Class 12 Story of English Ch-4 Modern English MCQs Exam 2027

History of English & Literature: Complete MCQ Practice Set

1. The period of Modern English starts from ……………. [BSEB 2018]

   (A) AD 1400

   (B) AD 1500

   (C) AD 1600

   (D) AD 1700

2. English used since AD 1500 is called: [BSEB 2019]

   (A) Old English

   (B) Middle English

   (C) Modern English

   (D) Post-Modern English

3. Modern English begins from ……………….. [BSEB 2020, 2022A]

   (A) AD 1500

   (B) AD 1400

   (C) AD 1600

   (D) AD 1150

4. The transition from Middle English to Modern English was marked by ……………. [BSEB 2020, 2024]

   (A) The Great Vowel Shift

   (B) The Norman Conquest

   (C) The Renaissance

   (D) The Industrial Revolution

5. The ‘Great Vowel Shift’ took place during : [BSEB 2022, 2024]

   (A) Old English

   (B) Middle English

   (C) Modern English

   (D) Post-Modern English

6. The Great Vowel Shift resulted in changes in the …….. of the English long vowels. [BSEB 2018]

   (A) Pronunciation

   (B) Spelling

   (C) Grammar

   (D) Writing

7. Standard British English speech came to be known as ……………. [BSEB 2020, 2022A]

   (A) Received Pronunciation

   (B) American English

   (C) Second Language

   (D) Foreign Language

8. Modern English is characterized by: [BSEB 2020]

   (A) Inflections

   (B) Latin Vocabulary only

   (C) Grammatical simplicity

   (D) Lack of vowels

9. English vocabulary was borrowed from ……………….. and ……………….. [BSEB 2021]

   (A) Latin and French

   (B) Hindi and Urdu

   (C) Sanskrit and Greek

   (D) Arabic and Persian

10. English is a language that has borrowed from over …….. languages. [BSEB 2023]

    (A) 50

    (B) 10

    (C) 100

    (D) 20

11. The first English dictionary was published in ……………. [BSEB 2021]

    (A) 1604

    (B) 1755

    (C) 1789

    (D) 1800

12. Who wrote the dictionary of the English Language in 1755? [BSEB 2018]

    (A) Samuel Johnson

    (B) Alexander Pope

    (C) John Dryden

    (D) Addison

13. Renaissance generated a new spirit of: [BSEB 2023]

    (A) Enquiry

    (B) Tradition

    (C) Superstition

    (D) Ignorance

14. Printing technology was introduced in England in — [BSEB, 2021A]

    (A) 1476

    (B) 1376

    (C) 1576

    (D) 1676

15. In the 18th Century, …….. published a ‘Dictionary of the English Language’. [BSEB, 2021A]

    (A) Alexander Pope

    (B) Samuel Johnson

    (C) Joseph Addison

    (D) William Petty

16. The 18th century is known as the—

    (A) Cavalier Age

    (B) Jacobean Age

    (C) Augustan Age

    (D) Romantic Age

17. The Romantic Revival is associated with : [BSEB, 2020A]

    (A) John Dryden

    (B) Alexander Pope

    (C) William Wordsworth

    (D) John Milton

18. Who wrote ‘Paradise Lost’?

    (A) Milton

    (B) Spenser

    (C) Dickens

    (D) None of these

19. ‘The Rape of the Lock’ was written by —

    (A) Shelly

    (B) Alexander Pope

    (C) Keats

    (D) None of these

20. Who wrote ‘The Scholar Gipsy’? [BSEB, 2018A, 2021A, 2024A]

    (A) Matthew Arnold

    (B) Robert Bridges

    (C) Thomas Hardy

    (D) W.B. Yeats

21. Who wrote ‘The Waste Land’? [BSEB, 2019A]

    (A) T.S. Eliot

    (B) W.H. Auden

    (C) S.T. Coleridge

    (D) John Keats

22. T.S. Eliot is a __________ poet.

    (A) 17th century

    (B) 18th century

    (C) 19th century

    (D) 20th century

23. ‘Mac Flecknoe’ was written by— [BSEB, 2025A]

    (A) Dryden

    (B) John Donne

    (C) George Herbert

    (D) None of these

24. ‘Songs and Sonnets’ and ‘Death Be Not Proud’ were written by— [BSEB, 2024A]

    (A) John Donne

    (B) Walt Whitman

    (C) Rupert Brooke

    (D) T.S. Eliot

25. ‘Leaves of Grass’ is a collection of poems by— [BSEB, 2020A]

    (A) John Donne

    (B) Walt Whitman

    (C) W.H. Auden

    (D) John Keats

26. ‘Paradise Regained’ was written by— [BSEB, 2021A]

    (A) John Milton

    (B) John Keats

    (C) P.B. Shelley

    (D) None of these

27. ‘Revolt of Islam’ was written by —

    (A) Lord Byron

    (B) Shelly

    (C) John Keats

    (D) None of these

28. ‘Hudibras’ was written by—

    (A) Dryden

    (B) Vaughan

    (C) Butler

    (D) None of these

29. ‘Faiery Queene’ was written by—

    (A) Tennyson

    (B) Spenser

    (C) Arnold

    (D) None of these

30. ‘Vision of Judgement’ was written by —

    (A) Shelly

    (B) John Keats

    (C) Lord Byron

    (D) None of these

31. Wordsworth was a —

    (A) novelist

    (B) dramatist

    (C) poet

    (D) None of these

32. ‘Sohrab and Rustum’ has been written by —

    (A) W.B. Yeats

    (B) Robert Bridge

    (C) J.M. Synge

    (D) Matthew Arnold

33. The development of ______ was helped by the introduction of printing technology.

    (A) Old English

    (B) Middle English

    (C) Modern English

    (D) None of these

34. The authorized version of the Bible was published in —

    (A) 1610

    (B) 1611

    (C) 1612

    (D) 1613

35. ‘Endymion’ was written by —

    (A) John Keats

    (B) Wordsworth

    (C) Shelley

    (D) Byron

36. ‘Lycidas’ was written by —

    (A) Milton

    (B) Donne

    (C) Pope

    (D) Dryden

37. ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’ was written by —

    (A) John Keats

    (B) Shelley

    (C) Byron

    (D) Wordsworth

38. ‘Hyperion’ was written by —

    (A) John Keats

    (B) Shelley

    (C) Milton

    (D) Spenser

39. ‘Adonais’ was written by —

    (A) Shelley

    (B) Keats

    (C) Byron

    (D) Arnold

40. ‘In Memoriam’ was written by —

    (A) Tennyson

    (B) Browning

    (C) Arnold

    (D) Rossetti

41. ‘The Ring and the Book’ was written by —

    (A) Robert Browning

    (B) Tennyson

    (C) Hardy

    (D) Dickens

42. ‘Dover Beach’ was written by —

    (A) Matthew Arnold

    (B) Tennyson

    (C) Browning

    (D) Eliot

43. ‘The Dynasts’ was written by —

    (A) Thomas Hardy

    (B) Charles Dickens

    (C) George Eliot

    (D) Jane Austen

44. ‘Tess of the d’Urbervilles’ was written by —

    (A) Thomas Hardy

    (B) Jane Austen

    (C) Dickens

    (D) Scott

45. ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’ was written by —

    (A) Thomas Hardy

    (B) Dickens

    (C) Scott

    (D) Thackeray

46. ‘Kim’ was written by —

    (A) Rudyard Kipling

    (B) E.M. Forster

    (C) James Joyce

    (D) Virginia Woolf

47. ‘The Jungle Book’ was written by —

    (A) Rudyard Kipling

    (B) Dickens

    (C) Hardy

    (D) Defoe

48. ‘Ulysses’ (Novel) was written by —

    (A) James Joyce

    (B) Virginia Woolf

    (C) E.M. Forster

    (D) D.H. Lawrence

49. ‘A Passage to India’ was written by —

    (A) E.M. Forster

    (B) James Joyce

    (C) Virginia Woolf

    (D) D.H. Lawrence

50. ‘To the Lighthouse’ was written by —

    (A) Virginia Woolf

    (B) James Joyce

    (C) Forster

    (D) Lawrence

51. ‘Sons and Lovers’ was written by —

    (A) D.H. Lawrence

    (B) Forster

    (C) Woolf

    (D) Orwell

52. ‘Animal Farm’ was written by —

    (A) George Orwell

    (B) Aldous Huxley

    (C) Graham Greene

    (D) H.G. Wells

53. ‘The Power and the Glory’ was written by —

    (A) Graham Greene

    (B) George Orwell

    (C) Huxley

    (D) Forster

54. ‘Brave New World’ was written by —

    (A) Aldous Huxley

    (B) George Orwell

    (C) Wells

    (D) Greene

55. ‘The Time Machine’ was written by —

    (A) H.G. Wells

    (B) George Orwell

    (C) Huxley

    (D) Greene

56. ‘Lord of the Flies’ was written by —

    (A) William Golding

    (B) George Orwell

    (C) Huxley

    (D) Greene

57. ‘The Waste Land’ is divided into ______ sections.

    (A) 3

    (B) 4

    (C) 5

    (D) 6

58. ‘Four Quartets’ was written by —

    (A) T.S. Eliot

    (B) Auden

    (C) Yeats

    (D) Spender

59. ‘The Tower’ was written by —

    (A) W.B. Yeats

    (B) Eliot

    (C) Auden

    (D) Frost

60. ‘The Winding Stair’ was written by —

    (A) W.B. Yeats

    (B) Eliot

    (C) Auden

    (D) Frost

61. ‘Mending Wall’ was written by —

    (A) Robert Frost

    (B) Whitman

    (C) Dickinson

    (D) Emerson

62. ‘The Road Not Taken’ was written by —

    (A) Robert Frost

    (B) Whitman

    (C) Dickinson

    (D) Poe

63. ‘O Captain! My Captain!’ was written by —

    (A) Walt Whitman

    (B) Frost

    (C) Dickinson

    (D) Poe

64. ‘The Raven’ was written by —

    (A) Edgar Allan Poe

    (B) Whitman

    (C) Frost

    (D) Dickinson

65. ‘Because I could not stop for Death’ was written by —

    (A) Emily Dickinson

    (B) Whitman

    (C) Frost

    (D) Poe

66. ‘Walden’ was written by —

    (A) Henry David Thoreau

    (B) Emerson

    (C) Whitman

    (D) Hawthorne

67. ‘The Scarlet Letter’ was written by —

    (A) Nathaniel Hawthorne

    (B) Melville

    (C) Twain

    (D) James

68. ‘Moby Dick’ was written by —

    (A) Herman Melville

    (B) Hawthorne

    (C) Twain

    (D) James

69. ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ was written by —

    (A) Mark Twain

    (B) James

    (C) Melville

    (D) Hawthorne

70. ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ (Novel) was written by —

    (A) Henry James

    (B) Twain

    (C) Melville

    (D) Hawthorne

71. ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ was written by —

    (A) Ernest Hemingway

    (B) Faulkner

    (C) Steinbeck

    (D) Fitzgerald

72. ‘The Sound and the Fury’ was written by —

    (A) William Faulkner

    (B) Hemingway

    (C) Steinbeck

    (D) Fitzgerald

73. ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ was written by —

    (A) John Steinbeck

    (B) Faulkner

    (C) Hemingway

    (D) Fitzgerald

74. ‘The Great Gatsby’ was written by —

    (A) F. Scott Fitzgerald

    (B) Steinbeck

    (C) Faulkner

    (D) Hemingway

75. ‘Death of a Salesman’ was written by —

    (A) Arthur Miller

    (B) Williams

    (C) O’Neill

    (D) Albee

76. ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ was written by —

    (A) Tennessee Williams

    (B) Miller

    (C) O’Neill

    (D) Albee

77. ‘The Hairy Ape’ was written by —

    (A) Eugene O’Neill

    (B) Miller

    (C) Williams

    (D) Albee

78. ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ was written by —

    (A) Edward Albee

    (B) Miller

    (C) Williams

    (D) O’Neill

79. ‘Beloved’ was written by —

    (A) Toni Morrison

    (B) Alice Walker

    (C) Maya Angelou

    (D) Langston Hughes

80. ‘The Color Purple’ was written by —

    (A) Alice Walker

    (B) Morrison

    (C) Angelou

    (D) Hughes

81. ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ was written by —

    (A) Maya Angelou

    (B) Walker

    (C) Morrison

    (D) Hughes

82. Renaissance generated a new spirit of: [BSEB 2023]

    (A) Enquiry

    (B) Tradition

    (C) Superstition

    (D) Ignorance

83. Who wrote ‘The Canterbury Tales’?

    (A) Geoffrey Chaucer

    (B) Langland

    (C) John Gower

    (D) None of these