Top 50+ Solved Modern English Literature MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Harold Pinter’s plays are typical examples of comedy of …….
a. menace
b. manners
c. humours
d. life
Q. In Dumb Waiter Ben and Gus quarrel over the phrase-------
a. lighting the kettle
b. capitalist slavery
c. naked vulnerability
d. life’s burden
Q. In Easter 1916 Yeats commemorates -------in Dublin on 24 April 1916.
a. uprising
b. marriage party
c. battle
d. religious function
Q. Marchbanks is a character from G B Shaw’s play……….
a. pygmalion
b. arms and the man
c. candida
d. the irrational knot
Q. Expressionism originated in __________. a)France b)Germany c)Italy d)England25.Name the character mentioned as the mistress of Jimmy Porter.
a. helena charles
b. alison
c. madeline
d. lisa
Q. Sarah Woodruff enjoys an artistic, creative life in the house of ----------in thelast part of French Lieutenant’s Woman.
a. rosetti
b. rose
c. magnum
d. freeman
Q. The essay ‘How should One Read a Book’ appears in------
a. the common reader: second series
b. orlando: a biography .
c. mrs dollway
d. to the lighthouse
Q. The Magi are the three wise men from the east who travelled to-----
a. bethalhem
b. israel
c. jerusalem
d. rome
Q. The winged horse mentioned in the poem ‘Easter 1916’
a. pegasus
b. sleipinir
c. unicorn
d. hippocampus
Q. The autobiographical novel “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” isbeing written by__________.
a. d.h lawrence
b. thomas hardy
c. james augustine joyce
d. virginia woolf
Q. Who coined the word ‘Theatre of the Absurd’?
a. albert camus
b. franz kafka
c. martin eslin
d. robert
Q. According to Woolf the best way to understand a novel is to---------- whatwe have read
a. criticize
b. compare
c. write
d. analyse
Q. Name Joyce’s only collection of short stories
a. the dubliners
b. ulysses
c. the portrait
d. araby