Which of the following was written first________________?

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 tragedy is not written by Shakespeare ?

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

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

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

4. Which one of the following works of Geoffrey Chaucer is an elegy written for Blanche of Lancaster ?

   A. The House of Fame
   B. The Book of the Duchess
   C. Troilus and Criseyde
   D. The Legend of Good Women

5. Tennyson’s poem ‘In Memoriam’was written in memory of ?

   A. A.H. Hallam
   B. Edward King
   C. Wellington
   D. P.B Shelley

6. Paradise Lost was originally written in ?

   A. ten books
   B. eleven books
   C. nine books
   D. eight books

7. T.S. Eliot considered which of the following one of the greatest short stories ever written ?

   A. “The Dead”
   B. “The Surrealist Manifesto”
   C. “The Heart of Darkness”
   D. “To the Lighthouse”

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

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

9. According to the literary critic, Paul Fussell, which of the following was a central trope of English poetry written during the Great War ?

   A. Patriotic imagery
   B. Irony
   C. Nihilism
   D. Apocalyptic imagery

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

    A. To a skylark
    B. The Daffodils
    C. Pride and Prejudice
    D. Culture and Anarchy