Practise Test #4
Literary Knowledge Challenge
Test your knowledge on classic literature, poetry, and famous authors with our engaging quiz! Dive into a variety of thought-provoking questions that will challenge even the most seasoned literary enthusiasts.
Features:
- Questions on renowned authors and their works
- Explore different literary genres and periods
- Match characters with their creators
Tagore’s brief chat with ------ was recorded and known as ‘Note on the Nature of Reality’.
Einstein
Edison
Ruskin
Emerson
Match the term with the statement :
| i. Fiction that includes within itself commentary on its own narrative or linguistic identity | (a) Assonance |
| ii. A line of a poem which is repeated in the course of a poem, usually at the end of a stanza | (b) Transferred epithet |
| iii. The rhyming of vowel sounds without the rhyming of consonants | (c) Refrain |
| iv. My host handed me a hospitable glass of wine | (d) Metafiction |
(i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-b, (iv)-d
(i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-c, (iv)-a
(i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-a, (iv)-b
(i)-a, (ii)-d, (iii)-c, (iv)-b
Which poem of Wallace Stevens opens with the line, “call the roller of big cigars”?
Sunday Morning”
The Emperor of Ice-cream”
The Snow Man”
It Must Give Pleasure”
Osborne’s Look Back in Anger marked a new voice on the British stage by virtue of its reaction against :
The problem of unemployment
Existing affected drawing room comedies
The problem of overcrowding in cities
Absurd theatre
The King and the Duke are comic villains in :
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
Puddenhead Wilson
The Prince and the Pauper
Match the following characters with the authors :
| i. Becky Sharp | (a)George Orwell |
| ii. Snowball | (b)Thackeray |
| iii. Thomas Becket | (c)James Joyce |
| iv. Stephen Dedalus | (d)T.S. Eliot |
(i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c
(i)-b, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-c
(i)-a, (ii)-b, (iii)-d, (iv)-c
(i)-b, (ii)-a, (iii)-c, (iv)-d
Which of the following descriptions is NOT used for the eighteenth century?
Augustan age
Age of good sense
Neo-classical period
The sentimental age
'Sir Fretful Plagiary' appears in Sheridan’s :
The Critic
The Rivals
The School for Scandal
A Trip to Scarborough
Which among the following is a work of Christopher Marlowe?
The Jew of Malta
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
A New Way to Pay Old Debts
A Woman Killed with Kindness
Duessa is an allegorical character in :
The Faerie Queene
The Piligrim’s Progress
The Canterbury Tales
The Shepherd’s Calender
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