Which of the following is written by P. B. Shelly ?

Related Mcqs:

1. This literary critic warned: “We must remember that the greater part of our current reading matter is written for us by people who have no real belief in a supernatural order . . . And the greater part . . . is coming to be written by people who not only have no such belief, but are even ignorant of the fact that there are still people in the world so ’backward’ or so ’eccentric’ as to continue to believe.” ?

   A. C.S. Lewis
   B. T.S. Eliot
   C. G.K. Chesterton
   D. Matthew Arnold

2. Which of the following works was written before the all-important Battle of Hastings?

   A. Beowulf
   B. Canterbury Tales
   C. The Domesday Book
   D. Sons and Lovers

3. Which of the following is not a tragedy written by Shakespeare ?

   A. Macbeth
   B. Othello
   C. Merchant of Venice
   D. None of these

4. Which of the following tragedy is not written by Shakespeare ?

   A. Hamlet
   B. Macbeth
   C. King Lear
   D. King Oedipus

5. Which of the following play was written in 1601 ?

   A. Othello
   B. Hamlet
   C. King Lear
   D. Macbeth

6. Which of the following was written first________________?

   A. Henry six
   B. Henry seven
   C. Henry five
   D. None of above

7. Which of the following lines of poetry is written in iambic pentameter ?

   A. “To be or not to be, that is the question.”
   B. “And the world didn’t even think of stopping for me.”
   C. “I played about the front gate, pulling flowers.”
   D. “I wandered lonely as a cloud.”

8. Which of the following plays were written by Christopher Marlowe ?

   A. “The Jew of Malta”
   B. “Doctor Faustus”
   C. “Edward II”
   D. All of the above

9. Romantic poets would have enjoyed, agreed with, and perhaps written about which of the following figures as depicted ?

   A. Goethe’s Faust in Faust, who is sinful because he attempts to exceed the bounds of human knowledge by making a pact with the devil but is nonetheless redeemed in his striving to break free of the bounds of mortality
   B. Icarus, who is killed in attempting to fly because only Gods have the power to fly and mortals must be taught the limitations of human existence
   C. Prometheus, who succeeds in stealing fire from the Gods and thereby surpasses the limitations placed on humans by the Gods
   D. A and C only

10. Which of the following works was NOT written by John Milton ?

    A. ’L’Allegro’
    B. ’Lycidas’
    C. ’Il Penseroso’
    D. ’Absolom and Achitophel’