The Modern & The Post Modern Periods
Total Questions: 100
1) The literary work ‘The Waste Land’ is a-
- A: poem by T.S Eliot
- B: historical work by Charles Dickens
- C: play by P.B Shelley
- D: None
2) T. S. Eliot was born in—-
- A: Ireland
- B: England
- C: Wales
- D: USA
3) D. H. Lawrence a famous novelist of Modern Age is not the author of one of the four novels mentioned below:
- A: H. Lawrence a famous novelist of Modern Age is not the author of one of the four novels mentioned below:
- B: The Rainbow
- C: Lady Chatterley's Lover
- D: Sons and Lovers
4) What was the first novel of Virginia Woolf?
- A: The Waves
- B: To the light house
- C: The voyage out
- D: Jacob's Room
5) ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ is a novel written by-
- A: William Somerset Maugham
- B: Thomas Hardy
- C: Charles Dickens
- D: D.H Lawrence
6) The most striking feature of D.H. Lawrence’s character is that-
- A: H. Lawrence's character is that-
- B: they almost portray himself
- C: they live a very simple life
- D: they live a very simple life
7) Riders to the Sea is an—?
- A: an epic poem
- B: a novella
- C: an one act play
- D: a poem
8) One of the four mentioned below is not a novelist of Victorian Age-
- A: Charles Dickens
- B: George Eliot
- C: James Joyce
- D: Thomas Hardy
9) The play Arms and the Man is by?
- A: James Joyce
- B: Arthur Miller
- C: G.B Shaw
- D: Sammuel Beckett
10) Who is the author of ‘India Wins Freedom’?
- A: Mahatma Gandhi
- B: J.L. Nehru
- C: Abul Kalam Azad
- D: Moulana Akram Khan
11) ‘To the light house’ eBwUi iPwqZv †K?
- A: Jane Austen
- B: Shakespeare
- C: S. T. Coleridge
- D: Virginia Woolf
12) Who was a statesman but awarded Nobel Prize in English Literature?
- A: Stalin
- B: Nixon
- C: Churchill
- D: Roosevelt
13) Justice delayed
- A: Shakespeare
- B: Emerson
- C: Gladstone
- D: John Keats
14) What is the work of Winston Churchill?
- A: History of the Second World War
- B: History of the English Speaking People
- C: Life in Marlborough
- D: Far from the Madding Crowd
15) What figure of speech do you find in
- A: Assonance
- B: Alliteration
- C: Simile
- D: Metaphor
16) In which year Winston Churchill got the Novel prize in literature?
- A: 1943
- B: 1945
- C: 1948
- D: 1953
17) Oxymoron refers to a term made of two words that contradict each other. Which of the following is an example of oxymoron?
- A: screaming bull
- B: bluest eyes
- C: big sleep
- D: open sercret
18) Assonance refers to the repetition of similar vowel sounds. Which of the following is an example of assonance?
- A: the rain in Spain falls
- B: burning broom
- C: cawing crow
- D: buzzing bell
19) Apostrophe is an exclamatory addressing of imagianry person or abstract idea. Which of the following is not an example of apostrophe?
- A: Death! be not proud
- B: Roll on thou dark deep ocean
- C: Where, O Death! the sting?
- D: Is Science a Daughter of Art
20) In the sentence
- A: simile
- B: metaphor
- C: assonance
- D: alliteration
21) ‘Metaphor’ is a word or phrase that is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. Which one is an example of metaphor?
- A: He is the eternal summer
- B: He is youthful and happy
- C: Death will never touch him
- D: He will live forever
22) The technique of treating non-living things as humans is called-
- A: Living
- B: Description
- C: Feeding
- D: Personification
23) ‘Paradox’ is ____
- A: A statement which is false
- B: A statement which is apparently self-contradictory
- C: A statement which is apparently false
- D: A statement which is apparently true
24) In the sentence,
- A: symbolism
- B: metaphor
- C: hyperbole
- D: personification
25) Be You Ever So High
- A: Justice Atkinson
- B: Justice Marshal
- C: Lord Denning
- D: Justice Coke
26) Who authored the statement ‘The government is the best which governs least’?
- A: Herber Spencer
- B: Harold Lasky
- C: Henry David Thoreau
- D: Alexander Pope
27) A Thousand Splendid Suns is a novel written by__
- A: Khaled Hosseini
- B: Adeep Khan
- C: Mawlana Jalal Uddin Rumi
- D: Monsur Hallaj
28) Adela is a character in a novel written by-
- A: Joseph Conrad
- B: James Joyce
- C: E.M.Forster
- D: Bertrand Russell
29) Who is the author of the novel ‘The Trial’?
- A: Ernest Hemingway
- B: Leo Tolstoy
- C: Gabriel Garica Marquez
- D: Franz Kafka
30) The dairy of a
- A: Otto Frank
- B: James Frank
- C: Anne Frank
- D: Henry Frank
31) The novel ‘Roots’ was written by__
- A: Henry Miller
- B: H.G. Wells
- C: Alex Haley
- D: P.B Shelley
32) The epic ‘Odyssey’ was written by__
- A: Milton
- B: Tennyson
- C: Homer
- D: Shakespeare
33) The book
- A: Rabindranath Tagore
- B: Carlyle
- C: Jawaharlal Nehru
- D: Karl Marx
34) Who is the author of Les Miserables?
- A: Victor Hugo
- B: Alexander Duma
- C: Emile Zola
- D: Jean de La Fontaine
35) ‘Alice in Wonderland’ belongs to –
- A: detective literature
- B: satirical literature
- C: juvenile literature
- D: religious literature
36) A senator and a poet who won the Nobel prize for literature was __.
- A: Winston Churchill
- B: Matthew Arnold
- C: J M Synge
- D: W.B Yeats
37) ‘Alice in Wonderland’ is written by – Who is the author of Alice Adventures in Wonderland __
- A: G.B Shaw
- B: Lewis Carro
- C: John Keats
- D: P.B Shelley
38) Who was not awarded the Nobel Prize?
- A: John Galsworthy
- B: Orhan Pamuk
- C: Winston Churchill
- D: Elizabeth Barrett
39) Virginia Woolf was a contemporary of__
- A: Jane Austen
- B: Arnold
- C: Browning
- D: Joyce
40) Who is known as an
- A: Malala Yousafzai
- B: Dr. Muhammad Yunus
- C: Nelson Mandela
- D: Kailash Satyarthi
41) What is the salient feature of all literatures?
- A: Artistic quality
- B: Sensuous quality
- C: Joyous/Suggestive quality
- D: Reflective quality
42) Which of the Bronte sisters wrote Jane Eyre ?
- A: Anne
- B: Charlotte
- C: Emily
- D: Louise
43) The only medium of literature is –
- A: language
- B: painting
- C: sculptor
- D: architecture
44) Among the following who is not a novelist?
- A: Hardy
- B: Joyce
- C: Thackeray
- D: Blake
45) Who is regarded as the ‘Father of the Science Fiction’?
- A: Isaac Asimov
- B: Jules Verne
- C: H.G. Wells
- D: Arthur
46) Among the following who is not a poet?
- A: Matthew Arnold
- B: Robert Frost
- C: John Donne
- D: Doris Lessing
47) Langston Hughes
- A: Russian poet
- B: British poet
- C: American poet
- D: Rumanian poet
48) Of the following authors, one is American. Who is he?
- A: Alexander Pope
- B: Daniel Defoe
- C: William Faulkner
- D: Robert Browning
49) Guy de Maupassant is a famous_shory writer.
- A: French
- B: Italian
- C: German
- D: Russian
50) Earnest Hemingway is a famous –
- A: British novelist
- B: Irish novelist
- C: American novelist
- D: Latin American novelist
51) Mythology is the study of various beliefs about__
- A: monsters and fairies
- B: kings and queens
- C: gods and goddesses
- D: knights and acquires
52) ‘Poetic Licence’ means
- A: freedom to write poetry
- B: freedom to read poetry
- C: freedom to change the normal rules of language in a specia piece of writing
- D: doing what one likes
53) ‘Myth’ means __.
- A: The story of the old time heroes
- B: The story of the civilization
- C: The story the childhood
- D: the story of the ancient history
54) A funny imitation of a poem__
- A: Counterfeit
- B: Sonnet
- C: Caricature
- D: Parody
55) A story, with animals as the main characters, and a moral, is called a__
- A: legend
- B: fiction
- C: parody
- D: fable
56) A ‘dirge’ is a song to be sung at —
- A: weddings
- B: reunions
- C: funerals
- D: temples
57) What is trimeter
- A: a line of a poem consisting of three feet
- B: a line of a poem consisting three syllables
- C: a poem consisting of three rhymes
- D: all are correct
58) Lines of a song or a poem repeated at the end of each verse is called a-
- A: simile
- B: metaphor
- C: quatrain
- D: refrain
59) Which one does not relate to literature?
- A: Epilogue
- B: Monologue
- C: Demagogue
- D: Prologue
60) Which composition emphasizes on author’s witnesses and experiences rather than his/her own personality or life?
- A: Poem
- B: Paragraph
- C: Letter
- D: memoir
61) A long speech by one actor in a play or movie is called-
- A: Dialogue
- B: Monologue
- C: Prologue
- D: Epilogue
62) A closing speech in a play, often delivered after the completion of the main action is called –
- A: a monologue
- B: an epilogue
- C: a prologue
- D: dialogue
63) A ‘Prologue’ is-
- A: a poem or speech at the end of a play.
- B: an introduction to a play or a literary work.
- C: a song of mourning
- D: the science of versification
64) Who is the author of the book ‘Of Human Bondage’?
- A: Charles Dickens
- B: Somerset Maugham
- C: Jane Austen
- D: D.H Lawrence
65) What kind of literary work is ‘The Luncheon’ by Somerset Maugham?
- A: A novel
- B: A short story
- C: A poem
- D: A scientific article
66) Who translated ‘Gitanjoli’ of Rabindranath Tagore in English?
- A: W.B Yeats
- B: John Keats
- C: Robert Frost
- D: Ralph Hodgson
67) ‘The Sacred Flame’ is written by—
- A: William Somerset Maugham
- B: G B Shaw
- C: Ernest Hemingway
- D: Oscar Wilde
68) Famous Irish poet and dramatist is—-
- A: H. G. Wells
- B: Alexander
- C: Tolstoy
- D: W.B Yeats
69) Who was the greatest modern American short story writer?
- A: E. Hemingway
- B: S. Bellow
- C: W. A Longfellow
- D: O' Henry
70) Who wrote the Introduction to Rabindranath Tagore’s Songs Offerings?
- A: T. S Eliot
- B: Auden
- C: Ezra Found
- D: W. B Yeats
71) O’ Henry is famous for-
- A: Drama
- B: Short Story
- C: Novel
- D: France
72) History of the II world war is written by–
- A: Keats
- B: W. Churchill
- C: Clinton
- D: None of them
73) Who wrote the short story ‘The Gift of the Magi’?
- A: Wordsworth
- B: Nixon
- C: Jane Austen
- D: O' Henry
74) Award of Nobel Prize in Literature was started from the year-
- A: 1901
- B: 1911
- C: 1913
- D: 1917
75) The author of ‘Road to Freedom’ is-
- A: J. Baker
- B: Kissinger
- C: Bertrand Russell
- D: Lenin
76) Allegorical means-
- A: poetry
- B: written in verse
- C: having symbolic meaning
- D: with timely significant
77) Which one is a Metaphor?
- A: He is as good as his father
- B: He is the sort of the family
- C: The boy takes after his father
- D: She sing like a cuckoo
78) What is catastrophy?
- A: The comical end of dramatic events
- B: The tragic end of dramatic events
- C: The comic and tragic end of the play
- D: None of the above
79) What is the meaning of the word ‘euphemism’?
- A: vague idea
- B: inoffensive expression
- C: verbal play
- D: wise saying
80) If a part of speech or writing breaks the theme, it is called–
- A: pomposity
- B: digression
- C: exaggeration
- D: anti-climax
81) What is an epic wK?
- A: a prose composition
- B: a romance
- C: a sonnet
- D: a long poem
82) What is the meaning the word ‘Dirge’?
- A: a kind of sonnet sequence
- B: a song expressing patriotic sentiment
- C: a long verse telling about an adventure
- D: a song expressing grief, lamentation and mourning
83) What is ‘Linguistics’
- A: The study of history
- B: The study of literature
- C: The scientific study of language
- D: The study of prose
84) Elegy কি?
- A: historical poem
- B: figurative story
- C: enemy
- D: song of Lamentation
85) What is ‘Sonnet’?
- A: A prose of special nature
- B: A sacred poem of reputed poet
- C: A poem of fourteen lines
- D: A criticism of a poet
86) A climax is –
- A: a climbing apparatus
- B: point of greatest intesity
- C: a crisis in a drama
- D: the latest scene in a drama
87) When a person writes the story of his own life it is called—
- A: an autobiography
- B: a biography
- C: a diary
- D: a chronology
88) Protagonist indicates —
- A: the villain in a play
- B: the clown in a play
- C: the leading character or actor in a play
- D: the stage-director of a play
89) Writing one’s own life story is known as—
- A: Biography
- B: Autobiography
- C: Autography
- D: Life history
90) A work which has a meaning behind the surface meaning is—
- A: an epic
- B: an allegory
- C: a metaphor
- D: personification
91) The sentence, ‘Death, thou shalt not die.’ is an example of-
- A: Simile
- B: metaphor
- C: irony
- D: paradox
92) ‘Debut’ Means—
- A: conclusion
- B: contradiction
- C: gracious response
- D: first appearance
93) Someone who writes plays is called a
- A: play writer
- B: dramatizer
- C: playwright
- D: playwrite
94) What is Limerick?
- A: A form of light verse
- B: A form of one-act play
- C: A kind of short narrative poem
- D: A kind of love poem
95) হোয়াইটহেডের সুবিখ্যাত পুস্তকটির নাম কি?
- A: The Social Contract
- B: The Aim of Education
- C: The Rythm of Education
- D: Education and Democracy
96) ‘Lorna Doone’ is—
- A: a drama by Shakespeare
- B: a poem of Tennyson
- C: a novel by Blackmore
- D: an allegory by Bunyan
97) Who is the author of ‘Spirit of Islam?
- A: Abul Monsur Ahmed
- B: Syed Amir Ali
- C: Sir Syed Ahmed
- D: Abul Kalam Azad
98) The novel ‘Roots’ was written by—
- A: Henry Miller
- B: H.G. Wells
- C: Alex Haley
- D: P.B Shelley
99) জর্জ ইলিয়টের প্রকৃত নাম কি ছিল? —
- A: T.S. Eliot
- B: Jane Austen
- C: Mary Anne Evans
- D: William Hazlitt
100) Who is the only Laureate to refuse the Nobel Prize?
- A: Jea- Paul Sartre
- B: Rabindranath Tagore
- C: Leo Tolstoy
- D: T.S. Eliot
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