NTS GAT Subject (English Literature) FLP 3 Free Quiz

1. What is American literature?

A. Literature produced in the United States B. English literature C. Canadian literature D. Latin American literature

2. Who wrote "The Scarlet Letter"?

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

3. Who wrote "The Raven"?

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

4. Which poet is known for her compact poetry on death and nature?

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

5. Who wrote "The Great Gatsby"?

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

6. Who wrote "The Grapes of Wrath"?

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

7. Who wrote "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?

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

8. Who wrote "Fahrenheit 451"?

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

9. 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

10. What literary movement is associated with Poe and Hawthorne?

A. Realism B. Naturalism C. American Gothic D. Transcendentalism

11. What type of drama ends happily?

A. Tragedy B. History C. Farce D. Comedy

12. What is a character defect that leads to a protagonist's downfall?

A. Hubris B. Tragic flaw C. Catharsis D. Peripeteia

13. What is the emotional release in a tragedy?

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

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

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

15. Who is widely regarded as the greatest English playwright?

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

16. What is a conversation between characters?

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

17. Who wrote "Volpone"?

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

18. What type of drama explores psychological depth and social issues?

A. Greek B. Modern C. Elizabethan D. Restoration

19. What genre blends tragedy and comedy?

A. Tragedy B. Tragicomedy C. Farce D. Melodrama

20. What type of tragedy explores themes of fate and hubris?

A. Shakespearean B. Modern C. Restoration D. Greek

21. Who is known as the father of tragedy?

A. Sophocles B. Euripides C. Aeschylus D. Aristophanes

22. What is literary criticism?

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

23. Who wrote "An Essay of Dramatic Poesy"?

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

24. Who wrote "An Essay on Criticism"?

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

25. Who wrote the "Lyrical Ballads"?

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

26. Who wrote "Orientalism"?

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

27. What criticism examines literature through gender and women's experiences?

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

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

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

29. Who wrote "The Laugh of the Medusa"?

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

30. What criticism examines literature through class struggle?

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

31. What is literary theory?

A. Systematic study of the nature of literature B. Poetry only C. Prose only D. Drama only

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

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

33. Which theory examines literature through class struggle?

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

34. What concept argues that the author's intentions should not determine meaning?

A. Reader-response B. Death of the author C. Formalism D. Structuralism

35. What concept refers to the relationship between texts?

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

36. Which theory examines literature through environmental concerns?

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

37. What is the study of narrative structure?

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

38. What concept examines power dynamics in looking?

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

39. What term refers to marginalized groups excluded from power?

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

40. What characterized Modern literature?

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

41. Who wrote "Ulysses"?

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

42. Who wrote "A Passage to India"?

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

43. Who wrote "The Grapes of Wrath"?

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

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

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

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

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

46. What group included Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster?

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

47. Who wrote "Pamela" and "Clarissa"?

A. Defoe B. Richardson C. Fielding D. Swift

48. Who wrote "Tom Jones"?

A. Fielding B. Richardson C. Defoe D. Swift

49. Who wrote "The Scarlet Letter"?

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

50. Who wrote "The Great Gatsby"?

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

51. Who wrote "Sons and Lovers"?

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

52. Who wrote "1984"?

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

53. What sonnet form has an octave and a sestet?

A. Shakespearean B. Petrarchan C. Spenserian D. Miltonic

54. What type of poem expresses personal emotions?

A. Epic B. Lyric C. Dramatic D. Narrative

55. What is a narrative poem that tells a story?

A. Epic B. Lyric C. Elegy D. Ballad

56. What is an exaggeration used for emphasis?

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

57. What is the repetition of vowel sounds called?

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

58. What is a metrical line of five iambs?

A. Trochaic B. Anapestic C. Dactylic D. Iambic pentameter

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

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

60. What is a stanza of four lines called?

A. Couplet B. Tercet C. Quatrain D. Sestet

61. Who wrote "Paradise Lost"?

A. Shakespeare B. Chaucer C. Spenser D. Milton

62. Which Romantic poet wrote "The Prelude"?

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

63. Who wrote "Ode to a Nightingale"?

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

64. Which poet wrote "Don Juan"?

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

65. Who wrote "The Waste Land"?

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

66. Who is known for his personal and philosophical essays?

A. Bacon B. Montaigne C. Emerson D. Thoreau

67. Who wrote "Self-Reliance" and "Nature"?

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

68. Who wrote "A Modest Proposal"?

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

69. What were Addison and Steele known for?

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

70. Who wrote the "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

74. Who wrote "Culture and Anarchy"?

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

75. Who wrote "On Liberty"?

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

76. Who wrote "The Stones of Venice"?

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

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

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

78. Who wrote "Invisible Man"?

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

79. Who wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?

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

80. Which author is often considered a transitional figure between Romantic and Victorian periods?

A. Jane Austen B. The Brontes C. Eliot D. Dickens

81. Who wrote "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater"?

A. Lamb B. Hazlitt C. Hunt D. De Quincey

82. Which period valued imagination and creativity over reason?

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

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

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

84. Which author wrote historical novels in the Romantic period?

A. Scott B. Fielding C. Richardson D. Defoe

85. Which Victorian novelist wrote "Great Expectations"?

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

86. What do Dickens' novels often critique?

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

87. Which sisters wrote "Jane Eyre," "Wuthering Heights," and "Agnes Grey"?

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

88. Who is associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?

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

89. What group sought to revive early Renaissance art?

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

90. Who wrote "The Earthly Paradise"?

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

91. Who wrote "The Stones of Venice"?

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

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

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

93. Who wrote "On Liberty"?

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

94. What did Victorian novels often reflect?

A. Romantic B. Gothic C. Social concerns D. Modernist

95. Who wrote "Apologia Pro Vita Sua"?

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

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

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

97. What genre of Victorian novel featured mystery and suspense?

A. Gothic B. Realistic C. Romantic D. Sensation

98. What theme reflected doubts about faith in Victorian literature?

A. Political B. Social C. Spiritual D. Economic

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

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

100. What type of novel focused on the lives of the working class?

A. Gothic B. Romantic C. Industrial D. Sentimental

Country Wise Scholarships

Entry Tests Preparation

Follow Us

Aggregate Calculator