History of English Literature (1900–1950) 100 One-Mark Questions with Answers

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 (Assorted for help of UG students)

1. Which literary age covers the years 1900–1950?

Answer: The Modern Age

2. Which movement dominated English literature in this period?

Answer: Modernism

3. Which event marked the end of Victorian optimism?

Answer: The First World War

4. Which war influenced literature between 1939–1945?

Answer: The Second World War

5. What dominant mood followed World War I?

Answer: Disillusionment

6. Which term describes loss of faith in traditional values?

Answer: Moral skepticism

7. Which social class gained prominence in literature?

Answer: The working class

8. Which empire’s decline forms an important background?

Answer: The British Empire

9. What new role did women assume during World War I?

Answer: Participation in the workforce

10. Which movement fought for women’s voting rights?

Answer: The Suffrage Movement

11. Which movement emphasised experimentation?

Answer: Modernism

12. Which poetic movement stressed clarity of imagery?

Answer: Imagism

13. Who coined the phrase 'Make it new'?

Answer: Ezra Pound

14. Which group rejected Victorian poetic diction?

Answer: Modernist poets

15. Which movement focused on social realism in the 1930s?

Answer: Social realism

16. Which group promoted liberal humanist values?

Answer: Bloomsbury Group

17. Which generation suffered post-war trauma?

Answer: The Lost Generation

18. Which movement rejected linear narrative?

Answer: Modernism

19. Which movement emphasised inner consciousness?

Answer: Modernism

20. Which poetic group preceded the Modernists?

Answer: Georgian poets

21. Who wrote The Waste Land?

Answer: T. S. Eliot

22. In which year was The Waste Land published?

Answer: 1922

23. Who wrote Four Quartets?

Answer: T. S. Eliot

24. Who was a leading Imagist poet?

Answer: Ezra Pound

25. Who wrote war poetry exposing horrors of war?

Answer: Wilfred Owen

26. Who wrote Dulce et Decorum Est?

Answer: Wilfred Owen

27. Which poet is known for patriotic war poetry?

Answer: Rupert Brooke

28. Who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948?

Answer: T. S. Eliot

29. Which poet combined symbolism and nationalism?

Answer: W. B. Yeats

30. Who won the Nobel Prize in 1923?

Answer: W. B. Yeats

31. Which genre flourished most during this period?

Answer: The novel

32. Who wrote Mrs Dalloway?

Answer: Virginia Woolf

33. Which novelist used stream of consciousness?

Answer: Virginia Woolf

34. Who wrote To the Lighthouse?

Answer: Virginia Woolf

35. Which novelist explored psychological realism?

Answer: D. H. Lawrence

36. Who wrote Sons and Lovers?

Answer: D. H. Lawrence

37. Who wrote The Rainbow?

Answer: D. H. Lawrence

38. Who wrote Ulysses?

Answer: James Joyce

39. Which novel is a landmark of Modernist fiction?

Answer: Ulysses

40. Who wrote A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?

Answer: James Joyce

41. Who wrote Howards End?

Answer: E. M. Forster

42. Which novel carries the motto 'Only connect'?

Answer: Howards End

43. Who wrote A Passage to India?

Answer: E. M. Forster

44. Which theme dominates Forster’s novels?

Answer: Human relationships

45. Which novel critiques colonial rule in India?

Answer: A Passage to India

46. Who wrote Animal Farm?

Answer: George Orwell

47. Who wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four?

Answer: George Orwell

48. Which novel criticizes totalitarianism?

Answer: Nineteen Eighty-Four

49. Who wrote Brave New World?

Answer: Aldous Huxley

50. Which genre does Brave New World belong to?

Answer: Dystopian fiction

51. Who was a leading dramatist of the period?

Answer: George Bernard Shaw

52. Who wrote Pygmalion?

Answer: George Bernard Shaw

53. Which genre did Shaw mainly write?

Answer: Drama

54. Who wrote Murder in the Cathedral?

Answer: T. S. Eliot

55. Which playwright combined poetry and drama?

Answer: T. S. Eliot

56. Which Irish playwright used symbolism?

Answer: W. B. Yeats

57. Which theme dominates modern drama?

Answer: Social criticism

58. Which dramatist attacked social hypocrisy?

Answer: George Bernard Shaw

59. Which dramatic form became popular?

Answer: Problem play

60. Which movement influenced poetic drama?

Answer: Modernism

61. Which technique presents inner thoughts directly?

Answer: Stream of consciousness

62. Which verse form did Modernists reject?

Answer: Victorian verse

63. Which narrative style is common in Modernist fiction?

Answer: Fragmented narrative

64. Which feature marks Modernist poetry?

Answer: Symbolism

65. Which element reflects disorder and chaos?

Answer: Fragmentation

66. Which tone is common in Modernist literature?

Answer: Irony

67. Which theme reflects loss of meaning?

Answer: Alienation

68. Which method connects myth and modern life?

Answer: Mythical method

69. Who popularized the mythical method?

Answer: T. S. Eliot

70. Which technique compresses time?

Answer: Interior monologue

71. Which decade is called the Age of Anxiety?

Answer: The 1920s

72. Which economic crisis affected the 1930s?

Answer: The Great Depression

73. Which ideology gained popularity during inter-war years?

Answer: Socialism

74. Which political system alarmed writers?

Answer: Fascism

75. Which revolution influenced political thought?

Answer: Russian Revolution

76. Which institution was questioned?

Answer: Marriage

77. Which belief system declined after wars?

Answer: Religious faith

78. Which technology changed mass culture?

Answer: Radio and cinema

79. Which experience shaped war poetry?

Answer: Trench warfare

80. Which value replaced Victorian certainty?

Answer: Doubt

81. Which age followed the Victorian Age?

Answer: The Modern Age

82. Which period encouraged experimentation?

Answer: 1900–1950

83. Which genre reflected inner life strongly?

Answer: The novel

84. Which writer belonged to the Bloomsbury Group?

Answer: Virginia Woolf

85. Which city became a Modernist centre?

Answer: London

86. Which writer bridged realism and Modernism?

Answer: E. M. Forster

87. Which theme dominates war literature?

Answer: Horror of war

88. Which age emphasized individual experience?

Answer: Modern Age

89. Which form replaced epic poetry?

Answer: The novel

90. Which style rejected ornamentation?

Answer: Imagism

91. Which poet linked tradition with modernity?

Answer: T. S. Eliot

92. Which novelist focused on class conflict?

Answer: D. H. Lawrence

93. Which writer explored colonial relationships?

Answer: E. M. Forster

94. Which genre addressed political fear?

Answer: Dystopian fiction

95. Which movement valued experimentation?

Answer: Modernism

96. Which war created a crisis of meaning?

Answer: World War I

97. Which term describes post-war emptiness?

Answer: Spiritual barrenness

98. Which poet criticized modern civilisation?

Answer: T. S. Eliot

99. Which period marks the rise of psychological fiction?

Answer: 1900–1950

100. Which word best defines this age?

Answer: Experimentation

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