English Literature MCQs with explanations

Question 1

In the play, “Henry V,” who is the Queen of France?

Accepted Answer

Queen Isabel

Question 2

Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism?

Accepted Answer

all but c

Question 3

Gunter Grass got Nobel Prize in________?

Accepted Answer

1999

Question 4

The annals of Massachusetts Bay will inform us, that of six governors, in the space of about forty years from the surrender of the old charter, under James II., two were imprisoned by a popular insurrection – a third, as Hutchinson inclines to believe, was driven from the province by the whizzing of a musket ball – a fourth, in the opinion of the same historian, was hastened to his grave by continual bickerings with the house of representatives – and the remaining two, as well as their successors, till the Revolution, were favored with few and brief intervals of peaceful sway. What is an “insurrection”?

Accepted Answer

An of revolting against civil authority

Question 5

Hamlet is considered to be what kind of play?

Accepted Answer

Tragedy

Question 6

Who says, “Good night, sweet prince,/And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”?

Accepted Answer

Horatio

Question 7

gave a hint of the rich culture that was forgotten________?

Accepted Answer

Reported speech poems

Question 8

Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the “spirit of the age,” which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination?

Accepted Answer

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 9

When did William Wordsworth die?

Accepted Answer

23 April 1850

Question 10

Who were the troubadours?

Accepted Answer

poets from France and Italy

English Literature MCQs with Explanations