Who was “Fortinbras” ?

A. Claudius’s son
B. Son to the king of norway
C. Ophelia’s lover
D. Hamlet’s mend

Which poem of Coleridge is an opium dream ?

A. Kubla khan
B. Christabel
C. The ancient mariner
D. Ode on the departing year

The Chartist Movement sought ?

A. Protection of the political rights of the working class
B. Recognition of chartered trading companies
C. Political rights for women
D. Protection of the political rights of the middle class

Twelfth Night opens with the speech of ?

A. Viola
B. Duke
C. Olivia
D. Malvolio

In Paradise Lost, Book I, Satan is the embodiment of Milton’s ?

A. Sense of injured merit
B. Hatred of tyranny
C. Spirit of revolt
D. All these

‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ is a quotation from ?

A. Milton
B. William shakespeare
C. T. s. eliot
D. Ruskin

A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as ?

A. Spenserian stanza
B. Ballad
C. Ottava rima
D. Rhyme royal

The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by ?

A. The pre-raphaelites
B. Ruskin
C. Pater
D. Matthew arnold

Identify the work by Swinburne which begins “when the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces..” ?

A. Chastelard
B. A song of italy
C. Atalanta in calydon
D. Songs before sunrise

Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’ ?

A. Johnson
B. Cromwell
C. Shakespeare
D. Luther