
Language and Literature 9
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central School, Bhutan
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1.
What is the first line of Moby Dick?
2.
Who is the author of the book ‘Unto This
Last’ which profoundly influenced Gandhi?
3.
In which century
were Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales written?
4.
How did the Victorian novelists portray the
hero?
5.
When was Charles Dickens born?
6.
When did Charles Dickens die?
7.
Name the first Dickens’s novel written with a
carefully-knit plot.
8.
Who wrote the novel David
Copperfield?
9.
Name George Eliot’s novel with a plot about a
miser who adopts a foundling and the theme of the regenerative power of
humanity and love written in 1861.
10.
Name the novel written by George Eliot in
1859 with a love triangle set in pre-industrial agricultural England.
11.
Who wrote 'Where
ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise'?
12.
Name the first modern novelist who is also a
psychological fiction creator.
13.
Who is considered
as the father of the modern detective novel?
14.
Who wrote the detective book The Moonstone in1868?
15.
Which novel did Henry James write in 1904?
16.
In the book' The
Lord of the Rings', who or what is Bilbo?
17.
When was Mark Twain
born?
18.
When did Mark Twain
die?
19.
What is the real
name of Mark Twain?
20. What is the
novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin
all about?
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Answer
1. Call me Ishmael
2. John Ruskin
3. 14th century
4. They portrayed the hero as a rational man of virtue
5. 1812
6. 1870
7. Bleak House
8. Charles Dickens
9. Silas Marner
10. Adam Bede
11. Shakespeare
12. George Eliot
13. Wilkie Collins
14. Thomas Hardy
15. The Golden Bowl
16. Hobbit
17. 1835
18. 1910
19. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
20. It is an early feminist novel about a woman unhappy in her marriage
Quiz on
Language and Literature 10
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central School, Bhutan
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1.
Who wrote Brave New World?
2.
Who wrote the children's novel Swallows and
Amazons?
3.
When was Thomas
Hardy born?
4.
When did Thomas
Hardy die?
5.
Which Victorian
novelist felt that man was an alien in an impersonal universe and at
the mercy of sheer chance?
6.
Which novel of Thomas Hardy written in 1895 revolt against indissoluble Victorian
marriage?
7.
When was the novel
Mansfield Park written by Jane Austen?
8.
Who wrote the
novel Emma in 1815?
9.
Of what was Coleridge fond of?
10.
Which poem of
Coleridge state, ‘A poem should not be judged as a mirror of truth—as we judge
science--but as a thing in itself, almost as a living organism’?
11.
What was Edmund Spenser’s first important
work of 1579?
12.
Name the longest novel in the English
language.
13.
How many sonnets did Shakespeare write during
the 1590s?
14.
What was the early draft title of Milton’s Paradise
Lost?
15.
Who was considered to
be the most learned man of the
Elizabethan age?
16.
Who said, ‘Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be
chewed and digested’?
17.
Name a novelist and an influential critic
whose prefaces to his own work were later collected in The Art of the Novel in
1934.
18.
When did Henry James write the novel The Portrait of a Lady?
19.
When did Henry James write the novel The Wings of the Dove?
20.
Who wrote the Great American
Novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1885?
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Answer
1.
Aldus Huxley
2.
Arthur Ransom
3.
1840
4.
1920
5.
Thomas Hardy
6.
Jude the Obscure
7.
1814
8.
Jane Austen
9.
Coleridge was fond of unusual and
supernatural things
10.
Biographia
Literaria
11.
The Shepherdess
Calendar
12.
Clarissa
13.
154 sonnets (they are not published until
1609)
14.
Adam Unparadized
15.
Bacon
16.
Bacon
17.
Henry James
18.
1881
19.
1902
20.
Mark Twain
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