All Free English Literature MCQs with Answers

• A. English novelist
• B. American Novelist
• C. Irish novelist
• D. French Novelist

Explanation: Émile Zola was a French novelist and the leading theorist of literary naturalism.

• A. Thomas More
• B. George Orwell
• C. Boris Pasternak
• D. Charles Dickens

Explanation: George Orwell wrote “Animal Farm,” a political allegorical novella that uses a farm rebellion to criticise the corruption of revolutionary…

• A. O' Henry
• B. R L Stevenson
• C. Ernest Hemingway
• D. Sir Walter Scott

Explanation: *Ivanhoe*, sometimes misspelled in the question as “Ivan Hoe,” is the historical novel written by Sir Walter Scott.

• A. Sons and Lovers
• B. Lady Chatterley's Lover
• C. Women in Love
• D. The Rainbow

Explanation: The government banned Lawrence’s *Lady Chatterley’s Lover* because of its explicit sexual content and language; the ban became a famous…

• A. H.G. Wells
• B. Blackmore
• C. T. S. Eliot
• D. Jane Austen

Explanation: R. D. Blackmore wrote the historical romance Lorna Doone, published in 1869. H. G.

• A. Francis Bacon
• B. Jane Austen
• C. Jonathan Swift
• D. None

Explanation: Love and Friendship is a humorous early short work by Jane Austen, written around 1790 when she was still a teenager.

• A. Oscar Wild
• B. Hardy
• C. George Eliot
• D. None of these

Explanation: Oscar Wilde wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel, which explores aestheticism, moral corruption, and the desire for eternal…

• A. Hardy
• B. Eliot
• C. Oscar Wilde
• D. Dickens

Explanation: The question’s “Little Neil” refers to Little Nell, the young heroine of Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop.

• A. A Passage to India
• B. Paradise Lost
• C. Hamlet
• D. Doctor Faustus

Explanation: Adela Quested is one of the central characters in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India.

• A. Charles Lamb
• B. Jane Austen
• C. William Hazlitt
• D. Oliver Goldsmith

Explanation: Jane Austen is called an anti-romantic novelist because her novels subject romantic idealism to irony, social observation, and practical…

• A. the first half of 19th century
• B. the first half of 18th century
• C. the 2nd half of 18th century
• D. 19th century

Explanation: Henry Fielding published *The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling* in 1749, which falls in the first half of the eighteenth century.

• A. Adam Bede
• B. Middle March
• C. The Mill on the Floss
• D. Silas Morner

Explanation: Maggie Tulliver is the passionate and tragic central character of George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss.

• A. Emily Bronte
• B. Charlotte Bronte
• C. Anne Bronte
• D. Jane Austen

Explanation: Charlotte Brontë wrote “The Professor,” which was her first completed novel, although it was published posthumously.

• A. J. R. R. Tolkien
• B. Peter Jackson
• C. C. S. Lewis
• D. J. K. Rowling

Explanation: J. R. R. Tolkien wrote “The Lord of the Rings,” a high-fantasy novel presented in three volumes.

• A. Jane Austen
• B. Charlotte Bronte
• C. George Eliot
• D. Joseph Conrad

Explanation: Mary Anne Evans used the pen name George Eliot, under which she wrote major Victorian novels such as “Middlemarch” and “Silas Marner.” The…

• A. Sense and Sensibility
• B. Emma
• C. Persuasion
• D. All of these

Explanation: Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Persuasion are all novels by Jane Austen.

• A. stream of consciousness
• B. psycho-analysis
• C. Objective Co-relative
• D. Symbolism and Mysticism

Explanation: James Joyce is strongly associated with stream of consciousness, a technique that presents the continuous flow of a character’s thoughts…

• A. Mario Puzo
• B. Francis Ford Coppola
• C. Marlon Brando
• D. Mark Winegardner

Explanation: Mario Puzo wrote the novel The Godfather, published in 1969. Francis Ford Coppola directed its famous film adaptation, while Marlon Brando…

• A. Friendship and benevolence
• B. Bitterness and revenge
• C. Hatred and jealousy
• D. None of these

Explanation: In Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Houyhnhnms regard friendship and benevolence as important virtues and live according to reason.

• A. Play
• B. Novel
• C. Poem
• D. none of these

Explanation: Adam Bede is George Eliot’s first novel, published in 1859, and centres on the lives and moral choices of people in a rural English…