English Literature for BCS
1. Who wrote the poem The Sun Rising?
Answer: John Donne
2. Caesar and Cleopatra is a play by
4. Frailty thy name is woman – is a dialogue by-
Answer: William Shakespeare
5. Gerontion is a poem by-
Answer: T. S. Eliot. His full name Thomas Stearns Eliot.
7. Paradise Lost attempted to ---
Answer: Justify the way of God to man.
8. Rider to the Sea is-
Answer: a one-act play.
11. A fantasy is-
Answer: an imaginary story.
12. Browning was the composer of the poem-
Answer: Andrea del Sarto.
13. Charles dickens is a great –
Answer: Novelist
14. Child is father of man’ is from the writing of –
Answer: William Wordsworth
15. Christopher Marlowe is the writer of --- period?
Answer: Elizabethan
16. David Copperfield is a --- novel.
Answer: Victorian.
17. Dr. Faustus was written by –
Answer: Christopher marlowe
19. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is written by-
Answer: Thomas Gray.
20. Gitanjali of Rabindranath was translated by-
Answer: W.B. Yeats. His full name William Butler Yeats.
21. Hasting day in To Daffodils means –
Answer: Hurriedly passing day
22. He prayeth best, who loveth best, all things great and small - who has written this?
23. If winter comes, can spring be far behind? These lines were written by-
Answer: P. B. Shelley. His full name Percy Bysshe Shelley.
24. In which century was the Victorian period?
Answer: 19th century.
25. Jude the obscure is written by-
Answer: Thomas Hardy
26. Julius Caesar is-
Answer: A tragedy
27. Justice delayed is justice denied was stated by?
Answer: Gladstone
28. Keats is a ---
Answer: Poet of sensuousness
29. London town is found a living being in the works of –
Answer: Charles Dickens.
30. Lyrical ballad was published in the year of –
Answer: 1798
31. Matthew Arnold is a poet of ---.
Answer: Victorian poet
32. Oenone is a poem by-
Answer: Alfred Tennyson
33. Othello gave Desdemona --- as a token of love.
Answer: Handkerchief
34. Othello is a Shakespeare’s play about-
Answer: A Moor.
35. Renaissance is --- word.
Answer: An Italian
36. Robert Browning is the poet of --- Age?
Answer: Victorian
37. Romanticism is mainly connected with-
Answer: Love and beauty
38. S. T. Coleridge is a Writer of --- age.
Answer: Romantic age
39. Shakespeare composed much of his play in-
Answer: Iambic Pentameter.
40. Shakespeare is mostly known for his-
Answer: Plays.
41. Hasting day in To Daffodils means –
Answer: Hurriedly passing day
42. He prayeth best, who loveth best, all things great and small- who has written this?
Answer: S. T. Coleridge. His full name Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
43. If winter comes, can spring be far behind? These lines were written by-
Answer: P. B. Shelley. Full name Percy Bysshe Shelley.
44. In which century was the Victorian period?
Answer: 19th century.
45. Jude the obscure is written by-
Answer: Thomas Hardy
46. Julius Caesar is-
Answer: A tragedy
47. Justice delayed is justice denied was stated by?
Answer: Gladstone
48. Keats is a ---
Answer: Poet of sensuousness
49. London town is found a living being in the works of –
Answer: Charles Dickens.
50. Lyrical ballad was published in the year of –
Answer: 1798
51. Matthew Arnold is a poet of ---.
Answer: Victorian poet
52. Oenone is a poem by-
Answer: Alfred Tennyson
53. Othello gave Desdemona --- as a token of love.
Answer: Handkerchief
54. Othello is a Shakespeare’s play about-
Answer: A Moor.
55. Renaissance is --- word.
Answer: An Italian
56. Robert Browning is the poet of --- Age?
Answer: Victorian
57. Romanticism is mainly connected with-
Answer: Love and beauty
58. S. T. Coleridge is a Writer of --- age.
Answer: Romantic age
59. Shakespeare composed much of his play in-
Answer: Iambic Pentameter.
60. Shakespeare is mostly known for his-
Answer: Plays.
61. Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure is a successful –
Answer: comedy
62. Tennyson’s in Memoriam is-
Answer: An elegy
63. The author of For Whom the Bell Tolls?
Answer: Ernest Hemingway.
64. The author of Road to Freedom is-
Answer: Bertrand Russell
65. The Climax of a plot happens-
Answer: at the height.
66. The first English dictionary was compiled by-
Answer: Samuel Johnson.
67. The first English novel Pamela has been written by-
Answer: Samuel Richardson
68. The latest ages in literary history is –
Answer: Georgian Age
69. The literary work Kubla Khan is a verse by-
Answer: S. T. Coleridge.
70. The Merchant of Venice is a Shakespearean play about-
Answer: a Jew.
71. The picture of the Dorian Gray is written by –
Answer: Oscar Wilde
72. The play Arms and the Man is by-
Answer: G.B. Shaw.
73. The play Candida is by-
Answer: G. B. Shaw
74. The poem Isle of Innisfree is written by-
Answer: W. B. Yeats.
75. The poem The Solitary Reaper is by-
Answer: William Wordsworth.
76. The poet Laureate is-
77. The poet of nature is-
Answer: William Wordsworth.
78. The Rainbow is a novel by –
Answer: D. H. Lawrence. His full name David Herbert Lawrence.
79. The Rainbow’ is a novel by –
Answer: D. H. Lawrence
80. The real name of O’ Henry?
Answer: William Sydney Porter.
81. The Return of Nature, Far from the Madding Crowd are written by –
Answer: Thomas Hardy
82. The romantic age began with the publication of -
Answer: Lyrical Ballad.
83. The Tempest and The Mid Summer Night’s Dream are written by –
Answer: William Shakespeare
84. To be, or not to be, that is the question – is a famous dialogue from-
Answer: Hamlet.
85. To justify the way of God to man is the theme of –
Answer: Paradise lost
86. To the Light House is written by –
Answer: Virginia Woolf
87. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding was first published in -
Answer: 1749
88. Water, water everywhere, not a drop to drink occurs in –
Answer: The Ancient Mariner
89. Who has written the play Volpone?
Answer: Ben Jonson.
90. Who is known as poet and painter?
Answer: William Blake.
91. Who is known as the rebel poet of English Literature?
Answer: Lord Byron
92. Who is the author of A Farewell to Arms?
Answer: Ernest Hemingway.
93. Who is the author of Animal Farm?
Answer: George Orwell.
94. Who is the author of India Wins Freedom?
Answer: Abul Kalam Azad.
95. Who is the greatest modern English dramatist?
Answer: G. B. Shaw
96. Who is the modern philosopher who was awarded Noble Prize for Literature?
Answer: Bertrand Russel.
97. Who is the most famous satirist in English literature?
Answer: Jonathan Swift.
98. Who wrote Beauty is truth, truth beauty?
Answer: John Keats
99. Who wrote Biographia Literaria?
Answer: Samuel Tylor Coleridge.
100. Who wrote Prometheus Unbound?
Answer: P. B. Shelly
101. Who wrote the lines- all at once I saw a host of golden daffodils?
Answer: William Wordsworth.
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
3. David Copperfield and The Tale of two Cities are written by-
Answer: Charles Dickens.
Answer: Charles Dickens.
4. Frailty thy name is woman – is a dialogue by-
Answer: William Shakespeare
5. Gerontion is a poem by-
Answer: T. S. Eliot. His full name Thomas Stearns Eliot.
6. Man is a political animal --- who said this?
Answer: Aristotle
Answer: Aristotle
7. Paradise Lost attempted to ---
Answer: Justify the way of God to man.
8. Rider to the Sea is-
Answer: a one-act play.
9. --- is Shakespeare’s last play.
Answer: Tempest
10. ‘Billet Doux’ means-
Answer: Love letter
Answer: Love letter
11. A fantasy is-
Answer: an imaginary story.
12. Browning was the composer of the poem-
Answer: Andrea del Sarto.
13. Charles dickens is a great –
Answer: Novelist
14. Child is father of man’ is from the writing of –
Answer: William Wordsworth
15. Christopher Marlowe is the writer of --- period?
Answer: Elizabethan
16. David Copperfield is a --- novel.
Answer: Victorian.
17. Dr. Faustus was written by –
Answer: Christopher marlowe
18. Duration of ‘The Age of Sensitivity’ is
Answer: 1745-1798
Answer: 1745-1798
19. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is written by-
Answer: Thomas Gray.
20. Gitanjali of Rabindranath was translated by-
Answer: W.B. Yeats. His full name William Butler Yeats.
21. Hasting day in To Daffodils means –
Answer: Hurriedly passing day
22. He prayeth best, who loveth best, all things great and small - who has written this?
Answer: S. T. Coleridge. His full name Samuel Taylor Coleridge
23. If winter comes, can spring be far behind? These lines were written by-
Answer: P. B. Shelley. His full name Percy Bysshe Shelley.
24. In which century was the Victorian period?
Answer: 19th century.
25. Jude the obscure is written by-
Answer: Thomas Hardy
26. Julius Caesar is-
Answer: A tragedy
27. Justice delayed is justice denied was stated by?
Answer: Gladstone
28. Keats is a ---
Answer: Poet of sensuousness
29. London town is found a living being in the works of –
Answer: Charles Dickens.
30. Lyrical ballad was published in the year of –
Answer: 1798
31. Matthew Arnold is a poet of ---.
Answer: Victorian poet
32. Oenone is a poem by-
Answer: Alfred Tennyson
33. Othello gave Desdemona --- as a token of love.
Answer: Handkerchief
34. Othello is a Shakespeare’s play about-
Answer: A Moor.
35. Renaissance is --- word.
Answer: An Italian
36. Robert Browning is the poet of --- Age?
Answer: Victorian
37. Romanticism is mainly connected with-
Answer: Love and beauty
38. S. T. Coleridge is a Writer of --- age.
Answer: Romantic age
39. Shakespeare composed much of his play in-
Answer: Iambic Pentameter.
40. Shakespeare is mostly known for his-
Answer: Plays.
41. Hasting day in To Daffodils means –
Answer: Hurriedly passing day
42. He prayeth best, who loveth best, all things great and small- who has written this?
Answer: S. T. Coleridge. His full name Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
43. If winter comes, can spring be far behind? These lines were written by-
Answer: P. B. Shelley. Full name Percy Bysshe Shelley.
44. In which century was the Victorian period?
Answer: 19th century.
45. Jude the obscure is written by-
Answer: Thomas Hardy
46. Julius Caesar is-
Answer: A tragedy
47. Justice delayed is justice denied was stated by?
Answer: Gladstone
48. Keats is a ---
Answer: Poet of sensuousness
49. London town is found a living being in the works of –
Answer: Charles Dickens.
50. Lyrical ballad was published in the year of –
Answer: 1798
51. Matthew Arnold is a poet of ---.
Answer: Victorian poet
52. Oenone is a poem by-
Answer: Alfred Tennyson
53. Othello gave Desdemona --- as a token of love.
Answer: Handkerchief
54. Othello is a Shakespeare’s play about-
Answer: A Moor.
55. Renaissance is --- word.
Answer: An Italian
56. Robert Browning is the poet of --- Age?
Answer: Victorian
57. Romanticism is mainly connected with-
Answer: Love and beauty
58. S. T. Coleridge is a Writer of --- age.
Answer: Romantic age
59. Shakespeare composed much of his play in-
Answer: Iambic Pentameter.
60. Shakespeare is mostly known for his-
Answer: Plays.
61. Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure is a successful –
Answer: comedy
62. Tennyson’s in Memoriam is-
Answer: An elegy
63. The author of For Whom the Bell Tolls?
Answer: Ernest Hemingway.
64. The author of Road to Freedom is-
Answer: Bertrand Russell
65. The Climax of a plot happens-
Answer: at the height.
66. The first English dictionary was compiled by-
Answer: Samuel Johnson.
67. The first English novel Pamela has been written by-
Answer: Samuel Richardson
68. The latest ages in literary history is –
Answer: Georgian Age
69. The literary work Kubla Khan is a verse by-
Answer: S. T. Coleridge.
70. The Merchant of Venice is a Shakespearean play about-
Answer: a Jew.
71. The picture of the Dorian Gray is written by –
Answer: Oscar Wilde
72. The play Arms and the Man is by-
Answer: G.B. Shaw.
73. The play Candida is by-
Answer: G. B. Shaw
74. The poem Isle of Innisfree is written by-
Answer: W. B. Yeats.
75. The poem The Solitary Reaper is by-
Answer: William Wordsworth.
76. The poet Laureate is-
Answer: The court poet of England.
77. The poet of nature is-
Answer: William Wordsworth.
78. The Rainbow is a novel by –
Answer: D. H. Lawrence. His full name David Herbert Lawrence.
79. The Rainbow’ is a novel by –
Answer: D. H. Lawrence
80. The real name of O’ Henry?
Answer: William Sydney Porter.
81. The Return of Nature, Far from the Madding Crowd are written by –
Answer: Thomas Hardy
82. The romantic age began with the publication of -
Answer: Lyrical Ballad.
83. The Tempest and The Mid Summer Night’s Dream are written by –
Answer: William Shakespeare
84. To be, or not to be, that is the question – is a famous dialogue from-
Answer: Hamlet.
85. To justify the way of God to man is the theme of –
Answer: Paradise lost
86. To the Light House is written by –
Answer: Virginia Woolf
87. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding was first published in -
Answer: 1749
88. Water, water everywhere, not a drop to drink occurs in –
Answer: The Ancient Mariner
89. Who has written the play Volpone?
Answer: Ben Jonson.
90. Who is known as poet and painter?
Answer: William Blake.
91. Who is known as the rebel poet of English Literature?
Answer: Lord Byron
92. Who is the author of A Farewell to Arms?
Answer: Ernest Hemingway.
93. Who is the author of Animal Farm?
Answer: George Orwell.
94. Who is the author of India Wins Freedom?
Answer: Abul Kalam Azad.
95. Who is the greatest modern English dramatist?
Answer: G. B. Shaw
96. Who is the modern philosopher who was awarded Noble Prize for Literature?
Answer: Bertrand Russel.
97. Who is the most famous satirist in English literature?
Answer: Jonathan Swift.
98. Who wrote Beauty is truth, truth beauty?
Answer: John Keats
99. Who wrote Biographia Literaria?
Answer: Samuel Tylor Coleridge.
100. Who wrote Prometheus Unbound?
Answer: P. B. Shelly
101. Who wrote the lines- all at once I saw a host of golden daffodils?
Answer: William Wordsworth.
102. A Passage to India is written by-
Answer: E. M. Forster. His full name Edward Morgan Forster.
