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Mock test on English literature for NTA NET:

1. Who is considered the father of English literature?

a) William Shakespeare

b) Geoffrey Chaucer

c) John Milton

d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2. Which novel is considered a key work of the Victorian era and explores themes of social class and gender roles?

a) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

b) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

c) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

d) Middlemarch by George Eliot

3. Who is the author of the play "The Importance of Being Earnest"?

a) Oscar Wilde

b) George Bernard Shaw

c) Samuel Beckett

d) T.S. Eliot

4. Which poet is associated with the Romantic movement and wrote "Ode to a Nightingale"?

a) John Keats

b) Lord Byron

c) William Wordsworth

d) Percy Bysshe Shelley

5. Who is the author of the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird"?

a) Harper Lee

b) F. Scott Fitzgerald

c) Ernest Hemingway

d) Mark Twain

6. Which poet is known for his metaphysical poetry and wrote "The Flea" and "To His Coy Mistress"?

a) John Donne

b) Andrew Marvell

c) John Milton

d) Alexander Pope

7. Who is the author of the play "Hamlet"?

a) William Shakespeare

b) Christopher Marlowe

c) Ben Jonson

d) Thomas Middleton

8. Which American author wrote the novel "Moby-Dick"?

a) Nathaniel Hawthorne

b) Mark Twain

c) Herman Melville

d) Emily Dickinson

9. Who is the author of the poem "The Waste Land"?

a) T.S. Eliot

b) W.B. Yeats

c) Robert Frost

d) Langston Hughes

10. Which literary movement emerged in the 20th century and focused on the inner thoughts and experiences of characters?

a) Modernism

b) Romanticism

c) Realism

d) Postmodernism

Answers:

1. b) Geoffrey Chaucer

2. a) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

3. a) Oscar Wilde

4. a) John Keats

5. a) Harper Lee

6. b) Andrew Marvell

7. a) William Shakespeare

8. c) Herman Melville

9. a) T.S. Eliot

10. a) Modernism