Question: What do you mean by Quatrain ?

• 1. a poem of fourteen lines
• 2. a stanza of fourteen lines
• 3. a stanza of six lines
• 4. a stanza of four lines

Question: Who is the author of ‘A Brief History of Time’ ?

• 1. Albert Einstein
• 2. Stephen Hawking
• 3. Jagadish Chandra Basu
• 4. Isaac Newton

Question: “But God’s eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone.” In which poem do these lines appear ?

• 1. We Are Seven (Wordsworth)
• 2. Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)
• 3. Prisoner of Chillon (Byron)
• 4. None of these

Question: The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is known as______________?

• 1. Caleron
• 2. Corneille
• 3. Couperin
• 4. Moliere

Question: World War I affected the writing of many authors. Which of the following poets would not have been touched by that event ?

• 1. T.S. Eliot
• 2. Siegfried Sassoon
• 3. Wilfred Owen
• 4. Oscar Wilde

Question: This work was written before the other three choices ?

• 1. Bede’s “An Ecclesiastical History of the English People”
• 2. Julian of Norwhich’s “Book of Showings”
• 3. Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”
• 4. Sir Thomas More’s “Utopia”

Question: Which of the following literary sub periods does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period ?

• 1. The Restoration
• 2. Jacobean Age
• 3. The Augustan Age
• 4. The Age of Sensibility

Question: Historical events often influence literature. Which of the following did NOT occur during the Restoration period ?

• 1. Charles II was restored to the throne
• 2. The French Revolution
• 3. The Great Fire of London
• 4. The Exclusion Bill Crisis

Question: This work was NOT originally published in the 20th Century ?

• 1. Henry James’s “The Ambassadors”
• 2. Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
• 3. E.M. Forster’s “A Room With A View”
• 4. Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway”

Question: Which work was completed last ?

• 1. John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”
• 2. George Herbert’s “The Temple”
• 3. William Shakespeare’s “Tempest”
• 4. Ben Jonson’s “Volpone”