World Literature MCQ
Q61. Who wrote the book "Republic"
(A) Marx
(B) Socrates
(C) Plato
(D) Aristotle
Answer: (C) Plato
Q62. The first tragedy written in English is
(A) Edward II
(B) Doctor Faustus
(C) The Jew of Malta
(D) Gorboduc
Answer: (D) Gorboduc
Q63. The last book of Gulliver's travels is
(A) Voyage to Lilliput
(B) Voyage to Brobdingnag
(C) Voyage to Houyhnms
(D) Voyage to Laputa
Answer: (C) Voyage to Houyhnms
Q64. "Saki" is the pen name of
(A) Somerset Maugham
(B) KA Abbas
(C) Wilkie Collins
(D) Hector Hugh Munro
Answer: (D) Hector Hugh Munro
Q65. __________ is known as the father of detective stories
(A) Edgar Allen Poe
(B) Anton Chekov
(C) Aurthur Conan Doyle
(D) Judith Wright
Answer: (A) Edgar Allen Poe
Q66. "A Tale of Two Cities" Novel state the fact in following two cities
(A) London and Paris
(B) London and Berlin
(C) Chicago and New York
(D) Moscow and Saint Petersburg
Answer: (A) London and Paris
Q67. The "battle of Philippi" appears in the play
(A) Othello
(B) Julius Caesar
(C) Macbeth
(D) King Lear
Answer: (B) Julius Caesar
Q68. In which play does "Forest of Arden" figure
(A) A Midsummer Night's Dream
(B) The Merry Wives of Windsor
(C) As You Like It
(D) Macbeth
Answer: (C) As You Like It
Q69. Who is the writer of the epic poems "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained"
(A) William Shakespeare
(B) John Donne
(C) John Keats
(D) John Milton
Answer: (D) John Milton
Q70. Who is the hero of Paradise Regained
(A) Christ
(B) Satan
(C) The Paritan Church
(D) None of these
Answer: (A) Christ
Q71. "Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation and directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry" Who said this
(A) R.S. Crane
(B) I.A. Richards
(C) M. Arnold
(D) T.S. Eliot
Answer: (D) T.S. Eliot
Q72. Milton's 'Comus' is
(A) An absurd play
(B) A short story
(C) A masque
(D) An elegy
Answer: (C) A masque
Q73. Milton's Areopagitica is
(A) a sonnet
(B) an epic
(C) a plea for the freedom of the press
(D) a play
Answer: (C) a plea for the freedom of the press
Q74. The phrase "Willing suspension of disbelief" was coined by
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Coleridge
(C) Eliot
(D) Arnold
Answer: (B) Coleridge
Q75. Who propounds "the touchstone method"
(A) Arnold
(B) Shelley
(C) Pope
(D) Dryden
Answer: (A) Arnold
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