Mock Test on English Literature | MCQS for Net, Set, JRF and Gate Exams JNU, EFLU, MANUU, JMI, AMU, CU, DU ENTRANCE EXAM MCQs | ENGLISH LITERATURE | Mock Test with Answers key :
Quizzes and Mock test on English Literature The author of the story 'The Yellow Wallpaper' is - a. Kate Chopin
b. Helen Cixous
c. C. P. Gilman
d. Gloria Steinem
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Correct Answer: C
John Milton`s Lycidas' is a/an - a. Sonnet
b. Epic
c. Pastoral elegy
d. Epistle
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Correct Answer: C
The Nobel Prize in literature in 2020 was awarded to - a. Nguni Wa Thiong`O
B. Zadie Smith
c. Svetlana Alexievich
d. Louise Gluck
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Correct Answer: D
Amitav Ghosh`s 'Jungle Nama' is a - a. Novel
b. collection of short stories
c. book in verse
d. play
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Correct Answer: C
The first attempt at writing a monolingual Dictionary in English was made by - a. Dr. Samuel Johnson
b. Alexander Pope
c. Ben Jonson
d. T.S. Eliot
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Correct Answer: A
Among the followings which novel was not written by Amitabh Ghosh ? a. River of Smoke
b. The Circle of Reason
c. Sea of Poppies
d. Red Earth and Pouring Rain
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Correct Answer: D
Ahmad Ali is the author of _ a. Twilight in Delhi
b. Phoenix Fled
c. In Custody
d. A Bend in Ganges
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Correct Answer: A
Grish Karnad wrote in English and ___ . a. Telugu
b. Kannada
c. Malayalam
d. Hindi
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Correct Answer: C
T.S. Eliot introduced the following term in his essay 'Hamlet and His Problem' a. Objective Correlative
b. Tradition and Individual
c. Negative Capability
d. Dissociation of Sensibility
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Correct Answer: A
The novel 'White Tiger' is written by - a. R. K. Narayan
b. Kamala Das
c. Amitav Ghosh
d. Arvind Adiga
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Correct Answer: D
'Call me Ishmael' is the opening sentence of the novel - a,. Pride and Prejudice
b. Moby Dick
c. A Farewell to Arms
d. The Scarlet Letter
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Correct Answer: B
The Spectator was started by _ a. Richard Steele and John Dryden
b. Richard Steele
c. Joseph Addison
d. Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
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Correct Answer: D
Agra Bazar is a famous play by - a. Vijay Tendulkar
b. Mahasweta Devi
c. Habib Tanvir
d. Badal Sarkar
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Correct Answer: C
Aristotle wrote his famous work 'Poetics' in which language- a. Greek
b. Latin
c. French
d. English
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Correct Answer: A
Francis Bacon wrote in English and ____. a. French
b. Greek
c. Latin
d. German
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Correct Answer: C
Salim Sinai is a character in the novel __. a. Heart of Darkness
b. Midnight Children
c. Kim
d. The Scarlet Letter
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Correct Answer: B
''In Memory of W. B. Yeats'' is a famous poem written by ___. a. Ezra Pound
b. W. H. Auden
c. Rabindranath Tagore
d. J. M. Synge
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Correct Answer: B
A Journal of the Plague Year is a famous work by __. a. Richardson
b. Daniel Defoe
c. Mary Shelley
d. Sir Walter Scott
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Correct Answer: B
In Shakespeare`s play 'Hamlet`, Hamlet is a student at the University of __. a. Witterberg
b. Gutenberg
c. Oxford
d. Cambridge
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Correct Answer: A
Eric Arthur Blair is commonly known as __. a. George Eliot
b. George Orwell
c. W. H. Auden
d. Ezra Pound
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Correct Answer: A
Who is the author of 'Crime and Punishment' ? a. Ivan Turgenev
b. Emile Zola
c. Fyodor Dostoevesky
d. Leo Tolstoy
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Correct Answer: C
