List of top English Questions on History of English and Indian Literatures

Match the Text (List-I) to the Genre/Type:

List I	Name of the Text	List II: Genre/Type
A	Paradise Lost	(I) Dramatic Monologue
B	Porphyria's Lover	(II) Satire
C	King Lear	(III) Epic
D	The Dunciad	(IV) Tragedy

Arrange these Comedies of William Shakespeare in their chronological order (oldest first)
1.The Tempest
2. As You Like It
3. The Taming of the Shrew
4. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Identify the text that employs the allegorical mode:

What is the common characteristic shared by the following texts? Pamela, The Castle of Otranto, Humphry Clinker

The picaresque novel is characterized by the adventures and travels of a roguish but appealing character. Which of the following texts can be cited as an example of the picaresque novel?
(A) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
(B) Tom Jones (1749)
(C) Don Quixote (1605)
(D) Moll Flanders (1722)

Place the famous fictional detectives in the order of their first literary appearance (oldest first):
(A) Byomkesh Bakshi
(B) Sherlock Holmes
(C) Hercule Poirot
(D) Dupin

Identify the author who is said to have produced the first bestseller in Hindi:

Arrange the following Gothic novels in ascending chronological order (oldest first):
(A) Bram Stoker’s Dracula
(B) Matthew Lewis’s The Monk
(C) Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho
(D) Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto

The first Progressive Writers’ Conference was held in Lucknow on this date.
Identify the date:

Identify the writer(s) associated with the Harlem Renaissance:
(A) Claude McKay
(B) Zora Neale Hurston
(C) W.E.B. Du Bois
(D) Langston Hughes

Arrange the Shakespearean tragedies in the ascending order of the period in which they were published (oldest first):
(A) Julius Caesar
(B) Coriolanus
(C) Othello
(D) Titus Andronicus

Which of the following D.H. Lawrence’s novels written in Italy and published in 1928 was banned in England for its sexual content?

Match the book (List I) with its author (List II):

List I (Book)	List II (Author)
A. My Antonia	I. Mary Shelley
B. The Garden Party and Other Stories	II. Katherine Mansfield
C. Frankenstein	III. James Joyce
D. Dubliners	IV. Willa Cather

Arrange the following events in the order of their occurrence in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre:
(A) Jane meets Mr. Rochester.
(B) Jane’s studies at Lowood School.
(C) Mr. Briggs, a solicitor from London, arrives with a letter from Richard Mason about Bertha Mason.
(D) Jane takes up the role of governess for Misses Abbot and Bessie Lee.

Match the Jane Austen novels (List I) with their primary female character (List II):

List I (Jane Austen Novels)	List II (Primary Female Character)
A. Pride and Prejudice	I. Catherine Morland
B. Persuasion	IV. Anne Elliot
C. Northanger Abbey	I. Catherine Morland
D. Mansfield Park	III. Fanny Price

Which of the following works is attributed to Ben Jonson?
(A) To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author Mr. William Shakespeare: And What He Hath Left
(B) The Changeling
(C) The Sun Rising
(D) The Duchess of Malfi

Which of the following is a part of Anthony Burgess’ Malayan trilogy?
(A) A Clockwork Orange
(B) Time for a Tiger
(C) The Enemy in the Blanket
(D) Beds in the East

Write a note on the Indian English.

Write a note on English as a world language.

Write a note on Modern English.

What has made English 'the most gloriously, empire language'?

What did the 18th century grammarians share with the Age?