MCQs for NET English- founders and Pioneers

1. who has been called the morning star of Renaissance

a) Langland b) Gower

c) Chaucer c) Wyclife

2. The Rhyme Royal is used by

a) Gower b) Chaucer

c) Langland d) Malory

3. who of the following is called the father of English Criticism

a) Dr. Johnson b) John Dryden

c) Longinus d) Matthew Arnold

4. who is known as ploughman Poet?

a) Arnold b) Wordsworth

c) Thomson d) Burns

5. who is known as the The Man of Feeling

a) Henry Machenzie b) Walpole

c) Sterne d) none

6. who is regarded as the father of Gothic novels?

a) Walpole b) Burke

c) Boswell d) None

7. who of the following was first to use Stream of Consciousness?

a) James Joyce b) Walter Allen

c) W.Y Tindall d) William James

8. who has been called the leader of Angry young Men?

a) Allen Sillitoe b) John Wain

c) Colin Wilson d) John Osborn

9. W.H Auden was the leader of the

a) Oxford Poets b) Romantic poets

c) Pre- Raphaelite poets d) none

10. Who was the first use the sonnet form in England

a) Chaucer b) Langland

c) Robert Greene d) Surray

answers

1-c, 2- b, 3- b, 4- d 5- a, 6- a, 7- d, 8-d, 9-a, 10-d