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Q21

Who is the central character of 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte?

a Hindley Earnshaw

b Heathcliff

c Catherine

d Mr. Eamshaw

Q22

'Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.' — Who wrote this?

a Samuel Coleridge

b John Keats

c Robert Browning

d William Wordsworth

Q23

'All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.'-Who said this?

a Macduff

b Lady Macduff

c Lady Macbeth

d Macbeth

Q24

The short story 'The Diamond Necklace' was written by-

a George Orwell

b Somerset Maugham

c O Henry

d Guy de Maupassant

Q25

'Ulysses' is a novel written by-

a James Joyce

b Charles Dickens

c Thomas Hardy

d Joseph Conrad

Q26

Who translated the 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' into English?

a William Thackeray

b D. G. Rossetti

c Edward Fitzgerald

d Thomas Carlyle

Q27

'Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence. This is taken from the poem of -

a Edmund Spenser

b John Keats

c Lord Byron

d P. B. Shelley

Q28

'What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet-Who said this?

a Rosalind

b Portia

c Romeo

d Juliet

Q29

'Sweet Helen' make me immortal with a kiss.' The sentence has been taken from the play -

a Antony and Cleopatra

b Doctor Faustus

c Caesar and Cleopatra

d Romeo and Juliet

Q30

Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' is an elegy on the death of-

a Sydney Smith

b Arthur Henry Hallam

c John Keats

d John Milton

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