GRE Literature in English MCQs Online Test 01 for Preparation

1. Ernest Hemingway wrote:

A. Mr. Chips

B. On the Earth

C. Pride and Prejudice

D. Old Man and the Sea

2. The poem, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” was written by:

A. Blake

B. Shelley

C. Byron

D. Browning

3. Philip Waken, Aunt Pallet and Tom Tulliver are the characters of G. Eliot’s novel:

A. Silas Manner

B. Middle March

C. Adam Bede

D. The Mill on the Floss

4. Name the character of a novel of Thomas Hardy, which is much like Oedipus, King Lear and Faust.?

A. Mess

B. Yess

C. Tess

D. Jess

5. The one remains, the many change and pass;

Heaven’s light for ever shines, earth’s shadows fly;

The above two lines occur in:

A. Keats’ Hyperion

B. Shelley’s Hymn to Intellectual Beauty

C. Shelley’s Adonis

D. Keats’ Ode to Psyche

6. In Memoriam by Tennyson is ?

A. a dramatic lyric

B. an elegy

C. a lyric

D. a collection of elegies

7. “Intellectual Beauty” is written by:

A. Huxley

B. P.B.Shelley

C. Palmer, D. J.

D. Bertrand Russell

8. ‘Withdrawal from an uncongenial world of escape either to death or more often, to an ideal dream world’, is the theme of Tennyson’s:

A. Ulysses

B. The Lotos – Eaters

C. The Palace of Arts

D. None of these

9. She can not fade, though thou hast not the bliss,

For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

The above two lines have been taken from:

A. Ode on a Grecian Urn

B. A Thing of Beauty

C. La Belle Dame Sans Mercy

D. Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale

10. The abstract theory of utilitarianism is the theme of Dicken’s novel:

A. Great Expectations

B. A Tale of Two Cities

C. Hard Times

D. Bleak House

GRE Literature in English MCQs Online Test 01 for Preparation

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