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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

Some important facts in Literature

Some important facts in Literature

1.     Mathew Prior’s Alma is an imitation of Hudibras.*
2.   Solomon is a long and serious poem by Addison.*

3.     Pope’s two translated works are Iliad and Odyssey.*

4.      Moral Essays was written by Pope.*

5.     Horace Walpole: Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel.*

6.     Treasure Island is a famous moment of Stevenson.*

7.  Sheridan’s play The Rivals came out in 1775, his School for scandal came out in 1777.*

8.  Robinson Crusoe – Friday (Cannibal). The Vicar ofWakefield – Moses, Olivia, Sophia.*

9.   The first of the ‘robot’ books – Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley.*

10.      Don Quixote (a Picaresque novel) – Written by Cervantes, Moll Flanders (a picaresque novel) – written by Defoe.*


 11.  There are 18 books in Tom Jones. This novel by Fielding is dedicated to George Littleton.*

12.   Thomas Chesterton (1752-70), a poet of the Pre-Romantic period committed suicide at the age of 18.*

13.    Doer’s Lament has the constant refrain “that was lived through, so can this be” or in other words, “his sorrow passed away, so will mine”.*

14.       Ulysses (1922) a novel by James Joyce is set in a single day in Dublin, the hero is leopald Bloom.*

15.     Of Human Bondage (1915), the autobiographical novel of Somerset Maugham is a study in frustration.*

16.    Dylan Thomas' Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog(1940) is a collection of short stories.*

17. Robinson Crusoe an adventurous tale by Daniel Defoe (1659-1731) which appeared in 1719 was inspired to a slight extent by the adventures of the Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, whom Defoe had interviewed at Bristol.*

18. A Tale of Tub, a brilliant satire on roman Catholics and Calvinists, on critics and bad writers; The Battle of the books, a satiric by product of the Bentley controversy;Gulliver’s Travels – written by Swift.*

19. In 1740 Samuel Richardson published his novel Pamela. Fielding saw that it would be amusing to burlesque this novel by writing in a similar manner about a hero instead of about a heroine, and so upset Richardson’s prudential system of morality. Thus Fielding wrote Joseph Andrewsin 1742. It ran far beyond its original design of being a burlesque, and became a novel of life and manners.*

20.        The expedition of Humphrey Clinker (1771) is Smollett’s masterpiece as Tom Jones is Fielding’s. The novel is written in epistolary form. Bramble, Mrs. Tabitha and Lismahago are the best portraits in his gallery.*

21.  Smollett’s the Adventures of Roderick Random written in 1748 is largely, though not wholly autobiographical novel.It is especially excellent in its delineation of British tar.*

22.    In 1750 Johnson commences to publish The Rambler, a paper modeled up on The Spectator.*

23.   Johnson completed and published his Dictionary in 1775. It is considered best and he was thought to be a match, single handed, for the forty members of the French Academy.*

24.   She stoops to Conquer by Goldsmith is a splendid comedy of intrigue, introducing lively and farcical    incidents   and highly drawn pictures of eccentric characters.*

25. The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope (a mock-heroic epic written in 1772 & 1774) was written in a  fanciful and ingenious mock-heroic style based on a true story.*
 “WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs,
What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things,
I sing—This Verse to CARYL, Muse! is due;
This, ev'n Belinda may vouchfafe to view:
Slight is the Subject, but not so the Praise,
If She inspire, and He approve my Lays.”- *these are the famous lines from* *Alexander Pope's mock epic The Rape of the Lock canto I*

26. The first successful American political newspaper, theBoston News-Letter, was founded in 1704*

Important mcq questions on literature for Net Exam

Important mcq questions on literature for Net Exam

1 D.H.Lawrence called one of his novels Kangaroo as “Thought Adventure".

2 The phrase ‘religion of the blood' is associated with D.H.Lawrence.

3 A character in Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando changes his sex. Charles II is characterised in this novel.

4 A woman's search for a fittinOkOkg mate is the central theme of Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman.

5 ‘Chocolate cream hero' appears in Shaw’s Arms and the Man.

6 The phrase 'Don Juan in Hell' occurs in Shaw’s Man and Superman.

7 Prostitution is the central theme of Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession.

8 Labour and Capital conflict is the central theme of Galsworthy’s Strife.

9 "The law is what it is -a majestic edifice sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another." These lines occur in Galsworthy’s Justice.

10 Bernard Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925.

11 Joseph Conrad's novels are generally set in the background of the sea.

12 .Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem “ If”

13 .The term 'Stream of consciousness' was first used by William James.

14 .The terms 'Inscape' and 'Instress' are associated with Hopkins.

15 .Sprung Rhythm' was originated by Hopkins.

16 .T .S. Eliot called 'Hamlet' an artistic failure.

17. World Within World is an autobiography of Stephen Spender.

18 .G. B. Shaw said, "For art's sake alone I would not face the toil of writing a single sentence”.

19 .Aldous Huxley borrowed the title ‘Brave New World’ from Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

20 .William Morris is the author of The Earthly Paradise.

21 .T S Eliot was believed to be "a classicist in literature, royalist in politics and anglo-catholic in religion”.

22 .Virginia Woolf was the founder of the Bloomsbury Group, a literary club of England.

23 .George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty – Four and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World are prophetic novels.

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24 .Plato said, ‘Art is twice removed from reality'.

25 .Plato proposed in his Republic that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic.

26 .Five principal sources of Sublimity are there according to Longinus.

27 .In Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy there are four speakers representing four different ideologies. Neander expresses Dryden's own views.

28 .Dr. Johnson called Dryden 'the father of English criticism'

29 .Shelley said, "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”.

30 . Dr. Johnson preferred Shakespeare's comedies to his Tragedies.

31 .Coleridge said, "I write in metre because I am about to use a language different from that of prose."

32 .Heroic Couplet is a two-line stanza having two rhyming lines in Iambic Pentameter.

33 .Alexandrine is a line of six iambic feet occasionally used in a Heroic couplet.

34 .Terza Rima is a run-on three-line stanza with a fixed rhyme-scheme.

35 .Rhyme Royal stanza is a seven-line stanza in iambic pentameter.

36 .Ottawa Rima is an eight-line stanza in iambic pentameter with a fixed rhyme-scheme.

37 .Spenserian stanza is a nine-line stanza consisting of two quatrains in iambic pentameter, rounded off with an Alexandrine.

38 .Blank verse has a metre but no rhyme.

39 .Simile is a comparison between two things which have at least one point common.

40 .Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement for the sake of emphasis.

41 .The poem by Chaucer known to be the first attempt in English to use the Heroic Couplet is The Legend of Good Women.

42 .Chaucer introduced the Heroic couplet in English verse and invented Rhyme Royal.

43 .The invention of the genre, the Eclogues (pastoral poetry) is attributed to Alexander Barclay.

44 .Mort D' Arthur is the first book in English in poetic prose.

45 .First to use blank verse in English drama Thomas Sackville.

46 .The first English play house called The Theatre was founded in London, 1576.

47 .Thomas Wyatt introduced the sonnet form to England.

Important mcq questions on literature for Net Exam.

48 .Thomas Nash was the creator of the picaresque novel. ( The Unfortunate Traveler)

49 .Francis Bacon is the first great stylist in English prose.

50 .Marlowe wrote only tragedies.

51 .Sir Walter Raleigh wrote the introductory Sonnet

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1. The epigraph of The Waste Land is borrowed from?
(A) Virgil
(B) Fetronius
(C) Seneca
(D) Homer✔

2. Who called ‘The Waste Land ‘a music of ideas’?
(A) Allen Tate✔
(B) J. C. Ransom
(C) I. A. Richards
(D) F. R Leavis

3. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ‘Unreal City’ in the first and third
sections from?
(A) Baudelaire
(B) Irving Babbit
(C) Dante✔
(D) Laforgue

4. Which of the following myths does not figure in The Waste
Land?
(A) Oedipus
(B) Grail Legend of Fisher King
(C) Philomela
(D) Sysyphus✔

5. Joe Gargery is Pip’s?
(A) brother
(B) brother-in-Jaw
(C) guardian✔
(D) cousin

6. Estella is the daughter of?
(A) Joe Gargery✔
(B) Abel Magwitch .
(C) Miss Havisham
(D) Bentley Drumnile

7. Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi?
(A) Sesame and Lilies
(B) The Seven Lamps of Architecture
(C) Unto This Last✔
(D) Fors Clavigera

8. Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?
(A) Catholicism✔
(B) Protestantism
(C) Paganism
(D) Buddhism

9. One important feature of Jane Austen’s style is?
(A) boisterous humour
(B) humour and pathos✔
(C) subtlety of irony
(D) stream of consciousness

10. The title of the poem ‘The Second Coming’ is taken from?
(A) The Bible✔
(B) The Irish mythology
(C) The German mythology
(D) The Greek mythology

11. The main character in Paradise Lost Book I and Book II is?
(A God
(B) Satan✔
(C) Adam
(D) Eve

12. In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel’s mother’s name is?
(A)Susan
(B)Jane
(C)Gertrude✔
(D) Emily

13. The twins in Lord of the Flies are?
(A)Ralph and Jack✔
(B) Simon and Eric
(C) Ralph and Eric
(D) Simon and Jack

14.Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a
(A) lawyer✔
(B) postman
(C)Judge
(D) School teacher

15. What does ‘I’ stand for in the following line?
‘To Carthage then I came’
(A) Buddha
(B) Tiresias
(C) Smyrna Merchant
(D) Augustine✔

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16. The following lines are an example……… of image.
‘The river sweats
Oil and tar’
(A) visual
(B) kinetic
(C) erotic✔
(D) sensual

17. Which of the following novels has the sub-title ‘A Novel Without a Hero’?
(A) Vanity Fair✔
(B) Middlemarch
(C) Wuthering Heights
(D) Oliver Twist

18. In ‘Leda and the Swan’, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan?
(A) Mars
(B) Hercules
(C) Zeus
(D) Bacchus✔

19. Who invented the term ‘Sprung rhythm’?
(A)Hopkins✔
(B)Tennyson
(C)Browning
(D)Wordsworth

20.Who wrote the poem ‘Defence of Lucknow’?
(A) Browning
(B) Tennyson
(C) Swinburne✔
(D) Rossetti

21.Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue?
(A) The Tempest✔
(B) Henry IV, Pt I
(C) Hamlet
(D) Twelfth Night

22. Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be,or not to be; that is the question’
occurs in?
(A) Act II, Scene I
(B) Act III, Scene III
(C) Act IV, Scene III
(D) Act III, Scene I✔

23. Identify the character in The Tempest who is referred to as an honest old counselor
(A) Alonso
(B) Ariel
(C) Gonzalo✔
(D) Stephano

24. What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night?
(A) Or, What is you Will
(B) Or, What you Will✔
(C) Or, What you Like It
(D) Or, What you Think

25. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare, according to T. S.
Eliot, is ‘artistic failure’?
(A) The Tempest
(B) Hamlet✔
(C) Henry IV, Pt I
(D) Twelfth Night

26. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I?
(A) Earl of Northumberland✔
(B) Earl of March
(C) Earl of Douglas
(D) Earl of Worcester

27. Paradise Lost was originally written in?
(A) ten books
(B) eleven books
(C) nine books
(D) eight books✔

28. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with?
(A) Darcy
(B) Wickham✔
(C) William Collins
(D) Charles Bingley

29. Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical Sublime’?
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) P.B.Shelley
(C) S. T. Coleridge✔
(D) John Keats

30. Who is commonly known as ‘Pip’ in Great Expectations?
(A) Philip Pirrip
(B) Filip Pirip
(C)Philip Pip✔
(D) Philips Pirip



31. The novel The Power and the Glory is set in?
(A)Mexico✔
(B) Italy
(C)France
(D) Germany

32. Which of the following is Golding’s first novel?
(A) The Inheritors
(B) Lord of the Flies✔
(C) Pincher Martin
(D) Pyramid

33.Identify the character who is a supporter of Women’s Rights in Sons and Lovers?
(A) Mrs. Morel✔
(B) Annie
(C) Miriam
(D) Clara Dawes

34. Vanity Fair is a novel by?
(A) Jane Austen
(B) Charles Dickens
(C) W. M. Thackeray✔
(D) Thomas Hardy

35. Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on the death of?
(A) Milton
(B) Coleridge
(C) Keats✔
(D) Johnson

36. Which of the following is the first novel of D. H. Lawrence?
(A) The White Peacock✔
(B) The Trespasser
(C) Sons and Lovers
(D) Women in Love

37. In the poem ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘dearest friend’ refers to?
(A) Nature
(B) Dorothy✔
(C) Coleridge
(D) Wye

38. Who, among the following, is not the second generation of British
Romantics?
(A) Keats
(B) Wordsworth✔
(C) Shelley
(D) Byron

39. Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad?
(A) Work Without Hope
(B) Frost at Midnight
(C) The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner✔
(D) Youth and Age

40. Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet—
(A) P. B. Shelley✔
(B) Charles Lamb
(C) Hazlitt
(D) Coleridge

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41. Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to?
(A) Leigh Hunt✔
(B) Milton
(C) Shakespeare
(D) Thomas Chatterton


42. The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in?
(A) 1823
(B) 1826
(C) 1834
(D) 1833✔

43. Which of the following poets does not belong to the ‘Lake School’?
(A) Keats✔
(B) Coleridge
(C) Southey
(D) Wordsworth

44.Who, among the following writers, was not educated at Christ’s Hospital School,
London?
(A) Charles Lamb✔
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) Leigh Hunt
(D) S. T. Coleridge

45. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’?
(A) Tennyson
(8) Charles Lamb
(C) Lockhart
(D) T. S. Eliot✔

46. Tennyson’s poem ‘In Memoriam’was written in memory of?
(A) A. H. Hallam✔
(B) Edward King
(C) Wellington
(D) P. B. Shelley


47. Who, among the following, is not connected with the Oxford Movement?
(A) Robert Browning✔
(B) John Keble
(C) E. B. Pusey
(D) J. H. Newman

48. Identify the work by Swinburne which begins “when the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces..”?
(A) Chastelard
(B) A Song of Italy
(C) Atalanta in Calydon✔
(D) Songs before Sunrise

49. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, HeroWorship and the Heroic in History is a course of?
(A) six lectures
(B) five lectures✔
(C) four lectures
(D) seven lectures

50. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’?
(A) Johnson
(B) Cromwell✔
(C) Shakespeare
(D) Luther



51. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner?
(A) The Stones of Venice
(B) The Two Paths
(C) The Seven Lamps of Architecture
(D) Modem Painters✔

52. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of?
(A) Charles Dickens
(B) Anthony Trollope
(C) W. H. White
(D) B. Disraeli✔

53.✳✳ Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’—
(A) Tennyson
(B) Browning
(C) Swinburne
(D) D. G. Rossetti✔

54. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as?
(A) Spenserian Stanza
(B) Ballad
(C) OttavaRima✔
(D) Rhyme Royal

55. ✳✴Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry?
(A) Sir Thomas Wyatt
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) Earl of Surrey✔
(D) Milton

56. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by?
(A) The Pre-Raphaelites
(B) Ruskin
(C) Pater
(D) Matthew Arnold✔

57. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson “Faith un-faithful kept him falsely true.”
(A) Oxymoron✔
(B) Metaphor
(C) Simile
(D) Synecdoche

58. ✴✴W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem?
(A) Sailing to Byzantium✔
(B) Byzantium
(C) The Second Coming
(D) Leda and the Swan

59. Who is Pip’s friend in London?
(A) Pumblechook
(B) Herbert Pocket
(C) Bentley Drummle
(D) Jaggers✔

60. Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory?
(A) A teacher
(B) A clerk
(C) A thief✔
(D) A dentist


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Some important Literature short mcqs--

1. D.H.Lawrence called one of his novels Kangaroo as “Thought Adventure".

2. The phrase ‘religion of the blood' is associated with D.H.Lawrence.

3. A character in Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando changes his sex.

4. Charles II is characterised in this novel.

5. A woman's search for a fittinOkOkg mate is the central theme of Bernard Shaw'sMan and Superman.

6. ‘Chocolate cream hero' appears in Shaw’s Arms and the Man.

7.The phrase 'Don Juan in Hell' occurs in Shaw’s Man and Superman.

8.Prostitution is the central theme of Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession.

8.Labour and Capital conflict is the centraltheme of Galsworthy’s Strife.

9."The law is what it is -a majestic edifice sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another."

10. These lines occur in Galsworthy’s Justice.Bernard Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925.


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11.Joseph Conrad's novels are generally setin the background of the sea.

12.Rudyardrd Kipling wrote the poem   “ If”.

13.The term 'Stream of consciousness' was first used by William James.

14.The terms 'Inscape' and 'Instress' are associated with Hopkins.

15.Sprung Rhythm' was originated by Hopkins.

16. T .S. Eliot called 'Hamlet' an artistic failure.The World Within World is an autobiography of Stephen Spender.

17. G. B. Shaw said, "For art's sake alone I would not face the toil of writing a single sentence”.

18.Aldous Huxley borrowed the title ‘Brave New World’ from Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

19.William Morris is the author of The Earthly Paradise.

20. T. S Eliot was believed to be "a classicist in literature, royalist in politics and anglo-catholic in religion”.

21.Virginia Woolf was the founder of the Bloomsbury Group, a literary club of England.

22.George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty – Four and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World are prophetic novels.

23.Plato said, ‘Art is twice removed from reality'.

24.Plato proposed in his Republic that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic.

25.Five principal sources of Sublimity are there according to Longinus.

26.In Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy there are four speakers representing four different ideologies.

27.Neander expresses Dryden's own views.

28.Dr. Johnson called Dryden 'the father of English criticism'.

29.Shelley said, "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”.

30.Dr . Johnson preferred Shakespeare's comedies to his Tragedies.

31.Coleridge said, "I write in metre because I am about to use a language different from that of prose.

32."Heroic Couplet is a two-line stanza having two rhyming lines in Iambic Pentameter.

Alexandrine is a line of six iambic feet occasionally used in a Heroic couplet.

Terza Rima is a run-on three-line stanza with a fixed rhyme-scheme.

Rhyme Royal stanza is a seven-line stanza in iambic pentameter.

Ottawa Rima is an eight-line stanza in iambic pentameter with a fixed rhyme-scheme.

Spenserian stanza is a nine-line stanza consisting of two quatrains in iambic pentameter, rounded off with an Alexandrine.

Blank verse has a metre but no rhyme.

Simile is a comparison between two things which have at least one point common.

Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement for the sake of emphasis.

33.The poem by Chaucer known to be the first attempt in English to use the Heroic Couplet is The Legend of Good Women.

34.Chaucer introduced the Heroic couplet inEnglish verse and invented Rhyme Royal.

35.The invention of the genre, the Eclogues (pastoral poetry) is attributed to Alexander Barclay.

36.Mort D' Arthur is the first book in English in poetic prose.

37.First to use blank verse in English drama Thomas Sackville.

38.The first English play house called The Theatre was founded in London, 1576.

39.Thomas Wyatt introduced the sonnet form to England.

40.Thomas Nash was the creator of the picaresque novel. ( The Unfortunate Traveler).

41.Francisis Bacon is the first great stylist in English prose.

42.Marlowe wrote only tragedies.

43.Sir Walter Raleigh wrote the introductory Sonnet.

44.  Astrophel and Stella contained 108 love sonnets and 11 songs.

45.Sidney's APOLOGY FOR POETRY came out as reply to STEPHEN GOSSON's "THE SCHOOL OF ABUSE".

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