Latest ETS GRE Test Solved MCQs Sample Paper for English Literature Must Prepare Now
(1) The subjugation of Women (1869) is an important text of:
(a) George Eliot
(b) Byron
(c) John Mill
(d) Hardy
(c) John Mill
(2) Which of the following poems by Tennyson is a monodrama?
(a) Ulysses
(b) Break, Break, Break
(c) Maud
(d) Crossing the Bar
(c) Maud
(3) The line “she dwells with Beauty – Beauty that must be” occurs in Keats’
(a) Lamia
(b) Ode to a Grecian Urn
(c) Ode on Melancholy
(d) Endymion
(c) Ode on Melancholy
(4) Negative Capability to Keats, means
(a) The ability to sympathize with other
(b) Say bad thing, about others
(c) To empathize
(c) To empathize
(5) “Art for arts sake” found its true adherent in:
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Byron
(c) Browning
(d) Wilde
(d) Wilde
(6) It as the best of times, it was the worst of time, it was the worst – the opening of Dickens’
(a) Hard Times
(b) David Copperfield
(c) Oliver Twist
(d) A Tales of Two Cities
(d) A Tales of Two Cities
(7) The character of Little Neil is a creation of:
(a) Hardy
(b) Eliot
(c) Oscar Wilde
(d) Dickens
(d) Dickens
(8) “Idylls of the King” is illustration of Tennyson’s deep interest in:
(a) Medieval legends
(b) The role of the king
(c) Hero worship
(d) The contemporary condition
(b) The role of the king
(9) Who believed that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotions?
(a) Blake
(b) Byron
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Keats
(c) Wordsworth
(10) Who after the publication of a poem, awoke and found himself famous?
(a) Shelley
(b) Browning
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Keats
(c) Wordsworth
(11) The image of the femme fatale dominates the poetry of:
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Keats
(c) Byron
(d) Tennyson
(b) Keats
(12) Little Time is a character in Hardy’s
(a) The return of the native
(b) Jude the Obscure
(c) Mayor of Casterbridge
(b) Jude the Obscure
(13) Which is the famous elegy written by Shelley?
(a) In Memoriam
(b) Lycidas
(c) Adonis
(d) Thyrsis
(c) Adonis
(14) The moral choice is everything in the works of:
(a) Dickens
(b) George Eliot
(c) Hardy
(a) Dickens
(15) Which of the following is illustrative of Ruskin’s interest in social economy?
(a) The Seven Lamps
(b) Unto this Last
(c) The Stones of Venice
(b) Unto this Last
(16) Which one of the following poets named the Romantic poet as the “pond poets”?
(a) Southey
(b) Shelley
(c) Keats
(d) Byron
(a) Southey
(17) The Charge of the Light Brigade” (Tennyson) commemorates:
(a) The Boer War
(b) The battle of Trafalgar
(c) The Crimean War
(c) The Crimean War
(18) The Elgin Marbles inspired Keats to write:
(a) Endymion
(b) Lamia
(c) The Grecian Urn
(d) Melancholy
(c) The Grecian Urn
(19) Would you tell Sordelo (Browning) as a:
(a) Dramatic Monologue
(b) Dramatic Lyrics
(c) Tragic Drama
(b) Dramatic Lyrics
(20) Which one of the following poets was appointed Poet Laureate in the year 1813?
(a) Tennyson
(b) Byron
(c) Southey
(d) Wordsworth
(c) Southey
(21) Shakespeare’s Hamlet is
(a) A tragedy
(b) Comedy
(a) A tragedy
(22) Earnest Hamingway has written
(a) Old Man and the Sea
(b) Mr. Chips
(c) Pride and Prejudice
(a) Old Man and the Sea
(23) Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) Chaucer
(c) Jonathan Swift
(c) Jonathan Swift
(24) Which of the following is not a dramatist?
(a) Ben Johnson
(b) Byron
(c) Eliot
(b) Byron
25) Which of the following is not a play by Shakespeare?
(a) Hamlet
(b) Macbeth
(c) Dr. Faustus
(c) Dr. Faustus
(26) E. M. Foster is a
(a) Novelist
(b) Poet
(c) Playwright
(a) Novelist
(27) “The Pickwick Papers” is a novel by:
(a) Jane Austen
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) Thackery
(b) Charles Dickens
(28) Who wrote “Jane Eyre”?
(a) Charlotte Bronte
(b) Emile Bronte
(c) Anne Bronte
(a) Charlotte Bronte
(29) After whom is the Elizabethan Age named?
(a) Elizabeth-I
(b) Elizabeth-II
(c) Elizabeth Browning
(a) Elizabeth-I
(30) What is the name of Wordsworth’s long poem?
(a) The Canterbury Tales
(b) Don Juan
(c) The Prelude
(c) The Prelude
(31) A poem mourning someone’s death is called:
(a) Fable
(b) Epic
(c) Elegy
(c) Elegy
(32) Which of the following is not a tragedy written by Shakespeare?
(a) Macbeth
(b) Othello
(c) Merchant of Venice
(c) Merchant of Venice
1) The abstract theory of utilitarianism is the theme of Dicken’s novel:
a) Bleak House
b) A Tale of Two Cities
c) Hard Times
d) Great Expectations
e) None of these
- c) Hard Times
- The one remains, the many change and pass;
Heaven’s light for ever shines, earth’s shadows fly;
The above two lines occur in:
a) Keats’ Hyperion
b) Shelley’s Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
c) Shelley’s Adonis
d) Keats’ Ode to Psyche
e) None of these
- c) Shelley’s Adonis
- Name the character of a novel of Thomas Hardy, which is much like Oedipus, King Lear and Faust.
Answer. Tess.
- She can not fade, though thou hast not the bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
The above two lines have been taken from:
a) Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale
b) A Thing of Beauty
c) La Belle Dame Sans Mercy
d) Ode on a Grecian Urn
- d) Ode on a Grecian Urn
- ‘Withdrawal from an uncongenial world of escape either to death or more often, to an ideal dream world’, is the theme of Tennyson’s:
a) Ulysses
b) The Palace of Arts
c) The Lotos – Eaters
d) None of these - c) The Lotos – Eaters
- Philip Waken, Aunt Pallet and Tom Tulliver are the characters of G. Eliot’s novel:
a) Silas Manner
b) Adam Bede
c) Middle March
d) The Mill on the Floss - d) The Mill on the Floss
- “In all things, in all natures, in the stars,
This active principle abides,”
Identify the poet and his peculiar belief that can be understood from the above lines.
Answer. William Wordsworth as he was of the opinion that in this universe ‘nature’ is the point of focus for everything.
- “Thy, Damnation, Slunbreth, Not”
Name the writer, his book and the character who uttered/wrote these words.
Writer – Thomas Hardy
Book – Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Character – a young man who is traveling the countryside painting scripture on the sides of barns walks
- In Memoriam by Tennyson is:
a) an elegy
b) a collection of elegies
c) a lyric
d) a dramatic lyric
e) None of these - a) an elegy
- The poem, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” was written by:
a) Shelley
b) Blake
c) Byron
d) Browning
e) None of these - b) Blake
(11) Ernest Hemingway wrote:
(a) Mr. Chips
(b) Pride and Prejudice
(c) Old Man and the Sea
(c) Old Man and the Sea
(12) “Intellectual Beauty” is written by:
(a) Bertrand Russell
(b) Huxley
(c) P.B.Shelley
(c) P.B.Shelley
(13) Who wrote “20th Century Views”?
(a) Abrahams, M. H.
(b) Palmer, D. J.
(c) Bertrand Russell
(a) Abrahams, M. H.
(14) ‘Desert Places’ is a:
(a) Poem
(b) Play
(c) Novel
(a) Poem
(15) The University Wits were:
(a) Poets
(b) Playwrights
(c) Novelists
(b) Playwrights
(16) William Shakespeare was Born in:
(a) 1564
(b) 1534
(c) 1616
(a) 1564
(17) Francis Bacon died in:
(a) 1616
(b) 1626
(c) 1648
(b) 1626
(18) The period between 1660 to 1750 is known as:
(a) The Age of Classicism
(b) The Restoration
(c) The age of Milton
(b) The Restoration
(19) Who wrote “The Pilgrim’s Progress”?
(a) John Bunyan
(b) Daniel Defoe
(c) Dryden
(a) John Bunyan
(20) ‘‘The Conduct of the Allies’ is a famous work of:
(a) Jonathan Swift
(b) Samuel Johnson
(c) Oliver ‘Goldsmith
(a) Jonathan Swift
Latest ETS GRE Test Solved MCQs Sample Paper for English Literature Must Prepare Now