PGT English Mock Test 25

1. The Way of the World and Love for Love are from the pen of:

2. The writer of She Stoops to Conquer is:

3. The School for Scandal is from the pen of:

4. Who applied the term "Romantic" to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830?

5. Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth's claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"?

6. What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to "Peddlers,' and 'Boats,' and 'Wagons!"?

7. Wycliffe's translation of the Bible appeared in-

8. The reign of Queen Elizabeth stretches from-

9. Who wrote the elegy "O Captain! My Captain!" on the death of President Abraham Lincoln?

10. Who is known as the "translator" of the Ossian cycle of epic poems?

11. Sir Walter Scott was a-

12. Who is known for the prose satire Gulliver's Travels or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships (1726)?

13. A Tale of a Tub (1704) and The Battle of the Books (1704) are the popular books of-

14. What figure of speech has been used in the following lines? (TGT-03) "Even thus last night, and now might more, I lay and could win thee, sleep! By and stealth"

15. Which one of the following terms is often called for the England's national poet, William Shakespeare?

16. Who wrote the celebrated book Shakespearean Tragedy? (PGT-10)

17. When was John Milton born? (TGT-2011)

18. Where was John Milton born? (TGT- 2011)

19. In whose memory did John Milton write "Methought I saw my late espoused saint"?

20. When was Paradise Lost published? (TGT- 2011, 2013)

21. In which of the following works did Milton promote freedom of speech and oppose licensing and censorship? (TGT-2011)

22. Which poem begins hold your tongue"? with the line "For God sake

23. Which poem ends with the following lines ? "O'er rough and smooth she trips along. And never looks behind; And sings a solitary song That whistles in the wind."

24. Which poem of Wordsworth is some- times considered as an introduction to his longest poem The Recluse?

25. Which poem of Wordsworth has the sub-title "The Growth of a Poet's Mind" ?

26. The Prelude is divided into books.

27. The first edition of Wordsworth's longest poem The Excursion came out in the year

28. Who said, "The Prelude has a large measure of poetic unity because it has a single hero-the poet himself?"

29. Who is generally known as the hero of Wordsworth's poem The Prelude ?

30. The Rape of the Lock was first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (May 1712) in-

31. A revised edition of The Rape of the Lock was published in March 1714 as a accompanied by six engravings.

32. The final form of the poem The Rape of the Lock appeared in 1717 with the addition of Clarissa's speech on

33. What are the main features of the poem?

34. Which school of poetry does the poem belong to?

35. "Little we see in nature that is ours" is a line from: (TGT-2016)

36. For whom did William Wordsworth speak in his famous line, "Thy soul we like a star, and dwelt apart"? (TGT-2016)

37. When was the poem 'The Reverie of Poor Susan' written by Wordsworth?

38. Name the friend and admirer of William Wordsworth, who left a legacy of £ 900 for him (Wordsworth):

39. The following lines has been taken from - "To me that cup of life has been dealt in another measure."

40. Which Ode of Keats is incomplete?

41. On whose tomb stone are these words engraved (as Epitaph): "Here lies one Whose name was writ in Water?" (PGT-02)

42. Who wrote the poem The Defence of Lucknow? (P- 04)

43. Who wrote the poem The Lady of Shalott? (PGT-04)

44. 'My Last Duchess' is published in the book:

45. The following line is taken from - "We mortal millions live alone"

46. Who congratulated Matthew Arnold as being "the only living Englishman who had become a classic in his own life time"?

47. From which poem of Yeats are these lines taken? My fiftieth year had come and gone, I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top

48. From which poem of Yeats are these lines taken? For wisdom is the property of the dead, A something incompatible with life; and power, Like everything that has the stain of blood, I property of the living;

49. Which of the following is the first poem of Eliot's first published volume of verse?

50. In which episode of The Prelude, the following lines appear ? "It was an act of stealth And troubled pleasure."