Top 50+ Solved Modern English Literature MCQ Questions Answer
Q. ‘This man had kept a school……’ Who is referred to here by W B Yeats?
a. patrick henry pearse
b. thomas macdonagh
c. major john macbride
d. maud gonne
Q. Ted Hughes was honoured with the Poet Laureateship in the year-------
a. 1989
b. 1984
c. 1979
d. 1978
Q. The opening lines of Journey of the Magi are a quotation from-----
a. lancelot andrewes's 1622 nativity sermon
b. the fly
c. cannonization
d. mathews
Q. ‘The black sailed ship’ metaphorically alludes to…………….
a. birth
b. death
c. resurrection
d. fall
Q. Name the theatre found by W. B Yeats?
a. globe theatre
b. abbey theatre
c. greek theatre
d. theatre of maud gonne
Q. The prototype of modern Angry Young Man in the play Look Back inAnger?
a. cliff
b. colonel redfurn
c. jimmy porter
d. john graham
Q. Name the German dramatist most associated with epic theatre?
a. eugene o'neill
b. bertolt brecht
c. benjamin fondane
d. elmer rice
Q. The term avant-garde literally means-------
a. advance-guard
b. carry on guards
c. cheers guards
d. come on guards
Q. The anthology New Lines was edited by-----------
a. catherine
b. robert brook
c. philip larkin
d. robert conquest
Q. Virginia Wolf belongs to the famous----------- group.
a. clapham group
b. bloomsbury group
c. feminist group
d. london group
Q. --------- is Sarah Woodruff’s alleged French lover.
a. varguennes
b. ernestina freeman
c. charles smithson
d. sam farrow
Q. An example of oxymoron in Easter 1916.
a. terrible beauty
b. horse-hoof slides
c. green is worn
d. vainglorious lout
Q. ‘He had done most bitter wrong’—To whom was the wrong done?
a. w.b yeats
b. thomas macdonagh
c. major john macbride
d. maud gonne
Q. ------ was the verse memoir for Plath written by Ted Hughes.
a. cave birds
b. birthday letters
c. river
d. moor town
Q. ‘Watching from a bluff the sparkling armada of ------draw near’
a. promises
b. faith
c. hope
d. trust