Top 550+ Solved Social and Cultural History of Britain MCQ Questions Answer
Q. ……………….. wrote ‘The French Revolution: A History’,
a. thomas carlyle
b. edward gibbon
c. austen
d. toynbee
Q. Who wrote ‘The History of the Decline and fall of the Roman Empire’?
a. edward gibbon
b. thomas carlyle
c. toynbee
d. churchill
Q. ………'s longest poem, THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES, appeared in 1749.
a. johnson
b. wordsworth
c. t. s. eliot
d. coleridge
Q. Who wrote 'Lyrical Ballads' with Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1798?
a. william wordsworth
b. t. s. eliot
c. bunyan
d. austen
Q. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a famous poem of ……………..
a. samuel taylor coleridge
b. dr. samuel johnson
c. t. s. eliot
d. austen
Q. The Black Death was …….
a. a literary intellectual movement
b. a social movement.
c. the terrible plague bringing poverty and unrest.
d. a revolt against edward iii.
Q. Chaucer’s The Romaunt of the Rose is
a. a ballad
b. a lengthy allegorical poem
c. a satire on society.
d. an ode on transition.
Q. Troilus and Criseyde is Chaucer’s long poem adopted from …….
a. lazamon
b. dan michel
c. annonymous
d. boccaccio
Q. Chaucer’s poem ‘The House of Fame’ is written in …….
a. lambic pentameter
b. octosyllabic couplet
c. free verse
d. blank verse
Q. Chaucer’s first attempt in English to use the heroic couplet occurs in which of the followingpoems.
a. prologue to the canterbury tales
b. tale of melibeus
c. the legend of good women
d. the lack of steadfastness
Q. The pilgrims in Chaucer’s Prologue to the Canterbury Tales go on a pilgrimage to the tomb of……..
a. st. john francis
b. st. nicholas
c. st. thomas a becket
d. st. joseph
Q. Chaucer virtually imported the decasyllabic lines in his poetry from ………
a. france
b. italy
c. greece
d. ireland