All Free English Literature MCQs with Answers

• A. Laodamia
• B. The Prelude
• C. Guide to the Lakes
• D. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

Explanation: The Prelude is generally regarded as Wordsworth’s magnum opus, an autobiographical poem tracing the growth of his poetic mind.

• A. 12 January 1842
• B. 7 June 1849
• C. 3 November 1852
• D. 23 April 1850

Explanation: Wordsworth died on 23 April 1850 at Rydal Mount and was buried at Grasmere.

• A. Anna Wordsworth
• B. Agnes Wordsworth
• C. Shirley Wordsworth
• D. Dorothy Wordsworth

Explanation: Dorothy Wordsworth was William’s sister and an important diarist whose journals record their shared life and poetic surroundings.

• A. Lot
• B. Belial
• C. Satan
• D. Moses

Explanation: The lines describe Belial in Paradise Lost, whose dignified appearance and impressive speech conceal moral emptiness.

• A. Adam and Eve
• B. Noah and the elephant
• C. Rebel angels
• D. Benjamin and Joseph

Explanation: The fallen rebel angels throw themselves headlong from Heaven after their defeat in Paradise Lost.

• A. Satan's associates
• B. Satan
• C. Adam
• D. Eve

Explanation: The phrase refers to Satan’s associates, the fallen angels who wander after their expulsion from Heaven.

• A. Paradise Found
• B. Paradise Lost Twice
• C. Paradise Regained
• D. Paradise Lost Again

Explanation: John Milton’s Paradise Regained is the sequel to Paradise Lost. It presents Christ’s temptation in the wilderness, contrasting with the…

• A. Adam
• B. Eve
• C. Satan
• D. Snake

Explanation: Eve eats the forbidden fruit first after being tempted by Satan in the form of a serpent; Adam eats later because he chooses to share her…

• A. Book VII
• B. Book III
• C. Book VIII
• D. Book V

Explanation: Book VII is the shortest book of Paradise Lost. It contains Raphael’s continuation of the account of creation, including the making of the…

• A. The forbidden fruit
• B. The capital of Heaven
• C. A beautiful garden
• D. The capital of Hell

Explanation: Pandemonium is the magnificent palace and capital of Hell, built by Satan’s fallen angels.

• A. Nine
• B. Twelve
• C. Eighteen
• D. Fourteen

Explanation: Paradise Lost is divided into twelve books in its final form, modelled partly on the structure of Virgil’s Aeneid.

• A. Go in search of her mate
• B. Talk to the animals
• C. Look at her reflection in a stream
• D. Eat of the Tree of Knowledge

Explanation: When Eve first becomes conscious, she sees her reflection in a stream and is drawn toward it before being led to Adam.

• A. Abdiel
• B. Uriel
• C. Michael
• D. Raphael

Explanation: Abdiel is praised for remaining faithful when the other angels follow Satan.

• A. God
• B. Eve
• C. Raphael
• D. Michael

Explanation: Raphael visits Adam in Paradise and explains the rebellion in Heaven, the war between the angels, and Milton’s cosmological ideas.

• A. The fight between good and evil
• B. Heaven's battle and Satan's tragic fall
• C. The creation of the universe
• D. Adam and Eve's disobedience

Explanation: Milton states the subject as “Man’s first disobedience,” meaning Adam and Eve’s violation of God’s command and the resulting Fall.

• A. One
• B. Two
• C. Three
• D. Four

Explanation: Milton invokes the heavenly Muse three times, chiefly in Books I, III, and VII.

• A. It was created before God the Son
• B. Earth hangs from Heaven by a chain
• C. The Earth is a lotus flower
• D. The Earth revolves around the sun

Explanation: Paradise Lost presents the earth as a pendant world suspended from Heaven by a golden chain.

• A. Raphael
• B. Uriel
• C. Michael
• D. None of the above

Explanation: Michael narrates future human history to Adam in Books XI and XII, including the consequences of the Fall and the eventual hope of…

• A. Michael
• B. Abdiel
• C. Uriel
• D. Satan is not injured

Explanation: Michael, the chief archangel, fights Satan with a powerful sword and wounds him during the heavenly battle.

• A. To assert his superiority to other poets
• B. To argue against the doctrine of predestination
• C. To justify the ways of God to men
• D. To make his story hard to understand

Explanation: Milton states his epic purpose in the opening lines: he will “justify the ways of God to men.” This means explaining divine justice in…