All Free English Literature MCQs with Answers

• A. She was poor
• B. She was arrogant
• C. Because she was betrayed by the bridegroom
• D. She was unwilling to marry

Explanation: Miss Havisham was deceived and abandoned by Compeyson shortly before her wedding, which turns her against love and causes her to remain…

• A. Picaresque novel
• B. Gothic novel
• C. Domestic novel
• D. Historical novel

Explanation: Pride and Prejudice is a domestic novel because it focuses on family life, courtship, marriage, and social manners within the English…

• A. Pumblechook
• B. Herbert Pocket
• C. Bentley Drummle
• D. Jaggers

Explanation: Herbert Pocket becomes Pip’s close friend in London and helps him adjust to his new life as a gentleman.

• A. Mexico
• B. Italy
• C. France
• D. Germany

Explanation: Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory is set in Mexico during a period of anti-clerical persecution.

• A. Darcy
• B. Wickham
• C. William Collins
• D. Charles Bingley

Explanation: Lydia Bennet elopes with George Wickham, whose reckless behaviour creates a major crisis for the Bennet family.

• A. lawyer
• B. postman
• C. Judge
• D. School teacher

Explanation: Mr. Jaggers is the successful London lawyer who represents clients in criminal cases and manages Pip’s finances.

• A. Susan
• B. Jane
• C. Gertrude
• D. Emily

Explanation: Paul Morel’s mother in D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers is Gertrude Morel.

• A. 1600
• B. 1601
• C. 1602
• D. 1603

Explanation: John Shakespeare, William Shakespeare's father, died in 1601. This date belongs to Shakespeare's biography rather than to the plot or form…

• A. Sense and Sensibility
• B. Mansfield Park
• C. Sandition
• D. Persuasion

Explanation: Sanditon, spelled “Sandition” in the question, was left unfinished when Jane Austen died.

• A. 'Last Impressions'
• B. 'False Impressions'
• C. 'First Impressions'
• D. 'True Impressions'

Explanation: Austen’s early title for Pride and Prejudice was First Impressions, a title that suits the novel’s concern with mistaken judgments.

• A. An accident
• B. An overdose of morphia
• C. Suicide
• D. Pneumonia

Explanation: In Sons and Lovers, William Morel dies from pneumonia after becoming seriously ill.

• A. A teacher
• B. A clerk
• C. A thief
• D. A dentist

Explanation: Mr Tench is a dentist working in the impoverished Mexican setting of The Power and the Glory.

• A. The Inheritors
• B. Lord of the Flies
• C. Pincher Martin
• D. Pyramid

Explanation: Lord of the Flies, published in 1954, was William Golding’s first novel and brought him immediate recognition.

• A. Vanity Fair
• B. Middlemarch
• C. Wuthering Heights
• D. Oliver Twist

Explanation: William Makepeace Thackeray gave Vanity Fair the subtitle A Novel Without a Hero.

• A. Ralph and Jack
• B. Sam and Eric
• C. Ralph and Eric
• D. Simon and Jack

Explanation: Sam and Eric are the twin boys in Lord of the Flies, and Golding often presents them together as “Samneric.” Ralph, Jack, and Simon are…

• A. Catholicism
• B. Protestantism
• C. Paganism
• D. Buddhism

Explanation: Graham Greene's fiction is strongly shaped by Roman Catholic ideas, especially sin, guilt, faith, and moral choice.

• A. Great Expectations
• B. The Power and the Glory
• C. Lord of the Flies
• D. Pride and Prejudice

Explanation: Charlotte Lucas is Elizabeth Bennet’s practical friend in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; she accepts Mr Collins because she values…

• A. The White Peacock
• B. The Trespasser
• C. Sons and Lovers
• D. Women in Love

Explanation: *The White Peacock*, published in 1911, was D. H. Lawrence’s first novel.

• A. Elizabeth
• B. William
• C. Clerval
• D. Justine

Explanation: Elizabeth Lavenza is the final human victim directly killed by the monster in Frankenstein, on her wedding night.

• A. Captain Cooper
• B. Victor Frankenstein
• C. Captain Robert Walton
• D. Sergent Thomas Vincent

Explanation: The frame narrative begins with Captain Robert Walton’s letters to his sister, Margaret Saville, describing his Arctic expedition.