Deck 3: Literary Works and Authors

Question 1

Who is the author of the book 'Utopia'?

A)francis bacon
B)charles lamb
C)chaucer
D)sir thomas more

Answer 1

sir thomas more

Question 2

Morte'd Arthur was written by______________

A)sir thomas malory
B)wilson
C)robert greene
D)charles lamb

Answer 2

sir thomas malory

Question 3

John Lyly's first prose work was_____________

A)euphues and his england
B)euphues, the anatomy of wit
C)principal navigation
D)the lyfe of john picus

Answer 3

euphues, the anatomy of wit

Question 4

In which year The Advancement of Learning was published?

A)1600
B)1607
C)1605
D)1700

Question 5

The Anatomy of Melancholy was written by_________

A)robert burton
B)thomas browne
C)francis bacon
D)john milton

Question 6

Milton's greatest prose work is__________

A)comus
B)lycidas
C)paradise lost
D)areopagitica

Question 7

_________is the representative writer of the Restoration age.

A)john bunyan
B)john locke
C)john dryden
D)daniel defoe

Question 8

The Pilgrim's Progress is the masterpiece of ______

A)john bunyan
B)john dryden
C)daniel defoe
D)thomas hobbes

Question 9

Who wrote the Essay of Dramatic Poesie ?

A)hobbes
B)john dryden
C)john bunyan
D)sir william temple

Question 10

The best known prose work of Daniel Defoe was_______

A)the shortest way
B)the true born english man
C)dissenters
D)robinson crusoe

Question 11

Who was the founder of the journal 'The Tatler'?

A)richard steele
B)joseph addison
C)jonathan swift
D)jonathan arbthnot

Question 12

Modern Painters is the work of ______________

A)william morris
B)thomas carlyle
C)john ruskin
D)r l stevenson

Question 13

_____________was a representative of the school of aesthetic criticism.

A)walter pater
B)r l stevenson
C)mathew arnold
D)thomas carlyle

Question 14

Essays in Criticism was written by ___________

A)walter pater
B)r l stevenson
C)mathew arnold
D)macaulay

Question 15

Who are the authors of Lyrical Ballads?

A)shelly and coleridge
B)byron and wordsworth
C)wordsworth and coleridge
D)coleridge and keats

Question 16

_______________is known as the bible of Feminist Movements

A)gender trouble
B)mad woman in the attic
C)a room of one's own
D)a vindication of the rights of woman

Question 17

___________Biographia Literaria is one of the most valuable Prose Works.

A)shelly's
B)coleridge's
C)wordsworth's
D)walter scott's

Question 18

Shelly's ___________is a strong exposition of the Romantic point of view.

A)biographia literaria
B)the essays of elia
C)a defence of poetry
D)the english poets

Question 19

The Spirit of the Age (1825) was written by______

A)william hazlitt
B)william wordsworth
C)charles lamb
D)shelly

Question 20

____________is known as the writer of 'impassioned prose'.

A)william hazlitt
B)thomas de quincey
C)charles lamb
D)shelly

Question 21

Confessions of an English Opium - Eater is an autobiographical work of _____________

A)thomas de quincey
B)coleridge
C)shelly
D)keats

Question 22

'Alpha of the Plough' is the pen name of __________

A)hilaire belloc
B)e v lukas
C)g k chesterton
D)a g gardiner

Question 23

One of the most elevated scientist of the century who was engaged in the debate between science and religion

A)goerge eliot
B)hilaire belloc
C)thomas henry huxley
D)g h lewes

Question 24

A G Ward describes _____________ as "a philosophic jester bursting bubbles of snobbery and pretence with wit and satire"

A)hilaire belloc
B)max beerbohm
C)e v lucas
D)g k chesterton

Question 25

Who has been referred as ' the prince of paradox'?

A)robert lynd
B)j b s haldane
C)g k chesterton
D)e v lucas