English Literature MCQs

Which of the following poems by Tennyson is a monodrama?

A. Ulysses
B. Break, Break, Break
C. Maud
D. Crossing the Bar

The line “she dwells with Beauty – Beauty that must be” occurs in Keats’

A. Lamia
B. Ode to a Grecian Urn
C. Ode on Melancholy
D. Endymion

Negative Capability to Keats, means

A. The ability to sympathize with other
B. Say bad thing, about others
C. To empathize

“Art for arts sake” found its true adherent in:

A. Wordsworth
B. Byron
C. Browning
D. Wilde

It as the best of times, it was the worst of time, it was the worst – the opening of Dickens’

A. Hard Times
B. David Copperfield
C. Oliver Twist
D. A Tales of Two Cities

The character of Little Neil is a creation of:

A. Hardy
B. Eliot
C. Oscar Wilde
D. Dickens

Which poet did NOT write during the 16th century?

A. John Skelton
B. Thomas Carew
C. Sir Thomas Wyatt
D. William Shakespeare

__ writers would be an appropriate subject for a class on “The Literature of the British Empire”?

A. Rudyard Kipling
B. Edward Fitzgerald
C. Charlotte Bronte
D. Any of these
E. None of these

This work was NOT originally published in the 20th Century.

A. Henry James’s “The Ambassadors”
B. Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway”
C. E.M. Forster’s “A Room With A View”
D. Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of the D’Urbervilles”

In which city was Milton?

A. Norwich
B. London
C. York
D. Canterbury

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