MCQs Study
Synonyms MCQs
Synonym of “Impeccable” is ________ ?
A. Faulty
B. Perfect
C. Dirty
D. Wrong
Synonym of “Obsolete” is ________ ?
A. Current
B. Outdated
C. Modern
D. Useful
Synonym of “Pristine” is ________ ?
A. Dirty
B. Pure
C. Polluted
D. Corrupt
Synonym of “Reticent” is ________ ?
A. Talkative
B. Reserved
C. Open
D. Loud
Synonym of “Skeptical” is ________ ?
A. Trustful
B. Doubtful
C. Honest
D. Loyal
Synonym of “Tenacious” is ________ ?
A. Weak
B. Persistent
C. Lazy
D. Soft
Synonym of “Vigilant” is ________ ?
A. Careless
B. Watchful
C. Sleepy
D. Ignorant
Synonym of “Wary” is ________ ?
A. Carefree
B. Cautious
C. Bold
D. Relaxed
Synonym of “Zealous” is ________ ?
A. Indifferent
B. Enthusiastic
C. Cold
D. Careless
Synonym of “Adept” is ________ ?
A. Unskilled
B. Skilled
C. Weak
D. Immature
Antonyms MCQs
What is the antonym of Unique?
A. Common
B. Rare
C. Distinct
D. Unusual
What is the antonym of Vague?
A. Clear
B. Definite
C. Exact
D. Specific
What is the antonym of Wary?
A. Cautious
B. Careless
C. Alert
D. Guarded
What is the antonym of Yield?
A. Give in
B. Resist
C. Submit
D. Surrender
What is the antonym of Zealous?
A. Passionate
B. Indifferent
C. Eager
D. Ardent
What is the antonym of Agile?
A. Quick
B. Clumsy
C. Nimble
D. Lively
What is the antonym of Brisk?
A. Energetic
B. Sluggish
C. Fast
D. Quick
What is the antonym of Coherent?
A. Logical
B. Consistent
C. Incoherent
D. Rational
What is the antonym of Deliberate?
A. Intentional
B. Accidental
C. Planned
D. Purposeful
What is the antonym of Earnest?
A. Serious
B. Frivolous
C. Genuine
D. Sincere
MIDDLE AGES
Popular English adaptations of romances appealed primarily to:
A. the royal family and upper orders of the nobility
B. the lower orders of the nobility
C. agricultural laborers
D. the clergy
What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s The History of the Kings of Britain?
A. the reign of King Arthur
B. the coronation of Henry II
C. King John’s seal of the Magna Carta
D. the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine
Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for:
A. courtiers entering the service of Richard II
B. translators of French romances
C. women who have chosen to live as religious recluses
D. knights preparing for their first tournament
The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200?
A. They were written for sophisticated and well-educated readers
B. Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin and French
C. Their readers’ primary language was English
D. a and b only
In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the “flowering” of Middle English literature is evident in the works of:
A. Geoffrey of Monmouth
B. the Gawain poet
C. the Beowulf poet
D. Chrétien de Troyes
Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury?
A. Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform
B. The common people were still essentially pagan
C. They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic
D. The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners
Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife?
A. Dante’s Divine Comedy
B. Boccaccio’s Decameron
C. The Dream of the Rood
D. Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women
Who is the author of Piers Plowman?
A. Sir Thomas Malory
B. Margery Kempe
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. William Langland
What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V?
A. the Battle of Agincourt
B. the Battle of Hastings
C. the Norman Conquest
D. the Black Death
E. the War of the Roses
Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues?
A. the short story
B. the heroic epic
C. the morality play
D. the romance
Poetry (Set 2)
“There was aware of her true love, at length come riding by” – This is a couplet from The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington. What figure of speech is used by the poet?
A. Metaphor
B. Synecdoche
C. Euphemism
D. Irony
Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas?
A. Hindu
B. Celtic
C. Arabic
D. Aramaic
Complete this Shakespearean line – ‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds bring’:
A. Impediments
B. Inconveniences
C. Worries
D. Troubles
Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form?
A. Jintishi
B. Villanelle
C. Ode
D. Tanka
What is the title of the poem that begins ‘What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare’?
A. Comfort
B. Leisure
C. Relaxation
D. Tranquility
Which of the following is not an English poet (i.e., from England)?
A. Victor Hugo
B. Alexander Pope
C. John Milton
D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Who was often called the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?
A. William Blake
B. William Shakespeare
C. William Morris
D. William Wordsworth
What is a funny poem of five lines called?
A. Quartet
B. Limerick
C. Sextet
D. Palindrome
How did W. H. Auden describe poetry?
A. An awful way to earn a living
B. A game of knowledge
C. The soul exposed
D. An explosion of language
Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry?
A. Light verse
B. Romantic
C. Political satire
D. War poems
Poetry (Set 1)
A poem that generally has meter and rhyme
A. Lyric
B. Free verse
C. Narrative
D. Epic
Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
A. Masefield
B. Causley
C. Hughes
D. Larkin
Carl Sandburg ‘Planked Whitefish’ contains what kind of imagery?
A. Sea scenes
B. Rural idyll
C. War
D. Innocent childhood
Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819?
A. Emily Dickinson
B. Paul Dunbar
C. John Greenleaf Whittier
D. Walt Whitman
In 1960 ‘The Colossus’ was the first book of poems published by which poetess?
A. Elizabeth Bishop
B. Sylvia Plath
C. Marianne Moore
D. Laura Jackson
In his poem Kipling said ‘If you can meet with triumph and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ‘?
A. Glory
B. Ruin
C. Disaster
D. Victory
Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry?
A. Assonance
B. Onomatopoeia
C. Rhyme
D. Grammar
True or false: Writing predates poetry.
A. True
B. False
C. Not proven
D. Depends on culture
What is the earliest surviving European poem?
A. The Homeric epic
B. The Gilgamesh epic
C. The Deluge epic
D. The Hesiodic ode
Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
A. The Epic
B. The Comic
C. The Occult
D. The Tragic
English Literature MCQs Set 4
171. Ann Hathaway was _________ years older than Shakespeare:
a. 7
b. 8
c. 9
d. 10
172. After __________ years of his marriage he left his native town and try his fortune in the great city of London.
a. two
b. three
c. four
d. five
173. Shakespeare’s only son Hamnet died in————?
a. 1595
b. 1596
c. 1597
d. 1598
174. Shakespeare is buried inside the:
a. Westminster Abbey
b. Trinity Church
c. Protestant Cemetery
d. None of above
175. By ——– Shakespeare had established himself in London as an actor and dramatist:
a. 1590
b. 1591
c. 1592
d. 1593
176. Who declared him as Britain’s greatest dramatist in 1598?
a. Queen Elizabeth
b. Francis Meres, a lawyer
c. Burbage, an actor
d. King James
177. Shakespeare made Stratford his regular home in:
a. About 1611
b. About 1610
c. About 1609
d. About 1608
178. What is Christopher Marlowe’s Nationality?
a. Carpenter
b. Civil servant
c. Cobbler
d. Farmer
179. From where Christopher Marlowe received his early Education?
a. Cambridge
b. oxford
c. Corpus Christi College
d. Harvard
180. Marlow died of?
a. Illness
b. stabbing
c. poisoned
d. Hanged
English Literature MCQs Set 3
121. When, is it estimated, was ‘Dr Faustus’ first performed?
a. 1594
b. 1604
c. 1590
d. 1593
122. At what famous university is Faustus a scholar?
a. Wittenburg
b. Sorbonne
c. Heidelberg
d. Cambridge
123. Faustus’ servant shares his name with a famous German composer. Who?
a. Bach
b. Schumann
c. Beethoven
d. Wagner
124. Faustus asks two magicians to aid him in summoning the devil. What are their names?
a. Valdes and Cornelius
b. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
c. Troilus and Cressida
d. Pyramus and Thisbe
125. What does Faustus promise to the devil in exchange for great knowledge, riches and power for a period of 24 years?
a. His body
b. His house
c. His soul
d. His horse
126. Which of the following qualities would most accurately describe Faustus’ character at the beginning of the play?
a. Kind
b. Stupid
c. Sensitive
d. Arrogant
127. Which powerful figure does Faustus ridicule with his new-found powers?
a. The Pope
b. The Holy Roman Emperor
c. The King of England
d. The King of France
128. Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?
a. Betjeman
b. Hughes
c. Marvel
d. Larkin
129. “Renaissance” is a:
a. French word
b. Italian word
c. Greek word
d. Spanish word
130. What is the meaning of “Renaissance”:
a. Rebirth, revival and re-awaking
b. Reveal, revel and reverie
c. Raillery, renunciation and recoup
d. All of these
English Literature MCQs Set 2
71. Why did ‘Poetry Quarterly’ cease publication in 1953?
a. Owner convicted of fraud
b. Fall in Sales
c. Rise in taxation on magazines
d. Shortage of paper
72. Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better known as what?
a. Politician
b. Dramatist
c. Novelist
d. Architect
73. Of which poet was it said ‘Even if he’s not a great poet, he’s certainly a great something’?
a. Elliot
b. Kipling
c. Cummings
d. Brooke
74. Which of these is magnum opus of chaucer?
a. Troilus and criseyde
b. House of fame
c. The canterbury tales
d. Parliament of fowls
75. In which language the stories of canterbury tale are written?
a. French
b. Latin
c. Middle english
d. English
76. Chaucer’s franklin was guilty of which sin?
a. Lust
b. Corruption
c. Theft
d. Gluttony
77. How many languages did chaucer know?
a. 2
b. 4
c. 1
d. 5
78. From which language the name ”chaucer” has been driven?
a. French
b. Latin
c. Italian
d. English
79. Where did chaucer bury?
a. Westminster abbey
b. Kent church
c. Chapel at windsor
d. Canterbury
80. Chaucer was imprisoned during———————-?
a. hundred years’ war
b. Black death
c. Peasant revolt
d. Elizabethan Period
English Literature MCQs Set 1
21. Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
a. Alliterative verse
b. Sonnet form
c. Iambic pentameter
d. Dactylic hexameter
22. Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?
a. William Carlos Williams
b. Emily Dickinson
c. Gerard Manly Hopkins
d. Robert Frost
23. Who wrote this famous line: ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day/ Thou art more lovely and more temperate…’
a. TS Eliot
b. Lord Tennyson
c. Charlotte Bronte
d. Shakespeare
24. From which of Shakespeare’s plays is this famous line: ‘Did my heart love til now?/ Forswear it, sight/ For I never saw a true beauty until this night’
a. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
b. Hamlet
c. Othello
d. Romeo and Juliet
25. From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?
a. The 12th
b. The 14th
c. The 17th
d. The 19th
26. What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?
a. Alliterative
b. Epic
c. Acrostic
d. Haiku
27. Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom?
a. Sir Walter Scott
b. William Butler Yeats
c. Henry Longfellow
d. Robert Burns
28. How has Stephen Dunn been described in ‘the Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry?
a. A poet of middleness
b. Capturing a sense of spiritual marooness
c. One of the leading prairie poets
d. Has some distinction as a critic
29. ‘The Cambridge school’ refers to a group who emerged when?
a. The 1900’s
b. The 1960’s
c. The 1920’s
d. The 1930’s
30. Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city?
a. Vancouver
b. Toronto
c. Ottowa
d. Montreal
Current Head of International Organizations
Who is the Current President of Financial Action Task Force (FATF)?
A. Elisa de Anda Madrazo of Mexico
B. T Raja Kumar
C. David Hil
D. Dr. Marcus Pleyer
Who is the newly elected president of Asia-Pacific Group of UNESCO?
A. China
B. India
C. Pakistan
D. USA
Who is the Current Director of International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Middle East and Central Asia?
A. Jihad Azour
B. Rola Rizk
C. Fouad Siniora
D. Charles Rizk
Who is the Current Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)?
A. Yukiya Amano
B. Rafael Mariano Grossi
C. Mohamed ElBaradei
D. Sigvard Eklund
Who is the Current Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)?
A. Iyad bin Amin Madani
B. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu
C. Prince Salman
D. H.E. Hissein Brahim Taha
Who is the current Chairman of Non-Aligned Movement?
A. Jorge Arreaza
B. Maria Corina Machado
C. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
D. Juan Guaido
Who is the current Head of World Health Organization?
A. David Nabarro
B. António Guterres
C. Sania Nishtar
D. Tedros Adhanom
Who is the current High Commissioner of UN for Human Rights?
A. Evelyn Matthei
B. Alberto Bachelet
C. Michelle Bachelet
D. Salvador Allende
Who is the current Director Executive Committee of SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure?
A. Emomali Rahmon
B. Ularbek Sharsheev
C. Emomali Rahmon
D. Vladimir Norov