Deck 2: Literary Trivia: Novels, Poems, and Authors

Question 1

Which one is Gaskell's first novel?

A)cranford
B)north and south
C)ruth
D)mary barton

Answer 1

mary barton

Question 2

George Eliot was the pen name of…………..

A)mary anne evans
B)christina rossetti
C)mary shelly
D)elizabeth

Answer 2

mary anne evans

Question 3

Which one is the unfinished novel of Charles Dickens?

A)hard times
B)pickwick papers
C)edwin drood
D)great expectations

Answer 3

edwin drood

Question 4

Oscar Wild's 'Woman of No Importance' appears in……………

A)1877
B)1888
C)1893
D)1875

Question 5

Who was the leader of Pre- Raphaelite group of artists in England?

A)robert browning
B)d g rossetti
C)william wordsworth
D)robert southey

Question 6

Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne of England after

A)william iv
B)george iii
C)george iv
D)edward vii

Question 7

Who is the author of " Aurora Leigh"?

A)jane austen
B)elizabeth barret browning
C)tennyson
D)george eliot

Question 8

Maud is a poem written by

A)browning
B)wordsworth
C)tennyson
D)coleridge

Question 9

The verse novel of Elizabeth Barret Browning

A)pride and prejudice
B)wuthering heights
C)jane eyre
D)aurora leigh

Question 10

The song of the Lotus is a poem by………

A)browning
B)thomas hardy
C)d g rossetti
D)tennyson

Question 11

In " In Memorium" Tennyson mourns the death of ……….

A)arthur hallam
B)william wordsworth
C)shelly
D)browning

Question 12

Who is the author of " Blessed Damozel?

A)d g rossetti
B)william thackeray
C)tennyson
D)browning

Question 13

The title of the "Vanity Fair" has been taken from

A)bible
B)paradise lost
C)pilgrim progress
D)canterbury tales

Question 14

In which year was the Origin of the Species" published?

A)1876
B)1859
C)1888
D)1890

Question 15

, Name the first volume of Robert Browning's poems

A)paracelsus
B)incondita
C)sordello
D)bells and pomergranates

Question 16

……………..is a historical tragedy in blank verse by Browning

A)pippa passes
B)a blot in scutchion
C)a soul's tragedy
D)strafford 1837

Question 17

The first important poem of Robert Browning

A)my last duchess
B)fra lippo lippi
C)paracelus
D)memorabila

Question 18

To which well-known family does Fra Lippo Lippi's patron belong?

A)the medicis
B)the borgias
C)the buonapartes
D)the urbinatis

Question 19

What kind of of art does Fra Lippo Lippi produce?

A)abstract art
B)nebulous art
C)landscapes
D)portraits of real people

Question 20

" Fra Lippo Lippi" appeared in the 1855 collection…………

A)sordello
B)incondita
C)men and women
D)bells and pomegranates

Question 21

…………….poem is Browning's timeless respect for Shelly

A)a death in the desert
B)the ring and the books
C)fra lippo lippi
D)memorabilia

Question 22

The verse novel of Robert Browning based on an Italian Murder trial in the seventeenth century.

A)memorabilia
B)the ring and the books
C)men and women
D)paracelsus

Question 23

The German philosopher who influenced the Romantic movement

A)althusser
B)carl marx
C)immanuel kant
D)hegel

Question 24

The book that marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement

A)biographia literaria
B)lyrical ballads
C)men and women
D)the prelude

Question 25

Who was known as the 'grand old Man of the English letters'?

A)william shakespeare
B)thomas hardy
C)coleridge
D)william wordsworth