English quiz

'Jane Eyre’ was written by which Bronte sister?

• Anne

• Charlotte

• Emily

• None of the above

Who was the author of the famous storybook ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’?

• Rudyard Kipling

• John Keats

• Lewis Carroll

• H G Wells

Name the book which opens with the line ‘All children, except one grew up’?

• The Railway Children

• Winnie the Pooh

• Jungle Book

• Peter Pan

Which is the first Harry Potter book?

• HP and the Goblet of Fire

• HP and the Philosopher’s Stone

• HP and the Chamber of Secrets

• HP and the God of small Things

'Waiting for Godot' (1955) was originally written in

• French

• Russian

• German

• English

In which century were Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales written?

• 13th – 14th

• 14th – 15th

• 15th -16th

• 16th – 17th

Who translated the entire Mahabharata into English?

• R K Narayan

• P Lal

• Vikram Seth

• None of the above

Who is called the Father of English classical comedy?

• Thomas Heywood

• Thomas Middleton

• Ben Jonson

• William Shakespeare

Who is known as “the peasant poet”?

• Sir Walter Scott

• Robert Southey

• Robert Burns

• John Clare

Auden’s The Sea and the Mirror is a response to

• Shakespeare

• Milton

• Yeats

• Freud