Q1. Which of these is the earliest known English epic poem?

C) Beowulf

Q2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight belongs to which literary tradition?
B) Medieval romance

Q3. Who introduced the Spenserian stanza?

D) Spenser

Q4. Which play is Marlowe’s last and unfinished work?

A) Tamburlaine
B) Doctor Faustus
C) Edward II
D) The Massacre at Paris

Q5. Which author is known for Hero and Leander?

C) Christopher Marlowe

Q6. Which of these is not a sonnet sequence?

C) Hero and Leander

Q7. Which work is a pastoral elegy mourning Edward King?

A) Lycidas

Q8. Who wrote To His Coy Mistress?

C) Marvell

Q9. The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy by:

B) Wycherley

Q10. Which of these novels is epistolary in form?

A) Clarissa

Q11. Who wrote A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)?

C) Samuel Johnson

Q12. Who wrote Songs of Innocence and of Experience?

C) Blake

Q13. Which of these is a Gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe?

C) The Mysteries of Udolpho

Q14. “The Sublime” is central to which critic’s aesthetic theory?

B) Edmund Burke

Q15. Who wrote The Deserted Village?

B) Goldsmith

Q16. Which Romantic poet was dubbed “mad, bad and dangerous to know”?
A) Wordsworth
B) Shelley
C) Byron
D) Keats

Q17. Which novel by Dickens attacks the legal system?

B) Bleak House

Q18. Who wrote Goblin Market?

C) Christina Rossetti

Q19. Which Victorian poet used dramatic monologue extensively?

C) Browning

Q20. Which novel is by George Eliot?

C) The Mill on the Floss

Q21. Who wrote The Turn of the Screw?

B) Henry James

Q22. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is by:

A) James Joyce

Q23. Mrs Dalloway was published in:

C) 1925

Q24. In Memoriam is a long elegy for:

A) Arthur Hallam

Q25. The term “objective correlative” was popularized by:

B) T. S. Eliot

Q26. “Dulce et Decorum Est” is a poem about WWI by:

A) Wilfred Owen
B) Rupert Brooke
C) Siegfried Sassoon
D) Edward Thomas

Q27. Who wrote Krapp’s Last Tape?

C) Samuel Beckett

Q28. Which novel features the character Okonkwo?

C) Things Fall Apart

Q29. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” is an essay by:

C) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Q30. Which of these is not associated with Postcolonial theory

C) Affective Fallacy

Q1. Who is the author of Everyman, the best-known medieval morality play?
✅ B) Anonymous
Q2. Which poet is famous for the line: “They also serve who only stand and wait”?
✅ C) Milton

Q3. Who introduced the “Sonnet Sequence” in English literature?

✅ A) Sidney

Q4. The line “A thing of beauty is a joy forever” is from:

✅ B) Keats

Q5. Who wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress?

✅ A) Bunyan

Q6. Who is the author of She Stoops to Conquer?

✅ B) Goldsmith

Q7. Pamela by Samuel Richardson is a landmark because:

✅ C) It was the first modern English novel

Q8. Who wrote An Essay on Criticism?

✅ B) Pope

Q9. The Prelude is a long autobiographical poem by:

✅ C) Wordsworth

Q10. Which Romantic poet wrote Adonais, an elegy for Keats?

✅ B) Shelley

Q11. Who wrote Vanity Fair?

✅ B) Thackeray

Q12. The phrase “Pathetic Fallacy” was coined by:

✅ B) Ruskin

Q13. Culture and Anarchy was written by:

✅ A) Arnold

Q14. The Importance of Being Earnest is by:

✅ A) Wilde

Q15. Which novel is subtitled A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented?

✅ B) Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Q16. Heart of Darkness was written by:

✅ A) Conrad

Q17. Which movement includes Ezra Pound and H.D.?

✅ B) Imagsm

Q18. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was written by:

✅ C) Eliot
Q19. Which novel ends with the line: “After all, tomorrow is another day”?
✅ B) Gone with the Wind

Q20. Who wrote Look Back in Anger, the play that named the Angry Young Men movement?
✅ A) John Osborne

Q21. The term “Stream of Consciousness” was first used by:

✅ A) William James

Q22. Who is the author of Lord of the Flies?

✅ B) William Golding

Q23. Which novel is famous for the phrase “Big Brother is watching you”?
✅ C) 1984

Q24. Who wrote Waiting for Godot?

✅ C) Samuel Beckett

Q25. Which movement is characterized by fragmentation, metafiction, and intertextuality?

✅ C) Postmodernism

Q26. Things Fall Apart is a seminal work in:

✅ C) Postcolonial Literature

Q27. Which Irish poet received the Nobel Prize in 1923?

✅ B) W. B. Yeats

Q28. Which novel by Salman Rushdie caused international controversy?

✅ C) The Satanic Verses

Q29. “Death of the Author” theory was proposed by:

✅ B) Roland Barthes

Q30. Orientalism, a landmark critique of Western representations of the East, was written by:
✅ C) Edward Said
OLD ENGLISH PERIOD (100 MCQS)
✅ Q1. The Old English period is roughly dated from:
Answer: 450–1066

✅ Q2. Which event marks the end of the Old English period?
Answer: Norman Conquest

✅ Q3. Beowulf is primarily what kind of poem?

Answer: Epic

✅ Q4. Who is the hero of Beowulf?

Answer: Beowulf

✅ Q5. Grendel is described as:

Answer: Monster

✅ Q6. Which manuscript preserves Beowulf?

Answer: Nowell Codex

✅ Q7. Old English poetry is characterized by:

Answer: Alliteration

✅ Q8. What is a ‘kenning’?

Answer: Two-word metaphor

✅ Q9. Which king encouraged learning and translation in Old English?

Answer: Alfred

✅ Q10. Who wrote a famous Old English Hymn—the earliest named English poet?
Answer: Caedmon

✅ Q11. Bede wrote in:

Answer: Latin

✅ Q12. Which text is considered an Old English elegy?

Answer: The Wanderer

✅ Q13. What is The Dream of the Rood?

Answer: Christian vision

✅ Q14. Which manuscript includes The Wanderer and The Seafarer?

Answer: Exeter

✅ Q15. The language of Old English is part of which family?

Answer: Germanic

✅ Q16. Which term describes Old English prose histories?

Answer: Chronicle
✅ Q17. Which important Old English text records events in annal form?
Answer: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

✅ Q18. Which genre are the Old English Riddles?

Answer: Wisdom

✅ Q19. Cynewulf is known for writing:

Answer: Religious poems

✅ Q20. Which of these is not an Old English work?

Answer: Sir Orfeo

✅ Q21. The heroic code in Beowulf emphasizes:

Answer: Kinship

✅ Q22. Which creature does Beowulf fight last?

Answer: Dragon

✅ Q23. The Old English poetic line is typically:

Answer: Four-stress alliterative

✅ Q24. Which Old English prose work describes Christian history of England?
Answer: Bede’s History

✅ Q25. Which Old English work features a conversation between a father and son?
Answer: Father’s Instructions

✅ Q26. Which poetic device is especially prominent in Old English verse?

Answer: Alliteration

✅ Q27. Who was the King of the Geats in Beowulf at the start of the poem?
Answer: Hygelac

✅ Q28. Beowulf is set primarily in:

Answer: Denmark/Sweden

✅ Q29. The battle with Grendel takes place in:

Answer: Heorot

✅ Q30. Who helps Beowulf fight the dragon?

Answer: Wiglaf

✅ Q31. Which type of Christian imagery is prominent in The Dream of the Rood?
Answer: Crucifixion

✅ Q32. Which Old English poem is a lament by a woman for her exile?
Answer: Wife’s Lament

✅ Q33. Which manuscript is The Dream of the Rood in?

Answer: Vercelli
✅ Q34. The Exeter Book contains:
Answer: Old English poetry

✅ Q35. Which theme is central to The Wanderer?

Answer: Exile

✅ Q36. Which poetic feature divides the Old English line?

Answer: Caesura

✅ Q37. Which of these is not an Old English manuscript?

Answer: Ellesmere

✅ Q38. Which of these terms best describes The Seafarer?

Answer: Elegy

✅ Q39. What does ‘wyrd’ mean in Old English culture?

Answer: Fate

✅ Q40. Which of these is not a known Old English poet?

Answer: Chaucer

✅ Q41. Which king is praised for promoting education and translation?

Answer: Alfred

✅ Q42. Which Old English text blends pagan and Christian elements?
Answer: Beowulf

✅ Q43. The Battle of Maldon commemorates:

Answer: Viking defeat

✅ Q44. Which work ends with the hero’s funeral?

Answer: Beowulf

✅ Q45. Old English heroic poetry often focuses on:

Answer: Kinship

✅ Q46. In Beowulf, what is Grendel’s ancestry said to be?

Answer: Cain

✅ Q47. The first recorded Old English Christian poem is:

Answer: Caedmon’s Hymn

✅ Q48. Which of these best describes Old English prose style?

Answer: Plain/paratactic

✅ Q49. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was maintained in:

Answer: Old English

✅ Q50. Old English literature was primarily transmitted:

Answer: Manuscripts/oral
Q51. What is the primary meter of Old English poetry?
Answer: Alliterative

✅ Q52. Which of these is an example of Old English religious poetry?

Answer: Genesis

✅ Q53. The Vercelli Book contains:

Answer: Prose/poetry

✅ Q54. What type of composition is Judith in Old English?

Answer: Biblical paraphrase

✅ Q55. Who is Hrothgar in Beowulf?

Answer: King

✅ Q56. Which manuscript includes many Old English riddles?

Answer: Exeter

✅ Q57. Which feature marks much Old English prose style?

Answer: Paratactic

✅ Q58. Which of these is not typically an Old English theme?

Answer: Courtly love

✅ Q59. What is the "gnomic verse" in Old English?

Answer: Proverbs

✅ Q60. The Junius Manuscript primarily contains:

Answer: Biblical poetry

✅ Q61. What is “wyrd” in Old English belief?

Answer: Fate

✅ Q62. Who is Grendel’s mother in Beowulf?

Answer: Avenger

✅ Q63. What cultural blend is found in Beowulf?

Answer: Pagan/Christian

✅ Q64. Which term describes a two-word metaphor (e.g. “whale-road”)?

Answer: Kenning

✅ Q65. The term “thane” refers to:

Answer: Warrior

✅ Q66. What does the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle document?

Answer: Annals

✅ Q67. Which of these poems features a Christian speaker describing the Cross?
Answer: Dream of the Rood
✅ Q68. Who is Wiglaf in Beowulf?
Answer: Loyal warrior

✅ Q69. Old English heroic poetry often ends with:

Answer: Mourning

✅ Q70. Which battle poem records an Anglo-Saxon defeat but celebrates loyalty?
Answer: Battle of Maldon

✅ Q71. What is the dominant subject matter of the Exeter Book poems?
Answer: Religion/elegy/riddles

✅ Q72. Who preserved the only surviving manuscript of Beowulf?

Answer: Cotton Collection

✅ Q73. Which event in 1066 transformed English language and culture?

Answer: Hastings

✅ Q74. The Old English Martyrology is:

Answer: Saints’ lives

✅ Q75. Old English poetry was primarily performed:

Answer: Orally

✅ Q76. The language of Beowulf is classified as:

Answer: Old English

✅ Q77. Which of these is not a surviving Old English manuscript?

Answer: Ellesmere

✅ Q78. Which poetic feature is absent in Old English verse?

Answer: Rhyme

✅ Q79. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was commissioned under:

Answer: Alfred

✅ Q80. Which Christian concept is layered onto pagan heroism in Beowulf?

Answer: Providence

✅ Q81. The Old English period saw raids by:

Answer: Vikings

✅ Q82. Which text is a heroic elegy lamenting a fallen leader?

Answer: Battle of Maldon

✅ Q83. The Junius Manuscript is sometimes called:

Answer: Caedmon Manuscript

✅ Q84. The Seafarer is often interpreted as:

Answer: Allegory
✅ Q85. In Beowulf, who becomes king after Beowulf dies?
Answer: Wiglaf

✅ Q86. Which term describes the divided structure of an Old English line?
Answer: Caesura

✅ Q87. Which is an example of Old English prose translation?

Answer: Boethius

✅ Q88. Which poem contains lines from the Cross speaking?

Answer: Dream of the Rood

✅ Q89. What kind of document is Domesday Book?

Answer: Survey

✅ Q90. What quality is essential in the Old English heroic code?

Answer: Loyalty

✅ Q91. What event is often called the beginning of the Old English period?
Answer: Settlement

✅ Q92. Which best describes Old English vocabulary origins?

Answer: Germanic

✅ Q93. Which creature hoards treasure in Beowulf?

Answer: Dragon

✅ Q94. Which poem’s speaker mourns lost kin and friends?

Answer: Wanderer

✅ Q95. Which Old English poem is partly a riddle about the Cross?
Answer: Dream of the Rood

✅ Q96. What was the main purpose of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle?

Answer: History

✅ Q97. Which text shows both loyalty to lord and doomed resistance to Vikings?
Answer: Battle of Maldon

✅ Q98. Which element dominates Old English poetic form?

Answer: Alliteration

✅ Q99. Which Anglo-Saxon king translated or sponsored translations of Latin works?

Answer: Alfred

✅ Q100. Which best describes the preservation of Old English literature?

Answer: Manuscripts