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1. Who was Ben Jonson referring to when he said “he writes no language“?
A) Lyly B) Shakespeare
C) Chaucer D) Spenser

2. Which work of Chaucer is an adaptation of Il Filostrato?

A) The Canterbury Tales B) Troilus and Criseyde
C) The House of Fame D) The Legend of Good Women

3. The White Devil is a play written by ------------

A) Thomas Kyd B) Middleton
C) Webster D) Tourneur

4. ---------- was written by Chaucer on the death of Blanche of Lancaster in 1368.

A) The House of Fame
B) The Parliament of Fowls
C) The Legend of Good Women
D) The Book of the Duchess

5. From where did the genre of the medieval comic tale called fabliau originate?
A) Spain B) England
C) France D) Ireland

6. The Miller’s Tale describes the cuckolding of an Oxford carpenter by a clerk

named ----------
A) Alisoun B) Absolon
C) Nicholas D) Reeve

7. Identify the correct chronological sequence:

A) Spenser – Chaucer – Wordsworth – Thomas Kyd
B) Spenser – Wordsworth – Tennyson – Auden
C) Shakespeare – Spenser – Larkin - Mathew Arnold
D) Shelley – Spenser – Tennyson – Eliot

8. In The CanterburyTales------ is a version of The Wedding of Sir Gawen and Dame

Ragnell
A) The Miller’s Tale B) The Wife of Bath’s Tale
C) The Clerk’s Tale D) The Knight’s Tale

9. Who said “Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes morebitter”?
A) Addison B) Lamb
C) Bacon D) Hobbes
10. ----------- appears as the knight of holiness in Book I of Spenser’s The Faerie
Queen
A) Redcross B) Orgoglio
C) Una D) Archimago

11. Hobbe’s most famous work ------- was published in 1651

A) Leviathan B) In Retreat
C) Behemoth D) The Golden Legend

12. Bacon’s essays published in 1612 was subtitled ---------

A) Moral Meditations B) Counsels, Civil and Moral
C) Religious Essays D) Counsels, Civil Essays

13. Which is the historical text written by Thomas More?

A) The History of Henry II B) The History of Richard I
C) The History of Henry IV D) The History of Richard III

14. The poem beginning “Death, be not proud” was written by ----------
A) John Keats B) John Donne
C) Sylvia Plath D) Emily Dickinson

15. ---------- used the carpe diem mode in To His Coy Mistress
A) Keats B) Vaughan
C) Marvell D) Cowley

16. ---------- was the first to apply the term metaphysics to 17th century poetry.
A) Dryden B) Donne
C) Eliot D) Wordsworth

17. In which play does the character Gaveston appear?

A) Tempest B) The Midsummer Night’s Dream
C) Edward II D) Tamburlaine the Great

18. ------------ is considered the earliest archetypal morality play

A) Everyman B) The Second Shepherd’s Play
C) Discretion D) Good and Evil

19. Who was the precursor to Chaucer’s device used in The Canterbury Tales where
characters narrate stories?
A) Francesco Petrarch B) Giovanni Boccaccio
C) Baldassare Castiglione D) Dante Alighieri

20. ----------- is the subtitle of Jonson’s play Epicoene.

A) Volpone B) Sejanus
C) The Silent Woman D) Bartholomew Fair

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21. Which play of Shakespeare was inspired by the wreck of a ship on the Bermuda
Island?
A) Cymbeline
B) The Two Gentlemen of Verona
C) Titus Andronicus
D) The Tempest

22. The Comedy of Errors was written by --------

A) Ben Jonson B) Shakespeare
C) Oscar Wilde D) Dryden

23. In which critical work did Wilson Knight focus on the imagery and patterning in
Shakespeare’s tragedies?
A) Shakespeare’s Imagery
B) What Happens in Hamlet
C) The Development of Shakespeare’s Imagery
D) The Wheel of Fire

24. ---------- was one of the most beloved clowns in the Elizabethan Theatre
A) Thomas Nash B) John Lyly
C) Charles Boyce D) William Kempe

25. ----------- is the king of the fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A) Theseus B) Oberon
C) Titania D) Demetrius

26. Emilia in Shakespeare’s Othello is killed by -----------

A) Rodrigo B) Othello
C) Cassio D) Iago

27. Who proclaims a military funeral for Hamlet at the end of the play?
A) Claudius B) Laertes
C) Fortinbras D) Polonius

28. In which play do you find this line “Nothing will come of nothing”?
A) King Lear B) The Taming of the Shrew
C) Macbeth D) Othello

29. Which critical work credits Shakespeare with the “largest and most
comprehensive soul”?
A) BiographiaLiteraria
B) An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
C) Characters of Shakespeare’s plays
D) The Family Shakespeare

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30. In which play does the character Falstaff appear?
A) Hamlet B) The Merry Wives of Windsor
C) Love’s Labour’s Lost D) Romeo and Juliet

31. In which Shakespearean play do you find the line “A little more than kin, and
less than kind”?
A) Hamlet B) Othello
C) King Lear D) Macbeth

32. Who says “I will wear my heart upon my sleeve”?

A) Othello B) Emilia
C) Iago D) Cassio

33. ---------- is the twin brother of Viola in Twelfth Night

A) Antonio B) Sebastian
C) Orsino D) Malvolio

34. Who is the villain in Shakespeare’s poem The Rape of Lucrece?

A) Arthur Michell B) Wriothesley
C) Terence D) Tarquin

35. The theory of Catharsis is associated with ----------

A) Plato B) Dryden
C) Aristotle D) Hegel

36. In which of Shakespeare’s plays do you find this quotation “The nature of bad
news infects the teller”?
A) Tempest B) Hamlet
C) Othello D) Antony and Cleopatra

37. The Anthology titled Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism was
edited by -----------
A) Harold Bloom B) Dollimore and Sinfield
C) Parker and Hartman D) Russ McDonald

38. Whose words are these?

It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing
A) Macbeth B) Lady Macbeth
C) Weird Sister D) Macduff

39. By whom was the essay Hamlet and His Problems written?
A) Bradley B) Freud
C) Eliot D) Wilson Knights

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40. In which play do you find these opening lines:
Two households, both alike in dignity
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene
A) The Midsummer Night’s Dream
B) Two Gentlemen of Verona
C) Measure for Measure
D) Romeo and Juliet

41. Who was the first to criticize Milton’s language as “harsh and barbarous”?
A) Jonson B) Johnson
C) Dryden D) Wordsworth

42. The Dunciad was written by ----------

A) Dryden B) Pope
C) Tennyson D) Swift

43. Which of the angels is not mentioned in Paradise Lost?

A) Valentine B) Michel
C) Raphael D) Gabriel

44. The prose romance Arcadia was described by --------- as “idle work” and “a
trifle”
A) Shelley B) Milton
C) Dryden D) Coleridge

45. The character Sir Roger was a creation of -----------

A) Dryden B) Lamb
C) Addison D) Milton

46. In which theatre was Dryden’s The School for Scandal first performed?
A) The Globe B) Drury Lane Theatre
C) Claventon Playhouse D) Albert Theatre

47. Who wrote The Medal of John Bayes?

A) Dryden B) Pope
C) Shadwell D) Shaftesbury

48. The trivial event of the cutting of a lock of hair of----------- triggered the
creation of The Rape of the Lock by Pope
A) Lady ArabellaFermon B) Lady Elizabeth Barret
C) Lady LucretiaRaworth D) Lady Boswell Kingsley

49. The Pickwick Papers was written by----------

A) Thackeray B) Dickens
C) Stevenson D) Hardy

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50. Give the other term for “when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries,
doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason”
A) Objective correlative B) Dissociation of sensibility
C) Negative capability D) Stream of consciousness

51. The fight between the Ancients and the Moderns in Swift’s The Battle of the
Books is to occupy the peak of ----------
A) Pallas B) Cornhill
C) Arthur’s Count D) Parnassus

52. What is the subtitle of Wordsworth’s The Prelude?

A) Growth of a Poet’s Mind B) Philosophy of a Poem
C) Nature, Man and Society D) Poetic Imagination

53. The five-act tragedy The Cenci was written by ---------

A) Sheridan B) Shelley
C) Dryden D) Byron

54. Which work of Byron made him remark “woke one morning and found myself
famous”?
A) Fugitive Pieces B) British Bards
C) The Vision of Judgement D) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

55. The Heart of Midlothian is written by -----------

A) Joseph Conrad B) John Ruskin
C) Walter Scott D) Charles Dickens

56. Hopkins’ work ------------ .is dedicated to the memory of five Franciscan nuns
A) The Windhover B) God’s Grandeur
C) Pied Beauty D) The Wreck of Deutschland

57. In Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff is picked up on the streets of Liverpool by

A) Mr. Earnshaw B) Mr.Hindley
C) Mr. Hareton D) Mr. Edgar

58. Hopkins termed his “oratorical” poetic diction as -----------

A) Terzarima B) Blank Verse
C) Octavarima D) Sprung rhythm

59. In which poem does the following line occur: “Our sweetest songs are those that
tell of saddest thought?”
A) Ode to the West Wind B) Ode on a Grecian Urn
C) Ode to Skylark D) Ode to Nightingale

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60. Elizabeth Bennet is a character in ---------
A) Emma B) The Mill on the Floss
C) Pride and Prejudice D) Wuthering Heights

61. Who was the subject of Yeats’ early love poetry?

A) Maud Gonne B) Lady Gregory
C) Countess Kathleen D) Anne Haniman

62. Yeats, Synge and Lady Gregory were members of the Irish National Theatre team
who opened the --------- in 1904
A) Drury Lane Theatre B) The Globe
C) Irish Theatre D) Abbey Theatre

63. ---------- is not a section in Eliot’s Four Quartets

A) Ash Wednesday B) East Coker
C) Little Gidding D) Burnt Norton

64. --------- wrote the biography of Philip Larkin

A) Stephen Spender B) Andrew Motion
C) Ezra Pound D) TSEliot

65. ----------- does not belong to the Movement Poets

A) Andrew Motion B) D.J. Enright
C) Elizabeth Jennings D) John Wain

66. Imagism was influenced by the aesthetic theories of ----------

A) Keats B) Coleridge
C) Hilda Doolittle D) TEHulme

67. ---------- .is not one of Seamus Heaney’s collections of poems

A) Cliffs of Fall B) Death of a Naturalist
C) Wintering Out D) Field Work

68. The poem Hawk Roosting was written by ------------

A) Philip Larkin B) Sylvia Plath
C) Seamus Heaney D) Ted Hughes

69. In which play does Edward Bond make Shakespeare as the central character?
A) The Woman B) Bingo
C) Lear D) Restoration

70. Who wrote the poem Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher?

A) Sarojini Naidu B) Kamala Das
C) Nissim Ezekiel D) Keki N. Daruwallah

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71. Greene’s The Power and the Glory is set in the city of ----------
A) London B) Mexico
C) Dublin D) Rome

72. Which of the following was not written by James Joyce?

A) The Yellow Book B) Dubliner
C) Ulysses D) Finnegan’s Wake

73. The pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair is ----------

A) George Eliot B) George Orwell
C) John Osborne D) Oscar Wilde

74. Which is the place connected to the events in Forster’s A Passage to India?
A) Malgudi B) Hastinapur
C) Chandrapore D) Durgapur

75. Who is not a character in Golding’s Lord of the Flies?

A) Nick B) Piggy
C) Ralph D) Simon

76. Who wrote the controversial workWhy I am not a Christian?

A) Russell B) Huxley
C) Strachey D) Golding

77. Sean O’Casey uses --------- techniques in Juno and the Paycock
A) Impressionist B) Imagist
C) Modernist D) Expressionist

78. Which of the following is not written by VSNaipaul?

A) The Financial Expert B) The Mimic Men
C) The Mystic Masseur D) The Area of Darkness

79. Toni Morrison’s first novel was -----------

A) Sula B) Song of Solomon
C) The Bluest Eye D) Tar Baby

80. Which of the following is not written by Chinua Achebe?

A) A Dance of the Forests B) Things Fall Apart
C) The Flute and the Drum D) Arrow of Gold

81. ---------- coined the term “The Great Vowel Shift.”

A) Otto Jesperson B) Thomas Pyles
C) David Crystal D) Richard Watson

82. The ‘o’ in the word ‘out’ is ----------

A) a long vowel B) a short vowel
C) a diphthong D) silent

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83. Which grammatical item is not used in the sentence: “I took my big black dog to
the vet yesterday”?
A) Adverb B) Adjective
C) Preposition D) Conjunction

84. Identify the ‘ӕ’ sound in one of the following words:

A) Face B) Base
C) Hand D) Apple

85. They have a lot of ---------- with the new project

A) Chicken feel B) Teething troubles
C) Cutting side D) Playing edge

86. The sound ‘ᴐi’ is found in one of the following words:

A) Naughty B) Should
C) House D) Annoy

87. Inflectional morphemes can be ---------

A) Infixes only B) Prefixes and suffixes
C) Suffixes only D) Prefixes only

88. How many syllables does the word ‘examination’ contain?

A) 2 B) 3 C) 5 D) 4

89. The study of the structure of words is called --------

A) Syntax B) Semantics
C) Phonology D) Morphology

90. Which of the following is not an irregular verb?

A) sing B) laugh C) swim D) sit

91. AIR is a/an ---------- for All India Radio

A) Acronym B) Portmanteau
C) Neologism D) Clipping

92. Homonym means -----------

A) Same word, different meaning
B) Same word same meaning
C) Different word different meaning
D) Different word same meaning

93. Reaction is a word that contains ----------

A) Bound morpheme +free morpheme
B) Free + bound morpheme + free
C) Bound +free morpheme+bound
D) Free+bound morpheme+bound

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94. In which language family is the origin of English Language?
A) Latin B) North American
C) French D) Indo-European

95. What is Old-English also known as?

A) King’s English B) Anglo-Saxon
C) Celtic D) Indo-European

96. TG Grammar is based on the findings of ------------

A) Bloomfield B) Sapir
C) Chomsky D) Nordquist

97. ‘A whale of a time’ means ----------

A) Have a great time and enjoy oneself
B) Have a bad time with misfortunes
C) Have a busy time and with responsibilities
D) Have a lot of time and waste it

98. The Manager is extremely efficient but the corruption of his employees is his
A) Champ at the bit B) Achilles heel
C) Tooth and nail D) Fairplay

99. What is the synonym for the word ‘warily’?

A) Recklessly B) Incautiously
C) Gingerly D) Heedlessly

100. Which is not the antonym of the word ‘fortitude’?

A) Faintheartedness B) Mettle
C) Fearfulness D) Cowardice

101. Who said that “language is primarily an auditory system of symbols?”

A) Franz Boas B) Edward Sapir
C) Noam Chomsky D) Ferdinand de Saussure

102. --------- is not connected with Postcolonialism

A) Ashcroft B) Tiffin
C) Leela Gandhi D) Leavis

103. Orientalism is associated with --------

A) Edward Said B) T S Eliot
C) Homi K. Bhabha D) Jacques Derrida

104. TheDeath of the Authoris an essay by ----------

A) Barthes B) Freud
C) Bloom D) Derrida

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105. Harold Bloom put forth the theory ---------- .based on Oedipus Complex.
A) Diachronic Approach B) The Anxiety of Influence
C) Diegesis D) Hermeneutics

106. ----------- might be described as a moral or philosophical critic who argues that
works must have “high seriousness”
A) Eliot B) Derrida
C) Arnold D) CSLewis

107. Structuralist literary theory is based on the linguistic theory of --------

A) Bloomfield B) Saussure
C) Lacan D) Chomsky

108. Who introduced the term “Objective Correlative” in formalist criticism?

A) T S Eliot B) Arnold
C) Virginia Woolf D) C S Lewis

109. Which critic would most likely be concerned with the structures and patterns
modelled on the seasons and on mythic categories?
A) T S Eliot B) Matthew Arnold
C) Derrida D) Northorp Frye

110. ----------- is Virginia Woolf’s contribution to feminist criticism

A) The Voyage out B) A Room of One’s Own
C) Between the Acts D) The Common Reader

111. Formalist critics were against ----------

A) Pathetic Fallacy B) Poetic Fallacy
C) Personal Fallacy D) Intentional Fallacy

112. ----------- proposed all female characters in 3 stages: the feminine, female,
feminist.
A) Mary Wollstonecraft B) Elaine Showalter
C) Virginia Woolf D) Simon de Beauvoir

113. ---------- viewed that the unconscious and perception of oneself are shaped in the
“symbolic” order of language.
A) Freud B) Jung
C) Lacan D) Foucault

114. The method of English Language Teaching by using mother tongue or native
language is called ------------
A) Suggestopedia
B) Silent way
C) Grammar Translation Method
D) Audio-Lingual method

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115. Multiple Intelligence is associated with ----------
A) Gardner B) Chomsky
C) Skinner D) Bloomfield

116. Krashen is noted for his ----------- theory

A) Second Language Acquisition
B) Operant Conditioning
C) Classical Conditioning
D) First language learning

117. CLT focuses on the acquisition of ------------

A) Linguistic competence B) Communicative competence
C) Grammatical competence D) Reading Competence

118. Who of the following is not associated with the Gestalt group of
Psychologists?
A) Werthimes B) Piaget
C) Koffka D) Kohler
119. Interlanguage was a concept introduced by ---------
A) Skinner B) Chomsky
C) Selinker D) Watson

120. What does EAP mean?

A) English and Proficiency B) English Acquisition Proficiency
C) English Adult Programme D) English for Academic Purposes

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