English Paper 2

Which type of poem is Laodamia?
(A) An elegy
(B) A narrative poem
(C) An ode
(D) A sonnet
Question’s Answer: A narrative poem
Wordsworth’s planned “Lyrical Ballads” with Coleridge in:

(a) 1796
(b) 1800
(c) 1799
(d) 1797
Question’s Answer: 1797
Wordsworth’s poem “My Heart Leaps Up” was in:
(a) 1802
(b) 1801
(c) 1800
(d) 1803
Wordsworth was honoured with a visit by the Queen Dowager in:
(a) 1842
(b) 1841
(c) 1840
(d) 1843
Wordsworth recorded his impression of a manufacturing district of the
northern England in:
(a) Book III of The Excursion
(b) Book II of The Excursion
(c) Book VIII of The Excursion
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Book VIII of The Excursion
The poem “Lucy” was written in the
(a) Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads
(b) First edition of Lyrical Ballads
(c) Third Edition of Lyrical Ballads
Question’s Answer: Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads
Wordsworth was appointed “Poet Laureate” in succession to Southey in:
(a) 1848
(b) 1845
(c) 1847
(d) 1843
Wordsworth’s poem “The Sparrow Nest” was published in which year?
(a) 1800
(b) 1802
(c) 1801
(d) 1803
Wordsworth pass away in:
(a) 1856
(b) 1854
(c) 1855
(d) 1850
Which is not a contemporary of Wordsworth?
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Scott
(c) Southey
Question’s Answer: Shakespeare
Wordsworth’s Sonnet “I Thought of Thee” was published in which year?
(a) 1819
(b) 1822
(c) 1821
(d) 1820
Which is not a poem by Wordsworth?
(a) Departure and Arrival
(b) Daffodils
(c) To The Cuckoo
Question’s Answer: Departure and Arrival
13. Wordsworth’s poem “The Excursion” belongs to the period between:
(a) 1790-1797
(b) 1790-1798
(c) 1791-1797
Question’s Answer: 1791-1797
Which is not a poem by Wordsworth?
(a) Ode to Autumn
(b) The Prelude
(c) Solitary Reaper
Question’s Answer: Ode to Autumn
Wordsworth was appointed distributor of stamps for his district in:
(a) 1812
(b) 1814
(c) 1813
(d) 1815
Wordsworth’s poem “The Prelude” was finished in:
(a) 1810
(b) 1806
(c) 1805
(d) 1811
Wordsworth’s Sonnet “Scorn Not The Sonnet” was published in which year?
(a) 1921
(b) 1923
(c) 1922
(d) 1924
Wordsworth’s Poem “The River Duddon” was published in which year?
(a) 1823
(b) 1821
(c) 1822
(d) 1820
Wordsworth’s best work was done between:
(a) 1795 and 1806
(b) 1796 and 1808
(c) 1796 and 1807
Question’s Answer: 1796 and 1808
Wordsworth, his sister Dorothy and Coleridge went to Germany in:
(a) 1798
(b) 1797
(c) 1790
(d) 1799
Wordsworth lived in close association with Coleridge during:
(a) 1797-1798
(b) 1799-1800
(c) 1797-1799
Question’s Answer: 1797-1798
Wordsworth married his cousin in
(a) 1801
(b) 1802
(c) 1803
(d)
Wordsworth’s poem “The Excursion” was published in which year?
(a) 1815
(b) 1814
(c) 1816
(d) 1817
A young friend of Wordsworth Raisley Calvert left him a legacy of 900 in:
(a) 1790
(b) 1797
(c) 1796
(d) 1795
Wordsworth went on making changes in “The Prelude” between:
(a) 1805 and 1840
(b) 1805 and 1830
(c) 1805 and 1850
Wordsworth received an degree from the University of Durham in:
(a) 1841
(c) 1840
(b) 1839
(d) 1838
“The Prelude” was published in
(a) 1845
(b) 1861
(c) 1860
(d) 1850
“The Prelude” consists of:
(a) Ten Books
(b) Fourteen Books
(c) Thirteen Books
Question’s Answer: Fourteen Books
Which book of the Prelude deals with Wordsworth’s stay at Cambridge?
(a) Book III
(b) Book II
(c) Book I
Question’s Answer: Book III
Wordsworth’s poem “The White Doe of Rylstone” was published in which
year?
(a) 1817
(b) 1815
(c) 1816
(d) 1810
Wordsworth received another honorary degree from the University of Oxford
in:
(a) 1839
(b) 1837
(c) 1841
(d) 1842
“The Prelude” by Wordsworth was written between.
(a) 1799 and 1806
(b) 1798 and 1806
(c) 1799 and 1805
Which book of “The Prelude” deals with the French Revolution and
Wordsworth’s stay in France?
(a) III
(b) V
(c) IV
(d) LX
Question’s Answer: LX
Who said Wordsworth was the “Historian of Wordsworthshire”?
(a) Lowell
(b) Raleigh
(c) Carlyle
Question’s Answer: Lowell
Wordsworth regarded nature as:
(a) A moral teacher
(b) A loving mother
(c) Both (a) & (b)
Question’s Answer: Both (a) & (b)
“The Prelude” is:
(a) Autobiographical Poem
(b) Political Poem
(c) Biographical Poem
(d) Satire
Question’s Answer: Autobiographical Poem
Which book of “The Prelude” records the destruction of Wordsworth’s faith in
the arrival of a new dawn?
(a) X
(b) IV
(c) V
(d) XI
Question’s Answer: X
Wordsworth’s “Lyrical Ballads” (with Coleridge) was published in which year?
(a) 1796
(b) 1798
(c) 1797
(d) 1799
“Wordsworth’s Sonnets” were published in:
(a) 1841
(b) 1839
(c) 1840
(d) 1838
Which book of “The Prelude” is concerned with the first stage of nature’s role
in Wordsworth’s life?
(a) Book II
(b) Book I
(c) Book IV
Question’s Answer: Book I
When Wordsworth’s mother pass away he was:
(a) Eight years old
(b) Seven years old
(c) Nine years old
Question’s Answer: Eight years old
William Wordsworth was born in:
(a) 1760
(b) 1781
(c) 1780
(d) 1770
When Wordsworth’s father pass away he was:
(a) Thirteen Years old
(b) Twelve Years old
(c) Ten Years old
Question’s Answer: Thirteen Years old
Wordsworth went to St. John’s College, Cambridge in:
(a) 1786
(b) 1789
(c) 1788
(d) 1787
Wordsworth made a trip to the Alps in
(a) 1780
(b) 1793
(c) 1792
(d) 1790
William Wordsworth was the:
(a) Second Son of John Wordsworth
(b) First son of John Wordsworth
(c) Third Son of John Wordsworth
Question’s Answer: Second Son of John Wordsworth
Shakespear part
Collection of important MCQs on William Shakespeare

There are total _______ number of plays did Shakespeare write in all ?
(A) 60
(B) 38
(C) 37
(D) 20
____ called Shakespeare “an upstart crow beautified with our
feathers”?
(A) John Lyly
(B) Robert Greene
(C) Thomas Kyd
(D) George Peele
Question’s Answer: Robert Greene
Who is the writer of the malicious pamphlet entitled “A Groat’s Worth of Wit
Bought with a Million of Repentance” against Shakespeare?
(A) Thomas Kyd
(B) Robert Greene
(C) George Peele
(D) John Lyly
Question’s Answer: Robert Greene
Who ridiculed Shakespeare by saying that he knew “small Latin and less
Greek”?
(A) Marlowe
(B) Sidney
(C) Spenser
(D) Ben Jonson

Question’s Answer: Ben Jonson
Who said,”Shakespeare has only heroines, and no heroes”?
(A) Ruskin
(B) Dr. Johnson
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) T. S. Eliot
Question’s Answer: Ruskin
Aldous Huxley took the hint for the title of his novel Brave New World from
Shakespeare’s:
(A) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(B) Winter’s Tale
(C) Tempest
(D) Antony and Cleopatra
Question’s Answer: Tempest
Shakespeare was born at Stratford-on-Avon. Stratford was the name of the

town where
he was born. What was Avon?
(A) A high plateau on which Stratford was situated
(B) A hillock on which Stratford was situated

(C) A river on the bank of which Stratford was situated
(D) A heath where Stratford was situated
Question’s Answer: A river on the bank of which Stratford was situated
Shakespeare’s King Lear was given a happy ending by one of the following
playwrights. Identify the playwright:
(A) Nahun Tate
(B) Nathaniel Lee
(C) Thomas Otway
(D) George Farquhar
Question’s Answer: Nahun Tate
“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale.” About whom are these lines
spoken ?
(A) Desdemona
(B) Cordelia
(C) Cleopatra
(D) Miranda
Question’s Answer: Cleopatra
Imogen is the main character and heroine of which of the following?
(A) Winter’s Tale
(B) Pericles
(C) Cymbeline
(D) Tempest
Question’s Answer: Cymbeline
Who is the author of the critical work Shakespeare’s Sonnets Reconsidered?
(A) E.M. Forster
(B) WH Auden
(C) Samuel Butler
(D) Charles Lamb
Question’s Answer: Samuel Butler
“The greatest genius that perhaps human nature has yet produced, our
myriad-minded
Shakespeare.” Who makes this observation?
(A) Hazlitt
(B) Coleridge
(C) Southey
(D) Byron
Question’s Answer: Coleridge
Which was the last play written by Shakespeare?
(A) Cymbeline
(B) The Winter’s Tale
(C) The Tempest
(D) Pericles
Question’s Answer: The Tempest
“Sweet are the uses of adversity.” This line is related to which play?
(A) The Merchant of Venice
(B) Romeo and Juliet
(C) Twelfth Night
(D) As You Like It
Question’s Answer: As You Like It
“Frailty, thy name is woman !” This line is part of which play?
(A) Othello
(B) Macbeth
(C) King Lear
(D) Hamlet
Question’s Answer: Hamlet
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend.” These lines are taken from Hamlet.
Who is the speaker of these qoutations?
(A) Hamlet
(B) Laertes
(C) Horatio
(D) Polonius
Question’s Answer: Polonius
Who is the messenger of the Fairies in The Tempest?
(A) Ariel
(B) Juno
(C) Caliban
(D) Iris
Question’s Answer: Ariel
Who is the writer of the critical book Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays?
(A) Addison
(B) Coleridge
(C) Arnold
(D) Hazlitt
Question’s Answer: Hazlitt
________ is the play in which the hero dies at the end of the Fourth Act, but
the play
continues to the Fifth Act:
(A) Antony and Cleopatra

(B) Richard the Second
(C) Coriolanus
(D) King John
Question’s Answer: Antony and Cleopatra
________ is the play in which the hero and the heroine die together:
(A) Romeo and Juliet
(B) Othello
(C) Cleopatra
(D) Macbeth
Question’s Answer: Romeo and Juliet
Which is not a Roman play?
(B) Timon of Athens
(C) Titus Andronicus
(D) Coriolanus
Question’s Answer: Timon of Athens
Who praises Shakespeare in these words?
(A) Ben Jonson
(B) Spenser
(C) Ben Jonson
(D) Dr. Johnson
Question’s Answer: Ben Jonson
In which year were Shakespeare’s Sonnets published?
(A) 1616
(B) 1598
(C) 1609
(D) 1600
What is Rape of Lucrece?
(A) A sonnet
(B) A narrative poem
(C) An early comedy
(D) A narrative poem
Question’s Answer: A narrative poem
In which play does Hermione appear as the heroine ?
(A) Timon of Athens
(B) The Winter’s Tale
(C) Cymbeline
(D) Pericles
Question’s Answer: The Winter’s Tale

For what is the phrase ‘The Mousetrap’ used by Shakespeare in Hamlet?
(A) The Play within the Play in Hantlet
(B) The ghost of Hamlet’s father
(C) The Play within the Play in Hantlet
(D) Hamlet’s Conscience
Question’s Answer: The Play within the Play in Hantlet
Dryden’s play All For Love is based on one of Shakespeare’s plays.

(B) Romeo and Juliet
(C) Tempest
(D) The Merchant of Venice
Question’s Answer: Antony and Cleopatra
The phrase “What’s in a name ?” is a part of which of the following?
(A) Othello
(B) Hamlet
(C) Julius Caesar
(D) Romeo and Juliet
Question’s Answer: Romeo and Juliet
How many sonnets did Shakespeare write in all ?

(A) 40
(B) 170
(C) 155
(D) 154
What is Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonais?
(A) A Narrative poem
(B) A Tragedy
(C) A Comedy
(D) A Romance
Question’s Answer: A Narrative poem
To ____ , Shakespeare dedicate his first Narrative poem Venus and Adonais
?
(A) Earl of Southampton
(B) James I
(C) Queen Elizabeth
(D) Ben Jonson
Question’s Answer: Earl of Southampton
According to _____, “The quality of mercy is not strained,

It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven, Upon the place beneath: it is
twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.”
(A) Portia’s
(B) Cordelia’s
(C) Miranda’s
(D) Desdemona’s
Question’s Answer: Portia’s
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact”
quoted from A Midsummer Night’s Dream Who is the speaker of these

qoutations?
These lines are
(A) Theseus
(B) Hippolyta
(C) Philostrate
(D) Bottom

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Which type of poem is Laodamia?

(B) A narrative poem

Question’s Answer: A narrative poem

Wordsworth’s planned “Lyrical Ballads” with Coleridge in:

Collection of important MCQs on William Shakespeare

(A) John Lyly

(B) Robert Greene

(C) Thomas Kyd

(D) George Peele

Question’s Answer: Robert Greene

(A) Thomas Kyd

(B) Robert Greene

(C) George Peele

(D) John Lyly

Question’s Answer: Robert Greene

(D) Ben Jonson

Who said,”Shakespeare has only heroines, and no heroes”?

(B) Dr. Johnson

(C) Matthew Arnold

Question’s Answer: Ruskin

(A) A Midsummer Night’s Dream

(B) Winter’s Tale

(D) Antony and Cleopatra

Question’s Answer: Tempest

Shakespeare was born at Stratford-on-Avon. Stratford was the name of the

he was born. What was Avon?

(A) A high plateau on which Stratford was situated

(B) A hillock on which Stratford was situated

(D) A heath where Stratford was situated

Question’s Answer: A river on the bank of which Stratford was situated

(A) Nahun Tate

(B) Nathaniel Lee

(C) Thomas Otway

(D) George Farquhar

Question’s Answer: Nahun Tate

Question’s Answer: Cleopatra

Imogen is the main character and heroine of which of the following?

(A) Winter’s Tale

Question’s Answer: Cymbeline

Who is the author of the critical work Shakespeare’s Sonnets Reconsidered?

(A) E.M. Forster

(C) Samuel Butler

(D) Charles Lamb

Question’s Answer: Samuel Butler

Shakespeare.” Who makes this observation?

Question’s Answer: Coleridge

Which was the last play written by Shakespeare?

(C) The Tempest

Question’s Answer: The Tempest

(A) The Merchant of Venice

(B) Romeo and Juliet

(C) Twelfth Night

(D) As You Like It

Question’s Answer: As You Like It

“Frailty, thy name is woman !” This line is part of which play?

(C) King Lear

Question’s Answer: Hamlet

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be;

Question’s Answer: Polonius

Who is the messenger of the Fairies in The Tempest?