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Question 1

A sonnet consists of how many lines

Answer 1

14

Question 2

William Shakespeare was born in

Answer 2

United Kingdom

Question 3

Who wrote ‘The Invisible Man’?

Answer 3

H.G. Wells

Question 4

Poems by Sylvia Plath

Answer 4

Daddy, Lady Lazarus, Mad Girl’s Love Song

Question 5

Bequest

Answer 5

Not written by Sylvia Plath

Question 6

Who wrote ‘The Canterbury Tales’?

Answer 6

Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 7

Helen of Troy is the daughter of

Answer 7

Zeus and Leda

Question 8

Who killed Arjuna in Mahabharata

Answer 8

Babruvahana

Question 9

How many witches predict Macbeth’s fate in the play ‘Macbeth’ by William Shakespeare?

Answer 9

4

Question 10

Protagonist of the novel ‘Great Expectations’ by Charles Dickens is

Answer 10

Pip

Question 11

Which poems are termed as ‘epics’?

Answer 11

Iliad, Ramayana, The Odyssey, Canterbury Tales

Question 12

What is the “lock” referred to as in ‘The Rape of Lock’ by Alexander Pope?

Answer 12

Lock of hair

Question 13

Romantic poets

Answer 13

John Keats
Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Lee Masters

Question 14

In the Book 4 of Gulliver’s Travel, which community Gulliver aspires to choose?

Answer 14

Houyhnhnms

Question 15

Which village does Elizabeth belong to in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen?

Answer 15

Longbourn

Question 16

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a ________”

Answer 16

Wife

Question 17

In Pride and Prejudice, Darcy’s estate is called

Answer 17

Pemberley

Question 18

‘Culture and Anarchy’ was written by

Answer 18

Mathew Arnold

Question 19

The Romantic Afe was the age of

Answer 19

Lyric

Question 20

Pozzo was a character in

Answer 20

Waiting for Godot

Question 21

Who considers literature as superstructure?

Answer 21

Marxists

Question 22

Who collects ten faults of Shakespeare?

Answer 22

Dr. Johnson

Question 23

Not a lake poet

Answer 23

Keats

Question 24

Who was the first translator of Virgil’s works in English?

Answer 24

Dryden

Question 25

'Othello' was based on

Answer 25

An Italian tale in Hecatommithi

Question 26

A character in Virginia Woolf's novel changes his sex. Which is that novel?

Answer 26

Orlando

Question 27

How many Shakespeare's history plays are based on Roman history?

Answer 27

4

Question 28

Who has been dubbed as 'angry young man' of the 1950s?

Answer 28

John Braine

Question 29

Charles Dickens died in 1870 leaving the unfinished novel which was?

Answer 29

Edwin Drood

Question 30

Chaucer was indebted to

Answer 30

Homer

Question 31

In Homer's Odyssey, Ulyssey was the king of

Answer 31

Ithaca

Question 32

Who were "Lollards"?

Answer 32

The followers of John Wycliffe

Question 33

When is The Illiad thought to have been composed?

Answer 33

The eighth century

Question 34

Which God helps to bring about the death of Patroclus?

Answer 34

Zeus

Question 35

In what city was Jesus born?

Answer 35

Bethlehem

Question 36

Who takes Jesus's body off the cross?

Answer 36

Joseph of Arimathea

Question 37

The Poetics deals with primarily with what genre?

Answer 37

Tragedy

Question 38

Which of Aristotle's early works was inspired by the death of a friend?

Answer 38

Eudemus

Question 39

When did Aristotle live?

Answer 39

384-322 BC

Question 40

Which philosopher was Aristotle's master?

Answer 40

Plato

Question 41

How was the school founded by Aristotle known?

Answer 41

Lyceum

Question 42

Whose creation is the character Mowgli?

Answer 42

Rudyard Kipling

Question 43

Arundhati Roy's God of Small Things is based in which Indian state?

Answer 43

Kerala

Question 44

Name the American short story writer who wrote under the pseudonym (pen name) O. Henry.

Answer 44

William Sydney Porter

Question 45

The term "plot" refers to

Answer 45

The sequence of events and actions in a narrative

Question 46

A stanza is a

Answer 46

Paragraph in a poem

Question 47

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." This famous line is from a poem by

Answer 47

John Keats

Question 48

Who authored the science fiction novel Jurassic Park which was adapted by Steven Spielberg into a blockbuster film?

Answer 48

Micheal Crichton

Question 49

Which character in Shakespeare's Roman play Julius Caesar delivers the speech beginning "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"?

Answer 49

Mark Antony

Question 50

Which popular writer of crime stories is known as the "Queen of Crime"?

Answer 50

Agatha Christie

Question 51

Macbeth

Answer 51

The title of a play written by William Shakespeare

Question 52

British novelist

Answer 52

Charles Dickens George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) Emily Bronte

Question 53

Not a British novelist

Answer 53

Paulo Coelho