1. The correct chronological order of the following poets is :
(A) Byron, Shelley, Keats, Walter Scott
(B) Shelley, Walter Scott, Keats, Byron
(C) Keats, Byron, Walter Scott, Shelley
(D) Walter Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats
Answer: D
2. Which of the following is NOT written by Walter Scott ?
(A) Ivanhoe
(B) Lady of the Lake
(C) Heart of Midlothian
(D) The English Mail Coach
Answer: D
3. Which of the following works did Walter Scott compile?
(1) The Lay of the Last Minstrel
(2) Marmion
(3) Ivanhoe
(4) The Minstrelsy of Scottish Border
Answer: 4
4. Which Walter Scott novel is set in France in the fifteenth century ?
1. Redgauntlet
2. Ivanhoe
3. The Antiquary
4. Quentin Durward
Answer: 4
5. Select the matching pair
(A) Emily Bronte – Yorkshire Moors
(B)Hardy – Scotland
(C)Walter Scott – Ireland
(D)Mark Twain – Yoknapatawfa
Answer: A
6. Who among the following is a writer of historical romances ?
(A) Emily Bronte
(B) Jane Austen
(C) Walter Scott
(D) Walter Savage Lander
Answer: C
7. Who among the following English artists illustrated the novels of Dickens
and Scott?
(A) Richard Hogarth
(B) Joshua Reynolds
(C) George Cruishank
(D) John Tennial
Answer: (C)
8. In The Heart of Midlotliian, Walter Scott deals with real political and
personal details, but notable among his characters is the depiction of
………….
(1) Queen Anne
(2) Queen Victoria
(3) Queen Caroline
(4) Queen Elizabeth
Answer: 3
9. Why are Scott’s novels called “Waverley Novels”?
(A) His novels are all set in Waverley.
(B) The Waverley Castle has a significant role in his novels.
(C) Waverley (in his first novel of that name) is a model hero for the protagonists
of Scott’s novels.
(D) Scott started his novel-writing career in his 43rd year with the novel, Waverley.
Answer: (D)
10. Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels?
I. Sir Walter Scott
II. Charlotte Bronte
III. Maria Edgeworth
IV. Jane Austen
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) I and III
(4) III and IV
Answer: 3
11. Scott is known for the creation of mad, irrational witch-like women
characters. From the following list pick the odd one out :
(A) Madge Wildfive
(B) Meg Murdockson
(C) Euphemia Deans
(D) Meg Merrilees
Answer: C
12. ‘Stand up, young woman … and tell me what sort of a barbarous people
your country folk are, where child-murder is become so commonplace as to
require the restraint of laws like yours.’ The queen in Scott’s The Heart of
Midlothian is referring to a strange Scottish law according to which if a
woman
(A) gives birth to a child and the child is missing, she is considered guilty of
infanticide.
(B) Secretly gives birth to a child and the child is missing and she has not confided
to anyone about her pregnancy, she is considered guilty of infanticide.
(C) gives birth to a child and the child is missing and she has not confided to
anyone about her pregnancy, she is considered guilty of infanticide.
(D) gives birth to a child and kills the child and she is guilty of infanticide.
Answer: (B)