All Free English Literature MCQs with Answers

• A. a diary
• B. a biography
• C. an autobiography
• D. a chronicle

Explanation: An autobiography is a person’s written account of their own life, whereas a biography is written by someone else.

• A. assistant
• B. director
• C. writer
• D. Editor e... none of these

Explanation: T. S. Eliot worked at Faber and Faber as an editor, helping select, prepare, and publish literary works; he later became a director of the…

• A. 1795
• B. 1807
• C. 1823
• D. 1829

Explanation: The Essays of Elia was first collected and published in book form in 1823, although many of the essays had appeared earlier in the London…

• A. Anthony Mascarenhas
• B. Amartya Sen
• C. Kuldip Nayer
• D. Nelson Mandela

Explanation: Kuldip Nayar wrote The Judgment: The Inside Story of the Emergency in India, a political account of India's 1975–77 Emergency.

• A. Ruskin
• B. J.S.Mill
• C. C. Lamb
• D. Russell

Explanation: John Ruskin wrote The Crown of Wild Olive, a collection of lectures and essays on work, war, and social justice. J. S.

• A. 1998
• B. 1997
• C. 1999
• D. 2000

Explanation: Günter Grass received the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, chiefly for his imaginative treatment of Germany’s historical and political…

• A. John Ruskin
• B. Carlyle
• C. Bacon
• D. Lamb

Explanation: Sartor Resartus, meaning “The Tailor Retailored,” is a philosophical prose work by Thomas Carlyle.

• A. a loving wife
• B. a snobbish wife
• C. a hypocritical wife
• D. a sacrificing wife

Explanation: Della sacrifices her beautiful hair to buy a chain for Jim’s watch, so her defining quality is self-sacrificing love.

• A. The Seven Lamps
• B. Unto this Last
• C. The Stones of Venice
• D. None of these

Explanation: In “Unto This Last,” Ruskin discusses political economy, labour, wealth, and social justice, making it his clearest work on social…

• A. Columbia University
• B. Yale University
• C. New York University
• D. Harvard University

Explanation: Columbia University administers the Pulitzer Prizes through the Pulitzer Prize Board and announces the awards.

• A. Shakespeare
• B. Emerson
• C. Gladstone
• D. Disraeli

Explanation: The saying is commonly attributed to William Ewart Gladstone, the British statesman.

• A. Persian
• B. English
• C. French
• D. Italy

Explanation: Firdausi, or Ferdowsi, was the great Persian epic poet who wrote the Shahnameh, or Book of Kings.

• A. Ghandhi
• B. Nehru
• C. Jinnah
• D. Abul Kalam Azad

Explanation: *India Wins Freedom* is Maulana Abul Kalam Azad's autobiographical account of India's struggle for independence and the events surrounding…

• A. Ruskin
• B. Lamb
• C. Mill
• D. Oscar Wilde

Explanation: On Liberty is John Stuart Mill's major political-philosophical essay, defending individual freedom against unnecessary social or state…

• A. Irish
• B. Scottish
• C. French
• D. English

Explanation: Oscar Wilde was Irish, born in Dublin in 1854, although he spent much of his literary career in England.

• A. The Time's Literary Supplement
• B. The Lady's Home Journal
• C. Strand Magazine
• D. Reader Magazine

Explanation: Virginia Woolf began contributing to The Times Literary Supplement in 1905, an important early stage in her literary journalism.

• A. Carlyle
• B. Macaulay
• C. Godwin
• D. Mill

Explanation: John Stuart Mill wrote On Liberty, published in 1859, defending individual freedom against excessive social and political control.

• A. William Hazlitt
• B. Emily Dickinson
• C. Emily Bronte
• D. Charles Lamb

Explanation: Essays of Elia is Charles Lamb’s celebrated collection of personal and imaginative essays, published under the persona of Elia.

• A. Thomas Gray
• B. William Shakespeare
• C. George Bernard Shaw
• D. Thomas More

Explanation: Thomas More wrote Utopia, a work describing an imagined ideal commonwealth and using it to criticise the society of his own time.

• A. Jonathan Swift
• B. Samuel Johnson
• C. Oliver 'Goldsmith
• D. None of these

Explanation: Jonathan Swift wrote The Conduct of the Allies (1711), a political pamphlet attacking the continuation of the War of the Spanish…