All Free English Literature MCQs with Answers

• A. St Paul's
• B. Christ's Hospital
• C. Merchant Taylors'
• D. Westminster

Explanation: Milton attended St Paul’s School in London before entering Christ’s College, Cambridge.

• A. 48
• B. 34
• C. 22
• D. 17

Explanation: Milton was 34 and Mary Powell was 17 when they married in 1642. Their brief and troubled marriage later became relevant to Milton’s…

• A. 22 April 1600
• B. 19 August 1604
• C. 6 June 1606
• D. 9 December 1608

Explanation: John Milton was born on 9 December 1608 in London. He became one of the major English poets of the seventeenth century, best known for…

• A. Space used to mean "outer space"
• B. Unaccountable
• C. Pandemonium
• D. Blatant

Explanation: Milton is credited with introducing or popularising “space” in the sense of outer space, “unaccountable,” and “Pandemonium.” “Blatant” was…

• A. Pembroke College
• B. Trinity College
• C. Christ's College
• D. St. Xavier's College

Explanation: Milton entered Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1625 and studied there until 1632.

• A. 4 February 1702
• B. 2 June 1700
• C. 17 April 1688
• D. 8 November 1674

Explanation: John Milton died on 8 November 1674 in London, aged 65. His death occurred several years after the publication of Paradise Regained and…

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

Explanation: Milton’s 1638–39 continental tour was mainly an Italian journey, during which he visited cities including Florence, Rome, and Naples.

• A. 2
• B. 0
• C. 1
• D. 3

Explanation: Milton married three times: to Mary Powell, Katherine Woodcock, and Elizabeth Minshull.

• A. Blank verse
• B. The sonnet
• C. Trochaic Heptameter
• D. Free-flow verse

Explanation: Marlowe helped establish dramatic blank verse, which is unrhymed iambic pentameter, as the powerful verse form of Elizabethan drama.

• A. The Castle of Perseverance
• B. The Double
• C. The Metamorphoses
• D. The Faerie Queene

Explanation: Edmund Spenser wrote The Faerie Queene, an unfinished allegorical epic celebrating virtue and Elizabeth I.

• A. The Earl of Leicester
• B. Elizabeth
• C. Lord Burleigh
• D. Francis Bacon

Explanation: The Earl of Leicester was an important patron of Edmund Spenser and helped him gain a place at Elizabeth I's court.

• A. Tennyson
• B. Elizabeth Barret Browning
• C. D. G. Rossetti
• D. Christina Rossetti

Explanation: Aurora Leigh is a verse novel by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, combining narrative poetry with reflections on art, gender, and society.

• A. Arabian Nights
• B. Canterbury Tales
• C. Shah Namah
• D. Pilgrims Progress

Explanation: Arnold adapted the episode of Sohrab and Rustum from the Shahnameh, the Persian epic traditionally attributed to Ferdowsi.

• A. the grueling working conditions for women in textile factories
• B. the debate on women's suffrage
• C. the need to enlarge and improve educational opportunities for women, resulting in the establishment of the first women's college in London
• D. the question of monarchical succession and if a woman should hold royal power

Explanation: The Princess engages with the Victorian debate over women's education and helped reflect the movement that led to institutions such as…

• A. Coleridge
• B. Eliot
• C. Tennyson
• D. Keats

Explanation: The poem usually known as The Lotus-Eaters, sometimes listed under the related title The Song of the Lotus, is by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

• A. In Memorium
• B. 1st September
• C. Ultima Ratio Regum
• D. The Charge of the Light Bridge

Explanation: Tennyson's The Charge of the Light Brigade commemorates the disastrous cavalry charge at Balaclava during the Crimean War.

• A. women's rights and suffrage
• B. child labor
• C. Chartism
• D. the prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of her fellow Victorians

Explanation: The Cry of the Children exposes the suffering of children forced to work in mines and factories during the Industrial Age.

• A. D.G Rossetti
• B. Tennyson
• C. Robert Browning
• D. George Eliot

Explanation: Alfred, Lord Tennyson succeeded William Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in 1850. Tennyson held the position until his death in 1892.

• A. Pope
• B. Tennyson
• C. Swineburne
• D. Byron

Explanation: Maud is a dramatic monologue in verse by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published in 1855.

• A. crop; scabbard; foot; agree
• B. throne; scepter; soul; decree
• C. school; scalpel; pen; set free
• D. hearth; needle; heart; obey

Explanation: Tennyson's gender-role contrast is “Man for the field and woman for the hearth,” followed by “Man for the sword and for the needle she,”…