PGTRB ENGLISH NEW SYLLABUS TEST - 5

 

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 PGTRB ENGLISH TEST - 5 

1. Samuel Johnson is best known as a major writer of which literary age?

A) Elizabethan Age
B) Romantic Age
C) Augustan Age
D) Nagg and Nell

ANSWER (C) Augustan Age

2. Samuel Johnson's biography was written by ______________?

A) James Boswell
B) Thomas Gray
C) Oliver Goldsmith
D) Edmund Burke

ANSWER (A) James Boswell

3. "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world" was said by _____________?

A) Wordsworth
B) Shelley
C) Arnold
D) T. S. Eliot

ANSWER (B) Shelley

4. The Age of Johnson is also known as ______________?

A) Age of Chaucer
B) Age of Sensibility
C) Age of Shakespeare
D) Age of Dryden

ANSWER (B) Age of Sensibility

5. Johnson's famous dictionary was first published in ____________?

A) 1750
B) 1752
C) 1755
D) 1756

ANSWER (C) 1755

6. Which periodical was founded and written largely by Samuel Johnson?

A) The Spectator
B) The Rambler
C) The Tatler
D) The Examiner

ANSWER (B) The Rambler

7. Who defined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"?

A) Coleridge
B) Wordsworth
C) Arnold
D) Pope

ANSWER (B) Wordsworth

8. Who wrote Absalom and Achitophel?

A) Coleridge
B) Wordsworth
C) Swift
D) John Dryden

ANSWER (D) John Dryden

9. Who wrote Lyrical Ballads jointly with Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

A) Shelley
B) Byron
C) William Wordsworth
D) Keats

ANSWER (C) William Wordsworth

10. Paradise Lost is written mainly in ____________?

A) Heroic couplets
B) Blank verse
C) Spenserian stanza
D) Terza rima

ANSWER (B) Blank verse