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This section includes 96 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Master of Arts in English (M.A. English) knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 51. |
Hamlet was written by ____ |
| A. | ben jonson |
| B. | thomas gray |
| C. | william shakespeare |
| D. | christopher marlowe |
| Answer» D. christopher marlowe | |
| 52. |
Who wrote The Bard: A Pindaric Ode? |
| A. | thomas gray |
| B. | dr johnson |
| C. | alexander pope |
| D. | john dryden |
| Answer» B. dr johnson | |
| 53. |
Who wrote The Fatal Sisters: An Ode? |
| A. | thomas hardy |
| B. | lord alfred tennyson |
| C. | matthew arnold |
| D. | thomas gray |
| Answer» E. | |
| 54. |
Who wrote The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode? |
| A. | john keats |
| B. | thomas gray |
| C. | p b shelley |
| D. | william wordsworth |
| Answer» C. p b shelley | |
| 55. |
Who wrote On the Death of Richard West? |
| A. | thomas gray |
| B. | john milton |
| C. | p b shelley |
| D. | alfred lord tennyson |
| Answer» B. john milton | |
| 56. |
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard was published in ____ |
| A. | 1742 |
| B. | 1751 |
| C. | 1743 |
| D. | 1745 |
| Answer» C. 1743 | |
| 57. |
Elegy written in a Country Churchyard was written by ____ |
| A. | john dryden |
| B. | william blake |
| C. | s t coleridge |
| D. | thomas gray |
| Answer» E. | |
| 58. |
The Garden was written by ____ |
| A. | charles dickens |
| B. | andrew marvell |
| C. | charlotte bronte |
| D. | jane austen |
| Answer» C. charlotte bronte | |
| 59. |
Andrew Marvell was a/an ____ |
| A. | georgian poet |
| B. | elizabethan poet |
| C. | metaphysical poet |
| D. | romantic poet |
| Answer» D. romantic poet | |
| 60. |
Who wrote Upon Appleton House? |
| A. | john donne |
| B. | john milton |
| C. | andrew marvell |
| D. | alexander pope |
| Answer» D. alexander pope | |
| 61. |
Who wrote An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland? |
| A. | andrew marvell |
| B. | henry vaughan |
| C. | richard crawshaw |
| D. | john donne |
| Answer» B. henry vaughan | |
| 62. |
To His Coy Mistress was published in ____ |
| A. | 1678 |
| B. | 1679 |
| C. | 1681 |
| D. | 1682 |
| Answer» D. 1682 | |
| 63. |
To His Coy Mistress was written by ____ |
| A. | andrew marvell |
| B. | john donne |
| C. | richard crawshaw |
| D. | henry vaughan |
| Answer» B. john donne | |
| 64. |
Who wrote Absalom and Acitophel? |
| A. | alexander pope |
| B. | john dryden |
| C. | john donne |
| D. | philip sidney |
| Answer» C. john donne | |
| 65. |
Mac Flecknoe is a/an ____ |
| A. | elegy |
| B. | sonnet |
| C. | satire |
| D. | ballad |
| Answer» D. ballad | |
| 66. |
When was Mac Flecknoe published? |
| A. | 1680 |
| B. | 1683 |
| C. | 1682 |
| D. | 1667 |
| Answer» D. 1667 | |
| 67. |
Mac Flecknoe is a direct attack on ____ |
| A. | flecknoe |
| B. | dryden |
| C. | dr johnson |
| D. | thomas shadwell |
| Answer» E. | |
| 68. |
Mac Flecknoe was written by ____ |
| A. | john dryden |
| B. | alexander pope |
| C. | aphra behn |
| D. | samuel johnson |
| Answer» B. alexander pope | |
| 69. |
The second edition of Paradise Lost consisted of ____ |
| A. | 10 books |
| B. | 12 books |
| C. | 14 books |
| D. | 16 books |
| Answer» C. 14 books | |
| 70. |
The second edition of Paradise Lost was published in ____ |
| A. | 1669 |
| B. | 1674 |
| C. | 1666 |
| D. | 1680 |
| Answer» C. 1666 | |
| 71. |
The first version of Paradise Lost consisted of ____ |
| A. | 12 books |
| B. | 18 books |
| C. | 24 books |
| D. | 10 books |
| Answer» E. | |
| 72. |
When was Paradise Lost published? |
| A. | 1674 |
| B. | 1667 |
| C. | 1666 |
| D. | 1665 |
| Answer» C. 1666 | |
| 73. |
Who is the author of Paradise Lost? |
| A. | john dryden |
| B. | ben jonson |
| C. | john milton |
| D. | richard crawshaw |
| Answer» D. richard crawshaw | |
| 74. |
The Sun Rising was written by ____ |
| A. | john donne |
| B. | william shakespeare |
| C. | andrew marvell |
| D. | richard crawshaw |
| Answer» B. william shakespeare | |
| 75. |
The Canonization was published in ____ |
| A. | 1632 |
| B. | 1634 |
| C. | 1631 |
| D. | 1633 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 76. |
John Donne is a representative of the _____ |
| A. | metaphysical poets |
| B. | romantic poets |
| C. | neo-classical poets |
| D. | war poets |
| Answer» B. romantic poets | |
| 77. |
Who wrote the poem, The Canonization? |
| A. | john milton |
| B. | john webster |
| C. | john donne |
| D. | john lyly |
| Answer» D. john lyly | |
| 78. |
Who introduced sonnets in England? |
| A. | wyatt and surrey |
| B. | sidney and spenser |
| C. | marlowe and shakespeare |
| D. | shakespeare and jonson |
| Answer» B. sidney and spenser | |
| 79. |
The Rape of Lucrece was written by ____ |
| A. | alexander pope |
| B. | john dryden |
| C. | geoffrey chaucer |
| D. | william shakespeare |
| Answer» E. | |
| 80. |
Venus and Adonis were published in ____ |
| A. | 1598 |
| B. | 1592 |
| C. | 1593 |
| D. | 1594 |
| Answer» D. 1594 | |
| 81. |
How many narrative poems did Shakespeare write? |
| A. | 2 |
| B. | 4 |
| C. | 5 |
| D. | 1 |
| Answer» B. 4 | |
| 82. |
Who was the publisher of Shakespeare's sonnets? |
| A. | richard burbage |
| B. | cuthbert burbage |
| C. | thomas thorpe |
| D. | henry wriothesley |
| Answer» D. henry wriothesley | |
| 83. |
Shakespeare's sonnets were published in ____ |
| A. | 1611 |
| B. | 1609 |
| C. | 1599 |
| D. | 1623 |
| Answer» C. 1599 | |
| 84. |
How many sonnets did Shakespeare write? |
| A. | 123 |
| B. | 148 |
| C. | 188 |
| D. | 154 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 85. |
The sonnet is addressed to a ____ |
| A. | young man |
| B. | young woman |
| C. | old man |
| D. | beautiful girl |
| Answer» B. young woman | |
| 86. |
Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day is sonnet number _____ |
| A. | 15 |
| B. | 20 |
| C. | 18 |
| D. | 26 |
| Answer» D. 26 | |
| 87. |
In describing the friar as "a noble pillar to his Order", Chaucer uses |
| A. | epigram |
| B. | irony |
| C. | inversion |
| D. | apostrophe |
| Answer» C. inversion | |
| 88. |
Immediately prior to joining the others in the pilgrimage to Canterbury, the knight had |
| A. | been at court |
| B. | gone to visit his rural estate |
| C. | been engaged in battles overseas |
| D. | bought new clothes for the pilgrimage |
| Answer» D. bought new clothes for the pilgrimage | |
| 89. |
Chaucer's wife of Bath is |
| A. | shy |
| B. | patient |
| C. | independent |
| D. | humourless |
| Answer» D. humourless | |
| 90. |
In the prologue to the Canterbury Tales, the pilgrim who neglects his religious duties in order to hunt is the |
| A. | parson |
| B. | monk |
| C. | pardoner |
| D. | summoner |
| Answer» C. pardoner | |
| 91. |
In the prologue to the Canterbury Tales, the pilgrim whose profession gives him a special love of gold is the |
| A. | parson |
| B. | doctor |
| C. | summoner |
| D. | franklin |
| Answer» C. summoner | |
| 92. |
In the opening lines of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, the narrator |
| A. | criticises chivalry |
| B. | attacks the corruption in the church |
| C. | rejoices in the renewing cycle of life |
| D. | establishes the ideal of the renaissance man |
| Answer» D. establishes the ideal of the renaissance man | |
| 93. |
The Canterbury Tales is structured as a |
| A. | parody |
| B. | folk ballad |
| C. | melodrama |
| D. | frame story |
| Answer» E. | |
| 94. |
In the prologue to the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer's characters are |
| A. | on a religious pilgrimage |
| B. | part of a wedding party |
| C. | in a riding club |
| D. | on their way to the holy land |
| Answer» B. part of a wedding party | |
| 95. |
Who wrote the Canterbury Tales? |
| A. | oscar wilde |
| B. | sir gawain |
| C. | geoffrey chaucer |
| D. | william shakespeare |
| Answer» D. william shakespeare | |
| 96. |
In the prologue to the Canterbury Tales, the parson's brother is the |
| A. | doctor |
| B. | knight |
| C. | oxford cleric |
| D. | plowman |
| Answer» E. | |