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English Literature Quiz Questions for Competitive Exams

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Q :  

What is the title of the poem that begins thus - "What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare'?

(A) Comfort

(B) Leisure

(C) Relaxation

(D) Tranquility

Correct Answer : B

Q :  

Which of the following is not an English poet (i.e. from England)?

(A) Victor Huge

(B) Alexander Pope

(C) John Milton

(D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Correct Answer : A

Q :  

Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?

(A) William Blake

(B) William Shakespeare

(C) William Morris

(D) William Wordsworth

Correct Answer : D

Q :  

What is a funny poem of five lines called?

(A) Quartet

(B) Limerick

(C) Sextet

(D) Palindrome

Correct Answer : B

Q :  

How did W. H. Auden describe poetry?

(A) An awful way to earn a living

(B) A game of knowledge

(C) The soul exposed

(D) An explosion of language

Correct Answer : B

Q :  

Sasoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry?

(A) Light verse

(B) Romantic

(C) Political satire

(D) War poems

Correct Answer : D

Q :  

Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?

(A) Denver

(B) St Louise

(C) Cuba

(D) Toronto

Correct Answer : B

Q :  

How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?

(A) 24

(B) 31

(C) 21

(D) 28

Correct Answer : D

Q :  

The magazine  Contemporary Poetry and Prose was inspired by which exhibition?

(A) The Festival of Britain

(B) The Surrealist Exhibition

(C) People of th 20th Century

(D) Drawing the 20th Century

Correct Answer : B

Q :  

Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess?

(A) Carolyn Kizer

(B) Mary Oliver

(C) Sylvia Plath

(D) Marianne Moore

Correct Answer : C

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