gk practise paper 8

Q-1 Who said “God made the country, man made town” -
(a) William Wordsworth (b) William Blake
(c) William Shakespeare (d) William Cowper
Q-2 ‘A tale of two cities’ is a famous novel of
(a) Thomas Hardy (b) Charles Dickens
(c) Jane Austen (d) William Cowper
Q-3 Which poem is the swan song of Keats
(a) Lamia (b) Ode to Autumn
(c) Hyperion (d) Endymion
Q-4 Who is the author of the Poem ‘A nation’s strength’
(a) M. Longfellow (b) Aurobindo Ghosh
(c) Sarojini Naidu (d) Emerson
Q-5 The hero of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is -
(a) Collins (b) Bingley
(c) Wickham (d) Darcy
Q-6 How many vowels has English language -
(a) 3 (b) 5
(c) 11 (d) 11
Q-7 Maximum poems in English are written by
(a) Lord Byron (b) Wordsworth
(c) Robert Frost (d) Shakespeare
Q-8 Name the writer of ‘Letter from the Father to a Daughter’ -
(a) Sardar Patel (b) Gandhi
(c) J. L. Nehru (d) Khushwant Singh
Q-9 The author “Arms & the man” is
(a) Shakespeare (b) Charles Dickens
(c) Jane Austen (d) G. B. Shaw


Q-10 Which English Dictionary is the most popular one
(a) Concise Oxford Dictionary (b) Oxford Dictionary
(c) Cambridge Dictionary (d) none
Q-11 ‘The light of Asia’ is a popular book of
(a) Edwin Arnold (b) Stephen Spender
(c) Robert Bridges (d) W.B Yeats
Q-12 Who is known as ‘Fancy’s Child’-
(a) Shakespeare (b) Browning
(c) W. B. Yeats (d) Lord Byron
Q-13 Which is the script of English language
(a) German (b) French
(c) Roman (d) Italian
Q-14 How many plays did Shakespeare compose
(a) Thirty six (b) Thirty four
(c) Forty seven (d) Thirty seven
Q-15 Who is popularly known as ;Swan of Avon’
(a) John Milton (b) William Shakespeare
(c) William Wordsworth (d) John Keats
Q-16 Which character of Shakespeare speaks ‘frailty thy name is woman’
(a) Hamlet in ‘Hamlet’ (b) Cordelia in ‘as you like it ‘
(c) Portia in ‘Julius Caesar’ (d) Desdemona in ‘Othello’
Q-17 The auther of ‘Othello’ ‘Macbeth’ ‘Hamlet’ and’ king lear’ is
(a) Raja Rao (b) C.V. Raman
(c) Shakespeare (d) Kipling
Q-18 Shylock of ‘ the merchant of venlce’ is
(a) A Christian (b) A Muslim
(b) A Jew (d) A Hindu
Q-19 Who is the heroine of ‘’ the merchant of Venice ‘’
(a) Portia (b) Helen
(c) Jessica (d) Nerrisa
Q-20 Iago, the villain is a character in Shakespeare’s
(a) Macbeth (b) Hamlet
(c) King lear (d) Othello
Q-21 Who said, “Sweet are the uses of adversity “
(a) Shakespeare (b) Oliver Goldsmith
(c) John Jewel (d) Charles Dickens
Q-22 The poem ‘ Daffodils’ is written by
(a) Robert Bridges (b) Byron
(c) John Jewel (d) Auden
Q-23 Name the writer of ‘My Experiment with truth
(a) J.L. Nehru (b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(c) Sarojini Naidu (d) Mahatma Gandhi
Q-24 The Author of the novel ‘David Copperfield’ is
(a) Thomas Hardy (b) Charles Dickens
(c) Galsworthy (d) Walter Scott
Q-25 Name the writer of “If I am assassinated “
(a) Z.A. Bhutto (b) Indira Gandhi
(c) John Kennedy (d) Abrahim Lincoln



ANSWER KEY
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d b b d d b b c d a a a c d b
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a c c c d a a d b a