21. The Age of Dryden is also known as:
A. The Classical Age
B. The Augustan Age
C. The Age of Reason ✅
D. The Romantic Age
Explanation: Dryden’s period (1660–1700) emphasized reason, order, and form — hence Age of Reason.
22. Who wrote “An Essay on Criticism”?
A. Addison
B. Pope ✅
C. Swift
D. Johnson
Explanation: Pope’s Essay on Criticism (1711) lays down neoclassical rules for poetic excellence.
23. The first professional English novelist was:
A. Defoe ✅
B. Fielding
C. Richardson
D. Smollett
Explanation: Defoe earned his living through writing fiction and journalism.
24. “Pamela” (1740) was written by:
A. Defoe
B. Fielding
C. Richardson ✅
D. Smollett
Explanation: Pamela by Samuel Richardson is an epistolary novel about virtue rewarded.
25. The first English dictionary was compiled by:
A. Samuel Johnson ✅
B. Pope
C. Swift
D. Addison
Explanation: A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) by Johnson standardized English spelling.
26. “Rasselas” is a work by:
A. Addison
B. Johnson ✅
C. Swift
D. Steele
Explanation: Johnson’s Rasselas (1759) is a moral fable discussing human happiness.
27. The term “Realism” in fiction is associated with:
A. 17th century
B. 18th century
C. 19th century ✅
D. 20th century
Explanation: 19th-century novelists like Eliot and Dickens depicted realistic social life.
28. The novel “David Copperfield” was written by:
A. George Eliot
B. Thomas Hardy
C. Charles Dickens ✅
D. Emily Brontë
Explanation: Dickens’ semi-autobiographical novel focuses on social injustice and growth.
29. “Vanity Fair” is a novel by:
A. Thackeray ✅
B. Dickens
C. Hardy
D. Eliot
Explanation: Thackeray’s Vanity Fair satirizes British society, subtitled “A Novel Without a Hero”.
30. The ‘Condition of England’ novels depict:
A. Colonialism
B. Industrial problems ✅
C. Love affairs
D. Religious faith
Explanation: Victorian writers like Dickens and Gaskell highlighted social injustice during industrialization.
31. “The Picture of Dorian Gray” deals with:
A. Beauty and morality ✅
B. Religion
C. Politics
D. War
Explanation: Wilde’s novel shows moral corruption behind physical beauty.
32. “Heart of Darkness” is written by:
A. Joseph Conrad ✅
B. Kipling
C. Forster
D. Hardy
Explanation: Conrad’s novella explores imperialism and psychological darkness in colonial Africa.
33. “Araby” and “Eveline” are short stories by:
A. Joyce ✅
B. Woolf
C. Lawrence
D. Mansfield
Explanation: Both are part of Dubliners (1914) portraying paralysis in Dublin life.
34. “Ulysses” is set in one day in:
A. London
B. Dublin ✅
C. Paris
D. Rome
Explanation: Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) takes place on June 16, 1904, in Dublin.
35. “The Second Coming” expresses:
A. Religious hope
B. Spiritual chaos ✅
C. Romantic love
D. Political satire
Explanation: Yeats’ poem reflects post-war disintegration and coming of a rough beast — symbol of chaos.
36. “Waiting for Godot” belongs to:
A. Realism
B. Existentialism ✅
C. Romanticism
D. Symbolism
Explanation: Beckett’s play shows meaninglessness and absurdity of human existence.
37. “The Importance of Being Earnest” is a:
A. Farce ✅
B. Tragedy
C. History play
D. Problem play
Explanation: Wilde’s witty comedy satirizes Victorian social hypocrisy.
38. “To the Lighthouse” is a novel by:
A. Katherine Mansfield
B. D.H. Lawrence
C. Virginia Woolf ✅
D. Joyce
Explanation: Woolf’s modernist novel uses stream of consciousness to explore time and memory.
39. “A Passage to India” is written by:
A. Forster ✅
B. Orwell
C. Lawrence
D. Conrad
Explanation: Forster’s novel examines colonial tensions and the East-West relationship.
40. “Animal Farm” is an allegory on:
A. Capitalism
B. Russian Revolution ✅
C. Industrialism
D. British Empire
Explanation: Orwell’s satire criticizes Soviet totalitarianism through farm animals.
41. “Brave New World” was written by:
A. Orwell
B. Aldous Huxley ✅
C. Golding
D. Forster
Explanation: Huxley’s dystopian novel warns against scientific control over human life.
42. “Lord of the Flies” symbolizes:
A. Human innocence
B. Civilization vs. savagery ✅
C. Religion
D. Modern technology
Explanation: Golding’s novel explores the dark side of human nature in isolated boys.
43. “Look Back in Anger” introduced:
A. Angry Young Men Movement ✅
B. Aesthetic Movement
C. Symbolism
D. Romanticism
Explanation: Osborne’s play (1956) voiced post-war youth frustration.
44. “The Movement Poets” belong to:
A. 1950s ✅
B. 1940s
C. 1930s
D. 1960s
Explanation: Poets like Larkin, Amis, and Gunn rejected modernist obscurity, favoring clarity.
45. “The Hollow Men” was written by:
A. Auden
B. Yeats
C. Eliot ✅
D. Pound
Explanation: Eliot’s poem portrays spiritual emptiness of modern civilization.
46. The phrase “objective correlative” is used by:
A. Pound
B. T.S. Eliot ✅
C. Joyce
D. Arnold
Explanation: Eliot described it as an external equivalent for inner emotion.
47. “Modernism” in literature began around:
A. 1820
B. 1880
C. 1900 ✅
D. 1950
Explanation: Around 1900–1930, modernists like Eliot, Joyce, and Woolf broke traditional forms.
48. The Restoration period was followed by:
A. Romantic Age
B. Augustan Age ✅
C. Victorian Age
D. Modern Age
Explanation: The Augustan Age (1700–1745) succeeded the Restoration, emphasizing reason and order.
49. “The Forsyte Saga” is written by:
A. Galsworthy ✅
B. Conrad
C. Hardy
D. Eliot
Explanation: Galsworthy’s series depicts upper-middle-class life and social change.
50. The Victorian period roughly spans:
A. 1700–1800
B. 1789–1837
C. 1837–1901 ✅
D. 1901–1945
Explanation: The reign of Queen Victoria marked this period of moral, social, and industrial development.
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