UGC NET MC QUESTIONS

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MC QU

1. Sir Philip Sidney was born in.....
A. 1554 ✔
B. 1564
C. 1607
D. 1545

2. ........... was known as the English Petrarch.
A. Sir Philip Sidney ✔
B. Edmund Spenser
C. Michael Drayton
D. Christopher Marlowe

3. Which of the following work is not belongs to Sir Philip Sidney?
A. Arcadia
B. Astrophel and Stella
C. Ideas Mirrour ✔
D. A Defence of Poesie

4. 'Astrophel and Stella' consist of ......
A. 108 sonnets and 18 songs
B.108 sonnets and 11 songs ✔
C. 101 sonnets and 18 songs
D. 118 sonnets and 11 songs

5. The work 'Astrophel and Stella' addressed to
A. King Edward VI
B. Queen Elizabeth
C. Edward Spencer
D. Panelope Devereaux✔

6. Who is called as "The Poet's Poet"?
A. Christopher Marlowe
B. Edmund Spenser ✔
C. Sir Philip Sidney
D. William Shakespeare

 7. Who called Edmund Spenser as "The Poet's Poet "?
A. Dr. Jonson
B. John Dryden
C. Charles Lamb✔
D. Mathew Arnold

8. Which of the following work of Edmund Spenser is a great moral allegory that propagates human virtues and values that makes man's life worth living?
A. The Shepheardes Calender
B. Faerie Queen✔
C. Amoretti
D. None of these

9. Edmund Spenser outdid Petrarch in sonneteering  as seen in  his .........
A. The Shepheardes Calender
B. Faerie Queen
C. Amoretti ✔
D. None of these

10. ..............was the first sonnet sequence in English
A. Edmund Spenser's Amoretti ✔
B. Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella
C. Samuel Daniel's Delia
D. None of the above

 11. Who is considered as "The most talented of pre-Shakespeareans"?
A. Edmund Spenser
B. Sir Philip Sidney
C. Christopher Marlowe ✔
D. None of the above

 12. Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander  is a mythological poem consisting of ...........lines.
A. 818 lines✔
B. 118 lines
C. 881 lines
D. 811 lines

13. Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander can be classified as a/an .....
A. complaint
B. Stichomythia
C. Epyllion✔
D. Pasturelle

14. Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander was an unfinished poem completed by after his death by
A. Edmund Spenser
B. Phineas Fletcher
C. George Chapman ✔
D. None of the above

15. Gloriana in The Faerie Queene represents ....

A.Catholic Church
B.Queen Elizabeth ✔
C.Mary, Queen of Scots
D.Anne Boleyn

16.Eight iambic pentameter lines followed by an alexandrine is called ....
A.Rime Royal
B.Ottava Rima
C.Sonnet
D.Spenserian stanza✔

 17.Which of the following is a Christian humanistic epic?
A.The Faerie Queene ✔
B.Aeneid
C.Paradise Lost
D.Prometheus Bound

NET /SLET /JRF ENGLISH LITERATURE MC QUESTION

Ⓜ1) Who said: " He comes too near that comes to be denied."
a) Milton
b) Overbury✅
c) Addison
d) Stevenson

Ⓜ2) Who wrote " The dropping of rain hollows out of a stone."
a) Milton
b) Shakespeare
c) Virgil
d) Ovid✅

Ⓜ3) Who said: " To be alone is the fate of all great minds."
a) Plato
b) Socrates
c) The Buddha
d) Arthur Schopenhauer✅

Ⓜ4) Who said: " Nothing can harm a good man, either in life or after death."
a) Newman
b) Chaucer
c) Shakespeare
d) Socrates✅

Ⓜ5) Who said: " I am the grass; I cover all."
a) Whitman
b) Frost
c) Sandburg✅
d) Emily Dickenson

Ⓜ6) Who said: " French is the only modern language fit for literature."
a) Coleridge
b) Yeats
c) Conrad✅
d) Synge

Ⓜ7) " If I should die, think only this of me." Who wrote the above line?
a) Housman
b) Mare
c) Yeats
d) Brooke✅

Ⓜ8) Who is the writer of the line: " Look back and smile at perils past."
a) Shakespeare
b) Scott✅
c) Wordsworth
d) Yeats

Ⓜ9) P.G. Wodehouse is generally known as a
a) Sad man
b) 'Funny man' of contemporary literature✅
c) Man of romance
d) None of these

Ⓜ10) Who wrote the following lines:
"My subject is war, and the pity of war, the poetry is in the pity."
a) George Washington
b) Napoleon
c) Tolstoy
d) Wilfred Owen.✅

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1) Who was the leader of University wits?

A)John Lyly👍🏻
B)Marlowe
C)William Shakespeare
D)Robert Greene

Hk2)Which is the first dramtic literary satire in English Literature?

A)The Old wives Tale
B)Man and Superman
C)Woman in the Moon
D)Frair Bacon and Bungay🤔

HK3)Which of the following statement is not true?

A)Robert Greene is the dramatist to draw characters like Rosalind and Celia's🤔
B)John Lyly is the first finest phrase maker in English
C)George Peele is the author of ''Midas" play
D)Greene paid great contribution to plot construction

Hk4)Find out the odd.

A)Love's Metamorphosis
B)The old wives tale
C)The Scottish History of James -4😛
D)Love in the time of cholera

Hk6)The First playhouse in London was erected in the year _____ in _____


A)1576 in Shoreditch👍🏻
B)1570 In London
C)1578 in Wales
D)1555 In Northernshire.

Hk7)This play has large influence on Love's Labour's Lost.

A)Love's Metamorphosis
B)Gallathea👍🏻
C)The Old Wives Tale
D)The Scottish History of James -4

ENGLISH LITERATUREGENERAL INFORMATION

1.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Literature
2.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Poetry
3.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Language
4.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Morning Star of the Renaissance
5.Geoffrey Chaucer = The First National Poet
6.Venerable Bede = The Father of English Learning.
7.Venerable Bede = The Father of English History
8.King Alfred the Great = The Father of English Prose
9.Aeschylus = The Father of Tragedy
10.Nicholas Udall = The First English Comedy Writer
11.Edmund Spenser = The Poet’s poet (by Charles Lamb)
12.Edmund Spenser = The Child of Renaissance
13.Edmund Spenser = The Bridge between Renaissance and Reformation
14.Gutenberg = The Father of Printing
15.William Caxton = Father of English Press
16.Francis Bacon = The Father of English Essay
17.John Wycliffe = The Morning Star of the Reformation
18.Christopher Marlowe = The Father of English Tragedy
19.William Shakespeare = Bard of Avon
20.William Shakespeare = The Father of English Drama
21.William Shakespeare = Sweet Swan of Avon
22.William Shakespeare = The Bard
23.Robert Burns = The Bard of Ayrshire (Scotland)
24.Robert Burns = The National Poet of Scotland
25.Robert Burns = Rabbie
26.Robert Burns = The Ploughman Poet
27.William Dunber = The Chaucer of Scotland
28.John Dryden = Father of English criticism
29.William of Newbury = Father of Historical Criticism
30.John Donne = Poet of love
31.John Donne = Metaphysical poet
32.John Milton = Epic poet
33.John Milton = The great master of verse
34.John Milton = Lady of the Christ College
35.John Milton = Poet of the Devil’s Party
36.John Milton = Master of the Grand style
38.John Milton = The Blind Poet of England
39.Alexander Pope = Mock heroic poet
40.William Wordsworth = The Worshipper of Nature
41.William Wordsworth = The High Priest of Nature
42.William Wordsworth = The Poet of Nature
43.William Wordsworth = The Lake Poet
44.William Wordsworth = Poet of Childhood
45.William Wordsworth = Egotistical Sublime
46.Samuel Taylor Coleridge = The Poet of Supernaturalism
47.Samuel Taylor Coleridge = Opium Eater
48.Coleridge & Wordsworth = The Father of Romanticism
49.Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey = Lake Poets
50.Lord Byron = The Rebel Poet
51.Percy Bysshe Shelley = The Revolutionary Poet
52.Percy Bysshe Shelley = Poet of hope and
regeneration
53.John Keats = Poet of Beauty
54.William Blake = The Mystic Poet
55.John Keats = Chameleon Poet
56.Lord Alfred Tennyson = The Representative of the Victorian Era
57.George Bernard Shaw = The greatest modern dramatist
58.George Bernard Shaw = The Iconoclast
59.Jane Austen = Anti-romantic in Romantic age
60.Lindley Murray = Father of English Grammar
61.James Joyce = Father of English Stream of Conscious Novel
62.Edgar Allen Poe = Father of English Mystery play
63.Edgar Allen Poe = The Father of English Short Story
64.Henry Fielding = The Father of English Novel
65.Samuel Johnson = Father of English one Act Play
66.Sigmund Freud = A great Psycho-analyst
67.Robert Frost = The Poet of Terror
68.Francesco Petrarch = The Father of Sonnet (Italian)
69.Francesco Petrarch = The Father of Humanism
70.Sir Thomas Wyatt = The Father of English Sonnet
71.Henry Louis Vivian Derozio = The Father of Indian-Anglican Sonnet
72.William Hazlitt = Critic’s Critic
73.Charles Lamb = The Essay of Elia
74.Arthur Miller = Mulk Raj Anand of America
75.Addison = The voice of humanist Puritanism
76.Emerson = The Seneca of America
77.Mother Teresa = The Boon of Heaven
78.Thomas Nash = Young Juvenile
79.Thomas Decker = Fore-runner of Humorist
80.Homer = The Father of Epic Poetry
81.Homer = The Blind Poet
82.Henrick Ibsen = Father of Modern theatre
83.Rabindranath Tagore = Indian National Poet
84.Nissim Ezekiel = The Father of Indian English Poetry..

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ENGLISH Writers' information

 William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) English poet and playwright. Famous plays include Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of Venice and Hamlet. Shakespeare is widely considered the seminal writer of the English language.

 Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) Anglo-Irish writer born in Dublin. Swift was a prominent satirist, essayist and author. Notable works include Gulliver’s Travels (1726), A Modest Proposal and A Tale of a Tub.

 Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784) British author best known for his compilation of the English dictionary. Although not the first attempt at a dictionary, it was widely considered to be the most comprehensive – setting the standard for later dictionaries.

 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832) German poet, playwright, and author. Notable works of Goethe include: Faust, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Elective Affinities.

 Jane Austen (1775 – 1817) English author who wrote romantic fiction combined with social realism. Her novels include: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1816).

 Honore de Balzac (1799 –  1850) French novelist and short story writer. Balzac was an influential realist writer who created characters of moral ambiguity – often based on his own real life examples. His greatest work was the collection of short stories La Comédie humaine.

 Alexandre Dumas (1802 – 1870) French author of historical dramas, including – The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), and The Three Musketeers (1844). Also prolific author of magazine articles, pamphlets and travel books.

 Victor Hugo (1802 – 1885) French author and poet. Hugo’s novels include Les Misérables, (1862) and Notre-Dame de Paris (1831).

 Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870) – English writer and social critic. His best-known works include novels such as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and A Christmas Carol.

 Charlotte Bronte (1816 – 1855) English novelist and poet, from Haworth. Her best known novel is ‘Jane Eyre’ (1847).

 Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862) – American poet, writer and leading member of the Transcendentalist movement. Thoreau’s “Walden” (1854) was a unique account of living close to nature.

 Emily Bronte (1818 – 1848) English novelist. Emily Bronte is best known for her novel Wuthering Heights (1847), and her poetry.

 George Eliot (1819 – 1880) Pen name of Mary Ann Evans. Wrote novels, The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876)

 Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher. Famous works include the epic novels – War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). Tolstoy also became an influential philosopher with his brand of Christian pacificism.

 Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) Russian novelist, journalist and philosopher. Notable works include Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment and The Idiot

 Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Oxford mathematician and author. Famous for Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and poems like The Snark.

 Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) American writer and humorist, considered the ‘father of American literature’. Famous works include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).

 Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) English novelist and poet. Hardy was a Victorian realist who was influenced by Romanticism. He wrote about problems of Victorian society – in particular, declining rural life. Notable works include: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), and
Jude the Obscure (1895).

 Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) – Irish writer and poet. Wilde wrote humorous, satirical plays, such as ‘The Importance of Being Earnest‘ and ‘The Picture of Dorian Grey’.

 Kenneth Graham (1859 – 1932) Author of the Wind in the Willows (1908), a classic of children’s literature.

 George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) Irish playwright and wit. Famous works include: Pygmalion (1912), Man and Superman (1903) and Back to Methuselah (1921)

 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) British author of historical novels and plays. Most famous for his short stories about the detective – Sherlock Holmes, such as The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) and Sign of Four (1890).

 Beatrix Potter (1866 – 1943) English conservationist and author of imaginative children’s books, such as the Tales of Peter Rabbit (1902).

 Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922) French author. Best known for epic novel l À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.

 William Somerset Maugham 1874 – 1965) British novelist and writer. One of the most popular authors of 1930s. Notable works included The Moon and Sixpence (1916), The Razor’s Edge (1944), and Of Human Bondage (1915)

 P.G.Wodehouse (1881 – 1975) English comic writer. Best known for his humorous and satirical stories about the English upper classes, such as Jeeves and Wooster and Blandings Castle.

 Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941) English modernist writer, a member of the Bloomsbury group. Famous novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928).

 James Joyce (1882 – 1941) Irish writer from Dublin. Joyce was one of most influential modernist avant-garde writers of the Twentieth Century. His novel Ulysses (1922), was ground-breaking for its stream of consciousness style. Other works include Dubliners (1914) and Finnegans Wake (1939).

 D H Lawrence (1885 – 1930) English poet, novelist and writer. Best known works include Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love and Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) – which was banned for many years.

 Agatha Christie (1890 – 1976) British fictional crime writer. Many of her books focused on series featuring her detectives ‘Poirot’ and Mrs Marple.

 J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973) – Professor of Anglo-Saxon and English at Oxford University. Tolkien wrote the best-selling mythical trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Other works include, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion, and a translation of Beowulf.

 Vera Brittain (1893 – 1970) British writer best known for her autobiography – Testament of Youth (1933) – sharing her traumatic experiences of the First World War.

 F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940) American author. Iconic writer of the ‘jazz age’. Notable works include The Great Gatsby (1925), and Tender Is the Night (1934) – cautionary tales about the ‘Jazz decade’ and the American Dream based on pleasure and materialism.

 Enid Blyton (1897 – 1968) British children’s writer, known for her series of children’s books – The Famous Five and The Secret Seven. Blyton wrote an estimated 800 books over 40 years.

 C.S. Lewis (1898 – 1963) Irish / English author and professor at Oxford University. Lewis is best known for The Chronicles of Narnia, a children’s fantasy series. Also well known as a Christian apologist.

 Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) Ground breaking modernist American writer. Famous works included For Whom The Bell Tolls (1940) and A Farewell to Arms (1929).

 Vladimir Nabokov (1899 – 1977) Russian author of Lolita (1955) and Pale Fire (1962)
 Barbara Cartland (1901 – 2000) One of most prolific and best selling authors of the romantic fiction genre. Some suggest she has sold over 2 billion copies worldwide.

 John Steinbeck (1902 – 1968) American writer who captured the social change experienced in the US around the time of the Great Depression. Famous works include – Of Mice and Men (1937), The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and East of Eden (1952).

 George Orwell (1903 – 1950) – English author. Famous works include Animal Farm, and 1984. – Both stark warnings about the dangers of totalitarian states, Orwell was also a democratic socialist who fought in the Spanish Civil War, documenting his experiences in “Homage to Catalonia” (1938).

 Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) Irish avant garde, modernist writer. Beckett wrote minimalist and thought provoking plays, such as ‘Waiting for Godot’ (1953) and ‘Endgame‘ (1957). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.

 Albert Camus (1913 – 1960) – French author, journalist, and philosopher. Associated with existentialism and absurdism. Famous works included The Myth of Sisyphus, The Stranger.