English misc (75) MCQs with Answers

Which of the following plays was written by Shakespeare?

• A.The Merchant of Venice
• B.The Importance of Being Earnest
• C.Pygmalion
• D.Waiting for Godot

Which is called the Golden Period of English Literature?

• A.Victorian Age
• B.Augustan Age
• C.Elizabethan Age
• D.Romantic Age

What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?

• A.Sonnet
• B.Limerick
• C.Acrostic
• D.Haiku

In 'Button Button', what did Norma find after she tore open the box unit?

• A.A key
• B.A note
• C.Nothing
• D.A button

Which of the following lines demonstrates 'antithesis' where two opposite ideas are contrasted?

• A."To be, or not to be, that is the question" (William Shakespeare)
• B."All that glitters is not gold" (William Shakespeare)
• C."It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" (Charles Dickens)
• D."A thing of beauty is a joy forever" (John Keats)

Who among the following is a revolutionary poet?

• A.John Keats
• B.P.B. Shelley
• C.William Wordsworth
• D.John Milton

Utopia means _?

• A.A crowded city
• B.An ideal land
• C.A deserted island
• D.A fortified castle

Emily Dickinson was in Amherst.

• A.Born
• B.Died
• C.Married
• D.Educated

The Dublin of Joyce's youth was a city of paradoxes, where piety and profanity, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, went hand in hand. It was a city of narrow streets and narrow minds, where which institution held sway over the lives of its citizens?

• A.The British Crown
• B.The Catholic Church
• C.The Irish Parliament
• D.The Protestant Ascendancy

In "Absalom and Achitophel", Achitophel is King David's _?

• A.Son
• B.Counselor
• C.Prophet
• D.General