’Picture of Dorian Gray ’ was written by__________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” is an example of which of the following literary trends ?

   A. Aestheticism
   B. Naturalism
   C. Decadence
   D. Both A and C

2. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of this picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down – but with a shudder even more thrilling than before – upon the re-modelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant eyelike windows. What is the meaning of the word tarn? Veldu eitt ?

   A. A bird
   B. A small mountain lake
   C. A wide river
   D. A high cliff

3. ‘Lucy Gray’ is a poem written by_______________?

   A. Wordsworth
   B. Keats
   C. None of these
   D. All of these

4. For a time the narrator comforts Roderick by reading and painting with him; one of Roderick’s paintings is described as follows: “A small picture presented the interior of an immensely long and rectangular vault or tunnel, with low walls, smooth, white, and without interruption or device. Certain accessory points of the design served well to convey the idea that this excavation lay at an exceeding depth below the surface of the earth.” What later event in the story does this picture foreshadow ?

   A. The narrator and Roderick bury Madeline alive in a stone tomb beneath the mansion.
   B. The narrator and Roderick drown Madeline in the tarn next to the mansion.
   C. Roderick and Madeline escape the house via an underground tunnel.
   D. The narrator and Roderick become trapped in catacombs beneath the mansion.

5. ‘Paradise Lost’ was written by__________________?

   A. Mathew
   B. Robert Browning
   C. John Milton
   D. W B Yeats

6. “The Crown of Wild Olive”, is written by__________________?

   A. Ruskin
   B. J.S.Mill
   C. C. Lamb
   D. Russell

7. ‘Ode to Autumn’ was written by__________________?

   A. Shelley
   B. Keats
   C. Byron
   D. Blake

8. ‘Satanic Verses’ is written by__________________?

   A. R.K. Narayan
   B. Salman Rushdie
   C. Jhumpa Lahiri
   D. Arundhuti Roy

9. ‘Sweet are the uses of adversity’ was stated by__________________?

   A. Valtaire
   B. Shakespeare
   C. Milton
   D. Tolstoy

10. ‘Prometheus Unbound’ is a lyrical drama by__________________?

    A. Shelley
    B. Shakespeare
    C. Sophocles
    D. Euripedes