ON WALTER SCOTT

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 The full name of Walter Scott was?

Ans. Walter Alva Scott

Q. Which illness left Walter Scott lame in the right leg?

Ans. Polio

Q. Where did Walter Scott spend his early years?

Ans. Sandyknowe

Q. The first published work of Walter Scott was?

Ans. "The Chase, and William and Helen"

Q. Walter Scott’s last finished novel, The Siege of Malta, was first published in?

Ans. 2008

Q. After _______Walter Scott wrote little poetry and turned to historical novel?

Ans. 1815

Q. About whom did Walter Scott write, "What a pity such a gifted creature died so early"? Ans. Jane

Austen

Q. Walter Scott's literary interests were first formed by? Ans. Thomas Percy's Reliques

Q. Who wrote the poem Marmion?

Ans. Walter Scott

Q. The full title of the poem Marmion by Walter Scott is?

Ans. Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field

Q. Which German ballad did Walter Scott translate?

Ans. Lenore

Q. Walter Scott was?

Ans. Novelist, poet, historian, biographer and playwright

Q. Walter Scott was born in?

Ans. Scotland. He also died in Scotland

Q. Who wrote the poem Lady Of The Lake? Ans. Walter Scott

Q. Walter Scott's poem Marmion and Lady Of The Lake gained greater popularity in those days than the

poems of?

Ans. Wordsworth and Coleridge

Q. In his novels, Walter Scott deals with the chivalric and adventurous life of?

Ans. The Highlanders

Q. Who were the Highlanders?

Ans. People living on the border of England and Scotland

Q. Who wrote, "We are not men to be penned up like sheep for the slaughter?"

Ans. Walter Scott

Q. Who wrote the novel The Bride Of Lammermoor?

Ans. Walter Scott

Q. Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor was the inspiration for an opera by which composer?

Ans. Donizetti

Q. As a teenager, Walter Scott got a chance to meet_______ at a party?

Ans. Robert Burns

Q. Who wrote the book "Sir Walter Scott: The Great Unknown"?

Ans. Edgar Johnson

Q. Sir Walter Scott was born in?

Ans. 1771. He died in 1832

Q. Who wrote the novel Kenilworth?

Ans. Walter Scott

Q. Which novel of Walter Scott deals with the murder of Lady Leicester?

Ans. Kenilworth

Q. The romantic poets belonging to the Scott Group are Sir Walter Scott, Campbell and? Ans. Thomas

Moore

Q. The Alma Mater of Walter Scott was?

Ans. University Of Edinburgh

Q. Walter Scott married?

Ans. Charlotte Carpenter

Q. Who wrote the poem The Lay Of The Last Minstrel?

Ans. Walter Scott

Q. Walter Scott's poem The Lay Of The Last Minstrel shows the influence in its rhythms of?

Ans. Coleridge's Christabel

Q. We do not find which quality of poetry in Walter Scott's poetry?

Ans. Imaginative and suggestive quality

Q. Who wrote, "And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last?" Ans. Walter

Scott

Q. The father of Walter Scott was?

Ans. A lawyer

Q. Who wrote the novel Rob Roy?

Ans. Walter Scott

Q. The novel Rob Roy is set at the time of the Jacobite Rising that took place in what year? Ans. 1715

Q. Who is the first English writer of the historical novel?

Ans. Walter Scott (He is the founder of historical novel)

Q. Walter Scott's beautifully portrayed historical characters like Queen Elizabeth and Mary Queen Of

Scott challenge comparison with the characters of?

Ans. Shakespeare

Q. Which term is used to refer to Walter Scott's novels?

Ans. The Waverley Novels

Q. In which novel Walter Scott project Scotland under King Robert Bruce?

Ans. Castle Dangerous

Q. An unfinished novel of Walter Scott which was first published in 2008 was?

Ans. Bizarro

Q. Who said about Walter Scott's novels, "These historical novels have taught the truth unknown to the

writers of history?"

Ans. Carlyle

Q. One of Walter Scott's novels inspired the film_____?

Ans. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Q. Who coined the phrase ‘Wars of the Roses’?

Ans. Walter Scott

Q. Who wrote the poem The Lord Of The Isles?

Ans. Walter Scott

Q. Which was Walter Scott's last major poem?

Ans. The Lord Of The Isles

Q. The style of Walter Scott is often ______? Ans. Inartistic and digressive

Q. Walter Scott is worst in?

Ans. Love scenes

Q. Walter Scott started writing novels at the age of?

Ans. 43

Q. Who wrote the novel Guy Mannering?

Ans. Walter Scott

Q. In which novel of Walter Scott does the highly born character Sir Robert Hazelwood appear?

Ans. Guy Mannering (Scott considers him as a pompous ass)

Q. Who is called the father of the regional novels?

Ans. Walter Scott

Q. Walter Scott exerted himself greatly to make ______ popular in Scotland?

Ans. George IV

Q. Many of Walter Scott's novels take the form of a sort of ________?

Ans. Pilgrim's progress

Q. Who wrote the novel The Heart Of Midlothian?

Ans. Walter Scott

Q. In which novel of Walter Scott does a girl make a successful effort to save her sister from the gallows?

Ans. The Heart Of Midlothian

Q. Who illustrated the novels of Walter Scott and Charles Dickens?

Ans. George Cruishank

Q. Life Of Napoleon is a biography written by Walter Scott in?

Ans. 12 volumes

Q. Walter Scott was the first novelist in Europe who gave very much importance to? Ans. Scenes in his

works

Q. The union of parliaments of England and Scotland took place in?

Ans. 1707

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