English Literature MCQs

1. Who wrote "Paradise Lost"?

o A) John Donne
o B) John Milton
o C) Geoffrey Chaucer
o D) William Shakespeare
o Answer: B) John Milton
2. In which century did Geoffrey Chaucer write "The Canterbury Tales"?
o A) 12th century
o B) 13th century
o C) 14th century
o D) 15th century
o Answer: C) 14th century
3. Which novel opens with the line, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of
times"?
o A) Great Expectations
o B) Oliver Twist
o C) A Tale of Two Cities
o D) David Copperfield
o Answer: C) A Tale of Two Cities
4. Who is known as the Bard of Avon?
o A) Christopher Marlowe
o B) William Shakespeare
o C) Ben Jonson
o D) John Keats
o Answer: B) William Shakespeare
5. Which play by Shakespeare features the character Shylock?
o A) Hamlet
o B) Othello
o C) The Merchant of Venice
o D) Macbeth
o Answer: C) The Merchant of Venice
6. Which poet wrote "The Waste Land"?
o A) T.S. Eliot
o B) W.B. Yeats
o C) Ezra Pound
o D) Robert Frost
o Answer: A) T.S. Eliot
7. In which year was the first edition of "Lyrical Ballads" published?
o A) 1789
o B) 1798
o C) 1802
o D) 1815
o Answer: B) 1798
8. Who wrote the novel "1984"?
o A) Aldous Huxley
o B) George Orwell
o C) Ray Bradbury
 o D) H.G. Wells
o Answer: B) George Orwell
9. "To be, or not to be" is a famous soliloquy from which play?
o A) Macbeth
o B) King Lear
o C) Hamlet
o D) Othello
o Answer: C) Hamlet
10. Which literary period followed the Renaissance?
o A) The Enlightenment
o B) The Romantic Period
o C) The Victorian Age
o D) The Restoration Period
o Answer: D) The Restoration Period
11. Who wrote "Pride and Prejudice"?
o A) Charlotte Brontë
o B) Emily Brontë
o C) Jane Austen
o D) Mary Shelley
o Answer: C) Jane Austen
12. Who is the protagonist of "Moby Dick"?
o A) Captain Ahab
o B) Ishmael
o C) Queequeg
o D) Starbuck
o Answer: A) Captain Ahab
13. Who wrote the poem "The Second Coming"?
o A) T.S. Eliot
o B) W.H. Auden
o C) W.B. Yeats
o D) Dylan Thomas
o Answer: C) W.B. Yeats
14. Who wrote "The Picture of Dorian Gray"?
o A) Oscar Wilde
o B) George Bernard Shaw
o C) Henry James
o D) D.H. Lawrence
o Answer: A) Oscar Wilde
15. Who is the author of "Heart of Darkness"?
o A) Joseph Conrad
o B) E.M. Forster
o C) James Joyce
o D) Virginia Woolf
o Answer: A) Joseph Conrad
16. In "Brave New World", who is the "Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning"?
o A) Bernard Marx
o B) Mustapha Mond
o C) Henry Foster
o D) Thomas "Tomakin" Grahambell
 o Answer: D) Thomas "Tomakin" Grahambell
17. Which character in "The Great Gatsby" represents the American Dream?
o A) Tom Buchanan
o B) Nick Carraway
o C) Daisy Buchanan
o D) Jay Gatsby
o Answer: D) Jay Gatsby
18. Which novel is considered a primary work of the Lost Generation?
o A) The Sun Also Rises
o B) The Grapes of Wrath
o C) As I Lay Dying
o D) On the Road
o Answer: A) The Sun Also Rises
19. Who wrote "Ulysses"?
o A) James Joyce
o B) Samuel Beckett
o C) William Faulkner
o D) Ernest Hemingway
o Answer: A) James Joyce
20. Which work begins with "Call me Ishmael"?
o A) The Old Man and the Sea
o B) Moby Dick
o C) The Scarlet Letter
o D) Robinson Crusoe
o Answer: B) Moby Dick
21. Who is the heroine of Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles"?
o A) Eustacia Vye
o B) Tess Durbeyfield
o C) Bathsheba Everdene
o D) Elizabeth-Jane
o Answer: B) Tess Durbeyfield
22. Which novel features the characters Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy?
o A) Emma
o B) Mansfield Park
o C) Pride and Prejudice
o D) Sense and Sensibility
o Answer: C) Pride and Prejudice
23. Who is the author of "A Passage to India"?
o A) Rudyard Kipling
o B) E.M. Forster
o C) R.K. Narayan
o D) Salman Rushdie
o Answer: B) E.M. Forster
24. In which century did the Romantic Period primarily occur?
o A) 16th century
o B) 17th century
o C) 18th century
o D) 19th century
o Answer: D) 19th century
25. Who wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?
o A) William Wordsworth
o B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
o C) Lord Byron
o D) Percy Bysshe Shelley
o Answer: B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
26. What is the title of Virginia Woolf's essay that argues for a woman's need for
financial independence and space for creativity?
o A) A Room of One's Own
o B) To the Lighthouse
o C) Mrs. Dalloway
o D) Orlando
o Answer: A) A Room of One's Own
27. Who wrote the poem "Howl"?
o A) Allen Ginsberg
o B) Jack Kerouac
o C) William Carlos Williams
o D) Lawrence Ferlinghetti
o Answer: A) Allen Ginsberg
28. Which work is considered an example of a Bildungsroman?
o A) Wuthering Heights
o B) Great Expectations
o C) Moby Dick
o D) The Great Gatsby
o Answer: B) Great Expectations
29. Who wrote "The Canterbury Tales"?
o A) Geoffrey Chaucer
o B) William Langland
o C) John Gower
o D) Thomas Malory
o Answer: A) Geoffrey Chaucer
30. Which play by Tennessee Williams features the character Blanche DuBois?
o A) The Glass Menagerie
o B) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
o C) A Streetcar Named Desire
o D) Sweet Bird of Youth
o Answer: C) A Streetcar Named Desire
31. Who is the author of "Beloved"?
o A) Alice Walker
o B) Toni Morrison
o C) Maya Angelou
o D) Zora Neale Hurston
o Answer: B) Toni Morrison
32. What is the term for a long narrative poem, often written about a hero or
heroines?
o A) Sonnet
o B) Ballad
o C) Epic
o D) Ode
 o Answer: C) Epic
33. Who wrote "Things Fall Apart"?
o A) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
o B) Chinua Achebe
o C) Wole Soyinka
o D) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
o Answer: B) Chinua Achebe
34. Who wrote "Waiting for Godot"?
o A) Harold Pinter
o B) Tom Stoppard
o C) Samuel Beckett
o D) Eugene Ionesco
o Answer: C) Samuel Beckett
35. In which poem does the line "Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly
stopped for me" appear?
o A) "The Raven"
o B) "Ode to the West Wind"
o C) "Annabel Lee"
o D) "Because I could not stop for Death"
o Answer: D) "Because I could not stop for Death"
36. Who wrote "The Catcher in the Rye"?
o A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
o B) Ernest Hemingway
o C) J.D. Salinger
o D) John Steinbeck
o Answer: C) J.D. Salinger
37. Which poet is known for the collection "Leaves of Grass"?
o A) Robert Frost
o B) Walt Whitman
o C) Emily Dickinson
o D) Langston Hughes
o Answer: B) Walt Whitman
38. Which writer is associated with the term "stream of consciousness"?
o A) Mark Twain
o B) James Joyce
o C) Ernest Hemingway
o D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
o Answer: B) James Joyce
39. Which novel features the dystopian society of Oceania?
o A) Brave New World
o B) Fahrenheit 451
o C) 1984
o D) The Handmaid's Tale
o Answer: C) 1984
40. Who wrote "The Divine Comedy"?
o A) Homer
o B) Virgil
o C) Dante Alighieri
o D) Geoffrey Chaucer
 o Answer: C) Dante Alighieri
41. What is the name of the hero in John Milton's "Paradise Lost"?
o A) Satan
o B) Adam
o C) Raphael
o D) Michael
o Answer: B) Adam
42. Who wrote "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"?
o A) Mark Twain
o B) Herman Melville
o C) Nathaniel Hawthorne
o D) Henry James
o Answer: A) Mark Twain
43. Which novel is set in the fictional town of Macondo?
o A) One Hundred Years of Solitude
o B) The House of the Spirits
o C) The Old Man and the Sea
o D) Love in the Time of Cholera
o Answer: A) One Hundred Years of Solitude
44. Who is the author of "Crime and Punishment"?
o A) Leo Tolstoy
o B) Fyodor Dostoevsky
o C) Anton Chekhov
o D) Nikolai Gogol
o Answer: B) Fyodor Dostoevsky
45. Who wrote "The Bell Jar"?
o A) Sylvia Plath
o B) Virginia Woolf
o C) Emily Dickinson
o D) Anne Sexton
o Answer: A) Sylvia Plath
46. In which play by Arthur Miller does the character Willy Loman appear?
o A) The Crucible
o B) All My Sons
o C) A View from the Bridge
o D) Death of a Salesman
o Answer: D) Death of a Salesman
47. Who wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
o A) Harper Lee
o B) William Faulkner
o C) Truman Capote
o D) Flannery O'Connor
o Answer: A) Harper Lee
48. What is the setting of the novel "Jane Eyre"?
o A) Thornfield Hall
o B) Wuthering Heights
o C) Mansfield Park
o D) Northanger Abbey
o Answer: A) Thornfield Hall
49. Who wrote "Frankenstein"?
o A) Mary Shelley
o B) Percy Bysshe Shelley
o C) Lord Byron
o D) John Keats
o Answer: A) Mary Shelley
50. Which poet is known for the line "Do not go gentle into that good night"?
o A) W.B. Yeats
o B) T.S. Eliot
o C) Dylan Thomas
o D) Robert Frost
o Answer: C) Dylan Thomas
51. Who wrote "Mrs. Dalloway"?
o A) Virginia Woolf
o B) E.M. Forster
o C) James Joyce
o D) D.H. Lawrence
o Answer: A) Virginia Woolf
52. Which work is an example of Modernist literature?
o A) Robinson Crusoe
o B) Great Expectations
o C) Ulysses
o D) The Scarlet Letter
o Answer: C) Ulysses
53. Who wrote the play "Pygmalion"?
o A) Oscar Wilde
o B) George Bernard Shaw
o C) Samuel Beckett
o D) Harold Pinter
o Answer: B) George Bernard Shaw
54. Which character in "Macbeth" is a symbol of ambition?
o A) Banquo
o B) Macduff
o C) Lady Macbeth
o D) Duncan
o Answer: C) Lady Macbeth
55. Who is the author of "The Waste Land"?
o A) Ezra Pound
o B) W.B. Yeats
o C) T.S. Eliot
o D) Wallace Stevens
o Answer: C) T.S. Eliot
56. In which novel does the character Scout Finch appear?
o A) The Catcher in the Rye
o B) To Kill a Mockingbird
o C) The Great Gatsby
o D) Of Mice and Men
o Answer: B) To Kill a Mockingbird
57. Who wrote "The Road"?
 o A) Cormac McCarthy
o B) Stephen King
o C) J.D. Salinger
o D) John Steinbeck
o Answer: A) Cormac McCarthy
58. Which novel begins with the line, "Call me Ishmael"?
o A) The Scarlet Letter
o B) Moby Dick
o C) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
o D) Heart of Darkness
o Answer: B) Moby Dick
59. Who wrote "The Importance of Being Earnest"?
o A) Oscar Wilde
o B) George Bernard Shaw
o C) Noel Coward
o D) Samuel Beckett
o Answer: A) Oscar Wilde
60. Which work is considered an example of Gothic literature?
o A) Jane Eyre
o B) The Great Gatsby
o C) Emma
o D) Sense and Sensibility
o Answer: A) Jane Eyre
61. Who wrote "Middlemarch"?
o A) Thomas Hardy
o B) George Eliot
o C) Charles Dickens
o D) Elizabeth Gaskell
o Answer: B) George Eliot
62. Which poet wrote "Ode to a Nightingale"?
o A) William Wordsworth
o B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
o C) John Keats
o D) Percy Bysshe Shelley
o Answer: C) John Keats
63. In "Pride and Prejudice", who is Mr. Darcy's wealthy aunt?
o A) Lady Catherine de Bourgh
o B) Mrs. Bennet
o C) Lady Lucas
o D) Miss Bingley
o Answer: A) Lady Catherine de Bourgh
64. Who wrote "Invisible Man"?
o A) Ralph Ellison
o B) Richard Wright
o C) James Baldwin
o D) Langston Hughes
o Answer: A) Ralph Ellison
65. What is the title of the epic poem written by John Milton?
o A) The Faerie Queene
 o B) The Divine Comedy
o C) Paradise Lost
o D) Beowulf
o Answer: C) Paradise Lost
66. Which character is the protagonist in "Crime and Punishment"?
o A) Ivan Karamazov
o B) Alexei Fyodorovich
o C) Rodion Raskolnikov
o D) Dmitri Karamazov
o Answer: C) Rodion Raskolnikov
67. Who wrote "The Scarlet Letter"?
o A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
o B) Herman Melville
o C) Edgar Allan Poe
o D) Washington Irving

Literary Theory and Criticism

1. Who coined the term 'Practical Criticism'?

o a) T.S. Eliot
o b) I.A. Richards
o c) F.R. Leavis
o d) Cleanth Brooks
o Answer: b) I.A. Richards
2. In which book did Northrop Frye outline his theory of literary archetypes?
o a) Anatomy of Criticism
o b) The Secular Scripture
o c) Fearful Symmetry
o d) The Educated Imagination
o Answer: a) Anatomy of Criticism
3. The term 'Objective Correlative' is associated with which critic?
o a) Matthew Arnold
o b) T.S. Eliot
o c) Ezra Pound
o d) John Crowe Ransom
o Answer: b) T.S. Eliot
4. Which critic is known for the concept of the 'intentional fallacy'?
o a) W.K. Wimsatt
o b) Harold Bloom
o c) Roland Barthes
o d) J. Hillis Miller
o Answer: a) W.K. Wimsatt
5. Who wrote "The Death of the Author"?
o a) Michel Foucault
o b) Roland Barthes
o c) Jacques Derrida
o d) Julia Kristeva
o Answer: b) Roland Barthes
British Literature

6. Who is the author of "Paradise Lost"?

o a) Geoffrey Chaucer
o b) John Milton
o c) John Donne
o d) William Blake
o Answer: b) John Milton
7. Which novel opens with the line "Call me Ishmael"?
o a) Moby Dick
o b) Great Expectations
o c) Jane Eyre
o d) Wuthering Heights
o Answer: a) Moby Dick
8. Who wrote "Pride and Prejudice"?
o a) Emily Brontë
o b) Charles Dickens
o c) Jane Austen
o d) George Eliot
o Answer: c) Jane Austen
9. The phrase "a willing suspension of disbelief" is attributed to which writer?
o a) Samuel Johnson
o b) William Wordsworth
o c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
o d) Percy Bysshe Shelley
o Answer: c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
10. Which poet is known as the 'Bard of Avon'?
o a) William Wordsworth
o b) John Keats
o c) William Shakespeare
o d) Alfred Tennyson
o Answer: c) William Shakespeare

American Literature

11. Who wrote "The Great Gatsby"?

o a) William Faulkner
o b) Ernest Hemingway
o c) F. Scott Fitzgerald
o d) John Steinbeck
o Answer: c) F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. Who is the author of "Leaves of Grass"?
o a) Emily Dickinson
o b) Robert Frost
o c) Walt Whitman
o d) Langston Hughes
o Answer: c) Walt Whitman
13. "The Catcher in the Rye" was written by?
o a) J.D. Salinger
 o b) Harper Lee
o c) Mark Twain
o d) Kurt Vonnegut
o Answer: a) J.D. Salinger
14. Who wrote "Beloved"?
o a) Alice Walker
o b) Toni Morrison
o c) Zora Neale Hurston
o d) Maya Angelou
o Answer: b) Toni Morrison
15. "The Road Not Taken" is a poem by?
o a) Walt Whitman
o b) Robert Frost
o c) Ezra Pound
o d) Sylvia Plath
o Answer: b) Robert Frost

Literary Movements and Periods

16. The Victorian era is typically associated with which century?

o a) 16th century
o b) 17th century
o c) 18th century
o d) 19th century
o Answer: d) 19th century
17. Which literary period followed the Renaissance?
o a) Enlightenment
o b) Romanticism
o c) Modernism
o d) Postmodernism
o Answer: a) Enlightenment
18. Who are the major poets of the Romantic period?
o a) T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound
o b) William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
o c) Geoffrey Chaucer and John Milton
o d) W.B. Yeats and Thomas Hardy
o Answer: b) William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
19. Modernism is often said to have begun with which event?
o a) The American Civil War
o b) World War I
o c) The French Revolution
o d) The Industrial Revolution
o Answer: b) World War I
20. Which of the following is a postmodernist author?
o a) Virginia Woolf
o b) James Joyce
o c) Salman Rushdie
o d) D.H. Lawrence
o Answer: c) Salman Rushdie
Literary Forms and Terms

21. What is a 'bildungsroman'?

o a) A novel focusing on the psychological growth of the protagonist
o b) A collection of short stories
o c) A type of epic poetry
o d) A historical novel
o Answer: a) A novel focusing on the psychological growth of the
protagonist
22. A sonnet typically has how many lines?
o a) 10
o b) 12
o c) 14
o d) 16
o Answer: c) 14
23. 'Stream of consciousness' is a narrative technique used primarily in which
genre?
o a) Poetry
o b) Drama
o c) Novel
o d) Short Story
o Answer: c) Novel
24. What is an 'epic'?
o a) A long narrative poem detailing heroic deeds
o b) A brief, poignant tale
o c) A satirical play
o d) A collection of fables
o Answer: a) A long narrative poem detailing heroic deeds
25. The term 'magic realism' is associated with which literary tradition?
o a) American literature
o b) British literature
o c) Latin American literature
o d) African literature
o Answer: c) Latin American literature

Literary Characters and Plots

26. Who is the protagonist of "Hamlet"?

o a) Claudius
o b) Polonius
o c) Laertes
o d) Hamlet
o Answer: d) Hamlet
27. In "To Kill a Mockingbird," who is the character accused of raping Mayella
Ewell?
o a) Atticus Finch
o b) Tom Robinson
o c) Boo Radley
o d) Dill Harris
 o Answer: b) Tom Robinson
28. Who are the main characters in "Wuthering Heights"?
o a) Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy
o b) Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester
o c) Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff
o d) Tess Durbeyfield and Angel Clare
o Answer: c) Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff
29. What is the setting of "Pride and Prejudice"?
o a) Thornfield Hall
o b) Longbourn
o c) Manderley
o d) Pemberley
o Answer: b) Longbourn
30. In "The Great Gatsby," who is Jay Gatsby's love interest?
o a) Myrtle Wilson
o b) Daisy Buchanan
o c) Jordan Baker
o d) Tom Buchanan
o Answer: b) Daisy Buchanan

Literary Awards and Honors

31. Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
o a) Selma Lagerlöf
o b) Pearl S. Buck
o c) Doris Lessing
o d) Toni Morrison
o Answer: a) Selma Lagerlöf
32. Which book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961?
o a) To Kill a Mockingbird
o b) The Catcher in the Rye
o c) The Great Gatsby
o d) The Grapes of Wrath
o Answer: a) To Kill a Mockingbird

31. Who is the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel "Life of Pi"?
o a) Yann Martel
o b) Salman Rushdie
o c) Arundhati Roy
o d) V.S. Naipaul
o Answer: a) Yann Martel
32. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993?
o a) Nadine Gordimer
o b) Seamus Heaney
o c) Toni Morrison
o d) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
o Answer: c) Toni Morrison
33. Which work won the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005?
o a) The Enchantress of Florence
 o b) The Master
o c) The Sea
o d) The Bridge of San Luis Rey
o Answer: b) The Master

Poetry and Poets

36. Who wrote "The Waste Land"?

o a) W.B. Yeats
o b) T.S. Eliot
o c) Robert Frost
o d) Ezra Pound
o Answer: b) T.S. Eliot
37. "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" is a poem by?
o a) W.H. Auden
o b) Dylan Thomas
o c) Philip Larkin
o d) Ted Hughes
o Answer: b) Dylan Thomas
38. Which poet wrote "Ode to a Nightingale"?
o a) John Keats
o b) William Blake
o c) Percy Bysshe Shelley
o d) Lord Byron
o Answer: a) John Keats
39. Who is known for the poem "The Second Coming"?
o a) Sylvia Plath
o b) Robert Lowell
o c) W.B. Yeats
o d) Wallace Stevens
o Answer: c) W.B. Yeats
40. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a work by?
o a) William Wordsworth
o b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
o c) John Milton
o d) Alfred Tennyson
o Answer: b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Drama and Playwrights

41. Who wrote "A Doll's House"?

o a) Henrik Ibsen
o b) Anton Chekhov
o c) Arthur Miller
o d) Tennessee Williams
o Answer: a) Henrik Ibsen
42. "Waiting for Godot" was written by?
o a) Eugene Ionesco
o b) Harold Pinter
 o c) Samuel Beckett
o d) Tom Stoppard
o Answer: c) Samuel Beckett
43. Who is the playwright of "Death of a Salesman"?
o a) Arthur Miller
o b) Edward Albee
o c) August Wilson
o d) Lorraine Hansberry
o Answer: a) Arthur Miller
44. Who wrote "The Glass Menagerie"?
o a) Edward Albee
o b) Tennessee Williams
o c) Thornton Wilder
o d) Lillian Hellman
o Answer: b) Tennessee Williams
45. "The Importance of Being Earnest" is a play by?
o a) George Bernard Shaw
o b) Oscar Wilde
o c) J.M. Synge
o d) John Osborne
o Answer: b) Oscar Wilde

Authors and Their Works

46. Who wrote "Moby-Dick"?

o a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
o b) Herman Melville
o c) Mark Twain
o d) Henry James
o Answer: b) Herman Melville
47. Who is the author of "The Handmaid's Tale"?
o a) Margaret Atwood
o b) Alice Munro
o c) Doris Lessing
o d) Joyce Carol Oates
o Answer: a) Margaret Atwood
48. Which novel was written by Charles Dickens?
o a) Middlemarch
o b) Wuthering Heights
o c) Bleak House
o d) Tess of the d'Urbervilles
o Answer: c) Bleak House
49. Who wrote "One Hundred Years of Solitude"?
o a) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
o b) Mario Vargas Llosa
o c) Jorge Luis Borges
o d) Isabel Allende
o Answer: a) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
50. "Brave New World" is a novel by?
 o a) George Orwell
o b) Aldous Huxley
o c) H.G. Wells
o d) Ray Bradbury
o Answer: b) Aldous Huxley

Literary Terms and Concepts

51. What is 'metaphysical poetry'?

o a) Poetry that explores abstract and philosophical subjects
o b) Poetry that focuses on rural life
o c) Poetry that tells a story
o d) Poetry that praises nature
o Answer: a) Poetry that explores abstract and philosophical subjects
52. 'Alliteration' is best defined as?
o a) The repetition of vowel sounds
o b) The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
o c) A comparison using 'like' or 'as'
o d) A play on words
o Answer: b) The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
53. What is a 'protagonist'?
o a) The main character in a story
o b) The character opposing the main character
o c) A minor character
o d) A symbolic character
o Answer: a) The main character in a story
54. 'Irony' is a literary device that involves?
o a) A direct comparison between two unlike things
o b) The use of humor to criticize
o c) A contrast between expectation and reality
o d) An exaggerated statement
o Answer: c) A contrast between expectation and reality
55. The term 'bildungsroman' refers to?
o a) A coming-of-age story
o b) A historical novel
o c) A romance novel
o d) A detective novel
o Answer: a) A coming-of-age story

English Literature: Specific Works

56. Who wrote "The Canterbury Tales"?

o a) William Shakespeare
o b) Geoffrey Chaucer
o c) John Milton
o d) Edmund Spenser
o Answer: b) Geoffrey Chaucer
57. "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is a novel by?
o a) Robert Louis Stevenson
 o b) Bram Stoker
o c) Mary Shelley
o d) Arthur Conan Doyle
o Answer: a) Robert Louis Stevenson
58. Who wrote "Jane Eyre"?
o a) Charlotte Brontë
o b) Emily Brontë
o c) Anne Brontë
o d) George Eliot
o Answer: a) Charlotte Brontë
59. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" is a novel by?
o a) George Bernard Shaw
o b) Thomas Hardy
o c) Oscar Wilde
o d) H.G. Wells
o Answer: c) Oscar Wilde
60. Who wrote "Heart of Darkness"?
o a) Joseph Conrad
o b) Rudyard Kipling
o c) E.M. Forster
o d) D.H. Lawrence
o Answer: a) Joseph Conrad

Indian English Literature

61. Who is the author of "Midnight's Children"?

o a) Vikram Seth
o b) Salman Rushdie
o c) Arundhati Roy
o d) Rohinton Mistry
o Answer: b) Salman Rushdie
62. "The God of Small Things" is written by?
o a) Arundhati Roy
o b) Anita Desai
o c) Kiran Desai
o d) Jhumpa Lahiri
o Answer: a) Arundhati Roy
63. Who wrote "A Suitable Boy"?
o a) Salman Rushdie
o b) Vikram Seth
o c) Amitav Ghosh
o d) R.K. Narayan
o Answer: b) Vikram Seth
64. "The White Tiger" is a novel by?
o a) Aravind Adiga
o b) Chetan Bhagat
o c) Khushwant Singh
o d) V.S. Naipaul
o Answer: a) Aravind Adiga
 65. Who is the author of "Train to Pakistan"?
o a) Mulk Raj Anand
o b) R.K. Narayan
o c) Khushwant Singh
o d) Raja Rao
o **Answer: c) Khushwant Singh

Literary Movements and Styles

66. The term 'Gothic novel' is most closely associated with which century?
o a) 16th century
o b) 17th century
o c) 18th century
o d) 19th century
o Answer: c) 18th century
67. 'Stream of consciousness' is a technique used by which writer?
o a) Jane Austen
o b) Virginia Woolf
o c) Emily Brontë
o d) George Eliot
o Answer: b) Virginia Woolf
68. Who is associated with the Imagist movement?
o a) T.S. Eliot
o b) Ezra Pound
o c) W.B. Yeats
o d) Robert Frost
o Answer: b) Ezra Pound
69. 'Magic realism' is a term often used to describe the works of?
o a) James Joyce
o b) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
o c) Ernest Hemingway
o d) William Faulkner
o Answer: b) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
70. 'The Lost Generation' refers to?
o a) American writers of the 1920s
o b) British writers of the Victorian era
o c) Romantic poets
o d) Postmodern novelists
o Answer: a) American writers of the 1920s

Feminist and Postcolonial Literature

71. Who wrote "The Second Sex"?

o a) Virginia Woolf
o b) Simone de Beauvoir
o c) Kate Millett
o d) Betty Friedan
o Answer: b) Simone de Beauvoir
72. "A Room of One's Own" is an essay by?
 o a) Virginia Woolf
o b) Adrienne Rich
o c) Simone de Beauvoir
o d) Sylvia Plath
o Answer: a) Virginia Woolf
73. Who wrote "Things Fall Apart"?
o a) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
o b) Wole Soyinka
o c) Chinua Achebe
o d) Nadine Gordimer
o Answer: c) Chinua Achebe
74. "The Color Purple" is a novel by?
o a) Maya Angelou
o b) Alice Walker
o c) Toni Morrison
o d) Zora Neale Hurston
o Answer: b) Alice Walker
75. Who is the author of "Beloved"?
o a) Toni Morrison
o b) Alice Walker
o c) Maya Angelou
o d) Zora Neale Hurston
o Answer: a) Toni Morrison

Modern and Contemporary Literature

76. Who wrote "The Road"?

o a) Cormac McCarthy
o b) Philip Roth
o c) Don DeLillo
o d) Jonathan Franzen
o Answer: a) Cormac McCarthy
77. "The Remains of the Day" is a novel by?
o a) Salman Rushdie
o b) Kazuo Ishiguro
o c) Ian McEwan
o d) Julian Barnes
o Answer: b) Kazuo Ishiguro
78. Who wrote "White Teeth"?
o a) Zadie Smith
o b) Jhumpa Lahiri
o c) Arundhati Roy
o d) Monica Ali
o Answer: a) Zadie Smith
79. "The Namesake" is a novel by?
o a) Arundhati Roy
o b) Jhumpa Lahiri
o c) Kiran Desai
o d) Anita Desai
 o Answer: b) Jhumpa Lahiri
80. Who wrote "Never Let Me Go"?
o a) Salman Rushdie
o b) Ian McEwan
o c) Kazuo Ishiguro
o d) Julian Barnes
o Answer: c) Kazuo Ishiguro

Literary Genres

81. A 'novella' is typically shorter than a novel but longer than?

o a) An epic
o b) A short story
o c) A poem
o d) A play
o Answer: b) A short story
82. A 'fable' often contains?
o a) Mythological creatures
o b) Moral lessons
o c) Historical events
o d) Realistic characters
o Answer: b) Moral lessons
83. 'Science fiction' often explores themes of?
o a) Historical events
o b) Future and technology
o c) Rural life
o d) Romantic love
o Answer: b) Future and technology
84. A 'dystopian novel' typically depicts?
o a) An ideal society
o b) A chaotic and oppressive society
o c) Historical accuracy
o d) Comedic elements
o Answer: b) A chaotic and oppressive society
85. An 'epistolary novel' is written in the form of?
o a) Diaries or letters
o b) Plays
o c) Poems
o d) Essays
o Answer: a) Diaries or letters

Literary Figures and Works

86. Who wrote "Frankenstein"?

o a) Mary Shelley
o b) Bram Stoker
o c) H.G. Wells
o d) Robert Louis Stevenson
o Answer: a) Mary Shelley
 87. "Ulysses" is a novel by?
o a) T.S. Eliot
o b) James Joyce
o c) Ezra Pound
o d) W.B. Yeats
o Answer: b) James Joyce
88. Who wrote "The Old Man and the Sea"?
o a) F. Scott Fitzgerald
o b) Ernest Hemingway
o c) John Steinbeck
o d) William Faulkner
o Answer: b) Ernest Hemingway
89. "Catch-22" is a novel by?
o a) Joseph Heller
o b) Kurt Vonnegut
o c) J.D. Salinger
o d) Ray Bradbury
o Answer: a) Joseph Heller
90. Who wrote "Crime and Punishment"?
o a) Leo Tolstoy
o b) Fyodor Dostoevsky
o c) Anton Chekhov
o d) Ivan Turgenev
o Answer: b) Fyodor Dostoevsky

Literary Theory and Criticism

91. Who is considered the father of psychoanalytic criticism?

o a) Sigmund Freud
o b) Carl Jung
o c) Jacques Lacan
o d) Northrop Frye
o Answer: a) Sigmund Freud
92. Structuralism as a method of literary analysis is closely associated with?
o a) Michel Foucault
o b) Roland Barthes
o c) Ferdinand de Saussure
o d) Jacques Derrida
o Answer: c) Ferdinand de Saussure
93. 'Deconstruction' is a term associated with which theorist?
o a) Jacques Derrida
o b) Michel Foucault
o c) Roland Barthes
o d) Jean Baudrillard
o Answer: a) Jacques Derrida
94. Which critic is known for the concept of 'The Mirror Stage'?
o a) Jacques Derrida
o b) Michel Foucault
o c) Jacques Lacan
 o d) Northrop Frye
o Answer: c) Jacques Lacan
95. Who wrote "Orientalism"?
o a) Homi K. Bhabha
o b) Edward Said
o c) Gayatri Spivak
o d) Frantz Fanon
o Answer: b) Edward Said

Miscellaneous

96. Who coined the term 'Theatre of the Absurd'?

o a) Bertolt Brecht
o b) Samuel Beckett
o c) Martin Esslin
o d) Harold Pinter
o Answer: c) Martin Esslin
97. 'Metafiction' refers to fiction that?
o a) Contains stories within stories
o b) Is highly realistic
o c) Is based on true events
o d) Self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction
o Answer: d) Self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction
98. Which of the following is an example of a dramatic monologue?
o a) "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning
o b) "The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot
o c) "Ode to the West Wind" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
o d) "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
o Answer: a) "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning
99. The term 'postmodernism' in literature is most associated with which period?
o a) Early 20th century
o b) Mid to late 20th century
o c) Early 19th century
o d) Late 19th century
o Answer: b) Mid to late 20th century
100. Who wrote "Invisible Man"? - a) Ralph Ellison - b) Richard Wright - c)
James Baldwin - d) Langston Hughes - Answer: a) Ralph Ellison

Literary Theory and Criticism MCQs

Marxism

1. Who is considered the father of Marxist criticism?

o a) Karl Marx
o b) Friedrich Engels
o c) Antonio Gramsci
o d) Louis Althusser
o Answer: a) Karl Marx
 2. Marxist criticism primarily focuses on which aspect of literature?
o a) Language and form
o b) Class struggle and socioeconomic factors
o c) Psychological depth
o d) Historical accuracy
o Answer: b) Class struggle and socioeconomic factors

3. Which concept is central to Marxist literary theory?

o a) The Oedipus complex
o b) The uncanny
o c) Ideology
o d) The sublime
o Answer: c) Ideology

4. Which work is an example of Marxist literary criticism?

o a) "The Political Unconscious" by Fredric Jameson
o b) "Orientalism" by Edward Said
o c) "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf
o d) "S/Z" by Roland Barthes
o Answer: a) "The Political Unconscious" by Fredric Jameson

5. Louis Althusser's concept of 'ideological state apparatuses' is most relevant to

which type of criticism?
o a) Psychoanalytic criticism
o b) Structuralism
o c) Marxist criticism
o d) Formalism
o Answer: c) Marxist criticism

Feminism

6. Who wrote "The Madwoman in the Attic"?

o a) Simone de Beauvoir
o b) Elaine Showalter
o c) Gilbert and Gubar
o d) Adrienne Rich
o Answer: c) Gilbert and Gubar

7. Feminist literary criticism often focuses on?

o a) Economic structures in literature
o b) Representation of gender and patriarchy
o c) The hero’s journey
o d) The use of allegory and symbolism
o Answer: b) Representation of gender and patriarchy

8. The term 'gynocriticism' is associated with which feminist critic?

o a) Kate Millett
o b) Hélène Cixous
o c) Elaine Showalter
 o d) Julia Kristeva
o Answer: c) Elaine Showalter

9. Which work is an example of feminist literary criticism?

o a) "The Second Sex" by Simone de Beauvoir
o b) "Mythologies" by Roland Barthes
o c) "Discipline and Punish" by Michel Foucault
o d) "The Anxiety of Influence" by Harold Bloom
o Answer: a) "The Second Sex" by Simone de Beauvoir

10. Hélène Cixous is best known for her essay?

o a) "The Laugh of the Medusa"
o b) "A Room of One's Own"
o c) "The Second Sex"
o d) "Gender Trouble"
o Answer: a) "The Laugh of the Medusa"

Postcolonialism

11. Who is the author of "Orientalism"?

o a) Gayatri Spivak
o b) Edward Said
o c) Homi K. Bhabha
o d) Frantz Fanon
o Answer: b) Edward Said

12. Postcolonial criticism primarily examines?

o a) Economic disparities in texts
o b) Representation of colonized peoples and cultures
o c) Narrative structures and forms
o d) Psychological motivations of characters
o Answer: b) Representation of colonized peoples and cultures

13. Which critic is associated with the concept of 'hybridity'?

o a) Edward Said
o b) Gayatri Spivak
o c) Homi K. Bhabha
o d) Chinua Achebe
o Answer: c) Homi K. Bhabha

14. "Can the Subaltern Speak?" is an essay by?

o a) Edward Said
o b) Frantz Fanon
o c) Homi K. Bhabha
o d) Gayatri Spivak
o Answer: d) Gayatri Spivak

15. Which of the following works is a key text in postcolonial literature?

o a) "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad
 o b) "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys
o c) "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf
o d) "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf
o Answer: b) "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys

Deconstruction

16. Who is the primary figure associated with deconstruction?

o a) Michel Foucault
o b) Jacques Derrida
o c) Roland Barthes
o d) Paul de Man
o Answer: b) Jacques Derrida

17. Deconstruction primarily focuses on?

o a) Historical context of texts
o b) Binary oppositions and their instability
o c) Psychological motivations
o d) Socioeconomic factors
o Answer: b) Binary oppositions and their instability

18. In deconstruction, the term 'différance' refers to?

o a) A historical period
o b) The process of differing and deferring meaning
o c) A form of narrative structure
o d) A type of metaphor
o Answer: b) The process of differing and deferring meaning

19. Which work is associated with Jacques Derrida?

o a) "The Death of the Author"
o b) "Writing and Difference"
o c) "The Interpretation of Dreams"
o d) "Madness and Civilization"
o **Answer: b) "Writing and Difference"

20. Deconstruction often seeks to reveal?

o a) The inherent meaning of a text
o b) The historical context of a text
o c) The internal contradictions within a text
o d) The psychological depth of characters
o Answer: c) The internal contradictions within a text

Structuralism and Poststructuralism

21. Structuralism is most closely associated with which theorist?

o a) Jacques Derrida
o b) Ferdinand de Saussure
o c) Michel Foucault
o d) Roland Barthes
 o Answer: b) Ferdinand de Saussure

22. Poststructuralism differs from structuralism by?

o a) Focusing on stable meanings in texts
o b) Emphasizing the instability of meaning
o c) Concentrating on economic factors
o d) Prioritizing authorial intent
o Answer: b) Emphasizing the instability of meaning

23. "Death of the Author" is an essay by?

o a) Michel Foucault
o b) Roland Barthes
o c) Jacques Derrida
o d) Edward Said
o Answer: b) Roland Barthes

24. Which term is central to Saussure's theory of linguistics?

o a) Signifier and signified
o b) Id and ego
o c) Metaphor and metonymy
o d) Symbol and allegory
o Answer: a) Signifier and signified

25. Michel Foucault's work often explores the relationship between?

o a) Language and thought
o b) Power and knowledge
o c) Texts and their historical context
o d) Narrative and form
o Answer: b) Power and knowledge

New Historicism and Cultural Materialism

26. New Historicism was popularized by which critic?

o a) Stephen Greenblatt
o b) Raymond Williams
o c) Terry Eagleton
o d) Fredric Jameson
o Answer: a) Stephen Greenblatt

27. New Historicism emphasizes?

o a) Close reading of texts
o b) The interplay between texts and historical contexts
o c) Psychological analysis of characters
o d) The formal elements of a text
o Answer: b) The interplay between texts and historical contexts

28. Cultural Materialism is closely associated with which critic?

o a) Michel Foucault
o b) Raymond Williams
 o c) Edward Said
o d) Homi K. Bhabha
o Answer: b) Raymond Williams

29. Which concept is central to Cultural Materialism?

o a) Psychoanalysis
o b) Ideology
o c) Deconstruction
o d) Archetypes
o Answer: b) Ideology

30. "The Archaeology of Knowledge" is a work by?

o a) Stephen Greenblatt
o b) Michel Foucault
o c) Edward Said
o d) Jacques Derrida
o **Answer: b) Michel Foucault
31. Who among the following is known as the father of Indian English fiction?
o a) Raja Rao
o b) Mulk Raj Anand
o c) R.K. Narayan
o d) Salman Rushdie
o Answer: c) R.K. Narayan
32. Which novel by R.K. Narayan is set in the fictional town of Malgudi?
o a) The Guide
o b) The Financial Expert
o c) Swami and Friends
o d) Waiting for the Mahatma
o Answer: c) Swami and Friends
33. Who is the author of the novel "Train to Pakistan"?
o a) Raja Rao
o b) Khushwant Singh
o c) Anita Desai
o d) Arundhati Roy
o Answer: b) Khushwant Singh
34. Who wrote the novel "Midnight's Children", which won the Booker Prize in
1981?
o a) Arundhati Roy
o b) Salman Rushdie
o c) Vikram Seth
o d) Amitav Ghosh
o Answer: b) Salman Rushdie
35. The term 'Indianness' in literature refers to:
o a) The depiction of Indian landscapes
o b) The essence of Indian culture and ethos
o c) The use of Indian mythology
o d) The portrayal of Indian politics
o Answer: b) The essence of Indian culture and ethos
36. Which Indian poet was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?
 o a) A.K. Ramanujan
o b) Kamala Das
o c) Rabindranath Tagore
o d) Arundhathi Subramaniam
o Answer: c) Rabindranath Tagore
37. "A Suitable Boy" is a novel written by:
o a) Vikram Seth
o b) Anita Desai
o c) Jhumpa Lahiri
o d) Arundhati Roy
o Answer: a) Vikram Seth
38. Which novel by Anita Desai was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1980?
o a) Clear Light of Day
o b) Fire on the Mountain
o c) In Custody
o d) Baumgartner's Bombay
o Answer: c) In Custody
39. Who wrote the novel "The God of Small Things"?
o a) Arundhati Roy
o b) Kiran Desai
o c) Jhumpa Lahiri
o d) Shashi Tharoor
o Answer: a) Arundhati Roy
40. "The Shadow Lines" is a novel by:
o a) Amitav Ghosh
o b) Salman Rushdie
o c) Jhumpa Lahiri
o d) Vikram Seth
o Answer: d) Vikram Seth
41. Who wrote the novel "English, August: An Indian Story"?
o a) Aravind Adiga
o b) Upamanyu Chatterjee
o c) Amitav Ghosh
o d) Kiran Desai
o Answer: b) Upamanyu Chatterjee
42. The concept of 'hybridity' in postcolonial literature is most prominently explored
by:
o a) Salman Rushdie
o b) Amitav Ghosh
o c) Kiran Desai
o d) Jhumpa Lahiri
o Answer: a) Salman Rushdie
43. Which Indian author's work is associated with the term 'magic realism'?
o a) Amitav Ghosh
o b) Kiran Desai
o c) Salman Rushdie
o d) Arundhati Roy
o Answer: d) Arundhati Roy
44. Who is known for the novel "The White Tiger", which won the Booker Prize in
2008?
o a) Aravind Adiga
o b) Chetan Bhagat
o c) Amish Tripathi
o d) Vikram Seth
o Answer: a) Aravind Adiga
45. Which Indian author's works often explore themes of diaspora and
displacement?
o a) Jhumpa Lahiri
o b) Vikram Seth
o c) Raja Rao
o d) Ruskin Bond
o Answer: a) Jhumpa Lahiri
46. "The Inheritance of Loss" is a novel by:
o a) Kiran Desai
o b) Jhumpa Lahiri
o c) Aravind Adiga
o d) Anita Desai
o Answer: a) Kiran Desai
47. Who among the following is associated with the Indian English novel
"Untouchable"?
o a) Mulk Raj Anand
o b) R.K. Narayan
o c) Khushwant Singh
o d) Raja Rao
o Answer: a) Mulk Raj Anand
48. "The Guide" is a novel by:
o a) R.K. Narayan
o b) Raja Rao
o c) Mulk Raj Anand
o d) Salman Rushdie
o Answer: a) R.K. Narayan
49. Who wrote the novel "The Palace of Illusions", a retelling of the Mahabharata
from Draupadi's perspective?
o a) Kiran Desai
o b) Anita Nair
o c) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
o d) Anuja Chauhan
o Answer: c) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
50. "An Area of Darkness" is a work by:
o a) Nirad C. Chaudhuri
o b) R.K. Narayan
o c) Khushwant Singh
o d) Arundhati Roy
o Answer: a) Nirad C. Chaudhuri
51. Who is the author of the novel "Coolie"?
o a) Mulk Raj Anand
o b) R.K. Narayan
 o c) Khushwant Singh
o d) Nirad C. Chaudhuri
o Answer: a) Mulk Raj Anand
52. "Interpreter of Maladies" is a collection of short stories by:
o a) Kiran Desai
o b) Jhumpa Lahiri
o c) Anita Desai
o d) Salman Rushdie
o Answer: b) Jhumpa Lahiri
53. Who among the following is known for their historical fiction set in India during
the British Raj?
o a) Arundhati Roy
o b) Vikram Seth
o c) Amitav Ghosh
o d) Chetan Bhagat
o Answer: c) Amitav Ghosh
54. "A Fine Balance" is a novel by:
o a) Aravind Adiga
o b) Vikram Seth
o c) Rohinton Mistry
o d) Kiran Desai
o Answer: c) Rohinton Mistry
55. Who wrote the novel "A Bend in the River", set in Africa but written by an
Indian author?
o a) R.K. Narayan
o b) V.S. Naipaul
o c) Salman Rushdie
o d) Rohinton Mistry
o Answer: b) V.S. Naipaul
56. "The Dark Holds No Terrors" is a novel by:
o a) Arundhati Roy
o b) Shashi Deshpande
o c) Nayantara Sahgal
o d) Shashi Tharoor
o Answer: b) Shashi Deshpande
57. Who among the following is known for their novel "A House for Mr. Biswas"?
o a) V.S. Naipaul
o b) Rohinton Mistry
o c) Salman Rushdie
o d) R.K. Narayan
o Answer: a) V.S. Naipaul
58. "Fasting, Feasting" is a novel by:
o a) Jhumpa Lahiri
o b) Anita Desai
o c) Kiran Desai
o d) Arundhati Roy
o Answer: b) Anita Desai
59. Who wrote the novel "The Lowland", which was shortlisted for the Booker
Prize?
 o a) Kiran Desai
o b) Arundhati Roy
o c) Jhumpa Lahiri
o d) Amitav Ghosh
o **Answer: c) J

 Who wrote the novel "English, August"?

 a) Aravind Adiga
 b) Vikram Chandra
 c) Upamanyu Chatterjee
 d) Amitav Ghosh
 Answer: c) Upamanyu Chatterjee

 "Serious Men" is a novel by:

 a) Aravind Adiga
 b) Kiran Desai
 c) Vikram Seth
 d) Amitav Ghosh
 Answer: a) Aravind Adiga

 Who authored the novel "The Moor's Last Sigh"?

 a) Kiran Desai
 b) Salman Rushdie
 c) Vikram Seth
 d) Arundhati Roy
 Answer: b) Salman Rushdie

 "An Area of Darkness" is a work by:

 a) Salman Rushdie
 b) Vikram Seth
 c) Arundhati Roy
 d) V.S. Naipaul
 Answer: d) V.S. Naipaul

 Who wrote the novel "The Shadow Lines"?

 a) Amitav Ghosh
 b) Vikram Chandra
 c) Salman Rushdie
 d) Amit Chaudhuri
 Answer: a) Amitav Ghosh

 "Sea of Poppies" is a novel by:

 a) Vikram Seth
 b) Aravind Adiga
  c) Amitav Ghosh
 d) Jhumpa Lahiri
 Answer: c) Amitav Ghosh

 The novel "The Glass Palace" is set in:

 a) Burma (Myanmar)
 b) Sri Lanka
 c) Malaysia
 d) Singapore
 Answer: a) Burma (Myanmar)

 Who is known for his/her collection of short stories titled "Interpreter of Maladies"?

 a) Jhumpa Lahiri
 b) Arundhati Roy
 c) Kiran Desai
 d) Anita Desai
 Answer: a) Jhumpa Lahiri

 "The White Tiger" explores the life of a chauffeur in which Indian city?

 a) Kolkata
 b) Mumbai
 c) Delhi
 d) Chennai
 Answer: c) Delhi

 Who is the author of "The Hungry Tide"?

 a) Arundhati Roy
 b) Amitav Ghosh
 c) Jhumpa Lahiri
 d) Kiran Desai
 Answer: b) Amitav Ghosh

 Who wrote the novel "Coolie"?

 a) R.K. Narayan
 b) Mulk Raj Anand
 c) Khushwant Singh
 d) Mohandas Naimishray
 Answer: b) Mulk Raj Anand

Commonwealth Literature MCQs

1. Who coined the term "Commonwealth Literature"?

o a) Salman Rushdie
o b) Chinua Achebe
o c) E.M. Forster
 o d) Ian Watt
o Answer: c) E.M. Forster

2. Which of the following countries is NOT part of Commonwealth Literature?

o a) Canada
o b) Australia
o c) United States
o d) India
o Answer: c) United States

3. The term "postcolonial literature" primarily refers to literature from:

o a) Former British colonies
o b) Former French colonies
o c) Former Spanish colonies
o d) Former Portuguese colonies
o Answer: a) Former British colonies

4. Who is known as the founding figure of African literature in English?

o a) Wole Soyinka
o b) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
o c) Chinua Achebe
o d) V.S. Naipaul
o Answer: c) Chinua Achebe

5. "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe is primarily set in which country?

o a) Nigeria
o b) Ghana
o c) Kenya
o d) South Africa
o Answer: a) Nigeria

6. Who wrote the novel "The Autobiography of My Mother"?

o a) Jamaica Kincaid
o b) Zadie Smith
o c) Jean Rhys
o d) Jamaica Kincaid
o Answer: d) Jamaica Kincaid

7. The term "hybridity" in postcolonial theory refers to:

o a) Mixing of different cultural identities
o b) Biological crossbreeding
o c) Linguistic diversity
o d) Economic globalization
o Answer: a) Mixing of different cultural identities

8. Who wrote "The Mimic Men"?

o a) V.S. Naipaul
o b) Derek Walcott
o c) Salman Rushdie
 o d) Wilson Harris
o Answer: a) V.S. Naipaul

9. "The Arrivants" is a trilogy by which Caribbean poet and playwright?

o a) Kamau Brathwaite
o b) Derek Walcott
o c) Claude McKay
o d) Edward Kamau Brathwaite
o Answer: d) Edward Kamau Brathwaite

10. Who wrote "Midnight's Children", a novel that explores India's transition from
British colonialism to independence?
o a) Salman Rushdie
o b) Amitav Ghosh
o c) Arundhati Roy
o d) V.S. Naipaul
o Answer: a) Salman Rushdie

11. The term "subaltern" in postcolonial studies refers to:

o a) Military personnel
o b) Peasants and marginalized groups
o c) Colonial rulers
o d) Middle-class professionals
o Answer: b) Peasants and marginalized groups

12. Who authored the novel "The Buddha of Suburbia"?

o a) Salman Rushdie
o b) Hanif Kureishi
o c) Zadie Smith
o d) Monica Ali
o Answer: b) Hanif Kureishi

13. Which South African writer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991?
o a) Nadine Gordimer
o b) J.M. Coetzee
o c) Athol Fugard
o d) Bessie Head
o Answer: a) Nadine Gordimer

14. "A House for Mr Biswas" is a novel by which Caribbean writer?

o a) V.S. Naipaul
o b) Derek Walcott
o c) Jean Rhys
o d) Wilson Harris
o Answer: a) V.S. Naipaul

15. Which novel by Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize in 1997?
o a) "The God of Small Things"
o b) "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness"
 o c) "The Inheritance of Loss"
o d) "The Hungry Tide"
o Answer: a) "The God of Small Things"

16. "No Telephone to Heaven" is a novel by:

o a) Jamaica Kincaid
o b) Michelle Cliff
o c) Louise Bennett-Coverley
o d) Lorna Goodison
o Answer: b) Michelle Cliff

17. The concept of "double consciousness" is associated with the writings of:
o a) W.E.B. Du Bois
o b) Langston Hughes
o c) Toni Morrison
o d) Maya Angelou
o Answer: a) W.E.B. Du Bois

18. Who wrote "The Satanic Verses", a novel that sparked controversy and led to
the author's exile?
o a) Salman Rushdie
o b) Hanif Kureishi
o c) Zadie Smith
o d) Monica Ali
o Answer: a) Salman Rushdie

19. "The Famished Road" is a novel by which Nigerian author?

o a) Chinua Achebe
o b) Wole Soyinka
o c) Ben Okri
o d) Buchi Emecheta
o Answer: c) Ben Okri

20. Who is known for his/her literary works focusing on the experiences of Indian
diaspora in Canada?
o a) M.G. Vassanji
o b) Rohinton Mistry
o c) Anita Rau Badami
o d) Shyam Selvadurai
o Answer: a) M.G. Vassanji

21. "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" is a novel by which Scottish writer?
o a) Muriel Spark
o b) James Kelman
o c) A.L. Kennedy
o d) Irvine Welsh
o Answer: a) Muriel Spark
22. Who is the author of "Clear Light of Day", a novel that explores the partition of
India?
o a) Anita Desai
o b) Arundhati Roy
o c) Kiran Desai
o d) Jhumpa Lahiri
o Answer: a) Anita Desai

23. "The Bone People" is a novel by which New Zealand writer?

o a) Janet Frame
o b) Keri Hulme
o c) Katherine Mansfield
o d) Patricia Grace
o Answer: b) Keri Hulme

24. Who wrote "The Interpreter of Maladies", a collection of short stories exploring
the Indian-American experience?
o a) Jhumpa Lahiri
o b) Arundhati Roy
o c) Kiran Desai
o d) Anita Desai
o Answer: a) Jhumpa Lahiri

25. "The English Patient" is a novel by which Sri Lankan-Canadian writer?

o a) Michael Ondaatje
o b) Rohinton Mistry
o c) Shyam Selvadurai
o d) M.G. Vassanji
o Answer: a) Michael Ondaatje

26. Who is the author of the novel "Disgrace", set in post-apartheid South Africa?
o a) J.M. Coetzee
o b) Nadine Gordimer
o c) Athol Fugard
o d) Bessie Head
o Answer: a) J.M. Coetzee

27. "The Siege of Krishnapur" is a novel by which Anglo-Indian writer?

o a) V.S. Naipaul
o b) J.G. Farrell
o c) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
o d) Paul Scott
o Answer: b) J.G. Farrell

28. Who wrote the novel "The Golden Gate", written entirely in verse and set in
California?
o a) Vikram Seth
o b) Arundhati Roy
o c) Jhumpa Lahiri
 o d) Kiran Desai
o Answer: a) Vikram Seth

29. Which novel by Kamila Shamsie was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2017?
o a) "Home Fire"
o b) "Burnt Shadows"
o c) "A God in Every Stone"
o d) "Salt and Saffron"
o Answer: a) "Home Fire"

 Who coined the term "Commonwealth Literature" to describe writings in English

from former British colonies?

 a) Chinua Achebe
 b) Salman Rushdie
 c) Edward Said
 d) F.R. Leavis
 Answer: d) F.R. Leavis

 The novel "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe is primarily set in which country?

 a) Kenya
 b) Nigeria
 c) India
 d) South Africa
 Answer: b) Nigeria

 Who wrote the novel "The Bone People," which won the Booker Prize in 1985?

 a) Keri Hulme
 b) Janet Frame
 c) Margaret Atwood
 d) J.M. Coetzee
 Answer: a) Keri Hulme

 "The Satanic Verses," a controversial novel that led to a fatwa against its author,
was written by:

 a) V.S. Naipaul
 b) Salman Rushdie
 c) Arundhati Roy
 d) Anita Desai
 Answer: b) Salman Rushdie

 The novel "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys serves as a prequel to which classic
English novel?

 a) "Pride and Prejudice"

 b) "Jane Eyre"
 c) "Wuthering Heights"
  d) "Middlemarch"
 Answer: b) "Jane Eyre"

 "The Autobiography of My Mother" is a novel by:

 a) Jean Rhys
 b) Jamaica Kincaid
 c) V.S. Naipaul
 d) Kamala Markandaya
 Answer: a) Jamaica Kincaid

 Who is the author of the novel "The Lonely Londoners," which explores the lives of
Caribbean immigrants in London?

 a) Sam Selvon
 b) Caryl Phillips
 c) Derek Walcott
 d) Zadie Smith
 Answer: a) Sam Selvon

 The term "hybridity" in postcolonial literature is most closely associated with which
theorist?

 a) Homi K. Bhabha
 b) Edward Said
 c) Gayatri Spivak
 d) Frantz Fanon
 Answer: a) Homi K. Bhabha

 Who is the author of the novel "The Mimic Men," exploring themes of identity and
postcolonial politics?

 a) V.S. Naipaul
 b) Amitav Ghosh
 c) Kazuo Ishiguro
 d) Chinua Achebe
 Answer: a) V.S. Naipaul

 The poem "The Waste Land," often considered a seminal work in modernist
literature, was written by:

 a) T.S. Eliot
 b) W.B. Yeats
 c) Ezra Pound
 d) Dylan Thomas
 Answer: a) T.S. Eliot

 Who wrote the novel "The God of Small Things," which won the Booker Prize in
1997?
  a) Arundhati Roy
 b) Salman Rushdie
 c) Kiran Desai
 d) Vikram Seth
 Answer: a) Arundhati Roy

 The term "liminal space" in literature, exploring transitional phases and states, is
most closely associated with which concept in postcolonial theory?

 a) Hybridity
 b) Mimicry
 c) Third Space
 d) Double Consciousness
 Answer: c) Third Space

 Who is the author of the novel "The Famished Road," which won the Booker Prize
in 1991?

 a) Ben Okri
 b) Wole Soyinka
 c) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
 d) Nadine Gordimer
 Answer: a) Ben Okri

 The term "Postcolonialism" gained prominence in literary theory primarily during

which decades?

 a) 1950s-1960s
 b) 1970s-1980s
 c) 1990s-2000s
 d) 2010s-2020s
 Answer: b) 1970s-1980s

The term "University Wits" refers to a group of English playwrights and poets who were
active in the late 16th century and early 17th century. They were known for their connection
to universities and intellectual pursuits. Here are the names of some prominent University
Wits:

1. Christopher Marlowe - Known for plays such as "Doctor Faustus" and

"Tamburlaine the Great."
2. Thomas Kyd - Best known for his play "The Spanish Tragedy," which was highly
influential in the development of Elizabethan drama.
3. John Lyly - Remembered for his prose romance "Euphues" and plays like
"Endymion" and "Gallathea."
4. Robert Greene - Notable for works such as "Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay" and
"Pandosto," which served as a source for Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale."
5. George Peele - Known for plays such as "The Battle of Alcazar" and "The Old
Wives' Tale," as well as his poetry.
6. Thomas Nashe - A satirist and pamphleteer known for his novel "The Unfortunate
Traveller" and his contributions to the play "Dido, Queen of Carthage."
 7. Thomas Lodge - Writer of prose romances like "Rosalynde" (which served as the
basis for Shakespeare's "As You Like It") and plays such as "The Wounds of Civil
War."
8. George Gascoigne - Known for his play "Supposes," an English adaptation of
Ariosto's "I Suppositi," and his poetry.

These writers were influential in shaping English drama and literature during the Elizabethan
and Jacobean periods, paving the way for the golden age of English Renaissance drama led
by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

ere are some Nobel Prize winners in Literature:

1. Rabindranath Tagore (1913) - Indian poet, writer, and philosopher known for works
such as "Gitanjali."
2. W.B. Yeats (1923) - Irish poet and playwright, a key figure in 20th-century literature.
3. T.S. Eliot (1948) - American-born British poet and playwright known for "The Waste
Land" and "Four Quartets."
4. Gabriel García Márquez (1982) - Colombian novelist and short story writer known
for "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
5. Nadine Gordimer (1991) - South African writer and political activist known for
novels like "July's People" and "Burger's Daughter."
6. Toni Morrison (1993) - American novelist known for works like "Beloved" and
"Song of Solomon."
7. Derek Walcott (1992) - Saint Lucian poet and playwright known for "Omeros" and
his poetry collections.
8. J.M. Coetzee (2003) - South African-born novelist and essayist known for novels like
"Disgrace" and "Life & Times of Michael K."
9. Orhan Pamuk (2006) - Turkish novelist known for "My Name Is Red" and "Snow."
10. Alice Munro (2013) - Canadian short story writer known for collections such as
"Dear Life" and "Runaway."
11. Kazuo Ishiguro (2017) - British novelist known for "The Remains of the Day" and
"Never Let Me Go."
12. Olga Tokarczuk (2018) - Polish novelist known for "Drive Your Plow Over the
Bones of the Dead" and "Flights."
13. 2023: Annie Ernaux (France)

British Fiction MCQs

1. Who is considered the author of the first English novel?

o a) Daniel Defoe
o b) Henry Fielding
o c) Samuel Richardson
o d) Jonathan Swift
o Answer: a) Daniel Defoe

2. "Pamela" is a novel written by:

o a) Daniel Defoe
o b) Samuel Richardson
o c) Henry Fielding
o d) Laurence Sterne
 o Answer: b) Samuel Richardson

3. "Robinson Crusoe" was published in which year?

o a) 1719
o b) 1748
o c) 1778
o d) 1799
o Answer: a) 1719

4. Who wrote the novel "Tom Jones"?

o a) Samuel Richardson
o b) Henry Fielding
o c) Laurence Sterne
o d) Jonathan Swift
o Answer: b) Henry Fielding

5. The term "bildungsroman" refers to:

o a) A novel of manners
o b) A coming-of-age novel
o c) A historical novel
o d) A satirical novel
o Answer: b) A coming-of-age novel

6. Who is the author of "Clarissa," often considered one of the longest novels in
English literature?
o a) Daniel Defoe
o b) Samuel Richardson
o c) Henry Fielding
o d) Laurence Sterne
o Answer: b) Samuel Richardson

7. "Tristram Shandy" is a novel by:

o a) Daniel Defoe
o b) Samuel Richardson
o c) Henry Fielding
o d) Laurence Sterne
o Answer: d) Laurence Sterne

8. Who wrote the novel "Emma," exploring the life of a young woman in Regency
England?
o a) Jane Austen
o b) Charles Dickens
o c) George Eliot
o d) Thomas Hardy
o Answer: a) Jane Austen

9. Which novel by Charles Dickens features the character Ebenezer Scrooge?

o a) "Great Expectations"
o b) "Oliver Twist"
 o c) "A Tale of Two Cities"
o d) "A Christmas Carol"
o Answer: d) "A Christmas Carol"

10. Who is the author of "Wuthering Heights," a novel set on the Yorkshire moors?
o a) Emily Brontë
o b) Charlotte Brontë
o c) Anne Brontë
o d) Mary Shelley
o Answer: a) Emily Brontë

11. The Brontë sisters originally published their novels under male pseudonyms.
Which of the following was Charlotte Brontë's pseudonym?
o a) Currer Bell
o b) Acton Bell
o c) Ellis Bell
o d) Emily Bell
o Answer: a) Currer Bell

12. "Middlemarch" is a novel by:

o a) George Eliot
o b) Thomas Hardy
o c) Charles Dickens
o d) William Makepeace Thackeray
o Answer: a) George Eliot

13. Who is the author of the novel "Tess of the d'Urbervilles," which explores the
tragic fate of a young woman in Victorian England?
o a) George Eliot
o b) Thomas Hardy
o c) Charles Dickens
o d) Jane Austen
o Answer: b) Thomas Hardy

14. "Heart of Darkness" is a novella by:

o a) Joseph Conrad
o b) Rudyard Kipling
o c) E.M. Forster
o d) H.G. Wells
o Answer: a) Joseph Conrad

15. "Mrs. Dalloway" is a novel by:

o a) Virginia Woolf
o b) D.H. Lawrence
o c) James Joyce
o d) Ford Madox Ford
o Answer: a) Virginia Woolf
16. Who wrote the novel "Ulysses," which takes place over the course of a single day
in Dublin, Ireland?
o a) James Joyce
o b) T.S. Eliot
o c) Virginia Woolf
o d) D.H. Lawrence
o Answer: a) James Joyce

17. "Brave New World" is a dystopian novel written by:

o a) Aldous Huxley
o b) George Orwell
o c) Ray Bradbury
o d) Kurt Vonnegut
o Answer: a) Aldous Huxley

18. Who authored the novel "To the Lighthouse," known for its exploration of
consciousness and perception?
o a) Virginia Woolf
o b) D.H. Lawrence
o c) James Joyce
o d) E.M. Forster
o Answer: a) Virginia Woolf

19. "Animal Farm" is an allegorical novella written by:

o a) Aldous Huxley
o b) George Orwell
o c) Ray Bradbury
o d) Kurt Vonnegut
o Answer: b) George Orwell

20. Who is the author of the novel "A Passage to India," exploring the complexities
of colonialism and cultural misunderstanding?
o a) E.M. Forster
o b) Joseph Conrad
o c) Rudyard Kipling
o d) Salman Rushdie
o Answer: a) E.M. Forster

21. Which novel by D.H. Lawrence explores the passionate relationship between
Lady Chatterley and her gamekeeper?
o a) "Women in Love"
o b) "Sons and Lovers"
o c) "Lady Chatterley's Lover"
o d) "The Rainbow"
o Answer: c) "Lady Chatterley's Lover"

22. "Brideshead Revisited" is a novel by:

o a) Evelyn Waugh
o b) Graham Greene
 o c) Anthony Burgess
o d) Kingsley Amis
o Answer: a) Evelyn Waugh

23. Who is the author of "A Clockwork Orange," a dystopian novel exploring free
will and societal control?
o a) Anthony Burgess
o b) Graham Greene
o c) Evelyn Waugh
o d) Kingsley Amis
o Answer: a) Anthony Burgess

24. "Wide Sargasso Sea" is a novel by:

o a) Jean Rhys
o b) Doris Lessing
o c) Muriel Spark
o d) Penelope Fitzgerald
o Answer: a) Jean Rhys

25. Who wrote the novel "The Golden Notebook," which explores issues of
feminism, mental health, and politics?
o a) Doris Lessing
o b) Iris Murdoch
o c) Muriel Spark
o d) Angela Carter
o Answer: a) Doris Lessing

 "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" is a novel by:

 a) Muriel Spark
 b) Penelope Fitzgerald
 c) Angela Carter
 d) Iris Murdoch
 Answer: a) Muriel Spark

 Who is known for novels such as "The Bell," "The Sea, The Sea," and "Under the
Net"?

 a) Iris Murdoch
 b) Doris Lessing
 c) Muriel Spark
 d) Penelope Fitzgerald
 Answer: a) Iris Murdoch

 "Midnight's Children" is a novel by:

 a) Salman Rushdie
 b) V.S. Naipaul
 c) Kazuo Ishiguro
  d) Julian Barnes
 Answer: a) Salman Rushdie

 Who is the author of "The Remains of the Day," a novel about an English butler
reflecting on his life and career?

 a) Kazuo Ishiguro
 b) Julian Barnes
 c) Salman Rushdie
 d) Ian McEwan
 Answer: a) Kazuo Ishiguro

 "The Handmaid's Tale" is a dystopian novel written by:

 a) Margaret Atwood
 b) Angela Carter
 c) Jeanette Winterson
 d) Hilary Mantel
 Answer: a) Margaret Atwood

English Language Teaching Methodology MCQs

1. Which of the following is NOT a communicative language teaching principle?

o a) Focus on fluency over accuracy
o b) Use of authentic materials
o c) Teacher-centered instruction
o d) Integration of speaking, listening, reading, and writing
o Answer: c) Teacher-centered instruction

2. The Audio-Lingual Method is primarily based on principles of:

o a) Grammar translation
o b) Behaviorism
o c) Cognitive learning theory
o d) Humanistic approaches
o Answer: b) Behaviorism

3. In the task-based language teaching approach, tasks are designed to:

o a) Focus on grammar structures
o b) Develop students' vocabulary skills
o c) Promote communicative competence
o d) Emphasize cultural understanding
o Answer: c) Promote communicative competence

4. Which method places emphasis on learning language through meaningful

interaction and negotiation of meaning?
o a) Direct Method
o b) Total Physical Response (TPR)
o c) Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
o d) Grammar-Translation Method
 o Answer: c) Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)

5. The Silent Way method encourages learners to:

o a) Use translation exercises
o b) Speak as much as possible
o c) Learn through self-correction and discovery
o d) Memorize grammar rules
o Answer: c) Learn through self-correction and discovery

6. Which method is characterized by the use of question-answer patterns,

repetition, and drills?
o a) Total Physical Response (TPR)
o b) Direct Method
o c) Grammar-Translation Method
o d) Audio-Lingual Method
o Answer: d) Audio-Lingual Method

7. The PPP (Presentation, Practice, Production) model is associated with which

teaching approach?
o a) Task-based language teaching
o b) Lexical approach
o c) Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
o d) Grammar-Translation Method
o Answer: c) Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)

8. Which method involves using movement and physical responses to learn

language?
o a) Task-based language teaching
o b) Total Physical Response (TPR)
o c) Direct Method
o d) Lexical approach
o Answer: b) Total Physical Response (TPR)

9. The Lexical Approach focuses on:

o a) Teaching grammar rules first
o b) Teaching vocabulary and collocations
o c) Using translation as a primary tool
o d) Using memorization techniques
o Answer: b) Teaching vocabulary and collocations

10. Which of the following is NOT a component of CLIL (Content and Language
Integrated Learning)?
o a) Language awareness
o b) Focus on subject content
o c) Integrated skills development
o d) Grammar-Translation exercises
o Answer: d) Grammar-Translation exercises

11. Which approach emphasizes learning through real-life situations and contexts?
 o a) Eclectic Approach
o b) Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
o c) Grammar-Translation Method
o d) Direct Method
o Answer: b) Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)

12. In the Eclectic Approach to language teaching, teachers:

o a) Focus on one method exclusively
o b) Use a variety of methods and techniques
o c) Avoid using technology
o d) Teach only grammar rules
o Answer: b) Use a variety of methods and techniques

13. Which method emphasizes the importance of authentic language use and
situational learning?
o a) Grammar-Translation Method
o b) Natural Approach
o c) Suggestopedia
o d) Audiolingual Method
o Answer: b) Natural Approach

14. Which method focuses on the affective filter hypothesis and stresses the
importance of low anxiety for language learning?
o a) Silent Way
o b) Total Physical Response (TPR)
o c) Natural Approach
o d) Krashen's Input Hypothesis
o Answer: d) Krashen's Input Hypothesis

15. Which method uses exaggerated intonation and gesture to aid language
learning?
o a) Audiolingual Method
o b) Silent Way
o c) Suggestopedia
o d) Total Physical Response (TPR)
o Answer: c) Suggestopedia

16. The concept of "interlanguage" refers to:

o a) A language that develops when a speaker borrows heavily from another
language
o b) A stage in second language acquisition where learners have not yet reached
native-like proficiency
o c) The process of translating between two languages
o d) The study of language interference in bilinguals
o Answer: b) A stage in second language acquisition where learners have
not yet reached native-like proficiency

17. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of effective language teaching?

o a) Using a variety of teaching methods
 o b) Focusing solely on accuracy over fluency
o c) Creating opportunities for meaningful communication
o d) Integrating language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing)
o Answer: b) Focusing solely on accuracy over fluency

18. The term "noticing" in language learning refers to:

o a) Being aware of grammatical rules
o b) Paying attention to pronunciation
o c) Recognizing linguistic forms in context
o d) Using language in real-life situations
o Answer: c) Recognizing linguistic forms in context

19. Which approach emphasizes the importance of context and meaningful language
use over explicit grammar instruction?
o a) Audiolingual Method
o b) Grammar-Translation Method
o c) Natural Approach
o d) Lexical Approach
o Answer: d) Lexical Approach

20. The "Zone of Proximal Development" (ZPD) concept was introduced by:
o a) Jean Piaget
o b) Lev Vygotsky
o c) Jerome Bruner
o d) B.F. Skinner
o Answer: b) Lev Vygotsky

21. Which teaching method places emphasis on the sequential and structured
presentation of grammar rules followed by practice activities?
o a) Audiolingual Method
o b) Grammar-Translation Method
o c) Direct Method
o d) Task-based Language Teaching
o Answer: b) Grammar-Translation Method

 

 The concept of "scaffolding" in language learning refers to:

 a) Providing support and assistance to learners as they develop language skills

 b) Evaluating learners' proficiency through written tests
 c) Using technology to enhance language learning
 d) Encouraging learners to work independently
 Answer: a) Providing support and assistance to learners as they develop
language skills

 Which method encourages learners to repeat language patterns and use physical
responses to internalize vocabulary and grammar?
  a) Suggestopedia
 b) Total Physical Response (TPR)
 c) Audiolingual Method
 d) Natural Approach
 Answer: b) Total Physical Response (TPR)

 The term "authentic materials" in language teaching refers to:

 a) Materials created specifically for language learners

 b) Textbooks and workbooks
 c) Materials that are native to the target language culture and context
 d) Online resources
 Answer: c) Materials that are native to the target language culture and context

 Which teaching method emphasizes learning language through contextualized, real-

life situations rather than isolated grammar exercises?

 a) Task-based Language Teaching

 b) Grammar-Translation Method
 c) Lexical Approach
 d) Silent Way
 Answer: a) Task-based Language Teaching

English Language Teaching Methodology MCQs

1. Which of the following is NOT a communicative language teaching principle?

o a) Focus on fluency over accuracy
o b) Use of authentic materials
o c) Teacher-centered instruction
o d) Integration of speaking, listening, reading, and writing
o Answer: c) Teacher-centered instruction

2. The Audio-Lingual Method is primarily based on principles of:

o a) Grammar translation
o b) Behaviorism
o c) Cognitive learning theory
o d) Humanistic approaches
o Answer: b) Behaviorism

3. In the task-based language teaching approach, tasks are designed to:

o a) Focus on grammar structures
o b) Develop students' vocabulary skills
o c) Promote communicative competence
o d) Emphasize cultural understanding
o Answer: c) Promote communicative competence

4. Which method places emphasis on learning language through meaningful

interaction and negotiation of meaning?
o a) Direct Method
 o b) Total Physical Response (TPR)
o c) Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
o d) Grammar-Translation Method
o Answer: c) Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)

5. The Silent Way method encourages learners to:

o a) Use translation exercises
o b) Speak as much as possible
o c) Learn through self-correction and discovery
o d) Memorize grammar rules
o Answer: c) Learn through self-correction and discovery

6. Which method is characterized by the use of question-answer patterns,

repetition, and drills?
o a) Total Physical Response (TPR)
o b) Direct Method
o c) Grammar-Translation Method
o d) Audio-Lingual Method
o Answer: d) Audio-Lingual Method

7. The PPP (Presentation, Practice, Production) model is associated with which

teaching approach?
o a) Task-based language teaching
o b) Lexical approach
o c) Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
o d) Grammar-Translation Method
o Answer: c) Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)

8. Which method involves using movement and physical responses to learn

language?
o a) Task-based language teaching
o b) Total Physical Response (TPR)
o c) Direct Method
o d) Lexical approach
o Answer: b) Total Physical Response (TPR)

9. The Lexical Approach focuses on:

o a) Teaching grammar rules first
o b) Teaching vocabulary and collocations
o c) Using translation as a primary tool
o d) Using memorization techniques
o Answer: b) Teaching vocabulary and collocations

10. Which of the following is NOT a component of CLIL (Content and Language
Integrated Learning)?
o a) Language awareness
o b) Focus on subject content
o c) Integrated skills development
o d) Grammar-Translation exercises
 o Answer: d) Grammar-Translation exercises

11. Which approach emphasizes learning through real-life situations and contexts?
o a) Eclectic Approach
o b) Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
o c) Grammar-Translation Method
o d) Direct Method
o Answer: b) Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)

12. In the Eclectic Approach to language teaching, teachers:

o a) Focus on one method exclusively
o b) Use a variety of methods and techniques
o c) Avoid using technology
o d) Teach only grammar rules
o Answer: b) Use a variety of methods and techniques

13. Which method emphasizes the importance of authentic language use and
situational learning?
o a) Grammar-Translation Method
o b) Natural Approach
o c) Suggestopedia
o d) Audiolingual Method
o Answer: b) Natural Approach

14. Which method focuses on the affective filter hypothesis and stresses the
importance of low anxiety for language learning?
o a) Silent Way
o b) Total Physical Response (TPR)
o c) Natural Approach
o d) Krashen's Input Hypothesis
o Answer: d) Krashen's Input Hypothesis

15. Which method uses exaggerated intonation and gesture to aid language
learning?
o a) Audiolingual Method
o b) Silent Way
o c) Suggestopedia
o d) Total Physical Response (TPR)
o Answer: c) Suggestopedia

16. The concept of "interlanguage" refers to:

o a) A language that develops when a speaker borrows heavily from another
language
o b) A stage in second language acquisition where learners have not yet reached
native-like proficiency
o c) The process of translating between two languages
o d) The study of language interference in bilinguals
o Answer: b) A stage in second language acquisition where learners have
not yet reached native-like proficiency
17. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of effective language teaching?
o a) Using a variety of teaching methods
o b) Focusing solely on accuracy over fluency
o c) Creating opportunities for meaningful communication
o d) Integrating language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing)
o Answer: b) Focusing solely on accuracy over fluency

18. The term "noticing" in language learning refers to:

o a) Being aware of grammatical rules
o b) Paying attention to pronunciation
o c) Recognizing linguistic forms in context
o d) Using language in real-life situations
o Answer: c) Recognizing linguistic forms in context

19. Which approach emphasizes the importance of context and meaningful language
use over explicit grammar instruction?
o a) Audiolingual Method
o b) Grammar-Translation Method
o c) Natural Approach
o d) Lexical Approach
o Answer: d) Lexical Approach

20. The "Zone of Proximal Development" (ZPD) concept was introduced by:
o a) Jean Piaget
o b) Lev Vygotsky
o c) Jerome Bruner
o d) B.F. Skinner
o Answer: b) Lev Vygotsky

21. Which teaching method places emphasis on the sequential and structured
presentation of grammar rules followed by practice activities?
o a) Audiolingual Method
o b) Grammar-Translation Method
o c) Direct Method
o d) Task-based Language Teaching
o Answer: b) Grammar-Translation Method

22. The concept of "scaffolding" in language learning refers to:

o a) Providing support and assistance to learners as they develop language skills
o b) Evaluating learners' proficiency through written tests
o c) Using technology to enhance language learning
o d) Encouraging learners to work independently
o Answer: a) Providing support and assistance to learners as they develop
language skills

23. Which method encourages learners to repeat language patterns and use physical
responses to internalize vocabulary and grammar?
o a) Suggestopedia
o b) Total Physical Response (TPR)
 o c) Audiolingual Method
o d) Natural Approach
o Answer: b) Total Physical Response (TPR)

24. The term "authentic materials" in language teaching refers to:

o a) Materials created specifically for language learners
o b) Textbooks and workbooks
o c) Materials that are native to the target language culture and context
o d) Online resources
o Answer: c) Materials that are native to the target language culture and
context

25. Which teaching method emphasizes learning language through contextualized,

real-life situations rather than isolated grammar exercises?
o a) Task-based Language Teaching
o b) Grammar-Translation Method
o c) Lexical Approach
o d) Silent Way
o Answer: a) Task-based Language Teaching

Sample MCQs for NET Paper-2 English

1. Which poet is associated with the term "negative capability"?

o a) John Keats
o b) William Wordsworth
o c) Percy Bysshe Shelley
o d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
o Answer: a) John Keats

2. Who coined the term "metaphysical poets"?

o a) Samuel Johnson
o b) T.S. Eliot
o c) John Dryden
o d) William Wordsworth
o Answer: a) Samuel Johnson

3. The term "Pathetic Fallacy" is associated with which Victorian poet?

o a) Robert Browning
o b) Alfred, Lord Tennyson
o c) Christina Rossetti
o d) John Ruskin
o Answer: d) John Ruskin

4. "The Prelude" is an autobiographical poem by:

o a) Percy Bysshe Shelley
o b) William Wordsworth
o c) John Keats
o d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
o Answer: b) William Wordsworth
5. Who wrote the poem "Dover Beach," which explores themes of faith and doubt?
o a) Robert Browning
o b) Matthew Arnold
o c) Gerard Manley Hopkins
o d) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
o Answer: b) Matthew Arnold

6. The "Anthem for Doomed Youth" is a poem by:

o a) Wilfred Owen
o b) Siegfried Sassoon
o c) Rupert Brooke
o d) W.B. Yeats
o Answer: a) Wilfred Owen

7. "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" is a villanelle written by:
o a) W.B. Yeats
o b) Dylan Thomas
o c) Philip Larkin
o d) T.S. Eliot
o Answer: b) Dylan Thomas

8. Who is the author of "Orlando," a novel that explores themes of gender and
identity?
o a) Virginia Woolf
o b) D.H. Lawrence
o c) E.M. Forster
o d) James Joyce
o Answer: a) Virginia Woolf

9. The term "stream of consciousness" is most closely associated with the works of:
o a) James Joyce
o b) Virginia Woolf
o c) T.S. Eliot
o d) Ezra Pound
o Answer: a) James Joyce

10. "The Waste Land" is a poem written by:

o a) T.S. Eliot
o b) W.B. Yeats
o c) Ezra Pound
o d) Dylan Thomas
o Answer: a) T.S. Eliot

11. Who is the author of the novel "Wide Sargasso Sea," which serves as a prequel
to "Jane Eyre"?
o a) Jean Rhys
o b) Charlotte Brontë
o c) Emily Brontë
o d) Anne Brontë
 o Answer: a) Jean Rhys

12. The poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is written by:
o a) W.B. Yeats
o b) T.S. Eliot
o c) Ezra Pound
o d) W.H. Auden
o Answer: b) T.S. Eliot

13. "Paradise Lost" is an epic poem written by:

o a) John Milton
o b) Alexander Pope
o c) Samuel Johnson
o d) William Blake
o Answer: a) John Milton

14. Who wrote the novel "Great Expectations," which features the character Pip?
o a) Charles Dickens
o b) Thomas Hardy
o c) George Eliot
o d) William Thackeray
o Answer: a) Charles Dickens

15. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a poem written by:

o a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
o b) William Wordsworth
o c) John Keats
o d) Lord Byron
o Answer: a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

16. Which Romantic poet is known for his "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on a
Grecian Urn"?
o a) John Keats
o b) Percy Bysshe Shelley
o c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
o d) William Wordsworth
o Answer: a) John Keats

17. "The Faerie Queene" is an epic poem written by:

o a) Edmund Spenser
o b) John Donne
o c) Christopher Marlowe
o d) Ben Jonson
o Answer: a) Edmund Spenser

18. Who is the author of the novel "Brave New World," a dystopian work exploring
themes of technology and societal control?
o a) Aldous Huxley
o b) George Orwell
 o c) Ray Bradbury
o d) Kurt Vonnegut
o Answer: a) Aldous Huxley

19. "To Autumn" is a poem by:

o a) John Keats
o b) Percy Bysshe Shelley
o c) Lord Byron
o d) William Wordsworth
o Answer: a) John Keats

20. Who is the author of "The Canterbury Tales," a collection of stories set within a
framing narrative of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury?
o a) Geoffrey Chaucer
o b) John Donne
o c) Edmund Spenser
o d) Christopher Marlowe
o Answer: a) Geoffrey Chaucer

ere are some important MCQs on Literary Theories and Criticism for NET preparation:

1. Who coined the term "deconstruction" and is associated with the idea of
"différance"?
o a) Jacques Derrida
o b) Michel Foucault
o c) Roland Barthes
o d) Jean Baudrillard
o Answer: a) Jacques Derrida
2. Feminist literary criticism primarily focuses on:
o a) Exploring the psychological depths of characters
o b) Analyzing the representation of gender and power dynamics in literature
o c) Tracing the evolution of literary genres
o d) Examining the impact of cultural contexts on literary works
o Answer: b) Analyzing the representation of gender and power dynamics
in literature
3. Which literary theorist is associated with the concept of the "death of the
author"?
o a) Roland Barthes
o b) Jacques Lacan
o c) Julia Kristeva
o d) Louis Althusser
o Answer: a) Roland Barthes
4. Postcolonial theory in literary criticism examines:
o a) How literary works reflect the economic structures of society
o b) The relationship between language and power in literature
o c) The impact of colonization and decolonization on literature
o d) The role of myth and archetype in literature
o Answer: c) The impact of colonization and decolonization on literature
5. The concept of "Orientalism" was introduced by:
 o a) Edward Said
o b) Homi Bhabha
o c) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
o d) Frantz Fanon
o Answer: a) Edward Said
6. Which literary theory emphasizes the ways in which literary texts reflect and
reinforce the ideologies of the dominant culture?
o a) Marxist theory
o b) Psychoanalytic theory
o c) New Historicism
o d) Formalism
o Answer: c) New Historicism
7. The term "hegemony" as used in literary theory is closely associated with:
o a) Michel Foucault
o b) Jacques Lacan
o c) Antonio Gramsci
o d) Louis Althusser
o Answer: c) Antonio Gramsci
8. Which literary critic introduced the idea of "simulacra" and "hyperreality"?
o a) Jean Baudrillard
o b) Jacques Derrida
o c) Michel Foucault
o d) Slavoj Žižek
o Answer: a) Jean Baudrillard
9. Psychoanalytic literary criticism, as developed by Sigmund Freud, focuses on:
o a) The use of symbols and imagery in literature
o b) The representation of the unconscious mind in literature
o c) The role of the author's biography in interpreting literary texts
o d) The historical context of literary works
o Answer: b) The representation of the unconscious mind in literature
10. Who among the following is associated with the concept of "archetypes" in
literary criticism?
o a) Carl Jung
o b) Friedrich Nietzsche
o c) Martin Heidegger
o d) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
o Answer: a) Carl Jung
11. Queer theory in literary criticism primarily examines:
o a) The representation of LGBTQ+ characters in literature
o b) The impact of globalization on literary forms
o c) The role of language and discourse in constructing gender identity
o d) The influence of postmodernism on literary genres
o Answer: a) The representation of LGBTQ+ characters in literature
12. Which theorist introduced the concept of "the gaze" in relation to visual
representation and power dynamics?
o a) Jacques Lacan
o b) Roland Barthes
o c) Michel Foucault
o d) Laura Mulvey
 o Answer: d) Laura Mulvey
13. The term "cultural materialism" in literary theory is associated with:
o a) Raymond Williams
o b) Terry Eagleton
o c) Stuart Hall
o d) Edward Said
o Answer: a) Raymond Williams
14. "Dialogics" as a concept in literary theory was introduced by:
o a) Julia Kristeva
o b) Mikhail Bakhtin
o c) Roland Barthes
o d) Jacques Derrida
o Answer: b) Mikhail Bakhtin
15. Which literary theorist introduced the concept of "ecriture feminine," focusing
on women's writing and language?
o a) Helene Cixous
o b) Julia Kristeva
o c) Luce Irigaray
o d) Simone de Beauvoir
o Answer: a) Helene Cixous

Sample MCQs on Research Methodology for English Literature

1. What is the first step in the research process?

o a) Data analysis
o b) Problem identification
o c) Literature review
o d) Hypothesis testing
o Answer: b) Problem identification

2. A researcher is conducting a study to explore the influence of reader response

theory on contemporary literature. What type of research is this?
o a) Descriptive research
o b) Experimental research
o c) Qualitative research
o d) Historical research
o Answer: c) Qualitative research

3. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of qualitative research?

o a) Focuses on understanding meanings and experiences
o b) Uses statistical methods for data analysis
o c) In-depth exploration of a phenomenon
o d) Flexible and adaptable research design
o Answer: b) Uses statistical methods for data analysis

4. A researcher wants to examine the impact of postcolonial theory on the works of

Salman Rushdie. What type of research design is most suitable?
o a) Case study
o b) Survey research
 o c) Experimental research
o d) Historical research
o Answer: a) Case study

5. Which of the following is an example of a quantitative research method?

o a) Ethnography
o b) Grounded theory
o c) Content analysis
o d) Survey research
o Answer: d) Survey research

6. What is the purpose of a literature review in research?

o a) To summarize existing research findings
o b) To present the researcher's opinions and interpretations
o c) To collect primary data
o d) To test hypotheses
o Answer: a) To summarize existing research findings

7. Which sampling technique involves selecting participants based on their

availability and accessibility?
o a) Random sampling
o b) Purposive sampling
o c) Convenience sampling
o d) Snowball sampling
o Answer: c) Convenience sampling

8. What does the acronym APA stand for in the context of research writing?
o a) American Psychology Association
o b) American Philology Association
o c) American Psychological Association
o d) American Pedagogy Association
o Answer: c) American Psychological Association

9. Which ethical principle in research emphasizes the researcher's responsibility to

avoid causing harm to participants?
o a) Informed consent
o b) Confidentiality
o c) Respect for privacy
o d) Non-maleficence
o Answer: d) Non-maleficence

10. What is a hypothesis in research?

o a) A tentative prediction or explanation that can be tested
o b) A factual statement based on empirical evidence
o c) A theoretical framework guiding the research
o d) A qualitative observation
o Answer: a) A tentative prediction or explanation that can be tested
11. Which research approach involves the study of texts, documents, and cultural
artifacts?
o a) Ethnography
o b) Discourse analysis
o c) Grounded theory
o d) Case study
o Answer: b) Discourse analysis

12. What is the primary goal of mixed-methods research?

o a) To validate qualitative findings with quantitative data
o b) To conduct research in multiple languages
o c) To compare different research methodologies
o d) To study a phenomenon from a historical perspective
o Answer: a) To validate qualitative findings with quantitative data

13. Which of the following is a criterion for evaluating the quality of qualitative
research?
o a) Reliability
o b) Validity
o c) Sample size
o d) Statistical significance
o Answer: b) Validity

14. Which statistical test is used to determine if there is a significant relationship

between two variables?
o a) Chi-square test
o b) T-test
o c) ANOVA
o d) Pearson correlation
o Answer: d) Pearson correlation

15. Which type of validity assesses whether the results of a study can be generalized
to other populations?
o a) External validity
o b) Internal validity
o c) Construct validity
o d) Content validity
o Answer: a) External validity

16. A researcher wants to explore the reception of Jane Austen's novels in

contemporary literature. Which research method is most appropriate?
o a) Historical research
o b) Phenomenological research
o c) Content analysis
o d) Narrative inquiry
o Answer: c) Content analysis

17. Which type of research design involves studying the same group of participants
over an extended period of time?
 o a) Cross-sectional study
o b) Longitudinal study
o c) Retrospective study
o d) Ex post facto study
o Answer: b) Longitudinal study

18. In qualitative research, what is meant by "thick description"?

o a) A detailed and nuanced account of a cultural phenomenon
o b) A brief summary of findings
o c) A quantitative analysis of data
o d) A historical overview of the research topic
o Answer: a) A detailed and nuanced account of a cultural phenomenon

19. Which of the following is NOT a component of a research proposal?

o a) Research questions
o b) Research design
o c) Literature review
o d) Data analysis
o Answer: d) Data analysis

20. Which of the following statements about theoretical framework in research is

true?
o a) It is optional and not necessary for all types of research.
o b) It provides a lens through which the researcher views the research problem.
o c) It is primarily used in qualitative research.
o d) It restricts the scope of the research study.
o Answer: b) It provides a lens through which the researcher views the
research problem.