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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in English (BA English) .
| 101. |
Who was Founder of the Hannoverian dynasty? |
| A. | henry i |
| B. | elizebeth i |
| C. | george i |
| D. | james i |
| Answer» C. george i | |
| 102. |
Whose accession marked the beginning of Hanoverian Dynasty in England? |
| A. | george i |
| B. | george ii |
| C. | edward vi |
| D. | william iii |
| Answer» A. george i | |
| 103. |
Who was considered the first "prime minister’ of England? |
| A. | margarett thatcher |
| B. | wolsey |
| C. | george iii |
| D. | robert walpole |
| Answer» D. robert walpole | |
| 104. |
…………..was actually the child of the American War of Independence. |
| A. | the french revolution of 1789 |
| B. | glorious revolution |
| C. | seven years war |
| D. | boston massacre |
| Answer» A. the french revolution of 1789 | |
| 105. |
Who was the leader of the American War of Independence? |
| A. | robert walpole |
| B. | tomas jefferson |
| C. | thomas paine |
| D. | george washington |
| Answer» D. george washington | |
| 106. |
‘Rights of Man’is the work of …………… |
| A. | montesque |
| B. | rousseau |
| C. | voltaire |
| D. | thomas paine |
| Answer» D. thomas paine | |
| 107. |
Who wrote ‘Reflexions on the Revolution’? |
| A. | carlyle |
| B. | rousseau |
| C. | voltaire |
| D. | edmund burke |
| Answer» D. edmund burke | |
| 108. |
Who is the author of the “Age of Reason?” |
| A. | carlyle |
| B. | rousseau |
| C. | edmund burke |
| D. | thomas paine |
| Answer» D. thomas paine | |
| 109. |
French Revolution occurred in …………… |
| A. | 1789 |
| B. | 1795 |
| C. | 1799 |
| D. | 1889 |
| Answer» A. 1789 | |
| 110. |
Who said “man is born free but everywhere he is in chains”? |
| A. | montesque |
| B. | voltaire |
| C. | tilak |
| D. | rousseau |
| Answer» D. rousseau | |
| 111. |
………….’s Social Contract made a profound impact on the reading and thinking community of France. |
| A. | voltaire |
| B. | edmund burke |
| C. | carlyle |
| D. | rousseau |
| Answer» D. rousseau | |
| 112. |
The ………….mob stormed the Bastille (the state Prison) and all the prisoners were set free. |
| A. | vienna |
| B. | london |
| C. | bologna |
| D. | paris |
| Answer» D. paris | |
| 113. |
The Peninsular War was the last of the wars the English fought against ………………… |
| A. | napolean bonoparte |
| B. | wellington |
| C. | washington |
| D. | louis xvi |
| Answer» A. napolean bonoparte | |
| 114. |
At the Battle of Waterloo ………. in Napolean was completely crushed by the Duke of Wellington. |
| A. | 1815 |
| B. | 1825 |
| C. | 1835 |
| D. | 1855 |
| Answer» A. 1815 | |
| 115. |
On 21 January 1793, ……….was executed and the Jacobins set up a dictatorship through the Committee of Public Safety. |
| A. | louis xvi |
| B. | louis xvii |
| C. | louis xviii |
| D. | louis xv |
| Answer» A. louis xvi | |
| 116. |
……………….. wrote ‘The French Revolution: A History’, |
| A. | thomas carlyle |
| B. | edward gibbon |
| C. | austen |
| D. | toynbee |
| Answer» A. thomas carlyle | |
| 117. |
Who wrote ‘The History of the Decline and fall of the Roman Empire’? |
| A. | edward gibbon |
| B. | thomas carlyle |
| C. | toynbee |
| D. | churchill |
| Answer» A. edward gibbon | |
| 118. |
………'s longest poem, THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES, appeared in 1749. |
| A. | johnson |
| B. | wordsworth |
| C. | t. s. eliot |
| D. | coleridge |
| Answer» A. johnson | |
| 119. |
Who wrote 'Lyrical Ballads' with Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1798? |
| A. | william wordsworth |
| B. | t. s. eliot |
| C. | bunyan |
| D. | austen |
| Answer» A. william wordsworth | |
| 120. |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a famous poem of …………….. |
| A. | samuel taylor coleridge |
| B. | dr. samuel johnson |
| C. | t. s. eliot |
| D. | austen |
| Answer» A. samuel taylor coleridge | |
| 121. |
Sense and Sensibility is the novel of ………….. |
| A. | austen |
| B. | richardson |
| C. | fielding |
| D. | smollett |
| Answer» A. austen | |
| 122. |
Who wrote the novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’? |
| A. | austen |
| B. | milton |
| C. | bunyan |
| D. | dryden |
| Answer» A. austen | |
| 123. |
The Black Death was ……. |
| A. | a literary intellectual movement |
| B. | a social movement. |
| C. | the terrible plague bringing poverty and unrest. |
| D. | a revolt against edward iii. |
| Answer» C. the terrible plague bringing poverty and unrest. | |
| 124. |
King Richard II Succeeded to the Crown in ……… |
| A. | 1377 |
| B. | 1378 |
| C. | 1379 |
| D. | 1380 |
| Answer» A. 1377 | |
| 125. |
Chaucer’s The Romaunt of the Rose is |
| A. | a ballad |
| B. | a lengthy allegorical poem |
| C. | a satire on society. |
| D. | an ode on transition. |
| Answer» B. a lengthy allegorical poem | |
| 126. |
Troilus and Criseyde is Chaucer’s long poem adopted from ……. |
| A. | lazamon |
| B. | dan michel |
| C. | annonymous |
| D. | boccaccio |
| Answer» D. boccaccio | |
| 127. |
Chaucer’s poem ‘The House of Fame’ is written in ……. |
| A. | lambic pentameter |
| B. | octosyllabic couplet |
| C. | free verse |
| D. | blank verse |
| Answer» B. octosyllabic couplet | |
| 128. |
Chaucer’s first attempt in English to use the heroic couplet occurs in which of the following poems. |
| A. | prologue to the canterbury tales |
| B. | tale of melibeus |
| C. | the legend of good women |
| D. | the lack of steadfastness |
| Answer» C. the legend of good women | |
| 129. |
The pilgrims in Chaucer’s Prologue to the Canterbury Tales go on a pilgrimage to the tomb of …….. |
| A. | st. john francis |
| B. | st. nicholas |
| C. | st. thomas a becket |
| D. | st. joseph |
| Answer» C. st. thomas a becket | |
| 130. |
Chaucer virtually imported the decasyllabic lines in his poetry from ……… |
| A. | france |
| B. | italy |
| C. | greece |
| D. | ireland |
| Answer» A. france | |
| 131. |
Chaucerian seven-line stanza in English poetry is also known as ………… |
| A. | decasyllabic lines |
| B. | octosyllabic lines |
| C. | rime royale |
| D. | heroic couplet |
| Answer» C. rime royale | |
| 132. |
The prevailing feature of Chaucer’s humour is its …… |
| A. | urbanity |
| B. | crudity |
| C. | triviality |
| D. | sanctity |
| Answer» A. urbanity | |
| 133. |
The Hundred Years’ War was originated in |
| A. | the conquest of 1066. |
| B. | the conquest of 1067. |
| C. | tthe conquest of 1068. |
| D. | the conquest of 1069 |
| Answer» A. the conquest of 1066. | |
| 134. |
The sole cause of the Hundred Years’ War was ……… |
| A. | the commercial rivalry between france and england. |
| B. | the commercial rivalry between france and italy. |
| C. | the social rivalry between france and greece. |
| D. | the cultural rivalry between england and ireland. |
| Answer» A. the commercial rivalry between france and england. | |
| 135. |
The Statute of Labourers was enacted in English in …….. |
| A. | 1348 |
| B. | 1349 |
| C. | 1350 |
| D. | 1351 |
| Answer» D. 1351 | |
| 136. |
The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 is also called ………. |
| A. | tyler’s rebellion |
| B. | tyler’s mutiny |
| C. | tyler’s strike |
| D. | tyler’s war |
| Answer» A. tyler’s rebellion | |
| 137. |
The Peasants’ Revolt was based on the theory of democracy and socialism of whose text ……….. |
| A. | wat tyler |
| B. | john cairne |
| C. | king richard ii |
| D. | king edward ii |
| Answer» A. wat tyler | |
| 138. |
Who are called Lollards? |
| A. | john tyler and his followers. |
| B. | john wyclif and his followers |
| C. | jack straw and his followers. |
| D. | john ball and his followers. |
| Answer» B. john wyclif and his followers | |
| 139. |
Who is called the real originator of European Protestantism? |
| A. | john wyclife |
| B. | john ball |
| C. | william langland |
| D. | wat tyler |
| Answer» A. john wyclife | |
| 140. |
John Wyclif is called……………… |
| A. | the morning star of reformation. |
| B. | the morning star of resurrection. |
| C. | the morning star of restoration. |
| D. | tthe morning star of redemption. |
| Answer» A. the morning star of reformation. | |
| 141. |
Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a literary form of enclosing a number of tales within one narrative is …….. |
| A. | oriental in origin. |
| B. | european in origin. |
| C. | scandinavian in origin |
| D. | latinic in origin. |
| Answer» A. oriental in origin. | |
| 142. |
In Chaucer’s The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims started a sixty-mile ride to Canterbury in the month of ……. |
| A. | march |
| B. | april |
| C. | may |
| D. | june |
| Answer» B. april | |
| 143. |
In Chaucer’s The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, who amongst the following characters told the first tale on their way to Canterbury……….. |
| A. | shipman |
| B. | cook |
| C. | knight |
| D. | reeve |
| Answer» C. knight | |
| 144. |
The last tale told by Parson on the last day of pilgrimage in The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales was a prose sermon on ……… |
| A. | penintence, with emphasis upon the seven sins. |
| B. | a contemporaneous tale, exploding the impostures of alchemy |
| C. | a fable of why the crow is black. |
| D. | a tragic story of appius and virginia. |
| Answer» A. penintence, with emphasis upon the seven sins. | |
| 145. |
The War of the Roses took place during the period ……. |
| A. | 1380 – 1410 |
| B. | 1455 – 1485 |
| C. | 1400 – 1430 |
| D. | 1425 – 1455 |
| Answer» B. 1455 – 1485 | |
| 146. |
The War of the Roses is a thirty-year struggle between the houses of ………. |
| A. | york and tudor. |
| B. | lancaster and surrey. |
| C. | lancaster and lancashire. |
| D. | lancaster and york. |
| Answer» D. lancaster and york. | |
| 147. |
The fifteenth century is traditionally described as……. |
| A. | the barren period of english literature. |
| B. | tthe wholesome period of english literature. |
| C. | tthe inferior period of english literature. |
| D. | tthe dark period of english literature. |
| Answer» A. the barren period of english literature. | |
| 148. |
Who was imprisoned for participation in the War of the Roses? |
| A. | sir david lindsay |
| B. | sir john mandeville |
| C. | william caxton |
| D. | sir thomas malory |
| Answer» D. sir thomas malory | |
| 149. |
Who was led to imprisonment in 1534 for his refusal to accept the Act of Supremacy? |
| A. | lord barners |
| B. | william tyndale |
| C. | sir thomas more |
| D. | cranmer |
| Answer» C. sir thomas more | |
| 150. |
Utopia is a fine description of “Imaginative Ideal State” written by |
| A. | edmund spenser |
| B. | thomas occleve |
| C. | geoggrey chaucer |
| D. | sir thomas more |
| Answer» D. sir thomas more | |
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