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British Literature - Nineteenth Century | Set 1

1. The…………….was a turning point in the British Political history of Nineteenth Century.

Correct : C. reform bill of 1832

2. Father of Utilitarianism

Correct : B. jermy bentham

3. Which novel by Charles Dickens is generally regarded as the first Victorian novel

Correct : B. the pickwick papers

4. Which novel by Thomas Hardy had the subtitle “ A Pure Woman” which shocked Victorian readers?

Correct : D. tess of the d’urberviles

5. Which of the Bronte sisters wrote “Shirly” a novel set in Yorkshire during the Industrial depression

Correct : A. charlotte

6. ) Which of the book was written by Victorian novelist George Eliot?

Correct : B. mill on the floss

7. Name of the novel by Thackeray known as “A Novel without a Hero”

Correct : D. vanity fair

8. What is inscribed above the entrance of Wuthering Heights?

Correct : D. hareton earshaw 1500

9. What kind of countryside surrounds Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange

Correct : A. moorland

10. What is the name of the village near Wuthering Heights?

Correct : B. gimmerton

11. Who raises Hareton during the early years of his life?

Correct : D. nelly

12. Whom does Hindley force to work as a servant in his home?

Correct : B. heathcliff

13. What happens to Hindley after his wife dies?

Correct : A. he becomes an alcoholic gambler

14. What was depicted in Tess’s personal struggles that caused controversy when the novel came out?

Correct : A. sexual hypocrisy

15. What was Thomas Hardy’s last novel?

Correct : B. jude the obscure

16. The action of the novel Tess of the d’Ubervilles takes place in what area of England?

Correct : C. wessex

17. What advice does Mrs. Durbeyfield give Tess?

Correct : A. not to tell angel her secret

18. how does Tess die?

Correct : B. she is hanged

19. What does Tess name her son?

Correct : C. sorrow

20. A Tale of Two Cities was published in weekly installments from April to November of what year?

Correct : B. 1859

21. Why was Doctor Manette imprisoned ?

Correct : C. the marquis evremonde feared that manette would reveal one of the marquis’ dark secrets.

22. What feature of the chimney sweepers face does Charles Lamb admire?

Correct : C. teeth

23. What was Charles Lamb’s final book?

Correct : D. the last essays of elia

24. What was the first Elia essay?

Correct : C. the south sea house

25. Who was appointed as Poet Laureate after William Wordsworth?

Correct : B. tennyson

26. Which one s Gaskell’s first novel?

Correct : D. mary barton

27. George Eliot was the pen name of…………..

Correct : A. mary anne evans

28. Which one is the unfinished novel of Charles Dickens?

Correct : C. edwin drood

29. Oscar Wild’s ‘Woman of No Importance’ appears in……………

Correct : C. 1893

30. Who was the leader of Pre- Raphaelite group of artists in England?

Correct : B. d g rossetti

31. Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne of England after

Correct : A. william iv

32. Who is the author of “ Aurora Leigh”?

Correct : B. elizabeth barret browning

33. Maud is a poem written by

Correct : C. tennyson

34. The verse novel of Elizabeth Barret Browning

Correct : D. aurora leigh

35. The song of the Lotus is a poem by………

Correct : D. tennyson

36. In “ In Memorium” Tennyson mourns the death of ……….

Correct : A. arthur hallam

37. Who is the author of “ Blessed Damozel?

Correct : A. d g rossetti

38. The title of the “Vanity Fair” has been taken from

Correct : C. pilgrim progress

39. In which year was the Origin of the Species” published?

Correct : B. 1859

40. , Name the first volume of Robert Browning’s poems

Correct : B. incondita

41. ……………..is a historical tragedy in blank verse by Browning

Correct : D. strafford 1837

42. The first important poem of Robert Browning

Correct : C. paracelus

43. To which well-known family does Fra Lippo Lippi’s patron belong?

Correct : A. the medicis

44. What kind of of art does Fra Lippo Lippi produce?

Correct : D. portraits of real people

45. “ Fra Lippo Lippi” appeared in the 1855 collection…………

Correct : C. men and women

46. …………….poem is Browning’s timeless respect for Shelly

Correct : D. memorabilia

47. The verse novel of Robert Browning based on an Italian Murder trial in the seventeenth century.

Correct : B. the ring and the books

48. The German philosopher who influenced the Romantic movement

Correct : C. immanuel kant

49. The book that marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement

Correct : B. lyrical ballads

50. Who was known as the ‘grand old Man of the English letters’?

Correct : D. william wordsworth

51. Who was the greatest nature poet of England?

Correct : A. william wordsworth

52. Lectures on Shakespeare is the work of…………..

Correct : D. coleridge

53. William Blake’s political radicalism intensified during the years leading up to the…..

Correct : B. french revolution

54. The poem ‘The Tyger’ was published in…….

Correct : A. 1794

55. The poem ‘The Tyger’ is taken from

Correct : B. songs of experience

56. Which of these poems uses dramatic monologue as a poetic form?

Correct : B. robert browning’s my last duchess

57. ……………..is regarded as the poet, who has spoken the strongest word of faith to an age of doubt

Correct : A. browning

58. An immense poem, twice as long as ‘Paradise Lost’, longer by some two thousand lines than the Iliad by Browning

Correct : B. the ring and the book

59. ………………by Browning is an exquisite tribute to his dead wife.

Correct : C. one word more

60. For ……………poem Tennyson got Chancellor’s Medal

Correct : B. timbuctoo

61. ……………wrote the song “ Tears, Idle Tears”

Correct : B. tennyson

62. ……… poem of Tennyson was a long poem of over three thousand lines of blank verse.

Correct : D. maud

63. Browning’s ‘Pauline’ came in

Correct : C. 1833

64. Wordsworth believes in the concept of …………

Correct : B. pantheism

65. The concept of Pantheism believes in

Correct : B. healing power of nature

66. Who brought the concept of negative capability?

Correct : C. keats

67. Whose epitaph contains “here lies one whose name was written in water”

Correct : C. john keats

68. Which is the high watermark f poetry in the 19th century?

Correct : B. intimations of immortality

69. In which of the followings spiritual appeal of nature is expressed in almost every line?

Correct : C. tintern abbey

70. Who wrote Lucy poems

Correct : C. wordsworth

71. Who said that the poet was a ‘mere babbler’?

Correct : B. byron

72. Who wrote the “Witch of Atlas”?

Correct : D. shelley

73. Which character was the only one of Shelly’s character, who seems to be entirely human?

Correct : D. beatrice

74. Who wrote ‘Confession of an Opium Eater’?

Correct : C. de- quincey

75. Who wrote the critical essay ‘Literary Reminiscences’?

Correct : B. de quincey

76. Which of the following was not written by De Quincey?

Correct : C. endymion

77. In which out of the following we see the creations of Lamb’s humour and pathos?

Correct : B. dissertation on roast rig

78. Heath Cliff is the main character in the novel

Correct : A. 1 and 2

79. “ I will show you a heroine as plain and small as myself”

Correct : B. this is charlotte bronte in jane eyre

80. Here is the list of women abandoned by their lovers in Hardy’s novels. Pick the odd one out

Correct : D. bathsheba everdene

81. A noble and inspiring books f love poems by Miss Barret

Correct : C. lady geraldine’s courtship

82. ………………..was the leader in the Pre- Raphaelite Movement

Correct : C. rossetti

83. “ The sea is calm tonight The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits, on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone, the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay Come to the window, sweet is the night air”

Correct : D. this is mathew arnold in ‘dover beach’

84. Which of the following is in the chronological order?

Correct : C. morte d’ arthur, vanity fair, in memoriam

85. Oscar Wild’s time period is from

Correct : D. 1856 to 1900