Important Books General Knowledge MCQs - 18

Important Books General Knowledge MCQs - 18

1. Who compiled the first English dictionary?
(a) Robert Cawdrey
(b) Samuel Johnson ✓
(c) John Bullokar
(d) Henry Cockeram

2. In which of the Shakespearean plays do witches play an important role?
(a) Hamlet
(b) Macbeth ✓
(c) King Lear
(d) Othello

3. What is a sonnet?
(a) A song
(b) A poem of 12 lines
(c) A poem of 14 lines ✓
(d) a poem of 16 lines

4. Who uttered the lines “Et tu, Brute"?
(a) Mark Anthony
(b) Julius Caesar ✓
(c) Augustus Caesar
(d) Brutus

5. Which heroine of Shakespeare declares, “The quality of mercy is not strained”?
(a) Juliet
(b) Viola
(c) Rosalind
(d) Portia ✓

6. Which country awards the Booker Prize?
(a) U.S.A.
(b) U.K. ✓
(c) Canada
(d) Australia

7. Who was the writer of the “Leatherstocking" tales?
(a) Henry James
(b) Mark Twain
(c) James Fenimore Cooper ✓
(d) Ernest Hemingway

8. What is a parody?
(a) A funny song
(b) A form of satirical criticism ✓
(c) A speech
(d) A musical instrument

9. which hero of Shakespeare utters the famous soliloquy, “To be or not to be"?
(a) Macbeth
(b) Othello
(c) Romeo
(d) Hamlet ✓

10. Along which river does Huck float on a raft in
The Adventures of Huckleberry
(a) Volga ✓
(b) Mississippi
(c) Mackenzie
(d) Rhine

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