Free Prose and Essayists MCQs with Answers

• A. Byron
• B. Shelley
• C. Coleridge
• D. Lamb

Explanation: Biographia Literaria is Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s major work of literary criticism and autobiography, published in 1817.

• A. The Stones of Venice
• B. The Two Paths
• C. The Seven Lamps of Architecture
• D. Modem Painters

Explanation: Modern Painters began as Ruskin’s defence of J. M. W. Turner and other contemporary landscape painters against hostile criticism.

• A. six lectures
• B. five lectures
• C. four lectures
• D. seven lectures

Explanation: Carlyle’s On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History developed from a series of five lectures delivered in 1840.

• A. 1823
• B. 1826
• C. 1834
• D. 1833

Explanation: The first Essays of Elia appeared in 1823, while the second series, published as The Last Essays of Elia, appeared in 1833.

• A. Graham Greene
• B. D. H. Lawrence
• C. Charles Dickens
• D. Jane Austen

Explanation: The statement reflects D. H. Lawrence’s emphasis on instinct, the body and emotional experience over purely intellectual reasoning.

• A. Kubla Khan
• B. Christabel
• C. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• D. Biographia Literaria

Explanation: Biographia Literaria is Coleridge’s major prose work, combining autobiography, literary criticism, and philosophical discussion.

• A. Charles Lamb
• B. John Keats
• C. Shelley
• D. William Wordsworth

Explanation: Coleridge became a close friend of Charles Lamb while both were pupils at Christ’s Hospital, known as the Bluecoat School.

• A. The Romantic Philosophy
• B. The Spectator
• C. The Explicator
• D. The Watchman

Explanation: The Watchman was Coleridge’s short-lived political and literary journal, published in 1796.

• A. "Christian Doctrines"
• B. "On Regicide"
• C. "The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce"
• D. "Paradise Lost"

Explanation: Milton defended the legitimacy of divorce in The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce after his separation from Mary Powell and the social…

• A. Samuel Johnson
• B. Edmund Spencer
• C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• D. T. S. Eliot

Explanation: Samuel Johnson wrote “Milton,” one of the biographical essays in his Lives of the Poets.

• A. Pastoral elegy
• B. Prose polemic
• C. Blank verse tragedy
• D. Masque

Explanation: Areopagitica is Milton's prose polemic against licensing and pre-publication censorship, published in 1644.

• A. the king
• B. the House of Lords
• C. popular election
• D. God

Explanation: Milton supported republican government and held that political authority should derive from the people rather than hereditary monarchy or…

• A. "Paradise Lost"
• B. "Samson Agonistes"
• C. "Areopagitica"
• D. "Paradise Regained"

Explanation: Areopagitica is Milton's prose polemic against licensing and censorship, published in 1644.

• A. 1628
• B. 1649
• C. 1645
• D. 1637

Explanation: Milton published The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates in 1649, after the execution of Charles I.

• A. Edmund Spencer
• B. John Donne
• C. Sir Philip Sidney
• D. John Milton

Explanation: Fulke Greville wrote The Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney, an important early biography of Sidney.

• A. Thomas More
• B. Thomas lodge
• C. Ralph Robinson
• D. William Tyndale

Explanation: Ralph Robinson produced the first English translation of Thomas More’s Utopia in 1551.

• A. William Caxton
• B. Robert Henry
• C. John Lyly
• D. Thomas more

Explanation: William Caxton, England’s first printer, was born around 1422. His printing of English literary works helped establish the development of…

• A. John Donne
• B. John Milton
• C. Earnest Hemingway
• D. Lawrence

Explanation: These lines come from John Donne’s prose work Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, specifically Meditation XVII.

• A. Letters to the Margret Paston
• B. Margret Paston to John Paston
• C. The Paston letters
• D. To John Paston

Explanation: The Paston Letters are a collection of private correspondence from the Paston family of Norfolk, covering family, social, political, and…

• A. Wyclif
• B. Thomas more
• C. John Lyly
• D. Robert Greene

Explanation: John Wyclif is traditionally credited with the first complete English Bible translation, produced in the late fourteenth century by his…