Solved MCQs of English Literature 5

401. The Romantic Revival in English Poetry was influenced
by the?
(A) French Revolution
(B) Glorious Revolution of1688
(C) Reformation
(D) Oxford Movement

402. The Pre-Raphaelite poets were mostly indebted to the poets of the?
(A) Puritan movement
(B) Romantic revival
(C) Neo-classical age
(D) Metaphysical school

403. ‘O, you are sick of self-love’ Who is referred to in these
words in Twelfth Night?
(A)Orsino
(B) Sir Andrew
(C)Sir Toby
(D) Malvolio

404. Hamlet is?
(A) an intellectual
(B) a man of action
(C) a passionate lover
(D) an over ambitious man

405. Which of Shakespeare’s characters exclaims; ‘Brave, new, world!’?
(A) Ferdinand
(B) Antonio
(C) Miranda
(D) Prospero

406. Paradise Lost shows an influence of?
(A) Paganism
(B) Pre-Christian theology
(C) Christianity and the Renaissance
(D) Greek nihilism

407. The style of Paradise Lost is?
(A) more Latin than most poems
(B) more spontaneous than thought out
(C) more satirical than spontaneous
(D) more dramatic than lyrical

408. In Pride and Prejudice we initially dislike but later tend to like?
(A) Mr. Bennet
(B) Wickham
(C)Bingley
(D) Darcy

409. Who in Hamlet suggests that one should neither be a lender nor a borrower?
(A)Gertrude
(B) Polonius
(C)Horatio
(D) Hamlet

410. Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Pt I contains his?
(A) senecan attitude
(B) patriotism
(C) love of nature
(D) platonic ideals

411) Which of the following is the earliest comedy of Shakespeare?
a) A mid summer night’s dream
b) Much ado about nothing
c)As you like it
d)Love’s labour’s lost

412) “Twelfth night” is a:
a)Tragedy
b) Comedy
c) Problem play
d) Both a and b

413) Who was villain in Othello?
a) Claudius
b) Iago
c) Egeus
d) None of above

414) Which of the following are tragedies of Shakespeare?
a) Hamlet, Othello and Troilus and Cressida
b) Coriolanus, Timon of Athens and Titus Andronicus
c) King Lear, Measure for measure and The merchant of Venice
d) Macbeth, Much ado about nothing and Antony and Cleopatra

415) Which of the following tragedy is not written by Shakespeare?
a) Hamlet
b)Macbeth
c) King Lear
d) King Oedipus 

416) Othello was a :
a) General of England
b)General of Denmark
c) Prince of England
d) Prince of Denmark

417) ————- was father of Desdemona?
a) Othello
b) Brabantio
c) Iago
d) Gratiano

418) Othello was sent to fight with:
a) French army
b) German army
c) Ottomans
d) None of above

419) Desdemona was killed by :
a) Iago
b) Casio
c) Othello
d) Brabantio

420) Othello gave Desdemona ————- as a token of love:
a) Ring
b) Handkerchief
c) Pendant
d) Bengals

421) Desdemona was :
a) wife of Othello
b) daughter of Othello
c) both a and b
d) none of above

422) ” A man can die but once” is one of quote of following plays:
a) Henry 6 part three
b) Henry 4 part two
c) Henry 6 part one
d) Henry 4 part one

423) “I have no other but a woman’s reason
I think him so, because I think him so”
Which of Shakespeare’s play contain above lines?
a) The two gentle men of Verona
b) Merry wives of Windsor
c) The noble Kinsman
d) Measure for measure

424)” What piece of work is a man
How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty,
In form and moving how express and admirable
In action! how like an angle
In apprehension! how like a God:
The beauty of the World, the paragon of animals_____
And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
Above lines are taken from Hamlet’s which act?
a) act 1 scene two
b) act 2 scene two
c) act 3 scene two
d) act 4 scene two

425) Which of the following is Hamlet’s mother?
a) Beatrice
b) Margaret
c) Gertrude
d) Rosalind 

426) Following are the characters of:
Apemantus, Alcibiades, Flavius, Lucullus, Sempronius
a) Coriolanus
b) Cymbeline
c) Timon of Athens
d) Winter’s tale

427) Who is the heroin of The Tempest?
a) Ophelia
b) Desdemona
c) Miranda
d) Helena

428) Hamlet consist of ————— acts:
a) 3
b) 4
c) 5
d) 6

429) Which of Shakespeare’s play is his only play that has never been adopted for film or Television?
a) Taming of the Shrew
b) The two Noble Kinsmen
c) Troilus and Cressida
d) Cymbeline

430) Which of Shakespeare’s play features Sir John Falstaff?
a) The merry wives of Windsor
b) Troilus and Cressida
c) King John
d) Titus Andronicus

Solved MCQs of English Literature 4 William Shakespeare(1564 – 1616) (Elizabethan Period) Continued