Question 1: The first Novel of Indian English is:
A) Satyameva
B) Rajmohan’s Wife
C) Kanthapura
D) Coolie
Question 2: Who is the author of the play Hamlet?
A) Geoffrey Chaucer
B) William Shakespeare
C) Jane Austen
D) Charles Dickens
Explanation: William Shakespeare wrote the play Hamlet.
Question 3: What is the primary theme of John Milton’s Paradise Lost?
A) The fall of man
B) Friendship
C) Revenge
D) Romance
Explanation: Paradise Lost explores the biblical story of Adam and Eve and their expulsion from Eden.
Question 4: In which century was Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales written?
A) 12th century
B) 13th century
C) 14th century
D) 15th century
Explanation: Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in the late 1300s, pioneering storytelling in English.
Question 5: What genre does Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein belong to?
A) Romance
B) Historical fiction
C) Comedy
D) Gothic fiction
Explanation: Frankenstein blends horror and science fiction, making it a key Gothic novel.
Question 6: A Vindication of the Rights of Women was written by:
A) Elain Showalter
B) Marry Wollstonecraft
C) Simon de Beauvoir
D) Helene Cixous
Question 7: Who wrote the famous work Orientalism (1978) ?
A) Edward Said
B) Michel Foucault
C) Gayatri C. Spivak
D) Homi Bhabha
Question 8: The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) was written by:
A) Martin Esslin
B) J.P. Sartre
C) M. Heidegger
D) Albert Camus
Question 9: Who wrote Goblin Market?
A) Stephen Spender
B) Kathleen Raine
C) Christina Rossetti
D) Ezra Pound
Question 10: Who amongst the following is the first African-American woman to receive the Noble Prize for Literature?
A) Zora Neale Hurston
B) Maya Angelou
C) Alice Walker
D) Toni Morrison
Question 11: Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria came out in:
A) 1815
B) 1816
C) 1817
D) 1818
Question 12: Who is the poet of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
A) S.T. Coleridge
B) William Wordsworth
C) P.B. Shelly
D) Lord Byron
Question 13: Which of the following plays was written by Harold Pinter?
A) A Doll’s House
B) The Birthday Party
C) Volpone
D) Arms and Men
Question 14: “Daffodils” is a poem written by:
A) William Wordsworth
B) William Blake
C) John Keats
D) William Shakespeare
Question 15: Negative Capability is a term coined by :
A) William Wordsworth
B) P.B. Shelly
C) William Blake
D) John Keats
Question 16: Who wrote the famous play “Dr. Faustus” ?
A) T.S. Eliot
B) Christopher Marlowe
C) William Shakespeare
D) George Bernard Shaw
Question 17: Who is the narrator of Heart of Darkness?
A) Charles Marlowe
B) Kurtz
C) Aunt
D) Fresleven
Question 18: “Love is like a war” which figure of speech is used in this line?
A) Alliteration
B) Simile
C) Hyperbole
D) Metaphor
Question 19: Who is known as the father of English Essay?
A) Joseph Addison
B) Richard Steele
C) Francis Bacon
D) Oliver Goldsmith
Question 20: Who wrote the novel Robinson Crusoe?
A) Daniel Dafoe
B) H.G. Wells
C) Rudyard Kipling
D) Thomas Hardy
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