English Literature 1: MCQ (Questions and Answers)

English Literature MCQ Questions and Answers or Objective Questions and Answers 2023-2024:
1. Which of the following is a ceremony in which a sovereign is officially crowned?
(A) Investiture
(B) Invocation
(C) Gala
(D) Coronation
Answer is: Coronation

2. Who wrote the famous 1855 poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade”?
A. Lord Alfred Tennyson
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. Johannes Gutenberg
D. George Bernard Shaw
Answer is: Lord Alfred Tennyson

3. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Sir Thomas Malory
c) Geoffrey Chaucer
d) George Bernard Shaw
Answer is: Geoffrey Chaucer

4. Which poet did not write during the 16th century?
a) John Skelton
b) William Shakespeare
c) Sir Thomas Wyatt
d) Thomas Carew
Answer is: Thomas Carew

5. The word "Jacobean" is derived from the ________ name Jacob, which is the original form of the English name James.
a) Samaritan Hebrew language
b) Biblical Hebrew
c) English language
d) Hebrew language
Answer is: Hebrew language

6. Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336?
a) Henry II
b) Henry V
c) Louis XIV
d) Edward III
Answer is: Edward III

7. What is the book “Lord of the Flies” about?
A. A round trip around the USA
B. A swarm of killer flies
C. Schoolboys on the desert island
D. None of the above
Answer is: Schoolboys on the desert island

8. Who wrote “The Winter's Tale?”
a. George Bernard Shaw
b. John Dryden
c. Christopher Marlowe
d. William Shakespeare
Answer is: William Shakespeare

9. Which school did Milton attend?
a) St Paul's
b) Christ's Hospital
c) Merchant Taylors'
d) Westminster
Answer is: St Paul's

10. Which work was not originally published in the 20th Century?
a) Henry James's "The Ambassadors"
b) Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"
c) E.M. Forster's "A Room With A View"
d) Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway"
Answer is: Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"

11. William Shakespeare was born in which year?
a.1564
b.1544
c.1578
d.1582
Answer is: 1564

12. Which of the following literary sub-periods does not fall under the Neoclassical Period?
a) The Restoration
b) Jacobean Age
c) The Augustan Age
d) The Age of Sensibility
Answer is: Jacobean Age

13. Historical events often influence literature. Which of the following did not occur during the Restoration period?
a) Charles II was restored to the throne
b) The French Revolution
c) The Great Fire of London
d) The Exclusion Bill Crisis
Answer is: The French Revolution

14. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?
a. Boer War
b. Second World War
c. Korean War
d. First World War
Answer is: First World War

15. Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?
a. Betjeman
b. Hughes
c. Marvel
d. Larkin
Answer is: Betjeman

16. Who is the author of “Cosmos”?
A. William Shakespeare
B. Carl Sagan
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. Charles Darwin
Answer is: Carl Sagan.

17. When was John Milton born?
a) 22 April 1600
b) 19 August 1604
c) 6 June 1606
d) 9 December 1608
Answer is: 9 December 1608

18. Who was not a Renaissance writer?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Sir Philip Sidney
c) Christopher Marlowe
d) Sir Thomas Malory
Answer is: Sir Thomas Malory

19. Who is the author of “Consider the Following”?
A. Christopher Marlowe
B. John Milton
C. Bill Nye
D. Robert Hooke
Answer is: Bill Nye

20. Which country believed it had an "Invincible Armada" before 1588?
(a) France
(b) England
(c) Spain
(d) The Netherlands
Answer is: Spain

21. Who is the Author of the Book “Brief Answers to the Big Questions”?
A. Stephen Hawking
B. Albert Einstein
C. Newton
D. Chadwick
Answer is: Stephen Hawking
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