16. Which woman writer wrote Sense and Sensibility?
(A) Jane Austen
(B) Mary Shelley
(C) Maria Edgeworth
(D) Emily Bronte
Answer:
(A) Jane Austen
Explanation:
Sense and Sensibility is a beloved novel written by English author Jane Austen, originally published anonymously in 1811.
17. What was the real name of George Eliot?
(A) Louisa May Alcott
(B) Mary Ann Evans
(C) Amantine L. A. Dupin
(D) Charlotte Bronte
Answer:
(B) Mary Ann Evans
Explanation:
The prominent Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans used the male pen name George Eliot so her works would be taken more seriously.
18. Who wrote the poem, In Memoriam, on the death of his friend?
(A) Alfred Tennyson
(B) Robert Browning
(C) Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(D) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Answer:
(A) Alfred Tennyson
Explanation:
In Memoriam A.H.H. is a long, elegiac poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, written as a tribute to his close friend Arthur Henry Hallam.
19. Who wrote the novel, Oliver Twist, on the Victorian workhouses?
(A) Samuel Richardson
(B) William Makepeace Thackeray
(C) George Meredith
(D) Charles Dickens
Answer:
(D) Charles Dickens
Explanation:
Oliver Twist is the classic second novel by Charles Dickens, famously exposing the cruel treatment of orphans in mid-19th-century English workhouses.
20. Who wrote A Passage to India?
(A) Rudyard Kipling
(B) George Orwell
(C) E.M. Forster
(D) Rider Haggard
Answer:
(C) E.M. Forster
Explanation:
A Passage to India is a landmark 1924 novel by English author E.M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj.
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