English Literature MCQs with Answers (FREE) 2025 Part-6

Question 1: Who wrote the play 'Riders to the Sea'?
A) W.B. Yeats
B) Seán O'Casey
C) J.M. Synge
D) George Bernard Shaw
Question 2: Which novel begins with 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'?
A) Vanity Fair
B) A Tale of Two Cities
C) Great Expectations
D) David Copperfield
Question 3: What is the subtitle of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'?
A) A Gothic Tale
B) The Modern Prometheus
C) The Birth of a Monster
D) The New Science
Question 4: Who is the author of 'The Golden Notebook'?
A) Margaret Drabble
B) A.S. Byatt
C) Doris Lessing
D) Iris Murdoch
Question 5: Which of these is a pastoral elegy?
A) To Autumn
B) Dover Beach
C) Ode to a Nightingale
D) Lycidas
Question 6: Who coined the phrase 'art for art’s sake'?
A) Oscar Wilde
B) Victor Cousin
C) Charles Baudelaire
D) Walter Pater
Question 7: What is the poetic form of 'The Rape of the Lock'?
A) Mock-epic
B) Sonnet
C) Elegy
D) Ballad
Question 8: Who wrote 'The Mysteries of Udolpho'?
A) Horace Walpole
B) Mary Shelley
C) Ann Radcliffe
D) Clara Reeve
Question 9: Which writer is associated with the term 'negative capability'?
A) T.S. Eliot
B) William Blake
C) John Keats
D) S.T. Coleridge
Question 10: Who is the protagonist in 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'?
A) Michael Henchard
B) Gabriel Oak
C) Jude Fawley
D) Clym Yeobright
Question 11: Who among the following is not part of the Lake Poets?
A) William Wordsworth
B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C) Robert Southey
D) Lord Byron
Question 12: What genre is George Orwell’s '1984'?
A) Dystopian fiction
B) Romantic novel
C) Gothic novel
D) Historical fiction
Question 13: In Shakespeare’s 'Othello', who is the villain?
A) Cassio
B) Brabantio
C) Iago
D) Roderigo
Question 14: 'Stream of consciousness' technique is best associated with:
A) James Joyce
B) D.H. Lawrence
C) Graham Greene
D) E.M. Forster
Question 15: What is the central theme of Beckett’s 'Waiting for Godot'?
A) War and Peace
B) Class Conflict
C) Absurdity of Human Existence
D) Romantic Idealism
Question 16: Who wrote the essay 'Tradition and the Individual Talent'?
A) Ezra Pound
B) T.S. Eliot
C) Matthew Arnold
D) Cleanth Brooks
Question 17: The 'Comedy of Manners' is most associated with which period?
A) Romantic Age
B) Restoration Period
C) Victorian Age
D) Modern Age
Question 18: What is the pen name of Mary Ann Evans?
A) Currer Bell
B) George Eliot
C) Ellis Bell
D) Jane Austen
Question 19: 'Kubla Khan' was composed after a dream induced by:
A) Alcohol
B) Opium
C) Insomnia
D) Fever
Question 20: The line “A thing of beauty is a joy forever” is from:
A) Ode to Psyche
B) Endymion
C) Hyperion
D) Lamia

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