English Literature: Important Quotations, Author Profiles, Literary Epithets, and Titles That Cause Confusion — BCS Cadre

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Who composed the poem “Ulysses”?
- Robert Browning
- William Wordsworth
- S. T. Coleridge
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
“In Memoriam A.H.H.” commemorates the death of whose friend?
- John Milton
- John Keats
- Arthur Henry Hallam
- Sydney Smith
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers” appears in which poem?
- Morte d’Arthur
- The Lotos-Eaters
- Tithonus
- Locksley Hall
Which poet wrote “My Last Duchess”?
- Matthew Arnold
- Robert Browning
- John Keats
- Lord Byron
Who wrote the Victorian novel “A Tale of Two Cities”?
- Thomas Hardy
- Jane Austen
- George Eliot
- Charles Dickens
Which profession is Charles Dickens most closely associated with?
- Poetry
- Playwriting
- Politics
- Novel-writing
Which two cities form the settings of “A Tale of Two Cities”?
- London and Manchester
- London and Paris
- Paris and New York
- Paris and Geneva
Pip is the central character of which novel?
- A Christmas Carol
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Oliver Twist
- Great Expectations
“David Copperfield” belongs to which literary period?
- Victorian
- Elizabethan
- Romantic
- Modern
Who composed the elegiac poem “Thyrsis”?
- Thomas Gray
- Matthew Arnold
- John Milton
- P. B. Shelley
Who is the author of “Jane Eyre”?
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Brontë
- Jane Austen
- Mary Shelley
Heathcliff is a central character in which novel?
- Jane Eyre
- Wuthering Heights
- Emma
- Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Which pen name did Emily Brontë use?
- Currer Bell
- Acton Bell
- Ellis Bell
- George Eliot
Clym Yeobright is the protagonist of which novel?
- David Copperfield
- Adam Bede
- A Passage to India
- The Return of the Native
Who wrote the play “Caesar and Cleopatra”?
- William Shakespeare
- George Bernard Shaw
- Lord Byron
- S. T. Coleridge
Who wrote “Lord Jim” and “Heart of Darkness”?
- Joseph Conrad
- Thomas Hardy
- Oscar Wilde
- Rudyard Kipling
What is the genre of Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”?
- Epic poetry
- Novella
- Sonnet
- Stage comedy
“No Second Troy” was written by which poet?
- Robert Frost
- W. B. Yeats
- John Keats
- T. S. Eliot
Which poem by W. B. Yeats contains “A terrible beauty is born”?
- The Second Coming
- Easter 1916
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree
- Sailing to Byzantium
Who wrote “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”?
- Dylan Thomas
- W. H. Auden
- Ezra Pound
- W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats was a poet of which nationality?
- American
- Irish
- Canadian
- Australian
Which poet translated several works of Rabindranath Tagore and helped introduce “Gitanjali” to English readers?
- W. B. Yeats
- Robert Frost
- T. S. Eliot
- Ezra Pound
Who wrote “The Ant and the Grasshopper” as a modern short story?
- Guy de Maupassant
- W. Somerset Maugham
- J. K. Rowling
- O. Henry
Who wrote the poetic drama “Murder in the Cathedral”?
- Harold Pinter
- G. B. Shaw
- T. S. Eliot
- Samuel Beckett
Who wrote the essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent”?
- George Orwell
- Aldous Huxley
- T. S. Eliot
- Francis Bacon
The author of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” also wrote which novel?
- Lord Jim
- A Passage to India
- Ulysses
- The Rainbow
Who wrote “A Passage to India”?
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri
- E. M. Forster
- Rudyard Kipling
- John Galsworthy
Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate was also a British prime minister?
- George Washington
- Adolf Hitler
- Woodrow Wilson
- Winston Churchill
Who wrote “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”?
- James Joyce
- Robert Frost
- Aldous Huxley
- Charles Dickens
“Good fences make good neighbors” is associated with which poet?
- Robert Graves
- Robert Frost
- Ezra Pound
- Carl Sandburg
“Ulysses” is a modernist novel written by whom?
- Joseph Conrad
- Thomas Hardy
- Charles Dickens
- James Joyce
Who wrote “Brave New World”?
- E. M. Forster
- Virginia Woolf
- Aldous Huxley
- Graham Greene
Who wrote the novel “A Farewell to Arms”?
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Ernest Hemingway
- D. H. Lawrence
- Jane Austen
Who is the author of “For Whom the Bell Tolls”?
- Charles Dickens
- Alfred Tennyson
- Homer
- Ernest Hemingway
Which novel was Hemingway’s first major novel?
- The Sun Also Rises
- The Old Man and the Sea
- Animal Farm
- A Passage to India
Who wrote “Nineteen Eighty-Four”?
- George Orwell
- Aldous Huxley
- Anthony Burgess
- Ernest Hemingway
Who is the author of “Animal Farm”?
- George Orwell
- Pablo Neruda
- Samuel Beckett
- Graham Greene
Who wrote the essay “Shooting an Elephant”?
- Francis Bacon
- George Orwell
- Joseph Addison
- Charles Lamb
Who wrote the absurdist play “Waiting for Godot”?
- Jean Genet
- Samuel Beckett
- Harold Pinter
- Tom Stoppard
“Lord of the Flies” is a novel by whom?
- William Shakespeare
- William Wordsworth
- William Golding
- T. S. Eliot
Who wrote “The God of Small Things”?
- Thomas Hardy
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- R. K. Narayan
- Arundhati Roy
Which novel was written by Arundhati Roy?
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- The Return of the Native
- Things Fall Apart
- Heart of Darkness
Which novel features the character Moby Dick?
- The Whale and the Rose
- Moby-Dick
- The Old Man and the Sea
- The Sea-Wolf
Who wrote “Moby-Dick”?
- Herman Melville
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Mark Twain
- William Faulkner
Who wrote “One Hundred Years of Solitude”?
- E. M. Forster
- D. H. Lawrence
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Jane Austen
Who wrote “Riders to the Sea”?
- G. B. Shaw
- Oscar Wilde
- J. M. Synge
- John Galsworthy
“Riders to the Sea” belongs to which genre?
- Epic poem
- Novella
- One-act play
- Verse adaptation
The poem “Fern Hill” was written by whom?
- Robert Frost
- Dylan Thomas
- T. S. Eliot
- W. B. Yeats
“The Diamond Necklace” is a short story by which writer?
- Guy de Maupassant
- O. Henry
- W. Somerset Maugham
- George Orwell
Who wrote “Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations”?
- Gunnar Myrdal
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Hillary Clinton