NTS GAT Subject (English Literature) FLP 1 Free Quiz

1. Who wrote "The Scarlet Letter"?

A. Melville B. Poe C. Hawthorne D. Twain

2. Who wrote "Moby-Dick"?

A. Hawthorne B. Poe C. Twain D. Melville

3. Who wrote "Self-Reliance"?

A. Thoreau B. Whitman C. Emerson D. Dickinson

4. Who wrote "Walden"?

A. Emerson B. Whitman C. Dickinson D. Thoreau

5. Who wrote "A Farewell to Arms"?

A. Fitzgerald B. Faulkner C. Steinbeck D. Hemingway

6. Who wrote "Beloved"?

A. Walker B. Angelou C. Morrison D. Hurston

7. Who wrote "The Color Purple"?

A. Morrison B. Angelou C. Hurston D. Walker

8. What group rebelled against mainstream culture in the 1950s?

A. The Beat Generation B. The Lost Generation C. The Harlem Renaissance D. The Bloomsbury Group

9. What is drama?

A. Intended for performance with dialogue and action B. Poetry C. Prose D. Fiction

10. What is a reversal of fortune in a tragedy?

A. Catharsis B. Anagnorisis C. Peripeteia D. Hamartia

11. Which Shakespearean tragedy features the soliloquy "To be, or not to be"?

A. Hamlet B. Macbeth C. King Lear D. Othello

12. Which tragedy features a king dividing his kingdom?

A. Hamlet B. Macbeth C. Othello D. King Lear

13. What is a speech revealing inner thoughts, delivered by a character alone?

A. Soliloquy B. Monologue C. Aside D. Dialogue

14. Who wrote "Volpone"?

A. Marlowe B. Shakespeare C. Jonson D. Webster

15. Who wrote "The Duchess of Malfi"?

A. Marlowe B. Shakespeare C. Jonson D. Webster

16. Who wrote "A Streetcar Named Desire"?

A. Tennessee Williams B. Arthur Miller C. Eugene O'Neill D. Edward Albee

17. Who wrote "Death of a Salesman"?

A. Williams B. O'Neill C. Miller D. Albee

18. What is literary criticism?

A. Evaluation, analysis, and interpretation of literature B. Creative writing C. Historical writing D. Biographical writing

19. Who wrote "Poetics"?

A. Plato B. Horace C. Longinus D. Aristotle

20. Who wrote "An Apology for Poetry"?

A. Dryden B. Pope C. Sidney D. Johnson

21. Who wrote "Lives of the Poets"?

A. Johnson B. Dryden C. Pope D. Sidney

22. Who wrote the "Lyrical Ballads"?

A. Keats B. Shelley C. Wordsworth and Coleridge D. Byron

23. Who wrote "Biographia Literaria"?

A. Wordsworth B. Keats C. Shelley D. Coleridge

24. Who wrote "Orientalism"?

A. Spivak B. Bhabha C. Said D. Fanon

25. Who wrote "A Literature of Their Own"?

A. Spivak B. Kristeva C. Cixous D. Showalter

26. Who is known for the concept of the abject?

A. Showalter B. Kristeva C. Cixous D. Spivak

27. Who wrote "Culture and Society"?

A. Eagleton B. Williams C. Jameson D. Said

28. What criticism interprets literature through unconscious desires?

A. Marxist B. Feminist C. Psychoanalytic D. Post-Colonial

29. Which theory focuses on the form and structure of a literary work?

A. Marxism B. Psychoanalysis C. Formalism D. Feminism

30. What is Deconstruction?

A. Deconstruction B. Structuralism C. Formalism D. Marxism

31. Which theory examines literature through class struggle?

A. Feminism B. Psychoanalysis C. Marxism D. Post-Colonialism

32. Which theory examines literature through environmental concerns?

A. Marxism B. Feminism C. Post-Colonialism D. Ecocriticism

33. What is the study of narrative structure?

A. Formalist B. Narratology C. Structuralist D. Marxist

34. What concept examines power dynamics in looking?

A. The gaze B. Formalism C. Structuralism D. Deconstruction

35. What refers to the dispersion of a people from their homeland?

A. Diaspora B. Hybridity C. Hegemony D. Otherness

36. What concept refers to awe and terror in the face of greatness?

A. The sublime B. The uncanny C. The abject D. The grotesque

37. What concept refers to horror and disgust at the breakdown of boundaries?

A. The sublime B. The uncanny C. The abject D. The grotesque

38. What literary movement is characterized by skepticism and irony?

A. Modernism B. Realism C. Postmodernism D. Romanticism

39. What characterized Modern literature?

A. Experimentation, disillusionment, break from tradition B. Realism C. Romanticism D. Victorian

40. Who wrote "Ulysses"?

A. Woolf B. Joyce C. Lawrence D. Forster

41. Who wrote "Sons and Lovers"?

A. Joyce B. Woolf C. Lawrence D. Forster

42. Who wrote "A Passage to India"?

A. Joyce B. Woolf C. Lawrence D. Forster

43. Who wrote "The Cantos"?

A. Eliot B. Pound C. Yeats D. Auden

44. Who wrote "The Second Coming"?

A. Yeats B. Pound C. Eliot D. Auden

45. Which modernist writer is known for minimalist prose?

A. Fitzgerald B. Hemingway C. Faulkner D. Steinbeck

46. Who wrote "The Sound and the Fury"?

A. Hemingway B. Fitzgerald C. Faulkner D. Steinbeck

47. What movement celebrated African American culture in the 1920s?

A. Modernist B. Harlem Renaissance C. Victorian D. Romantic

48. Who wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God"?

A. Hughes B. Wright C. Hurston D. Baldwin

49. Who wrote "The Catcher in the Rye"?

A. Salinger B. Plath C. Bradbury D. Fitzgerald

50. Who wrote "The Bell Jar"?

A. Salinger B. Bradbury C. Plath D. Fitzgerald

51. What narrative technique depicts the flow of thoughts and feelings?

A. Realism B. Naturalism C. Romanticism D. Stream of consciousness

52. Who wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?

A. Pound B. Eliot C. Yeats D. Auden

53. What term is associated with the 1920s and F. Scott Fitzgerald?

A. Victorian B. Edwardian C. Jazz Age D. Modernist

54. What influenced the disillusionment of modernist writers?

A. Romantic B. Victorian C. Disillusionment from WWI D. Postmodern

55. Who wrote "Great Expectations"?

A. The Brontes B. Dickens C. Eliot D. Hardy

56. Who wrote "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"?

A. Melville B. Hawthorne C. Poe D. Twain

57. Who wrote "Moby-Dick"?

A. Hawthorne B. Melville C. Poe D. Twain

58. Who wrote "The Scarlet Letter"?

A. Hawthorne B. Melville C. Poe D. Twain

59. Who wrote "A Farewell to Arms"?

A. Fitzgerald B. Faulkner C. Steinbeck D. Hemingway

60. Who wrote "Mrs Dalloway"?

A. Joyce B. Lawrence C. Woolf D. Forster

61. Who wrote "1984"?

A. Huxley B. Bradbury C. Orwell D. Zamyatin

62. Who wrote "Fahrenheit 451"?

A. Orwell B. Bradbury C. Huxley D. Zamyatin

63. Who wrote "The Bell Jar"?

A. Salinger B. Bradbury C. Plath D. Fitzgerald

64. What is poetry that does not follow a consistent meter or rhyme scheme?

A. Blank verse B. Sonnet C. Free verse D. Epic

65. What is a formal lyric poem addressed to a person or idea?

A. Ode B. Elegy C. Sonnet D. Ballad

66. What is a poem of mourning called?

A. Ode B. Epic C. Elegy D. Sonnet

67. What figure of speech compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"?

A. Metaphor B. Personification C. Simile D. Hyperbole

68. What is the repetition of initial consonant sounds called?

A. Assonance B. Alliteration C. Consonance D. Onomatopoeia

69. What is a group of lines forming a unit in a poem?

A. A line B. A stanza C. A couplet D. A quatrain

70. Who wrote "Ode to a Nightingale"?

A. Keats B. Wordsworth C. Byron D. Shelley

71. Which poet wrote "Don Juan"?

A. Keats B. Wordsworth C. Byron D. Shelley

72. What were Addison and Steele known for?

A. Novelists B. Essayists C. Poets D. Playwrights

73. Who wrote "The Rambler"?

A. Johnson B. Addison C. Steele D. Swift

74. Who wrote the "Autobiography" and "Poor Richard's Almanack"?

A. Jefferson B. Franklin C. Paine D. Adams

75. Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?

A. Douglass B. Jacobs C. Stowe D. Lincoln

76. Who delivered the Gettysburg Address?

A. Douglass B. Stowe C. Jacobs D. Lincoln

77. Who wrote "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"?

A. Douglass B. Jacobs C. Stowe D. Lincoln

78. Who wrote "A Room of One's Own"?

A. Woolf B. Eliot C. Woolf D. Woolf

79. Who wrote "Culture and Anarchy"?

A. Carlyle B. Arnold C. Ruskin D. Mill

80. Who wrote "On Liberty"?

A. Mill B. Carlyle C. Arnold D. Ruskin

81. Who wrote "Nature"?

A. Thoreau B. Emerson C. Whitman D. Dickinson

82. Who wrote "The Souls of Black Folk"?

A. Du Bois B. Washington C. Douglass D. Jacobs

83. What did Romantic literature emphasize?

A. Emotion, individualism, and nature B. Reason C. Order D. Tradition

84. Which work is considered a manifesto of Romanticism?

A. Keats B. Byron C. Shelley D. Wordsworth and Coleridge

85. Who wrote "Ode to a Nightingale"?

A. Keats B. Wordsworth C. Byron D. Shelley

86. Which Romantic poet wrote "Don Juan"?

A. Keats B. Wordsworth C. Byron D. Shelley

87. Who wrote "Songs of Innocence and of Experience"?

A. Blake B. Wordsworth C. Coleridge D. Keats

88. Who wrote "The Monk"?

A. Lewis B. Radcliffe C. Walpole D. Shelley

89. Which period valued imagination and creativity over reason?

A. Neoclassical B. Romantic C. Victorian D. Modernist

90. Who wrote "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"?

A. Godwin B. Shelley C. Wollstonecraft D. Wollstonecraft

91. Who wrote "Ivanhoe"?

A. Austen B. Dickens C. Scott D. Eliot

92. What do Dickens' novels often critique?

A. Romantic B. Gothic C. Satirical D. Social critique

93. Who wrote "Dover Beach"?

A. Tennyson B. Browning C. Rossetti D. Arnold

94. What group sought to revive early Renaissance art?

A. Romantic B. Pre-Raphaelite C. Victorian D. Modernist

95. Who wrote "The Earthly Paradise"?

A. Morris B. Rossetti C. Browning D. Tennyson

96. Who wrote "The Stones of Venice"?

A. Arnold B. Carlyle C. Ruskin D. Mill

97. Who wrote "On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History"?

A. Ruskin B. Arnold C. Mill D. Carlyle

98. Who wrote "Apologia Pro Vita Sua"?

A. Carlyle B. Newman C. Arnold D. Ruskin

99. What did the "Condition of England" question refer to?

A. Social and economic B. Political C. Religious D. Cultural

100. Who wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"?

A. Dickens B. Collins C. Carroll D. Carroll

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