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d. Walt Whitman
6. What was strange about Emily

POETRY Dickinson?
Maneesh Rastogi a. She rarely left home
b. She wrote in code
c. She never attempted to publish her
1. Which poem ends 'I shall but love poetry
thee better after death'? d. She wrote her poems in invisible ink
a. How do I love thee
b. Ode to a Grecian urn 7. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry
c. In faith I do not love thee with mine during which conflict?
eyes a. Boer War
d. Let me not to the marriage of true b. Second World War
minds c. Korean War
d. First World War
2. Which poet is considered a national
hero in Greece? 8. Which Poet Laureate wrote about a
a. John keats church mouse?
b. Lord Byron a. Betjeman
c. Solan b. Hughes
d. Sappho c. Marvel
d. Larkin
3. Which kind of poem is Edward Lear
associated with? 9. Which American writer published 'A
a. Nature brave and startling truth' in 1996
b. Epics a. Robert Hass
c. Sonnets b. Jessica Hagdorn
d. Nonsense c. Maya Angelou
d. Micheal Palmer
4. In coleridge's poem 'The rime of the
Ancient Mariner'where were the three 10. Who wrote about the idyllic 'Isle of
gallants going? Innisfree'?
a. A funeral a. Dylan Thomas
b. A wedding b. Ezra Pound
c. Market c. W. B. Yeats
d. To the races d. e. e. cummings
5. Harold Nicholson described which 11. A pattern of accented and

poet as 'Very yellow and glum. Perfect unaccented syllables in lines of poetry
manners'?
a. e. e. Cummings 1. rhyme scheme
b. T. S. Elliot 2. meter
3. alliteration 18. a description that appeals to one of
the five senses
12. The repetition of similar ending
sounds 1. imagery
2. personification
1. alliteration 3. metaphor
2. onomatopoiea
3. rhyme 19. A poem that tells a story with plot,
setting, and characters
13. Applying human qualities to non-
human things 1. lyric
2. free verse
1. personification 3. narrative
2. onomatopoeia
3. alliteration 20. A poem with no meter or rhyme
14. The repetition of beginning 1. lyric

consonant sounds 2. free verse
3. narrative
1. rhyme
2. onomatopoeia 21. A poem that generally has meter
3. alliteration and rhyme
15. A comparison of unlike things 1. lyric

without using a word of comparison 2. free verse
such as like or as 3. narrative
1. metaphor
2. simile Maneesh Rastogi
3. personification
16. The comparison of unlike things 22. Sylvia Plath married which English
using the words like or as poet?
a. Masefield
1. metaphor b. Causley
2. simile c. Hughes
3. personification d. Larkin
17. Using words or letters to imitate 23. Carl Sandburg 'Planked whitefish'
sounds contains what kind of imagery?
a. Sea scenes
1. alliteration b. Rural Idyll
2. simile c. War
3. onomatopoeia d. Innocent childhood
24. Which influential American poet was poetic tradition?
born in Long Island in 1819? a. The Epic
a. Emily Dickinson b. The Comic
b. Paul Dunbar c. The Occult
c. John Greenleaf Whittier d. The Tragic
d. Walt Whitman
31. What is the study of poetry's meter
25. In 1960 'The Colossus' was the first and form called?
book of poems published by which a. Prosody
poetess? b. Potology
a. Elizabeth Bishop c. Rheumatology
b. Sylvia Plath d. Scansion
c. Marianne Moore
d. Laura Jackson 32. Shakespeare composed much of his
plays in what sort of verse?
26. In his poem Kipling said 'If you can a. Alliterative verse
meet with triumph and . . . . . . . . . . . . b. Sonnet form
. . . '? c. Iambic pentameter
a. Glory d. Dactylic hexameter
b. Ruin
c. Disaster 33. Which poet invented the concept of
d. victory the variable foot in poetry?
a. William Carlos Williams
27. Which of the following is not a b. Emily Dickinson
literary device used for aesthetic effect c. Gerard Manly Hopkins
in poetry? d. Robert Frost
a. Assonance
b. Onomatopaea 34. Who wrote this famous line: 'Shall I
c. Rhyme compare thee to a summer's day/ Thou
d. Grammar art more lovely and more temperate…'
a. TS Eliot
28. True or false: Writing predates b. Lord Tennyson
poetry. c. Charlotte Bronte
a. True d. Shakespeare
b. False
35. From what century does the poetic
29. What is the earliest surviving form the folk ballad date?
European poem? a. The 12th
a. The Homeric epic b. The 14th
b. The Gilgamesh epic c. The 17th
c. The Deluge epic d. The 19th
d. The Hesiodic ode
36. From which of Shakespeare's plays
30. Which of the following is not a is this famous line: 'Did my heart love til
now?/ Forswear it, sight/ For I never Maneesh Rastogi
saw a true beauty until this night'
a. A Midsummer Night's Dream
b. Hamlet 42. Which of the following words
c. Othello describe the prevailing attitude of High-
d. Romeo and Juliet Modern Literature?
a.Skeptical
37. What is a poem called whose first b.Authoritative
letters of each line spell out a word? c.Impressionistic
a. Alliterative d.Confident
b. Epic e.Both a & c
c. Acrostic
d. Haiku 43. Which Welsh poet wrote "Under Milk
Wood?"
38. Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem a.Anthony Hopkins
by whom? b.Richard Burton
a. Sir Walter Scott c.Tom Jones
b. William Butler Yeats d.Dylan Thomas
c. Henry Longfellow
d. Robert Burns 44. Who wrote Canterbury Tales?
a.Geoffrey Chaucer
39. How has Stephen Dunn been b.Dick Whittington
described in 'the Oxford Companion to c.Thomas Lancaster
20th Century Poetry? d.King Richard II
a. A poet of middleness
b. Capturing a sense of spiritual 45. Who wrote "The Hound of the
marooness Baskervilles?"
c. One of the leading prairie poets a.Agatha Christie
d. Has some distinction as a critic b.H Ryder-Haggard
c.P D James
40. 'The Cambridge school' refers to a d.Arthur Conan Doyle
group who emerged when?
a. The 1900's 46. Wlliam Shakespeare is not the
b. The 1960's author of:
c. The 1920's a.Titus Andronicus
d. The 1930's b.Taming of the Shrew
c.White Devil
41. Margaret Atwood was born in which d.Hamlet
Canadian city?
a. Vancouver 47. ___________is a late 20th century
b. Toronto play written by a woman?
c. Ottowa a.Queen Cristina
d. Montreal b.Top Girls
c.Camille
d.The Homecoimg a.Paradise Lost
b.Paradise Regained
48. Which of the following writers wrote c.Samson Agonistes
historical novels? d.Divorce Tracts
a.Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte
b.Sir Walter Scott and Maria 54. William Shakespeare was born in the
Edgeworth year:
c.William Wordsworth and Samuel a.1564
Taylor Coleridge b.1544
d.Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley c.1578
d.1582
49. Who wrote "Ten Little Niggers?"
a.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 55. Which of the following is not a
b.Irvine Welsh Shakespeare tragedy?
c.Agatha Christie a.Titus Andronicus
d.None of above b.Othello
c.Macbeth
50. Which of the following are Thomas d.Hamlet
Hardy books? e.None of the above
a.The Poor Man and the Lady
b.The Return of Native 56. Who wrote 'The Winter's Tale?'
c.Chollttee a.George Bernard Shaw
d.None of the above b.John Dryden
c.Christopher Marlowe
51. Which of the following is not a work d.William Shakespeare
of John Keats?
a.Endymion
b.To some ladies
c.To hope 57. What is the difference between a
d.None of above simile and a metaphor?
a) No difference. Simply two different
52. Who wrote the poems, "On death" ways in referring to the same thing.
and "Women, Wine, and Snuff?" b) A simile is more descriptive.
a.John Milton c) A simile uses as or like to make a
b.John Keats comparison and a metaphor
c.P.B. Shelley doesn't.
d.William Wordsworth d) A simile must use animals in the
comparison.
53. "Of Man's first disobedience, and the
fruit Of that forbidden tree whose 58. What is the word for a "play on
mortal taste Brought death into the words"?
world, and all our woe, With loss of a) pun
Eden." b) simile
This is an extract from: c) haiku
d) metaphor 65. Which is an exaggeration?
a) Alliteration
59. Which represents an example of b) Haiku
alliteration? c) Hyperbole
a) Language Arts d) Prose
b) Peter Piper Picked Peppers
c) I like music. 66. Which of the following is not a poet?
d) A beautiful scenery with music a) William Shakespeare
b) Terry Saylor
60. What is the imitation of natural c) Elizabeth B. Browning
sounds in word form? d) Emily Dickinson
a) Personification
b) Hyperboles
c) Alliteration
d) Onomatopoeia 67. Who has defined 'poetry' as a
fundamental creative act using
61. The theme is ...? languages?
a) a plot. a. H. W. Longfellow
b) an character b. Ralph Waldo Emerson
c) an address c. Dylan Thomas
d) the point a writer is trying to d. William Wordsworth
make about a subject.
68. What is a sonnet?
62. Concentrate on these elements a. A poem of six lines
when writing a good poem. b. A poem of eight lines
a) characters, main idea, and theme c. A poem of twelve lines
b) purpose and audience d. A poem of fourteen lines
c) theme, purpose, form, and
mood. 69. What is study of meter, rhythm and
d) rhyme and reason intonation of a poem called as?
a. Prosody
63. Which is not a poetry form? b. Allegory
a) epic c. Scansion
b) tale d. Assonance
c) ballad
d) sonnet 70. Which figure of speech is it when a
statement is exaggerated in a poem?
64. Which is an example of a proverb? a. Onomatopeia
a) Get a "stake" in our business. b. Metonymy
b) You can't have your cake and eat c. Alliteration
it, too d. Hyperbole
c) The snow was white as cotton.
d) You're driving me crazy. 71. There was aware of her true love, at
length come riding by - This is a couplet
from the Bailiff's Daughter of Islington. c. John Milton
What figure of speech is used by the d. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
poet?
a. Metaphor 77. Who was often called as the
b. Synecdoche Romantic Poet as most of his poems
c. Euphemism revolved around nature?
d. Irony a. William Blake
b. William Shakespeare
72. Which culture is known for their c. William Morris
long, rhymic poetic verses known as d. William Wordsworth
Qasidas?
a. Hindu 78. What is a funny poem of five lines
b. Celtic called?
c. Arabic a. Quartet
d. Arameic b. Limerick
c. Sextet
73. Complete this Shakespearan line - d. Palindrome
Let me not to the marriage of true
minds bring:
a. Impediments
b. Inconveniences 79. How did W. H. Auden describe
c. Worries poetry?
d. Troubles a. An awful way to earn a living
b. A game of knowledge
74. Which of the following is a Japanese c. The soul exposed
poetic form? d. An explosion of language
a. Jintishi
b. Villanelle 80. Sassoon and Brooke wrote what
c. Ode kind of poetry?
d. Tanka a. Light verse
b. Romantic
75. What is the title of the poem that c. Political satire
begins thus - 'What is this life, if full of d. War poems
care, we have no time to stand and
stare'? 81. Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of
a. Comfort his childhood?
b. Leisure a. Denver
c. Relaxation b. St Louis
d. Tranquility c. Cuba
d. Toronto
76. Which of the following is not an
English poet (i. e. from England)? 82. Ted Hughes was married to which
a. Victor Hugo American poetess?
b. Alexander Pope a. Carolyn Kizer
b. Mary Oliver b. Kipling
c. Sylvia Plath c. Cummings
d. Marianne Moore d. Brooke
83. How old was Rupert Brooke at the 1.which of these is magnum opus of
time of his death? chaucer?
a. 24 A. Troilus and criseyde
b. 31 b. House of fame
c. 21 c. The canterbury tales
d. 28 d. Parliament of fowls.
84. In what form did Dylan Thomas's 89. Where were the pilgrims going in
'Under Milk Wood' first become known? the canterbury tales?
a. Book of poetry A. To the shrine of st. Peter at
b. A radio play canterbury cathedral
c. A stage play b. To the shrine of saint thomas
d. a short film becket at canterbury cathedral
85. The magazine 'Contemporary Poetry 90.in which language the stories of
and Prose' was inspired by which canterbury tale are written?
exhibition? A. French
a. The Festival of Britain b. Latin
b. The Surrealist Exhibition c. Middle english
c. People of the 20th Century d. English
d. Drawing the 20th CEntury
91.chaucer's franklin was guilty of which
86. Why did 'Poetry Quarterly' cease sin?
publication in 1953? A. Lust
a. Owner convicted of fraud b. Corruption
b. Fall in Sales c. Theft
c. Rise in taxation on magazines d. Gluttony
d. Shortage of paper
92. How many languages did chaucer
87. Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was know?
better known as what? A.2
a. Politician b.4
b. Dramatist c.1
c. Novelist d.5
d. Architect
93.from which language the name
88. Of which poet was it said 'Even if ''chaucer'' has been driven?
he's not a great poet, he's certainly a A.french
great something'? b.latin
a. Elliot c.italian
d.english b) Arthur
c) Caedmon
94. Where did chaucer bury? d) Augustine of Canterbury
A.westminster abbey e) Alfred
b.kent church
c.chapel at windsor 100. Toward the close of which century
95.chaucer was imprisoned during------- did English replace French as the
---------------? language of conducting business in
A.hundred years' war Parliament and in court of law?
b. Black death a) tenth
c. Peasant revolt b) eleventh
c) twelfth
96 .how many children chaucer had? d) thirteenth
A.4 e) fourteenth
b.1
c.0 101. Which king began a war to enforce
d.2 his claims to the throne of France in
1336?
MIDDLE AGES a) Henry II
b) Henry III
c) Henry V
97. Which people began their invasion d) Louis XIV
and conquest of southwestern Britain e) Edward III
around 450?
a) the Normans 102. Who would be called the English
b) the Geats Homer and father of English poetry?
c) the Celts a) Bede
d) the Anglo-Saxons b) Sir Thomas Malory
e) the Danes c) Geoffrey Chaucer
d) Caedmon
98. Words from which language began e) John Gower
to enter English vocabulary around the
time of the Norman Conquest in 1066? 103. What was vellum?
a) French a) parchment made of animal skin
b) Norwegian b) the service owed to a lord by his
c) Spanish peasants ("villeins")
d) Hungarian c) unrhymed iambic pentameter
e) Danish d) an unbreakable oath of fealty
e) a prized ink used in the illumination
99. Which hero made his earliest of prestigious manuscripts
appearance in Celtic literature before
becoming a staple subject in French, 104. Only a small proportion of medieval
English, and German literatures? books survive, large numbers having
a) Beowulf been destroyed in:
a) the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning sympathy.
in the 1450s. d) bigotry and shallow triumphalism.
b) the Norman Conquest of 1066. e) the deepest reluctance.
c) the Peasant Uprising of 1381.
d) the Dissolution of the 109. The use of "whale-road"for sea and
Monasteries in the 1530s. "life-house"for body are examples of
e) the wave of contempt for what literary technique, popular in Old
manuscripts that followed the beginning English poetry?
of printing in 1476. a) symbolism
b) simile
105. What is the first extended written c) metonymy
specimen of Old English? d) kenning
a) Boethius's Consolidation of e) appositive expression
Philosophy
b) Saint Jerome's translation of the Bible 110. Which of the following statements
c) Malory's Morte Darthur is not an accurate description of Old
d) Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English poetry?
English People a) Romantic love is a guiding
e) a code of laws promulgated by principle of moral conduct.
King Ethelbert b) Its formal and dignified use of speech
was distant from everyday use of
106. Who was the first English Christian language.
king? c) Irony is a mode of perception, as
a) Alfred much as it was a figure of speech.
b) Richard III d) Christian and pagan ideals are
c) Richard II sometimes mixed.
d) Henry II e) Its idiom remained remarkably
e) Ethelbert uniform for nearly three centuries.
107. In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what 111. Which of the following best
is the fate of those who fail to observe describes litote, a favorite rhetorical
the sacred duty of blood vengeance? device in Old English poetry?
a) banishment to Asia a) embellishment at the service of
b) everlasting shame Christian doctrine
c) conversion to Christianity b) repetition of parallel syntactic
d) mild melancholia structures
e) being buried alive c) ironic understatement
d) stress on every third diphthong
108. Christian writers like the Beowulf e) a compound of two words in place of
poet looked back on their pagan a single word
ancestors with:
a) nostalgia and ill-concealed envy. 112. How did Henry II, the first of
b) bewilderment and visceral loathing. England's Plantagenet kings, acquire
c) admiration and elegiac vast provinces in southern France?
a) the Battle of Hastings
b) Saint Patrick's mission 117. What is the climax of Geoffrey of
c) the Fourth Lateran Council Monmouth's The History of the Kings of
d) the execution of William Sawtre Britain?
e) his marriage to Eleanor of a) the reign of King Arthur
Aquitaine b) the coronation of Henry II
c) King John's seal of the Magna Carta
113. Which of the following languages d) the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor
did not coexist in Anglo-Norman of Aquitaine
England? e) the defeat of the French by Henry V
a) Latin
b) Dutch 118. Ancrene Riwle is a manual of
c) French instruction for
d) Celtic a) courtiers entering the service of
e) English Richard II
b) translators of French romances
114. Which twelfth-century poet or c) women who have chosen to live
poets were indebted to Breton as religious recluses
storytellers for their narratives? d) knights preparing for their first
a) Geoffrey Chaucer tournament
b) Marie de France e) witch-hunters and exorcists
c) Chrétien de Troyes
d) a and c only 119. The styles of The Owl and the
e) b and c only Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show
what about the poetry and prose written
115. To what did the word the roman, around the year 1200?
from which the genre of a) They were written for sophisticated
"romance"emerged, initially apply? and well-educated readers.
a) a work derived from a Latin text of b) Writing continued to benefit only
the Roman Empire readers fluent in Latin and French.
b) a story about love and adventure c) Their readers' primary language was
c) a Roman official English.
d) a work written in the French d) a and c only
vernacular e) a and b only
e) a series of short stories
120. In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer
116. Popular English adaptations of and William Langland, the "flowering"of
romances appealed primarily to Middle English literature is evident in the
a) the royal family and upper orders of works of which of the following writers?
the nobility a) Geoffrey of Monmouth
b) the lower orders of the nobility b) the Gawain poet
c) agricultural laborers c) the Beowulf poet
d) the clergy d) Chrétien de Troyes
e) the Welsh e) Marie de France
a) the short story
b) the heroic epic
121. Why did the rebels of 1381 target c) the morality play
the church, beheading the archbishop of d) the romance
Canterbury? e) the limerick
a) Their leaders were Lollards,
advocating radical religious reform. 126. Which of the following statements
b) The common people were still about Julian of Norwich is true?
essentially pagan. a) She sought unsuccessfully to restore
c) They believed that writing, a skill classical paganism.
largely confined to the clergy, was a b) She was a virgin martyr.
form of black magic. c) She is the first known woman
d) The church was among the writer in the English vernacular.
greatest of oppressive landowners. d) She made pilgrimages to Jerusalem,
e) a and c only Rome, and Santiago.
e) She probably never met Margery
122. Which influential medieval text Kempe.
purported to reveal the secrets of the
afterlife? 127. Which of the following authors is
a) Dante's Divine Comedy considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is
b) Boccaccio's Decameron personified in Sir Lancelot?
c) The Dream of the Rood a) Julian of Norwich
d) Chaucer's Legend of Good Women b) Margery Kempe
e) Gower's Confessio Amantis c) William Langland
d) Sir Thomas Malory
123. Who is the author of Piers e) Geoffrey Chaucer
Plowman?
a) Sir Thomas Malory 128.what was the occupation of
b) Margery Kempe Chaucer's father?
c) Geoffrey Chaucer a. leather merchant
d) William Langland b.civil servant
e) Geoffrey of Monmouth c. a vintner
124. What event resulted from the 129. Chaucer became a page to which
premature death of Henry V? king's daughter-in-law?
a) the Battle of Agincourt a. Edward III
b) the Battle of Hastings b. Richard II
c) the Norman Conquest c. Henry IV
d) the Black Death
e) the War of the Roses 130. which of these is not certain about
Chaucer?
125. Which literary form, developed in a. his birth date
the fifteenth century, personified vices b. his death year
and virtues? c. his father's name
d. Buckingham Palace
131. which of these kings was not
served by Chaucer? 138. Chaucer acted as a controller of
a. Edward III custom during.............?
b. Henry II a. 1374 to 1385
c. Richard II b. 1350 to 1360
c. 1360 to 1400
132.what was the duration of hundred
year's war? 139. Chaucer was released from legal
a.1300 to 1350 action by ........................ in a deed of
b.1337 to 1453 May 1, 1380 from rape and abduction?
c. 1302 to 1343 a. Miss Cecily Chaumpaigne
b. Philippa de Roet of Flanders
133.what did Chaucer's wife use to do? c. Agnes de Copton
a. lady-in-waiting to Queen Philip
pa of Hainaut 140. Chaucer became a member of
b. nurse of royal court Parliament in...........?
c. governess to Henry IV a. 1386
b. 1300
134.one of Chaucer's daughter c. 1343
was............?
a. a musician 141. Chaucer buried in a corner of
b. an astronomer Westminster, which came to know
c. a nun as.........?
a. Chaucer's corner
135. in which year chaucer was b. poet's corner
imprisoned by the French? c. legend's corner
a. 1360
b. 1357 142. what was chaucer's profession?
c. 1378 a. a poet
b. a merchant
136.chaucer was fined in 1367 or 1366 c. a civil servant
for..............?
a. beating a friar in a London street
b. for writing poetry against the church
c. for crossing the border of Great Maneesh Rastogi
Britain
137. Chaucer was made in-charge of The Life and Works of Christopher
many palaces,which of these was not in Marlowe
his charge? ( Elizabethan era)
a. Westminster Palace
b. Tower of London 143)One of Marlowe's earliest published
c. St. George's chapel at Windsor works was his translation of the epic
poem 'Pharsalia', written by which
Roman poet? 149) Marlowe's play 'Tamburlaine the
a)Ovid Great' was based loosely on the life of
b)Lucan which Asian ruler?
c)Virgil a)Zhu Yuanzhang
d)Horace b)Genghis Khan
c)Timur
144) Marlowe's poem 'The Passionate d)Kublai Khan
Shepherd to His Love' begins with the
line "Come live with me and be my 150)What was the title of the play by
love"; which other English author wrote Marlowe that portrayed the events
a famous poem beginning with this line? surrounding the Saint Bartholomew's
a)William Shakespeare Day Massacre in 1572?
b)Thomas Kyd a)The Massacre at Berlin
c)John Dryden b)The Massacre at Rome
d)John Donne c)The Massacre at Copenhagen
d)The Massacre at Paris
145)In Marlowe's play, what was the
name of the Jew of Malta? 151)In the title of Marlowe's play, of
a)Lazarus where was Dido the Queen?
b)Solomon a)Troy
c)Barabas b)Carthage
d)Shylock c)Sparta
d)Persia
146How many years of happiness was
Dr Faustus promised by the Devil? 152)Christopher Marlowe was England's
a)16 first official Poet Laureate.
b)20 a)True
c)24 b)False
d)28 (It was John Dryden-appointed in
1670)
147) Which of these Kings was the
subject of a play by Marlowe?
a)Henry V Dr.Faustus By Christopher Marlowe
b)Richard III
c)Edward II 153)In what country is 'Dr Faustus'
d)John based?
a)England
148)One of Marlowe's most famous b)Italy
poems was an account of which lovers? c)France
a)Anthony and Cleopatra d)Germany
b)Hero and Leander
c)Troilus and Cressida 154)When, is it estimated, was 'Dr
d)Apollo and Hyacinth Faustus' first performed?
a)1594
b)1604 160)Which of the following qualities
c)1590 would most accurately describe Faustus'
d)1593 character at the beginning of the play?
155)At what famous university is a)kind

Faustus a scholar? b)stupid
a)Wittenburg c)sensitive
b)Sorbonne d)arrogant
c)Heidelberg
d)Cambridge 161)Which powerful figure does
Faustus ridicule with his new-found
156)Faustus' servant shares his name powers?
with a famous German composer. Who?
a)Bach a)The Pope
b)Schumann b)The Holy Roman Emperor
c)Beethoven c)The King of England
d)Wagner d)The King of France
157)Faustus asks two magicians to aid 162)At the end of the play, Faustus is
him in summoning the devil. What are dragged down to hell, begging to
their names? repent.
a)Valdes and Cornelius a)True

b)Rosencrantz and Guildenstern b)False
c)Troilus and Cressida
d)Pyramus and Thisbe 163) "Renaissance" is a:
a)French word
b)Italian word
158)Through his magic, Faustus is c)Greek word
visited first by which of the devil's d)Spanish word
angels?
164) What is the meaning of
a)Mephastophilis "Renaissance":
b)beelzebub a)Rebirth, revival and re-awaking
c)Aamon b)Reveal, revel and reverie
159)What does Faustus promise to the c)Raillery, renunciation and recoup
devil in exchange for great knowledge,
riches and power for a period of 24 165) Renaissance first came to the:
years? a)France
a)his body b)Italy
b)his house c)England
c)his soul d)Rome
d)his horse
166) Which of the following are Maneesh Rastogi
University wits:
a)John Gower and Robert Peele
b)John Skelton and Thomas lodge 173) Who took Degree at fifteen from
c)John Lyly and Robert Greene Cambridge in 1518?
d)John Donne and Thomas Nashe a)Thomas Nash
b)Thomas More
167) University Wits were those who: c)Thomas lodge
a)Had training at two universities d)Thomas Wyatt
b)gave curriculum of two universities
c)Erected two universities
174) Who wrote "Mirror for
168) Which century is known as Dawn Magistrates"?
of Renaissance: a)Thomas Sacville
a)14 th b)Thomas Wyatt
b)15 th c)Thomas lodge
c)16 th d)Thomas Kyde
d)14 th and 16 th
175) Philip Sidney was born on 30th
169) Who born in 1422: November:
a)William Caxton a)1553
b)Robert Henry b)1554
c)John Lyly c)1555
d)Thomas more d)1550
170) Utopia was first printed in: 176) "Astrophel and Stella" is a:
a)1615 a) Allegory
b)1516 b) Epic
c)1517 c)Sonnet
d)1518 d)Ballad
171) Who translated Utopia in English 177) Greville was biographer of:
language: a)Edmund Spencer
a)Thomas More b)John Donne
b)Thomas lodge c)Sir Philip Sidney
c)Ralph Robinson d)John Milton
d)William Tyndale
178) "The Prince Of Poets in his time",
172) The first complete version of Bible on whom grave the inscription is given?
in English language was made by: a)Sir Philip Sidney
a)Wyclif b)John Milton
b)Thomas more c)Edmund Spencer
c)John Lyly d)John Donne
d)Robert Greene
179) What is Faerie Queene: 185)Marlowe born in________
a)An allegory a)1562
b)An epic b)1563
c)A ballad c)1564
d)A sonnet d)1565
186)In "the tragic history of Doctor
180) In whose reign Morality plays Faustus". Faustus was a :
began? a) German scholar
a)Henry five b)French scholar
b) Elizabeth one c)Spanish scholar
c)Henry six d)Greek scholar
d)Henry eight
186)Who wrote "The Massacre at
181) Which book Edmund Spenser Paris"?
dedicated to the Philip Sidney: a)Shakespeare
a)The Faerie Queene b)Christopher Marlowe
b)The shepheaedes Calendar c)Edmund Spenser
c)Complaints d)john Milton
d)Colin Clouts come home again
187)After the death of Christopher
182) Which poet was first who used Marlowe who completed his unfinished
metaphysical poetry among his poem "Hero and Leander"?
contemporaries: a)Shakespeare
a)Edmund Spenser b)Thomas Nash
b)John Milton c)George Chapman
c)John Donne d)Thomas More
d)Sir Philip Sidney
188) Who succeeded Lyly?
183) The first regular English comedy, a)Robert Greene
based on the model of the Latin b)John Milton
comedy, is attributed to ? c)Philip Sidney
a)Nicholas Udall d)Christopher Marlowe
b)Thomas Colwell
c)Lord Burghley 189) Which of the Marlowe's plays were
written in collaboration with Thomas
184)Thomas kyd (1558-95) achieved Nash?
great popularity with which of his first a)Queen of Carthage and The
work? passionate Shepherd.
a)The Rare Triumphs of love and b)The tragedy of Dido and Queen of
fortune Carthage.
b)The Spanish Tragedy c)The passionate Shepherd and The
c)Jeronimo tragedy of Dido.
d)Cornelia d)Queen of Carthage and The Massacre
of Paris.
b)Adam
190) Who was the son of a rich London c)Both a and b
merchant and born in 1557? d)Satan
a)Thomas Nah
b)Thomas lodge 196) In "Paradise regained" who
c)Thomas Kyd regained the paradise?
d)Thomas Hardy a)Satan
b)Jesus
191) The collection of the papers and c)Adam and Eve
correspondence of a well-to-do Norfolk d)Only Adam
family is known as:
a)Letters to the Margret Paston 197) Which of the following published in
b)Margret Paston to John Paston 1579 and although it placed Spencer
c)The Paston letters immediately in the highest rank of living
d)To John Paston writers?
a)Colin clouts come home again
192) Who wrote "Holy Sonnets"? b)Faerie queen, first three books
c)The Shepherd's calendar
Maneesh Rastogi d)Faerie queen, second three books
198)Spencer married in June 11, 1594

a)Edmund Spenser to --------------------------------------?
b)John Donne a) Elizabeth Wilton D/O Lord Grey De
c)Shakespeare Wilton
d)John Milton b)Elizabeth Raleigh D/O Walter Raleigh
c)Elizabeth Boyle D/O James Boyle
193) Who wrote following lines: d)Elizabeth Boyle D/O Richard Boyle
"........ I am involved in mankind: and
therefore never send to know for whom 199)John Donne's "The Anniversaries" is
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." a:
a)John Donne a)An elegy in two parts
b)John Milton b)An epic in three parts
c)Earnest Hemingway c)A ballad in four parts
d)D.H. Lawrence d) None of these
194) "On his blindness", a collection of 200) Who of the following is known as
sonnets is written by: Child Of Renaissance?
a)Edmund Spenser a)Marlowe
b)John Milton b)Milton
c)Shakespeare c)Spencer
d)Sir Philip Sidney d)Johnson
195) "Paradise lost" was lost by: 201)During Spencer's visit to his Kinsfolk
a)Eve in Lancashire he felt in love a woman
and who figures marriage he left his native town and try
as__________________ much of his his fortune in the great city of London.
work: a)two
a)Rosalind b)three
b) Belinda c)four
c)Both a and b d)five
d)None of above
208)Shakespeare's only son Hamnet
202) William Shakespeare born in: died in------------?
a)26 April 1567 a) 1595
b)26 April 1566 b) 1596
c)26 April 1565 c)1597
d)26 April 1564 d)1598
203) William Shakespeare was....... child 209)Shakespeare is buried inside the:

of John and Mary: a)Westminster Abbey
a)second b)Trinity Church
b)fourth c)Protestant Cemetery
c)third d)None of above
d)fifth
210)By -------- Shakespeare had
204) He married to the Anne Hathaway established himself in London as an
at the age of_______ in______. actor and dramatist:
a)18, 1582 a)1590
b)17, 1581 b)1591
c)16, 1580 c)1592
d)15, 1579 d)1593
205) Which of the following statement is 211)Who declared him as Britain's

correct: greatest dramatist in 1598?
a)Shakespeare's first child Susanna was a)Queen Elizabeth
born in 1583. b)Francis Meres, a lawyer
b)In 1585 twins were born and named c)Burbage, an actor
Hamnet and Judith. d)King James
c) both a and b.
d) None of above. 212) Shakespeare made Stratford his
regular home in:
206)Ann Hathaway was _________ a)About 1611
years older than Shakespeare: b) About 1610
a)7 c)About 1609
b)8 d) About 1608
c)9
d)10 Christopher Marlowe
207)After __________ years of his
213)What is Christopher Marlowe's 218)In which town was Shakespeare
Nationality? born?
a)British a)London
b)German b)Cambridge
c)Dutch c)Stratford
d)American d)Oxford
214)What was the occupation of 219)How many children did

Christopher Marlowe's father? Shakespeare have?
a)Carpenter 1)3
b)Civil servant 2)5
c)Cobbler 3)8
d)Farmer 4)12
215)From where Christopher Marlowe 220)How many plays did William

received his early Education? Shakespeare write?
Corpus Christi College a)36
a)Cambridge b)37
b)oxford c)38
c)witternburg d)39
d)Harvard
221)What was Shakespeare's first play?
216)Marlow died of? a)King Lear
a)Illness b)Henry VI
b)stabbing c)The Tempest
c)poisoned d)Romeo and Juliet
d)Hanged 222)How many sonnets did William
Shakespeare write?
217)Which was Marlowe's first play? a)110
a)Dr.Faustus b)154
b)Tamburlaine c)175
c)The Tragedy of Dido d)187
d)The Jew of Malta,
William Shakespeare(1564 - 1616) 223)How many photographs exist of

(Elizabethan Period) William Shakespeare?
a)2
Maneesh Rastogi b)4
c)1
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224)Shakespeare died on?

a)23rd April 1616
b)25th April 1616,
c)28th April 1616 231)Which famous Shakespeare play
d)30th April 1616 does the quote,"My salad days, when I
was green in judgment." come from?
225)Shakespeare died at the age of a)Antony and Cleopatra
a)48 b)Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
b)52 c)The Winters Tale
c)60 d)The Merry Wives of Windsor
d)63
232)Which famous Shakespeare play
226)How many times suicide occurs in does the quote,"Neither a borrower nor
Shakespeare's plays? a lender be" come from?
a)Cymbeline
a)7 b)Hamlet
b)9 c)Titus Andronicus
c)11 d)Pericles, Prince of Tyre
d)13
233)Which famous Shakespeare play
does the quote "How sharper than a
227)The line "To be or not to be" serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless
comes from which play? child!" come from?
a)Macbeth a)King Lear
b)Twelfth Night b)As You Like It
c)A Midsummer Night's dream c)The Famous History of the Life of King
d)Hamlet Henry VIII
d)The Life and Death of King John
228) Was the Globe… 234)In what year was the First Folio
a) A Roman Amphitheater. published?
b) An Elizabethan Theater.
c) An Elizabethan sports stadium. a)1626
d) A famous map of the world. b)1621
c)1623
229)Is there is a monument of d)1629
Shakespeare in Stratford today?
a)True 235)What nationality was Shakespeare?
b)False
a)Italian
230)Which of these was not one of b)English
Shakespeare's plays? c)Scottish
a)Titus Andronicus d)Greek
b)The Tempest
c)Cymbeline 236)In which century was Shakespeare
d)Shakespeare in love born?
a)16th a) Richard III, King John, Henry VIII, 1
b)14th Henry VI
c)15th b) 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI,
d)17th Richard III
c) King John, Henry V, Richard II,
237)which famous Shakespeare play Richard III
does the quote "The first thing we do, d) Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry
let's kill all the lawyers" come from? IV, Henry V
a)The Merry Wives of Windsor

b)Othello, the Moor of Venice 242)In 1613 the Globe Theater burned
c)Pericles, Prince of Tyre down during a production of which play?
d)King Henry the Sixth, Part II
a) King John
238)Which river is associated with b) Richard II
Shakespeare's birth place? c) Henry VIII
d) Henry V
a)The Thames
b)The Avon Hamlet
c)The Tyburn Maneesh Rastogi
d)The Seven
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239)Which famous play does the
quote,"When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?" come
from?
243)Complete the following famous line
a) The Taming of the Shrew from Hamlet: Something is rotten in the
b) King Lear state of...
c) The Tempest a) England
d) Macbeth b) Venice
c) Denmark
240)How many of Shakespeare's plays d) Maine
are classified as histories?
244)Which of the following characters
a) 7 does not appear in Hamlet?
b) 10 a) Polonius
c) 14 b) Gertrude
d) 18 c) Claudius
d) Miranda
241)The group of four plays known as 245)Where was Hamlet studying before
the "major tetralogy" is: he returned to Denmark?
a) Wittenberg
b) Oslo 251)Who is Voltimand?
c) London a) Ambassador to the King of
d) Dublin Norway from the King of Denmark
b) Hamlet's cousin
246)How are Polonius and Laertes c) Ambassador to the King of Denmark
related? from the King of Norway
d) Assassin in the service of Fortinbras
a) Father/son
b) Uncle/nephew 252)What poison does Claudius pour
c) Cousin/cousin into the ear of Hamlet's father, causing
d) Brother/brother his death?
a) Burdock
247)What is the name of the playlet b) Hebenon
Hamlet stages for Claudius? c) Baneberry
d) Hemlock
a) Slings and Arrows
b) Vice of Kings 253)How many soliloquies does Hamlet
c) The Murder of Gonzago deliver?
d) The Slaying of Lucianus
a)2
248)Who says, "Good night, sweet b)4
prince,/And flights of angels sing thee to c)7
thy rest."? d)9
a) Fortinbras
b) Marcellus
c) Chorus Macbeth
d) Horatio
254)In which country is Macbeth set?
249)How does Queen Gertrude die?
a) Accidentally stabbed by Laertes. a) Spain
b) Drowns in the river outside the b) Denmark
castle. c) Scotland
c) Suffers a fatal heart attack while d) Canada
watching Hamlet fight Laertes.
d) Poisoned by drinking from 255)Who is traveling with Macbeth
Hamlet's cup. when he first encounters the Three
Witches?
250)Who does Polonius send to spy on a) Macduff
Laertes in Paris? b) Mercutio
a) Francisco c) Lady Macbeth
b) Gorgonzola d) Banquo
c) Reynaldo
d) Samson 256)At the beginning of the play, the
Scots are at war with which country? d) Caithness
a) Norway 261) Shakespeare"s father died in:

b) Prussia a) 1600
c) Iceland b) 1601
d) Poland c) 1602
d) 1603
257)Macbeth hires assassins to murder
Banquo's son, named... 262) Shakespeare joined the Chamber
a) Angus lain's Men Theatrical Company as a:
b) Ross a) Actor and playwright
c) Fleance b) Playwright and poet
d) Lennox c)Playwright and writer
d)None of above
258)How does Lady Macbeth explain
her husband's wild behavior at the
banquet? 263) How many from his plays were
published in his lifetime:
a) She tells the guests that Banquo's a) Only sixteen
ghost is haunting Macbeth. b) Only seventeen
b) She tells the guests that Macbeth has c) Only eighteen
had too much to drink. d) Only nineteen
c) She informs the guests that
Macbeth is ill. 264) In which year Globe theater got
d) She reveals that Macbeth is fire and destroyed?
overcome with grief over the death of a)1610
Duncan. b)1611
c)1612
259)Which of the following is not an d)1613
apparition shown to Macbeth by the
Witches:
a) An armed head. 265)Shakespeare dedicated his long
b) A bloody dagger floating in mid- narrative poem Venus and Adonis to-----
air. ----------.
c) A bloody child. a) Henry Wriothesley, the third earl
d) A child crowned, with a tree in his of Southampton
hand b) Thomas Wriothesley,forth earl of
Southampton
c)William Fitzwilliam, first earl of
260)Who tells Macbeth, "The queen, Southampton
my lord, is dead."? d) Henry Wriothesley, the second earl of
a) Seyton Southampton
b) Siward
c) The Doctor
266) During which period London the period 1604-1608 is the period of:
theaterrs remained closed on account of a) Comedy plays
the plague? b) Historical plays
a) 1592 c) Great Tragedies
b) 1593 d) None of above
c) 1594
d) 1595 271) "Under the green wood tree" is a
song in:
267) Which roles have played by a) Love's labour's lost
Shakespeare in Hamlet and As you like b) As you like it
it? c) A mid Summer night's dream
a) Fortinbras, Corin d) Much ado about nothing
b)Leartus, Silvius
c)Osric, Touchstone 272) :Triumph, my Britain, thou hast
d) Ghost, Old servant Adam one to show
To whom all scenes of Europe homage
owe.
268) In ....... year Shakespeare bought He was not of an age, but for all time".
the largest house in Stratford, called Who wrote above lines for Shakespeare:
New place: a) Jonson
a) 1595 b) Bacon
b) 1996 c) Wordsworth
c) 1597 d) none of above
d) 15598
273) Seven Ages of Man appears in " As
you like it". Which character's speech it
269) In 1599 which famous actor and is?
his brother Cuthbert set a new a) Amiens
playhouse on the Bank side, b) Orlando
c) Oliver
Maneesh Rastogi d) Jaques
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274) "To be or not to be that is the
question", is famous line of which of
Shakespeare's plays?
a) Othello
called the Globe?
b) Macbeth
a) Augustine Phillipps
c) Hamlet
b) John Heimnge
d)King Lear
c) Henry Condell
d) Richard Burbage
275) Following are the lines of:
"I'm your wife if you marry me
If not, I'll die your maid to be your
270) In Shakespeare's literary output,
fellow "Much ado about nothing"?
You may deny me, but I'll be your a) Leonato
servant Whether you deny or not". b) Balthasar
c) Don John
a) Hamlet d) Don Pedro
b) Romeo and Juliet
c) Tempest 280) Which character spoke following
d) Othello lines?
"What's Montague? It is nor hand nor
foot,
276) Which of the following are Nor arm nor face, nor any other part
characters of "Much ado about nothing": Belonging to a man, O be some other
a) Hero, Borachio, Antonio, Claudio, name!
Leonato What's in a name?
b) Hero, Orlando, Antonio, Claudio, That which we call a rose
Leanato By any other word would smell as
c) Mirrinda, Borachio, Antonio, Claudio, sweet,"
Leanato a) Desdemona
d) Hero, Boradio, Antonio, Claudio, b) Juliet
Horatio c) Rosalind
d) Hero
277) Which of the following is in correct
sequel ?
a)Comedy of errors, A mid summer 281) Who is the second attending
night's dream, Much ado about nothing, gentlewoman on Hero? Ursula
Henry 6 part three. and_________.
b)A mid summer night's dream,Romeo a) Margaret
and Juliet, As you like it, King b) Emilia
Lear,Pericles. c) Helena
c)All's well that ends well, The d) Celia
tempest, As you like it, As you like
it,A mid summer night's
dream,Much ado about nothing. 282) " Some born great, some achieve
d)King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Measure greatness
for measure, Henry 8, Romeo and Juliet. And some have greatness thrust upon
them".
278)Who was killed by Hamlet Above lines are taken from which of
unintentionally? following plays?
a) Leartus a) Macbeth
b)Polonius b) Othello
c) Forinbras c) Twelfth night
d) Horatio d) As you like it
279) Who is second Prince of Arragon in 283) Which of the following play was
written in 1601? a) King Lear
a) Othello b) Gentleman
b) Hamlet c) King's Man
c) King Lear d) None of above
d) Macbeth
290) Uneasy lies the head that_____(
King Henry four, part two):
284) "Antony and Cleopatra" and a) Wears a crown
"Macbeth" was in: b) Wears a hat
a) 1606 c) Wears a wig
b)1607 d) none of these
c)1608
d)1609 291) The epigraph of The Waste Land is
borrowed from?
285) Which of the following was written (A) Virgil
first: (B) Fetronius
a) Henry six (C) Seneca
b) Henry seven (D) Homer
c) Henry five
d) None of above 292. Who called ‘The Waste Land ‘a
music of ideas’?
286) Which of the following are King (A) Allen Tate
Lear's daughters? (B) J. C. Ransom
a) Desdemona, Goneril and Cordelia (C) I. A. Richards
b) Goneril, Ophelia and Regan (D) F. R Leavis
c)Goneril, Regan and Cordelia
d) Regan, Cordelia and Beatrice 293. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term
‘Unreal City’ in the first and third
287) Shakespeare wrote _____ plays? sections from?
a) 32 (A) Baudelaire
b) 34 (B) Irving Babbit
c) 36 (C) Dante
d) 38 (D) Laforgue
288) With the accession of King James 294. Which of the following myths does
to the English throne, Lord not figure in The Waste
Chamberlain's Man was renamed: Land?
Maneesh Rastogi (A) Oedipus
(B) Grail Legend of Fisher King
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(D) Sysyphus
295. Joe Gargery is Pip’s?

(A) brother
(B) brother-in-Jaw
(C) guardian 302. In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel’s
(D) cousin mother’s name is?
(A)Susan
296. Estella is the daughter of? (B)Jane
(A) Joe Gargery (C)Gertrude
(B) Abel Magwitch . (D) Emily
(C) Miss Havisham
(D) Bentley Drumnile 303. The twins in Lord of the Flies are?
(A)Ralph and Jack
297. Which book of John Ruskin (B) Simon and Eric
influenced Mahatma Gandhi? (C) Ralph and Eric
(A) Sesame and Lilies (D) Simon and Jack
(B) The Seven Lamps of Architecture
(C) Unto This Last 304.Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations,
(D) Fors Clavigera is a
(A) lawyer
298. Graham Greene’s novels are (B) postman
marked by? (C)Judge
(A) Catholicism (D) School teacher
(B) Protestantism
(C) Paganism 305. What does ‘I’ stand for in the
(D) Buddhism following line?
‘To Carthage then I came’
299. One important feature of Jane (A) Buddha
Austen’s style is? (B) Tiresias
(A) boisterous humour (C) Smyrna Merchant
(B) humour and pathos (D) Augustine
(C) subtlety of irony
(D) stream of consciousness 306. The following lines are an
example……… of image.
300. The title of the poem ‘The Second ‘The river sweats
Coming’ is taken from? Oil and tar’
(A) The Bible (A) visual
(B) The Irish mythology (B) kinetic
(C) The German mythology (C) erotic
(D) The Greek mythology (D) sensual
301. The main character in Paradise 307. Which of the following novels has
Lost Book I and Book II is? the sub-title ‘A Novel Without a Hero’?
(A God (A) Vanity Fair
(B) Satan (B) Middlemarch
(C) Adam (C) Wuthering Heights
(D) Eve (D) Oliver Twist
308. In ‘Leda and the Swan’, who wooes 314. What is the sub-title of the play
Leda in guise of a swan? Twelfth Night?
(A) Mars (A) Or, What is you Will
(B) Hercules (B) Or, What you Will
(C) Zeus (C) Or, What you Like It
(D) Bacchus (D) Or, What you Think
309. Who invented the term ‘Sprung 315. Which of the following plays of
rhythm’? Shakespeare, according to T. S.
(A)Hopkins Eliot, is ‘artistic failure’?
(B)Tennyson (A) The Tempest
(C)Browning (B) Hamlet
(D)Wordsworth (C) Henry IV, Pt I
(D) Twelfth Night
310.Who wrote the poem ‘Defence of
Lucknow’? 316. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV,
(A) Browning Pt I?
(B) Tennyson (A) Earl of Northumberland
(C) Swinburne (B) Earl of March
(D) Rossetti (C) Earl of Douglas
(D) Earl of Worcester
311.Which of the following plays of
Shakespeare has an epilogue? 317. Paradise Lost was originally written
(A) The Tempest in?
(B) Henry IV, Pt I (A) ten books
(C) Hamlet (B) eleven books
(D) Twelfth Night (C) nine books
(D) eight books
312. Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be,or
not to be; that is the question’ 318. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia
occurs in? elopes with?
(A) Act II, Scene I (A) Darcy
(B) Act III, Scene III (B) Wickham
(C) Act IV, Scene III (C) William Collins
(D) Act III, Scene I (D) Charles Bingley
313. Identify the character in The 319. Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical
Tempest who is referred to as an honest Sublime’?
old counselor (A) William Wordsworth
(A) Alonso (B) P.B.Shelley
(B) Ariel (C) S. T. Coleridge
(C) Gonzalo (D) John Keats
(D) Stephano
320. Who is commonly known as ‘Pip’ in (A) The White Peacock
Great Expectations? (B) The Trespasser
(A) Philip Pirrip (C) Sons and Lovers
(B) Filip Pirip (D) Women in Love
(C)Philip Pip
(D) Philips Pirip 328. In the poem ‘Tintern Abbey’,
‘dearest friend’ refers to?
321. The novel The Power and the Glory (A) Nature
is set in? (B) Dorothy
(A)Mexico (C) Coleridge
(B) Italy (D) Wye
(C)France
(D) Germany 329. Who, among the following, is not
the second generation of British
323. Which of the following is Golding’s Romantics?
first novel? (A) Keats
(A) The Inheritors (B) Wordsworth
(B) Lord of the Flies (C) Shelley
(C) Pincher Martin (D) Byron
(D) Pyramid
330. Which of the following poems of
324.Identify the character who is a Coleridge is a ballad?
supporter of Women’s Rights in Sons (A) Work Without Hope
and Lovers? (B) Frost at Midnight
(A) Mrs. Morel (C) The Rime of the Ancient
(B) Annie Mariner
(C) Miriam (D) Youth and Age
(D) Clara Dawes
331. Identify the writer who was
325. Vanity Fair is a novel by? expelled from Oxford for circulating a
(A) Jane Austen pamphlet—
(B) Charles Dickens (A) P. B. Shelley
(C) W. M. Thackeray (B) Charles Lamb
(D) Thomas Hardy (C) Hazlitt
(D) Coleridge
326. Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on the
death of? 332. Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to?
(A) Milton (A) Leigh Hunt
(B) Coleridge (B) Milton
(C) Keats (C) Shakespeare
(D) Johnson (D) Thomas Chatterton
327. Which of the following is the first 333. The second series of Essays of Elia
novel of D. H. Lawrence? by Charles Lamb was published in?
(A) 1823
(B) 1826 339. Identify the work by Swinburne
(C) 1834 which begins “when the hounds of
(D) 1833 spring are on winter’s traces..”?
(A) Chastelard
334. Which of the following poets does (B) A Song of Italy
not belong to the ‘Lake School’? (C) Atalanta in Calydon
(D) Songs before Sunrise
(A) Keats 340. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, Hero

(B) Coleridge Worship and the Heroic in History is a
(C) Southey course of?
(D) Wordsworth (A) six lectures
(B) five lectures
335.Who, among the following writers, (C) four lectures
was not educated at Christ’s Hospital (D) seven lectures
School,
London? 341. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle
(A) Charles Lamb in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’?
(B) William Wordsworth (A) Johnson
(C) Leigh Hunt (B) Cromwell
(D) S. T. Coleridge (C) Shakespeare
(D) Luther
336. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the
members of the ‘Cockney School of 342. Identify the work by Ruskin which
Poetry’? began as a defence of contemporary
(A) Tennyson landscape artist especially Turner?
(8) Charles Lamb (A) The Stones of Venice
(C) Lockhart (B) The Two Paths
(D) T. S. Eliot (C) The Seven Lamps of Architecture
(D) Modem Painters
337. Tennyson’s poem ‘In
Memoriam’was written in memory of? 343. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is
(A) A. H. Hallam used to describe the political novels of?
(B) Edward King (A) Charles Dickens
(C) Wellington (B) Anthony Trollope
(D) P. B. Shelley (C) W. H. White
(D) B. Disraeli
338. Who, among the following, is not
connected with the Oxford Movement? 344. Identify the poet, whom Queen
(A) Robert Browning Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of
(B) John Keble ‘love and loss’—
(C) E. B. Pusey (A) Tennyson
(D) J. H. Newman (B) Browning
(C) Swinburne (C) Bentley Drummle
(D) D. G. Rossetti (D) Jaggers
345. A verse form using stanza of eight 351. Who is Mr. Tench in The Power
lines, each with eleven syllables, is and the Glory?
known as? (A) A teacher
(A) Spenserian Stanza (B) A clerk
(B) Ballad (C) A thief
(C) Ottava Rima (D) A dentist
(D) Rhyme Royal
346. Identify the writer who first used 352. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ is a
blank verse in English poetry? quotation from?
(A) Sir Thomas Wyatt (A) Milton
(B) William Shakespeare (B) William Shakespeare
(C) Earl of Surrey (C) T. S. Eliot
(D) Milton (D) Ruskin
347. The Aesthetic Movement which 353. “Dost thou think, because thou art
blossomed during the 1880s was not virtuous, there shall be no more cakes
influenced by? and ale.” Who speaks the lines given
(A) The Pre-Raphaelites above in Twelfth Night?
(B) Ruskin (A) Duke Orsino
(C) Pater (B) Malvolio
(D) Matthew Arnold (C) Sir Andrew Aguecheek
(D) Sir Toby Belch
348. Identify the rhetorical figure used
in the following line of Tennyson “Faith 354. In Paradise Lost, Book I, Satan is
un-faithful kept him falsely true.” the embodiment of Milton’s?
(A) Oxymoron (A) Sense of injured merit
(B) Metaphor (B) Hatred of tyranny
(C) Simile (C) Spirit of revolt
(D) Synecdoche (D) All these
349. W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the 355. Who calls poetry “the breadth and
artifice of eternity’ in his poem? finer spirit of all knowledge”?
(A) Sailing to Byzantium (A) Wordsworth
(B) Byzantium (B) Shelley
(C) The Second Coming (C) Keats
(D) Leda and the Swan (D) Coleridge
350. Who is Pip’s friend in London? 356. Twelfth Night opens with the
(A) Pumblechook speech of?
(B) Herbert Pocket (A)Viola
(B) Duke (C) Political rights for women
(C)Olivia (D) Protection of the political rights of
(D) Malvolio the middle class
357. What was the cause of William’s Maneesh Rastogi

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(B) An overdose of morphia
(C) Suicide
(D) Pneumonia
363. Who wrote “Biographia Literaria”?
358. Which poem of Coleridge is an
(A)Byron
opium dream?
(B) Shelley
(A) Kubla Khan
(C) Coleridge
(B) Christabel
(D) Lamb
(C) The Ancient Mariner
(D) Ode on the Departing Year
364. Who was “Fortinbras”?
(A) Claudius’s son
359. Which stanza form did Shelley use
(B) Son to the king of Norway
in his famous poem ‘Ode to the West
(C) Ophelia’s lover
Wind’?
(D) Hamlet’s Mend
(A) Rime royal
(B) Ottava rima
365. How many soliloquies are spoken
(C) Terza rima
by Hamlet in the play Hamlet?
(D) Spenserian Stanza
A) Nine
(b) Five
360. The phrase ‘Pathetic fallacy’ is
(c )Seven
coined by?
(D) Three
(A) Milton
(B) Coleridge
366. “The best lack all conviction, while
(C) Carlyle
the worst are full of passionate
(D) John Ruskin
intensity.” The above lines have been
taken from?
361. Tracts for the Times relates to?
(A) The Waste Land
(A) The Oxford Movement
(B) Tintern Abbey
(B) The Pre-Raphaelite Movement
(C) The Second Coming
(C) The Romantic Movement
(D) Prayer for My Daughter
(D) The Symbolist Movement
367.William Morel in Sons and Lovers is
362. The Chartist Movement sought?
drawn after?
(A) Protection of the political rights
(A) Lawrence’s father
of the working class
(B) Lawrence’s brother
(B) Recognition of chartered trading
(C) Lawrence himself
companies
(D) None of these
for much of his early work?
368. The most notable characteristic of (A) Charles Dickens
Keats’ poetry is? (B) W. M. Thackeray
(A) Satire (C) Graham Greene
(B) Sensuality (D) D. H. Lawrence
(C) Sensuousness
(D) Social reform 375. Pride and Prejudice was originally a
youthful work entitled?
369. The key-note of Browning’s (A)‘Last Impressions’
philosophy of life is? (B)‘False Impressions’
(A) agnosticism (C)‘First Impressions’
(B) optimism (D)‘True Impressions’
(C) pessimism
(D) skepticism 376. Identify the novel in which the
character of Charlotte Lucas figures
370. The title of Carlyle’s ‘Sartor (A) Great Expectations
Resartus’ means? (B) The Power and the Glory
(A) Religious Scripture (C) Lord of the Flies
(B) Seaside Resort (D) Pride and Prejudice
(C) Tailor Repatched
(D) None of these 377 ‘There’s a special providence in the
fall of a sparrow.”
371. “Epipsychidion” is composed by? The line given above occurs in
(A) Coleridge (A) Hamlet
(B) Wordsworth (B) Henry IV, Pt I
(C) Keats (C) The Tempest
(D) Shçlley (D) Twelfth Night
372. “The better part of valour is 378. Who said that Shakespeare in his
discretion” occurs in Shakespeare’s—? comedies has only heroines and no
(A) Hamlet heroes?
(B) Twelfth Night (A) Ben Jonson
(C) The Tempest (B) John Ruskin
(D) Henry IV, Pt I (C) Thomas Carlyle
(D) William Hazlitt
373. Epic similes are found in which
work of John Milton?
(A) Paradise Lost 379. Sir John Falstaff is one of
(B) Sonnets Shakespeare’s greatest?
(C) Lycidas (A) comic figures
(D) Areopagitica (B) historical figures
(C) romantic figures
374. Identify the writer who used a (D) tragic figures
pseudonym, Michael Angelo Titmarsh,
380. That Milton was of the Devil’s party 386. “My own great religion is a belief in
without knowing it, was said by? the blood, the flesh as being wiser than
(A)Blake the intellect.” Who wrote this?
(B) Eliot (A)Graham Greene
(C)Johnson (B)D. H. Lawrence
(D) Shelley (C)Charles Dickens
(D) Jane Austen
381. Who called Shelley ‘a beautiful and
ineffectual angel beating in the void his 387 .Shakespeare makes fun of the
luminous wings in vain’? Puritans in his play?
(A) Walter Pater (A) Twelfth Night
(B) A. C. Swinburne (B) Hamlet
(C) Matthew Arnold (C) The Tempest
(D) T. S. Eliot (D) Henry IV,Pt I
382. Essays of Ella are? 388. “The rarer action is in virtue that in
(A) full of didactic sermonising vengeance.” This line occurs in?
(B) practically autobiographical (A) Hamlet
fragments (B) Henry IV,Pt I
(C) remarkable for their aphoristic style (C) The Tempest
(D) satirical and critical (D) Twelfth Night
383. The theme of Tennyson’s Poem 389. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
‘The Princess’ is? is a?
(A) Queen Victoria’s coronation (A) Picaresque novel
(B) Industrial Revolution (B) Gothic novel
(C) Women’s Education and Rights (C) Domestic novel
(D) Rise of Democracy (D) Historical novel
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(B) the Elizabethan age
(C) the age of Queen Anne
(D) the Victorian age
390. ‘Heaven lies about us in our
385. Oedipus Complex is?
infancy’. This line occurs in the poem?
(A) a kind of physical ailment
(A) Immortality Ode
(B) a kind of vitamin
(B) Tintern Abbey
(C)a brother’s attraction towards his
(C) The Second Coming
sister
(D) Leda and the Swan
(D) a son’s attraction towards his
mother
391. Wordsworth calls himself ‘a
Worshipper of Nature’ in his
poem— 46. Browning’s famous poem ‘Rabbi Ben
(A) Immortality Ode Ezra’ is included in?
(B) Tintern Abbey (A) Dramatis Personae
(C) The Prelude (B) Dramatic Idyls
(D) The Solitary Reaper (C) Asolando
(D) Red Cotton Night-Cap Country
392. When Wordsworth’s ‘Immortality
Ode’ was first published in 397. S. T. Coleridge was an Associate
1802, it had only? of?
(A) Stanzas I to IV (A) The Royal Society of Edinburgh
(B) Stanzas I toV (B) The Royal Society ofLondon
(C) Stanzas I to VI (C) Royal Society of Arts
(D) Stanzas I to VII (D) Royal Society of Literature
393. Which method of narration has 398. Which of the following is an

been employed by Dickens in his novel unfinished novel by Jane Austen?
“Great Expectations”? (A) Sense and Sensibility
(A) Direct or epic method (B) Mansfield Park
(B) Documentary method (C) Sandition
(C) Stream of Consciousness technique (D) Persuasion
(D) Autobiographical method
399.Why did Miss Havisham remain a
394. Who said ‘Keats was a Greek’? spinster throughout her life in “Great
(A) Wordsworth Expectations”?
(B) Coleridge (A) She was poor
(C) Lamb (B) She was arrogant
(D) Shelley (C) Because she was betrayed by the
bridegroom
395. D. G. Rossetti was a true literary (D) She was unwilling to marry
descendant of?
(A) Keats 400. W. B. Yeats received the Nobel
(B) Byron Prize for literature in the year?
(C) Shelley (A)1938
(D) Wordsworth (B) 1925
(C)1932
396. To which character in Hamlet does (D) 1923
the following description apply?
“The tedious wiseacre who meddles his 401. The Romantic Revival in English
way to his doom.” Poetry was influenced
(A) Claudius by the?
(B) Hamlet (A) French Revolution
(C) Polonius (B) Glorious Revolution of1688
(D) Rosencrantz (C) Reformation
(D) Oxford Movement
dislike but later tend to like?
402. The Pre-Raphaelite poets were (A) Mr. Bennet
mostly indebted to the poets of the? (B) Wickham
(A) Puritan movement (C)Bingley
(B) Romantic revival (D) Darcy
(C) Neo-classical age
(D) Metaphysical school 409. Who in Hamlet suggests that one
should neither be a lender nor a
403. ‘O, you are sick of self-love’ Who is borrower?
referred to in these (A)Gertrude
words in Twelfth Night? (B) Polonius
(A)Orsino (C)Horatio
(B) Sir Andrew (D) Hamlet
(C)Sir Toby
(D) Malvolio 410. Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Pt I
contains his?
404. Hamlet is? (A) senecan attitude
(A) an intellectual (B) patriotism
(B) a man of action (C) love of nature
(C) a passionate lover (D) platonic ideals
(D) an over ambitious man
Plays by Shakespeare..
405. Which of Shakespeare’s characters
exclaims; ‘Brave, new, world!’?
(A) Ferdinand COMEDIES
(B) Antonio
(C) Miranda All's Well That Ends Well
(D) Prospero As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
406. Paradise Lost shows an influence Love's Labour's Lost
of? Measure for Measure
(A) Paganism Merchant of Venice
(B) Pre-Christian theology Merry Wives of Windsor
(C) Christianity and the Midsummer Night's Dream
Renaissance Much Ado about Nothing
(D) Greek nihilism Taming of the Shrew
Tempest
407. The style of Paradise Lost is? Twelfth Night
(A) more Latin than most poems Two Gentlemen of Verona
(B) more spontaneous than thought out Winter's Tale
(C) more satirical than spontaneous
(D) more dramatic than lyrical HISTORIES
408. In Pride and Prejudice we initially Cymbeline
Henry IV, Part I c) Problem play
Henry IV, Part II d) Both a and b
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I 413) Who was villain in Othello?
Henry VI, Part II a) Claudius
Henry VI, Part III b) Iago
Henry VIII c) Egeus
King John d) None of above
Pericles
Richard II 414) Which of the following are
Richard III tragedies of Shakespeare?
a) Hamlet, Othello and Troilus and
TRAGEDIES Cressida
b) Coriolanus, Timon of Athens and
Antony and Cleopatra Titus Andronicus
Coriolanus c) King Lear, Measure for measure and
Hamlet The merchant of Venice
Julius Caesar d) Macbeth, Much ado about nothing
King Lear and Antony and Cleopatra
Macbeth
Othello 415) Which of the following tragedy is
Romeo and Juliet not written by Shakespeare?
Timon of Athens a) Hamlet
Titus Andronicus b)Macbeth
Troilus and Cressida c) King Lear
d) King Oedipus
Maneesh Rastogi 416) Othello was a :

a) General of England
09359954900 b)General of Denmark
c) Prince of England
d) Prince of Denmark
417) ------------- was father of

411) Which of the following is the Desdemona?
earliest comedy of Shakespeare? a) Othello
a) A mid summer night's dream b) Brabantio
b) Much ado about nothing c) Iago
c)As you like it d) Gratiano
d)Love's labour's lost
418) Othello was sent to fight with:
412) "Twelfth night" is a: a) French army
a)Tragedy b) German army
b) Comedy c) Ottomans
d) None of above In apprehension! how like a God:
The beauty of the World, the paragon of
419) Desdemona was killed by : animals_____
a) Iago And yet, to me, what is this
b) Casio quintessence of dust?
c) Othello Above lines are taken from Hamlet's
d) Brabantio which act?
a) act 1 scene two
420) Othello gave Desdemona ----------- b) act 2 scene two
-- as a token of love: c) act 3 scene two
a) Ring d) act 4 scene two
b) Handkerchief
c) Pendant 425) Which of the following is Hamlet's
d) Bengals mother?
a) Beatrice
421) Desdemona was : b) Margaret
a) wife of Othello c) Gertrude
b) daughter of Othello d) Rosalind
c) both a and b
d) none of above 426) Following are the characters of:
Apemantus, Alcibiades, Flavius, Lucullus,
422) " A man can die but once" is one Sempronius
of quote of following plays: a) Coriolanus
a) Henry 6 part three b) Cymbeline
b) Henry 4 part two c) Timon of Athens
c) Henry 6 part one d) Winter's tale
d) Henry 4 part one
427) Who is the heroin of The Tempest?
423) "I have no other but a woman's a) Ophelia
reason b) Desdemona
I think him so, because I think him so" c) Miranda
Which of Shakespeare's play contain d) Helena
above lines?
a) The two gentle men of Verona 428) Hamlet consist of ---------------
b) Merry wives of Windsor acts:
c) The noble Kinsman a) 3
d) Measure for measure b) 4
c) 5
424)" What piece of work is a man d) 6
How noble in reason, how infinite in
faculty, 429) Which of Shakespeare's play is his
In form and moving how express and only play that has never been adopted
admirable for film or Television?
In action! how like an angle a) Taming of the Shrew
b) The two Noble Kinsmen 1667-1745 Jonathan Swift
c) Troilus and Cressida 1668-1744 Alexander Pope
d) Cymbeline 1689-1761 Samuel Richardson
1707-1754 Henry Fielding
430) Which of Shakespeare's play 1728-1774 Oliver Goldsmith
features Sir John Falstaff? 1672-1719 Joseph Addison
a) The merry wives of Windsor 1716-1771 Thomas Gray
b) Troilus and Cressida 1721-59 Collins
c) King John 1700-48 Thomson
d) Titus Andronicus 1731-1800 Cowper
1709-84 Dr. Johnson
Historical Events & Literary Events
Major Historical and Literary Events
1700 Begin Of London Club
1702 First daily newspaper 1668. Dryden Made poet Laureate
1727 Death of Newton 1668. Dryden's "Essay of Dramatic
1775 War of American independence Poesy."
begins. 1671 Paradise Regained, Samson
1776 America declared independent. Agonistes by Milton.
1789 Outbreak of French Revolution. 1670. Dryden's"Conquest ofGranada."
1726 Gulliver’s Travells by Jonathan 1671. The " Rehearsal."
Swift. 1672. Wycherley's" Love in aWood."
1749 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 1675. Wycherley's"Country Wife."
1766 The Vicar of wakefield by 1677. Dryden's "All for Love."
Goldsmith 1677. Wycherley's "Plain Dealer."
1719 Rabinson crusoe by Defoe. 1678. The Pilgrim’s Progress by Bunyan.
1728 Beggar’s opera by Gay. 1678. All for Love by Dryden.
1712 The Rape of The Lock by Pope. 1678. Third part of " Hudibras."
1740 Pamela by Richardson. 1680. Gilbert Burnet's " Account ofthe
Life and Death of the Earl of Rochester."
Maneesh Rastogi 1681. Dryden's "Absalom and
Achitophel."
09359954900 1682. Dryden's "The Medal,""Mac
Flecknoe," and" Religio Laici."
1686. Dryden joined the Church of
Rome.
1686. Dryden's poem "To the Memory of
English Rulers
Miss Anne Killegrew."
1687. Dryden's" Hind and Panther."
1702-1714 Anne
1687. Sir Isaac Newton's " Principia."
1714-27 George
1688. James II flees
I1727-1760 George II
1688. Glorious Revolution
1689. Thomas Shadwell, made poet
Authors
Laureate.
1689. Dryden's" Don Sebastian." Major Historical and Literary events
1689. Burnet appointed Bishop of 1642 Civil war begins

Salisbury. 1642 Closure of Public Theatre
1691. Tillotson appointed Archbishopof 1649 Charles I executed.
Canterbury. 1653 Oliver Cromwell becomes Land
1692. Locke made Secretary Protector.
ofProsecutions. 1658 Oliver Cromwell dies His son
1693. Congreve's" Old Bachelor." Richard succeeds.
1694. Dryden's" Love Triumphant." 1660 The Restoration begins (Charles II
1694. Congreve's" Double Dealer." Accession)
1695. Congreve's" Love for Love." 1660 Anne Marshall, first woman on
1697. Dryden's translation of " Virgil-" English stage.
1697. Congreve's "Mourning Bride." 1660 Theatre reopened.
1698. Jeremy Collier's " Short View." 1629 Milton’s Nativity Ode.
1699. Dryden's" Fables." 1631 Herbert’s Temple
1700. Congreve's "Way of the World." 1633 Milton’s L’Allegro, II Penserose.
1706. Farquhar's"Recruiting Officer." 1637 Milton’s Lycidas
1707. Farquhar's "Beaux Stratagem." 1642 Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici
1759. Butler's " Genuine Prose Remains"
published. 1644 Milton's "Areopagitica." English
1775. Sheridan's " The Rivals," " St. poet and writer John Milton publishes
Patrick's Day,: and" The Duenna." “Areopagita,” an essay espousing
1777. Sheridan's " School for Scandal." freedom of the press. Milton writes the
1779. Sheridan's "The Critic." piece in response to the censorship that
1780. Sheridan became a Member of is rampant in England at the time.
Parliament. 1659 Dryden’s The Death of Cromwell
1660 Samuel Pepys begins his diary.
English Rulers
1667 Milton's "Paradise Lost." English
1660-1685 Charles II poet John Milton completes his epic
1685-1688 James II poem Paradise Lost in 1674 after
1688-1702 William & Mary becoming blind. The work, which tells
the story of Lucifer’s rebellion in heaven
Major Authors and Adam’s fall, is an extended
meditation on humanity’s relationship
1631-1700 John Dryden with God, human nature, and the
1628-88 John Bunyan meaning of life. It is considered one of
1664-1721 Matthew Prior the masterpieces of world literature.
1633-1703 Samuel Pepys
1664-1726 Sir John Vanbragh
1678. Bunyan's"Pilgrim's Progress."
Age of Milton English Puritan John Bunyan writes the
religious allegory Pilgrim's Progress in c)George III
1678. The work, generally considered a d)Henry VIII
masterpiece in Christian and English
literature, describes the journey of the 434)Who was the first Tudor King?
central character, named Christian, a)Henry VIII
through life to eventual salvation. b)Henry VII
c)George III
Rulers of English Throne d)James I
1625-49 Charles I
1649-60 Commonwealth the 435)What are the beginning and
Protectorate ending dates of the Elizabethan era?
a)1558-1603
Authors of This Era b)1500-1520
c)1560-1570
1579-1625 John Fletcher d)1575-1600
1593-1633 Herbert
1605-1682 Sir Thomas Browne 436)Who was the mother of Elizabeth
1608-1674 John Milton I?
1621-1666 Henry Vaughan a)Catherine of Aragon
1633-1703 Samuel Pepys b)Jane Seymour
c)Catherine Howard
d)Anne Boleyn
Elizabethan Period 437)In what year did England and

Spain fight a famous sea battle?
a)1500
431) What was the nickname of Mary b)1588
I? c)1600
a)Bloody Mary d)1575
b)Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
c)Mary, Queen of Scots 438)Which relative did Elizabeth I have
d)None of the Above executed?
a)Anne Boleyn
b)Mary I
432)Who was the sister of Mary I? c)Mary, Queen of Scots
a)Isabella d)Catherine of Aragon
b)Victoria
c)Anne 439)What church did Elizabeth I
d)Elizabeth I establish or re-establish by law in
England during her reign?
433)Who was the father of the previous a)The Anglican Church
two? (Questions 1 and 2?) b)The Roman Catholic Church
a)Henry VI Maneesh Rastogi
b)William
09359954900 a)Begging
b)Money lending
c)Fortune-telling
d)Wine bottling
c)Calvinism 443)Crime was ardently followed by

d)The Lutheran Church punishment. Elizabethans had devised
various ways to fine, humiliate, torture,
440) Everyone in Elizabethan England and kill offenders. Which crime was
was born into a social class. Peasants punishable by death?
were the unluckiest of the lot: they were
denied basic comforts, security, and a)Skipping church on Sunday
even the chance to dress well. Yep, the b)A woman screaming at her husband in
Statutes of Apparel outlined the clothes public
one could legally wear based on rank. c)Stealing a horse
Which of the following could the poor d)Public drunkenness
wear?
a)Purple silk dresses 444)Religion played a pivotal part in
b)Woolen underwear Elizabethan life. Protestants, Catholics,
c)Sable-lined cloaks Puritans, and other religious groups
d)Velvet coats jostled for power and survival in
uncertain times. In 1559, an Act of
441)Marriage was a social obligation, Parliament was passed which
and for many families a topic of determined the "supreme governor" of
obsession. Betrothals were often all things spiritual. Who was it?
arranged by parents, especially for the
high-class. What criterion was a)The Pope in Rome
considered the least important in b)Each man was his own supreme
deciding upon a suitable match? governor
a)Property c)The Archbishop of Canterbury
b)Wealth d)Queen Elizabeth I
c)Lineage
d)Love 445)Elizabethan England was largely
rural, with the majority of its population
442) Elizabethans had many living in the verdant countryside. Towns
occupational choices. One could become and cities, however, were growing--and
an apothecary, clerk, physician, or even the most prominent of all was London.
court jester. Though there seemed to be While Londoners were considered
a myriad of careers to choose from, wealthy and arrogant, the city was
most people still ended up being very begrimed, filthy, and infested with
poor. In order to survive, what illegal vermin. Where did people primarily
activity did a large number of citizens dispose of their trash and wastes?
pursue?
a)Dump sites in the nearby country
b)The streets b)Mourning clothes
c)The underground drains c)Strict simplicity
d)Designated "trash" areas d)Tolling of church bells
446)Elizabethans were notoriously 449)Which of the following was the

superstitious. They feared witches, Tower of London used for in the
believed in magical animals, and sought Elizabethan age?
good luck charms. What "science" did
they utilize in trying to predict and (a) As an astronomical observation deck
control the future? (b) As a storage place for grain
(c) As a prison
a)Alchemy (d) As a school for the royal children
b)Metallurgy
c)Geocentricity 450)Who issued an interdict against
d)Astrology Elizabeth?
447)The fine arts flourished in (a) Pope Pius V

Elizabethan England. William (b) Pope Innocent III
Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and (c) Pope Gregory XIII
Edmund Spenser were some of the (d) Pope Boniface
more famous playwrights and poets of
the time. Drama, music, songs, and art
were popular with noblemen and 451) What was Elizabeth's close circle
commoners alike. Exploring certain of advisers called?
topics, however, was considered taboo
in any art form. What was a strictly (a) The Star Chamber
forbidden subject? (b) Parliament
(c) The Privy Council
a)Sexuality (d) The Cabinet
b)Criticism of the queen
c)Murder 452) Which of the following is a
d)Witchcraft ceremony in which a sovereign is
officially crowned?
448)Staying alive was a difficult task for (A) Investiture
Elizabethans. Disease, infection, (B) Invocation
poverty, childbirth, and occupational (C) Gala
accidents could all result in one's (D) Coronation
untimely demise. Most people never
reached the age of fifty. When an 453)Which country believed it had an
Elizabethan died, intricate rituals were "Invincible Armada" before 1588?
followed. What was NOT a funeral (a) France
custom? (b) England
(c) Spain
a)Long processionals (d) The Netherlands
(d) The Faerie Queene
454)What type of non-rhymed poetry 460)Who succeeded Elizabeth I?

did Christopher Marlowe pioneer?
(a) Mary Queen of Scots
(a) Blank verse (b) Charles I
(b) The sonnet Maneesh Rastogi
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455)Elizabeth and Mary I belonged to

what royal family?
(a) Windsor
(b) Stuart (c) James I
(c) Tudor (d) Edward VI
(d) Plantagenet
461)Which of the following was
456) Which English king had several of Elizabeth known as?
his wives killed in his obsessive quest for (a) Unintelligent
a male heir? (b) Rude
(c) Stingy
(a) Edward VI (d) Fanatic
(b) Richard III
(c) George III 462)Which language did young
(d) Henry VIII Elizabeth learn in secret?
(a) French
457)What religion was Mary I? (b) Gaelic
(a) Catholic (c) Esperanto
(b) Anglican (d) Welsh
(c) Episcopalian
(d) Presbyterian 463)Who was Edmund Spenser's
patron?
458)What religion was Mary Queen of (a) The Earl of Leicester
Scots? (b) Elizabeth
(a) Episcopalian (c) Lord Burleigh
(b) Catholic (d) Francis Bacon
(c) Presbyterian
(d) Lutheran 464)What was a favorite entertainment
in Elizabeth's court?
459)Which work did Edmund Spenser (a) Swimming
author? (b) Gambling
(a) The Castle of Perseverance (c) Jousting
(b) The Double (d) Backgammon
(c) The Metamorphoses
465)Which of the following disciplines corruption in the Catholic Church was
most fascinated Elizabeth? known as:
(a) Philology a)The Protestant Revolution
(b) Alchemy b)The Protestant Reformation
(c) Zoology c)The Protestant Restoration
(d) Astrology d)The Protestant Resolution
466)Elizabeth's reign was longer than

that of any other Tudor. When she died 471)What is the name for a shift in
at the age of 69 in 1603, how many tone or meaning of a sonnet
years had she reigned? a)Octave
a)35 b)Volta
b)40 c)Iambic Pentameter
c)45 d)Petrarchan
d)50
Jacobean Era
467)What was Elizabeth’s nickname for

Sir Walter Raleigh? 472)In literature, some of
a)Waldimor Shakespeare's most powerful plays were
b)Water written in that period (for example The
c)William Tempest, King Lear, and Macbeth), as
d)Winter well as powerful works by John Webster
and ________.
468)The complex ranking system that a)William Shakespeare
Elizabethans believed ordered every b)Ben Jonson
single thing in the universe was known c)Ben Jonson folios
as: d)English Renaissance theatre
a)The Great Order of Life
b)The Great Chain of Being 473)What proceeded Jacobean era?
c)The Great System of Shakespeare a)Elizabethan Era
d)The Great Sonnet Symbolism Maker b)Caroline era
c)Victorian era
d)Jacobean Era
469)A poem that deals in an idealized
way with Shepherds and rustic life is 474)The Jacobean era ended with a
known as: severe economic depression in 1620–
a)A Protestant Poem 1626, complicated by a serious outbreak
b)A Petrarchan Sonnet of ________ in London in 1625.
c)An extended metaphor a)Cholera
d)A pastoral poem b)Tuberculosis
c)Bubonic plague
d)Plague (disease)
470)The term for the reaction against
475)The word "Jacobean" is derived
from the ________ name Jacob, which 480)Famous satiric drama,Volpone,is
is the original form of the English name written by?
James. a)Sir Walter Scot
a)Samaritan Hebrew language b)Christopher Marlow
b)Biblical Hebrew c)Ben Johnson
c)Mishnaic Hebrew d)George Herbert
d)Hebrew language
481)The foremost poet of Jacobean era
476)The Jacobean era succeeds the was?
________ and precedes the Caroline a)John Milton
era, and specifically denotes a style of b)Charles Bacon
architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, c)John Donne
and literature that is predominant of d)Herbert Spencer
that period.
a)Elizabethan era 482)"The Jacobean Era" refers to a
b)English Reformation period of time in the early 17th century
c)England in which of the following countries?
d)Tudor period a) Jordan
b) England
477)Jonson was also an important c)Malaysia
innovator in the specialized literary sub- d)Tunisia
genre of the ________, which went
through an intense development in the >>>The foremost poets of the
Jacobean era. Jacobean era, Ben Jonson and John
a)William Shakespeare Donne, are regarded as the originators
b)Ben Jonson of two diverse poetic traditions—the
c)Masque Cavalier and the metaphysical.
d)A Midsummer Night's Dream
478)the first fire-breathing dragon in English Literature(In General)
English literature occurs in which Old
English epic poem.
483) Literary divisions are not always
a)Iliad exact, but we draw them because they
b)Odyssey are often convenient. The majority of
c)Beowulf English literary periods are named after:
d)Canterbury Tales a)The leading characteristic of the age
b)Monarchs or political events
479)What are the beginning and c)The primary author of the age
ending dates of the reign of James I ? d)The language of the age
a)1592-1608
b)1603-1625 484)Which period of literature came
c)1607-1627 first?
d)1608-1639 a)Regency
b)Victorian c)Howard, Earl of Surrey
c)Romantic d)William Shakespeare
d)Restoration
490)Which work was completed last?
485)In what language did Shakespeare a)John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
write? b)George Herbert's "The Temple"
a)Middle English c)William Shakespeare's "Tempest"
b)German d)Ben Jonson's "Volpone"
c)Old English
d)Modern English 491)One of these men did NOT write
during the Restoration period. Who?
a)John Milton
486)Jane Austen wrote during this b)Thomas Otway
period. c)Sir Walter Scott
a)Restoration d)John Dryden
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a)Regency
b)Restoration
c)Romantic
d)Victorian
b)Victorian
c)Middle English 493)Which of the following poets wrote
d)Regency during the Victorian period but was not
published until the 20th century?
487)Which work was published first? a)Christina Rossetti
a)Blake’s "Songs of Innocence" b)Gerard Manley Hopkins
b)Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" c)Elizabeth Barret Browning
c)Lord Byron’s "Don Juan" d)Ted Hughes
d)Sir Walter Scott’s "Ivanhoe"
494)This work was NOT originally
488)Which of the following works was published in the 20th Century.
written before the all-important Battle of a)Henry James's "The Ambassadors"
Hastings? b)Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the
a)Beowulf D'Urbervilles"
b)Canterbury Tales c)E.M. Forster's "A Room With A View"
c)The Domesday Book d)Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway"
d)Sons and Lovers
495)Which poet did NOT write during
489)Who wrote first? the 16th century?
a)John Skelton
a)George Eliot b)William Shakespeare
b)Christopher Marlowe c)Sir Thomas Wyatt
d)Thomas Carew c)Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
d)Sir Thomas More's "Utopia"
496)Historical events often influence
literature. Which of the following did
NOT occur during the Restoration 501)Which of the following writers
period? would be an appropriate subject for a
class on “The Literature of the British
a)Charles II was restored to the throne Empire”?
b)The French Revolution a)Rudyard Kipling
c)The Great Fire of London b)Edward Fitzgerald
d)The Exclusion Bill Crisis c)Charlotte Bronte
d)Any of these
497)He was not a Renaissance writer.
502)World War I affected the writing of
a)William Shakespeare many authors. Which of the following
b)Sir Philip Sidney poets would not have been touched by
c)Christopher Marlowe that event?
d)Sir Thomas Malory a)T.S. Eliot
b)Siegfried Sassoon
498)Which of the following literary sub- c)Wilfred Owen
periods does NOT fall under the d)Oscar Wilde
Neoclassical Period?
503)The period of maturation,
a)The Restoration intellectual growth and social graces
b)Jacobean Age during the Renaissance is called the:
c)The Augustan Age
d)The Age of Sensibility A) aristocracy
B) New Age
C) Reformation
499)Which of the following periods of D) Enlightenment
English literature came last?
a)The Elizabethan Age 504)The most popular French

b)The Commonwealth Period playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is
c)The Jacobean Age known as:
d)The Middle English Period A) Caleron
B) Corneille
500)This work was written before the C) Couperin
other three choices. D) Moliere
a)Bede's "An Ecclesiastical History 505)The first Englishwoman to earn her

of the English People" living as a playwright was:
b)Julian of Norwhich's "Book of A) Nell Gwynn
Showings" B) Aphra Behn
C) Lady Teazle most of the time?
D) Ann Hathaway a)Germany
b)France
The Life Of John Milton(Caroline c)Italy
Period-The Renaissance) d)Spain
(1608-1674)
506.In which city was Milton? 512. How many times did Milton marry?
a)Norwich a)2
b)York b)0
c)London c)1
d)Canterbury d)3
507. When was John Milton born? 513. John Milton was 34 when he
a) 22 April 1600 married Mary Powell. How old was she?
b) 19 August 1604 a) 48
c) 6 June 1606 b) 34
d) 9 December 1608 c) 22
d) 17
508. Which school did Milton attend?
a)St Paul's
b)Christ's Hospital 514. Milton was a royalist?
c)Merchant Taylors'
d)Westminster True or False
515. Which of the following works was

509. Milton continued his studies at NOT written by John Milton?
Cambridge. Which college of the
university did he attend? a)'L'Allegro'
a) Pembroke College b)'Lycidas'
b) Trinity College c)'Il Penseroso'
c) Christ’s College d)'Absolom and Achitophel'
d) St. Xavier’s College
510. Edward King, a minor poet and a 516. In 1634 Milton wrote a masque.
contemporary of Milton's at Cambridge, What's the name of that masque?
was drowned at sea in 1637. Milton a)'Il Penseroso'
wrote an elegy for him. What was the b)'Lycidas'
title of this poem? c)'Comus'
a)lycidas d)'The Masque of Blackness'
b)Paradise Lost
c)Il penseroso
517. Which of these words or usages
511. In 1638 and 1639 Milton traveled did Milton NOT coin?
abroad. In which country did he spend a)Space – used to mean “outer space”
b)Unaccountable imagery distracting, and considered his
c)Pandemonium work “not serious poetry”, but it was
d)Blatant another critic who accused him of
“callousness to the intrinsic nature of
518. Following parliament’s victory in English”. Who?
the civil war, Milton was appointed to a a)FR Leavis
position in Cromwell’s government in b)Harold Bloom
1649. What was his title? c)William Empson
a)Heresy tsar d)Mariella Frostrup
b)Poet laureate
c)Secretary to the Admiralty
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519. As well as poetry, Milton published
extensively on politics, philosophy and
religion. Which of the following was
NOT one of his works?
Paradise Lost By John Milton
a)Of Prelatical Episcopacy
523. When was Paradise Lost
b)The Likeliest Means to Remove
published?
Hirelings from the Church
a) 1660
c)Of Practical Exorcisme
b) 1667
d)Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
c) 1658
520. When did John Milton die?
d) 1654
a) 4 February 1702
524. "Paradise Lost" is considered a:
b) 2 June 1700
a) First Person Narrative
c) 17 April 1688
b)Short Story
d) 8 November 1674
c)Epic Poem
d)Novel
521. "Milton, thou should'st be living at
525. Satan's name before he fell from
this hour. England hath need of thee."
heaven was:
Indeed. But who was it, summoning his
a)Beezlebub
ghost?
b)Michael
a)Horatio Herbert Kitchener
c)Lucifer
b)William Blake
d)Belial
c)William Wordsworth
526. 'Book 1' of 'Paradise Lost' presents
d)John Keats
Satan with his angels fallen into Hell.
When recovered, Satan awakens all his
legions and speaks to them. The first he
522. The 20th century has been less
addresses is described as 'one next to
kind to his memory. TS Eliot found his
himself in power, and next in crime,
long after known in Palestine'. What's bruise our foe," "thy" refers to:
the name of this fallen angel? a)Sin
a)Mammon b)Eden
b)Moloch c)Satan
c)Beelzebub d)Eve
d)Ashtaroth
532. The two archangels who serve as
527. In 'Paradise Lost', which angel is generals in God's army are:
ordered by God to drive Adam and Eve a)Michael and Gabriel
out of Paradise? Before he does so, he b)Michael and Raphael
shows Adam a number of visions about c)Raphael and Gabriel
the future of the human race, beginning d)Michael and Lucifer
with Cain murdering Abel and ending
with the redemption of mankind through 533. For inspiration in writing the
Christ. Who is this angel that has a large poem, Milton says he depends on:
role in the finishing chapters of 'Paradise a)Wine
Lost'? b)The Holy Spirit
a)Michael c)His favorite pen
b)Abdiel d)The Son
c)Rafael
d)Gabriel 534. Earth is described as being
connected to heaven by a:
528. Milton's "unholy trinity" of a)"stepping stones of clouds
characters includes: b)Golden rope
a)Error, Temptation, and Satan c)Golden chain
b)Sin, Death and Temptation d)Ladder
c)Sin, Temptation, and Satan
d)Satan, Sin, and Death 535. Sin was born out of Satan's:
a)Head
529. The battle between God's army b)Lust
and Satan's rebels in heaven lasted: c)Anger
a)One day d)Rib
b)Three days
c)Seven days 535. Eve before the Fall might best be
d)One hour described as:
a)a feminist
530. In the phrase, "thy seed shall b)uncomfortable with Adam
bruise our foe," the "seed" refers to: c)detailed oriented
a)The Tree of Knowledge d)a docile, vain creature
b)Adam
c)Cane and Abel 536. Throughout the poem, Satan
d)Jesus Christ transforms himself into many creatures.
Which creature does Satan not turn
531. In the phrase, "thy seed shall into?
a)a mouse surprises God's forces?
b)a cherub a)Catapults
c)a toad b)Artillery
d)a serpent c)Illusions
d)The Holy Sepulcher
537. Who might be considered the
friendliest and most sociable of all God's 542. Adam, Satan, and Eve herself are
angels? all dazzled by Eve's:
a)Adam a)Wit
b)Michael b)Beauty
c)Raphael c)Intelligence
d)Lucifer d)Hard work and spirituality
538. Everyday before the Fall Adam 543. The main reason for Adam's fall
and Eve went out to work. What did might best be described as:
their work consist of? a)lust
a)Hunting and gathering food b)love for Eve
b)Tending to the Garden of Eden c)pride
c)Building shelter to live in d)money
d)Naming all God's creatures and plants
544. When God sees that Adam and
539. The reason for Satan's fall might Eve have disobeyed him, who does he
best be described as: send to "judge" them and the snake?
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b)The Holy Ghost
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d)Raphael
545. Inspired by Satan's victory over

man, Sin and Death construct:
a)incest
b)lust a)a bridge from hell to heaven
c)greed b)a temple to welcome Satan back
d)pride c)a bridge from hell to earth
d)a funnel from Eden to the gates of
540. The reason for Eve's fall might hell
best be described as:
a)vanity 546. After they have both eaten from
b)lust the Tree of Knowledge, the first thing
c)greed Adam and Eve do is:
d)pride a)Ask forgiveness from God
b)Put some clothes on
541. On the second day of battle in c)Satisfy their sexual desire for
heaven, what does Satan use that each other
d)Blame each other for their Fall (A) Leviticus
(B) Exodus
547. The Archangel Michael might best (C) Genesis
be described as: (D) Deuteronomy
a)Jealous and envious
b)Bombastic 553. Which devil advocates a renewal
c)Firm and militant of all-out war against God?
d)Kind and caring (A) Belial
(B) Moloch
548. When Michael tells Adam what will (C) Mammon
become of mankind after the Fall, he is (D) Beelzebub
actually narrating stories taken directly
from: 554. What is Milton’s stated purpose in
a)The New Testament Paradise Lost?
b)Homer's epic poems (A) To assert his superiority to other
c)The Hebrew Bible poets
d)The Koran (B) To argue against the doctrine of
predestination
549. What are the best words to (C) To justify the ways of God to
describe the Garden of Eden, the men
weather, and nature in general, before (D) To make his story hard to
the Fall of Adam and Eve? understand
a)Ordered and rational
b)Chaotic 555. Which of the following is not a
c)Wild and unmanageable character in Paradise Lost?
d)Comfortable (A) Night
(B) Agony
550. Which angel does Satan trick by (C) Discord
disguising himself as a cherub? (D) Death
(A) Michael
(B) Uriel 556. Which angel wields a large sword
(C) Raphael in the battle and wounds Satan?
(D) Abdiel (A) Michael
(B) Abdiel
(C) Uriel
551. In what book does the fall take (D) Satan is not injured
place?
(A) Book VIII 557. When Satan leaps over the fence
(B) Book X into Paradise, what does Milton liken
(C) Book IX him to?
(D) Book VII (A) A snake slithering up a tree
(B) A germ infecting a body
552. In which book of the Bible does (C) A wolf leaping into a sheep’s
the story of Adam and Eve occur? pen
(D) A fish leaping out of water (D) Neither Virgil or Homer
558. Which angel tells Adam about the 564. What is the stated subject of
future in Books XI and XII? Paradise Lost?
(A) Raphael
(B) Uriel (A) The fight between good and evil
(C) Michael (B) Heaven’s battle and Satan’s tragic
(D) None of the above fall
(C) The creation of the universe
559. Which of the following is not found (D) Adam and Eve’s disobedience
in Hell?
(A) Gems 565. Which devil is Satan’s second-in-
(B) Gold command?
(C) Oil
(D) Minerals (A) Mammon
(B) Sin
560. Which statement about the Earth (C) Moloch
is asserted as true in Paradise Lost? (D) Beezelbub
(A) It was created before God the Son 566. Who discusses cosmology and the
(B) Earth hangs from Heaven by a battle of Heaven with Adam?
chain (A) God
(C) The Earth is a lotus flower (B) Eve
(D) The Earth revolves around the sun (C) Raphael
(D) Michael
561. Which devil is the main architect
of Pandemonium? 567. Which scene happens first
(A) Mulciber chronologically?
(B) Mammon
(C) Moloch (A) Satan and the devils rise up from
(D) Belial the lake in Hell
(B) The Son is chosen as God’s
562. How many times does Milton second-in-command
invoke a muse? (C) God and the Son create the universe
(A) One (D) The angels battle in Heaven
(B) Two
(C) Three 568. Which of the angels is considered
(D) Four a hero for arguing against Satan?
(A) Abdiel
563. Which of the following poets does (B) Uriel
Milton emulate? (C) Michael
(A) Virgil (D) Raphael
(B) Homer
(C) Both Virgil and Homer 569. In an attempt to defeat God and
his angels, what do the rebel angels Lost divided?
make?
(A) A fortress a)Nine
(B) A catapult b)Twelve
(C) A large sword c)Eighteen
(D) A cannon d)Fourteen
570. According to Paradise Lost, which 575.Which is the longest book?

of the following does God not create? a)Book X
(A) The Son b)Book VIII
(B) Adam and Eve c)Book IX
(C) Computers d)Book I
(D) He creates everything
576.In Books I-II, the rebels of Satan
571. Who does Milton name as his build the Pandemonium. What is it?
heavenly muse? a)The forbidden fruit
(A) Titania b)The capital of Heaven
(B) Urania c)A beautiful garden
(C) Virgil d)The capital of Hell
(D) Michael
577.The fruit of which tree were Adam
572. What does Eve do when she first and Eve forbidden to eat?
becomes conscious? a)Tree of Life
(A) Go in search of her mate b)Tree of God
(B) Talk to the animals c)Tree of Sin
(C) Look at her reflection in a d)Tree of Knowledge
stream
(D) Eat of the Tree of Knowledge 578.Which is the shortest book?
a)Book VII
573.Who is the main protagonist of b)Book III
Paradise Lost? c)Book VIII
a)Satan d)Book V
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Man of the dangers he was facing?
a)Raphael
b)Uriel
c)Abdiel
b)Adam d)Beelzebub
c)Eve
d)God
580.Who was the first to eat the
574.In how many books is Paradise forbidden fruit?
a)Adam b)Noah and the elephant
b)Eve c)Rebel angels
c)Satan d)Benjamin and Joseph
d)Snake
587. Who pondered, "How such united
581.Which of the following is not a force of gods, how such As stood like
character in Paradise Lost? these, could ever know repulse?"?
a)Eve
b)God a)Adam
c)Satan b)Moses
d)Jonah c)Joseph
d)Satan
582.What is the name of the sequel to 588.Who is described? "For dignity

Paradise Lost? composed and high exploit: But all was
a)Paradise Found false and hollow"
b)Paradise Lost Twice a)Lot
c)Paradise Regained b)Belial
d)Paradise Lost Again c)Satan
d)Moses
583.who was the companion of Adam
in paradise? 589. When was Paradise Lost
a)satan published?
b)eve a) 1660
c)rapheal b) 1667
d)god c) 1658
d) 1654
584.Who is "till wand'ring o'er the
earth"? 590.When was Paradise Regained
a)Satan's associates published?
b)Satan a) 1671
c)Adam b) 1656
d)Eve c) 1669
d) 1652
585. Who will fall through his own
"fault"? The Renaissance
a)Satan
b)God
c)Adam
d)Noah Maneesh Rastogi
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threw Down from the verge of Heav'n"?
a)Adam and Eve
b) Machiavelli
591.In what country did the c) Poliziano
Renaissance begin? d) Thomas More
a.Italy
b.France 598.The Prince was written to gain
c.England favor of the:
d.Germany a) Pazzi
b) Republic
592.who is considered as the model of c) Medici
the people during the renaissance? d) Inquisition
a.greek and austrian
b.roman and french 599.Who translated the New Testament
c.roman and greek into German for the first time?
d.french and greek a) Poliziano
b) Cervantes
593.the word renaissance means c) Martin Luther
a.the rebirth of learning or d) Alexander VI
knowledge
b.reading of books 600.The "father of humanism" was
c.the time of astronauts a)Petrarch
d.the study of art b)Dante
c)Boccaccio
594.Which of the following techniques d)Pico della Mirandola
was NOT used in the Renaissance art?
a.realism 601.Renaissance thinkers argued that
b.perspective women should be educated
c.individualism a)just the same as men
d.abstractioin b)with emphasis on science and
mathematics
595.what sparked the Renaissance? c)not at all
a.The Feudal system was collapsing d)confined solely to music,
b.the "95 theses" dancing, and knitting
c.the Crusades
d.the Black Plague 602.An important feature of the
Renaissance was an emphasis on
596.who lost the most power during a)alchemy and magic
the renaissance? b)the literature of Greece and
a.Italian merchants Rome
b.catholic church c)chivalry of the Middle Ages
c.black people d)the teaching of St. Thomas Acquinas
d.king and queen of Spain
603.Which was NOT a characteristic of
597.Utopia was written by: the Renaissance?
a) Cervantes
a)emphasis on individuality c)Edward III
b)confidence in human rationality d)Henry II
c)the emergence of merchant
oligarchies 609. The 18th century work 'Tom
d)the development of social Jones" was written by whom?
insurance programs a)Samuel Johnson
b)Henry Fielding
604.The northern Renaissance differed c)John Donne
from the Italian Renaissance d)Tobias Smollett
a)growth of religious activity
among common people 610. In 1905, Virginia Woolf began to
b)earlier occurrence write for which publication?
c)greater appreciation of pagan writers a)The Time's Literary Supplement
d)decline in the use of Latin b)The Lady's Home Journal
c)Strand Magazine
605.For ordinary women, the d)Reader Magazine
Renaissance
a)had very little impact 611. Joyce's novel 'Ulysses' takes place
b)greatly improved the material over what period of time?
conditions of their lives a)A week
c)worsened their social status b)24 hours
d)allowed them access to education for c)A lifetime
the first time d)6 months
606.Thomas More's Utopia placed the 612. What was the nationality of Oscar
blame for society's problems on Wilde?
a)human nature a)Irish
b)God's will b)Scottish
c)society itself c)French
d)the Church d)English
Random MCQs 613. Who wrote the poem "Requiem"?

a)Robert Louis Stevenson
607. In which century was Piers b)William Shakespeare
Plowman written? c)Samuel Johnson
a)14th d)John Milton
b)12th
c)10th 614. the prevailing feature of Chaucer's
d)11th humour is its
a)urbanity
608. Geoffrey Chaucer served which b)crudity
king? c)triviality
a)Richard III d)sanctity
b)James 1
615. who is the first great English critic- eighteenth century?
poet? a)formal diplomatic relations with China
a)Shakespeare b)the exploitation of colonial resources,
b)Arnold labor, and the slave trade
c)Sir Philip Sidney c)the American and French revolutions
d)Chaucer d)the creation of the bourgeois novel as
a commodity
616. HYMN TO ADVERSITY is a poem e)the union of England and Wales
by with Scotland
a)Thomas gray
b)Alexander Pope 621. What was "restored" in 1660?
c)Edward gibbon a)the monarchy, in the person of
d)William Blake Charles II
b)the dominance of the Tory Party
617. Who wrote the poem 'The Seven c)the "Book of Common Prayer"
Ages'? d)toleration of religious dissidents
a)John Milton e)Irish independence.
b)Geoffrey Chaucer
c)William Shakespeare 622. What literary work best captures a
d)Edward Gibbon sense of the political turmoil, particularly
regarding the issue of religion, just after
618. who write the story "Story Teller" the Restoration?
? a)Gay's Beggar's Opera
a)William Wordsworth b)Butler's Hudibras
b)William Shakespeare c)Fielding's Jonathan Wild
c)Thomas Grey d)Pope's Dunciad
d)Saki e)Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel
Restoration and The 18TH Century 623. Who was deposed from the English
throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless,
619. What happened in 1707 that would Revolution in 1688?
forever alter the relationship between
England, Wales, and Scotland? a)Elizabeth I
a)the trial and execution of Mary, b)James II
Queen of Scots c)George II
b)the Toleration Act d)William and Mary
c)the failed invasion of the Spanish e)Anne
Armada
d)the Bishops' War 624. Who became the first "prime
e)the Act of Union minister" of Great Britain in the reign of
George II?
620. Which of the following was a major
factor in the unprecedented economic a)Henry St. John
wealth of Great Britain during the b)Robert Harley
c)John Churchill
d)Robert Walpole 628. Whose great Dictionary, published
e)Matthew Prior in 1755, included more than 114,000
quotations?
625. In the late seventeenth century, a a)William Hogarth
"battle of the books" erupted between b)Jonathan Swift
which two groups? c)Samuel Johnson
d)Ben Jonson
a)abolitionists and enthusiasts for e)James Boswell
slavery
b)round-earthers and flat-earthers 629. According to Samuel Johnson, "No
c)the Welsh and the Scots man but a blockhead ever wrote except
d)champions of ancient and for...:
modern learning a)love."
e)Oxfordians and Baconians b)honor."
c)money."
626. Which of the following best d)his party."
describes the doctrine of empiricism? e)fun."
a)All knowledge is derived from 630. What name is given to the English
experience. literary period that emulated the Rome
b)Human perceptions are constructed of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid?
and reflect structures of political power. a)Augustan
c)The search for essential or ultimate b)Metaphysical
principles of reality. c)Romantic
d)The sensory world is an illusion. d)Neo-Romantic
e)God is the center of an ordered and e)Caesarian
just universe.
631. Horace's doctrine "ut pictura
627. Against which of the following poesis" was interpreted to mean:
principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh? a)A picture is worth a thousand words.
Maneesh Rastogi b)Poetry is the supreme artistic form.
c)Art should hold a mirror up to nature.
09359954900 d)Poetry ought to be a visual as
well as a verbal art.
e)Paintings of poets should be prized
over those of kings.
632. What was most frequently

a)theoretical science considered a source of pleasure and an
b)metaphysics object of inquiry by Augustan poets?
c)abstract logical deductions a)civilization
d)a and b only b)woman
e)a, b, and c c)God
d)alcohol b)Wycherley's The Country Wife
e)nature c)Behn's The Rover
d)Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
633. What word did writers in this e)Congreve's Love for Love
period use to express quickness of
mind, inventiveness, a knack for 638. Which group of intellectual women
conceiving images and metaphors and established literary clubs of their own
for perceiving resemblances between around 1750 under the leadership of
things apparently unlike? Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu?
a)wit
b)sprezzatura a)the Behnites
c)naturalism b)the bluestockings
d)gusto c)the coteries of plenty
e)metaphysics d)the Pre-Raphaelites
e)the tattlers and spectators
634. Which of the following was
probably not a stock phrase in 639. Which work exposes the frivolity of
eighteenth-century poetry? fashionable London?
a)verdant mead a)Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
b)checkered shade b)Swift's Gulliver's Travels
c)simian rivalry c)Behn's Oroonoko
d)shining sword d)Richardson's Clarissa
e)bounding main e)Pope's The Rape of the Lock
635. Which metrical form was Pope said 640. What London locale, where many
to have brought to perfection? poor writers lived, became synonymous
a)the heroic couplet with hacks and scandal mongers?
b)blank verse a)Elephant and Castle
c)free verse b)Grub Street
d)the ode c)Covent Garden
e)the spondee d)Cheapside
e)Piccadilly Circus
636. Which poet, critic and translator
brought England a modern literature 641. With its forbidden themes of incest,
between 1660 and 1700? murder, necrophilia, atheism, and
a)Addison torments of sexual desire, Horace
b)Bunyan Walpole's Castle of Otranto, created
c)Crabbe which literary genre?
d)Dryden a)the revenge tragedy
e)Equiano b)the Gothic romance
c)the epistolary novel
637. Which of the following is not an d)the comedy of manners
example of Restoration comedy? e)the mystery play
a)Etherege's The Man of Mode
642. Which of the following is not 646. Which of the following is not
indebted to the Gothic genre? generally considered to be a neoclassical
a)William Beckford's Vathek poet?
b)Matthew Lewis's The Monk a)John Dryden
c)Tobias Smollett's Roderick b)Henry Vaughan
Randsom c)Alexander Pope
d)Ann Radcliffe's The Italian d)Ben Jonson
e)William Godwin's Caleb Williams
647. Which of the following is not a
643. While compiling what sort of book common feature of neoclassical poetry?
did Samuel Richardson conceive of the
idea for his Pamela, or Virtue a)Imitation of classical forms and
Rewarded? allusion to mythology
a)a history of everyday life b)An effort to represent human nature
b)an instructional manual for manners c)Use of the rhymed couplet
c)a book of devotion d)Fantastic comparisons
d)a book of model letters
e)a chapbook 648. Neoclassicists tended to view
poetry as the result of genius
644. Who was the ancient Gaelic overflowing from the mind out onto the
warrior-bard considered by Napoleon page. They also considered poetry to be
and Thomas Jefferson to have been an expression of the individual, inner
greater than Homer? self.
a)Macpherson a)True
b)Merlin b)False
c)Decameron
d)Taliesin 649. Most neoclassical poets viewed the
e)Ossian world in terms of a strictly ordered
hierarchy. What was this hierarchy
Maneesh Rastogi called?
a)The Way of the World
09359954900 b)The Foundational Ladder
c)The Order of Angels
d)The Great Chain of Being
650. He wrote both religious and

645. John Donne is, in some sense, the
secular poetry. One of his poems urged
originator of metaphysical poetry. But
virgins to make the most of their time.
who is most closely associated with the
a)Ben Jonson
“founding” of neoclassical poetry?
b)Alexander Pope
a)William Wordsworth
c)Robert Herrick
b)Alexander Pope
d)John Dryden
c)Ben Jonson
d)George Herbert
651. Why didn’t Alexander Pope attend
an English university? heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells, /
a)He lived in Italy until the age of 27 And ever-musing melancholy reigns; /
b)Asthma, headaches, and spinal What means this tumult in a vestal's
deformity made him an invalid veins?”
c)He was a Catholic, and therefore a)The Rape of the Lock
forbidden from attending b)Solitude: An Ode
d)He just wasn’t bright enough c)The Dunciad
d)Eloisa to Abelard
652. Alexander Pope coined many a
modern day cliché. Which of the 657. Pope made money by selling
following did not originate with him? subscriptions to his translation of this
a)To err is human, to forgive divine classical epic.
b)Let not the sun go down upon a)The Bahagavad Gita
your wrath b)The Odyssey
c)A little learning is a dangerous thing c)The Illiad
d)Fools rush in where angels fear to d)The Aeneid
tread
658. This famous neoclassical poet
653. John Dryden wrote “Absalom and wrote on profound themes such as
Achitophel.” Who was Achitophel, death, but he also had a lighter side. He
historically speaking? once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a
a)King David’s son tub of gold fishes.
b)A Judge of Israel a)Alexander Pope
c)Bathsheba’s first husband b)William Collins
d)Absalom’s advisor c)Thomas Gray
d)Ben Jonson
654. Who did Dryden use Absalom to
represent, allegorically, in his satire 659. His “To Penthurst” is considered to
“Absalom and Achitophel”? be one of the primary texts of the
a)The Duke of Monmouth neoclassical movement.
b)Charles II a)Sir John Denham
c)The Earl of Shaftesbury b)Ben Jonson
d)Cromwell c)Thomas Carew
d)John Dryden
655. Complete this famous quote by
John Dryden: “Who think too little, and 660. Sir John Denham commemorated
who talk too ____” this poet, referring to him as “Old
a)often Chaucer” who, “like the morning star”,
b)long descends “to the shades,” so that
c)much “Darkness again the Age invades.”
d)fast a)William Shakespeare
b)John Donne
656. What Pope poem begins, “In these c)Abraham Cowley
deep solitudes and awful cells, / Where d)John Dryden
a)The Canturbury Tales
661. What mock epic begins: “What b)The Dark Angel
dire offence from am'rous causes c)The Wild Swans of Coole
springs, / What mighty contests rise d)The Second Coming
from trivial things”?
a)Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe” 666.Who wrote: "Beauty is truth, truth
b)Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock” beauty."?
c)Pope’s “The Dunciad” a)John Keats
d)Dryden’s “Absalom and Achitophel” b)William Shakespeare
c)Samuel Butler
662.When the Parliament, controlled by d)Samuel Taylor Coleridge
the puritans, took power in England,
one of the acts that greatly influenced 667.In which work do you read:
Literature of that time was "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."?
Maneesh Rastogi a)Adonais
b)Bright Star
09359954900 c)Ode on a Grecian Urn
d)La Bell Dame Sans Merci
668.Who wrote: "In Xanadu did Kubla

Khan / A stately pleasure dome
a)The closing of theatres decree..."?
b)The return of the King. a)Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c)King Arthurs' dead b)Robert Browning
d)King to exile c)John Keats
d)Walt Whitman
669.In which work do you read: "In

663:Who wrote: "Reader, I married Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately
him."? pleasure dome decree..."?
a)Jane Austen a)Kubla Khan
b)Charlotte Bronte b)Hellas
c)Edith Wharton c)The Phoenix and the Turtle
d)Emily Bronte d)The Castaway
664.Who wrote: "Things fall apart; the 670.A side note: Which drug/substance
center cannot hold."? was Samuel Taylor Coleridge addicted
a)William Butler Yeats to?
b)James Joyce a)Heroine
c)Thomas Moore b)Cocaine
d)Edgar Allan Poe c)Alcohol
d)Opium
665.In which work do you read:
"Things fall apart; the center cannot 671.Who wrote: "I would prefer not
hold."?
to."? c)Robert Browning
a)Edgar Allan Poe d)William Wordsworth
b)Herman Melville
c)Thomas Gray 677.In which work do you read: "That's
d)Henry David Thoreau my last Duchess painted on the wall
672.Who wrote: "There can be no /looking as if she were alive."?
freedom or beauty about a home life a)Porphyria's Lover
that depends on borrowing and debt."? b)My Last Duchess
a)Henry David Thoreau c)The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
b)Benjamin Franklin d)Fra Lippo Lippi
c)Robert Browning
d)Henrik Ibsen Maneesh Rastogi
673.In which work do you read: "There 09359954900

can be no freedom or beauty about a
home life that depends on borrowing
and debt."?
a)A Doll's House
678.Who wrote: "I have measured out
b)Riders to the Sea
my life with coffee spoons."?
c)A Handful of Dust
a)William Carlos Williams
d)The Fatal Curiosity
b)T.S. Eliot
c)Ernest Hemingway
674.Who wrote: "My name is
d)Hart Crane
Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my
works ye mighty, and despair!"?
679.In which work do you read: "I have
a)Lord Byron
measured out my life with coffee
b)Percy Bysshe Shelley
spoons."?
c)William Woodsworth
a)Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock
d)Emily Dickinson
b)Sonnets from the Portuguese
c)Prelude
675.In which work do you read: "My
d)The Last Decalogue
name is Ozymandias, King of Kings /
Look on my works ye mighty, and
680.A "classic" book is usually one that
despair!"?
possesses what quality?
a)The Man of Feeling
a)It has universal appeal.
b)In Memoriam
b)It can stand the test of time.
c)Song to Aella
c)It makes connections.
d)Ozymandias
d)All of the above.
676.Who wrote: "That's my last
681. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles
Duchess painted on the wall / looking as
Dickens involves which two cities?
if she were alive."?
a)London and Rome
a)Lord Byron
b)Paris and Rome
b)Oscar Wilde
c)London and Paris
d)Berlin and London
688) How many children were there in
682.The Catcher in the Rye takes place the Bronte family?
in what city? a)3
a)New York City b)4
b)Stanford, Connecticut c)5
c)Philadelphia, Pennsylvania d)6
d)Boston, Massachusetts
689)Who composed The Preludes?
683.Which book was not written by a)S T Coleridge
Jane Austen? b)William Wordsworth
a)Sense and Suspensibility c)William Shakespeare
b)Emma d)William Blake
c)Pride and Prejudice
d)Mansfield Park 690)Who is termed as "The Morning
Star of Renaissance"?
684.What is Shakespeare's longest a)Spenser
play? b)John Gower
a)Taming of the Shrew c)Chaucer
b)Romeo and Juliet d)Langland
c)A Midsummer Night's Dream
d)Hamlet 691)Who began the tradition of
revenge play ?
685)The poem 'The Battle of Maldon' a)Goorge peele
celebrates events which took place in b)Samuel daniel
the 10th century, but who was it c)Phineas fletcher
between d)Thomas kyd
a)Danes and English
b)Dutch and English 692)How many lines are there in a
c)Normans and English Sonnet?
d)French and English a)10
686)The Faerie Queene was written b)16
during the reign of which monarch? c)14
a)James I d)22
b)Mary Tudor
c)Elizabeth Tudor 693)What are the names of the two
d)Henry VII feuding families in Romeo and Juliet?
a)Capulet And Montague
687)Becky sharp was the heroine in b)Breslow and Felsher
which novel? c)Fuech and Goodside
a)Vanity Fair d)Dawson and Hurley
b)Sense and Sensibility 694)Which bird did the Ancient Mariner
c)Pride and Prejudice kill?
d)Mansfield Park a)Seagull
b)Albatross with the invention of power-driven
c)Humming Bird machinery.
d)Crow b) Velcro replaced buttons and snaps.
c) Steam, as opposed to wind and
695)What was the name of the Bronte water, became a primary source of
sister’s only brother? power.
a)Anderson d) The invention of textile processing
b)Branwell machines marked the end of the
c)Richard Industrial Revolution.
d)Pearson e) both a and c
696)In which county was Jane Austin 700. What is the name for the process
born? of dividing land into privately owned
a)Sussex agricultural holdings?
b)Hampshire a) partition
c)Yorkshire b) segregation
d)Norfolk c) enclosure
d) division
Maneesh Rastogi e) subtraction
09359954900 701. Which social philosophy, dominant

during the Industrial Revolution,
dictated that only the free operation of
economic laws would ensure the general
welfare and that the government should
697)In which Dickens novel does Pip
not interfere in any person's pursuit of
appear?
their personal interests?
a)Bleak House
a) economic independence
b)Great Expectations
b) the Rights of Man
c)A Tale of Two Cities
c) laissez-faire
d)The Pickwick Papers
d) enclosure
698. Which of the following English e) lazy government
groups were supportive of the French
Revolution during its early years? 702. What served as the inspiration for
a) Tories P. B. Shelley's poems to the working
b) Republicans classes A Song: "Men of England" and
c) Liberals England in 1819?
d) Radicals a) the organization of a working class
e) both c and d men's choral group in Southern England
b) the Battle of Waterloo
699. Which statement(s) about c) the Peterloo Massacre
inventions during the Industrial d) the storming of the Bastille
Revolution are true? e) the first Reform Bill, passed in 1832,
a) Hand labor became less common which aimed to bring greater
Parliamentary representation to the b) the sonnet
working classes c) doggerel rhyme
d) the political tract
703. Who applied the term "Romantic" e) the ode
to the literary period dating from 1785
to 1830? 706. Romantic poetry about the natural
a) Wordsworth because he wanted to world uses descriptions of nature
distinguish his poetry and the poetry of _________.
his friends from that of the ancien a) for their own sake; to merely
régime, especially satire describe natural phenomenon
b) English historians half a century b) to depict a metaphysical concept of
after the period ended nature by endowing it with traits
c) "The Satanic School" of Byron, Percy normally associated with humans
Shelley, and their followers c) as a means to demonstrate and
d) Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted discuss the processes of human thinking
Village (1770) d) symbolically to suggest that natural
e) Harold Bloom objects correspond to an inner, spiritual
world
704. Which poets collaborated on the e) b, c, and d
Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus
demonstrating the "spirit of the age," 707. How would "Natural
which, in an era of revolutionary Supernaturalism" be best characterized
thinking, depended on a belief in the as a Romantic notion introduced by
limitless possibilities of the poetic Carlyle?
imagination? a) a form of animism in which objects in
a) Mary Wollstonecraft and William the natural world are believed to be
Blake inhabited by spirits
b) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and b) a spontaneous belief in the
Percy B. Shelley supernatural based upon a surprise
c) William Wordsworth and Samuel encounter with a supernatural being
Taylor Coleridge c) a process by which things that
d) Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt are familiar and thought to be
e) Dorothy Wordsworth and Sally ordinary are made to appear
Ashburner miraculous and new to our eyes
d) the experience of hallucinating
705. Which of the following became the contact with the supernatural world
most popular Romantic poetic form, when taking opium
following on Wordsworth's claim that e) an oxymoron that nobody understood
poetic inspiration is contained within the and that cannot be explained in the
inner feelings of the individual poet as context of a discussion of Romantic
"the spontaneous overflow of powerful literature
feelings"?
a) the lyric poem written in the 708. Which setting could you not
first person imagine a work of Romantic literature
employing? fly and mortals must be taught the
a) a field of daffodils limitations of human existence
b) the "Orient" c) Prometheus, who succeeds in stealing
c) a graveyard fire from the Gods and thereby
d) a medieval castle surpasses the limitations placed on
e) All of the above would be humans by the Gods
appropriate settings for Romantic d) all of the above
literature. e) a and c only: Romantics were
more interested in representations
709. Which poet asserted in practice of humans as they were able to
and theory the value of representing exceed their human limitations.
rustic life and language as well as social
outcasts and delinquents not only in 712. Which of the following best
pastoral poetry, common before this describes the sort of language and tone
poet's time, but also as the major most often used when Romantic writers
subject and medium for poetry in discuss the French Revolution?
general? a) snide indifference
a) William Blake b) biblical reverence
b) Alfred Lord Tennyson c) condemning censure
c) Samuel Johnson d) satirical derision
d) William Wordsworth e) none of the above: Romantic writers
e) Mary Wollstonecraft had no interest in the French
Revolution.
710. What is the term we now use for
what the Romantics called 713. Which of the following descriptions
"mesmerism," one of the "occult" would not have applied to any Romantic
practices that allowed people to explore text?
altered states of consciousness? a) a spiritual autobiography written in
a) smoking opium an epic style
b) hypnotism b) a lyric poem written in the first
c) psychoanalysis person
d) dream interpretation c) a comedy of manners
e) Satanism d) a political tract demanding labor
reform
711. Romantic poets would have e) a novel written about the intellectual
enjoyed, agreed with, and perhaps and emotional development of a
written about which of the following monster created by a scientist
figures as depicted?
a) Goethe's Faust in Faust, who is sinful 714. Which of the following poems
because he attempts to exceed the bounds of describe or celebrate an apocalyptic
human knowledge by making a pact with the regeneration of humanity and the world
devil but is nonetheless redeemed in his striving
to break free of the bounds of mortality
effected by the creative capacity of the
b) Icarus, who is killed in attempting to human mind?
fly because only Gods have the power to a) Coleridge's Dejection: An Ode
b) Blake's "Prophetic Books" e) a and c only
c) Carlyle's Sartor Resartus
d) Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the 718. According to a theater licensing
Rights of Woman act, repealed in 1843, what was meant
e) all but d by "legitimate" drama?
a) The dramaturge and playwright had
715. Which sorts of political reform took to be related.
place during the Romantic period? b) All of the actors were male.
a) Parliamentary reform, increasing c) All of the actors were British.
representation of the working classes d) The play was spoken.
b) Labor reform, improving working e) The play had to be a full musical or
conditions for industrial laborers produced in full pantomime.
c) Voting reform, extending suffrage to
men and women 719. The Gothic novel, a popular genre
d) Educational reform, producing a for the Romantics, exemplified in the
dramatic increase in literacy writing of Horace Walpole and Ann
e) a and d only: Significant labor Radcliffe, could contain which of the
and voting reform would have to following elements?
wait for the Victorian era and later. a) supernatural phenomenon
b) perversion and sadism, often
716. Which of the following factors involving a maiden's persecution
contributed to literature becoming a c) plots of mystery and terror set in
profitable business? inhospitable, sullen landscapes
a) Commercial and public lending libraries were d) secret passages, decaying mansions,
established in order to provide for an enlarged gloomy castles, and dark dungeons
reading public. e) all of the above
b) Education reform increased literacy,
thus creating a demand for commercial 720. Given the popularity of the Gothic
and public lending libraries. novel and the novel of purpose, which
c) A new aesthetics of valuing literature of the following novelists wrote fiction
for its own sake emphasized reading for that is closer in subject matter to the
pleasure. novel of manners than it is to the
d) People had more leisure time to read writing of her own era?
and more disposable income to spend a) Fanny Burney
on reading materials. b) Mary Wollstonecraft
e) all of the above c) Anna Letitia Barbauld
d) Jane Austen
717. Which of the following periodical e) Mary Shelley
publications (reviews and magazines)
appeared in the Romantic era? 721. Which two writers can be
a) London Magazine described as writing historical novels?
b) The Spectator a) Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe
c) The Edinburgh Review Shelley
d) The Tatler b) William Wordsworth and Samuel
Taylor Coleridge
c) Sir Walter Scott and Maria a) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's
Edgeworth Frankenstein
d) Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë b) William Worsworth's Lyrical Ballads
e) none of the above: Romantic c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime
novelists never wrote historical novels. of the Ancient Mariner
d) John Keats's "To Autumn"
722. Which of the following texts e) all but d
addresses class as a social and
economic reality? 726. Looking to the ancient past, many
a) William Godwin's Inquiry Concerning Romantic poets identified with the figure
Political Justice of the
b) Percy Bysshe Shelley's England in
1819 a) troubadour
c) William Godwin's Caleb Williams b) skald
d) Sir Walter Scott's The Heart of c) chorister
Midlothian d) minstrel
e) all of the above e) bard
727. What did Byron deride with his

723. Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in scathing reference to "'Peddlers,' and
more than one of these popular literary 'Boats,' and 'Wagons'!"?
forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry?
a) Percy Bysshe Shelley a) the neo-classical influence of Pope
b) William Wordsworth and Dryden
c) George Gordon, Lord Byron b) the clumsiness of Shakespeare's plots
d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge c) the Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge
e) all of the above d) Wordsworth's devotion to the
ordinary and everyday
724. Which of the following would not e) Blake's apocalyptic visions
have been an appropriate protagonist
for a Romantic literary text?
a) a French revolutionary 728. Wordsworth described all good
b) a Greek or Roman mythological figure poetry as
c) a monster fabricated in a laboratory
d) a vagrant, gypsy, or any other a) the rhythmic expression of moral
itinerant social outcast intuition
e) All would have been appropriate b) the spontaneous overflow of
protagonists for a Romantic literary powerful feelings
text. c) the polite patter of a corrupted age
d) the divine gift of grace
725. In which of the following works is e) the foul rag and bone shop of the
the social outcast represented and heart.
addressed?
733. Who remained without the vote
729. Which poet asserted in practice following the Reform Bill of 1832?
and theory the value of representing
rustic life and language as well as social a) about half of middle class men
outcasts and delinquents not only in b) almost all working class men
pastoral poetry, common before this Maneesh Rastogi
poet's time, but also as the major
subject and medium for poetry in 09359954900
general?
a) William Blake
b) Alfred Lord Tennyson
c) Samuel Johnson c) all women
d) William Wordsworth d) b and c
e) Mary Wollstonecraft e) a, b and c
730. Which of the following was a 734. Which of the following charges
typically Romantic means of achieving were commonly leveled at the novel by
visionary states? its detractors at the dawn of the
a) opium Romantic era?
b) dreams
c) childhood a) Too many of its readers were
d) a and b women.
e) a, b and c b) It required less skill than other
genres.
731. Which philosopher had a particular c) It lacked the classical pedigree of
influence on Coleridge? poetry and drama.
d) Too many of its authors were
a) Aristotle women.
b) Duns Scotus e) all of the above
c) David Hume
d) Immanuel Kant 735. Which chilling novel of surveillance
e) Bertrand Russell and entrapment had the alternative title
Things as They Are?
732. Which of the following was not
considered a type of the alienated, a) Jane Austen's Emma
romantic visionary? b) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
c) William Godwin's Caleb Williams
a) Prometheus d) Sir Walter Scott's Waverley
b) Satan e) Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto
c) Cain
d) Napoleon 736. Which of the following is a
e) George III typically Romantic poetic form?
a) the fractal India, Africa, and the West Indies
b) the figment
c) the fragment
d) the aubade 740. Which city became the perceived
e) the comedy of manners center of Western civilization by the
middle of the nineteenth century?
737. Who exemplified the role of the a) Paris
"peasant poet"? b) Tokyo
c) London
a) John Clare d) Amsterdam
b) John Keats e) New York
c) Robert Burns
d) a and c only 741. By 1890, what percentage of the
e) b and c only earth's population was subject to Queen
Victoria?
738. Who in the Romantic period
developed a new novelistic language for a) 1%
the workings of the mind in flux? b) 10%
c) 15%
a) Maria Edgeworth d) 25%
b) Sir Walter Scott e) 95%
c) Thomas De Quincey
d) Joanna Baillie
e) Jane Austen 742. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by
"Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe"?
Maneesh Rastogi
a) Britain's preeminence as a global
09359954900 power will depend on mastery of foreign
languages.
b) Even a foreign author is better than a
homegrown scoundrel.
c) Abandon the introspection of the
Victorian Age
Romantics and turn to the higher
moral purpose found in Goethe.
739. Which ruler's reign marks the
d) In a carefully veiled critique of the
approximate beginning and end of the
monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in
Victorian era?
symbolically for Queen Victoria and
Charles Darwin respectively.
a) King Henry VIII
e) Leave England and emigrate to
b) Queen Elizabeth I
Germany.
c) Queen Victoria
d) King John
e) all of the above, in that order, with
743. To whom did the Reform Bill of
Victoria's reign marking the most pivotal
1832 extend the vote on parliamentary
period for England's colonial efforts in
representation? e) Oscar Wilde
a) the working classes 747. Which event did not occur as part
b) women of the rise of the British Empire under
c) the lower middle classes Queen Victoria?
d) slaves
e) conservative landowners a) Between 1853 and 1880, 2,466,000
emigrants left Britain, many bound for
the colonies.
744. Elizabeth Barrett's poem The Cry b) In 1876, Queen Victoria was named
of the Children is concerned with which empress of India.
major issue attendant on the Time of c) To save costs and maximize
Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s? profits, the day-to-day government
of India was transferred from
a) women's rights and suffrage Parliament to the private East India
b) child labor Company.
c) Chartism d) From 1830 to 1870, the sum total of
d) the prudishness and old-fashioned investments abroad by British capitalists
ideals of her fellow Victorians had risen from £300 billion to £800
e) insurrection in the colonies billion.
e) In 1867 the Canadian provinces were
unified into the Dominion of Canada.
745. Who were the "Two Nations"
referred to in the subtitle of Disraeli's 748. What does the phrase "White
Sybil (1845)? Man's Burden," coined by Kipling, refer
to?
a) the rich and the poor
b) Anglicans and Methodists a) Britain's manifest destiny to colonize
c) England and Ireland the world
d) Britain and Germany b) the moral responsibility to bring
e) the industrial north and the agrarian civilization and Christianity to the
south peoples of the world
c) the British need to improve
746. Which of the following novelists technology and transportation in other
best represents the mid-Victorian parts of the world
period's contentment with the d) the importance of solving economic
burgeoning economic prosperity and and social problems in England before
decreased restiveness over social and tackling the world's problems
political change? e) a Chartist sentiment
a) Anthony Trollope
b) Charles Dickens 749. Which of the following best
c) John Ruskin defines Utilitarianism?
d) Friedrich Engels
a) a farming technique aimed at a) William Morris
maximizing productivity with the fewest b) John Ruskin
tools c) Edward FitzGerald
b) a moral arithmetic, which states d) Karl Marx
that all humans aim to maximize e) all but c
the greatest pleasure to the
greatest number 753. Which best describes the general
c) a critical methodology stating that all feeling expressed in literature during the
words have a single meaningful function last decade of the Victorian era?
within a given piece of literature
d) a philosophy dictating that we should a) studied melancholy and
only keep what we use on a daily basis. aestheticism
e) a form of nonconformism b) sincere earnestness and Protestant
zeal
c) raucous celebration mixed with self-
750. Which of the following discoveries, congratulatory sophistication
theories, and events contributed to d) paranoid introspection and cryptic
Victorians feeling less like they were a dissent
uniquely special, central species in the e) all of the above
universe and more isolated?
754. Which of the following acts were
a) geology not passed during the Victorian era?
b) evolution
c) discoveries in astronomy about stellar a) a series of Factory Acts
distances b) the Custody Act
d) all of the above c) the Women's Suffrage Act
e) tractarianism d) the Married Women's Property Rights
Acts
e) the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes
751. Which of the following contributed Act
to the growing awareness in the Late
Victorian Period of the immense human, 755. Which contemporary discussions
economic, and political costs of running on women's rights did Tennyson's The
an empire? Princess address?
a) the India Mutiny in 1857 a) the grueling working conditions for

b) the Boer War in the south of Africa women in textile factories
c) the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865 b) the debate on women's suffrage
d) the Irish Question c) the need to enlarge and improve
e) all of the above educational opportunities for
women, resulting in the
752. Which of the following authors establishment of the first women's
promoted versions of socialism? college in London
d) the question of monarchical
succession and if a woman should hold his or her place in society
royal power e) a and d
e) the establishment of a civil divorce
court
759. Why did the novel seem a genre
756. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson's particularly well-suited to women?
The Princess.
Man for the field and woman for the a) It did not carry the burden of an
_____: august tradition like poetry.
Man for the sword and for the _____ b) It was a popular form whose market
she: women could enter easily.
Man with the head and woman with the c) It was seen as a frivolous form where
_____: one shouldn't make serious statements
Man to command and woman to _____. about society.
d) It often concerned the domestic
a) crop; scabbard; foot; agree world with which women were familiar.
b) throne; scepter; soul; decree e) all but c
c) school; scalpel; pen; set free
d) hearth; needle; heart; obey 760. What was the relationship
e) field; sword; head; command between Victorian poets and the
Romantics?
757. Which of the following Victorian
writers regularly published their work in a) The Romantics remained largely
periodicals? forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S.
Eliot in the 1920s.
a) Thomas Carlyle b) The Victorians were disgusted by the
b) Matthew Arnold immorality and narcissism of the
c) Charles Dickens Romantics.
d) Elizabeth Barrett Browning c) The Romantics were seen as gifted
e) all of the above: (In addition to but crude artists belonging to a distant,
short fiction, most Victorian novels semi-barbarous age.
appeared serialized in periodicals.) d) The Victorians were strongly
influenced by the Romantics and
experienced a sense of
758. What best describes the subject of belatedness.
most Victorian novels? e) The Victorians were aware of no
distinction between themselves and the
a) the representation of a large and Romantics; the distinction was only
comprehensive social world in realistic created by critics in the twentieth
detail century.
b) a surrealist exploration of alternate
states of consciousness 761. Experimentation in which of the
c) a mythic dream world following areas of poetic expression
d) the attempt of a protagonist to define characterize Victorian poetry and allow
Victorian poets to represent psychology d) the deconstruction of the truth-fiction
in a different way? dichotomy and an accompanying
relativistic sense that every opinion was
a) the use of pictorial description to of equal value
construct visual images to represent the e) c and d
emotion or situation of the poem
b) sound as a means to express 764. For what do Matthew Arnold's
meaning moral investment in nonfiction and
c) perspective, as in the dramatic Walter Pater's aesthetic investment
monologue together pave the way?
d) all of the above
e) none of the above: Victorians were a) a renewed secularism in the
not experimental in their poetry. twentieth century
b) modern literary criticism
762. What type of writing did Walter c) late–nineteenth-century and early–
Pater define as "the special and twentieth-century satirical drama
opportune art of the modern world"? d) the surrealist movement
Maneesh Rastogi e) none of the above: Victorian prose
was mostly forgotten until recently and
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765. Which of the following comic

playwrights made fun of Victorian values
a) the novel and pretensions?
b) nonfiction prose
c) the lyric a) W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
d) comic drama b) Oscar Wilde
e) transcripts of Parliamentary debates c) George Bernard Shaw
d) Robert Corrigan
763. What factors contributed to the e) all but d
increased popularity of nonfiction prose?
20th Century
a) a new market position for
nonfiction writing and an exalted 766. Which of the following phrases
sense of the didactic function of best characterizes the late-nineteenth
the writer century aesthetic movement which
b) a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a widened the breach between artists and
thirst for trivia the reading public, sowing the seeds of
c) the forbiddingly high cost of three- modernism?
volume novels and the difficulty of
finding poetry in bookshops outside of a) art for intellect's sake
London b) art for God's sake
c) art for the masses leading them to re-imagine human
d) art for art's sake identity in radically new ways?
e) art for sale
a) Sigmund Freud
767. What was the impact on literature b) Sir James Frazer
of the Education Act of 1870, which c) Immanuel Kant
made elementary schooling compulsory? d) Friedrich Nietzsche
e) all but c
a) the emergence of a mass literate
population at whom a new mass- 771. Which scientific or technological
produced literature could be advance did not take place in the first
directed fifteen years of the twentieth century?
b) a new market for basic textbooks
which paid better than sophisticated a) Albert Einstein's theory of relativity
novels or plays b) wireless communication across the
c) a popular thirst for the "classics," Atlantic
driving contemporary writers to the c) the creation of the internet
margins d) the invention of the airplane
d) a, b and c e) the mass production of cars
e) none of the above
772. Which best describes the imagist
768. Which text exemplifies the anti- movement, exemplified in the work of T.
Victorianism prevalent in the early E. Hulme and Ezra Pound?
twentieth century?
a) a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned
a) Eminent Victorians with the way words appear on the page
b) Jungle Books b) an effort to rid poetry of
c) Philistine Victorians romantic fuzziness and facile
d) The Way of All Flesh emotionalism, replacing it with a
e) both a and d precision and clarity of imagery
c) an attention to alternate states of
769. With which enormously influential consciousness and uncanny imagery
perspective or practice is the early- d) the resurrection of Romantic poetic
twentieth-century thinker Sigmund sensibility
Freud associated? e) a neo-platonic poetics that stresses
the importance of poetry aiming to
a) eugenics achieve its ideal "form"
b) psychoanalysis
c) phrenology 773. What characteristics of
d) anarchism seventeenth-century Metaphysical
e) all of the above poetry sparked the enthusiasm of
modernist poets and critics?
770. Which thinker had a major impact
on early-twentieth-century writers, a) its intellectual complexity
b) its union of thought and passion d) Oscar Wilde
c) its uncompromising engagement with e) none of the above; all came from
politics Ireland
d) a and b
e) a,b, and c 778. Which phrase indicates the interior
flow of thought employed in high-
modern literature?
774. In the 1930s, younger writers such
as W. H. Auden were more _______ but a) automatic writing
less _______ than older modernists b) confused daze
such as Eliot and Pound. c) total recall
d) stream of consciousness
a) popular; reverenced e) free association
b) brash; confident
c) radical; inventive 779. Which of the following is not
d) anxious; haunting associated with high modernism in the
e) spiritual; orthodox novel?
775. Which poet could be described as a) stream of consciousness

part of "The Movement" of the 1950s? b) free indirect style
c) irresolute open endings
a) Thom Gunn d) the "mythical method"
b) Dylan Thomas e) narrative realism
c) Pablo Picasso
d) Philip Larkin 780. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise
e) both a and d for utilizing a new "mythical method" in
place of the old "narrative method" and
demonstrates the use of ancient
776. Which British dominion achieved mythology in modernist fiction to think
independence in 1921-22, following the about "making the modern world
Easter Rising of 1916? possible for art"?
a) Virginia Woolf's The Waves
a) the southern counties of Ireland b) Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
b) Canada c) James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake
c) Ulster d) E. M. Forster's A Passage to India
d) India e) James Joyce's Ulysses
e) Ghana
781. Who wrote the dystopian novel
777. Which of the following writers did Nineteen-Eighty-Four in which
not come from Ireland? Newspeak demonstrates the heightened
linguistic self-consciousness of
a) W. B. Yeats modernist writers?
b) James Joyce a) George Orwell
c) Seamus Heaney b) Virginia Woolf
c) Evelyn Waugh Beckett's Waiting for Godot?
d) Orson Wells a) "nothing happens-twice"
e) Aldous Huxley b) "political correctness gone mad"
c) "kitchen sink drama"
782. Which of the following novels d) "angry young men
display postwar nostalgia for past e) "better than Cats"
imperial glory?
a) E. M. Forster's A Passage to India 787. What event allowed mainstream
b) Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea theater companies to commission and
c) Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness perform work that was politically,
d) Paul Scott's Staying On socially, and sexually controversial
e) c and d without fear of censorship?
a) the abolition of the Lord
783. When was the ban finally lifted on Chamberlain's office in 1968
D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's b) the illegal performance of work by
Lover, written in 1928. Howard Brenton and Edward Bond
a) 1930 c) the collapse of liberal humanist
b) 1945 consensus in the late 1960s
c) 1960 d) the foundation of the Field Day
d) 2000 Theater Company in 1980
e) The ban has not yet been formally e) the establishment of the Abbey
lifted. Theater
784. Which of the following was 788. Which of the following has been a
originally the Irish Literary Theatre? significant development in British
a) the Irish National Theatre theater since the abolition of censorship
b) the Globe Theatre in 1968?
c) the Independent Theatre a) the rise of workshops and the
d) the Abbey Theatre collaborative ethos
e) both a and d b) the emergence of a major cohort of
women dramatists
785. What did T. S. Eliot attempt to c) the diversifying impact of playwrights
combine, though not very successfully, from the former colonies
in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and d) the death of the musical
The Cocktail Party? e) all but d
a) regional dialect and political critique
b) religious symbolism and society 789. What did Henry James describe as
comedy "loose baggy monsters"?
c) iambic pentameter and sexual
innuendo a) novels
d) witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe b) plays
e) all of the above c) the English
d) publishers
786. How did one critic sum up Samuel e) his trousers
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English Literature Paper - I (1999)
(1) The subjugation of Women (1869) is an important text of:
(a) George Eliot

(b) Byron
(c) John Mill
(d) Hardy
(c) John Mill
(2) Which of the following poems by Tennyson is a monodrama?
(a) Ulysses
(b) Break, Break, Break
(c) Maud
(d) Crossing the Bar
(c) Maud
(3) The line “she dwells with Beauty – Beauty that must be” occurs in Keats’
(a) Lamia
(b) Ode to a Grecian Urn
(c) Ode on Melancholy
(d) Endymion
(c) Ode on Melancholy
(4) Negative Capability to Keats, means
(a) The ability to sympathize with other

(b) Say bad thing, about others
(c) To empathize
(c) To empathize
(5) “Art for arts sake” found its true adherent in:
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Byron
(c) Browning
(d) Wilde
(d) Wilde
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(6) It as the best of times, it was the worst of time, it was the worst – the opening of
Dickens’
(a) Hard Times

(b) David Copperfield
(c) Oliver Twist
(d) A Tales of Two Cities
(d) A Tales of Two Cities
(7) The character of Little Neil is a creation of:
(a) Hardy
(b) Eliot
(c) Oscar Wilde
(d) Dickens
(d) Dickens
(8) “Idylls of the King” is illustration of Tennyson’s deep interest in:
(a) Medieval legends

(b) The role of the king
(c) Hero worship
(d) The contemporary condition
(b) The role of the king
(9) Who believed that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotions?

(a) Blake
(b) Byron
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Keats
(c) Wordsworth
(10) Who after the publication of a poem, awoke and found himself famous?
(a) Shelley
(b) Browning
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Keats
(c) Wordsworth
(11) The image of the femme fatale dominates the poetry of:
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Keats
(c) Byron
(d) Tennyson
(b) Keats
(12) Little Time is a character in Hardy’s
(a) The return of the native

(b) Jude the Obscure
(c) Mayor of Casterbridge
(13) Which is the famous elegy written by Shelley?
(a) In Memoriam
(b) Lycidas
(c) Adonis
(d) Thyrsis
(c) Adonis
(14) The moral choice is everything in the works of:
(a) Dickens
(b) George Eliot
(c) Hardy
(a) Dickens
(15) Which of the following is illustrative of Ruskin’s interest in social economy?
(a) The Seven Lamps

(b) Unto this Last
(c) The Stones of Venice
(b) Unto this Last
(16) Which one of the following poets named the Romantic poet as the “pond poets”?
(a) Southey
(b) Shelley
(c) Keats
(d) Byron
(a) Southey
(17) The Charge of the Light Brigade” (Tennyson) commemorates:
(a) The Boer War

(b) The battle of Trafalgar
(c) The Crimean War
(c) The Crimean War
(18) The Elgin Marbles inspired Keats to write:
(a) Endymion
(b) Lamia
(c) The Grecian Urn
(d) Melancholy
(c) The Grecian Urn
(19) Would you tell Sordelo (Browning) as a:
(a) Dramatic Monologue

(b) Dramatic Lyrics
(c) Tragic Drama
(b) Dramatic Lyrics
(20) Which one of the following poets was appointed Poet Laureate in the year 1813?
(a) Tennyson
(b) Byron
(c) Southey
(d) Wordsworth
(c) Southey
English Literature Paper - II (1999)
(1) Shakespeare’s Hamlet is

(a) A tragedy
(b) Comedy
(a) A tragedy
(2) Earnest Hamingway has written
(a) Old Man and the Sea

(b) Mr. Chips
(c) Pride and Prejudice
(a) Old Man and the Sea
(3) Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?
(a) Charles Dickens

(b) Chaucer
(c) Jonathan Swift
(c) Jonathan Swift
(4) Which of the following is not a dramatist?
(a) Ben Johnson

(b) Byron
(c) Eliot
(b) Byron
(5) Which of the following is not a play by Shakespeare?
(a) Hamlet
(b) Macbeth
(c) Dr. Faustus
(c) Dr. Faustus
(6) E. M. Foster is a
(a) Novelist
(b) Poet
(c) Playwright
(a) Novelist
(7) “The Pickwick Papers” is a novel by:
(a) Jane Austen

(b) Charles Dickens
(c) Thackery
(b) Charles Dickens
(8) Who wrote “Jane Eyre”?
(a) Charlotte Bronte

(b) Emile Bronte
(c) Anne Bronte
(9) After whom is the Elizabethan Age named?
(a) Elizabeth-I
(b) Elizabeth-II
(c) Elizabeth Browning
(a) Elizabeth-I
(10) What is the name of Wordsworth’s long poem?
(a) The Canterbury Tales

(b) Don Juan
(c) The Prelude
(c) The Prelude
(11) A poem mourning someone’s death is called:
(a) Fable
(b) Epic
(c) Elegy
(c) Elegy
(12) Which of the following is not a tragedy written by Shakespeare?
(a) Macbeth
(b) Othello
(c) Merchant of Venice
(c) Merchant of Venice
(13) Who wrote “The Second Coming”?
(a) E. Spencer
(b) Eliot
(c) W. B. Yeats
(c) W. B. Yeats
(14) What period in English Literature is called the “Augustans Age”?
(a) Early 16th Century

(b) 17th Century
(c) Early 18th Century
(c) Early 18th Century
(15) Which play among the following plays is not blank verse?
(a) Hamlet
(b) The Jew of Malta
(c) Pygmalion
(c) Pygmalion
(16) Which one of the following writers is not woman?
(a) Emily Bronte

(b) Jane Austen
(c) Robert Browning
(c) Robert Browning
(17) Who is the villain in “Hamlet”?
(a) Horatio
(b) Iago
(c) Claudius
(c) Claudius
(18) Who kills Macbeth in the play “Macbeth”?
(a) Duncan
(b) Bonquo
(c) Macduff
(c) Macduff
(19) Which is the last of Shakespeare’s great tragedies?
(a) Macbeth
(b) King Lear
(c) Othello
(d) Hamlet
(b) King Lear
(20) Who is the heroine of Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet”?
(a) Cordella
(b) Desdemona
(c) Portia
(d) Ophelia
(d) Ophelia
(1) Romanticism (if it can be pinpointed) is usually assumed to date from:
(a) Publication of "Intimations of Immortality"

(b) The beginning of Queen Victoria’s reign
(c) The Reform Bill of 1832
(d) Publication of "Lyrical Ballads" and its preface
(e) 1800 – 1801
(d) Publication of "Lyrical Ballads" and its preface
(2) Which of the following would a Romantic Poet be most likely to use?
(a) A "feathered chorister"

(b) A "member of the plumy race"
(c) A "bird"
(d) A "tenant of the sky"
(e) An "airy fairy"
(e) An "airy fairy"
(3) Wordsworth’s Poetry always reflects:
(a) The creation of abstract concepts

(b) An endorsement of the scientific tradition
(c) The creation of an original philosophy
(d) An examination of extraneous matters
(e) His belief in a world to come.
(c) The creation of an original philosophy
(4) Byron’s Poetry is ambiguous and has a vividness of phrasing which sometimes reaches
the point of abstraction:
(a) True
(b) False
(a) True
(5) "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" is a satirical attack on contemporary writers who
had annoyed Byron.
(a) True
(b) False
(a) True
(6) In 1850, Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as poet laureate.
(a) True
(b) False
(a) True
(7) Mary Anne Evans is the same person as George Eliot.
(a) True
(b) False
(a) True
(8) Keats’ widespread appeal is to the Reader’s interest in the supernatural.
(a) True
(b) False
(b) False
(9) The literary figure who had the most pronounced effect on Keats was:
(a) Dante
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Shelley
(b) Shakespeare
(10) Shelly was a firm believer in all of the following except:
(a) Personal freedom
(b) The individual’s responsibility to society
(c) The power of love
(d) Human conduct based on conviction
(d) Human conduct based on conviction
(11) Shelley’s poetry used all of the following components for themes except:
(a) Worship of God

(b) Passion
(c) Narcissism
(d) Emotional self-indulgence
(a) Worship of God
(12) The prose of the Romantic period had a tendency to:
(a) Objectify the issue in terms of a cause

(b) Advance a single system to the public
(c) Allow the writer to draw on his
(d) Be brooding and meditative. own personality
(a) Objectify the issue in terms of a cause
(13) Charles Lamb’s "Dream Children" is notable for its:
(a) Crushing tragedy

(b) Humor
(c) Whimsical Pathos
(d) Cynicism
(c) Whimsical Pathos
(14) The Victorian age can be dated by which of the following events and years:
(a) Mills’s "on liberty’ (1859) to end of century (1900)

(b) Reform Bill (1832) to end of Boer War (1902)
(c) Birth of Tennyson (1809) to his death (1892)
(d) Tennyson’s Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830) to death of Queen Victoria (1901)
(d) Tennyson’s Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830) to death of Queen Victoria (1901)
(15) Which of the following works ‘had the greatest influence on the Victorian Age?
(a) Mill’s "On Liberty"

(b) Tennyson’s "In memoriam"
(c) Darwin’s "Origin of Species"
(d) Carlyle’s "Sartor Resartus"
(e) Ruskin’s "The stones of Venice"
(b) Tennyson’s "In memoriam"
(16) In which of the following Genres did Victorian Literature achieve its greatest success:
(a) Drama
(b) Epic Poetry
(c) Lyric Poetry
(d) The Essay
(e) The Novel
(e) The Novel
(17) Identify the sources of the quotations listed below:
1. "Hail to thee blithe spirit"

2. "Spirit of beauty that dost consecrate"
3. "Paint/Must never hope to reproduce the- faint Halfflush that dies along her throat".
4. " Where are the songs of Spring? Ay,- where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too
5. "Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu",
6. "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting"
7. "A hand may first and then a lip be kist;
For my part, to such doings I’m a stranger"
8. "My hair is grey, but not with years, nor grew it white, In a single night"
A "May Last Duchess"

B "To a sky Lark"
C "Ode to Autumn"
D "Don Juan"
E "The Prisoner of Chillon"
F "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
G "Intimations of Immortality’ (Ode)
H "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"
1-B
2-H
3-A
4-C
5-F
6-G
7-D
8-E
(1) Who wrote "Shakespeare’s Later Comedies’?
(a) A.C. Bradley
(b) Palmer D.J.
(c) Dr.Johnsofl
(b) Palmer D.J.
(2) Which of the following is not a dramatist?
(a) Ben Johnson

(b) Eliot
(c) S. Backett
(3) Which. of the following is not a play by Shakespeare?
(a) Tempest
(b) Pygmalion
(c) King Lear
(b) Pygmalion
(4) Who is the author of ‘After Strange Gods’?
(a) Shaw
(b) Robert Frost
(c) Eliot
(c) Eliot
(5) Who is the Villain in ‘Hamlet’?
(a) Horatio
(b) Iago
(c) Claudius
(c) Claudius
(6) Who is the heroine of ‘Hamlet’?
(a) Cordelia
(b) Portia
(c) Ophelia
(c) Ophelia
(7) After whom the Elizabethan Age is named:
(a) Elizabeth I
(b) Elizabeth II
(c) Elizabeth Browning
(a) Elizabeth I
(8) Who wrote ‘Common Pursuit’?
(a) Leavis, F.R.

(b) Cecil, D.
(c) E.M.Foster
(a) Leavis, F.R.
(9) ‘ Paradise Lost is an epic by:
(a). Spenser
(b) Chaucer
(c) Milton
(c) Milton
(10) "After Apple Picking" is written by:
(a) Robert Browning

(b) Robert Frost
(b) Robert Frost
(11) Ernest Hemingway wrote:
(a) Mr. Chips

(b) Pride and Prejudice
(c) Old Man and the Sea
(c) Old Man and the Sea
(12) "Intellectual Beauty" is written by:
(a) Bertrand Russell

(b) Huxley
(c) P.B.Shelley
(c) P.B.Shelley
(13) Who wrote "20th Century Views"?
(a) Abrahams, M. H.
(b) Palmer, D. J.
(c) Bertrand Russell
(a) Abrahams, M. H.
(14) ‘Desert Places’ is a:
(a) Poem
(b) Play
(c) Novel
(a) Poem
(15) The University Wits were:
(a) Poets
(b) Playwrights
(c) Novelists
(b) Playwrights
(16) William Shakespeare was Born in:
(a) 1564
(b) 1534
(c) 1616
(a) 1564
(17) Francis Bacon died in:
(a) 1616
(b) 1626
(c) 1648
(b) 1626
(18) The period between 1660 to 1750 is known as:
(a) The Age of Classicism

(b) The Restoration
(c) The age of Milton
(b) The Restoration
(19) Who wrote "The Pilgrim’s Progress"?
(a) John Bunyan

(b) Daniel Defoe
(c) Dryden
(a) John Bunyan
(20) ‘‘The Conduct of the Allies’ is a famous work of:
(a) Jonathan Swift

(b) Samuel Johnson
(c) Oliver ‘Goldsmith
(a) Jonathan Swift
1) The abstract theory of utilitarianism is the theme of Dicken’s novel:

a) Bleak House
b) A Tale of Two Cities
c) Hard Times
d) Great Expectations
e) None of these
c) Hard Times
2. The one remains, the many change and pass;

Heaven’s light for ever shines, earth’s shadows fly;
The above two lines occur in:

a) Keats’ Hyperion
b) Shelley’s Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
c) Shelley’s Adonis
d) Keats’ Ode to Psyche
e) None of these
c) Shelley’s Adonis
3. Name the character of a novel of Thomas Hardy, which is much like Oedipus, King Lear
and Faust.
Answer. Tess.
4. She can not fade, though thou hast not the bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
The above two lines have been taken from:

a) Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale
b) A Thing of Beauty
c) La Belle Dame Sans Mercy
d) Ode on a Grecian Urn
d) Ode on a Grecian Urn
5. ‘Withdrawal from an uncongenial world of escape either to death or more often, to an

ideal dream world’, is the theme of Tennyson’s:
a) Ulysses
b) The Palace of Arts
c) The Lotos - Eaters
d) None of these
c) The Lotos - Eaters
6. Philip Waken, Aunt Pallet and Tom Tulliver are the characters of G. Eliot’s novel:
a) Silas Manner
b) Adam Bede
c) Middle March
d) The Mill on the Floss
d) The Mill on the Floss
7. "In all things, in all natures, in the stars,

This active principle abides,"
Identify the poet and his peculiar belief that can be understood from the above lines.
Answer. William Wordsworth as he was of the opinion that in this universe ‘nature’ is the
point of focus for everything.
8. “Thy, Damnation, Slunbreth, Not”

Name the writer, his book and the character who uttered/wrote these words.
Writer – Thomas Hardy

Book – Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Character – a young man who is traveling the countryside painting scripture on the sides of
barns walks
9. In Memoriam by Tennyson is:

a) an elegy
b) a collection of elegies
c) a lyric
d) a dramatic lyric
e) None of these
a) an elegy
10. The poem, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” was written by:
a) Shelley
b) Blake
c) Byron
d) Browning
e) None of these
b) Blake
11. ‘Unto This Last’ is a book written by:

a) Mill on economic reforms
b) Carlyle on moral reforms
c) Ruskin on moral reforms
d) None of these
c) Ruskin on moral reforms
12. Mathew Arnold said: “An ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in
vain”, about:
a) Keats
b) Byron
c) Shelley
d) Blake
e) None of these
c) Shelley
13. For whom it is said: “sensuousness is a paramount bias of his genius”:

a) Blake
b) Keats
c) Tennyson
d) Shelley
e) None of these
b) Keats
14. “Meeting at Night” by Browning is a:

a) Monologue
b) Dramatic Lyric
c) Dramatic Monologue
d) Dramatic Romance
e) None of these
a) Monologue
15. A pioneer is psychological analysis in fiction is:
a) Charles Dickens
b) Thackeray
c) Charlotte Bronte
d) G. Eliot
e) None of these
d) G. Eliot
16. “Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty’s form Glasses itself in tempest”.
The above line occur in Byron’s:
a) Fame
b) Waterloo
c) Roll on, Thou deep and dark Blue Oceans
c) Roll on, Thou deep and dark Blue Oceans
17. Dickens gives a tragic picture of the French Revolution in his novel:
a) Little Dorrit
b) Hard Times
c) Bleak House
d) A Tale of Two Cities
d) A Tale of Two Cities
18. Love of political freedom, always the noblest of Byron’s passions, inspired him to write:
a) Manfred
b) The Island
c) The prisoner of Chillon
d) The Prophecy of Dante
c) The prisoner of Chillon
19. An aesthetic delight in art and a streak of extreme sadistic cruelty can be observed in
Browning’s Poem:
a) Paracelsus
b) My Last Duchess
c) Sordello
d) Pippa Passes
d) Pippa Passes
20. Edward Fitzgerald’s “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” inspired Browning to write:
a) The Last Ride Together
b) Rabbi Ben Ezra
c) Ester Day
d) Abt Vogler
b) Rabbi Ben Ezra
1) Shakespeare uses soliloquy for:

a) revelation of character
b) dramatic purposes
c) establishing the theme
d) None of these
a) revelation of character
2. ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ is a:
a) Thrilling story
b) Tragedy
c) Satire
d) None of these
c) Satire
3. Hemingway wrote:
a) The Sun also Rises
b) The Rivals
c) The Jew of Malta
d) None of these
a) The Sun also Rises
4. The heroine of Pride and Prejudice is

a) Emma
b) Elizabeth
c) Lydia
d) None of these
b) Elizabeth
5. ‘Hyperion’ by Keats may be classified as:

a) An Ode
b) Sonnet
c) An Epic
d) None of these
c) An Epic
6. T. S. Eliot wrote:
a) The Pasture
b) The Waste Land
c) Birches
d) None of these
b) The Waste Land
7. G.B. Shaw’s principles of criticism are similar to those of:

a) Karl Marx
b) S. Butler
c) None of these
a) Karl Marx
8. “The Waste Land’ is:

a) An Allegory
b) A Sonnet
c) Blank verse
d) None of these
c) Blank verse
9. Yeats poetry possess the imaginative mysticism of:

a) Nationalism
b) Criticism
c) Romanticism
d) None of these
b) Criticism
10. Who considers Hamlet to be an Artistic failure

a) Bradley
b) Eliot
c) Kermode
d) None of these
b) Eliot
11. Which influence is shown in the work of Shaw?

a) French
b) German
c) None of these
a) French
12. Eliot shows a bent towards

a) Romanticism
b) Victorianism
c) None of these
a) Romanticism
13. Mrs. Dalloway is the masterpiece of:

a) M. Drabble
b) V. Woolf
c) None of these
b) V. Woolf
14. The Central Figure among the Victorian Poets is:

a) Keats
b) Tennyson
c) Milton
d) None of these
b) Tennyson
15. Browning is known for his:

a) Dramatic Monologue
b) Parody
c) Blank verse
d) None of these
a) Dramatic Monologue
16. Which novel is written by D. H. Lawrence?

a) The Ice Age
b) Sons and Lovers
c) None of these
b) Sons and Lovers
17. The ‘Arcadia’ by Sir Philip Sydney is a:

a) Pastoral
b) Romance
c) Comedy
d) None of these
b) Romance
18. ‘The Faerie Queene’ was written by:

a) Milton
b) Lyly
c) Spenser
d) None of these
c) Spenser
19. ‘The Crowns of Wild Olive’ was written by:

a) Huxley
b) Ben Johnson
c) Ruskin
d) None of these
c) Ruskin
20. David Copper Field, Hard Times and Little Dorrit, all were written by:
a) Hardy
b) Dickens
c) Moore
d) None of these
b) Dickens
1) ‘All good poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ who made this statement?
a) Shelly
b) De Quincey
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these
c) Wordsworth
2. “A long poem is a combination of short poems.” Who has held the above opinion?
a) Coleridge
b) Keats
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these
c) Wordsworth
3. Rabbi Ben Ezra was written by?

a) Tennyson
b) Browning
c) Matthew Arnold
d) None of these
b) Browning
4. In 1857, Matthew Arnold as Professor of Poetry at Oxford delivered his inaugural lecture
in:
a) English
b) Latin
c) Greek
d) None of these
a) English
5. The second generation of the romantic poets (Shelley, Byron and Keats) was dead by:
a) 1820
b) 1825
c) 1830
d) None of these
b) 1825
6. The Advertisement added to the Lyrical Ballads was published in:

a) 1800
b) 1802
c) 1798
d) None of these
c) 1798
7. Hero and Hero Worship was written by:

a) Ruskin
b) Carlyle
c) J. S. Mill
d) None of these
b) Carlyle
8. Which poem of Tennyson was particularly like by Queen Victoria?

a) The Idylls of the kings
b) Charge of the Light Brigade
c) In Memoriam
d) None of these
c) In Memoriam
9. Hardy’s Nature is:

a) Friendly
b) Indifferent
c) Vindictive
d) None of these
b) Indifferent
10. Does the personal name Lucy (in Wordsworth’s poetry) stands for
a) Anneta Vallon
b) Dorothy
c) Drawn from folk song heroines
d) None of these
b) Dorothy
11. ‘Who knows but the world many end to-night.’ In which of Browning’s poems the above
line appears?
a) The Last Ride together
b) One Word More
c) The Last Duchess
d) None of these
a) The Last Ride together
12. The Prelude was written in”

a) 1810
b) 1840
c) 1805
d) None of these
d) None of these
13. The Crown of Wild Olive is written by:

a) Charles Lamb
b) Carlyle
c) Ruskin
d) None of these
c) Ruskin
14. Oscar Wilde believed in:

a) Aestheticism
b) Escapism
c) Pragmatism
d) None of these
a) Aestheticism
15. ‘Bliss was it, in that Dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.’ Who has
written these lines?
a) Shelley
b) Browning
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these
c) Wordsworth
16. When was the poem Tintern Abbey written?

a) 1793
b) 1795
c) 1798
d) None of these
c) 1798
17. The correct date of French Revolution:

a) 1793
b) 1802
c) 1789
d) None of these
c) 1789
18. Human situation in Hardy’s novels is controlled by:

a) Social Forces
b) Providence
c) Fate
d) None of these
c) Fate
19. "Prophets of Nature ………

……………. What we have loved
Other will love …………….”
In which poem by Wordsworth do these lines appear?
a) Excursion
b) One Summer Evening
c) Prelude
d) None of these
b) One Summer Evening
20. “But God’s eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone.” In which poem do these
lines appear?
a) We Are Seven (Wordsworth)
b) Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)
c) Prisoner of Chillon (Byron)
d) None of these
b) Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)
1) Fortinbras is a character of the play:

a) Othello
b) Hamlet
c) King Lear
d) None of these
b) Hamlet
2. Who wrote preface to Shakespeare:

a) Sir Philip Sydney
b) Dryden
c) Dr. Johnson
d) None of these
c) Dr. Johnson
3. The ‘Tragic Flaw’ is also called:

a) Catharsis
b) Catastrophe
c) Hamartia
d) None of these
c) Hamartia
4. The Winter’s Tale is Shakespeare

a) Dramatic monologue
b) Comedy
c) Tragedy
d) None of these
a) Dramatic monologue
5. Who is believed to be suffering from Oedipus Complex:
a) Oedipus
b) Hamlet
c) Macbeth
d) None of these
a) Oedipus
6. Whose comedies are called ‘Comedies of Mask’:

a) Ben Johnson’s
b) Bernard Shaw’s
c) Shakespeare’s
d) None of these
b) Bernard Shaw’s
7. Who belongs to the theatre of Absurd

a) Oscar Wilde
b) Backett
c) Ibsen
d) None of these
b) Backett
8. Which of the novels of Hemingway is called Hemingway’s Waste Land?

a) The Old Man and the Sea
b) Farewell to Arms
c) For Whom the Bell Tolls
d) None of these
d) None of these
9. Poetry is defined as ‘Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling’ by:

a) Shelley
b) Coleridge
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these
c) Wordsworth
10. Which is called the Victorian Age:

a) 18th Century
b) 19th Century
c) 20th Century
d) None of these
b) 19th Century
11. A poem which consists of fourteen line is called:
a) A Sonnet
b) An Ode
c) A ballad
d) None of these
a) A Sonnet
12. ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is written by”

a) Yeats
b) T. S. Eliot
c) D. H. Lawrence
d) None of these
b) T. S. Eliot
13. ‘End Game’ is written by:

a) Hemingway
b) Somerset Maugham
c) Beckett
d) None of these
c) Beckett
14. My soul had been a lawn besprinkled O’er with flowers, and Stirring Shades, and baffled
dreams is an example of:
a) Metaphor
b) Simile
c) Personification
d) None of these
a) Metaphor
15. Iron, times of doubts, disputes, distraction and Fear is an example of:
a) Oxymoron
b) Conceit
c) Alliteration
d) None of these
c) Alliteration
16. ‘Pleasant Pain’ is an example of”

a) Metaphor
b) Paradox
c) Oxymoron
d) None of these
c) Oxymoron
17. Which of the plays is not written by T. S. Eliot?
a) The Rock
b) The Family Reunion
c) The importance of being Earnest
d) None of these
c) The importance of being Earnest
18. Which of the novels is not written by Jane Austen?

a) Adam Bede
b) Mansfield Park
c) Emma
d) None of these
a) Adam Bede
19. ‘Lapis Lazuli’ is:

a) A Poem
b) Novel
c) Drama
d) None of these
a) A Poem
20. ‘My Fair Lady’ is a Cinematic Version of:

a) Pygmalion
b) Candida
c) Getting Married
d) None of these
a) Pygmalion
1) Who said ‘The true opposite of Poetry is not Prose but Science’.
a) Wordsworth
b) T. S. Eliot
c) Coleridge
d) None of these
c) Coleridge
2. “The first in beauty should be first in might” … is the line spoken in Hyperion by:
a) Oceanus
b) Hyperion
c) Apollo
d) None of these
b) Hyperion
3. The Eve of St. Agnes is written by:

a) Keats
b) Blake
c) Tennyson
d) None of these
a) Keats
4. Adonis is modeled on:

a) Bion’s lament for Adonis
b) Lycidas
c) In Memoriam
d) None of these
a) Bion’s lament for Adonis
5. Hardy is a:
a) Pessimist
b) Meliorist
c) Mystic
d) None of these
a) Pessimist
6. Who is one of the lake poets:

a) Coleridge
b) Blake
c) Browning
d) None of these
a) Coleridge
7. Ernest De Selincourt is the editor of:

a) Prometheus the Unbound
b) The Prelude
c) Songs of innocence and of experience
d) None of these
b) The Prelude
8. Who usually caricatures his characters?

a) Dickens
b) George Eliot
c) Hardy
d) None of these
a) Dickens
9. Tradition and Individual Talent is a critical essay by:

a) Shelley
b) Oscar Wilde
c) T. S. Eliot
d) None of these
c) T. S. Eliot
10. ‘Hebrew Melodies’ is written by:

a) Tennyson
b) Byron
c) Keats
d) None of these
b) Byron
11. ‘She dwells with beauty – beauty that must die’ is a line from
a) Ode to Nightingale
b) Ode on Indolence
c) Ode to Melancholy
d) None of these
c) Ode to Melancholy
12. ‘A Little Girl Lost’ is written by:

a) Wordsworth
b) Blake
c) Keats
d) None of these
b) Blake
13. The first eight lines of a sonnet are called

a) Octave
b) Sestet
c) Refrain
d) None of these
a) Octave
14. The Revolt of Islam is a:

a) Novel
b) An epic
c) Lyrical Drama
d) None of these
c) Lyrical Drama
15. The repetition of sounds in a sequence of words is called

a) Assonance
b) Rhythm
c) Alliteration
d) None of these
c) Alliteration
16. ‘The child is the father of man’ is a line from Wordsworth’s:

a) Immortality Ode
b) The Prelude
c) My heart leaps when I Behold a Rainbow in the Sky.
d) None of these
c) My heart leaps when I Behold a Rainbow in the Sky.
17. ‘Lady Windermere’s fan’ is written by:

a) Oscar Wilde
b) Galsworthy
c) T. S. Eliot
d) None of these
a) Oscar Wilde
18. Who wrote ‘Tales From Shakespeare’?

a) Charles Lamb and his sister
b) Dr. Johnson
c) Dryden
d) None of these
a) Charles Lamb and his sister
19. ‘East Coker’ is written by:

a) Browning
b) Wordsworth
c) T. S. Eliot
d) None of these
c) T. S. Eliot
20. In which poem lies the line ‘The One remain, the many change and pass’?
a) Adonis
b) Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
c) The cloud
d) None of these
a) Adonis
1) OF all his predecessors, the following exerted a direct influence upon Shakespeare.
a) Lyly and Marlowe
b) Robert Greene and Thomas Nash
c) George Peele and Thomas Lodge
d) None of these
a) Lyly and Marlowe
2. Shakespeare has written

a) Comedies
b) Tragedies
c) Historical Plays
d) All of these
d) All of these
3. Jane Austen’s other writings are:

a) Sense and Sensibility
b) Emma
c) Persuasion
d) All of these
d) All of these
4. Texts like Waiting for Godot are:

a) Ageless
b) Rare
c) Priceless
d) None of these
a) Ageless
5. “We are such stuff as dreams are made”. Whose words are these.
a) Shakespeare
b) Marlowe
c) Philip Sydney
d) None of these
a) Shakespeare
6. The only play by Shakespeare which confirms to the classical unities is:
a) Hamlet
b) Twelfth Night
c) Romeo and Juliet
d) None of these
b) Twelfth Night
7. Yahoo’s according to Gulliver were:

a) European
b) Indians
c) American
d) None of these
a) European
8. ‘Young leading the young is like blind leading the blind’ who has said these words:
a) Carlyle
b) Bacon
c) Mantaine
d) None of these
d) None of these
9. Arms and the Man – a novel is written by:

a) George Bernard Shaw
b) Samuel Beckett
c) Jane Austen
d) None of these
a) George Bernard Shaw
10. ‘Proper study of Mankind is man’ – who has said these words:
a) Pope
b) Swift
c) Shelley
d) None of these
a) Pope
11. ‘Supernaturalism’ was an important feature of the poetry of:

a) Wordsworth
b) Byron
c) Coleridge
d) None of these
c) Coleridge
12. ‘Sweet Hellen make me immortal with kiss’. Who has said these words?
a) Marlow
b) Shakespeare
c) Benjonson
d) None of these
a) Marlow
13. Who did write/publish preface to lyrical ballads:

a) Wordsworth
b) Shelley
c) Keats
d) None of these
a) Wordsworth
14. The word renaissance means:

a) Rebirth
b) Revival
c) Renewal
d) None of these
a) Rebirth
15. ‘Of Studies’ an essay is written by:

a) Francis Bacon
b) Carlyle
c) Montaine
d) None of these
a) Francis Bacon
16. Spenser was:

a) Novelist
b) Dramatist
c) Prose writer
d) None of these
d) None of these
17. All is well that ends well is a:

a) Comedy
b) Tragedy
c) Historical Play
d) None of these
a) Comedy
18. The second shortest play of Shakespeare is:

a) The Winter’s Tale
b) Much ado about nothing
c) Tempest
d) None of these
b) Much ado about nothing
19. ‘Paradise Lost’ is written by:

a) Milton
b) Pope
c) Swift
d) None of these
a) Milton
20. ‘Money is a tie of all ties. It is a tie which ties and unties all ties’ is quotation from
a) Past and Present
b) Of Money
c) Of Marriage
d) None of these
b) Of Money
1) Hellenism of Keats connotes:
a) his love of poetry

b) his love of ancient cultures
c) his love of Greek culture and art
d) None of these
c) his love of Greek culture and art
2. The line ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ occurs in which one of Keats’ following poems:
a) Ode to Nightingale
b) Ode to Grecian Urn
c) Ode to Psyche
d) None of these
b) Ode to Grecian Urn
3. In his poetry Tennyson is:
a) The representative poet of Victorian Age
b) The representative poet of Romantic Age
c) The best nature poet
d) None of these
a) The representative poet of Victorian Age
4. T. Hardy is:
a) A social reformer
b) A satirist
c) A fatalist
d) A lover of nature
e) None of these
c) A fatalist
5. Maggie is the central character in George Eliot’s:
a) Adam Bede
b) Middle March
c) The Mill on the Floss
d) Silas Morner
e) None of these
c) The Mill on the Floss
6. Which of following Books consists of Ruskin’s lectures:
a) Modern painters
b) The Stones of Venice
c) The Crown of wild olive
d) None of these
c) The Crown of wild olive
7. Who described poetry as “Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”:
a) Shelley
b) Wordsworth
c) Coleridge
d) Arnold
e) None of these
b) Wordsworth
8. ‘Hero and Hero worship’ was written by:
a) Ruskin
b) Carlyle
c) Mill
d) None of these
b) Carlyle
9. The French Revolution took place in:
a) 1793
b) 1796
c) 1798
d) None of these
d) None of these
10. ‘The Metaphysical Poets’ is a critical essay by:
a) Arnold
b) T. S. Eliot
c) Shelley
d) None of these
b) T. S. Eliot
11. “David Copperfield” was written by:
a) Hardy
b) Dickens
c) Thackeray
d) None of these
b) Dickens
12. Who said this “Poetry is the Criticism of life”:
a) Wordsworth
b) Byron
c) T. S. Eliot
d) Arnold
e) None of these
d) Arnold
13. ‘The Revolt of Islam’ was written by:
a) Wordsworth
b) Coleridge
c) Shelley
d) None of these
c) Shelley
14. ‘The Lotos Eaters’ was written by:
a) Blake
b) Byron
c) Tennyson
d) None of these
c) Tennyson
15. ‘Importance of Being Earnest’ was written by:
a) Oscar Wilde
b) Browning
c) Blake
d) None of these
a) Oscar Wilde
16. The treatise ‘On Liberty’ was written by:
a) Ruskin
b) Lamb
c) Mill
d) Oscar Wilde
e) None of these
c) Mill
17. Ruskin is famous for:
a) Being a critic of art

b) A social reformer
c) A moral teacher
d) None of these
b) A social reformer
18. Stephen Guest is an important Character in One of the following novels of George Eliot:
a) The Mill on the Floss

b) Adam Bede
c) Silas Marner
d) None of these
a) The Mill on the Floss
19. ‘Lucy Gray’ is a poem written by:
a) Coleridge
b) Wordsworth
c) Keats
d) None of these
b) Wordsworth
20. ‘Andrea Del Sarto’ is a poem written by:
a) Tennyson
b) Browning
c) Keats
d) T. S. Eliot
e) None of these
b) Browning
1) Frost is:
a) a nature poet
b) Poet of Country life
c) a poet of nature and country life
d) None of these
b) Poet of Country life
2. Who said these words in ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ … “No one should be alone in their
old age”:
a) Hemingway
b) Santiago
c) Manolin
d) None of these
b) Santiago
3. Santiago is an illustration of:
a) Hemingway’s respect for struggle
b) Hemingway’s total view of life
c) Hemingway’s philosophy of life
d) None of these
c) Hemingway’s philosophy of life
4. The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnms are:
a) Friendship and benevolence

b) Bitterness and revenge
c) Hatred and jealousy
d) None of these
a) Friendship and benevolence
5. Gulliver was expelled from the land of Yahoos because he was considered
a) a yahoo
b) a criminal
c) he hated their king
d) None of these
c) he hated their king
6. Yeats was
a) Victorian poet
b) a modern poet
c) Both
d) None of these
c) Both
7. ‘How can we know the dancer from the dance’? This line written by Yeats is taken from:
a) Sailing to Byzantium
b) Among School Children
c) The Second Coming
d) None of these
c) The Second Coming
8. T. S. Eliot was a
a) Critic
b) Poet
c) Both
d) None of these
c) Both
9. T. S. Eliot was
a) Romantic
b) Classicist
c) Both
d) None of these
b) Classicist
10. Shakespeare wrote
a) Tragedies
b) Comedies
c) Poems
d) All of above
d) All of above
11. Shakespeare was born in:
a) 1570
b) 1564
c) 1590
d) None of these
b) 1564
12. Pure tragedies written by Shakespeare are:
a) Four
b) Six
c) Eight
d) None of these
a) Four
13. Shakespeare died in:
a) 1625
b) 1616
c) 1618
d) None of these
b) 1616
14. Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ was published in:
a) 1602
b) 1608
c) 1610
d) None of these
a) 1602
15. Hamlet was killed by:
a) Polonius
b) Learteus
c) Claudius
d) None of these
b) Learteus
16. The kind Claudius was killed by:
a) Laerteus
b) Hamlet
c) Horatio
d) None of these
b) Hamlet
17. Jane Austen’s main theme in her novels especially in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is:
a) Love and marriage

b) Life of big landlords
c) Politicians
d) None of these
a) Love and marriage
18. Who is the major male character in Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’:
a) Mr. Darcy
b) Mr. Bennett
c) Mr. Collius
d) None of these
a) Mr. Darcy
19. Who represents Pride in Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’:
a) Mr. Bennett
b) Mr. Bingley
c) Miss Elizabeth
d) None of these
d) None of these
20. Who represents Prejudice in Jane Austen’s novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’:
a) Mr. Darcy
b) Miss Elizabeth
c) Miss Jane
d) None of these
b) Miss Elizabeth
1) Byron wrote ‘Childe Harold’ in:
a) 1808
b) 1812
c) 1818
d) None of these
b) 1812
2. Which English romantic poet admired Pope:
a) Coleridge
b) William Wordsworth
c) Byron
d) None of these
c) Byron
3. The poem “the Triumph of life” was written by:
a) Keats
b) Blake
c) Shelley
d) None of these
c) Shelley
4. ‘Songs of Experience’ written by Blake was published in:
a) 1790
b) 1794
c) 1820
d) None of these
b) 1794
5. ‘The Excursion’ was written by:
a) Coleridge
b) Blake
c) Shelley
d) None of these
d) None of these (Wordsworth)
6. The Last Ride Together was written by:
a) Byron
b) Tennyson
c) Browning
d) None of these
c) Browning
7. ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ was written by:
a) Dickens
b) Hardy
c) George Eliot
d) None of these
a) Dickens
8. ‘Adam Bede’ is a novel written by
a) Dickens
b) Hardy
c) George Eliot
d) None of these
c) George Eliot
9. ‘The Ring and the Book’ is a poem written by:
a) Browning
b) Mathew Arnold
c) Tennyson
d) None of these
a) Browning
10. ‘The Lotus-Eaters’ was written by
a) Tennyson
b) Browning
c) Blake
d) None of these
a) Tennyson
11. ‘The Art for Art sake’ theory was presented by:
a) Ruskin
b) Carlyle
c) Oscar Wilde
d) None of these
c) Oscar Wilde
12. ‘The Old Familiar Faces’ was written by:
a) Ruskin
b) Charles Lamb
c) J. S. Mill
d) None of these
b) Charles Lamb
13. ‘The Stone of Venice’ was written by:
a) J. S. Mill
b) Carlyle
c) Ruskin
d) None of these
c) Ruskin
14. Which poem of Keats contains ‘Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are
sweeter’.
a) Ode to Autumn
b) Ode on a Grecian Urn
c) Ode to melancholy
d) None of these
b) Ode on a Grecian Urn
15. Which of the Romantic poets is called an escapist?
a) Keats
b) Shelley
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these
a) Keats
16. ‘Andrea del Sarto’ is a poem written by
a) Shelley
b) Browning
c) Tennyson
d) None of these
b) Browning
17. ‘The importance of Being Earnest’ was written by:
a) Byron
b) Wordsworth
c) Oscar Wilde
d) None of these
c) Oscar Wilde
18. Which of the following novels of Hardy has ‘clymn’ as the main male character?
a) Tess of the D’Urberville

b) Major of the Casterbridge
c) Jude the Obscure
d) None of these
d) None of these
19. The principle of political Economy was the main theme of the writings of:
a) Ruskin
b) J. S. Mill
c) Carlyle
d) None of these
b) J. S. Mill
20. Which novel of Hardy presents ‘Egdon Heath’ as the background of the story?
a) Tess of the D’Urberville

b) Return of the Native
c) Jude the Obscure
d) None of these
b) Return of the Native
1) It is for the world to decide whether you are a poet or not. For whom these words are
meant:
a) Frost
b) Pope
c) Byron
d) None of these
a) Frost
2. Earnest Hemingway in addition to ‘Old Man and the Sea’ bad written:
a) A Farewell to Arms
b) For Whom the Bell Tolls
c) Death in the Afternoon
d) All of the above
d) All of the above
3. All that glitters is not gold. You have heard often this told. This maxim is included in
Shakespeare’s
a) Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare’s

b) Shakespeare’s Tempest
c) Shakespeare’s Much ado about nothing.
d) None of these
a) Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare’s
4. “I have suffered with those, that I saw suffering”. These Humanistic words are attributed
to:
a) Miranda in the ‘Tempest’

b) Portia in ‘Merchant of Venice’
c) Lady Macbath in ‘Macbeth’
d) None of these
a) Miranda in the ‘Tempest’
5. “None of thou shalt be my paramour” these words are attributed to:
a) Helen of Troy – Dr. Faustus

b) Marlow’s Jew of Malta
c) Marlow’s Tamburlaine
d) None of these
a) Helen of Troy – Dr. Faustus
6. “Lyrical ballads” were published by:
a) Coleridge
b) Wordsworth
c) Both Coleridge and Wordsworth
d) None of these
c) Both Coleridge and Wordsworth
7. The proper study of mankind in man. This line is taken from the work of:
a) Wordsworth
b) Pope
c) Swift
d) Thomson
b) Pope
8. There is no man like Showman. These views were held by:
a) Thomas Carlyle
b) Spencer
c) Shakespeare
d) None of these
a) Thomas Carlyle
9. Shakespeare has written:
a) Historical plays
b) Comedies
c) Tragedies
d) All of these
d) All of these
10. Famous romantic poets were
a) Five
b) Four
c) Six
d) None of these
c) Six
11. ‘The quality of Mercy is not strained’ the line is taken from
a) Merchant of Venice
b) Two gentleman of Verona
c) Midsummer’s Night Dream
d) Anthony and Cleopatra
a) Merchant of Venice
12. A thing of beauty is joy forever. It is composed by:
a) Keats
b) Shelley
c) Byron
d) None of these
a) Keats
13. Your plan is a good one if a girl only wants to be married. Who said these words?
a) Charlotte
b) Mr. Bennet
c) Mr. Bingley
d) None of these
a) Charlotte
14. In Chapter XVI the word muffled in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is:
a) Confused
b) Amazed
c) Not thinking clearly
d) None of these
a) Confused
15. Beckett was born in Dublin Ireland.
a) In 1906
b) In 1969
c) In 1952
d) None of these
a) In 1906
16. To err is human, forgive is divine. Who has said these words:
a) Pope
b) Swift
c) Dryden
d) None of these
a) Pope
17. Poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. It takes it origin from emotions
recollected in tranquility. Who has given the description of the poetry?
a) Aristotle
b) Plato
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these
c) Wordsworth
18. Jane Austen in addition to, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ had also written:
a) Emma
b) Sense and Sensibility
c) Persuasion
d) All of these
d) All of these
19. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet had __________ Daughters.
a) Six
b) Seven
c) Five
d) None of these
c) Five
20. Father of antiquities were:
a) Socrates
b) Aristotle
c) Plato
d) All of these
d) All of these
1. Restoration period was known as the age of :
(a) satire
(b) paganism
(c) classicism
(d) puritanism
(a) satire
2. Who is famous for representing London in his novels.
(a) Thackeray
(b) Hardy
(c) Dickens
(d) W. Scott
(c) Dickens
3. Great Expectations was published in:
(a) 1860-1
(b) 1857-8
(c) 1852-3
(d) none of these
(a) 1860-1
4. Jane Eyre was written by:
(a) C. Dickens
(b) G. Eliot
(c) C. Bronte
(d) J. Austen
(c) C. Bronte
5. Who was a known aesthete?
(a) Ruskin
(b) Russell
(c) Huxley
(d) J.S. Mill
(c) Huxley
6. "In Memoriam" is :
(a) an ode
(b) an elegy
(c) a sonnet
(d) neither
(b) an elegy
7. Tennyson was:
(a) a romantic
(b) a Victorian
(c) a Pre-Raphaelite
(d) none of these
(b) a Victorian
8. Who is the most illustrious representative of the doctrine of utilitarianism?
(a) Ruskin
(b) Russell
(c) Huxley
(d) None of these
(a) Ruskin
9. A dominant theme in Hardy's novels is:
(a) naturalism
(b) romanticism
(c) fatalism
(d) classicism
(c) fatalism
10. "The Recluse" was written by:
(a) Worsdworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) W. Blake
(d) Southey
(a) Worsdworth
11. Dorothy was the gifted sister of:
(a) R. Browning
(b) Shelley
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Coleridge
(c) Wordsworth
12. "The Frankenstein" is a novel by:
(a) W. Scott
(b) Lewis
(c) Mrs. Shelley
(d) If none of these then by whom
(c) Mrs. Shelley
13. An element of the supernatural is present in the poetry of :
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) Browning
(d) Byron
(b) Coleridge
14. Don Juan is an ironic replica of the very subject of :
(a) Childe Harolde

(b) Queen Mab
(c) Prometheus
(d) The Recluse
(a) Childe Harolde
15. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was written by:
(a) W.Scott
(b) Coleridge
(c) Shelley
(d) None of these
(b) Coleridge
16. Adonias, Prometheus and "The triumph of life" are some of the beautiful poems by:
(a) W. Blake
(b) Byron
(c) Shelley
(d) none of these
(c) Shelley
17. "The Crown of Wild Olive", is written by:
(a) Ruskin
(b) J.S.Mill
(c) C. Lamb
(d) Russell
(a) Ruskin
18. Mr. Rochester is the major character of:
(a) Silas Marner

(b) Jane Eyre
(c) Jude the Obscure
(d) Adam Bede
(b) Jane Eyre
19. In which novel by Hardy are "Hayshope", "Flint Comb Ash" and "stone Henge" used as
backdrop:
(a) A pair of Blue Eyes

(c) Return of the Native
(d) if none of these then give the correct answer
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
20. "The Wuthering Heights" is a famous novels written by:
(a) C.Bronte
(b) Hardy
(c) Emile Bronte
(d) Jane Austen
(c) Emile Bronte
(1)Who has defined tragedy as “an imitation of an action”?
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Dryden
(c) Aristotle
(d) None of these
(c) Aristotle
(2) In Shakespeare “Character is not Destiny” but “character and Destiny”. Whose comment
is this?
(a) Bradley
(b) Dr. Johnson
(c) Nicoll
(d) None of these
(a) Bradley
(3) A poet is a man speaking to men says?
(a) Pope
(b) Robert Frost
(c) Wordsworth
(d) None of these
(c) Wordsworth
(4) Hermione is the heroine of Shakespeare in:
(a) The Winter’s Tale

(b) Taming of the Shrew
(c) Tempest
(d) None of these
(a) The Winter’s Tale
(5) “Gyre” is a favorite symbol with
(a) T. S. Eliot
(b) Yeats
(c) Emily Dickenson
(d) None of these
(b) Yeats
(6) Who is labeled as misanthropist?
(a) Jane Austen

(b) Hardy
(c) Swift
(d) None of these
(c) Swift
(7) ‘Tradition and Individual Talent’ is written by:
(a) Russell
(b) Carlyle
(c) T. S. Eliot
(d) None of these
(c) T. S. Eliot
(8) ‘Nothing more real than nothing’ are the words of?
(a) Harold Pinter

(b) Beckett
(c) Shaw
(d) None of these
(b) Beckett
(9) ‘Earth is the right place for Love and I do not know where it is likely to go better.’ These
lines are from:
(a) The Road Not Taken

(b) Fire and Ice
(c) Birches
(d) None of these
(c) Birches
(10) ‘Lapis Lazuli’ is a poem written by:
(a) Hopkins
(b) W. B. Yeats
(c) Larkin
(d) None of these
(b) W. B. Yeats
(11) Which of the plays has an epilogue?
(a) Man and Superman

(b) Devils’ Disciple
(c) Pygmalion
(d) None of these
(b) Devils’ Disciple
(12) ‘I care for life, for humanity, and you are a part of it.’ Whose words are these?
(a) Doolittle
(b) Huggins
(c) Pickering
(d) None of these
(b) Huggins
(13) Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in:
(a) 1927
(b) 1832
(c) 1924
(d) None of these
(d) None of these
(14) Whose work is called ‘mock utopia’?
(a) Swift’s
(b) Sir Thomas More’s
(c) Wordsworth’s
(d) None of these
(a) Swift’s
(15) The Waste Land was published by Eliot in:
(a) 1922
(b) 1923
(c) 1932
(d) None of these
(a) 1922
(16) T. S. Eliot and George Eliot were:
(a) Brothers
(b) Father and Son
(c) Novelists
(d) None of these
(d) None of these
(17) Feminine Ending is:
(a) a Novel
(b) a poem
(c) a metrical device
(d) None of these
(c) a metrical device
(18) ‘Persona’ is
(a) the actor in a play

(b) the plural of Person
(c) a projection of the poet into another person
(d) None of these
(a) the actor in a play
(19) A Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare is a:
(a) Dramatic Monologue

(b) Comedy
(c) Tragedy
(d) None of these
(b) Comedy
(20) ‘Preface to Shakespeare’ is written by:
(a) Bradely
(b) Dryden
(c) Dr. Johnson
(d) None of these
(c) Dr. Johnson
(1) ‘Songs of Experience’ was written by:

(a) Blake
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Keats
(d) Shelley
(e) None of these
(a) Blake
(2) ‘The Prelude’ was composed by:

(a) Keats
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Blake
(d) Byron
(e) None of these
(b) Wordsworth
(3) Which writing includes the manifesto of Romantic poetry?

(a) The Prelude
(b) Lyrical Ballads
(c) The Ancient Mariner
(d) Songs of Innocence
(e) None of these
(b) Lyrical Ballads
(4) Who does consider ‘love’ as a transcending power handling all things into beauty?
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Keats
(c) Shelley
(d) Byron
(e) None of these
(b) Keats
(5) Who did write an epic on the growth of his own mind?
(a) Blake
(b) Tennyson
(c) Browning
(d) Wordsworth
(e) None of these
(d) Wordsworth
(6) Who was more under the influence of Godwin’s philosophy of life?
(a) Byron
(b) Browning
(c) Shelley
(d) Keats
(e) None of these
(c) Shelley
(7) “The Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter” appear in:
(a) Ode to Autumn
(b) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(c) Ode to a Nightingale
(d) Ode on Melancholy
(e) None of these
(b) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(8) Lord Byron was born in:

(a) 1788
(b) 1789
(c) 1790
(d) 1791
(e) None of these
(a) 1788
(9) Tennyson talks about the equality of women in:

(a) The Princess
(b) In memoriam
(c) Maud
(d) Lackslay Hall
(e) None of these
(a) The Princess
(10) Pauline was written by:

(a) Browning
(b) Keats
(c) Byron
(d) Blake
(e) None of these
(a) Browning
(11) Which Victorian Poet is called the psychologist?

(a) Rossetti
(b) Morris
(c) Browning
(d) Swinburne
(e) None of these
(c) Browning
(12) ‘The last Essays of Elia’ was written by:

(a) Carlyle
(b) Lamb
(c) Hunt
(d) Ruskin
(e) None of these
(b) Lamb
(13) Hazlitt’s intellectual awakening had been stimulated by:

(a) Shakespeare
(b) Coleridge
(c) Wordsworth
(d) De Quincey
(e) None of these
(a) Shakespeare
(14) Paul David and Pip are the three notable descriptions of sensitive, nervous childhood in
the works of:
(a) Thackery
(b) Kingsley
(c) Dickens
(d) Austin
(e) None of these
(c) Dickens
(15) Which of the following novelists is known for his Satire in the Victorian literature?
(b) Thackeray
(c) Hardy
(d) Meredith
(e) None of these
(b) Thackeray
(16) Amongst the following, who is considered to be the “pioneer of the novel of female
emancipation”?
(a) Jane Austin
(b) Charlotte Bronte
(c) Emily Bronte
(d) Virginia Woolf
(e) None of these
(17) The world of “Lady Shallot” belongs to the:

(a) Medieval era
(b) Greek era
(c) Victorian era
(d) Romantic era
(e) None of these
(c) Victorian era
(18) Egden Heath forms the back-drop of which of the following novels by Hardy?
(a) Jude the Obscure
(b) Hard Times
(d) Tess
(e) None of these
(19) “Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty” This line has been taken from:
(a) Ode to Autumn
(b) Ode to a Nightingale
(c) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(d) La Belle Dame Sans Merci
(e) None of these
(c) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(20) Upon Wartminister Bridge, written by Wordsworth is:

(a) Ballad
(b) Pastoral poem
(c) Sonnet
(d) Lyrical poem
(e) None of these
(c) Sonnet
(1) B. Shaw confessed to be a disciple of:

(a) Ibsen
(b) Swift
(c) Butler
(d) Wells
(e) None of these
(a) Ibsen
(2) Arms and the Man, Candida and Man and Super Man are written by:
(a) Shaw
(b) Butler
(c) Moris
(d) Wells
(e) None of these
(a) Shaw
(3) Which of the following was written by Shakespeare?

(a) The Rape of Lucrece
(b) The Rape of the Lock
(c) Endymion
(d) Fairie Queene
(e) None of these
(a) The Rape of Lucrece
(4) Who wrote Samson Agonistes and Paradise Lost?

(a) Spenser
(b) Milton
(c) Byron
(d) Pope
(e) None of these
(b) Milton
(5) The Rape of the Lock is a:

(a) Parody
(b) Elegy
(c) Romance
(d) Sonnet
(e) None of these
(a) Parody
(6) The Dunciad, Essay on Man, Epistles are all written by:
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Dryden
(c) Pope
(d) Shaw
(e) None of these
(c) Pope
(7) Who said … “expression ought to be the dress of the thought”?

(a) Pope
(b) Dryden
(c) Locke
(d) Coleridge
(e) None of these
(d) Coleridge
(8) What kind of books are Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders?
(a) Travel-books
(b) Tragedy
(c) Romance
(d) Comedy
(e) None of these
(a) Travel-books
(9) Who believed that Shakespeare did much better in Comedy than in tragedy?
(a) Dryden
(b) Bradley
(c) Johnson
(d) L. C. Knight
(e) None of these
(c) Johnson
(10) Who wrote The Vicar of Wake Field?

(a) Richardson
(b) Fielding
(c) Defoe
(d) Goldsmith
(e) None of these
(d) Goldsmith
(11) ‘Cervantes’ is a character in:

(a) Don Quixote
(b) Pamele
(c) Tristram Shandy
(d) Tom Jones
(e) None of these
(a) Don Quixote
(12) Parson Adams and Squire Western are creations of:

(a) Richardson
(b) Sterne
(c) Fielding
(d) Smollett
(e) None of these
(c) Fielding
(13) Mr. Bennet is one of Jane Austen’s characters in:

(a) Emma
(b) Persecution
(d) Sense and sensibility
(e) None of these
(14) The Prelude is written in:

(a) Couplets
(b) Blank Verse
(c) Terza rima
(d) None of these
(b) Blank Verse
(15) In whose poetry do we find – ‘a love of nature, simplicity and faith in the dignity of the
humblest’?
(a) Coleridge
(b) Southey
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Burns
(e) None of these
(c) Wordsworth
(16) Who among the Romantic poets chores the ‘Super natural’ as his theme?
(a) Coleridge
(b) Shelley
(c) Byron
(d) Keats
(e) None of these
(a) Coleridge
(17) Which poet is not always bound up with the reformer?

(a) Wordsworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) Pope
(d) Tennyson
(e) None of these
(d) Tennyson
(18) The Common Sojourn of Byron, Shelley, Keats was:

(a) Lake district
(b) Hampshire
(c) Wessex
(d) Utopia
(e) None of these
(a) Lake district
(19) Childe Harold was written by:

(a) Byron
(b) Shelley
(c) Tennyson
(d) None of these
(a) Byron
(20) Pleasure and joy in Beauty become a feast of the scenes in the poetry of:
(a) Shelley
(b) Keats
(c) Byron
(d) None of these
(b) Keats
(1) The Nurse’s Song was written by:

(a) Keats
(b) Tennyson
(c) Blake
(d) Shelley
(e) None of these
(c) Blake
(2) William Wordsworth was born in:

(a) 1770
(b) 1771
(c) 1772
(d) 1779
(e) None of these
(a) 1770
(3) Byron’s first published collection was called:

(a) Years of Idleness
(b) Hours of Idleness
(c) Moments of Idleness
(d) Eons of Idleness
(e) None of these
(b) Hours of Idleness
(4) The Essay of Elia was written by:

(a) Tennyson
(b) Blake
(c) Byron
(d) Keats
(e) None of these
(e) None of these
(5) Shelley’s final unfinished poem was:

(a) Hellas
(b) Prometheus Unbound
(c) The Ancient Mariner
(d) The Triumph of life
(e) None of these
(d) The Triumph of life
(6) Lyrical Ballads are jointly composed by:

(a) Keats and Shelley
(b) Wordsworth and Shelley
(c) Keats and Coleridge
(d) Wordsworth and Coleridge
(e) None of these
(d) Wordsworth and Coleridge
(7) On liberty was written by:

(a) Carlyle
(b) Macaulay
(c) Godwin
(d) Mill
(e) None of these
(d) Mill
(8) “Men may be beaten, chained, tormented, yoked like cattle, slaughtered like summer
flies … yet remain free …” This was said by:
(a) Carlyle
(b) J.S. Mill
(c) Ruskin
(d) Mathew Arnold
(e) None of these
(c) Ruskin
(9) Macaulay lived from

(a) 1800 - 1859
(b) 1802 - 1859
(c) 1859 – 1900
(d) 1889 - 1902
(e) None of these
(a) 1800 - 1859
(10) Macaulay represented:

(a) Bourgeois Victorian enlightenment
(b) Working class Victorian attitudes
(c) Upper class tolerance
(d) Radical Romanticism
(e) None of these
(a) Bourgeois Victorian enlightenment
(11) Stones of Venice was written by:

(a) Macaulay
(b) Newman
(c) Ruskin
(d) Carlyle
(e) None of these
(c) Ruskin
(12) Browning is famous for his:

(a) Sensory images
(b) Dramatic Monologues
(c) Narrative ballads
(d) Blank Verse
(e) None of these
(b) Dramatic Monologues
(13) In Memoriam was written in:

(a) 1833
(b) 1853
(c) 1860
(d) 1863
(e) None of these
(e) None of these
(14) “Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt,

Whene’er I passed her; but who passed without
Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;
Then all smiles stopped together”.
This was written by:

(a) Tennyson
(b) Browning
(c) Mathew Arnold
(d) William Morris
(e) None of these
(b) Browning
(15) Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate in:

(a) 1843
(b) 1847
(c) 1850
(d) 1857
(e) None of these
(c) 1850
(16) Dickens was from a:

(a) Lower middle class origin
(b) Upper class origin
(c) Middle class origin
(d) Working class origin
(e) None of these
(a) Lower middle class origin
(17) George Eliot’s real name was:

(a) George Evans
(b) Eliot Evans
(c) Marian Evans
(d) Marian Eliot
(e) None of these
(c) Marian Evans
(18) George Eliot was an:

(a) Atheist
(b) Agnostic
(c) Occultist
(d) Conventionalist
(e) None of these
(a) Atheist
(19) Under the Greenwood Tree is a:

(a) Tale of rustic life
(b) Tale of man’s destruction of nature
(c) Historical novel
(d) Tale of city life
(e) None of these
(a) Tale of rustic life
(20) The Professor was the first novel by:

(a) Emily Bronte
(c) Anne Bronte
(d) Jane Austen
(e) None of these
(1) ______________ is called the first romantic critic.

(a) Wordsworth
(b) Longinus
(c) Horace
(d) Sidney
(e) None of these
(b) Longinus
(2) _______________ defines a play as a just and lively image of human nature.
(a) Dr. Johnson
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Dryden
(d) Coleridge
(e) None of these
(c) Dryden
(3) ‘SARTOR RESARTUS’ is a prose work by:

(a) John Ruskin
(b) Carlyle
(c) Bacon
(d) Lamb
(e) None of these
(b) Carlyle
(4) The period of English literature from 1660 to the end of the century is called:
(a) Renaissance
(b) Jacobean Period
(c) Restoration Period
(d) Romantic Age
(e) None of these
(c) Restoration Period
(5) ‘Stream of Consciousness’ is the phrase first used by:

(a) James Joyce
(b) William James
(c) Virginia Woolf
(d) William Faulkner
(e) None of these
(b) William James
(6) ______________ consists of nine-eight five foot iambic lines followed by an iambic line
of six fed with rhyme scheme ab ab bc bcc:
(a) Octometer
(b) Sonnet
(c) Terza Rina
(d) Spenserian Stanza
(e) None of these
(d) Spenserian Stanza
(7) A phrase, line or lines repeated at intervals during a poem and especially at the end of a
stanza is called:
(a) Period
(b) Refrain
(c) Feminine Ending
(d) Alexandrine
(e) None of these
(b) Refrain
(8) Shaw’s ‘Man and Superman’ is an example of:

(a) Comedy of Errors
(b) Comedy of Manners
(c) Comedy of Ideas
(d) Romantic Comedy
(e) None of these
(c) Comedy of Ideas
(9) ‘Verslibre’ is called as:

(a) Free Verse
(b) Blank Verse
(c) Free meter
(d) Iambic
(e) None of these
(a) Free Verse
(10) Placing Phrase or Sentences of similar construction and meaning and balancing each
other is called:
(a) Parallelism
(b) Alliteration
(c) Para Rhyme
(d) Rhetoric
(e) None of these
(a) Parallelism
(11) ‘Hamlet and Oedipus’ was written by:
(a) Bradley
(b) Dover Wilson
(c) Earnest Jones
(d) Freud
(e) None of these
(c) Earnest Jones
(12) ‘Haste me to know’t, that I, with wings as Swift as meditation or the thoughts of love,
May Sweep to my revenge’ is a speech from.
(a) Lear
(b) Macbeth
(c) Othello
(d) Hamlet
(e) None of these
(d) Hamlet
(13) ‘Macbeth and Oedipus’ is by:

(a) W. H. Auden
(b) Earnest Jones
(c) Nicoll
(d) Freud
(e) None of these
(a) W. H. Auden
(14) Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes are:

(a) Husband and wife
(b) Brother and Sister
(c) Father and daughter
(d) Friends
(e) None of these
(a) Husband and wife
(15) The Eve of St. Agnes is a poem by:

(a) Milton
(b) Keats
(c) Byron
(d) Blake
(e) None of these
(b) Keats
(16) ‘The Olive Tree’ is a collection of essays by:
(a) Ruskin
(b) Carlyle
(c) Huxley
(d) Oscar Wilde
(e) None of these
(c) Huxley
(17) The poem “Wind” is written by:

(a) Shelley
(b) John Ashbery
(c) Sylvia Plath
(d) Ted Hughes
(e) None of these
(d) Ted Hughes
(18) ‘Egotistical Sublime’ is a phrase coined by:

(a) Keats
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Coleridge
(d) Byron
(e) None of these
(a) Keats
(19) ‘Apologie for Poetrie’ is written by:

(a) Arnold
(b) Philip Sidney
(c) Pope
(d) Dryden
(e) None of these
(b) Philip Sidney
(20) ‘I count religion but a childish toy’ is a line from Marlowe’s play:
(a) Dr. Faustus
(c) Tamburlaine
(d) Edward II
(e) None of these
(i) Wordsworth was appointed Poet Laureate in:

(a) 1817
(b) 1839
(c) 1843
(d) 1849
(e) None of these
(c) 1843
(ii) Who suggested Shelley to “Curb your magnanimity and be more of a poet’?
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) Keats
(d) Blake
(e) None of these
(c) Keats
(iii) The lines ‘The one remains, the many change and pass; Heaven’s light for ever shines,
earth’s shadow fly; are composed by:
(a) Shelley
(b) Byron
(c) Keats
(d) Southey
(e) None of these
(a) Shelley
(iv) ‘On Pathetic Fallacy’ was written by:

(a) Carlyle
(b) Lamb
(c) Ruskin
(d) Shelley
(e) None of these
(c) Ruskin
(v) The 1805 text of ‘The Prelude’ is edited by:

(a) Helen Darbishire
(b) Ernest De Selin Court
(c) Herbert Reads
(d) Coleridge
(e) None of these
(b) Ernest De Selin Court
(vi) ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’ is written by:
(a) Blake
(b) Byron
(c) Tennyson
(d) Walter Scott
(e) None of these
(d) Walter Scott
(vii) __________ the quality when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries,
doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason’ ___ is:
(a) Objectivity
(b) Subjectivity
(c) Negative capability
(d) Scepticism
(e) None of these
(d) Scepticism
(viii) ‘The Quarterly Review’ was founded by:

(a) Walter Scott
(b) Byron
(c) Coleridge
(d) Thomas De Quincey
(e) None of these
(c) Coleridge
(ix) ‘Mansfield Park’ is a novel by:

(a) Katherine Mansfield
(b) Emily Bronte
(c) George Eliot
(d) Jane Austen
(e) None of these
(d) Jane Austen
(x) ‘I am half sick of shadows’ is a line from:

(a) Shelley
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Coleridge
(d) Tennyson
(e) None of these
(d) Tennyson
(xi) Adonais is an elegy on the death of:
(a) Moschus
(b) Edward William
(c) John Keats
(d) Shakespeare
(e) None of these
(c) John Keats
(xii) ‘Poetry is the criticism of life’ is a view about poetry by:

(a) Arnold
(b) Dr. Johnson
(c) Shelley
(d) Hazlitt
(e) None of these
(a) Arnold
(xiii) ‘The Pickwick Papers’ by Dickens was published in:

(a) 1837
(b) 1838
(c) 1839
(d) 1841
(e) None of these
(a) 1837
(xiv) ‘On Heroes and Hero-worship is written by:

(a) Huxley
(b) Carlyle
(c) Ruskin
(d) Mill
(e) None of these
(b) Carlyle
(xv) Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and Trollope are:

(a) Novelists
(b) Poets
(c) Critics
(d) Essayists
(e) None of these
(a) Novelists
(xvi) ‘The Voyage of the Beagle’ was written by:

(a) J.S. Mill
(b) Ruskin
(c) Carlyle
(d) Darwin
(e) None of these
(d) Darwin
(xvii) Who gave the aesthetic theory of Art For Arts’ Sake:
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Browning
(c) Oscar Wilde
(d) Galsworthy
(e) None of these
(e) None of these (Walter Pater)
(xviii) “Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of
will”, is a statement by:
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Shelley
(c) Coleridge
(d) Arnold
(e) None of these
(b) Shelley
(xix) ‘A woman of no importance’ is a ______ by Oscarwilde:

(a) Comedy
(b) Tragedy
(c) Dramatic Romance
(d) Farce
(e) None of these
(a) Comedy
(xx) George Eliot and T.S. Eliot are:

(a) Brother & Sister
(b) Contemporary writers
(c) Modern poets
(d) Critics
(e) None of these
(b) Contemporary writers
(i) In Shakespeare’s Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny
is a remark by:
(a) Nicoll
(b) Goddord
(c) Bradley
(d) Coleridge
(e) None of these
(c) Bradley
(ii) “How came he dead? I shall not be juggled with: To hell allegiance! Vows, to the
blackest devil!
Is a speech in Hamlet spoken by:
(a) Hamlet
(b) Laertes
(c) Polonius
(d) Claudius
(e) None of these
(b) Laertes
(iii) Aspect of the Novel is written by:

(a) David Cecil
(b) Walter Allen
(c) Arnold Kettle
(d) E.M. Forster
(e) None of these
(d) E.M. Forster
(iv) Lotos Eaters is a poem by:

(a) Browning
(b) Tennyson
(c) Yeats
(d) Frost
(e) None of these
(b) Tennyson
(v) ‘The Hollow Men’ is written by:

(a) T.S. Eliot
(b) Ezra Pound
(c) Yeats
(d) Larkin
(e) None of these
(a) T.S. Eliot
(vi) William Faulkner was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:
(a) 1949
(b) 1950
(c) 1951
(d) 1953
(e) None of these
(a) 1949
(vii) G.B. Shaw was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:
(a) 1925
(b) 1929
(c) 1930
(d) 1949
(e) None of these
(a) 1925
(viii) ‘The Winding Stair’ is written by:

(a) Ted Hughes
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) W.B. Yeats
(d) W.H. Auden
(e) None of these
(c) W.B. Yeats
(ix) ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is a play written by:

(a) Shakespeare
(b) Marlowe
(c) Oscar Wilde
(d) T.S. Eliot
(e) None of these
(d) T.S. Eliot
(x) ‘The Rainbow’ is a novel written by:

(a) Hemingway
(b) Virginia Woolf
(c) E.M. Forster
(d) D.H. Lawrence
(e) None of these
(d) D.H. Lawrence
(xi) The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is:
(a) The Taming of the Shrew
(b) As you Like it
(c) Two Gentlemen of Verona
(d) Titus Andronicus
(e) None of these
(d) Titus Andronicus
(xii) ‘If music be the food of love, play on,

give me excess of it, that Surfeiting
The appetite may sicken and die?
is a speech from
(a) Twelfth Night
(b) A Mid Summer Nights’ Dream
(c) As you Like it
(d) The Winters’ Tale
(e) None of these
(a) Twelfth Night
(xiii) An elaborate classical form in which one Shepherd – Singer laments the death of
another is called:
(a) Pastoral Romance
(b) Pastoral Elegy
(c) Ballad
(d) Epic
(e) None of these
(b) Pastoral Elegy
(xiv) The poets who believe that a hard, clear image was essential to verse are called:
(a) Imaginists
(b) Romanticists
(c) Classicists
(d) Imagists
(e) None of these
(d) Imagists
(xv) A figure of speech which contains an exaggeration for emphasis is called:

(a) Over tone
(b) Rhetoric
(c) Extended metaphor
(d) Hyperbole
(e) None of these
(d) Hyperbole
(xvi) Rhymed decasyllables, nearly always in iambic Pentameters rhymed in Pairs are
called:
(a) Heroic Couplet
(b) Blank verse
(c) Terza Rima
(d) Spenserian stanza
(e) None of these
(a) Heroic Couplet
(xvii) An exhortatory speech, usually delivered to a crowd to incite them to some action is:
(a) Declamation
(b) Sermon
(c) Monologue
(d) Harangue
(e) None of these
(d) Harangue
(xviii) ‘Hearing’ a colour or ‘Seeing’ a smell is an example of:

(a) Oxymoron
(b) Synaesthesia
(c) Sensuousness
(d) Contrast
(e) None of these
(b) Synaesthesia
(xix) Drama which seeks to mirror life with the utmost fidelity is called:
(a) Realistic
(b) Naturalistic drama
(c) Humanistic drama
(d) Problem play
(e) None of these
(a) Realistic
(xx) When Leontes discovers the identity of Perdita in ‘The Winter’s Tale’ is an example of:
(a) Peripety
(b) Suspense
(c) revelation
(d) Discovery
(e) None of these
(d) Discovery
1. Ode to West Wind was written by

(a) Keats
(b) Shelley
(c) Byron
(d) Blake
(e) None of these
(b) Shelley
2. Keats was born in

(a) 1770
(b) 1779
(c) 1795
(d) 1790
(e) None of these
(c) 1795
3. Dream Children was written by

(a) Leigh Hunt
(b) Charles Lamb
(c) Hazzlit
(d) Ruskin
(e) None of these
(b) Charles Lamb
4. 'Picture of Dorian Gray ' was written by

(a) Oscar Wild
(b) Dickens
(c) Hardy
(d) George Eliot
(e) None of these
(a) Oscar Wild
5. Ruskin belonged to (which age)

(a) Romantic age
(b) Modern age
(c) Victorian age
(d) Augustan age
(e) None of these
(c) Victorian Age
6. Wordsworth lived from

(a) 1770 – 1832
(b) 1775 – 1859
(c) 1770 – 1850
(d) 1770 – 1802
(e) None of these
(c) 1770-1850
7. 'Heroes and hero worship' was written by

(a) Mill
(b) Carlyle
(c) Macaulay
(d) Coleridge
(e) None of these
(b) Thomas Carlyle
8. ' Fair seed time had my soul' is from

(a) Ode to autumn
(b) To a Highland girl
(c) Ancient Mariner
(d) Child Harold’s Pilgrimage
(e) None of these
(e) None of these (The Prelude)
9. Great Expectation was written by

(a) George Eliot
(b) Thackeray
(c) Hardy
(d) Dickens
(e) None of these
(d) Dickens
10. Lotus eaters is written by

(a) Tennyson
(b) Browning
(c) Mathew Arnold
(d) Hardy
(e) None of these
(a) Tennyson
11. Lamb, Leigh Hunt and Hazlitt are

(a) Poets
(b) Dramatists
(c) Essayists
(d) Novelists
(e) None of these
(c) Essayists
12. 'My Last Duchess' was written by

(a) Keats
(b) Coleridge
(c) Tennyson
(d) Browning
(e) None of these
(d) Browning
13. Emily Bronte is the writer of

a. Wuthering heights
b. Emma
c. Under the green wood tree
d. Mr.chips
e. None of the above
a. Wuthering heights
14. 'Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling' is a definition of poetry by

(a) Keats
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Shelley
(d) Coleridge
(e) None of these
(b) Wordsworth
15. 'Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter' is a line from
(a) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(b) Ode to a nightingale
(c) The Prelude
(d) Ode to Autumn
(e) None of these
(a) Ode on a Grecian Urn
16. 'Waverley' was written by
(a) Scott
(b) Hardy
(c) Jane Austen
(d) Dickens
(e) None of these
(a) Scott
17. 'We are Seven' is written by

(a) Keats
(b) Shelly
(c) Byron
(d) Hardy
(e) None of these
(e) None of these (William Wordsworth)
18. 'Past and Present' is written by

(a) Mill
(b) Lamb
(c) Hazlitt
(d) Carlyle
(e) None of these
(d) Carlyle
19. 'Modern Painters' is written by

(a) Ruskin
(b) Carlyle
(c) Mill
(d) Macaulay
(e) None of these
(a) Ruskin
20. Byron is the writer of

a. Don Juan
b. Prometheus Unbound
c. Adonias
d. Lucy Gray
e. None of the above
a. Don Juan
1. Who belongs to the Absurd School of Drama?

(a) Shaw
(b) Beckett
(c) Pinter
(d) Eliot
(b) Beckett
(ii) To the Light House” is written by:

(a) Lawrence
(b) Dylan Thomas
(c) Hemingway
(d) Forster
(e) None of these
(e) None of these (Virginia Woolf)
(iii) I am too much in the sun in “Hamlet” is spoken by:

(a) Polonius
(b) Claudius
(c) Hamlet
(d) Ophelia
(e) None of these
(c) Hamlet
(iv) “Ullyses” is written by:

(a) James Joyce
(b) Virginia Woolf
(c) Hardy
(d) Forster
(e) None of these
(a) James Joyce
(v) Elizabeth is a character from Jane Austen’s:

(a) Emma
(c) Mansfield Palck
(d) Northanger Abby
(e) None of these
(vi) “Tear Idle Tears” is a poem by:
(a) Frost
(b) Browning
(c) Yeats
(d) Eliot
(e) None of these
(e) None of these (Tennyson)
(vii) “Thought Fox” is written by:

(a) Ted Hughes
(b) Philip Larkin
(c) Heaney
(d) Sylvia Plath
(e) None of these
(a) Ted Hughes
(viii) “Major Barbra” is written by:

(a) Beckett
(b) Pinter
(c) Eliot
(d) Shaw
(e) None of these
(d) Shaw
(ix) Lilliput is a character from:

(a) Gulliver’s Travels
(b) Pygmalion
(c) Sons & lovers
(d) Old man and the sea
(e) None of these
(a) Gulliver’s Travels
(x) “Fire and Ice” is written by:

(a) Eliot
(b) Yeats
(c) Frost
(d) Auden
(e) None of these
(c) Frost
(xi) Swift belong to:
(a) Renassiance period
(b) Restoration
(c) Romantic period
(d) Augustan age
(e) None of these
(d) Augustan age
(xii) The Novel of Lawrence banned by the government was:

(a) Sons and Lovers
(b) Lady Chatterley’s Lover
(c) Women in Love
(d) The Rainbow
(e) None of these
(b) Lady Chatterley’s Lover
(xiii) “Undo this Button” is a line from Shakespeare’s:

(a) Hamlet
(b) Othello
(c) King Lear
(d) Julius Caeser
(e) None of these
(c) King Lear
(xiv) “Ode to Psyche” is a poem by:

(a) Milton
(b) Byron
(c) Keats
(d) Blake
(e) None of these
(c) Keats
(xv) “I am no Prince Hamlet” is a line written by:

(a) Shakespeare
(b) Yeats
(c) Eliot
(d) Auden
(e) None of these
(c) Eliot
(xvi) “Things fall apart” is a line from Yeats’s:
(a) Among School Children
(b) Byzentium
(c) Sailing to Byzentium
(d) The Second coming
(e) None of these
(d) The Second coming
(xvii) “Good flences make good neighbours” is from Frosts’:

(a) Revelation
(b) Mending
(c) Pasture
(d) Birches
(e) None of these
(e) None of these (Mending Wall)

(xviii) ‘April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliot’s:
(a) The Wasteland
(b) The Hollow men
(c) East Coker
(d) Prufrock
(e) None of these
(a) The Wasteland
(xix) “A Farewell to Arms” is written by:

(a) Faulkner
(b) Hemmingway
(c) James Joyce
(d) Virginia Woolf
(e) None of these
(b) Hemmingway
(xx) “A passage to India” is written by:

(a) Forester
(b) Conrad
(c) Lawrence
(d) Hardy
(e) None of these
(a) Forester
i. Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of
__________ age
a. Victorian
b. Elizabethan
c. Romantic
d. Classic
e. None of these
c. Romantic
ii. S.T. Coleridge was born in

a. 1798
b. 1772
c. 1749
d. 1797
e. None of these
b. 1772
iii. Wordsworth settled in

a. Lake District
b. Sussex
c. Dorset Shire
d. Cumber Land
e. None of these
a. Lake District
iv. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimmage is written by:

a. Blake
b. Shelley
c. Browning
d. Byron
e. None of these
d. Byron
v. Queen Mab is one of the first two great poems written by:
a. Shelley
b. Byron
c. Blake
d. Pope
e. None of these
a. Shelley
vi. Hyperion is a/an __________ poem
a. Elegy
b. Epic
c. Ode
d. Lyric
e. None of these
b. Epic
vii. Romanticism expressed a restlessness of

a. Mind
b. Soul
c. Senses
d. Body
e. None of these
b. Soul
viii. Northanger Abbey, Emma and Sense and Sensibility are novels written by
a. G. Eliot
b. Miss Burney
c. C. Bronte
d. Jane Austen
e. None of these
d. Jane Austen
ix. Shelley is remembered as a _______ poet

a. Lyric
b. Tragic
c. Dramatic
d. Mythical
e. None of these
a. Lyric
x. Keats is prominently a man of:

a. Emotions
b. Sensations
c. Imagination
d. Aestheticism
e. None of these
b. Sensations
xi. As a moralist J. S. Mill develops the doctrine of:

a. Utilitarianism
b. Intellect
c. Radicalism
d. Puritanism
e. None of these
a. Utilitarianism
xii. Charles Dickens was born in

a. 1800
b. 1789
c. 1812
d. 1833
e. None of these
c. 1812
xiii. C. Dickens is known for being a

a. Socialist
b. Humorist
c. Idealist
d. Romantic
e. None of these
c. Idealist
xiv. Shirley, Jane Eyre, Villete were written by:

a. E. Bronte
b. J. Austen
c. G. Eliot
d. C. Bronte
e. None of these
d. C. Bronte
xv. Emile Bronte’s verse reveals a conscious

a. Paganism
b. Pantheism
c. Idealism
d. Lyricism
e. None of these
b. Pantheism
xvi. The Mayor of Caster Bridge was written by:

a. Trollope
b. Thomas Hardy
c. Charles Dickens
d. G. Eliot
e. None of these
b. Thomas Hardy
xvii. Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of:

a. Architect
b. Engraver
c. Sculptor
d. Painter
e. None of these
a. Architect
xviii. The Picture of Dorian Gray is written by:

a. Gissing
b. D. H. Lawrence
c. Oscar Wilde
d. Trollope
e. None of these
c. Oscar Wilde
xix. Ruskin was born in:

a. 1819
b. 1843
c. 1860
d. 1851
e. None of these
a. 1819
xx. __________ is a novel by Miss Burney

a. Evelina
b. Emma
c. Pamela
d. Persuasion
e. None of these
a. Evelina
i. In Greek tragedy irony and ____________ are fused into one.

a. Allegory
b. Idealism
c. Imagery
d. Satire
e. None of these
d. Satire
ii. Joseph Andrews was written by

a. Richardson
b. Defoe
c. Fielding
d. Bunyan
e. None of these
c. Fielding
iii. Shakespeare was born in

a. 1570
b. 1601
c. 1547
d. 1564
e. None of these
d. 1564
iv. ‘The Wheel of Fire’ a criticism was written by

a. Bradley
b. W. Knight
c. Hazlitt
d. Dryden
e. None of these
b. W. Knight
v. Kubla Khan was written by

a. Wordsworth
b. Coleridge
c. Shelley
d. Keats
e. None of these
b. Coleridge
vi. G. B. Shaw began his literary career first as:

a. Journalist
b. Novelist
c. Dramatist
d. Critic
e. None of these
b. Novelist
vii. W. B. Yeats was born in

a. 1914
b. 1856
c. 1865
d. 1838
e. None of these
c. 1865
viii. Jane Austen’s Work is transfused with the spirit of

a. Classicism
b. Puritanism
c. Idealism
d. Rationalism
e. None of these
a. Classicism
ix. The Waste Land by T. S. Elliot is an

a. Ode
b. Elegy
c. Allegory
d. Epic
e. None of these
b. Elegy
x. Waiting for Godot by S. Beckett was originally written in

a. Italian
b. Spanish
c. German
d. French
e. None of these
d. French
xi. The ________ age tended to favour the taste and search for truth in art:
a. Classical
b. Romantic
c. Victorian
d. Elizabethan
e. None of these
b. Romantic
xii. Maud and In memoriam were written by

a. Tennyson
b. Keats
c. Pope
d. Shelley
e. None of these
a. Tennyson
xiii. Tennyson was born in

a. 1809
b. 1798
c. 1709
d. 1890
e. None of these
a. 1809
xiv. ___________ has a super abundant wealth of words and superfluous ornaments
a. Hyperbole
b. Metaphor
c. Rhetoric
d. Overtone
e. None of these
a. Hyperbole
xv. Keats’ aestheticism was later turned into

a. Romanticism
b. Pre-Raphaelitism
c. Idealism
d. Angilicanism
e. None of these
b. Pre-Raphaelitism
xvi. _________ is the animating force in the work of C. Bronte

a. Idealism
b. Romanticism
c. Lyricism
d. Radicalism
e. None of these
a. Idealism
xvii. The Wilde Swans at Coole is first great collection of poems of

a. W. Lewis
b. Yeats
c. E. Sitwell
d. D. H. Lawrence
e. None of these
b. Yeats
xviii. T. S. Eliot was born in

a. 1887
b. 1888
c. 1817
d. 1870
e. None of these
b. 1888
xix. Jane Eyre was written by

a. Jane Austen
b. G. Eliot
c. C. Bronte
d. E. Bronte
e. None of these
c. C. Bronte
xx. Ophelia, Julia , Viola, Imogen are the characters created by

a. Richardson
b. Fielding
c. Hardy
d. Shakespeare
e. None of these
d. Shakespeare
UGC/CBSE-NET ENGLISH SOLVED PAPERS
1994 – 2016
Contents:
1. UGC/CBSE-NET English Solved Papers
i. UGC-NET/JRF Exam., December 1994

ii. UGC-NET/JRF Exam., December 2004
iii. UGC-NET/JRF Exam., June 2005
iv. UGC-NET/JRF Exam., December 2005
v. UGC-NET/JRF Exam., June 2006
vi. UGC-NET/JRF Exam., December 2006
vii. UGC-NET/JRF Exam., June 2007
viii. UGC-NET/JRF Exam., December 2007
ix. UGC-NET/JRF Exam., June 2008
x. UGC-NET/JRF Exam., December 2008
xi. UGC-NET/JRF Exam., June 2009
xii. UGC-NET/JRF Exam., December 2009
xiii. UGC-NET/JRF Exam., June 2010
xiv. UGC-NET/JRF Exam., December 2010
xv. UGC-NET/JRF Exam., June 2011
xvi. UGC-NET/JRF Exam., December 2011
xvii. UGC-NET/JRF Exam., June 2012
xviii. UGC-NET/JRF Exam., December 2012
xix. UGC-NET/JRF Exam., June 2013
xx. UGC-NET/JRF Exam., June 2013 ( Re-Conducted)
xxi. UGC-NET/JRF Exam., December 2013
xxii. UGC/CBSE-NET/JRF Exam., June 2014
xxiii. UGC/CBSE-NET/JRF Exam., December 2014
xxiv. UGC/CBSE–NET/JRF Exam., June 2015
xxv. UGC/CBSE –NET /JRF Exam., December 2015
xxvi. UGC/CBSE – NET/JRF Exam, July 2016
xxvii. UGC/CBSE – NET/JRF Exam, August 2016
DECEMBER 1994 8. What is the sub-title of „The Prelude‟?
A) An autobiography
B) A preface to my life
Paper II C) Growth of a poet's mind
D) A poet's story
1. The renaissance started in 9. The line 'Love is not Time's fool' occurs
A) Italy in a sonnet by:
B) France A) John Keats
C) England B) Philip Sidney
D) Germany C) John Donne
2. The line 'The paths of glory lead but to D) William Shakespeare
the grave' occurs in
A) Shakespeare 10. The Renaissance is written by
B) Herbert A) Walter Pater
C) Pope B) Mathew Arnold
D) Gray C) I A Richards
D) George Saintsbury
3. By 'character' Aristotle means
A) Personages in drama 11. In Shakespeare, Dr. Johnson says
B) Cause of action A) The good is always encouraged
C) Combination of incidents in drama B) The good is not particularly encouraged
D) Particular nature of drama nor evil disapproved
C) The evil is often triumphant
4. 'Amor Vincit Omnia' in Chaucer's The D) There is no moral purpose
Prologue means
A) Love conquers nothing 12. The mistakes of a night is the sub-title
B) Love conquers all of
C) Love is blind A. Clarissa Harlowe
D) Love is fatal B) She Stoops to Conquer
C) Joseph Andrews
5. The sonnet form was introduced in D) The Way of the World
England by
A) Shakespeare 13. The Romantic Age in England is
B) Philip Sidney distinguished for its
C) Wyatt A) Verse drama
D) John Skelton B) Political prose
C) Horror novels
6. Which one of the following novels of D) Lyrical poetry
Dickens is based on his own life?
A) Nicholas Nickleby 14. Who among the following was not a
B) Great Expectations member of the 'pre-Raphaelite
C) Hard Times Brotherhood'?
D) David Copperfield A) Oscar Wilde
B) William Holman Hunt
7. Dryden in 'Essay of Dramatic Poesy' C) John Everett Millais
rejects 'tragi-comedy' because D) Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A) It is an innovative form
B) It violates the unity of tone 15. Eliot's 'Objective correlative' signifies
C) It is a poor imitation of French drama the writer's ability to
D) It was practiced only by the Ancients A) relatively delineate his objectives
B) relate different objects
C) correlate objects and events
D) objectify the desired states of mind
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C) Joseph Addison
16. Which one of the following is a D) Samuel Pepys
Cavalier poet?
A) Herbert 24. The Chartist Movement sought
B) Donne A) Recognition of chartered trading
C) Herrick companies
D) Marvell B) Political rights for women
C) Protection of the political rights of the
17. Adonais is an elegy written on the death middle class
of: D) Extension of the political rights to the
A) W.B Yeats working class
B) John Keats
C) P.B Shelly 25. Confessions of an English Opium Eater is
D) Wordsworth written by
A) William Hazlitt
18. Which one of the following is not a B) S.T Coleridge
Lake Poet? C) Charles Lamb
A) Wordsworth D) De Quincey
B) Coleridge
C) Southey 26. The dictum 'only connect' is central to
D) Shelley the writings of
A) Aldous Huxley
19. 'Negative Capability' is B) Virginia Woolf
A) The ability to overcome unpleasant C) E.M Forster
experience D) D.H Lawrence
B) A passive subordination to experience
C) A subjective response to experience 27. The criterion of Leavis's Great
D) depersonalized empathy with experience Tradition is
A) moral purpose
20. “Plurality”, according to John Stuart B) sublime subject matter
Mill, is necessary for the C) reader-response
1) cultivation of the genius D) truth to life
B) success of democracy
C) intellectual enrichment of the society 28. Free trade signifies
D) evolution of State A) trade without government control
B) trade with only government control
21. “A little learning is a dangerous thing” C) freedom to trade in all commodities
is taken from D) freedom to export anything
A) Alexander Pope
B) John Dryden 29. In 'Culture and Anarchy', Mathew
C) William Shakespeare Arnold recommends
D) Jonathan Swift A) adoption of Hellenism
B) adoption of Hebraism
22. Apologia Pro Vista Sua by Newman is C) fusion of Hellenism and Hebraism
A) an attack on Catholicism D) rejection of Hellenism and Hebraism
B) denunciation of Protestantism
C) a defence of the author's stand 30. Lamia is a poem by
D) a defence of religious values A) Rossetti
B) Shelley
23. Who is the author of 'Journal of the C) Keats
Plague Year'? D) Spenser
A) Richard Steele
B) Daniel Defoe 31. How long did Robinson Crusoe live on
the deserted Island?
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A) 12 years and 9 days 39. Alexander's Feast is
B) 28 years and 2 months A) A mock epic by Alexander Pope
C) 16 years B) A play by Dryden
D) 21 years and 2 months C) A play by Marlow
D) an Ode by Dryden
32. In which year did the Great Exhibition
take place? 40. Who said this: “Life is not a luminous
A) 1851 halo, a semi-transparent envelope”?
B) 1857 A) Dorothy Richardson
C) 1861 B) James Joyce
D) 1871 C) Henry James
D) Virginia Woolf
33. Yeats' Leda and the Swan drawn upon
A) An oriental myth 41. In which book of Gulliver's Travels
B) East European myth does Balnibarbi find a mention?
C) Celtic myth A) “Laputa”
D) A Greek myth B) “Lilliput”
C) “Houyhnhnms”
34. The source of E.M Forster's title Where D) “Borbdingnag”
Angels Fear to Tread is
A) Pope 42. The phrase 'Sweetness and Light' was
B) Dryden first used by
C) Milton A) Dr. Johnson
D) Donne B) Keats
C) Mathew Arnold
35. The lines “Things fall apart/ Centre D) Swift
cannot hold” occur in
A) Byzantium 43. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus is
B) Gerontion A) an autobiography
C) Second Coming B) a fictional narrative
D) Sailing to Byzantium C) a biography
D) a fictional biography
36. The 'Movement' is a literary
phenomenon in the 44. Hopkins's Curtal Sonnet consists of
A) Thirties A) 14 lines
B) Forties B) 101/2lines
C) Fifties C) 131/2 lines
D) Sixties D) 12 1/2lines
37. John Donne 'affects the metaphysics'. 45. God is referred to as the 'president of
This remark was made by Immortals” in
A) Samuel Johnson A) The Paradise Lost
B) Allen Tate B) Tess
C) T.S Eliot C) Ulysses
D) John Dryden D) The White Devil
38. “The Lunatic, the love and the poet are 46. Osborne's Look Back in Anger was first
of imagination all compact”. These lines staged in
occur in A) 1956
A) Twelfth Night B) 1957
B) A Midsummer Night's dream C) 1958
C) As You Like It D) 1960
D) The Tempest
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47. Maurya is a character in DECEMBER 2004
A) She Stoops to Conquer
B) Volpone
C) Riders to the Sea PAPER II
D) The Golden Gate
1. In Langland's Piers the Plowman, Piers
48. Which of the following is a poet as well appears finally as
as a painter? (A) Charity
A) Tennyson (B) Tha Holy Trinity
B) Keats (C) Jesus
C) Shelley (D) The Good Samaritan
D) Rossetti
2. It is decided that each Canterbury pilgrim
49. Which English poet referred to Oxford would tell in all:
as “that sweet city with her dreaming (A) One story
spires”? (B) Two stories
A) Robert Graves (C) Three stories
B) Matthew Arnold (D) Four stories
C) W. H Auden
D) Alexander Pope 3. Venus and Adonis is a long narrative poem
by:
50. “Cover her face, mine eyes dazzle; She (A) Shakespeare
died young” – this was said by (B) Marlowe
A) Hamlet about Ophelia (C) Drayton
B) Othello about Desdemona (D) Sydney
C) Lear about Cordelia
D) Ferdinand about the Duchess of Malfi. 4. The total number of poems in
Shakespeare's Sonnets is:
(A) 123
(B) 142
(C) 104
(D) 154
5. Which of the following plays has a

Machiavellan hero?
(A) Tamburlaine Part I
(B) Dr Faustus
(C) Jew of Malta
(D) Edward II
6. Which of the following is written by

Samuel Butler?
(A) Religio Laici
(B) David Simple
(C) Hudibras
(D) Journal of the Plague Year
7. Which of the following poems did Milton

write in Octosyllabic Couplets?
(A) Il Penseroso
(B) On His Blindness
(C) On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
(D) Lycidas
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8. Which of the following plays is not (C) The Life of Savage
written by Congreve? (D) Rasselas
(A) The Way of the World
16. The final version of Wordsworth's The
(B) The Old Bachelor
Prelude appeared in:
(C) Love for Love
(A) 1798
(D) The Relapse
(B) 1806
(C) 1850
9. Dryden's All For Love is an adaptation of:
(D) 1860
(A) Philaster
(B) Romeo and Juliet
17. "To suffer woes which Hope thinks
(C) Antony and Cleopatra
infinite" is written by:
(D) Edward II
(A) Shelley
(B) Wordsworth
10. Which of the following books proposes
(C) Keats
a political theory?
(D) Byron
(A) Principia
(B) Leviathan
18. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever"
(C) Anatomy of Melancholy
occurs in:
(D) Liberty of Prophesying
(A) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(B) Ode to Autumn
11. Which of the following books is written
(C) Ode to Psyche
by a woman? (D) Endymion
(A) A Vindication of the Rights of Women
(B) Social Contract
19. Which of the following novels is a satire
(C) A Treatise of Human Nature
on the Gothic novel?
(D) The Wealth of Nations
(A) Pride and Prejudice
(B) Emma
12. Which of the following books by (C) Sense and Sensibility
Jonathan Swift is a religious allegory? (D) Northanger Abbey
(A) The Battle of the Books
(B) A Modest Proposal
20. Who distinguished between "the
(C) Gulliver's Travels
literature of Knowledge" and "the literature
(D) A Tale of a Tub
of power"?
(A) Coleridge
13. Which of the following is a "visionary"
(B) De Quincey
work by William Blake? (C) Hazlitt
(A) The Song of Los
(D) Lamb
(B) Songs of Experience
(C) Poetical Sketches
21. Who among the following Victorian
(D) The Vision of the Daughters of Albion
poets is the most sensititve to the conflict
between the old and the new?
14. Pope's An Essay on Man is based on the
(A) Tennyson
ideas of:
(B) Rossetti
(A) Lord Petrie
(C) Browning
(B) Theobald
(D) Swinburne
(C) Lord Bolingbroke
22. Under the Greenwood Tree is written by:
(D) Lord Harvey
(A) Mrs Gaskell
(B) George Eliot
15. Which of the following works by
(C) Thomas Hardy
Johnson is an imitation of the tenth satire (D) Emily Bronte
of Juvenal?
(A) London
23. The Office of Circumlocution occurs in:
(B) Vanity of Human Wishes
(A) David Copperfield
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(B) Bleak House (A) Cyril Dabydeen
(C) Great Expectations (B) Michael Ondaatje
(D) Hard Times (C) Arnold H Itwaru
(D) M G Gassanji
24. The novel Mary Barton is written by:
(A) Mrs Gaskell 32. Australian aborigines receive a
(B) George Eliot sympathetic treatment in:
(C) Emily Bronte (A) Les Murray
(D) Dickens (B) Gwen Harwood
(C) Judith Wright
25. The line "Poetry is a criticism of life" (D) A D Hope
occurs in:
(A) Culture and Anarchy 33. Margaret Atwood's Survival makes a
(B) Modern Painters case for
(C) The Study of Poetry (A) Canadian literary studies
(D) Sartor Resartus (B) Canadian nationalism
(C) The future of Canadian literature
26. Martha Quest was written by: (D) The past of Canadian literature
(A) Jean Rhys
(B) Doris Lessing 34. V S Naipaul's latest book is:
(C) Iris Murdoch (A) The Mystic Masseur
(D) Nadine Gordimer (B) A Bend in the River
(C) Among the Believers
27. The term "Stream of Consciousness" (D) Half a Life
was taken from the book:
(A) The Human Mind 35. Which of the following books by
(B) The Principles of Psychology Salman Rushdie refers to the 15th century
(C) The Mind of Man Spain as a starting point?
(D) Modes of Human Behaviour (A) Haroun and the Sea of Stories
(B) The Moor's Last Sigh
28.G S Fraser's The Golden Bough focuses (C) Shame
on: (D) Grimus
(A) Images
(B) Metaphors 36. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is writtn
(C) Symbols by:
(D) Archetypes (A) Arthur Miller
(B) Eugene O Neil
29. Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (C) Edward Albee
relies for its tragic seriousness on the fate (D) Tennessee Williams
of:
(A) Willy Loman 37. Imamu Amiri Baraka is
(B) Estragon (A) A Carribean writer
(C) Vladimir (B) An American writer
(D) Lucky (C) An Arab writer
(D) A Sri Lankan writer
30. The character Leopald Bloom makes an
appearance in the novel: 38. The Miscellany was published from:
(A) The Sound and the Fury (A) Sahitya Akademi
(B) Ulysses (B) The Writers Workshop
(C) To the Lighthouse (C) PEN
(D) The Europeans (D) Dhwanyalok
31. Who of the following authors represents 39. Who of the following writers recreates
the Sri Lankan diaspora? https://t.me/thelitbud
the life of the Yoruba/Ibo Community?
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(A) Derek Walcott (B) Inversion
(B) Wole Soyinka (C) Alexandrine
(C) Chinua Achebe (D) Extra Syllable
(D) Okot
48. Unrhymed metrical composition
40. Who of the following White female consisting of five iambic measures in each
authors are sympathetic to the cause of the line is called
Blacks? (A) Rhyme royal
(A) Margaret Drabble (B) Run-on-lines
(B) Nadine Gordimer (C) Blank verse
(C) Muriel Spark (D) Spenserian stanza
(D) Jean Rhys
49. Verse stories dealing with chivalry,
41. New Criticism considers text as a: Knight, errantry, enchantments and love
(A) Cultural construct are known as
(B) Historical construct (A) The epic
(C) Linguistic construct (B) The ballad
(D) Autotelic (C) The ode
(D) The metrical romances
42. Mythologies was written by"
(A) Roland Barthes 50. "He is a citizen of no mean city" is an
(B) Jacques Derrida example of:
(C) Homi K Bhabha (A) Periphrasis
(D) Ernest Dowson (B) Tautology
(C) Prolepsis
43. The word "Catharsis" signifies: (D) Litotes
(A) Pontification
(B) Personification
(C) Purgation
(D) Publication
44. The rejection of "Universalism" is a

mark of:
(A) Deconstruction
(B) New Historicism
(C) Structuralism
(D) Post Colonial Criticism
45. Eliot's theory of "objective correlative"

appeared in his essay entitled:
(A) Three Voices of Poetry
(B) Tradition and Individual Talent
(C) The Metaphysical Poets
(D) Hamlet and His Problems
46. Sprung Rhythm is an example of:

(A) Verse
(B) Syllable
(C) Stress
(D) Meter
47. "More is thy due than more than all can

pay" is an example of
(A) Weak - ending https://t.me/thelitbud
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JUNE 2005 (B) Mansfield Park
(C) Emma
PAPER II (D) Northanger Abbey
1. The Nun's Priest's Tale had its origin in: 9. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus means:
(A) The French Roman de Renart (A) Satan's story retold
(B) The Italian Boccaccio's Teseide (B) The tailor retailored
(C) The English John Gower's Confessio (C) I know not where
Amantis (D) a set of elegant clothes
(D) The German Goethe's Faust
10. The character not created by Hardy is:
2. The First Folio of Shakespeare's plays (A) Sue Bridehead
appeared in: (B) Bathsheba Everdene
(A) 1664 (C) Betsy Trotwood
(B) 1631 (D) Thomasin
(C) 1623
(D) 1650 11. The poet who described poetry as
"inspired mathematics" is:
3. Restoration comedy begins with: (A) T S Eliot
(A) Congreve (B) Hopkins
(B) Sheridan (C) Archibald MacLeish
(C) Dryden (D) Ezra Pound
(D) Etherege
12. The woman character who is an artist
4. The author of The Progress of the Soul is: by profession in Virginia Woolf's To the
(A) John Bunyan Lighthouse is:
(B) John Donne (A) Lily Briscoe
(C) Henry Vaughan (B) Mrs Ramsay
(D) Richard Crashaw (C) Mrs Dalloway
(D) Miriam
5. Dr Johnson's The Lives of the Poets is an
example of: 13. The poet who said, "My poems are not
(A) Psychological criticism about violence, but vitality," is:
(B) Biographical criticism (A) Philip Larkin
(C) Historical criticism (B) Ted Hughes
(D) Archetypal criticism (C) C D Lewis
(D) Thom Gunn
6. The picaresque novel with a female
picaroom is: 14. Pinter's Care Taker can be called a:
(A) Tom Jones (A) comedy of manners
(B) Clarissa (B) comedy of menace
(C) Moll Flanders (C) comedy of errors
(D) Amelia (D) comedy of humours
7. The expression "ancestral voices 15. Toni Morrison used male narrator for
prophesying war" occurs in: the first time in:
(A) Kublakhan (A) Song of Solomon
(B) Frost at Midnight (B) Tar Baby
(C) Christabel (C) Jazz
(D) Rime of the Ancient Mariner (D) The Bluest Eye
8. The posthumously published novel of 16. The author of The Hungry Tide is:
Jane Austen is: (A) Vikram Seth
(A) Sense and Sensibility (B) Shobha De
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(C) Amitav Ghosh (D) Stephen Greenblatt - Bradley - T S Eliot -
(D) Upamany Chatterjee Spurgeon
17. The soul of tragedy according to 23.

Aristotle is: (A) Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Oxford
(A) Thought Movement, Movement Poetry, Imagism
(B) Character (B) Oxford Movement, Pre-Raphaelite
(C) Plot Brotherhood, Imagism, Movement Poetry
(D) Spectacle (C) Imagism, Movement Poetry,, Pre-
Raphaelite Brotherhood, Oxford Movement
18. The discussion of Fabula/Syuzhet (D) Movement Poetry, Pre-Raphaelite
occurs in: Brotherhood, Oxford Movement, Imagism
(A) New criticism
(B) Deconstruction 24.
(C) Structuralism (A) Closet drama, Epic Theatre, Theatre of
(D) Formalism the Absurd, Portable Theatre
(B) Epic Theatre, Portable Theatre, Theatre
19. "United we stand, divided we fall" is an of the Absurd, Closet drama
example of: (C) Portable Theatre, Closet drama, Epic
(A) Antithesis Theatre, Theatre of the Absurd
(B) Bathos (D) Theatre of the Absurd, Portable Theatre,
(C) Tautology Closet drama, Epic Theatre
(D) Litotes
25.
20. A metre in which an unaccented syllable (A) Thomas Nashe, Ben Jonson, Kyd,
precedes the accented is called: Marlowe
(A) anapaestic (B) Ben Jonson, Thomas Kyd, Marlowe,
(B) dactylic Thomas Nashe
(C) catalectic (C) Thomas Kyd, Marlowe, Thomas Nashe,
(D) iambic Ben Jonson
(D) Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Kyd,
Choose the correct chronological sequence Ben Jonson
in question numbers 21-30:
26.
21. (A) Essay on Dramatic Poesy, Areopagitica,
(A) Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, Urn Burial, Religio Medici
Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park (B) Areopagitica, Urn Burial, Religio Medici,
(B) Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility, Essay on Dramatic Poesy
Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice (C) Religio Medici, Areopagitica, Urn Burial,
(C) Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Essay on Dramatic Poesy
Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility (D) Urn Burial, Essay on Dramatic Poesy,
(D) Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Areopagitica, Religio Medici
Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger
Abbey 27.
(A) Kamala Das, Sarojini Naidu, Toru Dutt,
22. Shakespeare criticism by: Meena Alexander
(B) Meena Alexander, Toru Dutt, Sarojini
(A) Spurgeon - T S Eliot - Stephen Greenblatt Naidu, Kamala Das
- Bradley (C) Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Das, Meena
(B) Bradley - Spurgeon - T S Eliot – Stephen Alexander, Toru Dutt
Greenblatt (D) Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Das,
(C) T S Eliot - Stephen Greenblatt - Bradley - Meena Alexander
Spurgeon
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(C) Walter Scott - Ireland
28. (D) Mark Twain - Yoknapatawfa
(A) Jude, Lady Havisham, Dorothea, Mrs
Morel 34.
(B) Dorothea, Mrs Morel, Jude, Lady (A) Surrealism - Tristan Tzara
Havisham (B) Imagism - Spender
(C) Dorothea, Jude, Mrs Morel, Lady (C) Naturalism - Yeats
Havisham (D) Magic Realism - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(D) Lady Havisham, Dorothea, Jude, Mrs
Morel 35.
(A) Victor Shklovsky - Carnivalesque
29. (B) Stanley Fish - Aphasia
(A) The Well-Wrought Urn, The Verbal Icon, (C) Hjelmslev - Glossematics
Theory of Literature, Literary Theory: An (D) Roland Barthes - Affective Stylistics
Introduction
(B) The Well-Wrought Urn, Theory of 36.
Literature, The Verbal Icon, Literary Theory: (A) Bessie Head - Newzealand
An Introduction (B) Derek Walcott - South Africa
(C) The Verbal Icon, The Well-Wrought Urn, (C) A D Hope - Australia
Literary Theory: An Introduction, Theory of (D) Ondaatje - Nigeria
Literature
(D) Literary Theory: An Introduction, The 37.
Well-Wrought Urn, Theory of Literature, (A) T S Eliot - The Birthday Party
The Verbal Icon (B) Osborne - The Entertainer
(C) Bernard Shaw - Luther
30. Nobel Prize winners in literature: (D) Tom Stoppard - Lear
(A) Seamus Heaney, T S Eliot, Nadine
Gordimer, W B Yeats 38.
(B) W B Yeats, T S Eliot, Nadine Gordimer, (A) Periodical Essays - Bacon
Seamus Heaney (B) Confessional Poetry - Ted Hughes
(C) T S Eliot, Seamus Heaney, W B Yeats, (C) Science Fiction - David Lodge
Nadine Gordimer (D) Pre-Raphaelites - William Morris
(D) Nadine Gordimer, Seamus Heaney, W B
Yeats, T S Eliot 39.
(A) Nissim Ezekiel - Persian
Select the matching pair in question (B) Gieve Patel - Gujarati
numbers 31 to 40 (C) Dilip Chitre - Sanskrit
(D) Adil Jussawallah - Urdu
31.
(A) Idylls of the King - Browning 40.
(B) The Diverting History of John Gilpin - (A) Pearl - The Scarlet Letter
William Cowper (B) Raka - The God of Small Things
(C) The Tower - T S Eliot (C) Raphael - The Great Expectations
(D) The Fall of Hyperion - Shelley (D) Pip - Fire on the Mountain
32.
(A) Hard Times - Psychological novel
(B) To The Light-house - Picaresque novel
(C) The Castle of Otranto - Gothic novel
(D) Wuthering Heights - Historical novel
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(D) Resolution and Independence
PAPER II 8. Table Talk is a collection of essays by:

(A) Lamb
(B) Hunt
1. Chaucer's The Knight's Tale is a high (C) Hazlitt
romance told in: (D) De Quincey
(A) rhyme royal
(B) terza rima 9. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus was written
(C) heroic couplets under the influence of:
(D) verse libre (A) Italian romance
(B) German romance
2. Marlowe's first original work was: (C) French romance
(A) Tamburlaine the Great (D) British romance
(B) The Tragical History of D. Faustus
(C) The Jew of Malta 10. The image of Neptune taming the sea
(D) The Troublesome Raigne and horse appears in:
Lamentable death of Edward the Second (A) Abt Vogler
(B) Prospice
3. Marvell pays his homage to the Protector (C) Andrea del Sarto
and a tribute to the royal dignity of Charles (D) My Last Duchess
I in:
(A) The Garden 11. T S Eliot's The Waste Land is dedicated
(B) The Picture of T.C to Il miglior fabro ("The better Craftsman")
(C) Bermudas which refers to:
(D) Horatian ode upon Cromewell's Return (A) Ezra Pound
from Ireland (B) Baudelaire
(C) G M Hopkins
4. The Life and Death of Mr Badman was (D) Dante
written by:
(A) Sir Henry Wotton 12. The locale of Riders to the Sea is:
(B) John Bunyan (A) Dublin
(C) Jeremy Taylor (B) Aran Island
(D) Richard Baxter (C) Galway
(D) Belfast
5. Dr Johnson's A Dictionary of the English
Language was published in: 13. The "Bog" poems are associated with:
(A) 1755 (A) Ted Hughes
(B) 1756 (B) Elizabeth Jennings
(C) 1757 (C) Tony Harrison
(D) 1758 (D) Seamus Heaney
6. The main idea of The Dunciad was taken 14. Edward Bond's Bingo deals with the life
from: of:
(A) The Hind and the Panther (A) Dryden
(B) Religio Laici (B) Shakespeare
(C) Mac Flecknoe (C) Ben Jonson
(D) The Medal (D) Marlowe
7. The character of the leech gatherer 15. Arthur Millers The Death of a Salesman is
appears in: mainly about:
(A) The Recluse (A) American dream
(B) The Prelude Book I (B) American imperialism
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(C) American pragmatism and Stella, Shepherds Calendar
(D) American transcendentalism (B) Astrophel and Stella, Ralph Roister
Doister,Shepherds Calendar
16. The patient in Michael Ondaatje's The (C) Shepherds Calendar, Astrophel and
English Patient is: Stella, Utopia, Ralph Roister Doister
(A) Almasy (D) Utopia, Ralph Roister Doister, Shepherds
(B) Caravaggio Calendar, Astrophel and Stella
(C) Kripal Singh
(D) Hana 23.
(A) Sonnet, periodical essay, gothic novel,
17. Mimetic criticism views literary work absurd play
as: (B) Gothic novel, periodical essay, sonnet,
(A) personalisation absurd play
(B) depersonalisation (C) Periodical essay, gothic novel, absurd
(C) imitation play, sonnet
(D) interpretation (D) Sonnet, gothic novel, periodical essay,
absurd play
18. The concept of "arche writing" is
developed by: 24.
(A) Fish (A) Stephen Spender, T S Eliot, Philip
(B) Foucault Larkin, Ted Hughes
(C) Derrida (B) T S Eliot, Stephen Spender, Philip
(D) Paul de Man Larkin, Ted Hughes
(C) Philip Larkin, T S Eliot, Ted Hughes,
19. A figure of speech in which two terms Stephen Spender
opposite in meaning are placed side by side (D) T S Eliot, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes,
in one phrase is known as Stephen Spender
(A) Paradox
(B) Oxymoron 25.
(C) Sarcasm (A) Negative capability, sublime, dissociation
(D) Antithesis of sensibility, heteroglossia
(B) Sublime, negative capability,
20. A stanza of eight iambic pentametres on heteroglossia, dissociation of sensibility
the pattern of ab, ab, ab, cc is known as: (C) Sublime, negative capability, dissociation
(A) Rhyme royal of sensibility, heteroglossia
(B) Ottava rima (D) Heteroglossia, dissociation of sensibility,
(C) Tennysonian stanza sublime, negative capability
(D) Spenserian stanza
Choose the correct chronological sequence
Choose the correct chronological sequence in question numbers 26 to 30:
in question numbers 21 to 30:
26.
21. (A) Thyrsis, Adonais, Lycidas, In Memory of
(A) Love's Labours Lost, Twelfth Night, W B Yeats
Othello, The Tempest (B) Lycidas, Thyrsis, Adonais, In Memory of
(B) Twelfth Night, Love's Labours Lost, The W B Yeats
Tempest, Othello (C) Lycidas, Adonais, Thyrsis, In Memory of
(C) Love's Labours Lost, Othello, The W B Yeats
Tempest, Twelfth Night (D) Adonais, In Memory of W B Yeats,
(D) Othello, Twelfth Night, Love's Labours Lycidas, Thyrsis
Lost, The Tempest
27.
22. (A) Sign Structure and Play, Signs Taken for
(A) Ralph Roister Doister, Utopia, Astrophel Wonder, The Death of the Author, Two Uses
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of Language (A) Middlemarch - Picaresque
(B) Two Uses of Language, The Death of the (B) Women in Love - Historical
Author, Sign Structure and Play, Signs taken (C) Pamela - Epistolary novel
for Wonder (D) Pride and Prejudice - Autobiographical
(C) The Death of the Author, Two Uses of
Language, Signs Taken for Wonder, Sign 33.
Structure and Play (A) Dickens - Manchester
(D) Two Uses of Language, The Death of the (B) Faulkner - Yoknapatawfa
Author, Sign Structure and Play, Signs Taken (C) Joyce - Belfast
for Wonder (D) Lawrence - Brimingham
28. 34.
(A) The Burial of the Dead, A Game of (A) Naturalism - Zola
Chess, Fire Sermon, Death by Water (B) Symbolism - T E Hulme
(B) A Game of Chess, The Burial of the (C) Expressionism - V Woolf
Dead, Fire Sermon, Death by Water (D) Magic Realism - Graham Greene
(C) Fire Sermon, The Burial of the Dead,
Death by Water, A Game of Chess 35.
(D) The Burial of the Dead, Fire Sermon, (A) Audrey Thomas - The Stone Angel
Death by Water, A Game of Chess (B) Robert Kroetsch - The Burning Water
(C) Margaret Lawrence - What the Crow
29. Said
(A) Midnight's Children, Nectar in a Sieve, (D) Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
Kanthapura, Calcutta Chromosome
(B) Kanthapura, Midnight's Children, Nectar in a Select the matching pairs in question
Sieve, Calcutta Chromosome numbers 36 to 40
(C) Kanthapura, Midnight's Children, Calcutta
Chromosome, Nectar in a Sieve 36.
(D) Kanthapura, Nectar in a Sieve, Midnight's (A) Marlowe - Faust
Children, Calcutta Chromosome (B) Fletcher - The White Devil
(C) Congreve - The Old Bachelor
30. (D) Ben Jonson - The Maid's Tragedy
(A) The English Novel: Form and Function,
The Craft of Fiction, Aspects of the Novel, 37.
The Sense of an Ending (A) Nadine Gordimer - Nigeria
(B) Craft of Fiction, Aspects of the Novel, (B) Chinua Achebe - Kenya
The English Novel: Form and Function, The (C) Judith Wright - Australia
Sense of an Ending (D) Peter Carey - Canada
(C) The Sense of an Ending, The English
Novel: Form and Function, Craft of Fiction, 38.
Aspects of the Novel (A) Campus novel - Margaret Drabble
(D) Aspects of the NOvel, Craft of Fiction, (B) Travalogue - Macaulay
The Sense of an Ending, The English Novel: (C) Diary writing - Samuel Pepys
Form and Function (D) Periodical essay - Lamb
Select the matching pairs in question 39.

numbers 31 to 40 (A) Girish Karnad - Kannada
31. (B) A K Ramanujan - Telugu
(A) Sohrab and Rustum - Arnold (C) Kamala Das - Tamil
(B) The Princess - Browning (D) R Parthasarathy - Malayalam
(C) Hugh Selwyn Mauberly - Hopkins
(D) The Excursion - Shelley 40.
(A) Mrs Malaprop - The School for Scandal
32. (B) Nora - The Seagull
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(C) Lydia Languish - She Stoops to Conquer a nationality with its own language, tradition,
(D) Eliza Doolittle – Pygmalion historical situation. To what extent are
intellectuals servants of these actualities, to
41. In the assertion "Four out of five people what extent enemies? The same is true of
suffer from dreaded pyorrhoea", the writer intellectuals' relationship with institutions
wants to arouse the feeling of: (academy, church, professional guild) and
(A) Sympathy with wordly powers, which in our times have
(B) Fear co-opted the intelligentsia to an extraordinary
(C) Hatred degree. Thus in my view the principal
(D) Ill-will intellectual duty is the search for relative
independence from such pressures. Hence my
42. "John is six feet tall and 240 lb" is an characterization of the intellectual as an exile
assertion of: and marginal, as amateur, and as the author
(A) a fact of a language that tries to speak the truth to
(B) a judgement power.
(C) an opinion
(D) an inference
46. Name four important sources to which
43. X: "He's mean and stingy. an intellectual is related basically:
Y: "Oh, I wouldn't say that. He is just (A) Society, institutions, wordly powers, and
thrifty". government
The above dialoge asserts that he: (B) Institutions, language, truth and power
(A) is too careful with his money (C) Nationality, language, tradition and
(B) never spends money historical situation
(C) is so careful with his money that everyone (D) Nationality, truth, language, and
admires him for good management tradition
(D) is careful with his money
47. What is the meaning of intellectuals
44. "I wandered lonely as a cloud" makes being 'servants'?
an assertion that: (A) The intellectual may be appropriated by
(A) The poet traveled with the cloud his tradition, historical and other actualities
(B) The poet moved aimlessly with the cloud of his nation and society
(C) Both the poet and the cloud were lonely (B) The intellectual may be inappropriately
(D) The poet moved as aimlessly as the cloud co-opted by agencies of the government
(C) The intellectual may be sent into exile
45. "Death is here and death is there and made marginal
Death is busy everywhere (D) The intellectual may be forced into
All around, within, beneath, accepting the unacceptable propositions
Above, is death - and we are death"
48. What are the four important institutions
The effect of rhythm, sound, word-order that co-opt an intellectual?
and stress in the above lines (A) society, institutions, wordly powers, and
(A) assist the communication of meaning truth
(B) hinder the communication of meaning (B) academy, church, professional guild, and
(C) reflect meaning and mood wordly power
(D) reflect a mechanical regularity (C) society, professional guild, wordly power,
truth
(D) academy, wordly power, truth,
Read the following passage and answer the government
questions that follow based on your
understanding of the passage. 49. What is the meaning of 'relative
independence'?
All of us live in a society, and are members of (A) Liberating oneself from the pressures of
government
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religion and state
(C) liberating oneself from the pressures of
institutions and worldly powers PAPER II
(D) liberating oneself from all religious and
secular pressures 1. Which one of the following author - book
pair is correctly matched?
50. What is the duty of an intellectual and (A) J.M. Coetzee - Shame
how many identities does he acquire to (B) Saul Bellro - Herzog
perform his role? (C) Salman Rushdie - Disgrace
(A) to achieve complete independence and (D) Elfriede Jelinek - The Pianist
be characterised as an exile, marginal, and
amateur 2. Which novel has a nameless narrator?
(B) to achieve partial independence and be (A) Invisible Man
characterised as the author of a language (B) The Grapes of Wrath
(C) to manoeuvre independence and be (C) Moby Dick
characterised as a keeper of his own (D) Anna Karenina
conscience
(D) to search for relative independence and 3. Samuel Beckett wrote:
be characterised as exile and marginal, as (A) Endgame
amateur, and author (B) Volpone
(C) Mother Courage and Her Children
(D) A Doll's House
4. Willy Loman is a character in:

(A) A Doll's House
(B) The Cherry Orchard
(C) Waiting for Godot
(D) The Death of a Salesman
5. The Plough and the Stars was written by:

(A) G.B. Shaw
(B) J.M. Synge
(C) Sean O'casey
(D) Lady Gregory
6. The subtitle of Dryden's Absalom and

Achitophel is:
(A) There was no subtitle
(B) A satire
(C) A satire on the True Blue Protestant Poets
(D) A poem
7. Who of the following is not a periodical

essayist?
(A) Jonathan Swift
(B) Joseph Addison
(C) Richard Steele
(D) Lancelot Andrews
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8. John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys were the (C) Imagist poetry
famous writers of: (D) Modernist poetry
(A) essays
(B) editorials 16. The figure of the "Abyssinian maid"
(C) letters appears in:
(D) diaries (A) "Frost at midnight"
(B) "Christabel"
9. Samuel Butlers Hudibras is modeled (C) "Kubla Khan"
upon: (D) "Dejection: an Ode"
(A) "Annus Mirabilis"
(B) Endymion 17.Coleridges statement that imagination
(C) Don Quixote "dissolves, diffuses, dissipates in order to
(D) Pilgrim's Progress recreate" relates to:
(A) fancy
10. Who was the last of the Christian (B) primary imagination
Humanists? (C) secondary imagination
(A) Oliver Cromowell (D) esemplastic imagination
(B) John Milton
(C) John Bunyan 18. "Did he who made the Lamb made
(D) Richard Crashaw thee" appears in:
(A) "The Tyger"
11. The narrative of Raja Rao's Kanthapura (B) "Chimney Sweeper"
is based on: (C) "London"
(A) Puranas (D) "Introduction"
(B) Shastras
(C) The Ramayana 19. "Essays of Elia” are:
(D) The Mahabharata (A) political ideology
(B) economic disparity
12. Which of the following author - book (C) literary criticism
pair is correctly matched? (D) personal impressions
(A) David Malouf - The City of Djins
(B) C.L.R. James - The English Patient 20. Who among the following is a writer of
(C) Shashi Tharoor - Trotter Nama historical romances?
(D) Arundhati Roy - Algebra of Infinite (A) Emily Bronte
Justice (B) Jane Austen
(C) Walter Scott
13. Who wrote "A tiger does not proclaim (D) Walter Savage Lander
its tigretude”?
(A) Ngugi 21. Which of the following thinker -
(B) Achebe concept pairs is rightly matched?
(C) Soyinka (A) Stanley Fish - Reader Response
(D) Derek Walcott (B) Jacques Devida - New Historicism
(C) Northrop Frye - Practical Criticism
14. "Jindiworobak" movement relates to: (D) I.A. Richards - Archetypal Criticism
(A) Australian literature
(B) Canadian literature 22. Which of the following thinker -
(C) New Zealand literature concept pairs is rightly matched?
(D) Caribbean literature (A) Vaman - Dhwanyaloka
(B) Bharata - Natya Shastra
15. The Montreal group of poets (C) Mamata - Vakrokti
championed the cause of: (D) Abhinava Gupta - Kavya Alankar
(A) Nature poetry
(B) Symbolish poetry 23. Choose the correct sequence of the
following schools of criticism:
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(A) Structuralism, New Criticism, 30. Who among the Victorians is called
Deconstruction, Reader Response "the prophet of modern society”?
(B) New Criticism, Structuralism, (A) Ruskin
Deconstruction, Reader Response (B) Carlyle
(C) Reader Response, Deconstruction, (C) Macaulay
Structuralism, New Criticism (D) Arnold
(D) Deconstruction, New Criticism,
Structuralism, Reader Response 31. Who among the following is not a
pilgrim in The Canterbury Tales?
24. "Peripetia” means: (A) the Haberdasher
(A) purgation of emotion (B) the Tapyser
(B) tragic flaw (C) the Blacksmith
(C) reversal of fortune (D) the Summoner
(D) recognition of error
32. Bosola is the executioner in:
25. "Gynocriticism" focuses on: (A) The Spanish Tragedy
(A) Criticism on women (B) The Duchess of Malfi
(B) Criticism by women (C) The White Devil
(C) Criticism of male writers by women (D) The Jew of Malta
writers
(D) Women as writers 33. The mystery plays deal with:
(A) the life of Christ
26. Which of the following sequences is (B) the New Testament
correct? (C) Psalms
(A) Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond, (D) Apocrypha
Middlemarch, The Return of the Native
(B) Henry Esmond, Vanity Fair, 34. The Faerie Queene is based on:
Middlemarch, The Return of the Native (A) Utopia
(C) Middlemarch, The Return of the Native, (B) Tottelis Miscellany
Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond (C) Morte d'Arthur
(D) The Return of the Native, Middlemarch, (D) Orlando Furioso
Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond
35. Choose the correct chronological
27. Queen Victoria's reign, after whom the sequence of the following plays :
Victorian period is named, spans: (A) King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet
(A) 1833 - 1901 (B) Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet
(B) 1837 - 1901 (C) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
(C) 1840 - 1905 (D) Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth
(D) 1842 – 1905
36. Pope's "Essay on Criticism" sums up
28. Pre - Raphaelite poetry is mainly the art of poetry as taught first by:
concerned with: (A) Aristotle
(A) narrative and style (B) Horace
(B) narrative and nature (C) Longinus
(C) form and design (D) Plato
(D) form and value
37. Swift's Tale of a Tub is a satire on:
29. The concept of "mad woman in the (A) science and philosophy
attic" can be traced to: (B) art and morality
(A) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (C) dogma and superstition
(B) Villette (D) fake morals and manners
(C) Wuthering Heights
(D) Jane Eyre 38. Dr. Johnson started :
(A) The Postman
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(B) The Spectator (B) Grotovsky
(C) The Rambler (C) Antonin Artand
(D) The Tatler (D) Eugino Barba
46. A particle is :
39. Who among the following cautioned
(A) a patchwork of words, sentences,
against the dangers of popular liberty?
passages
(A) Mary Wollstonecraft
(B) a satirical poem
(B) Edmund Burke
(C) a love song
(C) Thomas Hobbes
(D) a collection of lines from different poems
(D) John Locke
47. "Careless she is with artful
40. Which famous American classic opens
Care/Affecting to seem unaffected" is an
with "Call me Ishmael”?
example of:
(A) Rip Van Winkle
(A) irony
(B) The Scarlet Letter
(B) paradox
(C) The Grapes of Wrath
(C) simile
(D) Moby Dick
(D) metaphor
48. A metrical foot containing a stressed,

41. Allen Ginsberg's vision of America is
followed by an unstressed, syllable is:
inspired by:
(A) anapaest
(A) Walt Whitman
(B) iamb
(B) Robert Frost
(C) trochee
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(D) dactyl
(D) Edgar A. Poe
49. The rhyme scheme of a Spenserian
42. Who among the following represents
sonnet is:
the Sri Lankan diaspora?
(A) abba, cbcb, cdcd, ee
(A) M.G. Vassanji
(B) abab, bccb, ccdd, ee
(B) Cyril Debydeen
(C) aabb, bcbc, ccdd, ee
(C) Michael Ondaatje
(D) abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee
(D) Arnold H. Itwaru
50. Using the expression "Crown" for the
43. Out of Africa is a film adaptation of a
monarchy is an example of:
work by:
(A) Metonymy
(A) Alice Walker
(B) Synecdoche
(B) Margaret Lawrence
(C) Irony
(C) Margaret Atwood
(D) Metaphor
(D) Alice Munro
44. The Empire writes Back was written by

:
(A) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Ngugi Wa
Thinngo
(B) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Stephen
Slemon
(C) Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Chinua
Achebe
(D) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Gareth
Griffiths
45. The theatre of cruelty is associated

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Understanding" is about:
(A) nature of human behaviour
PAPER II (B) nature of the human mind
(C) nature of human society
1. The title The Sound and the Fury is taken (D) nature of human ideology
from:
(A) Hamlet 9. Restoration Comedy marks the
(B) Macbeth restoration of:
(C) The Tempest (A) women's rights
(D) King Lear (B) democracy
(C) monarchy
2. Pecola is a character in : (D) human rights
(A) The Bluest Eye
(B) Oliver Twist 10. Which of Alexander Pope's poems
(C) Don Quixote
begins with the line "Shut, shut the door,
(D) Beloved
good John, fatigued I said”:
(A) "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot"
3. Which of the following was associated
(B) "Dunciad"
with the "Bloomsbury Group". (C) "Epistles"
(A) T. S. Eliot (D) "Rape of the Lock"
(B) W. B. Yeats
(C) T. E. Hulme
11. The statement "One has to convey in a
(D) Virginia Woolf
language that is not one's own the spirit
that is one's own" appears in:
4. Which of the following characters appear
(A) Ice-Candy Man
in Waiting for Godot:
(B) The Guide
(A) Jerry (C) Nagamandala
(B) Lucky (D) Kanthapura
(C) Jimmy Porter
(D) Ham
12. Which of the following author-book
pair is correctly matched:
5. About whom did T. S. Eliot write "A (A) Arundhati Roy - The Autumn of the
thought to him was an experience”: Patriarch
(A) Herbert (B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the
(B) Marvell Time of Cholera
(C) Donne (C) Umber to Eco - The Tin Drum
(D) Crashaw (D) Jhumpa Lahiri – Beloved
6. The last book of Gulliver's Travels is: 13. Which of the following women writers
(A) "Voyage to Houyhnhnms"
did not receive the Noble Prize:
(B) "Voyage to Laputa" (A) Toni Morrison
(C) "Voyage to Brobdingnag" (B) Nadine Gordiner
(D) "Voyage to Lilliput" (C) Buchi Emcheta
(D) Doris Lessing
7. Who edited The Tatler:
(A) Steele and John Locke 14. Which of the following is not an
(B) Addison and Dryden
Australian author:
(C) Addison and Blackmore
(A) Margaret Laurence
(D) Addison and Steele
(B) David Malauf
(C) Mudooroo Narogin
(D) Peter Carey
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15. The Tulsis of Naipaul's A House for Mr. 22. Which of the following thinker concept
Biswas lived in: pairs is correctly matched?
(A) Pagotes House (A) Abhinava Gupta......... Dhwanyaloka
(B) Hanuman Mansion (B) Vaman .............. Kavya Alankar
(C) Tulsiana (C) Mamata.............. Kavya Prakash
(D) Hanuman House (D) Bharata .............. Vakrokti
16. The quotation "a repetition in the finite 23. Choose the correct sequence of the
mind of the eternal act of creation in the following schools of criticism:
infinite I AM" appears in: (A) Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader-
(A) Lyrical Ballads Response, New Historicism
(B) Biographia Literaria (B) New Historicism, Reader-Response,
(C) "In Defense of Poetry" Deconstruction, Structuralism
(D) Letters of Keats (C) Deconstruction, New Historicism,
Structuralism, Reader-Response
17. "Fearful Symmetry" appears in the (D) Reader-Response, Deconstruction, New
poem: Historicism, Structuralism
(A) "Introduction"
(B) "Chimney Sweeper" 24. "Hamartia” means:
(C) "The Tyger" (A) reversal of fortunes
(D) "London" (B) purgation of emotions
(C) depravity
18. The quotation "when a man is capable (D) error of judgement
of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts,
without any irritable reaching after fact and 25. The term "gynocriticism" was coined by
reasons" is a definition of: :
(A) Negative capability (A) Betty Friedman
(B) Secondary imagination (B) Elaine Showalter
(C) Criticism of life (C) Luce Irigarey
(D) Dissociation of sensibility (D) Susan Sontag
19. Which of the following prose-writers do 26. Which is the correct sequence:
not belong to the Romantic Period: (A) D. G. Rossetti, George Eliot, Bronte
(A) Peacock Sisters, Thackeray
(B) De Quincey (B) George Eliot, D. G. Rossetti, Bronte
(C) Hazlitt Sisters, Thackeray
(D) Gibbon (C) Thackeray, Bronte Sisters, George Eliot,
D. G. Rossetti
20. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia and (D) Bronte Sisters, George Eliot, Thackeray,
Wickham eloped to: D. G. Rossetti
(A) Barchester
(B) Bath 27. Which of Dickens' novels opens with
(C) Gretna Green the words "It was the best of times; it was
(D) Glasgow the worst of times ....”
(A) A Tale of Two Cities
21. Which of the following thinker-concept (B) Oliver Twist
pairs is correctly matched? (C) Pickwick Papers
(A) Frye........... Mysticism (D) Hard Times
(B) Derrida............. Deconstruction 28. The term "The Fleshly School of
(C) I. A. Richards........... Archetypal Poetry" is associated with the:
Criticism (A) Chartists
(D) Eagleton............... Psychological (B) Pre-Raphaelites
Criticism (C) Symbolists
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(D) Imagists (D) Aristotle
29. The line "The sea is calm tonight" 37. Which of the following is not a work by
occurs in: Dr. Johnson:
(A) Tennyson's "Maude" (A) Preface to the English Dictionary
(B) Arnold's "Thyrsis" (B) Preface to Shakespeare
(C) Tennyson's "The Lotos-Eaters" (C) Lives of English Poets
(D) Arnold's "Dover Beach" (D) Cowley
30. The term "gothic", a category of fiction, 38. Which novel of Daniel Defoe was
also applies to: considered to be the best by E. M. Forster?
(A) architecture (A) Colonel Jack
(B) painting (B) Robinson Crusoe
(C) music (C) Captain Singleton
(D) theater (D) Moll Flanders
31. The gap-toothed character in 39. Edmund Burke denounced the French
"prologue" to The Centerbury Tales is: Revolution in:
(A) the Prioress (A) Political Philosophy
(B) the Nun (B) A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin
(C) the Wife of Bath of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
(D) the Narrator (C) Reflections
(D) The Annual Register
32. Which of the following is not a Revenge
Tragedy: 40. The line "A man can be destroyed but
(A) Duchess of Malfi not defeated" appears in:
(B) Volpone (A) For Whom the Bell Tolls
(C) Hamlet (B) The Old Man and the Sea
(D) Gorboduc (C) The Snows of Kilimanjaro
(D) The Sun also Rises
33. Miracle plays are based on the lives of:
(A) Knights 41. Who among the following is called "A
(B) Crusaders New England Poet" :
(C) Pilgrims (A) Robert Frost
(D) Saints (B) Edwin Arlington Robinson
(C) William Carlos Williams
34. The Red cross Knight is Spenser's Faerie (D) Allen Ginsberg
Queene represents:
(A) Temperance 42. Which of the following is not a play by
(B) Chastity Tennessee Williams:
(C) Truth (A) Night of the Iguana
(D) Falsehood (B) A Streetcar named Desire
(C) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
35. The line "Present fears/Are less than (D) The Zoo Story
horrible imaginings" appear in:
(A) Macbeth 43. Margaret Atwood's Survival is:
(B) King Lear (A) a critical assessment of Canadian writing
(C) Othello (B) a thematic guide to Canadian literature
(D) Julius Caesar (C) a critique of Canadian polity
(D) a exposition of Canadian history
36. The author of Ars Poetica is :
(A) Plato 44. The term "Negritude" was coined By:
(B) Horace (A) Frantz Fanon and Homi Bhabha
(C) Virgil (B) Ngugi Wa' Thiongo and Wole Soyinka
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(C) Ainee Cesaire and Leopold Senghor JUNE 2007
(D) K. Alfred Memi and Chinua Achebe
45. Bertolt Brecht's concept of theatre was PAPER II

influenced by:
(A) Irwin Piscator 1. The lines :
(B) Antonin Artaud 'Even I, a dunce of more renown than they,
(C) Peter Brook Was sent before but to prepare thy way' are
(D) Eugino Barba quoted from :
(A) Pope's Dunciad
46. The relationship between Othello and (B) Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel
Iago is an example of: (C) Dryden's Mac Flecknoe
(A) inversion (D) Swift's A Tale of a Tub
(B) irony
(C) innuendo 2. Fanny Burney's Evelina is about:
(D) invective (A) a young lady's entry into English
fashionable society
47. A metrical foot consisting of an (B) English refugees in Paris
unstressed syllable followed by a stressed (C) an English enthusiast for revolutionary
syllable is: liberty
(A) dactyl (D) money and the world of the country
(B) trochee house
(C) iamb
(D) anapaest 3. The unexpurgated text of Lady
Chatterley's Lover was published after
48. The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean Obscenity trial in:
sonnet is: (A) 1958
(A) abab, cdcd, efef, gg (B) 1965
(B) abba, cddc, effe, gg (C) 1960
(C) abcd, efgh, effe, hh (D) 1962
(D) abca, abca, bcab, dd
4. Sir Andrew Freeport is a character in:
49. Using "the Bench" for the judiciary is (A) Humphry Clinker
an example of: (B) Joseph Andrews
(A) metaphor (C) The Coverley Papers
(B) irony (D) Clarissa
(C) Synecdoche
(D) metonymy 5. In which of the following novels does
Stein feature as a significant character?
(A) Under Western Eyes
(B) Lord Jim
50. Four feet, comprising a monosyllable, (C) Heart of Darkness
trochee, dactyl and first paeon is often (D) Nostromo
called :
(A) running rhythm 6. The Grand Inquisitor is a character in:
(B) sprung rhythm (A) Crime and Punishment
(C) blank verse (B) Notes from the Underground
(D) rhymed verse (C) Brothers Karamazov
(D) The Idiot
7. Which modern critic described value

judgements as 'the donkey's carrot of
literary criticism‟?
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(A) T. S. Eliot (C) George Peele
(B) I. A. Richards (D) Samuel Daniel
(C) William Empson
(D) Northrop Frye 15. William Beckford's oriental fantasy
Vathek was originally written in:
8. Select the matching pair: (A) Spanish
(A) The Book of the Duchess: Blanche of (B) German
Leicester (C) French
(B) The Canterbury Tales: The Host of the (D) Italian
Tabard
(C) Troilus and Criseyde: Squire 16. The term 'American renaissance' was
(D) The Parliament of Birds: St. Agnes's Eve first used by:
(A) R. W. B Lewis
9. 'The Winter Morning' forms part of a (B) Leo Marx
longer poem by: (C) F. O. Matthiessen
(A) Cowper (D) Richard Chase
(B) Blake
(C) Burns 17. 'Gladly would he learn, and gladly
(D) Byron teach' is a line from :
(A) Spenser's Fairie Queen
10. Bradley Pearson is the narrator of Iris (B) Goldsmith's 'The Deserted Village'
Murdoch‟s novel: (C) Chaucer's Prologue to Canterbury Tales
(A) Under the Net (D) Langland's Piers Plowman
(B) Bruno's Dream
(C) The Bell 18. Which of the following arrangement of
(D) The Black Prince the English plays is in correct chronological
order?
11. 'Victorian Compromise' is an expression (A) Justice - The Family Reunion - Saint
first used by: Joan - The Playboy of the Western World
(A) David Cecil (B) Saint Joan - Justice - The Playboy of the
(B) G. K. Chesterton Western World - The Family Reunion
(C) Lytton Strachey (C) The Family Reunion - Saint Joan -
(D) Vincent Buckley Justice - The Playboy of the Western World
(D) The Playboy of the Western World -
12. More's Latin Masterpiece Utopia was Justice - Saint Joan - The Family Reunion
translated into English in:
(A) 1551 19. The second part of The Pilgrim's
(B) 1498 Progress was published in:
(C) 1516 (A) 1690
(D) 1532 (B) 1678
(C) 1686
13. The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of (D) 1684
Poetry is written by:
(A) Maud Bodkin 20. The Egoist is written by:
(B) Stephen Spender (A) Blackmore
(C) Harold Bloom (B) William Thackeray
(D) Frank Kernode (C) Meredith
(D) Hardy
14. Who among the following was not a
member of the group, 'The University 21. Which is the correct chronological
Wits‟? sequence of the following novels?
(A) Thomas Nashe (A) Decline and Fall - The Time Machine -
(B) Ben Jonson Nineteen Eightyfour - Brave New World
(B) Nineteen Eightyfour - Decline and Fall -
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The Time Machine - Brave New World (A) The Caretaker, The Room, The
(C) Brave New World - The Time Machine - Homecoming, The Birthday Party
Nineteen Eightyfour - Decline and Fall (B) The Room, The Dumb Waiter, The
(D) The Time Machine - Decline and Fall - Birthday Party, The Caretaker
Brave New World - Nineteen Eightyfour (C) The Homecoming, The Caretaker, Old
Times, Betrayal
22. Roland Barthes is the author of one of (D) The Dumb Waiter, The Caretaker, No
the following texts : Man's Land, Betrayal
(A) The Death of Tragedy
(B) The Death of a Hero 30. Identify the odd character out:
(C) The Death of the Author (A) Bosola
(D) The Death of Literature (B) De Flores
(C) Iago
23. The author of the Elizabethan sonnet (D) Kent
sequence, Idea, is:
(A) Samuel Daniel 31. Select the matching pair:
(B) Michael Drayton (A) The Great Gatsby: Chicago
(C) Edmund Spenser (B) The Old Man and the Sea: Cuba
(D) Fulke Greville (C) For Whom the Bell Tolls: Italy
(D) The Sound and the Fury: Boston
24. Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean
Brodie is a rewriting of the Victorian novel: 32. 'The page is printed'. This is the last
(A) Jane Eyre line in a poem by:
(B) Villette (A) Sylvia Plath
(C) Wuthering Heights (B) Dylan Thomas
(D) North and South (C) Philip Larkin
(D) Ted Hughes
25. The Romantic Imagination is the title of
a book by: 33. T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland was first
(A) Harold Bloom published in:
(B) Graham Hough (A) The Criterion
(C) C. M. Bowra (B) The Dial
(D) M. H. Abrahms (C) The Yale Review
(D) New Yorker
26. 'Ode on the spring' was written by:
(A) Thomas Gray 34. 'Relationship' is a long poem by:
(B) John Keats (A) A. K. Ramanujan
(C) Abraham Cowley (B) R. Parthasarathy
(D) William Collins (C) Jayanta Mahapatra
(D) Kamala Das
27. Which of the following books was not
published in 1859? 35. The phrase, 'bottomless perdition'
(A) Darwin : The Origin of Species occurs in Milton's Paradise Lost in:
(B) George Eliot : Adam Bede (A) Book I
(C) Mill : On Liberty (B) Book IV
(D) Ruskin : Unto This Last (C) Book VI
(D) Book XII
28. Three Guineas is the title of a book by:
(A) E. M. Forster 36. Which of the following arrangements of
(B) Virginia Woolf American plays is in the correct
(C) George Orwell chronological sequence?
(D) G. B. Shaw (A) Mourning Becomes Electra - The Hairy
Ape - Death of a Salesman - A Streetcar
Named
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are : Desire
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(B) The Hairy Ape - Death of a Salesman - (A) Mr. Rochester - David Copperfield
Mourning Becomes Electra - A Streetcar Rosamond - Bathsheba
Named Desire (B) David Copperfield - Rosamond - Mr.
(C) A Streetcar Named Desire - The Hairy Rochester - Bathsheba
Ape - Mourning Becomes Electra - Death of a (C) Bathsheba - Mr. Rochester - David
Salesman Copperfield - Becky Sharp
(D) The Hairy Ape - Mourning Becomes (D) David Copperfield - Bathsheba - Mr.
Electra - A Streetcar Named Desire - Death Rochester - Rosamond
of a Salesman
42. The book, The Religion of Man is
37. Which of the following arrangements of written by:
famous characters is in the correct (A) Sri. Aurobindo
chronological order? (B) Rabindranath Tagore
(A) Vittoria Corombona - Beatrice - (C) A. K. Coomaraswamy
Christiana - Hermione (D) V. K. Gokak
(B) Beatrice - Hermione - Vittoria
Corombona - Christiana 43. In the poem 'Windhover' Hopkins uses:
(C) Hermione - Beatrice - Vittoria (A) Alternate Rhyme
Corombona - Christiana (B) Disyllabic Rhyme
(D) Beatrice - Vittoria Corombona - (C) Cross Rhyme
Hermione – Christiana (D) Split Rhyme
38. Which of the following is in correct 44. Which Dickens novel attacks the New
chronological sequence ? Poor Law of 1834 in the opening chapters?
(A) In Memoriam - 'Lycidas' - 'An Elegy (A) Great Expectations
Written on a Country Churchyard' - Adonais (B) Hard Times
(B) Adonais - In Memoriam - 'Lycidas' - 'An (C) Oliver Twist
Elegy Written on a Country Churchyard' (D) Dombey and Son
(C) 'An Elegy Written on a Country
Churchyard' - In Memoriam - Adonais 45. 'Throw away thy rod, throw away thy
'Lycidas' wrath, O my God, take the gentle path'
(D) 'Lycidas' - 'An Elegy Written on a These lines are taken from a poem by :
Country Churchyard' - Adonais - In (A) Herbert
Memoriam (B) Donne
(C) Crashaw
39. The Chartist Demonstration in London (D) Vaughan
involving the third presentation of Charter
took place in: 46. 'Epithalamium' is a :
(A) 1842 (A) song of mourning
(B) 1846 (B) song of eulogy
(C) 1848 (C) nuptial song
(D) 1851 (D) funeral song
40. 'Life, like a dome of many-coloured 47. The Gutenberg Bible was first published
glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, in:
Until Death tramples it into fragments' The (A) 1456
above lines occur in: (B) 1516
(A) „Dejection: An Ode' (C) 1449
(B) Adonais (D) 1498
(C) In Memoriam
(D) 'Thyrsis' 48. Identify the odd one out:
(A) Persuasion: Anne Tilney
41. Arrange the following characters in (B) Northanger Abbey : Catherine Price
chronological sequence : https://t.me/thelitbud
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(C) Emma : Jane Fairfax DECEMBER 2007
(D) Mansfield Park : Fanny Dean
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49. Which among the following is in the
correct chronological sequence? 1. The author of The Provok'd Husband was:
(A) Sexual Politics - Thinking About Women (A) Etherege
- The Second Sex - The Prisoner of Sex (B) Colley Cibber
(B) Thinking About Women - The Prisoner (C) Wycherley
of Sex - Sexual Politics - The Second Sex (D) Vanbrugh
(C) The Second Sex - Thinking About
Women - Sexual Politics - The Prisoner of 2. Who among the boys in Golding's Lord
Sex of the Flies is associated with Christ?
(D) The Prisoner of Sex - The Second Sex - (A) Piggy
Sexual Politics - Thinking About Women (B) Ralph
(C) Jack
50. Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan' remains 'a (D) Simon
fragment' because
(A) He was called by Wordsworth who was 3. The complete title of Laurance Stern's
living in Porlock at that time novel Tristram Shandy is:
(B) Dorothy Wordsworth was upset over (A)The Strange and Surprising Adventures of
their love affair Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
(C) He was interrupted by a caller, a person (B)A True Account of The Life of Tristram
on business from Porlock Shandy, Gentleman
(D) He ran out of his stock of opium (C)The Life and Opinions of Tristram
Shandy, Gentleman
(D)The Strange and Surprising Opinions of
Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
4. Feminine ending refers to :

(A) a stressed final syllable in a line of verse
(B) the ending of a poem in a stressed syllable
(C) the ending of a poem in an unstressed
syllable
(D) an unstressed final syllable in a line of
verse
5. The essay 'The Death of the Author' is

written by:
(A) Michel Foucault
(B) Jacques Derrida
(C) Roland Barthes
(D) Alvin Kernan
6. Salman Rushdie's Shame is set in :

(A) East Pakistan
(B) India and Pakistan
(C) Pakistan
(D) None of the above
7.Choose the correct chronological

sequence in :
(A) Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of the life of
Colonel Hutchinson - Milton's Paradise Lost
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- Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress - Dryden's The (D) The moment of release from the material
Hind and the Panther world
(B) Hutchinson's Memoirs - Bunyan's
Pilgrim's Progress - Dryden's Hind and the 14. In which of these plays does Edward
Panther- Milton's Paradise Lost Albee use the 'success' myth?
(C) Milton's Paradise Lost - Bunyan's (A) A Zoo Story
Pilgrim's Progress - Dryden's Hind and the (B) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Panther- Hutchinson's Memoirs (C) American Dream
(D) Dryden's Hind and the Panther - (D) The Death of Bessie Smith
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress Hutchinson's
Memoirs- Milton's Paradise Lost 15. “The voice of poetry comes from a
region above us, a plane of our being above
8. The Little Minister is a novel by: and beyond our personal intelligence”.
(A) John Galsworthy Who among the following is the author of
(B)H.G. Wells the above lines?
(C) James M. Barrie (A) Rabindranath Tagore
(D)Rudyard Kipling (B) A.K. Coomaraswamy
(C) Sri Aurobindo
9. Which Augustan writer's epitaph reads : (D) Sisir Kumar Ghose
“one who strove with all his might to
champion liberty” ? 16. The number of poems in Sidney's sonnet
(A) Alexander Pope sequence Astrophil and Stella is :
(B) Jonathan Swift (A) 99
(C) Henry Fielding (B) 47
(D) Daniel Defoe (C) 112
(D) 108
10. In which of the following novels
incidents relating to the declaration of 17. J.M. Coetzee's Foe is a postmodern
Emergency in India in 1975 figure? retelling of:
(A) Farrukh Dhondy's Bombay Duck (A) Ivanhoe
(B) Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy (B) Evelina
(C) Upamanyu Chatterjee's English August: (C) Robinson Crusoe
An Indian Story (D) The Moonstone
(D) Rohinton Mistry's Such Long Journey
18. Johnson's edition of Shakespeare
11. Identify the matching pair: appeared in :
(A) Edward II: Zenocrate (A) 1752
(C) The Spanish Tragedy: Horatio (B) 1765
(B) The Jew of Malta : Barabas (C)1791
(D)Tamburlaine : Gaveston (D) 1760
12. The future ruin of Troy and the murder 19.The main character in Gogol's Dead
of Agamemnon are referred to by W.B. Souls is :
Yeats in: (A) Oblomov
(A) The Second Coming (B) Bazarov
(B) Circus Animals Desertion (C) Alyosha
(C) When You Are Old (D) Chichikov
(D) Leda and Swan
20. After Shakespeare made his debut as a
13. Inscape refers to: London playwright, he was described as
(A) The indwelling presence of God in nature an'upstart crow‟ by:
(B) The universal character of a natural thing (A) Robert Greene
(C) The individuating character of a natural (B) Thomas Lodge
thing https://t.me/thelitbud
(C) Christopher Marlowe
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(D) John Lyly for describing:
(A) the moment of discovery by the
21. What was the first play of Mrs. Dalloway protagonist
called ? (B) the reversal of fortune for the protagonist
(A) Clarissa (C) the happy resolution of the plot
(B) Hours (D) the convergence of the main plot and the
(C) The Big Ben sub plot
(D)The Party
29. In which play by Shakespeare do we
22. Which of the following Caribbean find widowed queens questioning the
novels makes intertextual references to Jane assumptions of male politics?
Eyre? (A) Henry V
(A) No Telephone to Heaven (B) Richard III
(B) Wide Sargasso Sea (C)Anthony and Cleopatra
(C) Crick Crack Monkey (D) Hamlet
(D) Between Two Worlds
30.Which of the following feminist critics
23. The term 'metaphysical poets', was first used the expression 'Gynocriticism'for the
used by: first time ?
(A) Ben Jonson (A) Kate Millet
(B) Dr. Johnson (B) Simone de Beauvoir
(C) Helen Gardner (C) Elaine Showalter
(D) Dryden (D) Mary Ellmann
24. “Only connect” is the epigraph to a 31. John Keats's poem 'Ode to a
novel by: Nightingale' was composed in:
(A) George Orwell (A) 1818
(B) Joseph Conrad (B) 1819
(C) D.H. Lawrence (C) 1820
(D) E.M. Forster (D) 1821
25. The expression “Thy hand, great 32.The Female Quixote was written by :
Anarch” occurs in a satire by: (A) Henry Fielding
(A) Dryden (B)Tobias Smollett
(B) Pope (C) Charlotte Lennox
(C) Johnson (D) Aphra Behn
(D) Swift
33. Which contemporary British poet has
26. In which of the following novels by translated Beowulf?
Graham Greene does the little girl Brigitta (A) Thom Gunn
appear? (B) Alan Lewis
(A) The Heart of the Matter (C)Edward Thomas
(B) The Power and the Glory (D) Seamus Heaney
(C) Brighton Rock 34.'The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers' is :
(D) The Quiet American (A) a poem by William Blake an essay by
Charles Lamb
27.The author of 'A Satire Against Reason (B) an elegy by William Wordsworth
and Mankind' is : (C)an essay by Charles Lamb
(A)Rochester (D) an essay by William Hazlitt
(B)Dryden
(C)Gray 35.The Loneliness of a Long Distance
(D) Swift Runner is a novel by :
(A) Kingsley Amis
(B) Alan Sillitoe
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Aristotle
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(C) John Braine without knowing it”. Who among the
(D) John Osborne following made this statement?
(A) Frank Kermode
36. In 'Black Venus' Angela Carter takes (B) William Empson
elements from the poetry of a famous (C) C.S. Lewis
French poet and places them in a very (D) William Blake
different paradigm. Who is the French
poet? 43.Live Like Pigs is :
(A)Bundelaire (A) a humorous poem by Pope
(B)Mallarme (B) an allegorical narrative by Orwell
(C)Verlaine (C) a play by Arden
(D)Apollinaire (D) a satirical sketch by Swift
37.Strophe, antistrophe and epode form a 44. 'A woman drew her long black hair out
three-part structure in : tight And fiddled whisper music on those
(A) a classic ode strings'.
(B) a Greek chorus From which section of Eliot's The Waste
(C)a medieval ballad Land are the above lines taken?
(D) a Petrarchan sonnet (A) A Game of Chess
(B) What the Thunder Said
38. The words “where are the songs of (C) Burial of the Dead
spring? Ay, where are they ?” occur in : (D) Fire Sermon
(A) Ode to the West Wind
(B) The Seasons 45. Which is the correct sequence of
(C) Ode to Autumn Achebe's African Trilogy?
(D) Resolution and Independence (A) Things Fall Apart - Arrow of God - No Longer
At Ease
39.“Music that gentler on the spirit lies (B) No Longer At Ease - Arrow of God - Things
than tired eyelids upon tired eyes” the Fall Apart
above lines occur in Tennyson's : (C) Things Fall Apart - No Longer At Ease -
(A) Tears, Idle Tears Arrow of God
(B) In Memoriam (D) Arrow of God - Things Fall Apart - No
(C) Maud Longer At Ease
(D) The Lotus Eaters
46. Which are the figures of speech used in
40.Which of the following pairs is correctly the following lines by Blake?
matched ?
(A) Robert Southey: Lady of the Lake “Tyger, tyger, burning bright
(B) T.S. Eliot: Lake Isle of Innisfree In the forest of the night,
(C) A.C. Swinburne: The Lady of Shallott What immortal hand or eye
(D)Thomas De Quincey : Recollections of Could frame thy fearful symmetry ?”
the Lakes and the Lake Poets
(A) Simile and personification
41. Which famous English novel opens with (B) irony and synecdoche
a young woman who is 'handsome, clever (C) apostrophe and synecdoche
and rich‟? (D) metonymy and apostrophe
(A) Middlemarch
(B) Wuthering Heights 47. In which of the following American
(C) Moll Flanders novels does 'the Valley of Ashes' occur?
(D) Emma (A) Huck Finn
(B) The Red Badge of Courage
42. It appears that in Paradise Lost Book I (C) Invisible Man
“Milton belongs to the Devil's party (D) The Great Gatsby
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48. To whom is Chaucer referring when he
says 'He knew the tavern well in every
town‟? PAPER II
(A) Pardoner
(B) Monk 1. Tennyson's poem about women's rights
(C) Squire and women's sphere is:
(D) Friar (A) Maud
(B) In Memoriam
49. “Poetry is a criticism of life under the (C) Idylls of the King
conditions fixed for such a criticism by laws (D) The Princess
of poetic truth and poetic beauty”. Who,
among the following, made the above 2. 'Hymn To Adversity' is a poem by :
statement? (A) Thomas Gray
(A) Dr. Johnson (B) Edward Gibbon
(B) Sidney (C) Alexander Pope
(C) Matthew Arnold (D) William Blake
(D) Wordsworth
3.The King James Bible was published in :
50. “She is inspired but diabolically (A) 1609
inspired”. Who is this lady? (B) 1610
(A) Candida (C) 1611
(B) Major Barbara (D) 1612
(C) Saint Joan
(D) Ann 4.'IL Migilor Fabro' is the expression Eliot
used for:
(A) W. B. Yeats
(B) Samuel Beckett
(C) W. H. Auden
(D) Ezra Pound
5. 'The Figure a poem Makes' is an essay

by:
(A) Henry James
(B) Sylvia Plath
(C) Robert Frost
(D) Wallace Stevens
6. ''Ripeness is all" occurs in:

(A) King Lear
(B) Hamlet
(C) Macbeth
(D) Julius Caeser
7. A. C. Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy

was published in:
(A) 1903
(B) 1904
(C) 1905
(D) 1906
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8. 'Topsy' appears in: (C) Rhyming iambic hexameter
(A) Uncle Tom's Cabin (D) Unrhyming iambic hexameter
(B) History of the United States
(C) Walden 16. 'Gestalt' theory of literature considers
(D) Tom Sawyer text as:
(A) a structure of metaphors
9. A poem that captures the essence of a (B) a unified whole
moment in a simple image is: (C) an experimentation in form
(A) Lyric (D) construction of history
(B) Ballad
(C) Ode 17. Margaret Laurence is a novelist from :
(D) Haiku (A) Australia
(B) The U.S.A.
10. Which of the following Shakespearean (C) Canada
plays are in the correct chronological (D) Britain
sequence?
(A) The Merchant of Venice - Henry IV Part 18.Sartor Resartus is a text by :
I - Romeo and Juliet - Richard II (A) Ruskin
(B) Richard II - Henry IV Part I - Romeo and (B) Arnold
Juliet - The Merchant of Venice (C) Carlyle
(C) Henry IV Part I - Romeo and Juliet - The (D) Burke
Merchant of Venice - Richard II
(D) Romeo and Juliet -Richard II - Henry IV 19. Who of the following is not a university
Part I - The Merchant of Venice wit?
(A) Webster
11. The word 'nature' in the eighteenth (B) Robert Greene
century literature stands for: (C) Kyd
(A) Nature of writing (D) Marlowe
(B) External nature
(C) Human nature 20. Bosola is a character in a play by:
(D) The Universe (A) Ben Jonson
(B) Webster
12. Who is given credit for first using the (C) Christopher Marlowe
term "romantic"? (D) Thomas Middleton
(A) Friedrich Schlegel
(B) Kant 21. 'Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
(C) Coleridge But to be young was very heaven'. This
(D) Schiller occurs in a poem by :
(A) William Wordsworth
13. Gudrun is a character in a novel by: (B) S. T. Coleridge
(A) James Joyce (C) Byron
(B) Virginia Woolf (D) Shelley
(C) D. H. Lawrence
(D) E. M. Forster 22. A Dance of the Forest is written by:
(A) Margaret Atwood
14. July's People is a novel by: (B) Nadine Gordimer
(A) Margaret Atwood (C) Chinua Achebe
(B) V. S. Naipul (D) Wole Soyinka
(C) Wole Soyinka
(D) Nadine Gordimer
23. The first Canadian poet is:
15. Heroic Couplet is a pair of: (A) Charles Sangster
(A) Rhyming iambic pentameter lines (B) Oliver Goldsmith
(B) Unrhyming iambic pentameter lines (C) Charles Heavysege
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(D) Alexander Machlachlan (B) Heroes and Hero Worship - Walter Patar
(C) Sourab and Rustom - Matthew Arnold
24. Heroic quatrain is : (D) Ethics of the Dust- Macaulay
(A) a stanza in blank verse
(B) eight line stanza in iambic hexameter 32. The title of William Faulkner's The
(C) four line stanza in iambic pentameter Sound and Fury is derived from a play by:
(D) six line stanza in iambic pentameter (A) William Shakespeare
(B) Christopher Marlow
25. 'Bildungsroman' translated literally (C) John Webster
means: (D) Ben Jonson
(A) Development novel
(B) Psychological novel 33. The new humanism school of
(C) Autobiographical novel philosophy and literary criticism was
(D) Campus novel popular in America during:
(A)1920-1940
26.A book that faithfully renders a young (B) 1910-1930
man's confused images of love and rejection (C)1930-1940
is : (D)1900-1910
(A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man
(B) Lucky Jim 34.Internal rhyme is :
(C) Daisy Miller (A) the basic rhythmic structure of a poem
(D) The brave New World (B) rhyming of two words in alternative lines
(C) rhyming of two or more words in the
27. Victorian Age witnessed a clash same line of poetry
between: (D) all the lines of a poem ending with the
(A) faith and reason same line pattern
(B) tradition and modernity
(C) oriental and occidental civilization 35. The macabre element in drama was
(D) romanticism and neo romanticism introduced by :
(A) John Lyly
28. "For gold in Physique is (B) Marlow
Cordial/Therefore, he loved gold in (C) Ben Jonson
special" relates to Chaucer''s (D) John Webster
(A) Friar
(B) Monk 36. The line "I am no Prince Hamlet nor
(C) Doctor was meant to be......." appears in T. S.
(D) Pardoner Eliot's
29. The historical novel began in; (A) Gerontion

(A) Restoration Period (B) The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
(B) Augustan Age (C) Four Quartets
(C) Victorian Period (D) The Waste-Land
(D) Romantic Period
37. 'Fancy' deals with:
30. The term 'Campus novel' is associated (A) Fixities and definities
with: (B) Imagination and Reason
(A) Graham Green (C) Judgement and Memory
(B) Kingsley Amis (D) Structure and Superstructure
(C) Margaret Drabble
(D) William Golding 38. Swift's Modest proposal is written in
the form of a :
31. Which of the following author-book (A) Project in political economy Social Satire
pair is correctly matched? (B) Political allegory
(A) Hard Times - George Eliot (C) Social Satire
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(D) Old-Testament history (B) School for Scandal
(C) St. Patrick's Day
39. The main idea of Pope's The Dunciad (D) A Trip to Scarborough
was taken from :
(A) Absalom and Achitophel 47. Anti-sentimental comedy is a criticism
(B) Mac-Flecknoe of:
(C) The Medal (A) loss of moral purpose
(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (B) excess of emotion
(C) excess of reason
40. Which of the following is not a (D) loss of human feelings
Browning's work ?
(A) Dramatic Lyrics Men and Women 48. Which of the following novel-novelist
(B) Dramatic Personae pair is correctly matched?
(C) Men and Women (A) Bhabani Bhattacharya - All About H.
(D) The Palace of Art Hatter
(B) Nayantara Sahgal - Cry, the Peacock
41. The most obvious feature of Johnson's (C) Bhagwandas Gidwani - A Bend in the
The Lines of the Poets is the equipoise Ganges
between: (D) Arun Joshi - The Appreutice
(A) Language and form
(B) Style and content 49. The Indian English poet who addressed
(C) Biography and criticism the question 'of time' in his poetry is :
(D) Myth and archetype (A) Nissim Ezeikel
(B) R. Parthsarathy
42. "The Kelson of creation is love". The (C) A.K. Ramanujan
line occurs in Walt Whitman‟s: (D) Gieve Patel
(A) Paumonak
(B) Passage to India 50. Symbolist movement was influenced by
(C) O Captain, My Captain :
(D) Song of Myself (A) Poetic theory of Edgar Allan Poe
(B) Stephane Mallarme's Poetry
43. With whom was Dr. Johnson intimately (C) Prose of Emerson
associated in his personal life ? (D) Ezra Pound's Cantos
(A) Boswell
(B) Dryden
(C) Alexander Pope
(D) Lord Bolingbroke
44. The early religious drama is associated

with :
(A) Superstitions and beliefs
(B) Mysteries and histories
(C) Interludes and mysteries
(D) Miracles and morality
45. The Tale of Two Cities has :

(A) a sentimental buffoon with a moral
purpose
(B) a courageous lady in pain
(C) an optimist on verge of collapse
(D) a romantic hero with a weakness
46. Sheridan's first play was:

(A) The Rivals https://t.me/thelitbud
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DECEMBER 2008 (C) John Ruskin
(D) G. K. Chesterton
PAPER II
9. The confessions of an English Opium
1. The Victorian period refers to the reign Eater was written by:
of Queen Victoria of England during: (A) William Hazlitt
(A) 1830 - 1890 (B) S. T. Coleridge
(B) 1837 - 1905 (C) Landor
(C) 1837 - 1901 (D) De Quincey
(D) 1850 – 1910
10. Ireland emerges as the most important
2. The Rambler appeared every : metaphor in:
(A) Tuesday and Saturday (A) Seamus Heaney
(B) Sunday and Wednesday (B) Elizabeth Jennigs
(C) Friday and Monday (C) Arnold Wesker
(D) Thursday and Monday (D) Edward Albee
3. "Tottel's Miscellany” contained: 11. Which of the following Shakespearean

(A) 30 sonnets plays is in the correct chronological order?
(C) 50 sonnets (A) King Lear, Hamlet, Much Ado..., Troilus
(B) 40 sonnets and Cressida
(D) 60 sonnets (B) Much Ado..., Hamlet, King Lear, Troilus
and Cressida
4.'Imagism' is associated with: (C) Troilus and Cressida, King Lear, Hamlet,
(A) T. S. Fliot Much Ado...
(C) E. E. Cummings (D) Hamlet, Much Ado..., King Lear, Troilus
(B) D. H. Lawrence and Cressida
(D) T. E. Hulme
12. The major contribution of the
5. The title Things Fall Apart is drawn from Restoration period is in the field of:
a poem by: (A) Philosophical writings
(A) W. B. Yeats (B) Poetry
(B) Ted Hughes (C) Drama
(C) W. H. Auden (D) Letters
(D) Robert Lowell
13. The correct chronological order of the
6. 'Formal Criticism' relates to the structure following poets is:
of : (A) Byron, Shelley, Keats, Walter Scott
(A) Literary devices (B) Shelley, Walter Scott, Keats, Byron
(B) Myths (C) Keats, Byron, Walter Scott, Shelley
(C) Content (D) Walter Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats
(D) Form
14. Where Angels Fear to Tread is a novel by:
7. A 'Foot' in prosody is a basic unit of : (A) Virginia Woolf
(A) rhyme (B) E. M. Forster
(B) length (C) D. H. Lawrence
(C) rhythmic measurement (D) James Joyce
(D) height
15. The plays of Edward Albee deal with:
8. Who of the following is known for (A) problems of middle-class
aphoristic prose style? (B) hypocracy of aristocracy
(A) William Hazlitt (C) mechanizations of politics
(B) Francis Bacon (D) simplicity of lower-class
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16. Heptameter consists of: 24. Larry slate is a character in:
(A) five metrical feet (A) Desire Under the Elms
(B) six metrical feet (B) The Emperor Jones
(C) seven metrical feet (C) The Iceman Cometh
(D) eight metrical feet (D) Hairy Ape
17. In formalistic school of criticism art is: 25. 'Iambus' is a metrical foot consisting of:
(A) entertainment (A) two syllables
(B) preaching (B) three syllables
(C) matter (C) four syllables
(D) style (D) one syllable
18. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance 26. The lines ''Not that he wished is
Runner is a novel by : greatness to create / For politicians neither
(A) Alan Sillitoe love nor hate,'' occur in :
(B) Paul Scott (A) The Rape of the Lock
(C) Peter Porter (B) Abslam and Achitophel
(D) Muriel Spark (C) Mac Flecknoe
(D) Essay on man
19. 'Rugby Chapel' is a poem by Matthew
Arnold in the memory of his: 27. 11,396 definitions of romanticism were
(A) mother given by :
(B) brother (A) Friedrich Schlegel
(C) father (B) Victor Hugo
(D) sister (C) Edger Allan Poe
(D) F. L. Lucas
20. The earliest woman novelist of
significance in the 18th century is: 28. The term 'a stream of consciousness' is
(A)Mary Edgeworth derived from the writing of:
(B) Aphra Behn (A) Mary Sinclair
(C) Mary Russell (B) Dorothy Richardson
(D) Mrs Gaskell (C) William James
(D) Gertrude Stein
21. 'Cut is the branch that might have
grown full straight' is a line that occurs in: 29. Sean O' Casey's Juno and the Paycock is:
(A) Dr Faustus (A) a romantic comedy
(B) Hamlet (B) a historical tragedy
(C) Macbeth (C) a mythical reconstruction
(D) The Spanish Tragedy (D) a tragi-comedy
22. Pope's 'Essay on Man' can best be read 30. The 'Reader-Response Theory' implies
as a poem of: that:
(A) classical understanding of nature (A) there is no one correct meaning of the
(B) anti-romantic view of life text
(C) sociological estimate of man (B) the readers of an age construct the
(D) philosophical apprehension of life meaning
(C) beliefs determine meaning
23. The term 'Victorian' evokes the (D) a style is the hallmark of the text
attitudes of:
(A) philistinism 31. Which of the following author-book
(B) moral earnestness pair is correctly matched ?
(C) licentiousness (A) Walter Pater - Unto This Last
(D) transcendentalism (B) Browning - The Ring and the Book
(C) M. Arnold - Idylls of the King
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(D) Thackray - Bleak House (C) sending of Mr Fainall to prison
(D) reconciliation of Petulant Whitwood
32. 'Myth Criticism' focuses on:
(A) a study of myths and mythology 40. On seeing whom does Miranda exclaim,
(B) archetypes of spiritual experience "O, father, surely that is a spirit. Lord!
(C) recurrence of archetypal patterns How it looks about ?"
(D) the confluence of different traditions (A) Caliban
(B) Ferdinand
33. The phrase disassociation of sensibility (C) Alonso
was first used by: (D) Stephano
(A) Philip Sydney
(B) T. S. Eliot 41. Secular influences on the early English
(C) John Dryden drama were :
(D) Mathew Arnold (A) political squabbles, religious sermons and
social customs
34. An Idyll is usually a poem about a : (B) rural politicking, hypocracy of the elite
(A) picturesque city life and falsity of aristocracy
(B) panoramic view of nature (C) village festivals, folk plays and minstrels
(C) picture of industrial society (D) middle-class life, moral beliefs and
(D) picturesque country life uprising of the subaltans
35. 'The Lost Generation' refers to the 42. John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress
generation that came to maturity in the : was written while he was:
(A) 1920s (A) in prison
(B) 1930s (B) on a pilgrimage
(C) 1910s (C) on a social mission
(D) 1940s (D) in a church
36. The French Revolution had a significant 43. In Juvenalian satire the speaker is:
impact on: (A) a political orator
(A) Victorian Literature (B) a propagandist
(B) Romantic Literature (C) a social revolutionary
(C) Neo-classic Literature (D) a serious moralist
(D) Modern Literature
44. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice most
37. In which poem does the following line clearly shows the influence of :
appear ? ''Our birth is but a sleep and (A) Fielding Smollett
aforgetting.'' : (B) Richardson
(A) "Michael" (C) Smollett
(B) "Immortality Ode" (D) Sterne
(C) "Rejection : An Ode"
(D) "Tintern Abbey"
45.The most important of the 'evolutionists'
38. Tale of a Tub is about: during the Victorian period was :
(A) Warring political factions (A) Erasmus Darwin
(B) Struggling lower-class people (B) Robert Chambers
(C) Controversial philosophical documents (C) Charles Darwin
(D)Contending religious parties (D) Alfred Russell Wallace
39. Congreve's The way of the world ends 46. A philosophical attitude pervading
with: much of modern literature is:
(A) a dance party (A) Absurdism
(B) punishment of Lady Wishfort (B) Dadaism
(C) Imagism
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(D) Surrealism JUNE 2009
47. The term 'magic realism' was first
introduced by: PAPER II
(A) Hannah Arendt
(B) Franz Roh 1. In a 1817 review of Coleridge's
(C) Jean Arp Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey coined
(D) Peter Behrens the term 'Lake School of Poets' grouping...
48. The Indian English novelist who, for (A)Wordsworth, Coleridge and Crabbe
the first time, addressed the question of (B) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron
language and indigenous experience was: (C) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Hazlitt
(A) Mulk Raj Anand (D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey
(B) R K Narayan
(C) Arun Joshi 2.'I am the enemy you killed, my friend/I
(D) Raja Rao knew you in this dark...' The above lines
are taken from...
49. G. V. Desani's All About H. Hatterr is (A) "The Soldier"
written in the : (B) "Dulce et Decorum Est"
(A) stream-of- consciousness mode (C) "To His Dead Body"
(B) first person narrative mode (D) "Strange Meeting"
(C) picaresque mode
(D) naturalistic mode 3. Below are two sets of texts one of which
has inspired the other. Match the text with
50. The rhyme scheme of the Shakespearean its inspiration:
sonnet is : (i) Coral Island
(A) abab, cdcd, efef, gg (ii) The Odyssey
(B) abba, cddc, effe, gg (iii) The Mahabharat
(C) abab, cdcd, efef, gh (iv) Jane Eyre
(D) aabb, ccdd, eeff, gg (v) The Great Indian Novel
(vi) Wide Sargasso Sea
(vii) Omeroos
(viii) Lord of the Flies
(A) (i) - (v), (ii) - (vii), (iii) - (viii), (iv) - (vi)

(B) (iv) - (vii), (iii) – (vi), (i) - (viii), (ii) - (v)
(C) (iii) - (v), (iv) - (vi), (i) - (vii), (ii) - (viii)
(D) (i) - (viii), (ii) - (vii), (iii) - (v), (iv) - (vi)
4. "His life was gentle and the elements

So mixed in him, that Nature might stand
up
And say to all the world, 'This was a man
!'"
Who is the speaker, and about whom is this
spoken?
(A) Enobarbus on Antony
(B) Brutus on Caesar
(C) Cleopatra on Antony
(D) Marc Antony on Caesar
5. "When my love swears that she is made

of truth/I do believe her, though I know she
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lies". The author of these lines is... (iv) The Oriental people used the West
(A) Philip Sidney oppositionally to define their self-image as
(B) Edmund Spenser rational and modern.
(D) William Shakespeare (A) (iii)
(B) (iv)
6. The poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge (C) (i) and (iv)
was notably influenced by... (D) (ii) and (iii)
(A) The Napoleonic Wars
(B) The Glorious Revolution 12. Assertion (AST) : Literary and historical
(C) The French Revolution periodization often has nothing to do with the
(D) Poor Laws lifetime of writers. Thus we see two writers
born in the same year belonging to two
7. "Great wits are sure to madness near separate periods.
allied And thin partitions do their bounds Reasoning/ (R): Thomas Carlyle and John
divide". The above lines appear in... Keats were born in 1795. In standard literary
(A) Mac Flecknoe histories,
(B) Absalom and Achitophel Example: Keats is a Romantic and Carlyle, a
(C) Essay on man Victorian.
(D) Alexander's Feast (A) (AST) and (R) are correct
(B) (AST) is correct; (R) is incorrect
8. Who among the following developed the (C) (AST) and (R) are incorrect
term “strategic essentialism”? (D) (R) does not follow from (AST)
(A) Edward Said
(B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 13. Everyman is...
(C) Homi Bhabha (A) a medieval play based on an episode from
(D) Aijaz Ahmed the Bible
(B) a medieval morality play
9. David Malouf's An Imaginary Life is a (C) a Tudor interlude
retelling of the story of: (D) a miracle play
(A) Aristotle
(B) Juvenal 14. Which of the following sets would you
(C) Ovid call the poets of the Movement ?
(D) Horace (A) Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, John
Wain
10. Jabberwocky is a character in.... (B) W.H. Auden, Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen
(A) The Importance of Being Earnest Spender
(B) Fra Lippo Lippi (C) T.S. Eliot, Richard Aldington, Ezra
(C) Through the Looking Glass Pound
(D) Goblin Market (D) Alan Brownjohn, C.H. Sisson, Anthony
Thwaite
11. Which of the following statements is the
most accurate regarding Edward Said's 15.Doris Lessing's interest in __________ is
thesis in Orientalism ? widely recognized :
(A) Hinduism
(i) The Europeans used the East dialectically (B) Sufism
to describe their self-image as irrational and (C)Zen
primitive. (D)Judaism
(ii) The Oriental people used the West
dialectically to define their self-image as 16. Periphrasis, which is a roundabout way
irrational and primitive. of speech/writing, is also known as...
(iii) The Europeans used the East (A) synecdoche
oppositionally to define their self-image as (B) allusion
rational and modern. (C) understatement
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(D) circumlocution (B) Disability sports
(C) Whiteness and the literary imagination
17. Arrange the following in chronological (D) Black American folklore
order...
(I) The death of Shakespeare 23. "He's not the brightest man in the
(ii) Accession of James I to the English world" is an example of:
throne (A) Chiasmus
(iii) Caxton and the printing press (B) Hyperbole
(iv) The Norman Conquest of England (C) Litotes
(D) Simile
(A) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(B) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i) 24. The term 'horizon of expectations' is
(C) (iii) (iv) (I) (ii) associated with...
(D) (iv) (iii) (I) (ii) (A) Wolfgang Iser
(B) Stanley Fish
18. “The Muse of History” is a classic (C) Harold Bloom
postcolonial essay by: (D) H.R. Jauss
(A) Ngugi wa Thiongo
(B) Chinua Achebe 25. The following writers have something
(C) Wilson Harris in common: What is it?
(D) Derek Walcott
Mary Seacole J.A. Froude
19. "Do I contradict myself ? Very well Mary Kingsley Anthony Trollope
then, I contradict myself, (I am large, I
contain multitudes.)" The above lines are (I) They are all victorians
from... (ii) They are all writers of children's fiction
(A) Walt Whitman (iii) They are all members of one literary
(B) Edgar Allan Poe guild
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson (iv) They are all travel writers
(D) John Greenleaf Whittier
(A) (i) and (ii)
20. Verses on the Death of Dr Swift was (B) (iii) and (iv)
written by... (C) ii) and (iv)
(A) Jonathan Swift (D) (i) and (iv)
(B) Alexander Pope
(C) Samuel Johnson 26. The immediate source of Christopher
(D) James Boswell Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is...
(A) A French narrative
21. Match the following elegies with the (B) A Dutch narrative
persons for whom they were writte (C) A German narrative
(D) None of the above
(i) Lycidas (ii)Arthur Hugh Clough
(iii)Adonais (iv) A.H. Hallam
(v) In Memoriam (vi) Edward King 27. Who among the following were
(vii) Thyrsis (viii) Keats associated with the Irish Dramatic
Movement ?
(A) (i) - (vi); (iii) - (iv); (vii) - (ii); (v) - (vi) (A) Lady Gregory, W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge
(B) (iii) - (viii); (i) - (iv); (iii) - (ii);(v) - (ii) (B) Jonathan Swift, R.B. Sheridan, G.B.
(C) (i) - (vi); (iii) - (viii); (v) - (iv); (vii) - (ii) Shaw
(D) (v) - (vi); (i) - (viii); (iii) - (ii); (vii) – (iv) (C) W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, G.B. Shaw
(D) W.B. Yeats, Patrick J. Kavanagh,
22. Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison is Seamus Heaney
a series of reflections on:
(A) Jazz music https://t.me/thelitbud
28. The term diaspora was originally
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applied to the following ethnic group: (C) eighteenth century
(A) Jews (D) nineteenth century
(B) Muslims
(C) Hindus 35. What is common to the following
(D) French Canadians poems?
Wordsworth's 'The Recluse'
29. Who among the following is NOT a Shelley's 'The Triumph of Life'
'University Wit' ? Byron's 'Don Juan'
(A) Christopher Marlowe Keats' 'Hyperion'
(B) George Peele
(C) Robert Greene (A) They are all elegies
(D) Ben Jonson (B) They are all unfinished poems
(C) They are all divided into cantos
30. When a person has a wooden leg, we (D) They are women-centred poems
are apt to say, 'He has a wooden leg'. Now
this wooden leg is... 36. Who among the following called the
(i) literal novel 'the bright book of life' ?
(ii) metaphorical (A) D.H. Lawrence
(iii) ambiguous (B) James Joyce
(iv) neither literal nor metaphorical (C) Virginia Woolf
(D) Aldous Huxley
(A) (i) and (ii) are correct
(B) (i) is correct 37. "Ripeness is all'' is a line from...
(C) (ii) is correct (A) Hamlet
(D) (iii) and (iv) are correct (B) King Lear
(C) Othello
31. Prosody studies: (D) Macbeth
(A) Line endings
(B) Meanings of words 38. U.R. Ananthamurthy's Samskara was
(C) Patterns of prose translated by...
(D) Metrics (A) Himself
(B) Girish Karnad
32. Which of the following is a major (C) H.S. Shivaprakash
Jacobean play? (D) A.K. Ramanujan
(A) Everyman
(B) Gorboduc
(C) Romeo and Juliet
(D) The Duchess of Malfi 39. Abel Whittle is a character in:
(A) The Return of the Native
(B) The Mayor of Casterbridge
33. Understanding Poetry used to be a (C) Far from the Madding Crowd
classic textbook that encapsulates the (D) Tess of the D'Urbervilles
principles of ...
(A) New Historicism 40. In which eclogue of The Shepheardes
(B) New Aristotelianism Calender does Spenser praise Queen
(C) New Criticism Elizabeth I?
(D) The New Left (A)January
(B) April
34. What century is variously called The (C) August
Age of Enlightenment, The Age of (D)November
Sensibility, The Augustan Age and The Age
of Prose and Reason? 41. Which of the following is NOT the
(A) sixteenth century opening of the well-known Romantic
(B) seventeenth century https://t.me/thelitbud
poem?
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(A) My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness at the question makes it clear that the term
pains/ My sense has not been around forever. In the European
(B) Hail to thee, blithe spirit! languages, the word literature in its current
(C) Margaret are you grieving/Over Golden sense is quite recent: it dates back just barely
grove unleaving? to the nineteenth century. Might we be
(D) The world is too much with us dealing with a historical phenomenon rather
than an 'eternal' one? Moreover, many
42.Politics and the English Language is an languages (many African languages, for
essay by : example) have no generic term covering all
(A) F.R. Leavis literary productions. To these initial
(B) Terry Eagleton observations we may add the fragmentation
(C) George Orwell characteristic of literature today. Who dares
(D) Raymond Williams specify what literature is and what is not,
given the irreducible variety of the writing
43. 'The mind-forged manacles' is phrase that tends to be attached to it, from vastly
from: different perspectives?
(A) „„London‟‟
(B) ''Eternity'' The argument is not conclusive: a notion
(C) "A Poison Tree" may legitimately exist even if there is no
(D) "I Asked a Thief" specific term in the lexicon for it. But we have
been led to cast the first shadow of doubt over
44. "He is not fully recognized at home; he the 'naturalness' of literature. A theoretical
is not recognized at all abroad. Yet I firmly examination of the problem proves no more
believe that the poetical performance of reassuring. Where do we come by the
__________ is, after that of Shakespeare and conviction that there is indeed such a thing as
Milton, undoubtedly most considerable in literature? From experience, we study
our language." To whom does Matthew 'literary' works in school, then in college; we
Arnold refer in the above statement ? find the 'literary' type of book in specialized
(A) Edmund Spenser stores; we are in the habit of referring to
(B) John Keats 'literary' authors in everyday conversation.
(C) William Wordsworth An entity called 'literature' functions at the
(D) S.T. Coleridge level of intersubjective and social relations;
this much seems beyond question. Fine. But
45. The Globe Theatre opened in: what have we proved? That in the broader
(A) 1585 system of a given society or culture, an
(B) 1593 identifiable element exists that is known by
(C) 1599 the label literature. Have we thereby
(D) 1603 demonstrated that all the particular products
that take on the function of 'literature' possess
Read the following passage carefully, and common characteristics, which we can
select the right answers from the identify with legitimac? Not at all.
alternatives given below in the questions 46
to 50: 46. This passage casts doubt on:
(A) the assumption called literature.
We need to begin by casting doubt on the (B) the idea of literature.
legitimacy of the notion of literature. The (C) the institution of literature.
mere fact that the word exists, or that an (D) the notion of literature.
academic institution has been built around it,
does not mean that the thing itself is self- 47. Literature is unsustainable because:...
evident. Reasons perfectly empirical ones, (A) we are unclear as to what it means.
to begin with are not hard to find. The full (B) we are unsure as to its message.
history of the word literature and its (C) we are not persuaded that the claims
equivalents in all languages and all eras has made for it are allowable and acceptable.
yet to be written, but even a perfunctory look
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existence of literature is hardly self-evident?
(i) by citing reasons for its non-existence. 1. A classical influence on Ben Jonson's
(ii) by citing reasons for interrogating its Volpone is
legitimacy. (A) Juvenal
(iii) by citing reasons and proving by (B) Aristophanes
argument that its legitimacy can be (C) Plautus
interrogated. (D) Terence
(iv) by citing reasons to show that the label
does not match the thing we know to be 2. Kipling's "The White Man's Burden" is
literature. addressed to
(A) The American imperial mission in the
(A) (i) Philippines.
(B) (i) and (ii) (B) The Belgian colonial expansion in the
(C) (iii) Congo.
(D) (iii) and (iv) (C) The British Imperial presence in Nigeria.
(D) The British colonial entry into
49. "Might we be dealing with a historical Afghanistan.
phenomenon rather than an 'eternal' one"?
What makes this a reasonable question to 3. Poetry : A Magazine of Verse was
consider in this context? founded by Harriet Monroe in
(A) A historical phenomenon lends itself to (A) 1922
better empirical verification than an 'eternal' (B) 1920
one. (C) 1918
(B) A historical phenomenon has more (D) 1912
legitimacy than an 'eternal' one.
(C) A historical phenomenon can be debated 4. Who among the following was Geoffrey
and possibly settled while an 'eternal' one Chaucer's contemporary?
must be taken on trust or not at all. (A) Thomas Chatterton
(D) historical phenomenon is well above (B) John Gower
disputation while an 'eternal' one is not. (C) Thomas Shadwell
(D) John Gay
50.What does 'the fragmentation
characteristic of literature today' suggest to 5. Which of the following is NOT written
the writer ? by Walter Scott?
(A) the fragmentation of modern (A) Ivanhoe
consciousness. (B) Lady of the Lake
(B) the divided perceptions of literature by its (C) Heart of Midlothian
readers. (D) The English Mail Coach
(C) the lack of specificity of literature.
(D) the blur that frustrates further 6. "Provincializing Europe" is a concept
investigation into this concept. propounded by
(A) Edward Said
(B) Paul Gilroy
(C) Abdul R. Gurnah
(D) Dipesh Chakravarty
7. The earliest tract on feminism is

(A) Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
(B) Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own
(C) Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of
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the Rights of Woman (B) Charles Kingsley
(D) Mary Astell's A Serious Proposal to the (C) J.S. Mill
Ladies (D) Cardinal Newman
8. Match the imaginary location with its 15. The 'Condition of England' literature
creator: refers to
1. Emily Bronte 2. Thomas Hardy (A) The literature written by the labour class.
3. Lowood Parsonage 4. Charles Dickens (B) The literature of England extolling living
5. Wessex 6. Egdon Heath conditions.
7. Coketown 8. Charlotte Bronte (C) The literature of England depicting the
vulnerability of labour classes.
(A) 1-7 2-5 4-6 3-8 (D) The literature of England depicting the
(B) 1-6 2-5 3-8 4-7 imperial projects abroad.
(C) 1-5 2-6 3-8 4-7
(D) 2-5 1-7 3-4 6-8 16. Philip Sidney wrote An Apology for
Poetry in immediate response to
9. Which Chaucerian text parodies Dante's (A) Plato's Republic
The Divine Comedy? (B) Aristotle's Poetics
(A) The Canterbury Tales (C) Stephen Gosson's The School of Abuse
(B) The Book of the Duchess (D) Jeremy Collier's Immorality and
(C) The House of Fame Profaneness of the English Stage.
(D) Legend of Good Women
17. Silence! The Court is in Session is a
10. Essays of Elia was published in _________ play translated into English.
(A) 1800 (A) Gujarati
(B) 1823 (B) Bengali
(C) 1827 (C) Marathi
(D) 1850 (D) Kannada
11. Which of the following is an example of 18. Arrange the following in ascending
homosexual fiction? order in terms of size:
(A) The Well of Loneliness 1. epic 2. epigram 3. stanza 4. Sonnet
(B) Maurice
(C) Orlando (A) 1 2 3 4
(D) The Ballad of the Reading Gaol (B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 2 3 4 1
12. W.B. Yeat's "Easter 1916" is (D) 1 3 4 2
(A) a response to a major political uprising
(B) a reminiscence of his visit to a nursery 19. "Fail I alone in words and deeds?
school /Why, all men strive and who succeeds?"
(C) a love poem for Maud Gonne These lines are from
(D) an ode to his native country (A) "Rabbi Ben Ezra"
(B) "Fra Lippo Lippi"
13. William Empson's Seven Types of (C) "Caliban upon Setebos"
Ambiguity is (D) "The Last Ride Together"
(A) A structuralist study of narrative
(B) A piece of psychoanalytic criticism
(C) A study of the media 20. Dr. Johnson's "The Vanity of Human
(D) An analysis of poetic ambivalence Wishes" expresses
(A) Epicureanism
(B) Humanism
14. Who among the following is associated (C) Stoicism
with the ideology of Utilitarianism? (D) Cynicism
(A) J.A. Froude https://t.me/thelitbud
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21. "A trivial comedy for serious people" (B) Mark Beard
was the subtitle for (C) Isaac McCaslih
(A) Everyman in His Humour (D) Charles Beard
(B) Blythe Spirit
(C) The Way of the World 28. "The Lost Generation" is a name
(D) The Importance of Being Earnest. applied to the disillusioned intellectuals and
aesthetes of the years following the First
22. Which famous elegy closes with the World War. Who called them "The Lost
following lines? Generation"?
"In the deserts of the heart/Let the healing (A) H.L. Mencken
fountain start,/In the prison of his days,/ (B) Willa Cather
Teach the free man how to praise." (C) Jack London
(A) In Memoriam (D) Gertrude Stein
(B) Thyrsis
(C) "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" 29. Hyperbole is
(D) "Verses on the Death of T.S. Eliot" 1. an extravagant exaggeration
2. a racist slur
23. The Temple is a collection of poems by 3. a metrical skill
(A) Thomas Carew 4. a figure of speech
(B) Robert Herrick
(C) George Herbert (A) 1 is correct
(D) Richard Crashaw (B) 1 and 4 are correct
(C) 1 and 3 are correct
24. Ben Jonson's comedies are (D) 3 is correct
(A) Volpone, Bartholomew Fair, The
Shoemaker's Holiday 30. "Imagined Communities" is a concept
(B) Volpone, The Alchemist, Epicoene propounded by
(C) Volpone, The Alchemist, The Knight of (A) Benedict Anderson
the Burning Pestle (B) Homi Bhabha
(D) Volpone, Epicoene, The Shoemaker's (C) Aijaz Ahmed
Holiday (D) Partha Chatterjee
25. What is 'L' Allegro's' companion piece 31. The New Historicists include
called? (A) Greenblatt, Showalter, Montrose
(A) Lamia (B) Greenblatt, Sinfield, Butler
(B) Hyperion (C) Greenblatt, Montrose, Goldberg
(C) Il Penseroso (D) Williams, Greenblatt, Belsey
(D) Thyrsis
32. Wallace Stevens' "The Man with the
26. Match the character with the novel : Blue Guitar" may be linked to the work of
1. Caddy 2. Lennie the following artist:
3. Jake Barnes 4. Tommy Wilhelm (A) Modigliani
5. The Sound and the Fury 6. Of Mice and (B) Chagall
Men (C) Picasso
7. The Sun Also Rises 8. Seize the Day (D) Cezanne
Codes :
(A) 1-5 2-6 3-7 4-8 33. The author of Gender Trouble is
(B) 2-7 1-8 3-5 4-6 (A) Elaine Showalter
(C) 3-5 4-6 2-8 1-7 (B) Helene Cixous
(D) 4-5 3-8 2-7 1-8 (C) Michele Barrett
(D) Judith Butler
27. Who among the following writers
belonged to the American Beat Movement? 34. The structural analysis of signs was
(A) Allen Ginsberg https://t.me/thelitbud
practised by
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(A) Michel Foucault 2. An Englishman has no beliefs.
(B) Jacques Lacan 3. And, therefore, there is no question of his
(C) Julia Kristeva heresy.
(D) Roland Barthes 4. And, therefore, there cannot be any
question of his acting his beliefs.
35. Which of the following is a spoof of a
Gothic novel? (A) 1 and 4 are correct
(A) Frankenstein (B) 2 and 1 are correct
(B) Northanger Abbey (C) 1 and 3 are correct
(C) Castle of Otranto (D) 2 and 4 are correct
(D) Mysteries of Udolfo
40. Which of the following is an essentially
36. The "madwoman in the attic" is a Freudian concept?
specific reference to (A) Archetype
(A) The narrator of "Goblin Market" (B) The Uncanny
(B) Augusta Egg's 1858 narrative painting (C) The Absurd
(C) The Heroine of The Yellow Wallpaper (D) The Imaginary
(D) Bertha Mason of Jane Eyre
41. He wrote an essay called "Conrad's
37. Assertion (A): Dr Johnson's The Lives Darkness" where he praises the earlier
of the Poets carries writer for offering him a vision of the
critical and biographical world's "half-made societies'. Identify the
studies of poets he writer.
admired. It does not, (A) Chinua Achebe
however, carry a life of (B) V.S. Naipaul
William Wordsworth. (C) Salman Rushdie
Reason (R): Dr. Johnson singled out (D) Ngugi wa Thiongo
poets whom he not only
admired but also 42. "Magic Realism" is closely associated
adored. This explains with
his omission of (A) Italo Calvino
Wordsworth. (B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(C) Anita Desai
(A) (A) is true (D) Rohinton Mistry
(B) (B) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(C) (C) (A) and (R) are true. 43. Who among the following combines
(D) (D) Neither (A) nor (R) is true. anthropology, history and fiction?
(A) Kamala Markandya
38. What is the correct chronological (B) Mulk Raj Anand
sequence of the following? (C) Upmanyu Chatterjee
(A) Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph Andrews, (D) Amitav Ghosh
Tristram Shandy
(B) Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy, Pamela, 44. Which of the following is NOT a
Moll Flanders Partition novel?
(C) Tristram Shandy, Moll Flanders, Pamela, (A) Train to Pakistan
Joseph Andrews (B) Sunlight on a Broken Column
(D) Pamela, Moll Flanders, Joseph Andrews, (C) The Shadow Lines
Tristram Shandy (D) In Custody
39. "How can what an Englishman believes 45. Which of the following options is
be heresy? It is a contradiction in terms." correct?
This means
1. An Englishman does not know what (i) Transcendentalism was a philosophical
heresy is. and literary movement.
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(ii) It flourished in the Southern States of discourse: whenever we speak we have to
America in the 19th century. choose between different systems of meaning,
(iii) It was a reaction against 18th century different sets of values. This process allows us
rationalism and the skeptical philosophy of to show how language is implicated in our
Locke. construction of different 'selves': different
(iv) Among the major texts of discourses position us in different ways in
Transcendentalist thought are the essays of relation to the world.
Emerson,Thoreau's Walden and the writings
of Margaret Fuller. Questions:
(A) (i) and (iv) are correct. 46. Which of the following is True in the
(B) (ii) and (iii) are correct. light of this passage?
(C) (iii) and (iv) are correct. (A) Language is inaccurate.
(D) (iv) is correct (B) Discourse is accurate.
(C) Language comprises discourse.
Read the following passage carefully, and (D) Discourse comprises language.
select the right answers from the
alternatives given below in the question 46 47. What words/phrases suggest the
to 50: plurality of discourse in this passage?
I. different selves
It would be more accurate to say that II. range
discourse, rather than language, plays a III. system of statements
crucial part in structuring our experience. The IV. heterogeneous collection
whole idea of 'language' is something of a
fiction: what we normally refer to as (A) II and IV
'language' can more realistically be seen as (B) II and III
heterogeneous collection of discourses. Each (C) III and IV
of us has access to a range of discourses, and (D) I
it is these different discourses which give us
access to, or enable us to perform, different 48. Having called language "something of a
'selves'. A discourse can be conceptualized as fiction", how does the author suggest its
a 'system of statements which cohere around opposite?
common meanings and values'. So, for By using the phrase
example, in contemporary Britain there are (A) conceptualized as a system
discourses which can be labeled 'conservative' (B) more accurate to say
– that is, discourses which emphasize values (C) range of discourses
and meanings where the status quo is (D) more realistically be seen
cherished: and there are discourses which can
be labeled 'patriarchal' – that is, discourses 49. Which among the following statements
which emphasize meanings and values which is NOT true?
assume the superiority of males. Dominant (A) Conservative discourses plead for the
discourses such as these appear 'natural': they status quo.
are powerful precisely because they are able (B) Patriarchal discourses privilege male
to make invisible the fact that they are just values.
one among many different discourses. (C) Dominant discourses are natural.
(D) Dominant discourses seem natural.
Theorizing language in this way is still new in
linguistics (to the extent that many linguists 50. What does this passage plead for?
would not regard analysis in terms of (A) Theorizing language in a new way.
discourses as being part of linguistics). One of (B) Theorizing language in terms of
the advantages of talking about discourses discourses.
rather than about language is that the (C) Studying language as discourse.
concept' discourse' acknowledges the value- (D) Studying discourse as language
laden nature of language. There is https://t.me/thelitbud
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PAPER II written by Margaret Atwood ?
(A) Surfacing
1. The epithet "a comic epic in prose" is (B) The Blind Assassin
best applied to (C) The Handmaid's Tale
(A) Richardson's Pamela (D) The Stone Angel
(B) Sterne's A Sentimental Journey
(C) Fielding's Tom Jones 9. The term 'theatre of cruelty' was coined
(D) Defoe's Robinson Crusoe by
(A) Robert Brustein
2. Muriel Spark has written a dystopian (B) Antonin Artaud
novel called (C) Augusto Boal
(A) Memento Mori (D) Luigi Pirandello
(B) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
(C) Robinson 10. The verse form of Byron's Childe
(D) The Ballad of Peckham Rye Harold was influenced by
(A) Milton
3. Samuel Butler's Erewhon is an example of (B) Spenser
(A) Feminist Literature (C) Shakespeare
(B) Utopian Literature (D) Pope
(C) War Literature
(D) Famine Literature 11. Tennyson's Ulysses is
(I) a poem expressing the need for going
4. The line "moments of unageing intellect" forward and braving the struggles of life
occurs in Yeats's (II) a dramatic monologue
(A) Byzantium (III) a morbid poem
(B) Among School Children (IV) a poem making extensive use of satire
(C) Sailing to Byzantium The right combination for the above
(D) The Circus Animals' Desertion statement, according to the code, is
5. In his 1817 review of Coleridge's (A) I & IV

Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey (B) II and III
grouped the following poets together as the (C) III and IV
'Lake School of Poets‟: (D) I and II
(A) Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge
(B) Wordsworth, Byron and Coleridge 12. Which post-war British poet was
(C) Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge involved in a disastrous marriage with
(D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey Sylvia Plath ?
(A) Philip Larkin
6. Which of the following novels is not by (B) Ted Hughes
Patrick White? (C) Stevie Smith
(A) The Vivisector (D) Geoffrey Hill
(B) The Tree of Man
(C) Voss 13. Chaucer's Parliament of Fowles is in
(D) Oscar and Lucienda part
(I) a puzzle
7. The famous line ".. Where ignorant (II) a debate
armies clash by night" is taken from a poem (III) a threnody
by (IV) a beast fable
(A) Wilfred Owen
(B) W.H. Auden The correct combination for the above
(C) Siegfried Sassoon statement, according to the code, is
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(A) I, II & IV
(B) II, III & IV 21. Sethe is a character in
(C) I & IV (A) The Colour Purple
(D) II & IV (B) The Women of Brewster Place
(C) Beloved
14. Who among the following wrote a book (D) Lucy
with the title The Age of Reason?
(A) William Godwin 22. Imagined Communities is a book by
(B) Edmund Burke (A) Aijaz Ahmad
(C) Thomas Paine (B) Edward Said
(D) Edward Gibbon (C) Perry Anderson
(D) Benedict Anderson
15. The Restoration comedy has been
criticized mainly for its 23. Who among the following is a Cavalier
(A) excessive wit and humour poet ?
(B) bitter satire and cynicism (A) Henry Vaughan
(C) indecency and permissiveness (B) Richard Crashaw
(D) superficial reflection of society (C) John Suckling
(D) Anne Finch
16. Ideology and Ideological State
Apparatuses is an essay by 24. Which play of Wilde has the subtitle, A
(A) Terry Eagleton Trivial Comedy for Serious People?
(B) Karl Marx (A) A Woman of No Importance
(C) Raymond Williams (B) Lady Windermere's Fan
(D) Louis Althusser (C) The Importance of Being Earnest
(D) An Ideal Husband
17. Sexual possessiveness is a theme of
Shakespeare's 25. Which of the following plays is not
(A) Coriolanus written by Wole Soyinka ?
(B) Julius Caesar (A) The Lion and the Jewel
(C) Henry IV Part – I (B) The Dance of the Forests
(D) A Midsummer Night's Dream (C) Master Harold and the Boys
(D) Kongi's Harvest
18. The term 'Cultural Materialism' is
associated with 26. Which of the following plays by
(A) Stephen Greenblatt William Wycherley is in part an adaptation
(B) Raymond Williams of Moliere's The Misanthrope?
(C) Matthew Arnold (A) The Plain Dealer
(D) Richard Hoggart (B) The Country Wife
(C) Love in a Wood
19. Which of the following author book (D) The Gentleman Dancing Master
pair is correctly matched?
(A) Muriel Spark – Under the Net 27. 'Inversion' is the change in the word
(B) William Golding – Girls of Slender order for creating rhetorical effect, e.g. this
Means book I like. Another term for inversion is
(C) Angus Wilson – Lucky Jim (A) Hypallage
(D) Doris Lessing – The Grass is Singing (B) Hubris
(C) Haiku
20. Who among the following is a Canadian (D) Hyperbaton
critic?
(A) I.A. Richards 28. The phrase 'the willing suspension of
(B) F.R. Leavis disbelief ' occurs in
(C) Cleanth Brooks (A) Biographia Literaria
(D) Northrop Frye (B) Preface to Lyrical Ballads
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(C) In Defence of Poetry 36. The Court of Chancery is a setting in
(D) Poetics Dickens'
(A) Little Dorrit
29. The religious movement Methodism in (B) Hard Times
the 18th century England was founded by (C) Dombey and Son
(A) John Tillotson (D) Bleak House
(B) Bishop Butler
(C) Bernard Mandeville 37. Which romantic poet coined the famous
(D) John Welsey phrase 'spots of time‟?
(A) John Keats
30. My First Acquaintance with Poets, an (B) William Wordsworth
unforgettable account of meeting with (C) S.T. Coleridge
literary heroes, is written by (D) Lord Byron
(A) Charles Lamb
(B) Thomas de Quincey 38. The statement 'I think, therefore, I am'
(C) Leigh Hunt is by
(D) William Hazlitt (A) Schopenhauer
(B) Plato
31. The figure of the Warrior Virgin in (C) Descartes
Spenser's Faerie Queene is represented by (D) Sartre
the character
(A) Britomart 39. Verse that has no set theme – no regular
(B) Gloriana meter, rhyme or stanzaic pattern is
(C) Cynthia (I) open form
(D) Duessa (II) flexible form
(III) free verse
32. The book Speech Acts is written by (IV) blank verse
(A) John Austin
(B) John Searle The correct combination for the statement,
(C) Jacques Derrida according to the code, is
(D) Ferdinand de Saussure (A) I, II and III are correct
(B) III and IV are correct
33. Which among the following is not a (C) II, III and IV are correct
sonnet sequence? (D) I and III are correct
(A) Philip Sydney – Astrophel and Stella
(B) Samuel Daniel – Delia 40. Which is the correct sequence of
(C) Derek Walcott – Omeroos publication of Pinter's plays?
(D) D.G. Rossetti – The House of Life (A) The Room, One for the Road, No Man's
Land, The Homecoming
34. 'Incunabula' refers to (B) The Homecoming, No Man's Land, The
(A) books censured by the Roman Emperor Room, One for the Road
(B) books published before the year 1501 (C) The Room, The Homecoming, No Man's
(C) books containing an account of myths Land, One for the Road
and rituals (D) One for the Road, The Room, The
(D) books wrongly attributed toan author Homecoming, No Man's Land
35. The most notable achievement in 41. Johnson's Dictionary of the English
Jacobean prose was Language was published in the year
(A) Bacon's Essays (A) 1710
(B) King James' translation of the Bible (B) 1755
(C) Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy (C) 1739
(D) None of the above (D) 1759
42. The literary prize, Booker of Bookers,
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was awarded to 49. Some of the Jacobean playwrights were
(A) J.M. Coetzee prolific. One of them claimed to have
(B) Nadine Gordimer written 200 plays. The playwright is
(C) Martin Amis (A) John Ford
(D) Salman Rushdie (B) Thomas Dekker
(C) Philip Massinger
43. In Keats „poetic career, the most (D) Thomas Heywood
productive year was
(A) 1816 50. The concept of "Star-equilibrium" in
(B) 1817 connection with man-woman relationship
(C) 1820 appears in
(D) 1819 (A) Women in Love
(B) Maurice
44. Pope's The Rape of the Lock was (C) Mrs. Dalloway
published in 1712 in (D) The Old Wives' Tales
(A) three cantos
(B) four cantos
(C) five cantos
(D) two cantos
45. Stephen Dedalus is a fictional character

associated with
I. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
II. Sons and Lovers
III. Ulysses
IV. The Heart of Darkness
The correct combination for the above

statement according to the code is
(A) I & II
(B) I, II & III
(C) III & IV
(D) I & III
46. In Moby Dick Captain Ahab falls for his

(A) ignorance
(B) pride
(C) courage
(D) drunkenness
47. The first complete printed English Bible

was produced by
(A) William Tyndale
(B) William Caxton
(C) Miles Coverdale
(D) Roger Ascham
48. Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Mary Barton

is sub-titled
(A) The Two Nations
(B) A Tale of Manchester Life
(C) A Story of Provincial Life
(D) The Factory Girl
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DECEMBER 2010 8. Which among the following poems by
Philip Larkin records his impressions while
travelling to London by train?
PAPER II (A) "Aubade"
(B) "Church Going"
1. Jeremy Collier's A Short View of the (C) "The Whitsun Wedding"
Immorality and Profaneness of the English (D) "An Arundel Tomb"
Stage attacked among others.
(A) John Bunyan 9. The English satirist who used the sharp
(B) Thomas Rhymer edge of praise to attack his victims was
(C) William Congreve (A) Ben Jonson
(D) Henry Fielding (B) John Donne
(C) John Dryden
2. The Crystal Palace, a key exhibit of the (D) Samuel Butler
Great Exhibition, was designed by
(A) Charles Darwin 10. One of the most famous movements of
(B) Edward Moxon direct address to the reader – "Reader, I
(C) Joseph Paxton married him" – occurs in
(D) Richard Owen (A) Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
(B) Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
3. Influence of the Indian Philosophy is (C) Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy
seen in the writings of (D) George Eliot's Middlemarch
(A) G.B. Shaw
(B) Noel Coward 11. Langland's Piers Plowman is a satire on
(C) Tom Stoppard (A) aristocracy
(D) T.S. Eliot (B) chivalry
(C) peasantry
4. In which of his voyages, Gulliver (D) clergy
discovered mountain-like beings?
(A) The land of the Lilliputians 12. Which of the following thinker concept
(B) The land of the Brobdingnagians pair is correctly matched?
(C) The land of the Laputans (A) I.A. Richards – Archetypal
(D) The land of the Houyhnhnms Criticism
(B) Christopher Frye – Mysticism
5. Patrick White's Voss is a novel about (C) Jacques Derrida – Deconstruction
(A) the sea (D) Terry Eagleton – Psychological
(B) the capital market Criticism
(C) the landscape
(D) the judicial system 13. Sexual jealousy is a theme in
Shakespeare's
6. Although Nobel Laureate Seamus (A) The Merchant of Venice
Heaney writes in English, in voice and (B) The Tempest
subject matter, his poems are (C) Othello
(A) Welsh (D) King Lear
(B) Scottish
(C) Irish 14. The title, The New Criticism, published
(D) Polish in 1941, was written by
(A) Cleanth Brooks
7. To whom is Mary Shelley's famous work (B) John Crowe Ransom
Frankenstein dedicated? (C) Robert Penn Warren
(A) Lord Byron (D) Allan Tate
(B) Claire Clairmont
(C) William Godwin 15. Which of the following is not a Revenge
(D) P.B. Shelley https://t.me/thelitbud
Tragedy?
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(A) The White Devil (C) Satanic Verses
(B) The Duchess of Malfi (D) Grimus
(C) Doctor Faustus
(D) The Spanish Tragedy 21. "There is nothing outside the text" is a
key statement emanating from
16. Who of the following playwrights (A) Feminism
rejects the Aristotelian concept of tragic (B) New Historicism
play as imitation of reality? (C) Deconstruction
(A) G.B. Shaw (D) Structuralism
(B) Arthur Miller
(C) Bertolt Brecht 22. The Augustan Age is called so because
(D) John Galsworthy (A) King Augustus ruled over England during
this period
17. The label 'Diasporic Writer' can be (B) The English writers imitated the Roman
applied to writers during this period
I. Meena Alexander (C) The English King was born in the month
II. Arundhati Roy of August
III. Kiran Desai (D) This was an age of sensibility
IV. Shashi Deshpande
23. One of the important texts of Angry
The correct combination for the statement, Young Man Movement is
according to the code, is (A) Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
(A) I and IV are correct. (B) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(B) II and III are correct. by James Joyce
(C) I, II and IV are correct. (C) Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
(D) I and III are correct. (D) The French Lieutenant's Woman by John
Fowles
18. The letter 'A' in The Scarlet Letter
stands for 24. Whom does Alexander Pope satirise in
I. Adultery the portrait of Sporus?
II. Able (A) Lady Wortley Montague
III. Angel (B) Joseph Addison
IV. Appetite (C) Lord Shaftsbury
(D) Lord Harvey
The correct combination for the statement,
according to the code, is 25. The hero of Marlowe's Tamburlaine
(A) I and II are correct. was born as a
(B) II and III are correct. (A) carpenter
(C) I, II and IV are correct. (B) goldsmith
(D) I, II and III are correct. (C) shepherd
(D) fisherman
19. A monosyllabic rhyme on the final
stressed syllable of two lines of verse is 26. In a letter to his brother George in
called September 1819, John Keats had this to say
(A) monorhyme about a fellow romantic poet: "He describes
(B) feminine rhyme what he sees – I describe what I imagine –
(C) masculine rhyme Mine is the hardest task." The poet under
(D) eye rhyme reference is
(A) Wordsworth
20. A fatwa was issued in Salman Rushdie's (B) Coleridge
name following the publication of: (C) Byron
(A) Midnight's Children (D) Southey
(B) Shame
27. A sequence of repeated consonantal
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sounds in a stretch of language is 35. Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species
(A) alliteration was published in the year
(B) acrostic (A) 1859
(C) assent (B) 1879
(D) syllable (C) 1845
(D) 1866
28. Reformation was predominantly a
movement in 36. Who of the following is the author of
(A) politics Juno and the Paycock ?
(B) literature (A) Lady Gregory
(C) religion (B) W.B. Yeats
(D) education (C) Oscar Wilde
(D) Sean O'Casey
29. The motto "only connect" is taken from
(A) Joseph Conrad's Nostromo 37. The title of William Faulkner's The
(B) Rudyard Kipling's Kim Sound and the Fury is taken from a play by
(C) H.G. Wells' The History of Mr. Polly (A) Christopher Marlowe
(D) E.M. Forster's Howards End (B) William Shakespeare
(C) Ben Jonson
30. English Iambic Pentameter was brought (D) John Webster
to its first maturity in
(A) sonnet 38. "Silverman has never read Browning."
(B) dramatic verse This is an example of
(C) lyric (A) chiasmus
(D) elegy (B) conceit
(C) zeugma
31. Who among the following was not a (D) metonymy
member of the Bloomsbury Group ?
(A) Lytton Strachey 39. The term 'Intentional Fallacy' is first
(B) Clive Bell used by
(C) E.M. Forster (A) William Empson
(D) Winston Churchill (B) Northrop Frye
(C) Wellek and Warren
32. The concept of human mind as tabula (D) Wimsatt and Beardsley
rasa or blank tablet was propounded by
(A) Bishop Berkley 40. "Recessional: A Victorian Ode",
(B) David Hume Kipling's well-known poem,
(C) Francis Bacon I. laments the end of an Era
(D) John Locke II. marks a new commitment to scientific
knowledge
33. The terms 'resonance' and 'wonder' are III.expresses the sincerity of his religious
associated with devotion
(A) Stephen Greenblatt IV. was occasioned by Queen Victoria's 1897
(B) Terence Hawkes Jubilee Celebration
(C) Terry Eagleton
(D) Ronald Barthes The correct combination for the statement,
according to the code, is
34. The rhetorical pattern used by Chaucer (A) I, II and III are correct.
in The Prologue to Canterbury Tales is (B) III and IV are correct.
(A) ten-syllabic line (C) I and IV are correct.
(B) eight-syllabic line (D) I, III and IV are correct.
(C) rhyme royal
(D) ottava rima 41. Who among the following is not a
Restoration playwright?
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(A) William Congreve (D) Moll Flanders
(B) William Wycherley
(C) Ben Jonson 48. The arrival of printing in fifteenth
(D) George Etherege century England was engineered by
(A) Sir Thomas Malory
42. Which famous Romantic poem begins (B) John Gower
with the line: 'Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! / (C) John Barbour
Bird thou never wert”? (D) William Caxton
(A) "Ode to a Nightingale"
(B) "To the Cuckoo" 49. About which nineteenth century English
(C) "To a Skylark" writer was it said that "He had succeeded as
(D) "To the Daisy" a writer not by conforming to the Spirit of
the Age, but in opposition to it”?
43. Who among the following Victorian (A) Lord Byron on Coleridge
poets disliked his middle name? (B) Coleridge on Keats
(A) Arthur Hugh Clough (C) Hazlitt on Lamb
(B) Dante Gabriel Rossetti (D) De Quincey on Crabbe
(C) Gerard Manley Hopkins
(D) Algernon Charles Swinburne 50. The Restoration comedy, The Double
Dealer was written by
44. Aston is a character in Pinter‟s (A) John Dryden
(A) The Birthday Party (B) William Wycherley
(B) The Caretaker (C) William Congreve
(C) The Dumb Waiter (D) George Etherege
(D) The Homecoming
45. Byron's English Bards and Scottish

Reviewers is about
I. the survey of English poetry
II. evangelism in English poetry
III. contemporary literary scene
IV. the early English travelers

(A) III and IV are correct.

(B) II, III and IV are correct.
(C) I and II are correct.
(D) I and III are correct.
46. Which Eliotian character utters the

question – "Do I eat a peach" ?
(A) Marina
(B) Prufrock
(C) Sweeney
(D) Stetson
47. Which among the following works by

Daniel Defoe landed him in prison and the
pillory?
(A) The True-Born Englishman
(B) Captain Singleton
(C) The Shortest Way with Dissenters
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JUNE 2011 (II) Nadine Gordimer (2) New Zealand
(III) Margaret Atwood (3) Australia
(IV) Keri Hulme (4) South Africa
PAPER II Code :
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
1. Little Nell is a character in Dickens‟s (A) (2) (1) (4) (3)
(A) Hard Times (B) (4) (3) (2) (1)
(B) Great Expectations (C) (3) (4) (1) (2)
(C) Oliver Twist (D) (3) (2) (4) (1)
(D) The Old Curiosity Shop
8. A Shakespearean sonnet has the
2. Who, among the following Indian following rhyme scheme :
writers in English, has created an (A) ABBA, ABBA, CDCDCD
identifiable imagined locale? (B) ABAB, BCBC, CD CD EE
(A) Mulk Raj Anand (C) ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG
(B) Raja Rao (D) ABBA, ABBA, CDCD, EE
(C) R.K. Narayan
(D) Anita Desai 9. "The future of poetry is immense,
because in poetry…. our race, as time goes
3. Who among the following is not a on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." –
formalist critic? This claim for poetry is made in
(A) Allen Tate (A) Arnold's "The Study of Poetry"
(B) Cleanth Brooks (B) Shelley's "A Defence ofPoetry"
(C) Stanley Fish (C) Sidney's "An Apology forPoetry"
(D) William Empson (D) Eliot's of Poetry and Poets
4. The rhyme scheme of the Spenserian 10. Which of the following is not about a
sonnet is dystopia?
(A) abab bcbc cdcd ee (A) George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
(B) abab cdcd efef gg (B) Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
(C) abba cddc effe gg (C) William Golding's Lord of the Flies
(D) abba abba cde cde (D) R.M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island
5. Who among the following Marlovian 11. Who among the following is not
characters is consumed by greed ? associated with the translation of the Bible?
(A) Barabas (A) Miles Coverdale
(B) Tamburlaine (B) William Tyndale
(C) Doctor Faustus (C) John Wycliffe
(D) Mephistopheles (D) Thomas Browne
6. The plan of Arthurian stories has 12. Arrange the following stages in a
influenced the composition of Tennyson‟s sequence in which all Shakespearean
(A) In Memoriam tragedies are structured. Use the code given
(B) Idylls below:
(C) "Maud" I. Denouement
(D) "Locksley Hall" II. Conflict
III. Exposition
7. There are two lists given below. Match IV. Climax
the authors in List – I with their nationality
in List – II by choosing the right option Code :
against the code. (A) III, II, IV, I
List – I (Author) List – II (B) III, IV, II, I
(Nationality) (C) II, IV, III, I
(I) Patrick White (1) Canada (D) II, IV, I, III
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(D) The African Savannah
13. The term, 'curtal sonnet', was coined by
(A) John Milton 20. Hamlet, lying wounded, says to his
(B) William Blake friend, "Horatio, I am dead." This is an
(C) Gerald Manley Hopkins example of
(D) Matthew Arnold (A) protasis
(B) anacrusis
14. The author of the pamphlet Short View (C) prolepsis
of Immorality and Profaneness of the (D) pun
English Stage (1698) was
(A) John Bunyan 21. The Castle of Otranto is an example of
(B) Jeremy Collier (A) Gothic fiction
(C) William Wycherley (B) Romance
(D) John Vanbrugh (C) Comic fiction
(D) Bildungsroman
15. Identify a play in the following list that
is not written by Oscar Wilde: 22. "The City of Dreadful Night", a long
(A) A Woman of No Importance poem depicting the late Victorian sense of
(B) The Importance of Being Earnest gloom and despondency, is written by
(C) Saints and Sinners (A) Matthew Arnold
(D) An Ideal Husband (B) Robert Browning
(C) James Thomson
16. Put the following novels by Charles (D) John Davidson
Dickens in a sequential order with the help
of the code: 23. Which of the following novels by V.S.
1. Great Expectations Naipaul is set in Africa and carries echoes
2. Hard Times of Joseph Conrad?
3. Bleak House (A) The Mystic Masseur
4. A Tale of Two Cities (B) A Bend in the River
(C) A House for Mr. Biswas
Code : (D) The Mimic Men
(A) 3, 2, 4, 1
(B) 2, 4, 3, 1 24. In The Rape of the Lock, Belinda's lapdog
(C) 1, 2, 4, 3 is named
(D) 4, 2, 1, 3 (A) Luck
(B) Shock
17. Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy was (C) Pluck
influenced by (D) Muck
(A) Seneca
(B) Tertullian 25. You Can't Do Both is a novel by
(C) Virgil (A) John Fowles
(D) Plautus (B) Doris Lessing
(C) Kingsley Amis
18. In its final published version, Eliot's (D) Irish Murdoch
The Waste Land contains a total of
(A) 334 lines 26. The character, Nathan Zuckerman, is
(B) 433 lines associated with the fiction of
(C) 373 lines (A) Norman Mailer
(D) 423 lines (B) Saul Bellow
(C) Philip Roth
19. Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea is set in (D) Bernard Malamud
(A) The Congo region
(B) The Niger Delta 27. Plato censured poetry because he
(C) The Caribbean https://t.me/thelitbud
believed it
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(A) eliminates the ego. (B) P.B. Shelley
(B) promotes sensuality. (C) Jonathan Swift
(C) distorts reality. (D) G.B. Shaw
(D) cripples the imagination.
35. Which of the following arrangements of
28. Which of the following Tennyson English novels is in the correct
poems is a dramatic monologue? chronological sequence?
(A) In Memoriam (A) Kim, A Passage to India, Sons and
(B) "The Charge of the Light Brigade" Lovers, Brave New World
(C) "Crossing the Bar" (B) Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India,
(D) "Tithonus" Kim, Brave New World
(C) Kim, Sons and Lovers, A Passage to
29. The character Giovanni features in one India, Brave New World
of the following texts: (D) Brave New World, Kim, Sons and
(A) John Cleland's Fanny Hill : Memoirs of a Lovers, A Passage to India
Woman of Pleasure
(B) John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore' 36. "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift" is
(C) John Braine's Room at the Top written by
(D) John Evelyn's Diaries (A) Alexander Pope
(B) Samuel Johnson
30. Which of the following poems features (C) John Gay
the phrase, "the still, sad music of (D) Jonathan Swift
humanity" ?
(A) "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from 37. Widowers' Houses was written by
Recollections of Early Childhood" (A) Oscar Wilde
(B) "Michael : A Pastoral Poem" (B) T.S. Eliot
(C) "The Solitary Reaper" (C) John Galsworthy
(D) "Tintern Abbey" (D) G.B. Shaw
31. Molly Bloom is a character in James 38. Who among the following Marxist
Joyce's critics has reconsidered the classic problem
(A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man of 'base and superstructure" in relation to
(B) Dubliners literature?
(C) Ulysses (A) Edmund Wilson
(D) Exiles (B) Raymond Williams
(C) Lucien Goldmann
32. Eliot uses the term "objective (D) Walter Benjamin
correlative" in his essay.
(A) "The Metaphysical Poets" 39. "Heteroglossia" refers to
(B) "Hamlet" (A) the multiple readings of a text.
(C) "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (B) the juxtaposition of multiple voices in a
(D) "Dante" text.
(C) the comments on the margins of a text.
33. Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel (D) the gloss or commentary relating to a
Prize for literature in the year text.
(A) 1995
(B) 1996 40. Margaret Drabble is the author of
(C) 1997 (A) The Memoirs of a Survivor
(D) 1998 (B) The Witch of Exmoor
(C) The Service of Clouds
34. The pamphlet on the Irish condition, (D) The Godless in Eden
"An Address to the Irish People" was
composed by 41. MacFlecknoe is an attack on Dryden's
(A) W.B. Yeats https://t.me/thelitbud
literary rival,
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(A) Richard Flecknoe (D) The Towers of Silence
(B) Thomas Shadwell
(C) John Wilmot 49. "England, my England" is a poem by
(D) Matthew Prior (A) W.E. Henley
(B) A.E. Housman
42. Eighteenth century writers used satire (C) R.L. Stevenson
frequently for (D) Rudyard Kipling
(A) attacking human vices and follies.
(B) inciting the reading public. 50. Shelley was expelled from the Oxford
(C) glorifying the culture of the upper classes. University due to the publication of
(D) pleasing their women readers. (A) The Revolt of Islam
(B) The Necessity of Atheism
43. Byron's "The Vision of Judgement" is a (C) The Triumph of Life
satire directed against (D) The Masque of Anarchy
(A) Charles Lamb
(B) John Keats
(C) Henry Hallam
(D) Robert Southey
44. Tom Paine's The Rights of Man was

published in
(A) 1790
(B) 1791
(C) 1792
(D) 1793
45. Andrew Marvell's "An Horatian Ode

upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" was
written in
(A) 1647
(B) 1649
(C) 1650
(D) 1648
46. "The Rime of Ancient Mariner" is

about
(A) a perilous adventure in the sea
(B) the accidental killing of an octopus
(C) the curse of a sea God
(D) the guilt and expiation of the Ancient
Mariner
47. "To Daffodils" is a poem, written by

(A) Robert Herrick
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) John Keats
(D) P.B. Shelley
48. Which of the following novels

reconstructs the historical events of the
Indian Mutiny ?
(A) The Jewel in the Crown
(B) The Siege of Krishnapur
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DECEMBER 2011 Reason (R): They are called so, because
Dickens adulates in these novels the careers
and adventures of criminals.
PAPER II (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
correct explanation.
1. Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not
Scenery is written by the correct explanation.
(A) William Wordsworth (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(B) Robert Southey (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(C) John Clare
(D) Thomas Gray 7. Who among the following writers does
not belong to the group, the University
2. Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms is Wits?
divided into (A) John Lyly
(A) two books (B) Thomas Nashe
(B) three books (C) George Peele
(C) four books (D) Thomas Kyd
(D) five books
8. Which of the following characters of
3. "Panopticism" is the title of a chapter in Webster's The White Devil utters the
a well-known book by memorable words:
(A) Roman Jakobson Oft gay and honour'd robes those tortures
(B) Jacques Lacan try:
(C) Michel Foucault We think cag'd birds sing, when indeed
(D) Jacques Derrida they cry.
(A) Vittoria Corombona
4. The lines, (B) Bracciano
"She was a worthy woman al hir lyve: (C) The Cardinal
Housbondes at cherche dore she hadde (D) Flamineo
five",
are an example of 9. "All great literature is, at bottom, a
(A) blank verse criticism of life" – this statement is
(B) clerihew attributed to
(C) heroic couplet (A) Thomas Carlyle
(D) free verse (B) Matthew Arnold
(C) J.S. Mill
5. Who, among the following women (D) John Ruskin
writers, famously imagined the plight of
Shakespeare's sister? 10. Who amongst the following is not a
(A) George Eliot Jewish-American novelist?
(B) Virginia Woolf (A) J.D. Salinger
(C) Irish Murdoch (B) Henry Greene
(D) Frances Burney (C) William Faulkner
(D) Philip Roth
6. Read the following statement and the 11. Which among the following plays by
reason given for it. Choose the right Christopher Marlowe has epic features?
response. (A) Doctor Faustus
(B) Edward II
Assertion (A): Dickens's novels are called (C) Hero and Leander
'Newgate Novels'. (D) Tamburlaine
12. Sir Fopling is a character in

(A) Wycherley's The Plain Dealer
(B) Congreve's The Way of theWorld
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(C) Etherege's The Man of Mode 19. The Booker Prize is awarded by a panel
(D) Davenant's The Platonick Lovers of judges to the best novel by a citizen of
(A) the United Kingdom
13. Who famously said, "Three or four (B) the British Commonwealth or the
families in a Country Village is the very Republic of Ireland
thing to work on”? (C) the United Kingdom or the British
(A) Clara Reeve Commonwealth
(B) Maria Edgeworth (D) the United Kingdom or the British
(C) Frances Burney Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland
(D) Jane Austen
20. A 'curtal sonnet' consists of
14. Ikemefuna is a character in the novel (A) 11 lines
(A) When Rain Clouds Gather (B) 12 lines
(B) The Mimic Men (C) 13 lines
(C) Things Fall Apart (D) 14 lines
(D) The Interpreters
21. The Unfortunate Traveller has been
15. A foot consisting of a strong syllable authored by
followed by a weak syllable is called (A) Robert Greene
(A) Trochee (B) Thomas Deloney
(B) Iambic (C) Thomas Nashe
(C) Spondee (D) Thomas Lodge
(D) Terza Rima
22. Who, among the following, is not a
16. What is it that Chaucer focuses on in practitioner of Jacobean tragedy?
the depiction of the Wife of Bath in (A) George Villiers
The Canterbury Tales ? (B) John Marston
(A) Meekness (C) John Webster
(B) Defiance (D) Thomas Middleton
(C) Chastity
(D) Experience 23. The author of Nation and Narration is
(A) Edward Said
17. Put the following books of Pope in a (B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
sequence of publication. Answer the (C) Frantz Fanon
question with the help of the Code given (D) Homi Bhabha
below:
(i) The Dunciad 24. Which of the following novels has a
(ii) The Rape of the Lock great impact on the formal experimentation
(iii) An Essay on Man in contemporary fiction?
(iv) An Essay on Criticism (A) Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate
Traveller
Code: (B) Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
(A) (ii), (iii), (i), (iv) (C) Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy
(B) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) (D) Samuel Richardson's Pamela
(C) (iv), (ii), (i), (iii) 25. The phrase 'Only Connect' is associated
(D) (ii), (i), (iv), (iii) with
(A) D. H. Lawrence
18. Dinah Morris is a character in George (B) James Joyce
Eliot's novel (C) E. M. Forster
(A) Middlemarch (D) Virginia Woolf
(B) Silas Marner
(C) Daniel Deronda 26. Which of the following books is by
(D) Adam Bede Margaret Atwood?
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(A) The Stone Angel II.John Gay 2.The Vicar of
(B) No Fixed Address Wakefield
(C) The Edible Woman III.Samuel Johnson 3. She Stoops to
(D) Halfbreed Conquer
IV.Richard Sheridan 4.The Beggar's Opera
27. The expression "murderous innocence"
is an example of Code:
(A) Oxymoron I II III IV
(B) Zeugma (A) 1 4 3 2
(C) Chiasmus (B) 2 4 1 3
(D) Pun (C) 3 2 4 1
(D) 4 3 2 1
28. Read the following statement and the
reason given for it. Choose the right 33. The term "egotistical sublime" was
response coined by
(A) S.T. Coleridge
Assertion (A): Othello killed Desdemona. (B) John Keats
Reason (R): Because Desdemona committed (C) William Wordsworth
infidelity. (D) William Hazlitt
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the 34. Put the following novels of George
correct explanation. Eliot in a sequential order. Answer the
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not question with the help of the code:
the correct explanation. (i) Middlemarch
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. (ii) Daniel Deronda
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. (iii) Felix Holt, the Radical
(iv) Romola
29. The Enlightenment believed in the
universal authority of Code :
(A) Religion (A) (i), (iii), (iv), (ii)
(B) Tradition (B) (ii), (i), (iii), (iv)
(C) Reason (C) (iv), (iii), (i), (ii)
(D) Sentiments (D) (iv), (i), (iii), (ii)
30. Which of the following works of John 35. Who, among the following writers, is
Milton is an elegy ? known for his unforgettable sense of
(A) Lycidas humour and comedy?
(B) L'Allegro (A) D.H. Lawrence
(C) Camus (B) P.G. Wodehouse
(D) Paradise Lost (C) Thomas Hardy
(D) John Galsworthy
31. Which of the following poem by Keats
uses the Spenserian stanza ? 36. Which of the following is not an
(A) Endymion apocalyptic novel?
(B) The Fall of Hyperion (A) Doris Lessing's The Four-Gated City
(C) The Eve of St. Agnes (B) L.P. Hartley's Facial Justice
(D) Lamia (C) Anthony Burgess's The Wanting Seed
(D) V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas
32. Match the following authors with their
respective works with the help 37. Identify the author of the following
of the code given below: lines:
List I List– II Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
I.Oliver Goldsmith 1.The Vanity of Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds have
Human Wishes shown
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Let us possess one world, each hath one, and (C) Play
is one. (D) Novel
(A) Shakespeare
(B) George Herbert 44. "It was a bright cold day in April and
(C) John Donne the clocks were striking thirteen" – is the
(D) Henry Vaughan opening sentence of
(A) Ulysses
38. In the summer of 1712, The Spectator (B) Nostromo
published a series of essays on "The (C) Chrome Yellow
Pleasures of Imagination," written by (D) Nineteen Eighty-Four
(A) Richard Steele
(B) John Dennis 45. The subtitle of William Godwin's Caleb
(C) John Locke Williams is
(D) Joseph Addison (A) Man As He Is Not
(B) Man As He Is
39. Read the following statement and the (C) Things As They Are
reason given for it. Choose the right (D) The Pupil of Nature
response.
46. Who amongst the following belongs to
Assertion (A): Gulliver's Travels earned the group of radical feminists?
Jonathan Swift the bad name of being a (A) Helene Cixous
misanthrope. (B) Monica Wittig
Reason (R): Swift in the novel was neutral to (C) Simone de Beauvoir
the image of man. (D) Luce Irigaray
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the 47. "On the Knocking at the Gate in
correct explanation. Macbeth" is a longer essay by
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not (A) G. Wilson Knight
the correct explanation. (B) A. C. Bradley
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. (C) Thomas De Quincey
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. (D) F. R. Leavis
40. Who, amongst the following, does not 48. The expression, "dreaming house" is an
belong to the 'Great Tradition', enunciated example of
by F. R. Leavis ? (A) Zeugma
(A) Joseph Conrad (B) Transferred epithet
(B) James Joyce (C) Chiasmus
(C) Jane Austen (D) Apostrophe
(D) George Eliot
41. Isaac Bashevis Singer is an 49. The term 'Practical Criticism' is coined
(A) African-American writer by
(B) American-Jewish writer (A) William Empson
(C) American-Indian writer (B) W. K. Wimsatt, Jr.
(D) American-Asian writer (C) I.A. Richards
(D) F. R. Leavis
42. Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot has
(A) three Acts 50. Victor Shklovsky's name is associated
(B) five Acts with
(C) four Acts (A) Post-modernism
(D) two Acts (B) New Historicism
(C) Reader Response Theory
43. James Joyce's Exiles is a (D) Russian Formalism
(A) Short Story
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JUNE 2012 6. Which poem by Chaucer was written on
the death of Blanche, Wife of John of
Gaunt?
PAPER II (A) Troilus and Criseyde
(B) The House of Fame
1. To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a (C) The Book of Duchess
text may open up, Derrida makes use of the (D) The Legend of Good Women
term:
(A) aporia 7. The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is the
(B) difference other title of
(C) erasure (A) Gorboduc
(D) supplement (B) Ralph Roister Doister
(C) Damon and Pythias
2. Who, among the following English (D) Lamentable Tragedy
playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare
in Love? 8. Who of the following poets is
(A) Harold Pinter Australian?
(B) Alan Bennett (A) Austin Clarke
(C) Caryl Churchill (B) Judith Wright
(D) Tom Stoppard (C) Edwin Muir
(D) Derek Walcott
3. Arrange the following in the
chronological order: 9. “He found it [English] brick and left it
1. Mary Wollstonecraft‟s Vindication of the marble”, remarked one great writer on
Rights of Women another. Who were they?
2. Lyrical Ballads (A) Milton on Shakespeare
3. French Revolution (B) Dryden on Milton
4. Percy‟s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (C) Johnson on Dryden
(D) Jonson on Shakespeare
(A) 4, 3, 1, 2
(B) 3, 2, 1, 2 10. Who, among the following, is a Nobel
(C) 1, 2, 4, 3 Laureate?
(D) 2, 1, 3, 4 (A) Tony Morrison
(B) Seamus Heaney
4. Which of the following employs a (C) Ted Hughes
narrative structure in which the main action (D) Geoffrey Hill
is relayed at second hand through an
enclosing frame story? 11. List – I List – II
(A) Sons and Lovers
(B) Ulysses I. “Because I could not stop for
(C) The Power and the Glory death…” a. Robert
(D) Heart of Darkness Frost
II. “O Captain ! My
5. The Irish Dramatic Movement was Captain!” b. William
heralded by such figures as Carlos Williams
(A) W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward III. “Two roads diverged in a
Martyn wood….” c. Emily
(B) Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries Dickinson
(C) H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John IV. “So much depends
Ervine /upon” d. Walt
(D) Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries Whitman
The correctly matched series would be :

(A) I-d; II-c; III-b; IV-a
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(B) I-a; II-b; III-c; IV-d (A) the Aesthetes
(C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-c (B) the Symbolists
(D) I-c; II-d; III-a; IV-b (C) the Imagists
(D) the Art Noveau School
12. The predominant tone and thrust of
Jonathan Swift‟s “A Modest Proposal” are 18. Confessions of an English Opium Eater
(A) comic is a literary work by
(B) solemn (A) S. T. Coleridge
(C) hortatory (B) P. B. Shelley
(D) irony (C) Thomas De Quincey
(D) Lord Byron
13. I sit in one of the dives On Fifty Second
Street, Uncertain and afraid As the clever 19. Which of the following statements
hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade. So about The Canterbury Tales is true?
begins Auden‟s “September 1, 1939”. What is (A) “The General Prologue‟ is appended to
the meaning of the word in italics? The Canterbury Tales.
(A) bench (B) In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this
(B) night club work.
(C) house (C) The Canterbury Tales remained
(D) park unfinished at the time of its author‟s death.
(D) The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain
14. C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were and The Franklin are characters and tale-
reputed in the 1930s for introducing tellers in this work.
(A) Practical Criticism
(B) New Criticism 20. Who, among the following, was a
(C) Standard English Project Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a
(D) Basic English Project film critic and set his fictions in far-away
places wrecked by political conflicts?
15. In which of the following works does (A) Anthony Powell
Mrs. Malaprop appear ? (B) Evelyn Waugh
(A) The Rivals (C) William Golding
(B) She Stoops to Conquer (D) Graham Greene
(C) The Mysteries of Udolpho
(D) The Way of the World 21. List – I List – II
16. Which of the following statements 1. Good sense is the body of poetic
about Christopher Marlowe are true? genius I. Brooks, “The
Formalist Critic”
I. Edward II was written in the last year of 2. Poetry is the breath and a finer spirit of all
Marlowe‟s life. knowledge. II. Sidney,
II. Many critics consider Doctor Faustus to Defence/ An Apology for Poetry
be Marlowe‟s best play. 3. Literary criticism is a description and
III. His Spanish Tragedy comes a close evaluation of its object III.
second. Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads
IV. Marlowe was less educated than 4. Nature never set forth the earth in as rich a
Shakespeare. tapestry as diverse poets have done
IV. Coleridge,
(A) I and II are true. Biographia Literaria
(B) II and III are true. 12 3 4
(C) II and IV are true. (A) IV III I II
(D) III and IV are true. (B) II IV III I
(C) III II I IV
17. “Art for Art‟s Sake” became a rallying (D) IV II I III
cry for https://t.me/thelitbud
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22. In which of the following travel books (A) religious tract
does Mark Twain give an account of his (B) political allegory
visit to India? (C) comic verse epic
(A) A Tramp Abroad (D) comedy
(B) Roughing It
(C) The Innocents Abroad 30. The term „the comedy of menace‟ is
(D) Following the Equator associated with the early plays of
(A) Arnold Wesker
23. William Blake‟s famous poems such as (B) John Arden
“London”, “The Sick Rose”, and “The (C) Harold Pinter
Tyger” appear in (D) David Hare
(A) Songs of Innocence
(B) Songs of Experience 31. Examine the following statements and
(C) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell identify one of them which is not true.
(D) Vision of the Daughters of Albion (A) Rudyard Kipling died in the year 1936.
(B) He was born in India but schooled in
24. Who among the following English England.
artists illustrated the novels of Dickens and (C) He returned to India as a police constable
Scott? in Burma.
(A) Richard Hogarth (D) He is the author of Jungle Book and
(B) Joshua Reynolds Barrack Room Ballads.
(C) George Cruishank
(D) John Tennial 32. What is the correct combination of the
following?
25. The last of Gulliver‟s Travels is to I. Balachandra Rajan a. The Tamarind
(A) The Land of the Houyhnhnms Tree
(B) The Land of Homosapiens II. R. K. Narayan b. The Coffer
(C) The Land of the Hurricanes Dams
(D) The Newfound Land III. Kamala Markandaya c. The Dark
Dancer
26. Madam Merle is a character in IV. Romen Basu d. The Dark Room
(A) The Great Gatsby
(B) The Portrait of a Lady (A) I – c; II – d; III – b; IV – b
(C) The Jungle (B) I – d; II – a; III – b; IV – c
(D) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (C) I – c; II – a; III – d; IV – b
(D) I – d; II – c; III – a; IV – b
27. In which of the following scenes of The
Waste Land do we have a departure from 33. Name the poet who chooses his
Standard English? successor and the successor-poet whom
(A) The typist scene Dryden satirises in his famous poem.
(B) The pub scene (A) James Shirley and Chris Shirley
(C) The hyacinth garden scene (B) Henry Treece and Charles Triesten
(D) The Chapel Perilous scene (C) Richard Flecknoe and Thomas Shadwell
(D) Thomas Percy and Samuel Pepys
28. The words “If it were done when tis 34. “If______ comes, can_______ be far
done, then twere well / It were done behind ?” (Shelley, “Ode to the West
quickly…” are uttered by Wind”)
(A) Hamlet (A) winter, spring
(B) Lear (B) autumn, summer
(C) Othello (C) wind, rains
(D) Macbeth (D) spring, winter
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35. The following passages are the very first 40. Which among the following novels has
lines of well-known works. Match the lines more than one ending?
and the works: (A) Lucky Jim
I. Let us go then, (B) The Prime of Jean Brodie
you and I….. a. Moby Dick (C) The French Lieutenant‟s Woman
II. Call me Ishmael….. b. Macbeth (D) The Clockwork Orange
III. When shall we
three meet again? c. “The Love Song of 41. “You have seen how a man was made a
J. Alfred Prufrock” slave; you shall see how a slave was made a
IV. He disappeared in man” is an example of
the dead of winter d. Tristram Shandy (A) Bathos
V. I wish either… (B) Epistrophe
.begot me ….. e. “In Memory of W. (C) Chiasmus
B. Yeats” (D) Anti-climax
(A) I-c; II-a; III-b; IV-e; V-d 42. Which of the following statements is
(B) I-e; II-b; III-a; IV-c; V-d NOT correct?
(C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-e; V-c (A) Chaucer used the rhyme royal, a stanzaic
(D) I-b; II-e; III-d; IV-c; V-a form in some of his major poems.
(B) Chaucer was the author of The Legend of
36. Which of the following is not a revenge Good Women.
tragedy? (C) Chaucer wrote in English when the court
(A) Hamlet poetry of his day was written in Anglo-
(B) The Duchess of Malfi Norman and Latin.
(C) Volpone (D) Chaucer wrote The Book Named the
(D) Gorboduc Governor
37. What is a neologism? 43. Material feminism studies inequality in

(A) A word with roots in a native language terms of
(B) A word whose meaning changes with (A) only gender
every renewed use (B) only class
(C) A word newly coined or used in a new (C) both class and gender
sense (D) only patriarchy
(D) An obsession with new words and
phrases 44. Who among the following is not an
Irish writer?
38. Which of the following is not true of (A) Oscar Wilde
Edward Said‟s Orientalism? (B) Oliver Goldsmith
(A) Makes use of Foucault‟s concept of (C) Edmund Burke
discursive formulation (D) Thomas Gray
(B) Is one of the founding texts of
Postcolonial theory 45. Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys
(C) Makes use of Barthes‟s concept of begins after
writerly text (A) The Restoration
(D) Utilises the Gramscian notion of (B) The Glorious Revolution
hegemony (C) The Reformation
(D) The French Revolution
39. Thomas Love Peacock classified poetry
into 4 periods. They are: 46. In a poem, a line may either be end-
(A) carbon, gold, silver and brass stopped or
(B) brass, silver, gold and diamond (A) rhymed
(C) iron, gold, silver and brass (B) broken
(D) gold, platinum, silver and diamond (C) accented
(D) run-on
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47. Which of the following poets wrote the
essay “Naipaul‟s India and Mine”?
(A) Kamala Das PAPER III
(B) R. Parthasarthy
(C) A. K. Ramanujam 1. In Ben Jonson‟s Volpone, the animal
(D) Nissim Ezekiel imagery includes
(a) the fox and the vulture
48. Match the following: (b) the fly and the cockroach
I. James Joyce 1. Peter Ackroyd (c) the fly, the crow and the raven
II. T. S. Eliot 2. James Boswell (d) the fox, the vulture and the goat
III. Life of 3. Samuel Johnson
Johnson (A) (a) and (b) are correct.
IV. Lives of 4. Richard Poets Ellman (B) only (d) is correct.
(C) (b) and (d) are correct.
(A) I-3, II-4, III-1, IV-2 (D) (a) and (c) are correct.
(B) I-4, II-1, III-2, IV-3
(C) I-1, II-2, III-3, IV-4 2. Salman Rushdie‟s “Imaginary
(D) I-2, II-3, III-1, IV-4 Homelands” is _______.
(A) a discussion of imperialist assumptions.
49. “The pen is mightier than the sword” is (B) an essay that propounds an
an example of antiessentialist view of place.
(A) simile (C) an existential lament on triumphant
(B) image colonialism.
(C) conceit (D) an orientalist description of his favourite
(D) metonymy homelands.
50. An epilogue is 3. Identify the incorrect statement below:

(A) prefixed to a text which it introduces. (a) BASIC was an experiment initiated by C.
(B) suffixed to a text which it sums up or K. Ogden and I. A. Richards from 1926 to
extends. about 1940.
(C) a piece of writing or speech that formally (b) Expanded, BASIC read: Broadly
begins a book. Ascertained Scientific International Course.
(D) a piece of writing or speech that bears no (c) BASIC English was an attempt to reduce
relation to the text at hand. the number of essential words to 850.
(d) While keeping to normal constructions,
BASIC failed as an experiment because its
documents were far too complicated and
technical to understand.
(A) (a) & (b) (B) (b) & (d)

(C) (a) & (c) (D) (c) & (d)
4. Items in a published book appear in the

following order:
(A) Index, Copyright Page, Bibliography,
Footnotes
(B) Copyright Page, Bibliography, Index,
Footnotes
(C) Copyright Page, Footnotes, Bibliography,
Index
(D) Bibliography, Copyright Page, Index,
Footnotes
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5. Match the following: 7. Identify the statement that is NOT TRUE
(I) James Thomson, among those that explain “stage directions”
Oliver Goldsmith, in drama.
William Cowper, (A) Stage directions inform readers how to
George Crabbe (a) Metaphysical stage, perform or imagine the play.
poets (B) The place, time of action, design of the set
(II) George Herbert, and at times characters‟ actions or tone of
Henry Vaughan, voice are indicated by stage directions.
Andrew Marvell, (C) Stage directions are often italicized in the
Abraham Cowley, text of a play in order to be spoken aloud.
John Donne (b) Transitional (D) Stage directions may appear at the
Poets beginning of a play, before a scene or
(III) Rupert Brooke, attached to a line of dialogue.
Wilfred Owen,
Siegfried Sassoon, 8. The emergence of the concept of “World
Edmund Blunden, literature” is associated with:
Robert Graves. (c) War Poets (a) Friedrich Schiller
(IV) W. H. Davies, (b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Walter de la Mare, (c) Johann Goltfried Herder
John Drinkwater, (d) Immanuel Kant
Rupert Brooke (d) Georgians
(A) (a) & (b)
(B) (c) & (d)
(I) (II) (III) (IV) (C) (b) & (c)
(A) (d) (a) (c) (b) (D) (a) & (d)
(B) (d) (b) (d) (a)
(C) (b) (a) (c) (d) 9. Günter Grass‟s Tin Drum is part of a
(D) (a) (c) (d) (b) trilogy known as the Danzig trilogy.
The other two novels are:
6. The following phrases from Shakespeare (A) The Flounder and Dog Years
have become the titles of famous works. (B) The Rat and Cat and Mouse
Identify the correctly matched group. (C) Cat and Mouse and Dog Years
(D) Crabwalk and The Rat
(I) Pale Fire (a) Thomas Hardy
(II) The Sound and 10. The hostess proudly announces that the
the Fury (b) Somerset family can afford a servant and her
Maugham daughters have nothing to do with the
(III) Rosencrantz and kitchen. Who is the proud mother in this
Guildenstern are Dead (c) William Jane Austen novel?
Faulkner (A) Mrs. Morland
(IV) Under the Greenwood (B) Lady Catherine de Burgh
Tree (d) Tom Stoppard (C) Mrs. Bennet
(V) Of Cakes and Ale (e) Vladimir (D) Mrs. Dashwood
Nabokov
11. When Keats writes about the “beaker
(I) (II) (III) (IV) (V) full” of “The blushful Hippocrene”,
(A) (e) (d) (c) (a) (b) Hippocrene is:
(B) (d) (e) (b) (c) (a) (A) the fountain of the horse
(C) (e) (c) (d) (a) (b) (B) a spring sacred to the Muses
(D) (c) (d) (b) (e) (a) (C) Mount Helicon produced from a blow of
Pegasus
(D) Both (A) & (B)
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12. Which of the following statements on (D) Plutarch‟s Lives
The Prelude by William Wordsworth is/are
not true? 16. The basic concept that creation was
ordered, that every species exists in a
(a) The Prelude was published posthumously. hierarchy of status, from God to the lowest
(b) In this poem, Wordsworth records his creature, was prevalent in the Renaissance.
development as a poet. In this hierarchical continuum, man
(c) The poem runs to 14 books; at crucial occupies the middle position between the
stages the poet celebrates the sublime natural animal kinds and the angels.
scenery in developing his spiritual, moral and This world view is known as:
imaginative nature. (A) Humanism
(d) Poems like “Michael”, “The Old (B) The Enlightenment
Cumberland Beggar”, “She dwelt among the (C) The Great Chain of Being
untrodden ways”, “Nutting” etc. are the (D) Calvinism
highlights of this volume.
17. In Virginia Woolf‟s To the Lighthouse
(A) (a) to (d) are true. the lighthouse does not symbolize:
(B) (a) is not true. (A) permanence at the heart of change.
(C) (d) is not true. (B) change in the unchanging world.
(D) Only (c) is true. (C) celebration of life in the heart of death.
(D) celebration of order in the heart of chaos.
13. Assertion (A): At the end of Heart of
Darkness, Marlow tells a lie to the Intended 18. “Can one imagine any private soldier, in
about Kurtz when he tells her “The last word the nineties or now, reading Barrack-Room
he pronounced was – your name”. Ballads and feeling that here was a writer
Reason (R): Marlow tells this lie because he who spoke for him? It is very hard to do so.
is secretly in love with the Intended and tells [….] When he is writing not of British but of
her what she wants to hear. “loyal” Indians he carries the „Salaam, Sahib‟
motif to sometimes disgusting lengths. Yet it
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true ; (R) is the remains true that he has far more interest in
correct explanation. the common soldier, far more anxiety that he
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not shall get a fair deal, than most of the
the correct explanation. “liberals” of his day and our own. He sees
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. that the soldier is neglected, meanly
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. underpaid and hypocritically despised by the
people whose incomes he safeguards”.
14. Ear-training in ELT is easily achieved
by: (A) This is E. M. Forster‟s “India, Again”.
(a) composition (B) This is Malcolm Muggeridge on E. M.
(b) dictation Forster‟s India.
(c) cloze tests (C) This is T. S. Eliot on Rudyard Kipling.
(d) listening exercises (D) This is George Orwell on Rudyard
(e) précis writing Kipling.
(A) (c) and (e)
(B) (a), (c) and (e) 19. In the well-known poem “To his coy
(C) (b), (c) and (d) mistress”, the word coy means
(D) (b) and (d) (A) shy
(B) timid
15. William Shakespeare‟s Julius Caesar, (C) voluptuous
Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus are (D) sensuous
based on _______.
(A) Holinshed‟s Chronicles 20. From the following list, identify
(B) Folk-tales and legends “backformation”: Sulk, bulk, stoke, poke,
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swindle, bundle.
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(A) Sulk, bulk, stoke, poke (C) It is a set of advanced grammatical
(B) Stoke, poke, swindle, bundle principles assumed to be fundamental to all
(C) Sulk, stoke, bundle natural languages.
(D) Bulk, poke, bundle (D) It is a set of universally respected
practices that have come, in time, to be
21. “It blurs distinctions among literary, known as “grammar”.
non-literary and cultural texts, showing
how all three intercirculate, share in, and 27. Identify the novel with the wrong
mutually constitute each other.” What does subtitle listed below:
it in this statement stand for? (A) Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life
(A) Marxism (B) Tess of the D‟Urbervilles, A Pure Woman
(B) Structuralism (C) The Mayor of Casterbridge, A Man of
(C) Formalism Character
(D) New Historicism (D) Felix Holt, the Socialist
22.For, though, I‟ve no idea. What this 28. Match List – I with List – II.
accoutred frowsty ____ is worth, it pleases
me to stand in silence here. (Fill in the List – I List – II
blank) (I) David Malouf (a) The Solid
(A) bar Mandala
(B) barn (II) Patrick White (b) Wild Cat Falling
(C) attic (III) Peter Carey (c) Remembering
(D) alcove Babylon
(IV) Colin Johnson (d) True History of
23. Which of the following novels is NOT a the Kelly Gang
Partition novel?
(A) Azadi (I) (II) (III) (IV)
(B) Tamas (A) (a) (c) (b) (d)
(C) Clear Light of the Day (B) (c) (a) (d) (b)
(D) That Long Silence (C) (b) (c) (a) (d)
(D) (c) (d) (b) (a)
24. Of the following characters, which one
does not belong to A House for Mr. Biswas? 29. The opening sentence of Tolstoy‟s Anna
(A) Raghu Karenina, “Happy families are all alike,
(B) Ralph Singh every unhappy family is unhappy in its own
(C) Dehuti way.” The specific cause of the unhappiness
(D) Tara in Oblonsky‟s house was the husband‟s
affair with:
25. In English literature, the trope of the (A) a kitchen – maid
vampire was used for the first time by: (B) an English governess
(A) Matthew Gregory Lewis (C) a French governess
(B) John Polidori (D) a socialite
(C) John Stagg
(D) Bram Stoker 30. This periodical had the avowed
intention “to enliven morality with wit and
26. Why is “Universal grammar” so called? to temper wit with morality… to bring
(A) It is a set of basic grammatical principles philosophy out of the closets and libraries,
universally followed and easily recognized by schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and
people. assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee
(B) It is a set of basic grammatical principles houses”. It also promoted family, marriage
assumed to be fundamental to all natural and courtesy.
languages. The periodical under reference is:
(A) The Tatler
(B) The Spectator
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(C) The Gentleman‟s Magazine (A) the practice of mixing tragic and comic
(D) The London Magazine themes in Shakespeare‟s plays.
(B) the bawdiness of “low” characters in
31. Assertion (A) : “Tam O‟ Shanter” by Shakespeare‟s plays.
John Clare is about the (C) the coarseness and ugliness of Restoration
experience of an Theatre.
ordinary human being (D) irreligious themes and irreverent attitudes
and became quite in the plays of the seventeenth century.
popular during that
time. 35. One of the most important themes the
Reason (R) : John Clare, having suffered speakers debate in Dryden‟s An Essay on
bouts of madness, could really Dramatic Poesy is______.
feel for the misery of common (A) European and non-European perceptions
man. In the context of the two of reality.
statements, which of the (B) English and non-English perceptions of
following is correct? reality.
(C) the relative merits of French and English
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) theatre.
explains (A). (D) the relative merits of French and English
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) does poetry.
not explain (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false. 36. Identify the correctly matched pair:
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true. (A) Amitav Ghosh – All About H.
Halterr
32. Alexander Pope‟s An Essay in (B) Anita Desai – Inheritance of Loss
Criticism: (C) Shashi Deshpande – A Bend in the
(a) Purports to define “wit” and “nature” as Ganges
they apply to the literature of his age. (D) Salman Rushdie – The Enchantress of
(b) Claims no originality in the thought that Florence
governs this work.
(c) is a prose essay that gives us such quotes
as “A little learning is a dangerous thing !”
(d) Appeared in 1701. 37. Match the following correctly:
(I) Langue / Parole (a) Noam Chomsky
(A) (c) and (d) are incorrect. (II) Competence / Performance (b) C. S.
(B) (a) and (b) are incorrect. Pierce
(C) (a) to (d) are correct. (III) Ieonic / Indexical (c) Ferdinand de
(D) only (a) and (d) are correct. Saussure
(IV) Readerly / Writerly (d) Roland Barthes
33. What is register?
(A) The way in which a language registers in (I) (II) (III) (IV)
the minds of its users. (A) (c) (b) (a) (d)
(B) The way users of a language register the (B) (c) (a) (b) (d)
nuances of that language. (C) (a) (c) (d) (b)
(C) A variety of language used in social (D) (b) (c) (a) (d)
situations or one specially designed for the
subject it deals with. 38.
(D) A variety of language used in non- 1. Joy Kogawa (a) Bloody Rites
professional or informal situations by 2. M. G. (b) Obasan Vasanjee
professionals. 3. Sky Lee (c) The Gunny Sack
4. Arnold (d) Disappearing Itwaru Moon
34. Jeremy Collier‟s Short View of the Cafe
Immorality and Profaneness of the English 1 2 3 4
Stage (1698) attacked ______. (A) (d) (a) (b) (c)
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(B) (a) (d) (c) (b) (C) I and II are correct.
(C) (b) (c) (d) (a) (D) II and III are correct.
(D) (a) (b) (c) (d)
43. Find the odd (wo)man out :
39. Why does Jean Baudrillard adopt Belladonna – Engenides – The Typist – Marie
Disneyland as his own sign? – Madame Sosostris – the ruinbibber –
(A) Disneyland is by far the most eminently Tiresias – the Youngman Carbuncular
noticeable cultural sign in the post modern (A) Belladonna
world. (B) Madame Sosostris
(B) Disneyland captures „essences‟ and „non- (C) Tiresias
essences‟ of Reality more convincingly than (D) The ruin – bibber
other cultural venues.
(C) Disneyland is an artefact that so 44. Wilkie Collins‟s novel, The Moonstone
obviously announces its own fictiveness that (1868) tells the story of ______.
it would seem to imply some counter (A) a detective‟s exploits in Victorian
balancing reality. England.
(D) Disneyland is both „appearance‟ and (B) a doctor‟s adventures in a Middle-Eastern
„reality‟ in the post modern visual game of Suburb.
handy-dandy. (C) a fabulous yellow diamond stolen from
an Indian shrine.
40. Which of the following statements is (D) illegal mining of diamonds in eastern
NOT TRUE of Dante Gabriel Rossetti? U.P. during British rule.
(A) D. G. Rossetti was a Londoner, the son
of an Italian refugee who taught Italian at 45. Identify the correctly matched group:
King‟s college. (I) “Because I could
(B) Rossetti formed the Pre- Raphaelite not stop for death… (a) Walt Whitman
Brotherhood with Holman Hunt, Ford (II) “O Captain !
Madox Brown and Painter Millais. My Captain!” (b) William Carlos
(C) He married Christina Georgina who was Williams
a poet in her right. (III) “Two roads diverged
(D) Rossetti‟s “Blessed Damozel” displays in a wood…” (c) Emily
his remarkable gifts as a poet and painter. Dickinson
(IV) “So much depends
41. Goethe‟s Faust (Part I , Scene 1) opens upon…” (d) Robert Frost
in :
(A) heaven (I) (II) (III) (IV)
(B) hell (A) (a) (b) (c) (d)
(C) forest (B) (c) (a) (d) (b)
(D) Faust‟s study (C) (a) (c) (b) (d)
(D) (c) (a) (b) (d)
42. “Is it their single-mind-sized skulls or a
trained Body, or genius, or a nestful of brats 46. “Now stop your noses, readers, all and
Gives their days this bullet and automatic some, For here‟s a tun of midnight – work to
purpose….” (Thrushes) In the above lines come, Og, from a treason-tavern rolling
what does „their‟ refer to and what quality of home. Round as a globe and liquor‟d e‟vry
„their‟ does the poet speak of? chink, Goodly and great he rails behind his
I. Human beings and their intelligence link”. In the above passage from Absalom
II. The thrushes and their concentration in and Achitophel, link means:
achieving what they set out for (A) a connection in the court
III. The efficiency of the thrushes in getting at (B) a hired servant who carries a lighted torch
their prey (C) a social tie
IV. All the above (D) a rich patron
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47. Which among the following is NOT a
typical “Indian English Poem” by Nissim 52. One of the following Canterbury Tales
Ezekiel? is in prose, identify.
(A) “How the English Lessons Ended” (A) The Pardoner‟s Tale
(B) “The Railway Clerk” (B) The Parson‟s Tale
(C) “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” (C) The Monk‟s Tale
(D) “The Patriot” (D) The Knight‟s Tale
48. Match the correct pair: 53. In his distinction between imagination
and fancy, Coleridge identifies the
(I) George Eliot 1. Ellis Bell following:
(II) Saki 2. Mary Anne Evans (a) it dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to
(III) Emily Bronte 3. Samuel Langhorne recreate.
Clemens (b) it has aggregative and associative power.
(IV) Mark Twain 4. H. H. Munro (c) it plays with fixities and definites.
(d) it has shaping and modifying power.
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) 2 3 1 4 The correct combination reads:
(B) 2 4 1 3 (A) (a) and (b) for fancy; (c) and (d) for
(C) 1 3 4 2 imagination.
(D) 3 2 1 4 (B) (a) and (c) for fancy; (b) and (d) for
imagination.
49. In Canto 17 of the Inferno, the monster (C) (b) and (c) for fancy; (a) and (d) for
Geryon represents ______. imagination.
(A) fraud (D) (c) and (d) for fancy; (a) and (b) for
(B) usury imagination.
(C) sloth
(D) gluttony 54. Julia Kristeva‟s „Intertextuality‟ derives
from:
50. I-A. Richards‟s famous experiment with (a) Saussure‟s signs
poems and his Cambridge students is (b) Chomsky‟s deep structure
detailed in Practical Criticism: A Study of (c) Bakhtin‟s dialogism
Literary Judgement (1929). Richards was (d) Derrida‟s difference
astonished by
(A) the poor quality of his students‟ “stock (A) (a) and (d)
responses” (B) (a) and (c)
(B) the very astute remarks made by his (C) (c) and (d)
students (D) (a) and (b)
(C) the non-availability of poems, worthy of
class-room attention 55. Ralph Ellison enjoys subverting myths
(D) the success of his experiment about white purity through characters like:
(a) Norton
51. Based on the following description, (b) Bledsoe
identify the text in reference: (c) Rhinehart
This is a play in which no one comes, no one (d) all of the above
goes, nothing happens. In its opening scene a
man struggles hard to remove his boot. The (A) (a) and (b)
play was originally written in French, later (B) (a), (b) and (c)
translated into English. It was first performed (C) (b) and (c)
in 1953. (D) (a) and (c)
(A) Look Back in Anger
(B) Waiting for Godot 56. Which of the following is NOT TRUE
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(A) He wrote essays on New England imagine ourselves, how our language has
scenery, woodcraft and plantations. trapped as well as liberated us.
(B) He was an eloquent pulpit orator, a
member of the Unitarian Church under 61. (a) “Interlanguage” is a term we owe to
William Chawming. M.A.K. Halliday.
(C) In essays like “Nature”, he elaborates on (b) Interlanguage develops an autonomous
the importance of seeing familiar things in and self-contained grammatical system
new ways. (c) It is a distinct stage in a learner‟s progress
(D) His famous “American Scholar” was in the study of a second language.
delivered as an address before the Phi Beta (d) It owes nothing at all either to the
Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1837. learner‟s native or target / second language.
(A) (d) is correct.
57. “Exorcism” is the title of Act III of (B) (b) is correct.
who‟s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? What is (C) (a) and (c) are correct.
the significance of „exorcism‟ in the context (D) (c) and (d) are correct.
of the play?
(A) The casting out of evil spirits 62. In a classic statement that inaugurated
(B) Deconstructing of myths involving Feminist thought in English, we read:
marriage, fertility and sons “A woman writing thinks back through her
(C) Facing life without illusions mothers”. Where does this occur?
(D) Exposing all attempts at illusion making (A) Virginia Woolf‟s A Room of One‟s Own
(B) Kate Millet‟s Sexual Politics
58. “Womanist is to feminist as purple is to (C) Gertrude Stein‟s Three Lives
lavender”. This is an important statement (D) Mary Hiatt‟s The Way Women Write.
defining the womanist perspective advanced
by 63. Identify the correctly matched pair of
(A) Toni Morrison translators and translations.
(B) Zora Neale Hurston (I) A. K. Ramanujan (a) The Ramayana
(C) Alice Walker (II) Manmathanath Dutt (b) The Bhagavad
(D) Bell Hooks Gita
(III) Mohini Chatterjee (c) Speaking of
59. Identify the mismatched pair in the Shiva
following where characters in Golding‟s (IV) Romesh Chandra Dutt d) The
Lord of the Flies fit the allegorized pattern Mahabharata
of virtues and vices.
(A) Ralph - rationality (I) (II) (III) (IV)
(B) Piggy - pragmatism (A) (c) (d) (b) (a)
(C) Jack - pity (B) (d) (c) (a) (b)
(D) Simon – innocence (C) (d) (a) (b) (c)
(D) (b) (a) (d) (c)
60. A Subaltern perspective is one where
(A) Power-structures define and determine 64. Assertion (A): In The Power and the
your command of language and language of Glory, Greene shows how the Whisky Priest
command in an uneven world. transcends his weakness for drink and his
(B) The politically dispossessed could be human fears, moving towards martyrdom.
voiceless, written out of the historical record Reason (R): Transcendence in Greene‟s
and ignored because their activities do not novels is generally an outcome of love for
count for “Cultural” or “Structured”. humanity, but pride is also an essential
(C) You don‟t know what your „story‟ is, how ingredient in the Priest‟s character.
to deal with a „story‟ and therefore you are (A) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
forced to put stereotyped situations in it to (B) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
please your listeners. (C) Both (A) and (R) are true, but
(D) You begin to see how we live, how we (R) is not the correct explanation for (A).
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(D) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the (B) Albion
correct explanation for (A). (C) Geryon
(D) Satan
65. Which of the following statements on
John Dryden is incorrect? 68. Identify the correctly matched group:
(a) John Milton and John Dryden were (A) Third Space – Wolfgang Iser Hybridity –
contemporaries. Edward Soja Reception aesthetics –
(b) Dryden was a Royalist, while Milton Ferdinand de
fiercely opposed monarchy. Saussure Langue – Homi Bhabha
(c) Dryden wrote a play on the Mughal (B) Third Space – Ernst Bloch Hybridity –
Emperor Humayun. Edward Said Reception aesthetics – Eve K.
(d) Dryden was appointed the Poet Laureate Sedgwick
of England in 1668. Langue – G. S. Frazer
(C) Third Space – Edward Soja Hybridity –
(A) (a) is incorrect. Homi Bhabha Reception aesthetics –
(B) (d) is incorrect. Wolfgang Iser
(C) (c) is incorrect. Langue – Ferdinand de Saussure
(D) (b) and (c) are incorrect. (D) Third Space – G. S. Frazer Hybridity –
Eve K. Sedgwick Reception aesthetics –
66. “Like walking, criticism is a pretty nearly Edward Soja Langue – Edward Said
universal art; both require a constant intricate
shifting and catching of balance; neither can 69. Which of the following can be best
be questioned much in process; and few described as:
perform either really well. For either a new (i) the first statement of Bernard Shaw‟s idea
terrain is fatiguing and awkward, and in our of Life Force;
day most men prefer paved walks and some (ii) a play dealing with a woman‟s pursuit of
form of rapid transportsome easy theory or her mate; and
overmastering dogma.” (R.P.Blackmur, “A (iii) a play whose third act called “Don Juan
Critic‟s Job of Work”) in Hell” is both unconventional and hilarious
(a) Blackmur compares walking with ?
criticism because he considers both to be
“arts” of a similar kind that call for attention (A) The Devil‟s Disciple
to detail and utmost care. (B) Man and Superman
(b) Blackmur admits that some people do (C) Candida
however manage to be good critics and good (D) Arms and the Man
walkers.
(c) Critics prefer tried and tested approaches 70. Identify the untrue statement on the
for much the same reason as Walkers would CONTACT ZONE below:
look for paved walks and rapid transport. (A) “The contact zone” is a space where
(d) Blackmur does not quite give us the disparate cultures meet, clash and grapple
equivalents of “Some paved walks and some with each other.
form of rapid transport” in order to press his (B) In Postcolonial societies “contact”
comparison. suggests the historical moment when settler
and indigenous cultures first met.
(A) (a) and (d) are correct. (C) The idea of the Contact Zone was first
(B) (a) and (c) are correct. proposed and defined by Mary Louise Pratt‟s
(C) only (d) is correct. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and
(D) only (b) is correct. Transculturation (1992)
(D) It is believed that the Contact Zone was
67. The world dominated by cold and largely instrumental in spearheading
hypocritical materialists is represented by nationalist movements across the world.
William Blake in the mythological figure of
__________ . 71. Name the novel in which
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I. the protagonist is a war veteran called (b) wears down the spectator‟s capacity for
Tayo. action
II. Tayo returns from World War II, (c) relies on argument
thoroughly disillusioned and haunted by his (d) presents man as a process
violent actions of war time.
III. Tayo seeks consolation and counsel from (A) (a) and (d) are correct; (b) and (c) are
old Betonie. incorrect.
IV. The protagonist realizes the importance (B) (a), (c) and (d) are correct; (b) is wrong.
of harmonizing humanity and the universe. (C) (b) and (d) are correct; (a) and (c) are
incorrect.
(A) Beloved (D) (a), (b) and (c) are correct; (d) is incorrect.
(B) Ceremony
(C) Daisy Miller
(D) Enter, Conversing
72. One of the following poems in Men and

Women is addressed to Elizabeth Barrett
Browning by the poet. Identify it.
(A) “In Three Days”
(B) “By the Fireside”
(C) “One Way of Love”
(D) “One Word More”
73. Match List-I with List-II according to

the codes given below:
List – I List – II
I. Tennessee William 1. Emperor Jones
II. Eugene O‟Neill 2. A Streetcar Named
Desire
III. Lorraine Hansberry 3. After the Fall
IV. Arthur Miller 4. A Raisin in the Sun
I II III IV
(A) 3 1 4 2
(B) 1 3 2 4
(C) 4 2 3 1
(D) 2 1 4 3
74. Match the correct pair:

I. Theatre of Cruelty 1. Safdar
Hashmi
II. Theatre of the Oppressed 2. Georg
Kaiser
III. Expressionist Theatre 3. Jerzy
Grotowsky
IV. Agitprop 4. Augusto Bal
I II III IV
(A) 1 2 4 3
(B) 3 4 2 3
(C) 2 3 1 4
(D) 4 1 3 2
75. Bertolt Brecht‟s Epic Theatre

(a) turns the spectator into an observer
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DECEMBER 2012 (D) J. Fleckner, W. H. Davies, Edward
Marsh
PAPER II 7. Match the following:

1. The Sage of Concord 5. Emily Dickinson
1. Identify the work below that does not 2. The Nun of Amherst 6. R.W. Emerson
belong to the literature of the eighteenth 3. Mark Twain 7. T.S. Eliot
century: 4. Old Possum 8. Samuel L. Clemens
(A) Advancement of Learning
(B) Gulliver‟s Travels (A) 1–6; 2–5; 3–8; 4–7
(C) The Spectator (B) 1–5; 2–6; 3–7; 4–8
(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (C) 1–8; 2–7; 3–6; 4–5
(D) 1–7; 2–8; 3–5; 4–6
2. Which, among the following, is a place
through which John Bunyan‟s Christian 8. Name the theorist who divided poets into
does NOT pass? “strong” and “weak” and popularized the
(A) The Slough of Despond practice of misreading:
(B) Mount Helicon (A) Alan Bloom
(C) The Valley of Humiliation (B) Harold Bloom
(D) Vanity Fair (C) Geoffrey Hartman
(D) Stanley Fish
3. The period of Queen Victoria‟s reign is
(A) 1830–1900 9. In the Rape of the Lock Pope repeatedly
(B) 1837–1901 compares Belinda to
(C) 1830–1901 (A) The sun
(D) 1837–1900 (B) The moon
(C) The North Star
4. Which of the following statements about (D) The rose
The Lyrical Ballads is NOT true?
(A) It carried only one ballad proper, which 10. Which of the following awards is not
was Coleridge‟s The Rime of the Ancient given to Indian–English writers?
Mariner. (A) The Booker Prize
(B) It also carried pastoral and other poems. (B) The Sahitya Akademi Award
(C) It carried a “Preface” which Wordsworth (C) The Gyanpeeth
added in 1800. (D) Whitbread Prize
(D) It also printed from Gray‟s Elegy Written
in a Country Churchyard. 11. Identify the correct statement below:
(A) Gorboduc is a comedy, while Ralph
5. One of the following texts was published Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton‟s
earlier than 1955. Identify the text: Needle are tragedies.
(A) William Golding, the Inheritors (B) Gorboduc is a tragedy, while Ralph
(B) Philip Larkin, the Less Deceived Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton‟s
(C) William Empson, Collected Poems Needle are comedies.
(D) Samuel Becket, Waiting for Godot (C) All of them are problem plays.
(D) All of them are farces.
6. Who among the poets in England during
the 1930s had left–leaning tendencies? 12. W.M. Thackeray‟s Vanity Fair owes its
(A) T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Richard title to
Aldington (A) Browning‟s Fifine at the Fair
(B) Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert (B) Shakespeare‟s Merchant of Venice
Brooke (C) Goldsmith‟s Vicar of Wakefield
(C) W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil (D) Bunyan‟s Pilgrim‟s Progress
Day Lewis
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13. The Puritans shut down all theatres in 18. In Dryden‟s Essay of Dramatic Poesy
England in (1668), who opens the discussion on behalf
(A) 1642 of the ancients?
(B) 1640 (A) Lisideius
(C) 1659 (B) Crites
(D) 1660 (C) Eugenius
(D) Neander
14. Who of the following was not a
contemporary of Wordsworth and 19. The term invective refers to
Coleridge? (A) The abusive writing or speech in which
(A) Robert Southey there is harsh denunciation of some person or
(B) Sir Walter Scott thing.
(C) William Hazlitt (B) An insulting writing attack upon a real
(D) A. C. Swinburne person, in verse or prose, usually involving
caricature and ridicule.
15. Which of the following statements (C) A written or spoken text in which an
about Waiting for Godot is NOT true? apparently straightforward statement or event
1. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two is undermined in its context so as to give it a
acts”. very different significance.
2. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two (D) The chanting or reciting of words deemed
scenes”. to have magical power.
3. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two
parts”. 20. Which of the following novels depicts
4. It does not carry a subtitle. the plight of the Bangladeshi immigrants in
East London?
(A) 4 (A) How far can you go
(B) 2 (B) The White Teeth
(C) 3 (C) An Equal Music
(D) 1 (D) Brick Lane
16. The Bloomsbury Group included British 21. The year 1939 proved to be a crucial
intellectuals, critics, writers and artists. year for two important writers in England.
Who among the following belonged to the Identify the correct phrase below:
Bloomsbury Group? (A) For Yeats who died, for Auden who left
I. John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey England for the U. S.
II. E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Clive Bell (B) For Eliot who started publishing verse–
III. Patrick Brunty, Paul Haworth drama, for Hardy whose Wessex Poems were
IV. Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Walter published.
Pater (C) For Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene,
each for publishing his first novels.
(A) I and II (D) For Eliot who won the Nobel Prize and
(B) I Orwell who published his Animal Farm.
(C) II and III
(D) IV 22. The Enlightenment was characterized
by
17. Who, among the following is credited (A) Accelerated industrial production and
with the making of the first authoritative general well–being of the public.
Dictionary of the English Language? (B) A belief in the universal authority of
(A) Bishop Berkeley reason and emphasis on scientific
(B) Samuel Johnson experimentation.
(C) Edmund Burke (C) The Protestant work ethic and
(D) Horace Walpole compliance with Christian values of life.
(D) An undue faith in predestination and
neglect of free will.
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27. In which Jane Austen novel do you find
23. Which Shakespearean play contains the the characters Anne Elliott, Lady Russell,
line: “...there is a special providence in the Louisa Musgrove and Captain Wentworth?
fall of a sparrow”? (A) Emma
(A) King Lear (B) Mansfield Park
(B) Hamlet (C) Persuasion
(C) Coriolanus (D) Northanger Abbey
(D) Macbeth
28. In which of his essays does Homi
24. Match the following pairs of books and Bhabha discuss the „discovery‟ of English in
authors: colonial India?
Books (A) “Signs taken for Wonders”
(B) “Mimicry”
Authors (C) Nation and Narration
I. Condition of the Working (D) “The Commitment to Theory”
Class in England i. John Ruskin
II. London Labour and 29. ______was the first Sonnet Sequence in
the London Poor ii. Henry Mayhew English.
III. Past and (A) Edmund Spenser‟s Amoretti
Present iii. Thomas Carlyle (B) Philip Sidney‟s Astrophel and Stella
IV. Theunto This Last iv. Friedrich Engels (C) Samuel Daniel‟s Delia
(D) Michael Drayton‟s Idea‟s Mirror
Codes:
I II III IV 30. Which is the correct sequence of the
(A) iv i ii iii novels of V.S. Naipaul?
(B) iv ii iii i (A) The Mystic Masseur–Miguel Street–The
(C) ii iv i ii Suffrage of Elvira – A House for Mr. Biswas.
(D) iii ii iv iv (B) Miguel Street – The Mystic Masseur – A
House for Mr.Biswas – The Suffrage of
25. In which of the following texts do Elvira.
Aston, Davies and Mick appear as (C) The Suffrage of Elvira – Miguel Street –
characters? The Mystic Masseur – A House for Mr.
(A) Wyndham Lewis‟s Enemy Biswas.
(B) Harold Pinter‟s Caretaker (D) The Mystic Masseur – The Suffrage of
(C) Katherine Mansfield‟s “Life of Ma Elvira, Miguel Street – A House for Mr.
Parker” Biswas.
(D) Graham Greene‟s Brighton Rock
31. “Kubla Khan” takes an epigraph from
26. What is common to the following (A) Samuel Purchas‟ Purchas His Pilgrimage
writers? Identify the correct description (B) Hakluyt‟s Voyages
below: (C) The Book Named the Governour
William Congreve (D) Sir Thomas More‟s Utopia
George Etherege
William Wycherley 32. Which of the following author– theme
Thomas Otway is correctly matched?
(A) The Battle of the Books- Tribute to “The
(A) All of these were Restoration playwrights rude forefathers of the hamlet”.
(B) All of them were critics of Orwell‟s (B) The Rape of the Lock- Quarrel between
regime ancient and modern authors.
(C) All of them edited Shakespeare‟s plays (C) Gray‟s “Elegy”-Accumulation of wealth
(D) All of them wrote tragedies in the same and the consequent loss of human lives and
age values.
(D) The Deserted Village- Quarrel between
two families caused by Lord Petre.
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40. Which of the following is a better
33. Which among the following titles set a definition of an image in literary writing?
course for academic literary feminism? (A) A reflection
(A) Nostromo (B) A speaking picture
(B) From Ritual to Romance (C) A refraction
(C) A Room of One‟s Own (D) A reflected picture
(D) A Dance to the Music of Time
41. Whom did Keats regard as the prime
34. In which play do we see a reworking of example of „negative capability‟?
E.M.Forster‟s A Passage to India as a (A) John Milton
camaeo? (B) William Wordsworth
(A) The Birthday Party (C) William Shakespeare
(B) A Resounding Tinkle (D) P.B. Shelley
(C) Indian Ink
(D) Amadeus 42. Charles Dickens‟s A Tale of Two Cities
begins with the sentence
35. Shakespeare‟s sonnets (A) It was the best of times; it was the worst
(A) Do not carry a dedication. of times.
(B) Are dedicated to James I of England. (B) It was the brightest of times; it was the
(C) Are dedicated to Mary Arden. darkest of times.
(D) Are dedicated to an unknown “Mr. (C) It was the richest of times; it was the
W.H.” poorest of times.
(D) It was the happiest of times; it was the
36. Which of the following poems uses saddest of times.
terzarima?
(A) John Keats‟s “Ode to a Nightingale” 43. The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins
(B) P.B. Shelley‟s “Ode to the West Wind” were published posthumously by
(C) William Wordsworth‟s “The Solitary (A) Edwin Muir
Reaper” (B) Edward Thomas
(D) Alfred Tennyson‟s “Ulysses” (C) Robert Bridges
(D) Coventry Patmore
37. When one says that “someone is no
more” or that “someone has breathed his/ 44. Which of the following is the correct
her last”, the speaker is resorting to chronological sequence?
(A) Euphism (A) A Poison Tree – The Deserted Village –
(B) Euphony The Blessed Damozel– Ozymandias
(C) Understatement (B) The Deserted Village – A Poison Tree –
(D) Euphemism Ozymandias – The Blessed Damozel
(C) The Blessed Damozel – A Poison Tree –
38. Which of the following are “companion The Deserted Village – Ozymandias
poems”? (D) The Deserted Village – The Blessed
(A) “Gypsy songs” and “Songs and Sonnets” Damozel – Ozymandias – A Poison Tree
(B) “L‟Allegro” and “II Penseroso”
(C) “The Good Morrow” and “The Sun 45. The term homology means a
Rising” correspondence between two or more
(D) “Full Fathom Five” and “Hark, Hark! structures. Who of the following developed
The Lark” a theory of relations between literary works
and social classes in terms of homologies
39. What does the term episteme signify? (A) Raymond Williams
(A) Knowledge (B) Christopher Caudwell
(B) Archive (C) Lucien Goldmann
(C) Theology (D) Antonio Gramsci
(D) Scholarship
46. F. Turner‟s famous hypothesis is that
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(A) The Frontier has outlived its ideological 50.
utility in American civilization. (i) A pastiche is a mixture of themes, stylistic
(B) The Frontier has posed a challenge to the elements or subjects borrowed from other
American creative imagination. works.
(C) The Frontier has been the one great (ii) It is distinguished from parody because
determinant of American civilization. not all parody is pastiche
(D) The Frontier has been the one great (iii) A pastiche is also known as a „purple
deterrent to American progress. passage‟.
(iv) A pastiche is given to an elevated style,
47. Which statement(s) below on the especially in its
Spenserian stanza is/are accurate?
I. A quatrain, unrhymed, but alliterative (A) (i) and (ii) are correct.
II. A stanza of four lines in iambic (B) Only (i) is correct.
pentameter (C) (iii) and (iv) are correct.
III. An eight–line stanza in iambic (D) Only (iv) is correct.
pentameter followed by a ninth in six iambic
feet
IV. An eight–line stanza with six use of
figurative language. Iambic feet followed by a
ninth in iambic pentameter
(A) I and II
(B) II
(C) III
(D) IV
48. Match the following texts with their

respective themes:
I.Areopagitica (Milton) i. Fashion,
courtship,
seduction
II. Leviathan (Hobbes) ii.The liberty For
Unlicensed Printing
III. Alexander‟s Feast
(Dryden) iii. Absolute Sovereignty
IV. The Way of The
World (Congreve) iv. The power of
music
Codes:
I II III IV
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii iii iv i
(C) iii iv i ii
(D) iv iii i ii
49. The preliminary version of James

Joyce‟s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
was called
(A) Stephen Hero
(B) Bloom‟s Blunder
(C) A Day in the life of Stephen Dedalus
(D) The Dead
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DECEMBER 2012
5.
PAPER III The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood – The
University Wits – The Rhymers‟ Club – The
1. Which of the following book by V. S. Transitional Poets – The Scottish
Naipaul is subtitled The Caribbean Chaucerians.
Revisited? The right chronological sequence would be
(A) In a Free State
(B) A Bend in the River (A) The Scottish Chaucerians – The
(C) The Middle Passage University Wits – The Transitional Poets –
(D) An Area of Darkness The Pre- Raphaelite brotherhood – The
Rhymers‟ Club.
2. „Fluency‟ in language is the same as (B) The Rhymers‟ Club, The University Wits
(A) The ability to put oneself across – The Scottish Chaucerians – The
comfortably in speech and/or writing. Transitional Poets, The Pre-Raphaelite
(B) The ability to command language rather brotherhood.
than language commanding the user. (C) The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood – The
(C) Glibness Rhymers‟ Club – The Transitional Poets, The
(D) Accuracy Scottish Chaucerians –The University Wits.
(D) The University Wits, The Scottish
3. Which of the following statements on Chaucerians – The Pre-Raphaelite
Pathetic Fallacy is NOT TRUE? brotherhood, The Transitional Poets – The
(A) This term applies to descriptions that are Rhymers‟ Club.
not true but imaginary and fanciful.
(B) Pathetic Fallacy is generally understood 6. „Aucitya‟ refers to:
as human traits being applied or attributed to I. Decorum
non-human things in nature. II. Propriety
(C) In its first use, the term was used with III. Proportion
disapproval because nature cannot be equated IV. Accuracy
with the human in respect of emotions and
responses. (A) I and IV are correct.
(D) The term was originally used by (B) I and III are correct.
Alexander Pope in his Pastorals (1709). (C) II is correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.
4. Identify the correctly matched group:
List – I List – II 7. In the closing paragraph of The Trial two
i. „L‟ Allegro and men accompany Joseph K to a part of the
„IlPensoro so‟ 1. Pastoral elegy city to eventually execute him. The place is
ii. „Lycidas‟ 2. Masque (A) A Public Park
iii. Comus 3. Sonnet (B) A Church
iv. „On His Blindness‟ 4. Prose tract (C) A Quarry
v. Areopagitica 5. Companion (D) An Abandoned Factory
poems
in octo-syllabic 8. Match List – I with List – II according to
couplets the code given below:
Codes: List – I List – II
i ii iii iv v (Character) (Work)
(A) 1 2 3 4 5 i. Telemachus 1. Notes from
(B) 5 1 2 3 4 underground
(C) 1 3 2 4 5 ii. Anya 2. Old Goriot
(D) 5 1 2 4 3 iii. Zverkov 3. The Cherry Orchard
iv. Rastignac 4. The Odyssey
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Codes: 13. Here is a list of Partition novels which
i ii iii iv have „violence on the woman‟s body‟ as a
(A) 4 1 2 3 significant theme. Pick the odd one out:
(B) 3 1 4 2 (A) The Pakistani Bride
(C) 2 4 1 3 (B) What the Body Remembers
(D) 4 3 1 2 (C) Train to Pakistan
(D) The Ice-Candy Man
9. This renowned German poet was born in
Prague and died of Leukemia. When young 14. Match the translators in List – I with
he met Tolstoy and was influenced by him. the English translations of Indian Literature
The titles of his last two works contain the texts in List – II according to the code given
words “sonnets” and “elegies”. He is below:
(A) Herman Hesse
(B) Heinrich Heine List – I List – II
(C) Joseph Freiherr Von Eichendorff i. K.B. Vaid 1. Says Tuka
(D) Raine Marie Rilke ii. O.V. Vijayan 2. The Diary of a Maid
Servant
10. Which of the following plays gained iii. Dilip Chitre 3. Samskara
notoriety for its caricature of the iv. A.K. Ramanujan 4. Saga of Dharmapuri
philosopher Socrates?
(A) The Birds Codes:
(B) The Wasps i ii iii iv
(C) The Clouds (A) 4 1 2 3
(D) The Frogs (B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 2 4 1 3
11. Raskolnikov murders the old lady: (D) 1 2 3 4
I. To get her money and achieve his
ambition in life. 15. In his poem “A Morning Walk” Nissim
II. To achieve his political goal as an Ezekiel talks about a „Barbaric City sick
extremist and a nihilist with slums / Deprived of seasons, blessed
III. To prove his superiority over other with rains / its hawkers, beggars,
young men of the time. ironlunged/ Processions led by frantic
IV. All of the above drums.‟ Identify the city:
Find the correct combination according to (A) Calcutta
the code: (B) Banares
(C) Bombay
(A) I and II are correct. (D) Agra
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and III are correct. 16. In Practical Criticism I.A. Richards
(D) I, II and III are correct. links four kinds of meanings in most human
utterances to four aspects. These are
12. In his preface to The Order of Things, (A) Sense, Feeling, Tone, Intention
Foucault mentions being influenced by a (B) Sound, Feeling, Nuance, Intention
Latin American writer and his work. (C) Sense, Voice, Emotion, Intention
Choose the correct answer: (D) Sense, Image, Tone, Intention
(A) Marquez – “The Solitude of Latin
America” 17. In „Christabel‟ after Geraldine enters
(B) Borges – “Chinese Encyclopaedia” Sir Leoline‟s castle on her way to
(C) Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo Christabel‟s chamber there are several ill
(D) Alejo Carpentier – “On the Marvelous in omens which warn the reader about
America” Geraldine. Pick out the phrase which does
not serve as an omen:
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(A)The „angry moan‟ of the ailing mastiff 22. According to Matthew Arnold,
bitch „touchstones‟ help us test truth and
(B) „The Owlet‟s Scritch‟ seriousness that constitute the best poetry.
(C) „The Moaning Wind‟ What are the „touchstones‟?
(D) „A tongue of light, a fit of flame‟ (A) The purple passages of lyric poetry
(B) Passages from ancient poets
18. The word resurrect is (C) The lines and expressions of the great
(A) An abbreviation masters
(B) A spurious verb (D) Passages of epic strength and vigour
(C) A back-formation
(D) A disguised compound 23. „An extremely simplified form of
language used for oral, verbal contact
19. Match List – I with List – II according among a community whose members speak
to the code given below: different languages but do not share a
List – I List – II common language in order to fulfill the
i. Annie John 1. Picaresque essential needs of communication.‟
ii. Tom Jones 2. Which of the following is best described by
Bildungsroman this definition?
iii. The Sorrows of Young Werther 3. Gothic (A) Creole
iv. Vathek 4. (B) Pidgin
Epistolary (C) Dialect
(D) Lingua franca
Codes:
i ii iii iv 24. What do the prosodic features of a
(A) 1 2 3 4 language tell us?
(B) 2 1 4 3 (A) The speaker‟s native language and its
(C) 4 3 2 1 cognate languages.
(D) 3 4 1 2 (B) The speaker‟s age, emotional state, social
class, educational background, geographical
20. Ted Hughes‟s poem „The Thought- Fox‟ provenance etc.
is (C) The speaker‟s self-confidence or lack of it.
I. About Thought as Fox (D) The speaker‟s command of the resources
II. about the Fox as Thought of the language spoken by him/her and their
III. About the process of writing poetry. deployment.
IV. About Thought entering the poet‟s brain
like the Fox emerging from darkness. 25. What novel answers to the following
Find the most appropriate combination descriptions?
according to the code: This was a 1990 best-seller by a British writer.
The work incorporates many genres such as
(A) I and II are correct. letters, diaries and poetry as also third-person
(B) I and III are correct. narratives. The plot here involves two time-
(C) I and IV are correct. periods – contemporary and Victorian. The
(D) I, III and IV are correct. work is subtitled A Romance.
(A) The Virgin in the Garden
21. In Aristotle‟s Poetics we read that it is (B) Possession
the imitation of an action that is complete (C) The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress
and whole, and of a certain (D) The Sea Lady
magnitude….having a beginning, a middle,
and an end‟. What is „it‟? 26. The following words and phrases,
(A) Tragedy „peace makers‟, „help-meet‟, „the fat of the
(B) Epic land‟, „a labour of love‟, „the eleventh hour‟
(C) Poetry and „the shadow of death‟ were made
(D) Farce current by
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(A) The British Greek scholars like Roger Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund
Ascham Burke‟s Reflections on, the Revolution
(B) The fifteenth century British prelates in France – Mary Wollstone Craft‟s A
(C) The Puritan tractarians Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
(D) The sixteen-century translators of the (D) Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth
Bible and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with
„Preface‟, second edition by
27. Who among the following writers Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund
asserted „Commonwealth Literature‟ does Burke‟s Reflections on the Revolution
not exist? in France – Mary Wollstone Craft‟s A
(A) Amitav Ghosh Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
(B) Sulman Rushdie
(C) V.S. Naipaul 30. Who is John Keats‟s „Sylvan Historian‟?
(D) Nirad Chaudhari (A) Fanny Brawne
(B) Nightingale
28. Identify the one in correct chronological (C) The Grecian Urn
sequence: (D) The Bridge of Quietness
(A) The Norman Conquest – The
Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – William 31. This periodical was started in 1709 with
Tyndall‟s New Testament – The Birth a motive „to expose the false arts of life, to
of William Shakespeare pull the disguise of cunning, vanity and
(B) The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – affectation, and to recommend a general
William Tyndall‟s New Testament – simplicity in our dress, our discourse and
The Birth of William Shakespeare – our behaviour.‟ The founder of the
The Norman Conquest periodical wrote under the pseudonym of
(C) The Norman Conquest –William Isaac Bickerstaff. The periodical described
Tyndall‟s New Testament – The above is
Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – The (A) The Tatler
Birth of William Shakespeare (B) The Spectator
(D) William Tyndall‟s New (C) The Critical Review
Testament – The Norman Conquest – (D) The Rambler
The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – The
Birth of William Shakespeare 32. Arrange the following in the order in
which the details of a research article /
29. Which of the following arrangements is essay appear in your bibliography.
in the correct chronological sequence? (A) Page numbers, the title of the essay, the
(A) Mary Wellstone Craft‟s A title of the journal, volume & issue numbers,
Vindication of the Rights of Woman – year of publication
Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and (B) The title of the essay, page numbers, the
Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with title of the journal, volume and issue
„Preface‟, second edition by numbers, year of publication
Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund (C) The title of the journal, the title of the
Burke‟s Reflections on the Revolution essay, page numbers, volume and issue
in France. numbers, year of publication
(B) Edmund Burke‟s Reflections on (D) The title of the essay, the title of the
the Revolution in France – Mary journal, volume & issue numbers, the year of
Wollstone Craft‟s A Vindication of the publication, page numbers
Rights of Woman – Lyrical Ballads by
Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical 33. From the following indicate the work
Ballads with „Preface‟, second edition which is not a Dystopia:
by Wordsworth and Coleridge. (A) Aldous Huxley – A Brave New World
(C) Lyrical Ballads with „Preface‟, (B) George Orwell – 1984
second edition by Wordsworth and (C) Yevgeny Zamyatin– We
Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads by (D) Evelyn Waugh – Brideshed Revisited
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(C) The Bible
34. „Unless wariness be used, as good (D) The short lyric
almost kill a man as kill a good book.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, 39. Identify the correctly matched group:
God‟s image, but he who destroys a good List – I List – II
book, kills reason itself, kills the image of I.Where Angles Fear to Tread 1. Malay
God as it were in the eye. Many a man lives ii.A Portrait of the Artist as a
a burden to the earth; but a good book is the Young Man 2. Russia
precious life-blood of a master spirit….‟ iii.The Plumed Serpent 3. Italy
Where is the passage from? iv.An Outcast of the Islands 4. Mexico
(A) Milton‟s Areopagitica v.Under Western Eyes 5. Dublin
(B) Sidney‟s Apologie for Poetry
(C) Dryden‟s „Preface to the Fables‟ Codes:
(D) Marvell‟s The Rehearsal Transposed i ii iii iv v
(A) 3 5 4 1 2
35. Virginia Woolf rubbished the idea of (B) 4 3 5 2 1
character and the understanding of realism (C) 5 4 3 2 1
of writers like Arnold Bennett, John (D) 2 1 3 4 5
Galsworthy and H.G. Wells. Her famous
essay is called „Mr. Bennet and Mrs. 40. Given below are two statements, one
Brown‟. Who is Mrs. Brown? labelled as Assertion (A) and the other
(A) The name Woolf gives a woman whom labelled as Reason (R).
she happens to meet in a train. Assertion (A): Chaucer describes
(B) A servant in Mr. Bennett‟s household. „Madame Eglentyne‟ thus: „She was so
(C) A character in a Bennett story. charitable and so pitous, She wolde
(D) Mr. Bennett‟s neighbour who happens to wepe, if that she sawe a mous caught
be a writer. in atrappe‟
Reason (R): On her „broche of gold
36. E.M. Forster uses some recurrent full shene‟ was written Amor Vincit
images in A Passage to India. Pick the odd Omnia.
one out:
(A) Wasp In the context of the two statements, which
(B) Stone one of the following is correct?
(C) Thunder
(D) Echo (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
correct explanation of (A).
37. „Now stop your noses, readers, all and (B) Both (A) and (R) are true but(R) is not the
some, For here‟s a tun of midnight-work to correct explanation of (A).
come, Og, from a treason-tavern rolling (C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
home. Round as a globe, and liquor‟dev‟ry (D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
chink Goodly and great he rails behind his
link‟. 41. Identify the correct statements on
In the above extract from Absalom and Langue and Parole below:
Achitophel Og is 1. Langue is the abstract language system, the
(A) Elkanah Settle grammar of a language.
(B) Lord Harvey 2. Parole is the language actually produced by
(C) Thomas Shadwell its user following langue.
(D) Joseph Addison 3. Langue is the language actually produced
by its users following parole.
38. D.H. Lawrence uses the expression „a 4. Parole is the abstract language system, the
bright book of life‟ to describe grammar of a system.
(A) The novel
(B) The dramatic monologue (A) 1 and 3 are correct.
(B) 1 and 2 are correct.
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(C) 2 and 3 are correct. (A) 1640-1660
(D) 2 and 4 are correct. (B) 1649-1660
(C) 1649-1659
42. In Monica Ali‟s Brick Lane which (D) 1640-1659
among the following characters has „a face
like a frog‟? 47. “To tell the truth Shug act more manly
(A) Nazneen than rest, men. I means she upright, honest,
(B) Chanu speak her mind…”What light does the
(C) Hasina quotation throwon ShugAvery?
(D) Karim (A) She is a manly woman.
(B) She is upright and honest in asserting her
43. „The grey-eyed morn smiles on the lesbian identity.
frowning night, Check‟ring the eastern clouds (C) She is bent on self-assertion
with streaks of light; and flecked darkness like (D) Both (B) and (C)
a drunkard reels
From forth day‟s path and Titan‟s burning 48.
wheels.‟ 1. A content word is not a function word.
(Romeo and Juliet II 3, 1 – 4) 2. A content word has lesser meaning than a
The speaker describes function word.
(A) The Setting Sun 3. A content word has no function.
(B) The Return Home of a Drunkard 4. A content word bears lexical meaning
(C) The Drawing of a New Day whereas a function word just about means
(D) The Rising Sun functionally.
Which of these statements are correct?
44. „How noble in reason! How infinitein (A) 1 and 4 are correct.
faculty! In form and moving how express (B) 1 and 2 are correct.
and admirable! In action how like anangel! (C) 3 and 4 are correct.
In apprehension how like a God!‟ (D) 2 and 4 are correct.
What does Hamlet marvel at in this passage?
49. The year 1828 is a landmark in the
(A) His own self history of American language and
(B) His father literature. Identify the reason from the
(C) Man following:
(D) Woman (A) Mark twain‟s The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn was published in that year.
45. Said identifies Orientalism as: (B) The Southern Literary Messenger gained
I. What an Orientalist does. wide circulation since that year.
II. A style of thought based on anontological (C) Washington Irving was adjudged the
and epistemological distinction made nation‟s greatest writer in that year.
between the Orient and the Occident. (D) Noah Webster published An American
III. a discourse dealing with the Orient Dictionary of the English Language in that
IV. a fact of nature rather than oneof human year.
production
In the light of the statement above: 50. What alternative title to her
(A) II and III are correct, I and IVare wrong. Frankenstein did Marry Shelley give?
(B) I and III are correct, II and IV are wrong. (A) A Gothic Tale
(C) I, II and III are correct and IV is wrong. (B) A Gothic Romance
(D) IV is correct and I, II and III are wrong. (C) The Modern Prometheus
(D) A Modern Parable
46. Identify the period during which the
Puritans under the rule of Oliver Cromwell 51. Which of the following statements on
and his Commonwealth shut down all George Lamming‟s In the Castle ofMy Skin
English theatres on religious and moral [1953] is not true?
grounds: (A) On one level this is a coming of-age story.
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(B) It is an elegiac account of a village‟s A mock-heroic poem
growth into awareness in the late colonial (A) Mocks at heroic pretensions in poets and
period. critics
(C) Its themes parody The Tempest. (B) Mocks heroism, an exaggerated virtue in
(D) This was George Lamming‟s first novel. all epics
(C) Uses a heroic style to deride airs and
52. We are likely to misunderstand an affectations
Emily Dickinson poem if we take her (D) Uses a mocking style to deride heroes
famous dashes to be … and hero-worship
(A) Quite specific and unambiguous
(B) Ambiguous and indeterminate 57. Which of the following statements is
(C) Suggestive of both forward and backward not true of Laurence Sterne‟s Tristram
movements in terms of sense Shandy?
(D) Suggestive of links but equivocally (A) It has a linear plot.
(B) It opens and ends with the theme of birth.
53. Readers of Tayeb Salih‟s Seasons of (C) It contains a trip to France.
Migration to the North will undoubtedly (D) It contains a marbled page.
notice its parallels with the story/stories of:
I. Death in Venice 58. In drama, an aside is addressed…
II. Othello (A) To an audience by an actor; the words so
III. Bartleby the Scrivener spoken are not meant to be heard by other
IV. Heart of Darkness actors on the stage.
Of the above: (B) To other actors on the stage; the words so
spoken are not meant to be heard by the
(A) I and II are correct. audience.
(B) Only IV is correct. (C) By the playwright to the audience.
(C) II and III are correct. (D) By the protagonist to his/her antagonist
(D) II and IV are correct.
59. Match List – I with List – II according
54. Which statement is not true of Benedict to the code given below:
Anderson‟s Imagined Communities? List – I List – II
(A) It is a prosaic response to the myth (Novels) (Last Lines)
of El Dorado. i. The Mayor of
(B) It is subtitled Reflections on the Casterbridge 1. „He walked towards
Origin and Spread of Nationalism. the Faintly humming,
(C) In this book, Anderson advances Glowing town,
the view that nations are not natural quickly.‟
entities but narrative constructs. ii. Sons and Lovers 2. „In their death,
(D) In Anderson‟s view, modern they were not divided.‟
nationalism was basically a iii. The Great Gatsby 3. „Happiness was
consequence of the convergence of but the occasional
capitalism, the new print technology episode in a general
and the fixity that resulted from print drama of pain.‟
extending to „Vernacular‟ languages. iv. The Mill on the
Floss 4. „So we beat on,
55. „By swaggering could I never thrive, for boats against the current,
the rain it raineth everyday. ‟These lines borne back ceaselessly
from Twelfth Night occur in the novel: into the past.‟
(A) Middlemarch Codes:
(B) Vanity Fair i ii iii iv
(C) Our Mutual Friend (A) 1 2 3 4
(D) Far From the Madding Crowd (B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 3 1 4 2
56. What is a mock-heroic poem? https://t.me/thelitbud
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(C) (S) is a poetic view; the (I) does not suit
60. “There is nothing outside the text,” is a it.
statement by (D) (S) is a poetic view and bears no
(A) Victor Shklovsky relationship to (I).
(B) Jacques Derrida
(C) Roland Barthes 67. „The parish of rich women, physical
(D) Ferdinand de Saussure decay, / yourself…‟
What do these make of W.B. Yeats in W.H.
61. Here is a list of women abandoned by Auden‟s view?
their lovers in Hardy‟s novels. (A) Proud
Pick the odd one out: (B) Vainglorious
(A) Fanny Robin (C) Avaricious
(B) Tess D‟Urberville (D) Silly
(C) Marty South
(D) Bathsheba Everdene 68. Who among Charles Dickens‟s
characters is „umble‟ and who „willin‟?
62. What is the following a description of? (A) Mr. Pickwick, Mrs. Gamp
„A loose sally of the mind; an irregular (B) Master Humphrey, Nicolas Nickleby
indigested piece‟ (C) Martin, Little Nell
(A) Essay (D) Uriah Heep, Barkis
(B) Autobiography
(C) Epistolary Fiction 69. “Fourth World Literature” refers to
(D) Diary I. The works of native people living in a land
that has been taken over by non-natives.
63. From the following indicate the critic II. The works of black people in the United
who is not a New Critic: States.
(A) Allen Tate III. The literature of the marginalized.
(B) Robert Penn Warren IV. Refers to the works of non heterosexuals
(C) Cleanth Brooks Of the above:
(D) Claude Levi-Strauss
(A) I and II are correct.
64. From the following list, pick out a (B) I and III are correct.
woman character who does not belong to (C) II and IV are correct.
Amitav Ghosh‟s novels: (D) I, III and IV are correct.
(A) Ila
(B) Urvashi 70. Assertion (A): In The Duchess of Malfi
(C) Sonali Ferdinand sets a whole group of mad men on
(D) Piyali the
Duchess and they dance and sing in a crazy
65. Pick the odd man out of the following manner.
members of the subaltern group: Reason (R): His desire was to provide a
(A) Ranajit Guha strange entertainment to drive the Duchess
(B) Partha Chatterjee mad.
(C) DipeshChakrabarty In the context of the two statements, which
(D) Sumit Sarkar one of the following is correct?
(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong.
66. Statement (S): “Our birth is but a sleep (B) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
and forgetting.” (C) (A) is wrong, but (R) is correct.
Interpretation (I): The human soul never (D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong
tires in the course of life, it never dies.
Therefore, the human life is a long sleep and 71. Why is The Signifying Monkey of Henry
ephemeral events are better forgotten. Louis Gates JR. a notable contribution to
(A) (S) is a view and (I) is not correct. the study of African- American literature?
(B) (S) is a view and (I) is correct. https://t.me/thelitbud
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(A) It focuses on largely neglected African- William Wycherley
American novelists and poets. George Eltherege,
George Farquha 2. The Pre- Raphaelite
(B) It offers a theory of African- American Brotherhood
criticism that draws upon rhetorical and
signifying practices. iii. John Everett Millais,
(C) It offers a theory of African- American James Collinson,
films and dramatic arts that signify Black Ford Madox Brown,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 3. The University Wits
ethos.
(D) It departs from critical theory of iv. Ernest Dowson,
autobiographical narratives involving Black Lionel Johnson,
lives and cultural traditions. W.B. Yeats 4. The Restoration
Playwrights
72. This influential critic Codes:
I. wrote influential commentaries on i ii iii iv
such poets as Shelley, Blake and (A) 3 2 1 4
Yeats. (B) 1 4 3 2
II. Published such titles as The (C) 2 1 4 3
Anxiety of Influence, A Map of (D) 3 4 2 1
Misreading, Poetry and Repression
and The Western Canon. 75. Combine the statements correctly:
III. Asserted that most literary According to Homi Bhabha________
criticism is but slightly disguised 1. Mimicry is not mere copying or emulating
religion and the colonizer‟s culture, behaviour and
IV. Is, arguably, the most widely manners.
known and contrarian among his 2. But it is further aimed at perfection and
American peers in the English excess.
Academy. 3. Mimicry is mere copying the colonizer‟s
culture, behaviour and manners…
Identify the critic 4. But is informed by both mockery and a
(A) Edward Said certain menace.
(B) Geoffrey Chaucer
(C) Harold Bloom (A) 1 and 4
(D) Sven Birkrets (B) 1 and 2
(C) 3 and 4
73. According to the Italian Marxist (D) 3 and 2
theorist Antonio Gramsci:
(A) Hegemony is synonymous with

domination
(B) Hegemony involves a degree of consent
on the part of subject people.
(C) Hegemony involves a degree of coercion
on the part of a dominant political entity.
(D) Hegemony is synonymous with
subjugation
74. Match the following:
i. George Peele,
Robert Greene,
Thomas Lodge,
Thomas Kyd 1. The Rhymers‟ Club / The
Decadents of the 1890‟s
ii. William Congreve, https://t.me/thelitbud
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DECEMBER 2013 II. outspoken and boastfully licentious
III. a witness to masculine oppression
IV. bubbling with vitality
PAPER II Find the correct combination according to the
code:
1. ____ the very word is like a bell
To toll me back from thee to my sole self! (A) I, II and III are correct.
Which word? (B) I, II and IV are correct.
(A) Bird (C) I, III and IV are correct.
(B) Immortal (D) II, III and IV are correct.
(C) Forlorn
(D) Fancy 6. The novel tells the story of twin brothers,
Waldo, the man of reason and intellect, and
2. In poems like “The Altar” and “Easter Arthur, the innocent half-wit, the way their
Wings” ________ exploits _______. lives are inextricably intertwined. Which is
(A) John Donne, alliteration the novel?
(B) Robert Herrick, trimetre (A) The Tree of Man
(C) G.M. Hopkins, sprung rhythm (B) Voss
(D) George Herbert, typographic space (C) The Solid Mandala
(D) The Vivisector
3. No, no thou hast not felt the lapse of
hours! 7. Who among the following was NOT a
For what wears out the life of mortal member of the Scriblerus Club?
men? (A) Thomas Parnell
„Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, (B) Alexander Pope
Exhaust the energy of strongest souls (C) Joseph Addison
And numb the elastic powers … (D) John Gay
Who does the poet address here?
(A) The Scholar Gipsy 8. _______ is a theological term brought
(B) Telemachus into literary criticism by _______.
(C) The Nightingale (A) Entelechy, St. Augustine
(D) The Poet‟s Sister, Dorothy (B) Ambiguity, William Empson
(C) Adequation, Fr Walter Ong
4. The roman a clef (French for “novel with (D) Epiphany, James Joyce
a key”) uses contemporary historical figures
as its chief characters. They are of course 9. ________ the Almighty Power Hurled
given fictional names. One example is headlong flaming from th‟ Ethereal Sky,
Aldous Huxley‟s Point Counter Point. With hideous ruin and combustion down
Its Mark Rampion is modelled on To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
M_______. In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire Who
(A) D.H. Lawrence durst defy th‟ Omnipotent to Arms.
(B) E.M. Forster (Paradise Lost, I.44-49.)
(C) Wyndham Lewis Choose the appropriate word:
(D) Arnold Bennett (A) Him
(B) He
5. She was a worthy woman al hir lyve, (C) Satan
Housbondes at chirche-dore she hadde (D) The Fiend
fyve,
10. Which of the following works does not
In the „Prologue‟ Chaucer represents the Wife have a mad woman as a character in it?
of Bath as: (A) The Yellow Wallpaper
(B) The Mad Woman in the Attic
I. crude and vulgar (C) Jane Eyre
(D) Wide Sargasso Sea
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recommended the use of the thread without
11. Which of the following is NOT a quest the needle, or the needle without the
narrative? thread.”
(A) Shelley‟s Alastor This famous passage describing the relation
(B) Byron‟s Manfred of idea to form is found in
(C) Coleridge‟s Christabel (A) Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry
(D) Keats‟s Endymion (B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia
Literaria
12. The novel has a scene where African (C) Henry James, “The Art of Fiction”
American students are made to compete and (D) I.A. Richards, Principles of Literary
fight with each other as they rush for the Criticism
gold coins tossed on an electric blanket.
Identify the novel. 17. Identify the correctly matched set
(A) Richard Wright: Native Son below:
(B) James Baldwin: Another Country (A) The Norman Conquest – 1066 William Caxton and the
introduction of printing – 1575
(C) Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man The King James Bible – 1611
(D) Toni Morrison: Bluest Eye Dr. Johnson‟s English Dictionary – 1755
The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate – 1649-1660
(B) The Norman Conquest – 1066
13. G.M. Hopkins‟s “Windhover” is William Caxton and the introduction of printing – 1475
dedicated: The King James Bible – 1611
(A) To Christ, our Lord Dr. Johnson‟s English Dictionary - 1755
(B) To Christ our lord (C) The Norman Conquest – 1016
(C) To no one William Caxton and the introduction of printing- 1475
(D) To Christ, the Lord The King James Bible – 1564
Dr. Johnson‟s English Dictionary -1780
14. Match List – I with List – II according (D) The Norman Conquest – 1013
to the code given below: William Caxton and the introduction of printing – 1575
The King James Bible – 1627
List – I (Authors) List – II (Poems) Dr. Johnson‟s English Dictionary – 1746
i. Ted Hughes 1. “The Otter” The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate – 1624-1660
ii. Seamus Heaney 2. “Snake”
iii. W.H. Auden 3. “Ghost Crabs” 18. Leopold Bloom in Ulysses is
iv. D.H. Lawrence 4. “Prevent the Dog (A) a Great War veteran
from Barking with a Juicy Bone.” (B) a Dublin bar owner
Codes: (C) a Jewish advertising agent
i ii iii iv (D) an Irish nationalist
(A) 1 2 4 3
(B) 2 3 1 4 19. “Late capitalism”, by which is meant
(C) 3 1 4 2 accelerated technological development and
(D) 3 2 1 4 the massive extension of intellectually
qualified labour, was first popularised by
15. His cooks with long disuse their trade ______.
forgot; (A) Terry Eagleton
Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were (B) Ernst Mandel
hot. (C) Raymond Williams
Who is this character whose stinginess passed (D) Stanley Fish
into a proverb?
(A) Corah 20. Which of the following arrangements is in
(B) Shimei the correct chronological sequence?
(C) Zimri (A) Native Son by Richard Wright – Invisible
(D) Achitophel Man by Ralph Ellison – Their Eyes Were
Watching God by Zora Neil Hurston – Another
16. “The story and the novel, the idea and Country by James Baldwin
the form, are the needle and thread, and I (B) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora
never heard of a guild of tailors who Neil Hurston – Native Son by Richard Wright
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– Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison – Another
Country by James Baldwin 25. Where does Act I Scene 1 of William
(C) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison – Native Congreve‟s Way of the World open?
Son by Richard Wright – Another Country by (A) A Chocolate-House
James Baldwin – Their Eyes Were Watching (B) A Pub
God by Zora Neil Hurston (C) A Carrefour
(D) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora (D) The drawing room of Sir Willfull‟s
Neil Hurston – Another Country by James mansion
Baldwin – Native Son by Richard Wright –
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 26. While “a well-boiled icicle” for “a
well-oiled bicycle” is an example of
21. Metaphor is so widespread that it is Spoonerism, someone saying “Congenital
often used as an umbrella term to include food” for „Continental food‟ is an example
other figures of speech such as metonyms of ______.
which can be technically distinguished from (A) Malaproprism
it in its narrower usage. (B) Pleonasm
Identify the metaphorical phrase in this (C) Neologism
sentence: (D) Archaism
(A) narrower usage
(B) technically distinguished 27. It is unimaginable that all the following
(C) figures of speech events happened in one year:
(D) umbrella term 1. Arthur Evans discovered the first
European civilization; his excavations
22. Along the shore of silver streaming Thames; in Crete revealed a culture that was far
Whose rutty bank, the which his river hems, older than either Attic Greece or
Was painted all with variable flowers,… Ancient Rome.
Fit to deck maidens‟ bowers 2. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch published
And crown their paramours the Oxford Book of English Verse.
Against their bridal day, which is no long; 3. Pablo Picasso stepped off the
Sweet Thames! run softly till I end my song. Barcelona train at Gare d‟ Orsay,
(Spenser‟s Prothalamion) Paris.
4. Max Planck unveiled the Quantum
Another poet fondly recalls these lines but Theory.
cannot conceal their heavily ironic tone in: 5. Hugo de Vries identified what
(A) Marianne Moore‟s “Spenser‟s Ireland” would later come to be called genes.
(B) Sylvia Plath‟s “Morning Song” 6. Sigmund Freud published The
(C) W.H. Auden‟s “In Praise of Limestone” Interpretation of Dreams.
(D) T.S. Eliot‟s Waste Land 7. Coca-cola arrived in Britain.
23. The tramp in Pinter‟s first big hit, The Identify the year:
Caretaker, often travels under an assumed (A) 1899
name. It is (B) 1900
(A) Bernard Jenkins (C) 1901
(B) Roly Jenkins (D) 1903
(C) Jack Jenkins
(D) Peter Jenkins 28. Brother to a Prince and fellow to a
beggar if he be found worthy.
24. Here is a list of early English plays This is the epigraph to
imitating Greek and Latin plays. Pick the (A) T.S. Eliot‟s “The Hollow Men”
odd one out: (B) Rudyard Kipling‟s “The Man Who
(A) Gorboduc Would be the King”
(B) Tamburlaine (C) George Eliot‟s Silas Marner
(C) Ralph Roister Doister (D) E.M. Forster‟s Howard‟s End
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29. Robert Graves‟s “In Broken Images” iii. A Passage to India 3. „He feels it himself
ends thus: and says often that he is “preparing to leave
He in a new confusion of his understanding; all this; preparing to leave,...”, while he
I in a new understanding of my confusion. waves his hands sadly at his butterflies.‟
The figure of speech here is _______. iv. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(A) Chiasmus 4. „ “No not yet,” and
(B) Catachresis thesky said, “No, not there”.‟
(C) Inversion
(D) Zeugma Codes:
i ii iii iv
30. The phrase “leaves dancing” is an (A) 2 4 3 1
example of ________. (B) 3 2 4 1
(A) pathetic fallacy (C) 3 1 4 2
(B) hyperbole (D) 2 3 1 4
(C) pun
(D) conceit 34. Identify the incorrect description/s of
“Sprung Rhythm” from the following:
31. At the end of The Great Gatsby, the
narrator Nick Carraway observes: 1. This rhythm causes ideas to spring in our
“They were careless people”. Who were minds – hence Sprung Rhythm.
they? 2. In Sprung Rhythm the feet are of equal
(A) Tom and Daisy length.
(B) The Wilsons 3. A foot may have one to four syllables in
(C) Gatsby and his friends Sprung Rhythm.
(D) The people of East Egg 4. Its metre is derived from the metre of
Anglo-Saxon poetry which was based on
32. William Wordsworth‟s statement of accent and linked by alliteration.
purpose in publishing the Lyrical Ballads
carries the following phrase. (Complete the (A) 4 is incorrect.
phrase correctly). (B) 1 & 4 are incorrect.
“to choose incidents from common life and (C) 3 is incorrect.
to relate or describe them, throughout, as (D) 1 is incorrect.
far as possible, ______.”
(A) in a selection of language really used by 35. Who among the following proposes that
men. the unconscious comes into being only in
(B) in a relation to language really used by language?
men. (A) Sigmund Freud
(C) in a selection of language really used by (B) Jacques Lacan
common man. (C) Stuart Hall
(D) in deference to language actually used by (D) Paul de Man
men.
36. The Elizabethan Settlement established
33. Match List – I with List – II according during the reign of Elizabeth I
to the code given below: I. ensured the supremacy of the Church of
List – I (Novels) List – II (Last lines) England.
i.Lord Jim 1. „It was done; it was II. allowed Christians to acknowledge the
finished. Yes, she thought laying down her authority of the Pope.
brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my III. allowed the extremer Protestants to be
vision.‟ part of the Anglican church.
ii.To the Lighthouse 2. „April 27. Old IV. created a group known as the
father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in Roundheads.
good stead…‟ The correct combination according to the
code is:
(A) I and III are correct.
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(B) I and II are correct. 5. The Burial of the Dead
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) III and IV are correct. (A) 3, 2, 1, 5, 4
(B) 5, 1, 2, 3, 4
37. Which of the following poems by (C) 5, 2, 3, 1, 4
Tennyson does NOT speak of old age and (D) 5, 3, 1, 2, 4
death?
(A) “The Beggar Maid” 42. Sir Plume is a character in ____ .
(B) “The Lotus-Eaters” (A) Dryden‟s Absalom and Achitophel
(C) “Ulysses” (B) Congreve‟s The Way of the World
(D) “Tithonus” (C) Pope‟s The Rape of the Lock
(D) Farquhar‟s The Beaux‟ Strategem
38. One English poet addressing another:
Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart; 43. Steeling herself to the murder, Lady
Thou hast a voice whose sound was like the Macbeth calls on ______ to “unsex me
sea: here”. (Macbeth I.5.39)
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, Choose the right option to fill in the blank:
So didst thou travel on life‟s common way, (A) God
In cheerful godliness…. (B) the spirits of hell
Whose lines are these? To whom are they (C) the angels in heaven
addressed? (D) no one in particular
(A) W.H. Auden – W.B. Yeats
(B) P.B. Shelley – William Blake 44. You will find the following lines in an
(C) William Wordsworth – John Milton English poem:
(D) Ben Jonson – William Shakespeare Thou by the Indian Ganges‟ side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the side
39. Samuel Johnson‟s Lives of Poets (1781) Of Humber would complain.
was originally a series of introductions to Which poem? Who is the poet?
the poets he wrote for a group of London (A) “Lonely Hearts.” Wendy Cope
publishers. They were collected as: (B) “Holy Thursday.” William Blake
(A) Lives of English Poets: Critical and (C) “Tiger Mask Ritual.” Chitra Banerjee
Biographical Essays. Divakaruni
(B) Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the (D) “To His Coy Mistress.” Andrew Marvell
Works of English Poets.
(C) Notes, Biographical and Critical, on the 45. Teach me half the gladness
Works of English Poets. That thy brain must know,
Such harmonious madness
(D) Lives of English Poets: Biographical and
From my lips would flow
Critical Notes. The world should listen then, as I am listening now.
Whose lines are these? To whom are they addressed?
40. Which of the following is NOT (A) John Keats. The Nightingale
mentioned in Northrop Frye‟s four „generic (B) P.B. Shelley. The Skylark
plots‟? (C) William Wordsworth. The Wye Valley
(A) The comic (D) Robert Browning. The Grammarian
(B) The tragic
(C) The lyric 46. Match List – I with List – II according
(D) The ironic to the code given below:
List – I (Novel) List – II (Major symbol)
41. Arrange the sections of The Waste Land i. Dombey and Son 1. fog
in the order in which they appear in the ii. The Return of the Native 2. train
poem: iii. Bleak House 3. heath
1. The Fire Sermon iv. Tess 4. mist
2. Death by Water
3. A Game of Chess Codes:
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(A) 2 3 1 4
(B) 4 2 3 1
(C) 2 3 4 1 PAPER III
(D) 1 3 4 1
1. In which of the following novels
47. The following postmodernist novel has Harikatha is strategically used as a medium
an unusual protagonist whose gender is not of „consciousness raising‟?
revealed. So much so, that we keep (A) Waiting for the Mahatma
wondering whether that person‟s (B) The Serpent and the Rope
relationships are homo /hetero-sexual: (C) A Bend in the Ganges
(A) The French Lieutenant‟s Woman (D) Kanthapura
(B) English Music
(C) Written on the Body 2. Identify the text in the following list
(D) Enduring Love which offers a fictionalized survey of
English Literature from Elizabethan times
48. Which novel of Graham Greene in the to 1928:
following list does NOT end in some form (A) E.M. Forster, the Eternal Moment
of suicide by the protagonist? (B) Virginia Woolf, Orlando
(A) The Heart of the Matter (C) Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
(B) England Made Me (D) David Jones, In Parenthesis
(C) Brighton Rock
(D) The Power and the Glory 3. Match List – I with List – II according to
the code given below:
49. Who among the following gave a happy List – I List – II
ending to King Lear? i. John Ruskin 1. London Labour
(A) James Quin and the London Poor
ii. Henry Mayhew 2. The Golden Bough
(B) Nahum Tate
iii. Sir Charles Lyell 3. Unto The Last
(C) Peg Woffington iv. Sir James George Frazer 4. The Principles
(D) Charles Macklin of Geology
Codes:
50. Jane Austen‟s Pride and Prejudice starts i ii iii iv
with the famous statement: “It is a truth (A) 3 2 1 4
universally acknowledged that a single man (B) 2 1 3 4
in possession of a good fortune must be in (C) 2 3 4 1
want of a life.” (D) 3 1 4 2
As we get to read the novel this statement
seems to be made from the point of view of: 4. Which of the following poems DOES
I. The surrounding families NOT begin in the first person pronoun?
II. Mrs Bennet (A) Shelley‟s “Adonais”
III. Mr Bennet (B) Byron‟s “Don Juan”
IV. The women of Jane Austen‟s age and (C) Keats‟s “Lamia”
society (D) Coleridge‟s „The Aeolian Harp‟
Find out the correct combination according 5. In his Anatomy of Melancholy Robert
to the code: Burton proposes the following two
(A) I, II and III are correct. principal kinds:
(B) I, II and IV are correct. I. Love
(C) II, III and IV are correct. II. Death
(D) I, III and IV are correct. III. Spiritual
IV. Religious
The correct combination according to the
code is:
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(B) I and III are correct. (B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not
(C) I and IV are correct. the correct explanation of (A).
(D) II and IV are correct. (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
6. Listed below are some English journals
widely read by professionals: Screen, Critical 10. Ian McEwan‟s Saturday spans one day
Quarterly, Review of English, Wasafiri. in the life of
One of the above founded by C.B. Cox, and (A) A divorce lawyer
now being edited by Colin MacCabe, carries (B) An ageing pianist
not only critical and scholarly essays in (C) A London neurosurgeon
English Studies but reviews film, culture, (D) A famous poet
language and contemporary political issues.
Identify the journal: 11. “Open Forum” as applied to poetry, is
the same as ________. It is poetry that is not
(A) Wasafiri written according to traditional fixed
(B) Screen patterns. (Fill up)
(C) Critical Quarterly (A) Blank verse
(D) Review of English Studies (B) Concrete poetry
(C) L = A = N = G = U = A = G = E poetry
7. In Marvell‟s “A Dialogue between Soul (D) Free verse
and Body”, who/which of the following
has the last word? 12. The author of the book observes “I have
(A) Body attempted, through the medium of
(B) God biography, to present some Victorian
(C) Soul visions to the modern eye”. The four main
(D) Satan characters in this book are Cardinal
Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold
8. In Blake‟s poem “A Poison Tree” the and General Gordon. Who is this author?
speaker‟s anger grows and becomes (A) Mathew Arnold
________. (B) Robert Browning
(A) A cherry (C) Lytton Strachey
(B) An apple (D) Oscar Wilde
(C) An orange
(D) A rose 13. In his attack delivered on the theatre in
A Short View of the Immorality and
9. Given below are two statements, one Profaneness of the English Stage, Jeremy
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Collier specially arraigned ______ and
Reason (R): _______.
Assertion (A): For deconstructive (A) Congreve and Vanbrugh
critics how human beings read and (B) Farquhar and Vanbrugh
interpret signs they receive will (C) Wycherley and Farquhar
determine their modes of knowing and (D) Congreve and Etherege
being, whether those signs come in the
form of literary texts or bank 14. I.A. Richards‟ Practical Criticism
statements. (1929) inaugurated a new phase in the
Reason (R): The fact of the matter is history of English critical thought. What
that human beings use signs to was this book‟s subtitle?
function in the world and are always (A) Studies in Poetry
likely to do so. (B) A Study in Literary Judgement
In the context of the two statements, which (C) Essays and Studies
one of the following is correct? (D) A Theoretical Guide
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
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15. Which of the following arrangements is 4. The poets in question are Algernon
in the correct chronological sequence? Charles Swinburne, Stopford Brooke,
(A) The Castle of Otranto – Melmoth the and Thomas Stearns Eliot.
Wanderer – The Monk – The Mysteries of (A) Only 1 and 2 are correct.
Udolpho (B) Only 4 is incorrect.
(B) The Castle of Otranto – The Mysteries of (C) Only 3 and 4 are correct.
Udolpho – The Monk – Melmoth the Wanderer (D) Only 3 is incorrect.
(C) The Mysteries of Udolpho – The Castle of
Otranto – The Monk – Melmoth the Wanderer 18. During the colonial era, the British used
(D) Melmoth the Wanderer – The Castle of to call the Indian Languages vernaculars.
Otranto – The Mysteries of Udolpho – The Monk We do not use this word for our bhashas
because:
16. Select from among the following plays, I. we consider English to be equally
the one that best suits the description vernacular.
below: II. verna is, literally a home-born slave.
I. Alyque Padamsee invited its author to III. Not all Indian languages are languages of
write it. the Indo-European family, and therefore not
II. The play had communalism as its theme. all vernacular.
III. This play was banned from the Deccan IV. the natives of India were never slaves.
Herald Theatre Festival for dealing with a
sensitive issue. (A) IV
IV. The play, however, was produced by (B) II and IV
Playpen in Bangalore on July 1993. (C) III
(D) I and III
The play is _______.
19. More‟s Utopia displays strong influence
(A) Dance like a Man of
(B) Where there‟s a Will I. The Arthurian legends
(C) Final Solutions II. Plato‟s Republic
(D) The Wisest Fool on Earth III. Amerigo Vespucci‟s account of the travels
IV. The teachings of John Wycliffe
17. I have known three generations of John
Smiths. The type breeds true. John Smith II The correct combination according to the
and III went to the same school, university code is
and learned profession as John Smith I. Yet (A) I and III are correct.
John Smith I wrote pseudo-Swinburne; (B) II and III are correct.
John Smith II wrote pseudo-Brooke; and (C) II and IV are correct.
John Smith III is now writing pseudo-Eliot. (D) I and IV are correct.
But unless John Smith can write John 20. By „language transfer‟ is meant
(A) Knowledge generated in the development of a
Smith, however unfashionable the result, learner on account of other domains of knowledge.
why does he bother to write at all? Surely (B) The carryover of rules of the mother tongue
one Swinburne; one Brooke, and one Eliot syntax, phonology, or semantic system to the Second
are enough in any age? language in question.
(C) The carryover of rules of the Second language
(Robert Graves, “The Poet and his Public”)
syntax, phonology, or semantic system to the mother
1. Graves is critical of blind adulation tongue in question.
and imitation of successful poets. (D) The vocabulary and sentence structure transferred
2. Graves is critical of blind haphazardly during Second language acquisition from
conformity to standards set by any other language accessed by the learner.
Swinburne, Brooke, and Eliot.
3. Swinburne, Brooke, and Eliot 21. Which of the following descriptions is
represent the movements: Decadence, NOT true of Peter Carey‟s The True
the Georgian, and Modernist History of the Kelly Gang?
respectively. (A) It is an epistolary novel.
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(B) It has such characters as Edward Kelly, 25. The following statements relate to the
his mother, and his wife. early history of the English language.
(C) It is also about the Bush and the frontier. Identify the set that gives INCORRECT
(D) The novel is dedicated to Edward Kelly‟s statements:
father. 1. English has borrowed words such as sky,
give, law, and leg from Norse.
22. Identify the poem that opens with the 2. English has also borrowed some pronouns
lines: like they, their, them from Norse.
I walk through the long schoolroom 3. In grammar, Modern English is much
questioning; more highly inflected than Old English.
A kind old nun in a white hood replies; 4. After the Norman Conquest, French
thechildren learn to cipher and to sing … became the language of the court, the
(A) “Among the Schoolchildren” language of nobility and polite society, and
(B) “Among School Children” literature.
(C) “A Man Young and Old” 5. Following the Norman Conquest, French
(D) “The Man Young and Old” virtually replaced English as the language of
the people.
23. Which of the following statements is 6. Among the French words that came into
NOT true of Foucault‟s position in History English are: study, logic, grammar, noun, etc.
of Sexuality?
(A) Modern sexuality is produced (A) 1, 2, 3
through and as discourse. (B) 3, 5
(B) The proliferation of modern (C) 4, 5, 6
discourses of sexuality is more striking than (D) 2, 4
their suppression.
(C) To write historically about 26. Choices of linguistic forms in using a
sexuality involves increasingly direct, language, or how a language is actually
immediate knowledge or understanding of an spoken/written, especially one that differs
unchanging sexual essence. from its prescribed grammar, is called
(D) Modern sexuality is intimately (A) Utterance
entangled with the historically distinctive (B) Use
contexts and structures now called (C) Usage
„knowledge‟. (D) Deviation
24. The following is an exchange between 27. Jamaica Kincaid‟s narrative A Small
two characters, husband and wife, in a Place
famous play. The lines appear at the very (A) is all about learning Farsi and meeting
end of an emotionally-charged sequence of young people in modern Iran.
the last scene: (B) is an essay that discusses the politics of
“… I‟ve stopped believing in miracles.” tourism and other neo-colonial modes of
“But I‟ll believe. Tell me! foreign intervention?
Transform ourselves to the point that ….?” (C) is a collection of tiny narratives about
“That our living together could be a true gender relations and includes stories
marriage.” concerning the Sumerian goddess Inanna.
(She goes out down the hall.) (D) a novella that looksunblinkingly at
maritalceremonies and maternity inAntigua.
Which play? Name the characters.
(A) Othello. Othello, Desdemona 28.Identify the correctly-matched poets and
(B) Sure Thing. Bill, Betty their works from the following:
(C) A Doll’s House. Helmer, Nora (A) Nissim Ezekiel-Hymns in Darkness,
(D) Death of a Salesman. Willy, Linda Kamala Das – The Sirens, R.
Parthasarthy – Rough Passage, A.K.
Ramanujan – The Striders
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(B) Nissim Ezekiel – The Striders, Kamala III. One who ploughs a lonely furrow and
Das – Rough Passage, R. Parthasarthy – keeps away from politicking and
Hymns in Darkness, A.K. Ramanujan – scandals.
The Sirens IV. Someone like Sir Philip Sydney best
(C) Nissim Ezekiel – The Sirens, Kamala suits the ideal of the Renaissance
Das – Hymns in Darkness, R. Man.
Parthasarthy – The Striders, A.K.
Ramanujan– Rough Passage (A) I
(D) Nissim Ezekiel – Rough Passage, (B) IV
Kamala Das – The Striders, R. (C) I & III
Parthasarthy – The Striders, A.K. (D) II & IV
Ramanujan – Hymns in Darkness
33. Maxim Gorky, the Great Russian writer
29. William Wordsworth had a deep of fiction and drama, was in real life a man
influence on Thomas Hardy. According to called ______.
Hardy a particular poem by Wordsworth (A) Goliardic Kreshkov
was his „best cure for despair‟. Which is (B) Ronsardo Felixikov
that poem? (C) Malthias Serpieri
(A) “Michael” (D) Aleksei Peshkov
(B) “Tintern Abbey Revisited” 34. After the prediction of the oracle that he
(C) “The Idiot Boy” was destined to kill his father, Oedipus
(D) “The Leechgatherer” could have avoided patricide
I. Had he not determined in horror
30. In Henry James‟s Ambassadors, there is never to return to the only parents he
a character who never appears in the novel. knew.
We get to know about this significant II. Had he been a man of unusual self-
person, however, from the other characters. control.
Who is this character? III. Had he remembered the prediction
(A) Maria Gostrey and had he been more cautious having
(B) Madame de Vionette recognized that possibly after all
(C) Mrs. Newsome Polybos was not his father.
(D) Mrs. Sarah Pocock IV. Had he never struck any man who
was older than himself saying at the
31. Why are Scott‟s novels called moment of provocation „This insolent
“Waverley Novels”? man is grey-haired; let him have the
(A) His novels are all set in Waverley. road‟?
(B) The Waverley Castle has a significant
role in his novels. Find the correct combination according to the
(C) Waverley (in his first novel of that code:
name) is a model hero for the (A) I, II and III are correct.
protagonists of Scott‟s novels. (B) I, II and IV are correct.
(D) Scott started his novel-writing career (C) I, III and IV are correct.
in his 43rd year with the novel, (D) II, III and IV are correct.
Waverley.
35. Identify the Post-Apartheid novel by
32. Which of these descriptions/ statements Nadine Gordimer.
best suits the idea of the „Renaissance (A) The Conservationist
Man‟? (B) The House of Gun
I. A fop, a scoundrel, who enjoys (C) The Lying Days
enormous power in Renaissance (D) Burger‟s Daughter
courts and aristocratic families.
II. A near-mythical figure: a knight, 36. The Duchess of Malfi married her
courtier, musician, poet, scholar and steward, Antonio. For the Elizabethan
statesman. https://t.me/thelitbud
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audience her marriage was a triple offence. (B) The passage concedes that the Sapir-
Which of the following is NOT one? Whorf hypothesis cannot be
(A) She was a widow marrying a second discounted entirely.
time. (C) The passage upholds the reliability of
(B) She married on her own outside the grammatical categories of a language
Church. generally.
(C) She married beneath her status in (D) The passage suggests that the Sapir-
disregard of „degree‟. Whorf hypothesis is largely
(D) She married against the wishes of her discredited today.
brothers who almost acted like her
guardians. 41. Tolstoy‟s War and Peace carries a
lengthy discussion of determinism and free
37. Who among the following has written will in ________.
the essay, “The Indian Jugglers”? (A) Its prologue
(A) Charles Lamb (B) An exchange between Pierre and Natasha
(B) William Hazlitt (C) An exchange between Nikolai Rostof and
(C) Thomas de Quincey Princess Bezukhoi
(D) Thomas Love Peacock (D) Its epilogue
38. How would you best describe George 42. Which from among the following is
Meredith‟s Modern Love (1862)? NOT true of Nagmandala?
(A) A ballad (A) It does not have multiple narratives.
(B) A lyric travelogue (B) It is open-ended.
(C) A verse romance (C) It combines conventional and subversive
(D) A sonnet sequence modes.
(D) Story is personified in the play.
39. The play was written in 1881 when its
author was in Italy. This is considered to be 43. Arrange the following literary journals
his most remarkable intellectual effort. The chronologically:
softening of the brain as a result of a disease (A) The London Magazine
inherited from his father is the subject. The Quarterly Review
Which is the play? Blackwood‟s Magazine
(A) An Enemy of the People The Saturday Review
(B) Ghosts The Tatler
(C) Rhinoceros (B) The Tatler
(D) Six Characters in Search of an Author The Saturday Review
Blackwood‟s Magazine
40. In many ways, grammatical categories The Quarterly Review
remain mysterious. Whatdoes it mean The London Magazine
to speak a language that in every (C) The Quarterly Review
sentence requires you to locate Blackwood‟s Magazine
yourself in time, or specify your The Tatler
source of knowledge, or the shape of The Saturday Review
what you are talking about? We still The London Magazine
don‟t know. But putting the question (D) The Tatler
like this suggests a clear andlimited The London Magazine
way of interpreting the idea that The Quarterly Review
different languages represent different Blackwood‟s Magazine
worlds. Which of the following The Saturday Review
statements on this passage interprets it
most accurately? 44. Pick out the two relevant and correct
(A) The passage reflects the unreliability descriptions of Caryl Churchill‟s Serious
of grammatical categories of a Money (1987):
language generally. https://t.me/thelitbud
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1. This play proposes the foundation of a (A) The Lives of the Most Eminent English
monastery for the education of British Poets; the essay on Milton
gentlewomen. (B) The Lives of the Most EminentEnglish
2. This narrative deals with children who Poets; the essay onGray
are sick of their “enforced idleness.” (C) Preface to Shakespeare
3. This play is subtitled “City Comedy.” (D) The Patriot
4. In this play, the state of the British
economy is symbolized by a takeover 47. J.M. Coetzee was the first writer to be
bid by an international cartel. awarded the Booker Prize twice. He won
5. This narrative details the adventures the prize for
of an Anglo-Indian orphan. (A) Life and Times of Michael K. and
6. Money is the only criterion for success Disgrace
for the players in this play‟s share- (B) Dusklands and Disgrace
market. (C) Foe and Elizabeth Costello
(D) Age of Iron and Disgrace
(A) 1 and 6 are correct. 48. After the Norman Conquest England
(B) 2 and 5 are correct. became a three-language nation for at least
(C) 4 and 6 are correct. two centuries. The three languages were
(D) 5 and 6 are correct. (A) English, French and German
(B) English, Latin and German
45. Identify from among the following (C) English, French and Latin
FALSE statements: (D) English, French and Greek
1. Eric Arthur Blair became the famous
British novelist, George Orwell. 49. Here are sentences labelled Assertion
2. Orwell was conversant in Hindustani (A) and Reason (R):
and fond of Indian food. Assertion (A): In who‟s Afraid of
3. Young Eric Blair lived in Myanmar‟s Virginia Woolf? George and
trading town, Katha. Martha‟s blue and green-eyed
4. This town gave him the model for the son is a myth.
fictional district of Kyauktada in Reason (R): He is a creation of the couple‟s
Burmese Days. imagination originating from
5. Orwell was born on June 25, 1903 in their sense of sterility and
Motihari, Bihar. vacuum in life.
6. The Orwell Commemorative
Committee in Motihari has been In the light of (A) and (R), which of the
demanding a restoration of Orwell‟s following is correct?
birthplace as a heritage site.
7. Orwell never returned to his birth (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
place. correct explanation of (A).
8. The British journalist Ian Jack was (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not
mainly responsible for our knowledge the correct explanation of (A).
of Orwell‟s antecedents relating to (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
Katha and Motihari. (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(A) 2, 4, 8 are false. 50. In the word rapidly, „ly‟ is an adverbial

(B) 7 and 8 are false. suffix indicating manner while rapid is a
(C) 3, 6 and 8 are false. ______, ly is a ____.
(D) All statements above are true. (A) Word, wordling
(B) Morpheme, morpheme-bit
46. Virginia Woolf borrowed the idea of the (C) Free morpheme, bound-morpheme
common reader from Dr. Johnson. To (D) Full morpheme, half-morpheme
which particular work of Johnson‟s does
she remain indebted?
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Question Nos. 51 to 55 is based on a poem.
Read the poem carefully and pick out the 55. “No wonder then.” Explain.
most appropriate answers. (A) No wonder that the words here begin to
mean.
It‟s Your Own Fault (B) No wonder that you now find the words
Of course you can play with them. menacing.
There‟s no harm in them. (C) No wonder that the words find you
They are only words. menacing.
Words alone are certain good, said someone. (D) No wonder the words still mean and are
And someone also said tame.
unlike sticks and stones
Words will never break your bones. 56. “Nothing odd will do long. ______ did
not last long.” Dr. Johnson had this to say
(That is called rhyme. A rhyme is nice to play about one of the eighteenth century novels.
with too from time to time.) Identify it from the following list:
(A) Tom Jones
What? They‟ve turned nasty? (B) The Female Quixote
They‟ve clawed you and bitten you? (C) Tristram Shandy
Dear me, there‟s blood all over the place. (D) Clarissa
And broken bones.
57. Identify the sonnet upon sonnet by
They were perfectly tame when I left them. William Wordsworth:
Something they ate might have disagreed (A) “London, 1802”
with them. (B) “The world is too much with us…”
You mean you fed them on meaning? (C) “Friend! I know not which way…”
No wonder then. (D) “Nuns fret not at their convent‟s narrow
– D.J. Enright room…”
51. The poet‟s remark on „rhyme‟ is _____. 58. Who among the following women
(A) Put in parenthesis writers has written Novel on Yellow Paper?
(B) Put in parentheses (A) Elizabeth Smither
(C) Framed rhetorically (B) Stevie Smith
(D) Put in apposition (C) Zulu Sofola
(D) Gita Mehta
52. The poem is cast in the form of a
______. 59. In most people, the first language /
(A) Romantic lyric dialect acquired is „mother tongue‟. Among
(B) Verse epistle the commonly used terms for mother
(C) Dramatic monologue tongue, one of the following is avoided.
(D) Dialogue Identify the one term NOT applied to
mother tongue:
53. What is the “fault” to which the (A) First language
speaker refers here? (B) Prime language
(A) Playing with words (C) Native language
(B) Using only words (D) Primary language
(C) Taking words too seriously
(D) Reading meanings into words 60. Identify the group of critical concepts
that parenthetically aligns them with their
54. What tone is most appropriate for respective theorists:
reading this poem? (A) The Carnivalesque (Jean Baudrillard),
(A) Evasive Habitus (Pierre Bourdieu), Flaneur
(B) Plaintive (Walter Benjamin), Chora (Gayatri C.
(C) Ironic Spivak), Simulacrum / Simulacra
(D) Sarcastic https://t.me/thelitbud (Antonio Gramsci), The Subaltern
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(Mikhael Bakhtin), Metahistory Transitional poets
(Walter Benjamin), Aura (Julia The Georgians
Kristeva), Polyphony (Mikhael The Aesthetes
Bakhtin), Hegemony (Antonio The University Wits
Gramsci) (B) The University Wits
(B) Habitus (Pierre Bourdieu), Flaneur The Metaphysical poets
(Walter Benjamin), Chora (Julia Transitional poets
Kristeva), Simulacrum / Simulacra The Aesthetes
(Jean Baudrillard), the Subaltern The Georgians
(Gayatri C. Spivak) Metahistory The High Modernists
(Hayden White), Polyphony (Mikhael (C) The High Modernists
Bakhtin), Hegemony (Antonio The Georgians
Gramsci) The Aesthetes
(C) Habitus (Julia Kristeva), Flaneur Transitional poets
(Walter Benjamin), Chora (Pierre The Metaphysical poets
Bourdieu), Simulacrum / Simulacra The University Wits
(Hayden White), The Subaltern (D) The University Wits
(Gayatri C. Spivak), Metahistory The Metaphysical poets
(Jean Baudrillard), Polyphony The Aesthetes
(Mikhael Bakhtin), Hegemony Transitional poets
(Antonio Gramsci) The Georgians
(D) Habitus (Pierre Bourdieu), Flaneur The High Modernists
(Antonio Gramsci), Chora (Julia
Kristeva), Simulacrum / Simulacra 64. Which Bible is the earliest English
(Jean Baudrillard), The Subaltern version printed with verse divisions?
(Gayatri C. Spivak), Metahistory (A) Tyndale‟s Translation
(Hayden White), Polyphony (Mikhael (B) The Geneva Bible
Bakhtin), Hegemony (Walter (C) The Douay-Rheims Version
Benjamin) (D) King James Version
61. What was the mandate of the 65. E.M. Forster‟s Passage to India begins
Stationer‟s Company incorporated in with a description of the city of
London in 1557? Chandrapore. It has an old Indian part and
(A) To oversee the affairs of the Royal a new part consisting of the British civil
Registry. station. Which of the following descriptions
(B) To oversee authors‟ and printers‟, or of the city is not found in the text?
printer-publishers‟ rights. (A) The streets are mean, the temples
(C) To oversee authors‟ and printers‟ or ineffective.
printer-publishers‟ use of stationery. (B) It is a city of gardens.
(D) To oversee the quality of stationery (C) It is a tropical pleasaunce washed by a
harnessed by the Royal Registry. noble river.
(D) The new civil station is not sensibly
62. One of the following was described by planned and not modern.
its author as “a poem including history.”
Identify the poem. 66. In which of the following books would
(A) Robert Lowell, Life Studies you find the following arguments /
(B) William Carlos Williams, Paterson observations?
(C) Elizabeth Bishop, Questions of Travel
(D) Ezra Pound, the Cantos Escapist fiction lacks serious fiction‟s
apocalyptic experience of finality. The two
63. Arrange the following groups of versions of literary experience are
English writers in chronological order: qualitatively different; every novel fits one
(A) The Metaphysical poets category or the other, not both. Serious
The High Modernists fiction, however, compels our attention by
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representing improvements (the “world of lovely;” say, “He loved.” 4. “To His Coy
potency”) as being achieved (a “world of Mistress”
act”) and by showing narrative movement
“through time to an end, an end, we must Codes:
sense even if we cannot know it.” I II III IV
(A) 3 4 1 2
(A) Sincerity and Authenticity (B) 4 3 2 1
(B) The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the (C) 2 1 4 1
Theory of Fiction (D) 1 2 3 4
(C) Beyond the Apocalypse
(D) The Rhetoric of Fiction 69. The Oxford Companions are handy
reference volumes for teachers and students
67. Philip Larkin‟s “The Whitsun of English. Identify the one volume that has
Weddings” NOT yet appeared in this series:
I. describes a long train journey (A) The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-
II. Establishes a „we‟ voice of collective Century Literature in English
outlook (B) The Oxford Companion to Canadian
III. Traces the disfigurement of a sunny Literature
landscape on an advertising poster (C) The Oxford Companion to American
IV. Gives an account of a drug pusher Literature
(D) The Oxford Companion to Indian
The correct combination according to the Literature in English
code is:
(A) I and III are correct. 70. While writing or printing, scholarly use
(B) I and II are correct. prefers titles in italics. Which of the
(C) I and IV are correct. following is the correct way of
(D) II and III are correct. writing/printing?
(A) Charles Dicken‟s Tale of Two Cities
68. Match the last lines of the poems with (B) Charles Dickens‟ Tale of Two Cities
their correct titles: (C) Charles Dickens‟ A Tale of Two Cities
List – I List – II (D) Charles Dicken‟s A Tale of Two Cities
(Last lines of poems) (Titles of poems)
I. And we are here as on a Questions from 71 to 75 are based on the
darkling plain Swept with following passage. Read the passage
confused alarms of struggle carefully and select the most appropriate
and flight, Where ignorant option:
armies clash by night. 1. “Death, be
not Somewhere, on the edge of consciousness,
proud…” there is what I call a mythical norm, which
II. Thus, though we cannot each one of us within our hearts knows “that
make our sun Stand still, is not me”. In America, this norm is usually
yet we will make defined as white, thin, male, young,
him run. 2. “The Great heterosexual, Christian, and financially
Lover” secure. It is with this mythical norm that the
III. One short sleep past, trappings of power reside within the society.
we wake eternally, and Those of us who stand outside that power
death shall be no more; often identify one way in which we are
death, thou shalt different, and we assume that to be the
die. 3. “Dover Beach” primary cause of all oppression, forgetting
IV. This one last gift I give: other distortions around difference, some of
that after men shall know, which we ourselves may be practicing. By
and later lovers, far-removed, and large within the women‟s movement
Praise you, “All these were today, white women focus upon their
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oppression as women and ignore differences 2. By the suggestion that „a mythical norm‟ is
of race, sexual preference, class, and age. responsible for the unequal distribution of
There is a pretense to homogeneity of power among people.
experience covered by the word sisterhood 3. By referring to „other distortions around
that does not in fact exist. (Audre Lorde) difference‟.
4. By referring to white women who narrow
down oppression directed only at white
71. A mythical norm is endemic to societies: women.
1. Where racial myths are prevalent and
widely respected and perpetuated through (A) 4 is correct.
utterances that establish „we‟ and „they‟ (B) 1 & 2 are correct.
groups. (C) 3 is correct.
2. Where the superiority of one‟s own culture (D) 2 is correct.
and nation no longer emphasized openly or
straightforwardly. 74. Why is the author dismissive about
3. Where „difference‟ has been a „sisterhood‟?
preoccupation in the representation of people 1. Because it is italicised.
who are racially, ethnically, and in terms of 2. Because it does not exist in principle.
gender and sexual preference different from 3. Because it assumes that all „sisters‟ are
an assumed majority. alike.
4. That believes that the norm is part of their 4. Because it assumes that all „sisters‟ are
right to defend the ways of life enjoyed by a unique.
dominant group, their traditions and customs
against outsiders – not because these (A) 3 is correct
outsiders are inferior, but because they belong (B) 1 is correct
to other cultures. (C) 4 is correct
(D) 2 is correct
(A) 1 and 4 are correct.
(B) 2 and 3 are correct. 75. Does the author absolve all women
(C) Only 4 is correct. from the „distortions around difference‟?
(D) Only 3 is correct. 1. Yes.
2. No.
72. How does the author mark her 3. Not sure.
difference from other writers on similar 4. Yes, in a qualified manner though.
issues and underscore her radical style
typographically? (A) 1 is correct
1. By her use of parataxis (B) 2 is correct
2. By italicizing „mythical norm‟ and (C) 3 is correct
„sisterhood‟ (D) 4 is correc
3. By using lowercase for proper and
common nouns
4. By using phrases like „Those of us who
stand outside…‟
(A) 1 & 4 are correct.

(B) 2 is correct.
(C) 3 is correct.
(D) 2 & 3 are correct.
73. That there are levels and grades of

powerlessness in societies entertaining „a
mythical norm‟ is indicated
1. By the overall tone and tenor of the
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JUNE 2013
7. John Dryden in his heroic tragedy All for
Love takes the story of Shakespeare‟s
PAPER II (A) Troilus and Cressida
(B) The Merchant of Venice
1. In Pinter‟s Birthday Party, Stanley is (C) Antony and Cleopatra
given a birthday present. What is it? (D) Measure for Measure
(A) A toy
(B) A piano 8. Arrange the following works in the order
(C) A drum in which they appear. Identify the correct
(D) A violin code:
I. No Longer at Ease
2. How does Lord Jim end? II. Things Fall apart
(A) Jim is shot through the chest by III. A Man of the People
Doramin. IV. Arrow of God
(B) Jim kills himself with a last unflinching
glance. The correct combination according to the
(C) Jim answers “the call of exalted egoism” code is:
and betrays Jewel. Code:
(D) Jim surrenders himself to Doramin. (A) III, IV, II, I
(B) IV, III, I, II
3. “Where I lacked a political purpose, I (C) II, I, IV, III
wrote lifeless books.” To which of the (D) I, II, III, IV
following authors can we attribute the
above admission? 9. Samuel Pepys kept his diary from
(A) Graham Greene (A) 1660 to 1669
(B) George Orwell (B) 1649 to 1660
(C) Charles Morgan (C) 1662 to 1689
(D) Evelyn Waugh (D) 1660 to 1689
4. Modernism has been described as being
concerned with “disenchantment of our 10. In the Defence of Poetry, what did
culture with culture itself”. Who is the Sydney attribute to poetry?
critic? (A) A magical power whereby poetry plays
(A) Stephen Spender tricks on the reader.
(B) Malcolm Bradbury (B) A divine power whereby poetry transmits
(C) Lionel Trilling a message from God to the reader.
(D) Joseph Frank (C) A moral power whereby poetry
encourages the reader to evaluate virtuous
5. “Only that film, which fluttered on the models.
grate, still flutters there, the sole unquiet (D) A realistic power that cannot be made to
thing.” seem like mere illusion and trickery.
The above lines are quoted from
(A) “Tintern Abbey Revisited” 11. An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot presents
(B) “Michael” portraits of the following contemporary
(C) “Frost at Midnight” individuals:
(D) “This Lime-Tree Bower, My Prison” (A) Addison and Lord Hervey
(B) Dryden and Rochester
6. Which one of the following modern (C) Swift and Steele
poems employs ottava rima? (D) Smollett and Defoe
(A) “Among School Children”
(B) “In Praise of Limestone” 12. Match the following authors with their
(C) “The Wild Swans at Coole” works:
(D) “The Shield of Achilles” List – A List – B
(Authors)
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I. Alice Walker 1. Invisible Man 18. Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of
II. Ralph Ellison 2. The Colour Surrey jointly brought out Tottel‟s
Purple Miscellany during the Renaissance.
III. Richard Wright 3. Their Eyes Were Identify the name of the Earl of Surrey from
Watching God the following:
IV Zora Neale Hurston 4. Native Son (A) Thomas Lodge
(B) Thomas Nashe
Which is the correct combination according (C) Thomas Sackville
to the code? (D) Henry Howard
Code: 19. Match the following lists:

I II III IV List – I List – I
(A) 2 1 3 4 (Novelists) (Novels)
(B) 3 4 2 1 I. Margaret Laurence 1. Surfacing
II. Margaret Atwood 2. The Stone Angel
(C) 4 3 1 2
III. Sinclair Ross 3. Medicine River
(D) 1 2 4 3 IV. Thomas King 4. As for Me and My House
13. Which of these plays by Shakespeare Which is the correct combination according
does not use „cross-dressing‟ as a device? to the code?
(A) As You Like It Code:
(B) Julius Caesar I II III IV
(C) Cymbeline (A) 1 4 3 2
(D) Two Gentlemen of Verona (B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
14. Which of the following works cannot be (D) 2 1 4 3
categorised under postcolonial theory?
(A) Nation and Narration 20. The dramatic structure of Restoration
(B) Orientalism comedies combines in it the features of
(C) Discipline and Punish I. The Elizabethan Theatre
(D) White Mythologies II. The Neoclassical Theatre of Italy and
France
15. Locke‟s Essay Concerning Human III. The Irish Theatre
Understanding is a classic statement of IV. The Greek Theatre
_________ Philosophy.
(A) Aesthetic The correct combination according to the
(B) Empiricist code is
(C) Nationalist Codes:
(D) Realist (A) I and IV are correct.
(B) III and IV are correct.
16. “Power circulates in all directions, to (C) II and III are correct.
and from all social levels, at all times.” (D) I and II are correct.
Who said this?
(A) Edward Said 21. Which American poet wrote: “I sound
(B) Michel Foucault my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the
(C) Jacques Derrida world”?
(D) Roland Barthes (A) Robert Lowell
(B) Walt Whitman
17. Which one of the following is not (C) Wallace Stevens
written by an Australian Aboriginal writer? (D) Langston Hughes
(A) Kath Walker
(B) Peter Carey 22. The etymological meaning of the word
(C) Robert Bropho “trope” is
(D) Jack Davis (A) Gesture
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(B) Turning (B) Pleonasm
(C) Mirror (C) Paradox
(D) Desire (D) Zeugma
23. Who among the following English poets 28. Match the author with the work:
defined poetic imagination as “a repetition List – I List – II
in the finite mind of the eternal act of (Authors) (Works)
creation in the infinite „I AM‟ ”? I. Kingsely Amis1. Saturday and Sunday
(A) Blake Morning
(B) Wordsworth II. Allan Silletoe 2. The Golden Note Book
(C) Coleridge III. Doris Lessing3. The Left Bank
(D) Shelley IV. Jean Rhys 4. Lucky Jim
24. Little Nell is a character in Dickens‟ Which is the correct combination according
(A) David Copperfield to the code?
(B) The Old Curiosity Shop Code:
(C) Bleak House I II III IV
(D) Great Expectations (A) 3 4 1 2
(B) 4 1 2 3
25. Match the following: (C) 2 3 1 4
List – A List – B (D) 1 2 3 4
(Schools/Concept of Criticism) (Critics)
I. Formalism 1. John Crow 29. In which of Hardy‟s novels does the
Ransom character Abel Whittle appear?
II. New Critics 2. The Jungians (A) Far from the Madding Crowd
III. Psychological Theory (B) The Return of the Native
of the Value of Literature 3. Victor (C) A Pair of Blue Eyes
Shklovsky (D) The Mayor of Caster bridge
IV. Literary art as
Archetypal image 4. I.A. Richards 30. The phrase “dark satanic mills” has
become the most famous description of the
The correct combination according to the force at the centre of the industrial
code is: revolution. The phrase was used by
Code: (A) William Wordsworth
I II III IV (B) William Blake
(A) 3 1 4 2 (C) Thomas Carlyle
(B) 2 4 1 3 (D) John Ruskin
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 3 2 1 4 31. “Five miles meandering with a mazy
motion through wood and dale the scared
26. In the late seventeenth century a “Battle river ran.” Where does this „sacred river‟
of Books” erupted between which two directly run to?
groups? (A) A lifeless ocean
(A) Cavaliers and Roundheads (B) The caverns measureless
(B) Abolitionists and Enthusiasts for slaves (C) A fountain
(C) Champions of Ancient and Modern (D) The waves
Learning
(D) The Welsh and the Scots 32. Who is the twentieth century poet, a
winner of the Nobel Prize for literature who
27. “Everything that man esteems Endures rejected the label “British” though he has
a moment or a day Love‟s pleasure drives always written in English rather than his
his love away…” In the above quote the last regional language?
line is an example of (A) Douglas Dunn
(A) Allusion (B) Seamus Heaney
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(C) Geoffrey Hill (D) Embraces a Schopenhauer – like
(D) Philip Larkin nihilism.
33. Which of the following statements best 39. When you say “I love her eyes, her hair,
describes Sir Thomas Browne‟s Religion her nose, her cheeks, her lips” you are using
Medici? a rhetorical device of
(A) It is a story of conversion or (A) Enumeration
providential experiences. (B) Ant anagoge
(B) It emphasizes Browne‟s love of (C) Parataxis
mystery and wonder. (D) Hypo taxis
(C) It is full of angst, melancholy and 40. The following are two lists of plays and
dread of death. characters. Match them.
(D) It reports the facts of Browne‟s life. List – I List – II
(Plays) (Characters)
34. Which of the following characters from I. Women Beware Women 1. Malevole
Eliot‟s Waste Land is not correctly II. The Malcontent 2. Beatrice
III. The City Madam 3. Bianca
mentioned? IV. The Changeling 4. Doll Tear sheet
(A) The typist
(B) Madam Sosostris Which is the correct combination according
(C) The Merchant from Eugenides to the code?
(D) The Young Man Carbuncular Code:
I II III IV
35. Which one of the following best (A) 3 1 4 2
describes the general feeling expressed in (B) 2 1 2 4
literature during the last decade of the (C) 1 2 3 4
Victorian era? (D) 4 3 2 1
(A) Studied melancholy and aestheticism
(B) The triumph of science and morbidity 41. With Bacon the essay form is
(C) Sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal (A) An intimate, personal confession
(D) Raucous celebration combined with (B) Witty and boldly imagistic
paranoid interpretation (C) The aphoristic expression of accumulated
public wisdom
36. Which poem by Shelley bears the (D) Homely and vulgar
alternative title, “The Spirit of Solitude”?
(A) Mont Blanc 42. Evelyn Waugh‟s Trilogy published
(B) “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” together as Sword of Honour is about
(C) “Adonais” (A) The English at War
(D) Alastor (B) The English Aristocracy
(C) The Irish question
37. Which tale in The Canterbury Tales (D) Scottish nationalism
uses the tradition of the Beast Fable?
(A) The Knight‟s Tale 43. Who coined the phrase “The Two
(B) The Monk‟s Tale Nations” to describe the disparity in Britain
(C) The Nun‟s Priest‟s Tale between the rich and the poor?
(D) The Miller‟s Tale (A) Charles Dickens
(B) Thomas Carlyle
38. At the end of Sons and Lovers Paul Morel (C) Benjamin Disraeli
(A) Sets off in quest of life away from his (D) Frederick Engels
mother.
(B) Considers the option of committing 44. Milton introduces Satan and the fallen
suicide. angels in the Book I of Paradise Lost. Two
(C) Joins his elder brother William in of the chief devils reappear in Book II. They
London. are
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I. Moloch JUNE 2013
II. Clemos
III. Belial
IV. Thamuz PAPER III
The correct combination according to the 1. Match the following:
code is List – I List – II
Code: (Browning’s poems) (Type of Character)
(A) I and IV are correct. I. Abt Vogler 1. A Medieval
(B) I and III are correct. Knight
(C) I and II are correct. II. Andrea Del Sarto 2. A Musician
(D) II and III are correct. III. Childe Ronald
to the Dark Tower Came 3. A Poet
45. When Chaucer describes the Friar as a IV. Cleon 4. An Artist
“noble pillar of order”, he is using
(A) Irony The right combination according to
(B) Simile the code is:
(C) Understatement I II III IV
(D) Personification (A) 4 2 3 1
(B) 2 4 1 3
46. John Osborne‟s Look Back in Anger is an (C) 3 1 2 4
example of (D) 1 3 4 2
(A) Drawing room comedy
(B) kitchen-sink drama 2. All forms of feminism posit that:
(C) Absurd drama
(D) Melodrama Code:
47. Which character in Jane Eyre uses I. The relationship between the sexes is
religion to justify cruelty? one of inequality and oppression.
(A) Blanche Ingram II. There should be an end to all wars.
(B) Mr. Brocklehurst III. Women need financial independence.
(C) Sir John Rivers IV. All men are prone to violence.
(D) Eliza Reed
48. Which Romantic poet defined a slave as code is:
„a person perverted into a thing‟? (A) I and II are correct.
(A) Blake (B) III and IV are correct.
(B) Coleridge (C) I and III are correct.
(C) Keats (D) II and IV are correct.
(D) Shelley
3. Which one of Brecht‟s works was
49. John Suckling belongs to the group of intended to lampoon the conventional
(A) Metaphysical poets sentimental musical but the public lapped
(B) Cavalier poets up the work‟s sentiment and missed the
(C) Neo-classical poets humour?
(D) Religious poets (A) Man is Man
(B) Three Penny Opera
50. Sir Thomas More creates the character (C) The Mother
of a traveller into whose mouth the account (D) Life of Galileo
of Utopia is put. His name is
(A) Michael 4. Ostensibly a musical treatise, The
(B) Raphael Anatomy of Melancholy is a reflection on
(C) Henry human learning and endeavour published
(D) Thomas under the pseudonym
(A) Vox Populi
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(B) Epicurus Senior (B) It is a complex narrative of sin and
(C) Democritus Junior redemption which involves both
(D) Jesting Pilate White and Black South Africans.
(C) The protagonist David Lurie is a priest
5. Horace Walpole‟s novel The Castle of who brings disgrace to his calling.
Otranto tells the story of (D) Coetzee has a schematic and
(A) A defiant and heartless tyrant who reductive view on the relations
kills his own son mercilessly. between Whites and the Blacks in
(B) An usurper and a tyrant who kills his South Africa.
own daughter by mistake.
(C) A castle that collapses andcrushes the 10. Which of the following statements is
young and sicklyprince to death. not true of Mahesh Dattani‟s Final
(D) A tyrant who retires to a monastery at Solutions?
the end and lives happily ever after (A) The play centres on a middle class Hindu
with his queen. family during a communal riot.
(B) It challenges communalism.
6. In the Literature of Romanticism there (C) It is concerned with homosexual
was a widespread frustration with visions relationship.
experienced in dreams, in nightmares and (D) It promotes religious pluralism in South
other altered states. The following list Asia.
contains poems which illustrate this theme,
with one exception. Identify the exception 11. According to Bakhtin the idea of the
(A) “Kubla Khan” Carnivalesque represents the following
(B) “Confessions of an English Opium Eater” characteristics except:
(C) “The Ruined Cottage” (A) A liberation from the prevailing truth
(D) “The Fall of Hyperion” and established order
(B) A harking back to the past
7. The book was for many years banned for (C) Emphasis on play, parody, pleasure
obscenity in Britain and the United States. and the body
The central character is a Catholic Jew in (D) The suspension of all hierarchical
Ireland. The author claimed that the book is rank, principles, norms and
meant to make you laugh. Which is this prohibitions
book?
(A) The Picture of Dorian Grey 12. Which of the following statements is
(B) Herzog not true of Patrick White?
(C) Portnoy‟s Complaint (A) He is remembered today for his epic
(D) Ulysses and psychological narrative art.
(B) He is the only Australian to receive
8. A.S. Byatt in her famous award winning the Nobel Prize in literature.
novel of 1990 contrasts past and present (C) He pioneered a new fictional
involving a search for a Victorian poet‟s landscape and introduced a new
past illuminating a contemporary university continent in literature.
researcher‟s life and times. Which is the (D) His style is noted for lucidity and
novel? simplicity.
(A) The Virgin in the Garden
(B) Possession 13. Conventional scholarship dates „Early
(C) Babel Tower Modern English‟ as beginning around
(D) Still Life (A) 450
(B) 1066
9. Which of the following statements best (C) 1500
describes JM Coetzee‟s Disgrace? (D) 1800
(A) It is a murder mystery set in post-
apartheid South Africa. 14. “Every demon carries within him
unknown to himself, a tiny seed of self-
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destruction and goes up in thin air at the 18. Which of the following plays is not
most unexpected moment.” To which of written by Rabindranath Tagore?
R.K. Narayan‟s characters the above (A) Sacrifice
statement applies? (B) Chandalika
(A) Raju – The Guide (C) Muktadhara
(B) Jagan – The Sweet Vendor (D) Eknath
(C) Vasu – Man Eater of Malgudi
(D) Margayya – The Financial Expert 19. Given below are two statements, one is
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other
15. Which of the following is not true of labelled as Reason (R):
post-structuralism? Assertion (A): A quarto refers to a text
(A) It seeks to undermine the idea that in which each leaf was a
meaning pre-exists its linguistic quarter the size of the original
expression. sheet.
(B) There can be no meaning which is not Reason (R): Because eight pages of text
formulated and no language were printed on large sheets of
formulation reaches anywhere beyond paper, which were then folded
language. four times to produce four
(C) There is no a-textual „origin‟ of a text. leaves.
(D) Every sign refers to every other sign
adequately. In the context of the above statements, which
one of the following is correct?
16. Which of the following statements is (A) (A) is correct but (R) is wrong.
not true of Wole Soyinka‟s The Swamp (B) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
Dwellers? (C) (A) is wrong but (R) is correct
(A) It talks about the family, the extended (D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
family in the African society.
(B) It is a confrontation between the 20. The purpose of the Pre-Raphaelites was
traditional and modern society. primarily to promote
(C) It talks about the migration of people, (A) Complexity and ambivalence in art and
crossing of borders and diasporic literature.
anguish. (B) Simplicity and naturalness in art and
(D) It is a comment about the city, urban, literature.
modern and the country rural, the (C) Symbolic and classical modes in art and
swamp, the ancient. literature.
(D) Psychological and mythic modes in art
17. Arrange the following English literary and literature.
periods in the order in which they appeared.
Use the codes given below: 21. Which one of the following plays does
not use the device of “the play within the
Codes: play”?
I. Elizabethan (A) Hamlet
II. Caroline (B) Women Beware Women
III. Anglo Norman (C) The Spanish Tragedy
IV. Early Tudor (D) A Midsummer Nights‟ Dream
The correct combination according to the 22. Given below are two statements, one is
code is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other
(A) III, II, IV, I labelled as Reason (R):
(B) III, IV, II, I Assertion (A): In the Absurd plays of
(C) II, III, IV, I Pinter and Beckett, lack of
(D) III, IV, I, II communication seems to be a
predominant theme.
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Reason (R): Existentialist philosophy had a I. “Sound of stick
tremendous influence on the upon the floor” 1. “Byzantium”
dramatists of the period, II. “Hade‟s bobbin bound
nihilism and meaninglessness in mummy cloth” 2. “Sailing to
of life taking a front seat. Byzantium”
III. “With beauty like a
In the context of the above statements, which tightened bow” 3. “Coole and Ballylee,
one of the following is correct? 1931”
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the IV. “A tattered coat
correct explanation of (A). upon a stick” 4. “No Second Troy”
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not
the correct explanation of (A). The right combination according to the code
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false. is:
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true. I II III IV
(A) 4 1 3 2
23. Which of the following observations are (B) 3 2 1 4
true about Beatrice Culleton‟s April Rain (C) 4 3 2 1
tree? (D) 3 1 4 2
I. It is a fictional account of the lives of
two metis sisters growing up in 27. Given below are the two statements,
Winnipeg. one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the
II. April has a darker complexion and other labelled as Reason (R).
identifies herself with Metis
population. Assertion (A): The literature of the
III. The two sisters have been removed Jacobean Age is dominated by
from their parents home and placed works revealing symptoms of
with a series of foster families. melodrama and
IV. Cheryl has a lighter complexion and sensationalism.
identifies herself with white Reason (R): The Jacobean Age is generally
population. ruled by the spirit of
decadence.
(A) I and III are correct.
(B) I and II are correct. In the context of the two statements which
(C) II and III are correct. one of the following is correct?
(D) III and IV are correct.
24. “She dwells with beauty – Beauty that correct explanation of (A).
must die”, – wrote Keats in one of his odes, (B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not
referring to the correct explanation of (A).
(A) Indolence (C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(B) Autumn (D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
(C) Melancholy
(D) Psyche 28. Which of the following statements best
describes the term „deconstruction‟?
25. Kafka‟s Trial has all the following (A) It seeks to expose the problematic nature
characteristics except: of „cantered‟ discourses.
(A) Vivid yet surreal (B) It advocates „subjective‟ or „free‟
(B) Dystopian interpretation.
(C) The use of historical details of setting (C) It emphasizes the importance of historical
(D) The depiction of totalitarian society context.
(D) It is a method of critical analysis.
26. Match the following lists:
List – I List – II 29. Which of these authors is not a writer of
(Phrases from poems) (Titles of poems)
African American slave narratives?
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(A) Solomon Northrop 33. Which of the following statements is
(B) Frederick Douglass not true of Kazuo Ishiguro‟s Remains of the
(C) Phillis Wheatley Day? The novel
(D) Sojourner Truth (A) Usesa butler as a pivotal character.
(B) Uses the classic English detective story
30. “For nature then form.
The courser pleasures of my boyish days, (C) Refers to England in the 1930s.
And their glad animal movements all gone (D) Became a very successful film.
by
to me was all in all”. 34. “From a Second Space perspective city
In these lines from “Tintern Abbey space becomes more of a mental and
Revisited”, Wordsworth is talking about: ideational field, conceptualised in imagery,
reflexive thought and symbolic
(A) The second stage in his relationship with representation, a conceived space of the
Nature. imagination or what I will henceforth
(B) The first stage in his relationship with describe as the urban imagery.” (Edward
Nature. Soja, Post metropolis) Which of the
(C) Both the first and second stages in his following statements cannot be applied to
relationship with Nature. Soja‟s proposition on the Second Space?
(D) The third stage in his relationship with (A) Second Space perspective tends to be
Nature. more subjective.
(B) Second Space perspective is concerned
31. Assertion (A): One of Flaubert‟s with symbolic representation of
mainmotivations in reality.
writing the novel (C) Second Space perspective is concerned
Madam Bovary was his with the fundamentally materialist
antipathy for the approach.
bourgeoisie. (D) Second Space perspective deals with
Reason (R): Flaubert strongly „thoughts about space‟.
believed that
bourgeoisie are those 35. “Lightly, O lightly, we bear her along; she
who think, feel and act sways like a flower in the wind of our song;
in terms of She skims like a bird on the foam of a stream; she
utilitarianism and who floats like a laugh from the lips of a dream.....”
These lines occur in the poem
reject the humanity and
(A) “Palanquin bearers”
uniqueness of the
(B) “The Illusion of Love”
individual person.
(C) “Indian Love Song”
(D) “Cradle Song”
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not 36. Which among the following novels of
the correct explanation of (A). Anita Desai is a children‟s book?
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. (A) Fire and the Mountain
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true. (B) Fasting, Feasting
(C) The Zig zag Way
(D) The Village by the Sea
32. “A Tun of Man in thy large Bulk is
writ, but sure thou‟rt but a Kilderkin of
37. Who among the following writers
wit” In the above lines what does Dryden
describes novels as “not form which you see
mean by „Kilderkin‟?
(A) A trivial instance but emotion which you feel”?
(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) A small barrel of wine
(C) kith and kin (B) Jean Rhys
(D) A small amount, as contrasted with „tun‟ (C) Virginia Woolf
(D) Joseph Conrad
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38. In Paradise Lost, Milton invokes his 42. Given below are two statements, one
„Heavenly Muse‟, „Urania‟ at the beginning labelled as Assertion (A) and the other
of: labelled as Reason (R).
Codes: Assertion (A): Deconstructive reading is
I. Book one apolitical.
II. Book four Reason (R): Because it focuses exclusively
III. Book nine on language. It primarily holds
IV. Book seven that all texts or linguistic
structures contain within them
The right combination according to the code a principle of destabilisation
is and hence it is difficult to pin
(A) I and II are correct. down meaning. Such a
(B) I, III and IV correct. reading, therefore, is unable to
(C) II and III are correct. assign historical agency.
(D) I and IV are correct. In this context above statements, identify
which one of the following is correct?
39. Which one of the following best (A) (A) is correct but (R) is wrong.
describes the basic principle of New (B) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
Criticism? (C) (A) is wrong but (R) is correct.
(A) An emphasis on the distinctive style (D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
and personality of the authors.
(B) Stressing the virtues of discipline, 43. Match the following lists:
order and the ethical mean. List – I List – II
(C) Locating the meaning of a literary (Title of poem) (Poet)
work in the internal relations of the I. “I hear a fly Buzz” 1. Wallace Stevens
language that constitute a text. II. “Birches” 2. Emily
(D) Evaluating a literary text against a Dickinson
backdrop of historical events. III. “Sunday Morning” 3. Allen Ginsberg
IV. “A Supermarket in California” 4. Robert
40. Who among the following figures give a Frost
preview of Achenbach‟s fatal end in Death
in Venice? The correct combination is:
Codes: I II III IV
I. The Graveyard Stranger (A) 2 4 3 1
II. The Governess (B) 2 1 3 4
III. The barber (C) 2 4 1 3
IV. The Gondolier (D) 3 2 1 4
The right combination according to the code 44. „Lexis‟ refers to

is: (A) All word forms having meaning or
(A) III and IV are correct. grammatical functions
(B) I and IV are correct. (B) The history of words
(C) II and III are correct. (C) Study of select word forms
(D) I and III are correct. (D) The selection of words
41. Jacques Lacan posits three „orders‟ 45. The following writers are involved in
which structure human existence. In the list social activism in addition to their practice
that follows: Identify the one that is not of creative writing:
included by Lacan: Codes:
(A) Imaginary I. Mahasweta Devi
(B) Unconscious II. Shashi Deshpande
(C) Real III. Arundhati Roy
(D) Symbolic IV. Shobha De
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(B) The Spaniards
The correct combination according to the (C) Epic Poems
code is (D) His trousers
(B) III and IV are correct. 51. “High above the north pole, on the first
(C) I and III are correct. day of 1969, two professors of English
(D) II and IV are correct. literature approached each other at a
combined velocity of 1200 miles per hour.”
46. In relation to Spenser‟s Faerie Queene This is the opening of David Lodge‟s
which of the following character virtue link (A) Nice Work
is rightly matched? (B) Changing Places
(A) Justice-Artegall; Courtsey- Guyan; (C) Small World
Temperance-Calidore (D) The British Museum is Falling Down
(B) Chasity-Britomart; Justice- Guyan;
Temperance-Talus 52. At the end of The Portrait of a Lady
(C) Courtsey-Calidore; Temperance- Isabel Archer
Guyon; Justice-Artegall I. Goes back to the house from the Garden.
(D) Courtsey-Calidore; Temperance- II. Accepts the proposal of Casper Good
Artegall; Justice-Britomart wood.
III. Straight away refuses the offer of Good
47. The Divine Comedy is divided into three wood.
canticas, each consisting of IV. Probably goes back to Rome and
(A) 30 cantos Osmond.
(B) 33 cantos
(C) 24 cantos Which are the correct combinations
(D) 28 cantos according to the code?
Codes:
48. The Modern Promethean is the (A) I and II are correct.
alternative title of (B) III and IV are correct.
(A) Dracula (C) I and IV are correct.
(B) Frankenstein (D) I and III are correct.
(C) Caleb Williams
(D) The Italian 53. “I will put myself in poor and mean
attire and with a kind of umber smirch my
49. In Words upon Words, Saussure says, face”. The word umber means:
“The actual birth of a new language has (A) A dusty yellow or brown pigment
never reported in the world” because “we (B) A dark brown pigment
have never known of a language which was (C) Light brown powder
not spoken the day before or which was not (D) Yellow paste
spoken in the same way the day before”.
What does he mean? 54. Which of the following psychoanalysts
(A) Old languages die making way for rewrote Descartes‟s dictum: “I think
new ones. therefore I am‟ as „I am not where I think,
(B) The birth and death of a language are and I think where I am not‟?
not subject to human laws. (A) Lacan
(C) Languages do not get borne, they (B) Freud
evolve out of previously existing (C) Jung
linguistic situations. (D) Cixous
(D) Old speech patterns trigger the birth of
a new language. 55. By the end of In Memorium the speaker
(A) Re-embraces a Christian vision of after
50. What did Henry James describe as life
“Loose Baggy Monsters”? (B) Re-asserts religious doubts and scientific
(A) Novels scepticism.
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(C) Reiterates the Darwinian view of social (C) P. Lal‟s “Being Very Simple, God”
life. (D) R. Parthasarathy‟s “Under another Sky”
(D) Reaffirms his faith in universal
brotherhood. 61. In EM Foster‟s A Passage to India some
of the major symbols are associated with:
56. The system of social rules that a speaker Code:
knows about language and uses it is called I. Mountains
(A) Grammar II. Tigers
(B) Morphology III. Echoes
(C) Orthography IV. Clouds
(D) Pragmatics
The right combination according to the code
57. The term „ecological imperialism‟ was is:
coined by (A) I and II are correct.
(A) Vandana Shiva (B) I, II and IV are correct.
(B) Laurence Buell (C) I and III are correct.
(C) Paulo Freire (D) II and IV are correct.
(D) Alfred Crosby
62. Which of the following features are
58. Emotional ties and personal present in Dostoevsky‟s Crime and
relationships play a minor part in Defoe‟s Punishment?
works. The following protagonists of Defoe I. Nihilism
have no family except one who leaves II. Utilitarianism
family at an early age. Which is that III. Rationalism
character? IV. Christian Symbolism
(A) Moll Flanders
(B) Colonel Jacque The correct combination according to the
(C) Robinson Crusoe code is:
(D) Captain Singleton (A) I and II are correct
(B) I and IV are correct
59. Match the following lists: (C) III and IV are correct
List – I List – II (D) I and III are correct
(Novels) (Settings)
I. The Power and the Glory 1. 63. “Count no man happy until he dies, free
Vietnam of pain at last”, is the last line of
II. The Quiet American 2. Haiti (A) Oedipus at Colonus
III. The Honorary Consul 3. (B) Agamemnon
Paraguay (C) Oedipus the King
IV. The Comedians 4. Mexico (D) Orestes
The right combination according to the code 64. What characteristics of 17th century
is: metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm
I II III IV of modernist poets and critics?
(A) 4 1 3 2 Code:
(B) 1 2 3 4 I. its intellectual complexity
(C) 4 3 2 1 II. Its uncompromising engagement with
(D) 3 4 1 2 politics
III. Its religious fervour
60. “...... Every other stone is god or cousin IV. Its union of thought and passion
there is no crop other than god and god is
harvested here around the year.” This The right combination according to the code
extract is from: is
(A) Jayanta Mahapatra‟s “Konarak” (A) I and III are correct.
(B) Arun Kolatkar‟s Jejuri (B) I and IV are correct.
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(C) II and III are correct. which Estella remarries and Pip remains
(D) I and II are correct. single. Dickens accordingly revised to a
more conventional ending which suggests
65. Th‟ inferior Priestess, at her Altar‟s that Pip and Estella will marry. Who was
side, trembling, begins the sacred Rites of the friend?
Pride. In this description of Belinda at the (A) Willkie Collins
dressing table, (B) Thomas Beard
(C) Thomas Carlyle
What does the word Pride refer to? (D) Richard Bentley
(A) Vanity
(B) Pride as the first of man‟s sins 70. Which of the following statements best
(C) Both (A) and (B) describes an example of the influence of an
(D) Complacency affective factor on second language
acquisition?
66. “Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle; she (A) A second language learner makes
died young..... She and I were twins: And educated guesses about word
should I die this instant, I had liv‟d her time meanings in a text by recognizing
to a minute” In the light of the above cognates.
quotation which of the following (B) A second language learner uses
interpretations is not correct? familiar vocabulary to mentally form
(A) The beauty and youth of the Duchess sentences before speaking.
become obvious to Ferdinand when (C) An adult second language learner
he sees her dead body. finds it impossible to form second
(B) Only when he identifies himself with language sounds that do not occur in
her, does he realize the enormity of his his first language.
crime. (D) A second language learner employs
(C) When he compares the age of the several words from the first language
Duchess with his own and puts when peaking the second language but
himself in her position does he realize not when writing it.
his guilt?
(D) He wants her face to be covered 71. Marvell‟s “The Coronet” seeks to
because it reminds him of her explore the human condition in terms of the
infidelity. conflict between
(A) Body and soul
67. All except one of the following scholars (B) War and peace
have come up with models which aim to (C) Nature and grace
characterise world English‟s within one (D) Flesh and spirit
conceptual set. Identify the lone exception.
(A) Tom McArthur 72. Which of the following is not true of
(B) Noam Chomsky post-structuralism?
(C) Braj Kachru (A) It seeks to undermine the idea that
(D) Manfred Gorlach meaning pre-exists its linguistic
expression.
68. In the very opening scene of Volpone, (B) There can be no meaning which is not
the protagonist says, “Open the shrine, that formulated and no language
I may see my Saint,” By the word „Saint‟, formulation reaches anywhere beyond
Volpone is referring to language.
(A) The Sun (C) There is no a-textual „origin‟ of a text.
(B) Saint Arthur (D) Every sign refers to every other sign
(C) Gold adequately.
(D) Apollo
73. Which of the following second language
69. A close friend of Dickens objected to the learners would most likely acquire the
original ending of Great Expectations in second language more easily?
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(A) A high school student who has been JUNE 2013
enrolled in mandatory classes in the
second language since elementary (RE-EXAM)
school. PAPER II
(B) A visitor to a country where the
second language is spoken; he 1. In the following cluster of poems by
interacts with hotel and restaurant Shelley, which one has the voyage motif?
personnel using the second language. (A) “Adonais”
(C) A business person for whom fluency (B) The Revolt of Islam
in the second language may lead to (C) “Ode to the West Wind”
career advancement. (D) Alastor
(D) An immigrant living in a country
where the second language is spoken; 2. In Sydney‟s sonnet sequence, Astrophil
he feels accepted by speakers of the and Stella, the final sonnet (#108)
second language. (A) Brings no resolution
(B) Ends in joy
74. In Wuthering Heights, Cathy appears in (C) Brings a definite resolution
a dream beating at a window, wailing “Let (D) Promises another sonnet sequence
me in”, and blood running down her wrist.
Who dreams her? 3. Who among the following English
(A) Lockwood writers opposed the Licensing Act of 1643?
(B) Nelly (A) John Milton
(C) Heathcliff (B) Thomas Browne
(D) Edgar Linton (C) Andrew Marvell
(D) Abraham Cowley
75. Who among the following characters in
Thomas More‟s Utopia did not correspond 4. Who claimed: “I have not published a
in biographical background to an actual single paper that is not written in a spirit of
historical person? benevolence and with a love of mankind”?
(A) Morton (A) Pope
(B) Hythloday (B) Dryden
(C) Giles (C) Swift
(D) More (D) Addison
5. A protagonist writes a letter of

confession, but it gets lost under the carpet
only to be found on the wedding day. Who
is the protagonist?
(A) Bathsheba
(B) Lucetta
(C) Sue
(D) Tess
6. In an age of pressurized happiness, we

sometimes grow insensitive to subtle joys.
The italicised words are an example of
(A) A transferred epithet
(B) A simile
(C) A metaphor
(D) A hyperbaton
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7. In Graham Greene‟s Brighton Rock,
Hale is murdered with the help of „brighton 12. The Wife of Bath‟s philosophy
rock‟ which is ofmarriage shows that she
(A) A kind of sugar-candy (A) Is a strong person with keen awareness of
(B) A form of grenade her own rights?
(C) A baton (B) Tends to say one thing and do the
(D) A kind of rock opposite.
(C) Cares only for pleasure, not for right and
8. Which poet among this group does not wrong.
belong to the „Auden Generation‟ group of (D) Trusts thought too much instead of
poets? feeling.
(A) Stephen Spender
(B) Alun Lewis 13. Which of the following characters is
(C) Cecil Day Lewis killed in Achebe‟s Things Fall Apart in
(D) Louis Macneice conformity with an African tribal custom?
(A) Okonkwo
9. In Lord of the Flies which character (B) Obierika
comes to realize that the „beast‟ is actually (C) Ikemefuna
the evil inside the boys themselves and it is (D) Nwoye
that which is breaking things up?
(A) Jack 14. “We will do it, I tell you; we will do
(B) Simon it.” The repetition of a phrase is
(C) Roger (A) Antiphrasis
(D) Ralph (B) Diacope
(C) Aposiopesis
10. Which text exemplifies the anti- (D) Enumeratio
Victorian feeling prevalent in the early
twentieth century? 15. Find the poet who is the odd one in the
Code: group:
I. Eminent Victorians (A) Wallace Stevens
II. Jungle Book (B) Robert Lowell
III. Philistine Victorians (C) Sylvia Plath
IV. The Way of All Flesh (D) Anne Sexton
The correct combination according to the 16. Which one of the following characters
code is in Shakespeare‟s Tempest is associated with
(A) II and IV are correct. the Earth?
(B) I and IV are correct. (A) Ferdinand
(C) III and IV are correct. (B) Ariel
(D) II and III are correct. (C) Caliban
(D) Prospero
11. What event allowed mainstream British
theatre companies to commission and 17. In the Advancement of Learning Bacon
performs work that was politically, socially attempted a preliminary survey of the entire
and sexually controversial without fear of field of learning, by analyzing the principal
censorship? obstacles to its advancement. Identify from
(A) The abolition of the Lord among the following choices the one that he
Chamberlain‟s office in 1968. did not mention as an obstacle:
(B) The illegal performance of works by (A) Rhetoric
Howard Brenton and Edward Bond. (B) Medieval scholasticism
(C) The collapse of liberal humanist (C) Inductive method
consensus in the late 1960s. (D) Pseudo sciences
(D) A combined appeal to the Queen by a
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18. Who among this group of young male 23. Arrange the following books in the
characters in Jane Austen‟s novels is not order in which they appeared. Use the code
sent to the University for Education? given below:
(A) Tom Bertram I. The Dictionary of the English Language
(B) John Thorpe II. The History of Rasselas
(C) James Morland III. The Vanity of Human Wishes
(D) Henry Tilney IV. Lives of the English Poets
19. Charles Dickens caricatured utilitarian Which is the correct combination according
thinking with telling directness in his to the above code?
portrayal of Code:
(A) Paul Dombey (A) III, I, II, IV
(B) Thomas Gradgrind (B) I, II, III, IV
(C) Philip Pirrip (C) IV, III, II, I
(D) Harold Skimpole (D) II, III, I, IV
20. Which one of the following playwrights 24. Arrange the following forms in the
will not be covered under the category / order in which they appeared. Use the code
term „Theatre of the Absurd‟? given below:
(A) Jean Genet I. commedia dell‟arte
(B) Jean Giraudoux II. Confessional poetry
(C) Samuel Beckett III. Agitprop
(D) Eugene Ionesco IV. Picaresque novel
21. The following are two lists of lines from The correct combination is:
poems and their titles. Match them: Code:
List – I List – II (A) IV, I, II, III
(Lines from poems) (Titles of poems) (B) I, IV, III, II
I. “The squat pen rests (C) II, IV, I, III
as snug as a gun.” 1. “Church (D) I, III, IV, II
Going”
II. “A serious house on 25. Which of the following poems deals
serious earth it is.” 2. “Hawk- Roosting” with neighbourly relations?
III. “Time held me green (A) “Birches”
and dying.” 3. “Digging” (B) “Home Burial”
IV. “I hold creation in (C) “Mending Wall”
my foot.” 4. “Fern Hill” (D) “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
Which is the correct combination Evening”
according to the above code?
Code: 26. The following are two lists of writers
I II III IV and their works. Match them:
(A) 4 1 2 3 List – I List – II
(B) 2 3 4 1 (Writers) (Works)
(C) 1 2 3 4 I. Katherine Susannah Prichard 1. Barungin
(D) 3 1 4 2 II. Colin Johnson 2. My Place
III. Sally Morgan 3. Wild Cat Falling
22. _________ is the use of words whose IV. Jack Davis 4. Coonardoo
pronunciation imitates the sound the word
describes. Which is the correct combination according
(A) Alliteration to the above code?
(B) Onomatopoeia Code:
(C) Oxymoron I II III IV
(D) Enthymeme (A) 3 2 1 4
(B)
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(C) 2 1 4 3 (A) 1 3 2 4
(D) 1 4 3 2 (B) 3 4 1 2
(C) 2 3 4 1
27. How does John Stuart Mill define (D) 4 1 3 2
„happiness‟?
(A) Doing what one wants to do 31. Dryden‟s dramatization of Paradise Lost
(B) Leading a fulfilling life is entitled
(C) Pleasure and the absence of pain (A) All for Love
(D) Virtuous activity (B) The State of Innocence
(C) Annus Mirabilis
28. “Had we but world enough, and time, (D) Religio Medici
this coyness, lady, were no crime … But at
my back I always hear Time‟s winged 32. Two pioneering feminist tracts, Kate
chariot hurrying near.” Andrew Marvell in Millet‟s Sexual Politics and Germaine
these lines emphasizes the theme of Greer‟s The Female Eunuch were published
(A) Love in
(B) Love and transience (A) 1969
(C) Love and political passion (B) 1968
(D) Love and flattery (C) 1970
(D) 1967
29. The following are two lists of
dramatists and their plays. Match them: 33. Who defined poetry as „the best words
List – I List – II in the best order‟?
(Dramatists) (Plays) (A) Wordsworth
I. George Etheredge 1. The Country (B) Coleridge
Wife (C) Keats
II. William Wycherley 2. The Man of (D) Shelley
Mode
III. John Vanbrugh 3. The Double 34. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by
Dealer “Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe”?
IV. William Congreve 4. The Provok‟d (A) Britain‟s pre-eminence as a global
Wife power will depend on mastery of
foreign languages.
The correct combination is: (B) Abandon the introspection of the
Code: Romantics and turn to the higher
I II III IV moral purpose found in Goethe.
(A) 2 3 4 1 (C) Even a foreign author is better than a
(B) 3 2 1 4 home-grown scoundrel.
(C) 4 3 2 1 (D) Leave England and immigrate to
(D) 2 1 4 3 Germany.
30. The following are two lists of writers 35. Conrad‟s Heart of Darkness presents
and their works. Match them: two conflicting discourses present in his
List – I List – II own culture. Identify the two discourses
(Writers) (Works) from the following:
I. Uma Parameswaran 1. Drums of My Flesh (A) Modernism and anticolonialism
II. Bharati Mukherjee 2. Trishanku (B) Modernism and structuralism
III. Michael Ondaatje 3. Jasmine (C) Anti-colonialism and Eurocentricism
IV. Cyril Dabydeen 4. Anil‟s Ghost (D) Material culturalism and tribalism
Which is the correct combination according 36. Who among the following poets defined
to the above code? free verse as playing tennis without a net?
Code: (A) Robert Frost
I II III (B) Ezra Pound
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(C) Philip Larkin from “Ode to the West Wind” by Shelley.
(D) William Carlos Williams The poem consists of
(A) Fourteen line terzarima stanzas
37. Christopher Marlowe wrote all the (B) four-lined stanza characterized by swift
following plays except action
(A) Tamburlaine the Great (C) A particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle
(B) The Jew of Malta (D) An unstressed syllable followed by a
(C) Richard III stressed one
(D) Edward II
44. In the Fall of Hyperion Keats‟s Muse
38. According to Barthes, a text which figure is
draws attention to its artifice, to the ways (A) Thea
in which it is structured, is called (B) Moneta
(A) Writerly text (C) Lamia
(B) Aesthetic text (D) Calliope
(C) Readerly text
(D) Formal text 45. What literary work best captures a sense
of the political turmoil particularly
39. Which of the following descriptions is regarding the issue of religion just after the
not applicable to Pope‟s The Rape of the Restoration?
Lock? (A) Gay‟s Beggar‟s Opera
(A) A mock heroic poem (B) Butler‟s Hudibras
(B) Written in heroic couplets (C) Pope‟s Dunciad
(C) Pope‟s tribute to Queen Anne (D) Dryden‟s Absalom and Achitophel
(D) Produced in two versions, consisting of 2
and 5 cantos 46. Who among the Victorian authors has
described himself/herself as an agnostic?
40. From the following list, choose the (A) Matthew Arnold
work which is not written by E.M. Forster: (B) Charles Dickens
(A) Where Angels Fear to Tread (C) George Eliot
(B) Maurice (D) Thomas Hardy
(C) A Room of One‟s Own
(D) The Longest Journey 47. Preface to Frantz Fanon‟s The Wretched
of the Earth was written by
41. The „Vulgate Bible‟ was prepared to (A) AimeCesaire
make the Bible available to (B) AniaLoomba
(A) The ecclesiastics (C) Jean Paul Sartre
(B) The elite class (D) Edward Said
(C) The courtiers
(D) The common men 48. Who among the following theorists
formulated the concept of the utile dulci,
42. Literary works such as Charles profit combined with delight?
Dickens‟s David Copperfield, Samuel (A) Plato
Butler‟s The Way of All Flesh and James (B) Aristotle
Joyce‟s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young (C) Horace
Man provide examples of which following (D) Longinus
novelistic form?
(A) Nouveau roman or new novel 49. Out of the four humours of the body,
(B) Epistolary novel the Jacobeans thought of themselves as
(C) Bildugsroman especially prone to
(D) Historical novel (A) Choler
(B) Blood
43. “I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!” (C) Phlegm
expresses a pathetic cry of a wounded heart (D) Melancholy
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50. Who among the following Romantic
poets ended his life, lauded and respected as (RE-EXAM)
„The Sage of High gate‟? 2013 PAPER III
(A) William Blake
(B) S.T. Coleridge
(C) P.B. Shelley 1. Which of the following statements isnot
(D) William Wordsworth true of Tolstoy‟s Anna Karenina? It is
concerned with
(A) The jumbled trivia of day-today life.
(B) The belief in social progress and scientific
advancement.
(C) Insistent quest for meaning.
(D) The reaction of immediate family
members to someone‟s terminal illness.
2. In The Rape of Lock Belinda‟s guardian

sylph is unable to prevent the Baron‟s fatal
mischief because
(A) He discovers an earthly lover lurking in
Belinda‟s heart.
(B) He is disturbed by Clarissa‟s speech.
(C) The view is blocked by the imposing
figure of Sir Plume.
(D) He is yet to return from a visit to the
Cave of Spleen.
3. „Ah! I‟ll never, never meet such a man

again. You ought to have heard him recite
poetry …
Oh, he enlarged my mind.” In Heart of
Darkness these words about Kurtz are
spoken by
(A) The manager
(B) The intended
(C) The first-class agent
(D) The Russian
4. Arrange the following ELT methods and

approaches in the order in which they
appear. Use the codes given below:
Code:
I. Direct Method
II. The Communicative Language Teaching
III. The Grammar Translation Method
IV. The Silent Way

code is:
(A) I, III, IV, III
(B) III, I, IV, II
(C) III, II, I, IV
(D) I, III, II, IV
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5. Which of the following statements is not (C) A sense of sentimental nostalgia for
applicable to Derrida‟s rejection of the nineteenth and early twentieth century
notion of the „Metaphysics of Presence‟? life, typically expressed in rueful,
(A) The desire for immediate access to melancholic tones.
meaning privileges presence over (D) The use of brief, economic literary
absence. forms and a spare, astringent literary
(B) All presences are necessarily style.
metaphysical and, therefore, are to be
rejected. 8. Given below are two statements, one is
(C) A fleeting meaning of the text is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other
created through the play of „difference‟ labelled as Reason (R):
and „differance‟. Assertion (A): Some post-colonial writers
(D) Metaphysics involves maintain that being „unhomed‟ is not the
installinghierarchies and orders same as being „homeless‟.
ofsubordination in the Reason (R): Because the migrants are not at
variousdualisms that it encounters. home in themselves: their cultural identity
crisis has made them psychological refugees.
6. Read the following and its code: In the context of the above statements, which
“a prince‟s court one of the following is correct?
is like a common fountain, whence should
flow Pure silver drop in general: but if‟t Code:
chance (A) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong.
Some curs‟d example poison‟t near the head (B) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
Death and disease through the whole land (C) (A) is wrong, but (R) is correct.
spread.” (D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
Code:
I. It is the description of the French Court at 9. Which of the following statements are
the beginning of The Duchess of Malfi. not true about Margaret Laurence‟s Novel,
II. It is about the English court. Such was The Stone Angel?
Webster‟s England, but to avoid censorship Code:
Webster gives his play a foreign location. I. The novel is set in a fictional small town in
III. It is about the Italian court. Manitoba called Manawaka.
IV. The court is located in Malfi. II. The novel was written when she was away
from Canada.
The correct combination according to the III. The novel is narrated retrospectively by
code is: Hagar Shipley.
(A) I and IV are correct. IV. The novel is least known of her works.
(B) I and II are correct.
(C) II and III are correct. The correct combination according to the
(D) II and IV are correct. code is:
7. Literary works by post-modern British (B) II and III are correct.
writers such as Angela Carter, Salman (C) II and IV are correct.
Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson generally (D) I and IV are correct.
tend to share which of the following
characteristics? 10. Which of the following statements is
(A) The use of fragmented narrative not true of many contemporary African
structures with multiple shifts in writers?
consciousness, chronology and (A) They convey a melancholy tone of
location. longing for traditionalreligious rituals.
(B) An emphasis on the rich universality (B) They celebrate unambiguously the
of life in cultures and countries all benefits of Western education.
over the world. (C) They bemoan the loss of values and
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(D) They assess the social impact of
systems and institutions of colonial 16. „Stand up, young woman … and tell me
rule. what sort of a barbarous people your
country folk are, where child-murder is
11. The „Angel in the House‟ became a become so commonplace as to require the
common label for the Victorian ideal of restraint of laws like yours.‟ The queen in
respectable middle-class femininity. The Scott‟s The Heart of Midlothian is referring
phrase originated with a popular long poem to a strange
by Scottish law according to which if a woman
(A) Arthur Munby (A) gives birth to a child and the child is
(B) Arthur Hugh Clough missing, she is considered guilty of
(C) Charlotte Mew infanticide.
(D) Coventry Patmore (B) Secretly gives birth to a child and the
child is missing and she has not
12. Which of the following literary types is confided to anyone about her
associated with the poetry of Charles pregnancy, she is considered guilty of
Baudelaire? infanticide.
(A) Flaneur (C) gives birth to a child and the child is
(B) Poete Maudit missing and she has not confided to
(C) Encomium anyone about her pregnancy, she is
(D) Honnete Homme considered guilty of infanticide.
(D) gives birth to a child and kills the child
13. In A Farewell to Arms the main image and she is guilty of infanticide.
clusters are associated with
Code: 17. Which of the following statements is
I. Rain not applicable to the definition of New
II. Beasts Historicism? New historicist critics
III. Insects (A) Remind us that it is treacherous to
IV. River reconstruct the past as it really was –
rather than as we have been
The correct combination according to the conditioned by our own place and
code is: time to believe the way it was.
(A) I and III are correct. (B) Are less likely to see history as linear
(B) I, II and IV are correct. and progressive, as something
(C) III and IV are correct. developing toward the present.
(D) I and IV are correct. (C) Tend to view history as literature‟s
background.
14. Which of the following poets describes (D) Are unlikely to suggest that a literary
his “mistress” as “No, she is not Anglo- text has a single or easily identifiable
Indian. She is Indian English, the language historical context.
that I use.”
(A) Nissim Ezekiel 18. In Sense and Sensibility, Austen portrays
(B) Keki Daruwalla an „excess of sensibility‟ in
(C) A.K. Ramanujan (A) Marianne
(D) R. Parthasarathy (B) Margaret
(C) Elinor
15. All of the following are characteristics (D) Lucy
of Renaissance humanism except
(A) Sanctity of the Latin texts of Scriptures. 19. Ben Jonson disliked
(B) Rejection of Christian principles. Code:
(C) Belief that ancient Latin and Greek I. fantastic comedy
writers were inferior to later authors. II. Wide-ranging chronicle-history and
(D) Primary causative agent of the stupendous tragedy
Reformation. III. The comedies of Terence and Plautus
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IV. The ability of satire to expose human quarter of the eighteenth century in Britain.
vices and follies Suchliterature included books written
byformer slaves. Two such writings are
The correct combination according to the Code:
code is: I. Mary Robinson
(A) I and III are correct. II. Olaudah Equiano
(B) III and IV are correct. III. Mary Prince
(C) I and IV are correct. IV. Anne Cromarty Yearsley
(D) I and II are correct.
The right combination according to the code
20. Given below are two statements, one is
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other (A) I and IV are correct.
labelled as Reason (R): (B) I and II are correct.
Assertion (A): In the 1950s and 60s (C) II and IV are correct.
Baldwin and Ellison returned (D) II and III are correct.
to universal themes and
focused on innovations in 24. Hippolyte Taine published his four
literary forms. volumes History of English Literature in
Reason (R): In the 1930s and 40s African 1864 based on the following categories
and American Literature was except one. Which one?
mostly preoccupied with (A) Race
protest. (B) Psychology
(C) Historical moment
In the context of the above statements, which (D) Milieu
one of the following is correct?
Code: 25. The two „mother-figures‟ in Dickens‟s
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the Great Expectations are
correct explanation of (A). Code:
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not I. Estella
the correct explanation of (A). II. Miss Havisham
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. III. Mrs Joe
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. IV. Georgiana
21. In coining the term „Ecriture feminine‟ The right combination according to the code
Helene Cixous signifies a mode of textual is:
production, not necessarily written by (A) II and III are correct.
women. Who among the following male (B) I and II are correct.
writers is used by her as an example? (C) III and IV are correct.
(A) D.H. Lawrence (D) I and III are correct.
(B) Joseph Conrad
(C) James Joyce 26. Judith Wright‟s works reveal the
(D) E.M. Forster following features except one. Which one?
(A) A keen focus on the Australian
22. Of the following characters in Jacobean environment
plays, choose the one who is not a (B) Concern for the relationship between the
villainous character: settlers, indigenous Australians and the bush.
(A) De Flores (The Changeling) (C) A correspondence between inner
(B) Luke Frugal (The City Madam) existence and objective reality.
(C) Sir Giles Overreach (A New Way to Pay (D) An obsession with religious and political
Old Debts) issues.
(D) Bosola (The Duchess of Malfi)
27. Arrange the following books in the
23. Resistance to slavery created a literature order in which they appeared:
Code:
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I. Leviathan genuine standard variety, a
II. Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity fixed and invariant form of the
III. Le MorteD‟Arthur language that is used for certain
IV. Utopia kinds of communication.
The correct combination according to the In the context of the above statements, which
code is: one of the following is correct?
(A) I, IV, III, II Code:
(B) III, IV, I, II (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
(C) III, IV, II, I correct explanation of (A).
(D) III, I, IV, II (B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not
the correct explanation of (A).
28. Which of the two novels of Anita Desai (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
were shortlisted for the Booker Prize? (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(A) The Artist of Disappearance and In Custody
(B) In Custody and Feasting, Fasting 33. Given below are two statements, one is
(C) Feasting, Fasting and the Zig Zag Way labelled as Assertion (A) and the other
(D) In Custody and Fire on the Mountain labelled as Reason (R):
Assertion (A): The Waste Land ends in
29. Edward Said points to two forms of a flurry of random allusions.
orientalism. They are Reason (R): The ending of the poem reflects
(A) Real and fake the poet‟s divided life between
(B) Voluntary and involuntary America and England and a
(C) Subjective and objective life given over to primitivism.
(D) Latent and manifest
In the context of the above statements, which
30. Which of the plays in its Preface was one of the following is correct?
described by Eugene O‟Neill as „a play of
old sorrow, written in tears and blood‟? (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
(A) Desire under the Elms correct explanation of (A).
(B) The Hairy Ape (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not
(C) Long Day‟s Journey into Night the correct explanation of (A).
(D) Mourning Becomes Electra (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
31. “With all the eagerness to know the
truths of life, she retained very childlike 34. Which of the following novels acted as
ideas about marriage … the really delightful an influence on Salman Rushdie in forging a
marriage must be that when your husband new narrative style in English?
was a sort ofa father, and could even teach (A) Raja Rao‟s Kanthapura
you Hebrew, if you wished it.” She is the (B) G.V. Desani‟s All about H Hatterr
protagonist in one of George Eliot‟s novels. (C) Mulk Raj Anand‟s Untouchable
Who is she? (D) R.K. Narayan‟s The Sweet Vendor
(A) Romola
(B) Hetty Sorel 35. Ann Radcliffe‟s The Mysteries of Udolpho
(C) Maggie is a novel about
(D) Dorothea (A) A father and a daughter setting out on
a journey.
32. Given below are two statements, one is (B) The kidnapping of Emily by Montoni
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other and her visit to Venice.
labelled as Reason (R): (C) Emily‟s adventures in the castle of
Assertion (A): The term “Standard Udolpho, the outcome of the
English” is misleading. adventures, her escape and her final
Reason (R): There are many linguistic union with Valencourt.
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(D) The adventures of Montoni and his (A) Violent convulsions.
men in Udolpho. (B) A slow ebbing a way of life hardly
perceptible.
36. In Marxist criticism the term (C) The miraculous appearance of a priest to
„interpellation‟ defines administer the last rites.
(A) The ways in which the ideological (D) The intense mourning of the cleaner who
structure in social formation is discovers the body.
constructed out of material practices.
(B) The ways in which the ideological 41. Archetypal criticism accepts as its
structure in social formation is informing principle that archetypes are
constructed out of discursive practices. present in all literature and provide the
(C) The ways in which the subjects of an basis of its interconnectedness.
ideology are placed in false positions Practitioners include
of knowledge regarding themselves. Code:
(D) The ways in which the subjects ofan I. Northrop Frye
ideology resist false positionsof II. Dorothy Van Ghent
knowledge regarding others. III. Derek Traversi
IV. Maud Bodkin
37. According to Longinus, the sublime has The correct combination according to
the following features except : the code is:
(A) It is the essence of all great poetry and (A) I and IV are correct.
oratory. (B) I and III are correct.
(B) It is interested in the usual rhetorical goal (C) II and IV are correct.
of persuasion. (D) I and II are correct.
(C) It valorises a special use of language.
(D) It is a matter of reader-response. 42. In the sonnet “Death, Be Not Proud”,
38. In a trickster tale Donne says to death: “Those whom thou
Code: think‟st thou dost over-throw / Die not,
I. an anthropomorphized animal often serves poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.”
as the protagonist What does he mean?
II. The ending is ambiguous (A) Death is very strong.
III. The hero can be a shape shifter, a cheat (B) Death is not death, because after death we
or a liar wake up to live eternally.
IV. Humans act as a mouth piece for the gods (C) One must face death courageously and
defiantly.
The correct combination according to the (D) Death is not as strong as he thinks he is.
code is:
(A) II and III are correct. 43. In which of the following plays of Luigi
(B) I, II and III are correct. Pirandello the stage itself, the symbol of
(C) I and III are correct. appearance and reality, becomes the setting
(D) I and IV are correct. of the play?
(A) Right You Are (If You Think, You Are)
39. The best source for historical evidence (B) To Clothe the Naked
of individual words in English is (C) The Life I Gave You
(A) The American Heritage Dictionary (D) Six Characters in Search of an Author
(B) Fennell
(C) The Oxford English Dictionary 44. Given below are two statements, one is
(D) The Online Merriam-Webster‟s labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is
Dictionary labelled as Reason (R):
Assertion (A): Many modern British writers
40. Which of the following statements on infused their works with an
the ending of Kafka‟s “Metamorphosis” is extreme sense of uncertainty,
correct? The death of Gregor Samsa is disillusionment and despair.
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Reason (R): The writers were responding to (C) It was a failure on the stage.
the devastation of war and (D) The dialogue was unintelligible.
feeling disconnected from the
traditions of the past. 49. Jimmy Porter in John Osborne‟s Look
Back in Anger displays
In the context of the above statements, which Code:
one of the following is correct? I. Rebelliousness
Codes: II. Nostalgia
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the III. Restlessness
correct explanation of (A). IV. Mendacity
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not
the correct explanation of (A). The right combination according to the code
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. is:
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. (A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
45. Which among the following statements (C) II and III are correct.
is not correct? Badal Sircar‟s Pagla Ghora is (D) III and IV are correct.
a play about
(A) The condition of women in post- 50. The following are two lists of works
Second World War Bengal. and their themes. Match them correctly:
(B) The political and religious conditions Code:
of the time. List – I List – II
(C) Sexual passion. (Works) (Themes)
(D) Lack of communication between men I. The Heart of Midlothian,
and women. Tess of the D‟urbervilles 1. Suicide
II. The End of the Affair,
the Golden Bowl 2. Greed
46. The various symbols used in Girish
III. The Heart of the Matter,
Karnad‟s Tughlaq are associated with Lord Jim 3. Infanticide
Code: IV. Heart of Darkness,
I. Pythons Nostromo 4. Adultery
II. Vultures
III. Wasps The correct combination according to the
IV. Butterflies code is:
The correct combination according to the I II III IV

code is: (A) 3 4 1 2
(A) I and II are correct. (B) 4 3 1 2
(B) I and III are correct. (C) 1 3 2 1
(C) III and IV are correct. (D) 4 1 3 2
(D) II and III are correct.
51. In As You Like It when Oliver brings in
47. “Collocations” refer to the bloody napkin dyed in Orlando‟s blood,
(A) The combination of words in a phrase why does Rosalind faint? Which of the
(B) The act of positioning words following is not the correct answer?
(C) Grouping of words in a sentence (A) Many will swoon when they look at
(D) Combination of natural words blood.
(B) She faints because of her real concern and
48. Of the following statements, which one anxiety for Orlando.
is not true of Congreve‟s The Way of the (C) Frailty, thy name is woman.
World? (D) She is counterfeiting as she herself later
(A) The Way of the World was staged in claims.
1700.
(B) It was played at the theatre in Lincoln‟s
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52. Which is the correct statement about marooned on South Pacific Island. Two
Euripides‟s Medea? In Euripides‟s Medea names are repeated in Golding‟s tale. They
the chorus consists of are
(A) Fifteen Corinthian women who are Code:
Medea‟s next door neighbours I. Ralph
(B) Fifteen Athenian elders II. Roger
(C) Fifteen Spartan women III. Jack
(D) Fifteen Sicilian Women IV. Simon
53. Which of the following is not an award The correct combination according to the
received by Mahasweta Devi? code is:
(A) Ramon Magsaysay Award (A) I and II are correct.
(B) Jnanpith Award (B) III and IV are correct.
(C) Padmashri (C) I and IV are correct.
(D) Commonwealth Writers Prize (D) I and III are correct.
57. The following are two lists of characters

54. The Statute of Pleadings makes English and the works in which we find them.
the official language of the English Match them correctly according to the code:
Parliament in List – I List – II
(A) 1755 (Characters) (Works)
(B) 1362 I. Ratna 1. A House for Mr Biswas
(C) 1611 II. Raghu 2. Midnight‟s Children
(D) 1879 III. Padma 3. The Last Labyrinth
IV. Gargi 4. Kanthapura
55. The following are two lists of Code:
statements and the poets / critics who made I II III IV
them. Match them correctly: (A) 2 1 3 4
List – I List – II (B) 3 2 1 4
(Statements on imagination) (Poets / critics) (C) 4 1 2 3
I. One power alone makes (D) 1 2 3 4
a poet – The Imagination,
The Divine Vision 1. 58. In spite of being constant in his
Shelley relationship with Sophia, Tom is involved
II. … what the imagination seizes in relationships with three other ladies in
on beauty must be the truth 2. the three parts of Tom Jones. Here is a list
Coleridge of these women. Find the odd one:
III. The great instrument of (A) Molly Seagrim
moral good is the imagination 3. Blake (B) Mrs Western
IV. Works of imagination should (C) Lady Booby
be written in a very plain language 4. Keats (D) Lady Bellaston
The right combination according to the code 59. This novel by Lawrence was greeted
is: with the headlines: „A book the police
Code: should ban; loathsome study of sex
I II III IV depravity; misleading youth to unspeakable
(A) 2 1 3 4 disaster.‟ Its opening chapter was originally
(B) 3 4 1 2 suppressed. Name the novel:
(C) 1 3 2 1 (A) Lady Chatterley‟s Lover
(D) 4 1 3 2 (B) The Rainbow
(C) Women in Love
56. In Lord of Flies Golding inverts the (D) The White Peacock
morality of R.M. Ballantyne‟s The Coral
Island involving adventures of three boys
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60. In Keats‟s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” the (C) It is a realistic novel, true to the locale
key ideas are best described as the following it depicts.
except one. Which one? (D) The theme and outlook of the novel
(A) Movement versus stasis are cited as exemplars of
(B) Disappointing love versus eternal bliss existentialism.
(C) Scars of history versus consolations of art
(D) Beauty versus truth 66. The Faerie Queene is an epic celebration
of
61. These critics transcend the subjective Code:
point of view. They bow to other forms of I. Queen Elizabeth
objective authority: the authority of the past II. The Irish Nation
and the authority of the social consensus. III. The Roman Catholic Church
They adopt the scientific attitude without IV. The Protestant Faith
the science.
The above formulation best describes The correct combination according to the
(A) The Neoclassical Critics code is:
(B) The Romantic Critics (A) I and III are correct.
(C) The Art for Art Sake Critics (B) I and II are correct.
(D) The Symbolist Critics (C) I and IV are correct.
62. In Beckett‟s Waiting for Godo, which
character has two pages of unpunctuated 67. Which of the following statements is
speech? not a correct description of Pope‟s The
(A) Estragon Dunciad?
(B) Vladimir (A) The Dunciad is an attack on bad writers
(C) Lucky and bad writing.
(D) Pozzo (B) It is a pessimistic commentary on the
civilization of the time.
63. Laura Mulvey‟s pioneering essay, (C) It is about the coronation of Theobald.
“Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” is (D) It wishes to satirize Theobald only.
an instance of the feminist appropriation of
psychoanalysis. It particularly uses 68. Which of the following statements
(A) Freud‟s concept of sublimation cannot be subsumed under the “Sapir-
(B) Jung‟s concept of collective unconscious Whorf” hypothesis?
(C) Lacan‟s concept of the gaze (A) Each language presents us with its own
(D) Lacan‟s notion of the fragmented body categorization of the universe.
(B) Language is a guide to social reality.
64. Which of the following novelists does (C) One adjusts to reality essentially without
not belong to the “Campus Novelists” the use of language.
Group? (D) A language and the society that uses it
(A) Angus Wilson interlock.
(B) David Lodge
(C) Anthony Powell 69. Which philosophers do Dante encounter
(D) Malcolm Bradbury in Limbo, the first circle of hell?
Code:
65. Which of the following statements is I. Socrates
not true of The Stranger by Camus? II. Aristotle
(A) The title character is Meursault, an III. Heraclitus
Algerian who kills an Arab man. IV. Plato
(B) The story, divided into two parts,
gives Meursault‟s first person narrative The correct combination according to the
before and after the murder code is:
respectively. (A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and IV are correct.
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(C) II and IV are correct. and the Rossettis. Hewrote a review which
(D) I and III are correct. introduced the term:
(A) The Earthly School of Poetry
70. Which of the following best describes (B) The Fleshly School of Poetry
the role of revision in the writing process? (C) The Stealthy School of Poetry
(A) Revision is discrete phase of the (D) The Esoteric School of Poetry
writing process that should occur after
the initial drafting phase. 75. The narrator of Piers Plowman falls
(B) Substantive revisions should be asleep on
finalized during the second draft phase (A) The Mendip hills
of the writing process. (B) The Purbeck hills
(C) Revision is a recursive activity that (C) The Malvern Hills
may occur at any phase of the writing (D) The Cheviot Hills
process.
(D) Substantive revision should occur
primarily during the editing phase of
the writing process.
71. Who among the following eighteenth

century English poets committed suicide
after years of living close to starvation as a
struggling poet?
(A) Robert Burns
(B) Thomas Chatterton
(C) William Collins
(D) Charlotte Smith
72. “Why can‟t we be friends now‟ … it‟s

what I want. It‟s what you want.‟ But the
horses didn‟t want it – they swerved apart;
the earth didn‟t want it.” At the end of A
Passage to India Forster suggests that
(A) If Fielding and Aziz want, they can
be friends.
(B) Probably if the Indians and the
English want, they can still be friends.
(C) Though Fielding and Aziz want, the
horses and the earth of India do not
want the English and the Indians to be
friends, not yet.
(D) The East is east and the West is west
and the twain shall never meet.
73. An extremely simplified form of a

language used as a contact language among
speakers of different languages is a
(A) Dialect
(B) Creole
(C) Pidgin
(D) Register
74. Robert Buchanan, a minor poet, critic

and novelist, took sides in the literary
squabbles of the 1860s against Swinburne
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JUNE 2014 (A) four iambic pentameters
(B) six iambic pentameters
PAPER II (C) eight iambic pentameters
(D) ten iambic pentameters
1. “The just man justices. What kind of
foregrounding do you find in the above 6. Match the items in List – I with items in
lines? List – II according to the code given below :
(A) Syntactic
(B) Semantic List – I (Critic) List – II (Theory)
(C) Collocation i. Cleanth Brooks 1. Ambiguity
(D) None of the above ii. William Empson 2. Paradox
iii. Mark Schorer 3. Archetypal patterns in
poetry
2. Match the items in List – I with items in
iv. Maud Bodkin 4. Techniques as discovery
List – II according to the code given:
List – I List – II
Codes :
i ii iii iv
i. Lambic 1. An unstressed syllable
(A) 2 1 4 3
followed
(B) 3 2 1 4
by a stressed syllable
(C) 1 2 3 4
ii. Anapaestic 2. A stressed is followed by two
(D) 2 3 4 1
unstressed syllables.
iii. Dactylic 3. An unstressed syllable is
followed by a stressed syllable 7. “The artist may be present in his work
iv. Trochaic 4. A stressed syllable is like God in creation, invisible and
followed almighty, everywhere felt but nowhere
by an unstressed syllable seen.” Henry James is talking here about
Codes : the artist‟s
i ii iii iv (A) impersonality
(A) 2 1 3 4 (B) absence
(B) 3 2 1 4 (C) presence
(C) 4 1 2 3 (D) creativity
(D) 3 1 2 4
8. Match the items in List – I with items in
3. The separation of styles in accordance List – II according to the code given below:
with class appears more consistently in List – I (Theorist) List – II (Book)
i. Michel Foucault 1. Gender Trouble
_______ than in medieval works of ii. Judith Butler 2. Epistemology of the Closet
literature and art. iii. Alan Sinfield 3. History of Sexuality
(A) Ben Jonson iv. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 4. Cultural Politics- Queer
Reading
(B) Shakespeare
(C) Philip Sidney Which is the correct combination according
(D) Edmund Spenser to the code:
4. “Had we but world enough, and time, Codes:
This coyness, lady, were no crime.” i ii iii iv
This statement is an example of (A) 3 1 2 4
(A) Irony (B) 3 1 4 2
(B) Paradox (C) 4 2 1 3
(C) Hyperbole (D) 4 3 1 2
(D) Euphemism
9. “The greatness of a poet”, Arnold says,
“lies in his powerful and beautiful
application of ideas to life”. But a critic
5. A Spenserian stanza has pointed out it was “not a happy way of
putting it, as if ideas were a lotion for the
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inflamed skin of suffering humanity”. Who Tottels Miscellany – 1591
was this critic ? Astrophel and Stella – about 1585
(A) T.S. Eliot The Spanish Tragedie – about 1557
(B) F.R. Leavis
(C) David Lodge 15. Match the items in the List – I with
(D) Allen Tate items in List – II according to the code
given below :
10. Derrida‟s American disciples were
(A) Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man,J. Hills Miller List – I (Authors) List – II (Works)
(B) Gertrude Stein, Barbara Johnson,Michael Ryan i. Lucy Hutchinson 1. The Life and Death of Mr.
(C) Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan,Mary Ellman Badman
(D) Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze,Felix Guattari ii. John Bunyan 2. Sylva : or a Discourse of
Forest Trees
iii. John Evelyn 3. Natures Pictures
11. Identify the correct group of playhouses iv. Margaret Cavendish 4. Memoirs of the Life of
in late sixteenth century London from the Colonel Hutchinson
following groups : Codes :
(A) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Hope i ii iii iv
(B) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe,Sejanus (A) 2 3 1 4
(C) Hope, Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe (B) 4 3 2 1
(D) Swan, Curtain, Rose, Globe,Thames (C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 4 2 1 3
12. “Keep up your bright swords, for the
dew will rust them. 16. “But deeds, and language, such as men
Good Signior, you shall more command do use;
with years And persons, such as comedy would choose,
Than with your weapons.” The above lines When she would show an image of the
are addresses by Othello to time,
(A) Roderigo and officers and sport with human follies, not with
(B) Brabantio, Roderigo and Officers crime.”
(C) The Duke and Senators In the above lines Jonson
(D) Montano and Cassio
I. Opposes the artificiality of the romantic tragic-comedy.
II. Initiates the use of realism.
13. Act V of Marlowe‟s Edward the Second III. Considers analysis of moral short comings more
shows the murder of the king. Where does important
it take place ? IV. Encourages the use of farce with melodrama.
(A) Westminster, a room in the palace
(B) A room in Berkeley Castle Find out the correct combination according
(C) A room in Killingworth Castle to the code:
(D) Within the Abbey of Neath (A) I, II and III are correct
(B) I, II and IV are correct
14. Identify the correctly matched set : (C) I, III and IV are correct
(A) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1579 (D) II, III and IV are correct
Tottels Miscellany – 1557
Astrophel and Stella – 1591 17. “And if no peece of chronicle we prove,
The Spanish Tragedie – about 1585 We‟ll build in ________ pretty roomes.”
(B) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1559 (A) lyrics
Tottels Miscellany – 1579 (B) epics
Astrophel and Stella – 1585 (C) sonnets
The Spanish Tragedie – about 1591 (D) stanzas
(C) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1585
Tottels Miscellany – 1591 18. “That glory never shall his wrath or
Astrophel and Stella – 1579 might extort from me.” (Paradise Lost,
The Spanish Tragedie – about 1557 Book I)
(D) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1579 What „glory‟ is being referred to by Satan ?
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(A) The courage never to submit or yield (C) Mrs. Marwood
(B) To reign in Hell (D) Mrs. Fainall
(C) To defeat God
(D) To spread evil 24. “Competence to age is supplementary to
youth, a sorry supplement indeed, but I fear
19. It has been described as a “novel the best that is to be had. We must ride
without predecessors”, the product of an where we formerly walked: live better and
original mind and became be softer and shall be wise to do so –
immediately popular. It is a peculiar blend than we had means to do in the good old
of pathos and humour, though the pathos is days you speak of.”
sometimes overdone to the point of Who speaks these words and to whom?
becoming offensively sentimental. The (A) Lamb to Bridget
novel was published in 1760. What is the (B) Wordsworth to Dorothy
name of the novel? (C) Dorothy to Bridget
(A) Gulliver‟s Travels (D) Lamb to Dorothy
(B) The Castle of Otranto
(C) Tristram Shandy 25. The Prelude although begun as early as
(D) A Tender Husband 1799 and finished in its first version in 1805,
was not published until ________.
20. The son of a joiner, he was apprenticed (A) 1815
as a printer. He remained a printer (B) 1820
throughout his life. He was asked to prepare (C) 1830
a series of modern letters for those who (D) 1850
could not write for themselves. This humble
task taught him the art of expressing 26. “A rosy sanctuary will I dress With the
himself in letters. Who is the novelist? wreathed trellis of a working brain.”
(A) Daniel Defoe The above lines are quoted from
(B) Samuel Richardson
(C) Henry Fielding (A) „Adonais‟
(D) Tobias Smollett (B) „Ode to Psyche‟
(C) „Eve of St. Agnes‟
21. “Where ignorance is Bliss (D) „Endymion‟
Tis folly to be wise.”
Who wrote the following[sic] lines ? 27. “Love seeketh only self to please,
(A) Pope To bind another to its delight.”
(B) Gray This selfish and possessive nature of love is
(C) Collins illustrated in Blake‟s
(D) Southey (A) „The Clod and the Pebble‟
(B) „The Sick Rose‟
22. Which of the following works is not (C) „A Poison Tree‟
actually a prose essay ? (D) „Ah Sunflower‟
(A) Essay of Dramatic Poesy
(B) Essay on Man 28. Who is the author of Mary, and the
(C) An Essay Concerning Human unfinished The Wrongs of Woman?
Understanding (A) Mary Wollstonecraft
(D) An Essay Towards a New Theory of (B) William Godwin
Vision (C) Mary Hay
(D) Elizabeth Inchbald
23. Whom does Mirabell deceive into
believing that he loves her in The Way of the 29. Identify the incorrect factor in Henry
World ? James‟ theory of the novel :
(A) Millamant (A) It should be sentimental
(B) Lady Wishfort (B) It should be objective
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(C) It should be realistic 35. The protagonist returns with an
(D) It should be viewed as an artistic form admonition, the diamond sent to him for
smuggling out a packet of diamonds as
30. Match the items in List – I with items in bribe.
List – II according to the code given below : This scene occurs in one of the novels of
Graham Greene – Identify the novel
List – I (Novels) List – II (Characters) (A) The End of the Affair
i. Ulysses 1. Mrs. Moore (B) The Heart of the Matter
ii. A Passage to India 2. Molly Bloom (C) The Ministry of Fear
iii. To the Lighthouse 3. Gerald Crich (D) Our Man in Havana
iv. Women in Love 4. Lily Briscoe
Codes : 36. Samuel Beckett‟s trilogy published
i ii iii iv together in London in 1959 under the
(A) 3 1 2 4 English titles is
(B) 2 1 4 3
(C) 4 2 1 3 (A) More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy, Molloy
(D) 1 3 2 4 (B) Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
(C) Molloy, Murphy, Malone Dies
31. Which among the following novels was (D) The Unnamable, More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy
not written in 1922 ?
(A) Ulysses 37. Among the following playwrights, who
(B) Jacob‟s room was awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1920?
(C) Aaron‟s Rod (A) Eugene O‟Neill
(D) A Passage to India (B) Sean O‟Casey
(C) William Somerset Maugham
32. “A sudden blow : the great wings (D) J.B. Priestly
beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs 38. D.H. Lawrence popularized the concept
caressed of ________ in his novels.
By the dark webs, her nap caught in his bill, (A) Realism
He holds her helpless breast upon his (B) Naturalism
breast.” (C) Primitivism
Who is the author of the above lines ? (D) Expressionism
(A) W.B. Yeats 39. Who among the following is not an

(B) T.S. Eliot American modernist poet?
(C) W.H. Auden (A) William Carlos Williams
(D) D.H. Lawrence (B) Ezra Pound
(C) William Ellery Channing, the younger
33. “Consume my heart away; sick with (D) Marianne Moore
desire And fastened to a dying animal.”
The above lines are taken from 40. An important poet and playwright who
(A) “Felix Randal” in the 1960s led the Black Arts Movement,
(B) “Sailing to Byzantium” in the spirit of negritude, posited a „Black
(C) “Coole and the Ballylee, 1931” Aesthetic‟ that expressed a pan-African,
(D) “The Second Coming” organic and whole sensibility.
(A) Henry Louis Gates Jr.
34. Who among the following is not a (B) Amiri Baraka
surrealist poet ? (C) Ishmael Reed
(A) Hugh Sykes Dykes (D) Bell Hooks
(B) David Gascoyne
(C) Kenneth Allot 41. Match List – I with List – II according
(D) C. Day Lewis to the code given below:
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List – I (Authors) List – II (Books) (C) Silas Marner
i. V.S. Naipaul 1. Foe (D) Romola
ii. Jean Rhys 2. Indigo or Mapping the
Waters
iii. Marina Warners 3. Wide Sargasso Sea 47. In which novel, does the hero, driven by
iv. J.M. Coetzee 4. Mimic Men passion and revenge, add a new dimension
to the concept of suffering?
Codes: (A) Wuthering Heights
i ii iii iv (B) Jude the Obscure
(A) 4 2 3 1 (C) Mill on the Floss
(B) 4 1 2 3 (D) Hard Times
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 1 3 4 2 48. From the following women characters
in Hardy‟s novels choose the odd one out :
42. Yasmine Gooneratne‟s The Pleasures of (A) Bathsheba Everdene
Conquest termed as a postcolonial novel of (B) Eustacia Vye
the nineties is (C) Elizabeth Jane
ironically enough set in the tropical island (D) Lucetta
nation of
(A) Sri Lanka 49. “Out of the gosple he tho wordes
(B) Fiji caughte
(C) The Caribbean And this figure he added eek therto,
(D) Amnesia That if gold ruste, what shal iren do ?”
In the Prologue the Parson is represented as
43. Which of the following is not an Asian a man :
–Canadian writer ? 1. who loved money
(A) Shauna Singh Badlwin 2. who criticized the corrupt clergy
(B) Himani Banerjee 3. who practiced what he preached
(C) Joy Kogawa 4. who was a poor but honest clerk
(D) Meena Alexander
Find the correct combination according to the code :
44. Which of the following is true ? (A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(A) „Aurora Leigh‟ is a poem in nine books (B) 1, 2 and 4 are correct
(B) „Aurora Leigh‟ is a collection of sonnets (C) 2, 3 and 4 are correct
from the Portuguese (D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct
(C) „Aurora Leigh‟ is a nursery rhyme book
(D) „Aurora Leigh‟ is “the Seeds and Fruits of 50. Match the items in List – I with items in
English Poetry” List – II according to the code given below:
45. “The old order changeth yielding place List – I (Plays) List – II
to new, (Characters)
And God fulfils himself in many way.” i. White Devil 1. Hieornimo
In which of the following poems do[sic] ii. Maids Tragedy 2. Old Knowell
these lines appear ? iii. Every Man in his
(A) „Locksley Hall‟ Humour 3. Vittoria Corombona
(B) „Two Voices iv. The Spanish
(C) „Morte d‟Arthur‟ Tragedie 4. Aspatia
(D) „Ulysses‟
Codes :
46. George Eliot‟s attempt to write a i ii iii iv
historical novel of the Italian Renaissance (A) 4 3 1 2
was not successful. (B) 2 1 3 4
Which was this novel ? (C) 3 4 2 1
(A) Adam Bede (D) 4 3 2 1
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PAPER III Now trips a lady, a now struts a lord.”
1. Where Sir Thomas Wyatt adapted (A) McFlecknoc
Petrarch and Petrarchanism to English (B) The Rape of the Lock
sounds and metres, Survey‟s verse tends to (C) Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
look back beyond Petrarch to the (D) Absalom and Achitrphel
(A) French verse
(B) Italian verse 5. Which of the following arrangements is
(C) Spanish verse in the correct chronological sequence?
(D) Latin verse (A) Every Man in His Humour
The Shoemaker‟s Holiday
2. Here are some characteristics of Morality Antonio‟s Revenge
Plays: The Changeling
1. They are dramatized allegories of the life (B) The Shoemaker‟s Holiday
of man. Every Man in his Humour
2. They depict man‟s temptation and
The Changeling
sinning, his quest for salvation and his
confrontation with Death. Antonia‟s Revenge
3. Though the hero represents Mankind, the (C) The Changeling
other characters are by no means Antonio‟s Revenge
personifications, of virtues, vices and Every Man in His Humour
death. The Shoemaker‟s Holiday
4. A character known as the Vice often (D) Antonio‟s Revenge
plays the role of the hero, a predecessor Every Man in His Humour
of the Villainhero in Elizabethan drama. The Changeling
The Shoemaker‟s Holiday
Find the correct combination
according to the code : 6. Though Coleridge refers to
(A) Only 1 and 2 are correct. “Motivehunting of a motiveless malignity”,
(B) Only 1 and 3 are correct. the “human villain” Iago is far from
(C) Only 1 and 4 are correct. “motiveless”. His motives are
(D) Only 2 and 3 are correct. I. He has been disappointed of military
promotion.
3. In Spenser‟s Re Faerie Queene there are II. He suspects Othello of cuckolding him
the allegorized moral and religious virtues III. He has been in love with Desdemona
with their counterparts in the vices. IV. He wants to become Othello.
Identify the correctly matched set: Find the most appropriate combination
(A)Una – Truth according to the code:
Guyon – Temperance (A) I and II are correct
Duessa – Deceit (B) I and III are correct
Orgoglio – Pride (C) I and IV are correct
(B) Una – Pride (D) II and IV are correct
Guyon – Deceit
Duessa – Temperance 7. In „The Prologue‟ to Dr. Faustus, the
Orgoglio – Truth chorus proposes that the theme should be –
(C) Una – Deceit I. “cursed necromancy”
Guyon – Pride II. “audacious deeds”
Duessa – Temperance III. “dalliance of love”
Orgoglio – Truth IV. “self-conceit”
(D) Una – Temperance
Guyon – Truth The correct combination according to the
Duessa – Pride code is
Orgoglio – Deceit (A) I and II are correct
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(B) II and III are correct In what sense is the Bird “immortal” as
(C) I and IV are correct compared to mortal man ?
(D) III and IV are correct I. Here man as an individual is unfairly
compared to a bird as a species.
8. The centre of his plays is a proud II. The word “Bird” stands for the
character on Marlowe‟s model, with a bold nightingale‟s song.
licence in speech and action, full of III. When considered as a species man is
elaborate metaphors, phrase tumbling after equally “immortal” as the “Bird”.
phrase, as he asserts himself in the French IV. The “Bird” is “Immortal” because
Court. Dryden unjustly described his style songs
as “a dwarfish thought, dressed up in of birds have given pleasure to man
gigantic words”. Who is this Jacobean through the ages.
playwright ?
(A) John Fletcher Find the correct combination according to the
(B) John Webster code:
(C) George Chapman (A) Only I and III are correct
(D) John Marston (B) Only IV is incorrect
(C) Only II and IV are correct
9. In Paradise Lost BK IX Milton writes (D) Only I and IV are incorrect
that Adam was overcome with “______”
and so ate the forbidden fruit against his 13. Coleridge‟s “The Rime of the Ancient
“better knowledge”. Mariner” is a poem in _________
(A) “female charm” (A) 8 parts
(B) “exceeding love” (B) 9 parts
(C) “faithful love” (C) 7 parts
(D) “taste so divine” (D) 6 parts
10. In which poem of Donne‟s is the lover‟s 14. Scott is known for the creation of mad,
face reflected in the eyes of his beloved? irrational witch-like women characters.
(A) “The Good Morrow” From the following list pick the odd one out
(B) “The Canonization” :
(C) “The Apparition” (A) Madge Wildfive
(D) “A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning” (B) Meg Murdockson
(C) Euphemia Deans
11. Match List – I with List – II according (D) Meg Merrilees
to the code given below:
15. Joseph Addison called him “The
List – I (Dramatists) List – II (Plays) Miracle of the present age” and Alexander
i. Thomas Otway 1. The Provok‟d Pope wrote the epitaph for the monument
Husband erected in his memory. Who is he ?
ii. William Wycherley 2. The Recruiting (A) John Locke
Officer (B) Isaac Newton
iii. Colley Cibber 3. The Country Wife (C) Ashley Cooper
iv. George Farquhar 4. The Orphan, or the (D) Christopher Wren
unhappy marriage
Codes : 16. The play was first performed in 1773. The
i ii iii iv author asked a friend “Did it make you laugh
(A) 4 3 1 2 ?” and getting the answer “Exceedingly” said
(B) 3 2 1 2 then that was all he required. He used for plot
(C) 4 2 3 1 a reputed experience of his own as a
(D) 3 1 2 4 schoolboy when he lost his way and asked to
be directed to an inn but was shown the
12. “Thou wast no born for death immortal gateway to the local squire‟s house. Which
Bird.” play is this?
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(D) Fruit of Deceit
(A) Sheridan‟s The Rivals
(B) Sheridan‟s The School for Scandal 21. Here are sentences labelled Assertion
(C) Goldsmith‟s She Stoops to Conquer (A) and Reason (R) :
(D) Goldsmith‟s The Good Natured Man Assertion (A) : While referring to
Charlotte
17. What is Johnson‟s opinion regarding Bronte‟s claim that she has
the “Violation” of the three unities in the excluded public interest from
plays of Shakespeare ? her novels Graham Greene
I. Shakespeare should have followed the writes : „Public interest in her
Unities. day was surely more separate
II. Shakespeare followed the important Unity from public life… with us,
of Action satisfactorily. however consciously
III. Shakespeare‟s plays suffered because they unconcerned we are, it
did not follow the Unities. obtrudes through the cracks of
IV. Unity of Time and Place arise from false our stories terribly persistent
assumptions. like grass through cement‟.
The correct combination according to the Reason (R) : The decade of the “thirties was
code is bristling with recurring
(A) I and II are correct. economic and political crisis
(B) II and IV are correct. like the Great Depression, Wall
(C) III and IV are correct. Street Crash, Unemployment,
(D) I and III are correct rise of Hitler and Mussolini,
series of murders, invasions
18. The Tatler appeared thrice a week and tensions;
(A) On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays writers could not remain
(B) On Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays unaffected.
(C) On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
(D) On Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays
19. “No man is truly great, who is great In the light of (A) and (R) which of the
only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is following is correct ?
the page of history. Nothing can be said to (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
be great that has a distinct limit, or that correct explanation of (A).
borders on something evidently greater than (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not
itself. Besides, what is shortlived and the correct explanation of (A).
pampered into mere notoriety, is of a gross (C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
and vulgar quality in itself.” (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
This passage describing the quality of greatness is 22. Match the titles of the books with their
taken from authors:
(A) “Of studies” by Francis Bacon List – I List – II
(B) “The Indian Jugglers” by William Hazlitt i. Psychology and Art Today 1. John
(C) Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson Strachey
(D) An Essay of Dramatic Poesy by John Dryden ii. Revolution in Writing 2. W.H. Auden
iii. The Coming Struggle
20. In Blake‟s “The Human Abstract”, the for Power 3. C. Day Lewis
fragmented world of Experience is iv. Arrow in the Blue 4. Arthur
symbolized in the image of the Koestler
(A) Caterpillar
(B) Fly Codes :
(C) Raven i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 2 4
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(B) 4 2 3 1 (D) Regenerating the art and culture that
(C) 2 3 1 4 existed in Byzantium
(D) 1 2 4 3
27. “She had _______ lilies in her hand and
23. George Meredith‟s first novel was the stars in her hair were ______.”
banned by Mudie‟s Circulating Library for (Rossetti‟s “The Blessed Damozel”)
its supposed moral offence. (A) 7 and 3
Identify the novel : (B) 3 and 7
(A) The Egoist (C) 6 and 4
(B) Evan Harrington (D) 4 and 6
(C) Diana of the Crossways
(D) The Ordeal of Richard Feverel 28. Which of the following arrangements is
in the correct chronological sequence?
24. Match the titles of the following poems (A) Adam Bede – Wuthering Heights – North and
by Tennyson with their opening lines South – Villette
according to the code given below: (B) Wuthering Heights – Villete – North and
South – Adam Bede
List – I (Titles of poems) List – II (Opening (C) Villettee – North and South – Wuthering
Lines) Heights – Adam Bede
i. “Tithonus” 1. “„Courage‟ he said, and (D) North and South – Wuthering Heights –
pointed towards the land.
The mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.” Adam Bede – Villette
ii. “The Lotos- Eaters” 2. “The woods decay, the
woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the 29. In which of the following novels by
ground.”
iii. „Ulysses‟ 3. “On either side the river lie Conrad do the Gould couple and Decoud
Long fields of barley and of rye.” appear as characters with Costaguana as the
iv. „The Lady of
setting?
Shalott‟ 4. “It little profists that an idle
king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched (A) Victory
with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a (B) Under Western Eyes
savage race.” (C) Nostromo
(D) The Nigger of the Narcissus
Codes:
i ii iii iv 30. Match the following plays with their
(A) 2 1 4 3 authors according to the code given below :
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 3 2 1 List – I (Plays) List – II (Authors)
(D) 2 4 3 1 i. Heartbreak House 1. John Galsworthy
ii. Loyalties 2. Bertolt Brecht
25. Why are Elizabeth Barrett Browning‟s iii. In the Jungle of Cities 3. T.S. Eliot
Sonnets called “From Sonnets from the iv. The Family Reunion 4. George Bernard
Portuguese”? Shaw
(A) She wrote the whole in Portugal
(B) The sonnets were translated from the Codes:
Portuguese. i ii iii iv
(C) She presented it under the guise of a (A) 3 4 2 1
translation from the Portuguese language. (B) 1 2 3 4
(D) The sonnets were narrated by a (C) 2 1 4 3
Portuguese. (D) 4 1 2 3
26. Yeast‟s “Sailing to Byzantium” is about 31. In November 1910 in an exhibition
(A) Irish Culture organized by Roger Fry, the paintings of
(B) The art and culture of Byzantium in three painters were displayed. Identify the
general painters :
(C) Irish revolutionaries
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(A) Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell 36. Match the pairs of authors and their
(B) Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin works according to the code given :
(C) Matisse, Picasso, Braque List – I (Authors) List – II (Works)
(D) Cezanne, Van Gogh, Matisse i. Vladimir Nabokov 1. Germinal
ii. Italo Calvino 2. Foucault‟s Pendulum
32. Why did Phaedra, wife of Theseus, iii. Umberto Eco 3. If on a Winter‟s Night
commit suicide by hanging herself ? a
(A) Theseus hated her Traveller
(B) Her stepson, Hippolytus rejected her love iv. Emile Zola 4. Lolita
(C) Hippolytus wanted to marry her
(D) She was lonely and depressed Codes :
i ii iii iv
33. Identify the poet in whose verse rural (A) 3 1 4 2
Ulster figures prominently (B) 4 3 2 1
(A) Tony Harrison (C) 1 2 3 4
(B) Ted Hughes (D) 2 4 1 3
(C) Seamus Heaney
(D) Louis MacNeice 37. Which among the following plays by
Aristophanes is an attack on „modern‟
education and morals as imparted and
34. Match the pairs of authors and their taught by the radical intellectuals known as
works according to the code given : The Sophists ?
List – I (Authors) List – II (Works) (A) Clouds
i. Alexander Dumas 1. Remembrance of (B) Wasps
Things Past (C) Acharnians
ii. Honore de Balzac 2. Madame Bovary (D) Knights
iii. Gustav Flaubert 3. The Human Comedy
iv. Marcel Proust 4. The Count of Monte 38. In which novel of Virginia Woolf does a
Christo painter in the act of painting actually figure
as a character ?
Codes: (A) The Voyage Out
i ii iii iv (B) The Waves
(A) 4 3 2 1 (C) Jacob‟s Room
(B) 1 2 3 4 (D) To the Lighthouse
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 3 4 1 2 39. Religious controversies in England
particularly during the 15th century led to
35. Which of the following statements best the promotion of
applies to Anna Karenina? (A) English prose
1. Among her most prominent qualities are (B) The British Empire
her passionate spirit and determination to live (C) Naval power
life on her own terms. (D) The Missionary Movement
2. She accepts the exile to which she has been
condemned. 40. Fill in the blanks with a suitable word
3. She is a victim of Russian patriarchal from the list below:
system. In his fiction, Ian McEwan more than often
4. Anna is deeply devoted to her family and suggests the _________ of love
children. (A) Fragility
(B) Madness
(A) 1 and 2 are correct (C) Completeness
(B) 2 and 3 are correct (D) Security
(C) 1 and 3 are correct
(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct 41. Match List – I with List – II according
to the code given below :
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List – I (Dramatists) List – II (Plays) 47. Albert Camus, in his essay, „The Myth
i. Arnold Wesker 1. Jumpers of Sisyphus‟ conveys :
ii. Harold Pinter 2. What the Butler 1. The concept of Naturalism
Saw 2. The Absurdity of Human Existence
iii. Joe Orton 3. The Room 3. The Futility of all Human Endeavour
iv. Tom Stoppard 4. Roots 4. The concept of Existentialism
Codes : (A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct

i ii iii iv (B) 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(A) 3 2 4 1 (C) 1, 2 and 4 are correct
(B) 1 2 4 3 (D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct
(C) 4 3 2 1 48. In The Portrait of a Lady Gilbert Osmond
(D) 4 3 1 2 marries Isabel Archer because:
1. Osmond wanted to get hold of Isabel‟s
42. Modern English emerged from the property.
(A) South Midland dialect 2. He loved her
(B) East Midland dialect 3. Though he did not like her moral ideas
(C) French language about many things in life, he had hoped to
(D) Northumbrian dialect win her over.
4. He realized that her moral ideas were quite
43. Most culinary terms in English are deep-rooted.
derived from Find the correct combination according to the
(A) Exotic cooking
(B) French cooking code :
(C) Native sources (A) only 1 and 2 are correct
(D) Arabic cooking (B) only 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(C) only 3 and 4 are correct
44. “Blended learning” is a mode of (D) only 1 is correct
instruction/learning in which
(A) the learner‟s mother tongue and the target 49. Pick out the two relevant and correct
language are blended descriptions of U.R. Ananthamurthy‟s
(B) learning is accessed through the mother Samskara.
tongue 1. The novel is written in English
(C) a variety of instructional modes are 2. The novel is concerned with the
integrated progressive ideas of the times.
(D) learning of a language is mediated by 3. The novel is set in Malgudi
humanistic approaches 4. The novel is a satire on the representatives
of a decadent Brahmin society.
45. „Risk-taking‟ is one of the traits of a 5. Samskara is a regional novel
good 6. Praneschacharya does not atone for his sin.
(A) language learner
(B) language teacher (A) 4 and 5 are correct
(C) teacher of grammar rules (B) 1 and 4 are correct
(D) printer of books and authors (C) 5 and 6 are correct
(D) 3 and 2 are correct
46. A teaching method advocated by Dr.
Georgia Lozanav which is based on 50. Willy in Arthur Miller‟s play Death of a
the principle of „joy and easiness‟ is Salesman compares Biff and Happy to the
called mythic characters / figures
(A) Suggesto paedia (A) Venus and Adonais
(B) Total physical response (B) Adonais and Hercules
(C) The Direct Method (C) Jupiter and Hercules
(D) The audio-lingual method (D) Venus and Hercules
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Question Nos 51 to 55 are based on a (B) I and IV are correct
poem. Read the poem carefully and pick (C) I, II and III are correct
out the most appropriate answers. (D) I and III are correct
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning 53. What does rich imply when she says
My swirling wants, your frozen lips. “The grammar turned and attacked me”?
The grammar turned and attacked me. (A) Language that has been used to hurt her.
Themes, written under duress.
Emptiness of the notations.
(B) Her lover has beaten her.
(C) The person she is leaving is not the
They gave me a drug that slowed the source of pain but something else.
healing of wounds. (D) The pain she has herself inflicted
through language.
I want you to see this before I leave :
the experience of repetition as death
the failure of criticism to locate the pain 54. How would you compare Rich‟s
the poster in the bus that said : poem and Donne‟s poem with the same
my bleeding is under control title ?
(A) Rich is recreating Donne‟s poem
A red plant in a cemetary of plastic wreaths.
A last attempt : the language is a dialect (B) Rich is eulogising Donne‟s poem
called metaphor. (C) Rich‟s poem is a scathing attack on
These images go unglossed : hair, glacier, Donne‟s poem.
flashlight. (D) Rich is defining Donne‟s concept of
When I think of a landscape I am thinking love
of a time.
When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
I could say : those mountains have a 55. What is the theme of the poem ?
meaning but further than that I could not Identify the false statement in the list
say. below :
To do something very common, in my own
way.
It is
(A) about the difficulty of actually saying
Adrienne Rich
goodbye.
(B) about not having the strength to leave
51. How does the poet suggest that the lover though one might want to.
has not left? (C) about the pain suffered in relationship.
(A) The words “a last attempt” indicate that (D) a Classical love poem like Donne‟s
she is trying her best to leave. where the speaker dominates the addressee.
(B) The words “before I leave” suggest that
the speaker has not left yet. 56. Why does Girish Karnad base his
(C) The speaker talks of a trip „forever‟ play Hayavadana on Thomas Mann‟s
which means she will never return.
Transposed Heads?
(D) A drug she takes slows the healing of
her wounds perhaps indicating that she (A) It is a mock-heroic transcription of the
may be able to leave sometime in future. original Sanskrit tales.
(B) It is concerned with materialism.
52. Why does the speaker/lover in Rich‟s (C) It deals with domestic strife.
poem plan to leave? (D) It deals with ancient times
I. Because her love has not been
returned. 57. The collected poems of A.K.
II. Because of the pain she has suffered Ramanujan has been divided into four
in the relationship. sections. Arrange them in their
III. Because the lover has criticized her so chronological order
much. (A) The striders – The Relations – Second
IV. Because though the pain has been Sight– the Black Hen
located, the bleeding continues. The right (B) The Relations– The Striders–
combination according to the code is The Black Hen– Second Sight
(C) Second Sight– The Relations–
(A) I and II are correct The Black Hen– Striders
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(D) The Black Hen– Second Sight Assertion (A) : To give a text an author is
– The Striders– The Relations to impose a limit on thatext,
to furnish it with a final
signified, to close the
58. In one of her novels, Margaret writing.
Atwood demonstrated the potentially Reason (R) : A text is made up of multiple
„Cannibalistic‟ nature of human meanings drawn from many
relationships. Identify the novel sources, and this multiplicity is
(A) Surfacing focused on the reader.
(B) Lady Oracle
(C) Life Before Man In the context of the two statements, which
(D) The Edible Woman one of the following is correct:
59. Match the characters with the novels of (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct
explanation of (A).
Amitav Ghosh in which they appear (B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the
according to the code given below correct explanation of (A).
List – I (Characters) List – II (Novels) (C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
i. Fakir 1. The Glass Palace (D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
ii. Tridip 2. The Hungry Tide
iii. Rajkumar 3. The Calcutta 64. Given below are two statements, one
Chromosome labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as
iv. Murugan 4. Shadow Lines Reason (R)
Assertion (A) : Spivak sees the project of
Codes: colonialism as characterized by what
i ii iii iv Foucault had called „epistemic violence‟, the
(A) 2 4 1 3 imposition of a given set of beliefs over
(B) 2 4 3 1 another.
(C) 1 3 1 4 Reason (R) : Spivak suggests that
(D) 3 2 4 1 participation in the political process –
access to citizenship, becoming a voter –
60. Which of the following is not a play by will help to mobilize the subaltern on
Badal Sircar ? “the long road to hegemony.”
(A) Bhooma
(B) Evam Indrajeet In the context of the two statements, which
(C) That Other History one of the following is correct :
(D) Agra Bazar (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is
the correct explanation of (A).
61. Who is the protagonist of Shashi (B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is
Deshpande‟s That Long Silence? not the correct explanation of (A).
(A) Mohan (C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(B) Jaya (D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
(C) Rati
(D) Kamat 65. Match the following authors with
their works from the given below :
62. In Derek Walcott‟s Dream on Monkey List – I (Authors) List – II (Works)
Mountain, Makak‟s vision of freedom for i. Buchi Emecheta 1. Burger‟s Daughter
his people is ii. Ama Ata Aidoo 2. Joy of Motherhood
(A) through money iii. Nadine Gordimer 3. Devil on the Cross
(B) through violence iv. Nqugi Wa Thiongo 4. Our Sister Killjoy
(C) through black power
(D) through a decolonisation of the mind Find the correct combination according to
the code :
63. Given below are two statements, one Codes :
labelled as Assertion (A) and the i ii iii iv
other as Reason (R). (A) 1 2 3 4
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(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 3 1 4 2 (A) The poet spreads his language across
(D) 4 3 2 1 the page as though language were
sensation, to reproduce the mental effect
66. Match the following authors with of „image‟.
their plays from the lists given below : (B) The image is itself an instrument of
List – I (Authors) List – II (Plays) vision, or lens, as well as an expression of
i. Langston Hughes 1. Dutchman imagination
ii. Lorraine Hansberry 2. Clara‟s Ole Man (C) The imagist like a scientist learns
iii. Ed Bullins 3. Don‟t You want to be Free from history and uses it, and like a scientist
iv. Amiri Baraka 4. Raisin in the Sun does not deal in emotions.
(D) The new artist as scientist focuses
Find the correct combination according to vision through image as against the
the code : symbol which resorts to reduction to
Codes : simplicity.
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 4 2 1 69. Who among the following is not a myth
(B) 1 2 3 4 critic?
(C) 2 1 4 3 (A) Robert Graves
(D) 4 3 1 2 (B) Raymond Williams
(C) Francis Fergusson
67. Identify the critics and their respective (D) Northrop Frye
works:
(A) Horace – Ars Poetica 70. According to Northrop Frye there are
Aristotle – Poetics four main narrative genres associated with
Quintillian – Institutio Oratoria the seasonal cycle of spring, summer,
Ben Jonson – Discoveries autumn and winter. They are comedy,
Sidney – An Apology for Poetry ________, tragedy and irony (satire).
Dryden – An Essay of Dramatic Poesy Which is the second one?
(B) Horace – Poetics (A) Romance
Aristotle – Ars Poetica (B) Epic
Quintillian – On the sublime (C) Fiction
Longinus – Discoveries (D) Novel
Ben Jonson – Institutio Oratoria
Sidney – An Essay of Dramatic Poesy Questions No. 71 – 75 are based on the
Dryden – An Apology for Poetry following passage :
(C) Horace – On the sublime Read the passage carefully and select the
Aristotle – Poetics most appropriate option.
Quintillian – Discoveries
Longinus – Institutio Oratoria The town belonging to the colonized
Ben Jonson – An Essay of Dramatic people, or at least the native town, the
Poesy negro village, the medina, the reservation,
Sidney – Ars Poetica is a place of ill fame, peopled by men of
Dryden – An Apology for Poetry evil repute. They are born there, it matters
(D) Horace – Ars Poetica little where or how; they die there, it
Aristotle – Poetics matters not where, nor how. The native
Quintillian – Institutio Oratoria town is a hungry town, starved of bread, of
Longinus – On the Sublime meat, of shoes, of coal, of light. The native
Ben Jonson – An Apology for Poetry town is a crouching village, town on its
Sidney – An Essay of Dramatic Poesy knees, a town wallowing in the mire. The
Dryden – Discoveries look that the native turns on the settler is a
look of lust, of envy…. The colonized man is
68. Which of the following is not true of an envious man. And this the settler knows
Imagist poetry? very well… It is true, for there is no
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native who does not dream atleast once a (C) only 2 is correct
day of setting himself up in the settler‟s (D) 1 and 4 are correct
place.
(From Frantz Fanon‟s The Wretched of The 75. What is the settler‟s attitude towards
Earth) the blacks?
1. the settler is not afraid
71. To Frantz Fanon, the „Negro‟ village is 2. the settler considers the blacks to be
1. the worst face of apartheid harmless
2. a protected area 3. the settler is contemptuous of the
3. a place of moral and physical blacks.
degradation 4. the settler feels resentment because he
4. a special village with its own knows that his position is never safe.
amenities.
(A) Only 1 is correct
(A) 1 and 3 are correct (B) 2 and 3 are correct
(B) 1 and 2 are correct (C) only 4 is correct
(C) only 3 is correct (D) 3 and 4 are correct
(D) only 4 is correct
72. Why is the „native town‟ a hungry

town ?
1. it did not have agricultural farms
2. it did not have markets
3. the blacks were steeped in poverty
4. they were denied their fundamental
rights by the Whites.
(A) 1 and 2 are correct

(B) 3 and 4 are correct
(C) only 1 is correct
73. What does the term „crouching village‟

indicate ?
1. The latent aggressiveness of the blacks
2. The defenselessness of the people
3. Hopelessness and despair
4. Overflowing filth
(A) 1 and 2 are correct
(B) 2 and 3 are correct
(C) only 1 is correct
74. Why does the native look at the

settler‟s town with envy ?
1. it arises from a sense of desperation
2. he has no other option in his life
3. he wants to occupy a position of
power.
4. he wants to be the colonizer instead of
the colonized.
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PAPER II (B) 2 4 3 1
(C) 1 4 2 3
1. Two of the following list are “Angry (D) 4 2 1 3
Young Men” of the 1950‟s British literary
scene. 7. In King Lear who among the following
I. John Osborne speaks in the voice of Poor Tom?
II. C.P. Snow (A) Kent
III. Anthony Powell (B) Edgar
IV. Kingsley Amis (C) Edmund
(D) Gloucester
The right combination, according to the code
(A) I & II (B) II & IV 8. In Wordsworth‟s Prelude the Boy of
(C) I & IV (D) I & III Winander is affected by
(A) Blindness
2. Laurence Sterne‟s Tristram Shandy (B) Deafness
contains (C) Muteness
(A) Six volumes (D) Lameness
(B) Nine volumes
(C) Ten volumes 9. Which of the following is NOT
(D) Four volumes mentioned as part of the London locale in
The Waste Land?
3. Which of the following statement is NOT (A) St. Magnus Martyr
true of Areopagitica? (B) King Arthur Street
(A) It was published in 1644. (C) St. Mary Woolnoth
(B) It argues for the liberty of Unlicensed (D) Lower Thames Street
Printing.
(C) It pleads for British privileges regarding 10. Which of the following novels is NOT
Free Trade. written by Jean Rhys?
(D) It is a speech addressed to the (A) After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
Parliament of England. (B) Good Morning, Midnight
(C) The Quiet American
4. Thomas Hardy‟s last major novel was (D) Wide Sargasso Sea
_______.
(A) Tess of the D‟Urbervilles 11. The first official royal Poet Laureate in
(B) Jude the Obscure English literary history was _______.
(C) The Return of the Native (A) Ben Jonson
(D) The Trumpet Major (B) William Davenant
(C) John Dryden
5. The Hind and the Panther Transvers‟d to (D) Thomas Shadwell
the Story of the Country Mouse and the
City Mouse is a satire on 12. Who does Alexander Pope refer to in
(A) Alexander Pope the following lines?
(B) Jonathan Swift “Born to no pride; inheriting no strife,
(C) John Dryden Nor marrying discord in a noble wife,
(D) Samuel Butler Stranger to civil and religious rage,
The good man walked innoxious through his
6. Match the columns: age.”
Terms Theorists (A) Pope‟s father
I. Apollonian – Dionysian 1. Matthew Arnold (B) Pope himself
II. Fancy – Imagination 2. Friedrich Nietzsche
III. Hellenism – Hebraism 3. G.H. Hopkins
(C) Dr. Arbuthnot
IV. Inscape – Instress 4. S.T. Coleridge (D) The Duke of Marlborough
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13. The Theory of Natural Selection is (A) The Island of Dr. Moreau
attributed to ________. (B) The War of the Worlds
(A) Arthur Schopenhauer (C) Tono-Bungay
(B) Charles Darwin (D) The Invisible Man
(C) A.N. Whitehead
(D) Aldous Huxley 19. Joothan by Om Prakash Valmiki is
(A) a collection of poems
14. Which character in William Golding‟s (B) a play
Lord of the Flies maintains, “Life is (C) an autobiography
scientific” ? (D) a novel
(A) Simon
(B) Piggy 20. Listed below are some English plays
(C) Ralph across several centuries:
(D) Jack Twelfth Night, She Stoops to Conquer, The
Importance of Being Earnest, Pygmalion and
15. Match the authors under List – I with Blithe Spirit.
the titles under List – II : What is common to them?
List – I List – II (A) All problem plays; scheming and
I. Claude Levi-Strauss 1. Of Grammatology intrigue
II. Jacques Derrida 2. The Archaeology of
Knowledge
(B) All tragedies; sin and redemption
III. Northrop Frye 3. Structural (C) All ideologically framed; class and
Anthropology gender
IV. Michel Foucault 4. Anatomy of
Criticism
(D) All romantic comedies; love and
laughter
I II III IV
(A) 1 3 4 2 21. Who among the following wrote a poem
(B) 3 1 2 4 comparing a lover‟s heart to a hand
(C) 3 1 4 2 grenade?
(D) 2 1 3 4 (A) John Donne
(B) Abraham Cowley
16. How did Chaucer‟s Pardoner make his (C) Wilfred Owen
living? (D) Robert Graves
(A) By selling stolen cattle from the
neighbourhood ottery 22. The Uncertainty Principle is attributed
(B) By selling indulgences to those who to (A) William James
committed sins (B) John Dewey
(C) By pardoning those who stole property (C) Werner Heisenberg
or committed other crimes (D) Charles Darwin
(D) By assisting the Friar in Church services
23. “Jabberwocky” is a creation in _______.
17. From among the following, identify (A) Edward Lear‟s poetry
Coleridge‟s companion in a fanciful (B) Lewis Carroll‟s work
scheme to establish a Utopian community (C) Charles Dickens‟s Martin Chuzzlewit
of free love on the banks of the Susquehaina (D) Thomas Hardy‟s Woodlanders
river ?
(A) Lord Byron 24. Who are Didi and Gogo ?
(B) Robert Southey (A) They are two characters in Endgame.
(C) William Hazlitt (B) They are nicknames, respectively, for
(D) William Wordsworth Lucky and Pozzo.
(C) They are nicknames, respectively, for
18. Which of the following novels by H.G. Vladimir and Estragon.
Wells is about the condition of England as (D) They are two characters in Breath.
Empire?
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25. Who among the following theorists (A) The Double-Dealer
talks about “the circulation of social (B) The Way of the World
energy”? (C) The Mourning Bride
(A) Raymond Williams (D) Love for Love
(B) Stephen Greenblatt
(C) Antonio Gramsci 32. A Young Lady‟s Entrance into the
(D) Haydon White World is the sub-title of _______.
(A) Belinda
26. How many legends of good women (B) Cecilia
could Chaucer complete in his The Legend (C) Evelina
of Good Women? (D) Camilla
(A) Six
(B) Seven 33. “The old order changeth, yielding place
(C) Eight to new” is from ________.
(D) Nine (A) “Morte d‟Arthur”
(B) “Idylls of the King”
27. The Round Table is a collection of (C) “Paracelsus”
essays jointly written by ________. (D) “Asolando”
(A) Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
(B) Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt 34. Which of the following cannotbe
(C) William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt classified as fantasy fiction?
(D) William Hazlitt and Thomas de (A) The Inheritors (William Golding)
Quincey (B) The Magus (John Fowles)
(C) The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkein)
28. Dylan Thomas is associated with the (D) The History Man (Malcolm Bradbury)
group _______.
(A) The New Apocalypse 35. Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a
(B) The Black Arts work associated with _______.
(C) The Movement (A) Wilhelm von Humboldt
(D) Deep Image Poetry (B) Ernst Cassirer
(C) Immanuel Kant
29. Which of the following writers writes (D) Battista Vico
from Canada?
(A) V.S. Naipaul 36. Which of the following facts is NOT
(B) Margaret Atwood true of Spenser?
(C) Derek Walcott (A) He is a kind of English Homer, telling
(D) James Joyce stories of heroic confrontations.
(B) He fashioned an original verse form :
30. “The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, The Spenserian Stanza.
And all that beauty, all that wealth e‟er gave, (C) He opposed England‟s break with the
Awaits alike the inevitable hour Roman Catholic Church.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.” (D) He is a Christian poet.
What the subject is of awaits?
(A) Hour
37. William Blake developed the ideas of
(B) The things mentioned in the first 2 lines.
“Prolifics” and “Devourers” in
(C) “And all that beauty, all that wealth e‟er
(A) Jerusalem
gave”
(B) Milton
(D) Grave
(C) Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(D) Songs of Innocence and Songs of
31. “Heav‟n has no rage, like love to hatred
Experience
turn‟d / Nor Hell a fury, like a woman
scorn‟d.”
38. Surrealism is associated with
Identify the text in which the above quote
(A) Ernst Cassirer
occurs:
(B) Tristan Tzara
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(C) Henrik Ibsen (B) Wilhelm von Humboldt
(D) Andre Breton (C) G. Battista Vico
(D) Immanuel Kant
39. “And miles to go before I sleep” is a
line from a poem by 46. Identify Petrarch‟s sonnet sequence
(A) Emily Dickinson from among the following:
(B) Walt Whitman (A) Rine Sparse
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson (B) Astrophel and Stella
(D) Robert Frost (C) Amoretti
(D) Delia
40. What common link do you find among?
“The Disquieting Muses” by Sylvia Plath, 47. The island setting of Latmos figures in
“The Starry Night” by Anne Sexton, Keats‟s
“Mourning Picture” by Adrienne Rich, and (A) Endymion
“Musee des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden? (B) The Eve of St. Agnes
(A) They inspired paintings. (C) Lamia
(B) They are confessional poems. (D) Hyperion
(C) They are all inspired by paintings.
(D) They are all inspired by Van Gogh‟s 48. The Artist Hero is a theatrical creation
paintings. emphasized by ________.
(A) W.B. Yeats
41. “All Rising to Great Placeis by a _____ (B) Charles Baudelaire
staire.” (Francis Bacon) (C) Oscar Wilde
(A) Murky (D) Andre Gide
(B) Winding
(C) Crooked 49. Which of the following African writers
(D) Sinister won the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
(A) Chinua Achebe
42. In Jeremy Collier‟s 1698 pamphlet (B) Nadine Gordimer
attacking the immorality and profaneness (C) Ngugi wa Thiong‟o
of the English stage, who among the (D) Bessie Head
following was the principal target ?
(A) William Congreve 50. “My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow
(B) John Dryden With thy green mother in some shady groove”
– William Drummond
(C) John Vanbrugh
The above quote is an example of _______.
(D) William Wycherley
(A) End-stopped rhyme
(B) Alliteration
43. Charles Dickens‟s visit to the United (C) Run-on line
States produced _________. (D) Tercet
(A) Hard Times
(B) Nicholas Nickleby
(C) Martin Chuzzlewit
(D) Oliver Twist
44. Who among the following is a working-

class poet ?
(A) John Betjeman
(B) Tony Harrison
(C) Thom Gunn
(D) Robert Graves
45. New Scienceis a work associated with

_______.
(A) Ernest Cassirer https://t.me/thelitbud
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ENGLISH PAPER – III
6. The library where the “Battle of Books”
1. This work was a satire in Ottava rima, takes place is _______.
attacking George III and Robert Southey. (A) St. James‟ Library
Identify the poem: (B) King‟s Library
(A) Dunciad (C) Sir William‟s Library
(B) The Vision of Judgment (D) Christ Church Library
(C) Childe Harold‟s Pilgrimage
(D) Alastor 7. In Sophocles‟ Oedipus Rex the first scene
finds Oedipus
2. Here‟s a famous exchange from Arthur (A) in conversation with a priest
Conan Doyle‟s Silver Blaze: (B) in consultation with a general
„Is there any point to which you would (C) giving audience to an ambassador
wish to draw my attention ?‟ (D) in consultation with a minister
„To the curious incident of the dog in the
night-time.‟ 8. Who among Shakespeare‟s
„The dog did nothing in the night-time.‟ contemporaries did not write tragedies?
What was Sherlock Holmes‟ response ? (A) Thomas Kyd
(A) „Nothing ? Nothing at all? (B) John Lyly
Rather unbelievable.‟ (C) Christopher Marlowe
(B) „That was the curious incident.‟ (D) Ben Jonson
(C) „Anything else, at all?‟
(D) „That sounds rather curious, don‟t you 9. The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled
think?‟ Hosseini tells the story of ________.
(A) Ahmed
3. “The shrill, demented choirs of waiting (B) Nadira
shells, (C) Amir
And bugles calling for them from sad (D) Amourrah
shires.”
These lines are from Wilfred Owen‟s: 10. Thomas Babington Macaulay, the
(A) “Strange Meeting” writer of the infamous Minute of 1835,
(B) “Futility” finds a mention in Salman Rushdie‟s
(C) “Anthem for Doomed Youth” (A) Midnight‟s Children
(D) “Duke et Decorum Est” (B) Shame
(C) The Moor‟s Last Sigh
4. In Aphra Behn‟s Oronooko, how does the (D) Fury
titular character die?
(A) He disembowels himself. 11. The issue of privileging speech over
(B) He is whipped to death. writing was taken up for discussion in
(C) He is hanged in the public square. Plato‟s :
(D) He is cut to pieces slowly by the (A) Ion
executioner. (B) RepublicBook III
(C) RepublicBook X
5. The narrative of this novel is a (D) Phaedrus
meticulous, present-tense account of a
woman with a death-wish who plots the 12. „The Medium is the Message‟ is a
circumstances of her own violent murder. concept given by
Identify the novel. (A) Ernest Hemingway
(A) Iris Murdoch‟s A Fairly Honourable (B) Sylvia Plath
Defeat (C) Seymour Hersh
(B) Muriel Spark‟s The Driver‟s Seat (D) Marshal McLuhan
(C) Doris Lessing‟s Children of Violence
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13. Seamus Heaney‟s famous poem of letters in response, better known as The
“Digging” forms a part of his celebrated Drapier‟s Letters. Who was the merchant?
collection called (A) Isaac Bickerstaff
(A) North (B) William Bickerstaff
(B) Death of a Naturalist (C) William Wood
(C) Field Work (D) William Sacheverell
(D) Door into the Dark
18. “While the world moves
14. The first major report on The Teaching In appentency on its metalled way
of English in Englandwas published in Of time past and time future”
1921. It is known as ________, named after These lines are from:
the Chair, Board of Education, _______. (A) “Little Gidding”
(A) the Newbolt Report; Sir Henry Newbolt (B) “Dry Salvages”
(B) the Wood‟s Despatch; Charles Wood, (C) “Burnt Norton”
Lord Halifax (D) “East Coker”
(C) the Chatham Report; Earl John
Chatham 19. The following is the stage-description of
(D) the Landow Document; Sir George an opening scene of a famous modern play:
Landow A basement room.Two beds, flat against the
back wall. A serving hatch, closed, between
15. Who first developed the notion of the beds. A door to the kitchen and lavatory,
„competence‟ in language studies ? left. A door to a passage, right.
(A) Dell Hymes
(B) Noam Chomsky Identify the play:
(C) Leech and Svartvik (A) The Importance of Being Earnest
(D) Henry Sweet (B) Travesties
(C) The Dumb Waiter
16. The fruit was eaten. (D) Look Back in Anger
The fruit is ripening.
Which of the following statement(s) is/are 20. „Homonyms‟ are words that _______
correct? (A) are pronounced differently but have the
(1) English has two kinds of participle : the same meaning.
present and the past. (B) refer to both the male and female of the
(2) English has three kinds of participle : the human species.
present, the past and the future. (C) are spelt similarly but have different
(3) The first sentence here is an example of a meanings.
verb in past participle. (D) refer to people who live in houses with
(4) The first sentence here is an example of a similar structures.
verb in the perfect tense.
(5) The second sentence here is an example 21. Match the columns :
of a verb in present participle. Shakespearean Actors Period
(6) The second sentence here is an example I. David Garrick 1. The 19th century
of a verb in the continuous tense. II. John Gielgud 2. The 18th century
III. Henry Irving 3. The Restoration
(A) 2, 4, 6 are correct. IV. Thomas Betterton 4. The 20th
(B) 1, 5, 6 are correct. century
(C) 1, 3, 5 are correct.
(D) 3, 4, 5 are correct. I II III IV
(A) 2 4 1 3
17. In 1722 the Crown awarded a certain (B) 4 2 1 3
English merchant a patent to manufacture (C) 3 4 1 2
copper coins for Ireland. Jonathan Swift (D) 2 3 4 1
intervened by way of composing a series
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22. In his “Structure, Sign, and Play in the 25. Invisible Manby Ralph Ellison is
Discourse of the Human Sciences,” Derrida widely recognized as a masterpiece. It is
is all praise for the bricoleur whom Levi- also one of the finest examples of
Strauss sees as a supreme methodologist, (A) science fiction
“someone who uses „the means at hand‟.” (B) picaresque novel
Who does Levi-Strauss contrast (C) coming-of-age novel
bricoleurwith in terms of method and (D) crime thriller
approach?
(A) The Botanist 26. Match the following correctly:
(B) The Anthropologist List – I List – II
(C) The Engineer I. Mulk Raj Anand 1. Premashram
(D) The Semiotician II. Raja Rao 2. The Cat and
Shakespeare
23. Heinrich Böll has something to say, III. Prem Chand 3. Coolie
and not of course merely something about IV. Girish Karnad 4. Nagamandala
the Germans. He says it several times. A
common weakness of writers with something I II III IV
to say (A) 3 2 4 1
is their inability to understand that saying (B) 2 3 1 4
it four times is not necessarily four times (C) 3 2 1 4
as effective as saying it once. But to have (D) 4 3 2 1
something to say – how rare this is !
– D. J. Enright, “Three New Germans”. 27. From which of Sheridan‟s plays the
From a reading of the above, the reader can following extract is taken?
deduce: Lady Sneerwell : Why truly Mrs. Clackitt
I. Enright mildly disapproves of has a very pretty talent and a great deal
Heinrich Böll‟s saying not merely of industry.
something about Germans. Snake : True, Madam, and has been
II. Enright is disappointed that tolerably successful in her day. To my
Heinrich Böll has practically knowledge she has been the cause of six
nothing to say about people other matches being broken off and three sons
than Germans. disinherited, of four forced elopements ….
III. Enright agrees that Heinrich Böll Lady Sneerwell: She certainly has talents but
shares a weakness with writers who her manner is gross.
prefer saying something four times to
saying it once. (A) The Rivals
IV. Enright does not believe that saying (B) The School for Scandal
something four timeswill necessarily (C) St. Patrick‟s Day
make the same effective. (D) The Critic
The right combination, according to the code, 28. Who, from among the following, has
is NOT been discussed by Simon-de-Bevoir in
(A) I and II “The
(B) II and III Myth of Woman in Five Authors” in The
(C) III and IV Second Sex?
(D) I and IV (A) Montherlant
(B) Lawrence
24. Michel Foucault‟s earlier (C) Stendhal
“archaeological” study is found in (D) Kafka
(A) Power/Knowledge
(B) Social Theory and Transgression 29. In a collection of essays Orhan
(C) The Birth of the Clinic Pamuk shares how he writes his novels,
(D) Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics tells about his friendship with his daughter,
talks about his loneliness and happiness.
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Identify the text: (A) Campbell‟s
(A) Other Colors (B) Trevelyan‟s
(B) The Silent House (C) Sander‟s
(C) The Black Book (D) Carter‟s
(D) The White Castle
35. Salonieis a play written by Oscar Wilde
30. Two of the following plays won the written in
Sultan Padamsee Prize for Indian plays in (A) English
English : (B) Irish
I. Princes (C) French
II. Where There‟s a Will (D) Italian
III. Larins Sahib
IV. Doongaji House 36. In More‟s Utopia, the fictional
The right combination according to the code traveller Raphael Hythloday‟s second
is : name in Greek means
(A) III and IV (A) Dispenser of Justice
(B) I and III (B) Dispenser of Nonsense
(C) II and III (C) Dispenser of Grace
(D) I and IV (D) Dispenser of Mercy
31. Who among the following is NOT an 37. “You do not dwell in me nor I in you
Australian writer? however much I pander to your name”
(A) Morris West These lines from Geoffrey Hill‟s
(B) Patrick White “Lachrimae” address
(C) Thomas Keneally (A) Christ
(D) Bill Pearson (B) The Devil
(C) The poet‟s beloved
32. After Independence, Mulk Raj Anand, (D) The poet‟s enemy
wrote a number of semi-autobiographical
works to narrate chunks of his own life 38. The author of Black Skin, White Masks
through a fictional persona. The name he is
gave this persona is _______. (A) Ngugi wa Thiong‟o
(A) Lal Singh (B) Frantz Fanon
(B) Krishan Chander (C) Richard Wright
(C) Puran Singh (D) Martin Luther King (Jr.
(D) Rahul Singh 39. Match the following :
Poet Bird
33.What a mockery this. I. John Keats 1. Hawk
Of history, the past and that to come ! II. P.B. Shelley 2. Falcon
Now do I feel how all men are deceived, III. G.H. Hopkins 3. Skylark
Reading of nations and their, in faith, IV. Ted Hughes 4. Nightingale
Faith given to vanity and emptiness …
The prelude I II III IV
The above extract is from (A) 4 3 2 1
(A) Book 9 Residence in France (B) 4 3 1 2
(B) Book 7 Residence in London (C) 3 4 2 1
(C) Book 3 Residence in Cambridge (D) 3 4 1 2
(D) Book 4 Summer Vacations
40. Who of the following has written the
34. While foregrounding the marginal novel The Return?
presence of women in history in A Room of (A) Bapsi Sidhwa
One’s Own, (B) V.S. Naipaul
Virginia Woolf refers to ______ History of (C) K. S. Maniam
England. (D) Pankaj Mishra
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known Neo-Aristotelian critic ? trickery – a confidence trick.” The
(A) R.P. Blackmur statement has been made by
(B) John Crowe Ranson (A) Angus Wilson
(C) R.S. Crane (B) Anthony Powell
(D) Lionel Trilling (C) John Fowles
(D) George Orwell
42. Assertion (A): The act of reading a text
is both determinate and 48. Here is a list of American words and
indeterminate. word-makers. Match the following:
Reason (R): Since our reading includes both I. H.L. Mencken 1. Babbit
a sense of the unity of the II. Philip Wylie 2. Yes man
narrative held in place at the III. Jack Conway 3. Bible belt
end and the different wishes IV. Sinclair Lewis 4. Monism
and guesses made along the
way. I II III IV
(A) 4 3 2 1
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the (B) 3 4 1 2
true explanation of (A). (C) 3 4 2 1
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not (D) 4 3 1 2
the true explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. 49. Which of the following in Jacques
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. Derrida‟s epigraph to his “Structure, Sign
and Play in the Discourse of the Human
43. Girish Karnad‟s Hayavadana, originally Sciences” ?
in Kannada, has been translated into (A) More body, hence more writing. …….
English by Helene Cixous.
(A) U.R. Ananthamurthy (B) We need to interpret interpretations
(B) By the playwright himself more than to interpret things. ………
(C) G.S. Amur Michel Eyquem de Montaigne.
(D) A.K. Ramanujan (C) But unlike philosophical reflection, ….
the reflections we are dealing with
44. Edward Said‟s well-known book here concern rays whose only source
Orientalism was published in is hypothetical… Claude Levi-Strauss
(A) 1978 (D) If Cleopatra‟s nose had been shorter
(B) 1968 the whole history of the world would
(C) 2008 have been different. ……… Blaise
(D) 1988 Pascal.
45. “To the Memory of my Beloved, the 50. In Mann‟s Death in Venice, death of the
Author Mr. William Shakespeare: And protagonist occurs
What He (A) in a bar
Hath Left Us” is an ode composed by (B) in a beach
(A) John Milton (C) in a church
(B) Ben Jonson (D) on the highway
(C) Andrew Marvell
(D) John Suckling 51. Two among the following poets
wrote the “Village” poems that address
46. Call me Ishmail Tonight is written by the perennial theme of rural poverty :
(A) A.K. Ramanujan I. Oliver Goldsmith
(B) Agha Shahid Ali II. William Collins
(C) Saleem Peeradina III. Samuel Johnson
(D) Nissim Ezekiel IV. George Gabbe
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The right combination according to the code The right combination according to the code
is is
(A) I and III (A) I and II
(B) II and III (B) II and IV
(C) I and IV (C) I and IV
(D) I and II (D) III and IV
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developed his theory of „gyres‟? (A) Mahesh Dattani
(A) “A Vision” (B) Asif Currimbhoy
(B) “The Secret Rose” (C) Girish Karnad
(C) “John Sherman and Dhoya” (D) Paoli Sengupta
(D) “The Celtic Twilight”
59. Match the columns:
53. Mystery and Miracle plays in English Character Novel
were based on ______. I. Lady Dedlock 1. Vanity Fair
(A) English folklore II. Lady Bertram 2. Wives and Daughters
(B) English legends III. Lady Harriet 3. Mansfield Park
(C) Biblical stories IV. Lady Jane 4. Bleak House
(D) Anglo-Saxon myths
I II III IV
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from one script into another, it is called (B) 3 2 1 4
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(A) Translation (D) 3 4 1 2
(B) Transliteration
(C) Transcreation 60. “The Books You Needn‟t Read, the Books
(D) Transformation Made For Purposes Other Than Reading,
Books Read Before You Open Them Since They
Belong To The Category of Books Read
55. “No wonder then.” Explain. Before Being Written …”
(A) No wonder that the words here begin to The above extract is taken from
mean. (A) Jorge Luis Borges‟s “The Library of
(B) No wonder that you now find the words Babel”
menacing. (B) Italo Colvino‟s If on a winter‟s Night a
(C) No wonder that the words find you Traveller
menacing. (C) Umberto Eco‟s The Name of the Rose
(D) No wonder the words still mean and are (D) Francis Bacon‟s “Of Studies”
tame.
61. Listed below are the titles of novels and
56. The term “womanism” was first used the sources to which theyare aligned by
by readers.
(A) Helene Cixous Match them appropriately:
(B) Gayatri Spivak List – I List – II
(C) Kate Millet I. Peter Carey‟s
(D) Alice Walker Jack Maggs 1. Daniel Defoe‟s
Robinson Crusoe
57. Two among the following critics II. J.M. Coetzee‟s Foe 2. Charlotte Bronte‟s
Jane Eyre
have dealt with the reproduction of III. Jean Rhys‟s Wide
motherhood in feminist theory : Sargasso Sea 3. R.M. Ballantyne‟s
I. Nancy Chodorow The Coral Island
II. Judith Fetterley IV. William Golding‟s Lord
III. Catherine R. Stimpson of the Flies 4. Charles Dickens‟s
Great Expectations
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(A) 4 1 3 2 concept in academic circles. The word
(B) 4 3 1 2 plagiariusin Latin, however, meant
(C) 4 1 2 3 (A) a trickster, a cheat
(D) 4 2 1 3 (B) a quack, a swindler
(C) a loafer, a lout
62. Identify the right chronological (D) a torturer, a plunderer
sequence:
(A) The Game of Chess – Volpone – The Duchess of Malfi – 69. What superstition around the Eve of St.
The City Madam Agnes is crucial to an understanding John
(B) The City Madam – The Duchess of Malfi – Volpone –
A Game of Chess Keat‟s famous poem?
(C) Volpone – The Duchess of Malfi – A Game of Chess – (A) If a virgin performed the proper ritual
The City Madam on St. Agnes‟ Eve, she would dream
(D) The Duchess of Malfi – Volpone – A Game of Chess – of her future husband.
The City Madam (B) If a virgin performed the proper ritual
on St. Agnes‟ Eve, she would marry
63. „Nasal tone‟ in speech is a herlover.
distinguishing feature of _______. (C) If a married woman performed the
(A) British English proper ritual on St. Agnes‟ Eve, she
(B) Scottish English would be reunited with her husband.
(C) Australian English (D) If a woman performed the proper
(D) American English ritual on St. Agnes‟ Eve, she would
dream of her future lover.
64. Which of the following writers did
NOT receive the Nobel Prize for Literature? 70. Identify the person who sets himself up
(A) Wole Soyinka as the „Knight‟ with a pestle rather than a
(B) Chinua Achebe sword in the play The Knight of the Burning
(C) J. M. Coetzee Pestle:
(D) Nadine Gordimer (A) Ralph
(B) Tim
65. The Decline and Fall of the Roman (C) George
Empireby Edward Gibbon is a significant (D) Squire
work in ______ Volumes.
(A) 3 71. Works like The Earthly Paradise, Dante
(B) 4 and His Circle, Goblin Market and Other
(C) 5 Poems and the journal, The Germare
(D) 6 associated with ________.
(A) the Pre-Raphaelites
66. The first novel written by Graham (B) Higher Criticism
Greene is (C) the Cavalier Poets
(A) Stamboul Train (D) the Pre-Romantics
(B) England Made Me
(C) The Heart of the Matter Read the following poem and answer
(D) The Man Within questions (72to 75):
A Bird came down the Walk –
67. From among the Canterbury pilgrims, He did not know I saw –
which group would qualify as the „upper He bit an Angleworm in halves
class‟ ? And ate the fellow, raw,
(A) The Pardoner, The Miller, The Nun‟s And then he drank a Dew
Priest From a convenient Grass –
(B) Franklin, Parson, Wife of Bath And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
(C) The Knight, The Squire, The Prioress To let a Beetle pass –
(D) The Reeve, The Manciple, Thehttps://t.me/thelitbud
Clerk He glanced with rapid eyes
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That hurried all around –
They looked like frightened Beads, I thought
–
He stirred his Velvet Head
Like one in danger, Cautious,
I offered him a Crumb
And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home –
Than Oars divide the Ocean,
Too silver for a seam –
Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon
Leap, plashless as they swim.
72. Is “a convenient Grass” an example of

“transferred epithet”?
(A) Yes, it is. The “convenience” of grass
is transferred from the bird to the poet
who finds grass convenient of access.
(B) Yes, it is. The grass is not
“convenient”, but is transferred from
the bird who finds the grass
convenient of access.
(C) No. It is a regular epithet.
(D) No. It is not an epithet in the strict
sense.
73. Which of the following is NOT an

example of kinetic imagery?
(A) “unrolled his feathers”
(B) “hopped sidewise”
(C) “Velvet Head”
(D) “rowed him”
74. The poem stages an encounter between:

(A) the human and the non-human
(B) distrust of the non-human about the
humans
(C) two old friends
(D) two old enemies
75. “Like one in danger …” Who is in

danger?
(A) The Bird
(B) The Poet
(C) The Angleworm
(D) Frightened Beads
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1. When was the Lyrical Ballads published D Cynewulf

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C X Oliver
D X an ancient pillared structure
3. In English poetry the theme of Elegy is
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8. What are the names of the two feuding
A joyful families in Romeo and Juliet?
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B Breslow and Felsher

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C happiness
D contentment C Fuech and Goodside

YA
4. Who recites the Prologue of She Stoops to D Dawson and Hurley

Conquer?
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D navel
A Caedmon 10. The term ‘The Problem Play’ was coined by
B Dante A Albert Guerard
C X Henry Vaughan B Granville Barker

2
Do you know?
C X Sydney Grundy A Pastoral Romance
D Wallace Stevenses B X Pastoral Elegy

11. Who said this for Donne ’He affects the
C Ballad
metaphysics’.
A Jonson D Epic
16. What is a Myth?
B X Dryden
A X a fictitious or imaginative story
C Milton
B a legend of hero
am
D None of the above
C a short narrative poem
12. In which the the famous work Lyrical Bal-
lads published? D a long narrative poem

A 1769 17. ‘Paradise Lost’ and ‘Paradise Regained’ are
iR written by -
B 1778
A P.B. Shelley
C 1792
B John Keats
D X 1798
hr
C X John Milton
13. Which college did John Milton attend?
D William Blake
A Queens college
18. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” was
iS
B Trinity college written by:
A W.Scott
C X Christ’s college
Ja
B X Coleridge
D Warwick college
14. He ran the road C Shelley
A above D None of these
B in 19. ‘Orlando’ is a character of Shakespeare’s -
A Hamlet
C X across
B King Lear
D under
15. An elaborate classical form in which one C Tempest
Shepherd - Singer laments the death of an-
other is called: D X As You Like It
3
Do you know?
20. Which one of the following is not a part of C Tom Jones

abhinaya or histrionic representations?
D Rebecca
A angik
25. He fell a well.
B X jadata
A in
C vachik
B X into
ER
D sattvik
C on
21. They finished their work before the boss
came.
D
D under
A X had
G
26. The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is the
B has other title of

A Damon and Pythias
C have
A
B Lamentable Tragedy
D have been
H
22. How much money did Griffin find in C X Gorboduc
Bunting’s House?
-C
D Ralph Roister Doister
A 2 ponds, 12 in half sovereign
27. How does Kate dress in the morning?
N
B 2 pounds, 11 in half sovereign

A X Fashionably
C 3 pounds, 10 in half sovereign
YA
B Plainly
D X 2 pounds, 10 in half sovereign
C In gowns
23. George Herbert was appointed fellow and
RA
reader in
D In rags
A 1629
28. Who is the writer of ‘Lotus Eaters’?
A
B 1620
A Cynewulf
N
C X 1630
B Geoffrey Chaucer
D None of the above
C Robert Browning
24. James Joyce’s famous novel -
D X A. Lord Tennyson
A Roots
29. Arms and the Man, Candida and Man and
B X Ulysses Super Man are written by:
4
Do you know?
A X Shaw 34. What was the effect of magical roots when
mixed with food and eaten?
B Butler A The person would die
C Moris B X The person would get attracted

D Wells
C The person would become blind
30. The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria’s
reign was celebrated in: D None of the above
A 1859 35. Which of the following was not one of the
four bodily humours?
am
B 1842
A choler
C X 1837
B blood

D 1871
C X cholesterol
31. Which work exposes the frivolity of fash-
iR
ionable London?
D black bile
A Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
36. Rajan struggled freedom.
B Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels A X for
hr
C Behn’s Oroonoko B of
D X Pope’s The Rape of the Lock C on

iS
32. The main province of all art is to

D with
A Preach
37. Who is the author of Aurora Leigh?
B Teach
Ja
A D. G. Rossetti
C Compare
B Christina Rossetti
D X Delight
C Tennyson
33. In what year did Shakespeare die?
A 1570 AD D X Elizabeth Barret Browning

38. What is the name of the storyteller of ’One
B 1580 AD Thousand and One Nights’
C 1630 AD A X Scheherazade
D X 1616 AD B Sultana
5
Do you know?
C Nura D Micheal Palmer

43. Sir Leslie Stephen was a/an
D Morgiana
39. Uneasy lies the head that ( King A inventor
Henry four, part two):
B social worker
A X Wears a crown
C X scientist
ER
B Wears a hat
D artist
C Wears a wig
44. Ode to West Wind was written by
D
D none of these
A Keats
G
40. The speaker of ‘I wandered lonely as a
cloud’ saw B X Shelley

A wet daffodils
C Byron
B yellow daffodils
A
D None of these
H
C fair daffodils
45. Which of the following is not among the
Bronte Sisters?
-C
D X golden daffodils
A Anne
41. I sit in one of the dives On Fifty Sec-
ond Street, Uncertain and afraid As the
N
clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest B Charlotte

decade.So begins Auden’s “September 1,
YA
1939”. What is the meaning of the word C Emily

in italics ?
D X Carol
A house
RA
46. Whose work is called ‘mock utopia’?

B park
A X Swift’s
C bench
A
B Sir Thomas More’s

D X night club
N
C Wordsworth’s
42. Which American writer published ’A brave
and startling truth’ in 1996 D None of these
A Robert Hass 47. “The Frankenstein” is a novel by:
B Jessica Hagdorn A W. Scott
C X Maya Angelou B Lewis

6
Do you know?
C X Mrs. Shelley 52. What was the reason of Steerforth’s death?
A Poison
D If none of these then by whom
48. For ordinary women, the Renaissance B Starvation
A X had very little impact C Disease

B greatly improved the material condi-
D X Shipwreck
tions of their lives
53. Accent on the syllable of a word affects the
C worsened their social status intelligibility of Indian English.
D allowed them access to education for A Right
am
the first time
49. Which of the following are characters of B X Wrong
“Much ado about nothing”:

C Final
A X Hero, Borachio, Antonio, Claudio,
Leonato
iR D Last
B Hero, Orlando, Antonio, Claudio, 54. What was Tom Ramsay’s actual age?
Leanato
A Thirty-six years
C Mirrinda, Borachio, Antonio, Clau-
hr
dio, Leanato B Forty-six years
D Hero, Boradio, Antonio, Claudio,
C Twenty-four years
Horatio
iS
50. Shaw’s pokes fun at the romantic concep- D X Forty-eight years

tion of a soldier.
55. What promise did Augustine’s sudden
A Pygmalion
death prevent him from fulfilling?
Ja
B Candida A X Freeing his slaves
C X Arms and the Man B Relearning to pray
D Man and Superman C Overcoming his alcoholism

51. Who is the heroine of ‘Hamlet’?
D Reuniting Tom with Aunt Chole
A Cordelia
56. What is the name for a shift in tone or
B Portia meaning of a sonnet
C X Ophelia A Octave
D None of these B X Volta

7
Do you know?
C Iambic Pentameter 61. How long did it take for the poor boy to
become a millionaire?
D Petrarchan A Ten years
57. Who believed that drama should be con-
cerned with philosophy, politics and social B Five years
problems ?
C X Six years
A William Shakespeare
ER
D Eight years
B G.W. Hegel
62. Robert Browning, the master of dramatic
monologues, was particularly interested in
D
C Arthur Miller
people, and was able to project himself into
D X G. Shaw their minds and to lay bare their feelings
G
and motives.
58. Binya’s blue umbrella had saved her from

A normal
A X Snake
A
B X abnormal
B Bees
H
C sick
C Scorpions
D healthy
-C
D None of the above 63. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to de-
59. What makes Fielding suspicious during scribe the political novels of?
N
the trip to the caves?

A Charles Dickens
YA
A X Adela’s hasty Departure

B Anthony Trollope
B Aziz’s overexcitement
C W. H. White
RA
C Mrs. Moore’s apathy

D X B. Disraeli
D the absence of Adela’s servant
64. A verse form using stanza of eight lines,
A
60. Drama presents fiction or fact in a form each with eleven syllables, is known as?
that could be performed in public; not read
N
in A Spenserian Stanza
A Public
B Ballad
B Courtroom
C X Ottava Rima
C X Private
D Rhyme Royal
D None of the above 65. Rosemary would go shopping to
8
Do you know?
A New York A The comical end of dramatic events
B X Paris B X The tragic end of dramatic events
C Tokyo C The comic tragic end of the play
D Beijing D None of the above

66. Hamlet is? 71. is a figure of speech in which one word
is substituted for another word which is
A an intellectual closely connected to it.
B a man of action A X metonymy
am
C X a passionate lover B simile
D an over ambitious man C pun

67. P. B. Shelley is known as
iR D onomatopoeia
A Epic Poet 72. What the term Mock Epic refers? xi
B X Romantic Poet A a satiric writing of drama
C Poet of nature B a long narrative poem

hr
D Poet of beauty C X a literary work comically imitates
the style of epic
68. Amal was to Madhav and his wife.
iS
A X A distant relative D none

73. The twins in Lord of the Flies are?
B Sister’s son
A X Ralph and Jack
Ja
C Cousin
B Simon and Eric
D None of the above
C Ralph and Eric
69. What nick name was Shelley given?
D Simon and Jack
A Percy the Perilous
74. According to Paradise Lost, which of the
B X Mad Shelley following does God not create?
A The Son
C Bonkers Byshe
B Adam and Eve
D Nutso
70. What is catastrophe? C Computers
9
Do you know?
D X He creates everything 79. Which was not among the new genres pro-
moted by poets such as Jonson, Donne,
75. He cut the apple a knife and Herbert?
A by A X the Petrarchan sonnet
B X with B the classical satire
C from C the country-house poem
ER
D for
D the epigram
76. What served as the inspiration for Percy
Bysshe Shelley’s poems to the working 80. “The Lotos-Eaters” is a poem by
D
classes A Song: Men of England and Eng-
A X The Lotos-Eaters
G
land in 1819?
A the organization of a working class B Dover Beach

men’s choral group in Southern England
C My Last Dutchess
A
B the Battle of Waterloo
D The Eve of St. Agnes
H
C X the Peterloo Massacre
81. Why does Miss Pushpa always smile?
D the first Reform Bill, passed in 1832,
-C
A X Because she feels like it
which aimed to bring greater Parliamen-
tary representation to the working classes
B Because she wins most competitions
N
77. How would you describe the invisible

C Because she is going overseas
man’s social life?
YA
A There is always a ball. D Because she is attractive to look at
B He has a few close buddies. 82. Which relative did Elizabeth I have exe-
RA
cuted?
C His social calendar runneth over. A Anne Boleyn
D X He has no friends.
A
B Mary I
78. What is the name of Robert-Frost’s first
N
son? C X Mary, Queen of Scots

A X Elliot
D Catherine of Aragon
B Billiot 83. Who is the father of English novel?
C Trilliot A Thomas hardy
D Juilliot B T.S. Eliot

10
Do you know?
C X Henry Fielding A X Raphael
D None of the above B Uriel

84. Who believes in Pantheism?
C Abdiel
A Lord Byron
D Beelzebub
B X William Wordsworth 89. Brutus killed Caesar because he thought
that Caesar had become
C John Keats
A jealous of him
D All of them
am
B X ambitious
85. Which of the following is not the title of
one of the parts of A Passage to India? C autocratic

A Mosque
D cruel
90. ‘A Doll’s House’ is written by -
B Temple
C Cave
iR A Francis Bacon
D X Festival B E.M. Forster

hr
86. William Shakespeare was born in the year: C R.K. Narayan
A X 1564 D X Henrick Ibsen

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B 1544 91. The poem depicts ‘the cycle of life’ through

‘the cycle of day’.
C 1578
A The Death Bed
Ja
D 1582
B Easter 1916
87. “Doctor’s Dilemma” was authored by
C X Preludes
A X G B Shaw D None of the above
B Kyd 92. What is the term we now use for what the
Romantics called “mesmerism,” one of the
C Lyly “occult” practices that allowed people to
explore altered states of consciousness?
D Nashe
A smoking opium
88. Who was sent to Earth to warn Man of the
dangers he was facing? B X hypnotism
11
Do you know?
C psychoanalysis A X Doris Lessing
D dream interpretation B Muriel Spark

93. How does Sam secretly alert Eliza to C Margaret Drabble
Mr.Haley’s presence outside the inn?
D Iris Murdoch
A Throws a rock
98. ‘Ten thousand saw I at a glance’ is an ex-
ER
B X Shouts about his hat ample of
A X hyperbole
C Sneezes loudly
D
B symbol
D Bucks his horse
G
94. Who is the representative of the metaphys- C metaphor
ical poets?

D apostrophe
A Samuel Johnson
A
99. Who’ Post o’re Land and Ocean without
rest’?
B X John Donne
H
A Angles
C Geoffrey Chaucer
-C
B X Milton
D Robert Browning
C Servant
95. Adam Bede is a:
N
A Play D None of the above

YA
100. The Eighteenth century saw the rise of a

B X Novel new type of tragedy called the tragedy.
C Poem A International
RA
D none of these B Seneccan
96. Full name of T. S Eliot is C X Domestic

A
A X Thomas stearns
D None of the above
N
B Thompson Simson 101. “A man can die but once” is one of quote
of following plays:
C Thomas Stewart
A Henry 6 part three
D Thomas Stephen
B X Henry 4 part two
97. brings in her fiction apreoccupation
rooted in earthy social realities. C Henry 6 part one
12
Do you know?
D Henry 4 part one C rhapsody
102. Who has written Lyrical Ballads?
D X prosody
A Coleridge and Keats
107. In a, the protagonist is usually supernat-
ural.
B Wordsworth and Keats
A legend
C Coleridge and Shelley
B novel
D X Coleridge and Wordsworth
103. Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude is a/an C poem
am
D X myth
A Revenge Tragedy
108. Anton Chekhov was a short story writer.
B Domestic novel

A X Russian
C X spiritual autobiography iR B British
D epic
C American
104. Robert Frost attend in which school?
A Laiciam High School D German
hr
109. In “The Gift of the Magi” Della is pre-
B X Lawrence High School sented as
C Adarsha High School A a loving wife

iS
D Licium High School B a snobbish wife

105. Who after the publication of a poem,
awoke and found himself famous? C a hypocritical wife
Ja
A Shelley D X a sacrificing wife
B Browning 110. Images like “water, “rain” and “showers”

belong to the poem
C X Wordsworth
A Preludes
D Keats
B Glory of Women
106. The systematic study of versification in
poetry is called C Easter 1916
A tragedy
D X The Death Bed
B comedy 111. The “father of humanism” was
13
Do you know?
A X Petrarch A Arnold
B Dante B X T. S. Eliot
C Boccaccio C Shelley
D Pico della Mirandola D None of these
112. Rosalind disguises herself as a young boy 116. Northanger Abbey, Emma and Sense and
ER
named Sensibility are novels written by
A Aliena A G. Eliot
D
B Touchstone B Miss Burney
G
C Frederick C X Jane Austen

D X Ganymede D None of these
A
113. The chief concern of Joyce as a novelist is 117. Amal is waiting for a from the king.
with
A Gift
H
A Corruption
B Flowers
-C
B X Humanrelationships
C X Letter
C Poor
N
D None of the above

D unemployed
YA
118. Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ is a

114. Which sorts of political reform took place
A Satire
during the Romantic period?
RA
A Parliamentary reform, increasing B Comedy

representation of the working classes
C X Tragedy
B Labor reform, improving working
A
conditions for industrial laborers D Historical Play

119. is one of Girish Karnad’s plays.
N
C Educational reform, producing a dra-

matic increase in literacy A X Nagamandala
D X a and c only: Significant labor and B White Tiger

voting reform would have to wait for the
Victorian era and later. C Swami And Friends
115. ‘The Metaphysical Poets’ is a critical essay
by: D Malgudi Days
14
Do you know?
120. What invention won George Harris the C both A and B
respect of his factory’s proprietor?
D none of these
A A cotton ginning machine
125. Who wrote an epic ‘The Faerie Queen’?
B X A hemp cleaning machine
A X Edmund Spenser
C A hemp twines
B T. S Eliot
D A bread slicing machine
C Robert Browning
121. Toward the close of which century did
English replace French as the language of D Alfred Tennyson
conducting business in Parliament and in
am
court of law? 126. What is the masterpiece painted by
Behrman?
A tenth
A The Bay of Naples

B eleventh
iR B X The ivy leaf
C twelfth
C A painting to illustrate a magazine
D X fourteenth story
122. Milton’s ’Comus’ is D A painting of a beautiful lady
hr
A An absurd play 127. Which Shakespearean character is known
as ‘the Moor of Venice’?
B A short story
A Macbeth
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C X A masque
B Antonio
D An elegy
C Iago
123. In the earliest Greek plays there used to
Ja
be few actors and a D X Othello

A X Chorus 128. Hamlet is
B messengers A X a tragedy by Shakespeare
C singers B a play by G. B Shaw
D dramatist C a poem by Shelley

124. “After Apple Picking” is written by: D a novel by Hardy
A Robert Browning 129. “But Shadwell never deviates in to
sense”. This clever insult comes from what
B X Robert Frost mock heroic work by John Dryden ?
15
Do you know?
A The dunciad A Tamburlaine the Great
B Absalour and aehitophel B Edward the Second
C X Mac Flecknoe C X Dido, Queen of Carthage
D The Jew of Malta

D None of the above
134. Shakespeare is buried inside the:
ER
130. The ‘Prologue’ is
A Westminster Abbey
A An aside heard by some actors but
B X Trinity Church
D
not the audience
B Same as soliloquy C Protestant Cemetery
G
C X An opening speech which intro- D None of above

duces the play or an act 135. In ’In Memorium’, Tennyson mourns the
death of :
A
D The final or closing speech in the play
A Hugh Clough
H
131. The maiden’s songs is more melodious B Lord Byron
than the singing of?
-C
C X Arthur Hallam
A Cuckoo
D Keats
N
B X Nightingale
136. In “the tragic history of Doctor Faustus”.
YA
Faustus was a :
C Crow
A X German scholar
D Sparrow
B French scholar
RA
132. Elizabeth is a character from Jane

Austen’s: C Spanish scholar
A Emma D Greek scholar

A
137. The poet’s father told the tenants to va-

B X Pride and Prejudice
N
cate the houses.
C Mansfield Palck A X True
D Northanger Abby B False
133. Which one of the following dramas at- C Neither true nor False
tributed to Christopher Marlow is believed
to have been his first? D None of the above
16
Do you know?
138. Who is not a novelist of Victorian age A Isabel
mentioned below?
A Charles Dickens B The Palace of Art
B George Eliot C X Poems by Two Brothers
D In Memoriam
C Thomas Hardy
143. Dryden was named as “the father of En-
D X James Joyce glish Criticism” by
139. From which of Shakespeare’s plays is this A T.S. Eliot

famous line: ’Did my heart love til now?/
am
Forswear it, sight/ For I never saw a true B Matthew Arnold
beauty until this night’
C X Dr. Johnson
A A Midsummer Night’s Dream

D Pope
B Hamlet iR 144. The Age of Pope is often referred to as the
C Othello Age of Queen
A Victoria
D X Romeo and Juliet
hr
140. ‘Prometheus Unbound’ is a lyrical drama B Elizabeth
by-
C Mary
A X Shelley
iS
D X Anne
B Shakespeare
145. The term is often applied to the literature
and art after World War II.
C Sophocles
A Realism
Ja
D Euripedes
B Modernism
141. Adonis is modeled on:
A X Bion’s lament for Adonis C X Postmodernism
B Lycidas D Post-colonialism
146. What was common amongst D.G Ros-
C In Memoriam setti, Christina Rossetti, Morris and Swin-
burne?
D None of these
A They were all Victorian Novelists
142. Tennyson collaborated with his elder
brother Charles in B They were all painters
17
Do you know?
C They all belonged to the Oxford A the king of England

Movement
B the king of Delhi
D X They all belonged to the Pre-
Raphaelite School C his beloved
147. Which of the following poems of Co-
leridge is a ballad? D X the viceroy and the vicereine of
British India
ER
A Work Without Hope
152. How many time Robert Frost proposed
Elinor?
B Frost at Midnight
A 1st time
D
C X The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
B 3rd times
G
D Youth and Age
C X 2nd times
N
148. Who is the writer of ‘Tithonus’?

A X A. Lord Tennyson D 4th times
A
153. Despite several presentations, the author-
B George Bernard Shaw ity to my presentations.
H
C Christopher Marlowe A turning a deaf ear to
-C
D William Shakespeare B turns a deaf ear
149. Twice-Told Tales is authored by C X turned a deaf ear

N
A Chuck Palahniuk
D turning a deaf ear
YA
B Washington Irving 154. Othello was a :

A X General of England
C Isaac Asimov
RA
B General of Denmark
D X Nathaniel Hawthorne
150. saves the life of Johnsy. C Prince of England
A
A The positive attitude D Prince of Denmark

N
155. Holy Sonnets have been written by

B The last leaf that survived on the ivy
vine A X John Donne
C Doctor’s medicines
B John Milton
D X The ivy leaf painted by Behrman C John Keats
151. To whom the love poems of Jekyl were
dedicated? D John Lily
18
Do you know?
156. Griffin is a C Regan
A Naturalist
D Tom
B Sociologist 161. Nandini’s brother was born Au-
gust.
C Policeman
A X in
D X Scientist
B on
157. The opening between the vocal cords is
called
C at
A trachea
am
D of
B pharynx
162. Hermione is the heroine of Shakespeare
in:
C tongue

A X The Winter’s Tale
D X glottis iR
158. ‘Trifle’ means B Taming of the Shrew
A ‘useless’ C Tempest
B X ‘insignificant’ D None of these

hr
C ‘boring’ 163. What is an Epigram?
A X a terse and witty statement

D None of the above
iS
159. Who is associated with the following sen- B a short fiction

timents: Be Homer’s works your study and
delight Read them by day, and meditate by C a long poem
night.
Ja
D a wise man
A Pope
164. The Epilogue to the poem “In Memo-
B Dryden riam” was written to commemorate
A the victory of England over France
C X Horace
B the memory of the poet’s mother
D Dr. Johnson
160. is the legitimate heir to the earl of C X the marriage of the poet’s sister
Gloucester.
A Edmund D the death of a neighbour
165. Sue had come to the Greenwich Village
B X Edgar from
19
Do you know?
A New York 170. A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day refers to
B California
A Jewish and Egyptian sources
and legends
C Venice
B X Christian and Jewish sources and
D X Maine
legends
166. Shakespeare died in:
ER
C Christian and Egyptian sources and
A 1625
legends
D
B X 1616 D None of above
C 1618 171. What was Mr. Wickfield?
G
D None of these A Doctor

167. ‘Water, water, everywhere, not a drop to B Clerk
A
drink’ the composer of
A Wordsworth C X Lawyer
H
B X S. T. Coleridge D Teacher
-C
C Gray 172. Who was “Fortinbras”?

A Claudius’s son
N
D Scott
168. is, a novel, written by Tobias Smol- B X Son to the king of Norway
YA
lett.
C Ophelia’s lover
A Clarrisa Harlowe
RA
B Joseph Andrews D Hamlet’s Mend
173. What major new prose genre emerged in

C X Roderick Random the Jacobean era?
A
D Tristram Shandy A the novel

169. The ‘Solitary Reaper’ is a -
N
B the sermon
A heroic poem
C X the familiar essay
B X romantic poem
D the intimate essay
C classical poem
174. Miss Pushpa’s sweetness is special be-
D didactic poem cause it is:
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Do you know?
A Not just overt but also covert C Manju
B Not just for friends but also for D Santosh

strangers
179. Who wrote first?
C X Not just external but also internal A George Eliot
D Not just for men but also for ladies B Christopher Marlowe
175. What did the narrator do with the body
of his wife? C X Howard, Earl of Surrey
A Threw it in the well in the yard D William Shakespeare
am
B Cut it into minute fragments and 180. Who wrote the famous poetic line ‘To err
is human, to forgive is divine’?
burnt them

C Buried it in the floor of the cellar A X Alexander Pope
D X Walled it up in the cellar

iR B Shelley
176. Who is the author of ‘The Rape of C Keats

Bangladesh’?
A X Anthony Mascarenhas D Dryden

hr
181. James Joyce’s narrative technique is
B Mathew Arnold known as -
A X stream of consciousness
C G. B. Shaw
iS
B psycho-analysis
D Alexander Dumas
177. The Romantic form of criticism is entirely C Objective Co-relative
Ja
A relative D Symbolism and Mysticism

182. Ghost of appears at Macbeth’s dining ta-
B objective ble.
A King Duncan
C descriptive
D X subjective
B X Banquo
178. What was Gobinda’ youngest son’s C Fleance

name?
A X Ranju D Malcom
183. Where is the kingdom of Manaco lo-
B Sanju cated?
21
Do you know?
A In France C Victorian era
B In Italy D Jacobean Era

188. ‘Macbeth and Oedipus’ is by:
C Between France and Italy
A X W. H. Auden
D X Near the borders of France and
B Earnest Jones
Italy
ER
184. Who called Dryden as “The father of En- C Nicoll
glish Criticism” ?
D Freud
D
A Eliot
189. Which novel of Hardy presents ‘Egdon
Heath’ as the background of the story?
G
B Matthew Arnold
A Tess of the D’Urberville

C X Dr. Johnson
B X Return of the Native
A
D None of the above
C Jude the Obscure
185. During which period London theaterrs
H
remained closed on account of the plague? D None of these
-C
A 1592 190. Who wrote ‘Hard Times’ and ‘A tale of
two Cities’?
B X 1593 A John Milton
N
C 1594 B X Charles Dickens

YA
D 1595 C John Webster

186. The dance programme was when it D Daniel Defoe
RA
started raining.
191. is justly remembered for his pio-
A X in full swing neering role in science fiction.
A Arnold Bennett
A
B in fool swing
B X H.G.Wells
N
C in full sing
C Joseph Conrad
D in fool’s swing
187. What proceeded Jacobean era? D Virginia Woolf
192. has become the common label bringing
A Elizabethan Era together the many literatures in English
from Africa, Australia, Canada, India, Sin-
B X Caroline era gapore and the West Indies.
22
Do you know?
A X Post-Colonial 197. Majority of Wordsworth’s poem deal
with and rustic life.
B Postmodern
A Poor
C Post structuralism
B Rich
D None of the above
C Dirty
193. “Art for arts sake” found its true adherent
in:
D X Humble
A Wordsworth
198. Who got the Nobel Prize for literature in
B Byron 2007?
am
C Browning A Becket

D X Wilde B Pinter
194. Etymologically is “unpolished
verse ”.
iR C Stoppard
A Ballad D X Lessing
B Epic 199. One finds predominance of during the

Age of Pope.
hr
C X Satire
A lyrical poetry
D None of the above
195. Who wrote The Trojan Women? B historical writing
iS
A X Euripides C X prose
B Dionysus
D narrative poetry
Ja
C Aristotle 200. Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about

-
D Ovid
A 1000 years ago
196. crowned himself as the king of Denmark
in the place of Hamlet.
B 1500 years ago
A X Claudius
C X 2000 years ago
B Polonius
D 3000 years ago
C Laertes
201. There are sections in the structure of ‘Ly-
D Prince Fortinbras cidas’.
23
Do you know?
A six 206. Where was Dr. Strong’s Academy situ-

ated?
B seven
A Yarmouth
C four
B X Canterbury
D X five
C Lincolnshire
202. ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballad’ is written by?
ER
A S.T. Coleridge D None of the above
207. Dialogues and Republic are the most
B X William Wordsworth
D
popular works of
C Both of them A X Aristotle
G
D None of them B Socrates

203. Who wrote the book ‘Paradise Regained’?
C Plato
A
A P.B. Shelley
D Longinus
H
B X John Milton
208. ’ Fair seed time had my soul’ is from
C John Keats
-C
A Ode to autumn
D William Blake
N
204. Who wrote ’The Winter’s Tale?’ B To a Highland girl
A George Bernard Shaw C Ancient Mariner

YA
B John Dryden
D X None of these
C Christopher Marlowe
RA
209. The term ‘moor’ used in the subtitle of the

play has been interpreted as which of the
D X William Shakespeare following words:
205. Which of the following refers to the small
A Fairy tale
A
area of Ireland, extending north from

Dublin, over which the English govern-
B Brave heart
N
ment could claim effective control?

A Ulster C Warrior
B the Protectorate
D X African
C X the Pale 210. ‘The Restoration Age’ marked the restora-
tion of monarchy with ascent to the throne
D West Britain of:
24
Do you know?
A James II C X Pickwick Papers d... Great Expec-
tations
B X Charles II
D none of these
C Charles III 215. What is a fable?
A X a story about animals
D William III
211. Radha’s heart was shaken by: B a story of human being
A The rocking boat C a story of chronology
B The sight of her beloved D a song of pleasure
am
216. Which poem ends ’I shall but love thee
C X The laughter of her beloved better after death’?

D The answer of the forest glade A X How do I love thee
212. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize for lit-

iR B Ode to a Grecian urn
erature in:
C In faith I do not love thee with mine
A 1927
eyes
B 1832 D Let me not to the marriage of true
hr
minds
C 1924
217. T. S. Eliot was born in
D X None of these A 1887
iS
213. Who was the famous playwright men-

B X 1888
tioned several times in “Mac Flecknoe”
whom Thomas Shadwell greatly admired
C 1817
?
Ja
A X Ben Jonson D None of these

218. Queen Elizabeth ascended the throne of
B Richard Flecknoe England in
C Tennesse Williams A X 1558
D None of the above B 1550
214. Dickens sprang to fame with a publica- C 1562

tion of:
A Hard Times D 1555
219. Where was the chimney stack on the roof
B David Copperfield located?
25
Do you know?
A In the front. 224. ’Blow, Blow thou winter wind¡br/¿ Thu

art not so unkind¡br/¿ As man’s ingrati-
B X In the rear. tude;¡br/¿ They tooth is not so keen, ¡br/¿
Although they breath be rude’¡br/¿ These
C Over the terrace. are a few lines of a poem of a great poet
William Shakespeare.
D Down the chimney pipe.
A J. Webstar
ER
220. Hullabaloo means
B C. Marlowe
A X uproar
C X W. Shakespeare
D
B silence
D Lord Bacon
C halo
G
225. Milton and Edward King studied to-
D insanity gether at the university of

221. Who made the historical novel popular? A Oxford
A F. Mariam
A
B London
H
B X Sir Walter Scott
C X Cambridge
-C
C Henry Fielding
D Manchester
D William James 226. Heathcliff is a character from
N
222. Donne’s attitude is in ‘Goe and Catche a A Jane Eyre

Falling Starre’.
YA
B Emma
A X anti-feminist
C Vanity Fair
RA
B anti-colonial
D X Wuthering Heights
C anti-human
227. Henry Higgins is a character in:
A
D anti-social
A X Pygmalion
223. ‘The Alchemist’ is written by-
N
B saint joan
A X Ben Johnson
B Samuel Johnson C Candida
C Marlowe D none of these

228. In which novel there is no plot and have
D None of them simple loose episodic structure?
26
Do you know?
A Historical 233. A side note: Which drug/substance was
Samuel Taylor Coleridge addicted to?
B Consciousness
A Heroine
C Gothic
B Cocaine
D X Picaresque
C Alcohol
229. How many sons did the professor have?
A X3 D X Opium
B 2 234. is the first prose work of Jonathan

Swift.
am
C 4 A A Tale of a Tub
D None of the above

B X Battle of the Books
230. Mr. Hardcastle hates the most of all.
C Gulliver’s Travels
A Love Marriages
iR D None of the above
B Wealth
235. ‘The Brief History of Time’ is written by -
C Country Manners
hr
A X Stephen Hawking
D X Town Manners
231. The alternative title of Ode on Solitude is B Marx Plank
iS
A The Wasted Life C Yan Martel
B The Happy Life D Chinu Achebe

Ja
236. What was a favorite entertainment in

C X The Quiet Life
Elizabeth’s court?
D The Peaceful Life A Swimming
232. Egden Heath forms the back...drop of
which of the following novels by Hardy? B Gambling
A Jude the Obscure C X Jousting

B Hard Times
D Backgammon
C X Return of the Native 237. From 1st January 2007, how many digits
contains in ISBN (International Standard
D Tess Book Number)
27
Do you know?
A 9 D X Horace
242. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by Close
B 10
thy Byron; open thy Goethe ?
C X 13 A Britain’s preeminence as a global
power will depend on mastery of foreign
D 15
languages.
238. Tennyson talks about the equality of
ER
women in: B Even a foreign author is better than a
homegrown scoundrel.
A X The Princess
D
C X Abandon the introspection of the
B In memoriam
Romantics and turn to the higher moral
G
purpose found in Goethe.
C Maud
N
D In a carefully veiled critique of

D Lackslay Hall the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand
239. Literature of Victorian Age reflects? in symbolically for Queen Victoria and
A Instability
A
Charles Darwin respectively.
H
243. Who was unable to cry near the Baba’s
cave?
B X Stability
-C
A X Lall
C Doubtless
B Tarun
N
D Immorality
240. Where was Arms and the Man first per- C Mr. Jakyl
YA
formed in 1894?
D Meghananda
A X London
244. The beginning of Romantic Age is
RA
B Paris marked by publication of?
C New York A Kubla Khan

A
D None of the above B X Lyrical Ballads

241. Pope’s Essay on Criticism is written
N
C Tintern Abbey
squarely in the tradition of which of the
following:
D Ode to Autumn
A Vida’s De Arte Poetica 245. What color is Sir Lancelot’s hair ?
B Boileau’s Art Poetigue A jet-black
C Scalinger B X coal-black
28
Do you know?
C very-black A X satire
D None of the above B wit

246. In English the continual variation in
accented-unaccented syllables create- C elegy
A X a musical effect D None of the above
B a horror effect 251. What the term Blank Verse refers -
A X having no rhyming end

C a circular effect
B having no rhythmic flow
am
D none of the above
247. Ruskin is famous for: C having no significance

A Being a critic of art
D having no blanks in the verse
B X A social reformer iR 252. In which University Victor Frankenstein
develops the technique to reanimate the
C A moral teacher
dead tissues which ultimately leads to the
creation of the monster?
D None of these
A University of Tubingen
hr
248. Lord Tennyson was appointed Poet Lau-
reate in
B University of Freiburg
A X 1850
C X University of Ingolstadt
iS
B 1860
D University of Greifswald
C 1855
253. “The business of criticism is elucidation
Ja
D 1865 of work of Art and the correction of taste.”

T.S. Eliot declared this in 1923 in his essay
249. What is the name of Wordsworth’s long
entitled -
poem?
A Metaphysical Poets
A The Canterbury Tales
B Tradition and Individual Talent
B Don Juan
C X The Prelude C X The Function of Criticism
D None of these D The Sacred Wood
250. The may be inspired by either a personal 254. Leonard Woolf was Virginia Woolf’s
grievance or a passion for reform.
29
Do you know?
A brother 259. Who is called the ‘Poet of Beauty’?
A William Wordsworth
B X husband
C uncle B P. B Shelley
D father C X John Keats
ER
255. ‘Mansfield Park’ is a novel by: D Lord Byron
A Katherine Mansfield 260. A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day was first com-
posed in
D
B Emily Bronte
A 1682
G
C George Eliot
B 1680

D X Jane Austen
C X 1687
256. What couldn’t the mother do?
A X Read and write
AD 1684
H
B Debate and argue 261. Who is contemporary of William Shake-
speare?
-C
C Drive a car and ride a horse
A X Christopher Marlowe
D Sing and pray
N
B Lord Tennyson
257. The is of classical origin.
YA
C John Milton
A epic
D All of them
B X satire
RA
262. /t, d, s, z, n, l/ are sounds.

C ballad
A plosive
D None of the above
A
B labio-dental
258. The poets who believe that a hard, clear
image was essential to verse are called:
N
C X alveolar
A Imaginists
D velar
B Romanticists 263. What is the negro mother’s dream:
C Classicists A To be rich and famous
D X Imagists B X To live in an equal society

30
Do you know?
C For blacks to be considered superior A X a pair of rhyming iambic pentame-
to whites ter
D For her children to migrate out to the B a two line stanza
north
C a poem of lamentation
264. Injun Joe before anybody could catch
him.
D a song for mourning
A surrenders in front of the judge
269. What does Rani disclose Naga?
B X sprints out of the courtroom
A That she is going to leave the house
C murders Muff forever.
am
B That she is planning to work
D murders Tom
C X That she is pregnant

265. Where was his second son working?
A in a sugar mill iR D None of the above

270. What did the boy remind the man?
B X in a paper mill
A X That he had not paid him for the
C in a coal mine
shoe-shine job.
hr
D in a school B That he had not given him his ad-
266. According to the author, aunts are: dress.
A Always affectionate C That he had forgotten to wear his

iS
shoes.
B X Formidable creatures
D That he had forgotten to take the
C Overwhelming relatives change.
Ja
271. has a super abundant wealth of

D Needles appendages words and superfluous ornaments
267. Originality in literature consists of A X Hyperbole
A X expressing the old themes in a new
way B Metaphor
B inventing new ideas C Rhetoric
C finding new skills of writing D None of these

272. ‘Bliss was it, in that Dawn to be alive But
D inventing new ways of inspiration
to be young was very heaven.’ Who has
268. What do you mean by Heroic Couplet? written these lines?
31
Do you know?
A Shelley A Comedy
B Browning B Poetry
C X Wordsworth C X Tragedy
D None of the above

D None of these
277. The official English Language Bible com-
ER
273. Who is the middle-aged servant in the missioned by King of England Henry VIII
Petkoff’s house? is known as
A X Nicola A Tyndale Bible
D
B Paul B X The Great Bible
G
C Bluntschli C The Bishop’s Bible

D None of the above D Geneva Bible
274. Oedipus Complex is?

A
278. Which 18th century author is famous for
his use of the heroic couplet?
H
A a kind of physical ailment A John Milton
-C
B a kind of vitamin B Edmund Spenser

N
C a brother’s attraction towards his sis- C X Alexander Pope

ter
D William Shakespeare
YA
D X a son’s attraction towards his

279. How long was the image of Ganesha?
mother
275. Chandan migrates to London where he A eight-feet high
RA
changes his name to and attempts to cre-

ate a new identity. B X six-foot high
A Davis C five-feet high

A
B Chandy D ten-feet high

N
280. Which book written by William Somerset

C Danny Maugham?
D X Dan A X Of Human Bondage
276. is a narrative about serious and important B Roads of Destiny

actions that end unhappily usually with
the death of main characters. C Merchant of Venice
32
Do you know?
D Paradise Lost C X the court poet of England
281. Who is the author of the book ‘A Brief
D a classical poet
History of Time’?
286. The image ‘A terrible beauty is born’ be-
A Albert Einsten longs to the poem
B G.B Shaw A X Easter 1916
C Neuton B The Death Bed
D X Stephen Hawking C The Waste Land

282. There are pure vowels in English RP.
am
D Preludes
A 15 287. What prompts Amal to fantasize about
receiving a letter from the king?

B X 12
A X the village headman says so
C 10
D 8
iR B a new post office is being built there
C his uncle has told him.

283. Who wrote ‘Robison Crusoe’?
A Jonathan Swift D None of the above
hr
288. Who created the fictional private detec-
B X Daniel Defoe tive ‘Sherlock Holmes’?
A John Gay
iS
C William Shakespeare
D Jon Milton B W. B. Somerset Mougham
284. What is the term Utopia? xx C X Sir A Conan Doyle

Ja
A a hat of a king
D Dylan Thomas
B a day dreamer 289. ’Picture of Dorian Gray ’ was written by
C a lotus eater A X Oscar Wild
D X an ideal state which does not exist B Hardy

in real
C George Eliot
285. The Poet Laureate is -
A the best poet of the country D None of these
290. Prospero and his were put into an old
B a winner of Noble Prize in Poetry boat which had neither sails nor oars.
33
Do you know?
A old wife C Act IV, Scene III
B three year old son D X Act III, Scene I

295. When did John Milton die?
C servant Gonzalo
A 9 December 1670
D X three year old daughter
B 22 June 1675
ER
291. The novel ‘The Big Four’ is written by -
A Virginia Wolf C 14 February 1669
D
B X Agatha Christie D X 8 November 1674
296. What does the phrase White Man’s Bur-
G
C Sigmund Freud den, coined by Kipling, refer to?

D Joseph Conrad A Britain’s manifest destiny to colonize
the world
292. How many volumes were there in
his story collection titled Tales of the
Grotesque and Arabesque when it was
AB X the moral responsibility to bring
civilization and Christianity to the peoples
H
published in 1840? of the world
-C
A 3 C the British need to improve technol-
ogy and transportation in other parts of the
B X2 world
N
D the importance of solving economic

C 4
and social problems in England before
YA
tackling the world’s problems

D 6
297. Who is known as an anti-romantic novel-
293. The repetition of similar ending sounds ist in the Romantic Age?
RA
A alliteration A Charles Lamb
B onomatopoiea B X Jane Austen

A
C X rhyme C William Hazlitt

N
D None of the above D Oliver Goldsmith

294. Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be, or not to 298. informs Mr. Utterson of Dr. Jekyll’s dis-
be; that is the question’ occurs in? appearance.
A Act II, Scene I A X Poole
B Act III, Scene III B Lanyon

34
Do you know?
C Hyde A X excitement and sensation
D Enfield B love and beauty

299. Who is also known as the “Lady with the
C job and tiredness
Lamp”?
A X Florence Nightingale D expectation and depression

304. Who inherits ownership of Tom when St.
B Sarojini Naidu Clare dies?
C Rani Laxmibai A Eva
B X Marie
am
D Bachendri Pal
300. At what age Edgar Allan Poe writes his C George Shelby
first poem? Last night, with many cares &

toils oppres’d, Weary, I laid me on a couch D Haley
to rest
iR 305. Which of the following is the other title of
A 25 Pope’s Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot?
B X 15 A X Prologue to the Satires
C 18 B Essay on Man
hr
D 21 C Windsor Forest
301. Unlike his brother Sid, Tom is D An Essay on Criticism

iS
A humble 306. Earthly rewards and punishments in pro-

portion to the virtue or vice of characters is
B X mischievous called justice.
A fictional
Ja
C gullible
B dramatic
D honest
302. Othello is a Shakespeare’s play about - C elegiac
A A Jew D X poetic
B A Turk 307. When was The Prelude published?
A 1807
C A Roman
B 1857
D X A Moor
303. Romanticism is mainly connected with - C X 1850
35
Do you know?
D 1860 A X Oresteia
308. In the year Milton’s eye sight started fail-
B The Burning Glass
ing.
A X 1660 C King Oedipus
B 1662 D The Looking Glass
ER
313. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimmage is written
C 1661 by:
D None of the above A Blake
D
309. From which poem following lines are
B Shelley
taken? “Where are the songs of Spring?
G
Ay, where are they?
C X Byron

A She Walks in Beauty
D None of these
A
B To Night 314. Words that are normally stressed in na-
tive English are sometimes left unstressed
H
C X Ode to Autumn in
A X Indian English
-C
D The Solitary Reaper
310. What nationality was Shakespeare? B American English
N
A Italian C Standard English

YA
B X English D African English
C Scottish 315. Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides were

the classical
RA
D Greek A X Greek
311. The name ‘Picaresque Novel’ is derived
from the word Picaro. B Roman
A
A French C English
N
B German D German
C X Spanish 316. Waiting for Godot by S. Beckett was orig-

inally written in
D Italian A Italian
312. “Mourning Becomes Electra” is a transla-
tion of Greek tragedy into modern times. B Spanish
36
Do you know?
C German A Arthur Miller
D X French B X Saul Bellow

317. In Gerontion the narrator describes him- C Tony Morrison
self as
A Young man D None
322. O’Henry is famous for -
B X old man
A Drama
C beggar
B X short story
am
D destitute
C novel
318. The phrase ‘trunk less legs’ in the poem
‘Ozymandias’ refers to D poem

323. and were born in the same year 1564.
A hug legs
B legs without toes

iR A X Marlowe and Shakespeare
B Jonson and Shakespeare

C X legs without body
C Shaw and Galsworthy
hr
D beautiful legs
D Shakespeare and Shaw
319. Johnsy dreamt of painting someday.
324. Who is the author of “India Wins Free-
A The Tajmahal dom”?
iS
A Mahatma Gandhi
B Himalayas
B J. L. Nehru
C Bay of Bengal
Ja
C X Abul Kalam Azad

D X Bay of Naples
D Moulana Akram Khan
320. which of these kings was not served by
Chaucer? 325. Who named the inn “The Invisible Man
“?
A Edward III
A Mr.Hall
B X Henry II
B Mr.Bunting
C Richard II C Mrs.Hall
D None of the above D X Mr.Marvel

321. Who is the author of ‘Seize the Day’? 326. Who wrote ‘Don Juan’?
37
Do you know?
A Words worth A Browning
B Keats B X P. B. Shelley
C Shelley C William Wordsworth
D X Byron D John Keats
327. Which of the following poems describe 331. In 1960 ’The Colossus’ was the first book
ER
or celebrate an apocalyptic regeneration of of poems published by which poetess?
humanity and the world effected by the A Elizabeth Bishop
creative capacity of the human mind?
D
A Coleridge’s Dejection: An Ode
B X Sylvia Plath
G
C Marianne Moore
B Blake’s “Prophetic Books”

D Laura Jackson
C Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the
A
Rights of Woman 332. ‘Ophelia’ is an important character in the
Shakespearean play?
H
D X all but c
A Macbeth
328. In the poem ‘Ozymandias’ who calls Ozy-
-C
mandias ‘King of Kings’? B The Tempest
A The Traveler C X Hamlet

N
B The speaker D King Lear

YA
333. Aristotle’s is considered to be a piece of

C Other Kings
classical criticism.
D X Ozymandias himself A Critique
RA
329. Who in the Romantic period developed a B Ars Poetica

new novelistic language for the workings
of the mind in flux? C X Poetics
A
A Maria Edgeworth
D Revaluation
N
B Sir Walter Scott 334. Becky sharp was the heroine in which
novel?
C Thomas De Quincey
A X Vanity Fair
D X Jane Austen
B Sense and Sensibility
330. ‘Poet are unacknowledged legislators of
the world’, Who told it? C Pride and Prejudice
38
Do you know?
D Mansfield Park C X Coleridge in 1817
335. Which setting could you not imagine a
work of Romantic literature employing? D Shelley in 1779
339. Who succeeded Lyly?
A a field of daffodils
A X Robert Greene
B the “Orient”
B John Milton
C a graveyard
C Philip Sidney
D X All of the above would be appropri-
ate settings for Romantic literature D Christopher Marlowe
am
336. In the Defense of Poesy, what did Sidney
340. Macaulay lived from
attribute to poetry?
A X 1800... 1859

A a magical power whereby poetry
plays tricks on the reader B 1802... 1859
B a divine power whereby poetry
transmits a message from God to the
iR C 1859 - 1900
reader
D 1889... 1902
C X a moral power whereby poetry en-
341. Who in Hamlet suggests that one should
hr
courages the reader to emulate virtuous
neither be a lender nor a borrower?
models
A Gertrude
D a defensive power whereby poetry
iS
and its figurative expressions allow the

B X Polonius
poet to avoid censorship
337. ‘To be or not to be’ is the beginning of a C Horatio
famous soliloquy from
Ja
D Hamlet
A Paradise Lost
342. ‘Better to reign in Hell than to serve in
B Romeo and Juliet Heaven.’ Who said this and where?
C X Hamlet A X Satan in ’Paradise Lost’
D Shahnama B Stain in ’Paradise Regained’
338. Biographia Literaria is written by whom C Adam in ’Paradise Lost’

and published in?
D Adam in ’Paradise Regained’
A Wordsworth in 1766
343. ‘Sweet Hellen make me immortal with
B Keats in 1877 kiss’. Who has said these words?
39
Do you know?
A X Marlow 348. Johnsy kept looking at the from the room

window.
B Shakespeare A Lemon tree
C Benjonson
B Grape vine
D None of these
C X Ivy vine
ER
344. The last line of ‘To daffodils’ is
D Gulmohar Tree
A Ne’er to be seen again
349. From what century does the poetic form
D
B Vanish like summer’s rain the folk ballad date?
G
C X Ne’re to be found again A X The 12th

D As quack a growth of meet decay B The 14th
345. What was Mr. Jekyl? C The 17th

A X retired judge
A
D The 19th
H
B retired police officer 350. ‘Lapis Lazuli’ is:
-C
C retired collector A X A Poem

N
D retired teacher B Drama

346. Lady Catherine de Bourgh is Darcy’s
YA
C None of these
A X Aunt
D A Poem
B Mother
RA
351. Who (in disguise) does Lady Wishfort

C Sister believe she is going to marry?
A Waitwell
A
D First wife
347. ‘Pounce upon’ means B X Sir Rowland
N
A X ‘made a sudden attack’

C Mirabell
B ‘killed’
D Antony Withwoud
C ‘jumped at’ 352. Writers of 1890s like concentrated upon
the beauties of an elaborated prose style
D None of the above and themes in their stories.
40
Do you know?
A X Oscar Wilde D None of the above
357. was aware of Dr. Jekyll’s secret.
B E. Coppard
A Mr. Utterson
C H. E. Bates
B Edward Hyde
D Hugh Walpole
353. An element of the supernatural is present C X Dr. Lanyon
in the poetry of :
D Sir Danver Crew
A Wordsworth
358. Which hero made his earliest appearance
in Celtic literature before becoming a sta-
am
B X Coleridge
ple subject in French, English, and German
C Browning literatures?

A Beowulf
D Byron
354. Eliot believed that a critic’s task is to
iR B X Arthur
C Caedmon
A Judge
D Augustine of Canterbury
B give opinions
hr
359. When a word has a range of reference be-
C X elucidate yond itself, we call it a
A metaphor
D analyse
iS
355. In Which Giant department store Griffin B simile

went for shopping?
C euphemism
A Poniums
Ja
D X symbol
B Onotiums
360. Which of the following is associated with
C Onitorious the ‘Oxford Movement’?
A Newman
D X Omniums
356. Which are two major themes of Arms and B Froude
the Man ?
C Kingsley
A death and suffering
B X war and love D X All of the above

361. Under which pseudonym the work The
C Marriage and Separation Shepheardes Calender was published?
41
Do you know?
A Edward 366. Iron, times of doubts, disputes, distrac-

tion and Fear is an example of:
B X Immerito
A Oxymoron
C Jonathan
B Conceit
D Immanuel
C X Alliteration
362. One of the following was a Romantic Poet
ER
A Tennyson D None of these
367. The four brothers hand over the tin con-
D
B Arnold
taining the Kala Nag to their
C X Shelley
G
A father
D Browning

B mother
363. Who does Polonius send to spy on Laertes
A
in Paris? C Gangu Ram
A Francisco
H
D X science teacher
B Gorgonzola
368. “The better part of valour is discretion”
-C
occurs in Shakespeare’s-?
C X Reynaldo
A Hamlet
N
D Samson
364. Would you tell Sordelo (Browning) as a: B Twelfth Night
YA
A Dramatic Monologue C The Tempest

B X Dramatic Lyrics
RA
D X Henry IV, Pt I
C Tragic Drama 369. What was the amount of money the
colonel asked Hughie to earn before
D None of these Hughie could marry his daughter?
A
365. What gift did Della’s husband bring her

A Fifteen thousand
N
for Christmas?
A X Pure tortoise-shell combs. B Three thousand
B A heart-shaped pendant. C Thirty thousand
C Tickets to a musical performance.

D X Ten thousand
D A gold chain. 370. King Lear had daughters.
42
Do you know?
A two C He hugs Aziz
B one D He denounces Islam

375. Who said ‘reading maketh a full man’?
C five
A John Dryden
D X three
371. said that ‘Poetry is a Spontaneous over- B Alexander Pope
flow of powerful feelings and emotions
recollected in tranquility’. C X Francis Bacon
A X Wordsworth D Thomas Hardy
am
B Shelley 376. Wordsworth was appointed Poet Laure-
ate in:

C Keats A 1817
D Byron iR B 1839
372. Who, among the following, is a Nobel
Laureate ? C X 1843
A Seamus Heaney
D 1849
hr
B X Tony Morrison 377. Which novel is not written by Jane
Austen?
C Ted Hughes
A Emma
iS
D Geoffrey Hill
B X The Chimes
373. Whom does Mr.Haley choose from
among Shelby’s slaves? C Persuation
Ja
A Eliza and Harry D none these
B Uncle Tom and Cassy 378. She is slow sure.

A as
C Uncle Tom and Eliza
B X but
D X Uncle Tom and Harry
374. How does Fielding shock the Indians at C for
Aziz’s home?
D of
A X He is bluntly honest
379. Who got Kemp’s letter to capture Griffin
B He sits on the floor ?
43
Do you know?
A X Colonel Adye 384. What is the name of the sequel to Paradise

Lost?
B Policeman A Paradise Found
C Mr.Hall B Paradise Lost Twice
D Bobby Jeffers C X Paradise Regained

380. Which of the following is not found in
ER
Hell? D Paradise Lost Again
A Gems 385. The mother nourished a dream that:
D
A Was never likely to come true
B Gold
B X Nothing could smother
G
C X Oil
C Was not shared by anybody

D Minerals
381. Which one of the following is a comedy? D Her children knew nothing about
A X All’s Well that Ends Well

A
386. At what age did Mary Shelley start writ-
ing the novel Frankenstein?
H
B Hamlet A X 18
-C
C Timon of Athens B 24
N
D Antony and Cleopatra C 26

382. ‘East Coker’ is written by:
YA
D 31
A Browning
387. When was Samuel Taylor Coleridge
born?
B Wordsworth
RA
A November 12, 1762

C X T. S. Eliot
B January 10, 1789
D None of these
A
383. In the title of the poem ‘To His Coy Mis- C X October 21, 1772
tress’, the meaning of “coy” is
N
D September 8, 1764
A X shy 388. The story A Day’s Wait begin in the
B bold A night
C arrogant B evening
D proud C noon
44
Do you know?
D X morning C a popular thirst for the classics, driv-
ing contemporary writers to the margins
389. The Elizabethan lyrics are known for their
D none of the above
A style 393. Joyce’s novel ’Ulysses’ takes place over
what period of time?
B rhythm
A A week
C X word music
B X 24 hours
D subjects
C A lifetime
390. In ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ the
am
daffodils gave the poet
D 6 months
A X a great deal of pleasure 394. Widow Wycherly had been?

B very pleasure A X An early lover of all three gentle-
men
C much pleasure
iR B Like a sister to Mr. Medbourne
D many pleasure C The wife of Dr. Heidegger

391. “You can’t keep a grownup daughter at
hr
home, can you?” - are the concluding D The Prime Minister’s confidante
words spoken by 395. Which of the following is an unfinished
novel by Jane Austen?
A Mrs. Nadkarni
iS
A Sense and Sensibility

B Hema Nadkarni
B Mansfield Park
C Mira Hattangadi
Ja
C X Sandition
D X Radhabai
D Persuasion
392. What was the impact on literature of the
Education Act of 1870, which made ele- 396. “Fair is foul, and foul is fair”- quoted
mentary schooling compulsory? from?
A X the emergence of a mass liter- A X Macbeth

ate population at whom a new mass-
produced literature could be directed B As you like It
B a new market for basic textbooks C Tempest

which paid better than sophisticated nov-
els or plays D Othello
45
Do you know?
397. In which way Elizabethan theater pro- 401. After years of his marriage he left
moted the development of the English his native town and try his fortune in the
Language? great city of London.
A By writing unconventional plays A two
B X By popularizing stories from his- B three

torical sources and creating engaging
ER
comedies, tragedies and romances C X four
C By imitating Greek and Latin litera- D five

ture
D
402. Which of the following was not a com-
D By copying French comedies, mon inclusion in Restoration Comedies in
G
tragedies and romances. general?
398. Who is famous for his ‘drama of ideas’?
N
A X Anti-puritan dialogues

B Tangled relationships
B X Henrik Ibsen
A
C Licentiousness
H
C Oscar Wilde
D Satire
-C
D T.S. Eliot 403. Who says “foul is fair and fair is foul”?
399. The only play by Shakespeare which con-
N
A X the three witches

firms to the classical unities is:
B Duncan
YA
A Hamlet
B X Twelfth Night C Macbeth

RA
C Romeo and Juliet D Lady Macbeth

404. Which of the following items is not asso-
D None of these ciated with speech sound?
A
400. A great playwright of Shakespeare time A Vowels

was
N
A Samuel Johnson B X Syntax
B X Christopher Marlowe C Consonants
C Oliver Goldsmith D Diphthongs

405. Which of the following poets does Milton
D John Donne emulate?
46
Do you know?
A Virgil C X Formalism
B Homer D Post modernism

410. How does Birnam Wood come to Dunsi-
C X Both Virgil and Homer nane?
D Neither Virgil or Homer A By magic
406. What is the term Fiction? B Through an earthquake

A a poem
C It doesn’t
B a prose
D X Malcolm’s army hides behind cut-
am
C X an imaginative writing off tree branches
411. Which of the following is an essayist?

D a story
A Chaucer
407. ‘The Soul of a Tragedy’ by means of Aris-
iR
totle is B John Wycliffe
A Character C X Charles Lamb
B X Plot D Spenser
hr
C Dialogue 412. Robinson Crusoe is written by
A Jonathan Swift
D None of them.
iS
408. chose Cordelia as his wife. B X Daniel Defoe
A X King of France C William Wycherley
B Duke of Burgundy D John Dryden

Ja
413. What is a poem called whose first letters

C Earl of Kent
of each line spell out a word?
D Earl of Gloucester A Alliterative
409. views literature primarily as a specialized
B Epic
use of language, and proposes a funda-
mental opposition between the literary [or
poetical] use of language and the ordinary,
C X Acrostic
“practical” use of language.
D Haiku
A Stream of Consciousness 414. literature provided the first system-
atic application of critical standards to the
B Humanism enjoyment of English
47
Do you know?
A X Dryden 419. ‘Delusion and Dream’ is by -
A H.G. Wells
B Johnson
B X Sigmund Freud
C Sidney
C G.B. Shaw
D Coleridge
415. Poet of sensuousness D James Osborn
ER
A P. B Shelley 420. ‘Importance of Being Earnest’ was writ-
ten by:
B William Wordsworth
D
A X Oscar Wilde
C X John Keats
G
B Browning
D Byron

C Blake
416. Griffin’s luggage came to Iping in a
A
D None of these
A Car
421. Who began the tradition of revenge play
H
B X Cart ?
A Goorge peele
-C
C Camel cart
B Samuel daniel
D Bullock cart
N
417. In the phrase, thy seed shall bruise our C Phineas fletcher
foe, the “seed” refers to:
YA
D X Thomas kyd
A The Tree of Knowledge
422. “La Belle Dame Sans Merci“ is a
B Adam A Song
RA
C Cane and Abel B Ode
D X Jesus Christ C X Ballad

A
418. ‘Virtue’ was published in Herbert’s vol-

D None of the above
N
ume entitled
423. What was the name of the girl Hughie
A ‘Musings’
loved?
B ‘Reflections’ A X Laura Merton
C ‘Songs and Sonnets’ B Eva Sanders
D X Affliction’ C Georgia Larton

48
Do you know?
D Della Young 428. A pattern of accented and unaccented syl-
lables in lines of poetry
424. Aspect of the Novel is written by:
A David Cecil A rhyme scheme
B Walter Allen B X meter
C Arnold Kettle C alliteration
D X E.M. Forster D None of the above

425. Stevenson’s strange case of Dr.Jekyll and
429. Which literary form, developed in the
Mr.Hyde is a novel.
fifteenth century, personified vices and
am
A X Gothic virtues?
A the short story

B Autobiographical

C Picaresque B the heroic epic
D Historical
iR C X the morality play
426. Which of the following statements is not
an accurate description of Old English po- D the romance
etry? 430. Ruskin Bond received the Sahitya
hr
A X Romantic love is a guiding princi- Akademi award for his book.
ple of moral conduct. A The Night Train at Deoli
iS
B Its formal and dignified use of speech

B The blue Umbrella
was distant from everyday use of lan-
guage.
C The Room on the Roof
C Irony is a mode of perception, as
Ja
much as it was a figure of speech. D X Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra
D Christian and pagan ideals are some- 431. Ram Mohan Roy brought in the country.
times mixed.
A the change of attitude
427. The name ‘Restoration Age’ refers to the
restoration of
B X the change of season
A X Monarchy
C the change of dress code
B Parliament
D the change of leadership
C Commonwealth
432. Which poem of Tennyson was particu-
D None of the above larly like by Queen Victoria?
49
Do you know?
A The Idylls of the kings 437. Rosemary had been married for years.
A X two
B Charge of the Light Brigade
B three
C X In Memoriam
C four
D None of these
433. Robert Herrick was an English
ER
D five
A Novelist 438. Mary Shelley wrote the novel Franken-
stein in the form of a frame story that starts
one character wring letters to his sister.
D
B Historian
Who is that character?
C X Poet
G
A Captain Cooper
D Dramatist

B X Captain Robert Walton
434. “The Recluse” was written by:
A
C Victor Frankenstein
A X Worsdworth
D Sergent Thomas Vincent
H
B Coleridge
439. Whose work is the first serious attempt of
-C
C W. Blake its kind to apply the classical rules to En-
glish poetry?
D Southey
A Dryden
N
435. The Essay Supplementary was added to

the edition of the Preface. B X Sidney
YA
A 1800
C Wordsworth
B X 1815
RA
D Ben Jonson
C 1805 440. Which effort is not attempted by Kannan
in opening the tin?
D None of the above
A
A battering it repeatedly on the floor

436. ‘Samson Agonistes’ is Milton’s Greek
style
N
B X putting it on the gas stove

A X Tragedy
C hitting it with a nail and a stone
B Comedy
D dropping a pestle on it
C Tragi-comedy 441. A figure of speech where two things
are compared without using the words of
D Epic poetry comparison is called
50
Do you know?
A simile D King John
B personification 446. ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is written by?
A Charles Lamb
C alliteration
D X metaphor B Virginia Woolf
442. Which of the following features doesn’t C Emily Bronte

belong to the Victorian age?
A X Licentiousness D X Jane Austen
447. The Eastern group of languages in Indo-
am
B Peace European family is called languages.
C Morality A Foreign

D Compromise B Local
443. The fruit of which tree were Adam and
Eve forbidden to eat?
iR C X Satem
A Tree of Life
D Centum
B Tree of God 448. Gopi drove up to his mother’s house in
hr
C Tree of Sin A an army truck
D X Tree of Knowledge B a United Nations’ limousine

iS
444. Flecknoe sang to entertain which king?

C X a Government of India jeep
A X King John of Portugal
D a village bus
Ja
B King John of Peru

449. Firdausi was the poet of -
C King John of Persia
A X Persian
D None of the above
445. Which ruler’s reign marks the approxi- B English
mate beginning and end of the Victorian
era? C French
A King Henry VIII

D Italy
B Queen Elizabeth I 450. Which city became the perceived center
of Western civilization by the middle of the
C X Queen Victoria nineteenth century?
51
Do you know?
A Paris C Ransom’s The New Criticism
B Tokyo D Fredrick Jameson’s Marxism and

Form
C X London 455. Edmund Spenser is a -
D Amsterdam A X poet
ER
451. An Apology for Poetry is written by -
B dramatist
A Mathew Arnold
C artist
D
B X Philip Sydney
D scientist
G
C Dr. Johnson 456. Which one is the Tennyson’s First work?

D Tomas Stern Eliot A Dora
452. In the opening scene, Prince Escalus ad-
A
B Ulysses
dresses “ rebellious subjects, enemies to
peace, profaners of this neighbour- stained
C X Two Brothers
H
steel “. He is referring to
A Romeo and Juliet D In Memorium

-C
457. Who is the writer of the book ‘Pride and

B Tybalt and Mercutio Prejudice’?
N
C The citizens of Verona and Mantua A John Milton

YA
D X Lord Capulet and Lord Montague B Jonathan Swift
453. Who is William Hazlitt? C Charles Dickens

RA
A Novelist
D X Jane Austen
B X Essayist 458. Girish Karnad’s, is consciously anchored
in the ancient theory and tradition of In-
A
C Dramatist dian Theatre.

N
A Fire and the rain

D Poet
454. The Psycho-analytic criticism of literature B Tughlaq
began with the publication of -
C X Nagamandala
A X Sigmund Freud’s interpretation of
Dreams D Hayavadhana
B Richards’s Foundations of Aesthetics 459. What is the meaning Hymn?
52
Do you know?
A song in praise of poet D was
464. is the school of literary writings is a
B a song in praise of country
medical theory.
C X song in praise of God A Comedy of Manners
D a mixture of two language B Theater of the Absurd

460. Who introduced the art of printing into
England? C Heroic Tragedy
A Elizabeth Eisenstein D X Comedy of Humours

465. The endeavour of the proponents of cul-
am
B Johannes Gutenberg
tural studies is to move to the centre those
works which have been
C Henry VIII
A elevated

D X William Caxton
iR B awarded prizes
461. Popular English adaptations of romances
appealed primarily to
C canonized
A the royal family and upper orders of
D X marginalised
the nobility
hr
466. When did Edgar Allan Poe die?
B X the lower orders of the nobility
A October 10, 1858
C agricultural laborers
B X October 7, 1849
iS
D the clergy
C January 2, 1847
462. Who belongs to the theatre of Absurd
A Oscar Wilde D December 4, 1879

Ja
467. Tara and Chandan’s grandfather was a

B X Backett man of power. He was a wealthy man, an
industrialist and a/an
C Ibsen
A Chief Minister
D None of these
B Home Minister
463. Tax must paid by every citizen.
A is C X M.L.A
B X be D Party Secretary
468. Who said, “poetry fed and watered the
C has passions instead of drying them up”?
53
Do you know?
A X Plato C servant
B Homer D None of the above

473. Which poet, critic and translator brought
C Sophocles England a modern literature between 1660
and 1700?
D Aristotle
A Addison
469. When was Arms and the Man published
ER
in Plays Pleasant? B Bunyan
A 1895
C Crabbe
D
B 1885 D X Dryden
G
C X 1898 474. Identify the work by Ruskin which began
as a defence of contemporary landscape

D None of the above artist especially Turner?
A
470. Philip Sidney was born on 30th Novem- A The Stones of Venice
ber:
H B The Two Paths
A 1553
C The Seven Lamps of Architecture
-C
B X 1554
D X Modem Painters
C 1555
N
475. Harold Nicholson described which poet

as ’Very yellow and glum. Perfect man-
D 1550
ners’?
YA
471. What happens upon the old man’s return

A E.E. Cummings
to his fishing village?
B X T. S. Elliot
RA
A X Manolin promises to sail with him.
B The fishermen mock Santiago for the C John Greenleaf Whittier

folly of sailing out so far.
D Walt Whitman
A
C Tourists ask the old man to recount 476. What job does Uncle Tom perform at the
N
his adventures. St. Clare plantation?

D A statue is erected in his honor. A Cook
472. Dom Moraes compares the life of Grand-
father to a in a cell. B Groomsman
A X prisoner C X Head Coachman
B animal D Valet
54
Do you know?
477. Who is the most famous satirist in English C a sonnet
literature?
A Alexander Pope D X a wedding hymn
482. ‘The Road not Taken’ is a famous poem of
B X Jonathan Swift -
C William Wordswarth A X Robert Frost
D Bulter B Walt Whitman

478. Which figure of speech is it when a state-
C Emily Dickinson
ment is exaggerated in a poem?
am
A Onomatopeia D None
483. Beckett was born in Dublin Ireland.
B Metonymy

A X In 1906
C Alliteration
iR B In 1969
D X Hyperbole
C In 1952
479. Which of the following periods is called
the Victorian era?
D None of these
A 1559-1625
hr
484. “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread”
is a quotation by -
B X 1832-1890
C 1798-1832
iS
B X Alexander Pope
D 1660-1700
480. Which of the following metres is used C Gladstone
with a mixture of lambs and Anapaests?
Ja
D Aesop
A A Spondee
485. When did Frost attend Harvard Univer-
B X An Amphibrach sity?
C Pyrrhic A 1896
D Dactyl B 1899
481. Spenser’s Epithalamion is: C X 1897

A an elegy
D 1898
B a narrative poem 486. Refund was written by
55
Do you know?
A William J. Long C the epic and the novella
B Martin Gray D the essay and the narrative poetry

491. Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard
C M.H. Abrahms considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jef-
ferson to have been greater than Homer?
D X Fritz karinthy
A Macpherson
ER
487. Shakespeare was died?
A 1592 B Merlin
D
B X 1616 C Decameron
G
C 1638 D X Ossian
492. Who translated the New Testament into

D 1632 German for the first time?
488. What did the author get from his mother A Poliziano
A
when he tried to force his way past her into
the house? B Cervantes
H
A A tight hug.
C X Martin Luther
-C
B X A stinging slap.
D Alexander VI
C A spanking with the stick. 493. Which bird did the Ancient Mariner kill?
N
A Seagull
D A kick.
YA
489. William Blake’s /Song’s of ‘ coun- B X Albatross

terbalance his ‘Songs of Experience’.
C Humming Bird
RA
A Love
D Crow
B childhood
494. The century novel, though firmly
A
C Inexperience established by Richardson, was further de-

veloped by Fielding, Smollett and Lau-
N
D X Innocence rence.
490. The two typical literary products of the A 17th

Modern Age are
B X 18th
A X the problem play and the novel of
social purpose C 16th
B the lyric and the one-act play D 19th

56
Do you know?
495. How did Henry II, the first of England’s A The probability that he, like the bird,
Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces will never make it back to land
in southern France?
B X The predatory hawks that await the
A the Battle of Hastings
bird’s arrival near land
B Saint Patrick’s mission C The hidden strength of the weak
C the Fourth Lateran Council D The beauty of the natural world

500. Which work was completed last?
D X his marriage to Eleanor of
Aquitaine A X John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”
496. Who is known as the national poet of
am
England B George Herbert’s “The Temple”
A William Wordsworth C William Shakespeare’s “Tempest”

B John Keats D Ben Jonson’s “Volpone”
C X William Shakespeare
iR 501. The French author, , had a whole troops
of followers of short story writers in every
D T. S. Eliot country.
497. How old was Gobinda’syoungest(third A Anton Chekhov

hr
son?
B Arnold Bennet
A ten years
C X Guy de Maupassant
B fifteen years
iS
D John Galsworthy
C twenty years
502. Herbert compares his faith in God to a
D X thirteen years
Ja
498. “Professions for Women” was originally A X seasoned timber

presented as a
B incense stick
A X paper
C lamp
B magazine article
D coal
C book
503. What does Naga decide to do to reunite
D journal with Rani forever?
499. What does the weary warbler that lands A Decides to kill her
on Santiago’s fishing line make the old
man think of? B Decides to kill Appanna
57
Do you know?
C X Decides to change its size and be- 508. Who wrote the ‘Odyssey and Iliad’?
come her tresses
A Milton
D None of the above
504. Who wrote the book ‘Lord Jim: A Tale? B Hoffman
A Oscar Wilde C Vergil
ER
B X Joseph Conrad D X Homer
C Thomas Hardy 509. Which of the following statements about

Christopher Marlowe are true ?
D
D Rudyard Kipling
I. Edward II was written in the last year
G
505. What does the poet mean by “Leafy Lan- of Marlowe’s life.
guage” in the poem?
II. Many critics consider Doctor Faustus

A Sound of birds to be Marlowe’s best play.
A
III. His Spanish Tragedy comes a close
B X Sound made by leaves due to second.
breeze
H
IV. Marlowe was less educated than
C Autumn Shakespeare.
-C
D None of the above A III and IV are true.

506. Which historical figure initiated a se-
N
ries of religious persecutions condemning B II and IV are true.

Protestants as heretics and burning them
YA
at the stake in the 1550s? C II and III are true.

A Archbishop Cranmer
D X I and II are true.
RA
B Catherine of Aragon
510. consists of nine...eight five foot
iambic lines followed by an iambic line of
C Elizabeth I
six fed with rhyme scheme ab ab bc bcc:
A
D X Mary Tudor A Octometer

507. Gunter Grass got Nobel Prize in - xviii
N
B Sonnet
A 1998
C Terza Rina
B 1997
D X Spenserian Stanza
C X 1999
511. When was William Wordsworth ap-
D 2000 pointed poet laureate?
58
Do you know?
A 1847 A X Michael and Gabriel
B X 1843 B Michael and Raphael
C 1861 C Raphael and Gabriel
D 1839 D Michael and Lucifer
512. The Dorian Ode is also known as the 516. The sea battle of actium takes place in the
play
A Roman Ode
A Measure for Measure
B English Ode
am
B Othello
C X Pindaric Ode
C X Antony and Cleopatra

D Spenserian Ode
D Macbeth
513. Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical
Ballads of 1798?
iR 517. Elizabethan age is also known as
A Mary Wollstonecraft and William A X The age of Shakespeare

Blake
B The age of Milton
hr
B Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and
Percy Bysshe Shelley
C The age of Spenser
C X William Wordsworth and Samuel
iS
D The age of Sidney

Taylor Coleridge
518. Which social philosophy, dominant dur-
D Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt ing the Industrial Revolution, dictated that
only the free operation of economic laws
514. Why did people find it difficult to refuse
Ja
would ensure the general welfare and that

Tom a loan?
the government should not interfere in any
A He was very handsome. person’s pursuit of their personal inter-
ests? q4review =
B He fooled them into giving money.
A economic independence
C X He was charming and unscrupu-
B the Rights of Man
lous.
D He always gave the money back to C X laissez-faire

those he borrowed from.
D enclosure
515. The two archangels who serve as generals
in God’s army are: 519. King Lear was drafted between
59
Do you know?
A 1600 and 1605 524. ‘End Game’ is written by:
B X 1603 and 1607 A Hemingway
C 1597and 1601 B Somerset Maugham
D 1607 and 1610 C X Beckett

520. Hellenism of Keats connotes:
ER
D None of these
A his love of poetry
525. Which was not an objection raised against
B his love of ancient cultures the public theaters in the Elizabethan pe-
D
riod?
C X his love of Greek culture and art
G
A They caused excessive noise and traf-
D None of these fic.

521. is the animating force in the work B X They charged too much.
of C. Bronte
A X Idealism
A
C They excited illicit sexual desires.
H
B Romanticism D They drew young people away from
work.
-C
C Lyricism
526. Widow Douglas is saved by
N
D None of these A X Huckleberry Finn

522. Which of the following is the largest spo-
YA
ken language in the world? B Tom Sawyer

A English
C Injun Joe
RA
B X Mandarin Chinese
D Muff Potter
C Spanish
527. Playing Basketball, in the author’s view is
a ritual.
A
D Hindi
523. Structuralism owes its origin to - A X conventional
N
A Terry Eagleton B religious
B X Ferdinand De Saussure C medical
C Jacques Derrida D None of the above

D None 528. What is ‘Parable’?
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A X an allegorical story usually con- C The Tempest
taining a moral lesson
D Twelfth Night
B the basic unit of a composition
533. Literature is expression of life in words of
C a sense of distress
A Love and praise
D none of the above
529. Bharati, Tara and Chandan’s mother, is a B Faith and reverence
South Indian from
C Intellect and imagination
A Kerala
am
D X Truth and beauty
B Chennai
534. Who wrote “Mirror for Magistrates”?
C Visakhapatnam

A X Thomas Sacville
D X Bangalore iR B Thomas Wyatt
530. refer to pair of characters who are oppo-
site in many ways and highlight or exag-
C Thomas lodge
gerate each other’s differences.
A Villian D Thomas Kyde

hr
535. ‘The Poetry Aenied’ is written by -
B Heros
A Ovid
C X Dramatic foil
iS
B Dante
D Heroine
531. The mother had to keep on till her work C Boccaccio
was done even if:
Ja
D X Virgil
A The night was very dark
536. G.B. Shaw was awarded Nobel Prize for
B Her every bone ached literature in:
A X 1925
C X The road was hot with the sun
D Her own children were against her B 1929
532. ‘There’s a special providence in the fall of C 1930

a sparrow.” The line given above occurs in
D 1949
A X Hamlet
537. Lyrical Ballads is written by Wordsworth
B Henry IV, Pt I with the Collaboration of -
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Do you know?
A X S.T Coleridge D None of the above

542. Miss Pushpa is being given a welcome
B William Blake
party.
C Dorothy A True
D Alfred Tennyson B X False

538. Who is the hero of ‘The Adventures of
ER
Roderick Random’ (1748)? C Neither true nor False
A X Roderick D None of the above
D
543. What do you mean by Diction?
B Tobias
G
A X choice of words for writing
C London

B choice of characters
D Rodiac
A
539. Dactyl metre is also known as C choice of rhythms
A X Falling metre D choice of simile and metaphor

H
544. The play ‘Tara’ opens in with Chandan
B Ascending metre
-C
as Dan, now a playwright, recollecting his
childhood days spent happily with his sis-
C Metre of Negligence ter Tara.
N
D Metre of Innovation A X London

YA
540. In the poem ‘Virtue’, the poet initially felt

B Germany
by his priestly life.
A happy C India
RA
B X disillusioned D America
545. Who said that Shakespeare in his come-
C contented dies has only heroines and no heroes?
A
D indifferent A Ben Jonson

N
541. According to Sidney is the oldest branch B X John Ruskin

of learning.
A X Poetry C Thomas Carlyle
B Philosophy D William Hazlitt

546. Who indicts poetry for its lack of concern
C History with morality?
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A Aristotle A Medieval legends
B X Plato B X The role of the king
C Horace C Hero worship
D None of them D The contemporary condition

551. Which ordeal did Rani prefer to prove her
547. ‘Renaissance’ means
innocence?
A X the revival of learning
A X Swearing by holding King Cobra
B the revival of hard task B Swearing by holding hot iron rod
am
C the revival of life C Swearing by dipping her hand in
boiling oil

D the revival of new country
D None of the above
548. Which of the following became the most
iR
popular Romantic poetic form, following 552. Grammar cum Translation method is
on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspira-
A Natural
tion is contained within the inner feelings
of the individual poet as the spontaneous
B Effective
overflow of powerful feelings ? q8review
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C Ineffective
A X the lyric poem written in the first
person D X Unnatural
iS
553. What does “lingua franca” mean?

B the sonnet
A God’s language
C doggerel rhyme
B X Link language
Ja
D the political tract

C French language
549. The Age of Pope is also called
A The Restoration D First language

554. ‘Comedy of Errors’ is Written by
B X The Augustan Age
A Ben Johnson
C Classical Age
B G. B Shaw
D Age of Sensibility
C T S Eliot
550. “Idylls of the King” is illustration of Ten-
nyson’s deep interest in: D X William Shakespeare
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555. In English literature satires were seen in A X Gambling debt of $2000

century.
B Call of Poetry
A 17th century
C Job in US Military
B 19th cemtury
D His love affair with Virginia
C X 18th century
ER
560. Who is the writer of ‘Vision of Sin’?
D None of the above
A George Bernard Shaw
556. When the medical report showed cancer,
D
his parents to the fact that he was B William Shakespeare
chewing tobacco.
G
C X A. Lord Tennyson
A will wake up

D Christopher Marlowe
B X woke up
561. Who was the son of a rich London mer-
A
chant and born in 1557?
C wakes up
A Thomas Nah
H
D waking up
B X Thomas lodge
-C
557. How many of Shakespeare’s plays are
classified as histories?
C Thomas Kyd
N
A 7
D Thomas Hardy
B X 10
YA
562. The sounds produced by raising the back

of the tongue against the soft palate are
C 14 called sounds.
RA
D 18 A X Velar
558. Which poem is written by Walt Whitman? B Palatal

A X Song of myself
A
C Retroflex
B Song of Innocence
N
D Dental
C Song of Experience 563. According to the sign in the Kentucky
Inn, what is branded to George’s right
D none of these hand?
559. What caused Edgar Allan Poe to ditch his A The letter S
studies at University of Virginia and his
foster parent John Allen? B The Letter H
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Do you know?
C A hexagon 568. What picture was on Sir Lancelot’s shield
?
D X The number 314 A A red-cross knight kissing a lady
564. To what did the word the roman, from
which the genre of romance emerged, ini- B A red-cross knight talking to a lady
tially apply?
C X A red-cross knight kneeling to a
A a work derived from a Latin text of lady
the Roman Empire
D None of the above
B a story about love and adventure 569. What did Lucy take with her to find her
mother ?
am
C a Roman official
A Candle
D X a work written in the French ver-
B Bulb

nacular
565. Milton’s Areopagitica is iR C X Lantern
A a sonnet
D None of the above
B an epic 570. William Shakespeare’s ’Venus and Ado-
nis’ is a
C X a plea for the freedom of the press
hr
A Tragedy
D a play
B Comedy
566. Who wrote Samson Agonistes and Par-
iS
adise Lost? C Prose Romance

A Spenser D X Narrative Poem
B X Milton 571. Antonio borrows money from

Ja
A Gratiano
C Byron
B X Shylock
D Pope
567. In India, is the lingua franca C Bassanio
A Hindi D Lorenzo
572. what was the duration of hundred year’s
B Gujarati
war?
C Sanskrit A 1300 to 1350
D X English B X 1337 to 1453

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C 1302 to 1343 A Pulitzer Prize
D None of the above B X Nobel Prize
573. Tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam’ is a /an - C Sahitya Akademy Award
A X elegy D Critics’ Award

578. Who born in 1422:
ER
B sonnet
A X William Caxton
C ballad
B Robert Henry
D
D lyric
C John Lyly
G
574. who was the companion of Adam in par-
adise? D Thomas more

A satan 579. In which year the play of Christopher
Marlow The Jew of Malta first performed?
B X eve
A
A 1597
H
C rapheal B 1601
-C
D god C X 1592
575. ‘Of Studies’ an essay is written by:
N
D 1587
A X Francis Bacon 580. Seneca was a famous Roman tragic
YA
B Carlyle A X Dramatist
B Poet
RA
C Montaine
C Critic
D None of these
576. The theatres were reopened in: D Essayist

A
581. ‘The rainbow’ is

A 1662
N
A a poem by Wordsworth
B 1642
B a short story by Somerset Maugham
C 1640
C X a novel by D. H. Lawrence
D X 1660 D a verse by Coleridge
577. Shaw was awarded the in 1925. 582. Darcy’s estate is known as
66
Do you know?
A Rosings D None of the above
587. As You Like It ends with which character
B X Pemberley
addressing the audience directly?
C London A Duke Senior
D Brighton B X Rosalind
583. is a comedy of manners.
C Touchstone
A X The Rivals
D Orlando
B Birthday Party
588. The Romantic Revival in English Poetry
am
C Romeo and Juliet was influenced by the?
A X French Revolution

D None of the above
584. When did William Shakespeare die?iR B Glorious Revolution of1688
A 16 April 1616 C Reformation
B 22 January 1624 D Oxford Movement

589. Chandu’s schooling was interrupted be-
hr
C X 23 April 1616
cause of
D 19 May 1611 A his failure in the exam
585. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scot-
iS
land is a travel book (travelogue) written B X his father’s untimely death

by
C the drought in the village
A Edmund Burke
Ja
D his inability to concentrate in his

B Adam Smith studies
C X Dr. Johnson 590. Shirley, Jane Eyre, Villete were written by:
A E. Bronte
D Gilbert White
586. What is then name of the girl who comes B J. Austen
to talk with Amal near the window?
C X C. Bronte
A Subha
D None of these
B X Sudha
591. What kind of books are Robinson Crusoe
C Medha and Moll Flanders?
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A X Travel...books 595. Which of the following English groups

were supportive of the French Revolution
B Tragedy during its early years?
A Tories
C Romance
B Republicans
D Comedy
C Liberals
ER
592. “Deconstruction is an investigation of
what is implied by this inheritance of fig-
ure concept, and narrative in one another. D X both B and C
Deconstruction is, therefore, a rhetorical 596. The entire period of Puritan is covered by
D
discipline.” Who supported this argu- the dominance of war
ment?
G
A I World
A Murray Krieger in Theory of Criti-

cism B X Civil
B Newton Garver in Speech and Phe-
A
nomena C II World
C X J. Hillis Miller in The Critic as Host D None of the above

H
597. All English vowels are
D Jacques Derrida in Of Grammatology
-C
A voiceless
593. S.T. Coleridge was born in
N
B voiced
A 1798
C silent
YA
B X 1772
D X oral
C 1797 598. is the first prose work of Jonathan Swift.
RA
D None of these A X A Tale of a Tub

594. Which of the following factors, according
B Battle of the Books
to Browning’s “Love among the Ruins”,
A
can conquer all and surpass everything in

C Gulliver’s Travels
life?
N
A Death D None of the above

599. is the sole beneficiary of Dr. Jekyll’s prop-
B Hatred erty.
C X Love A X Hyde
D Power B Lanyon
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Do you know?
C Utterson A loved
D Enfield B admired
600. How long does it take for the sharks to ar-
rive and attack the marlin? C X flattered
A Ten minutes D suspected

605. In which work do you read: “In Xanadu
B X One hour
did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome
decree..”?
C Six hours
A X Kubla Khan
D A full day
am
601. Petruchio behaved in a during his wed- B Hellas
ding.
C The Phoenix and the Turtle

A decent manner
iR D The Castaway
B pleasant manner
606. The other prominent syllable, next to pri-
mary accent, is said to have-
C X wild and shocking manner
A tonic accent
D genial manner
hr
602. The first English Dictionary was com- B X secondary accent
piled by
C smaller accent
A Izaak Walton
iS
D none of the above

B X Samuel Johnson
607. In which style did John Milton write the
poem Paradise Lost?
C Samuel
Ja
A Free verse
D Sir Thomas Browne
603. The girl said that her parents were meet- B X blank verse
ing her at Saharanpur.
C Vers libre
A True
D Regular meter
B X False
608. The function of a critic, according to Co-
leridge is
C Neither true nor False
A To interpret and judge
D None of the above
604. The shopkeeper Rosemary. B X To appreciate and interpret
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Do you know?
C To judge and evaluate 613. Religio Medici has been authored by
A Robert Burton
D None of the above
609. In which year Coleridge met poet William B X Sir Thomas Browne
Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy which
later contributed Romantic movement to C Thomas Fuller
the English Literature?
D Jeremy Taylor
ER
A 1779
614. ‘David Copperfield’ is a / an novel.
B 1789 A X Victorian
D
C X 1795 B Elizabethan
G
D 1798 C Romantic

610. ‘On Liberty’ is by -
D Modern
A Charles Darwin
A
615. was Sycorax’s half-mad son.
B X John Mill A X Caliban
H
C Karl Mark B Gonzalo
-C
D Thomas Hardy C Prospero

611. Chaucer was made in-charge of many
N
palaces, which of these was not in his D Sebastian

charge? 616. Lilliputians appear in
YA
A Westminster Palace A Robinson Crusoe
B Tower of London B Tom Jones

RA
C St. George’s chapel at Windsor C All for love
D X Buckingham Palace D X Gulliver’s Travels

A
612. Which poem is the earliest attempt by 617. “A Tale of Two Cities” Novel state the fact
N
Keats? in following two cities

A X Imitation of Spenser (1813) A X London and Paris
B Imitation of Sidney (1877) B London and Berlin
C Imitation of Shelley (1844) C Chicago and New York
D Imitation of Coleridge (1856) D Moscow and Saint Petersburg

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618. Shakespeare’s ‘Merchant of Venice’ is a A T. S. Eliot
A Tragedy B X G. B. Shaw
B X Comedy C Thomas Hardy
D Virginia Woolf
C Satire
623. Who wrote ‘The Nun’s Priest’s Tale’?
D Lyric A Shelley
619. The poem ‘Under the Green Wood Tree’
was written by B T.S. Eliot
am
A William Wordsworth C X Chaucer
B Robert Browning D Donne

624. English has a relatively word order.
C X William Shakespeare iR A Free
D Ralph Hodgson
B Varied
620. Elizabeth’s reign was longer than that of
any other Tudor. When she died at the
C X Fixed
age of 69 in 1603, how many years had she
hr
reigned?
D Mixed
A 35 625. Jack Worthing is a character created by:
iS
B 40 A Shaw
C X 45 B X Dickens
C Hardy
Ja
D 50
621. Tennyson was born in D none of these
A X 1809 626. What genre of poetry is The Rape of the
Lock?
B 1798 A Verse Fable
C 1709 B Elegy
D None of these C Epic

622. “For art’s sake alone I would not face the
D X Mock Heroic Epic
toil of writing a single sentence”. Who said
it 627. ‘The Age of Chaucer’ ranges from -
71
Do you know?
A 1340-1385 A Drama
B 1240-1300 B X Novel
C X 1340-1400 C Poetry
D 1340-1399 D Essay
632. what did Sir Lancelot say when he saw
ER
628. When every member of the king’s domes-
her dead body
tic and political systems moved smoothly
in its appointed course, how did the king A she id beautiful
behave?
D
A He was barbaric and ruthless B X she has a lovely face
G
C time lirra
B X He was calm and genial.

D None of the above
C He was pompous and angry
A
633. In the poem Flecknoe is the ruler of the
D He was loving and progressive empire of
H
629. What is the rhyme scheme of Spenser’s A Geuivs
Sonnet No. - 75?
-C
B Intelligence
A ABCD EGHI JKLM XX
C X Nonsense
N
B X ABAB BCBC CDCD EE

D None of the above
YA
C ABBA ABBA CDEC DE

634. A poem that generally has meter and
rhyme
D ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
RA
A X lyric
630. It is the alikeness of sounds between
words, especially at the en
B free verse
A
A
C narrative
B Metre
N
D None of the above

C Accent 635. ‘Tamburlaine the Great’ is written by -
A Shakespeare
D X Rhyme
631. Which of the following literary forms be- B X Marlowe

came the most dominant in English during
the Modern Age? C Ben Johnson
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Do you know?
D John Webster A Scottish
636. What had Jekyl published? B English

A a volume of short stories
C X Irish
B a slender volume of essays
D American
C a slender volume of plays 641. What lies half sunk in the sand in Shel-
ley’s ‘Ozymandias’?
D X a slender volume of love poems
A broken statue
637. ‘Andrea del Sarto’ is a poem written by
am
B two trunkless legs
A Shelley
C an ancient place

B X Browning
D X broken head of a statue
C Tennyson
D None of these
iR 642. One important feature of Jane Austen’s
style is?
A boisterous humour
638. An account of an unnamed young sol-
dier who has been mortally wounded is re-
hr
B X humour and pathos
ferred to in the poem
C subtlety of irony
A X The Death Bed
iS
D stream of consciousness
B Preludes
643. What did Victorian journalists mean by
C Easter 1916 terming certain women surplus or redun-
dant ?
Ja
D The Tower A X They remained unmarried due to a

population imbalance between the sexes.
639. Who “haunts” the evil Simon Legree
when he is drunk? B Their willingness to work for low
A X Cassy wages resulted in a surplus of textiles,
causing them to drop in price.
B Eliza
C They were women writers who wrote
frequently about similar topics.
C George
D They were divorced.
D Uncle Tom
644. Who is the author of ‘Man and Super-
640. Yeats looked for his themes in Legends. man’?
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Do you know?
A W. Shakespeare 649. The mother wants her children to lift high

her banner from:
B X George Bernard Shaw A X The dust
C Leo Tolstoy B Ignominy
D Charles Dickens C Infamy

645. killed Caesar.
ER
D The litter bin
A Decius
650. was written by Swift.
B Brutus
D
A The Way of the World
C Cassius B Robinson Crusoe
G
D X All of the above C All for Love

646. Which book is a Tragedy?
D X A Tale of a Tub
A X Hamlet
A
651. Which poet could be described as part of
The Movement of the 1950s?
H
B Measure for Measure
A Thom Gunn
-C
C As you like it
B Dylan Thomas
D She stoops to conquer
C Philip Larkin
N
647. One of Marlowe’s most famous poems

was an account of which lovers? D X both A and C
YA
A Anthony and Cleopatra 652. In which city was Milton?
A Norwich
B X Hero and Leander
RA
B York
C Troilus and Cressida
C X London
D Apollo and Hyacinth
A
648. At the beginning of the play, Romeo tells D Canterbury

N
Benvolio that he is in love with 653. Shaw wrote more than:

A Juliet A 30 plays
B Portia B 50 plays
C X Rosaline C X 60 plays
D None of the above D none of these

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654. ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ is written by the D None of the above
author of -
659. E. M. Foster is a
A A passage to India
A X Novelist
B Lord Jim
B Poet
C X Rainbow
C Playwright
D Ulysses
655. Brutus and Cassius left Italy for D None of these
660. The donkey is by man.
A England
am
A X exploited
B Russia
B rewarded

C X Greece
C adored
D Scotland iR
656. Who is the author of ‘The Old Man and D honoured
the Sea’?
661. The 1805 text of ‘The Prelude’ is edited by:
A H. Melvile
A Helen Darbishire
hr
B George Orwell
B X Ernest De Selin Court
C Charles Dickens
C Herbert Reads
iS
D X E. Hemingway
657. Shaw’s style in the speech is D Coleridge
662. In words of more than one syllable, not all
A X lucid, witty and light hearted
the syllables are equally
Ja
B formal A X Stressed
C obscure B Placed
D None of the above C Used

658. What is the request of the narrator to the
breeze? D arranged
A X To thrill its branches with its touch 663. Given the popularity of the Gothic novel
and the novel of purpose, which of the fol-
B To create noise with its touch lowing novelists wrote fiction that is closer
in subject matter to the novel of manners
C To create storm than it is to the writing of her own era?
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A Fanny Burney 668. Macbeth thinks of to be a threat to his

kingship.
B Mary Wollstonecraft
A Donalbain
C Anna Letitia Barbauld
B Malcom
D X Jane Austen
C Lady Macbeth
664. Dickens’ novels combine and melo-
ER
drama. D X Banquo and his son Fleance
A journalism 669. Amal’s first wish was to become a
D
A X Squirrel
B X Satire
B Rat
G
C science
C Rabbit

D religion
665. “The Mark of Vishnu” is a mild satire on D None of the above
A fashion and manners

A
670. How do the Shelby’s treat their slaves?
H
A X Kindly but firmly
B rituals
B Set them all free
-C
C X blind belief and superstition

C Beat them everyday
N
D festivals and their celebration

D They do not have slaves
666. Which roles have played by Shakespeare
YA
671. Romantic Age starts from?

in Hamlet and As you like it?
A X 1789
A Fortinbras, Corin
RA
B 1880
B Leartus, Silvius
C 1889
C Osric, Touchstone
A
D 1750
D X Ghost, Old servant Adam
672. Pre-Shakespearean dramatists were
N
667. is the subtitle of the play Naga-Mandal known as

A A the Pioneers of Drama
B Play with the flames B the Forerunners of Drama
C X Play with a Cobra C X the University Wits
D Play with folktales D the University Scholars

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673. “Justice delayed is justice denied” was C Robert Browning
stated by -
D Shelley
A Shakespeare
678. Hamlet and Michaelangelo are referred
B Emerson to in the poem
A The Hollow Men

C X Gladstone
B The Game of Chess
D Disraeli
674. The Bronte sisters wrote during this pe- C Life
riod
am
D X The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
A Regency
B Restoration 679. “The Trumpet of prophecy! O wind. If

winter comes, can spring be far behind?”

C Romantic Who is the poet of these lines?
D X Victorian
iR A X P.B. Shelley
B William Wordsworth
675. Hema has gone to after marriage with
Chandrashekhar.
C John Keats
hr
A America
D Robert Browning
B Canada
680. The name of the Archbishop of London
who set down a series of strict rules for the
iS
C X Australia
translation of King James Bible was?
D Russia A John Stuart
676. you think you are prepared for the job?
B Matthews
Ja
A X Do
C X Richard Bancroft
B Does
D Richardson
C Did 681. Who wrote “The Second Coming”?
D Are A E. Spencer
677. Who is the writer of the poem ‘Nun
B Eliot
Priest’s Tale’?
A X Geoffrey Chaucer C X W. B. Yeats
B Cynewulf D None of these

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682. Which one is the famous prose work of A Leconte de Lisle

Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
B X Sully Prudhomme
A Kubla Khan
C Alphonse Lemerre
B The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
D Anatole France
C X Biographia Literaria
687. What are the beginning and ending dates
ER
of the Elizabethan era?
D Christabel
A X 1558-1603
683. What is the meaning of the word ‘Dirge’?
D
B 1500-1520
A a kind of sonnet sequence
G
C 1560-1570
B a song expressing patrotic sentiment

D 1575-1600
C a long verse telling about an adven-
688. The structure of the Dorian Ode was bor-
A
ture H rowed from the movements of the
D X a song expressing grief, lamenta- A musicians
tion and mourning
B actors
-C
684. What were the names of Bindya’s cows?
A X Neelu- Gori C players

N
D X dancers
B Neetu-Gori
YA
689. Which period of literature came first?

C Neena -Gauri
A Regency
RA
D None of the above B Victorian

685. Shelley was expelled from the Oxford
University on the charge of being a(n): C Romantic
A
A anarchist D X Restoration
690. was Prospero’s daughter.
N
B X Atheist
A Rosalind
C commonist
B X Miranda
D nazi
C Ariel
686. Who is the first person to receive nobel
prize in literature D Sycorax
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Do you know?
691. At the end of the play, it is said that Lady A X Spenserian
Macbeth died in what manner?
B Italian
A X Suicide
C Shakespearean
B Drowning
D English
C stabbed
696. How old is Emmeline?
D natural death A Ten
692. Who is the author of “Around the World B Thirteen
in Eighty Days”?
am
C Seventeen
A X Jules Verne
D X Fifteen

B Christopher Marlowe
697. Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?
C Charles Kingsley
D Thomas Hood
iR A X Catholicism
B Protestantism
693. Shadwell in Mac Flecknoe is the dullest
C Paganism
of Flecknoe.
hr
A Brother D Buddhism
698. “The Jacobean Era” refers to a period of
B Father time in the early 17th century in which of
iS
the following countries?

C X Son
A Jordan
D None of the above
Ja
B X England
694. Who is the writer of the poem ‘Troilus
and Criseyde’? C Malaysia
A Cynewulf D Tunisia
699. As Act is to Drama; so Canto is to -
B X Geoffrey Chaucer
A X Epic
C Robert Browning
B Tragedy
D Shelley
C Comedy
695. Most of the lyrics written during the Ro-
mantic Age followed stanza form. D Sonnet
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Do you know?
700. Alexander Pope coined many a modern D looking into

day cliche. Which of the following did not
originate with him? 704. What is the title of the prose pamphlet
Edmund Spenser wrote in the year 1596?
A To err is human, to forgive divine
A Visions of the worlds vanitie
B X Let not the sun go down upon your
wrath B The Ruines of Time
ER
C A little learning is a dangerous thing
C The Visions of Petrarch
D Fools rush in where angels fear to
D X A View of the Present State of Ire-
D
tread
land
701. Which of the following sixteenth-century
G
works of English literature was translated 705. Sue and Johnsy were by profession.
into the English language after its first

publication in Latin? A poets
A
A Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faus- B X painters
tus
H
C software engineers
B William Shakespeare’s King Lear
-C
C Thomas More’s The History of King D pilots
Richard III 706. What do you mean Philology?
N
D X Thomas More’s Utopia

A X Study of Language
702. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria,
YA
regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and B science of medicine

loss’-
A Tennyson C science of surgery
RA
B Browning D science of speech sounds
707. What kind of language did the romantic

C Swinburne
A
writers use in literature?

D X G. Rossetti A X Simple
N
703. The police the matter with great

care in that case last month. B Complex
A look into C Traditional
B X looked into D Bombastic

C looks into 708. Who was Gobinda’s wife?
80
Do you know?
A Sushila D X As he is angry with Major Calendar
B Sulekha 713. For whom it is said: “sensuousness is a

paramount bias of his genius”:
C Surekha
A Blake
D X Sulochana
B X Keats
709. Radha found het beloved’s mockery also
to be as sweet as nectar.
C Tennyson
A X True
D Shelley
am
B False 714. Who does Milton name as his heavenly
muse?
A Titania

D None of the above
B X Urania
710. Famous romantic poets were
A Five
iR C Virgil
D Michael
B Four
715. Which on of the following is first long
hr
C X Six poem in English?
A The Wanderer
D None of these
iS
711. Which is not a poetry form? B X Beowulf

A epic C The Seafarer
B X tale D Dream of the Road

Ja
C ballad 716. Which two writers can be described as

writing historical novels?
D sonnet A Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shel-
712. What is the main reason Aziz decides not ley
to attend the Bridge Party?
B William Wordsworth and Samuel
A Its his wife’s death anniversary Taylor Coleridge
B he feels sick C X Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edge-

worth
C he wants to spend time with his chil-
D Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë
dren
81
Do you know?
717. What gift did Bassanio give to the lawyer C Keats

who saved Antonio’s life?
A A share from his property. D Coleridge
722. Who wrote The Monk? When?
B An expensive necklace
A X Matthew Gregory Lewis(1796)
C X His wedding ring
B Tobias Smollett(1748)
ER
D His wedding gifts
C Saul Bellow(1759)
718. A Great House mentioned in the poem is
an house of the poet. D Voltaire(1732)
D
A X ancestral home 723. language is drawn from two main
G
sources, Germanic and Romance
B new home A X English

C rented B Greek
D None of the above

A
C French
H
719. ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ is a novel writ-
ten by - D Spanish
-C
724. Endymion by Keats was published in
A X Thomas Hardy
A 1812
N
B John Stuart Mill

B 1833
C Charles Dickens
YA
C X 1818
D Emily Bronte 8
720. In what country is ’Dr Faustus’ based? D 1880
RA
725. When the Parliament, controlled by the

A England
puritans, took power in England, one of
the acts that greatly influenced Literature
B Italy
of that time was
A
C France A X The closing of theatres

N
D X Germany B The return of the King.

721. “If winter come can spring be far behind”
C King Arthurs’ dead
- quoted from?
A X Shelley D King to exile

726. ‘A woman of no importance’ is a by
B Wordsworth Oscarwilde:
82
Do you know?
A X Comedy C X a likely improbability is always
preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
B Tragedy
D a likely possibility is always prefer-
C Dramatic Romance able to a convincing impossibility.
731. ‘Biographia Literaria’ Written by-
D Farce
A Wordsworth
727. The poem, “The Marriage of Heaven and
Hell” was written by: B X Coleridge
A Shelley C Keats
am
B X Blake D Shelley
732. The author requests his teacher
C Byron

A X to be an expert in the subject
D Browning
B to be a strict teacher
triot’?
iR
728. Who is the writer of the poem ‘The Pa-
C to be kind
A X Robert Browning
D None of the above
hr
B Shaw 733. In the opening dialogue of the novel,
who is the most open to the possibility of
C Jonsen Indian-English friendship¿‘
A X Hamidulla
iS
D Ibsen
B Aziz
729. Ferdinand is the son of
A Prospero C Mahmoud Ali
Ja
B Antonio D Hamidulla’s wife

734. Who wrote the poem ‘Defence of Luc-
C Sebastian know’?
A Browning
D X Alonso
730. According to Aristotle B Tennyson
A a likely improbability is always C X Swinburne

preferable to an unconvincing probability.
D Rossetti
B a likely improbability is always 735. ‘Heaven lies about us in our infancy’. This
preferable to an unlikely probability. line occurs in the poem?
83
Do you know?
A X Immortality Ode A A Room of One’s Own
B Tintern Abbey B Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown
C The Second Coming C The Common Reader
D Leda and the Swan D X All of the above
ER
736. why did the mirror crack and the web fly 740. Byron’s journey to Spain, Malta, Albania
out the window? and Greece resulted in the production of
the first two cantos of his poem:
A X Because the Lady of Shalott looked
D
out the window A cain
B Because Sir Lancelot climbed in and
G
B X Childe Herald’s Pilgrimage
ravaged her

C Don Juan
C Because she knocked it over when
she jumped D the prisoner of Chillon
D None of the above
A
741. What is the name of first published col-
H
lection of poetry of Edgar Allan Poe?
737. Who wrote the dystopian novel
Nineteen-Eighty-Four in which Newspeak A X Tamerlane and Other Poems
-C
demonstrates the heightened linguistic
self-consciousness of modernist writers? B The Raven
N
A X George Orwell
C A Dream Within a Dream
YA
B Virginia Woolf
D The City in the Sea Lenore
C Evelyn Waugh 742. What do you mean by Syntax?
RA
D Orson Wells A study of speech sounds
738. “Dictionary of National Biography” was B study of meaning of words

first edited by
A
C X study of constructing sentence

A X Sir Leslie Stephen
N
D constructing passage
B Dr. Johnson
743. Who wrote: “That’s my last Duchess
C Virginia Woolf painted on the wall / looking as if she were
alive”?
D David Copperfield
A Lord Byron
739. Which of the following essay is written by
Virginia Woolf? B Oscar Wilde
84
Do you know?
C X Robert Browning A Love
D William Wordsworth B Passion
744. Vivaan has infatuation towards C Happiness

A X Hema
D X Suicide
B Vidula 749. In what year was the Fugitive Slave Act
passed?
C Radhabai
A 1784
D Isabel
am
B 1841
745. The ending of the poem ’Homeless’
touches on, as a ever present sense of mor- C X 1850
tality.

D 1857
A X death iR 750. Whom does Lady Macbeth frame for the
murder of Duncan?
B life
A a Malcolm and Donalbain
C immorality
B X Duncan’s drunken chamberlains
hr
D None of the above
C The porter
746. Shaw’s plays are essentially
D Macbeth
iS
A X plays of ideas
751. At what age did Keats die?
B plays of entertainment A 22
C plays of social reforms B X 25

Ja
D romantic plays C 29
747. When did Frost visit the Soviet Union? D 32

A 1964 752. The Faire Queen is written by -
B 1963 A Tennyson
C X 1962 B Chaucer
C Browning
D 1961
748. The word ‘harakiri’ means D X Spenser
85
Do you know?
753. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding was first C Judge

published in -
D School teacher
A the 1st half of 19th Century
758. Who is the author of the novel ‘The Sun
B the 2nd half of 19th Century Also Rises’?
A H.G. Wells
C X the 1st half of 18th Century
ER
B George Orwell
D the 2nd half of 18th Century
754. Which of the Romantic poets is called an C X Ernest Hemingway
escapist?
D
D Thomas Hardy
A X Keats
G
759. The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnms
B Shelley are:

A X Friendship and benevolence
C Wordsworth
D None of these
A
B Bitterness and revenge
H
755. In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the C Hatred and jealousy
fate of those who fail to observe the sacred
-C
duty of blood vengeance? D None of these
A banishment to Asia 760. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ‘Unreal

N
City’ in the first and third sections from?

B X everlasting shame
A Baudelaire
YA
C conversion to Christianity
B Irving Babbit
D mild melancholia
RA
C X Dante
756. The Prelude was written in”
A 1810 D Laforgue
761. What do you mean by Pathos or Cathar-
A
B 1840 sis? ix
N
C 1805 A a sorrowful event
D X None of these B a murder in a tragedy
757. Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a C an adventure of hero

A X lawyer
D X arouse of pity and fear
B postman 762. Cordelia’s chief characteristic is her:
86
Do you know?
A X Devotion D X Julius Caesar
767. Which poem of Keats contains ‘Heard
B sympathy
melodies are sweet, but those unheard are
sweeter’.
C kindness
A Ode to Autumn
D none of these
B X Ode on a Grecian Urn
763. When was Paradise Lost published?
A 1651 C Ode to melancholy
B 1669 D None of these
am
768. Man Booker Prize is given only to novels
C 1639 published from
A USA

D X 1667
764. Duke Senior has been banished to along
iR B X UK
with his loyal followers.
A X the Forest of Arden C India
B an island D France
hr
769. who is considered as the model of the
C to another city people during the renaissance?
D another kingdom A greek and austrian

iS
765. Who was the author threatened by on his

B roman and french
way to the store?
A X A gang of boys. C X roman and greek

Ja
B A group of old women. D french and greek

770. What do you mean by a Play or Drama?
C The ghost of dead women.
A a literary lyric
D Old men.
B X a literary work performing on a
766. ‘Veni, Vidi, Vici’ this quotation from
Shakespeare’s stage
A Hamlet C a literary prose fiction on stage
B Othello D a poem to the alter of God

771. What genre of play is The Way of the
C Merchant of Venice World?
87
Do you know?
A Comedy 776. Who among the following is a revolution-

ary poet?
B Tragedy
A John Keats
C X Restoration Comedy
B X P.B. Shelly
D Novel
C S.T. Coleridge
772. Virginia Wolf : To the Light House ::
ER
D William Wordsworth
A James Joyce : Flush
777. I shall wait you finish your work.
D
B T. S. Eliot : Road to Freedom
A X till
C Bertrand Russel : Ash Wednesday
G
B after
D X William Golding: Lord of the Flies

C before
773. What was the name of the old man that
A
Hughie met at Trevor’s studio? D for
A Monsieur Gustav Naudin 778. Faustus’ servant shares his name with a
H
famous German composer. Who?
B X Baron Hausberg
-C
A Bach
C Baron Georges Ramponneau
B Schumann
N
D Monsieur Forestier
C Beethoven
774. In Memoriam was written in:
YA
A 1833 D X Wagner
779. The West Wind is described as both
B 1860
RA
A cool and calm

C 1863
B X preserver and destroyer
D X None of these
A
C peaceful and serene

775. ‘kubla khan’ is a poem which reflects a
strain in Choleridge’s poetry.
N
D howling and sweeping

A X Intellectual 780. A poem of fourteen lines is called
B magical A Elege
C melancholic B X Sonnet
D pessimistic C Ode
88
Do you know?
D Epic C 1897
781. Which king was executed in the year
D 1898
1649?
786. The word ‘cipher’ originally meant
A X Charles I
A X Zero
B Charles II
B Umbrella
C James I
C Rain
D None of the above
782. What do you mean by Irony? D Dress
am
787. Who wrote ‘Where ignorance is bliss, it is
A a satiric imitation folly to be wise’?
B a burlesque imitation

A Robert Frost
C a kind of parody iR B George Orwell
D X difference between reality and ap- C X Thomas Gray

pearance
783. was the dearest friend of Caesar. D John Milton
hr
A Octavius Caesar 788. What was the nationality of Oscar Wilde?
A X Irish
B Casca
B Scottish
iS
C X Brutus
C French
D Cassius
784. Parson Adams and Squire Western are D English
Ja
creations of:
789. The all-pervading mood in the novels of
A Richardson Hardy is that of
B Sterne A Enthusiasm
C X Fielding B Celebration
D Smollett C Optimism
785. When did Robert Frost’s first child born ? D X Pessimism

A 1899 790. Paul David and Pip are the three notable
descriptions of sensitive, nervous child-
B X 1896 hood in the works of:
89
Do you know?
A Thackery C The Tragedy of the Jew of Malta
B Kingsley D X The Famous Tragedy of the Rich

Jew of Malta
C X Dickens
795. To whom did Edmund Spenser addresses
his sonnet sequence Amoretti?
D Austin
791. Autumn season is a close bosom friend A Queen Elizabeth
ER
of?
B X Elizabeth Boyle
A Bees
D
C Lisa Boyle
B Fruits
G
D Mary Jane
C Vines
796. The Age of Puritanism is also called the

D X Sun
A Age of Orthodoxy
A
792. Which of the following employs a narra-
tive structure in which the main action is B X Age of Reformation
relayed at second hand through an enclos-
H
ing frame story ? C Age of Religious intolerance
-C
A The Power and the Glory
D Age of Scientific spirit
B Sons and Lovers 797. To where Walton’s expedition was
N
headed when he meets the gigantic figure

C Ulysses and the emaciated Victor?
YA
A Africa
D X Heart of Darkness
793. What is literature? B X North Pole
RA
A writing about society

C Bermuda
B X reflection of society
D Galapagos
A
C literary works 798. Who is the author of ‘Hamlet’?

N
A Geoffrey Chaucer
D different customs
794. What was the first published title of B William Blake
Christopher Marlow’s play The Jew of
Malta? C William Worsworth
A The Story of the Rich Jew of Malta
D X William Shakespeare
B The Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta 799. When did Robert frost search for job?
90
Do you know?
A 1892 804. ‘A Hymn to GOD THE FATHER’ is
Donne’s tribute to his
B 1891
A mother
C X 1894
B X father
D 1893
C wife
800. W. B. Yeats was born in
A 1856 D None of the above
B X 1865 805. Which of the following is a ‘comedy’ writ-

ten by Shakespeare?
am
C 1838
A X As You Like It
D None of these

B King Lear
801. ‘To err is human, to forgive is divine’ is
written by
C Macbeth
A Tennyson
iR D Hamlet
B W. Blake
806. Pope’s Essay on Criticism was written in
C John Milton
hr
A Blank Verse
D X Alexander Pope
802. The novels written by Smollett are called B Tercets
iS
A social novels C Quatrains
B X picaresque novels D X Heroic Couplets

Ja
C psychological novels 807. Gopi wanted to sell the family property

to pay his father’s loans.
D philosophical novels
A True
803. One of the following authors, one is
French. Who is he?
B X False
A W. Somerset Maugham
B Sir Arther Doyle
D None of the above
C Edward Fitzerald
808. Who was killed by Hamlet unintention-
D X Alexander Dumas ally?
91
Do you know?
A Leartus 813. Who is the composer of the ‘Lycidas’?
A Thomas Gray
B X Polonius
C Forinbras B Alfred Tennyson
D Horatio C X John Milton

809. A satyr play was usually performed after
ER
D John Keats
a
814. Which is the shortest book?
A X Tragic trilogy
A X Book VII
D
B Comic performance
B Book III
G
C Heroic play
C Book VIII

D None
810. Ballads were primarily of two types, re- D Book V
A
spectively and 815. ‘Nature never did betray the heart that
loved her’ is a quotation.
H
A X authentic ballad and literary ballad
A X William Wordsworth
B authentic ballad and ancient ballad
-C
B B. J. Baryon
C literary ballad and classical ballad
N
C P. B. Shelley
D None of the above
811. Who issued an interdict against Eliza- D J. Keats
YA
beth? 816. I saw a boy red hair.

A X Pope Pius V
A X in
RA
B Pope Innocent III

B on
C Pope Gregory XIII
C for
A
D Pope Boniface
D of
N
812. Who wrote the poem ‘Don Juan’?

817. The most important element of a
A William Wordsworth Tragedy?
B William Blake A X Plot
C X Lord Byron B Character
D John Keats C Spectacles

92
Do you know?
D Diction 822. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” as a literary work
exposed the evils of
818. There is a marked decay in writing during
this age. A dowry
A X Poetry B X slavery
B Prose
C corruption
C Drama
D superstitions
D None of the above 823. A thing of beauty is joy forever. It is com-
posed by:
am
819. The second series of Essays of Elia by
Charles Lamb was published in?
A X Keats
A 1823

B Shelley
B 1826 iR C Byron
C 1834
D None of these
D X 1833
824. The metaphor of the is used to explain the
world of wonder that literature opens up.
hr
820. The early Modern Age witnessed the
A Water
A X rebirth of drama
B Air
iS
B resurgence of novel
C Pebble
C rebirth of poetry
D X Shell
Ja
D decline of drama
825. The variants of phonemes are called
821. is a type of literary theory and analysis
which originated in Moscow and St. Pe-
tersburg in the second decade of the twen- A X allophones
tieth century.
B alveolar sounds
A Humanism
C velar sound
B X Formalism
D glottal sound
C Post modernism
826. Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy writ-
D Post colonialism ten by -
93
Do you know?
A G.B. Shaw C Phil Robinson
B X Shakespeare D Charles Dickens

831. When was the second edition of the poem
C Marlowe
Paradise Lost published?
D Ibsen A 1667
ER
827. How did village elders want Rani to
prove her innocence? B 1676
A X while holding a hot iron rod C 1681
D
B while dipping her hand in boiling oil D X 1674
G
832. Who is the author of the book ‘Dr.
C while walking on hot coal
Zhivago’?

D None of the above A X Boris Pasternak
A
828. Who says, “Good night, sweet prince,
/And flights of angels sing thee to thy B Leo Tolstoy
H
rest.”?
C Rabindranath Tagore
A Fortinbras
-C
D Dante
B Marcellus
833. Any one of the following pairs are literary
N
C Chorus collaborators -
A Eliot and Pound
YA
D X Horatio
829. Dryden’s critical views are expressed in B Yeats and Eliot
his longest single prose work
RA
C Pope and Dryden

A A Defense of Poetry
D X Shelley and Keats
B An Apologie for poetry
834. said: “Poetry is the spontaneous
A
overflow of powerful feelings recollected

C On Poetry
in tranquility”.
N
D X The Essay of Dramatick Poesie A Keats

830. The Donkey is called “the nightingale of
brutes by B Shelley
A X Jonathan swift C Byron
B Pope D X Wordsworth
94
Do you know?
835. Which people began their invasion and A A Tale of Two Cities
conquest of southwestern Britain around
450? B X Treasure Island
A the Normans
C David Copperfield
B the Geats
D Great Expectations
C the Celts 840. What did mother give to the little boy on
his third visit to the store?
D X the Anglo-Saxons A Money and a note.
836. What was the cost of the diamond neck-
am
lace the Loisels found as a replacement to B Money.
the one that had been lost?
C Revolver.
A X Thirty-six thousand francs

D X Money, note and a stick.
B Eighteen thousand francs iR 841. Which philosopher had a particular influ-
ence on Coleridge?
C Hundred francs
A Aristotle
D Thousand francs
B Duns Scotus
hr
837. What do you mean by Plagiarism?
C David Hume
A a story builder
D X Immanuel Kant
iS
B a short story
842. The reason(s) for Iago’s hatred for Oth-
C X a literary theft ello was:
I. Othello had eloped with Desdemona

Ja
D a criticism of literature who was to get married to Iago’s

838. The poem “Solitary Reaper” contains friend
II. Iago believed that Othello had been
A 28 lines planning to banish him.
III. Iago believed that Othello had an il-
B 30 lines licit relationship with his wife
IV. Othello had preferred Cassio over
C X 32 lines
Iago
D 34 lines
A II and IV are correct
839. Charles Dickens is not the novelist for one
of the following - B X III and IV are correct
95
Do you know?
C I and IV are correct A Chaucer’s corner
D Only IV is correct B X poet’s corner

843. What do you mean by Stanza?
C legend’s corner
A a division of drama
D None of the above
B a division of novel
ER
848. Which movie Roopa wanted to see in
spite of being disapproved by Prema’s
C a division of story mother?
D
D X a subdivision of a poem A Fatal Sin
844. How many years of happiness was Dr
G
B X Fatal Attraction
Faustus promised by the Devil?
N
C Fatal Temptation

A 16
D Fatal Secret
A
B 20
849. ‘The last Essays of Elia’ was written by:
H
C X 24
A Carlyle
-C
D 28
B X Lamb
845. Emile Zola is a famous -
C Hunt
N
A English novelist
D Ruskin
YA
B American Novelist
850. Which of the following literary genre
C Irish novelist does Thackeray’s The History of Henry Es-
mond belong to?
RA
D X French Novelist
A Tragedy
846. Who is the writer of the poem ‘Home
Thoughts from Abroad’? B X Novel
A
A Wordsworth
C Comedy
N
B Milton
D Poetry
C William Shakespeare 851. How old was Rupert Brooke at the time
of his death?
D X Robert Browning A 24
847. Chaucer buried in a corner of Westmin-
ster, which came to know as ? B 31
96
Do you know?
C 21 A Egocentrism
D X 28 B theocentrism
852. With her first cheque, Virginia Woolf
C X logocentrism
bought a/an
A German Shepherd dog D metacentrism

857. Shakespeare died on?
B Australian parrot
A X 23rd April 1616
C X Persian cat
B 25th April 1616,
am
D African elephant
C 28th April 1616
853. Gaffer comes to Amal is guise.
D 30th April 1616

A Postman’s
858. Negative Capability to Keats, means
B King’s iR A The ability to sympathize with other
C X Fakir’s
B Say bad thing, about others
D None of the above
C X To empathize
hr
854. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I?
D None of these
A X Earl of Northumberland
859. She decided to marry him
iS
B Earl of March
A on the spur of the moment
C Earl of Douglas B in the spur of the moment
D Earl of Worcester
Ja
C X at the spur of the moment

855. The age tended to favour the taste
and search for truth in art: D of the spur of the moment
A Classical 860. How would “Natural Supernaturalism”
be best characterized as a Romantic notion
B X Romantic introduced by Carlyle?
A a form of animism in which objects in

C Victorian
the natural world are believed to be inhab-
ited by spirits
D Elizabethan
856. The most fundamental project of decon- B a spontaneous belief in the supernat-
struction is to display the operations of in ural based upon a surprise encounter with
any text. a supernatural being
97
Do you know?
C X a process by which things that are A George Bernard Shaw

familiar and thought to be ordinary are
made to appear miraculous and new to our B Christopher Marlowe
eyes
C X A. Lord Tennyson
D the experience of hallucinating con-
tact with the supernatural world when tak- D William Shakespeare
ing opium
ER
861. In the late seventeenth century, a battle 865. In which year Coleridge met Wordsworth
of the books erupted between which two and his sister which later contributed Ro-
groups? mantic movement to the English Litera-
ture?
D
A abolitionists and enthusiasts for slav-
ery A 1789
G
B round-earthers and flat-earthers B 1779

C the Welsh and the Scots C 1795
D X champions of ancient and modern

A
D X 1798
H
learning
862. Becky Thatcher is the daughter of a 866. Who is the first Humorist in English Lit-
erature?
-C
A painter
A X Geoffrey Chaucer
N
B lawyer
B Robert Browning
C X judge
YA
C Roger Bacon
D doctor
D Cynewulf
863. What was Amma’s reaction to Gopi’s ar-
RA
rival? 867. ‘I have measured out my life with coffee

A She hugged him and cried incon- spoons’ is taken from Eliot’s poem
solably
A Gerontion
A
B X She didn’t recognise him and felt

nervous B The HollowMen
N
C She chided him for not writing regu-

C X Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
larly
D She scolded him for not bringing his D The Wasteland

wife along 868. When does Jimmy Wells notice the face
864. Who is the writer of ‘The Charge of the of the man standing outside the hardware
Light Brigade’? shop?
98
Do you know?
A When a lightning strikes in the sky A French
B When the moon comes out of the B X Germanic

clouds
C Albanian
C When a car light falls on his face
D Armenian
D X When he strikes a match stick to 873. ‘Paradise Lost’ was written by -
light a cigar
A Shakespeare
869. What was the age of William Shakespeare
when he retired from active service to B X Milton
Stratford around 1613?
am
A 51 C Coleridge
D Keats
B 62

874. Pope made money by selling subscrip-
C 53 iR tions to his translation of this classical epic
A The Bahagavad Gita

D X 49
870. Which of the following is the most rep- B The Odyssey
resentative work of the Age of Alexander
C X The Illiad
hr
Pope?
A A Tale of a Tub D The Aeneid

875. What did Henry James describe as loose
iS
B Dunciad baggy monsters ?
A X novels
C X The Rape of the Lock
B plays
D Essay on Man
Ja
871. Which of the following is not a part of dig- C the English

ital portfolio procedure?
D publishers
A Digital camera 876. Who among the following novelists is not
regarded as a Terror Novelist?
B Scanner
A William Beckford
C E-mail
B Mrs. Ann Radcliffe
D X Xerox machine
C X Horace Walpole
872. The group is also a part of Indo-European
family. D Matthew Gregory Lewis
99
Do you know?
877. Thomas Hardy was brought up to the A pun

profession of:
B X metaphor
A X Architect
C apostrophe
B Engraver
D irony
C Sculptor
ER
882. What the term Aesthetic refers -
D None of these
A X appreciation for beauty
878. How did Gangu Ram show his reverence
D
to the Kala Nag at the end of the story? B appreciation for poem
A X He fell on his knees, placed a saucer
G
C reverence for old
of milk and asked for forgiveness.

D reverence for poems
B He scolded the four brothers for cap-
turing the Kala Nag. 883. Who is the writer of ‘The Ring of the
A
Book’?
C He decided to observe fast for a
A Shelley
H
month.
D He picked up the Kala Nag and put it B X Robert Browning
-C
in his pocket.
C William Shakespeare
879. The beggar girl’s name was
N
D Wordsworth
A Miss Bella
YA
884. The dramatist does not address his au-

B Miss Olivia dience directly, but he speaks through his
C X Miss Smith
RA
A X characters
D Miss Rosy
B thoughts
880. Who is famous for the theory of ‘Objec-
A
tive Co-relative’? C writing

A E.M. Forster
N
D None of the above

B Somerset Maugham 885. Who said “Tragedy imitates men as bet-
ter and comedy as worse than they really
C X T.S. Eliot are.”
A X Aristotle
D Woolf
881. Every simile can be turned into a B Shakespeare
100
Do you know?
C Dryden A X Autobiographical
D Bradley B Satirical
886. ‘Paradise Regained’ is an epic written by
C Ironical
A Homer D humorous
891. Who authored the scholarly biography,
B Tagore
Life of Donne?
C Dante A X Izaak Walton
D X John Milton B Katherine Philips
am
887. What is soliloquy?
C John Skelton
A a speech to the audience

D Isabella Whitney
B X self speech iR 892. Inspired by Satan’s victory over man, Sin
and Death construct:
C talk to others
A a bridge from hell to heaven
D expression of anger
B a temple to welcome Satan back
hr
888. Who wrote The Life and Opinions of Tris-
tram Shandy, a novel that abandons clock C X a bridge from hell to earth
time for psychological time?
D a funnel from Eden to the gates of hell
A Henry Fielding
iS
B X Laurence Sterne 893. ‘Paradise Lost’ was written by
A Mathew
C Samuel Richardson
Ja
B Robert Browning
D Tobias Smollett
889. Lucy gray has been written in C X John Milton
A 1798 D W B Yeats
B X 1799 894. The prominent quality of Coleridge po-

etry is?
C 1789 A X Supernaturalism
D None of the above B Realism

890. A Portrait of an Artist as Young Man is in
nature. C Naturalism
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D Classicism A Aliena
895. All the objects and qualities of sense per- B Ganymede

ception referred to in literary works is
known as C X Celia
A ideology
D Miranda
B symbol 900. Tom is in love with
ER
A Maria
C X imagery
B X Becky
D
D ambiguity
C Polly
G
896. “Professions for Women” is a plea for
women’s
D Mary

A X intellectual freedom 901. Beecher Stowe wrote “Uncle Tom’s
Cabin” to illustrate the evils of
A
B emotional freedom
A Alcohol
H
C social adaptability
B X Slavery
-C
D freedom to dress C Foreign
897. Who of the following was a poet?
D Imperialism
N
A Charles Dickens 902. Which is an example of a proverb?

YA
B X T. S. Eliot A Get a “stake” in our business.
C Jane Austen B X You can’t have your cake and eat it,
RA
too
D G. B. Shaw C The snow was white as cotton.
898. Hardy’s novels portray the conflict be-
D You’re driving me crazy.
A
tween
903. In which century the Picaresque novel is
A science and religion originated?
N
B X rural and urban civilization A X 16th century
C man and nature B 20th century
C 14th century
D ancient and modern values
899. is Rosalind’s niece. D 15th century

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904. G.B. Shaw’s is an amusing theatrical de- C Geoffrey Chaucer
bate about pacifism and militarism.
D X A. Lord Tennyson
A The Doctor’s Dilemma
909. inform Macbeth that he would become
B X Arms and the Man the king.
C Saint Joan A X three witches
D Candida B three saints
905. Complete the following famous line from C three kings

Hamlet: Something is rotten in the state
am
of... D three women
A England 910. Donne wrote number of sermons.

B Venice A X 160
C X Denmark
iR B 170
D Maine C 165
906. King Lear is based on the legend of: D None of the above
hr
A Leer of Britain 911. The play ends with Mr. Hardcastle telling
Marlow that the ‘poor relation’ is actually
B Leir of France
A A neighbor
iS
C Lear of France
B An actress
D X Leir of Britain
907. What is the full form of ICT? C A schemer
Ja
A Indian Castes & Tribes

D X The daughter of the house
B Inter Caste Technique 912. The span of years covered by the Age of
Milton is:
C X Information & Communication
A X 1625-1660
Technology
B 1550- 1630
D Indian Cricket Team
908. Who is the writer of ‘Oenone’? C 1600- 1660
A Cynewulf
D None of the above
B Robert Browning 913. Sahil trembled fever.
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Do you know?
A X with C Pope’s “The Dunciad”
B in D Dryden’s “Absalom and Achitophel”
C for 918. ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’ is written by
D at A Cynewulf
914. In whose reign Morality plays began?
ER
B Geoffrey Chaucer
A Henry five
C X Robert Browning
D
B Elizabeth one
D None of the above
C X Henry six
G
919. What was Hughie doing when Baron
hausberg’s messenger came to him with a
D Henry eight
N
letter?

915. Which one is not by Shakespeare? A having lunch
A Nature teaches beasts to know their

friends.
A
B having a nap
H
B True is it that we have seen betting C having dinner
-C
days.
D X having breakfast
C X Knowledge is power. 920. What did the astrologer see as mankind’s
N
troubles?
D None of these.
A Marriage and relationships.
YA
916. The words “ More than the Prince of

cats...he is the courageous captain of com- B Money and relationships.
pliments”, refer to
C Money, success, and peace.
RA
A X Tybalt
D X Marriage, money and the tangles of
B Prince Esculus
human ties.
A
C Romeo 921. The germ of the Novel lay in the ro-

mance, a fantastic tale of love and adven-
N
D Benvolio ture.
917. What mock epic begins: “What dire of- A Victorian

fence from am’rous causes springs, / What
mighty contests rise from trivial things”? B Classical
A Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe” C X Medieval
B X Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock” D Modern

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922. Who is “till wand’ring o’er the earth”? C X Earnest Jones
A X Satan’s associates
D Freud
B Satan 927. The Catcher in the Rye takes place in what
city?
C Adam
A X New York City
D Eve
B Stanford, Connecticut
923. To justify which purpose that Milton
wrote Paradise Lost?
C Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A To justify the fall of Lucifer
am
D Boston, Massachusetts
B To justify the fall of man
928. is not a poem by Wordsworth.

C X To justify the ways of God to men A X Ode to the West Wind
D To justify the loss of paradise

iR
924. The man was not happy with the quality
B The Prelude
of the boy’s work. C TheExursion
A True D Ode to Duty

hr
B X False 929. The donkey is a/an
A X mammal
iS
B reptile
D None of the above
925. Which book Edmund Spenser dedicated C amphibian
to the Philip Sidney:
Ja
D insect
A The Faerie Queene
930. Waverly is a novel.
B X The shepheaedes Calendar
A Picaresque
C Complaints
B X Historical
D Colin Clouts come home again
C Gothic
926. ‘Hamlet and Oedipus’ was written by:
D Stream of consciousness THE INVIS-
A Bradley
IBLE MAN
B Dover Wilson 931. Who is the first modern novelist?
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Do you know?
A X Samuel Richardson C George Sheeler
B Samuel Johnson D George Saiko

936. ‘Paradise Lost’ attempts to -
C Samuel Beckett
A Justify the ways of man to God
D None of the above
932. Mrs. Marwood is B Show that the Satan and God have
ER
equal power
A X the mistress of Fainalll
C Explain why good and evil are neces-
B Mirabell’s friend
D
sary
C Lady Wishfort’s niece D X Justify the ways of God to man
G
D None of above 937. What was Samuel Langhorne Clemens’

pen-name
933. The sonnet is composed of two parts
namely A X Mark Twain
A X the Octave and the Sestet

A
B Bram Stoker
H
B The Rhyme and the Rhythm C Ernest Hemingway
-C
C The Epode and the Strophe D Leo Tolstoy

N
D The Verse and the Meter 938. Which English romantic poet admired
Pope:
934. To which character in Hamlet does the
YA
following description apply? “The te- A Coleridge

dious wiseacre who meddles his way to his
doom.” B William Wordsworth
RA
A Claudius
C X Byron
B X Hamlet
D None of these
A
C Polonius 939. Which of the following is Hamlet’s

mother?
N
D Rosencrantz
A Beatrice
935. The term “magic realism” was first intro-
duced by an art critic, who considered it an
B Margaret
art classification.
A X Franz Roh C X Gertrude
B Edward Hopper D Rosalind

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Do you know?
940. “ Some born great, some achieve great- A Morarji Desai
ness And some have greatness thrust upon
them”. Above lines are taken from which B Ruskin Bond
of following plays?
C Jawaharlal Nehru
A Macbeth
D X Mahatma Gandhi
B Othello
945. Which one of Gaskell’s novels has been
C X Twelfth night called a Victorian Much Ado About Noth-
ing?
D As you like it
A Ruth
941. ‘The Rainbow’ is a novel written by:
am
A Hemingway B Mary Barton
C Cranford

B Virginia Woolf
C E.M. Forster iR D X North and South

946. Who wrote about the idyllic ’Isle of Innis-
D X D.H. Lawrence free’?
942. Satire in flourished in Horace, Persius A Dylan Thomas
and Juvenal.
hr
A Greek literature B Ezra Pound
B X Latin literature C X Yeats

iS
C English literature D E.E. Cummings

947. Which of the following was the Tower of
D None of the above London used for in the Elizabethan age?
943. In which department does Mr. Liosel
Ja
work as a clerk? A As an astronomical observation deck
A Department of Internal Affairs B As a storage place for grain
B Department of Child Welfare C X As a prison
C Department of Textile D As a school for the royal children
D X Department of Education 948. I dance I like it.

944. Who said “English is the language of in- A X because
ternational commerce; it is the language of
diplomacy and it contains many a rich lit- B so
erary treasures, it gives us an introduction
to western thoughts and culture”? C but
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D for A Sir Thomas Browne

949. It took less than 20 men to cut down the
B Samuel Butler
banyan tree.
A True C X Samuel Johnson
D Iazak Walton
B X False
954. Which of the following is Jane Eyre’s close
ER
C Neither true nor False friend at Lowood?
A Miss Scatcherd
D None of the above
D
950. Which Welsh poet wrote “Under Milk B Miss Miller
Wood?”
G
C X Helen Burns
A Anthony Hopkins

D Miss Maria
B Richard Burton
955. and are both figures of speech based on
C Tom Jones
A
comparison.
H
A X Simile and metaphor
D X Dylan Thomas
-C
951. Jane Eyre was published in B Metonymy and synecdoche
A 1825 C Oxymoron and antithesis

N
B 1837 D Apostrophe and hyperbole

YA
956. The poet’s heart is bleeding because:

C X 1847
A The exciting voyage is over
D 1850
RA
B The people are not exulting over him

952. Dr.Thakkar has been associated with
many major hospitals in the U.S.A, most C X His captain is dead
notably the Children’s Hospital in
A
D His ship is worn out

A New York
957. Who is the author of ‘Arabian Nights’?
N
B X Philadelphia
A Sir Richard Burton
C Honolulu
B Alexander Pope
D San Francisco
C Smith
953. The first English dictionary was com-
pleted by - D X None of them
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958. Which of the following themes or subjects A X Rights of Women
was not common in the works of Cava-
lier poets, such as Thomas Carew, Sir John B Sexual Politics
Denham, Edmund Walter, Sir John Suck-
ling, James Shirely, Richard Lovelace, and
C A Room of One’s Own
Robert Herrick?
A courtly ideals of the good life D Women and Society
B carpe diem 963. ‘Tradition and Individual Talent’ is writ-

ten by:
C loyalty to the king
A Russell
am
D X pious devotion to religious virtues
B Carlyle
959. Who is better known as the founder of
Deconstruction ?

C X T. S. Eliot
A X Jacques Derrida
iR D None of these
B Michel Foucault
964. How did Rachel recognize Henry?
C Julia Kristeva
A By the infection of his voice
D Roland Barthes
hr
B X By the scar of his forehead
960. Tom Jones was written by
A Swift C By the typical way he danced

iS
B Richardson D By his preference for brown rice and

gruel
C Congreve
965. “Men may be beaten, chained, tor-
Ja
D X Fielding mented, yoked like cattle, slaughtered like

summer flies yet remain free ”
961. Who is Santiago’s hero? This was said by:
A Harry Truman A Carlyle
B X Joe DiMaggio
B J.S. Mill
C Dick Sisler
C X Ruskin
D Fidel Castro
D Mathew Arnold
962. Virginia Woolf’s work is considered to be
an important precursor in feminist criti- 966. ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ and ‘The Rain-
cism. bow’ written by-
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Do you know?
A Virginia Woolf C Blackboard
B Robert Frost D Lecture notes
C Thomas Moore 971. Who is the controversy writer in Post-

Modern period?
D X D.H. Lawrence
A Doris Lessing
967. Who wrote preface to Shakespeare:
ER
B X Ahmed Salman Rushdie
A Sir Philip Sydney
C Chinua Achebe
D
B Dryden
D All the above
G
C X Dr. Johnson
972. Who is the writer of the poem ‘Fra Lippo
N
D None of these

Lippi’?
968. The poet digresses from the main theme
A X Robertf Browning
A
when he talks about:
A His mother who cooked very nicely B Wordsworth
H
B X A family he stayed with in Surat C William Shakespeare
-C
C Attractions of the country Miss D Milton

Pushpa is going to
N
973. who is the first great English critic-poet?

D Miss Pushpa’s father’s legal cases in
A Shakespeare
YA
Bulsar
969. The unconscious expression of the
B Arnold
writer’s own personality in his writings
is called his
RA
C X Sir Philip Sidney

A Imagination
D Chaucer
B Intellect
A
974. The birds flew the lake.

C Emotions A on
N
D X Style
B X over
970. help students to access, select and inter-
pret information C in
A X ICT
D under
B Text Books 975. Who was Edmund Spenser’s patron?
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A X The Earl of Leicester C The Metamorphoses
B Elizabeth D X The Faerie Queene

980. “He found it [English] brick and left it
C Lord Burleigh marble”, remarked one great writer on an-
other. Who were they ?
D Francis Bacon
A Jonson on Shakespeare
976. Shakespeare is knows mostly for his
B X Johnson on Dryden
A poetry
C Milton on Shakespeare
am
B autobiography
D Dryden on Milton
C X plays 981. Narayan’s third novel dealt with the story

of woman in an orthodox Indian society.
D novels
iR A Swami and Friends
977. How many children did Aunt Rachel
have?
B X The Dark Room
A Four
C The Bachelor of Arts
B Five
hr
D None of the above
C Six
982. Which of the following is a novel by Emily
Bronte?
D X Seven
iS
A Agnes Grey
978. defines a critic as the one who “narrates
the adventures of the soul among master- B X Wuthering Heights
pieces”.
Ja
A Milton C Shirley
D None of the above

B Dryden
983. Who ordered the felling of the trees?
C Sidney
A X The poet’s father
D X Anatole France
B The poet
979. Which work did Edmund Spenser au-
thor? C The tenants
A The Castle of Perseverance
D The city municipality
B The Double 984. ‘ Paradise Lost is an epic by:
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A . Spenser 989. Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne of

England after:
B Chaucer
A George III
C X Milton
B X William IV
D None of these
C Edward VII
985. Anita came home a lot of money.
ER
A by D George IV
990. It is possible to know a tree’s age from the
D
B X with
rings in its trunk.
C in
G
A X True
D of

B False
986. According to Sidney, the oldest branch of
A
learning is C Neither true nor False
A History
H
D None of the above
B Philosophy
991. What was the name of the surgeon who
-C
separated the conjoined twins?

C X Poetry
A Dr. Goyal
N
D Rhetoric
987. is not written by Jane Austen. B Dr. Vaidya
YA
A Pride and Prejudice

C Dr. Singh
B Emma
RA
D X Dr. Thakkar
C Sense and Sensibility 992. Browning’s famous poem ‘Rabbi Ben
Ezra’ is included in?
D X Jane Eyre
A
A X Dramatis Personae
988. From where the cat used to enter the
N
house?
B Dramatic Idyls
A from a hole in the roof
C Asolando
B from an open door
D Red Cotton Night-Cap Country
C X from an open window
993. The special contribution of The King
D from a hole in the wall James Bible was that it
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A standardized English spellings and D Public drunkenness
pronunciations 997. In the expression “I choose him” from the
poem ‘The Death Bed’, “I” stands for
B helped Britain to expand imperial
power A life
C X gave a unity to form and expression
B age
to the language of religion and faith.
D helped to unite Welsh, Ireland, Scot- C X death

land and England
D the poet
994. What were the themes covered in elegy in
ancient times? 998. Who was English poet addicted to
am
opium?
A War songs
A X S. T. Coleridge

B Lamentations for the dead
B W. Somerset Maugham
C Political verses iR C Sir Walter Scott
D X All of the above
995. Which of the following are tragedies of D William Wordsworth
Shakespeare? 999. Which novel is narrated in the first person
hr
mode?
A Hamlet, Othello and Troilus and
Cressida A Consciousness
B X Coriolanus, Timon of Athens and B X Picaresque

iS
Titus Andronicus
C King Lear, Measure for measure and C Gothic
The merchant of Venice
D Historical
Ja
D Macbeth, Much ado about nothing

1000. How did Sylvia Ward die?
and Antony and Cleopatra
996. Crime was ardently followed by punish- A Her lover strangled her
ment. Elizabethans had devised various
ways to fine, humiliate, torture, and kill of- B She deliberately entered the burning
fenders. Which crime was punishable by house of her lover and died
death?
C Her parents poisoned her
A Skipping church on Sunday
D X She swallowed one of her lover’s
B A woman screaming at her husband prescriptions and died
in public
C X Stealing a horse Answers

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1. B 2. D 3. B 4. D 5. C 6. D 7. C 244. B 245. B 246. A 247. B 248. A

8. A 9. C 10. C 11. B 12. D 13. C 249. C 250. A 251. A 252. C 253. C
14. C 15. B 16. A 17. C 18. B 19. D 254. B 255. D 256. A 257. B 258. D
20. B 21. A 22. D 23. C 24. B 25. B 259. C 260. C 261. A 262. C 263. B
26. C 27. A 28. D 29. A 30. C 31. D 264. B 265. B 266. B 267. A 268. A
32. D 33. D 34. B 35. C 36. A 37. D 269. C 270. A 271. A 272. C 273. A
38. A 39. A 40. D 41. D 42. C 43. C 274. D 275. D 276. C 277. B 278. C
44. B 45. D 46. A 47. C 48. A 49. A 279. B 280. A 281. D 282. B 283. B
ER
50. C 51. C 52. D 53. B 54. D 55. A 284. D 285. C 286. A 287. A 288. C
56. B 57. D 58. A 59. A 60. C 61. C 289. A 290. D 291. B 292. B 293. C
62. B 63. D 64. C 65. B 66. C 67. B 294. D 295. D 296. B 297. B 298. A
68. A 69. B 70. B 71. A 72. C 73. A 299. A 300. B 301. B 302. D 303. A
D
74. D 75. B 76. C 77. D 78. A 79. A 304. B 305. A 306. D 307. C 308. A
80. A 81. A 82. C 83. C 84. B 85. D 309. C 310. B 311. C 312. A 313. C
G
86. A 87. A 88. A 89. B 90. D 91. C 314. A 315. A 316. D 317. B 318. C
92. B 93. B 94. B 95. B 96. A 97. A 319. D 320. B 321. B 322. B 323. A

98. A 99. B 100. C 101. B 102. D 103. C 324. C 325. D 326. D 327. D 328. D
104. B 105. C 106. D 107. D 108. A 329. D 330. B 331. B 332. C 333. C
A
109. D 110. D 111. A 112. D 113. B 334. A 335. D 336. C 337. C 338. C
114. D 115. B 116. C 117. C 118. C 339. A 340. A 341. B 342. A 343. A
119. A 120. B 121. D 122. C 123. A 344. C 345. A 346. A 347. A 348. C
H
124. B 125. A 126. B 127. D 128. A 349. A 350. A 351. B 352. A 353. B
129. C 130. C 131. B 132. B 133. C 354. C 355. D 356. B 357. C 358. B
-C
134. B 135. C 136. A 137. A 138. D 359. D 360. D 361. B 362. C 363. C
139. D 140. A 141. A 142. C 143. C 364. B 365. A 366. C 367. D 368. D
144. D 145. C 146. D 147. C 148. A 369. D 370. D 371. A 372. B 373. D
N
149. D 150. D 151. D 152. C 153. C 374. A 375. C 376. C 377. B 378. B
154. A 155. A 156. D 157. D 158. B 379. A 380. C 381. A 382. C 383. A
YA
159. C 160. B 161. A 162. A 163. A 384. C 385. B 386. A 387. C 388. D
164. C 165. D 166. B 167. B 168. C 389. C 390. A 391. D 392. A 393. B
169. B 170. B 171. C 172. B 173. C 394. A 395. C 396. A 397. B 398. B
174. C 175. D 176. A 177. D 178. A 399. B 400. B 401. C 402. A 403. A
RA
179. C 180. A 181. A 182. B 183. D 404. B 405. C 406. C 407. B 408. A
184. C 185. B 186. A 187. B 188. A 409. C 410. D 411. C 412. B 413. C
189. B 190. B 191. B 192. A 193. D 414. A 415. C 416. B 417. D 418. D
194. C 195. A 196. A 197. D 198. D 419. B 420. A 421. D 422. C 423. A
A
199. C 200. C 201. D 202. B 203. B 424. D 425. A 426. A 427. A 428. B
204. D 205. C 206. B 207. A 208. D 429. C 430. D 431. B 432. C 433. C
N
209. D 210. B 211. C 212. D 213. A 434. A 435. B 436. A 437. A 438. B
214. C 215. A 216. A 217. B 218. A 439. B 440. B 441. D 442. A 443. D
219. B 220. A 221. B 222. A 223. A 444. A 445. C 446. D 447. C 448. C
224. C 225. C 226. D 227. A 228. D 449. A 450. C 451. B 452. D 453. B
229. A 230. D 231. C 232. C 233. D 454. A 455. A 456. C 457. D 458. C
234. B 235. A 236. C 237. C 238. A 459. C 460. D 461. B 462. B 463. B
239. B 240. A 241. D 242. C 243. A 464. D 465. D 466. B 467. C 468. A
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469. C 470. B 471. A 472. A 473. D 694. B 695. A 696. D 697. A 698. B
474. D 475. B 476. C 477. B 478. D 699. A 700. B 701. D 702. D 703. B
479. B 480. B 481. D 482. A 483. A 704. D 705. B 706. A 707. A 708. D
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NET EXAM (C) Hudibras
SOLVED PAPERS 2004-18 (D) Journal of the Plague Year
Answer: C
Paper 2- December 2004 7. Which of the following poems did Milton
write in Octosyllabic Couplets ?
1. In Langlands‘ Piers the Plowman, Piers (A) IL Penseroso
appears finally as : (B) On His Blindness”
(A) Charity (C) On the Late Massacre in Piedmont”
(B) The Holy Trinity (D) Lycidas
(C) Jesus Answer: A
(D) The Good Samaritan
Answer: C 8. Which of the following plays is not written
by Congreve ?
2. It is decided that each Canterbury pilgrim (A) The way of the World
would tell in all : (B) The Old Bachelor
(A) One story (C) Love for Love
(B) Two stories (D) The Relapse
(C) Three stories Answer: D
(D) Four stories
Answer: D 9. Dryden‘s All For Love is an adaptation of
:
3. Venus and Adonis is a long narrative (A) Philaster
poem by : (B) Romeo and Juliet
(A) Shakespeare (C) Antony and Cleopatra
(B) Marlowe (D) Edward II
(C) Drayton Answer: C
(D) Sydney
Answer: A 10. Which of the following books proposes a
political theory ?
4. The total number of poems in (A) Principia
Shakespeare‘s Sonnets is : (B) Leviathan
(A) 123 (C) Anatomy of Melancholy
(B) 142 (D) Liberty of Prophesying
(C) 104 Answer: B
(D) 154
Answer: D 11. Which of the following books is written
by a woman ?
5. Which of the following plays has a (A) A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Machiavellean hero ? (B) Social Contract
(A) Tamburlaine Part I (C) A Treatise of Human Nature
(B) Dr. Faustus (D) The Wealth of Nations
(C) Jew of Malta Answer: A
(D) Edward II
Answer: C 12. Which of the following books by
Jonathan Swift is a religious allegory ?
6. Which of the following is written by (A) The Battle of the Books
Samuel Butler ? (B) A Modest Proposal
(A) Religio Laici (C) Gulliver‟s Travels
(B) David Simple
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(D) A Tale of a Tub (D) “Endymion”
Answer: D Answer: D
13. Which of the following is a ―Visionary‖ 19. Which of the following novels is a satire
work by William Blake ? on the Gothic novel ?
(A) The Song of Los (A) Pride and Prejudice
(B) Songs of Experience (B) Emma
(C) Poetical Sketches (C) Sense and Sensibility
(D) The Vision of the Daughters of Albion (D) Northanger Abbey
Answer: D Answer: D
14. Pope‘s An Essay on Man is based on the 20. Who distinguished between 11the
ideas of : literature of Knowledge‖ and ―the literature
(A) Lord Petrie of power‖ ?
(B) Theobald (A) Coleridge
(C) Lord Bolingbroke (B) De Quincey
(D) Lord Harvey (C) Hazlitt
Answer: C (D) Lamb
Answer: B
15. Which of the following works by
Johnson is an imitation of the tenth satire of 21. Who among the following Victorian
Juvenal ? poets is the most sensitive to the conflict
(A) London between the old and the new ?
(B) Vanity of Human Wishes (A) Tennyson
(C) The Life of Savage (B) Rossetti
(D) Rasselas (C) Browning
Answer: B (D) Swinburne
Answer: A
16. The final version of Wordsworth‘s The
Prelude appeared in : 22. Under the Greenwood Tree is written by
(A) 1798 :
(B) 1806 (A) Mrs. Gaskell
(C) 1850 (B) George Eliot
(D) 1860 (C) Thomas Hardy
Answer: C (D) Emily Bronte
Answer: C
17. ―To Suffer woes which Hope thinks
infinite‖ is written by : 23. The Office of Circumlocution occurs in :
(A) Shelley (A) Little Dorrit
(B) Wordsworth (B) Bleak House
(C) Keats (C) Great Expectations
(D) Byron (D) Hard Times
Answer: A Answer: A
18. ―A thing of beauty is a joy for ever‖ 24. The novel Mary Barton is written by :
occurs in : (A)Mrs. Gaskell
(A) “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (B) George Eliot
(B) “Ode to Autumn” (C) Emily Bronte
(C) “Ode to Psyche”
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(D) Dickens (D) The Europeans
Answer: A Answer: B
25. The line‖Poetry is a criticism of life‖ 31. Who of the following authors represents
occurs in : the Sri Lankan diaspora ?
(A) Culture and Anarchy (A) Cyril Dabydeen
(B) Modern Painters (B) Michael Ondaatje
(C) The Study of Poetry (C) Arnold H. Itwaru
(D) Sartor Resartus (D) M.G. Vassanji
Answer: C Answer: B
26. Martha Quest was written by : 32. Australian aborigines receive a

(A) Jean Rhys sympathetic treatment in :
(B) Doris Lessing (A) Les Murray
(C) Iris Murdoch (B) Gwen Harwood
(D) Nadine Gordimer (C) Judith Wright
Answer: B (D) A.D. Hope
Answer: C
27. The term ―Stream of Consciousness‖
was taken from the book : 33. Margaret Atwood‘s Survival makes a
(A) The Human Mind case for :
(B) The Principles of Psychology (A) Canadian literary studies
(C) The Mind of Man (B) Canadian nationalism
(D) Modes of Human Behaviour (C) The future of Canadian literature
Answer: B (D) The past of Canadian literature
Answer: C
28. G.S. Fraser‘s The Golden Bough
focusses on : 34. V.S. Naipaul‘s latest book is :
(A) Images (A) The Mystic Masseur
(B) Metaphors (B) A Bend in the River
(C) Symbols (C) Among the Believers
(D) Archetypes (D) Half a Life
Answer: D Answer: D
29. Arthur Miller‘s Death of a Salesman 35. Which of the following books by Salman
relies for its tragic seriousness on the fate of Rushdie refers to the 15th Century Spain as
: a starting point ?
(A) Willy Loman (A) Haroun and the Sea of Stories
(B) Estragon (B) The Moor‟s Last Sigh
(C) Vladimir (C) Shame
(D) Lucky (D) Grimus
Answer: A Answer: D
30. The character Leopald Bloom makes an 36. Who‘s Afraid of Virginia Woolf is
appearance in the novel : written by :
(A) The Sound and the Fury (A) Arthur Miller
(B) Ulysses (B) Engene O Neil
(C) To the Lighthouse (C) Edward Albee
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(D) Tennessee Williams 43. The word ―Catharsis‖ signifies :
Answer: C (A) Pontification
(B) Personification
37. Imamu Amiri Baraka is : (C) Purgation
(A) A Carribean writer (D) Publication
(B) An American writer Answer: C
(C) An Arab writer
(D) A Sri Lankan writer 44. The rejection of ―Universalism‖ is a
Answer: B mark of :
(A) Deconstruction
38. The Miscellany was published from : (B) New Historicism
(A) Sahitya Akademi (C) Structuralism
(B) The Writers Workshop (D) Postcolonial criticism
(C) PEN Answer: D
(D) Dhwanyalok
Answer: B 45. Eliot‘s theory of ―objective correlative‖
appeared in his essay entitled :
39. Who of the following writers recreates (A) Three voices of Poetry
the life of the Yoruba/Ibo community ? (B) Tradition and the Individual Talent
(A) Derek Walcott (C) The Metaphysical Poets
(B) Wole Soyinka (D) Hamlet
(C) Chinna Achebe Answer: D
(D) Okot
Answer: B 46. Sprung Rhythm is an example of :
(A)Verse
40. Who of the following White female (B) Syllable
authors are sympathetic to the cause of the (C) Stress
Blacks ? (D) Meter
(A) Margaret Drabble Answer: D
(B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Muriel Spark 47. ―More is thy due than more than all can
(D) Jean Rhys pay‖ is an example of :
Answer: B (A) Weak – ending
(B) Inversion
41. New Criticism considers text as a : (C) Alexandrine
(A) Cultural construct (D) Extra Syllable
(B) Historical construct Answer: B
(C) Linguistic construct
(D) Autotelic 48. Unrhymed metrical composition
Answer: D consisting of five iambic measures in each
line is called :
42. Mythologies was written by : (A) Rhyme royal
(A) Roland Barthes (B) Run-on-lines
(B) Jacques Derrida (C) Blank verse
(C) Homi K. Bhabha (D) Spenserian stanza
(D) Ernest Dowson Answer: C
Answer: A
49. Verse stories dealing with chivalry,
Knight, errantry, enchantments, and love
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are known as :
(A) The epic
(B) The ballad
(C) The ode
(D) The metrical romances
Answer: D
50. ―He is a citizen of no mean city‖ is an

example of :
(A) Periphrasis
(B) Tautology
(C) Prolepsis
(D) Litotes
Answer: D
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Paper 2- June 2005 7. The expression ―ancestral voices
prophesying war‖ occurs in :
1. The Nun‘s Priest‘s Tale had its origin in : (A) „Kublakhan‟
(A) The French Roman de Renart (B) „Frost at Midnight‟
(B) The Italian Boccaccios Teseide (C) Christabel
(C) The English John Gower‟s Confessio (D) Rime of The Ancient Mariner
Amantis Answer: A
(D) The Germal Goethe‟s Faust
Answer: A 8. The posthumously published novel of
Jane Austen is :
2. The First Folio of Shakespeare‘s plays (A) Sense and Sensibility
appeared in : (B) Mansfield Park
(A) 1664 (C) Emma
(B) 1631 (D) Northanger Abbey
(C) 1623 Answer: D
(D) 1650
Answer: C 9. Carlyle‘s Sartor Resartus means :
(A) Satan‟s story retold
3. Restoration comedy begins with : (B) The tailor retailored
(A) Congreve (C) I know not where
(B) Sheridan (D) a set of elegant clothes
(C) Dryden Answer: B
(D) Etherege
Answer: D 10. The character not created by Hardy is :
(A) Sue Bridehead
4. The author of ‗Of The Progress of the (B) Bathsheba Everdene
Soul‘ is : (C) Betsy Trotwood
(A) John Bunyan (D) Thomasin
(B) John Donne Answer: C
(C) Henry Vaughan
(D) Richard Crashaw 11. The poet who described poetry as
Answer: B ―inspired mathematics‖ is :
(A) T.S. Eliot
5. Dr. Johnson‘s The Lives of The Poets is (B) Hopkins
an example of : (C) Archibald Macheish
(A) Psychological criticism (D) Ezra Pound
(B) Biographical criticism Answer: D
(C) Historical criticism
(D) Archetypal criticism 12. The woman character who is an artist by
Answer: B profession in Virgnniia Woolf‘s To The
Lighthouse is :
6. The picaresque novel with a female (A) Lily Briscoe
picaroom is : (B) Mrs. Ramsay
(A) Tom Jones (C) Mrs. Dalloway
(B) Clarissa (D) Miriam
(C) Moll Flanders Answer: A
(D) Amelia
Answer: C 13. The poet who said, ―My poems are not
about violence, but vitality,‖ is :
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(A) Philip Larkin (D) Litotes
(B) Ted Hughes Answer: A
(C) C.D. Lewis
(D) Thom Gunn 20. A metre in which an unaccented syllable
Answer: B precedes the accented is called :
(A) anapaestic
14. Pinter‘s Care Taker can be called a: (B) dactylic
(A) comedy of manners (C) catalectic
(B) comedy of menace (D) iambic
(C) comedy of errors Answer: D
(D) comedy of humours
Answer: B Choose the correct chronological sequence
in question numbers 21-30 :
15. Toni Morrison used male narrator for 21. Choose the correct chronological
the first time in : sequence
(A) Song of Solomon (A) Northanger Abbey , Pride and Prejudice ,
(B) Tar Baby Sense and Sensibility , Mansfield Park
(C) Jazz (B) Mansfield Park , Sense and Sensibility ,
(D) The Bluest Eye Northanger Abbey , Pride and Prejudice
Answer: A (C) Pride and Prejudice , Northanger Abbey ,
Mansfield Park , Sense and Sensibility
16. The author of The Hungry Tide is : (D) Sense and Sensibility , Pride and Prejudice
(A) Vikram Seth , Mansfield Park , Northanger Abbey
(B) Shobha De Answer: D
(C) Amitav Ghosh
(D) Upamanyu Chatterjee 22. Shakespeare criticism by :
Answer: C (A) Spurgeon – T.S. Eliot -Stephen Greenblatt
– Bradley
17. The soul of tragedy, according to (B) Bradley – Spurgeon – T.S. Eliot – Stephen
Aristotle is : Greenblatt
(A) Thought (C) T.S. Eliot – Stephen Greenblatt – Bradley –
(B) Character Spurgeon
(C) Plot (D) Stephen Greenblatt – Bradley – T.S. Eliot –
(D) Spectacle Spurgeon
Answer: C Answer: B
18. The discussion of Fabula/Syuzhet occurs 23. Choose the correct chronological
in : sequence
(A) New criticism (A) Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Oxford
(B) Deconstruction Movement, Movement Poetry, Imagism
(C) Structuralism (B) Oxford Movement, Pre-Raphaelite
(D) Formalism Brotherhood, Imagism, Movement Poetry
Answer: D (C) Imagism, Movement Poetry, Pre-
Raphaelite Brotherhood, Oxford Movement
19. ―United we stand, divided we fall‖ is an (D) Movement Poetry, Pre-Raphaelite
example of : Brotherhood, Oxford Movement, Imagism
(A) Antithesis Answer: B
(B) Bathos
(C) Tautology 24. Choose the correct chronological
sequence
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(A) Closet drama, Epic Theatre, Theatre of the Havisham
Absurd, Portable Theatre (C)Dorothea, Jude, Mrs. Morel, Lady
(B)Epic Theatre, Portable Theatre, Theatre of Havisham
the Absurd, Closest drama (D)Lady Havisham, Dorothea, Jude, Mrs.
(C)Portable Theatre, Closet drama, Epic Morel
Theatre, Theatre of the Absurd Answer: D
(D)Theatre of the Absurd, Portable Theatre,
Closet drama, Epic Theatre 29. Choose the correct chronological
Answer: A sequence
(A) The Well-Wrought Urn , The Verbal Icon ,
25. Choose the correct chronological Theory of Literature , Literary Theory : An
sequence Introduction
(A) Thomas Nashe, Ben Jonson, Kyd, Marlowe (B)The Well-Wrought Urn , Theory of
(B)Ben Jonson, Thomas Kyd, Marlowe, Literature , The Verbal Icon , Literary Theory :
Thomas Nashe An Introduction
(C)Thomas Kyd, Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, (C)The Verbal Icon , The Well-Wrought Urn ,
Ben Jonson Literary Theory : An Introduction , Theory of
(D)Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Kyd, Literature
Ben Jonson (D)Literary Theory : An Introduction , The
Answer: C Well-Wrought Urn , Theory of Literature , The
Verbal Icon
26. Choose the correct chronological Answer: A
sequence
(A) Essay on Dramatic Poesy , Areopagitica , 30. Nobel Prize Winners in Literature :
Urn Burial , Religio Medici (A)Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot, Nadine
(B)Areopagitica , Urn Burial , Religio Medici , Gordimer, W.B. Yeats
Essay on Dramatic Poesy (B)W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Nadine Gordimer,
(C)Religio Medici , Areopagitica , Urn Burial , Seamus Heaney
Essay on Dramatic Poesy (C)T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, W.B. Yeats,
(D)Urn Burial , Essay on Dramatic Poesy , Nadine Gordimer
Areopagitica , Religio Medici (D)Nadine Gordimer, Seamus Heaney, W.B.
Answer: C Yeats, T.S. Eliot,
Answer: B
27. Choose the correct chronological
sequence Select the matching pair in question
(A) Kamala Das, Sarojini Naidu, Toru Dutt, numbers 31 to 40 :
Meena Alexander 31. Select the matching pair
(B)Meena Alexander, Toru Dutt, Sarojini (A) A Idylls of the King – Browning
Naidu, Kamala Das (B)The Diverting History of John Gilpin –
(C)Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Das, Meena William Cowper
Alexander, Toru Dutt (C)The Tower – T.S. Eliot
(D)Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Das, (D)The Fall of Hyperion – Shelley
Meena Alexander Answer: B
Answer: D
32. Select the matching pair
28. Choose the correct chronological (A) Hard Times – Psychological novel
sequence (B)To The Light-house – Picaresque novel
(A) Jude, Lady Havisham, Dorothea, Mrs. (C)The Castle of Otranto – Gothic novel
Morel (D)Wuthering Heights – Historical novel
(B)Dorothea, Mrs. Morel, Jude, Lady Answer: C
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33. Select the matching pair 40. Select the matching pair
(A) Emily Bronte – Yorkshire Moors (A) Pearl- The Scarlet Letter
(B)Hardy – Scotland (B) Raka- The God of Small Things
(C)Walter Scott – Ireland (C) Raphael- The Great Expectations
(D)Mark Twain – Yoknapatawfa (D)Pip- Fire on the Mountain
Answer: A Answer: A
34. Select the matching pair 41. The assertion, ―We had a very restful
(A) Surrealism – Tristan Tzara holiday,‖ implies :
(B)Imagism – Spender (A) We didn‟t exert ourselves
(C)Naturalism – Yeats (B) We did nothing
(D)Magic Realism – Galriel Garcia Marquez (C) We were very lazy
Answer: D (D) We had a very dull time
Answer: A
35. Select the matching pair
(A) Victor Shklovsky – Carnivalesque 42. ―The progress of an artist is an continual
(B)Stanley Fish – Aphasia self sacrifice, a continual extinction of
(C)Hjelmslev – Glossematics personality. ―This assertion implies :
(D)Roland Barthes – Affective Stylistics (A) Merely by a continual extinction of
Answer: C personality an artist is sure to make progress
(B) An artist is likely to make progress through
36. Select the matching pair continual self sacrifice and extinction of
(A) Bessie Head – Newzealand personality
(B)Derek Walcott – South Africa (C) Continual self sacrifice and extinction of
(C)A.D. Hope – Australia personality will undermine the progress of the
(D)Ondaatje – Nigeria artist
Answer: C (D) An artist must have a personality to create
art
37. Select the matching pair Answer: b
(A) T.S. Eliot – The Birthday Party
(B)Osborne – The Entertainer 43. ―The best poetry will be found to have a
(C)Bernard Shaw – Luther power of forming, sustaining and delighting
(D)Tom Stoppard – Lear us‖. This assertion implies :
Answer: B (A)Poetry has multiple functions to perform
(B)Poetry is more useful than other arts
38. Select the matching pair (C)All other arts including poetry have their
(A) Periodical Essays – Bacon limitations
(B)Confessional Poetry – Ted Hughes (D)Poetry has no role to play
(C)Science Fiction – David Lodge Answer: b
(D)Pre-Raphaelites – William Morris
Answer: D 44. ―Human beings, and especially human
beings as an integral part of a social
39. Select the matching pair organisation are regarded as primary
(A) Nissim Ezekiel – Persian subject matter of literature‖. This assertion
(B)Gieve Patel – Gujarati implies :
(C)Dilip Chitre – Sanskrit (A)Human beings alone can be the subject
(D)Adil Jussawallah – Urdu matter of literature
Answer: B (B)All living beings-animal and human,
contribute towards the creation of literature
(C)Humans as social beings are the nucleus of
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all literary exercise (D) liberty with representations of fictional
(D)Literature transcends the human and the characters
non-human. Answer: A
Answer: c
47. ‗Linguistic freedom‘ is :
45. ―We must learn to see more, to hear (A) freedom with diction, newly-coined words,
more, to feel more‖. The assertion implies : syntax
(A)Human beings have only three faculties at (B) freedom with the use of colloquial
their command to comprehend all knowledge language
(B)A sharpening of three faculties mentioned (C) freedom with the use of figurative
would help human beings to become better construction
(C)Only with the combination of all senses, we (D) freedom with literal truth
may become better Answer: A
(D)Seeing, hearing and feeling are not enough
to become better human beings 48. How do you justify the linguistic freedom
Answer: B taken ?
(A) on the basis of scholarship embedded
Read the passage below, and answer the (B) on the basis of form
questions that follow based on your (C) on the basis of the success of the effect
understanding of the passage : (D) on the basis of the thematic grandeur
John Dryden in the late seventeenth century Answer: C
defined poetic license as “The liberty which
poets have assumed to themselves, in all ages, 49. ―Diction‖ means :
of speaking things in verse which are beyond (A) severity of prose
the severity of prose”. In its most common use (B) devices of metre and rhyme
the term is confined to diction alone, to justify (C) poetic license
the poet‟s departure from the rules and (D) syntax and word order
conventions of standard spoken and written Answer: D
prose in matters such as syntax, word order, the
use of archaic or newly coined words, and the 50. ―Poetic license‖ applies to :
conventional use of eye-rhymes. The degree (A) Poets alone
and kinds of linguistic freedom assumed by (B) All literary
poets have varied according to the conventions (C) Dramatists only
of each age, but in every case the justification (D) Epic writers only
of the freedom lies in the success of the effect. Answer: B
In a broader sense, “Poetic License” is applied
not only to language, but to all the ways in
which poets and other literacy authors are held
to be free to violate, for special effects, the
ordinary norms not only of common discourse
but also of literal and historical truth, including
the devices of metre and rhyme, the recourse to Paper 2- December 2005
literary conventions, and the representation of
fictional characters and events. 1. Chaucer‘s The Knight‘s Tale is a high
romance told in :
46. ‗Poetic license‘ means : (A) rhyme royal
(A) liberty with diction, alone (B) terza rima
(B) liberty with diction and norms of common (C) heroic couplets
discourse (D) verse libre
(C) liberty with historical truth Answer: C
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2. Marlowe‘s first original work was : 8. Table-Talk is a collection of essays by :
(A) Tamburlaine the Great (A) Lamb
(B) The Tragical History of D. Faustus (B) Hunt
(C) The Jew of Malta (C) Hazlitt
(D) The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable (D) De Quincey
Death of Edward the second Answer: C
Answer: A
9. Carlyle‘s Sartor Resartus was written
3. Marvell pays his homage to the Protector under the influence of :
and a tribute to the royal dignity of Charles (A) Italian romance
I in : (B) German romance
(A) “The Garden” (C) French romance
(B) “The Picture of T.C.” (D) British romance
(C) “Bermudas” Answer: B
(D) “Horatian ode upon Cromewells‟ Return
From Ireland” 10. The image of the Neptune taming the sea
Answer: D horse appears in :
(A) “Abt Vogler”
4. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman was (B) “Prospice”
written by : (C) “Andrea del Sarto”
(A) Sir Henry Wotton (D) “My Last Duchess”
(B) John Bunyan Answer: D
(C) Jeremy Taylor
(D) Richard Baxter 11. T.S. Eliot‘s The Waste Land is dedicated
Answer: B to Il miglior fabro (―The better Craftsman‖)
which refers to :
5. Dr. Johnson‘s A Dictionary of the English (A) Ezra Pound
Language was published in : (B) Baudelaire
(A) 1755 (C) G.M. Hopkins
(B) 1756 (D) Dante
(C) 1757 Answer: A
(D) 1758
Answer: A 12. The locale of Riders to the Sea is :
(A) Dublin
6. The main idea of The Dunciad was taken (B) Aran Island
from : (C) Galway
(A) The Hind and the Panther (D) Belfast
(B) Religio Laici Answer: B
(C) Mac-Flecknoe
(D) The Medal 13. The ―Bog‖ poems are associated with :
Answer: C (A) Ted Hughes
(B) Elizabeth Jennings
7. The character of the leech gatherer (C) Tony Harrison
appears in : (D) Seamus Heaney
(A) The Recluse Answer: D
(B) The Prelude Book I
(C) Laodamia 14. Edward Bond‘s Bingo deals with the life
(D) Resolution and Independence of :
Answer: D (A) Dryden
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(B) Shakespeare (B) Ottava rima
(C) Ben Jonson (C) Tennysonian stanza
(D) Marlowe (D) Spenserian stanza
Answer: B Answer: B
15. Arthur Millers The Death of a Salesman Choose the correct chronological sequence
is mainly about : in question numbers 21 to 30 :
(A) American dream
(B) American imperialism (A) Love‟s Labour‟s Lost, Twelfth Night,
(C) American pragmatism Othello, The Tempest
(D) American transcendentalism (B) Twelfth Night, Love‟s Labour‟s Lost, The
Answer: A Tempest, Othello
(C) Love‟s Labour‟s Lost, Othello, The
16. The patient in Michael Ondaatje‘s The Tempest, Twelfth Night
English Patient is : (D) Othello, Twelfth Night, Love‟s Labour‟s
(A) Almasy Lost, The Tempest
(B) Caravaggio Answer: A
(C) Kirpal Singh
(D) Hana (A) Ralph Roister Doister, Utopia, Astrophel
Answer: A and Stella, Shepherds Calendar
(B) Astrophel and Stella, Ralph Roister
17. Mimetic criticism views literary work as Doister, Shepherds Calendar
: (C) Shepherds Calendar, Astrophel and Stella,
(A) personalisation Utopia, Ralph Roister Doister
(B) depersonalization (D) Utopia, Ralph Roister Doister, Shepherds
(C) imitation Calendar, Astrophel and Stella
(D) interpretation Answer: D
Answer: C
(A) Sonnet, periodical essay, gothic novel,
18. The concept of ―arche writing‖ is absurd play
developed by : (B) Gothic novel, periodical essay, sonnet,
(A) Fish absurd play
(B) Foucault (C) Periodical essay, gothic novel, absurd play,
(C) Derrida sonnet
(D) Paul de Man (D) Sonnet, gothic novel, periodical essay,
Answer: C absurd play
Answer: A
19. A figure of speech in which two terms
opposite in meaning are placed side by side (A) Stephen Spender, T.S. Eliot, Philip Larkin,
in one phrase is known as : Ted Hughes
(A) paradox (B) T.S. Eliot, Stephen Spender, Philip Larkin,
(B) oxymoron Ted Hughes
(C) sarcasm (C) Philip Larkin, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes,
(D) antithesis Stephen Spender
Answer: B (D) T.S. Eliot, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes,
Stephen Spender
20. A stanza of eight iambic pentametres on Answer: B
the pattern of ab, ab, ab, cc is known as :
(A) Rhyme royal
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(A) Negative capability, sublime, dissociation (D) Kanthapura, Nectar in a Sie‟ve, Midnight‟s
of sensibility, heteroglossia Children, Calcutta Chromosome
(B) Sublime, negative capability, heteroglossia, Answer: D
dissociation of sensibility
(C) Sublime, negative capability, dissociation (A) The English Novel : Form and Function,
of sensibility, heteroglossia The Craft of Fiction, Aspects of the Novel, The
(D) Heteroglossia, dissociation of sensibility, Sense of an Ending
sublime, negative capability (B) Craft of Fiction, Aspects of the Novel, The
Answer: C English Novel : Form and Function, The Sense
of an Ending
(A) Thyrsis, Adonais, Lycidas, In Memory of (C) The Sense of an Ending, The English
W.B. Yeats Novel : Form and Function, Craft of Fiction,
(B) Lycidas, Thyrsis, Adonais, In Memory of Aspects of the novel
W.B. Yeats (D) Aspects of the Novel, Craft of Fiction, The
(C) Lycidas, Adonais, Thyrsis, In Memory of Sense of an Ending, The English Novel : Form
W.B. Yeats and Function
(D) Adonais, In Memory of W.B. Yeats, Answer: B
Lycidas, Thyrsis
Answer: C Select the matching pairs in question
numbers 31 to 40 :
(A) “Sign, Structure and Play”, “Signs Taken
for Wonder”, “The Death of the Author”, “Two (A) Sohrab and Rustum – Arnold
Uses of Language” (B) The Princess – Browning
(B) “Two Uses of Language”, “The Death of (C) Hugh Selwyn Mauberly – Hopkins
the Author”, “Sign, Structure and Play”, “Signs (D) The Excursion – Shelley
Taken for Wonder” Answer: A
(C) “The Death of the Author”, “Two Uses of
Language”, “Signs Taken for Wonder”, “Sign, (A) Middlemarch – Picaresque
Structure and Play” (B) Women in Love – Historical
(D) “Two Uses of Language”, “The Death of (C) Pamela – Epistolary novel
the Author”, “Sign, Structure and Play”, “Signs (D) Pride and Prejudice – Autobiographical
Taken for Wonder” Answer: C
Answer: B
(A) Dickens – Manchester
(A) “The Burial of the Dead”, “A Game of (B) Faulkner – Yoknapatawfa
Chess”, “Fire Sermon”, “Death by Water” (C) Joyce – Belfast
(B) “A Game of Chess”, “The Burial of the (D) Lawrence – Birmingham
Dead”, “Fire Sermon”, “Death by Water” Answer: B
(C) “Fire Sermon”, “The Burial of the Dead”,
“Death by Water”, “A Game of Chess” (A) Naturalism – Zola
(D) “The Burial of the Dead”, “Fire Sermon”, (B) Symbolism – T.E. Hulme
“Death by Water”, “A Game of Chess” (C) Expressionism – V. Woolf
Answer: A (D) Magic realism – Graham Greene
Answer: A
(A) Midnight‟s Children, Nectar in a Sie‟ve,
Kanthapura, Calcutta Chromosome (A) Audrey Thomas – The Stone Angel
(B) Kanthapura, Midnight‟s Children, Nectar (B) Robert Kroetsch – The Burning Water
in a Sieve, Calcutta Chromosome (C) Margaret Lawrence – What the Crow Said
(C) Kanthapura, Midnight‟s Children, Calcutta
Chromosome, Nectar in a Sie‟ve
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(D) Margaret Atwood – The Blind Assassin 43. X : ―He‘s mean and stingy.
Answer: D Y : ―Oh, I wouldn‘t say that. He is just
thrifty‖. The above dialogue asserts that he :
(A) Marlowe – Faust (A) is too careful with his money
(B) Fletcher – The White Devil (B) never spends money
(C) Congreve – The Old Bachelor (C) is so careful with his money that everyone
(D) Ben Jonson – The Maid‟s Tragedy admires him for good management
Answer: C (D) is careful with his money
Answer: A
(A) Nadine Gordimer – Nigeria
(B) Chinua Achebe – Kenya 44. ―I wandered lonely as a cloud‖ makes an
(C) Judith Wright – Australia assertion that :
(D) Peter Carey – Canada (A) The poet travelled with the cloud
Answer: C (B) The poet moved aimlessly with the cloud
(C) Both the poet and the cloud were lonely
(A) Campus novel – Margaret Drabble (D) The poet moved as aimlessly as the cloud
(B) Travelogue – Macaulay Answer: D
(C) Diary writing – Samuel Pepys
(D) Periodical essay – Lamb 45. ―Death is here, and death is there Death
Answer: C is busy everywhere All around, within,
beneath, Above, is death – and we are
(A) Girish Karnad – Kannada death‖ The effect of rhythm, sound, word-
(B) A.K. Ramanujan – Telugu order and stress in the above lines
(C) Kamala Das – Tamil (A) assist the communication of meaning
(D) R. Parthasarathy – Malayalam (B) hinder the communication of meaning
Answer: A (C) reflect meaning and mood
(D) reflect a mechanical regularity
(A) Mrs. Malaprop – The School for Scandal Answer: C
(B) Nora – The Seagull
(C) Lydia Languish – She Stoops to Conquer Read the following passage and answer the
(D) Eliza Doolittle – Pygmalion questions that follow based on your
Answer: D understanding of the passage.
All of us live in a society, and are members of
41. In the assertion ―Four out of five people a nationality wtih its own language, tradition,
suffer from dreaded pyorrhoea‖, the writer historical situation. To what extent are
wants to arouse the feeling of : intellectuals servants of these actualities, to
(A) Sympathy what extent enemies ? The same is true of
(B) Fear intellectuals‟ relationship with institutions
(C) Hatred (academy, church, professional guild) and with
(D) Ill-will wordly powers, which in our times have co-
Answer: B opted the intelligentsia to an extraordinary
degree. Thus in my view the principal
42. ―John is six feet tall and 240 lb‖ is an intellectual duty is the search for relative
assertion of : independence from such pressures. Hence my
(A) a fact characterization of the intellectual as an exile
(B) a judgement and marginal, as amateur, and as the author of
(C) an opinion a language that tries to speak the truth to
(D) an inference power.
Answer: D
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46. Name four important sources to which characterised as an exile, marginal, and
an intellectual is related basically : amateur
(A) Society, institutions, wordly powers, and (B) to achieve partial independence and be
government characterised as the author of a language
(B) Institutions, language, truth, and power (C) to manoeuvre independence and be
(C) Nationality, language, tradition, and characterised as a keeper of his own conscience
historical situation (D) to search for relative independence and be
(D) Nationality, truth, language, and tradition characterised as exile and marginal, as amateur,
Answer: C and author
Answer: D
47. What is the meaning of intellectuals
being ‗servants‘ ?
(A) The intellectual may be appropriated by his
tradition, historical and other actualities of his
nation and society
(B) The intellectual may be inappropriately Co-
opted by agencies of the government
(C) The intellectual may be sent into exile and
made marginal
(D) The intellectual may be forced into
accepting the unacceptable propositions
Answer: A
48. What are the four important institutions

that Co-opt an intellectual ?
(A) society, institutions, wordly powers, and
truth
(B) academy, church, professional guild, and
wordly power
(C) society, professional guild, wordly power,
truth
(D) academy, wordly power, truth, government
Answer: B
49. What is the meaning of ‗relative

independence‘ ?
(A) liberating oneself from the pressures of
government and institutions
(B) liberating oneself from the pressures of Paper 2- June 2006
religion and state
(C) liberating oneself from the pressures of
1. Which one of the following author – book
institutions and wordly powers
pair is correctly matched ?
(D) liberating oneself from all religious and
(A) J.M. Coetzee – Shame
secular pressures
(B) Saul Bellow – Herzog
Answer: C
(C) Salman Rushdie – Disgrace
(D) Elfriede Jelinek – The Pianist
50. What is the duty of an intellectual and Answer: B
how many identities does he acquire to
perform his role ?
(A) to achieve complete independence and be
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2. Which novel has a nameless narrator ? (D) diaries
(A) Invisible Man (B) Answer: D
(B) The Grapes of Wrath
(C) Moby Dick 9. Samuel Butlers Hudibras is modeled upon
(D) Anna Karenina :
Answer: A (A) “Annus Mirabilis”
(B) Endymion
3. Samuel Beckett wrote : (C) Don Quixote
(A) Endgame (D) Pilgrim‟s Progress
(B) Volpone Answer: C
(C) Mother Courage and Her Children
(D) A Doll‟s House 10. Who was the last of the Christian
Answer: A Humanists ?
(A) Oliver Cromowell
4. Willy Loman is a character in : (B) John Milton
(A) A Doll‟s House (C) John Bunyan
(B) The Cherry Orchard (D) Richard Crashaw
(C) Waiting for Godot Answer: C
(D) The Death of a Salesman
Answer: D 11. The narrative of Raja Rao‘s Kanthapura
is based on :
5. The Plough and the Stars was written by : (A) Puranas
(A) G.B. Shaw (B) Shastras
(B) J.M. Synge (C) The Ramayana
(C) Sean O‟casey (D) The Mahabharata
(D) Lady Gregory Answer: A
Answer: C
12. Which of the following author – book
6. The subtitle of Dryden‘s Absalom and pair is correctly matched ?
Achitophel is : (A) David Malouf – The City of Djins
(A) There was no subtitle (B) C.L.R. James – The English Patient
(B) A satire (C) Shashi Tharoor – Trotter Nama
(C) A satire on the True Blue Protestant Poets (D) Arundhati Roy – Algebra of Infinite Justice
(D) A poem Answer: D
Answer: A
13. Who wrote ―A tiger does not proclaim its
7. Who of the following is not a periodical tigretude‖ ?
essayist ? (A) Ngugi
(A) Jonathan Swift (B) Achebe
(B) Joseph Addison (C) Soyinka
(C) Richard Steele (D) Derek Walcott
(D) Lancelot Andrews Answer:C
Answer: D
14. ―Jindiworobak‖ movement relates to :
8. John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys were the (A) Australian literature
famous writers of : (B) Canadian literature
(A) essays (C) New Zealand literature
(B) editorials (D) Caribbean literature
(C) letters Answer: A
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15. The Montreal group of poets 21. Which of the following thinker – concept
championed the cause of : pairs is rightly matched ?
(A) Nature poetry (A) Stanley Fish – Reader Response
(B) Symbolish poetry (B) Jacques Devida – New Historicism
(C) Imagist poetry (C) Northrop Frye – Practical Criticism
(D) Modernist poetry (D) I.A. Richards – Archetypal Criticism
Answer: D Answer: A
16. The figure of the ―Abyssinian maid‖ 22. Which of the following thinker – concept
appears in : pairs is rightly matched ?
(A) “Frost at midnight” (A) Vaman – Dhwanyaloka
(B) “Christabel” (B) Bharata – Natya Shastra
(C) “Kubla Khan” (C) Mamata – Vakrokti
(D) “Dejection : an Ode” (D) Abhinava Gupta – Kavya Alankar
Answer: C Answer: B
17. Coleridges statement that imagination 23. Choose the correct sequence of the
―dissolves, diffuses, dissipates in order to following schools of criticism :
recreate‖ relates to : (A) Structuralism, New Criticism,
(A) fancy Deconstruction, Reader Response
(B) primary imagination (B) New Criticism, Structuralism,
(C) secondary imagination Deconstruction, Reader Response
(D) esemplastic imagination (C) Reader Response, Deconstruction,
Answer: C Structuralism, New Criticism
(D) Deconstruction, New Criticism,
18. ―Did he who made the Lamb made thee‖ Structuralism, Reader Response
appears in : Answer: B
(A) “The Tyger”
(B) “Chimney Sweeper” 24. ―Peripetia‖ means :
(C) “London” (A) purgation of emotion
(D) “Introduction” (B) tragic flaw
Answer: A (C) reversal of fortune
(D) recognition of error
19. ―Essays of Elia‖ are : Answer: C
(A) political ideology
(B) economic disparity 25. ―Gynocriticism‖ focuses on :
(C) literary criticism (A) Criticism on women
(D) personal impressions (B) Criticism by women
Answer: D (C) Criticism of male writers by women writers
(D) Women as writers
20. Who among the following is a writer of Answer: D
historical romances ?
(A) Emily Bronte 26. Which of the following sequences is
(B) Jane Austen correct ?
(C) Walter Scott (A) Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond, Middlemarch,
(D) Walter Savage Lander The Return of the Native
Answer: C (B) Henry Esmond, Vanity Fair, Middlemarch,
The Return of the Native
(C) Middlemarch, The Return of the Native,
Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond
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(D) The Return of the Native, Middlemarch, (D) The Jew of Malta
Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond Answer: B
Answer: A
33. The mystery plays deal with :
27. Queen Victoria‘s reign, after whom the (A) the life of Christ
Victorian period is named, spans : (B) the New Testament
(A) 1833 – 1901 (C) Psalms
(B) 1837 – 1901 (D) Apocrypha
(C) 1840 – 1905 Answer: A
(D) 1842 – 1905
Answer: B 34. The Faerie Queene is based on :
(A) Utopia
28. Pre – Raphaelite poetry is mainly (B) Tottelis Miscellany
concerned with : (C) Morte d‟Arthur
(A) narrative and style (D) Orlando Furioso
(B) narrative and nature Answer: D
(C) form and design
(D) form and value 35. Choose the correct chronological
Answer: C sequence of the following plays :
(A) King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet
29. The concept of ―mad woman in the attic‖ (B) Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet
can be traced to : (C) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
(A) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (D) Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth
(B) Villette Answer: C
(C) Wuthering Heights
(D) Jane Eyre 36. Pope‘s ―Essay on Criticism‖ sums up the
Answer: D art of poetry as taught first by :
(A) Aristotle
30. Who among the Victorians is called ―the (B) Horace
prophet of modern society‖ ? (C) Longinus
(A) Ruskin (D) Plato
(B) Carlyle Answer: B
(C) Macaulay
(D) Arnold 37. Swift‘s Tale of a Tub is a satire on :
Answer: D (A) science and philosophy
(B) art and morality
31. Who among the following is not a (C) dogma and superstition
pilgrim in The Canterbury Tales ? (D) fake morals and manners
(A) the Haberdasher Answer: A
(B) the Tapyser
(C) the Blacksmith 38. Dr. Johnson started :
(D) the Summoner (A) The Postman
Answer: C (B) The Spectator
(C) The Rambler
32. Bosola is the executioner in : (D) The Tatler
(A) The Spanish Tragedy Answer: C
(B) The Duchess of Malfi
(C) The White Devil 39. Who among the following cautioned
against the dangers of popular liberty ?
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(A) Mary Wollstonecraft 45. The theatre of cruelty is associated with :
(B) Edmund Burke (A) Stanislavosky
(C) Thomas Hobbes (B) Grotovsky
(D) John Locke (C) Antonin Artand
Answer: C (D) Eugino Barba
Answer: C
40. Which famous American classic opens
with ―Call me Ishmael‖ ? 46. A particle is :
(A) Rip Van Winkle (A) a patchwork of words, sentences, passages
(B) The Scarlet Letter (B) a satirical poem
(C) The Grapes of Wrath (C) a love song
(D) Moby Dick (D) a collection of lines from different poems
Answer: D Answer: A
41. Allen Ginsberg‘s vision of America is 47. ―Careless she is with artful
inspired by : Care/Affecting to seem unaffected‖ is an
(A) Walt Whitman example of :
(B) Robert Frost (A) irony
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson (B) paradox
(D) Edgar A. Poe (C) simile
Answer: A (D) metaphor
Answer: B
42. Who among the following represents the
Sri Lankan diaspora ? 48. A metrical foot containing a stressed,
(A) M.G. Vassanji followed by an unstressed, syllable is :
(B) Cyril Debydeen (A) anapaest
(C) Michael Ondaatje (B) iamb
(D) Arnold H. Itwaru (C) trochee
Answer: C (D) dactyl
Answer: C
43. Out of Africa is a film adaptation of a
work by : 49. The rhyme scheme of a Spenserian
(A) Alice Walker sonnet is :
(B) Margaret Lawrence (A) abba, cbcb, cdcd, ee
(C) Margaret Atwood (B) abab, bccb, ccdd, ee
(D) None of them (C) aabb, bcbc, ccdd, ee
Answer: D (D) abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee
Answer: D
44. The Empire writes Back was written by :
(A) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Ngugi Wa 50. Using the expression ―Crown‖ for the
Thinngo monarchy is an example of :
(B) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Stephen (A) Metonymy
Slemon (B) Synecdoche
(C) Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Chinua (C) Irony
Achebe (D) Metaphor
(D) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Gareth Answer: A
Griffiths
Answer: D
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Paper 2- December 2006
1. The title The Sound and the Fury is taken
from :
(A) Hamlet
(B) Macbeth
(C) The Tempest
(D) King Lear
Answer: B
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2. Pecola is a character in : (C) nature of human society
(A) The Bluest Eye (D) nature of human ideology
(B) Oliver Twist Answer: B
(C) Don Quixote
(D) Beloved 9. Restoration Comedy marks the
Answer: A restoration of :
(A) women‟s rights
3. Which of the following was associated (B) democracy
with the ―Bloomsbury Group‖. (C) monarchy
(A) T. S. Eliot (D) human rights
(B) W. B. Yeats Answer: C
(C) T. E. Hulme
(D) Virginia Woolf 10. Which of Alexander Pope‘s poems
Answer: D begins with the line ―Shut, shut the door,
good
4. Which of the following characters appear John, fatigued I said‖ :
in Waiting for Godot : (A) “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot”
(A) Jerry (B) “Dunciad”
(B) Lucky (C) “Epistles”
(C) Jimmy Porter (D) “Rape of the Lock”
(D) Ham Answer: A
Answer: B
11. The statement ―One has to convey in a
5. About whom did T. S. Eliot write ―A language that is not one‘s own the spirit that
thought to him was an experience‖ : is
(A) Herbert one‘s own‖ appears in :
(B) Marvell (A) Ice-Candy Man
(C) Donne (B) The Guide
(D) Crashaw (C) Nagamandala
Answer: C (D) Kanthapura
Answer: D
6. The last book of Gulliver‘s Travels is :
(A) “Voyage to Houyhnhnms” 12. Which of the following author-book pair
(B) “Voyage to Laputa” is correctly matched :
(C) “Voyage to Brobdingnag” (A) Arundhati Roy – The Autumn of the
(D) “Voyage to Lilliput” Patriarch
Answer: A (B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love in the
Time of Cholera
7. Who edited The Tatler : (C) Umber to Eco – The Tin Drum
(A) Steele and John Locke (D) Jhumpa Lahiri – Beloved
(B) Addison and Dryden Answer: B
(C) Addison and Blackmore
(D) Addison and Steele 13. Which of the following women writers
Answer: D did not receive the Noble Prize :
(A) Toni Morrison
8. John Locke‘s ―Essay Concerning Human (B) Nadine Gordiner
Understanding‖ is about : (C) Buchi Emcheta
(A) nature of human behaviour (D) Doris Lessing
(B) nature of the human mind Answer: C
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14. Which of the following is not an 20. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia and
Australian author : Wickham eloped to :
(A) Margaret Laurence (A) London
(B) David Malauf (B) Bath
(C) Mudooroo Narogin (C) Gretna Green
(D) Peter Carey (D) Glasgow
Answer: A Answer: A
15. The Tulsis of Naipaul‘s A House for Mr. 21. Which of the following thinker-concept
Biswas lived in : pairs is correctly matched :
(A) Pagotes House (A) Frye ……….. Mysticism
(B) Hanuman Mansion (B) Derrida …………. Deconstruction
(C) Tulsiana (C) I. A. Richards ……….. Archetypal
(D) Hanuman House Criticism
Answer: D (D) Eagleton …………… Psychological
Criticism
16. The quotation ―a repetition in the finite Answer: B
mind of the eternal act of creation in the
infinite I AM‖ appears in : 22. Which of the following thinker concept
(A) Lyrical Ballads pairs is correctly matched :
(B) Biographia Literaria (A) Abhinava Gupta ………….. Dhwanyaloka
(C) “In Defense of Poetry” (B) Vaman ………….. Kavya Alankar
(D) Letters of Keats (C) Mamata ………….. Kavya Prakash
Answer: B (D) Bharata ………….. Vakrokti
Answer: C
17. ―Fearful Symmetry‖ appears in the
poem : 23. Choose the correct sequence of the
(A) “Introduction” following schools of criticism :
(B) “Chimney Sweeper” (A) Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader-
(C) “The Tyger” Response, New Historicism
(D) “London” (B) New Historicism, Reader-Response,
Answer: C Deconstruction, Structuralism
(C) Deconstruction, New Historicism,
18. The quotation ―when a man is capable of Structuralism, Reader-Response
being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, (D) Reader-Response, Deconstruction, New
without any irritable reaching after fact and Historicism, Structuralism
reasons‖ is a definition of : Answer: A
(A) Negative capability
(B) Secondary imagination 24. ―Hamartia‖ means :
(C) Criticism of life (A) reversal of fortunes
(D) Dissociation of sensibility (B) purgation of emotions
Answer: A (C) depravity
(D) error of judgement
19. Which of the following prose-writers do Answer: D
not belong to the Romantic Period :
(A) Peacock 25. The term ―gynocriticism‖ was coined by
(B) De Quincey :
(C) Hazlitt (A) Betty Friedman
(D) Gibbon (B) Elaine Showalter
Answer: D (C) Luce Irigarey
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(D) Susan Sontag (A) the Prioress
Answer: B (B) the Nun
(C) the Wife of Bath
26. Which is the correct sequence : (D) the Narrator
(A) D. G. Rossetti, George Eliot, Bronte Answer: C
Sisters, Thackeray
(B) George Eliot, D. G. Rossetti, Bronte 32. Which of the following is not a Revenge
Sisters, Thackeray Tragedy :
(C) Thackeray, Bronte Sisters, George Eliot, D. (A) Duchess of Malfi
G. Rossetti (B) Volpone
(D) Bronte Sisters, George Eliot, Thackeray, D. (C) Hamlet
G. Rossetti (D) Gorboduc
Answer: C Answer: B
27. Which of Dickens‘ novels opens with the 33. Miracle plays are based on the lives of :
words ―It was the best of times, it was the (A) Knights
worst of times …. ―. (B) Crusaders
(A) A Tale of Two Cities (C) Pilgrims
(B) Oliver Twist (D) Saints
(C) Pickwick Papers Answer: D
(D) Hard Times
Answer: A 34. The Red cross Knight is Spenser‘s Faerie
Queene represents :
28. The term ―The Fleshly School of Poetry‖ (A) Temperance
is associated with the : (B) Chastity
(A) Chartists (C) Truth
(B) Pre-Raphaelites (D) Falsehood
(C) Symbolists Answer: C
(D) Imagists
Answer: B 35. The line ―Present fears/Are less than
horrible imaginings‖ appear in :
29. The line ―The sea is calm tonight‖ occurs (A) Macbeth
in : (B) King Lear
(A) Tennyson‟s “Maude” (C) Othello
(B) Arnold‟s “Thyrsis” (D) Julius Caesar
(C) Tennyson‟s “The Lotos-Eaters” Answer: A
(D) Arnold‟s “Dover Beach”
Answer: D 36. The author of Ars Poetica is :
(A) Plato
30. The term ―gothic‖, a category of fiction, (B) Horace
also applies to : (C) Virgil
(A) architecture (D) Aristotle
(B) painting Answer: B
(C) music
(D) theater 37. Which of the following is not a work by
Answer: A Dr. Johnson :
(A) Preface to the English Dictionary
31. The gap-toothed character in ―prologue‖ (B) Preface to Shakespeare
to The Centerbury Tales is : (C) Lives of English Poets
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(D) Cowley (D) a exposition of Canadian history
Answer: D Answer: B
38. Which novel of Daniel Defoe was 44. The term ―Negritude‖ was coined by :
considered to be the best by E. M. Forster ? (A) Frantz Fanon and Homi Bhabha
(A) Colonel Jack (B) Ngugi Wa‟ Thiongo and Wole Soyinka
(B) Robinson Crusoe (C) Ainee Cesaire and Leopold Senghor
(C) Captain Singleton (D) K. Alfred Memi and Chinua Achebe
(D) Moll Flanders Answer: C
Answer: D
45. Bertolt Brecht‘s concept of theatre was
39. Edmund Burke denounced the French influenced by :
Revolution in : (A) Irwin Piscator
(A) Political Philosophy (B) Antonin Artaud
(B) A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of (C) Peter Brook
our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (D) Eugino Barba
(C) Reflections Answer: A
(D) The Annual Register
Answer: C 46. The relationship between Othello and
Iago is an example of :
40. The line ―A man can be destroyed but (A) inversion
not defeated‖ appears in : (B) irony
(A) For Whom the Bell Tolls (C) innuendo
(B) The Old Man and the Sea (D) invective
(C) The Snows of Kilimanjaro Answer: D
(D) The Sun also Rises
Answer: B 47. A metrical foot consisting of an
unstressed syllable followed by a stressed
41. Who among the following is called ―A syllable is :
New England Poet‖ : (A) dactyl
(A) Robert Frost (B) trochee
(B) Edwin Arlington Robinson (C) iamb
(C) William Carlos Williams (D) anapaest
(D) Allen Ginsberg Answer: C
Answer: A
48. The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean
42. Which of the following is not a play by sonnet is :
Tennessee Williams : (A) abab, cdcd, efef, gg
(A) Night of the Iguana (B) abba, cddc, effe, gg
(B) A Streetcar named Desire (C) abcd, efgh, effe, hh
(C) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (D) abca, abca, bcab, dd
(D) The Zoo Story Answer: A
Answer: D
49. Using ―the Bench‖ for the judiciary is an
43. Margaret Atwood‘s Survival is : example of :
(A) a critical assessment of Canadian writing (A) metaphor
(B) a thematic guide to Canadian literature (B) irony
(C) a critique of Canadian polity (C) Synecdoche
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(D) metonymy
Answer: D
50. Four feet, comprising a monosyllable,

trochee, dactyl and first paeon is often called
:
(A) running rhythm
(B) sprung rhythm
(C) blank verse
(D) rhymed verse
Answer: B
Paper 2- June 2007

1. The lines :
‗Even I, a dunce of more renown than they,
Was sent before but to prepare thy way‘ are
quoted from :
(A) Pope‟s Dunciad
(B) Dryden‟s Absalom and Achitophel
(C) Dryden‟s Mac Flecknoe
(D) Swift‟s A Tale of a Tub
Answer: C
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2. Fanny Burney‘s Evelina is about : 8. Select the matching pair :
(A) a young lady‟s entry into English (A) The Book of the Duchess : Blanche of
fashionable society Leicester
(B) English refugees in Paris (B) The Canterbury Tales : The Host of the
(C) an English enthusiast for revolutionary Tabard
liberty (C) Troilus and Criseyde : Squire
(D) money and the world of the country house (D) The Parliament of Birds : St. Agnes‟s Eve
Answer: A Answer: C
3. The unexpurgated text of Lady 9. ‗The Winter Morning‘ forms part of a

Chatterley‘s Lover was published after longer poem by :
Obscenity trial in (A) Cowper
: (B) Blake
(A) 1958 (C) Burns
(B) 1965 (D) Byron
(C) 1960 Answer: A
(D) 1962
Answer: C 10. Bradley Pearson is the narrator of Iris
Murdoch‘s novel :
4. Sir Andrew Freeport is a character in : (A) Under the Net
(A) Humphry Clinker (B) Bruno‟s Dream
(B) Joseph Andrews (C) The Bell
(C) The Coverley Papers (D) The Black Prince
(D) Clarissa Answer: D
Answer: C
11. ‗Victorian Compromise‘ is an expression
5. In which of the following novels does Stein first used by :
feature as a significant character ? (A) David Cecil
(A) Under Western Eyes (B) G. K. Chesterton
(B) Lord Jim (C) Lytton Strachey
(C) Heart of Darkness (D) Vincent Buckley
(D) Nostromo Answer: B
Answer: B
12. More‘s Latin Masterpiece Utopia was
6. The Grand Inquisitor is a character in : translated into English in :
(A) Crime and Punishment (A) 1551
(B) Notes from the Underground (B) 1498
(C) Brothers Karamazov (C) 1516
(D) The Idiot (D) 1532
Answer: C Answer: A
7. Which modern critic described value 13. The Anxiety of Influence : A Theory of
judgements as ‗the donkey‘s carrot of Poetry is written by :
literary criticism‘ ? (A) Maud Bodkin
(A) T. S. Eliot (B) Stephen Spender
(B) I. A. Richards (C) Harold Bloom
(C) William Empson (D) Frank Kernode
(D) Northrop Frye Answer: C
Answer: D
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14. Who among the following was not a (C) 1686
member of the group, ‗The University Wits‘ (D) 1684
? Answer: D
(A) Thomas Nashe
(B) Ben Jonson 20. The Egoist is written by :
(C) George Peele (A) Blackmore
(D) Samuel Daniel (B) William Thackeray
Answer: B (C) Meredith
(D) Hardy
15. William Beckford‘s oriental fantasy Answer: C
Vathek was originally written in :
(A) Spanish 21. Which is the correct chronological
(B) German sequence of the following novels ?
(C) French (A) Decline and Fall – The Time Machine –
(D) Italian Nineteen Eightyfour – Brave New World
Answer: C (B) Nineteen Eightyfour – Decline and Fall –
The Time Machine – Brave New World
16. The term ‗American renaissance‘ was (C) Brave New World – The Time Machine –
first used by : Nineteen Eightyfour – Decline and Fall
(A) R. W. B Lewis (D) The Time Machine – Decline and Fall –
(B) Leo Marx Brave New World – Nineteen Eightyfour
(C) F. O. Matthiessen Answer: D
(D) Richard Chase
Answer: C 22. Roland Barthes is the author of one of
the following texts :
17. ‗Gladly would he learn, and gladly (A) The Death of Tragedy
teach‘ is a line from : (B) The Death of a Hero
(A) Spenser‟s Fairie Queen (C) The Death of the Author
(B) Goldsmith‟s „The Deserted Village‟ (D) The Death of Literature
(C) Chaucer‟s Prologue to Canterbury Tales Answer: C
(D) Langland‟s Piers Plowman
Answer: C 23. The author of the Elizabethan sonnet
sequence, Idea, is :
18. Which of the following arrangement of (A) Samuel Daniel
the English plays is in correct chronological (B) Michael Drayton
order ? (C) Edmund Spenser
(A) Justice – The Family Reunion – Saint Joan (D) Fulke Greville
– The Playboy of the Western World Answer: B
(B) Saint Joan – Justice – The Playboy of the
Western World – The Family Reunion 24. Muriel Spark‘s The Prime of Miss Jean
(C) The Family Reunion – Saint Joan – Justice Brodie is a rewriting of the Victorian novel :
– The Playboy of the Western World (A) Jane Eyre
(D) The Playboy of the Western World – (B) Villette
Justice – Saint Joan – The Family Reunion (C) Wuthering Heights
Answer: D (D) North and South
Answer: A
19. The second part of The Pilgrim‘s
Progress was published in : 25. The Romantic Imagination is the title of
(A) 1690 a book by :
(B) 1678
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(A) Harold Bloom (C) For Whom the Bell Tolls : Italy
(B) Graham Hough (D) The Sound and the Fury : Boston
(C) C. M. Bowra Answer: B
(D) M. H. Abrahms
Answer: C 32. ‗The page is printed‘. This is the last line
in a poem by :
26. ‗Ode on the Spring‘ was written by : (A) Sylvia Plath
(A) Thomas Gray (B) Dylan Thomas
(B) John Keats (C) Philip Larkin
(C) Abraham Cowley (D) Ted Hughes
(D) William Collins Answer: D
Answer: A
33. T. S. Eliot‘s The Wasteland was first
27. Which of the following books was not published in :
published in 1859 ? (A) The Criterion
(A) Darwin : The Origin of Species (B) The Dial
(B) George Eliot : Adam Bede (C) The Yale Review
(C) Mill : On Liberty (D) New Yorker
(D) Ruskin : Unto This Last Answer: A
Answer: D
34. ‗Relationship‘ is a long poem by :
28. Three Guineas is the title of a book by : (A) A. K. Ramanujan
(A) E. M. Forster (B) R. Parthasarathy
(B) Virginia Woolf (C) Jayanta Mahapatra
(C) George Orwell (D) Kamala Das
(D) G. B. Shaw Answer: C
Answer: B
35. The phrase, ‗bottomless perdition‘
29. Harold Pinter‘s first four plays are : occurs in Milton‘s Paradise Lost in :
(A) The Caretaker, The Room, The (A) Book I
Homecoming, The Birthday Party (B) Book IV
(B) The Room, The Dumb Waiter, The (C) Book VI
Birthday Party, The Caretaker (D) Book XII
(C) The Homecoming, The Caretaker, Old Answer: A
Times, Betrayal
(D) The Dumb Waiter, The Caretaker, No 36. Which of the following arrangements of
Man‟s Land, Betrayal American plays is in the correct
Answer: B chronological sequence ?
(A) Mourning Becomes Electra – The Hairy
30. Identify the odd character out : Ape – Death of a Salesman – A Streetcar
(A) Bosola Named Desire
(B) De Flores (B) The Hairy Ape – Death of a Salesman –
(C) Iago Mourning Becomes Electra – A Streetcar
(D) Kent Named Desire
Answer: D (C) A Streetcar Named Desire – The Hairy Ape
– Mourning Becomes Electra – Death of a
31. Select the matching pair : Salesman
(A) The Great Gatsby : Chicago (D) The Hairy Ape – Mourning Becomes
(B) The Old Man and the Sea : Cuba Electra – A Streetcar Named Desire – Death of
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a Salesman 41. Arrange the following characters in
Answer: D chronological sequence :
(A) Mr. Rochester – David Copperfield –
37. Which of the following arrangements of Rosamond – Bathsheba
famous characters is in the correct (B) David Copperfield – Rosamond – Mr.
chronological order ? Rochester – Bathsheba
(A) Vittoria Corombona – Beatrice – (C) Bathsheba – Mr. Rochester – David
Christiana – Hermione Copperfield – Becky Sharp
(B) Beatrice – Hermione – Vittoria Corombona (D) David Copperfield – Bathsheba – Mr.
– Christiana Rochester – Rosamond
(C) Hermione – Beatrice – Vittoria Corombona Answer: A
– Christiana
(D) Beatrice – Vittoria Corombona – Hermione 42. The book, The Religion of Man is written
– Christiana by :
Answer: B (A) Sri. Aurobindo
(B) Rabindranath Tagore
38. Which of the following is in correct (C) A. K. Coomaraswamy
chronological sequence ? (D) V. K. Gokak
(A) In Memoriam – „Lycidas‟ – „An Elegy Answer:B
Written on a Country Churchyard‟ – Adonais
(B) Adonais – In Memoriam – „Lycidas‟ – „An 43. In the poem ‗Windhover‘ Hopkins uses :
Elegy Written on a Country Churchyard‟ (A) Alternate Rhyme
(C) „An Elegy Written on a Country (B) Disyllabic Rhyme
Churchyard‟ – In Memoriam – Adonais (C) Cross Rhyme
„Lycidas‟ (D) Split Rhyme
(D) „Lycidas‟ – „An Elegy Written on a Answer: D
Country Churchyard‟ – Adonais – In
Memoriam 44. Which Dickens novel attacks the New
Answer:D Poor Law of 1834 in the opening chapters ?
(A) Great Expectations
39. The Chartist Demonstration in London (B) Hard Times
involving the third presentation of Charter (C) Oliver Twist
took place in : (D) Dombey and Son
(A) 1842 Answer: C
(B) 1846
(C) 1848 45. ‗Throw away thy rod, throw away thy
(D) 1851 wrath, O my God, take the gentle path‘
Answer: C These lines are taken from a poem by :
(A) Herbert
40. ‗Life, like a dome of many-coloured (B) Donne
glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, (C) Crashaw
Until Death tramples it into fragments‘ The (D) Vaughan
above lines occur in : Answer: A
(A) „Dejection : An Ode‟
(B) Adonais 46. ‗Epithalamium‘ is a :
(C) In Memoriam (A) song of mourning
(D) „Thyrsis‟ (B) song of eulogy
Answer: B (C) nuptial song
(D) funeral song
Answer: C
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47. The Gutenberg Bible was first published
in :
(A) 1456
(B) 1516
(C) 1449
(D) 1498
Answer: A
48. Identify the odd one out :

(A) Persuasion : Anne Tilney
(B) Northanger Abbey : Catherine Price
(C) Emma : Jane Fairfax
(D) Mansfield Park : Fanny Dean
Answer: C
49. Which among the following is in the

correct chronological sequence ?
(A) Sexual Politics – Thinking About Women
– The Second Sex – The Prisoner of Sex
(B) Thinking About Women – The Prisoner of
Sex – Sexual Politics – The Second Sex
(C) The Second Sex – Thinking About Women
– Sexual Politics – The Prisoner of Sex
(D) The Prisoner of Sex – The Second Sex –
Sexual Politics – Thinking About Women
Answer: C
50. Coleridge‘s ‗Kubla Khan‘ remains ‗a

fragment‘ because :
(A) He was called by Wordsworth who was
living in Porlock at that time
(B) Dorothy Wordsworth was upset over their
love affair
(C) He was interrupted by a caller, a person on
business from Porlock Paper 2- December 2007
(D) He ran out of his stock of opium
Answer: C 1. The author of The Provok‘d Husband
was:
(A) Etherege
(B) Colley Cibber
(C)Wycherley
(D)Vanbrugh
Answer: B
2. Who among the boys in Golding‘s Lord of

the Flies is associated with Christ ?
(A) Piggy
(B) Ralph
(C) Jack
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(D) Simon Panther- Hutchinson‟s Memoirs
Answer: D (D) Dryden‟s Hind and the Panther – Bunyan‟s
Pilgrim‟s Progress Hutchinson‟s Memoirs-
3. The complete title of Laurance Stern‘s Milton‟s Paradise Lost
novel Tristram Shandy is: Answer: C
(A)The Strange and Surprising Adventures of
Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 8. The Little Minister is a novel by :
(B)A True Account of The Life of Tristram (A) John Galsworthy
Shandy, Gentleman (B)H.G. Wells
(C)The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, (C) James M. Barrie
Gentleman (D)Rudyard Kipling
(D)The Strange and Surprising Opinions of Answer: C
Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Answer: C 9. Which Augustan writer‘s epitaph reads :
―one who strove with all his might to
4. Feminine ending refers to : champion liberty‖ ?
(A) a stressed final syllable in a line of verse (A) Alexander Pope
(B) the ending of a poem in a stressed syllable (B) Jonathan Swift
(C) the ending of a poem in an unstressed (C) Henry Fielding
syllable (D) Daniel Defoe
(D) an unstressed final syllable in a line of Answer: B
verse
Answer: C 10. In which of the following novels incidents
relating to the declaration of Emergency in
5. The essay ‗The Death of the Author‘ is India in 1975 figure?
written by : (A) Farrukh Dhondy‟s Bombay Duck
(A) Michel Foucault (B) Vikram Seth‟s A Suitable Boy
(B) Jacques Derrida (C) Upamanyu Chatterjee‟s English August :
(C) Roland Barthes An Indian Story
(D) Alvin Kernan (D) Rohinton Mistry‟s Such Long Journey
Answer: C Answer: D
6. Salman Rushdie‘s Shame is set in : 11. Identify the matching pair :

(A) East Pakistan (A) Edward II : Zenocrate
(B) India and Pakistan (B) The Jew of Malta : Barabas
(C) Pakistan (C) The Spanish Tragedy : Horatio
(D) None of the above (D)Tamburlaine : Gaveston
Answer: C Answer: C
7. Choose the correct chronological sequence 12. The future ruin of Troy and the murder
in : of Agamemnon are referred to by W.B.
(A) Lucy Hutchinson‟s Memoirs of the life of Yeats in :
Colonel Hutchinson – Milton‟s Paradise Lost – (A) The Second Coming
Bunyan‟s Pilgrim‟s Progress – Dryden‟s The (B) Circus Animals Desertion
Hind and the Panther (C) When You Are Old
(B) Hutchinson‟s Memoirs – Bunyan‟s (D) Leda and Swan
Pilgrim‟s Progress – Dryden‟s Hind and the Answer: A
Panther- Milton‟s Paradise Lost
(C) Milton‟s Paradise Lost – Bunyan‟s
Pilgrim‟s Progress – Dryden‟s Hind and the
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13. Inscape refers to : (D) 1760
(A) The indwelling presence of God in nature Answer: B
(B) The universal character of a natural thing
(C) The individuating character of a natural 19.The main character in Gogol‘s Dead
thing Souls is :
(D) The moment of release from the material (A) Oblomov
world (B) Bazarov
Answer: C (C) Alyosha
(D) Chichikov
14. In which of these plays does Edward Answer: D
Albee use the ‗success‘ myth ?
(A) A Zoo Story 20. After Shakespeare made his debut as a
(B) Who‟s Afraid of Virginia Woolf London playwright, he was described as
(C) American Dream an‘upstart crow‘ by :
(D) The Death of Bessie Smith (A) Robert Greene
Answer: C (B) Thomas Lodge
15. ―The voice of poetry comes from a (D) John Lyly
region above us, a plane of our being above Answer: A
and beyond our personal intelligence‖. Who
among the following is the author of the 21. What was the first play of Mrs. Dalloway
above lines? called ?
(A) Rabindranath Tagore (A) Clarissa
(B) A.K. Coomaraswamy (B) Hours
(C) Sri Aurobindo (C)The Big Ben
(D) Sisir Kumar Ghose (D)The Party
Answer: C Answer: D
16. The number of poems in Sidney‘s sonnet 22. Which of the following Caribbean novels
sequence Astrophil and Stella is : makes inter textual references to Jane Eyre
(A) 99 ?
(B) 47 (A) No Telephone to Heaven
(C) 112 (B) Wide Sargasso Sea
(D) 108 (C) Crick Crack Monkey
Answer: D (D) Between Two Worlds
Answer: B
17. J.M. Coetzee‘s Foe is a postmodern
retelling of : 23. The term ‗metaphysical poets‘, was first
(A) Ivanhoe used by :
(B) Evelina (A) Ben Jonson
(C) Robinson Crusoe (B) Dr. Johnson
(D) The Moonstone (C) Helen Gardner
Answer: C (D) Dryden
Answer: B
18. Johnson‘s edition of Shakespeare
appeared in : 24. ―Only connect‖ is the epigraph to a novel
(A) 1752 by :
(B) 1765 (A) George Orwell
(C) 1791 (B) Joseph Conrad
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(C) D.H. Lawrence 30. Which of the following feminist critics
(D) E.M. Forster used the expression ‗Gynocriticism‘for the
Answer: D first time ?
(A) Kate Millet
25. The expression ―Thy hand, great (B) Simone de Beauvoir
Anarch‖ occurs in a satire by : (C)Elaine Showalter
(A) Dryden (D) Mary Ellmann
(B) Pope Answer: C
(C) Johnson
(D)Swift 31. John Keats‘s poem ‗Ode to a
Answer: B Nightingale‘ was composed in :
(A) 1818
26. In which of the following novels by (B) 1819
Graham Greene does the little girl Brigitta (C) 1820
appear ? (D) 1821
(A) The Heart of the Matter Answer: B
(B) The Power and the Glory
(C) Brighton Rock 32. The Female Quixote was written by :
(D) The Quiet American (A)Henry Fielding
Answer: B (B)Tobias Smollett
(C) Charlotte Lennox
27. The author of ‗A Satire Against Reason (D) Aphra Behn
and Mankind‘ is : Answer: C
(A)Rochester
(B)Dryden 33. Which contemporary British poet has
(C)Gray translated Beowulf ?
(D) Swift (A) Thom Gunn
Answer: A (B) Alan Lewis
(C)Edward Thomas
28.‘Anagnorisis‘ is a term used by Aristotle (D) Seamus Heaney
for describing : Answer: D
(A) The moment of discovery by the
protagonist 34.‘The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers‘ is :
(B) The reversal of fortune for the protagonist (A) A poem by William Blake an essay by
(C) The happy resolution of the plot Charles Lamb
(D) The convergence of the main plot and the (B) An elegy by William Wordsworth
sub plot (C) An essay by Charles Lamb
Answer: A (D) An essay by William Hazlitt
Answer: C
29. In which play by Shakespeare do we find
widowed queens questioning the 35. The Loneliness of a Long Distance
assumptions of male politics ? Runner is a novel by :
(A) Henry V (A) Kingsley Amis
(B) Richard III (B) Alan Sillitoe
(C)Anthony and Cleopatra (C) John Braine
(D) Hamlet (D) John Osborne
Answer: B Answer: B
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36. In ‗Black Venus‘ Angela Carter takes (C) Moll Flanders
elements from the poetry of a famous (D) Emma
French poet and places them in a very Answer: D
different paradigm. Who is the French poet
? 42. It appears that in Paradise Lost Book I
(A)Baudelaire ―Milton belongs to the Devil‘s party without
(B)Mallarme knowing it‖. Who among the following made
(C)Verlaine this statement ?
(D)Apollinaire (A) Frank Kermode
Answer: A (B) William Empson
(C) C.S. Lewis
37. Strophe, antistrophe and epode form a (D) William Blake
three-part structure in : Answer: D
(A) a classic ode
(B) a Greek chorus 43. Live Like Pigs is :
(C)a medieval ballad (A) a humorous poem by Pope
(D) a Petrarchan sonnet (B) an allegorical narrative by Orwell
Answer: A (C) a play by Arden
(D) a satirical sketch by Swift
38. The words ―where are the songs of Answer: C
spring ? Ay, where are they ?‖ occur in :
(A) Ode to the West Wind 44. ‗A woman drew her long black hair out
(B) The Seasons tight And fiddled whisper music on those
(C) Ode to Autumn strings‘. From which section of Eliot‘s The
(D) Resolution and Independence Waste Land are the above lines taken ?
Answer: C (A) A Game of Chess
(B) What the Thunder Said
39. ―Music that gentler on the spirit lies than (C) Burial of the Dead
tired eyelids upon tired eyes‖ the above lines (D) Fire Sermon
occur in Tennyson‘s : Answer: B
(A) Tears, Idle Tears
(B) In Memoriam 45. Which is the correct sequence of
(C) Maud Achebe‘s African Trilogy ?
(D) The Lotus Eaters (A) Things Fall Apart – Arrow of God – No
Answer: D Longer At Ease
(B) No Longer At Ease – Arrow of God –
40. Which of the following pairs is correctly Things Fall Apart
matched ? (C) Things Fall Apart – No Longer At Ease –
(A) Robert Southey : Lady of the Lake Arrow of God
(B) T.S. Eliot : Lake Isle of Innisfree (D) Arrow of God – Things Fall Apart – No
(C) A.C. Swinburne : The Lady of Shallott Longer At Ease
(D)Thomas De Quincey : Recollections of the Answer: C
Lakes and the Lake Poets
Answer: D 46. Which are the figures of speech used in
the following lines by Blake
41. Which famous English novel opens with ―Tyger, tyger, burning bright
a young woman who is ‗handsome, clever In the forest of the night,
and rich‘ ? What immortal hand or eye
(A) Middlemarch Could frame thy fearful symmetry ?‖
(B) Wuthering Heights (A) simile and personification
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(B) irony and synecdoche
(C) apostrophe and synecdoche
(D) metonymy and apostrophe
Answer: C
47. In which of the following American

novels does ‗the Valley of Ashes‘ occur ?
(A) Huck Finn
(B) The Red Badge of Courage
(C) Invisible Man
(D) The Great Gatsby
Answer: D
48. To whom is Chaucer referring when he

says ‗He knew the tavern well in every town‘
?
(A) Pardoner
(B) Monk
(C) Squire
(D) Friar
Answer: D
49. ―Poetry is a criticism of life under the

conditions fixed for such a criticism by laws
of poetic truth and poetic beauty‖. Who,
among the following, made the above
statement ?
(A) Dr. Johnson
(B) Sidney
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) Wordsworth
Answer: C
Paper 2- June 2008
50. ―She is inspired but diabolically
inspired‖. Who is this lady ? 1. Tennyson‘s poem about women‘s rights
(A) Candida and women‘s sphere is :
(B) Major Barbara (A) Maud
(C) Saint Joan (B) In Memoriam
(D) Ann (C) Idylls of the King
Answer: C (D) The Princess
Answer: D
2. ‗Hymn To Adversity‘ is a poem by :

(A) Thomas Gray
(B) Edward Gibbon
(C) Alexander Pope
(D) William Blake
Answer: A
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3.The King James Bible was published in : (C) Ode
(A)1609 (D) Haiku
(B) 1610 Answer: D
(C)1611
(D) 1612 10. Which of the following Shakespearean
Answer: C plays are in the correct chronological
sequence ?
4.‘IL Migilor Fabro‘ is the expression Eliot (A) The Merchant of Venice – Henry IV Part I
used for : – Romeo and Juliet – Richard II
(A) W. B. Yeats (B) Richard II – Henry IV Part I – Romeo and
(B) Samuel Beckett Juliet – The Merchant of Venice
(C) W. H. Auden (C) Henry IV Part I – Romeo and Juliet – The
(D) Ezra Pound Merchant of Venice – Richard II
Answer: D (D) Romeo and Juliet -Richard II – Henry IV
Part I – The Merchant of Venice
5. ‗The Figure a poem Makes‘ is an essay by Answer: D
:
(A) Henry James 11. The word ‗nature‘ in the eighteenth
(B) Sylvia Plath century literature stands for :
(C) Robert Frost (A) Nature of writing
(D) Wallace Stevens (B) External nature
Answer: C (C) Human nature
(D) The Universe
6. ‖Ripeness is all‖ occurs in : Answer: C
(A) King Lear
(B) Hamlet 12. Who is given credit for first using the
(C) Macbeth term―romantic?
(D) Julius Caeser (A) Friedrich Schlegel
Answer: A (B) Kant
(C) Coleridge
7. A. C. Bradley‘s Shakespearean Tragedy (D) Schiller
was published in : Answer: A
(A) 1903
(B) 1904 13. Gudrun is a character in a novel by :
(C) 1905 (A) James Joyce
(D) 1906 (B) Virginia Woolf
Answer: B (C) D. H. Lawrence
(D) E. M. Forster
8. ‗Topsy‘ appears in : Answer: C
(A) Uncle Tom‟s Cabin
(B) History of the United States 14. July‘s People is a novel by :
(C) Walden (A) Margaret Atwood
(D) Tom Sawyer (B) V. S. Naipul
Answer: A (C) Wole Soyinka
(D) Nadine Gordimer
9. A poem that captures the essence of a Answer: D
moment in a simple image is :
(A) Lyric 15. Heroic Couplet is a pair of :
(B) Ballad (A) Rhyming iambic pentameter lines
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(B) Unrhyming iambic pentameter lines (D) Shelley
(C) Rhyming iambic hexameter Answer: A
(D) Unrhyming iambic hexameter
Answer: A 22. A Dance of the Forest is written by :
(A) Margaret Atwood
16. ‗Gestalt‘ theory of literature considers (B) Nadine Gordimer
text as : (C) Chinua Achebe
(A) a structure of metaphors (D) Wole Soyinka
(B) a unified whole Answer: D
(C) an experimentation in form
(D) construction of history 23. The first Canadian poet is :
Answer: B (A) Charles Sangster
(B) Oliver Goldsmith
17. Margaret Laurence is a novelist from : (C) Charles Heavysege
(A) Australia (D) Alexander Machlachlan
(B) The U.S.A. Answer: A
(C) Canada
(D) Britain 24. Heroic quatrain is :
Answer: C (A) a stanza in blank verse
(B) eight line stanza in iambic hexameter
18.Sartor Resartus is a text by : (C) four line stanza in iambic pentameter
(A)Ruskin (D) six line stanza in iambic pentameter
(B) Arnold Answer: C
(C) Carlyle
(D) Burke 25. ‗Bildungsroman‘ translated literally
Answer: C means :
(A) Development novel
19. Who of the following is not a university (B) Psychological novel
wit ? (C) Autobiographical novel
(A)Webster (D) Campus novel
(B) Robert Greene Answer: A
(C) Kyd
(D) Marlowe 26.A book that faithfully renders a young
Answer: A man‘s confused images of love and rejection
is :
20. Bosola is a character in a play by : (A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man
(A)Ben Jonson (B) Lucky Jim
(B) Webster (C) Daisy Miller
(C) Christopher Marlowe (D) The brave New World
(D) Thomas Middleton Answer: A
Answer: B
27. Victorian Age witnessed a clash between
21. ‗Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But :
to be young was very heaven‘. This occurs in (A) faith and reason
a poem by : (B) tradition and modernity
(A) William Wordsworth (C) oriental and occidental civilization
(B) S. T. Coleridge (D) romanticism and neo romanticism
(C) Byron Answer: A
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28. ―For gold in Physique is 34.Internal rhyme is :
Cordial/Therefore, he loved gold in special‖ (A) the basic rhythmic structure of a poem
relates to Chaucer‖s (B) rhyming of two words in alternative lines
(A) Friar (C) rhyming of two or more words in the same
(B) Monk line of poetry
(C) Doctor (D) all the lines of a poem ending with the
(D) Pardoner same line pattern
Answer: C Answer: C
29. The historical novel began in ; 35. The macabre element in drama was
(A)Restoration Period introduced by :
(B) Augustan Age (A) John Lyly
(C) Victorian Period (B) Marlow
(D) Romantic Period (C)Ben Jonson
Answer: D (D)John Webster
Answer: D
30. The term ‗Campus novel‘ is associated
with : 36. The line ―I am no Prince Hamlet nor was
(A) Graham Green meant to be…….‖ appears in T. S. Eliot‘s
(B) Kingsley Amis (A) Gerontion
(C) Margaret Drabble (B) The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
(D) William Golding (C) Four Quartets
Answer: B (D) The Waste-Land
Answer: B
31. Which of the following author-book pair
is correctly matched ? 37. ‗Fancy‘ deals with :
(A) Hard Times – George Eliot (A) Fixities and definities
(B) Heroes and Hero Worship – Walter Patar (B) Imagination and Reason
(C) Sourab and Rustom – Matthew Arnold (C) Judgement and Memory
(D) Ethics of the Dust- Macaulay (D) Structure and Superstructure
Answer: C Answer: A
32. The title of William Faulkner‘s The 38. Swift‘s Modest proposal is written in the
Sound and Fury is derived from a play by : form of a :
(A) William Shakespeare (A) Project in political economy Social Satire
(B) Christopher Marlow (B) Political allegory
(C) John Webster (C) Social Satire
(D) Ben Jonson (D) Old-Testament history
Answer: A Answer: C
33. The new humanism school of philosophy 39. The main idea of Pope‘s The Dunciad
and literary criticism was popular in was taken from :
America during : (A) Absalom and Achitophel
(A)1920-1940 (B) Mac-Flecknoe
(B) 1910-1930 (C) The Medal
(C)1930-1940 (D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
(D)1900-1910 Answer: B
Answer: B
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40. Which of the following is not a 46. Sheridan‘s first play was :
Browning‘s work ? (A) The Rivals
(A) Dramatic Lyrics Men and Women (B) School for Scandal
(B) Dramatic Personae (C) St. Patrick‟s Day
(C) Men and Women (D) A Trip to Scarborough
(D) The Palace of Art Answer: A
Answer: D
47. Anti-sentimental comedy is a criticism of
41. The most obvious feature of Johnson‘s :
The Lives of the Poets is the equipoise (A) loss of moral purpose
between : (B) excess of emotion
(A) Language and form (C) excess of reason
(B) Style and content (D) loss of human feelings
(C) Biography and criticism Answer: B
(D) Myth and archetype
Answer: C 48. Which of the following novel-novelist
pair is correctly matched ?
42. ―The Kelson of creation is love‖. The line (A) Bhabani Bhattacharya – All About H.
occurs in Walt Whitman‘s : Hatter
(A) Paumonak (B) Nayantara Sahgal – Cry, the Peacock
(B) Passage to India (C) Bhagwandas Gidwani – A Bend in the
(C) O Captain, My Captain Ganges
(D) Song of Myself (D) Arun Joshi – The Apprentice
Answer: D Answer: D
43. With whom was Dr. Johnson intimately 49. The Indian English poet who addressed
associated in his personal life ? the question ‗of time‘ in his poetry is :
(A) Boswell (A) Nissim Ezeikel
(B) Dryden (B) R. Parthsarathy
(C) Alexander Pope (C) A.K. Ramanujan
(D) Lord Bolingbroke (D) Gieve Patel
Answer: A Answer: B
44. The early religious drama is associated 50. Symbolist movement was influenced by :
with : (A) Poetic theory of Edgar Allan Poe
(A) Superstitions and beliefs (B) Stephane Mallarme‟s Poetry
(B) Mysteries and histories (C) Prose of Emerson
(C) Interludes and mysteries (D) Ezra Pound‟s Cantos
(D) Miracles and morality Answer: B
Answer: D
45. The Tale of Two Cities has :

(A) a sentimental buffoon with a moral purpose
(B) a courageous lady in pain
(C) an optimist on verge of collapse
(D) a romantic hero with a weakness
Answer: B
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1. The Victorian period refers to the reign of
Queen Victoria of England during :
(A) 1830 – 1890
(B) 1837 – 1905
(C) 1837 – 1901
(D) 1850 – 1910
Answer: C
2. The Rambler appeared every :

(A) Tuesday and Saturday
(B) Sunday and Wednesday
(C) Friday and Monday
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(D) Thursday and Monday 9. The confessions of an English Opium
Answer: A Eater was written by :
(A) William Hazlitt
3. ―Tottel‘s Miscellany‖ contained : (B) S. T. Coleridge
(A) 30 sonnets (C) Landor
(B) 54 sonnets (D) De Quincey
(C) 50 sonnets Answer: D
(D) 60 sonnets
Answer: B 10. Ireland emerges as the most important
metaphor in :
4.‘Imagism‘ is associated with : (A) Seamus Heaney
(A) T. S. Fliot (B) Elizabeth Jennigs
(C) E. E. Cummings (C) Arnold Wesker
(B) D. H. Lawrence (D) Edward Albee
(D) T. E. Hulme Answer: A
Answer: D
11. Which of the following Shakespearean
5. The title Things Fall Apart is drawn from plays is in the correct chronological order ?
a poem by : (A) King Lear, Hamlet, Much Ado…, Troilus
(A) W. B. Yeats and Cressida
(B) Ted Hughes (B) Much Ado…, Hamlet, King Lear, Troilus
(C) W. H. Auden and Cressida
(D) Robert Lowell (C) Troilus and Cressida, King Lear, Hamlet,
Answer: A Much Ado…
(D) Hamlet, Much Ado…, King Lear, Troilus
6. ‗Formal Criticism‘ relates to the structure and Cressida
of : Answer: B
(A) Literary devices
(B) Myths 12. The major contribution of the
(C) Content Restoration period is in the field of :
(D) Form (A) Philosophical writings
Answer: A (B) Poetry
(C) Drama
7. A ‗Foot‘ in prosody is a basic unit of : (D) Letters
(A) rhyme Answer: C
(B) length
(C) rhythmic measurement 13. The correct chronological order of the
(D) height following poets is :
Answer: C (A) Byron, Shelley, Keats, Walter Scott
(B) Shelley, Walter Scott, Keats, Byron
8. Who of the following is known for (C) Keats, Byron, Walter Scott, Shelley
aphoristic prose style ? (D) Walter Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats
(A) William Hazlitt Answer: D
(B) Francis Bacon
(C) John Ruskin 14. Where Angels Fear to Tread is a novel
(D) G. K. Chesterton by :
Answer: B (A) Virginia Woolf
(B) E. M. Forster
(C) D. H. Lawrence
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(D) James Joyce 21. ‗Cut is the branch that might have
Answer: B grown full straight‘ is a line that occurs in :
(A) Dr Faustus
15. The plays of Edward Albee deal with : (B) Hamlet
(A) problems of middle-class (C) Macbeth
(B) hypocracy of aristocracy (D) The Spanish Tragedy
(C) mechanizations of politics Answer: A
(D) simplicity of lower-class
Answer: A 22. Pope‘s ‗Essay on Man‘ can best be read
as a poem of :
16. Heptameter consists of : (A) classical understanding of nature
(A) five metrical feet (B) anti-romantic view of life
(B) six metrical feet (C) sociological estimate of man
(C) seven metrical feet (D) philosophical apprehension of life
(D) eight metrical feet Answer: D
Answer: C
23. The term ‗Victorian‘ evokes the attitudes
17. In formalistic school of criticism art is : of :
(A) entertainment (A) philistinism
(B) preaching (B) moral earnestness
(C) matter (C) licentiousness
(D) style (D) transcendentalism
Answer:D Answer: B
18. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance 24. Larry slate is a character in :

Runner is a novel by : (A) Desire Under the Elms
(A) Alan Sillitoe (B) The Emperor Jones
(B) Paul Scott (C) The Iceman Cometh
(C) Peter Porter (D) Hairy Ape
(D) Muriel Spark Answer: C
Answer: A
25. ‗Iambus‘ is a metrical foot consisting of :
19. ‗Rugby Chapel‘ is a poem by Matthew (A) two syllables
Arnold in the memory of his : (B) three syllables
(A) mother (C) four syllables
(B) brother (D) one syllable
(C) father Answer: A
(D) sister
Answer: C 26. The lines ‖Not that he wished is
greatness to create / For politicians neither
20. The earliest woman novelist of love nor hate,‖ occur in :
significance in the 18th century is : (A) The Rape of the Lock
(A)Mary Edgeworth (B) Abslam and Achitophel
(B) Aphra Behn (C) Mac Flecknoe
(C) Mary Russell (D) Essay on man
(D) Mrs Gaskell Answer: B
Answer: A
27. 11,396 definitions of romanticism were
given by :
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(A) Friedrich Schlegel (C) John Dryden
(B) Victor Hugo (D) Mathew Arnold
(C) Edger Allan Poe Answer: B
(D) F. L. Lucas
Answer: D 34. An Idyll is usually a poem about a :
(A) picturesque city life
28. The term ‗a stream of consciousness‘ is (B) panoramic view of nature
derived from the writing of : (C) picture of industrial society
(A) Mary Sinclair (D) picturesque country life
(B) Dorothy Richardson Answer: D
(C) William James
(D) Gertrude Stein 35. ‗The Lost Generation‘ refers to the
Answer: C generation that came to maturity in the :
(A) 1920s
29. Sean O‘ Casey‘s Juno and the Paycock is (B) 1930s
: (C) 1910s
(A) a romantic comedy (D) 1940s
(B) a historical tragedy Answer: A
(C) a mythical reconstruction
(D) a tragi-comedy 36. The French Revolution had a significant
Answer: D impact on :
(A) Victorian Literature
30. The ‗Reader-Response Theory‘ implies (B) Romantic Literature
that : (C) Neo-classic Literature
(A) there is no one correct meaning of the text (D) Modern Literature
(B) the readers of an age construct the meaning Answer: B
(C) beliefs determine meaning
(D) a style is the hallmark of the text 37. In which poem does the following line
Answer: A appear ? ‖Our birth is but a sleep and
aforgetting.‖ :
31. Which of the following author-book pair (A) “Michael”
is correctly matched ? (B) “Immortality Ode”
(A) Walter Pater – Unto This Last (C) “Rejection : An Ode”
(B) Browning – The Ring and the Book (D) “Tintern Abbey”
(C) M. Arnold – Idylls of the King Answer: B
(D) Thackray – Bleak House
Answer: B 38. Tale of a Tub is about :
(A) Warring political factions
32. ‗Myth Criticism‘ focuses on : (B) Struggling lower-class people
(A) a study of myths and mythology (C) Controversial philosophical documents
(B) archetypes of spiritual experience (D)Contending religious parties
(C) recurrence of archetypal patterns Answer: D
(D) the confluence of different traditions
Answer: C 39. Congreve‘s The way of the world ends
with :
33. The phrase disassociation of sensibility (A) a dance party
was first used by : (B) punishment of Lady Wishfort
(A) Philip Sydney (C) sending of Mr Fainall to prison
(B) T. S. Eliot
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(D)reconciliation of Petulant Whitwood (B) Robert Chambers
Answer: A (C) Charles Darwin
(D) Alfred Russell Wallace
40. On seeing whom does Miranda exclaim, Answer: C
―O, father, surely that is a spirit. Lord! How
it looks about ?‖ 46. A philosophical attitude pervading much
(A) Caliban of modern literature is :
(B) Ferdinand (A) Absurdism
(C) Alonso (B) Dadaism
(D) Stephano (C) Imagism
Answer: B (D) Surrealism
Answer: A
41. Secular influences on the early English
drama were : 47. The term ‗magic realism‘ was first
(A) political squabbles, religious sermons and introduced by :
social customs (A) Hannah Arendt
(B) rural politicking, hypocracy of the elite and (B) Franz Roh
falsity of aristocracy (C) Jean Arp
(C) village festivals, folk plays and minstrels (D) Peter Behrens
(D) middle-class life, moral beliefs and Answer: B
uprising of the subaltans
Answer: C 48. The Indian English novelist who, for the
first time, addressed the question of
42. John Bunyan‘s The Pilgrim‘s Progress language and indigenous experience was
was written while he was : (A) Mulk Raj Anand
(A) in prison (B) R K Narayan
(B) on a pilgrimage (C) Arun Joshi
(C) on a social mission (D) Raja Rao
(D) in a church Answer: A
Answer: A
49. G. V. Desani‘s All About H. Hatterr is
43. In Juvenalian satire the speaker is : written in the :
(A) a political orator (A) stream-of- consciousness mode
(B) a propagandist (B) first person narrative mode
(C) a social revolutionary (C) picaresque mode
(D) a serious moralist (D) naturalistic mode
Answer: D Answer: A
44. Jane Austen‘s Pride and Prejudice most 50. The rhyme scheme of the Shakespearean
clearly shows the influence of : sonnet is :
(A) Fielding Smollett (A) abab, cdcd, efef, gg
(B) Richardson (B) abba, cddc, effe, gg
(C) Smollett (C) abab, cdcd, efef, gh
(D) Sterne (D) aabb, ccdd, eeff, gg
Answer: B Answer: A
45.The most important of the ‗evolutionists‘

during the Victorian period was :
(A) Erasmus Darwin
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Paper 2- June 2009
1. In a 1817 review of Coleridge‘s
Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey coined
the term ‗Lake School of Poets‘ grouping…
(A) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Crabbe
(B) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron
(C) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Hazlitt
(D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey
Answer: D
2.‘I am the enemy you killed, my friend/I

knew you in this dark…‘ The above lines are
taken from…
(A) “The Soldier”
(B) “Dulce et Decorum Est”
(C) “To His Dead Body”
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(D) “Strange Meeting” 7. ―Great wits are sure to madness near
Answer: D allied And thin partitions do their bounds
divide‖. The above lines appear in…
3. Below are two sets of texts one of which (A) Mac Flecknoe
has inspired the other. Match the text with (B) Absalom and Achitophel
its inspiration : (C) Essay on man
(i) Coral Island (D) Alexander‟s Feast
(ii) The Odyssey Answer: B
(iii) The Mahabharat
(iv) Jane Eyre 8. Who among the following developed the
(v) The Great Indian Novel term strategic essentialism ?
(vi) Wide Sargasso Sea (A) Edward Said
(vii) Omeroos (B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(viii) Lord of the Flies (C) Homi Bhabha
(D) Aijaz Ahmed
(A) (i) – (v), (ii) – (vii), (iii) – (viii), (iv) – (vi) Answer: B
(B) (iv) – (vii), (iii) – (vi), (i) – (viii), (ii) – (v)
(C) (iii) – (v), (iv) – (vi), (i) – (vii), (ii) – (viii) 9. David Malouf‘s An Imaginary Life is a
(D) (i) – (viii), (ii) – (vii), (iii) – (v), (iv) – (vi) retelling of the story of :
Answer: D (A) Aristotle
(B) Juvenal
4. ―His life was gentle and the elements (C) Ovid
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up (D) Horace
And say to all the world, ‗This was a man !‘‖ Answer: C
Who is the speaker, and about whom is this
spoken ? 10. Jabberwocky is a character in….
(A) Enobarbus on Antony (A) The Importance of Being Earnest
(B) Brutus on Caesar (B) Fra Lippo Lippi
(C) Cleopatra on Antony (C) Through the Looking Glass
(D) Marc Antony on Caesar (D) Goblin Market
Answer: D Answer: C
5. ―When my love swears that she is made of 11. Which of the following statements is the
truth/I do believe her, though I know she most accurate regarding Edward Said‘s
lies‖. The author of these lines is… thesis in Orientalism
(A) Philip Sidney (i) The Europeans used the East dialectically to
(B) Edmund Spenser describe their self-image as irrational and
(C) Christopher Marlowe primitive.
(D) William Shakespeare (ii) The Oriental people used the West
Answer: D dialectically to define their self-image as
irrational and primitive.
6. The poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge (iii) The Europeans used the East
was notably influenced by… oppositionally to define their self-image as
(A) The Napoleonic Wars rational and modern.
(B) The Glorious Revolution (iv) The Oriental people used the West
(C) The French Revolution oppositionally to define their self-image as
(D) Poor Laws rational and modern.
Answer: C
(A) (iii)
(B) (iv)
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(C) (i) and (iv) (C) understatement
(D) (ii) and (iii) (D) circumlocution
Answer: A Answer: D
12.Assertion (AST) : Literary and historical 17. Arrange the following in chronological
periodization often has nothing to do with order…
the lifetime of writers. Thus we see two (I) The death of Shakespeare
writers born in the same year belonging to (ii) Accession of James I to the English throne
two separate periods. (iii) Caxton and the printing press
Reasoning/ (R) : Thomas Carlyle and John (iv) The Norman Conquest of England
Keats were born in 1795. In standard
literary histories, Example: Keats is a (A) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
Romantic and Carlyle, a Victorian. (B) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(A) (AST) and (R) are correct (C) (iii) (iv) (I) (ii)
(B) (AST) is correct; (R) is incorrect (D) (iv) (iii) (I) (ii)
(C) (AST) and (R) are incorrect Answer: A
(D) (R) does not follow from (AST)
Answer: A 18. The Muse of History is a classic
postcolonial essay by :
13. Everyman is… (A) Ngugi wa Thiongo
(A) a medieval play based on an episode from (B) Chinua Achebe
the Bible (C) Wilson Harris
(B) a medieval morality play (D) Derek Walcott
(C) a Tudor interlude Answer: D
(D) a miracle play
Answer: B 19. ―Do I contradict myself ? Very well then,
I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain
14. Which of the following sets would you multitudes.)‖ The above lines are from…
call the poets of the Movement ? (A) Walt Whitman
(A) Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, John (B) Edgar Allan Poe
Wain (C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(B) W.H. Auden, Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen (D) John Greenleaf Whittier
Spender Answer: A
(C) T.S. Eliot, Richard Aldington, Ezra Pound
(D) Alan Brownjohn, C.H. Sisson, Anthony 20. Verses on the Death of Dr Swift was
Thwaite written by…
Answer: A (A) Jonathan Swift
(B) Alexander Pope
15.Doris Lessing‘s interest in __________ is (C) Samuel Johnson
widely recognized : (D) James Boswell
(A) Hinduism Answer: A
(B) Sufism
(C)Zen 21. Match the following elegies with the
(D)Judaism persons for whom they were written:
Answer: B (i) Lycidas
(ii)Arthur Hugh Clough
16. Periphrasis, which is a roundabout way (iii)Adonais
of speech/writing, is also known as… (iv) A.H. Hallam
(A) synecdoche (v) In Memoriam
(B) allusion
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(vi) Edward King 26. The immediate source of Christopher
(vii) Thyrsis Marlowe‘s Doctor Faustus is…
(viii) Keats (A) A French narrative
(B) A Dutch narrative
(A) (i) – (vi); (iii) – (iv); (vii) – (ii); (v) – (vi) (C) A German narrative
(B) (iii) – (viii); (i) – (iv); (iii) – (ii);(v) – (ii) (D) None of the above
(C) (i) – (vi); (iii) – (viii); (v) – (iv); (vii) – (ii) Answer: C
(D) (v) – (vi); (i) – (viii); (iii) – (ii); (vii) – (iv)
Answer: C 27. Who among the following were
associated with the Irish Dramatic
22. Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison is Movement ?
a series of reflections on: (A) Lady Gregory, W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge
(A) Jazz music (B) Jonathan Swift, R.B. Sheridan, G.B. Shaw
(B) Disability sports (C) W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, G.B. Shaw
(C) Whiteness and the literary imagination (D) W.B. Yeats, Patrick J. Kavanagh, Seamus
(D) Black American folklore Heaney
Answer: C Answer: A
23. ―He‘s not the brightest man in the 28. The term diaspora was originally applied
world‖ is an example of: to the following ethnic group :
(A) Chiasmus (A) Jews
(B) Hyperbole (B) Muslims
(C) Litotes (C) Hindus
(D) Simile (D) French Canadians
Answer: C Answer: A
24. The term ‗horizon of expectations‘ is 29. Who among the following is NOT a
associated with… ‗University Wit‘ ?
(A) Wolfgang Iser (A) Christopher Marlowe
(B) Stanley Fish (B) George Peele
(C) Harold Bloom (C) Robert Greene
(D) H.R. Jauss (D) Ben Jonson
Answer: D Answer: D
25. The following writers have something in 30. When a person has a wooden leg, we are
common : What is it ? apt to say, ‗He has a wooden leg‘. Now this
Mary Seacole J.A. Froude wooden leg is…
Mary Kingsley Anthony Trollope (i) literal
(ii) metaphorical
(I) They are all victorians (iii) ambiguous
(ii) They are all writers of children‟s fiction (iv) neither literal nor metaphorical
(iii) They are all members of one literary guild (A) (i) and (ii) are correct
(iv) They are all travel writers (B) (i) is correct
(C) (ii) is correct
(A) (i) and (ii) (D) (iii) and (iv) are correct
(B) (iii) and (iv) Answer: B
(C) ii) and (iv)
D) (i) and (iv) 31. Prosody studies:
Answer: D (A) Line endings
(B) Meanings of words
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(C) Patterns of prose (D) Aldous Huxley
(D) Metrics Answer: A
Answer: D
37. ―Ripeness is all‖ is a line from…
32. Which of the following is a major (A) Hamlet
Jacobean play? (B) King Lear
(A) Everyman (C) Othello
(B) Gorboduc (D) Macbeth
(C) Romeo and Juliet Answer: B
(D) The Duchess of Malfi
Answer: D 38. U.R. Ananthamurthy‘s Samskara was
translated by…
33. Understanding Poetry used to be a (A) Himself
classic textbook that encapsulates the (B) Girish Karnad
principles of … (C) H.S. Shivaprakash
(A) New Historicism (D) A.K. Ramanujan
(B) New Aristotelianism Answer: D
(C) New Criticism
(D) The New Left 39. Abel Whittle is a character in:
Answer: C (A) The Return of the Native
(B) The Mayor of Casterbridge
34. What century is variously called The Age (C) Far from the Madding Crowd
of Enlightenment, The Age of Sensibility, (D) Tess of the D‟Urbervilles
The Augustan Age and The Age of Prose Answer: B
and Reason?
(A) sixteenth century 40. In which eclogue of The Shepheardes
(B) seventeenth century Calender does Spenser praise Queen
(C) eighteenth century Elizabeth I ?
(D) nineteenth century (A)January
Answer: C (B) April
(C) August
35. What is common to the following poems (D)November
? Answer: B
Wordsworth‟s „The Recluse‟
Shelley‟s „The Triumph of Life‟ 41. Which of the following is NOT the
Byron‟s „Don Juan‟ opening of the well-known Romantic poem?
Keats‟ „Hyperion‟ (A) My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness
pains/ My sense
(A) They are all elegies (B) Hail to thee, blithe spirit!
(B) They are all unfinished poems (C) Margaret, are you grieving/Over Golden
(C) They are all divided into cantos grove unleaving?
(D) They are women-centred poems (D) The world is too much with us
Answer: B Answer: C
36. Who among the following called the 42.Politics and the English Language is an
novel ‗the bright book of life‘ ? essay by :
(A) D.H. Lawrence (A) F.R. Leavis
(B) James Joyce (B) Terry Eagleton
(C) Virginia Woolf (C) George Orwell
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(D) Raymond Williams phenomenon rather than an „eternal‟ one?
Answer: C Moreover, many languages (many African
languages, for example) have no generic term
43. ‗The mind-forged manacles‘ is phrase covering all literary productions. To these
from : initial observations we may add the
(A) ”London” fragmentation characteristic of literature today.
(B) ”Eternity” Who dares specify what literature is and what
(C) “A Poison Tree” is not, given the irreducible variety of the
(D) “I Asked a Thief” writing that tends to be attached to it, from
Answer: A vastly different perspectives?
The argument is not conclusive: a notion may
44. ―He is not fully recognized at home; he is legitimately exist even if there is no specific
not recognized at all abroad. Yet I firmly term in the lexicon for it. But we have been led
believe that the poetical performance of to cast the first shadow of doubt over the
__________ is, after that of Shakespeare and „naturalness‟ of literature. A theoretical
Milton, undoubtedly most considerable in examination of the problem proves no more
our language.‖ To whom does Matthew reassuring. Where do we come by the
Arnold refer in the above statement ? conviction that there is indeed such a thing as
(A) Edmund Spenser literature? From experience, we study „literary‟
(B) John Keats works in school, then in college; we find the
(C) William Wordsworth „literary‟ type of book in specialized stores; we
(D) S.T. Coleridge are in the habit of referring to „literary‟ authors
Answer: C in everyday conversation. An entity called
„literature‟ functions at the level of
45. The Globe Theatre opened in : intersubjective and social relations; this much
(A) 1585 seems beyond question. Fine. But what have
(B) 1593 we proved? That in the broader system of a
(C) 1599 given society or culture, an identifiable element
(D) 1603 exists that is known by the label literature.
Answer: C Have we thereby demonstrated that all the
particular products that take on the function of
Read the following passage carefully, and „literature‟ possess common characteristics,
select the right answers from the which we can identify with legitimac? Not at
alternatives given below in the questions 46 all.
to 50 :
We need to begin by casting doubt on the 46. This passage casts doubt on:
legitimacy of the notion of literature. The mere (A) the assumption called literature.
fact that the word exists, or that an academic (B) the idea of literature.
institution has been built around it, does not (C) the institution of literature.
mean that the thing itself is self-evident. (D) the notion of literature.
Reasons perfectly empirical ones, to begin with Answer: D
are not hard to find. The full history of the
word literature and its equivalents in all 47. Literature is unsustainable because :…
languages and all eras has yet to be written, but (A) we are unclear as to what it means.
even a perfunctory look at the question makes (B) we are unsure as to its message.
it clear that the term has not been around (C) we are not persuaded that the claims made
forever. In the European languages, the word for it are allowable and acceptable.
literature in its current sense is quite recent: it (D) we cannot prove that its definitions are the
dates back just barely to the nineteenth century. right and the only possible ones.
Might we be dealing with a historical Answer: D
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48. How does the writer argue that the
existence of literature is hardly self-evident?
(i) by citing reasons for its non-existence.
(ii) by citing reasons for interrogating its
legitimacy.
(iii) by citing reasons and proving by argument
that its legitimacy can be interrogated.
(iv) by citing reasons to show that the label
does not match the thing we know to be
literature.
(A) (i)
(B) (i) and (ii)
(C) (iii)
(D) (iii) and (iv)
Answer: C
49. ―Might we be dealing with a historical

phenomenon rather than an ‗eternal‘ one‖?
What makes this a
reasonable question to consider in this
context?
(A) A historical phenomenon lends itself to
better empirical verification than an „eternal‟
one.
(B) A historical phenomenon has more Paper 2- December 2009
legitimacy than an „eternal‟ one.
(C) A historical phenomenon can be debated 1. A classical influence on Ben Jonson‘s
and possibly settled while an „eternal‟ one must Volpone is
be taken (A) Juvenal
on trust or not at all. (B) Aristophanes
(D) historical phenomenon is well above (C) Plautus
disputation while an „eternal‟ one is not. (D) Terence
Answer: C Answer: B
50.What does ‗the fragmentation 2. Kipling‘s ―The White Man‘s Burden‖ is

characteristic of literature today‘ suggest to addressed to
the writer ? (A) The American imperial mission in the
(A) the fragmentation of modern Philippines.
consciousness. (B) The Belgian colonial expansion in the
(B) the divided perceptions of literature by its Congo.
readers. (C) The British Imperial presence in Nigeria.
(C) the lack of specificity of literature. (D) The British colonial entry into
(D) the blur that frustrates further investigation Afghanistan.
into this concept Answer: A
Answer: C
3. Poetry : A Magazine of Verse was
founded by Harriet Monroe in
(A) 1922
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(B) 1920 (A) 1-7 2-5 4-6 3-8
(C) 1918 (B) 1-6 2-5 3-8 4-7
(D) 1912 (C) 1-5 2-6 3-8 4-7
Answer: D (D) 2-5 1-7 3-4 6-8
Answer: B
4. Who among the following was Geoffrey
Chaucer‘s contemporary ? 9. Which Chaucerian text parodies Dante‘s
(A) Thomas Chatterton The Divine Comedy ?
(B) John Gower (A) The Canterbury Tales
(C) Thomas Shadwell (B) The Book of the Duchess
(D) John Gay (C) The House of Fame
Answer: B (D) Legend of Good Women
Answer: C
5. Which of the following is NOT written by
Walter Scott ? 10. Essays of Elia was published in
(A) Ivanhoe (A) 1800
(B) Lady of the Lake (B) 1823
(C) Heart of Midlothian (C) 1827
(D) The English Mail Coach (D) 1850
Answer: D Answer: B
6. ―Provincializing Europe‖ is a concept 11. Which of the following is an example of

propounded by homosexual fiction ?
(A) Edward Said (A) The Well of Loneliness
(B) Paul Gilroy (B) Maurice
(C) Abdul R. Gurnah (C) Orlando
(D) Dipesh Chakravarty (D) The Ballad of the Reading Gaol
Answer: D Answer: A
7. The earliest tract on feminism is 12. W.B. Yeat‘s ―Easter 1916‖ is

(A) Simone de Beauvoir‟s The Second Sex (A) a response to a major political uprising
(B) Virginia Woolf‟s A Room of One‟s Own (B) a reminiscence of his visit to a nursery
(C) Mary Wollstonecraft‟s A Vindication of school
the Rights of Woman (C) a love poem for Maud Gonne
(D) Mary Astell‟s A Serious Proposal to the (D) an ode to his native country
Ladies Answer: A
Answer: D
13. William Empson‘s Seven Types of
8. Match the imaginary location with its Ambiguity is
creator : (A) A structuralist study of narrative
1. Emily Bronte (B) A piece of psychoanalytic criticism
2. Thomas Hardy (C) A study of the media
3. Lowood Parsonage (D) An analysis of poetic ambivalence
4. Charles Dickens Answer: D
5. Wessex 14. Who among the following is associated

6. Egdon Heath with the ideology of Utilitarianism ?
7. Coketown (A) J.A. Froude
8. Charlotte Bronte (B) Charles Kingsley
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(C) J.S. Mill 20. Dr. Johnson‘s ―The Vanity of Human
(D) Cardinal Newman Wishes‖ expresses
Answer: C (A) Epicureanism
(B) Humanism
15. The ‗Condition of England‘ literature (C) Stoicism
refers to (D) Cynicism
(A) The literature written by the labour class. Answer: D
(B) The literature of England extolling living
conditions. 21. ―A trivial comedy for serious people‖
(C) The literature of England depicting the was the subtitle for
vulnerability of labour classes. (A) Everyman in His Humour
(D) The literature of England depicting the (B) Blythe Spirit
imperial projects abroad. (C) The Way of the World
Answer: C (D) The Importance of Being Earnest.
Answer: D
16. Philip Sidney wrote An Apology for
Poetry in immediate response to 22. Which famous elegy closes with the
(A) Plato‟s Republic following lines ?
(B) Aristotle‟s Poetics “In the deserts of the heart/Let the healing
(C) Stephen Gosson‟s The School of Abuse fountain start,/In the prison of his days,/ Teach
(D) Jeremy Collier‟s Immorality and the free man how to praise.”
Profaneness of the English Stage. (A) In Memoriam
Answer: C (B) Thyrsis
(C) “In Memory of W.B. Yeats”
17. Silence ! The Court is in Session is a (D) “Verses on the Death of T.S. Eliot”
_________ play translated into English. Answer: C
(A) Gujarati
(B) Bengali 23. The Temple is a collection of poems by
(C) Marathi (A) Thomas Carew
(D) Kannada (B) Robert Herrick
Answer: C (C) George Herbert
(D) Richard Crashaw
18. Arrange the following in ascending order Answer: C
in terms of size :
1. epic 2. epigram 3. stanza 4. sonnet 24. Ben Jonson‘s comedies are
(A) 1 2 3 4 (A) Volpone, Bartholomew Fair, The
(B) 2 1 3 4 Shoemaker‟s Holiday
(C) 2 3 4 1 (B) Volpone, The Alchemist, Epicoene
(D) 1 3 4 2 (C) Volpone, The Alchemist, The Knight of the
Answer: C Burning Pestle
(D) Volpone, Epicoene, The Shoemaker‟s
19. ―Fail I alone in words and deeds ?/Why, Holiday
all men strive and who succeeds ?‖ These Answer: B
lines are from
(A) “Rabbi Ben Ezra” 25. What is ‗L‘ Allegro‘s‘ companion piece
(B) “Fra Lippo Lippi” called ?
(C) “Caliban upon Setebos” (A) Lamia
(D) “The Last Ride Together” (B) Hyperion
Answer: D (C) Il Penseroso
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(D) Thyrsis 30. ―Imagined Communities‖ is a concept
Answer: C propounded by
(A) Benedict Anderson
26. Match the character with the novel : (B) Homi Bhabha
1. Caddy (C) Aijaz Ahmed
2. Lennie (D) Partha Chatterjee
3. Jake Barnes Answer: A
4. Tommy Wilhelm
5. The Sound and the Fury 31. The New Historicists include
6. Of Mice and Men (A) Greenblatt, Showalter, Montrose
7. The Sun Also Rises (B) Greenblatt, Sinfield, Butler
8. Seize the Day (C) Greenblatt, Montrose, Goldberg
Codes : (D) Williams, Greenblatt, Belsey
(A) 1-5 2-6 3-7 4-8 Answer: C
(B) 2-7 1-8 3-5 4-6
(C) 3-5 4-6 2-8 1-7 32. Wallace Stevens‘ ―The Man with the
(D) 4-5 3-8 2-7 1-8 Blue Guitar‖ may be linked to the work of
Answer: A the following artist :
(A) Modigliani
27. Who among the following writers (B) Chagall
belonged to the American Beat Movement ? (C) Picasso
(A) Allen Ginsberg (D) Cezanne
(B) Mark Beard Answer: C
(C) Isaac McCaslih
(D) Charles Beard 33. The author of Gender Trouble is
Answer: A (A) Elaine Showalter
(B) Helene Cixous
28. ―The Lost Generation‖ is a name applied (C) Michele Barrett
to the disillusioned intellectuals and (D) Judith Butler
aesthetes of the years following the First Answer: D
World War. Who called them ―The Lost
Generation‖ ? 34. The structural analysis of signs was
(A) H.L. Mencken practised by
(B) Willa Cather (A) Michel Foucault
(C) Jack London (B) Jacques Lacan
(D) Gertrude Stein (C) Julia Kristeva
Answer: D (D) Roland Barthes
Answer: D
29. Hyperbole is
1. an extravagant exaggeration 35. Which of the following is a spoof of a
2. a racist slur Gothic novel ?
3. a metrical skill (A) Frankenstein
4. a figure of speech (B) Northanger Abbey
(A) 1 is correct (C) Castle of Otranto
(B) 1 and 4 are correct (D) Mysteries of Udolfo
(C) 1 and 3 are correct Answer: B
(D) 3 is correct
Answer: B 36. The ―madwoman in the attic‖ is a
specific reference to
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(A) The narrator of “Goblin Market” 40. Which of the following is an essentially
(B) Augusta Egg‟s 1858 narrative painting Freudian concept ?
(C) The Heroine of The Yellow Wallpaper (A) Archetype
(D) Bertha Mason of Jane Eyre (B) The Uncanny
Answer: D (C) The Absurd
(D) The Imaginary
37. Assertion (A) : Dr Johnson‘s The Lives Answer: B
of the Poets carries critical and biographical
studies of poets he admired. It does not, 41. He wrote an essay called ―Conrad‘s
however, carry a life of William Darkness‖ where he praises the earlier
Wordsworth. writer for offering him a vision of the
Reason (R) : Dr. Johnson singled out poets world‘s ―half-made societies‘. Identify the
whom he not only admired but also adored. writer.
This explains his omission of Wordsworth. (A) Chinua Achebe
(B) V.S. Naipaul
(A) (A) is wrong but (R) is correct. (C) Salman Rushdie
(B) (A) is true but (R) is false. (D) Ngugi wa Thiongo
(C) (A) and (R) are true. Answer: B
(D) Neither (A) nor (R) is true.
Answer: D 42. ―Magic Realism‖ is closely associated
with
38. What is the correct chronological (A) Italo Calvino
sequence of the following ? (B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(A) Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph Andrews, (C) Anita Desai
Tristram Shandy (D) Rohinton Mistry
(B) Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy, Pamela, Answer: B
Moll Flanders
(C) Tristram Shandy, Moll Flanders, Pamela, 43. Who among the following combines
Joseph Andrews anthropology, history and fiction ?
(D) Pamela, Moll Flanders, Joseph Andrews, (A) Kamala Markandya
Tristram Shandy (B) Mulk Raj Anand
Answer: A (C) Upmanyu Chatterjee
(D) Amitav Ghosh
39. ―How can what an Englishman believes Answer: D
be heresy ? It is a contradiction in terms.‖
This means 44. Which of the following is NOT a
1. An Englishman does not know what heresy Partition novel ?
is. (A) Train to Pakistan
2. An Englishman has no beliefs. (B) Sunlight on a Broken Column
3. And, therefore, there is no question of his (C) The Shadow Lines
heresy. (D) In Custody
4. And, therefore, there cannot be any question Answer: B
of his acting his beliefs.
(A) 1 and 4 are correct 45. Which of the following options is correct
(B) 2 and 1 are correct ?
(C) 1 and 3 are correct (i) Transcendentalism was a philosophical and
(D) 2 and 4 are correct literary movement.
Answer: C (ii) It flourished in the Southern States of
America in the 19th century.
(iii) It was a reaction against 18th century
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rationalism and the skeptical philosophy of nature of language. There is no neutral
Locke. discourse : whenever we speak we have to
(iv) Among the major texts of choose between different systems of meaning,
Transcendentalist thought are the essays of different sets of values. This process allows us
Emerson, to show how language is implicated in our
Thoreau‟s Walden and the writings of Margaret construction of different „selves‟ : different
Fuller. discourses position us in different ways in
(A) (i) and (iv) are correct. relation to the world.
(B) (ii) and (iii) are correct.
(C) (iii) and (iv) are correct. 46. Which of the following is True in the
(D) (iv) is correct. light of this passage ?
Answer: A (A) Language is inaccurate.
(B) Discourse is accurate.
Read the following passage carefully, and (C) Language comprises discourse.
select the right answers from the (D) Discourse comprises language.
alternatives givenbelow in the question 46 to Answer: C
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47. What words/phrases suggest the
It would be more accurate to say that discourse, plurality of discourse in this passage ?
rather than language, plays a crucial part in I. different selves
structuring our experience. The whole idea of II. range
„language‟ is something of a fiction : what we III. system of statements
normally refer to as „language‟ can more IV. heterogeneous collection
realistically be seen as heterogeneous (A) II and IV
collection of discourses. Each of us has access (B) II and III
to a range of discourses, and it is these different (C) III and IV
discourses which give us access to, or enable (D) I
us to perform, different „selves‟. A discourse Answer: A
can be conceptualized as a „system of
statements which cohere around common 48. Having called language ―something of a
meanings and values‟. So, for example, in fiction‖, how does the author suggest its
contemporary Britain there are discourses opposite ? By using the phrase
which can be labelled „conservative‟ – that is, (A) conceptualized as a system
discourses which emphasize values and (B) more accurate to say
meanings where the status quo is cherished : (C) range of discourses
and there are discourses which can be labeled (D) more realistically be seen
„patriarchal‟ – that is, discourses which Answer: D
emphasize meanings and values which assume
the superiority of males. Dominant discourses 49. Which among the following statements is
such as these appear „natural‟ : they are NOT true ?
powerful precisely because they are able to (A) Conservative discourses plead for the
make invisible the fact that they are just one status quo.
among many different discourses. (B) Patriarchal discourses privilege male
Theorizing language in this way is still new in values.
linguistics (to the extent that many linguists (C) Dominant discourses are natural.
would not regard analysis in terms of (D) Dominant discourses seem natural.
discourses as being part of linguistics). One of Answer: C
the advantages of talking about discourses
rather than about language is that the concept 50. What does this passage plead for ?
„discourse‟ acknowledges the value-laden (A) Theorizing language in a new way.
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(B) Theorizing language in terms of discourses.
(C) Studying language as discourse.
(D) Studying discourse as language.
Answer: B
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1. The epithet ―a comic epic in prose‖ is best
applied to
(A) Richardson‟s Pamela
(B) Sterne‟s A Sentimental Journey
(C) Fielding‟s Tom Jones
(D) Defoe‟s Robinson Crusoe
Answer: C
2. Muriel Spark has written a dystopian

novel called
(A) Memento Mori
(B) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
(C) Robinson
(D) The Ballad of Peckham Rye
Answer: C
3. Samuel Butler‘s Erewhon is an example of

(A) Feminist Literature
(B) Utopian Literature
(C) War Literature
(D) Famine Literature
Answer: B
4. The line ―moments of unageing intellect‖

occurs in Yeats‘s
(A) Byzantium
(B) Among School Children
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(C) Sailing to Byzantium (A) Milton
(D) The Circus Animals‟ Desertion (B) Spenser
Answer: C (C) Shakespeare
(D) Pope
5. In his 1817 review of Coleridge‘s Answer: B
Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey
grouped the following poets together as the 11. Tennyson‘s Ulysses is
‗Lake School of Poets‘ : (I) a poem expressing the need for going
(A) Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge forward and braving the struggles of life
(B) Wordsworth, Byron and Coleridge (II) a dramatic monologue
(C) Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge (III) a morbid poem
(D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey (IV) a poem making extensive use of satire
Answer: D
The right combination for the above statement,
6. Which of the following novels is not by according to the code, is
Patrick White ? (A) I & IV
(A) The Vivisector (B) II and III
(B) The Tree of Man (C) III and IV
(C) Voss (D) I and II
(D) Oscar and Lucienda Answer: D
Answer: D
12. Which post-war British poet was
7. The famous line ―……. where ignorant involved in a disastrous marriage with
armies clash by night‖ is taken from a poem Sylvia Plath ?
by (A) Philip Larkin
(A) Wilfred Owen (B) Ted Hughes
(B) W.H. Auden (C) Stevie Smith
(C) Siegfried Sassoon (D) Geoffrey Hill
(D) Matthew Arnold Answer: B
Answer: D
13. Chaucer‘s Parliament of Fowles is in
8. Which among the following novels is not part
written by Margaret Atwood ? (I) a puzzle
(A) Surfacing (II) a debate
(B) The Blind Assassin (III) a threnody
(C) The Handmaid‟s Tale (IV) a beast fable
(D) The Stone Angel The correct combination for the above
Answer: D statement, according to the code, is
(A) I, II & IV
9. The term ‗theatre of cruelty‘ was coined (B) II, III & IV
by (C) I & IV
(A) Robert Brustein (D) II & IV
(B) Antonin Artaud Answer: A
(C) Augusto Boal
(D) Luigi Pirandello 14. Who among the following wrote a book
Answer: B with the title The Age of Reason ?
(A) William Godwin
10. The verse form of Byron‘s Childe Harold (B) Edmund Burke
was influenced by (C) Thomas Paine
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(D) Edward Gibbon (D) Northrop Frye
Answer: C Answer: D
15. The Restoration comedy has been 21. Sethe is a character in

criticized mainly for its (A) The Colour Purple
(A) excessive wit and humour (B) The Women of Brewster Place
(B) bitter satire and cynicism (C) Beloved
(C) indecency and permissiveness (D) Lucy
(D) superficial reflection of society Answer: C
Answer: C
22. Imagined Communities is a book by
16. Ideology and Ideological State (A) Aijaz Ahmad
Apparatuses is an essay by (B) Edward Said
(A) Terry Eagleton (C) Perry Anderson
(B) Karl Marx (D) Benedict Anderson
(C) Raymond Williams Answer: D
(D) Louis Althusser
Answer: D 23. Who among the following is a Cavalier
poet ?
17. Sexual possessiveness is a theme of (A) Henry Vaughan
Shakespeare‘s (B) Richard Crashaw
(A) Coriolanus (C) John Suckling
(B) Julius Caesar (D) Anne Finch
(C) Henry IV Part – I Answer: C
(D) A Midsummer Night‟s Dream
Answer: D 24. Which play of Wilde has the subtitle, A
Trivial Comedy for Serious People ?
18. The term ‗Cultural Materialism‘ is (A) A Woman of No Importance
associated with (B) Lady Windermere‟s Fan
(A) Stephen Greenblatt (C) The Importance of Being Earnest
(B) Raymond Williams (D) An Ideal Husband
(C) Matthew Arnold Answer: C
(D) Richard Hoggart
Answer: B 25. Which of the following plays is not
written by Wole Soyinka ?
19. Which of the following authorbook pair (A) The Lion and the Jewel
is correctly matched ? (B) The Dance of the Forests
(A) Muriel Spark – Under the Net (C) Master Harold and the Boys
(B) William – Girls of Golding Slender Means (D) Kongi‟s Harvest
(C) Angus Wilson – Lucky Jim Answer: C
(D) Doris Lessing – The Grass is Singing
Answer: D 26. Which of the following plays by William
Wycherley is in part an adaptation of
20. Who among the following is a Canadian Moliere‘s The Misanthrope ?
critic ? (A) The Plain Dealer
(A) I.A. Richards (B) The Country Wife
(B) F.R. Leavis (C) Love in a Wood
(C) Cleanth Brooks (D) The Gentleman Dancing Master
Answer: A
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27. ‗Inversion‘ is the change in the word 33. Which among the following is not a
order for creating rhetorical effect, e.g. this sonnet sequence ?
book I like. Another term for inversion is (A) Philip Sydney – Astrophel and Stella
(A) Hypallage (B) Samuel Daniel – Delia
(B) Hubris (C) Derek Walcott – Omeroos
(C) Haiku (D) D.G. Rossetti – The House of Life
(D) Hyperbaton Answer: C
Answer: D
34. ‗Incunabula‘ refers to
28. The phrase ‗the willing suspension of (A) books censured by the Roman Emperor
disbelief ‘ occurs in (B) books published before the year 1501
(A) Biographia Literaria (C) books containing an account of myths and
(B) Preface to Lyrical Ballads rituals
(C) In Defence of Poetry (D) books wrongly attributed to an author
(D) Poetics Answer: B
Answer: A
35. The most notable achievement in
29. The religious movement Methodism in Jacobean prose was
the 18th century England was founded by (A) Bacon‟s Essays
(A) John Tillotson (B) King James‟ translation of the Bible
(B) Bishop Butler (C) Robert Burton‟s Anatomy of Melancholy
(C) Bernard Mandeville (D) None of the above
(D) John Welsey Answer: B
Answer: D
36. The Court of Chancery is a setting in
30. My First Acquaintance with Poets, an Dickens‘
unforgettable account of meeting with (A) Little Dorrit
literary heroes, is written by (B) Hard Times
(A) Charles Lamb (C) Dombey and Son
(B) Thomas de Quincey (D) Bleak House
(C) Leigh Hunt Answer: D
(D) William Hazlitt
Answer: D 37. Which romantic poet coined the famous
phrase ‗spots of time‘ ?
31. The figure of the Warrior Virgin in (A) John Keats
Spenser‘s Faerie Queene is represented by (B) William Wordsworth
the character (C) S.T. Coleridge
(A) Britomart (D) Lord Byron
(B) Gloriana Answer: B
(C) Cynthia
(D) Duessa 38. The statement ‗I think, therefore, I am‘
Answer: A is by
(A) Schopenhauer
32. The book Speech Acts is written by (B) Plato
(A) John Austin (C) Descartes
(B) John Searle (D) Sartre
(C) Jacques Derrida Answer: C
(D) Ferdinand de Saussure
Answer: B
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39. Verse that has no set theme – no regular 44. Pope‘s The Rape of the Lock was
meter, rhyme or stanzaic pattern is published in 1712 in
(I) open form (A) three cantos
(II) flexible form (B) four cantos
(III) free verse (C) five cantos
(IV) blank verse (D) two cantos
Answer: D
according to the code, is 45. Stephen Dedalus is a fictional character
(A) I, II and III are correct associated with
(B) III and IV are correct I. A Portrait of the Artist as a
(C) II, III and IV are correct Young Man
(D) I and III are correct II. Sons and Lovers
Answer: D III. Ulysses
IV. The Heart of Darkness
40. Which is the correct sequence of
publication of Pinter‘s plays ? The correct combination for the above
(A) The Room, One for the Road, No Man‟s statement according to the code is
Land, The Homecoming (A) I & II
(B) The Homecoming, No Man‟s Land, The (B) I, II & III
Room, One for the Road (C) III & IV
(C) The Room, The Homecoming, No Man‟s (D) I & III
Land, One for the Road Answer: D
(D) One for the Road, The Room, The
Homecoming, No Man‟s Land 46. In Moby Dick Captain Ahab falls for his
Answer: C (A) ignorance
(B) pride
41. Johnson‘s Dictionary of the English (C) courage
Language was published in the year (D) drunkenness
(A) 1710 Answer: B
(B) 1755
(C) 1739 47. The first complete printed English Bible
(D) 1759 was produced by
Answer: B (A) William Tyndale
(B) William Caxton
42. The literary prize, Booker of Bookers, (C) Miles Coverdale
was awarded to (D) Roger Ascham
(A) J.M. Coetzee Answer: C
(B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Martin Amis 48. Elizabeth Gaskell‘s novel Mary Barton is
(D) Salman Rushdie sub-titled
Answer: D (A) The Two Nations
(B) A Tale of Manchester Life
43. In Keats‘ poetic career, the most (C) A Story of Provincial Life
productive year was (D) The Factory Girl
(A) 1816 Answer: B
(B) 1817
(C) 1820 49. Some of the Jacobean playwrights were
(D) 1819 prolific. One of them claimed to have
Answer: D
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written 200 plays. The playwright is
(A) John Ford
(B) Thomas Dekker
(C) Philip Massinger
(D) Thomas Heywood
Answer: D
50. The concept of ―Star-equilibrium‖ in

connection with man-woman relationship
appears in
(A) Women in Love
(B) Maurice
(C) Mrs. Dalloway
(D) The Old Wives‟ Tales
Answer: A

1. Jeremy Collier‘s A Short View of the
Immorality and Profaneness of the English
Stage attacked among others.
(A) John Bunyan
(B) Thomas Rhymer
(C) William Congreve
(D) Henry Fielding
Answer: C
2. The Crystal Palace, a key exhibit of the

Great Exhibition, was designed by
(A) Charles Darwin
(B) Edward Moxon
(C) Joseph Paxton
(D) Richard Owen
Answer: C
3. Influence of the Indian Philosophy is seen

in the writings of
(A) G.B. Shaw
(B) Noel Coward
(C) Tom Stoppard
(D) T.S. Eliot
Answer: D
4. In which of his voyages, Gulliver

discovered mountain-like beings ?
(A) The land of the Lilliputians
(B) The land of the Brobdingnagians
(C) The land of the Laputans
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(D) The land of the Houyhnhnms (C) Laurence Sterne‟s Tristram Shandy
Answer: B (D) George Eliot‟s Middlemarch
Answer: B
5. Patrick White‘s Voss is a novel about
(A) the sea 11. Langland‘s Piers Plowman is a satire on
(B) the capital market (A) aristocracy
(C) the landscape (B) chivalry
(D) the judicial system (C) peasantry
Answer: C (D) clergy
Answer: D
6. Although Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney
writes in English, in voice and subject 12. Which of the following thinkerconcept
matter, his poems are pair is correctly matched ?
(A) Welsh (A) I.A. Richards – Archetypal Criticism
(B) Scottish (B) Christopher Frye – Mysticism
(C) Irish (C) Jacques Derrida – Deconstruction
(D) Polish (D) Terry Eagleton – Psychological Criticism
Answer: C Answer: C
7. To whom is Mary Shelley‘s famous work 13. Sexual jealousy is a theme in

Frankenstein dedicated ? Shakespeare‘s
(A) Lord Byron (A) The Merchant of Venice
(B) Claire Clairmont (B) The Tempest
(C) William Godwin (C) Othello
(D) P.B. Shelley (D) King Lear
Answer: C Answer: C
8. Which among the following poems by 14. The title, The New Criticism, published
Philip Larkin records his impressions while in 1941, was written by
travelling to London by train ? (A) Cleanth Brooks
(A) “Aubade” (B) John Crowe Ransom
(B) “Church Going” (C) Robert Penn Warren
(C) “The Whitsun Wedding” (D) Allan Tate
(D) “An Arundel Tomb” Answer: B
Answer: C
15. Which of the following is not a Revenge
9. The English satirist who used the sharp Tragedy ?
edge of praise to attack his victims was (A) The White Devil
(A) Ben Jonson (B) The Duchess of Malfi
(B) John Donne (C) Doctor Faustus
(C) John Dryden (D) The Spanish Tragedy
(D) Samuel Butler Answer: C
Answer: A
16. Who of the following playwrights rejects
10. One of the most famous movements of the Aristotelian concept of tragic play as
direct address to the reader – ―Reader, I imitation of reality ?
married him‖ – occurs in (A) G.B. Shaw
(A) Henry Fielding‟s Tom Jones (B) Arthur Miller
(B) Charlotte Bronte‟s Jane Eyre (C) Bertolt Brecht
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(D) John Galsworthy 21. ―There is nothing outside the text‖ is a
Answer: C key statement emanating from
(A) Feminism
17. The label ‗Diasporic Writer‘ can be (B) New Historicism
applied to (C) Deconstruction
I. Meena Alexander (D) Structuralism
II. Arundhati Roy Answer: C
III. Kiran Desai
IV. Shashi Deshpande 22. The Augustan Age is called so because
The correct combination for the statement, (A) King Augustus ruled over England during
according to the code, is this period
(A) I and IV are correct. (B) The English writers imitated the Roman
(B) II and III are correct. writers during this period
(C) I, II and IV are correct. (C) The English King was born in the month of
(D) I and III are correct. August
Answer: D (D) This was an age of sensibility
Answer: B
18. The letter ‗A‘ in The Scarlet Letter
stands for 23. One of the important texts of Angry
I. Adultery Young Man Movement is
II. Able (A) Time‟s Arrow by Martin Amis
III. Angel (B) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by
IV. Appetite James Joyce
(C) Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
The correct combination for the statement, (D) The French Lieutenant‟s Woman by John
according to the code, is Fowles
(A) I and II are correct. Answer: C
(B) II and III are correct.
(C) I, II and IV are correct. 24. Whom does Alexander Pope satirise in
(D) I, II and III are correct. the portrait of Sporus ?
Answer: D (A) Lady Wortley Montague
(B) Joseph Addison
19. A monosyllabic rhyme on the final (C) Lord Shaftsbury
stressed syllable of two lines of verse is (D) Lord Harvey
called Answer: D
(A) monorhyme
(B) feminine rhyme 25. The hero of Marlowe‘s Tamburlaine was
(C) masculine rhyme born as a
(D) eye rhyme (A) carpenter
Answer: C (B) goldsmith
(C) shepherd
20. A fatwa was issued in Salman Rushdie‘s (D) fisherman
name following the publication of : Answer: C
(A) Midnight‟s Children
(B) Shame 26. In a letter to his brother George in
(C) Satanic Verses September 1819, John Keats had this to say
(D) Grimus about a fellow romantic poet : ―He describes
Answer: C what he sees – I describe what I imagine –
Mine is the hardest task.‖ The poet under
reference is
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(A) Wordsworth (C) Francis Bacon
(B) Coleridge (D) John Locke
(C) Byron Answer: D
(D) Southey
Answer: C 33. The terms ‗resonance‘ and ‗wonder‘ are
associated with
27. A sequence of repeated consonantal (A) Stephen Greenblatt
sounds in a stretch of language is (B) Terence Hawkes
(A) alliteration (C) Terry Eagleton
(B) acrostic (D) Ronald Barthes
(C) assent Answer: A
(D) syllable
Answer: A 34. The rhetorical pattern used by Chaucer
in The Prologue to Canterbury Tales is
28. Reformation was predominantly a (A) ten-syllabic line
movement in (B) eight-syllabic line
(A) politics (C) rhyme royal
(B) literature (D) ottava rima
(C) religion Answer:A
(D) education
Answer: C 35. Charles Darwin‘s Origin of the Species
was published in the year
29. The motto ―only connect‖ is taken from (A) 1859
(A) Joseph Conrad‟s Nostromo (B) 1879
(B) Rudyard Kipling‟s Kim (C) 1845
(C) H.G. Wells‟ The History of Mr. Polly (D) 1866
(D) E.M. Forster‟s Howards End Answer: A
Answer: D
36. Who of the following is the author of
30. English Iambic Pentameter was brought Juno and the Paycock ?
to its first maturity in (A) Lady Gregory
(A) sonnet (B) W.B. Yeats
(B) dramatic verse (C) Oscar Wilde
(C) lyric (D) Sean O‟Casey
(D) elegy Answer: D
Answer: B
37. The title of William Faulkner‘s The
31. Who among the following was not a Sound and the Fury is taken from a play by
member of the Bloomsbury Group ? (A) Christopher Marlowe
(A) Lytton Strachey (B) William Shakespeare
(B) Clive Bell (C) Ben Jonson
(C) E.M. Forster (D) John Webster
(D) Winston Churchill Answer: B
Answer: D
38. ―Silverman has never read Browning.‖
32. The concept of human mind as tabula This is an example of
rasa or blank tablet was propounded by (A) chiasmus
(A) Bishop Berkley (B) conceit
(B) David Hume (C) zeugma
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(D) metonymy (B) Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Answer: D (C) Gerard Manley Hopkins
(D) Algernon Charles Swinburne
39. The term ‗Intentional Fallacy‘ is first Answer: C
used by
(A) William Empson 44. Aston is a character in Pinter‘s
(B) Northrop Frye (A) The Birthday Party
(C) Wellek and Warren (B) The Caretaker
(D) Wimsatt and Beardsley (C) The Dumb Waiter
Answer: D (D) The Homecoming
Answer: B
40. ―Recessional : A Victorian Ode‖,
Kipling‘s well-known poem, 45. Byron‘s English Bards and Scottish
I. laments the end of an Era Reviewers is about
II. marks a new commitment to scientific I. the survey of English poetry
knowledge II. evangelism in English poetry
III. expresses the sincerity of his religious III. contemporary literary scene
devotion IV. the early English travelers
IV. was occasioned by Queen Victoria‟s 1897
Jubilee Celebration The correct combination for the statement,
The correct combination for the statement, (A) III and IV are correct.
according to the code, is (B) II, III and IV are correct.
(A) I, II and III are correct. (C) I and II are correct.
(B) III and IV are correct. (D) I and III are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct. Answer: D
(D) I, III and IV are correct.
Answer: B 46. Which Eliotian character utters the
question – ―Do I eat a peach‖ ?
41. Who among the following is not a (A) Marina
Restoration playwright ? (B) Prufrock
(A) William Congreve (C) Sweeney
(B) William Wycherley (D) Stetson
(C) Ben Jonson Answer: B
(D) George Etherege
Answer: C 47. Which among the following works by
Daniel Defoe landed him in prison and the
42. Which famous Romantic poem begins pillory ?
with the line : ‗Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! / (A) The True-Born Englishman
Bird thou never wert‖ ? (B) Captain Singleton
(A) “Ode to a Nightingale” (C) The Shortest Way with Dissenters
(B) “To the Cuckoo” (D) Moll Flanders
(C) “To a Skylark” Answer: C
(D) “To the Daisy”
Answer: C 48. The arrival of printing in fifteenth
century England was engineered by
43. Who among the following Victorian (A) Sir Thomas Malory
poets disliked his middle name ? (B) John Gower
(A) Arthur Hugh Clough (C) John Barbour
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(D) William Caxton
Answer: D
49. About which nineteenth century English

writer was it said that ―He had succeeded as
a writer not by conforming to the Spirit of
the Age, but in opposition to it‖ ?
(A) Lord Byron on Coleridge
(B) Coleridge on Keats
(C) Hazlitt on Lamb
(D) De Quincey on Crabbe
Answer: C
50. The Restoration comedy, The Double

Dealer was written by
(A) John Dryden
(B) William Wycherley Paper 2- June 2011
(C) William Congreve
(D) George Etherege 1. Little Nell is a character in Dickens‘s
Answer: C (A) Hard Times
(B) Great Expectations
(C) Oliver Twist
(D) The Old Curiosity Shop
Answer: D
2. Who, among the following Indian writers

in English, has created an identifiable
imagined locale ?
(A) Mulk Raj Anand
(B) Raja Rao
(C) R.K. Narayan
(D) Anita Desai
Answer: C
3. Who among the following is not a

formalist critic ?
(A) Allen Tate
(B) Cleanth Brooks
(C) Stanley Fish
(D) William Empson
Answer: C
4. The rhyme scheme of the Spenserian

sonnet is
(A) abab bcbc cdcd ee
(B) abab cdcd efef gg
(C) abba cddc effe gg
(D) abba abba cde cde
Answer: A
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5. Who among the following Marlovian (B) Shelley‟s “A Defence of Poetry”
characters is consumed by greed ? (C) Sidney‟s “An Apology for Poetry”
(A) Barabas (D) Eliot‟s of Poetry and Poets
(B) Tamburlaine Answer: A
(C) Doctor Faustus
(D) Mephistopheles 10. Which of the following is not about a
Answer: A dystopia ?
(A) George Orwell‟s Nineteen Eighty-Four
6. The plan of Arthurian stories has (B) Aldous Huxley‟s Brave New World
influenced the composition of Tennyson‘s (C) William Golding‟s Lord of the Flies
(A) In Memoriam (D) R.M. Ballantyne‟s The Coral Island
(B) Idylls Answer: D
(C) “Maud”
(D) “Locksley Hall” 11. Who among the following is not
Answer: B associated with the translation of the Bible ?
(A) Miles Coverdale
7. There are two lists given below.Match the (B) William Tyndale
authors in List – I withtheir nationality in (C) John Wycliffe
List – II by choosing the right option against (D) Thomas Browne
the code. Answer: D
(I) Patrick White
(II) Nadine Gordimer 12. Arrange the following stages in a
(III) Margaret Atwood sequence in which all Shakespearean
(IV) Keri Hulme tragedies are structured. Use the code given
below :
(1) Canada I. Denouement
(2) New Zealand II. Conflict
(3) Australia III. Exposition
(4) South Africa IV. Climax
Code :
(I) (II) (III) (IV) Code :
(A) (2) (1) (4) (3) (A) III, II, IV, I
(B) (4) (3) (2) (1) (B) III, IV, II, I
(C) (3) (4) (1) (2) (C) II, IV, III, I
(D) (3) (2) (4) (1) (D) II, IV, I, III
Answer: C Answer: A
8. A Shakespearean sonnet has the following 13. The term, ‗curtal sonnet‘, was coined by
rhyme scheme (A) John Milton
(A) ABBA, ABBA, CDCDCD (B) William Blake
(B) ABAB, BCBC, CD CD EE (C) Gerald Manley Hopkins
(C) ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG (D) Matthew Arnold
(D) ABBA, ABBA, CDCD, EE Answer: C
Answer: C
14. The author of the pamphlet Short View
9. ―The future of poetry is immense, because of Immorality and Profaneness of the
in poetry…. our race, as time goes on, will English Stage (1698) was
find an ever surer and surer stay.‖ – This (A) John Bunyan
claim for poetry is made in (B) Jeremy Collier
(A) Arnold‟s “The Study of Poetry”
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(C) William Wycherley 20. Hamlet, lying wounded, says to his
(D) John Vanbrugh friend, ―Horatio, I am dead.‖ This is an
Answer: B example of
(A) protasis
15. Identify a play in the following list that is (B) anacrusis
not written by Oscar Wilde : (C) prolepsis
(A) A Woman of No Importance (D) pun
(B) The Importance of Being Earnest Answer: C
(C) Saints and Sinners
(D) An Ideal Husband 21. The Castle of Otranto is an example of
Answer: C (A) Gothic fiction
(B) Romance
16. Put the following novels by Charles (C) Comic fiction
Dickens in a sequential order with the help (D) Bildungsroman
of the code : Answer: A
1. Great Expectations
2. Hard Times 22. ―The City of Dreadful Night‖, a long
3. Bleak House poem depicting the late Victorian sense of
4. A Tale of Two Cities gloom and despondency, is written by
(A) Matthew Arnold
Code : (B) Robert Browning
(A) 3, 2, 4, 1 (C) James Thomson
(B) 2, 4, 3, 1 (D) John Davidson
(C) 1, 2, 4, 3 Answer: C
(D) 4, 2, 1, 3
Answer: A 23. Which of the following novels by V.S.
Naipaul is set in Africa and carries echoes of
17. Thomas Kyd‘s The Spanish Tragedy was Joseph Conrad ?
influenced by (A) The Mystic Masseur
(A) Seneca (B) A Bend in the River
(B) Tertullian (C) A House for Mr. Biswas
(C) Virgil (D) The Mimic Men
(D) Plautus Answer: B
Answer: A
24. In The Rape of the Lock, Belinda‘s
18. In its final published version, Eliot‘s The lapdog is named
Waste Land contains a total of (A) Luck
(A) 334 lines (B) Shock
(B) 433 lines (C) Pluck
(C) 373 lines (D) Muck
(D) 423 lines Answer: B
Answer: B
25. You Can‘t Do Both is a novel by
19. Jean Rhys‘s Wide Sargasso Sea is set in (A) John Fowles
(A) The Congo region (B) Doris Lessing
(B) The Niger Delta (C) Kingsley Amis
(C) The Caribbean (D) Irish Murdoch
(D) The African Savannah Answer: C
Answer: C
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26. The character, Nathan Zuckerman, is 32. Eliot uses the term ―objective
associated with the fiction of correlative‖ in his essay.
(A) Norman Mailer (A) “The Metaphysical Poets”
(B) Saul Bellow (B) “Hamlet”
(C) Philip Roth (C) “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
(D) Bernard Malamud (D) “Dante”
Answer: C Answer: B
27. Plato censured poetry because he 33. Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel
believed it Prize for literature in the year
(A) eliminates the ego. (A) 1995
(B) promotes sensuality. (B) 1996
(C) distorts reality. (C) 1997
(D) cripples the imagination. (D) 1998
Answer: B Answer: A
28. Which of the following Tennyson poems 34. The pamphlet on the Irish condition,
is a dramatic monologue ? ―An Address to the Irish People‖ was
(A) In Memoriam composed by
(B) “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (A) W.B. Yeats
(C) “Crossing the Bar” (B) P.B. Shelley
(D) “Tithonus” (C) Jonathan Swift
Answer: D (D) G.B. Shaw
Answer: B
29. The character Giovanni features in one
of the following texts : 35. Which of the following arrangements of
(A) John Cleland‟s Fanny Hill : Memoirs of a English novels is in the correct chronological
Woman of Pleasure sequence ?
(B) John Ford‟s „Tis Pity She‟s a Whore‟ (A) Kim, A Passage to India, Sons and Lovers,
(C) John Braine‟s Room at the Top Brave New World
(D) John Evelyn‟s Diaries (B) Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India, Kim,
Answer: B Brave New World
(C) Kim, Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India,
30. Which of the following poems features Brave New World
the phrase, ―the still, sad music of (D) Brave New World, Kim, Sons and Lovers,
humanity‖ ? A Passage to India
(A) “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Answer: C
Recollections of Early Childhood”
(B) “Michael : A Pastoral Poem” 36. ―Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift‖ is
(C) “The Solitary Reaper” written by
(D) “Tintern Abbey” (A) Alexander Pope
Answer: D (B) Samuel Johnson
(C) John Gay
31. Molly Bloom is a character in James (D) Jonathan Swift
Joyce‘s Answer: D
(A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(B) Dubliners 37. Widowers‘ Houses was written by
(C) Ulysses (A) Oscar Wilde
(D) Exiles (B) T.S. Eliot
Answer: C (C) John Galsworthy
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(D) G.B. Shaw (D) Robert Southey
Answer: D Answer: D
38. Who among the following Marxist critics 44. Tom Paine‘s The Rights of Man was
has reconsidered the classic problem of published in
‗base and superstructure‖ in relation to (A) 1790
literature ? (B) 1791
(A) Edmund Wilson (C) 1792
(B) Raymond Williams (D) 1793
(C) Lucien Goldmann Answer: B
(D) Walter Benjamin
Answer: B 45. Andrew Marvell‘s ―An Horatian Ode
upon Cromwell‘s Return from Ireland‖ was
39. ―Heteroglossia‖ refers to written in
(A) the multiple readings of a text. (A) 1647
(B) the juxtaposition of multiple voices in a (B) 1649
text. (C) 1650
(C) the comments on the margins of a text. (D) 1648
(D) the gloss or commentary relating to a text. Answer: C
Answer: B
46. ―The Rime of Ancient Mariner‖ is about
40. Margaret Drabble is the author of (A) a perilous adventure in the sea
(A) The Memoirs of a Survivor (B) the accidental killing of an octopus
(B) The Witch of Exmoor (C) the curse of a sea God
(C) The Service of Clouds (D) the guilt and expiation of the Ancient
(D) The Godless in Eden Mariner
Answer: B Answer: D
41. MacFlecknoe is an attack on Dryden‘s 47. ―To Daffodils‖ is a poem, written by

literary rival, (A) Robert Herrick
(A) Richard Flecknoe (B) William Wordsworth
(B) Thomas Shadwell (C) John Keats
(C) John Wilmot (D) P.B. Shelley
(D) Matthew Prior Answer: A
Answer: B
48. Which of the following novels
42. Eighteenth century writers used satire reconstructs the historical events of the
frequently for Indian Mutiny ?
(A) attacking human vices and follies. (A) The Jewel in the Crown
(B) inciting the reading public. (B) The Siege of Krishnapur
(C) glorifying the culture of the upper classes. (C) The Day of the Scorpion
(D) pleasing their women readers. (D) The Towers of Silence
Answer: A Answer: B
43. Byron‘s ―The Vision of Judgement‖ is a 49. ―England, my England‖ is a poem by

satire directed against (A) W.E. Henley
(A) Charles Lamb (B) A.E. Housman
(B) John Keats (C) R.L. Stevenson
(C) Henry Hallam
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(D) Rudyard Kipling
Answer: A
50. Shelley was expelled from the Oxford

University due to the publication of
(A) The Revolt of Islam
(B) The Necessity of Atheism
(C) The Triumph of Life
(D) The Masque of Anarchy
Answer: B

1. Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and
Scenery is written by
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) Robert Southey
(C) John Clare
(D) Thomas Gray
Answer: C
2. Hemingway‘s novel A Farewell Arms is

divided into to
(A) two books
(B) three books
(C) four books
(D) five books
Answer: D
3. ―Panopticism‖ is the title of achapter in a

well-known book by
(A) Roman Jakobson
(B) Jacques Lacan
(C) Michel Foucault
(D) Jacques Derrida
Answer: C
4. The lines, ―She was a worthywoman al hir

lyve:/ Housbondes atcherche dore she hadde
five‖, are an example of
(A) blank verse
(B) clerihew
(C) heroic couplet
(D) free verse
Answer: C
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5. Who, among the following women writers, (D) John Ruskin
famously imagined the plight of Answer: B
Shakespeare‘s sister ?
(A) George Eliot 10. Who amongst the following is not a
(B) Virginia Woolf Jewish-American novelist ?
(C) Irish Murdoch (A) J.D. Salinger
(D) Frances Burney (B) Henry Greene
Answer: B (C) William Faulkner
(D) Philip Roth
6. Read the following statement and the Answer: B
reason given for it. Choose the right
response. 11. Which among the following plays by
Assertion(A) : Dickens‟s novels are called Christopher Marlowe has epic features ?
„Newgate Novels‟. (A) Doctor Faustus
Reason (R) : They are called so, because (B) Edward II
Dickens adulates in these novels the careers (C) Hero and Leander
and adventures of criminals. (D) Tamburlaine
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and(R) is the Answer: D
correct explanation.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the 12. Sir Fopling is a character in
correct explanation. (A) Wycherley‟s The Plain Dealer
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. (B) Congreve‟s The Way of the World
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. (C) Etherege‟s The Man of Mode
Answer: A (D) Davenant‟s The Platonick Lovers
Answer: C
7. Who among the following writers does not
belong to the group, the University Wits ? 13. Who famously said, ―Three or four
(A) John Lyly families in a Country Village is the very
(B) Thomas Nashe thing to work on‖ ?
(C) George Peele (A) Clara Reeve
(D) Thomas Kyd (B) Maria Edgeworth
Answer: D (C) Frances Burney
(D) Jane Austen
8. Which of the following characters of Answer: D
Webster‘s The White Devil utters the
memorable words : Oft gay and honour‘d 14. Ikemefuna is a character in the novel
robes those tortures try : We think cag‘d (A) When Rain Clouds Gather
birds sing, when indeed they cry. (B) The Mimic Men
(A) Vittoria Corombona (C) Things Fall Apart
(B) Bracciano (D) The Interpreters
(C) The Cardinal Answer: C
(D) Flamineo
Answer: D 15. A foot consisting of a strong syllable
followed by a weak syllable is called
9. ―All great literature is, at bottom, a (A) Trochee
criticism of life‖ – this statement is (B) Iambic
attributed to (C) Spondee
(A) Thomas Carlyle (D) Terza Rima
(B) Matthew Arnold Answer: A
(C) J.S. Mill
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16. What is it that Chaucer focuses on in the 21. The Unfortunate Traveller has been
depiction of the Wife of Bath in The authored by
Canterbury Tales ? (A) Robert Greene
(A) Meekness (B) Thomas Deloney
(B) Defiance (C) Thomas Nashe
(C) Chastity (D) Thomas Lodge
(D) Experience Answer: C
Answer: B
22. Who, among the following, is not a
17. Put the following books of Pope in a practitioner of Jacobean tragedy ?
sequence of publication. Answer the (A) George Villiers
question with the help of the Code given (B) John Marston
below : (C) John Webster
(i) The Dunciad (D) Thomas Middleton
(ii) The Rape of the Lock Answer: A
(iii) An Essay on Man
(iv) An Essay on Criticism 23. The author of Nation and Narration is
Code : (A) Edward Said
(A) (ii), (iii), (i), (iv) (B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(B) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) (C) Frantz Fanon
(C) (iv), (ii), (i), (iii) (D) Homi Bhabha
(D) (ii), (i), (iv), (iii) Answer: D
Answer: C
24. Which of the following novels has a great
18. Dinah Morris is a character in George impact on the formal experimentation in
Eliot‘s novel contemporary fiction ?
(A) Middlemarch (A) Thomas Nashe‟s The Unfortunate
(B) Silas Marner Traveller
(C) Daniel Deronda (B) Henry Fielding‟s Tom Jones
(D) Adam Bede (C) Laurence Sterne‟s Tristram Shandy
Answer: D (D) Samuel Richardson‟s Pamela
Answer: C
19. The Booker Prize is awarded by a panel
of judges to the best novel by a citizen of 25. The phrase ‗Only Connect‘ is associated
(A) the United Kingdom with
(B) the British Commonwealth or the Republic (A) D. H. Lawrence
of Ireland (B) James Joyce
(C) the United Kingdom or the British (C) E. M. Forster
Commonwealth (D) Virginia Woolf
(D) the United Kingdom or the British Answer: C
Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland
Answer: B 26. Which of the following books is by
Margaret Atwood ?
20. A ‗curtal sonnet‘ consists of (A) The Stone Angel
(A) 11 lines (B) No Fixed Address
(B) 12 lines (C) The Edible Woman
(C) 13 lines (D) Halfbreed
(D) 14 lines Answer: C
Answer: A
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27. The expression ―murderous innocence‖ 2. The Vicar of Wakefield
is an example of 3. She Stoops to Conquer
(A) Oxymoron 4. The Beggar‟s Opera
(B) Zeugma
(C) Chiasmus I. Oliver Goldsmith
(D) Pun II. John Gay
Answer: A III. Samuel Johnson
IV. Richard Sheridan
28. Read the following statement and the
reason given for it. Choose the right Code :
response : I II III IV
Assertion (A) : Othello killed Desdemona. (A) 1 4 3 2
Reason (R) : Because Desdemona committed (B) 2 4 1 3
infidelity. (C) 3 2 4 1
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R)is the (D) 4 3 2 1
correct explanation. Answer: *
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the
correct explanation. 33. The term ―egotistical sublime‖ was
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. coined by
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. (A) S.T. Coleridge
Answer: C (B) John Keats
(C) William Wordsworth
29. The Enlightenment believed in the (D) William Hazlitt
universal authority of Answer: B
(A) Religion
(B) Tradition 34. Put the following novels of George Eliot
(C) Reason in a sequential order. Answer the question
(D) Sentiments with the help of the code :
Answer: C (i) Middlemarch
(ii) Daniel Deronda
30. Which of the following works of John (iii) Felix Holt, the Radical
Milton is an elegy ? (iv) Romola
(A) Lycidas
(B) L‟Allegro Code :
(C) Camus (A) (i), (iii), (iv), (ii)
(D) Paradise Lost (B) (ii), (i), (iii), (iv)
Answer: A (C) (iv), (iii), (i), (ii)
(D) (iv), (i), (iii), (ii)
31. Which of the following poem by Keats Answer: D
uses the Spenserian stanza ?
(A) Endymion 35. Who, among the following writers, is
(B) The Fall of Hyperion known for his unforgettable sense of
(C) The Eve of St. Agnes humour and comedy ?
(D) Lamia (A) D.H. Lawrence
Answer: C (B) P.G. Wodehouse
(C) Thomas Hardy
32. Match the following authors with their (D) John Galsworthy
respective works with the help of the code Answer: D
given below :
1. The Vanity of Human Wishes
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36. Which of the following is not an (A) Joseph Conrad
apocalyptic novel ? (B) James Joyce
(A) Doris Lessing‟s The Four-Gated City (C) Jane Austen
(B) L.P. Hartley‟s Facial Justice (D) George Eliot
(C) Anthony Burgess‟s The Wanting Seed Answer: B
(D) V.S. Naipaul‟s A House for Mr Biswas
Answer: C 41. Isaac Bashevis Singer is an
(A) African-American writer
37. Identify the author of the following lines (B) American-Jewish writer
: (C) American-Indian writer
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, (D) American-Asian writer
Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds have Answer: B
shown
Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is 42. Samuel Beckett‘s Waiting for Godot has
one. (A) three Acts
(A) Shakespeare (B) five Acts
(B) George Herbert (C) four Acts
(C) John Donne (D) two Acts
(D) Henry Vaughan Answer: D
Answer: C
43. James Joyce‘s Exiles is a
38. In the summer of 1712, The Spectator (A) Short Story
published a series of essays on ―The (B) Poem
Pleasures of Imagination,‖ written by (C) Play
(A) Richard Steele (D) Novel
(B) John Dennis Answer: C
(C) John Locke
(D) Joseph Addison 44. ―It was a bright cold day in April and
Answer: D the clocks were striking thirteen‖ – is the
opening sentence of
39. Read the following statement and the (A) Ulysses
reason given for it. Choose the right (B) Nostromo
response. (C) Chrome Yellow
Assertion (A) : Gulliver‟s Travels earned (D) Nineteen Eighty-Four
Jonathan Swift the bad name of being a Answer: D
misanthrope.
Reason (R) : Swift in the novel was neutral to 45. The subtitle of William Godwin‘s Caleb
the image of man. Williams is
(A) Man As He Is Not
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R)is the (B) Man As He Is
correct explanation. (C) Things As They Are
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the (D) The Pupil of Nature
correct explanation. Answer: C
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. 46. Who amongst the following belongs to
Answer: B the group of radical feminists ?
(A) Helene Cixous
40. Who, amongst the following, does not (B) Monica Wittig
belong to the ‗Great Tradition‘, enunciated (C) Simone de Beauvoir
by F. R. Leavis ?
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(D) Luce Irigaray
Answer: A
47. ―On the Knocking at the Gate in

Macbeth‖ is a longer essay by
(A) G. Wilson Knight Paper 2- June 2012
(B) A. C. Bradley
(C) Thomas De Quincey 1. To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a
(D) F. R. Leavis text may open up, Derrida makes use of the
Answer: C term:
(A) aporia
48. The expression, ―dreaming house‖ is an (B) difference
example of (C) erasure
(A) Zeugma (D) supplement
(B) Transferred epithet Answer: (A)
(C) Chiasmus
(D) Apostrophe 2. Who, among the following English
Answer: B playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare
in Love?
49. The term ‗Practical Criticism‘ is coined (A) Harold Pinter
by (B) Alan Bennett
(A) William Empson (C) Caryl Churchill
(B) W. K. Wimsatt, Jr. (D) Tom Stoppard
(C) I.A. Richards Answer: (D)
(D) F. R. Leavis
Answer: C 3. Arrange the following in the chronological
order:
50. Victor Shklovsky‘s name is associated 1. Mary Wollstonecraft‟s Vindication of the
with Rights of Women
(A) Post-modernism 2. Lyrical Ballads
(B) New Historicism 3. French Revolution
(C) Reader Response Theory 4. Percy‟s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
(D) Russian Formalism (A) 4, 3, 1, 2
Answer: D (B) 3, 2, 1, 2
(C) 1, 2, 4, 3
(D) 2, 1, 3, 4
Answer: (A)
4. Which of the following employs a

narrative structure in which the main action
is relayed at second hand through an
enclosing frame story?
(A) Sons and Lovers
(B) Ulysses
(C) The Power and the Glory
(D) Heart of Darkness
Answer: (D)
5. The Irish Dramatic Movement was

heralded by such figures as
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(A) W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward 11. List – I
Martyn I. “Because I could not stop for death…”
(B) Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries II. “O Captain ! My Captain!”
(C) H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John III. “Two roads diverged in a wood….”
Ervine IV. “So much depends /upon”
(D) Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries List – II
Answer: (A) a. Robert Frost
b. William Carlos Williams
6. Which poem by Chaucer was written on c. Emily Dickinson
the death of Blanche, Wife of John of d. Walt Whitman
Gaunt?
(A) Troilus and Criseyde The correctly matched series would be :
(B) The House of Fame (A) I-d; II-c; III-b; IV-a
(C) The Book of Duchess (B) I-a; II-b; III-c; IV-d
(D) The Legend of Good Women (C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-c
Answer: (C) (D) I-c; II-d; III-a; IV-b
Answer: (D)
7. The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is the
other title of 12. The predominant tone and thrust of
(A) Gorboduc Jonathan Swift‘s ―A Modest Proposal‖ are
(B) Ralph Roister Doister (A) comic
(C) Damon and Pythias (B) solemn
(D) Lamentable Tragedy (C) hortatory
Answer: (A) (D) irony
Answer: (D)
8. Who of the following poets is Australian?
(A) Austin Clarke 13. I sit in one of the dives On Fifty Second
(B) Judith Wright Street, Uncertain and afraid As the clever
(C) Edwin Muir hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade. So
(D) Derek Walcott begins Auden‘s ―September 1, 1939‖. What
Answer: (B) is the meaning of the word in italics?
(A) bench
9. ―He found it [English] brick and left it (B) night club
marble‖, remarked one great writer on (C) house
another. Who were they? (D) park
(A) Milton on Shakespeare Answer: (B)
(B) Dryden on Milton
(C) Johnson on Dryden 14. C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were
(D) Jonson on Shakespeare reputed in the 1930s for introducing
Answer: (C) (A) Practical Criticism
(B) New Criticism
10. Who, among the following, is a Nobel (C) Standard English Project
Laureate? (D) Basic English Project
(A) Tony Morrison Answer: (D)
(B) Seamus Heaney
(C) Ted Hughes 15. In which of the following works does
(D) Geoffrey Hill Mrs. Malaprop appear ?
Answer: (A & B) (A) The Rivals
(B) She Stoops to Conquer
(C) The Mysteries of Udolpho
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(D) The Way of the World places wrecked by political conflicts?
Answer: (A) (A) Anthony Powell
(B) Evelyn Waugh
16. Which of the following statements about (C) William Golding
Christopher Marlowe are true? (D) Graham Greene
I. Edward II was written in the last year of Answer: (D)
Marlowe‟s life.
II. Many critics consider Doctor Faustus to be 21. List – I
Marlowe‟s best play. 1. Good sense is the body of poetic genius
III. His Spanish Tragedy comes a close second. 2. Poetry is the breath and a finer spirit of all
IV. Marlowe was less educated than knowledge
Shakespeare. 3. Literary criticism is a description and
(A) I and II are true. evaluation of its object
(B) II and III are true. 4. Nature never set forth the earth in as rich a
(C) II and IV are true. tapestry as diverse poets have done
(D) III and IV are true. List – II
Answer: (A) I. Brooks, “The Formalist Critic”
II. Sidney, Defence/ An Apology for Poetry
17. ―Art for Art‘s Sake‖ became a rallying III. Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads
cry for IV. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
(A) the Aesthetes 1234
(B) the Symbolists (A) IV III I II
(C) the Imagists (B) II IV III I
(D) the Art Noveau School (C) III II I IV
Answer: (A) (D) IV II I III
Answer: (A)
18. Confessions of an English Opium Eater
is a literary work by 22. In which of the following travel books
(A) S. T. Coleridge does Mark Twain give an account of his visit
(B) P. B. Shelley to India?
(C) Thomas De Quincey (A) A Tramp Abroad
(D) Lord Byron (B) Roughing It
Answer: (C) (C) The Innocents Abroad
(D) Following the Equator
19. Which of the following statements about Answer: (D)
The Canterbury Tales is true?
(A) “The General Prologue‟ is appended to The 23. William Blake‘s famous poems such as
Canterbury Tales. ―London‖, ―The Sick Rose‖, and ―The
(B) In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this Tyger‖ appear in
work. (A) Songs of Innocence
(C) The Canterbury Tales remained unfinished (B) Songs of Experience
at the time of its author‟s death. (C) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(D) The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain (D) Vision of the Daughters of Albion
and The Franklin are characters and tale-tellers Answer: (B)
in this work.
Answer: (C) 24. Who among the following English artists
illustrated the novels of Dickens and Scott?
20. Who, among the following, was a (A) Richard Hogarth
Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a (B) Joshua Reynolds
film critic and set his fictions in far-away (C) George Cruishank
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(D) John Tennial (D) David Hare
Answer: (C) Answer: (C)
25. The last of Gulliver‘s Travels is to 31. Examine the following statements and
(A) The Land of the Houyhnhnms identify one of them which is not true.
(B) The Land of Homosapiens (A) Rudyard Kipling died in the year 1936.
(C) The Land of the Hurricanes (B) He was born in India but schooled in
(D) The Newfound Land England.
Answer: (A) (C) He returned to India as a police constable
in Burma.
26. Madam Merle is a character in (D) He is the author of Jungle Book and
(A) The Great Gatsby Barrack Room Ballads.
(B) The Portrait of a Lady Answer: (C)
(C) The Jungle
(D) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 32. What is the correct combination of the
Answer: (B) following?
I. Balachandra Rajan
27. In which of the following scenes of The II. R. K. Narayan
Waste Land do we have a departure from III. Kamala Markandaya
Standard English? IV. Romen Basu
(A) The typist scene a. The Tamarind Tree
(B) The pub scene b. The Coffer Dams
(C) The hyacinth garden scene c. The Dark Dancer
(D) The Chapel Perilous scene d. The Dark Room
Answer: (B) (A) I – c; II – d; III – b; IV – b
(B) I – d; II – a; III – b; IV – c
28. The words ―If it were done when tis (C) I – c; II – a; III – d; IV – b
done, then twere well / It were done (D) I – d; II – c; III – a; IV – b
quickly…‖ are uttered by Answer: * (Marks given to all)
(A) Hamlet
(B) Lear 33. Name the poet who chooses his successor
(C) Othello and the successor-poet whom Dryden
(D) Macbeth satirises in his famous poem.
Answer: (D) (A) James Shirley and Chris Shirley
(B) Henry Treece and Charles Triesten
29. John Dryden‘s Absalom and Achotophel (C) Richard Flecknoe and Thomas Shadwell
a (D) Thomas Percy and Samuel Pepys
(A) religious tract Answer: (C)
(B) political allegory
(C) comic verse epic 34. ―If______ comes, can_______ be far
(D) comedy behind ?‖ (Shelley, ―Ode to the West
Answer: (B) Wind‖)
(A) winter, spring
30. The term ‗the comedy of menace‘ is (B) autumn, summer
associated with the early plays of (C) wind, rains
(A) Arnold Wesker (D) spring, winter
(B) John Arden Answer: (A)
(C) Harold Pinter
35. The following passages are the very first
lines of well-known works. Match the lines
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and the works: (C) iron, gold, silver and brass
a. Moby Dick (D) gold, platinum, silver and diamond
b. Macbeth Answer: (C)
c. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
d. Tristram Shandy 40. Which among the following novels has
e. “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” more than one ending?
I. Let us go then, you and I….. (A) Lucky Jim
II. Call me Ishmael….. (B) The Prime of Jean Brodie
III. When shall we three meet again? (C) The French Lieutenant‟s Woman
IV. He disappeared in the dead of winter (D) The Clockwork Orange
V. I wish either….begot me ….. Answer: (C)
(A) I-c; II-a; III-b; IV-e; V-d 41. ―You have seen how a man was made a
(B) I-e; II-b; III-a; IV-c; V-d slave; you shall see how a slave was made a
(C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-e; V-c man‖ is an example of
(D) I-b; II-e; III-d; IV-c; V-a (A) Bathos
Answer: (A) (B) Epistrophe
(C) Chiasmus
36. Which of the following is not a revenge (D) Anti-climax
tragedy? Answer: (C)
(A) Hamlet
(B) The Duchess of Malfi 42. Which of the following statements is
(C) Volpone NOT correct?
(D) Gorboduc (A) Chaucer used the rhyme royal, a stanzaic
Answer: (C) form in some of his major poems.
(B) Chaucer was the author of The Legend of
37. What is a neologism? Good Women.
(A) A word with roots in a native language (C) Chaucer wrote in English when the court
(B) A word whose meaning changes with every poetry of his day was written in Anglo-Norman
renewed use and Latin.
(C) A word newly coined or used in a new (D) Chaucer wrote The Book Named the
sense Governor
(D) An obsession with new words and phrases Answer: (D)
Answer: (C)
43. Material feminism studies inequality in
38. Which of the following is not true of terms of
Edward Said‘s Orientalism? (A) only gender
(A) Makes use of Foucault‟s concept of (B) only class
discursive formulation (C) both class and gender
(B) Is one of the founding texts of Postcolonial (D) only patriarchy
theory Answer: (C)
(C) Makes use of Barthes‟s concept of writerly
text 44. Who among the following is not an Irish
(D) Utilises the Gramscian notion of hegemony writer?
Answer: (C) (A) Oscar Wilde
(B) Oliver Goldsmith
39. Thomas Love Peacock classified poetry (C) Edmund Burke
into 4 periods. They are: (D) Thomas Gray
(A) carbon, gold, silver and brass Answer: (D)
(B) brass, silver, gold and diamond
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45. Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys 50. An epilogue is
begins after (A) prefixed to a text which it introduces.
(A) The Restoration (B) suffixed to a text which it sums up or
(B) The Glorious Revolution extends.
(C) The Reformation (C) a piece of writing or speech that formally
(D) The French Revolution begins a book.
Answer: (A) (D) a piece of writing or speech that bears no
relation to the text at hand.
46. In a poem, a line may either be end- Answer: (B)
stopped or
(A) rhymed
(B) broken
(C) accented
(D) run-on
Answer: (D)
47. Which of the following poets wrote the

essay ―Naipaul‘s India and Mine‖?
(A) Kamala Das
(B) R. Parthasarthy
(C) A. K. Ramanujam
(D) Nissim Ezekiel
Answer: (D)
48. Match the following :

1. Peter Ackroyd
2. James Boswell
3. Samuel Johnson
4. Richard Ellman
I. James Joyce
II. T. S. Eliot
III. Life of Johnson
IV. Lives of Poets
(A) I-3, II-4, III-1, IV-2

(B) I-4, II-1, III-2, IV-3
(C) I-1, II-2, III-3, IV-4
(D) I-2, II-3, III-1, IV-4
Answer: (B)
49. ―The pen is mightier than the sword‖ is

an example of
(A) simile
(B) image
(C) conceit
(D) metonymy
Answer: (D)
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(B) Gulliver‟s Travels
(C) The Spectator
(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Answer: (A)
2. Which, among the following, is a place

through which John Bunyan‘s Christian
does NOT pass?
(A) The Slough of Despond
(B) Mount Helicon
(C) The Valley of Humiliation
(D) Vanity Fair
Answer: (B)
3. The period of Queen Victoria‘s reign is

(A) 1830–1900
(B) 1837–1901
(C) 1830–1901
(D) 1837–1900
Answer: (B)
4. Which of the following statements about

The Lyrical Ballads is NOT true?
(A) It carried only one ballad proper, which
was Coleridge‟s The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner.
(B) It also carried pastoral and other poems.
(C) It carried a “Preface” which Wordsworth
added in 1800.
(D) It also printed from Gray‟s Elegy Written
in a Country Churchyard.
Answer: (D)
5. One of the following texts was published

earlier than 1955. Identify the text:
(A) William Golding, the Inheritors
(B) Philip Larkin, the Less Deceived
(C) William Empson, Collected Poems
(D) Samuel Becket, Waiting for Godot
Answer: (D)
6. Who among the poets in England during

the 1930s had left–leaning tendencies?
Paper 2- December 2012 (A) T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington
(B) Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert
1. Identify the work below that does not Brooke
belong to the literature of the eighteenth (C) W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day
century: Lewis
(A) Advancement of Learning (D) J. Fleckner, W. H. Davies, Edward Marsh
Answer: (C)
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7. Match the following: (D) All of them are farces.
1. The Sage of Concord Answer: (B)
2. The Nun of Amherst
3. Mark Twain 12. W.M. Thackeray‘s Vanity Fair owes its
4. Old Possum title to
5. Emily Dickinson (A) Browning‟s Fifine at the Fair
6. R.W. Emerson (B) Shakespeare‟s Merchant of Venice
7. T.S. Eliot (C) Goldsmith‟s Vicar of Wakefield
8. Samuel L. Clemens (D) Bunyan‟s Pilgrim‟s Progress
Answer: (D)
(A) 1–6; 2–5; 3–8; 4–7
(B) 1–5; 2–6; 3–7; 4–8 13. The Puritans shut down all theatersin
(C) 1–8; 2–7; 3–6; 4–5 England in
(D) 1–7; 2–8; 3–5; 4–6 (A) 1642
Answer: (A) (B) 1640
(C) 1659
8. Name the theorist who divided poets into (D) 1660
―strong‖ and ―weak‖ and popularized the Answer: (A)
practice of misreading:
(A) Alan Bloom 14. Who of the following was not a
(B) Harold Bloom contemporary of Wordsworth and
(C) Geoffrey Hartman Coleridge?
(D) Stanley Fish (A) Robert Southey
Answer: (B) (B) Sir Walter Scott
(C) William Hazlitt
9. In the Rape of the Lock Pope repeatedly (D) A. C. Swinburne
compares Belinda to Answer: (D)
(A) The sun
(B) The moon 15. Which of the following statements about
(C) The North Star Waiting for Godot is NOT true?
(D) The rose 1. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two
Answer: (A) acts”.
2. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two
10. Which of the following awards is not scenes”.
given to Indian–English writers? 3. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two
(A) The Booker Prize parts”.
(B) The Sahitya Akademi Award 4. It does not carry a subtitle.
(C) The Gyanpeeth (A) 4
(D) Whitbread Prize (B) 2
Answer: (C & D) (C) 3
(D) 1
11. Identify the correct statement below: Answer: * (Marks given to all)
(A) Gorboduc is a comedy, while Ralph
Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton‟s Needle 16. The Bloomsbury Group included British
are tragedies. intellectuals, critics, writers and artists. Who
(B) Gorboduc is a tragedy, while Ralph Roister among the following belonged to the
Doister and Gammer Gurton‟s Needle are Bloomsbury Group?
comedies. I. John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey
(C) All of them are problem plays. II. E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Clive Bell
III. Patrick Brunty, Paul Haworth
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IV. Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Walter Pater 21. The year 1939 proved to be a crucial
(A) I and II year for two important writers in England.
(B) I Identify the correct phrase below:
(C) II and III (A) For Yeats who died, for Auden who left
(D) IV England for the U. S.
Answer: (A) (B) For Eliot who started publishing verse–
drama, for Hardy whose Wessex Poems were
17. Who, among the following is credited published.
with the making of the first authoritative (C) For Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene,
Dictionary of the English Language? each for publishing his first novels.
(A) Bishop Berkeley (D) For Eliot who won the Nobel Prize and
(B) Samuel Johnson Orwell who published his Animal Farm.
(C) Edmund Burke Answer: (A)
(D) Horace Walpole
Answer: (B) 22. The Enlightenment was characterized by
(A) Accelerated industrial production and
18. In Dryden‘s Essay of Dramatic Poesy general well–being of the public.
(1668), who opens the discussion on behalf of (B) A belief in the universal authority of reason
the ancients? and emphasis on scientific experimentation.
(A) Lisideius (C) The Protestant work ethic and compliance
(B) Crites with Christian values of life.
(C) Eugenius (D) An undue faith in predestination and
(D) Neander neglect of free will.
Answer: (B) Answer: (B)
19. The term invective refers to 23. Which Shakespearean play contains the
(A) The abusive writing or speech in which line: ―…there is a special providence in the
there is harsh denunciation of some person or fall of a sparrow‖?
thing. (A) King Lear
(B) An insulting writing attack upon a real (B) Hamlet
person, in verse or prose, usually involving (C) Coriolanus
caricature and ridicule. (D) Macbeth
(C) A written or spoken text in which an Answer: (B)
apparently straightforward statement or event
is undermined in its context so as to give it a 24. Match the following pairs of books and
very different significance. authors:
(D) The chanting or reciting of words deemed I. Condition of the Working Class in England
to have magical power. II. London Labour and the London Poor
Answer: (A) III. Past and Present
IV. Theunto This Last
20. Which of the following novels depicts the
plight of the Bangladeshi immigrants in East i. John Ruskin
London? ii. Henry Mayhew
(A) How far can you go iii. Thomas Carlyle
(B) The White Teeth iv. Friedrich Engels
(C) An Equal Music
(D) Brick Lane Codes:
Answer: (D) I II III IV
(A) iv i ii iii
(B) iv ii iii i
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(C) ii iv i ii 30. Which is the correct sequence of the
(D) iii ii iv iv novels of V.S. Naipaul?
Answer: (B) (A) The Mystic Masseur–Miguel Street–The
Suffrage of Elvira – A House for Mr. Biswas.
25. In which of the following texts do Aston, (B) Miguel Street – The Mystic Masseur – A
Davies and Mick appear as characters? House for Mr.Biswas – The Suffrage of Elvira.
(A) Wyndham Lewis‟s Enemy (C) The Suffrage of Elvira – Miguel Street –
(B) Harold Pinter‟s Caretaker The Mystic Masseur – A House for Mr.
(C) Katherine Mansfield‟s “Life of Ma Parker” Biswas.
(D) Graham Greene‟s Brighton Rock (D) The Mystic Masseur – The Suffrage of
Answer: (B) Elvira, Miguel Street – A House for Mr.
Biswas.
26. What is common to the following Answer: (D)
writers? Identify the correct description
below: 31. ―Kubla Khan‖ takes an epigraph from
William Congreve (A) Samuel Purchas‟ Purchas His Pilgrimage
George Etherege (B) Hakluyt‟s Voyages
William Wycherley (C) The Book Named the Governour
Thomas Otway (D) Sir Thomas More‟s Utopia
(A) All of these were Restoration playwrights Answer: (A)
(B) All of them were critics of Orwell‟s regime
(C) All of them edited Shakespeare‟s plays 32. Which of the following author– theme is
(D) All of them wrote tragedies in the same age correctly matched?
Answer: (A) (A) The Battle of the Books- Tribute to “The
rude forefathers of the hamlet”.
27. In which Jane Austen novel do you find (B) The Rape of the Lock- Quarrel between
the characters Anne Elliott, Lady Russell, ancient and modern authors.
Louisa Musgrove and Captain Wentworth? (C) Gray‟s “Elegy”-Accumulation of wealth
(A) Emma and the consequent loss of human lives and
(B) Mansfield Park values.
(C) Persuasion (D) The Deserted Village- Quarrel between
(D) Northanger Abbey two families caused by Lord Petre.
Answer: (C) Answer: * (Marks given to all)
28. In which of his essays does Homi Bhabha 33. Which among the following titles set a
discuss the ‗discovery‘ of English in colonial course for academic literary feminism?
India? (A) Nostromo
(A) “Signs taken for Wonders” (B) From Ritual to Romance
(B) “Mimicry” (C) A Room of One‟s Own
(C) Nation and Narration (D) A Dance to the Music of Time
(D) “The Commitment to Theory” Answer: (C)
Answer: (A)
34. In which play do we see a reworking of
29. ______was the first Sonnet Sequence in E.M.Forster‘s A Passage to India as a
English. camaeo?
(A) Edmund Spenser‟s Amoretti (A) The Birthday Party
(B) Philip Sidney‟s Astrophel and Stella (B) A Resounding Tinkle
(C) Samuel Daniel‟s Delia (C) Indian Ink
(D) Michael Drayton‟s Idea‟s Mirror (D) Amadeus
Answer: (B) Answer: (C)
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35. Shakespeare‘s sonnets 41. Whom did Keats regard as the prime
(A) Do not carry a dedication. example of ‗negative capability‘?
(B) Are dedicated to James I of England. (A) John Milton
(C) Are dedicated to Mary Arden. (B) William Wordsworth
(D) Are dedicated to an unknown “Mr. W.H.” (C) William Shakespeare
Answer: (D) (D) P.B. Shelley
Answer: (C)
36. Which of the following poems uses terza
rima? 42. Charles Dickens‘s A Tale of Two Cities
(A) John Keats‟s “Ode to a Nightingale” begins with the sentence
(B) P.B. Shelley‟s “Ode to the West Wind” (A) It was the best of times; it was the worst of
(C) William Wordsworth‟s “The Solitary times.
Reaper” (B) It was the brightest of times; it was the
(D) Alfred Tennyson‟s “Ulysses” darkest of times.
Answer: (B) (C) It was the richest of times; it was the
poorest of times.
37. When one says that ―someone is no (D) It was the happiest of times; it was the
more‖ or that ―someone has breathed his/ saddest of times.
her last‖, the speaker is resorting to Answer: (A)
(A) Euphism
(B) Euphony 43. The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins
(C) Understatement were published posthumously by
(D) Euphemism (A) Edwin Muir
Answer: (D) (B) Edward Thomas
(C) Robert Bridges
38. Which of the following are ―companion (D) Coventry Patmore
poems‖? Answer: (C)
(A) “Gypsy songs” and “Songs and Sonnets”
(B) “L‟Allegro” and “II Penseroso” 44. Which of the following is the correct
(C) “The Good Morrow” and “The Sun Rising” chronological sequence?
(D) “Full Fathom Five” and “Hark, Hark! The (A) A Poison Tree – The Deserted Village –
Lark” The Blessed Damozel– Ozymandias
Answer: (B) (B) The Deserted Village – A Poison Tree –
Ozymandias – The Blessed Damozel
39. What does the term episteme signify? (C) The Blessed Damozel – A Poison Tree –
(A) Knowledge The Deserted Village – Ozymandias
(B) Archive (D) The Deserted Village – The Blessed
(C) Theology Damozel – Ozymandias – A Poison Tree
(D) Scholarship Answer: (B)
Answer: (A)
45. The term homology means a
40. Which of the following is a better correspondence between two or more
definition of an image in literary writing? structures. Who of the following developed a
(A) A reflection theory of relations between literary works
(B) A speaking picture and social classes in terms of homologies
(C) A refraction (A) Raymond Williams
(D) A reflected picture (B) Christopher Caudwell
Answer: (B) (C) Lucien Goldmann
(D) Antonio Gramsci
Answer: (A OR C)
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46. F. Turner‘s famous hypothesis is that (B) Bloom‟s Blunder
(A) The Frontier has outlived its ideological (C) A Day in the life of Stephen Dedalus
utility in American civilization. (D) The Dead
(B) The Frontier has posed a challenge to the Answer: (A)
American creative imagination.
(C) The Frontier has been the one great 50. (i) A pastiche is a mixture of themes,
determinant of American civilization. stylistic elements or subjects borrowed from
(D) The Frontier has been the one great other works.
deterrent to American progress. (ii) It is distinguished from parody because not
Answer: (C) all parody is pastiche
(iii) A pastiche is also known as a „purple
47. Which statement(s) below on the passage‟.
Spenserian stanza is/are accurate? (iv) A pastiche is given to an elevated style,
I. A quatrain, unrhymed, but alliterative especially in its
II. A stanza of four lines in iambic pentameter (A) (i) and (ii) are correct.
III. An eight–line stanza in iambic pentameter (B) Only (i) is correct.
followed by a ninth in six iambic feet (C) (iii) and (iv) are correct.
IV. An eight–line stanza with six use of (D) Only (iv) is correct.
figurative language. Iambic feet followed by a Answer: (A)
ninth in iambic pentameter
(A) I and II
(B) II
(C) III
(D) IV
Answer: (C)
48. Match the following texts with their

respective themes:
I. Areopagitica (Milton)
II. Leviathan (Hobbes)
III. Alexander‟s Feast (Dryden)
IV. The Way of The World (Congreve)
i. Fashion, courtship, seduction

ii. The liberty For Unlicensed Printing
iii. Absolute Sovereignty
iv. The power of music
Codes:
I II III IV
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii iii iv i
(C) iii iv i ii
(D) iv iii i ii
Answer: (B)
49. The preliminary version of James

Joyce‘s Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man was called
(A) Stephen Hero
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3. ―Where I lacked a political purpose, I
wrote lifeless books.‖ To which of the
following authors can we attribute the above
admission?
(A) Graham Greene
(B) George Orwell
(C) Charles Morgan
(D) Evelyn Waugh
Answer: (B)
4. Modernism has been described as being

concerned with ―disenchantment of our
culture with culture itself‖. Who is the
critic?
(A) Stephen Spender
(B) Malcolm Bradbury
(C) Lionel Trilling
(D) Joseph Frank
Answer: (C)
5. ―Only that film, which fluttered on the

grate, still flutters there, the sole unquiet
thing.‖
(A) “Tintern Abbey Revisited”
(B) “Michael”
(C) “Frost at Midnight”
(D) “This Lime-Tree Bower, My Prison”
Answer: (C)
6. Which one of the following modern poems

employs ottava rima?
Paper 2- June 2013 (A) “Among School Children”
(B) “In Praise of Limestone”
1. In Pinter‘s Birthday Party, Stanley is (C) “The Wild Swans at Coole”
given a birthday present. What is it? (D) “The Shield of Achilles”
(A) A toy Answer: (A)
(B) A piano
(C) A drum 7. John Dryden in his heroic tragedy All for
(D) A violin Love takes the story of Shakespeare‘s
Answer: (C) (A) Troilus and Cressida
(B) The Merchant of Venice
2. How does Lord Jim end? (C) Antony and Cleopatra
(A) Jim is shot through the chest by Doramin. (D) Measure for Measure
(B) Jim kills himself with a last unflinching Answer: (C)
glance.
(C) Jim answers “the call of exalted egoism” 8. Arrange the following works in the order
and betrays Jewel. in which they appear. Identify the correct
(D) Jim surrenders himself to Doramin. code:
Answer: (A) I. No Longer at Ease
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II. Things Fall apart 3. Their Eyes Were Watching God
III. A Man of the People 4. Native Son
IV. Arrow of God Which is the correct combination according to
The correct combination according to the code the code?
is: I II III IV
Code: (A) 2 1 3 4
(A) III, IV, II, I (B) 3 4 2 1
(B) IV, III, I, II (C) 4 3 1 2
(C) II, I, IV, III (D) 1 2 4 3
(D) I, II, III, IV Answer: * (Marks given to all)
Answer: (C)
13. Which of these plays by Shakespeare
9. Samuel Pepys kept his diary from does not use ‗cross-dressing‘ as a device?
(A) 1660 to 1669 (A) As You Like It
(B) 1649 to 1660 (B) Julius Caesar
(C) 1662 to 1689 (C) Cymbeline
(D) 1660 to 1689 (D) Two Gentlemen of Verona
Answer: (A) Answer: (B)
10. In the Defence of Poetry, what did 14. Which of the following works cannot be
Sydney attribute to poetry? categorised under postcolonial theory?
(A) A magical power whereby poetry plays (A) Nation and Narration
tricks on the reader. (B) Orientalism
(B) A divine power whereby poetry transmits a (C) Discipline and Punish
message from God to the reader. (D) White Mythologies
(C) A moral power whereby poetry encourages Answer: (C)
the reader to evaluate virtuous models.
(D) A realistic power that cannot be made to 15. Locke‘s Essay Concerning Human
seem like mere illusion and trickery. Understanding is a classic statement of
Answer: (C) _________ Philosophy.
(A) Aesthetic
11. An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot presents (B) Empiricist
portraits of the following contemporary (C) Nationalist
individuals: (D) Realist
(A) Addison and Lord Hervey Answer: (B)
(B) Dryden and Rochester
(C) Swift and Steele 16. ―Power circulates in all directions, to
(D) Smollett and Defoe and from all social levels, at all times.‖ Who
Answer: (A) said this?
(A) Edward Said
12. Match the following authors with their (B) Michel Foucault
works: (C) Jacques Derrida
List – A (D) Roland Barthes
I. Alice Walker Answer: (B)
II. Ralph Ellison
III. Richard Wright 17. Which one of the following is not written
IV Zora Neale Hurston by an Australian Aboriginal writer?
List – B (A) Kath Walker
1. Invisible Man (B) Peter Carey
2. The Colour Purple (C) Robert Bropho
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(D) Jack Davis 21. Which American poet wrote: ―I sound
Answer: * my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the
world‖?
18. Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of (A) Robert Lowell
Surrey jointly brought out Tottel‘s (B) Walt Whitman
Miscellany during the Renaissance. (C) Wallace Stevens
Identify the name of the Earl of Surrey from (D) Langston Hughes
the following: Answer: (B)
(A) Thomas Lodge
(B) Thomas Nashe 22. The etymological meaning of the word
(C) Thomas Sackville ―trope‖ is
(D) Henry Howard (A) Gesture
Answer: (D) (B) Turning
(C) Mirror
19. Match the following lists: (D) Desire
(Novelists) Answer: (B)
I. Margaret Laurence
II. Margaret Atwood 23. Who among the following English poets
III. Sinclair Ross defined poetic imagination as ―a repetition
IV. Thomas King in the finite mind of the eternal act of
(Novels) creation in the infinite ‗I AM‘ ‖?
1. Surfacing (A) Blake
2. The Stone Angel (B) Wordsworth
3. Medicine River (C) Coleridge
4. As for Me and My House (D) Shelley
Which is the correct combination according to Answer: (C)
the code?
I II III IV 24. Little Nell is a character in Dickens‘
(A) 1 4 3 2 (A) David Copperfield
(B) 3 2 1 4 (B) The Old Curiosity Shop
(C) 4 3 2 1 (C) Bleak House
(D) 2 1 4 3 (D) Great Expectations
Answer: (D) Answer: (B)
20. The dramatic structure of Restoration 25. Match the following:

comedies combines in it the features of (Schools/Concept of Criticism)
I. The Elizabethan Theatre I. Formalism
II. The Neoclassical Theatre of Italy and II. New Critics
France III. Psychological Theory of the Value of
III. The Irish Theatre Literature
IV. The Greek Theatre IV. Literary art as archetypal image
The correct combination according to the code (Critics)
is 1. John Crow Ransom
Codes: 2. The Jungians
(A) I and IV are correct. 3. Victor Shklovsky
(B) III and IV are correct. 4. I.A. Richards
(C) II and III are correct. The correct combination according to the code
(D) I and II are correct. is:
Answer: (D) I II III IV
(A) 3 1 4 2
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(B) 2 4 1 3 (C) A Pair of Blue Eyes
(C) 4 1 2 3 (D) The Mayor of Caster bridge
(D) 3 2 1 4 Answer: (D)
Answer: (A)
30. The phrase ―dark satanic mills‖ has
26. In the late seventeenth century a ―Battle become the most famous description of the
of Books‖ erupted between which two force at the centre of the industrial
groups? revolution. The phrase was used by
(A) Cavaliers and Roundheads (A) William Wordsworth
(B) Abolitionists and Enthusiasts for slaves (B) William Blake
(C) Champions of Ancient and Modern (C) Thomas Carlyle
Learning (D) John Ruskin
(D) The Welsh and the Scots Answer: (B)
Answer: (C)
31. ―Five miles meandering with a mazy
27. ―Everything that man esteems Endures a motion through wood and dale the scared
moment or a day Love‘s pleasure drives his river ran.‖ Where does this ‗sacred river‘
love away…‖ In the above quote the last line directly run to?
is an example of (A) A lifeless ocean
(A) Allusion (B) The caverns measureless
(B) Pleonasm (C) A fountain
(C) Paradox (D) The waves
(D) Zeugma Answer: A and B
Answer: (C)
32. Who is the twentieth century poet, a
28. Match the author with the work: winner of the Nobel Prize for literature who
(Authors) rejected the label ―British‖ though he has
I. Kingsely Amis always written in English rather than his
II. Allan Silletoe regional language?
III. Doris Lessing (A) Douglas Dunn
IV. Jean Rhys (B) Seamus Heaney
(Works) (C) Geoffrey Hill
1. Saturday and Sunday Morning (D) Philip Larkin
2. The Golden Note Book Answer: (B)
3. The Left Bank
4. Lucky Jim 33. Which of the following statements best
Which is the correct combination according to describes Sir Thomas Browne‘s Religion
the code? Medici?
Code: (A) It is a story of conversion or providential
I II III IV experiences.
(A) 3 4 1 2 (B) It emphasizes Browne‟s love of mystery
(B) 4 1 2 3 and wonder.
(C) 2 3 1 4 (C) It is full of angst, melancholy and dread of
(D) 1 2 3 4 death.
Answer: (B) (D) It reports the facts of Browne‟s life.
Answer: A and B
29. In which of Hardy‘s novels does the
character Abel Whittle appear? 34. Which of the following characters from
(A) Far from the Madding Crowd Eliot‘s Waste Land is not correctly
(B) The Return of the Native mentioned?
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(A) The typist 40. The following are two lists of plays and
(B) Madam Sosostris characters. Match them.
(C) The Merchant from Eugenides (Characters)
(D) The Young Man Carbuncular 1. Malevole
Answer: (C) 2. Beatrice
3. Bianca
35. Which one of the following best describes 4. Doll Tear sheet
the general feeling expressed in literature (Plays)
during the last decade of the Victorian era? I. Women Beware Women
(A) Studied melancholy and aestheticism II. The Malcontent
(B) The triumph of science and morbidity III. The City Madam
(C) Sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal IV. The Changeling
(D) Raucous celebration combined with Which is the correct combination according to
paranoid interpretation the code?
Answer: (A) I II III IV
(A) 3 1 4 2
36. Which poem by Shelley bears the (B) 2 1 2 4
alternative title, ―The Spirit of Solitude‖? (C) 1 2 3 4
(A) Mont Blanc (D) 4 3 2 1
(B) “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” Answer: (A)
(C) “Adonais”
(D) Alastor 41. With Bacon the essay form is
Answer: (D) (A) An intimate, personal confession
(B) Witty and boldly imagistic
37. Which tale in The Canterbury Tales uses (C) The aphoristic expression of accumulated
the tradition of the Beast Fable? public wisdom
(A) The Knight‟s Tale (D) Homely and vulgar
(B) The Monk‟s Tale Answer: (C)
(C) The Nun‟s Priest‟s Tale
(D) The Miller‟s Tale 42. Evelyn Waugh‘s Trilogy published
Answer: (C) together as Sword of Honour is about
(A) The English at War
38. At the end of Sons and Lovers Paul (B) The English Aristocracy
Morel (C) The Irish question
(A) Sets off in quest of life away from his (D) Scottish nationalism
mother. Answer: (A)
(B) Considers the option of committing
suicide. 43. Who coined the phrase ―The Two
(C) Joins his elder brother William in London. Nations‖ to describe the disparity in Britain
(D) Embraces a Schopenhauer – like nihilism. between the rich and the poor?
Answer: (A) (A) Charles Dickens
(B) Thomas Carlyle
39. When you say ―I love her eyes, her hair, (C) Benjamin Disraeli
her nose, her cheeks, her lips‖ you are using (D) Frederick Engels
a rhetorical device of Answer: (C)
(A) Enumeration
(B) Ant anagoge 44. Milton introduces Satan and the fallen
(C) Parataxis angels in the Book I of Paradise Lost. Two of
(D) Hypo taxis the chief devils reappear in Book II. They
Answer: (A) are
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I. Moloch 50. Sir Thomas More creates the character
II. Clemos of a traveller into whose mouth the account
III. Belial of Utopia is put. His name is
IV. Thamuz (A) Michael
The correct combination according to the code (B) Raphael
is (C) Henry
(A) I and IV are correct. (D) Thomas
(B) I and III are correct. Answer: (B)
(C) I and II are correct.
Answer: (B)
45. When Chaucer describes the Friar as a

―noble pillar of order‖, he is using
(A) Irony
(B) Simile
(C) Understatement
(D) Personification
Answer: (A)
46. John Osborne‘s Look Back in Anger is

an example of
(A) Drawing room comedy
(B) kitchen-sink drama
(C) Absurd drama
(D) Melodrama
Answer: (B)
47. Which character in Jane Eyre uses

religion to justify cruelty?
(A) Blanche Ingram
(B) Mr. Brocklehurst
(C) Sir John Rivers
(D) Eliza Reed
Answer: (B)
48. Which Romantic poet defined a slave as

‗a person perverted into a thing‘?
(A) Blake
(B) Coleridge
(C) Keats
(D) Shelley
Answer: (B)
49. John Suckling belongs to the group of

(A) Metaphysical poets
(B) Cavalier poets
(C) Neo-classical poets
(D) Religious poets
Answer: (B)
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(D) Addison
Answer: (D)
5. A protagonist writes a letter of confession,

but it gets lost under the carpet only to be
found on the wedding day. Who is the
protagonist?
(A) Bathsheba
(B) Lucetta
(C) Sue
(D) Tess
Answer: (D)
6. In an age of pressurized happiness, we

sometimes grow insensitive to subtle joys.
The italicised words are an example of
Paper 2- September 2013 (A) A transferred epithet
(B) A simile
1. In the following cluster of poems by (C) A metaphor
Shelley, which one has the voyage motif? (D) A hyperbaton
(A) “Adonais” Answer: (A)
(B) The Revolt of Islam
(C) “Ode to the West Wind” 7. In Graham Greene‘s Brighton Rock, Hale
(D) Alastor is murdered with the help of ‗brighton rock‘
Answer: (D) which is
(A) A kind of sugar-candy
2. In Sydney‘s sonnet sequence, Astrophil (B) A form of grenade
and Stella, the final sonnet (#108) (C) A baton
(A) Brings no resolution (D) A kind of rock
(B) Ends in joy Answer: (A)
(C) Brings a definite resolution
(D) Promises another sonnet sequence 8. Which poet among this group does not
Answer: (A) belong to the ‗Auden Generation‘ group of
poets?
3. Who among the following English writers (A) Stephen Spender
opposed the Licensing Act of 1643? (B) Alun Lewis
(A) John Milton (C) Cecil Day Lewis
(B) Thomas Browne (D) Louis Macneice
(C) Andrew Marvell Answer: (B)
(D) Abraham Cowley
Answer: (A) 9. In Lord of the Flies which character
comes to realize that the ‗beast‘ is actually
4. Who claimed: ―I have not published a the evil inside the boys themselves and it is
single paper that is not written in a spirit of that which is breaking things up?
benevolence and with a love of mankind‖? (A) Jack
(A) Pope (B) Simon
(B) Dryden (C) Roger
(C) Swift (D) Ralph
Answer: (B)
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10. Which text exemplifies the anti- 14. ―We will do it, I tell you; we will do it.‖
Victorian feeling prevalent in the early The repetition of a phrase is
twentieth century? (A) Antiphrasis
I. Eminent Victorians (B) Diacope
II. Jungle Book (C) Aposiopesis
III. Philistine Victorians (D) Enumeratio
IV. The Way of All Flesh Answer: (B)
The correct combination according to the code
is 15. Find the poet who is the odd one in the
(A) II and IV are correct. group:
(B) I and IV are correct. (A) Wallace Stevens
(C) III and IV are correct. (B) Robert Lowell
(D) II and III are correct. (C) Sylvia Plath
Answer: (B) (D) Anne Sexton
Answer: (A)
11. What event allowed mainstream British
theatre companies to commission and 16. Which one of the following characters in
performs work that was politically, socially Shakespeare‘s Tempest is associated with
and sexually controversial without fear of the Earth?
censorship? (A) Ferdinand
(A) The abolition of the Lord Chamberlain‟s (B) Ariel
office in 1968. (C) Caliban
(B) The illegal performance of works by (D) Prospero
Howard Brenton and Edward Bond. Answer: (C)
(C) The collapse of liberal humanist consensus
in the late 1960s. 17. In the Advancement of Learning Bacon
(D) A combined appeal to the Queen by a attempted a preliminary survey of the entire
group of London dramatists. field of learning, by analyzing the principal
Answer: (A) obstacles to its advancement. Identify from
among the following choices the one that he
12. The Wife of Bath‘s philosophy did not mention as an obstacle:
ofmarriage shows that she (A) Rhetoric
(A) Is a strong person with keen awareness of (B) Medieval scholasticism
her own rights? (C) Inductive method
(B) Tends to say one thing and do the opposite. (D) Pseudo sciences
(C) Cares only for pleasure, not for right and Answer: (C)
wrong.
(D) Trusts thought too much instead of feeling. 18. Who among this group of youngmale
Answer: (A) characters in Jane Austen‘snovels is not sent
to the University for Education?
13. Which of the following characters is (A) Tom Bertram
killed in Achebe‘s Things Fall Apart in (B) John Thorpe
conformity with an African tribal custom? (C) James Morland
(A) Okonkwo (D) Henry Tilney
(B) Obierika Answer: D
(C) Ikemefuna
(D) Nwoye 19. Charles Dickens caricatured utilitarian
Answer: (C) thinking with telling directness in his
portrayal of
(A) Paul Dombey
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(B) Thomas Gradgrind IV. Lives of the English Poets
(C) Philip Pirrip Which is the correct combination according to
(D) Harold Skimpole the above code?
Answer: (B) (A) III, I, II, IV
(B) I, II, III, IV
20. Which one of the following playwrights (C) IV, III, II, I
will not be covered under the category / (D) II, III, I, IV
term ‗Theatre of the Absurd‘? Answer: (A)
(A) Jean Genet
(B) Jean Giraudoux 24. Arrange the following forms in the order
(C) Samuel Beckett in which they appeared. Use the code given
(D) Eugene Ionesco below:
Answer: (B) I. commedia dell‟arte
II. Confessional poetry
21. The following are two lists of lines from III. Agitprop
poems and their titles. Match them: IV. Picaresque novel
(Lines from poems) The correct combination is:
I. “The squat pen rests as snug as a gun.” Code:
II. “A serious house on serious earth it is.” (A) IV, I, II, III
III. “Time held me green and dying.” (B) I, IV, III, II
IV. “I hold creation in my foot.” (C) II, IV, I, III
(Titles of poems) (D) I, III, IV, II
1. “Church Going” Answer: (B)
2. “Hawk- Roosting”
3. “Digging” 25. Which of the following poems deals with
4. “Fern Hill” neighbourly relations?
Which is the correct combination according to (A) “Birches”
the above code? (B) “Home Burial”
I II III IV (C) “Mending Wall”
(A) 4 1 2 3 (D) “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
(B) 2 3 4 1 Answer: (C)
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 3 1 4 2 26. The following are two lists of writers and
Answer: (D) their works. Match them:
(Writers)
22. _________ is the use of words whose I. Katherine Susannah Prichard
pronunciation imitates the sound the word II. Colin Johnson
describes. III. Sally Morgan
(A) Alliteration IV. Jack Davis
(B) Onomatopoeia (Works)
(C) Oxymoron 1. Barungin
(D) Enthymeme 2. My Place
Answer: (B) 3. Wild Cat Falling
4. Coonardoo
23. Arrange the following books in the order Which is the correct combination according to
in which they appeared. Use the code given the above code?
below: I II III IV
I. The Dictionary of the English Language (A) 3 2 1 4
II. The History of Rasselas (B) 4 3 2 1
III. The Vanity of Human Wishes (C) 2 1 4 3
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(D) 1 4 3 2 I. Uma Parameswaran
Answer: (B) II. Bharati Mukherjee
III. Michael Ondaatje
27. How does John Stuart Mill define IV. Cyril Dabydeen
‗happiness‘? Which is the correct combination according to
(A) Doing what one wants to do the above code?
(B) Leading a fulfilling life I II III IV
(C) Pleasure and the absence of pain (A) 1 3 2 4
(D) Virtuous activity (B) 3 4 1 2
Answer: (C) (C) 2 3 4 1
(D) 4 1 3 2
28. ―Had we but world enough, and time, Answer: (C)
this coyness, lady, were no crime … But at
my back I always hear Time‘s winged 31. Dryden‘s dramatization of Paradise Lost
chariot hurrying near.‖ Andrew Marvell in is entitled
these lines emphasizes the theme of (A) All for Love
(A) Love (B) The State of Innocence
(B) Love and transience (C) Annus Mirabilis
(C) Love and political passion (D) Religio Medici
(D) Love and flattery Answer: (B)
Answer: (B)
32. Two pioneering feminist tracts, Kate
29. The following are two lists of dramatists Millet‘s Sexual Politics and Germaine
and their plays. Match them: Greer‘s The Female Eunuch were published
(Dramatists) in
I. George Etheredge (A) 1969
II. William Wycherley (B) 1968
III. John Vanbrugh (C) 1970
IV. William Congreve (D) 1967
(Plays) Answer: (C)
1. The Country Wife
2. The Man of Mode 33. Who defined poetry as ‗the best words in
3. The Double Dealer the best order‘?
4. The Provok‟d Wife (A) Wordsworth
The correct combination is: (B) Coleridge
I II III IV (C) Keats
(A) 2 3 4 1 (D) Shelley
(B) 3 2 1 4 Answer: (B)
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 2 1 4 3 34. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by
Answer: (D) ―Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe‖?
(A) Britain‟s pre-eminence as a global power
30. The following are two lists of writers and will depend on mastery of foreign languages.
their works. Match them: (B) Abandon the introspection of the
(Works) Romantics and turn to the higher moral
1. Drums of My Flesh purpose found in Goethe.
2. Trishanku (C) Even a foreign author is better than a
3. Jasmine home-grown scoundrel.
4. Anil‟s Ghost (D) Leave England and immigrate to Germany.
(Writers) Answer: (B)
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35. Conrad‘s Heart of Darkness presents (D) The Longest Journey
two conflicting discourses present in his own Answer: (C)
culture. Identify the two discourses from the
following: 41. The ‗Vulgate Bible‘ was prepared to
(A) Modernism and anticolonialism make the Bible available to
(B) Modernism and structuralism (A) The ecclesiastics
(C) Anti-colonialism and Eurocentricism (B) The elite class
(D) Material culturalism and tribalism (C) The courtiers
Answer: (C) (D) The common men
Answer: (D)
36. Who among the following poets defined
free verse as playing tennis without a net? 42. Literary works such as Charles
(A) Robert Frost Dickens‘s David Copperfield, Samuel
(B) Ezra Pound Butler‘s The Way of All Flesh and James
(C) Philip Larkin Joyce‘s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
(D) William Carlos Williams Man provide examples of which following
Answer: (A) novelistic form?
(A) Nouveau roman or new novel
37. Christopher Marlowe wrote all the (B) Epistolary novel
following plays except (C) Bildugsroman
(A) Tamburlaine the Great (D) Historical novel
(B) The Jew of Malta Answer: (C)
(C) Richard III
(D) Edward II 43. ―I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!‖
Answer: (C) expresses a pathetic cry of a wounded heart
from ―Ode to the West Wind‖ by Shelley.
38. According to Barthes, a text which The poem consists of
draws attention to its artifice, to the ways in (A) Fourteen line terzarima stanzas
which it is structured, is called (B) four-lined stanza characterized by swift
(A) Writerly text action
(B) Aesthetic text (C) A particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle
(C) Readerly text (D) An unstressed syllable followed by a
(D) Formal text stressed one
Answer: (A) Answer: (A)
39. Which of the following descriptions is 44. In the Fall of Hyperion Keats‘s Muse
not applicable to Pope‘s The Rape of the figure is
Lock? (A) Thea
(A) A mock heroic poem (B) Moneta
(B) Written in heroic couplets (C) Lamia
(C) Pope‟s tribute to Queen Anne (D) Calliope
(D) Produced in two versions, consisting of 2 Answer: (B)
and 5 cantos
Answer: (C) 45. What literary work best captures a sense
of the political turmoil particularly
40. From the following list, choose the work regarding the issue of religion just after the
which is not written by E.M. Forster: Restoration?
(A) Where Angels Fear to Tread (A) Gay‟s Beggar‟s Opera
(B) Maurice (B) Butler‟s Hudibras
(C) A Room of One‟s Own (C) Pope‟s Dunciad
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(D) Dryden‟s Absalom and Achitophel
Answer: (D)
46. Who among the Victorian authors has

described himself/herself as an agnostic?
(A) Matthew Arnold
(B) Charles Dickens
(C) George Eliot
(D) Thomas Hardy
Answer: (C)
47. Preface to Frantz Fanon‘s The Wretched

of the Earth was written by
(A) AimeCesaire
(B) AniaLoomba
(C) Jean Paul Sartre
(D) Edward Said
Answer: (C)
48. Who among the following theorists

formulated the concept of the utile dulci,
profit combined with delight?
(A) Plato
(B) Aristotle
(C) Horace
(D) Longinus
Answer: (C)
49. Out of the four humours of the body, the

Jacobeans thought of themselves as
especially prone to
(A) Choler
(B) Blood
(C) Phlegm
(D) Melancholy
Answer: (D)
50. Who among the following Romantic

poets ended his life, lauded and respected as
‗The Sage of High gate‘?
(A) William Blake
(B) S.T. Coleridge
(C) P.B. Shelley
(D) William Wordsworth
Answer: (B)
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5. She was a worthy woman al hir lyve,
Housbondes at chirche-dore she hadde fyve,
In the ‗Prologue‘ Chaucer represents the
Wife of Bath as:
I. crude and vulgar
Paper 2- December 2013 II. outspoken and boastfully licentious
III. a witness to masculine oppression
1. ____ the very word is like a bell IV. bubbling with vitality
To toll me back from thee to my sole self! Find the correct combination according to the
Which word? code:
(A) Bird (A) I, II and III are correct.
(B) Immortal (B) I, II and IV are correct.
(C) Forlorn (C) I, III and IV are correct.
(D) Fancy (D) II, III and IV are correct.
Answer: (C) Answer: (B)
2. In poems like ―The Altar‖ and ―Easter 6. The novel tells the story of twin brothers,
Wings‖ ________ exploits _______. Waldo, the man of reason and intellect, and
(A) John Donne, alliteration Arthur, the innocent half-wit, the way their
(B) Robert Herrick, trimetre lives are inextricably intertwined. Which is
(C) G.M. Hopkins, sprung rhythm the novel?
(D) George Herbert, typographic space (A) The Tree of Man
Answer: (D) (B) Voss
(C) The Solid Mandala
3. No, no thou hast not felt the lapse of (D) The Vivisector
hours! Answer: (C)
For what wears out the life of mortal men?
‗Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, 7. Who among the following was NOT a
Exhaust the energy of strongest souls member of the Scriblerus Club?
And numb the elastic powers … (A) Thomas Parnell
Who does the poet address here? (B) Alexander Pope
(A) The Scholar Gipsy (C) Joseph Addison
(B) Telemachus (D) John Gay
(C) The Nightingale Answer: (C)
(D) The Poet‟s Sister, Dorothy
Answer: (A) 8. _______ is a theological term brought into
literary criticism by _______.
4. The roman a clef (French for ―novel with (A) Entelechy, St. Augustine
a key‖) uses contemporary historical figures (B) Ambiguity, William Empson
as its chief characters. They are of course (C) Adequation, Fr Walter Ong
given fictional names. One example is (D) Epiphany, James Joyce
Aldous Huxley‘s Point Counter Point. Its Answer: (D)
Mark Rampion is modelled on M_______.
(A) D.H. Lawrence 9. ________ the Almighty Power Hurled
(B) E.M. Forster headlong flaming from th‘ Ethereal Sky,
(C) Wyndham Lewis With hideous ruin and combustion down
(D) Arnold Bennett To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
Answer: (A) In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire Who
durst defy th‘ Omnipotent to Arms.
(Paradise Lost, I.44-49.)
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Choose the appropriate word: 1. “The Otter”
(A) Him 2. “Snake”
(B) He 3. “Ghost Crabs”
(C) Satan 4. “Prevent the Dog from Barking with a Juicy
(D) The Fiend Bone.”
Answer: (A) Codes:
i ii iii iv
10. Which of the following works does not (A) 1 2 4 3
have a mad woman as a character in it? (B) 2 3 1 4
(A) The Yellow Wallpaper (C) 3 1 4 2
(B) The Mad Woman in the Attic (D) 3 2 1 4
(C) Jane Eyre Answer: (C)
Answer: (B) 15. His cooks with long disuse their trade
forgot;
11. Which of the following is NOT a quest Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were
narrative? hot.
(A) Shelley‟s Alastor Who is this character whose stinginess
(B) Byron‟s Manfred passed into a proverb?
(C) Coleridge‟s Christabel (A) Corah
(D) Keats‟s Endymion (B) Shimei
Answer: (C) (C) Zimri
(D) Achitophel
12. The novel has a scene where African Answer: (B)
American students are made to compete and
fight with each other as they rush for the 16. ―The story and the novel, the idea and
gold coins tossed on an electric blanket. the form, are the needle and thread, and I
Identify the novel. never heard of a guild of tailors who
(A) Richard Wright: Native Son recommended the use of the thread without
(B) James Baldwin: Another Country the needle, or the needle without the
(C) Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man thread.‖
(D) Toni Morrison: Bluest Eye This famous passage describing the relation
Answer: (C) of idea to form is found in
(A) Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry
13. G.M. Hopkins‘s ―Windhover‖ is (B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia
dedicated: Literaria
(A) To Christ, our Lord (C) Henry James, “The Art of Fiction”
(B) To Christ our lord (D) I.A. Richards, Principles of Literary
(C) To no one Criticism
(D) To Christ, the Lord Answer: (C)
Answer: (A and B)
17. Identify the correctly matched set below:
14. Match List – I with List – II according to (A) The Norman Conquest – 1066
the code given below: William Caxton and the introduction of
List – I (Authors) printing – 1575
i. Ted Hughes The King James Bible – 1611
ii. Seamus Heaney Dr. Johnson‟s English Dictionary – 1755
iii. W.H. Auden The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate –
iv. D.H. Lawrence 1649-1660
List – II (Poems) (B) The Norman Conquest – 1066
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William Caxton and the introduction of (C) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison – Native
printing – 1475 Son by Richard Wright – Another Country by
The King James Bible – 1611 James Baldwin – Their Eyes Were Watching
Dr. Johnson‟s English Dictionary – 1755 God by Zora Neil Hurston
The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate – (D) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora
1649-1660 Neil Hurston – Another Country by James
(C) The Norman Conquest – 1016 Baldwin – Native Son by Richard Wright –
William Caxton and the introduction of Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
printing- 1475 Answer: (B)
The King James Bible – 1564
Dr. Johnson‟s English Dictionary -1780 21. Metaphor is so widespread that it is
The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate – often used as an umbrella term to include
1649-1660 other figures of speech such as metonyms
(D) The Norman Conquest – 1013 which can be technically distinguished from
William Caxton and the introduction of it in its narrower usage.
printing – 1575 Identify the metaphorical phrase in this
The King James Bible – 1627 sentence:
Dr. Johnson‟s English Dictionary – 1746 (A) narrower usage
The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate – (B) technically distinguished
1624-1660 (C) figures of speech
Answer: (B) (D) umbrella term
Answer: (C and D)
18. Leopold Bloom in Ulysses is
(A) a Great War veteran 22. Along the shore of silver streaming
(B) a Dublin bar owner Thames;
(C) a Jewish advertising agent Whose rutty bank, the which his river hems,
(D) an Irish nationalist Was painted all with variable flowers,…
Answer: (C) Fit to deck maidens‘ bowers
And crown their paramours
19. ―Late capitalism‖, by which is meant Against their bridal day, which is not long;
accelerated technological development and Sweet Thames! run softly till I end my song.
the massive extension of intellectually (Spenser‘s Prothalamion)
qualified labour, was first popularised by Another poet fondly recalls these lines but
______. cannot conceal their heavily ironic tone in:
(A) Terry Eagleton (A) Marianne Moore‟s “Spenser‟s Ireland”
(B) Ernst Mandel (B) Sylvia Plath‟s “Morning Song”
(C) Raymond Williams (C) W.H. Auden‟s “In Praise of Limestone”
(D) Stanley Fish (D) T.S. Eliot‟s Waste Land
Answer: (B) Answer: (D)
20. Which of the following arrangements is 23. The tramp in Pinter‘s first big hit,
in the correct chronological sequence? The Caretaker, often travels under an
(A) Native Son by Richard Wright – Invisible assumed name. It is
Man by Ralph Ellison – Their Eyes Were (A) Bernard Jenkins
Watching God by Zora Neil Hurston – Another (B) Roly Jenkins
Country by James Baldwin (C) Jack Jenkins
(B) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora (D) Peter Jenkins
Neil Hurston – Native Son by Richard Wright Answer: (A)
– Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison – Another
Country by James Baldwin
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24. Here is a list of early English plays 28. Brother to a Prince and fellow to a
imitating Greek and Latin plays. Pick the beggar if he be found worthy.
odd one out: This is the epigraph to
(A) Gorboduc (A) T.S. Eliot‟s “The Hollow Men”
(B) Tamburlaine (B) Rudyard Kipling‟s “The Man Who Would
(C) Ralph Roister Doister be the King”
(D) Gammer Gurton‟s Needle (C) George Eliot‟s Silas Marner
Answer: (B) (D) E.M. Forster‟s Howard‟s End
Answer: (B)
25. Where does Act I Scene 1 of William
Congreve‘s Way of the World open? 29. Robert Graves‘s ―In Broken Images‖
(A) A Chocolate-House ends thus:
(B) A Pub He in a new confusion of his understanding;
(C) A Carrefour I in a new understanding of my confusion.
(D) The drawing room of Sir Willfull‟s The figure of speech here is _______.
mansion (A) Chiasmus
Answer: (A) (B) Catachresis
(C) Inversion
26. While ―a well-boiled icicle‖ for ―a well- (D) Zeugma
oiled bicycle‖ is an example of Spoonerism, Answer: (A)
someone saying ―Congenital food‖ for
‗Continental food‘ is an example of ______. 30. The phrase ―leaves dancing‖ is an
(A) Malaproprism example of ________.
(B) Pleonasm (A) pathetic fallacy
(C) Neologism (B) hyperbole
(D) Archaism (C) pun
Answer: (A) (D) conceit
Answer: (A)
27. It is unimaginable that all the following
events happened in one year: 31. At the end of The Great Gatsby, the
1. Arthur Evans discovered the first European narrator Nick Carraway observes:
civilization; his excavations in Crete revealed a ―They were careless people‖. Who were
culture that was far older than either Attic they?
Greece or Ancient Rome. (A) Tom and Daisy
2. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch published the (B) The Wilsons
Oxford Book of English Verse. (C) Gatsby and his friends
3. Pablo Picasso stepped off the Barcelona train (D) The people of East Egg
at Gare d‟ Orsay, Paris. Answer: (A)
4. Max Planck unveiled the Quantum Theory.
5. Hugo de Vries identified what would later 32. William Wordsworth‘s statement of
come to be called genes. purpose in publishing the Lyrical Ballads
6. Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation carries the following phrase. (Complete the
of Dreams. phrase correctly).
7. Coca-cola arrived in Britain. ―to choose incidents from common life and
Identify the year: to relate or describe them, throughout, as
(A) 1899 far as possible, ______.‖
(B) 1900 (A) in a selection of language really used by
(C) 1901 men.
(D) 1903 (B) in a relation to language really used by
Answer: (B) men.
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(C) in a selection of language really used by 35. Who among the following proposes that
common man. the unconscious comes into being only in
(D) in deference to language actually used by language?
men. (A) Sigmund Freud
Answer: (A) (B) Jacques Lacan
(C) Stuart Hall
33. Match List – I with List – II according to (D) Paul de Man
the code given below: Answer: (B)
List – I (Novels)
i. Lord Jim 36. The Elizabethan Settlement established
ii. To the Lighthouse during the reign of Elizabeth I
iii. A Passage to India I. ensured the supremacy of the Church of
iv. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man England.
List – II (Last lines) II. allowed Christians to acknowledge the
1. „It was done; it was finished. Yes, she authority of the Pope.
thought laying down her brush in extreme III. allowed the extremer Protestants to be part
fatigue, I have had my vision.‟ of the Anglican church.
2. „April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me IV. created a group known as the Roundheads.
now and ever in good stead…‟ The correct combination according to the code
3. „He feels it himself and says often that he is is:
“preparing to leave all this; preparing to (A) I and III are correct.
leave,…”, while he waves his hands sadly at (B) I and II are correct.
his butterflies.‟ (C) II and III are correct.
4. „ “No not yet,” and the sky said, “No, not (D) III and IV are correct.
there”.‟ Answer: (A)
Codes:
i ii iii iv 37. Which of the following poems by
(A) 2 4 3 1 Tennyson does NOT speak of old age and
(B) 3 2 4 1 death?
(C) 3 1 4 2 (A) “The Beggar Maid”
(D) 2 3 1 4 (B) “The Lotus-Eaters”
Answer: (C) (C) “Ulysses”
(D) “Tithonus”
34. Identify the incorrect description/s of Answer: (A)
―Sprung Rhythm‖ from the following:
1. This rhythm causes ideas to spring in our 38. One English poet addressing another:
minds – hence Sprung Rhythm. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart;
2. In Sprung Rhythm the feet are of equal Thou hast a voice whose sound was like the
length. sea:
3. A foot may have one to four syllables in Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,
Sprung Rhythm.www.netugc.com So didst thou travel on life‘s common way,
4. Its metre is derived from the metre of Anglo- In cheerful godliness….
Saxon poetry which was based on accent and Whose lines are these? To whom are they
linked by alliteration. addressed?
(A) 4 is incorrect. (A) W.H. Auden – W.B. Yeats
(B) 1 & 4 are incorrect. (B) P.B. Shelley – William Blake
(C) 3 is incorrect. (C) William Wordsworth – John Milton
(D) 1 is incorrect. (D) Ben Jonson – William Shakespeare
Answer: (D) Answer: (C)
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39. Samuel Johnson‘s Lives of Poets (1781) (C) the angels in heaven
was originally a series of introductions to the (D) no one in particular
poets he wrote for a group of London Answer: (B)
publishers. They were collected as:
(A) Lives of English Poets: Critical and 44. You will find the following lines in an
Biographical Essays. English poem:
(B) Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Thou by the Indian Ganges‘ side
Works of English Poets. Shouldst rubies find; I by the side
(C) Notes, Biographical and Critical, on the Of Humber would complain.
Works of English Poets. Which poem? Who is the poet?
(D) Lives of English Poets: Biographical and (A) “Lonely Hearts.” Wendy Cope
Critical Notes. (B) “Holy Thursday.” William Blake
Answer: (B) (C) “Tiger Mask Ritual.” Chitra Banerjee
Divakaruni
40. Which of the following is NOT (D) “To His Coy Mistress.” Andrew Marvell
mentioned in Northrop Frye‘s four ‗generic Answer: (D)
plots‘?
(A) The comic 45. Teach me half the gladness
(B) The tragic That thy brain must know,
(C) The lyric Such harmonious madness
(D) The ironic From my lips would flow
Answer: (C) The world should listen then, as I am
listening now.
41. Arrange the sections of The Waste Land Whose lines are these? To whom are they
in the order in which they appear in the addressed?
poem: (A) John Keats. The Nightingale
1. The Fire Sermon (B) P.B. Shelley. The Skylark
2. Death by Water (C) William Wordsworth. The Wye Valley
3. A Game of Chess (D) Robert Browning. The Grammarian
4. What the Thunder Said Answer: (B)
5. The Burial of the Dead
(A) 3, 2, 1, 5, 4 46. Match List – I with List – II according to
(B) 5, 1, 2, 3, 4 the code given below:
(C) 5, 2, 3, 1, 4 List – I (Novel)
(D) 5, 3, 1, 2, 4 i. Dombey and Son
Answer: (D) ii. The Return of the Native
iii. Bleak House
42. Sir Plume is a character in ____ iv. Tess
(A) Dryden‟s Absalom and Achitophel List – II (Major symbol)
(B) Congreve‟s The Way of the World 1. fog
(C) Pope‟s The Rape of the Lock 2. train
(D) Farquhar‟s The Beaux‟ Strategem 3. heath
Answer: (C) 4. mist
Codes:
43. Steeling herself to the murder, Lady i ii iii iv
Macbeth calls on ______ to ―unsex me (A) 2 3 1 4
here‖. (Macbeth I.5.39) (B) 4 2 3 1
Choose the right option to fill in the blank: (C) 2 3 4 1
(A) God (D) 1 3 4 1
(B) the spirits of hell Answer: (A)
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47. The following postmodernist novel has
an unusual protagonist whose gender is not
revealed. So much so, that we keep
wondering whether that person‘s
relationships are homo /hetero-sexual:
(A) The French Lieutenant‟s Woman
(B) English Music
(C) Written on the Body
(D) Enduring Love
Answer: (C)
48. Which novel of Graham Greene in the

following list does NOT end in some form of
suicide by the protagonist?
(A) The Heart of the Matter
(B) England Made Me
(C) Brighton Rock
(D) The Power and the Glory
Answer: (B)
49. Who among the following gave a happy

ending to King Lear?
(A) James Quin
(B) Nahum Tate
(C) Peg Woffington
(D) Charles Macklin
Answer: (B)
50. Jane Austen‘s Pride and Prejudice starts

with the famous statement: ―It is a truth
universally acknowledged that a single man
in possession of a good fortune must be in
want of a life.‖
As we get to read the novel this statement
seems to be made from the point of view of:
I. the surrounding families
II. Mrs Bennet
III. Mr Bennet
IV. The women of Jane Austen‟s age and
society
Find out the correct combination according to
the code: Paper 2- June 2014
(A) I, II and III are correct.
(B) I, II and IV are correct. 1. ―The just man justices. What kind of
(C) II, III and IV are correct. foregrounding do you find in the above
(D) I, III and IV are correct. lines?
Answer: (B) (A) Syntactic
(B) Semantic
(C) Collocation
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(D) None of the above (D) ten iambic pentameters
Answer: A,B Answer: C
2. Match the items in List – I with items in 6. Match the items in List – I with items in
List – II according to the code given : List – II according to the code given below :
List – I List – I (Critic)
i. Lambic i. Cleanth Brooks
ii. Anapaestic ii. William Empson
iii. Dactylic iii. Mark Schorer
iv. Trochaic iv. Maud Bodkin
List – II List – II (Theory)
1. An unstressed syllable followed by a 1. Ambiguity
stressed syllable 2. Paradox
2. A stressed is followed by two unstressed 3. Archetypal patterns in poetry
syllables. 4. Techniques as discovery
3. An unstressed syllable is followed by a Codes :
stressed syllable i ii iii iv
4. A stressed syllable is followed by an (A) 2 1 4 3
unstressed syllable (B) 3 2 1 4
Codes : (C) 1 2 3 4
i ii iii iv (D) 2 3 4 1
(A) 2 1 3 4 Answer: A
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 1 2 3 7. ―The artist may be present in his work
(D) 3 1 2 4 like God in creation, invisible and almighty,
Answer: Marks given to all everywhere felt but nowhere seen.‖ Henry
James is talking here about the artist‘s
3. The separation of styles in accordance (A) impersonality
with class appears more consistently in (B) absence
………… than in medieval works of (C) presence
literature and art. (D) creativity
(A) Ben Jonson Answer: A
(B) Shakespeare
(C) Philip Sidney 8. Match the items in List – I with items in
(D) Edmund Spenser List – II according to the code given below :
Answer: B List – I (Theorist)
i. Michel Foucault
4. ―Had we but world enough, and time, ii. Judith Butler
This coyness, lady, were no crime.‖ This iii. Alan Sinfield
statement is an example of iv. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
(A) Irony List – II (Book)
(B) Paradox 1. Gender Trouble
(C) Hyperbole 2. Epistemology of the Closet
(D) Euphemism 3. History of Sexuality
Answer: A 4. Cultural Politics-Queer Reading
Which is the correct combination according to
5. A Spenserian stanza has the code :
(A) four iambic pentameters Codes :
(B) six iambic pentameters i ii iii iv
(C) eight iambic pentameters (A) 3 1 2 4
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(B) 3 1 4 2 13. Act V of Marlowe‘s Edward the Second
(C) 4 2 1 3 shows the murder of the king. Where does it
(D) 4 3 1 2 take place?
Answer: B (A) Westminster, a room in the palace
(B) A room in Berkeley Castle
9. ―The greatness of a poet‖, Arnold says, (C) A room in Killingworth Castle
―lies in his powerful and beautiful (D) Within the Abbey of Neath
application of ideas to life‖. But a critic Answer: B
pointed out it was ―not a happy way of
putting it, as if ideas were a lotion for the 14. Identify the correctly matched set :
inflamed skin of suffering humanity‖. Who (A) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1579
was this critic? Tottels Miscellany – 1557
(A) T.S. Eliot Astrophel and Stella – 1591
(B) F.R. Leavis The Spanish Tragedie – about 1585
(C) David Lodge (B) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1559
(D) Allen Tate Tottels Miscellany – 1579
Answer: A Astrophel and Stella – 1585
The Spanish Tragedie – about 1591
10. Derrida‘s American disciples were (C) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1585
(A) Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, J. Hills Tottels Miscellany – 1591
Miller Astrophel and Stella – 1579
(B) Gertrude Stein, Barbara Johnson, Michael The Spanish Tragedie – about 1557
Ryan (D) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1579
(C) Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan, Mary Tottels Miscellany – 1591
Ellman Astrophel and Stella – about 1585
(D) Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Felix The Spanish Tragedie – about 1557
Guattari Answer: A
Answer: A
15. Match the items in the List – I with items
11. Identify the correct group of playhouses in List – II according to the code given
in late sixteenth century London from the below :
following groups : List – I (Authors)
(A) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Hope i. Lucy Hutchinson
(B) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Sejanus ii. John Bunyan
(C) Hope, Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe iii. John Evelyn
(D) Swan, Curtain, Rose, Globe, Thames iv. Margaret Cavendish
Answer: A,C List – II (Works)
1. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
12. ―Keep up your bright swords, for the 2. Sylva : or a Discourse of Forest Trees
dew will rust them. 3. Natures Pictures
Good Signior, you shall more command with 4. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson
years. Codes :
Than with your weapons.‖ The above lines i ii iii iv
are addresses by Othello to (A) 2 3 1 4
(A) Roderigo and officers (B) 4 3 2 1
(B) Brabantio, Roderigo and Officers (C) 4 1 2 3
(C) The Duke and Senators (D) 4 2 1 3
(D) Montano and Cassio Answer: C
Answer: B
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16. ―But deeds, and language, such as men (B) The Castle of Otranto
do use; (C) Tristram Shandy
And persons, such as comedy would choose, (D) A Tender Husband
When she would show an image of the time, Answer: C
and sport with human follies, not with
crime.‖ 20. The son of a joiner, he was apprenticed
In the above lines Jonson as a printer. He remained a printer
I. Opposes the artificiality of the romantic throughout his life. He was asked to prepare
tragic-comedy. a series of modern letters for those who
II. Initiates the use of realism. could not write for themselves. This humble
III. Considers analysis of moral short comings task taught him the art of expressing himself
more important in letters. Who is the novelist?
IV. Encourages the use of farce with (A) Daniel Defoe
melodrama. (B) Samuel Richardson
Find out the correct combination according to (C) Henry Fielding
the code : (D) Tobias Smollett
(A) I, II and III are correct Answer: B
(B) I, II and IV are correct
(C) I, III and IV are correct 21. ―Where ignorance is Bliss Tis folly to be
(D) II, III and IV are correct wise.‖ Who wrote the following lines?
Answer: A (A) Pope
(B) Gray
17. ―And if no peece of chronicle we prove, (C) Collins
We‘ll build in ………….. pretty roomes.‖ (D) Southey
(A) lyrics Answer: B
(B) epics
(C) sonnets 22. Which of the following works is not
(D) stanzas actually a prose essay?
Answer: C (A) Essay of Dramatic Poesy
(B) Essay on Man
18. ―That glory never shall his wrath or (C) An Essay Concerning Human
might extort from me.‖ (Paradise Lost, Book Understanding
I) (D) An Essay Towards a New Theory of
What ‗glory‘ is being referred to by Satan ? Vision
(A) The courage never to submit or yield Answer: B
(B) To reign in Hell
(C) To defeat God 23. Whom does Mirabell deceive into
(D) To spread evil believing that he loves her in The Way of the
Answer: A World?
(A) Millamant
19. It has been described as a ―novel without (B) Lady Wishfort
predecessors‖, the product of an original (C) Mrs. Marwood
mind and became immediately popular. It is (D) Mrs. Fainall
a peculiar blend of pathos and humour, Answer: B
though the pathos is sometimes overdone to
the point of becoming offensively 24. ―Competence to age is supplementary to
sentimental. youth, a sorry supplement indeed, but I fear
The novel was published in 1760. What is the best that is to be had. We must ride
the name of the novel ? where we formerly walked : live better and
(A) Gulliver‟s Travels be softer and shall be wise to do so – than we
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had means to do in the good old days you (D) It should be viewed as an artistic form
speak of.‖ Answer: A
Who speaks these words and to whom?
(A) Lamb to Bridget 30. Match the items in List – I with items in
(B) Wordsworth to Dorothy List – II according to the code given below :
(C) Dorothy to Bridget List – I (Novels)
(D) Lamb to Dorothy i. Ulysses
Answer: A ii. A Passage to India
iii. To the Lighthouse
25. The Prelude although begun as early as iv. Women in Love
1799 and finished in its first version in 1805, List – II (Characters)
was not published until …………….. 1. Mrs. Moore
(A) 1815 2. Molly Bloom
(B) 1820 3. Gerald Crich
(C) 1830 4. Lily Briscoe
(D) 1850 Codes :
Answer: D i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 2 4
26. ―A rosy sanctuary will I dress With the (B) 2 1 4 3
wreathed trellis of a working brain.‖ The (C) 4 2 1 3
above lines are quoted from (D) 1 3 2 4
(A) „Adonais‟ Answer: B
(B) „Ode to Psyche‟
(C) „Eve of St. Agnes‟ 31. Which among the following novels was
(D) „Endymion‟ not written in 1922?
Answer: B (A) Ulysses
(B) Jacob‟s room
27. ―Love seeketh only self to please, To bind (C) Aaron‟s Rod
another to its delight.‖ (D) A Passage to India
This selfish and possessive nature of love is Answer: D
illustrated in Blake‘s
(A) „The Clod and the Pebble‟ 32. ―A sudden blow : the great wings beating
(B) „The Sick Rose‟ still
(C) „A Poison Tree‟ Above the staggering girl, her thighs
(D) „Ah Sunflower‟ caressed
Answer: A By the dark webs, her nap caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his
28. Who is the author of Mary, and the breast.‖
unfinished The Wrongs of Woman? Who is the author of the above lines?
(A) Mary Wollstonecraft (A) W.B. Yeats
(B) William Godwin (B) T.S. Eliot
(C) Mary Hay (C) W.H. Auden
(D) Elizabeth Inchbald (D) D.H. Lawrence
Answer: A Answer: A
29. Identify the incorrect factor in Henry 33. ―Consume my heart away; sick with
James‘ theory of the novel : desire
(A) It should be sentimental And fastened to a dying animal.‖
(B) It should be objective The above lines are taken from
(C) It should be realistic (A) “Felix Randal”
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(B) “Sailing to Byzantium” 39. Who among the following is not an
(C) “Coole and the Ballylee, 1931” American modernist poet?
(D) “The Second Coming” (A) William Carlos Williams
Answer: B (B) Ezra Pound
(C) William Ellery Channing, the younger
34. Who among the following is not a (D) Marianne Moore
surrealist poet? Answer: C
(A) Hugh Sykes Dykes
(B) David Gascoyne 40. An important poet and playwright who
(C) Kenneth Allot in the 1960s led the Black Arts Movement,
(D) C. Day Lewis in the spirit of negritude, posited a ‗Black
Answer: D Aesthetic‘ that expressed a pan-African,
organic and whole sensibility.
35. The protagonist returns with an (A) Henry Louis Gates Jr.
admonition, the diamond sent to him for (B) Amiri Baraka
smuggling out a packet of diamonds as (C) Ishmael Reed
bribe. (D) Bell Hooks
This scene occurs in one of the novels of Answer: B
Graham Greene – Identify the novel
(A) The End of the Affair 41. Match List – I with List – II according to
(B) The Heart of the Matter the code given below :
(C) The Ministry of Fear List – I (Authors)
(D) Our Man in Havana i. V.S. Naipaul
Answer: B ii. Jean Rhys
iii. Marina Warners
36. Samuel Beckett‘s trilogy published iv. J.M. Coetzee
together in London in 1959 under the List – II (Books)
English titles is 1. Foe
(A) More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy, Molloy 2. Indigo or Mapping the Waters
(B) B. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable 3. Wide Sargasso Sea
(C) Molloy, Murphy, Malone Dies 4. Mimic Men
(D) The Unnamable, More Pricks than Kicks, Codes :
Murphy i ii iii iv
Answer: Marks given to all (A) 4 2 3 1
(B) 4 1 2 3
37. Among the following playwrights, who (C) 4 3 2 1
was awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1920? (D) 1 3 4 2
(A) Eugene O‟Neill Answer: C
(B) Sean O‟Casey
(C) William Somerset Maugham 42. Yasmine Gooneratne‘s The Pleasures of
(D) J.B. Priestly Conquest termed as a postcolonial novel of
Answer: A the nineties is ironically enough set in the
tropical island nation of
38. D.H. Lawrence popularized the concept (A) Sri Lanka
of …………… in his novels. (B) Fiji
(A) Realism (C) The Caribbean
(B) Naturalism (D) Amnesia
(C) Primitivism Answer: D
(D) Expressionism
Answer: C
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43. Which of the following is not an Asian – (C) Elizabeth Jane
Canadian writer ? (D) Lucetta
(A) Shauna Singh Badlwin Answer: C
(B) Himani Banerjee
(C) Joy Kogawa 49. ―Out of the gosple he tho words caughte
(D) Meena Alexander And this figure he added eek therto,
Answer: D That if gold ruste, what shal iren do ?‖
In the Prologue the Parson is represented as a
44. Which of the following is true? man :
(A) „Aurora Leigh‟ is a poem in nine books 1. who loved money
(B) „Aurora Leigh‟ is a collection of sonnets 2. who criticized the corrupt clergy
from the Portuguese 3. who practiced what he preached
(C) „Aurora Leigh‟ is a nursery rhyme book 4. who was a poor but honest clerk
(D) „Aurora Leigh‟ is “the Seeds and Fruits of Find the correct combination according to the
English Poetry” code :
Answer: A (A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(B) 1, 2 and 4 are correct
45. ―The old order changeth yielding place (C) 2, 3 and 4 are correct
to new, (D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct
And God fulfils himself in many way.‖ Answer: C
In which of the following poems do these
lines appear? 50. Match the items in List – I with items in
(A) „Locksley Hall‟ List – II according to the code given below:
(B) „Two Voices List – I (Plays)
(C) „Morte d‟Arthur‟ i. White Devil
(D) „Ulysses‟ ii. Maids Tragedy
Answer: C iii. Every Man in his Humour
iv. The Spanish Tragedie
46. George Eliot‘s attempt to write a List – II (Characters)
historical novel of the Italian Renaissance 1. Hieornimo
was not successful. Which was this novel? 2. Old Knowell
(A) Adam Bede 3. Vittoria Corombona
(B) Felix Holt 4. Aspatia
(C) Silas Marner Codes :
(D) Romola i ii iii iv
Answer: D (A) 4 3 1 2
(B) 2 1 3 4
47. In which novel, does the hero, driven by (C) 3 4 2 1
passion and revenge, add a new dimension (D) 4 3 2 1
to the concept of suffering? Answer: C
(A) Wuthering Heights
(B) Jude the Obscure
(C) Mill on the Floss
(D) Hard Times
Answer: A
48. From the following women characters in

Hardy‘s novels choose the odd one out :
(A) Bathsheba Everdene
(B) Eustacia Vye
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1. Two of the following list are ―Angry
Young Men‖ of the 1950‘s British literary
scene.
I. John Osborne
II. C.P. Snow
III. Anthony Powell
IV. Kingsley Amis
The right combination, accordingto the code
(A) I & II
(B) II & IV
(C) I & IV
(D) I & III
Answer: C
2. Laurence Sterne‘s Tristram Shandy

contains
(A) Six volumes
(B) Nine volumes
(C) Ten volumes
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(D) Four volumes 7. In King Lear who among the following
Answer: B speaks in the voice of Poor Tom ?
(A) Kent
3. Which of the following statement is NOT (B) Edgar
true of Areopagitica ? (C) Edmund
(A) It was published in 1644. (D) Gloucester
(B) It argues for the liberty of Unlicensed Answer: B
Printing.
(C) It pleads for British privileges regarding 8. In Wordsworth‘s Prelude the Boy of
Free Trade. Winander is affected by
(D) It is a speech addressed to the Parliament (A) Blindness
of England. (B) Deafness
Answer: C (C) Muteness
(D) Lameness
4. Thomas Hardy‘s last major novel was Answer: C
_______.
(A) Tess of the D‟urbervilles 9. Which of the following is NOT mentioned
(B) Jude the Obscure as part of the London locale in The Waste
(C) The Return of the Native Land ?
(D) The Trumpet Major (A) St. Magnus Martyr
Answer: B (B) King Arthur Street
(C) St. Mary Woolnoth
5. The Hind and the Panther Transvers‘d to (D) Lower Thames Street
the Story of the Country Mouse and the City Answer: B
Mouse is a satire on
(A) Alexander Pope 10. Which of the following novels is NOT
(B) Jonathan Swift written by Jean Rhys ?
(C) John Dryden (A) After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
(D) Samuel Butler (B) Good Morning, Midnight
Answer: C (C) The Quiet American
6. Match the columns : Answer: C
Terms Theorists
1. Matthew Arnold 11. The first official royal Poet Laureate in
2. Friedrich Nietzsche English literary history was _______.
3. G.H. Hopkins (A) Ben Jonson
4. S.T. Coleridge (B) William Davenant
(C) John Dryden
I. Apollonian – Dionysian (D) Thomas Shadwell
II. Fancy – Imagination Answer: C
III. Hellenism – Hebraism
IV. Inscape – Instress 12. Who does Alexander Pope refer to in the
following lines ?
I II III IV ―Born to no pride; inheriting no strife,
(A) 2 4 1 3 Nor marrying discord in a noble wife,
(B) 2 4 3 1 Stranger to civil and religious rage,
(C) 1 4 2 3 The good man walked innoxious through his
(D) 4 2 1 3 age.‖
Answer: A (A) Pope‟s father
(B) Pope himself
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(C) Dr. Arbuthnot (D) By assisting the Friar in Church services
(D) The Duke of Marlborough Answer: B
Answer: A
17. From among the following, identify
13. The Theory of Natural Selection is Coleridge‘s companion in a fanciful scheme
attributed to ________. to establish a Utopian community of free
(A) Arthur Schopenhauer love on the banks of the Susquehaina river ?
(B) Charles Darwin (A) Lord Byron
(C) A.N. Whitehead (B) Robert Southey
(D) Aldous Huxley (C) William Hazlitt
Answer: B (D) William Wordsworth
Answer: B
14. Which character in William Golding‘s
Lord of the Flies maintains, ―Life is 18. Which of the following novels by H.G.
scientific‖ ? Wells is about the condition of England as
(A) Simon Empire ?
(B) Piggy (A) The Island of Dr. Moreau
(C) Ralph (B) The War of the Worlds
(D) Jack (C) Tono-Bungay
Answer: B (D) The Invisible Man
Answer: C
15. Match the authors under List – I with
the titles under List – II : 19. Joothan by Om Prakash Valmiki is
1. Of Grammatology (A) a collection of poems
2. The Archaeology of Knowledge (B) a play
3. Structural Anthropology (C) an autobiography
4. Anatomy of Criticism (D) a novel
Answer: C
I. Claude Levi-Strauss
II. Jacques Derrida 20. Listed below are some English plays
III. Northrop Frye across several centuries : Twelfth Night, She
IV. Michel Foucault Stoops to Conquer, The Importance of
Being Earnest, Pygmalion and Blithe Spirit.
I II III IV What is common to them ?
(A) 1 3 4 2 (A) All problem plays; scheming and intrigue
(B) 3 1 2 4 (B) All tragedies; sin and redemption
(C) 3 1 4 2 (C) All ideologically framed; class and gender
(D) 2 1 3 4 (D) All romantic comedies; love and laughter
Answer: C Answer: D
16. How did Chaucer‘s Pardoner make his 21. Who among the following wrote a poem
living ? comparing a lover‘s heart to a hand grenade
(A) By selling stolen cattle from the ?
neighbourhood ottery (A) John Donne
(B) By selling indulgences to those who (B) Abraham Cowley
committed sins (C) Wilfred Owen
(C) By pardoning those who stole property or (D) Robert Graves
committeed other crimes Answer: B
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22. The Uncertainty Principle is attributed 28. Dylan Thomas is associated with the
to group _______.
(A) William James (A) The New Apocalypse
(B) John Dewey (B) The Black Arts
(C) Werner Heisenberg (C) The Movement
(D) Charles Darwin (D) Deep Image Poetry
Answer: C Answer: A
23. ―Jabberwocky‖ is a creation in _______. 29. Which of the following writers writes
(A) Edward Lear‟s poetry from Canada ?
(B) Lewis Carroll‟s work (A) V.S. Naipaul
(C) Charles Dickens‟s Martin Chuzzlewit (B) Margaret Atwood
(D) Thomas Hardy‟s Woodlanders (C) Derek Walcott
Answer: B (D) James Joyce
Answer: B
24. Who are Didi and Gogo ?
(A) They are two characters in Endgame. 30. ―The boast of heraldry, the pomp of
(B) They are nicknames, respectively, for power,
Lucky and Pozzo. And all that beauty, all that wealth e‘er
(C) They are nicknames, respectively, for gave,
Vladimir and Estragon. Awaits alike the inevitable hour
(D) They are two characters in Breath. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.‖
Answer: C What is the subject of awaits ?
(A) Hour
25. Who among the following theorists talks (B) The things mentioned in the first 2 lines.
about ―the circulation of social energy‖ ? (C) “And all that beauty, all that wealth e‟er
(A) Raymond Williams gave”
(B) Stephen Greenblatt (D) Grave
(C) Antonio Gramsci Answer: A
(D) Haydon White
Answer: B 31. ―Heav‘n has no rage, like love to hatred
turn‘d / Nor Hell a fury, like a woman
26. How many legends of good women could scorn‘d.‖
Chaucer complete in his The Legend of Identify the text in which the above quote
Good Women ? occurs :
(A) Six (A) The Double-Dealer
(B) Seven (B) The Way of the World
(C) Eight (C) The Mourning Bride
(D) Nine (D) Love for Love
Answer: D Answer: C
27. The Round Table is a collection of essays 32. A Young Lady‘s Entrance into the
jointly written by ________. World is the sub-title of _______.
(A) Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt (A) Belinda
(B) Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt (B) Cecilia
(C) William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt (C) Evelina
(D) William Hazlitt and Thomas de Quincey (D) Camilla
Answer: C Answer: C
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33. ―The old order changeth, yielding place 39. ―And miles to go before I sleep‖ is a line
to new‖ is from ________. from a poem by
(A) “Morte d‟Arthur” (A) Emily Dickinson
(B) “Idylls of the King” (B) Walt Whitman
(C) “Paracelsus” (C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(D) “Asolando” (D) Robert Frost
Answer: B Answer: D
34. Which of the followingcannot be 40. What common link do you find among
classified as fantasy fiction ? ―The Disquieting Muses‖ by Sylvia Plath,
(A) The Inheritors (William Golding) ―The Starry Night‖ by Anne Sexton,
(B) The Magus (John Fowles) ―Mourning Picture‖ by Adrienne Rich, and
(C) The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkein) ―Musee des Beaux Arts‖ by W.H. Auden ?
(D) The History Man (Malcolm Bradbury) (A) They inspired paintings.
Answer: D (B) They are confessional poems.
(C) They are all inspired by paintings.
35. Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a work (D) They are all inspired by Van Gogh‟s
associated with _______. paintings.
(A) Wilhelm von Humboldt Answer: C
(B) Ernst Cassirer
(C) Immanuel Kant 41. ―All Rising to Great Place is by a _____
(D) Battista Vico staire.‖ (Francis Bacon)
Answer: B (A) Murky
(B) Winding
36. Which of the following facts is NOT true (C) Crooked
of Spenser ? (D) Sinister
(A) He is a kind of English Homer, telling Answer: B
stories of heroic confrontations.
(B) He fashioned an original verse form : The 42. In Jeremy Collier‘s 1698 pamphlet
Spenserian Stanza. attacking the immorality and profaneness of
(C) He opposed England‟s break with the the English stage, who among the following
Roman Catholic Church. was the principal target ?
(D) He is a Christian poet. (A) William Congreve
Answer: C (B) John Dryden
(C) John Vanbrugh
37. William Blake developed the ideas of (D) William Wycherley
―Prolifics‖ and ―Devourers‖ in Answer: C
(A) Jerusalem
(B) Milton 43. Charles Dickens‘s visit to the United
(C) Marriage of Heaven and Hell States produced _________.
(D) Songs of Innocence and Songs of (A) Hard Times
Experience (B) Nicholas Nickleby
Answer: C (C) Martin Chuzzlewit
(D) Oliver Twist
38. Surrealism is associated with Answer: C
(A) Ernst Cassirer
(B) Tristan Tzara 44. Who among the following is a working-
(C) Henrik Ibsen class poet ?
(D) Andre Breton (A) John Betjeman
Answer: D (B) Tony Harrison
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(C) Thom Gunn (A) End-stopped rhyme
(D) Robert Graves (B) Alliteration
Answer: B (C) Run-on line
(D) Tercet
45. New Science is a work associated with Answer: C
_______.
(A) Ernest Cassirer
(B) Wilhelm von Humboldt
(C) G. Battista Vico
(D) Immanuel Kant
Answer: C
46. Identify Petrarch‘s sonnet sequence from

among the following :
(A) Rine Sparse
(B) Astrophel and Stella
(C) Amoretti
(D) Delia
Answer: A
47. The island setting of Latmos figures in

Keats‘s
(A) Endymion
(B) The Eve of St. Agnes
(C) Lamia Paper 2- June 2015
(D) Hyperion
Answer: A 1. Matthew Arnold‘s ―touchstones‖ were
―short passages, even single lines‖ of classic
48. The Artist Hero is a theatrical creation poetry beside which the lines of other poets
emphasized by ________. may be placed in order to detect the
(A) W.B. Yeats presence or absence of high poetic quality.
(B) Charles Baudelaire In his ―Study of Poetry‖ Arnold cited
(C) Oscar Wilde ―touchstones‖ from such non-English poets
(D) Andre Gide as Homer and Dante and also from the
Answer:* (Marks given to all) English poets, Shakespeare and Milton.
Which English poet did he disapprovingly
49. Which of the following African writers call ―not one of the great classics‖ in the list
won the Nobel Prize for Literature ? below?
(A) Chinua Achebe (1) Chaucer
(B) Nadine Gordimer (2) Sidney
(C) Ngugi wa Thiong‟o (3) Spenser
(D) Bessie Head (4) Donne
Answer: B Answer: 1
50. ―My lute, be as thou wert when thou 2. Samuel Pepys began his diary on
didst grow ……………
With thy green mother in some shady (1) New Year‟s Day 1660
groove‖ – William Drummond (2) All Saints‟ Day 1662
The above quote is an example of _______. (3) Thanksgiving Day 1665
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(4) New Year‟s Day 1667 (3) Queen Caroline
Answer: 1 (4) Queen Elizabeth
Answer: 3
3. On which of the following authors has
Peter Ackroyd NOT written a biography? 8. Chaucer‘s first work, The Book of the
(1) Charles Dickens Duchess is a dream poem on the death of
(2) William Blake …………….
(3) T. S. Eliot (1) Duchess of Malfi
(4) W. B. Yeats (2) Duchess of Lancaster
Answer: 4 (3) Duchess of Scotland
(4) Duchess of Paris
4. Which group of the following poets was Answer: 2
called the Auden Group because they
developed a style and viewpoint similar to 9. What was Charles Lamb‘s connection
that of W. H. Auden? with India?
(1) Louis MacNeice, C. D. L.ewis, Stephen (1) He was fascinated by the Indian jugglers
Spender and trades-people in London and wrote an
(2) John Masefield, Edwin Muir, Norman essay on them
McCaig (2) He was fascinated by Eastern mystical
(3) MacDiarmid, G. M. Hopkins, Edwin Muir religions, especially Buddhism
(4) W. IT. Davies, Robert Bridges, John (3) He was a clerk for thirty three years in the
Masefield East India Company
Answer: 1 (4) He was clerk in South Sea house that
prepared patents and documents for British
5. When one line of poetry runs into the trading companies in India
next, with no punctuation to slow the Answer: 4
reading, it is a case of …………..
(1) caesura 10. Find the odd one among the Marxist
(2) consonance critics below:
(3) enjambment (1) Georg Lukacs
(4) hyperbole (2) Louis Althusser
Answer: 3 (3) Raymond Williams
(4) Northrop Frye
6. Which of the following is NOT a Answer: 4
characteristic of the Victorian Age?
(1) The rise of a highly competitive industrial 11. In the lines ―With gold jewels cover
technology every part, /And hide with ornaments their
(2) An emphasis on strictly controlled social want of art‖ (Essay on Criticism), Pope rejects
behavior (1) the „Follow Nature‟ fallacy
(3) A romantic focus on home and family (2) artificiality
(4) The growth of rural traditions and (3) aesthetic order
movement from large cities (4) poor taste
Answer: 4 Answer: 2
7. In The Heart of Midlotliian, Walter Scott 12. The opposite of hyperbole is

deals with real political and personal details, ……………..
but notable among his characters is the (1) meiosis
depiction of …………. (2) inversion
(1) Queen Anne (3) anagnorisis
(2) Queen Victoria
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(4) synecdoche (4) Lady Gregory
Answer: 1 Answer: 3
13. What significance do we attach to the 18. In medieval England a …………….. was
publication of I Am an Indian in Canada ? understood to be a trained craftsman, one
(1) The title refers to the autobiography of an who worked under a master who owned the
unknown Indian writer longing for the South business.
Asian countryside (1) pardoner
(2) The first ever account of ethnic conflicts (2) summoner
within Canada (3) journeyman
(3) The first anthology of Native Canadian (4) manciple
writing following the Civil Rights Movement Answer: 3
of the1960s
(4) The first anthology of writers afflicted by 19. Christopher Marlowe‘s heroes are said
class and gender differences in Canada of the to be larger than life, exaggerated both in
late 1970s their faults and in their qualities. They have
Answer: 3 a desire for everything in extreme. In one of
his plays the hero wants to conquer the
14. What is the moral of ―The Nun‘s Priest‘s whole world. The name of the play is
Tale‖ ? ……………..
(1) Slow and steady wins the race. (1) The Jew of Malta
(2) Greed is the root of all evil. (2) Doctor Faustus
(3) Beauty lies within. (3) Tamburlaine the Great
(4) Never trust a flatterer. (4) Edward II
Answer: 4 Answer: 3
15. The author of the essay ―Silly Novels by 20. With what does the speaker claim to be
Lady Novelists‖ is …………….. half in love in ―Ode to a Nightingale‖?
(1) George Eliot (1) the nightingale‟s haunting melody
(2) Henry James (2) the scented flavour of early summer
(3) Oscar Wilde (3) the night sky and all the stars
(4) Richard Steele (4) the peace that comes with death
Answer: 1 Answer: 4
16. The unquenchable spirit of Robinson 21. In which chapter of Poetics does
Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantial Aristotle use the word ‗catharsis‘ in his
existence on a lonely island reflects definition of tragedy?
…………… (1) Chapter IV
(1) man‟s desire to return to nature (2) Chapter VI
(2) the author‟s criticism of colonization (3) Chapter ITT
(3) the ideal of rising bourgeoisie (4) Chapter V
(4) the aristocrat‟s disdain for the harsh social Answer: 2
reality
Answer: 3 22. Match the following:
List – I
17. Who is the author of the collection The (a) “The Function of Criticism”
Celtic Twilight? (b) “The Function of Criticism at the Present
(1) J. M. Synge Time”
(2) Sean O‟Casey (c) The Function of Criticism : From „The
(3) W. B. Yeats Spectator‟ to Poststructuralism
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(d) “The Function of English at the Present (d) Titus Andronicus
Time” The right combination according to the code is:
List – II (1) (a) and (b)
(1) Terry Eagleton (2) (a) and (c)
(ii) Richard Ohmann (3) (c) and (d)
(iii) Matthew Arnold (4) (a) and (d)
(iv) T. S. Eliot Answer: 1
The right matching according to the code is:
(a) (b) (c) (d) 26. In her essay ―Professions for Women‖
(1) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii) Virginia Woolf finds an analogy between the
(2) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) act of writing and …………….
(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii) (1) driving a motor car
(4) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i) (2) riding a horse
Answer: 1 (3) fishing
(4) gardening
23. Identify the TRUE statement on Thomas Answer: 3
More‘s Utopia.
(1) Utopia is divided into four parts, each 27. The ascension of King James I in
dealing with Raphael Hythloday‟s adventures ………….. inaugurated the Jacobean age.
in the four suburbs of Antwerp. (1) 1600
(2) Utopia is divided into two parts; the first (2) 1601
records a conversation between Thomas More (3) 1603
and Raphael Hythloday, and the second is (4) 1609
Hythloday‟s discourse on the institutions and Answer: 3
practices of Utopia.
(3) Utopia is divided into two parts; the first is 28. Which of the following is NOT true of
Thomas More‟s discourse on the institutions the Byronic hero?
and practices of Utopia, and the second a (1) moody
conversation between More and Hythloday. (2) passionate
(4) Utopia is divided into four parts, each (3) repentant
dealing with the ordered patterns of towns and (4) remorse-torn
cities in Antwerp. Answer: 3
Answer: 2
29. Like many other novelists, Hardy
24. In ―The Rime of the Ancient Mariner‖ employed language variation (dialect and
what disaster befalls the ship and the crew? standard) with a purpose. In this respect
(1) The ship is caught in ice and breaks into which of the following statements is correct?
pieces. (1) His major characters such as Tess and Jude
(2) A fierce storm batters the ship and drowns always speak in local dialects, as per their
the crew. social positions.
(3) “Slimy things with legs” attack the ship and (2) His major characters such as Tess and Jude
kill many of the crew. rarely speak in local dialects, in spite of their
(4) The ship is becalmed and the crew dies of social positions.
thirst. (3) His major characters such as Tess and Jude
Answer: 4 rarely speak in standard language in spite of
their social positions.
25. Falstaff is a character in ………….. (4) His major characters such as Tess and Jude
(a) Henry IV Part I rarely speak in a mixture of a dialect and
(b) The Merry Wives of Windsor standard.
(c) The Comedy of Errors Answer: 2
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30. ―It used to be said,‖ began a famous stood for a great optimism, barriers seemed
English writer, ―everyone had a novel in to be coming down all over, it was as if
them … Just now, though, in 1999, you World War II had finally drawn to close,
would probably be obliged to doubt the there was an openness and high-spiritedness
basic proposition: What everyone has in and relaxation of mood‖. Who were ―they‖ ?
them, these days, is not a novel but a (1) The Beatles
memoir‖. Identify the source (2) The Rolling Stones
(1) Martins Amis, Experience (3) The New Left
(2) Michel Butor, Passing Time (4) The Arts Council folks
(3) John Fowles, The French Lieutenant‟s Answer: 1
Woman
(4) Julian Barnes, Flaubert‟s Parrot 36. In Paradise Lost Milton presents the
Answer: 1 action of the fall of man in two stages in
Books ………………
31. The opening sixteen lines of Paradise (1) IV and IX
Lost comprise: (2) IV and VIII
(1) One sentence (3) III and IX
(2) Two sentences (4) V and X
(3) Three sentences Answer: 1
(4) Four sentences
Answer: 1 37. In Gulliver‘s Travels Struldbruggs are
…………..
32. Who among the following poets (1) people replete with abstract learning.
compared human tears to ―love‘s wine‖ ? (2) people exempt from natural death.
(1) Ben Jonson (3) people persecuted by pets and servants.
(2) John Donne (4) people lured by a new ideal.
(3) Andrew Marvell Answer: 2
(4) John Suckling
Answer: 2 38. Margaret Atwood has tried a revisionist
writing of a crucial scene in Hamlet called
33. Ernest Pontifex is a character in ―Gertrude Talks Back‖. The scene in
………….. Atwood opens with a reference to the name
(1) Tono Bungay of an implied listener. Who is this implied
(2) The Man of Property listener?
(3) The Way of All Flesh (1) Hamlet
(4) Nostromo (2) Ophelia
Answer: 3 (3) Polonius
(4) Claudius
34. In which of the following stories does Answer: 1
Rudyard Kipling present a newspaper
editor who recounts his dealings with a 39. Samuel Johnson wrote London in
couple of ―loafers‖ ? imitation of ……………
(1) “His Chance in Life” (1) Horace
(2) “Thrown Away” (2) Ovid
(3) “Lispeth” (3) Juvenal
(4) “The Man Who Would Be King” (4) Moschus
Answer: 4 Answer: 3
35. Trying to capture the upbeat mood of 40. Which of the following is NOT written
1964-65, the poet Thom Gunn said: ―They by Buchi Emecheta?
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(1) The Joys of Motherhood 46. Identify the group known as ―The
(2) Second-Class citizen Wesker Trilogy‖?
(3) A Question of Power (1) The Growth of the Soil, Gauze of Life, In
(4) Kehinde the Grip of Life
Answer: 3 (2) Chicken Soup with Barley, Roots, I‟m
Talking about Jerusalem
41. Samuel Johnson‘s use of the term (3) The Four Seasons, Chips with Everything,
―metaphysical‖ in a piece of criticism was Golden City
…………. (4) Lunatics and Lovers, The Patriots, Dead
(1) approving End
(2) disapproving Answer: 2
(3) positive
(4) accidental 47. Who is the central character of Derek
Answer: 2 Walcott‘s Dream on the Monkey Mountain
?
42. ―I am not an angel …… and I will not be (1) Diana Guinness, one of the Mitford Sisters
one till I die: I will be myself.‖ This is (2) Jordan, a fantasist
……………… (3) Makak, a charcoal burner
(1) Maggie Tulliver in Mill on the Floss (4) Eva Smith, a seamstress
(2) Aurora Leigh in the eponymous poem Answer: 3
(3) Jane Eyre in the eponymous novel
(4) Betty Higdon in Our Mutual Friend 48. The phrase ―darkness visible‖ (Paradise
Answer: 3 Lost, 1.63) is an example of ……………..
(1) periphrasis
43. Who among the following playwrights (2) pun
was the son of a gardener? (3) oxymoron
(1) Harold Pinter (4) transposition
(2) Joe Orton Answer: 3
(3) Tom Stoppard
(4) Edward Bond 49. What is common to writers such as Sam
Answer: 2 Selvon (The Lonely Londoners), Timothy
Mo (Sour Sweet), and Hanif Kureishi (The
44. ―He is the very pineapple of politeness!‖ Black Album) ?
This sentence is an example of ………….. (1) All of them are brilliant writers of
(1) paronomasia autobiographies who tell stories and write
(2) spoonerism poetry.
(3) malapropism (2) They use Standard English with some
(4) anaphora Creole inflections peculiar to the Caribbean.
Answer: 3 (3) They are diasporic writers who depict
postcolonial London very different from its
45. Ferdinand de Saussure argued that colonial representations.
meaning is generated through (4) They contrast the „First Nations‟ with local
(1) a system of structured differences in populations of their respective countries.
language Answer: 3
(2) a system of random differences in language
(3) a system of structured references in 50. F. R. Leavis and Q. D. Leavis launched a
language critical journal devoted to the moral
(4) a system of random references in language centrality of English Studies. Name the
Answer: 1 Journal.
(1) The English Historical Review
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(2) The Criterion
(3) Scrutiny
(4) The Edinburgh Review
Answer: 3

1. Who, among the following, advanced the
theory that the mind is a tabula rasa at
birth, and acquires all ideas by experience?
(1) John Locke
(2) John Wesley
(3) Isaac Watts
(4) Denis Diderot
Answer: 1
2. Which of the following authors wrote

Studies in the History of the Renaissance?
(1) Walter Pater
(2) Oscar Wilde
(3) Thomas Carlyle
(4) John Ruskin
Answer: 1
3. Whom does Harriet Smith finally marry

in one of Jane Austen‘s novels?
(1) Knightley
(2) Darcy
(3) Collins
(4) Mr. Martin
Answer: 4
4. A poet once referred to an old man as ―A

tattered coat upon a stick‖. That is an
example of ………………
(1) Metonymy
(2) Sarcasm
(3) Simile
(4) Metaphor
Answer: 4
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5. Which of these is NOT a pastoral elegy? the Novel”
(1) Lycidas Answer: 3
(2) In Memoriam
(3) Thyrsis 10. Match the columns:
(4) Adonais (Author)
Answer: 2 (a) Sebastian Faulks
(b) Peter Ackroyd
6. In Beckett‘s Waiting for Godot the (c) Tan McEwan
characters often use dislocated, repetitious (d) David Lodge
and cliched speech primarily to: (Text)
(1) illustrate the essentially illogical, (i) Amsterdam
purposeless nature of the human condition (ii) Changing Places
(2) re-create the workings of the subconscious (iii) Hawksmoor
(3) mock the exaggerated dignity and wisdom (iv) Birdsong
of modern, self-professed intellectuals Codes:
(4) reinforce the comic action of farcical plots (a) (b) (c) (d)
Answer: 1 (1) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(2) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
7. Which of the following sixteenth-century (3) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
poets was NOT a courtier? (4) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(1) George Puttenham Answer: 3
(2) Philip Sidney
(3) Walter Raleigh 11. In New Criticism, the key term ‗tension‘
(4) Thomas Wyatt is associated with:
Answer: * (Marks given to all) (1) Cleanth Brooks
(2) John Crow Ransom
8. Patrick White published two novels in the (3) Austin Warren
1950s giving the eras of pioneering and (4) Allen Tate
exploration in Australian history an epic, Answer: 4
ironic and psychological dimension. The
novels are: 12. While compiling what sort of book did
(a) A Fringe of Leaves Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for
(b) The Tree of Man his Pamela or Virtue Rewarded?
(c) Voss (1) an account of the plague in London
(d) The Aunt‟s Story (2) an instruction manual for manners
The right combination according to the code is: (3) a book of devotion
(1) (a) and (b) (4) a book of model letters
(2) (b) and (c) Answer: 4
(3) (c) and (a)
(4) (c) and (d) 13. Who among the war Poets gained
Answer: 2 notoriety in 1917, when disenchanted with
the way the war was being conducted he
9. In which of the following works did drafted his letter of ―wilful defiance of the
Bakhtin propose his widely cited concept of military authority‖ which captured
the ‗Carnivalesque‘? attention in the House of Commons, and was
(1) “Discourse in the novel” forcibly admitted to the war hospital at
(2) Dialogic Imagination Craiglockhart, primarily to avoid his being
(3) Rabelais and his world court-martialled?
(4) “Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in (1) Rupert Brooke
(2) Siegfried Sassoon
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(3) Wilfred Owen (4) Robert Ilerrick
(4) Isaac Rosenberg Answer: 1
Answer: 2
19. In a remarkably proleptic insight, a
14. If you cannot understand an argument critic wrote the following, anticipating
and remark, ―It‘s Greek to me‖, you are Benedict Anderson‘s definition of the nation
quoting …………… as ―an imagined political community‖:
(1) John Milton ―Most novels are in some sense knowable
(2) Samuel Johnson communities. It is part of a traditional
(3) William Shakespeare method — an underlying stance and
(4) John Donne approach — that a novelist offers to show
Answer: 3 people and their relationships in essentially
knowable and communicable ways‖.
15. Which of the following works did Walter Name the critic and the reference
Scott compile? (1) Van Wyck Brooks, The writer in America
(1) The Lay of the Last Minstrel (2) Raymond Williams, The country and the
(2) Marmion city
(3) Ivanhoe (3) Joseph Wood Krutch, The Modern Temper
(4) The Minstrelsy of Scottish Border (4) T.S. Eliot, Notes Towards a Definition of
Answer: 4 culture
Answer: 2
16. Which of the following is NOT written
by Wole Soyinka? 20. ―Fair is my love, and cruel as she‘s fair;
(1) Home and Exile Her brow-shades frown, although her eyes
(2) Kongi‟s Harvest are sunny‖.
(3) The interpreters The above lines are characterized by:
(4) The Swamp Dwellers (1) circumlocution
Answer: 1 (2) antithesis
(3) anticlimax
17. In the Defense of Poesy Sidney says: (4) bathos
―Now as in geometry the oblique must be Answer: 2
known as well as right and in arithmetic, the
odd as well as the even, so in the actions of 21. In his ―Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot‖ Pope
our life who seeth not the filthiness of evil tells us that as a poet he had benefited from
wanteth a great foil to perceive the beauty of ―This saving counsel, ‗keep your piece nine
virtue‖. Which of the following forms of years‘‖ – which enjoins on writer‘s patience
poesy offers a foil that helps us perceive the and great care before they rush to print.
beauty of virtue? Whose ―counsel‖ is Pope referring to?
(1) Pastorals (1) Longinus‟s in On the Sublime
(2) Parody (2) Horace‟s in Ars Poetica
(3) Comedy (3) Quintilian‟s Institutio Oratoria
(4) Tragedy (4) Aristotle‟s Poetics
Answer: 3 Answer: 2
18. John Dryden described a major English 22. An English architect and stage-designer
poet as ―a rough diamond, and must first be – Beginning 1605, joined Jacobean court to
polished ere he shines …..‖ Identify him: design masques — contributed significantly
(1) Geoffrey Chaucer to the spectacular theatre which succeeded
(2) John Gower the commonwealth after his death – the first
(3) George Herbert designer to use revolving screens to indicate
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scene-changes on the English stage. (2) James Baldwin‟s Go Tell it on the
Identify this artist/designer. Mountain
(1) Henry Irving (3) Toni Morrison‟s Song of Solomon
(2) Inigo Jones (4) Richard Wright‟s Native Son
(3) Henry Arthur Jones Answer: 2
(4) William Inge
Answer: 2 27. Chartism, a political movement that took
its name from the People‘s Charter had six
23. …………… may be defined as any points. Identify the one point on the
departure from the rules of pronunciation following list that was NOT Chartist:
or diction, for the sake of rhyme or metre, (a) universal manhood sufferage
or an unjustifiable departure from fact. (b) equal electoral districts
(1) Poetic license (c) comprehensive insurance scheme for labour
(2) Poetic justice (d) vote by secret ballot
(3) Poetic deviance (e) payment of MPs
(4) Poetic diction (f) no property qualifications for MPs
Answer: 1 (g) Annual parliaments
Codes:
24. That I lumanities and the sciences were (1) (e)
in fact ―two cultures‖ was suggested by (2) (g)
………….. (3) (c)
(1) Aldous Huxley in his oxford lectures on (4) (d)
poetry Answer: 3
(2) W.H. Anden in his oxford lectures on
poetry 28. These beauteous forms,
(3) F.R. Leavis in his book, The Great Through a long absence, have been to me
Tradition As is a landscape to a blind man‘s eye…
(4) C.P. Snow in his Rede lecture (―Tintern Abbey Lines‖)
Answer: 4 Which of the following rhetorical terms best
suits these lines?
25. Chaueer satirizes the Monk because the (1) Apostrophe
Monk: (2) Litotes
(1) is too concerned with courtesy and matters (3) Hyperbole
of etiquette (4) Catachresis
(2) cheats the poor peasants by selling them Answer: * (Marks given to all)
false religious relics
(3) courts favour of wealthy people but spends 29. The ‗monster‘ in Frankenstein is NOT
no time with poor people responsible for the death of:
(4) spends too much time hunting and too little (1) Clerval
time on religious duty (2) Justine
Answer: 4 (3) Elizabeth
(4) Alphonse Frankenstein
26. Divided into three sections this ground- Answer: 4
breaking work published in 1953 uses as the
frame of the spiritual and moral awakening 30. Which of the following plays of William
of a fourteen-year-old during a Saturday Shakespeare is NOT directly referred to in
night service in a Harlem church. Identify T.S. Eliot‘s The Waste Land?
the work. (1) Hamlet
(1) Zora Neale Hurston‟s Their Eyes Are (2) King Lear
Watching God (3) Coriolanus
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(4) The Tempest find lacking in his own work in comparison?
Answer: 2 (1) Fra Lippo Lippi – humour
(2) Raphael – Soul
31. Identify the group below which is known (3) Leonardo da Vinci – Verisimilitude
as the ―Sons of Ben‖. (4) Botticelli – liveliness
(1) Noel Coward, E.G. Craig, William Answer: 2
Macready, Matheson, Lang
(2) John Dryden, the Earl of Rochester, Samuel 36. In which of the following does Robert
Butler Southey detail the Indian superstitions as an
(3) William Cartwright, Richard Corbett, idolatry to be suppressed by a civilizing
Thomas Randolph protestant form of colonialism?
(4) William Holman hunt, John E. Millais, (1) “Thalaba”
D.G. Rossetti, William Morris (2) The Curse of Kehama
Answer: 3 (3) “Pitying the wolves”
(4) Country Horrors!
32. Christopher Marlowe was one of the first Answer: 2
major writers to affirm what can be
identified as a clearly homosexual 37. The following is the classic ending of a
sensibility. Which drama of his deals with celebrated novella in English:
it? ―I kept on creeping just the same, but I
(1) Edward II looked at him over my shoulder. I‘ve got out
(2) The Jew of Malta at last‘, said I, ―in spite of you and Jane.
(3) Doctor Faustus And I‘ve pulled off most of the papers, so
(4) Dido, Queen of Carthage you can‘t put me back !―
Answer: 1 Now why should that man have fainted? But
he did, and right across my path by the wall,
33. ―When true silence falls we are still left so that I had to creep over him every time !―
with echo but are nearer nakedness. One (1) Yellow Woman (Leslie Mormon Silko)
way of looking at speech is to say that it is a (2) The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte
constant stratagem to cover nakedness‖. P.Gilman)
Identify the playwright who underlines the (3) Johny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
significance of silence thus. (Sylvia Plalth)
(1) Samuel Beckett (4) Where Are You Going, Where Have You
(2) Harold Pinter Been? Joyce C. Oates)
(3) Luigi Pirandello Answer: 2
(4) Joe Orton
Answer: 2 38. Harriet B. Stowe had wanted to write a
work based on the life of an Afro-American
34. The determining feature of syllabic verse writer which was later published as:
is neither ……………. nor …………… but (1) Uncle Tom‟s Cabin
the number of syllables in a line. (2) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
(1) number, numbers (3) Cry, The Beloved Country
(2) sounds, silences (4) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
(3) stress, quantity Answer: 2
(4) gists, piths
Answer: 3 39. Samuel Johnson‘s ―Dissertation upon
Poetry‖ is part of which of his following
35. In Robert Browning‘s dramatic works?
monologue, which painter does Andrea del (1) the final section of his preface to
Sarto compare himself to? What does he Shakespeare
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(2) a chapter of his novel Rasselas 43. What is the name of the angel, who, of
(3) the epilogue of his Lives of Poets those who owed allegeance to Satan, dared
(4) one of his Rambler essays to protest against his impious doctrine and
Answer: 2 left his company to return to God (Paradise
Lost, Book V)?
40. A new series called ―New Accents‖ was (1) Michael
launched by Methuen in 1977. The first title (2) Abdiel
to be published in the series was: (3) Uriel
(1) Deconstruction : Theory and Practice (4) Gabriel
(2) Formalism and Marxism Answer: 2
(3) Structuralism and Semiotics
(4) Making and Difference : Feminist Literary 44. Which of the following is NOT a school
criticism associated with Romantic period in English
Answer: 3 literature?
(1) The Cockney School
41. ―Humble and rustic life was generally (2) The Fireside School
chosen, because, in that condition, the (3) The Lake School
essential passions of the heart find a better (4) The Satanic School
soil in which they can attain their maturity, Answer: 2
are less under restraint, and speak a plainer
and more emphatic language… The 45. The idea of ―new ethnicities‖ in post-war
language, too, of these men has been Britain was advanced by …………..
adopted… because such men hourly (1) Donald Hall
communicate with the best objects from (2) Stuart hall
which the best part of language is originally (3) Paul Gilroy
derived‖. Which of the following groups of (4) Hanif Kureishi
the author‘s poems in the Lyrical Ballads Answer: 2
(1800) contradict this statement in the
―Preface to the Lyrical Ballads‖, as pointed 46. Virginia Woolf‘s To the Lighthouse
out by S.T. Coleridge? begins in a piece of dialogue:
(1) “Ode on the Intimations of Immortality”, ―Yes, of course, if it‘s fine tomorrow‖, said
Prelude. Mrs. Ramsay. ―But you‘ll have to be up with
(2) The Tasks, Seasons. lark‖, she added.
(3) “Michael”, “Ruth”, “The Brothers”. Present among the listeners of her remark is
(4) “Elegy Written in a country churchyard”, ……………
“Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the (1) her father
Highlands”. (2) her nephew
Answer: 3 (3) her son
(4) her driver
42. A remarkable novelist of the English Answer: 3
Modernist phase who wrote a short book on
what the novel is (and why it matters) 47. Match the phrase with character
remarked, ―Oh dear, yes – the novel tells a (a) “motiveless malignity”
story‖. Identify the novelist: (b) “Reason in Madness”
(1) Virginia Woolf (c) “Supp‟d full of horrors”
(2) James Joyce (d) “To be, or not to be”
(3) E.M. Forster (i) Macbeth
(4) DII. Lawrence (ii) Hamlet
Answer: 3 (iii) Lear
(iv) Iago
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Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
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(2) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
(3) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(4) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv) 1. Which British University figures in
Answer: 3 William Wordsworth‘s Prelude ?
(1) Durham
(2) Glasgow
48. In Tristram Shandy the narrator‘s
(3) Cambridge
presentation of his life and opinions is
(4) Oxford
………….
Answer: 3
(1) linear
(2) digressive
(3) chronological 2. Who is the author of A Woman Killed
(4) rounded with Kindness ?
(1) John Marston
Answer: 2
(2) Thomas Middleton
(3) John Fletcher
49. The famous sonnet of John Milton
(4) Thomas Heywood
beginning ―When I consider how my light is
Answer: 4
spent…‖ ends with ……………
(1) Before me stares a wolfish eye, Behind me
creeps a groan or sigh 3. In William Congreve‘s The Way of the
(2) They also serve who only stand and wait World identify the speaker of the line :
―One‘s
(3) And – which is more – you‟ll be a Man, my
cruelty is one‘s power, and when one parts
son!
(4) And bless him for the sake of him that‟s with one‘s cruelty, one parts with one‘s
gone power.‖
(1) Mirabell
Answer: 2
(2) Witwoud
(3) Millamant
50. Her vision was of several caves. She saw
(4) Mincing
herself in one, and she was also outside it,
Answer: 3
watching its entrance, for Aziz to pass in.
She failed to locate him. It was the doubt
4. T.S. Eliot found spiritual support in
that had often visited her, but solid and
(1) Christianity
attractive, like the hills. ―I am not —―speech
(2) Hinduism
was more difficult than vision. ―I am not
(3) Buddhism
quite sure‖.
(4) Judaism
The above extract from A Passage to India is
Answer: 1
about Adela‟s cave experience. Who is
questioning Adela?
(1) Mrs. Moore 5. By what name is Gulliver known in
(2) Mr. McBryde Brobdingnag ?
(3) Fielding (1) Grildrig
(4) Ronney Heaslop (2) Glumdalclitch
Answer: 2 (3) Splacknuck
(4) Mannikin
Answer: 1
6. Who among the following was born in

India ?
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(1) Paul Scott (4) Popular
(2) Lawrence Durrell Answer: 3
(3) E.M. Forster
(4) V.S. Naipaul 12. Who among the following authors were
Answer: 2 greatly influenced by Thomas Carlyle‘s
writings?
7. What metaphor does Edmund Spenser I. Charles Dickens
employ (Faerie Queene Book 1 Canto 12) to II. Elizabeth Gaskell
frame his tale and to describe the III. Emily Bronte
relationship between the tale and its IV. Oscar Wilde
readers? The right combination according to the code is
(1) That of a caravan of lost souls, traversing a (1) I and II
desert. (2) II and III
(2) That of a stagecoach, which picks up (3) I and IV
diverse passengers along the way. (4) I and III
(3) That of a ship filled with jolly mariners. Answer: 1
(4) That of a riderless horse, following his own
direction. 13. Which of the following is another term to
Answer: 3 describe ―art for art‘s sake‖?
(1) Aestheticism
8. Who among the following is not associated (2) Didacticism
with Russian formalism? (3) Realism
(1) Roman Jakobson (4) Neo-realism
(2) Georges Poulet Answer: 1
(3) Boris Eichenbaum
(4) Victor Shklovsky 14. The statement that there are ―none so
Answer: 2 credulous as infidels‖ is an illustration of
(1) Oxymoron
9. Which character in Dickens keeps on (2) Antithesis
hoping that ―something will turn up‖? (3) Paradox
(1) Barkis (4) Metonomy
(2) Micawber Answer: 3
(3) Uriah Heep
(4) Miss Havisham 15. Who narrates Heart of Darkness?
Answer: 2 (1) Marlow
(2) Director of Companies
10. What is the name of the boat that rescues (3) Kurtz
Ishmael in Herman Melville‘s Moby Dick? (4) An unnamed narrator
(1) Pequod Answer: 4
(2) Rachel
(3) Hagar 16. The Mistakes of a Night is the subtitle of
(4) Sphinx (1) The Conscious Lovers
Answer: 2 (2) The Good Natur‟d Man
(3) She Stoops to Conquer
11. Northanger Abbey is a parody of the (4) The Rivals
………….. romance. Answer: 3
(1) Oriental
(2) French 17. Identify the first novel written by Patrick
(3) Gothic White :
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(1) The Living and the Dead (3) Robert Herrick
(2) The Tree of Man (4) Andrew Marvell
(3) Happy Valley Answer: 3
(4) The Aunt‟s Story
Answer: 3 23. Which of the following is not Jacques
Derrida‘s work?
18. In King Lear for what reason does Kent (1) Of Spirit : Heidegger and the Question
assume a disguise? (2) The Transcendence of the Ego
(1) To continue to serve Lear, though Lear has (3) Of Grammatology
banished him. (4) The Work of Mourning
(2) To spy on Edmund. Answer: 2
(3) To antagonize Goneril and Regan.
(4) To revenge upon Lear for banishing him. 24. In Paradise Lost which character
Answer: 1 narrates the story of the making of Eve from
a rib in
19. What is a feminine rhyme? Adam‘s side?
(1) A rhyme on two syllables in which the last (1) Adam
syllable is unstressed. (2) Eve
(2) A rhyme on two syllables. (3) Raphael
(3) A rhyme on three syllables. (4) God
(4) A poem in which every third syllable Answer: 1
rhymes.
Answer: 1 25. A.S. Byatt‘s Possession attempts the
imitation of the work of two Victorian poets,
20. Identify two of the following written by loosely
Christopher Fry : based on
I. French Without Tears I. Alfred Tennyson
II. The Lady‟s Not for Burning II. Robert Browning
III. Venus Observed III. Christina Rossetti
IV. The Deep Blue Sea IV. William Morris
The right combination according to the code is The right combination according to the code is
(1) II and III (1) I and II
(2) I and III (2) II and IV
(3) II and IV (3) II and III
(4) I and IV (4) III and IV
Answer: 1 Answer: 3
21. In ―Tradition and Individual Talent‖, 26. The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a short
according to T.S. Eliot, the term comedy by
―Traditional‖ (1) Bernard Shaw
usually means (2) W.B. Yeats
(1) something positive (3) J.M. Synge
(2) something negative (4) John Osborne
(3) something historical Answer: 1
(4) something old
Answer: 2 27. John Milton‘s description of gold as a
―precious bane‖ (Paradise Lost, Book II) is
22. Who of the following is a Cavalier poet? best
(1) George Herbert described as
(2) John Donne (1) a dactyl
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(2) an oxymoron The lowing herd winds slowly o‟er the lea,
(3) enjambment The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
(4) zeugma And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Answer: 2 (1) Iambic Hexameter
(2) Trochaic Pentameter
28. There is a play on the name of (3) Iambic Pentameter
Machiavelli in the prologue to Christopher (4) Terza Rima
Marlowe‘s Answer: 3
(1) Doctor Faustus
(2) The Jew of Malta 33. Which two novels of Buchi Emecheta
(3) Tamburlaine, the Great provide a fictionalized portrait of poor,
(4) Edward II young
Answer: 2 Nigerian women struggling to bring up their
children in London?
29. Shakespeare famously neglects to I. The Slave Girl
observe Aristotle‘s rules concerning the II. The Joys of Motherhood
three dramatic unities, and Samuel Johnson III. Second Class Citizen
undertakes to defend Shakespeare from IV. In the Ditch
these criticisms in his Preface to The right combination according to the code is
Shakespeare. Which of the Aristotelian (1) I and II
dramatic unities does Johnson believe (2) II and III
Shakespeare to observe most successfully? (3) III and IV
(1) Time (4) I and IV
(2) Place Answer: 3
(3) Action
(4) Johnson does not feel that the Aristotelian 34. In John Bunyan‘s Pilgrim‘s Progress
dramatic unities are important who keeps Christian‘s head above water in
Answer: 3 the River of Death?
(1) Hopeful
30. Who among the following was praised (2) Helpful
and patronized as a ―Ploughman Poet‖? (3) Faithful
(1) John Clare (4) Cheerful
(2) George Crabbe Answer: 1
(3) Robert Burns
(4) Walter Scott 35. Childe Harold‘s Pilgrimage is a
Answer: 3 (1) religious allegory
(2) fairy tale
31. Which novel of Doris Lessing ends with a (3) long poem
projection forward in time after a (4) Utopian novel
devastating Answer: 3
atomic war?
(1) The Grass is Singing 36. In Thomas More‘s Utopia which of the
(2) The Golden Notebook following leisure pastimes is not a favourite
(3) The Four-Gated City among Utopians?
(4) A Proper Marriage (1) Music
Answer: 3 (2) Public lectures
(3) Conversation
32. Name the dominant meter of the (4) Dicing and cards
following quatrain : Answer: 4
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
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37. Which of the following statements does (1) “Far from the madding crowd”
not describe Michel Foucault‘s position? (2) “A youth to Fortune and Fame unknown”
(1) In Foucault‟s work sexuality is literally (3) “Full many a flower is born to blush
written on the body. unseen”
(2) Power operates through discourse. (4) “All nature is but art, unknown to thee”
(3) There is connection between power and Answer: 4
knowledge.
(4) Where there is power, it is possible to find 42. Robert Browning‘s ―Rabbi Ben Ezra‖ is
resistance. a defence of
Answer: 1 (1) youth against old age
(2) old age against youth
38. In which year did the Great Exhibition (3) power against knowledge
take place? (4) knowledge against power
(1) 1851 Answer: 2
(2) 1857
(3) 1861 43. In Geoffrey Chaucer‘s Canterbury
(4) 1871 Tales, the pilgrims, like the medieval society
Answer: 1 of which
they are a part, are made up of three social
39. When Fidessa says, ―O but I fear the groups or ―estates‖. What are the three
fickle freakes …./ Of fortune false, and estates?
oddes of (1) Nobility, church and commoners
armes in field‖ (Faerie Queene, Book I, (2) Royalty, nobility and peasantry
Canto 5), this is a fine example of (3) Royalists, republicans and peasants
(1) Alliteration (4) Country, city and commons
(2) Allegory Answer: 1
(3) Assonance
(4) Antithesis 44. Which novel of Toni Morrison tells the
Answer: 1 wrenching story of a protagonist who
murders her
40. Match the work with author : child rather than to allow him/her to live as
I. “The Excursion” a slave?
II. “Christabel” (1) Sula
III. Milton (2) Tar Baby
IV. Queen Mab (3) Song of Solomon
A. S.T. Coleridge (4) Beloved
B. P.B. Shelley Answer: 4
C. William Wordsworth
D. William Blake 45. Who among the following translated
Homer?
I II III IV (1) Thomas Gray
(1) C A B D (2) Samuel Johnson
(2) C A D B (3) Oliver Goldsmith
(3) B C A D (4) Alexander Pope
(4) B A C D Answer: 4
Answer: 2
46. Shyam Selvadurai‘s Funny Boy is a
41. Which of the following phrases is not (1) Picaresque novel
found in Thomas Gray‘s ―Elegy written in a (2) Epistolary novel
Country Churchyard‖? (3) Diary novel
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(4) Coming-of-age novel 1. What is the fate of ignorance in Bunyan‘s
Answer: 4 Pilgrim‘s Progress?
(1) He drowns in the River of Death
47. When was the English ban on James (2) He enters the Celestial City
Joyce‘s Ulysses lifted? (3) He finds the Truth
(1) 1924 (4) He discovers the way to Hell
(2) 1945 Answer: 4
(3) 1936
(4) 1962 2. God is referred to as ―The President of
Answer: 3 Immortals‖ in
(1) Paradise Lost
48. Who among the following is not an (2) Waiting for Godot
imagist? (3) Tess of the D‟urbervilles
(1) Ezra Pound (4) The White Devil
(2) W.B. Yeats Answer: 3
(3) Amy Lowell
(4) T.E. Hulme 3. Match the character with the author :
Answer: 2 List – I
I. Madeline
49. Thomas Carew‘s Poems appeared in II. Prometheus
print in 1640 and contain a variety of III. Urizen
amorous IV. Childe Harold
addresses to and reflections on, a fictional List – II
mistress known as A. Blake
(1) Celia B. Byron
(2) Julia C. Shelley
(3) Anne D. Keats
(4) Melanie I II III IV
Answer: 1 (1) B C A D
(2) C D A B
50. Match the novelists with their work : (3) D C A B
I. William Golding (4) C D B A
II. Salman Rushdie Answer: 3
III. Graham Swift
IV. Peter Ackroyd 4. The phrase ―loud colour‖ is an example of
A. Grimus (1) Synecdoche
B. Hawksmoor (2) Synaesthesia
C. Darkness Visible (3) Redundancy
D. Waterland (4) Paraleipsis
I II III IV Answer: 2
(1) D A C B
(2) C A D B 5. In one of Marlowe‘s plays the hero is
(3) B C A D warned not ―to practise more than heavenly
(4) B A C D power permits.‖ Identify the play.
Answer: 2 (1) The Jew of Malta
(2) Edward the Second
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(4) Tamburlaine the Great
Answer: 3
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6. Match the Graham Greene novel with its (2) Seamus Heaney
setting : (3) Brian Friel
List – I (4) G.B. Shaw
I. The Ministry of Fear Answer: 3
II. The Third Man
III. The Power and the Glory 11. Identify the term among the following
IV. The Quiet American which does not relate to a movement in art
List – II or literature.
A. Vienna (1) Cubism
B. Mexico (2) Empiricism
C. Vietnam (3) Expressionism
D. London (4) Surrealism
I II III IV Answer: 2
(1) D A B C
(2) B A C D 12. ―Kubla Khan‖ is thought to have been
(3) D B A C written in 1797, but it was not published
(4) C D B A until 1816. Who persuaded Coleridge to
Answer: 1 publish it?
(1) Wordsworth
7. What was the title of the collection of (2) Byron
short stories published by James Joyce in (3) Keats
1914? (4) Wordsworth‟s sister
(1) Dubliners Answer: 2
(2) Londoners
(3) New Yorkers 13. In Restoration comedy, character names
(4) Berliners often reveal character traits. What trait does
Answer: 1 the name Sir Wilfull Witwoud reveal?
(1) Woodenness
8. Patrick White‘s classic work Voss is based (2) Miserliness
on the story of a …………… explorer. (3) A desire to be thought of as witty
(1) Flemish (4) Petulance
(2) Australian Answer: 3
(3) German
(4) Spanish 14. From the following list identify the two
Answer: 3 novels published by John Henry Newman
I. The Grammar of Assent
9. In ―Tradition and Individual Talent‖ II. Apologia pro vita sua
Eliot describes the workings of the poet‘s III. Loss and Gain
mind in terms of which of the following? IV. Callista
(1) Natural selection The right combination according to the code is
(2) A chemical reaction :
(3) A flowing river (1) I and II
(4) A cornucopia (2) II and III
Answer: 2 (3) III and IV
(4) I and IV
10. Who among the following wrote an Answer: 3
immensely powerful play about the
remapping of Irish places with new British 15. Consider the following lines form
names? Beowulf :
(1) J.M. Synge What literary device does the poet use in
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these lines? 21. In More‘s Utopia what religion is
A few miles from here practised by the Utopians?
a frost-stiffened wood waits and keeps watch (1) Belief in a single, infinite power and sun,
above a mere. moon and planetary worship
(1) Personification (2) Islam
(2) Pathetic fallacy (3) Judaism
(3) Metaphor (4) Buddhism
(4) Litotes Answer: 1
Answer: 1
22. In Book 5 of prelude, Wordsworth
16. Which of the following plays of Bernard dreams of an Arab in the desert after
Shaw attacks Darwinism? reading which great work?
(1) You Never Can Tell (1) Cervantes‟s Don Quixote
(2) Man and Superman (2) Coleridge‟s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
(3) St. Joan (3) Euclid‟s Elements
(4) Back to Methuselah (4) Shakespeare‟s The Tempest
Answer: 4 Answer: 1
17. In King Lear to which woman has 23. Lady Dedlock is a character in Dickens‘s
Edmund sworn his love? (1) Bleak House
(1) Cordelia (2) Great Expectations
(2) Goneril (3) David Copperfield
(3) Regan (4) Hard Times
(4) both Goneril and Regan Answer: 1
Answer: 4
24. Which Keat‘s poem was originally
18. The poetic line, ―Break, break, break‖ is intended to be part of a collection of verse-
an example of tales based on stories by Boccaccio?
(1) spondee (1) The Eve of St. Agnes
(2) trochee (2) Lamia
(3) iambus (3) Isabella
(4) pyrrhics (4) Hyperion
Answer: 1 Answer: 3
19. Ben Jonson‘s Pleasure Reconciled to 25. Where does Conrad‘s Heart of Darkness
Virtue is a begin?
(1) domestic tragedy (1) The Congo
(2) masque (2) The Thames
(3) villanelle (3) Belgium
(4) closet drama (4) The Atlantic
Answer: 2 Answer: 2
20. What is the rhyme scheme of the 26. In Gullivers Travels which of the
Shakespearean sonnet? following ideas is not a product of the
(1) abcbcbcabc bc dd Academy of Lagado?
(2) abba abbc decd ee (1) A random sentence-generating machine.
(3) ababcdcdef ef gg (2) A proposal to end speech altogether, by
(4) aa bb cc dd aa bb dd carrying around sacks of the things that words
Answer: 3 signify.
(3) A project for truncating words and
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shortening sentences by leaving out verbs. (4) Solitudo
(4) A digestible dictionary, written on a wafer. Answer: 2
Answer: 4
32. Which of these is the best paraphrase of
27. Which of the following stories is NOT the line, ―the paths of glory lead but to the
written by Nathaniel Hawthorne? grave‖?
(1) “The Minister‟s Black Veil” (1) Those who seek glory often die in its
(2) “Young Goodman Brown” pursuit.
(3) “The Purloined Letter” (2) Everyone dies, even the famous and
(4) “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” glorious.
Answer: 3 (3) The pursuit of glory is futile.
(4) The pursuit of glory is dangerous.
28. What attributes of Shakespeare‘s Answer: 2
characterization does Johnson admire in his
preface to Shakespeare? 33. Which novel did James Joyce call ―the
(1) The way his characters represent particular English Ulysses‖?
times and places. (1) Robinson Crusoe
(2) The way his characters exhibit quirks (2) Clarissa
representative of their humours or (3) Vanity Fair
professions. (4) Great Expectations
(3) The way his characters portray the general Answer: 1
passions and principles of human
nature. 34. What narrative perspective does
(4) The way his characters portray real Chaucer employ in the opening of ―The
individuals. General Prologue‖?
Answer: 3 (1) A first-person “I”
(2) Omniscience
29. According to Foucault sexuality points to (3) Third person
discourses about all the following EXCEPT (4) Free indirect discourse
(1) Medicine Answer: 1
(2) Anthropology
(3) Psychology 35. A fragmentary unfinished novel entitled
(4) Criminology Emma was published in Cornhill Magazine.
Answer: 2 Identify the author.
(1) Elizabeth Gaskell
30. ―All Arabia breathes from yonder box.‖ (2) Charlotte Bronte
This line from The Rape of the Lock is an (3) Emily Bronte
example of (4) George Eliot
(1) periphrasis Answer: 2
(2) innuendo
(3) metonymy 36. The pre-eminent evaluative criterion of
(4) chiasmus F.R. Leavis‘s Great Tradition is
Answer: 3 (1) moral purpose
(2) sublime subject matter
31. Who among the following addresses the (3) reader-response
reader in a substantial Preface to Robert (4) truth to life
Burton‘s Anatomy of Melancholy? Answer: 1
(1) Zelotopia
(2) Democritus Junior
(3) Democritus
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37. In Wide Sargasso Sea what is the name 43. Which of the following is NOT written
of Rochester‘s Creole wife-to-be? by Rudyard Kipling?
(1) Bertha (1) Just So Stories
(2) Martha (2) Puck of Pook‟s Hill
(3) Jane (3) The Secret Garden
(4) Barbara (4) Rewards and Faeries
Answer: 1 Answer: 3
38. Which popular nursery rhyme is 44. In Faerie Queene what is Redcrosse‘s
mentioned at the end of The Waste land? reward for slaying the Dragon?
(1) Ring-a-roses (1) The Dragon‟s treasure hoard
(2) London Bridge is Falling Down (2) The satisfaction of accomplishing the end
(3) Humpty Dumpty of a righteous quest
(4) Jack and Jill (3) Eternal salvation
Answer: 2 (4) Una‟s hand in marriage and her parents‟
kingdom
39. Purple Hisbiscus is a work by Answer: 4
(1) Cyprian Ekwensi
(2) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 45. Which of the following novels has the
(3) Seffi Atta death of General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq,
(4) Chukwuemeka Ike the former President of Pakistan, at its
Answer: 2 centre?
(1) The Kite Runner
40. Which country is Jacques Derrida born (2) A Case of Exploding Mangoes
in? (3) Shame
(1) France (4) Kartography
(2) South Africa Answer: 2
(3) Algeria
(4) Belgium 46. Lewis Carroll is a pseudonym that refers
Answer: 3 to
(1) E.L. Woodward
41. Which of the following plays is NOT part (2) Charles Lutwidge Dodson
of the so-called Arnold Wesker Trilogy? (3) Michael Brock
(1) I‟m Talking about Jerusalem (4) W.E. Houghton
(2) Chips with Everything Answer: 2
(3) Roots
(4) Chicken Soup with Barley 47. One of the following collections initiated
Answer: 2 confessional poetry in America, a new mode
in which the poet bared his/her most
42. Identify the play from among the tormenting personal problems with great
following in which a spendthrift young man honesty and intensity.
auctions away the portraits of his ancestors : (1) Live or Die
(1) The Taming of the Shrew (2) Words for the Wind
(2) The School for Scandal (3) Life Studies
(3) The Strife (4) Ariel
(4) The Philanderer Answer: 3
Answer: 2
48. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a
…………… by …………….
(1) novel, Nathaniel Hawthorne
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(2) play, Mrs. Radcliffe (3) Train to Pakistan
(3) poem, William Blake (4) Private Life of an Indian Prince
(4) sermon, Laurence Sterne Answer: 1
Answer: 3
2. Who is the author of the poem ―The
49. In the poem or invocation at the opening Defence of Lucknow‖ dealing with the siege
of Book 3, Paradise Lost, Milton asks for of Lucknow, one of the terrible incidents of
divine help in writing his epic. He states that the Indian Mutiny ?
he is in particular need of aid because he has (1) Rudyard Kipling
what he considers to be a disability. What is (2) Edward Lear
it? (3) Alfred Lord Tennyson
(1) Lameness (4) Robert Browning
(2) Deafness Answer: 3
(3) Prolixity
(4) Blindness 3. Who among the following theorists holds
Answer: 4 that metaphor and metonymy are the two
fundamental structures of language ?
50. Match the poets with the collection : (1) Ferdinand de Saussure
List – I (2) J.L. Austin
I. Philip Larkin (3) Roman Jakobson
II. Geoffrey Hill (4) Victor Shklovsky
III. Ted Hughes Answer: 3
IV. Seamus Heaney
List – II 4. From among the following, who are the
A. Lupercal Dashwood sisters in Jane Austen‘s Sense
B. Door into the Dark and Sensibility ?
C. The Less Deceived I. Elinor
D. For the Unfallen II. Marianne
I II III IV III. Mary
(1) C D B A IV. Amanda
(2) C B D A The right combination according to the code is
(3) C D A B :
(4) D C B A (1) I and III
Answer: 3 (2) I and II
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV
Answer: 2
5. Which among the following texts can be

characterised as a lesbian Bildungsroman ?
(1) Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop
(2) Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Paper 2- January 2017 (3) Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the
Only Fruit
1. Identify from the following the work (4) Ruth Pawar Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
Nirad C. Chaudhuri called ―the finest novel Answer: 3
in the English language with an Indian
theme‖. 6. Identify the correct chronological
(1) Kim sequence of publication :
(2) A Passage to India (1) Paradise Lost – The Advancement of
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Learning – An Essay Concerning Human (4) I & III
Understanding – MacFlecknoe Answer: 3
(2) The Advancement of Learning – An Essay
Concerning Human Understanding – 11. Which of the following works by David
MacFlecknoe – Paradise Lost Malouf tells the story of the Roman poet,
(3) The Advancement of Learning – Paradise Ovid, during his exile in Tomis ?
Lost – MacFlecknoe – An Essay Concerning (1) Remembering Babylon
Human Understanding (2) The Great World
(4) Paradise Lost – MacFlecknoe – The (3) The Conversations at Curlow Creek
Advancement of Learning – An Essay (4) An Imaginary Life
Concerning Human Understanding Answer: 4
Answer: 3
12. In his Defence of Poesy which of the
7. Poe‘s ―The Raven‖ mourns the death of following works does Sidney commend as
Poe‘s good examples of English Poesy ?
(1) lost Lenore I. The Mirror of Magistrates
(2) lost Abigail II. The Shepherd‟s Calendar
(3) pet animal III. Lament for the Makers
(4) lost heritage IV. Ballad of Scottish King
Answer: 1 The right combination according to the code is
:
8. In Shakespeare‘s Macbeth who was (1) I and III
―untimely ripped‖ from his mother‘s womb (2) I and IV
? (3) I and II
(1) Macbeth (4) II and III
(2) Macduff Answer: 3
(3) Duncan
(4) Malcolm 13. Who among the following dismissed
Answer: 2 Ulysses as ―a misfire‖ ?
(1) Virginia Woolf
9. Alexander Pope revised The Rape of the (2) Wyndham Lewis
Lock three times. In the final revision of the (3) E.M. Forster
poem in 1717 he inserted a speech by (4) D.H. Lawrence
(1) Belinda Answer: 1
(2) Clarissa
(3) Betty 14. Which of the following works Daniel
(4) Thalestris Defoe offered his readers as a collection of
Answer: 2 ―Strange Surprising Adventures‖ ?
(1) Moll Flanders
10. Identify, from the following list, two (2) Robinson Crusoe
plays written by John Webster : (3) Roxana
I. A Woman Killed with Kindness (4) Captain Singleton
II. The Revenger‟s Tragedy Answer: 2
III. The White Devil
IV. The Ducchess of Malfi 15. In Charlotte Bronte‘s Jane Eyre, what
The right combination according to the code is does Mr. Brocklehurst accuse Jane of when
(1) I & IV he visits Lowood School ?
(2) II & IV (1) Laziness
(3) III & IV (2) Stealing
(3) Lying
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(4) Spying (4) Bede
Answer: 3 Answer: 3
16. William Faulkner‘s As I Lay Dying 21. In The Fall of Hyperion : A Dream Keats
contains one of the shortest chapters in sees a ladder leading upwards and is
literary history. Which of these sentences is addressed by a prophetess in the following
the chapter in its entirety ? words : ―None can usurp this height … / But
(1) “For the love of God, where is my hat ?” those to whom the miseries of the world /
(2) “My mother is a fish.” Are misery, and will not let them rest.‖ Who
(3) “Addie Bundren was dead, to begin with.” is the prophetess ?
(4) “Apricot jam is the worst sort of jam.” (1) Urania
Answer: 2 (2) Moneta
(3) Melete
17. The prelude to Middlemarch makes a (4) Mneme
reference to the particular history of a Answer: 2
remarkable woman, …………..
(1) St. Agnes 22. Virginia Woolf‘s To the Lighthouse has a
(2) St. Theresa tripartite structure. The three parts are
(3) St. Joan named the following EXCEPT :
(4) St. Carmel (1) The Sky
Answer: 2 (2) The Window
(3) Time Passes
18. ―O, for a draught of vintage ! that hath (4) The Lighthouse
been Answer: 1
Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green, 23. Which novel by Patrick White is based
Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt on the story of Ludwig Leichhardt, the
mirth !‖ Prussian naturalist who explored Australia
The above description is an example of in the mid-1840s, in which White‘s fictional
(1) Paronomasia hero says when asked about navigation –
(2) Synaesthesia ―The Map? I will first make it‖ ?
(3) Aphaeresis (1) The Tree of Man
(4) Synecdoche (2) Voss
Answer: 2 (3) Riders in the Chariot
(4) The Solid Mandala
19. The term, ―poetic justice,‖ to designate Answer: 2
the idea that the good are rewarded and the
evil punished, was devised by 24. Who among the following is not a
(1) Aristotle character in William Golding‘s Lord of the
(2) John Dryden Flies ?
(3) Thomas Rhymer (1) Ralph
(4) Ben Jonson (2) Piggy
Answer: 3 (3) Peter
(4) Jack
20. ………….. is the producer of the first Answer: 3
complete printed English Bible.
(1) Jerome 25. Dante Gabriel Rossetti founded the Pre-
(2) William Tyndale Raphaelite Brotherhood which included
(3) Miles Coverdale I. Holman Hunt
II. Arthur Hugh Clough
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III. Gerald Manley Hopkins 30. What is a trochee ?
IV. John Millais (1) A two syllable foot of verse with two heavy
The right combination according to the code is stresses
(1) II and III (2) A two syllable foot of verse in which the
(2) I and IV stress falls on the first syllable
(3) I and III (3) Three successive heavy stresses
(4) II and IV (4) A six line stanza in which the rhyme sounds
Answer: 2 are all identical
Answer: 2
26. The seven deadly sins are sought to be
portrayed in Chaucer‘s Canterbury Tales. 31. Keats‘s ―La Belle Dame Sans Merci‖
Which of the following sins is not covered by combines two poetic forms
Chaucer ? I. Lyric
I. Jealousy II. Dramatic Monologue
II. Envy III. Ballad
III. Lust IV. Sonnet
IV. Homicide The right combination according to the code is
The right combination according to the code is (1) II and III
(1) I & II (2) I and IV
(2) I & III (3) I and III
(3) I & IV (4) II and IV
(4) III & IV Answer: 3
Answer: 3
32. ………….. narrator highlights the
27. Richardson‘s Pamela had its origin in problem of narrative authority.
(1) the real case of a woman born to lower- (1) First person
middle-class parents (2) Self-conscious
(2) an elementary letter-writing manual (3) Third person
(3) the general plight of English women (4) Participant
(4) the suggestion of a friend to defend middle- Answer: 2
class values
Answer: 2 33. Who among the following modern
writers is associated with the quote, ―Only
28. The Medall, a poem written by John connect‖ ?
Dryden in 1681, is sub-titled (1) D.H. Lawrence
(1) A Satire against Sedition (2) Virginia Woolf
(2) A Satire against Tyranny (3) James Joyce
(3) A Satire against Greed (4) E.M. Forster
(4) A Satire against Apostasy Answer: 4
Answer: 1
34. Which of the following images does not
29. ―Full fathom five thy father lies‖ is an figure in Auden‘s ―Musee des Beaux Arts‖ ?
example of (1) a boy falling out of the sky
(1) assonance (2) children … skating on a pond at the edge of
(2) alliteration wood
(3) apostrophe (3) ranches of isolation and the busy griefs
(4) enjambment (4) the dogs go on with their doggy life
Answer: 2 Answer: 3
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35. Feste is a clown in 41. What is the occupation of Max‘s son,
(1) Twelfth Night Lenny, in Harold Pinter‘s The Home
(2) As You Like It Coming ?
(3) The Taming of the Shrew (1) boxer
(4) Much Ado About Nothing (2) butcher
Answer: 1 (3) pimp
(4) cab driver
36. Which play by Tom Stoppard has a play Answer: 3
within the play ?
(1) Enter a Free Man 42. Which Byron poem begins in the
(2) The Real Inspector Hound following manner : ―I want a hero : an
(3) Jumpers uncommon want, when every year and
(4) Night and Day month sends forth a new one‖ ?
Answer: 2 (1) Beppo
(2) Childe Harold‟s Pilgrimage
37. Which of the following is not true of free (3) Don Juan
verse ? (4) The Vision of Judgement
(1) Characterised by short, irregular lines. Answer: 3
(2) No rhyme pattern.
(3) Written in iambic pentameter 43. In the second ending of John Fowles‘s
(4) A dependence on the effective and more The French Lieutenant‘s Woman Charles
intense use of pauses Smithson‘s lawyer finds that Sarah has been
Answer: 3 living in the house of
(1) William Morris
38. James Thomson‘s long poem, The (2) William Holman Hunt
Seasons, revised and expanded all his life, (3) D.G. Rossetti
began in the first instance as a poem entitled (4) James Collinson
(1) Spring Answer: 3
(2) Summer
(3) Winter 44. In 1692 William Congreve published
(4) Autumn Incognita, a work of fiction which is dubbed
Answer: 3 a ‗novel‘ on its title-page. What is the sub-
title ?
39. Two cantos from the seventh book of (1) Love and Duty Reconcil‟d
The Faerie Queene appeared posthumously. (2) Beauty in Distress
They are known as (3) Virtue Rewarded
(1) Mutability cantos (4) Love in Excess
(2) Friendship cantos Answer: 1
(3) Justice cantos
(4) Courtesy cantos 45. In ―Tradition and the Individual Talent‖
Answer: 1 T.S Eliot uses the analogy of the catalyst to
elucidate his theory of impersonal poetry.
40. Foucault believes that the facts of history He cites the example of a filament of
will protect us from platinum and, in the poetic process this is
(1) repeating mistakes equivalent to
(2) totalitarianism (1) the language of the poet
(3) deconstructionism (2) the mind of the poet
(4) historicism (3) the soul of the poet
Answer: 4 (4) the life of the poet
Answer: 2
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46. Match the character with the work : 50. Match the author with the work :
A. Pip Author
B. Causaubon A. John Locke
C. Becky Sharp B. William Dampier
D. Heathcliff C. Jeremy Collier
D. Thomas Rhymer
I. Middlemarch Work
II. Great Expectations I. A Short View of the Immorality and
III. Wuthering Heights Profanity of the Stage
IV. Vanity Fair II. Two Treatises on Government
The right combination according to the code is III. A Short View of Tragedy
: IV. Voyages
I II III IV ABCD
(1) B C D A (1) II I IV III
(2) D A C B (2) III IV I II
(3) B A D C (3) II IV I III
(4) C B A D (4) IV III II I
Answer: 3 Answer: 3
47. Samuel Johnson‘s Lives of the English

Poets combines the following except
(1) analytical criticism
(2) literary history
(3) personal biography
(4) Socratic dialogue
Answer: 4
48. Which two works of JM Coetzee won

Booker Prize on two occasions ?
I. In the Heart of the Country
II. Life and Times of Michael K.
III. Disgrace
IV. Waiting for the Barbarians
The right combination according to the code is
:
(1) II and III
(2) II and IV
(3) III and IV
(4) I and III
Answer: 1
49. Who among the following Greek

Philosophers has a bearing on the
composition of Shelley‘s ―Adonais‖ ?
(1) Miletus
(2) Socrates
(3) Plato
(4) Aristotle
Answer: 3
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2. Which of the following lines by
Shakespeare is repeated several times in
Virginia Woolf‘s novel Mrs. Dalloway ?
(1) “If music be the food of love, play on”.
(2) “Fear no more the heat of the sun, Nor the
furious winter‟s rages”.
(3) “Those are pearls that were his eyes”.
(4) “There is a tide in the affairs of man”.
Answer: 2
3. Identify the important theatres of the

Elizabethan period :
(a) Peacock
(b) Globe
(c) Swan
(d) Grand
:
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (b) and (d)
(4) (a) and (d)
Answer: 2
4. In which poem does Matthew Arnold

express the dilemma of : ―Wandering
between two worlds, one dead, The other
powerless to be born‖ ?
(1) “Self – Dependence”
(2) “Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse”
(3) “To a Republican Friend”
(4) “Dover Beach”
Paper 2- November 2017 Answer: 2
1. In Frances Burney‘s novel, Evelina, the 5. Who made the comment that, ―All
eponymous heroine comes out in society in modern American literature comes from one
two locations. They are : book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry
(a) Bath Finn‖ ?
(b) Bristol (1) Henry James
(c) Leeds (2) William Faulkner
(d) London (3) Jack London
The right combination according to the code is (4) Ernest Hemingway
: Answer: 4
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c) 6. The Emblem is a poetic genre containing
(3) (a) and (d) a symbolic picture with a text and a verse
(4) (b) and (d) exposition popular in the early 17th century.
Answer: 4 Who popularised this kind of poetry
through the work Emblems [1635] ?
(1) Robert Southwell
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(2) Francis Quarles his Lives of Poets did Johnson make this
(3) John Davies remark ?
(4) Joseph Sylvester (1) John Dryden
Answer: 2 (2) Thomas Parnell
(3) Abraham Cowley
7. Which Byron work begins thus : ―I want a (4) Alexander Pope
hero : an uncommon want, when every year Answer: 3
and month sends forth a new one ………‖ ?
(1) Beppo 12. The terms of the contract are not
(2) Cain disagreeable to me. The above sentence
(3) Manfred contains an example of :
(4) Don Juan (1) enumeratio
Answer: 4 (2) litotes
(3) anaphora
8. The title of Sir Thomas Browne‘s famous (4) metonymy
treatise, Religio Medici means : Answer: 2
(1) Religion of a Doctor
(2) Religion of Magician 13. Who is the author of the following lines ?
(3) Religion of Divinity ―To see a World in a Grain of Sand
(4) Religion of Meditation And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Answer: 1 Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour…‖.
9. Which among the following recent novels (1) Thomas Gray
is a retelling of Sophocles‘s Antigone ? (2) William Blake
(1) Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire (3) William Collins
(2) Fiona Mozley, Elmet (4) William Cowper
(3) Zadie Smith, Swing Time Answer: 2
(4) Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
Answer: 1 14. In Women in Love what is Winifred‘s
pekinese dog called ?
10. Identify the two important works of Paul (1) Bismarck
de Man from the following list : (2) Looloo
(a) Blindness and Insight (3) Lucky
(b) Allegories of Reading (4) Buddy
(c) Theoretical Essays Answer: 2
(d) Criticism and Ideology
The right combination according to the code is 15. Which of the following New Critics put
: forward the idea of the ‗heresy of
(1) (a) and (b) paraphrase‘ ?
(2) (a) and (c) (1) Allen Tate
(3) (b) and (c) (2) Cleanth Brooks
(4) (b) and (d) (3) W.K. Wimsatt
Answer: 1 (4) Monroe C Beardsley
Answer: 2
11. Samuel Johnson denounced the
metaphysical poets saying, ―About the 16. Edmund Spenser‘s Colin Clout‘s Come
beginning of the seventeenth century Home Again is a fine example of :
appeared a race of writers that may be (1) carpe diem
termed the metaphysical poets‖. In the (2) sonnet sequence
biography of which of the following poets in (3) georgic poetry
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(4) pastoral eclogue (4) Geoffrey Chaucer‟s Canterbury Tales
Answer: 4 Answer: 3
17. In An Essay of Dramatic Poesy whom 22. Pinter once admitted that he first
does John Dryden refer to as ―the most became aware of the dramatic power of the
learned and judicious Writer which any pause from seeing a popular American
Theater ever had‖ ? comedian. Which one ?
(1) John Webster (1) Bob Hope
(2) Christopher Marlowe (2) W. C. Fields
(3) Ben Jonson (3) Jack Benny
(4) William Shakespeare (4) Charlie Chaplin
Answer: 3 Answer: 3
18. This Australian poet was raised in New 23. Charles Dickens‘s Bleak House is
South Wales and grew up in rural pointedly critical of England‘s :
Australian landscape. In 1946 she published (1) Privy Council
her first book of poems. In 1962, she became (2) Court of Appeal
cofounder and president of the Wild Life (3) Court of Chancery
Preservation Society of Queensland and (4) military courts
served as its president several times Answer: 3
thereafter. Identify the poet.
(1) Dorothy Hewett 24. Which of the following is NOT true of
(2) Nettie Palmer the ideal state in Thomas More‘s Utopia ?
(3) Judith Wright (1) Personal property, money and vice are
(4) Amy Witting effectively abolished.
Answer: 3 (2) The root causes of crime, ambition and
political conflict, are eliminated.
19. Aphra Behn‘s Oroonoko is set in (3) There is only one religion guided by the
__________. principle of a benevolent Supreme Being.
(1) Surinam (4) Its priesthood, which includes some
(2) Abyssinia women, is limited in number.
(3) Egypt Answer: 3
(4) Assyria
Answer: 1 25. Which character created by Coleridge
makes the following account of her
20. Who published the first collected edition harrowing experience ?
of Gerard Manley Hopkins‘s poems in 1918 ―Five warriors seized me yestermorn,
? Me, even me, a maid forlorn :
(1) Robert Bridges They choked my cries with force and fright,
(2) Coventry Patmore And tied me on a palfrey white‖.
(3) John Betjeman (1) Geraldine
(4) Stephen Spender (2) Christabel
Answer: 1 (3) Christabel‟s mother
(4) The maid who appeared in Christabel‟s
21. Samuel Richardson named his heroine dream
Pamela after one of the characters in Answer: 1
__________.
(1) Edmund Spenser‟s Faerie Queene 26. Which novel of Thomas Hardy begins
(2) William Shakespeare‟s Venus and Adonis with the sombre description of Egdon Heath
(3) Philip Sidney‟s Arcadia ?
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(1) Jude the Obscure 32. Which of the following characters in
(2) The Return of the Native Moby Dick falls overboard and turns insane
(3) Far from the Madding Crowd as a result ?
(4) Under the Greenwood Tree (1) Pip
Answer: 2 (2) Queequeg
(3) Starbuck
27. The metrical form of Gower‘s Confessio (4) Tashtego
Amantis is : Answer: 1
(1) iambic pentameter
(2) anapestic trimeter 33. Which of the following poems by Seamus
(3) octosyllabic couplets Heaney is dedicated to the Irish poet Paul
(4) trochaic tetrameter Muldoon ?
Answer: 3 (1) “The Loaning”
(2) “The Sandpit”
28. What happens to the lock of hair at the (3) “A Migration”
end of Alexander Pope‘s The Rape of the (4) “Widgeon”
Lock ? Answer: 4
(1) It is given back to its rightful owner.
(2) It is preserved in a monument. 34. In William Golding‘s Lord of the Flies
(3) It turns into a star. which of the following characters is put to
(4) It is presented to the poet as a token of death ?
gratitude. (1) Piggy
Answer: 3 (2) Ralph
(3) Simon
29. The Bard. The Iron Lady. The King. The (4) Jack
above are examples of : Answer: 1 & 3
(1) anacoluthon
(2) aposiopesis 35. In Canterbury Tales who has a red face
(3) asyndenton full of sores ?
(4) antonomasia (1) the Summoner
Answer: 4 (2) the Shipman
(3) the Yeoman
30. Which of the following novels by (4) the Reeve
Margaret Atwood depicts the historical Answer: 1
event of the notorious murders committed in
1843 ? 36. The pace of speech is called :
(1) The Blind Assassin (1) syllable
(2) Alias Grace (2) loudness
(3) Cats Eye (3) tempo
(4) Oryx and Crake (4) pitch
Answer: 2 Answer: 3
31. Which of the following poems by W. B. 37. Match the title with the author :
Yeats repudiates the sensual world in favour (a) Sexual Politics
of ―the artifice of eternity‖ ? (b) A Literature of Their Own
(1) “Under Ben Bulben” (c) Thinking About Women
(2) “Among School Children” (d) The Laugh of the Medusa
(3) “Sailing to Byzantium” (i) Mary Ellman
(4) “After Long Silence” (ii) Elaine Showalter
Answer: 3 (iii) Helene Cixous
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(iv) Kate Millet (3) Miss Bates
Code : (4) Mr. Collins
(a) (b) (c) (d) Answer: 3
(1) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(2) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii) 43. ―All the world‘s a stage, And all the men
(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii) and women merely players‖, occurs in
(4) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii) Shakespeare‘s As You Like It. Which
Answer: 2 character says the line ?
(1) Jacques
38. Which of the following historical events (2) Celia
does Tennyson‘s poem ―The Charge of the (3) Rosalind
Light Brigade‖ describe ? (4) Touchstone
(1) The Battle of Hastings Answer: 1
(2) The Wars of the Roses
(3) The Battle of Waterloo 44. Which of the following rivers are
(4) The Crimean War mentioned in Andrew Marvell‘s poem ―To
Answer: 4 His Coy Mistress‖ ?
(1) Thames and Rhine
39. Northrop Frye‘s influential work, (2) Thames and Ganges
Anatomy of Criticism includes, as the (3) Ganges and Humber
subtitle indicates, four essays. Which of the (4) Thames and Humber
following is NOT one among them ? Answer: 3
(1) “Archetypal Criticism : Theory of Myths”
(2) “Typological Criticism : Theory of Types” 45. ―The truth, the whole truth, and nothing
(3) “Historical Criticism : Theory of Modes” but the truth‖. The above is an example of :
(4) “Ethical Criticism : Theory of Symbols” (1) ploce
Answer: 2 (2) epizeuxis
(3) plurisignation
40. In Robert Browning‘s ―Andrea del (4) diaeresis
Sarto‖, with which of the following painters Answer: 1
does Andrea NOT compare himself with ?
(1) Michelangelo 46. Which of the following images is NOT
(2) Leonardo da Vinci part of W.H. Auden‘s poem ―In Memory of
(3) Rembrandt W.B. Yeats‖ ?
(4) Raphael (1) Mercury sinking in the mouth of the dying
Answer: 3 day
(2) Wolves running through evergreen forests
41. In Jonathan Swift‘s Gullivers Travels (3) Silence invading the suburbs
Gulliver refers to William Dampier, the (4) Memory scattering like the beads
famous writer of two voyages, as : Answer: 4
(1) master
(2) brother 47. Who among the following is the author
(3) cousin of Steps to the Temple ?
(4) uncle (1) John Donne
Answer: 3 (2) Richard Crashaw
(3) George Herbert
42. Who among the following is NOT a (4) Henry Vaughan
character in Pride and prejudice ? Answer: 2
(1) Mr. Darcy
(2) Miss Bingley
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48. Match the character with the work :
(a) Jim Dixon
(b) Jimmy Porter
(c) Joe Lampton
(d) Charles Lumley
(i) Room at the Top
(ii) Hurry on Down
(iii) Look Back In Anger
(iv) Lucky Jim
Code :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(2) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(4) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
Answer: 1
49. In the opening book of The Prelude

Wordsworth mentions famously that he was
―fostered alike by __________ and
__________‖. Pick out the right pair.
(a) nature
(b) fear
(c) imagination
(d) beauty
:
(1) (a) and (c)
(2) (d) and (b)
(3) (d) and (c)
(4) (a) and (d)
Answer: 2
50. The title of Ngugi wa Thiong‘o‘s Petals

of Blood is derived from a poem by Derek
Walcott. Identify the poem.
(1) “A Far Cry from Africa”
(2) “The Swamp”
(3) “Goats and Monkeys”
(4) “Midsummer”
Answer: 2
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4. David Hare
Answer: 3
4. The years in English literary history

between 1649 and 1660 are known as
1. the Neo-Classical period
2. the Commonwealth period
3. the Stuart period
4. the Jacobean period
Answer: 2
5. In R.K. Narayan‘s Swami and Friends,

which game offers Swami the best kind of
emotional release from the strains and
pressures of disagreeable circumstances ?
1. Cricket
2. Football
3. Tennis
Paper 2- July 2018 4. Hockey
Answer: 1
1. Which narrative poem by Lord Tennyson
presents the story of a fisherman turned 6. William Blake expressed the importance
Merchant sailor who, after a shipwreck, is of the particular when he said that ―To
marooned on a desert island ? Generalize is to be ____________. To
1.”Crossing the Bar” Particularize is the alone Distinction of
2.”Tithonus” Merit.‖ Fill in the blank.
3.”Enoch Arden” 1. An Idiot
4.”Maud” 2. A Poet
Answer: 3 3. A Dreamer
4. A Skunk
2. In ―Memorial Verses‖ Matthew Arnold Answer: 1
pays tribute to three great poets. Who are
they ? 7. Which of the following was not a dialect of
1. Goethe, Shakespeare, Wordsworth Old English ?
2. Goethe, Shakespeare, Milton 1. Irish
3. Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth 2. Northumbrian
4. Goethe, Wordsworth, Byron 3. Mercian
Answer: 4 4. Kentish
Answer; 1
3. Who among the following English
playwrights wrote screenplays on novels 8. Anthony Burgess‘s last novel, published in
such as Marcel Proust‘s In Search of Lost 1993, is called A Dead Man in Deptford.
Time, John Fowles‘s French Lieutenant‘s Who is the central character to whom the
Woman, and Margaret Atwood‘s title refers ?
Handmaid‘s Tale ? 1. Sir Walter Raleigh
1. John Arden 2. Sir Philip Sidney
2. Edward Bond 3. Christopher Marlowe
3. Harold Pinter 4. Earl of Southampton
Answer: 3
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9. Choose the chronological order: Thomas Arnold and General Gordon.
1. William Caxton prints the first English book 2.A.E.W. Mason, Sir Arthur Quiller Couch,
– William Shakespeare‟s First Folio – John Matthew Arnold, Robert Bridges.
Milton‟s Areopagitica – “Tottel‟s Miscellany” 3.E.F. Benson, Cardinal Manning, Lord
(Songs and Sonnets). Tennyson, Beatrice Webb.
2. “Tottel‟s Miscellany” (Songs and Sonnets) – 4.George Harding, General Gordon, Robert
William Shakespeare‟s First Folio – William Browning, Mrs Humphrey Ward.
Caxton prints the first English book – John Answer: 1
Milton‟s Areopagitica.
3. William Caxton prints the first English book 14. One of the following statements about
– “Tottel‟s Miscellany” (Songs and Sonnets) – the eponymous saint of Dryden‘s ―Song for
William Shakespeare‟s First Folio – John St. Cecilia‘s Day‖ is incorrect. Identify that
Milton‟s Areopagitica. Statement.
4. William Shakespeare‟s First Folio – John 1.St. Cecilia‟s was a Roman Lady, an early
Milton‟s Areopagitica – William Caxton prints Christian martyr.
the first English book – “Tottel‟s Miscellany” 2.St. Cecilia‟s was an Armenian devotee of the
(Songs and Sonnets). Christian Faith.
Answer: 3 3.St. Cecilia‟s festival is celebrated on 22
November in England.
10. What does the phrase ut pictura poesis 4.St. Cecilia‟s was a patroness of music who
from Horace‘s Art of Poetry mean ? was fabled to have invented the organ.
1. “as in painting, so in poetry”. Answer: 2
2. “poetry beggars pictorial description” .
3. “as in poetry, so in painting” . 15. Which of the statements on Michael
4. “picture above all poetry” . Robert‘s Faber Book of Modern Verse
Answer: 1 (1936) is not true ?
1.His anthology canonized modern poetry and
11. Who among the following is the author poets for quite some decades.
of Account of the Augustan Age in England 2.The Collection begins with the poems of
(1759) ? Robert Bridges.
1. John Gay 3.Roberts omitted the Georgian poets in his
2. William Hazlitt anthology.
3. Oliver Goldsmith 4.Yeats, Eliot and Pound find a place in the
4. Samuel Johnson Faber Book of 1936.
Answer: 3 Answer: 2
12. In how many parts did Cervantes 16. Who among the following proposed that
publish his novel, Don Quixote ? the First Gulf War had never taken place, it
1. Three was simply a hyperreal, media-generated
2. Five spectacle?
3. Two 1.Richard Rorty
4. Twelve 2.Jean-Francois Lyotard
Answer: 3 3.Jean Baudrillard
4.Umberto Eco
13. Lytton Strachey‘s Eminent Victorians Answer: 3
carries biographical sketches of writers and
public figures. Identify the list below that 17. Sir Thomas Browne‘s Urn Burial was
correctly mentions those Eminent prompted by
Victorians. 1. The Discovery of ancient buial-urns near
1.Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Norwich.
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2. The Contemporary researches on burial rites Ramanujan, “Sunset at Puri” ; Dutt, “Our
in Norway. Casurina Tree” ; Mahapatra, “Small-Scale
3. The Death of St. Francis of Assissi and his Reflections on a Great house” .
burial. 4. Ezekiel, “Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher” ;
4. The Publication of the English Book of Ramanujan, “Small-Scale Reflections on a
Common Prayer. Great house” ; Dutt, “Our Casurina Tree” ; ;
Answer: 1 Mahapatra, “Sunset at Puri” .
Answer: 4
18. Identify from the among the following
list those that cannot be called War Fiction. 22. From among the following, identify the
A. A Modern Instance incorrect observation regarding Ferdinand
B. Catch – 22 de Saussure‘s seminal distinction between
C. The Age of Innocence language and parole.
D. The Naked and the Dead. 1. Parole is the particular language system,the
elements, the elements of which we learn as
1. (a) and (b) children, and which is codified in our
2. (b) and (c) grammars and dictionaries, whereas langue is
3. (a) and (c) the language-occasion (what A says to B).
4. (b) and (d) 2. A language consists in the interrelationship
Answer: 3 between Langue and Parole.
3. Saussure made this crucial distinction in a
19. Who among the following writers was study called A Course in General Linguistics
not the one Identified with The Movement of (1916).
the 1950‘s England ? 4. Langue is the particular language-system,
1. Roy Fuller the elements of which we learn as children, and
2. Kingsley Amis which is codified in our grammars and
3. Philip Larkin dictionaries, whereas Parole is the language-
4. Donald Davie occasion (what A says to B).
Answer: 1 Answer: 1
20. Which of the following novels does not 23. John Heywood wrote a farcical Interlude
belong to Nuruddin‘s Farah‘s Blood In the called The Four P‘s.
Sun Trilogy ? 1. a Palmer, a Pedlar, a Pothecary, a Packer
1. Maps 2. a Printer, a Pedlar, a Pothecary, a Palmer
2. Knots 3. a Pedlar, a Parson, a Palmer, a Pothecary
3. Gifts 4. a Palmer, a Pardoner, a Pothecary, a Pedlar
4. Secrets Answer: 4
Answer: 2
24. In the mechanical drill method of second
21. In the following series, which one has all language acquisition :
the poets correctly matched in the poems ? (a) The learner has the freedom to from many
1. Ezekiel, “Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher” ; responses.
Ramanujan, ” Small-Scale Reflections on a (b) The learner‟s response is totally controlled.
Great house” ; Dutt, “Sunset at Puri” ; (c) Comprehension of the item by the learner is
Mahapatra, “Our Casurina Tree” . not required.
2. Ezekiel, “Sunset at Puri” ; Ramanujan, (d) Comprehension of the item by the learner is
“Small-Scale Reflections on a Great house” ; obligatory.
Dutt, “Our Casurina Tree” ; Mahapatra, “Poet,
Lover, Birdwatcher” . The right combination according to the Code
3. Ezekiel, “Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher” ; is:
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1. (a) and (d) 26. Match the characters with the novels:
2. (a) and (c) (a) Arthur Seaton (i) Top Girls
3. (b) and (c) (b) Marlene (ii) The Golden Notebook
4. (b) and (d) (c) Anna Wulf (iii) The Swimming Pool
Answer: 3 Library
(d) Beckwith (iv) Saturday Night and Sunday
25. Thou will not wake Morning
Till i thy fate shall overtake;
Till age, or grief, or sickness must Code:
Marry my body to that dust (a) (b) (c) (d)
It so much loves; and fill the room 1. (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
My heart keeps empty in the Tomb. 2. (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
Stay for me there; I will not fail 3. (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
To meet thee in that hollow Vale. 4. (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
And think not much of my delay; Answer: 2
I am already on the way.
27. The very last passage of a novel is given
Which of the following readings do you find below. Identify the novel.
appropriate to the spirit of the lines above ? ―Welcome, O life, I go to encounter for the
1. In that inter space between the lines, the Millionth time the reality of experience and
ending of one and the beginning of another, to forge in the smithy of my soul the
there is a silent internal language, the poem‟s uncreated conscience of my race.
language-within-language, tacitly signalled April 27. Old father, Old artificer, stand me
through the deployment of rhymed space. now and ever in good stead.‖
2. Ageing and dying are of course helplessly 1. To the light house
passive ; but here love make them as though 2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
they were now also willing things in the 3. Maurice
husband eager to join his dead wife. Through 4. Almayer‟s Folly
simple intimate tones of the shared earthly life Answer: 2
– stay for me, wait for me, I will not fail- he
not only imagines her but imagines her 28. Francis Bacon‘s New Atlantis is about a
thinking for him. utopian state called
3. The lyric voice here can feel the poem 1. Asgard
speaking back to him – in the cold lineal stare 2. Avalon
of „there was nothing in my belief‟ – even as 3. Bensalem
his dead wife did not. It is as though the poem 4. Baltia
itself then demands his response, in order to be Answer: 3
able to move from one line to another. To
attempt that movements in keeping the poem‟s 29. The 1950‘s saw the rise of backlash
space alive, the lyric voice asserts, “I will not against modernism and against New
fail/to meet there in that hallow Vate.” Romanticism that became known as The
4. My whole nature was so penetrated with Movement. Which of the following little
grief and humiliation of such considerations, magazines came to be associated with The
That, even now, famous and caressed and Movement ?
happy as I am, I often forget to my dream that i (a) Departure
have a dear wife who died, leaving me alone in (b) New Verse
this world. Even that I am a man, and now I (c) London Mercury
wander desolately back to that time of our lives (d) New Poems
when my wife and I shared moments of bliss.
Answer: 2
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The right combination according to the code is: 1. Misogynists
1. (a) and (b) 2. Misanthropes
2. (c) and (d) 3. Misnomers
3. (a) and (d) 4. Mysomousoi
4. (b) and (d) Answer: 4
Answer: 3
34. Who, among the following raises the
30. The error of interpreting a literary work following painful question of longing and
by referring to evidence outside of itself, belonging ?
such as the design and purpose of the author ―Where shall I turn, divided to the vein ?
is called i who have cursed
1. Affective fallacy The drunken officer of British rule, how
2. Intentional fallacy choose
3. Authorial fallacy Between this Africa and the English tongue I
4. Synecdochic fallacy love?‖
Answer: 2 1. Derek Walcott
2. Louise Bennett
31. A.R. Ammons parodies a famous poemin 3. Kamau Brathwaite
his ―Swoggled‖ 4. Wole Soyinka
I‟d rather Answer: 1
be
suckled by 35. In the 1940‘s, a critic and a philosopher
an produced two influential and controversial
outworn pagan papers called ―The Intentional Fallacy‖ and
than ―The Affective Fallacy‖.
get my horn Identify Them
wreathed in (a) Cleanth Brooks
an (b) Monroe C. Beardsley
old Triton. (c) William K. Wimsalt Jr.
(d) R.P. Blackmur
Which poet, which poem ?
1. John Keats, “On First Looking into The right combination according to the code is:
Chapman‟s Homer” 1. (a) and (b)
2. John Milton, “On His Blindness” 2. (b) and (d)
3. William Wordsworth, “The World is Too 3. (b) and (c)
Much with Us” 4. (c) and (d)
4. Elizabeth B. Browning, “How do I Love Answer: 3
Thee…?”
Answer: 3 36. Philip Larkin‘s ―Sad Steps‖ notices ―The
way the moon dashes through clouds that
32. Fanny Burney‘s Evelina carries the blow Loosely as cannon-smoke to stand
subtitle: apart…‖
1. or a Naive Lady‟s Entrance into the World. The poem alludes to :
2. or a Young Lady‟s Entrance into the World. 1. Coleridge‟s “Dejection : An Ode”
3. or a Young Lady‟s Exit into the World. 2. The moonlit scenes in A Midsummer
4. or a Bold Lady‟s Entrance into the Hall. Night‟s Dream
Answer; 2 3. Philip Sidney‟s Astrophel and Stella
4. T.S. Eliot‟s „Morning at the Window”
33. What does Philip Sidney call poet-haters Answer: 3
in his Defence of Poesie ?
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37. Match the following opening lines with 40. An English poet couldn`t help the
their respective titles: excitement that an historical event caused in
(a) “I leant upon a coppice gate” (i) “Thirteen his life-time:
Blackbirds” Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
(b) “A Sudden blow: the great wings (ii) But to be young was very heaven
“Sympathy”
beating still….” Which poet? What „dawn‟?
(c) “Among twenty snowy mountains” (iii) 1. W.H Auden; the Spanish Civil War
“The Darkling Thrusts” 2. Lord Tennyson; the Jubilee of Queen
(d) “I know what the caged bird feels, (iv) Victoria`s reign
“Leds and the Swan” 3. William Wordsworth; the French Revolution
alas…” 4. William Blake; the Industrial Revolution
Answer: 3
Code:
(a) (b) (c) (d) 41. Which novel by John Banville tells the
1. (iv) (iii) (ii) (i) story of a group of travellers who arrive on
2. (iii) (iv) (i) (ii) a small island and stumble upon the house of
3. (ii) (i) (iii) (iv) Prof. Kreutznaer whose relationship to a
4. (i) (ii) (iv) (iii) painting entitled The Golden World by a
Answer: 2 fictional Dutch artist named Vaublin plays a
central role?
38. Identify the titles that were published in 1. Ghosts
the 1920‘s 2. The Sea
(a) Look, Stranger! 3. The Ark
(b) The Tower 4. Eclipse
(c) The Waste Land Answer: 1
(d) The Road to Wigan Pier
42. Identify the two plays usually paired for
Code: their critique of the politics of language and
1. (a) and (c) acts of police interrogation
2. (b) and (c) 1. Earthly Powers, The Wanting Seed
3. (b) and (d) 2. Chicken Soup with Barley, Roots
4. (c) and (d) 3. Left-handed Liberty, The Hero Rises
Answer: 2 4. One for the Road, Mountain Language
Answer: 4
39. This novel is dedicated. ―To the railroad
of bones‖ and has as its epigraph the line, 43. Semiotics originated mainly in the works
―I am the woman they give dead women‘s of two theorists. They are:
clothes to‖ from Christine Gelineau‘s a. Charles Sanders Peirce
―Inheritance‖ b. Mikhail Bakhtin
Identify the novel c. Ferdinand de Saussure
1. African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou d. Valentin Voloshinov
2. The Chibok Girls by Helon Habila
3. The Underground Railroad by Colson The right combination according to the code is
Whitehead ______________ .
4. The Book of Night Women by Marlon 1. (a) and (b)
James 2. (b) and (c)
Answer: 4 3. (a) and (c)
4. (c) and (d)
Answer: 3
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44. Robert Burton`s Anatomy of Melancholy 49. Which novel of Kazuo Ishiguro is
was published in 1621 and expanded and narrated by a Japanese widow living in
altered in _________________ subsequent England and draws on the destruction and
editions rehabilitation of Nagasaki ?
1. two 1. An Artist of the Floating World
2. four 2. The Unconsoled
3. six 3. A Pale View of Hills
4. five 4. When We Were Orphans
Answer: 4 Answer: 3
45. Which of the following magazines self 50. Which novels opens thus:
consciously created an identity for “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my
Vorticists, a group of painters, sculptors and own life, or whether that station will be held by
writers? anyone else, these pages must show.”
1. Blast 1. Tristram Shandy
2. The Egoist 2. Lady Audley‟s Secret
3. The Criterion 3. David Copperfield
4. New Age 4. Fitz-Boodle‟s Confessions
Answer: 1 Answer: 3
46. ―In Every cry of every Man, 51. Traces of the Morality plays are
In every Infant‘s cry of fear discernible in a play like Dr. Faustus, traces
In every voice, in every ban….‖ such as
1. Vernacular songs adapting secular themes
The figure of speech characterized by 2. Its Soliloquizing Protagonist, Good and Bad
repetition of words or group of words at the Angels and its final moral.
beginning of consecutive sentence is called 3. Its Refrains from the Corpus Christi Carol,
1. Apostrophe the complaint of Christ, the lover of mankind.
2. Anaphora 4. Its Rhythmical prose, and the presence of a
3. Incremental Repetition larger narrative rhythm in the Morality plays.
4. Alliteration Answer: 2
Answer: 2
52. The branch of philosophy that asks the
47. At whose behest does the Redcrosse question, ―How do we know what we know
Knight undertake his quest in The Faerie is?‖
Queene ? 1. Ontology
1. Gloriana‟s 2. Epistemology
2. Una‟s 3. Eschatology
3. Duessa‟s 4. Phenomenology
4. Prosperine‟s Answer: 2
Answer: 2
53. The eighteenth century practice in
48. In which city did John Ruskin see a ―England of book selling was midway
paradigm for Victorian Britain ? between direct patronage and impersonal
1. Vienna sales. A patron paid half the cost of a book
2. Venice before publication and half on delivery. The
3. Rome author of the book received these payments
4. Paris directly. The patron‘s name appeared in the
Answer: 2 preface for the book published in this
manner.
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This practice was known as 4. (a) and (c)
1. Subscription Answer: 4
2. Contribution
3. Pre-publication 57. The four Moral Essays of Alexander
4. Remaindering Pope are addressed to carefully selected
Answer: 1 figures. Identify
1. Timons, Newton, Martha Blount, Wellington
54. Oxford India has published a volume of 2. Lord Cobham, Robert Walpole, Houghton
Premchand translations in English, The Hall, Chandos
Oxford India Premchand. Who among the 3. Martha Blount, Lord Cobham, Bathurst,
following is not one of the translators? Burlington
1. David Rubin 4. William III, John Haydn, Joseph Addison,
2. Alok Rai John Dennis
3. Gillian Wright Answer: 3
4. Christopher King
Answer: 3 58. Bertolt Brecht‘s Mother Courage and
Her Children presents the war-torn Europe
55. Which of the two novels of Jane Austen as its protagonist as she follows troops with
have the spa town of Bath as a primary her canteenwagon.
location? What is the real name of Mother Courage ?
(a) Emma 1. Paula Danckert
(b) Pride and Prejudice 2. Anna Fierling
(c) Northanger Abbey 3. Jane Vanstone
(d) Persuasion 4. Jani Lauzon
Answer: 2
The right combination according to the Code
is: 59. From among the following, identify the
1. (a) and (d) journal that publishes articles on English
2. (b) and (c) language teaching and learning.
3. (c) and (d) 1. University of Toronto Quarterly
4. (a) and (b) 2. Agenda
Answer: 3 3. TESOL Quarterly
4. English Language Notes
56. In the communicative approach to ELT, Answer: 3
the development of language learning or
teaching involves a shift; 60. Arrange the following Elegies in English
(a) from form-based to a meaning-based in Chronological order:
approach 1. “Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard” –
(b) from an electic approach to a rigid method “Adonais” – “Thyrsis” – “In Memoriam”
(c) from teacher-centered to learner-centered 2. “Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard” –
classes “Adonais” – “In Memoriam” – “Thyrsis”
(d) from broad-based competence to specific 3. “Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard” –
needs “In Memoriam” – “Adonais” – “Thyrsis”
4. “Adonais” – “Elegy Written in a Country
The right combination according to the Code Courtyard” – “In Memoriam” – “Thyrsis”
is: Answer: 2
1. (b) and (d)
2. (a) and (d) 61. Who is the only one of Milton‘s
3. (b) and (c) contemporaries to be mentioned by name in
Paradise Lost ?
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1. Francis Bacon Bangram on receiving the news of the death of
2. Johannes Vermeer his uncle and recalls his past life.
3. Galileo Answer: 2
4. King Charles
Answer: 3 65. In John Gower‘s Confessio Amantis,
Amans, the lover makes his confession to the
62. K.S. Maniam is a major writer of Indian priest named
origin, writing in English, born and living in 1. Verito
Malaysia. 2. Genius
Identify two of his novels from the following 3. Amor
list. 4. Phoebe
(a) The Rice Mother Answer: 2
(b) The Return
(c) Touching Earth 66. In Eugene Ionesco‘s Chairs, the
(d) Between Lives absurdity is not much in the banal words
that are uttered
The right combination according to the Code 1. in the large scale use of frightening stage
is: props and lighting effects.
1. (a) and (d) 2. in the absurdist interpretation of them by
2. (b) and (c) character after character.
3. (c) and (d) 3. in the fact that they are spoken to an ever-
4. (b) and (d) growing number of empty chairs.
Answer: 4 4. in the fact that they are spoken time and
again by members of the audience.
63. What did Thomas Perey collect in his Answer: 3
Reliques ?
1. Medieval Folklore and lyrics of the 67. A half-sentence in Purchas his
Midlands Pilgrimage triggered off ―Kubla Khan‖.
2. Old songs, ballads, and romances in English Whose work was Purchas hid Pilgrimage?
and Scots 1. Robert Herrick, the poet‟s
3. Highland lore, mostly oral wisdom of the 2. John Hakluyt‟s, the collector of traveler‟s
Scots tales
4. Romantic idylls. sonnets and odes 3. Samuel Purchas, the London Parson‟s
Answer: 2 4. Edward Purchas, the globe-trotter‟s
Answer: 3
64. Nirad Chaudhuri‘s Autobiography of an
Unknown Indian concludes with an essay on 68. Based on the life of a thirteenth-century
the course of Indian history. But in the troubadour, from among the following
penultimate chapter Chaudhuri concludes identify the work, that marked a
the account of events in his life. How does catastrophic failure in Robert Browning‘s
this narrative end? poetic career, earning him a reputation for
1. Chaudhuri ties the knot with his childhood impenetrable difficulty?
sweetheart and moves from Calcutta to Delhi. 1. Paracelsus
2. Chaudhuri obtains a job in the military 2. Sordello
accounts department and gives it up because he 3. The Ring and The Book
finds it soul-destroying. 4. Pauline
3. Chaudhuri joins the editorial team of a Answer: 2
Calcutta newspaper and is upset over the
drudgery of a reporter‟s life. 69. In Tristram Shandy, the Author‘s
4. Chaudhuri rushes to his ancestral village preface
161
1. is hawked to the highest bidder. 1. His tongue is transformed into a coiled
2. appears in-between chapters 13 and 14 in snake.
Volume II. 2. His head is battered and so he cannot open
3. is printed in italics in all editions. his mouth.
4. appears in-between chapters 10 and 11 in 3. Lucifer is chewing on his head.
Volume I. 4. His tongue is pulled out and nailed on the
Answer: * tree of sin.
Answer: 3
70. Evelyn Waugh once complained that
T.S. Eliot Poems, 1909-1925 was 74. Assertion (A) : Our reality is linguistic, a
―marvelously good, but very hard to language mediated reality.
understand,‖ The most pessimistic novel Reason (R) : Our perception and
Waugh wrote was called ____________ and understanding of reality are largely
he owed the title to ___________ constructed by the words and other signs we
1. Black Mischief – “Sweeney among the use.
Nightingales”
2. Scoop – “Morning At the Window” In the light of the statements above,
3. Prancing Nigger – Ash Wednesday 1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
4. A Handful of Dust – The Waste Land correct explanation of (A).
Answer: 4 2. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the
71. During the years 1830 to 1850, the 3. (A) is true but (R) is false.
illusion of peace in Victorian England was 4. (A) is false but (R) is true.
broken by such incidents as Answer: 1
1. the Revolution in France and the Chartist
Movement in England. 75. In his book, In theory, Ajiaz Ahmed
2. the General Strike of 1835 and the Rail works out the relations between the three
Tragedy of 1847. entities:
3. the visionary libertarianism of poets and the 1. Classes, Nations, Literature‟s.
lawless embodiment of revolution. 2. Regions, Nation, Languages.
4. the disaster of the Indian Mutiny and the 3. State, Religions. Gender.
incompetent bungling of the Crimean War 4. Literature, Print, Theory.
Answer: 4 Answer: 1
72. Gulliver receives the following response 76. In 1660, a group of 12 people including
when he boasts about his countrymen: Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren formed
―….the most pernicious race of little odious what they called the Royal Society. In 1663,
vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl it became The Royal Society of London for
upon the face of the earth.‖ Whose Improving Natural Knowledge. What was
response? the Society‘s motto?
1. The King of Lilliput‟s 1. “In Him we trust”
2. The King of Brobdingnag‟s 2. “In the words of no one”
3. The Governor of Glubbdubrib‟s 3. “Lighted to lighten”
4. The first of the Houyhnhnm‟s he meets. 4. “Love conquers all”
Answer: 2 Answer: 2
73. In the Inferno Dante, as he travels 77. Of whom did W.B. Yeats say that ―We
through the various circles of the hell finds were the last Romantics‖?
Judas who is unable to speak. What is the 1. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
reason behind this? 2. The Imagiste poets
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3. His Friends in the Irish Literary Revival. 2. Aldous Huxley
4. Himself and his lady love, Maud Gonne 3. Lawrence Durrell
Answer: 3 4. W.B. Yeats
Answer: 4
78. Who wrote The Wandering Jew, a poem
in four cantos and the short lyric, ―The 83. What unique distinction does Ben
Wandering Jew‘s Solilquy‖? Jonson‘s ―To Penshurst‖ have in the English
1. S.T. Coleridge literary canon ?
2. Lord Byron 1. It is the only distinguished poem in English
3. Thomas Gray addressed to the Lords of Penshurst.
4. P.B. Shelley 2. It celebrates Philip Sidney‟s elevation to
Answer: 4 knighthood, Sidney being the youngest scion of
the family.
79. Where, according to T.S. Eliot, are we 3. It is one of the first English poems
likely to find ―not only the best, but the most celebrating a specfic place, a forerunner to
individual parts of a poet‘s work‖ ? Cooper‟s Hill and Windsor Forest.
1. in the poet‟s juvenilia or rejected drafts. 4. It is the first poem in an elegiac series that
2. in the best anthologies and scrap-books. late Elizabethan poets began on the demise of
3. in those parts where the dead poets assert the Lord of Penshurst.
their immortality. Answer: 3
4. in those parts where the living poets depart
from their ancestors. 84. It is well known that in many of his
Answer:3 plays, To Stoppard has consciously drawn
upon earlier, often reputed works. Match
80. Which of the following is true of The the following Stoppard plays with earlier
Canterbury Tales ? works whose spirit seems to have informed
1. Chaucer, the pilgrim, narrates Sir Thopas them.
Tale only. (a) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (i)
2. Chaucer, the pilgrim, narrates The Tale of Hamlet
Melibee only. (b) Indian Ink (ii) A Passage to India
3. Chaucer, the pilgrim, narrates Sir Thopas (c) Inspector Hound (iii) The Mousetrap
Tale and The Tale of Melibee . (d) Travesties (iv) Importance of Being Earnest
4. Chaucer, the pilgrim does attempt to narrate Code:
an unnamed tale but abruptly stops due to the (a) (b) (c) (d)
intervention of the other pilgrims. 1. (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
Answer: 3 2. (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
3. (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
81. During the reign of Norman Kings, it 4. (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
was fashionable to speak ___________ in Answer: *
upper-class circles in England.
1. Norse 85. After discovering the truth about his
2. Latin heinous crimes committed in the past, what
3. Danish does Oedipus request as his punishment?
4. French 1. Exile
Answer: 4 2. Castration
3. Decapitation
82. Who, among e following, collaborated 4. Blindness
with Purohit Swami in translating the Ten Answer: 1
Principal Upanishads into English ?
1. Christopher Fry
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86. How does Women in Love open? 4. The smoking disclaimer on screen or on
1. Rupert Birkin, Lawrence‟s alter ego, is M.F. Hussain painting distracts us from
taking a walk in the English Countryside. enjoying art.
2. The Brangwean sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, Answer: 2
are “working and talking”.
3. The wedding party gathers at short lands, the 89. According to ________ certain verbs
Criches‟s home. actually :perform‖ an act when they are
4. The last lesson is in progress, “peaceful and uttered.
still” in Ursula‟s classroom. 1. Speech Act theorists such as Austin and
Answer: 2 Searle.
2. Russian Formalists such as Shklovsky and
87. Samuel Johnson has the following to say Propp.
about an English poet: 3. Language theorists such as Sapir and Whorf.
“These images are marked by glittering 4. Cognitive Linguists suc
accumulations of ungraceful ornaments : they Answer:1
strike, rather than please. The images are
magnified by affectation : the language is 90. Haunted castles, strange noises and an
labored into harshness. The mind of the writer acceptance of the supernatural with all its
seems to work with unnatural violence - trappings mark _____________________
„Double, double, toil and trouble‟. He has a 1. metafiction
kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by walking 2. fantasy fiction
on tiptoe. His art and his struggle are too 3. epistolary fiction
visible, and there is too little appearance of 4. gothic fiction
ease and nature.” Answer:4
Identify the poet. 91. …. sure it waits upon

1. Thomas Gray Some god o` the` island. Sitting on a bank
2. John Dryden Weeping again the King my father`s wrack
3. John Milton This music crept by me upon the waters,
4. Thomas Wyatt Allaying both their fury and my passion
Answer: 1 With its sweet air. Thence I have followed it,
Or it hath drawn me rather…
88. ―Take the smoking disclaimer issue‖
begins Vishal Bharadwaj. ―Putting a Which of the following statements on this
disclaimer every time somebody smokes on passage are true?
screen is not an answer. If M.F. Hussain had a. These lines, spoken by Edgar in King Lear,
painted a man with a cigar, would you have are part of a long speech delivered on the heath
asked him to put the disclaimer, ―Cigarette b. These lines, spoken by Ferdinand in The
smoking is injurious to health‖ on the Tempest, describe Ariel`s music
painting‖? c. The passage reappears in an altered and
ironic version in T.S Eliot`s Waste Land
The point Bharadwaj makes with his rhetorical d. The passage reappears verbatim in W.H
question is the following: Auden`s Sea and the Mirror
1. The smoking disclaimer is ineffectual
because M.F. Hussain‟s painting wouldn‟t have The correct answer according to the code is :
carried it.
2. The smoking disclaimer on objects 1. (a) and (d)
perceived as „art‟ is simply superfluous. 2. (b) and (c)
3. The smoking disclaimer is ineffectual 3. (c) and (d)
because „art‟ entertains but does not instruct.
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4. (a) and (c) 3. The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Answer:2 4. The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott
Answer:2
92. Arrange the following plays of
Shakespeare according to their periods 96. In ―Gerontion‖ T.S ELiot says
(early, middle, late…) of composition ‖ _____________ has many cunning
1. As You Like It, Love Labours Lost, Antony passages, contrived corridors / And issues,
and Cleopatra, The Tempest, Midsummer deceives with whispering ambitions, / Guides
Night`s Dream us by vanities ―
2. Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest, What is Eliot`s subject?
Midsummer Night`s Dream, Love `s Labours 1. History
Lost, As You Like It 2. Politics
3. Love `s Labours Lost, Midsummer Night`s 3. State
Dream, As You Like It, Antony and Cleopatra, 4. Religion
The Tempest Answer:1
4. Midsummer Night`s Dream, Antony and
Cleopatra, The Tempest, As You Like It, Love Read the following poem and answer
`s Labours Lost questions 97 to 100
Answer:3
The Mountain
93. Who among the following is not a
reader-response critic? My students look at me expectantly
1. Maud Bodkin I explain to them that the life of art is a life
2. Hans-Robert Jauss of endless labor. Their expressions
3. Stanley Fish hardly change; they need to know
4. Wolfgang Iser a little more about endless labor.
Answer:1 So I tell them the story of Sisyphus,
how he was doomed to push
94. Leo Tolstoy`s Anna Karenina closing a rock up a mountain knowing nothing
lines present… would come of this effort
1. a sad reflection on the unfortunate suicide of but that he would repeat it
Anna which should have been averted indefinitely. I tell them
2. the enlivening freshness of a rain which has there is joy in this, in the artist`s life,
been threatening to break out that one eludes
3. Levin`s affirmation that whatever happens to judgement, and as I speak
him, life is not meaningless but unquestionably I am secretly pushing a rock myself,
meaningful slyly pushing it up the steep
4. Vronsky`s lament over the death of Anna face of a mountain. Why do I lie
which ends on a positive note, affirming the to these children? They aren`t listening,
human tendency to pass over the tragic events they aren`t deceived, their fingers
with hope tapping at the wooden desks-
Answer:3 So I retract
the myth; I tell them it occurs
95. Which of the following novels begins in hell, and that the artist lies
with a Prologue under the Title ‖ The because he is obsessed with attainment,
Storming of Seringapatam‖ saying ―I that he perceived the summit
address these lines written in India- to my as that place where he will live for ever,
relatives in England‖? a place about to be
1. The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G farell transformed by his burden: with every breath,
2. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins I am standing at the top of the mountain.
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Both my hands are free. And the rock has
added
height to the mountain
97. Whose poetic voice is triggered right

from the beginning?
1. of student`s
2. of teacher`s
3. of critics`
4. of an observer`s
Answer:2
98. The speaker brings up the story of

Sisyphus specifically by way of glossing
____________
1. art in life
2. life in art
3. endless labor
4. poetic expectation
Answer:3
99. In its context, the words ‗the

fingers/tapping at the wooden desks‘ , best
represent the students`
1. lack of protest
2. lack of interest
3. show of disrespect
4. show of impatience
Answer:4
100.Why does the speaker say that ―the rock

has added height to the mountain‖?
1. because the speaker is already on top of the
mountain
2. because both the hands of the speaker are
now free
3. because the mountain now seems largely
incomprehensible
4. because she feels that the immensity of the
problem has grown
Answer:4
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d.‘
tast
esodi
vi
ne’
Ans:
a.‘
femal
echar
m’
24.
Inwhi
chpoem ofDonne’
sist
hel
over
’sf
acer
efl
ect
edi
ntheey
esofhi
sbel
oved?
a.‘
TheGoodMor
row’
b.‘
TheCanoni
zat
ion’
c.‘
TheAppar
it
ion’
d.‘
AVal
edi
cti
on:
For
biddi
ngMour
ning’
Ans:
a.‘
TheGoodMor
row’
25.
Col
eri
dge’
s“TheRi
meoft
heAnci
entMar
iner
”isapoem i
n………………….
a.8par
ts
b.9par
ts
c.7par
ts
d.6par
ts
Ans:
c.7par
ts
26.
JosephAddi
soncall
edhim“TheMir
acl
eofthepr
esentage”andAlexanderPope
wrotet
heepi
taphforthemonumenter
ect
edinhi
smemor y.Whoishe?
a.JohnLocke
b.I
saacNewt
on
c.Ashi
eyCooper
d.Chr
ist
opherWr
en
Ans:
IsaacNewt
on
27.
WhatisJohnson’
sopini
onr
egar
dingt
he‘
Viol
ati
on’
oft
het
hreeuni
ti
esi
nthe
play
sofShakespear
e?
1.Shakespear
eshoul
dhav
efol
l
owedt
heuni
ti
es.
2.Shakespear
efol
l
owedt
hei
mpor
tantuni
tyofact
ionsat
isf
act
ori
l
y.
3.Shakespear
e’spl
ayssuf
fer
edbecauset
heydi
dnotf
oll
owt
heuni
ti
es.
4.Uni
tyoft
imeandpl
acear
isef
rom f
alseassumpt
ions.
Codes:
a.1and2
b.2and4
c.3and4
d.1and3
Ans:
b.2and4
28.
TheTat
lerappear
edt
hri
ceaweek
a.OnTuesday
s,Thur
sday
sandSat
urday
s
b.OnSunday
s,Tuesday
sandThur
sday
s
c.OnMonday
s,Wednesday
sandFr
iday
s
d.OnWednesday
s,Thur
sday
sandFr
iday
s
Ans:
a.OnTuesday
s,Thur
sday
sandSat
urday
s
29.
“Nomani str
ulygreat,whoisgreatonlyinhislif
eti
me.Thet estofgreatnessis
thepageofhist
ory.Nothingcanbesai dtobegr eatt hathasadisti
nctlimitor
thatbor
dersonsomet hingevi
dentlygreaterthanitself
.Besides,whatisshort-
li
vedandpamper edintomerenotoriet
y,isofagr ossandv ul
garqualit
yinitsel
f.
”
Thispassagedescri
bingthequali
tyofgr eatnessistakenf r
om
a.‘
OfSt
udi
es’
byFr
anci
sBacon
b.‘
TheI
ndi
anJuggl
ers’
byWi
l
li
am Hazl
i
tt
c.Pr
efacet
oShakespear
ebySamuel
Johnson
d.AnEssayofDr
amat
icPoesybyJohnDr
yden
Ans:
b.‘
TheI
ndi
anJuggl
ers’
byWi
l
li
am Hazl
i
tt
30.
Assert
ion(A):Whilereferri
ngt oCharlot
teBronte’
sclai
mt hatshehasexcluded
publi
cinter
estfrom hernov elsGraham Greenewr i
tes:
‘Publi
cinter
estinherday
wassur el
ymor esepar atefrom publi
cli
fe….Withus,howeverconsciousl
y
unconcernedwear e,itobtrudesthroughthecracksofourstoriester
ri
bly
persi
stentl
ikegrassthr oughcement .’
Reason(R):Thedecadeoft he“t
hirt
ieswasbrist
li
ngwit
hrecurr
ingeconomicand
pol
it
icalcr
isi
sli
ketheGr eatDepression,Wal
lStr
eetCr
ash,Unemployment,
Rise
ofHitl
erandMussolini
,seri
esofmur der
s,i
nvasi
onsandtensi
ons;wri
ter
scould
notremainunaff
ected.
Codes
a.Bot
hAandRar
etr
ueandRi
sthecor
rectexpl
anat
ionofA.
b.Bot
hAandRar
etr
ue,
butRi
snott
hecor
rectexpl
anat
ionofA.
c.Ai
str
ue,
butRi
sfal
se.
d.Ai
sfal
se,
butRi
str
ue.
Ans:
a.Bot
hAandRar
etr
ueandRi
sthecor
rectexpl
anat
ionofA.
31.
Yeat
’s‘
Sai
l
ingt
oBy
zant
ium i
sabout
a.I
ri
shcul
tur
e
b.Thear
tandcul
tur
eofBy
zant
ium i
ngener
al
c.I
ri
shr
evol
uti
onar
ies
d.Regener
ati
ngt
hear
tandcul
tur
ethatexi
stedi
nBy
zant
ium.
Ans:
d.Regener
ati
ngt
hear
tandcul
tur
ethatexi
stedi
nBy
zant
ium.
32.
Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngar
rangement
sisi
nthecor
rectchr
onol
ogi
cal
sequence?
a.Adam Bede,
Wut
her
ingHei
ght
s,Nor
thandSout
h,Vi
l
let
te
b.Wut
her
ingHei
ght
s,Vi
l
let
te,
Nor
thandSout
h,Adam Bede
c.Vi
l
let
te,
Nor
thandSout
h,Wut
her
ingHei
ght
s,Adam Bede
d.Nor
thandSout
h,Wut
her
ingHei
ght
s,Adam Bede,
Vil
l
ett
e
Ans:
b.Wut
her
ingHei
ght
s,Vi
l
let
te,
Nor
thandSout
h,Adam Bede
33.
Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngst
atement
sbestappl
i
est
oAnnaKar
eni
na?
1.Amonghermostpromi
nentqual
i
tiesar
eherpassi
onat
espi
ri
tand
det
ermi
nat
iont
oliv
elif
eonherownt er
ms.
2.Sheaccept
stheexi
l
etowhi
chshehasbeencondemned.
3.Shei
sav
ict
im ofRussi
anPat
ri
archal
Syst
em.
4.Annai
sdeepl
ydev
otedt
oherf
ami
l
yandchi
l
dren.
Codes
a.1and2
b.2and3
c.1and3
d.1,
3and4
Ans:
d.1,
3and4
34.
Whichamongt hef
oll
owingpl
aysbyAri
stophanesisanattackon‘moder
n’
educat
ionandmoralsasimpar
tedandt
aughtbyt heradi
calint
ell
ect
ual
sknowas
theSophi
sts?
a.Cl
ouds
b.Wasps
c.Achar
nians
d.Kni
ght
s
Ans:
a.Cl
ouds
35.
Reli
giouscont
rov
ersi
esi
nEngl
andpar
ti
cul
arl
ydur
i he15thcent
ngt uryl
edt
othe
promotionof
a.Engl
i
shPr
ose
b.TheBr
it
ishEmpi
re
c.Nav
alPower
d.TheMi
ssi
onar
yMov
ement
Ans:
a.Engl
i
shPr
ose
36.
Moder
nEngl
i
shemer
gedf
rom t
he
a.Sout
hMi
dlanddi
alect
b.EastMi
dlanddi
alect
c.Fr
enchl
anguage
d.Nor
thumbr
iandi
alect
Ans:
b.EastMi
dlanddi
alect
37.
‘Bl
endl
ear
ning’
isamodeofi
nst
ruct
ion/
lear
ningi
nwhi
ch
a.Thel
ear
ner
’smot
hert
ongueandt
het
argetl
anguagear
ebl
ended
b.Lear
ningi
saccessedt
hrought
hemot
hert
ongue
c.Av
ari
etyofi
nst
ruct
ional
modesar
eint
egr
ated
d.Lear
ningofal
anguagei
smedi
atedbyhumani
sti
cappr
oaches
Ans:
c.av
ari
etyofi
nst
ruct
ional
modesar
eint
egr
ated
38.
Alber
tCamus,
inhi
sessay
,‘TheMy
thofSi
syphus’
conv
eys
1.TheConceptofNat
ural
i
sm
2.TheAbsur
dit
yofHumanExi
stence
3.TheFut
il
it
yofal
lHumanEndeav
our
4.TheConceptofExi
stent
ial
i
sm
Codes
a.1,
2and3
b.2,
3and4
c.1,
2and4
d.1,
3and4
Ans:
b.2,
3and4
39.
Pickoutt
het
wor
elev
antandcor
rectdescr
ipt
ionsofURAnant
hamur
thy
’s
Samskara
1.Thenov
eli
swr
it
teni
nEngl
i
sh.
2.Thenov
eli
sconcer
nedwi
tht
hepr
ogr
essi
vei
deasoft
het
imes.
3.Thenov
eli
sseti
nMal
gudi
.
4.Thenovel
isasat
ir
eont
her
epr
esent
ati
vei
deasofadecadentBr
ahmi
n
soci
ety
.
5.Samskar
aisar
egi
onal
nov
el.
6.Pr
aneschachar
yadoesnotat
onef
orhi
ssi
n.
Codes
a.4and5
b.1and4
c.5and6
d.3and2
Ans:
a.4and5
40.
Inoneofhernovels,Mar
garetAt
wooddemonstrat
edthepot
enti
all
y
‘Canni
bal
i
sti
c’natureofhumanrel
ati
onshi
ps.I
dent
ifyt
henovel
.
a.Sur
faci
ng
b.LadyOr
acl
e
c.Li
feBef
oreMan
d.TheEdi
bleWoman
Ans:
d.TheEdi
bleWoman
41.
Whoi
sthepr
otagoni
stofShashi
Deshpande’
sThatLongSi
l
ence?
a.Mohan
b.Jay
a
c.Rat
i
d.Kamat
Ans:
b.Jay
a
42.
Shewasawor
thywomanal
hirl
yve,
Housbondesatchi
rche-
dor
eshehaddef
yve,
I
nthe‘
Prol
ogue’
Chaucerr
epr
esent
stheWi
feofBat
has
1.Cr
udeandv
ulgar
2.Out
spokenandboast
ful
l
yli
cent
ious
3.Awi
tnesst
omascul
i
neoppr
essi
on
4.Bubbl
i
ngwi
thv
ital
i
ty
Sel
ectt
hecor
rectanswerusi
ngt
hecodesgi
venbel
ow
a.1,
2and3
b.1,
2and4
c.1,
3and4
d.2,
3and4
Ans:
b.1,
2and4
43.
Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngwor
ksdoesnothav
eamadwomanasachar
act
eri
nit
?
a.TheYel
l
owWal
l
paper
b.TheMadWomani
ntheAt
ti
c
c.JaneEy
re
d.Wi
deSar
gassoSea
Ans:
b.TheMadWomani
ntheAt
ti
c
44.
GM Hopki
ns’
s‘Wi
ndhov
er’
isdedi
cat
ed
a.t
oChr
ist
,ourLor
d
b.t
oChr
istourLor
d
c.t
onoone
d.t
oChr
ist
,theLor
d
Ans:
b.t
oChr
istourLor
d
45.
“Thest
oryandt
henov
el,
thei
deaandt
hef
orm,
aret
heneedl
eandt
hreadandI
neverheardofaguil
doftai
l
orswhor
ecommendedt
heuseoft
het
hreadwi
thout
theneedleortheneedl
ewit
houtt
het
hread.
”
Thi
sfamouspassagedescr
ibi
ngt
her
elat
ionofi
deat
ofor
misf
oundi
n
a.Si
rPhi
l
ipSi
dney
,AnApol
ogyf
orPoet
ry
b.Samuel
Tay
lorCol
eri
dge,
Biogr
aphi
aLi
ter
ari
a
c.Henr
yJames,
‘TheAr
tofFi
cti
on’
d.I
ARi
char
ds,
Pri
nci
plesofLi
ter
aryCr
it
ici
sm
Ans:
c.Henr
yJames,
‘TheAr
tofFi
cti
on’
46.
Leopol
dBl
oom i
nUl
yssesi
s
a.aGr
eatWarv
eter
an
b.aDubl
i
nbarowner
c.aJewi
shadv
ert
isi
ngagent
d.anI
ri
shnat
ional
i
st
Ans:
c.aJewi
shadv
ert
isi
ngagent
47.
Thetr
ampi nPi
nter
’sf
ir
stbi
ghi
t,TheCar
etaker
,of
tent
rav
elsunderanassumed
name.Iti
s
a.Ber
nar
dJenki
ns
b.Rol
yJenki
ns
c.JackJenki
ns
d.Pet
erJenki
ns
a.Ber
nar
dJenki
ns
48.
Herei
sali
stofear
lyEngl
i
shpl
aysi
mit
ati
ngGr
eekandLat
inpl
ays.Pi
ckt
heodd
oneout
a.Gor
boduc
b.Tambur
lai
ne
c.Ral
phRoi
sterDoi
ster
d.GammerGur
ton’
sNeedl
e
Ans:
b.Tambur
lai
ne
49.
Brot
hert
oapr
inceandf
ell
owt
oabeggari
fhebef
oundwor
thy
.
Thi
sist
heepi
grapht
o
a.TSEl
i
ot’
s‘TheHol
l
owMen’
b.Rudy
ardKi
pli
ng’
s‘TheManWhoWoul
dbet
heKi
ng’
c.Geor
geEl
i
ot’
s‘Si
l
asMar
ner
’
d.EM For
ster
’s‘
Hoowar
ds’
End
Ans:
b.Rudy
ardKi
ppl
i
n‘s‘
TheManWhoWoul
dbet
heKi
ng’
50.
Att
heendofTheGr
eatGat
sby
,thenar
rat
orNi
ckCar
rawayobser
ves
‘
Theywer
ecar
elesspeopl
e’
.Whower
ethey
a.Tom andDai
sy
b.TheWi
l
sons
c.Gat
sbyandHi
sFr
iends
d.ThePeopl
eofEastEgg
Ans:
a.Tom andDai
sy
51.
Ident
if
ythei
ncor
rectdescr
ipt
ion/
sof‘
Spr
ungRhy
thm’
for
mthef
oll
owi
ng
1.Thi
srhy
thm causesi
deast
ospr
ingi
nourmi
nds–henceSpr
ungRhy
thm.
2.I
nSpr
ungRhy
thm t
hef
eetar
eofequal
lengt
h.
3.Af
ootmayhav
eonet
ofoursy
ll
abl
esi
nSpr
ungRhy
thm.
4.I
tsmetreisder
ivedfr
om t
hemet r
eofAngl
o-Saxonpoet
rywhi
chwasbased
onaccentandl
inkedbyal
li
ter
ati
on.
Codes
a.1,
2and3
b.2and3
c.1,
2and4
d.2,
3and4
Ans:
d.2,
3and4
52.
Whoamongt hef
oll
owi
ngpr
oposest
hatt
heunconsci
ouscomesi
ntobei
ngonl
y
inl
anguage?
a.Si
gmundFr
eud
b.JacquesLacan
c.St
uar
tHal
l
d.Paul
deMan
Ans:
b.JacquesLacan
53.
OneEngl
i
shpoetaddr
essi
nganot
her
Thysoul
wasl
i
keaSt
aranddwel
tapar
t;
Thouhastav
oicewhosesoundwasl
i
ket
hesea:
Pur
east
henakedheav
ens,
maj
est
ic,
free,
Sodi
dstt
hout
rav
elonl
i
fe’
scommonway
,
I
ncheer
ful
godl
i
ness…
Whosel
i
nesar
ethese?Towhom ar
etheyaddr
essed?
a.WHAuden–WBYeat
s
b.PBShel
l
ey–Wi
l
li
am Bl
ake
c.Wi
l
li
am Wor
dswor
th–JohnMi
l
ton
d.BenJonson–Wi
l
li
am Shakespear
e
Ans:
c.Wi
l
li
am Wor
dswor
th–JohnMi
l
ton
54.
Samuel
Johnson’
sLivesofPoet
s(1781)wasori
ginal
l
yaseriesofi
ntr
oducti
ons
tot
hepoet
shewr ot
ef oragr
oupofLondonpubl
isher
s.Theywerecol
lect
edas
a.Li
vesofEngl
i
shPoet
s:Cr
it
ical
andBi
ogr
aphi
cal
Essay
s
b.Pr
efaces,
Biogr
aphi
cal
andCr
it
ical
,tot
heWor
ksofEngl
i
shPoet
s
c.Not
es,
Biogr
aphi
cal
andCr
it
ical
,ont
heWor
ksofEngl
i
shPoet
s
d.Li
vesofEngl
i
shPoet
s:Bi
ogr
aphi
cal
andCr
it
ical
Not
es
Ans:
b.Pr
efaces,
Biogr
aphi
cal
andCr
it
ical
,tot
heWor
ksofEngl
i
shPoet
s
55.
Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
snotment
ionedi
nNor
thr
opFr
ye’
sfour‘
gener
icpl
ots’
?
a.Thecomi
c
b.Thet
ragi
c
c.Thel
yri
c
d.Thei
roni
c
Ans:
c.Thel
yri
c
56.
Steel
i
ngher
sel
ftot
hemur
der
,LadyMacbet
hcal
l
son
……t
o‘unsexmeher
e’.(
Macbet
hI.
5.39)
Chooset
her
ightopt
iont
ofi
l
lint
hebl
ank
a.God
b.t
hespi
ri
tsofhel
l
c.t
heangel
sinheav
en
d.noonei
npar
ti
cul
ar
Ans:
thespi
ri
tsofhel
l
57.
Teachmehal
fthegl
adness
Thatt
hybr
ainmustknow,
Suchhar
moni
ousmadness
Fr
om myl
i
pswoul
dfl
ow
Thewor
ldshoul
dli
stent
hen,
asIam l
i
steni
ngnow,
Whosel
i
nesar
ethese?Towhom ar
etheyaddr
essed?
a.JohnKeat
s,TheNi
ght
ingal
e
b.PBShel
l
ey,
TheSky
lar
k
c.Wi
l
li
am Wor
dswor
th,
TheWy
eVal
l
ey
d.Rober
tBr
owni
ng,
TheGr
ammar
ian
Ans:
b.PBShel
l
ey,
TheSky
lar
k
58.
WhichnovelofGraham Greenei
nthef
oll
owi
ngl
i
stdoesnotendi
nsomef
orm of
sui
cidebytheprotagoni
st?
a.TheHear
toft
heMat
ter
b.Engl
andMadeMe
c.Br
ight
onRock
d.ThePowerandt
heGl
ory
Ans:
b.Engl
andMadeMe
59.
Whoamongt
hef
oll
owi
nggav
eahappyendi
ngt
oKi
ngLear
?
a.JamesQui
n
b.Nahum Tat
e
c.PegWof
fi
ngt
on
d.Char
lesMackl
i
n
Ans:
b.Nahum Tat
e
60.
JaneAust
en’sPri
deandPr ej
udicestart
swit
hthefamousstat
ement:
“Iti
satrut
h
uni
ver
sall
yacknowledgedthatasinglemaninpossessi
onofagoodfort
une
mustbeinwantofal i
fe.
”
Aswegett
oreadt
henov
elt
hisst
atementseemst
obemadef
rom t
hepoi
ntof
vi
ewof
1.t
hesur
roundi
ngf
ami
l
ies
2.Mr
sBennet
3.MrBennet
4.ThewomenofJaneAust
en’
sageandsoci
ety
Fi
ndoutt
hecor
rectcombi
nat
ionaccor
dingt
othecodes
a.1,
2and3
b.1,
2and4
c.2,
3and4
d.1,
3and4
Ans:
b.1,
2and4
61.
Identi
fyt
hetexti
nthefol
lowi
ngl
i
stwhichof
fer
saf
ict
ional
i
sedsur
veyofEngl
i
sh
Liter
atur
efr
om Eli
zabet
hanti
mesto1928
a.EM For
ster
,TheEt
ernalMoment
b.Vi
rgi
niaWool
f,Or
lando
c.Rober
tGr
av Goodby
es, etoAl
lThat
d.Dav
i I
dJones,nPar
ent
hesi
s
Ans:
b.Vi
rgi
niaWool
f,Or
lando
62.
Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngpoemsdoesnotbegi
nint
hef
ir
stper
sonpr
onoun?
a.Shel
l
ey’
s‘Adonai
s’
b.By
ron’
s‘DonJuan’
c.Keat
s’s‘
Lami
a’
d.Col
eri
dge’
s‘TheAeol
i
anHar
p’
Ans:
c.Keat
s’s‘
Lami
a’
63.
InhisAnat
omyofMel
anchol
yRober
tBur
tonpr
oposest
hef
oll
owi
ngt
wopr
inci
pal
kinds
1.Lov
e
2.Deat
h
3.Spi
ri
tual
4.Rel
i
gious
Thecor
rectcombi
nat
ionaccor
dingt
othecodei
s
a.1and2
b.1and3
c.1and4
d.2and4
Ans:
c.1and4
64.
Assert
ion(A)Fordeconst
ruct
ivecri
ti
cshowhumanbei ngsreadandint
erpr
et
signst
heyr ecei
vewil
ldet
erminethei
rmodesofknowingandbei ngwhet
her
thosesignscomeintheform ofl
it
erar
ytext
sorbankstatements.
Reason(B)Thef
actoft
hematteri
sthathumanbei
ngsusesi
gnst
ofunct
ioni
n
theworl
dandareal
waysli
kel
ytodoso.
Codes
a.Bot
hAandRar
etr
ueandRi
sthecor
rectexpl
anat
ionofA
b.Bot
hAandRar
etr
ue,
butRi
snott
hecor
rectexpl
anat
ionofA
c.Ai
str
ue,
butRi
sfal
se
d.Ai
sfal
se,
butRi
str
ue
Ans:
a.Bot
hAandRar
etr
ueandRi
sthecor
rectexpl
anat
ionofA
65.
Inhi
sattackdeli
v er
edonthet
heat
r nAShor
ei tViewoftheImmoral
it
yand
Prof
anenessoft heEngl
i
shStage,
Jer
emyCol
l
ierspeci
all
yar
rai
gned..
..
..
..
..
..
..
.
and..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
...
a.Congr
eveandVanbr
ugh
b.Far
quharandVanbr
ugh
c.Wy
cher
leyandFar
quhar
d.Congr
eveandEt
her
ege
Ans:
a.Congr
eveandVanbr
ugh
66.
IARi
char
ds’Pr
acti
calCri
ti
cism (
1929)i
naugurat
edanewphasei
nthehi
stor
yof
Engl
i
shcri
ti
calt
hought.Whatwasthisbook’
ssubti
tl
e?
a.St
udi
esi
nPoet
ry
b.ASt
udyi
nLi
ter
aryJudgement
c.Essay
sandSt
udi
es
d.ATheor
eti
cal
Gui
de
Ans:
b.ASt
udyi
nLi
ter
aryJudgement
67.
Mor
e’sUt
opi
adi
spl
aysst
rongi
nfl
uenceof
1.TheAr
thur
ianl
egends.
2.Pl
at sRepubl
o’ i
c.
3.Amer
igoVespucci
’
saccountoft
het
rav
els.
4.Thet
eachi
ngsofJohnWy
cli
ff
e.
Thecor
rectcombi
nat
ionaccor
dingt
othecodei
s
a.1and3
b.2and3
c.2and4
d.1and4
Ans:
b.2and3
68.
By‘
l
anguaget
ransf
er’
ismeant
a.knowl
edgegener
atedi
nthedev
elopmentofal
ear
neronaccountofot
her
domai
nsofknowledge
b.thecar
ryov
erofrulesofthemothert
onguesy
ntax,
phonol
ogyorsemant
ic
syst
em tothesecondlanguagei
nquesti
on
c.thecar
ryov
erofrul
esofthesecondlanguagesy
ntax
,phonol
ogyorsemant
ic
syst
em tothemothert
ongueinquesti
on
d.t
hevocabul
aryandsentencest
ructur
etransf
err
edhaphazar
dlydur
ingsecond
l
anguageacqui
sit
ionf
rom anyotherl
anguageaccessedbyt
helear
ner
Ans:b.t
hecar
ryov
erofr
ulesoft
hemot hert
onguesynt
ax,
phonol
ogyor
semanti
csyst
em t
othesecondl
anguageinquest
ion
69.
Ident
if
ythepoem t
hatopenswi
tht
hel
i
nes
Iwal
kthr
ought
hel
ongschool
room quest
ioni
ng;
Aki
ndol
dnuni
nawhi
tehoodr
epl
i
es;
Thechi
l
drenl
ear
ntoci
pherandt
osi
ng.
..
..
.
a.‘
Amongt
heSchool
chi
l
dren’
b.‘
AmongSchool
Chi
l
dren’
c.‘
AManYoungandOl
d’
d.‘
TheManYoungandOl
d’
Ans:
b.‘
AmongSchool
Chi
l
dren’
70.
Thefoll
owingisanexchangebetweentwochar
act
ers,
husbandandwif
e,i
na
famousplay.Theli
nesappearatthever
yendofanemoti
onall
y-
char
ged
sequenceofthelastscene
“
..
.I’
vest
oppedbel
i
evi
ngi
nmi
racl
es.
”
“
ButI
’
llbel
i
eve.Tel
lme!Tr
ansf
orm our
sel
vest
othepoi
ntt
hat
..
.?
”
“
Thatourl
i
vingt
oget
hercoul
dbeat
ruemar
ri
age.
”
(
Shegoesoutdownt
hehal
l
.)
Whi
chpl
ay?Namet
hechar
act
ers.
a.Ot
hel
l
oOt
hel
l
o,Desdemona
b.Sur
eThi
ngBi
l
l,Bet
ty
c.ADol
l
’sHouseHel
mer
,Nor
a
d.Deat
hofaSal
esmanWi
l
ly,
Linda
Ans:
c.ADol
l
’sHouseHel
mer
,Nor
a
71.
Wil
li
am Wordsworthhadadeepinf
luenceonThomasHardy.Accor
dingt
oHardy
apart
icul
arpoem byWordswor
thwashi s‘
bestcur
efordespai
r’
.Whichi
sthat
poem?
a.Mi
chael
b.Ti
nter
nAbbeyRev
isi
ted
c.TheI
diotBoy
d.TheLeechgat
her
er
Ans:
d.TheLeechgat
her
er
72.
Whyar
eScot
t’
snov
elscal
l
ed‘
Wav
erl
eyNov
els’
?
a.Hi
snov
elsar
eal
lseti
nWav
erl
ey
b.TheWav
erl
eyCast
lehasasi
gni
fi
cantr
olei
nhi
snov
els
c.Waverl
ey(i
nhisfi
rstnov
eloft
hatname)i
samodel
her
ofort
hepr
otagoni
sts
ofScot
t’
snovels
d.Scot
tst
art
edhi
snov
elwr
it
ingcar
eeri s43rdy
nhi earwi
tht
henov
elWav
, erl
ey
Ans:d.Scot
tst
art
edhi
snov
elwr
it
ingcar
eeri s43rdy
nhi earwi
tht
henov
el,
Waverl
ey
73.
Whoamongt
hef
oll
owi
nghaswr
it
tent
heessay
,‘TheI
ndi
anJuggl
ers’
?
a.Char
lesLamb
b.Wi
l
li
am Hazl
i
tt
c.ThomasdeQui
ncey
d.ThomasLov
ePeacock
Ans:
b.Wi
l
li
am Hazl
i
tt
74.
Tol
stoysWarandPeacecar
’ ri
esal
engt
hydi
scussi
onofdet
ermi
nism andf
ree
wil
li
n..
..
.
a.i
tspr
ologue
b.anexchangebet
weenPi
err
aandNat
asha
c.anexchangebet
weenNi
kol
aiRost
ofandPr
incessBezukhoi
d.i
tsepi
l
ogue
75.
Whi
chf
rom amongt
hef
oll
owi
ngi
snott
rueofNagmandal
a?
a.I
tdoesnothav
emul
ti
plenar
rat
ives
b.I
tisopen-
ended
c.I
tcombi
nesconv
ent
ional
andsubv
ersi
vemodes
d.St
oryi
sper
soni
fi
edi
nthepl
ay
Ans:
a.I
tdoesnothav
emul
ti
plenar
rat
ives
76.
Vir
gini
aWoolfborr
owedt hei
deaofthecommonreaderfrom DrJohnson.To
whichpar
ti
cularworkofJohnson’
sdoessher
emainindebted?
a.TheLi
vesoft
heMostEmi
nentEngl
i
shPoet
s;t
heessayonMi
l
ton
b.TheLi
vesoft
heMostEmi
nentEngl
i
shPoet
s;t
heessayonGr
ay
c.Pr
efacet
oShakespear
e
d.ThePat
ri
ot
Ans:
b.TheLi
vesoft
heMostEmi
nentEngl
i
shPoet
s;t
heessayonGr
ay
77.
JM Coetzeewast
hef
ir
stwr
it
ert
obeawar
dedt
heBookerPr
izet
wice.Hewon
thepr
izefor
a.Li
feandTi
mesofMi
chael
KandDi
sgr
ace
b.Duskl
andsandDi
sgr
ace
c.FoeandEl
i
zabet
hCost
ell
o
d.AgeofI
ronandDi
sgr
ace
Ans:
a.Li
feandTi
mesofMi
chael
KandDi
sgr
ace
78.
Aft
ertheNormanConquestEnglandbecameat
hree-
languagenat
ionf
orat
least
twocentur
ies.Thet
hreel
anguageswere
a.Engl
i
sh,
FrenchandGer
man
b.Engl
i
sh,
Lat
inandGer
man
c.Engl
i
sh,
FrenchandLat
in
d.Engl
i
sh,
FrenchandGr
eek
Ans:
c.Engl
i
sh,
FrenchandLat
in
79.
Arr
anget
hef
oll
owi
nggr
oupsofEngl
i
shwr
it
ersi
nchr
onol
ogi
cal
order
.
a.TheMetaphysi
cal
poets,TheHighModerni
sts,
Transi
ti
onal
poet
s,The
Geor
giansTheAesthet
es,TheUniv
ersi
tyWit
s
b.TheUni
ver
sit
yWits;
TheMet aphy
sical
poet
s, Tr
ansi
ti
onal
poet
s,The
Aest
het
es,TheGeor
gians,
TheHighModernists
c.TheHighModerni
sts,
TheGeor
gians,
TheAest
het
es,
Transi
ti
onal
poet
s,The
Metaphysi
cal
poet
s.TheUni
ver
sityWit
s.
d.TheUniver
sit
yWit
s,TheMetaphy
sical
poets,
TheAest
het
es,
Transi
ti
onal
poet
s,TheGeorgi
ans,TheHi
ghModernist
s.
Ans:
?
80.
Whi
chBi
blei
stheear
li
estEngl
i
shv
ersi
onpr
int
edwi
thv
ersedi
vi
sions?
a.Ty
ndal
e’
sTr
ansl
ati
on
b.TheGenev
aBi
ble
c.TheDouay
-Rhei
msVer
sion
d.Ki
ngJamesVer
sion
Ans:
b.TheGenev
aBi
ble
81.
“Wher
eIlackedapol
it
ical
purpose,
Iwrot
eli
fel
essbooks.
”Towhi
choft
he
fol
l
owingauthor
scanweat t
ri
butet
heaboveadmissi
on?
a.Gr
aham Gr
eene
b.Geor
geOr
wel
l
c.Char
lesMor
gan
d.Ev
ely
nWaugh
Ans:
b.Geor
geOr
wel
l
82.
Moderni
sm hasbeendescri
bedasbei
ngconcer
nedwi
th“
disenchant
mentofour
cul
tur
ewithcul
tur
eitsel
f.
”Whoisthecri
ti
c?
a.St
ephenSpender
b.Mal
col
m Br
adbur
y
c.Li
onel
Tri
l
li
ng
d.JosephFr
ank
Ans:
c.Li
onel
Tri
l
li
ng
83.
Whi
choneoft
hef
oll
owi
ngmoder
npoemsempl
oysot
tav
ari
ma?
a.‘
AmongSchool
Chi
l
dren’
b.‘
I
nPr
aiseofLi
mest
one’
c.‘
TheWi
l
dSwansatCode’
d.‘
TheShi
eldofAchi
l
les’
Ans:
a.‘
AmongSchool
Chi
l
dren’
84.
JohnDr
ydeni
nhi
sher
oict
ragedy‘
All
forLov
e’t
akest
hest
oryofShakespear
e’s
a.Tr
oil
usandCr
essi
da
b.TheMer
chantofVeni
ce
c.Ant
onyandCl
eopat
ra
d.Measur
eforMeasur
e
Ans:
c.Ant
onyandCl
eopat
ra.
85.
Samuel
Pepy
skepthi
sdi
aryf
rom
a.1660t
o1669
b.1648t
o166o
c.1662t
o1689
d.1660t
o1689
Ans:
a.1660t
o1669
86.
Int
he‘
Def
enceofPoet
ry’
,whatdi
dSy
dneyat
tr
ibut
etopoet
ry?
a.Amagi
cal
powerwher
ebypoet
rypl
ayst
ri
cksont
her
eader
b.Adi
vi
nepowerwher
ebypoet
ryt
ransmi
tsamessagef
rom Godt
other
eader
c.Amoralpowerwher
ebypoet
ryencour
agest
her
eadert
oev
aluat
evi
rt
uous
model
s
d.Ar
eal
i
sti
cpowert
hatcannotbemadet
oseem l
i
kemer
eil
l
usi
onandt
ri
cker
y
Ans:c.Amor
alpowerwher
ebypoet
ryencour
agest
her
eadert
oev
aluat
e
vi
rt
uousmodels
87.
‘AnEpi
stl
etoDrAr
but
hnot
’pr
esent
spor
trai
tsoft
hef
oll
owi
ngcont
empor
ary
indi
vi
dual
s
a.Addi
sonandLor
dHer
vey
b.Dr
ydenandRochest
er
c.Swi
ftandSt
eel
e
d.Smol
l
ettandDef
oe
Ans:
a.Addi
sonandLor
dHer
vey
88.
Whi
choft
hesepl
aysbyShakespear
edoesnotuse‘
cross-
dressi
ng’
asadev
ice?
a.‘
AsYouLi
keI
t’
b.‘
Jul
i
usCaeser
’
c.‘
Cymbel
i
ne’
d.‘
TwoGent
lemenofVer
ona’
Ans:
b.‘
Jul
i
usCaeser
’
89.
Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngwor
kscannotbecat
egor
isedunderpost
-col
oni
alt
heor
y?
a.‘
Nat
ionandNar
rat
ion’
b.‘
Ori
ent
ali
sm’
c.‘
Disci
pli
neandPuni
sh’
d.‘
Whi
teMy
thol
ogi
es’
Ans:
c.‘
Disci
pli
neandPuni
sh’
90.
Locke’s‘
EssayConcerni
ngHumanUnder
standi
ng’
isacl
assi
cst
atementof
.
..
..
..
..
..
..
.Phi
losophy
.
a.aest
het
ic
b.empi
ri
cist
c.nat
ional
i
st
d.r
eal
i
st
Ans:
b.empi
ri
cist
91.
“Powerci
rcul
atesi
nal
ldi
rect
ions,
toandf
rom al
lsoci
all
evel
s,atal
lti
mes.
”Who
saidt
his?
a.Edwar
dSai
d
b.Mi
chel
Foucaul
t
c.JacquesDer
ri
da
d.Rol
andBar
thes
Ans:
b.Mi
chel
Foucaul
t
92.
Thedr
amat
icst
ruct
ureofRest
orat
ioncomedi
escombi
nesi
nitt
hef
eat
uresof
1.TheEl
i
zabet
hanTheat
re
2.TheNeo-
classi
cal
Theat
reofI
tal
yandFr
ance
3.TheI
ri
shTheat
re
4.TheGr
eekTheat
re
Whi
choft
hest
atement
sgi
venabov
ear
ecor
rect
?
a.1and4
b.3and4
c.2and3
d.1and2
Ans:
d.1and2
93.
Theet
ymol
ogi
cal
meani
ngoft
hewor
d‘t
rope’
is
a.gest
ure
b.t
urni
ng
c.mi
rr
or
d.desi
re
Ans:
b.t
urni
ng
94.
Whoamongt hef
oll
owingEngl
i
shpoetsdefi
nedpoet
icimagi
nati
onas“ a
repet
it
ioni
nthef
ini
temindoft
heet
ernalactofcr
eat
ionint
heinfi
nit
e‘IAM’
?
a.Bl
ake
b.Wor
dswor
th
c.Col
eri
dge
d.Shel
l
ey
Ans:
c.Col
eri
dge
95.
Lit
tl
eNel
li
sachar
act
eri
nDi
ckens’
a.Dav
idCopper
fi
eld
b.TheOl
dCur
iosi
tyShop
c.Bl
eakHouse
d.Gr
eatExpect
ati
ons
Ans:
b.TheOl
dCur
iosi
tyShop
96.
“Ev
ery
thi
ngt
hatmanest
eemsEndur
esamomentoraday
Lov
e’spl
easur
edr
iveshi
slov
eaway
..
.”
I
ntheabov
equot
ethel
astl
i
nei
sanexampl
eof
a.al
l
usi
on
b.pl
eonasm
c.par
adox
d.zeugma
Ans:
c.par
adox
97.
Thephr
ase‘
DarkSat
anicMil
ls’
hasbecomet hemostfamousdescr
ipt
ionoft
he
for
ceatt
hecent
reofthei
ndustr
ial
rev
olut
ion.Thephr
asewasusedby
a.Wi
l
li
am Wor
dswor
th
b.Wi
l
li
am Bl
ake
c.ThomasCar
lyl
e
d.JohnRuski
n
Ans:
b.Wi
l
li
am Bl
ake
98.
“Fi
vemi
l
esmeander
ingwi
thamazymot
ion
Throughwoodanddal
ethescar
edr
iverr
an.
”Wher
edoest
his‘
scar
edr
iver
’
di
rectl
yrunt
o?
a.Al
i
fel
essocean
b.Thecav
ernsmeasur
eless
c.Af
ount
ain
d.Thewav
es
Ans:
a.Al
i
fel
essocean
99.
Whi
chpoem byShel
l
eybear
stheal
ter
nat
ivet
it
le,
‘TheSpi
ri
tofSol
i
tude’
?
a.MontBl
anc
b.‘
Hymnt
oInt
ell
ect
ual
Beaut
y’
c.‘
Adonai
s’
d.‘
Alast
or’
Ans:
d.‘
Alast
or’
100. Whi
cht
alei
n‘TheCant
erbur
yTal
es’
usest
het
radi
ti
onoft
heBeastFabl
e?
a.TheKni
ght
’sTal
e
b.TheMonk’
sTal
e
c.TheNun’
sPr
iest
’sTal
e
d.TheMi
l
ler
’sTal
e
Ans:
c.TheNun’
sPr
iest
’sTal
e
101. Att
heendof‘
SonsandLov
ers’
,Paul
Mor
el
a.set
sof
finquestofl
i
feawayf
rom hi
smot
her
b.consi
der
stheopt
ionofcommi
tt
ingsui
cide
c.j
oinshi
sel
derbr
otherWi
l
li
am i
nLondon–
d.embr
acesaSchopenhauerl
i
keni
hil
i
sm
Ans:
a.set
sof
finquestofl
i
feawayf
rom hi
smot
her
102. Whenyousay“Il
oveherey
es,
herhai
r,hernose,
hercheeks,
herl
i
ps”y
ou
ar
eusi
ngarhet
ori
cal
deviceof
a.Enumer
ati
on
b.Ant
anagoge
c.Par
ataxi
s
d.Hy
pot
axi
s
Ans:
a.Enumer
ati
on
103. Wi
thBacont
heessayf
ormi
s
a.ani
nti
mat
e,per
sonal
conf
essi
on
b.wi
tt
yandbol
dlyi
magi
sti
c
c.t
heaphor
ist
icexpr
essi
onofaccumul
atedpubl
i
cwi
sdom
d.homel
yandv
ulgar
Ans:
c.t
heaphor
ist
icexpr
essi
onofaccumul
atedpubl
i
cwi
sdom
104. Mi
lt
oni
ntr
oducesSatanandthefal
l
enangelsi
ntheBookIofPar
adi
se
Lost
.Twooft
hechi
efdevi
lsreappeari
nBookI
I.Theyar
e
1.Mol
och
2.Cl
emos
3.Bel
i
al
4.Thamuz
Codes
a.1and4
b.1and3
c.1and2
d.2and3
Ans:
b.1and3
105. WhenChaucerdescr
ibest
heFr
iarasa‘
Nobl
ePi
l
larofOr
der
’,
hei
susi
ng
a.i
rony
b.si
mil
e
c.under
stat
ement
d.per
soni
fi
cat
ion
Ans:
a.i
rony
106. JohnOsbor
ne’
sLookBacki
nAngeri
sanexampl
eof
a.dr
awi
ngr
oom comedy
b.ki
tchen-
sinkdr
ama
c.absur
ddr
ama
d.mel
odr
ama
Ans:
b.ki
tchen-
sinkdr
ama
107. JohnSuckl
i
ngbel
ongst
othegr
oupof
a.Met
aphy
sical
poet
s
b.Cav
ali
erpoet
s
c.Neo-
classi
cal
poet
s
d.Rel
i
giouspoet
s
Ans:
b.Cav
ali
erpoet
s
108. Si
rThomasMor ecreatest
hechar
act
erofat
rav
ell
eri
ntowhosemout
hthe
accountofUtopi
aisput.Hisnameis
a.Mi
chael
b.Raphael
c.Henr
y
d.Thomas
Ans:
b.Raphael
109. WhichoneofBrecht
’swor
kswasintendedtol
ampoont heconvent
ional
sent
iment
almusical
butthepubl
i
clappedupt hewor
k’ssent
imentandmissed
thehumour?
a.Mani
sMan
b.Thr
eePennyOper
a
c.TheMot
her
d.Li
feofGal
i
leo
Ans:
b.Thr
eePennyOper
a
110. Thebookwasf ormanyyearsbannedf orobsceni

tyinBr i
tai
nandt he
Uni
tedStat
es.Thecentral
char
acteri
saCat holicJewinIreland.Theauthor
cl
aimedthatt
hebooki smeanttomakey oulaugh.Whichi sthisbook?
a.ThePi
ctur
eofDor
ianGr
ey
b.Her
zog
c.Por
tnoy
’sCompl
aint
d.Ul
ysses
Ans:
d.Ul
ysses
111. Accor
dingtoBakhti
n,thei
deaoft
heCar
niv
alesquer
epr
esent
sthe
f
oll
owi
ngcharact
eri
sti
csexcept
a.al
i
ber
ati
onf
rom t
hepr
evai
l
ingt
rut
handest
abl
i
shedor
der
b.ahar
kingbackt
othepast
c.emphasi
sonpl
ay,
par
ody
,pl
easur
eandt
hebody
d.t
hesuspensi
onofal
lhi
erar
chi
cal
rank,
pri
nci
ples,
nor
msandpr
ohi
bit
ions
Ans:
b.ahar
kingbackt
othepast
112. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngst
atement
sisnott
rueofPat
ri
ckWhi
te?
a.Hei
sremember
edt
odayf
orhi
sepi
candpsy
chol
ogi
cal
nar
rat
ivear
t
b.Hei
stheonl
yAust
ral
i
ant
orecei
vet
heNobel
Pri
zei
nli
ter
atur
e
c.Hepioneer
edanewf
ict
ional
landscapeandi
ntr
oducedanewcont
inenti
n
l
it
erat
ure
d.Hi
sst
ylei
snot
edf
orl
uci
dit
yandsi
mpl
i
cit
y
Ans:
d.Hi
sst
ylei
snot
edf
orl
uci
dit
yandsi
mpl
i
cit
y
113. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngst
atement
sisnott
rueofWol
eSoy
inka’
sThe
SwampDwel
l
ers?
a.Itseekstounder
minet
hei
deat
hatmeani
ngpr
e-exi
stsi
tsl
i
ngui
sti
c
expressi
on
b.Therecanbenomeani ngwhi
chisnotf
ormulat
edandnol
anguage
for
mulati
onreachesanywher
ebeyondl
anguage
c.Ther
eisnoa-
text
ual
‘or
igi
n’ofat
ext
d.Ev
erysi
gnr
efer
stoev
eryot
hersi
gnadequat
ely
Ans:
d.Ev
erysi
gnr
efer
stoev
eryot
hersi
gnadequat
ely
114. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngpl
aysi
snotwr
it
tenbyRabi
ndr
anat
hTagor
e?
a.Sacr
if
ice
b.Chandal
i
ka
c.Mukt
adhar
a
d.Eknat
h
Ans:
d.Eknat
h
115. Thepur
poseoft
hePr
e–Raphal
i
teswaspr
imar
il
ytopr
omot
e
a.compl
exi
tyandambi
val
encei
nar
tandl
i
ter
atur
e
b.si
mpl
i
cit
yandnat
ural
nessi
nar
tandl
i
ter
atur
e
c.sy
mbol
i
candcl
assi
cal
modesi
nar
tandl
i
ter
atur
e
d.psy
chol
ogi
cal
andmy
thi
cmodesi
nar
tandl
i
ter
atur
e.
116. Whi
choneoft
hef
oll
owi
ngpl
aysdoesnotuset
hedev
iceof‘
thepl
ay
wi
thi
nthepl
ay’
?
a.Haml
et
b.WomenBewar
eWomen
c.TheSpani
shTr
agedy
d.AMi
dsummerNi
ght
s’Dr
eam
Ans:
b.WomenBewar
eWomen
117. “Shedwel
lswi
thbeaut
y–Beaut
ythatmustdi
e”,
wrot
eKeat
sinoneofhi
s
odes,
refer
ri
ngto
a.I
ndol
ence
b.Aut
umn
c.Mel
anchol
y
d.Psy
che
Ans:
c.Mel
anchol
y
118. Asser
ti
on(A)Thel
i
terat
ureoft
heJacobeanagei
sdomi
nat
edbywor
ks
r
eveal
i
ngsy mptomsofmelodr
amaandsensati
onal
ism.
Reason(
R)TheJacobeanagei
sgener
all
yrul
edbyt
hespi
ri
tofdecadence.
Codes
a.Bot
hAandRar
etr
ueandRi
sthecor
rectexpl
anat
ionofA
b.Bot
hAandRar
etr
ue,
butRi
snott
hecor
rectexpl
anat
ionofA
c.Ai
str
ue,
butRi
sfal
se
d.Ai
sfal
se,
butRi
str
ue
Ans:
b.Bot
hAandRar
etr
ue,
butRi
snott
hecor
rectexpl
anat
ionofA
119. Whichofthef
oll
owi
ngst
atement
sbestdescr
ibest
het
erm
‘
deconst
ruct
ion’
?
a.I
tseekst
oexposet
hepr
obl
emat
icnat
ureof‘
cent
ered’
discour
ses
b.I
tadv
ocat
es‘
subj
ect
ive’
or‘
fr
ee’
int
erpr
etat
ion
c.I
temphasi
sest
hei
mpor
tanceofhi
stor
ical
cont
ext
d.I
tisamet
hodofcr
it
ical
anal
ysi
s
Ans:
a.I
tseekst
oexposet
hepr
obl
emat
icnat
ureof‘
cent
ered’
discour
ses
120. “Fornatur
et henthecoar
serpleasur
esofmyboyishdays,
Andtheirgl
ad
ani
malmov ementsallgonebyTomewasal l
inal
l
”.I
ntheseli
nesfr
om “Tint
ern
AbbeyRevisit
ed”,
Wor dswort
histal
ki
ngabout
a.t
hesecondst
agei
nhi
srel
ati
onshi
pwi
thnat
ure
b.t
hef
ir
stst
agei
nhi
srel
ati
onshi
pwi
thnat
ure
c.bot
hthef
ir
standsecondst
agesi
nhi
srel
ati
onshi
pwi
thnat
ure
d.t
het
hir
dst
agei
nhi
srel
ati
onshi
pwi
thnat
ure
Ans:
c.bot
hthef
ir
standsecondst
agei
nhi
srel
ati
onshi
pwi
thnat
ure
121. Whoamongthef
oll
owingwri
ter
sdescr
ibesnov
elsas“
notf
orm whi
chy
ou
seebutemot
ionwhi
chyoufeel
”?
a.DHLawr
ence
b.JeanRhy
s
c.Vi
rgi
niaWool
f
d.JosephConr
ad
Ans:
c.Vi
rgi
niaWool
f
122. Whi
choneoft
hef
oll
owi
ngbestdescr
ibest
hebasi
cpr
inci
pleofNew
Cr
it
ici
sm?
a.Anemphasi
sont
hedi
sti
nct
ivest
yleandper
sonal
i
tyoft
heaut
hor
s
b.St
ressi
ngt
hev
irt
uesofdi
sci
pli
ne,
orderandt
heet
hical
mean
c.Locat
ingt
hemeani ngofal
i
ter
arywor
kint
hei
nter
nal
rel
ati
onsoft
he
l
anguagethatconsti
tut
eat
ext
.
d.Ev
aluat
ingal
i
ter
aryt
extagai
nstabackdr
opofhi
stor
ical
event
s.
Ans:c.Locati
ngthemeaningofal
i
ter
arywor
kint
hei
nter
nal
rel
ati
onsoft
he
l
anguaget hatconst
it
uteatext
123. JacquesLacanposi
tsthr
ee‘
order
s’,
whi
chstr
uct
urehumanexi
stence.I
n
t
hel
i
stthatfol
l
ows.Identi
fyt
heonethati
snoti
ncl
udedbyLacan
a.I
magi
nar
y
b.Unconsci
ousness
c.Real
d.Sy
mbol
i
c
Ans:
b.Unconsci
ousness
124. Asser
ti
on(
A)Deconst
ruct
iver
eadi
ngi
sapol
i
tical
.
Reason(
R)Becausei tf
ocusesexcl
usivel
yonlanguage.I
tprimari
lyholdsthatal
l
text
sorl
ingui
sti
cstruct
urecontai
nwithint
hem aprinci
pleofdestabil
i
sati
onand
hencei
tisdif
fi
cultt
opindownmeani ng.Suchareading,t
heref
ore,isunableto
assi
gnhist
ori
calagency.
Codes
a.Ai
str
ue,
butRi
sfal
se
b.Bot
hAandRar
etr
ue
c.Ai
sfal
sebutRi
str
ue
d.Bot
hAandRar
efocus
Ans:
b.Bot
hAandRar
etr
ue
125. Thefol
lowi
ngwrit
ersar
einv
olv
edi
nsoci
alact
ivi
sm i
naddi
ti
ont
othei
r
pr
act
iceofcreat
ivewr
it
ing.
1.Mahaswet
aDev
i
2.Shashi
Deshpande
3.Ar
undhat
iRoy
4.ShobhaDe
Codes
a.1and2
b.3and4
c.1and3
d.2and4
Ans:
c.1and3
126. TheDi
vi
neComedyi
sdi
vi
dedi
ntot
hreecant
icas,
eachconsi
sti
ngof
a.30cant
os
b.33cant
os
c.24cant
os
d.28cant
os
Ans:
b.33cant
os
127. Whatdi
dHenr
yJamesdescr
ibeas‘
LooseBaggyMonst
ers’
?
a.Nov
els
b.TheSpani
ards
c.Epi
cpoems
d.Hi
str
ouser
s
Ans:
a.Nov
els
128. Thet
erm‘
ecol
ogi
cal
imper
ial
i
sm’
wascoi
nedby
a.VandanaShi
va
b.Laur
enceBuel
l
c.Paul
oFr
eir
e
d.Al
fr
edCr
osby
Ans:
d.Al
fr
edCr
osby
129. Emot
ionalt
iesandpersonal
relat
ionshi
pspl
ayaminorpar
tinDef
oe’
s
wor
ks.Thefol
lowi
ngprotagoni
stsofDefoehavenofami
l
yexceptonewho
l
eav
esf ami
l
yatanear l
yage.Whichisthatchar
act
er?
a.Mol
lFl
ander
s
b.Col
onel
Jacque
c.Robi
nsonCr
usoe
d.Capt
ainSi
ngl
eton
Ans:
c.Robi
nsonCr
usoe
130. InEM Forst

er’
sAPassaget
oIndi
asomeoft
hemaj
orsy
mbol
sar
e
associ
atedwit
h
1.mount
ains
2.t
iger
s
3.echoes
4.cl
ouds
Codes
a.1and2
b.1,
2and4
c.1and3
d.2and4
Ans:
c.1and3
131. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngf
eat
uresar
epr
esentDost
oev
sky
’sCr
imeand
Puni
shment
?
1.Ni
hil
i
sm
2.Ut
il
it
ari
ani
sm
3.Rat
ional
i
sm
4.Chr
ist
ianSy
mbol
i
sm
Codes
a.1and2
b.1and4
c.3and4
d.1and3
Ans:
b.3and4
132. Whatchar
act
eri
stcsof17thcent
i urymet
aphy
sical
poet
ryspar
kedt
he
ent
husi
asm ofmoder
nistpoet
sandcr i
tics?
1.I
tsi
ntel
l
ect
ual
compl
exi
ty.
2.I
tsuncompr
omi
singengagementwi
thpol
i
tics
3.I
tsr
eli
giousf
erv
our
4.I
tsuni
onoft
houghtandpassi
on
Codes
a.1and3
b.1and4
c.2and3
d.1and2
Ans:
b.1and4
133. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
sincor
rectofpost
-st
ruct
ural
i
sm?
a.Itseekstounder
minet
hei
deat
hatmeani
ngpr
e-exi
stsi
tsl
i
ngui
sti
c
expressi
on
b.Therecanbenomeani ngwhi
chisnotf
ormulat
edandnol
anguage
for
mulati
onreachesanywher
ebeyondl
anguage
c.Ther
eisnoa-
text
ual
‘or
igi
n’ofat
ext
d.Ev
erysi
gnr
efer
stoev
eryot
hersi
gnadequat
ely
Ans:
d.Ev
erysi
gnr
efer
stoev
eryot
hersi
gnadequat
ely
134. I
nWut her
ingHei
ghts,Cathyappear
sinadream beati
ngatawi
ndow,
wai
l
ing‘Letmein’bl
oodrunningdownherwrist
.Whodr eamsher?
a.Lockwood
b.Nel
l
y
c.Heat
hcl
i
ffe
d.EdgarLi
nton
Ans:
a.Lockwood
135. Whoamongthef
oll
owingcharact
ersi
nThomasMor e’
sUtopi
adidnot
cor
respondi
nbi
ogr
aphi
calbackgr
oundtoanact
ualhi
stor
icalper
son?
a.Mor
ton
b.Hy
thl
oday
c.Gi
l
es
d.Mor
e
Ans:
b.Hy
thl
oday
136. Thecompl
etet
ransl
ati
onoft
heBi
bl n14thcent
ei uryr
est
supon
a.JohnChaucer
b.JohnMandev
il
le
c.JohnWy
cli
ff
e
d.Geof
freyChaucer
Ans:
c.JohnWy
cli
ff
e
137. Whichstat
ement
samongt
hef
oll
owi
ngi
scor
recti
nthecont
extof‘
The
Cant
erbur
yTales’
?
a.Thev
erseconsi
stsofRhy
medCoupl
et
b.I
tfor
msacompr
omi
sebet
weent
heol
dandnewpr
osody
c.About17000l
i
nesar
einv
erse
d.Al
loft
heabov
e
Ans:
d.Al
loft
heabov
e
138. Asser
ti
on(A)TheAgeofChaucermar
kedt
hebegi
nni
ngofanew
l
anguageandli
ter
atur
e.
Reason(
R)Engl
i
shcametoi
tsownbecauseoft
hegr
eatwor
ksdonebyChaucer
,
Langl
andandWycl
i
ffe,
whowrot
einEngl
i
sh.
Codes
a.Ai
str
ue,
butRi
sfal
se
b.Ai
sfal
se,
butRi
str
ue
c.Bot
hAandRar
etr
ue,
butRi
snott
hecor
rectexpl
anat
ionofA
d.Bot
hAandRar
etr
ueandRi
sthecor
rectexpl
anat
ionofA
Ans:
d.Bot
hAandRar
etr
ueandRi
sthecor
rectexpl
anat
ionofA
139. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngst
atement
sisi
ncor
rect
?
a.Chaucerusest
her
hymer
oyal
,ast
anzai
cisf
ormi
nsomeofhi
smaj
orpoems
b.Chaucerwast
heaut
horof‘
TheLegendofGoodWomen’
c.Chaucerwrot
einEngl
i
sh,whent
hecour
tpoet
ryofhi
sdaywaswr
it
teni
n
Angl
o-NormanandLati
n
d.Chaucerwr
oteTheBooknamedTheGov
ernor
Ans:
d.Chaucerwr
oteTheBooknamedTheGov
ernor
140. Thenamecal
l
edbyJohnFoxef
orChaucerwas
a.JohnWy
cli
ff
e
b.JohnSt
ow
c.Ri
ghtWi
clev
ian
d.ThomasTy
rwhi
tt
Ans:
c.Ri
ghtWi
clev
ian
141. ‘
Pier
sPl
owman’
hasasubt
it
le.I
tis
a.Pi
l
gri
m
b.TheTr
uth
c.AVi
si
on
d.Noneoft
hese
Ans:
c.AVi
si
on
142. Whywast
hecompi
l
ati
onofChaucer
’swor
kapol
i
tical
ent
erpr
ise?
a.Becausehef
requent
lygoest
oot
hercount
ry
b.Hef
ocusedanFr
enchmet
hodol
ogy
c.Becausei
twasi
ntendedt
oest
abl
i
shanEngl
i
shnat
ional
ident
it
yandhi
stor
y
d.Becausehi
smostoft
hewor
kswasi
nfl
uencedf
rom I
tal
i
anpoet
s
Ans:c.Becausei
twasi
ntendedt
oest
abl
i
shanEngl
i
shnat
ional
ident
it
yand
hi
story
143. Thecompl
ainetmadebyChaucerappear
edi
n‘Test
amentofLov
e’was
a.l
ament
ati
onf
orhi
swr
ongf
uli
mpr
isonment
b.wi
shi
ngdeat
htoendhi
sdal
es
c.hi
sownRashnessi
nfol
l
owi
ngt
hemul
ti
tude
d.Al
loft
heabov
e
Ans:
c.hi
sownRashnessi
nfol
l
owi
ngt
hemul
ti
tude
144. I
nthe‘
Cant
erbur
yTal
es’
,t
hev
ari
eti
esofpi
l
gri
msar
egoi
ngt
o
a.TheTombofSai
ntJohnWal
ter
b.TheTombofSai
ntThomasBecket
c.Tot
heTombofSi
rJoseph
d.Tot
heCant
erbur
yCat
hedr
alhomage
Ans:
b.TheTombofSai
ntThomasBecket
145. Ont
hebasisof‘
Evol
uti
onoft
heLanguage’
,whi
cht
hef
oll
owi
ngi
sin
chr
onol
ogi
cal
order?
a.Chaucer
,Beowul
f,Shakespear
e
b.Beowul
f,Chaucer
,Shakespear
e
c.Beowul
f,Shakespear
e,Chaucer
d.Shakespear
e,Beowul
f,Chaucer
Ans:
b.Beowul
f,Chaucer
,Shakespear
e
146. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
sini
ncor
rectsequence?
a.Tr
oil
usandCr
isey
de,
TheLegendofGoodWomen,
TheCant
erbur
yTal
es
b.TheCant
erbur
yTal
es,
Troi
l
usandCr
isey
de
c.TheLegendofGoodWomen,
Troi
l
usandCr
isey
de,
TheCant
erbur
yTal
es
d.Tr
oil
usandCr
isey
de,
TheCant
erbur
yTal
es,
TheLegendofGoodWomen
Ans:a.Tr
oil
usandCr
isey
de,
TheCant
erbur
y
Tal
es
147. Whendi
dChaucerdi
e?
a.1401
b.1399
c.1400
d.1398
Ans:
c.1400
148. ‘
VoxCl
amant
is’
isl
argel
yconcer
nedwi
th
a.t
hepur
it
yoft
hegospel
trut
h
b.WatTy
ler
’sr
ebel
l
ion
c.Mal
ver
n’spov
ert
yandst
ruggl
e
d.cr
it
ici
sm,
clear
gy
Ans:
b.WatTy
ler
’sr
ebel
l
ion
149. Thef
ir
stpubl
i
shedwor
kofChaucer
a.TheCant
erbur
yTal
e
b.RomandeLeRose
c.TheBookoft
heDuchess
d.HouseofFame
Ans:
c.TheBookoft
heDuchess
150. ‘
Pal
i
amantofFowl
es’
isapoem wi
th.
..
..
..
..l
i
nes
a.799
b.699
c.999
d.899
Ans:
b.699
151. Thepil
gri
msl
aughedhear
ti
lyatthet
alebyMi l
l
er,
butwhot
ookt
heof
fence
t
hinki
ngthatt
heMil
l
ermeanttodispar
agecarpent
ers
a.TheKni
ght
b.Oswal
dtheReev
e
c.Al
eyn
d.Al
i
son
Ans:
b.Oswal
dtheReev
e
152. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngst
atement
sabout‘
TheHouseofFame’
iscor
rect
?
a.I
tisanaut
obi
ogr
aphi
cal
poem composedi
ntenbooks
b.I
n BookI
IIt
henar
rat
ormeet
stheGoddessVenus
c.I
tisnoti
nthef
orm ofadr
eam al
l
egor
y
d.Thepoem car
ri
esi
nfl
uencesofDant
e’s‘
Div
ineComedy
’
Ans:
d.Thepoem car
ri
esi
nfl
uencesofDant
e’s‘
Div
ineComedy
’
153. Mat
cht
hef
oll
owi
ng
Li
stI Li
stI
I
A.Begi
nni
ngofHundr
edYear
s’War 1.1327
B.Bl
ackDeat
h 2.1338
C.Ri
char
dII 3.1348-
49
D.Edwar
dII
I 4.1377
Codes
A B C D
a. 4 3 2 1
b. 3 4 2 1
c. 2 3 4 1
d. 1 2 3 4
Ans:
c.
154. Mat
cht
hef
oll
owi
ng
Li
stI Li
stI
I
A.Peasant
’sRev
olt 1.1373
B.Wi
nchest
orCol
l
ege(
Fir
stGr
eatPubl
i
cSchool
) 2.1381
C.TheLol
l
ardsMov
ement 3.1348
D.Bl
ackDeat
h 4.1377
Codes
A B C D
a. 1 2 3 4
b. 4 3 2 1
c. 2 3 1 4
d. 2 1 4 3
Ans:
d
155. Hundr
edYear
s’Warbegani
n1338,
bet
ween,
whi
cht
wocount
ri
es?
1.Engl
andandFr
ance
2.Fr
anceandChi
na
3.Engl
andandRussi
a
Sel
ectt
hecor
rectanswerusi
ngt
hecodesgi
venbel
ow
a.Onl
y3
b.Onl
y1
c.Nei
ther1nor2
d.Noneoft
hese
Ans:
b.Onl
y1
156. Whi
choft
heseaboutt
hechar
act
eroft
he‘
Yeoman’
in‘
Cant
erbur
yTal
es’
is
t
rue?
a.TheYeoman’
snamei
sHuber
t
b.Hei
stheser
vantwhoaccompani
est
heKni
ghtandt
heSqui
re
c.Hi
sdr
essandweaponssuggestt
hathemi
ghthav
ebeenamonk
d.Hei
schar
geoft
hekni
ght
’smansi
on
Ans:
b.Hei
stheser
vantwhoaccompani
est
heKni
ghtandt
heSqui
re
157. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngst
atement
sis/
arei
ncor
rectf
or‘
TheHouseof
Fame’
?
1.I
twaswr
it
teni
n1384.
2.Chaucert
akenaneagl
easagui
de.
3.Mast
erpi
ecef
orcomi
cfant
asy
.
4.I
tisbasedonDi
dact
ici
sm.
Sel
ectt
hecor
rectanswerusi
ngt
hecodesgi
venbel
ow
a.Onl
y2
b.1and2
c.Onl
y4
d.Noneoft
heabov
e
Ans:
c.Onl
y4
158. Whichoft
hef
oll
owi
ngst
atement
sisi
ncor
recti
nter
msof‘
ThePar
li
ament
ofFoul
es’
?
1.Ashor
tpoem,
wri
tt
eni
n1382.
2.Wr
it
tent
ocel
ebr
ateRi
char
d’s2ndmar
ri
age.
3.I
tisasoci
alandpol
i
tical
sat
ir
e.
4.Dant
e’si
nfl
uencei
sint
hepoem.
Sel
ectt
hecor
rectanswerusi
ngt
hecodesgi
venbel
ow
a.Onl
y4
b.Onl
y2
c.Onl
y1
d.Noneoft
heabov
e
Ans:
a.Onl
y4
159. Whi
choft
heseaboutt
he‘
Cant
erbur
yTal
es’
ist
rue?
a.I
tisacol
l
ect
ionof39st
ori
es
b.Thebookdoesnotcont
ainagener
alpr
ologue
c.Thepi
l
gri
msgat
heratTabar
dInn,
Sout
hwar
k
d.Al
i
ouni
stheHostoft
heI
nn
Ans:
c.Thepi
l
gri
msgat
heratTabar
dInn,
Sout
hwar
k
160. Whichoft
hefoll
owingisinthechr
onol
ogi
cal
orderaboutt
hel
anguages
usedbyJohnGower(1330-1408)?
a.Lat
in,
French,
Engl
i
sh
b.Engl
i
sh,
French,
Lat
in
c.Lat
in,
Engl
i
sh,
French
d.Engl
i
sh,
Lat
in,
French
Ans:
a.Lat
in,
French,
Engl
i
sh
161. Whi
choft
heseaboutt
heLol
l
ardmov
ementi
snott
rue?
a.I
twasamedi
eval
ref
orm mov
ement
b.Theterm wasder
ivedf
rom l
oll
i
um,
whi
chwasusedear
lyi
nthe14thcent
uryi
n
thesenseofa‘hy
pocri
te’
c.TheLol
l
ardsat
tackedmanybel
i
efsandpr
act
icesoft
heChur
ch
d.TheLol
l
ardspr
eachedt
othecommonpeopl
einFr
ench
Ans:
d.TheLol
l
ardspr
eachedt
othecommonpeopl
einFr
ench
162. I
dent
if
ythepoetfrom t
hefoll
owi
ngwhowasknownf
or‘
Bruce’
the
supr
emenati
onalpoem ofScotl
and?
a.Langl
and
b.Wy
cli
ff
e
c.Chaucer
d.Bar
bour
Ans:
d.Bar
bour
163. Thepoem ‘
Troi
l
usandCr
isey
de’
isbasedon.
..
..
..wor
k.
a.Boccacci
o
b.Dant
e
c.Pet
rar
ch
d.Bar
bour
Ans:
a.Boccacci
o
164. Whichall
egor
isedv
ersi
onoft
hewor
kofChauceri
mbuedt
hest
ori
eswi
th
Chr
ist
ianover
tones?
a.TheBookoft
heDuchess
b.Ov
ideMor
ali
se
c.TheLegendofGoodWomen
d.ThePr
ologue
Ans:
b.Ov
ideMor
ali
se
165. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngt
alesi
sinpr
ose?
a.ThePar
li
amentofFoul
es
b.TheLegendofGoodWomen
c.TheHouseofFame
d.TheBookofDuchess
Ans:
b.TheLegendofGoodWomen
166. Whi
choft
heseabout‘
Pier
sPl
owman’
iscor
rect
?
a.I
tisi
nrhy
medi
ambi
cpent
amet
er
b.Thel
eadchar
act
eri
sFr
ankl
i
n
c.Thepoem consi
stsoft
hesedr
eam v
isi
ons
d.Thepoem i
snotasoci
alsat
ir
e
Ans:
c.Thepoem consi
stsoft
hesedr
eam v
isi
ons
167. I
nwhi
chChapel
Chaucerwasbur
ied?
a.St
.Benet
’sChapel
b.St
.Pat
ri
ckChapel
c.St
.Sant
aCr
uzChapel
d.St
.Thomas
Ans:
b.St
.Pat
ri
ckChapel
168. I
nwhi
chbat
tl
e,wasTr
oil
uski
l
led?
a.Bat
tl
eofHast
ings
b.Bat
tl
eofAt
lant
ic
c.Fal
kl
andWar
d.Bat
tl
eofAchi
l
les
Ans:
d.Bat
tl
eofAchi
l
les
169. Whati
sdonebyPandar
usi
nTr
oil
usandCr
isey
de?
a.Lear
nthesecr
etsandbr
ingt
hey
oungpeopl
etoget
her
b.Al
l
owst
hemar
ri
ageofTr
oil
usandCr
isey
de
c.Fi
ghtt
hewart
il
lthel
astbr
eat
h
d.Uni
tedt
het
wonat
ionsandbr
oughtpeaceandhar
mony
Ans:
a.Lear
nthesecr
etsandbr
ingt
hey
oungpeopl
etoget
her
170. Ruski
nspeaksoft
he“Necessit
ytoall
highi
maginat
iont
hati
tshoul
dpoi
nt
st
rai
ghtfr
om li
fe”
.Whom di
dhepraiseint
heseli
nes?
a.Wy
cli
ff
e
b.Boccacci
o
c.Dant
e
d.Chaucer
Ans:
d.Chaucer
171. TheNunt
oldt
hemi
racul
ousl
egendof
a.Fai
ry
b.StCeci
l
ia
c.StThomas
d.Chr
ist
Ans:
b.StCeci
l
ia
172. Whoamongt
hef
oll
owi
nghasbeennamedas‘
TheMor
ningSt
aroft
he
Renai
ssance’
?
a.Shakespear
e
b.Al
exander
c.Mar
lowe
d.Chaucer
Ans:
d.Chaucer
173. Inwhi
chofthefol
lowi
ngworksdi
dChauceruseot
tav
ari
ma,
theei
ght
sy
ll
abi
cli
ner
hymingincoupl
ets?
a.TheCant
erbur
yTal
es
b.ThePr
ologue
c.TheBookoft
heDuchess
d.Noneoft
hese
Ans:
c.TheBookoft
heDuchess
174. .
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..i
sapr
osest
orybyChaucer
.
a.ThePar
son’
sTal
e
b.Tal
eofMel
i
bens
c.Bot
h‘a’
and‘
b’
d.Noneoft
hese
Ans:
d.
175. Whi
choft
heseaut
hor
siscor
rect
lymat
chedwi
tht
hatofbooks?
a.JohnGower : Pei
esPl
owman
b.Geof
freyChaucer : Conf
essi
oAmant
is
c.Wi
l
li
am Langl
and : TheHouseofFame
d.JohnCl
erkofWhal
ey : Toi
l
usandCr
isey
de
Ans:
d.JohnCl
erkofWhal
ey : Toi
l
usandCr
isey
de
176. ‘
Conf
essi
oAmant
is’
wri
tt
enbyGoweri
sbased
a.Mor
alTeachi
ngs
b.Adv
ent
ure
c.Lov
e
d.Bot
h‘b’
and‘
c’
Ans:
c.Lov
e
177. ‘
Conf
essi
oAmant
is’
,anency
lopedi
aoft
hear
tofl
ove;
waswr
it
teni
n
a.Engl
i
sh
b.Fr
ench
c.Angl
o-Saxon
d.Lat
in
Ans:
a.Engl
i
sh
178. Whi
choutoft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
sinpr
oseonl
y,i
ntheCant
erbur
yTal
es?
a.Squi
re’
sTal
e
b.Chaucer
’sTal
esofNi
l
ibee
c.Kni
ght
’sTal
e
d.Noneoft
heabov
e
Ans:
b.Chaucer
’sTal
esofNi
l
ibee
179. Whichpoem byChaucerwaswr

it
tenont
hedeat
hofBl
anche,
Wif
eofJohn
ofGaunt
?
a.Tr
oil
usandCr
isey
de
b.TheHouseofFame
c.TheBookofDuchess
d.TheLegendofGoodWomen
Ans:
c.TheBookofDuchess
180. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngst
atement
sisnotcor
rect
?
a.Chaucerusedt
her
hymer
oyal
,ast
anzai
cfor
minsomeofhi
smaj
orpoems
b.Chaucerwast horofTheLegendofGoodWomen
heaut
c.Chaucerwrot
einEngl
i
sh,whent
hecour
tpoet
ryofhi
sdaywaswr
it
teni
n
Angl
oNor manandLati
n
d.Chaucerwr
oteTheBookNamedt
heGov
ernor
Ans:
d.Chaucerwr
oteTheBookNamedt
heGov
ernor
181. Theli
nes,
“Shewasaworthywomanal
hirl
yve/Housebondesatcher
che
dor
eshehaddef
ive”
,ar
eanexampleof
a.bl
ankv
erse
b.cl
eri
hew
c.her
oiccoupl
et
d.f
reev
erse
Ans:
c.her
oiccoupl
et
182. Whati
sitt
hatChaucerf
ocusesoni
nthedepi
cti
onoft
heWi
feofBat
hin
TheCant
erbur
yTal
es?
a.Meekness
b.Def
iance
c.Chast
it
y
d.Exper
ience
Ans:
d.Exper
ience
183. Langl sPi

and’ ersPl
owmani
sasat
ir
eon
a.ar
ist
ocr
acy
b.chi
val
ry
c.peasant
ry
d.cl
ergy
Ans:
d.cl
ergy
184. Chaucer
’sPar
li
amentofFowl
esi
sinpar
t
a.Puzzl
e
b.Debat
e]
c.Thr
enody
d.Beastf
abl
e
Thecor
rectcombi
nat
ionf
ort
heabov
est
atement
,accor
dingt
othecodei
s
a.1,
2and4
b.2,
3and4
c.1and4
d.2and4
Ans:
a.1,
2and4
185. Whoamongt
hef
oll
owi
ngwasGeof
freyChaucer
’scont
empor
ary
?
a.ThomasChat
ter
ton
b.JohnGower
c.ThomasShadwel
l
d.JohnGay
Ans:
b.JohnGower
186. Thet
radi
ti
onofal
l
egor
ical
anddr
eam poet
ryempl
oyst
hewor
ksof.
..
..
..
.
a.Hoccl
eve
b.St
ephenHawes
c.JohnLy
dgat
e
d.JohnSkel
eton
Ans:
c.JohnLy
dgat
e
187. ‘TheFal
lofPr
incess’
,‘
TheTr
oyBook’
,‘
TheStoryofThebes’
,‘
The
Pi
lgri
mageoftheLif
eofMan’ and‘
TheComplai
ntoft
heBlackKnight
’ar
echi
ef
worksof
a.St
ephenHawes
b.JohnLy
dgat
e
c.JohnSkel
eton
d.Wi
l
li
am Shakespear
e
Ans:
b.JohnLy
dgat
e
188. Whodecl
aredhi
msel
fasaf
oll
owerofChaucer
?
a.Ly
dgat
e
b.Hawes
c.Hoccl
eve
d.Skel
eton
Ans:
b.Hawes
189. “
Past
imesofpl
easur
e”r
emai
nedi
nfl
uent
ial
inmaki
ng,
whosemast
erpi
ece?
a.Shakespear
e
b.Gr
eene
c.Spenser
d.Wi
l
li
am Dunbar
Ans:
c.Spenser
190. Scot
ti
shChaucer
iansandt
hei
rpoet
ryi
s
a.Ret
rogr
essi
ve
b.Pr
ogr
essi
ve
c.Bot
h‘a’
and‘
b’
d.Spi
ri
tual
Ans:
b.Pr
ogr
essi
ve
191. Whati
saPent
amet
er?
a.Ani
nst
rumentusedt
omeasur
ether
eal
i
sti
cpat
ter
ninst
anza
b.Ast
anzaofsev
enl
i
neswi
tht
her
hymeschemeababbcc
c.Aper
son,
whoi
shel
dcapt
ivat
ed
d.Noneoft
heabov
e
Ans:
b.Ast
anzaofsev
enl
i
neswi
tht
her
hymeschemeababbcc
192. WhoisknownforTestamentofCressei
dye,
inwhi
chher
ecastt
he
concl
usi
onofChaucer
’sTroi
l
usandCr yseyde?
a.Rober
tHenr
yson
b.Mal
ory
c.Caxt
on
d.Wi
l
li
am Dunbar
Ans:
c.Caxt
on
193. “
Test
amentofCr
essey
de”i
sawor
kdoneby
a.Rober
tHenr
yson
b.JohnSkel
eton
c.ThomasHoccl
eve
d.Wi
l
li
am Dunbar
Ans:
a.Rober
tHenr
yson
194. Whydi
dChaucer
’sTr
oil
usdi
ehear
tbr
oken?
a.BecauseCr
essey
del
eftar
ingi
nhi
sremembr
ance
b.BecauseCr
essey
debet
ray
edhi
mforDi
omede
c.BecauseTr
oil
usbui
l
tat
ombi
nCr
essey
de’
sremembr
ance
d.Noneoft
heabov
e
Ans:
b.BecauseCr
essey
debet
ray
edhi
mforDi
omede
195. Asser
ti
on(
A)ThomasMal
orywasconsi
der
edasal
i
ter
arygeni
us.
Reason(R)Hissel
ect
ionofinci
dent
,hi
suniqueuseofdi
alogueasameansof
char
acter
isat
ionandhisgoodhumourall
pointt
othesame.
Codes
a.Ai
str
ue,
butRi
sfal
se
b.Ai
sfal
se,
butRi
str
ue
c.Bot
hAandRar
etr
ue,
butRi
snott
hecor
rectexpl
anat
ionofA
d.Bot
hAandRar
etr
ueandRi
sthecor
rectexpl
anat
ionofA
Ans:
d.Bot
hAandRar
etr
ue,
butRi
snott
hecor
rectexpl
anat
ionofA
196. WhenCr
essey
dewasbeggi
ngatt
het
imeofherdeat
hwhom di
dshel
eav
e
ar
ingf
or?
a.Hoccl
eve
b.Ly
dgat
e
c.Tr
oil
us
d.JohnSkel
eton
Ans:
c.Tr
oil
us
197. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
snoti
mpl
ement
edbyGav
inDougl
as?
a.Al
l
egor
ical
Techni
que
b.Ei
ghtl
i
nest
anza
c.Ni
nel
i
nest
anza
d.For
mal
all
egor
y
Ans:
d.For
mal
all
egor
y
198. ABal
l
adi
sal
way
s
a.Nar
rat
ive
b.Anal
yti
cal
c.Nar
rat
iveorAnal
yti
cal
d.Non-
Nar
rat
ive
Ans:
a.Nar
rat
ive
199. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
sinchr
onol
ogi
cal
order
?
a.LeMor
teD’
Art
hur
,TheBookofFai
th, Or
dinal
lofAl
chemy
b.TheBookofFai
th,
Ordi
nal
lofAl
chemy
,LeMor
teD’
Art
hur
c.Or
dinal
lofAl
chemy
,LeMor
teD’
Art
hur
,TheBookofFai
th
d.LeMor
teD’
Art
hur
,Or
dinal
lofAl
chemy
,TheBookofFai
th
Ans:
b.TheBookofFai
th,
Ordi
nal
lofAl
chemy
,LeMor
teD’
Art
hur
200. Appl
yi
nghumanqual
i
tiest
ononhumant
hings
a.Personi
ficat
ion
b.Onomat opoeia
c.Al
li
terat
ion
d.Al
lusion
Ans:
a.Per
soni
fi
cat
ion
201. Whoamongt
hef
oll
owi
nghasbeencal
l
ed‘
TheMor
ningSt
aroft
he
Renai
ssance’
?
a.Shakespear
e
b.Spenser
c.Chaucer
d.Marlowe
Ans:
c.Chaucer
202. Whatf
iel
dsofl
ear
ningdoesFaust
usconsi
derbef
orehet
urnst
omagi
c?
a.Chemist
ry,biol
ogy ,andphy sics
b.Logi
c,medicine,law,andt heology
c.Navi
gati
on,ast r
onomy ,rhetoric,
andtheol
ogy
d.Grammar,history,sci
ence, andLati
n
Ans:
b.Logi
c,medi
cine,
lawandt
heol
ogy
203. Ther
epet
it
ionofbegi
nni
ngconsonantsounds
a.Rhyme
b.Onomatopoei
a
c.All
i
terat
ion
d.Epi
thet
Ans:
c.Al
l
iter
ati
on
204. Chaucer
'sCant
erbur
yTal
esi
sast
oryof
a.nineteenpilgri
ms
b.twent y
-fourpil
gr i
ms
c.twent y
-ninepilgri
ms
d.thir
ty-f
ourpi l
grims
Ans:
c.t
went
y-ni
nepi
l
gri
ms
205. Whohasbeencal
l
ed‘
thepoet
’spoet
’?
a.Si
dney
b.Shakespear
e
c.Spenser
d.BenJonson
Ans:
c.Spenser
206. Thephr
ase“
disassoci
ati
onofsensi
bil
i
ty”wasf
ir
stusedby
a.Mat
hewAr
nol
d
b.JohnDr
yden
c.T.S.El
i
ot
d.Phi
l
ipSy
dney
Ans:
c.T.S.El
i
ot
207. I
nwhi
chmont
hdi
dthepi
l
gri
msmar
cht
o¬war
dst
heCant
erbur
y?
a.Apri
l
b.March
c.June
d.May
Ans:
b.Mar
ch
208. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngwr
it
erswr
otehi
stor
ical
nov
els?
a.JaneAust enandCharl
ott
eBr ont
e
b.SirWalterScot
tandMariaEdgewor t
h
c.Wi l
l
iam Wordswort
handSamuel Tayl
orCol
eri
dge
d.Mar yShell
eyandPercyByssheShell
ey
Ans:
b.Si
rWal
terScot
tandMar
iaEdgewor
th
209.ThePickwi
ckPapersbyDickenswaspubl
i
shedi
n:
a.1836 b.1838 c.1839 d.1841
Ans:
a.1836
209. Al
chemyi
sthepr
act
iceoft
urni
ngbasemet
ali
nto_
___
___
__.
a.Lead
b.Gold
c.Sil
ver
d.Pewter
Ans:
b.Gol
d
210. Tot
t sMi
el
’ scel
l
any(
1557)cont
ainedt
hesongsandsonnet
sof
a.WyattandSurrey
b.WyattandRaleigh
c.Sur
reyandSidney
d.Si
dneyandSpencer
Ans:
a.Wy
attandSur
rey
211. Hor
ati
oiski
l
ledbyLor
enzo,
Bal
thazar
,andwhoel
se?
a.Pedr
inganoandSerberi
ne
b.Pedr
inganoandChrist
ophil
c.Pedr
inganoandhisevilt
winWedri
ngano
d.Pedr
ingano,
Serberi
ne,andChr
ist
ophil
Ans:
a.Pedr
inganoandSer
ber
ine
212. Thet
it
leofCar
lyl
e’
s‘Sar
torResar
tus’
means?
a.Reli
giousScri
ptur
e
b.SeasideResort
c.Tai
lorRepatched
d.Noneoft hese
Ans:
c.Tai
l
orRepat
ched
213. Whi
ch1934nov
eli
sbasedonOr
wel
l
'sexper
iencesi
ntheI
ndi
anI
mper
ial
Pol
i
ce?
a.Bur
meseDays
b.HappyDay
s
c.Cey
lonDay
s
d.I
ndi
anDays
Ans:
a.Bur
meseDay
s
214. “
Myowngreatrel
i
gioni
sabel
iefi
nt he
bl
ood,
thef
leshasbei
ngwisert
hant
heintell
ect
.”
:Whowr
otet
his?
a.Graham Greene
b.D.H.Lawrence
c.Charl
esDickens
d.JaneAusten
Ans:
b.D.H.Lawr
ence
215. Whoi
sknownf
ort
heWav
erl
eynov
els?
a.JaneAusten
b.ThomasHar dy
c.Walt
erScott
d.Charl
esDickens
Ans:
c.Walt
erScott
216. Whati
sthei
mit
ati
onofnat
ural
soundsi
nwor
dfor
m?
a.Personi
ficat
ion
b.Hyperboles
c.Al
li
terat
ion
d.Onomat opoeia
Ans:
d.Onomat
opoei
a
217. ‘
OnHer
oesandHer
o-wor
shi
p’i
swr
it
tenby
:
a.Huxl
ey
b.Car
lyl
e
c.Ruski
n
d.Mi
l
l
Ans:
b.Car
lyl
e
218. Geor
geOrwelli
sa“penname”orpseudonym adopt
edbyt
heaut
horof
1984.Whatist
hereal
,bi
rt
hnameoftheauthor?
a.Andr
ewMaci
nty
re
b.Er
icAr
thurBl
air
c.Geor
geO’
Nei
l
l
d.Samuel
Longhor
nCl
emons
Ans:
b.Er
icAr
thurBl
air
219. Whatdi
dBel
-I
mper
iagi
vet
obot
hherl
over
s(Hor
ati
oandAndr
ea)
?
a.Abr
acel
et
b.Akni
fe
c.Ascar
f
d.Abook
Ans:
c.Ascar
f
220.Di
ckens,
Thackr
ay,
Geor
geEl
i
otandTr
oll
opear
e:
a.Nov
eli
sts
b.Poet
s
c.Cr
it
ics
d.Essay
ist
s
Ans:
a.Nov
eli
sts
220. MyFai
rLadyi
samusi
cal
dramabasedonwhi
choft
hepl
ayofShaw?
a.Pygmali
on
b. St
.Joan
c. ArmsandtheMan
d. Appl
eCart
Ans:
a.Py
gmal
i
on
221. Themagazine'
Cont
emporar
yPoet r
yand
Pr
ose'
wasi
nspir
edbywhichexhi
bit
ion?
a.TheFest
ivalofBr
it
ain
b.TheSurr
eali
stExhi
bit
ion
c.Peopl
eofthe20thCentury
d.Drawi
ngthe20thCentury
Ans:
b.TheSur
real
i
stExhi
bit
ion
222. Whi
chofthefol
l
owingnov
elsr
efl
ect
edGeor
geMer
edi
th’
sdi
sast
rous
mar
ri
aget
oMaryEll
enNicol
l
s?
a. AReadingofEar
th
b. AReadingofLi
fe
c. TheEmptyPurse
d. ModernLove
Ans:
d.Moder
nLov
e
223. Wal
terScot
tisknownast
hef
atherof
a.Hi
stor
ical
nov
el
b.Bi
ogr
aphi
calnov
el
c.Got
hicnov
el
d.Real
i
sti
cnov
el
Ans:
a.Hi
stor
ical
nov
el
224. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
snotaPar
tysl
ogani
nthenov
el1984?
a.Fr
eedom i
sSl
aver
y
b.I
gnor
ancei
sSt
rengt
h
c.Lov
eisHat
e
d.Wari
sPeace
Ans:
c.Lov
eisHat
e
225.Geor
geEl
i
otandT.
S.El
i
otar
e:
a.Brot
her&Sist
er
b.Contempor
arywri
ter
s
c.Modernpoets
d.Cri
ti
cs
Ans:
c.Moder
npoet
s
225. Whom doesCal

i
banmi
stakef
oroneofPr
osper
o’sspi
ri
tssentt
otor
ment
hi
m?
a.St
ephano
b.Fer
dinand
c.Mi
randa
d.Tr
incul
o
Ans:
d.Tr
incul
o
226. TheOl
dWi
ves’
Tal
eisanov
elby
a.Hawt
hor
ne
b.Ar
nol
dBennet
t
c.ThomasCar
lyl
e
d.Mar
gar
etAt
wood
Ans:
d.Mar
gar
etAt
wood
227. Al
dousHuxl
eywasapoet
,butwasbet
terknownas
a.Poli
ti
cian
b.Dramat i
st
c.Noveli
st
d.Archi
tect
Ans:
c.Nov
eli
st
228. Mar
gar
etAt sOr
wood’ yxandCr
akei
s
a.Sci
encef
ict
ion
b.Romance
c.Specul
ati
vef
ict
ion
d.Real
i
sti
cnov
el
Ans:
c.Specul
ati
vef
ict
ion
229. Char
lesDi sATal
ckens’ eofTwoCi
ti
esbegi
nswi
tht
hesent
ence
a.I
twast
hebestoftimes;i
twast heworstoft i
mes.
b.I
twast
hebri
ghtestofti
mes;itwasthedar kestofti
mes.
c.I
twast
heri
chestoftimes;i
twast hepoorestoftimes.
d.I
twast
hehappiestofti
mes;itwasthesaddestoft i
mes.
Ans:
a.I
twast
hebestoft
imes;
itwast
hewor
stoft
imes.
230. _
___
___
__i
sapoet
icr
hyt
hm desi
gnedt
oimi
tat
ether
hyt
hm ofnat
ural
speech.
a.Spr
ungRhythm
b.Ter
zaRima
c.Ott
awaRima
d.RhymeRoyal
Ans:
a.Spr
ungRhy
thm
231. WhatwasProsper
o’st
it
lebef
orehi
sposi
ti
onwasusur
pedandhewas
f
orcedtof
leeI
tal
y?
a.DukeofMi
l
an
b.Ki
ngofNapl
es
c.DukeofNapl
es
d.PopeofRome
Ans:
a.DukeofMi
l
an
232. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
sthef
ir
stnov
elofD.H.Lawr
ence?
a.TheWhitePeacock
b.TheTrespasser
c.SonsandLov ers
d.Womeni nLov e
Ans:
a.TheWhi
tePeacock
233. Thechar
act
erofLi
tt
leNei
li
sacr
eat
ionof
:
a.Hardy
b.Eli
ot
c. OscarWil
de
d.Dickens
Ans:
d.Di
ckens
234. “
All
ani
mal
sar
eequal
,butsomeani
mal
sar
e__
___
___
___
___
___
___
___
___
_.”
a.moreequal t
hanot her
s
b.morepower f
ulthanothers
c.morei
ntell
igentthanother
s
d.smel
li
erthanot hers
Ans:
a.mor
eequal
thanot
her
s
235. Leari
ski
ngofwhatcount
ry?
a.France
b.Brit
ain
c.EastAnglia
d.Scotland
Ans:
b.Br
it
ain
236. WhoderidedHazli
ttasoneoft
hemember
s
oft
he‘
CockneySchoolofPoetr
y’?
a.Tennyson
b.Charl
esLamb
c.Lockhart
d.T.S.Eli
ot
Ans:
c.Lockhar
t
237. Whi
choneofLear
’sdaught
ersi
ssenti
ntoexi
l
e?
a.Goneri
l
b.Regan
c.Cordel
ia
d.Jul
iet
Ans:
c.Cor
del
i
a
238. Whyar
ethepi
l
gri
msgoi
ngt
oCant
erbur
y?
a.TomeetKi ngHenryI
II
b.Toseeamedi evalmyst
erypl
ay
c.Towor shi
ptherel
i
csofSaintThomasBecket
t
d.Becausetheyar
etouri
sts
Ans:
c.Towor
shi
pther
eli
csofSai
ntThomasBecket
t
239. D.
H.Lawr
enceusest
heexpr
essi
on‘
abr
ightbookofl
i
fe’
todescr
ibe
a.Thenovel
b.Thedramati
cmonol
ogue
c.TheBibl
e
d.Theshortl
yri
c
Ans:
a.Thenov
el
240. Whi
chbookofGeor
geMer
edi
thwaspubl
i
shedi
n1879?
a.TheEgot i
st
b.Emili
ainEngland
c.TheAdv entur
esofHar
ryRi
chmond
d.Vit
tori
a
Ans:a.TheEgot i
st
241. G.
M.Hopki
ns’
s“Wi
ndhov
er”i
sdedi
cat
ed:
a.ToChr
ist,
ourLord
b.ToChr
istourl
ord
c.Tonoone
d.ToChr
ist,
theLor
d
Ans:
b.ToChr
istourl
ord
242. D.H.Lawr
ence’
s__
___
___
___
__i
ssetdur
ingt
heper
iodoft
heMexi
can
Rev
olut
ion.
a. TheTr
espasser
b. ThePl
umedSer pent
c. TheRainbow
d. TheEscapedCock
Ans:
b.ThePl
umedSer
pent
243. W.
M.Thacker
aysVani
’ tyFai
rowesi
tst
it
let
o
a.Browning’sFifi
neatt heFai
r
b.Shakespear sMer
e’ chantofVeni
ce
c.Goldsmith’sVicarofWakefiel
d
d.Bunyan’sPilgri
m’sPr ogr
ess
Ans:
d.Buny
an’
sPi
l
gri
m’sPr
ogr
ess
244. Whoi
spr
aisedasaher
obyCar
lyl
einhi
slect
ureont
he‘
Her
oasKi
ng’
?
a.Johnson
b.Cromwell
c.Shakespear
e
d.Luther
Ans:
b.Cr
omwel
l
245. nAni
I malFar
m,whati
sthenameoft
hef
arm bef
oret
heani
mal
stakeov
er?
a.ColdComfortFar
m
b.GrangeFar
m
c.ManorFarm
d.Sunnybr
ookFarm
Ans:
c.ManorFarm
246. “
Hark,har
k!
Bow-
wow.
Thewatch-
dogsbar
k!
Bow-
wow. ”
I
dent
if
ythef
igur
eofspeechf
oundi
nthequot
efr
om Shakespear
e’sTheTempest
.
a.Al
l
iter
ati
on
b.Hy
per
bol
e
c.Par
adox
d.Onomat
opoei
a
Ans:
d.Onomat
opoei
a
247. I
nOr
well
'
ssemi-
aut
obi
ographi
cal
accountofhi
sli
vi
ngi
npov
ert
yinbot
h
ci
ti hewasDownandOutwher
es, e?
a.LeedsandLi
verpool
b.LondonandGlasgow
c.MadrasandCalcutt
a
d.Pari
sandLondon
Ans:
d.Par
isandLondon
248. I
nwhi
chbookoft
heBi
bledoest
hest
oryofAdam andEv
eoccur
?
a.Levi
ticus
b.Exodus
c.Genesis
d.Deuteronomy
Ans:
c.Genesi
s
249. Harol
dNi
chol
sondescri
bedwhi
chpoetas
'
Ver
yyel
l
owandglum.Per
fectmanner
s'?
a.e.e.Cummings
b.T.S.Ell
i
ot
c.c.JohnGreenl
eafWhi
tt
ier
d.d.WaltWhitman
Ans:
b.T.S.El
i
ot
250. Whoi
stheaut hebookNi
horoft net
eenEi
ght
yFour
?
a.ThomasHardy
b.Emil
eZola
c.Geor
geOrwell
d.Walt
erScott
Ans:
c.Geor
geOr
wel
l
251. Geor
geBer
nar
dShaw,
thegr
eatdr
amat
ist
,was
a.AWel
sh
b.AnI
ri
shman
c.AScot
sman
d.AnEngl
i
shman
Ans:
b.AnI
ri
shman
252. Thef
amouschar
act
er'
Pickwi
ck'
wascr
eat
edby
a.St
evenSpi
elber
g
b.LeoTol
stoy
c.Wal
tDi
sney
d.Char
lesDi
ckens
Ans:
d.Char
lesDi
ckens
253. Ami l
dwordorphrasewhichsubsti
tutesforanotherwhichwoul
dbe
undesi
rabl
ebecausei
tistoodi
rect,
unpleasant,
oroffensive.
a.Euphemism
b.Genre
c.PointofVi
ew
d.Picar
esqueNov
el
Ans:
a.Euphemi
sm
254. Whosai
d‘Mi
l
toni
soft
hedev
il
’spar
tywi
thoutknowi
ngi
t’
?
a.Bl
ake
b.By
ron
c.Arnol
d
d.I
.A.Ri
char
ds
Ans:
a.Bl
ake
255. _
___
___
___
__di
scov
eredSpr
ungRhy
thm.
a.Chaucer
b.Mi
l
ton
c.Shakespear
e
d.G.M.Hopki
ns
Ans:
d.G.M.Hopki
ns
256. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngnov
elshast
hesub-
ti
tl
e‘ANov
elwi
thoutaHer
o’?
a.Vanit
yFair
b.Middlemarch
c.Wutheri
ngHeight
s
d.Oli
verTwist
a.Vani
Ans: tyFai
r
257. Whichofthef
oll
owi
ngpl
aysofShakespear
e,accor
dingt
oT.S.El
i
ot,
is
‘
art
ist
icf
ail
ure’
?
a.TheTempest
b.Hamlet
c.Henr
yIV,PtI
d.Twel
fthNight
Ans:
b.Haml
et
258. Thet
it
leofWi
l
li
am Faul
kner
’sTheSoundandt
heFur
yist
akenf
rom apl
ay
by
a.Chri
stopherMarl
owe
b.Wil
li
am Shakespear
e
c.BenJonson
d.JohnWebst er
Ans:
b.Wi
l
li
am Shakespear
e
259. _
______
____
___ist
hepur
if
icat
ionandpur
gat
ionofemot
ions,
especi
all
ypi
ty
andf
ear,t
hroughart
.
a.Tragedy
b.Comedy
c.Mimesi s
d.Catharsi
s
Ans:
d.Cat
har
sis
260. “Yetiftheonlyf or
m oftradi
tion,ofhandingdown,consi
stedi
nfoll
owing
thewaysoft heimmedi ategenerat
ionbef oreusinablindort
imi
dadherenceto
i
tssuccesses,''
tr
adi
tion"shoul
dposi t
ivel
ybedi scour
aged…”
Theaboveobser vat
ionwasmadeby_ ___
__ _
___.
a.T.
S.Eli
ot
b.Al
exanderPope
c.P.
B.Shell
ey
d.MatthewArnol
d
Ans:
a.T.S.El
i
ot
261. Whi
chpoetdoesWi
l
li
amsquot
eint
heepi
gr oASt
apht reet
carNamed
Desi
re?
a.Wal
laceStevens
b.Har
tCrane
c.Wal
tWhi t
man
d.Emi
lyDicki
nson
Ans:
b.Har
tCr
ane
262. _
___
___
__wasasequel
toD.
H.Lawr oTheRai
encet nbow.
a.Womeni nLove
b.ThePlumedSerpent
c.TheRainbow
d.SonsandLovers
a.Womeni
Ans: nLov
e
263. Whi
chnov
elofChar
lesDi
ckenshasPi
p,anor
phanast
hecent
ral
char
act
er?
a.DavidCopperfi
eld
b.Li
ttl
eDor r
it
c.GreatExpectat
ions
d.HardTimes
c.Gr
Ans: eatExpect
ati
ons
264. Thewor
d'sur
real
i
sm'
wascoi
nedby
a. Gui
l
laumeApol
l
inai
re
b. Si
gmundFr
eud
c. Andr
éBr
eton
d. Pi
err
eRev
erdy
Ans:
a.Gui
l
laumeApol
l
inai
re
265. “
ADeser
tedVi
l
lage”i
sapast
oral
poem wr
it
tenby_
___
_
a.Goldsmit
h
b.JohnSteinbeck
c.Graham Greene
d.ThomasHar dy
Ans:
a.Gol
dsmi
th
266. Whichoft
hef
oll
owi
ngchar
act
ersf
rom El
i
ot’
sWast
eLandi
snotcor
rect
ly
ment
ioned?
a.Thety
pist
b.Madam Sosost
ri
s
c.TheMerchantf
rom Eugeni
des
d.TheYoungManCar buncul
ar
Ans:
c.TheMer
chantf
rom Eugeni
des
267. heendofSonsandLov
Att ers,PaulMor
el
a.Set
soffinquestofli
feawayfr
om hismother
.
b.Consi
derst
heopt i
onofcommi t
ti
ngsuici
de.
c.Joi
nshisel
derbrotherWil
l
iam i
nLondon.
d.EmbracesaSchopenhauer–li
kenihi
li
sm.
Ans:
a.Set
sof
faquestofl
i
feawayf
rom hi
smot
her
.
268. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngpl
aycanbebestdescr
ibedas:
(i
)thefi
rststatementofBer
nar
dShaw’sideaofLi
feForce;
(i
i
)aplaydealingwithawoman’
spursui
tofhermate;and
(i
i
i)aplaywhoset hir
dactcal
led“
DonJuani nHell”
,bot hunconv
ent
ionaland
hi
l
ari
ous?
a.TheDev il
’sDisci
ple
b.ManandSuper man
c.Candi da
d.Ar msandt heMan
b.ManandSuper
Ans: man
269. _
____
____
_ t
racest
hel
i
feofthepowerfulPersi
anconquerort
ohis
conquestofEgyptandhi
smarr
iagetoZenocrate,
daughteroft
hedefeat
ed
Egypti
ansult
an.
a.Tambur
lai
net
heGr
eat
b.Doct
orFaust
us
c.Edwar
dII
d.TheJewofMal
ta
a.Tambur
Ans: lai
net
heGr
eat
270. Thef
ir
stPoem i
nEngl
i
sht
ouseher
oiccoupl
eti
s__
___
___
__.
a.TheLegendofGoodWomen
b.TheHouseofFame
c.ThePar
li
amentofFowl
es
d.TheBookofTheDuchess
a.TheLegendofGoodWomen
Ans:
271. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngt
al nTheCant
esi erbur
yTal
esi
sinpr
osef
orm?
a.ThePar
son’
sTal
e
b.TheWi
feofBat
h’sTal
e
c.TheCook’
sTal
e
d.ThSqui
re’
sTal
e
Ans:
a.ThePar
son’
sTal
e
272. _
___
___
__ daboutTheCant
_sai erbur
yTal
est
hat“
her
eindeedi
sGod’
s
pl
ent
y”
a.BenJonson
b.Dr
yden
c.Pope
d.Johnson
Ans:
b.Dr
yden
273. ‘
TheMar
lowi
anHer
o’i
sknownf
orhi
shungerf
or_
___
___
___
___
__.
a.Gol
d
b.Power
c.Knowl
edge
d.Peace
Ans:
b.Power
274. _
___i
sacont
empor
aryofShakespear
ebor
nin1564.
a.Si
dney
b.Spenser
c.Mar
lowe
d.Donne
Ans:
c.Mar
lowe
275. _
___
___
_ist
hepl
ayofBenJohnsoni
nwhi
chShakespear
eact
ed.
a.Ev
eryMani
nHi
sHumour
b.Ev
eryMani
nOutofHi
sHumour
c.Cy
nthi
a’
sRev
els
d.ThePoet
ast
er
Ans:
a.Ev
eryMani
nHi
sHumour
276. Whosai
dthatShakespear
einhi
scomedi
eshasonl
yher
oinesandno
her
oes?
a.BenJonson
b.JohnRuski
n
c.ThomasCarly
le
d.Wil
li
am Hazl
it
t
Ans:
b.JohnRuski
n
277. _
___
__i
sanAmer
icanr
eal
i
stnov
elwr
it
tenbyJohnSt
einbeckand
publ
i
shedi
n1939.
a.EastofEden
b.OfMiceandMen
c.TheGrapesofWrat
h
d.TheAmer i
canTr
agedy
c.TheGr
Ans: apesofWr
ath
278. Si
rJohnFal
staf
fisoneofShakespear
e’sgr
eat
est
-
a.comi
cfi
gur
es
b.histori
calf
igur
es
c.romant i
cfi
gures
d.tragicfi
gur
es
Ans:
a.comi
cfi
gur
es
279. ‘
Ther
e’saspeci
alpr
ovi
dencei
nthef
all
ofaspar
row.
”
Thel
i
negivenaboveoccur
sin
a.Hamlet
b.Henr
yIV,PtI
c.TheTempest
d.Twel
fthNight
Ans:
a.Haml
et
280. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
sNOTawor
kbyGr
aham Gr
eene?
a.ThePowerandtheGlor
y
b.TheHeartoft
heMatter
c.TheEndoftheAff
air
d.OfMiceandMen
d.OfMi
Ans: ceandMen
281. “Dostthouthi
nk,becausethouar
tvir
tuous,
t
her
eshallbenomor ecakesandale’
Whospeakstheli
nesgivenaboveinTwelf
thNight?
a.DukeOrsi
no
b.Malvol
i
o
c.Si
rAndrewAguecheek
d.Si
rTobyBelch
Ans:
d.Si
rTobyBel
ch
282. TheConf
ident
ialAgent(
1939)i
sat
hri
l
lernov
elbyBr
it
ishaut
hor_
___
__
a.Graham Greene
b.HaroldPi
nter
c.MarkTwain
d.GeorgeEli
ot
Ans:
a.Gr
aham Gr
eene
283. ‘
Brev
ityi
sthesoul
ofwi
t’i
saquot
ati
onf
rom-
a.Mil
ton
b.Wil
li
am Shakespear
e
c.T.S.El
iot
d.Ruski
n
Ans:
b.Wi
l
li
am Shakespear
e
284. Howmanysol
i
loqui
esar
espokenbyHaml
eti
nt ayHaml
hepl et?
a.Nine
b.Seven
c.Fi
v e
d.Three
Ans:
a.Ni
ne
285. Whatwast
hef
ir
stpubl
i
shedt
it
leofChr
ist
opherMar
low' ayTheJewof
spl
Mal
ta?
a.TheStoryoft
heRi chJewofMalt
a
b.TheTragedyoftheRichJewofMalt
a
c.TheTragedyoftheJewofMalta
d.TheFamousTr agedyoftheRi
chJewofMal
ta
Ans:
d.TheFamousTr
agedyoft
heRi
chJewofMal
ta
286. Towhom doesHenchar

dsel
lhi
swi
fe?
a.Afur
mi t
y-sel
l
er
b.Asai
lor
c.Afar
mer
d.Anobleman
Ans:
b.Asai
l
or
287. ComedyofHumour
swasbestdev
elopedi
n:
a.Thepl
aysofShakespear
e
b.Thepl
aysofSheri
dan
c.Thepl
aysofBenJonson
d.Thepl
aysofMoli
èr
Ans:
c.Thepl
aysofBenJonson
288. Whichoneoft
hefol
l
owingdr
amasat
tr
ibut
edt
oChr
ist
opherMar
lowi
s
bel
i
evedtohavebeenhi
sfi
rst
?
a.Tamburl
ainet
heGreat
b.Edwardt
heSecond
c.TheJewofMal t
a
d.Dido,
QueenofCart
hage
Ans:
d.Di
do,
QueenofCar
thage
289. Whichofthef
oll
owi
ngpl
aysofShakespear
e,accor
dingt
oT.S.El
i
ot,
is
‘
art
ist
icf
ail
ure’
?
a.TheTempest
b.Hamlet
c.Henr
yIV,PtI
d.Twel
fthNight
Ans:
b.Haml
et
290. _
___
___
__i
sconsi
der
edt
obeanaut
obi
ogr
aphi
cal
playbyShakespear
e.
a.TheTempest
b.Hamlet
c.Ki
ngLear
d.Measur
eforMeasur
e
Ans:
a.TheTempest
/Measur
eforMeasur
e
291. Towhi
cht
heat
erwasChr
ist
opherMar
lowassoci
atedwi
th?
a.Rest
orat
ionTheatr
e
b.Engl
i
shPur i
tanTheat
re
c.Engl
i
shNeo- cl
assi
calTheat
re
d.Engl
i
shRenai
ssanceTheat
re
Ans:
d.Engl
i
shRenai
ssanceTheat
re
292. Whocoi
nedt
hephr
ase,
“Mar
lowe’
smi
ght
yli
nes”
?
a.BenJonson
b.Dr.SamuelJohnson
c.R.
L.Stevenson
d.Ri
chardSteele
Ans:
a.BenJonson
293. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngpl
aysofShakespear
ehasanepi
l
ogue?
a.
TheTempest
b.
Henr
yIV,PtI
c.
Hamlet
d.
Twel
fthNight
Ans:
a.TheTempest
294. Whocar
esf
orHenchar
dinhi
sdy
ingday
s?
a.Dr.Chal
kfi
eld
b.AbelWhit
tl
e
c.JoshuaJopp
d.Noonecaresf ort
hef
all
enmay
or,
andhedi
esi
nobscur
it
y
Ans:
b.Abel
Whi
tt
le
295. Whosai
dthatShakespear
eknew“
li
tt
leLat
inandl
essGr
eek”
?
a.Marl
owe
b.BenJonson
c.SamuelJohnson
d.Dry
den
Ans:
b.BenJonson
296. _
___
__i
sanAmer
icannov
eli
st.
a.Hawthor
ne
b.Char
lesDickens
c.Geor
geBer nardShaw
d.D.
H.Lawrence
Ans:
a.Hawt
hor
ne
297. Gr
aham Gr sASor
eene’ tofLi
fei
s
a.Anaut
obi
ogr
aphy
b.ACat
hol
i
cnov
el
c.Awarnov
el
d.At
rav
elaccount
Ans:
a.AnAut
obi
ogr
aphy
298. Ger
aldCr
ichappear
sinwhi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngnov
elsofD.H.Lawr
ence?
a.ThePl
umedSer
pent
b.TheRai
nbow
c.TheVi
rgi
nandt
heGi
psy
d.TheRai
nbow
Ans:
c.TheVi
rgi
nandt
heGi
psy
299. Al
dousHuxl
ey’
smostcel
ebr
atedbooki
sUt
opi
an,
orr
atherDy
stopi
an,
f
ant
asy
a.Chr
omeYel
l
ow
b.Bar
renLeav
es
c.Ant
icHay
d.Br
aveNewWor
ld
Ans:
d.Br
aveNewWor
ld
300. Hest
erPr
ynneappear
sin_
___
_.
a.Edi
bleWoman
b.TheScarl
etLet
ter
c.Sur
faci
ng
d.TheEngl
ishPati
ent
b.TheScar
Ans: letLet
ter
301. Al
dousHuxl
eysBr
’ aveNewWor
ldder
ivesi
tst
it
lef
rom
a.Fr
anci
sBacon
b.JohnMi
l
ton
c.Shakespear
e
d.Wor
dswor
th
Ans:
c.Shakespear
e
302. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngnov
elsofOr
wel
li
sasat
ir
eoncommuni
sm?
a.Ani
mal
Far
m
b.Ni
net
eenEi
ght
-Four
c.Bur
meseDay
s
d.ACl
ergy
man’
sDaught
er
Ans:
a.Ani
mal
Far
m
303. Whoat
tri
but
edt
hist
oShakespear
e?He“
wasnotofanage,
butf
oral
l
t
imes.
”
a.Br
adl
ey
b.Dekker
c.Dr
yden
d.Jonson
Ans:
d.Jonson
304. Whi
skey
-Pr
iesti
sachar
act
eri
n
a.TheHear
toft
heMat
ter
b.TheEndoft
heAf
fai
r
c.ThePowerandt
heGl
ory
d.TheMi
nist
ryofFear
c.ThePowerandt
Ans: heGl
ory
305. TheOl
dWi
ves’
Tal
eisanov
elby
a.Hawt
hor
ne
b.Ar
nol
dBennet
t
c.ThomasCar
lyl
e
d.Mar
gar
etAt
wood
Ans:
b.Ar
nol
dBennet
t
306. _
___
___
___
___i
sthesubt
it
leofChar
lesDi sOl
ckens’ i
verTwi
st.
a.ThePar
ishBoy
'sPr
ogr
ess
b.TheOr
phan
c.ASmal
lBoy
d.ASmal
lBoy
’sAdv
ent
ure
a.ThePar
Ans: ishBoy
’sPr
ogr
ess
307. __
____
___
_ i
saform ofpoet
rywhichexpr
essesper
sonal
emot
ionsor
f
eel
i
ngs,t
ypi
cal
lyspokeni
nt hefi
rstper
son.
a.Lyr
ic
b.Ode
c.Sonnet
d.I
dyll
Ans:
a.Ly
ric
308. Whowasnomi
nat
edf
ort
heNobel
Pri
zei
nLi
ter
atur
einf
ourdi
ff
erenty
ear
s?
a.H.G.Well
s
b.Harol
dPinter
c.MarkTwain
d.GeorgeEl
iot
Ans:
a.H.G.Wel
l
s
309. Useoft
heher
oiccoupl
etwaspi
oneer
edby
a.AlexanderPope
b.Chaucer
c.Dryden
d.Tennyson
Ans:
b.Chaucer
310. “
Themoanofdovesini
mmemor i
alel
ms,
Andmurmur
ingofi
nnumerabl
ebees…”
I
dent
if
ythef
igur
eofspeechusedi
ntheaboveci
tat
ionf
rom Tenny
son’
s“Come
Down,O Maid”
.
a.Onomat
opoei
a
b.Al
l
iter
ati
on
c.Hy
per
bol
e
d.Par
adox
Ans:
a.Onomat
opoei
a
311. Dr
ydenadmi
res_
___
___
___
___
___
_andl
oves_
___
___
__.
a.BenJonson&Wi l
l
iam Shakespear
e
b.Pl
ato&Arist
otl
e
c.Boi
leau&Neander
d.Beoumont&Flet
cher
Ans:
a.BenJonson&Wi
l
li
am Shakespear
e
312. Har
oldPi
nter
’sTheCar
etakeri
sapl
ayi
n__
___act
s.
a.one
b.two
c.three
d.four
Ans:
c.t
hree
313.Aboutwhom di
dDr
ydensayt
hef
oll
owi
ng?
“
Hewasamanwhoofal lmoder
ns,
andper
hapsanci
entpoet
s,t
hegr
eat
estand
t
hemostcompr
ehensi
vesoul.
”
a.Mil
ton
b.Shakespear
e
c.Si
dney
d.Spencer
Ans:
b.Shakespear
e
314. Whi
chnovelbyChar
lesDi
ckenshast
hef
oll
owi
ngast
heopeni
ngl
i
ne:
“
Nighti
sgener
all
ymytimeforwal
king.
”?
a.Ol
iverTwist
b.GreatExpect
ati
ons
c.HardTimes
d.TheOl
dCur
iosi
tyShop
d.TheOl
Ans: dCur
iosi
tyShop
315. Whoamongthefol
l
owi
ngisaNobel
Pri
zewi
nni
ngEngl
i
shpl
aywr
ight
,
scr
eenwr
it
er,
dir
ect
orandact
or?
a.GeorgeEliot
b.GeorgeOr well
c.SaulBell
ow
d.HaroldPinter
Ans:
d.Har
oldPi
nter
316. “
Lif
eisat
alet
oldbyani
diot
.”i
sut
ter
edby
a.Haml
et
b.Ot
hel
l
o
c.Lear
d.Macbet
h
Ans:
d.Macbet
h
317. TheAdv
ent
uresofTom Sawy
erwaswr
it
tenby_
___
__
a.GeorgeEli
ot
b.GeorgeOrwel
l
c.MarkTwain
d.noneofthese
Ans:
c.Mar
kTwai
n
318. "
Readi
nessi
sal
l
."occur
sin
a.Haml
et
b.Macbet
h
c.Ki
ngLear
d.Ot
hel
l
o
Ans:
a.Haml
et
319. "Ful
lFathom fi
vethyFat
herl
ies"i
sal
i
nef
rom Shakespear
e’s
¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬__
___
____
____.
a.TheTempest
b.Haml
et
c.Ot
hel
l
o
d.Ki
ngLear
Ans:
a.TheTempest
320. “
Mywaywar
dhusbandhat
hahundr
edt
imeswooedmet
ost
eal
it,
butshe
sol
ovesthe
token—
Forheconj
uredhersheshoul
dev
erkeepi
t”
—
Whoi
sthespeakeroft
heut
ter
ance?
a.Gert
rude
b.Emil
ia
c.Rosal
ind
d.Desdemona
Ans:
b.Emi
l
ia
321. IdentifytheShakespeareancharact
erwhout
ter
sthef
oll
owi
ng:
No,I
’l
lnotweep.
Ihav
ef ullcauseofweeping, butt
hisheart
shal
lbreaki ntoahundredthousandflaws,
orer
eI’llweep.Of ool
,Ishallgomad!
a.Gl
oucester
b.Ki
ngLear
c.Macbeth
d.Ot
hell
o
Ans:
b.Ki
ngLear
322. "
Ther
eispr
ovi
dencei
nthef
all
ofSpar
row"occur
sin
a.Hamlet
b.Macbeth
c.Ki
ngLear
d.Othel
l
o
Ans:
a.Haml
et
323. Ident
if
ytheShakespear
eancharact
erwhout
ter
sthef
oll
owi
ng:
“Asfl
i
est owantonboysarewetothegods;
Theykil
lusfort
heirspor
t.
”
a.KingLear
b.Haml et
c.Gloucester
d.Edmund
Ans:
c.Gl
oucest
er
324. Whi
chnov el
ofCharl
esDi
ckensi
sseti
nLondonandPar
isbef
oreand
dur
ingt
heFrenchRevol
uti
on?
a. Ol
iverTwist
b.ATal eofTwoCi t
ies
c.GreatExpectat
ions
d.Har
dTi
mes
b.ATal
Ans: eofTwoCi
ti
es
325. “NOW,whatIwanti
s,Fact
s.Teachtheseboysandgi
rl
snot
hingbutFact
s.”
Theabov
eistheopeningl
ineof___
_____
____
.
a.DavidCopperfi
eld
b.Li
ttl
eDor r
it
c.GreatExpectat
ions
d.HardTimes
Ans:
d.Har
dTi
mes
326. Identi
fyisthespeakeroft
hefol
lowing:
“….ofonewhosehand,
LikethebaseIndian,t
hrewapearlaway
Richerthanallhi
stri
be….”
a.Ki
ngRichar
dII
b.Cassi
us
c.Othel
l
o
d.Hamlet
Ans:
c.Ot
hel
l
o
327. Ruper
tBi
rki
ninD.H.Lawr sWomeni
ence’ nLov
eis
a.JohnMi ddl
etonMurr
y
b.Lawrencehimself
c.E.M.For st
er
d.Mabel DodgeLuhan
Ans:
b.Lawr
encehi
msel
f
328. WhichShakespeareanChar
act
erut
teredt
hef
oll
owi
ngst
atement
?
“
Somet
hingisr
otteninthestat
eofDenmark.
”
a.Rey
naldo
b.Hamlet
c.Marcel
lus
d.Hor
atio
Ans:
c.Mar
cel
l
us
329. _
___
___
___
___
___
___i
sthenar
rat
ori
nD.H.Lawr sTheWhi
ence’ tePeacock.
a.Cy
ril
Bear
dsal
l
b.Laet
it
ia
c.Let
ti
e
d.Cy
nthi
a
Ans:
a.Cy
ril
Bear
dsal
l
330. Whoopi
nedt
hefol
lowi
ng:“Wor
dswort
hist hegreat
estpoetonl
y"af
ter
Shakespear
eandMi
ltonf
rom El
i
zabet
hantopresentti
me"?
a.Mat
thewAr
nol
d
b.Dr
.Samuel
Johnson
c.BenJonson
d.T.S.El
i
ot
Ans:
a.Mat
thewAr
nol
d
331. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
snott
hewor
kofGeor
geEl
i
ot?
a. Adam Bede
b. TheMillontheFl
oss
c. Si
lasMar ner
d. Middl
emar ch
d.Mi
Ans: ddl
emar
ch
332. Thechar
act
erNi
ckBot
tom appear
sinShakespear
e’s
a. TheTami
ngoft
heShr
ew
b. AMi
dsummerNi
ght
'sDr
eam
c. Haml
et
d. TheWi
nter
'sTal
e
b.AMi
Ans: dsummerNi
ght
’sDr
eam
333. Whosaid:
“Shakespear
ehadnowher
ewr
it
tenmor
ethansi
xconsecut
ive
l
i
nesofgood
poet
ry”
?
a.Dr
.Johnson
b.Dr
yden
c.Mr
.Ar
nol
d
d.BenJonson
Ans:
a.Dr
.Johnson
334. Whi
chnov
elofD.H.Lawr
encehasachapt
ert
it
led"
Night
mar
e"?
a.Kangaroo
b.ThePlumedSerpent
c.TheRainbow
d.SonsandLover
s
a.Kangar
Ans: oo
335. Onwhosetombt hefol

lowingli
neshav ebeeninscri
bed?
"
Goodf
ri
endforJesus'
sakeforebeartodigthedustenclosedhear
er;
Blestbe
theman t
hatspar
esthesestones,andcurstbehet hatmovesmybones"
a.Marlowe's
b.Si
dney '
s
c.Shakespeare'
s
d.Mil
ton's
Ans:
c.Shakespear
e’s
336. _
___
___
___
_ist
hepr
otagoni
stoft ayPy
hepl gmal
i
on.
a.El
iza
b.Hi
ggins
c.Fr
eddy
d.Pi
ckeri
ng
Ans:
a.El
i
za
337. Thechar
act
erTouchst
oneappear
sinShakespear
e’s
a. TheTempest
b. AsYouL i
keIt
c. TheMerchantofVeni
ce
d. All
'
sWellThatEndsWell
b.AsYouLi
Ans: keI
t
338. PaulMor
elwasor
igi
nal
tit
leofD.H.Lawr
ence’
s__
___
___
___
_.
a.TheTrespasser
b.SonsandLov er
s
c.TheRainbow
d.TheEscapedCock
b.SonsandLov
Ans: ers
339. __
____
___
___
___
_isanunseenchar
act
eri
nWi
l
li
am Shakespear
e' ayThe
spl
Tempest.
a.Ferdi
nand
b.Ari
el
c.Prosper
o
d.Sycorax
Ans:
d.Sy
cor
ax
340. __
___
___
___
___
___i
sthemostaut
obi
ogr
aphi
cal
oft
henov
elsofChar
les
Di
ckens.
a.DavidCopperfi
eld
b.Li
ttl
eDor r
it
c.GreatExpectat
ions
d.HardTimes
a.Dav
Ans: idCopper
fi
eld
341. Char
lesDi sGr
ckens’ eatExpect
ati
onsi
sa
a.Tragi
-comedy
b.Bil
dungsroman
c.Tragedy
d.Comedy
Ans:
b.Bidungsr
oman
342. Whoi
sthepr
otagoni
stofD.H.Lawr sLadyChat
ence’ ter
ley
'sLov
er?
a.Cl
are
b.Const
ance
c.Fr
eda
d.Emil
ia
Ans:
b.Const
ance
343. D.H.Lawr
ence’
s__
___
___
___
__i
ssetdur
ingt
heper
iodoft
heMexi
can
Rev
olut
ion.
a. TheTr
espasser
b. ThePl
umedSer pent
c. TheRainbow
d. TheEscapedCock
b.ThePl
Ans: umedSer
pent
344. _
___
___
___
___
___
_ist
heant
agoni
stoft ayOt
hepl hel
l
o.
a.Roderigo
b.Brabanti
o
c.I
ago
d.Cassius
Ans:
c.I
ago
345. Samuel
ist
hepr
otagoni
stoft
henov
el_
___
___
___
___
___
_.
a. AChrist
masCar ol
b. Dombe yandSon
c. Davi
dCopper f
iel
d
d. ThePickwickPaper
s
d.ThePi
Ans: ckwi
ckPaper
s
346. Whohasdef
ined'
poet
ry'
as‘
afundament
alcr
eat
iveactusi
ngl
anguages’
?
a.H.W.Longf
ell
ow
b.Ral
phWal
doEmer
son
c.Dy
lanThomas
d.Wi
l
li
am Wor
dswor
th
Ans:
c.Dy
lanThomas
347. Whati
stheor
igi
nal
nameofGeor
geEl
i
ot?
a.SamuelLangorneCl
emens
b.MaryAnnEv ans
c.Saki
d.Boz
Ans:
b.Mar
yAnnEv
ans
348. Howdi
dW.H.Audendescr
ibepoet
ry?
a.Anawf
ulwayt
oear
nal
i
ving
b.Agameofknowl
edge
c.Thesoul
exposed
d.Anexpl
osi
onofl
anguage
Ans:
b.AgameofKnowl
edge
349. ‘
Onl
yconnect
’ist
heepi
grapht
oanov
elby
a.Geor
geOr
wel
l
b.JosephConr
ad
c.D.H.Lawr
ence
d.E.M.For
ster
Ans:
d.E.M.For
ster
350. Howmanyhusbandsdi
dthewi
feofBat
hhav
e?
a.7
b.6
c.5
d.4
Ans:
c.5
351. Whoamongt hef

emal
echar
act
er nTheCant
si erbur
yTal
escr
it
ici
sest
he
pat
ri
archal
soci
ety
?
a.ThePri
oress
b.TheSecondNun
c.TheWifeofBat
h
d.TheFi
rstNun
Ans:
c.TheWi
feofBat
h
352. ‘
Shei
sinspi
redbutdi
abol
i
cal
l
yinspi
red’
.Whoi
sthi
slady
?
a.Maj
orBar
bar
a
b.Sai
ntJoan
c.Ann
d.Candi
da
Ans:
b.Sai
ntJoan
353. Whati
sthef
ramewor
koft
heCant
erbur
yTal
es?
a.Tot
ell
twost
ori
est
ofor
getthetedium ofl
ongjourney
b.Tot
ell
twost
ori
est
okeepupthespi r
itoft
hejourney
c.Tot
ell
twost
ori
est
ofor
getphysicalpai
n
d.Tot
ell
twost
ori
est
owhil
eawayt ime
Ans:
a.Tot
ell
twost
ori
est
ofor
gett
het
edi
um ofl
ongj
our
ney
354. I
vanhoe(
1819),seti
n12t
h-cent
uryEngl
and,
mar
kedamov
eawayf
rom
hi
sfocusonthelocal
hi
stor
yofScot
land.Whowr
otet
hisnov
el?
a.GeorgeOrwell
b.Walt
erScott
c.MargaretAt
wood
d.SaulBell
ow
Ans:
b.Wal
terScot
t
355. “Booldwashirf
ace,andfair
,andr
eedofhewe”and“
Gat
-t
othedwasshe,
smoothlyfor
tosey
e.”
Theabov egi
venl
inesbestdescr
ibes:
a.TheWifeofBat
h
b.ThePri
oress
c.TheSecondNun
d.TheFi
rstNun
Ans:
a.TheWi
feofBat
h
356. Whi
chamongt
hef
oll
owi
ngi
sNOTawor
kbyScot
t?
a. RobRoy
b. OldMort
ali
ty
c. TheHeartofMi
dlot
hian
d. Holl
owMan
d.Hol
Ans: l
owMan
357. Thet
aleofCey
xandAl
cyoneappear
sinwhi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngwor
ks?
a.TheBookoftheDuchess
b.HouseofFame
c.Parl
i
amentofFowls
d.Troi
l
usandCressi
da
Ans:
a.TheBookoft
heDuchess
358. _
___
___i
saCanadi
anpoet
,nov
eli
st,
li
ter
arycr
it
ic,
essay
ist
,and
env
ironment
alact
ivi
st.
a.GeorgeOrwell
b.Walt
erScott
c.MargaretAt
wood
d.SaulBell
ow
Ans:
c.Mar
gar
etAt
wood
359. Whoisthespeakeroft
hef
oll
owi
ngut
ter
ancei
nChaucer
’sTheLegendof
GoodWomen?
a.GodofLov
e
b.Al
ceste
c.Venus
d.Cupid
Ans:
b.Al
cest
e
360. Whi
choftheShakespeareanher
oesut
ter
edt
hef
oll
owi
ng:
“Letmebecruel,
notunnatur
al;
Iwill
speakdaggerst
oher,butusenone.”
a.Macbeth
b.Othel
l
o
c.Ki
ngLear
d.Hamlet
Ans:
d.Haml
et
361. TheHandmai
d'
sTal
ewaswr
it
tenby_
___
___
.
a.MargaretAtwood
b.Rohi
ntonMi st
ry
c.Al
iceWal ker
d.Arav
indAdi ga
Ans:
a.Mar
gar
etAt
wood
362. Abl
oodydeed!Almostasbad,goodmot
her
,
Aski
l
laking,
andmar r
ywithhisbr
other.
Whoi
stheShakespear
eanher
owhout
ter
edt
hegi
venst
atement
?
a.Hamlet
b.Ki
ngLear
c.Macbeth
d.Othel
l
o
Ans:a.Haml et
363. __
____wasaCanadi an-
bornAmer icanwr i
ter
.Forhisli
terar
ywor k,Hewas
awardedthePul i
tzerPrize,theNobel Pri
zeforLiter
atur
e,andt heNationalMedal
ofArts.Heist heonlywr i
tertowi ntheNationalBookAwar dforFict
ionthree
ti
mesandher eceivedtheNat ionalBookFoundat i
on'sl
if
etimeMedal for
Dist
ingui
shedCont ribut
iont oAmer icanLetter
sin1990.Whoi she?
a.Rohint
onMi str
y
b.Ali
ceWal ker
c.SaulBell
ow
d.T.S.El
i
ot
Ans:
c.Saul
Bel
l
ow
364. Whoamongt heShakespeareancharact

ersut
ter
edt
hef
oll
owi
ngt
owhom?
“Gi
vethythoughtsnotongue,
Noranyunproporti
on’
dthoughthisact.
Bethoufamili
ar,
butbynomeansv ulgar
.”
a.Pol
oni
ustoLaert
es
b.Pol
oni
ustoReynal
do
c.Ki
ngLeart
oGoner i
l
d.Ki
ngLeart
oRegan
Ans:
a.Pol
oni
ust
oLaer
tes
act
erut
teredt
hef
oll
owi
ngst
atement
?
“
Somet
hingisr
otteninthestat
eofDenmark.
”
a.Rey
naldo
b.Hamlet
c.Marcel
lus
d.Hor
atio
Ans:
c.Mar
cel
l
us
366. Hol
l
owManwaswr
it
tenby_
___
__.
a.Ali
ceWal ker
b.ArnoldBennet
c.SaulBellow
d.T.S.Eli
ot
Ans:
d.T.S.El
i
ot
367. ‘
Tobe, ornottobe:thatisthequestion:
Whether’
ti
snoblerinthemi ndtosuffer
Thesli
ngsandar r
owsofout r
ageousfortune
Ortotakearmsagainstaseaoft r
oubles…”
TheSol
il
oquyofHaml etexpresses:
a.Haml
et’
sdesir
et odream
b.Haml
et’
swishtocommi tsuici
de
c.Haml
et’
sdesir
et ofi
ghthisenemi
es
d.Haml
et’
sinabi
li
tytofaceseri
esofsuf
fer
ings
Ans:
b.Haml
et’
swi
sht
ocommi
tsui
cide
368. Al
dous____
__Huxl
eywasanEngl
ishwr
it
er,
nov
eli
st,
phi
l
osopherand
promi
nentmemberof
theHuxl
eyfami
l
y.Whatishi
smiddl
ename?
a.Leonar
d
b.Bernar
d
c.Theodore
d.Sherwi
n
Ans:
a.Leonar
d
369. NametheShakespear
eanchar
acterwhout
ter
sthef
oll
owi
ng:
“No,
I’
ll
notweep.
Ihav
efull
causeofweeping,
butt
hisheart
shal
lbr
eakintoahundredthousandf
laws,
orer
eI’
llweep.Ofool
,Ishallgomad!
”
a.Gl
oucester
b.Ki
ngLear
c.Macbeth
d.Ot
hell
o
Ans:
b.KingLear
370. Char
lesDickensWr
oteundert
hepenname_
___
.
a.Boxt
on
b.El
ia
c.El
isDol
l
d.Boz
Ans:
d.Boz
371. “Howl,howl
,howl,howl!O,youaremenofst ones:
HadIy ourtonguesandey es,
I’
duset hem sothatheaven’
svaul
tshoul
dcr
ack.
She’s gonefor ev
er!
Iknowwhenonei sdead,andwhenonel i
ves;
She’sdeadasear t
h.”
Whoi sthedeadper sonmentionedinthepassage?
a.Desdemona
b.Cordel
ia
c.Rosali
nd
d.Regan
Ans:
b.Cor
del
i
a
372. T.
S.El
i
ot’
smi
ddl
enamei
s__
___
.
a.St
urns
b.St
erns
c.St
ern
d.St
uart
Ans:
b.St
erns
373. Whoi
sthespeakeroft
hef
oll
owi
ng:
LikethebaseIndian,t
hrewapear
laway
Richerthanal
lhistri
be….”
a.Ki
ngRichar
dII
b.Cassi
us
c.Othel
l
o
d.Hamlet
Ans:
c.Ot
hel
l
o
374. G.
B.Shawr
ecei
vednobl
epr
izei
n__
___
.
a.1923
b.1932
c.1925
d.1936
Ans:
c.1925
hefol
l
owi
ng?
“
Ithri
cepr
esentedhi
m akingl
ycr
own,
Whichhedi
dthricer
efuse.
”
a.August
usCaesar
b.MarkAntony
c.Enobar
bus
d.Cassi
us
Ans:
b.Mar
kAnt
ony
376. Whoi sthespeakeroft

hefol
lowi
ngut t
erance:
“
Wil
lal
lgr
eatNept une’
soceanwashthi
sbloodcleanfrom myhand?No,thi
smy
hand wil
lrathert
hemul t
it
udi
nousseasincar
nadine,maki
ngthegreenonered.
”
a.LadyMacbet
h
b.Macbeth
c.Othel
lo
d.Gertr
ude
Ans:
b.Macbet
h
377. ___
__said“TheAtheni
ansmightnothaveanotheroppor
tunit
yofsinni
ng
agai
nstphi
losophyastheyhadal
readydoneinthepersonofSocrates”
a.Pl
ato
b.Ar
ist
otl
e
c.Longi
nus
d.Hor
ace
Ans:
b.Ar
ist
otl
e
378. Whoi sthespeakeroft hef
oll
owingutter
ance:
“Lif
e’sbutawal kingshadow,apoorplayer
thatstrut
sandf retshi
shourupont hestage,
andt henisheardnomor e.I
tisatal
e
toldbyani di
ot,full
ofsoundandfury,
signi
fyingnothi
ng. ”
a.Macbeth
b.Othel
lo
c.KingLear
d.LadyMacbet
h
Ans:
a.Macbet
h
379. _
___wast
hef
ir
stt
ouset
het
erm“
Mimesi
s”i
nconnect
ionwi
thpoet
ry.
a.Pl
ato
b.Ar
ist
otl
e
c.Longi
nus
d.Hor
ace
Ans:
a.Pl
ato
380. Whoi
sthespeakerofthef
oll
owingut
ter
ance:“
Imper
iousCæsar
,dead
andt
urnedt
oclay
,Mightstopaholet
okeepthewindaway.
”
a.Hamlet
b.Othel
l
o
c.Ki
ngLear
d.Horat
io
Ans:
a.Haml
et
381. Ar
ist
otl
est
ressedt
hata_
___
_shoul
dhav
eUni
tyofAct
ion.
a.char
act
er
b.t
hought
c.pl
ot
d.di
cti
on
Ans:
c.pl
ot
382. “Whenbeggarsdi
e,ther
earenocomet
sseen;
theheav
enst
hemsel
ves
bl
azef
ort
hthedeathofpr
inces.
”
Thesef
amousl
i
nesappeari
n:
a.Macbeth
b.HenryIV
c.AntonyandCl
eopat
ra
d.Jul
iusCaesar
d.Jul
Ans: i
usCaesar
383. ThebestofPur
it
anat
tacksi
srepr
esent
edby_
___
__School
ofAbuse
a.Phi
l
ipSi
dney
’s
b.JohnMi
l
ton’
s
c.Longi
nus’
d.St
ephenGosson’
s
Ans:
d.St
ephanGosson’
s
384. Whoi st
hespeakeroft
hisfamousst at
ement
:
“Cowar
dsdiemanytimesbeforet
heirdeaths;
Theval
iantnev
ert
asteofdeathbutonce.”
a.Juli
usCaesar
b.MarkAnt ony
c.Brutus
d.Cassius
Ans:
a.Jul
i
usCaesar
385. _
___i
sknownas“
Fat
herofEngl
i
shCr
it
ici
sm”
a.Pl
ato
b.Socr
ates
c.Pope
d.Dr
yden
Ans:
d.Dr
yden
hef
amousstatement:
“Oj
udgment
!Thouar
tfl
ed
t
obr
uti
shbeasts,
andmenhav el
ostt
hei
rreason.
”
a.Port
ia
b.MarkAntony
c.Rosal
ind
d.Cassi
us
Ans:
b.Mar
kAnt
ony
387. _
___
_st
andsoutpr
omi
nent
lyasachampi
onofl
i
ber
alcl
assi
cism
a.Pl
ato
b.Socr
ates
c.Pope
d.Dr
yden
Ans:
d.Dr
yden
388. Whoseactisref
err
edt
obyMar
kAnt
onywhenhesai
d:“
Thi
swast
hemost
unki
ndestcutofal
l
.”
a.Ci
nna
b.Cassi
us
c.Marcus
d.Brut
us
Ans:
d.Br
utus
389. “
Imagi
nedCommuni
ti
es”i
saconceptpr
opoundedby
a.Homi
Bhabha
b.Benedi
ctAnder
son
c.Par
thaChat
ter
jee
d.Ai
j
azAhmed
Ans:
b.Benedi
ctAnder
son
390. Thet
erm‘
dissemi
nat
ion’
wascoi
nedby
a.JacquesDerr
ida
b.Barbar
aJohnson
c.J.Hil
li
sMil
ler
d.PauldeMan
Ans:
a.JacquesDer
ri
da
391. Whocoinedthet
erm“i
ntent
ional
fal
l
acy
”and“
aff
ect
ivef
all
acy
”?
a.T.S.El
i
ot
b.Wi
l
li
am Empson
c.W.K.Wi
msat
t
d.Cl
eant
hBr
ooks
Ans:
c.W.K.Wi
msat
t
392. Chaucerdev
el sCant
opedhi erbur
yTal
esusi
ngadev
icecal
l
ed
a.afabl
e.
b.thefr
amest ory.
c.monologues.
d.poeti
cnarrat
ive.
Ans:
b.t
hef
ramest
ory
393. _
___
_poi
ntedout“
Cri
ti
cism i
sasi
nev
itabl
easbr
eat
hing”
a.Washi
ngt
onAl
l
ston
b.T.S.El
i
ot
c.Har
oldPi
nter
d.Wor
dswor
th
Ans:
b.T.S.El
i
ot
394. Who,amongthef
oll
owi
ngEngl
i
shpl
aywr
ight
s,scr
ipt
edt
hef
il
m
Shakespear
einLove?
a.Harol
dPi nter
b.AlanBennet t
c.Caryl
Chur chil
l
d.Tom Stoppard
Ans:
d.Tom St
oppar
d
395. Thephr
ase“
wil
l
ingsuspensi
onofdi
sbel
i
ef”wascoi
nedby
a.Mat
hewAr
nol
d
b.Wi
l
li
am Wor
dswor
th
c.T.
S.El
i
ot
d.S.
T.Col
eri
dge
Ans:
d.S.T.Col
eri
dge
396. Whohasr
emar
kedt
hat“
Chaucerf
oundEngl
i
shadi
alectandl
efti
ta
l
anguage”
?
a.Legoui
s
b.Hadow
c.Lang
d.Lowes
Ans:
d.Lowes
397. horofNat
Theaut ionandNar
rat
ioni
s
a.Edwar
dSai
d
b.Gay
atr
iChakr
avor
tySpi
vak
c.Fr
ant
zFanon
d.Homi
Bhabha
Ans:
d.Homi
Bhabha
398. Ut
opi
aisknownbyt
hename
a.AnUnknownI
sland
b.TheSt
rangeCount
ry
c.TheWorl
dofImaginat
ion
d.TheKi
ngdom ofNowhere
Ans:
d.TheKi
ngdom ofNowher
e
399. Whocoi
nedt
hephr
ase,
“Mar
lowe’
smi
ght
yli
nes”
?
a.BenJonson
b.Dr.SamuelJohnson
c.R.
L.Stev
enson
d.Ri
chardSteel
e
Ans:
a.BenJonson
400. “
Prov
inci
ali
zi
ngEur
ope”i
saconceptpr
opoundedby
a.EdwardSaid
b.PaulGil
roy
c.AbdulR.Gurnah
d.DipeshChakrav
art
hy
Ans:
d.Di
peshChakr
avar
thy
401. Thel
i
ne“
Poet
ryi
sacr
it
ici
sm ofl
i
fe”occur
sin
a.Cul
tur
eandAnar
chy
b.Moder
nPai
nter
s
c.TheSt
udyofPoet
ry
d.Sar
torResar
tus
a.Cul
Ans: tur
eandAnar
chy
402. _
___
__i
sof
tenl
abel
l
edast
hef
atheroft
heNewCr
it
ici
sm
a.I
.A.Ri
char
ds
b.Pope
c.Al
l
enTat
e
d.Hor
ace
Ans:
a.I
.A.Ri
char
ds
403. Thet
erm‘
gynocr
it
ici
sm’
wascoi
nedby
a.Bet
tyFr
iedman
b.El
aineShowal
ter
c.LuceI
ri
gar
ey
d.SusanSont
ag
Ans:
b.El
aineShowal
ter
404. ‘
Kenni
ng’
is
a.Li
terar
ydevi
ce
b.poeti
cfor
m
c.compoundmetaphorcommont
oOl
dGer
mani
cPoet
ry
d.Styl
i
sti
cdevi
ce
Ans:
c.compundmet
aphorcommont
oOl
dGer
mani
cPoet
ry
405. Ast
oni
sachar
act
eri
nPi
nter
’s
a.TheBi
rt
hdayPar
ty
b.TheCar
etaker
c.TheDumbWai
ter
d.TheHomecomi
ng
b.TheCar
Ans: etaker
406. “
Panopt
ici
sm”i
sthet
it
leofachapt
eri
nawel
l
-knownbookby
a.RomanJakobson
b.JacquesLacan
c.Mi
chel
Foucaul
t
d.JacquesDer
ri
da
Ans:
c.Mi
chel
Foucaul
t
407. __
_ _
__i
sthesecond-
mostfrequent
lyquot
edwr
it nTheOxf
eri ord
Di
cti
onaryofQuot
ati
onsaft
erShakespear
e
a.I
.A.Ri
char
ds
b.Pope
c.Al
l
enTat
e
d.Hor
ace
Ans:
b.Pope
408. Thet
erm‘
Pract
icalCr
it
ici
sm’i
scoi
nedby
a.Wi
l
li
am Empson
b.W.K.Wi
msat
t,Jr
.
c.I
.A.Ri
char
ds
d.F.R.Leav
is
Ans:
c.I
.A.Ri
char
ds
409. I
nwhichofhisessay
sdoesHomiBhabhadi
scusst
he‘
discov
ery
’of
Engl
i
shincol
oni
alI
ndi
a?
a.“
Signst
akenf
orWonder
s”
b.“
Mimi
cry
”
c.“
Nat
ionandNar
rat
ion”
d. “
TheCommi
tmentt
oTheor
y”
Ans:
c.“
Nat
ionandNar
rat
ion”
410. Thet
erm‘
thecomedyofmenace’i
sassoci
atedwi
tht
heear
lypl
aysof
a.Ar
nol
dWesker
b.JohnAr
den
c.Har
oldPi
nter
d.Dav
idHar
e
Ans:
c.Har
oldPi
nter
411. Postmoder
nism i
satonceacont
inuat
ionofandabr
eakawayf
rom _
___
_
a.St
ruct
ural
i
sm
b.Deconst
ruct
ion
c.Femi
nism
d.Moder
nism
Ans:
d.Moder
nism
412. I
nthe___
__approachtoli
terat
uretherei
saconst
antmovementaway
fr
om theint
erpr
etat
ionofthei
ndivi
dualtheorywor
kandaparal
l
eldr
ivetowar
ds
under
standi
ngthelarger
,abst
ractstr
uctureswhi
chcont
aint
hem.
a.St
ruct
ural
i
sm
b.Deconst
ruct
ion
c.Femi
nism
d.Moder
nism
Ans:
a.St
ruct
ural
i
sm
413. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngt
hinkerconceptpai
riscor
rect
lymat
ched?
a.I
.A.Richar
ds–Ar chet
ypal Cri
ti
cism
b.Chri
stopherFry
e–My sti
cism
c.JacquesDerri
da–Deconst ruct
ion
d.Terr
yEagleton–Psychol
ogi calCri
ti
cism
Ans:
c.JacquesDer
ri
da–Deconst
ruct
ion
414. TheTheat
reoft
heAbsur
d(1961)wasabookby
a.Camus
b.Mart
inEssl
in
c.SamuelBecket
t
d.Adamov
Ans:
b.Mar
ti
nEssl
i
n
415. Whichamongt
heShakespear
e’spl
ayscanber
ight
lycal
l
ed“
Past
oral
Comedy”
?
a.TheWi nt
er’
sTale
b.MidsummerNi ght
’sDr
eam
c.MuchAdoAboutNot hi
ng
d.Troi
lusandCressi
da
Ans:
a.TheWi
nter
’sTal
e
416. Whichamongt
heShakespear
e’spl
ayscannotbegr
oupedunder
“
Romances”
?
a.RomeoandJul i
et
b.Cymbel
ine
c.TheWinter
'sTal
e
d.TheTempest
Ans:
a.RomeoandJul
i
et
417. Whi
choft
heseKi
ngswast
hesubj
ectofapl
aybyMar
lowe?
a.HenryV
b.Richar
dII
I
c.EdwardII
d.John
Ans:
c.Edwar
dII
418. Shakespear
ecomposedmuchofhi
spl
aysi
nwhatsor
tofv
erse?
a.All
i
terati
veverse
b.Sonnetform
c.I
ambicpent ameter
d.Dacty
lichexameter
Ans:
c.I
ambi
cpent
amet
er
419. From whi

chofShakespear
e'spl
aysisthi
sfamousli
ne:
'
Didmyheartlov
eti
lnow?/Forsweari
t,si
ght/ForInev
ersawatr
uebeaut
y
unti
lthi
snight
'
a.AMi dsummerNight
'sDr
eam
b.Haml et
c.Othell
o
d.RomeoandJuliet
Ans:
d.RomeoandJul
i
et
420. Whi
chWel
shpoetwr
ote"
UnderMi
l
kWood?
"
a.Ant
honyHopkins
b.Ri
chardBurt
on
c.Tom Jones
d.Dyl
anThomas
Ans:
d.Dy
lanThomas
421. Whowr
ote"
TenLi
tt
leNi
gger
s?"
a.Si
rArt
hurConanDoy
le
b.I
rvi
neWelsh
c.Agat
haChrist
ie
d.Noneofabove
Ans:
c.Agat
haChr
ist
ie
422. Wi
l
li
am Shakespear
ewasbor
nint
hey
ear
:
a.1564
b.1544
c.1578
d.1582
Ans:
a.1564
423. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
snotaShakespear
etr
agedy
?
a.Ti
tusAndr
oni
cus
b.Othel
l
o
c.Macbeth
d.Noneoftheabov
e
Ans:
d.Noneoft
heabov
e
424. Whi
chr
epr
esent
sanexampl
eofal
l
iter
ati
on?
a.LanguageArts
b.PeterPi
perPickedPepper
s
c.Il
ikemusic.
d.Abeautif
ulscenerywi
thmusi
c
Ans:
b.Pet
erPi
perPi
ckedPepper
s
425. Whohasdef
ined'
poet
ry'
asaf
undament
alcr
eat
iveactusi
ngl
anguages?
a.H.W.Longf
ell
ow
b.Ral
phWaldoEmerson
c.Dyl
anThomas
d.Wil
l
iam Wor
dswort
h
Ans:
c.Dy
lanThomas
426. Whati
sasonnet
?
a.Apoem ofsixli
nes
b.Apoem ofeightl
ines
c.Apoem oftwelveli
nes
d.Apoem offourt
eenlines
Ans:
d.Apoem off
our
teenl
i
nes
427. Whati
sst
udyofmet
er,
rhy
thm andi
ntonat
ionofapoem cal
l
edas?
a.Prosody
b.All
egory
c.Scansion
d.Assonance
Ans:
a.Pr
osody
428. Completet
hisShakespearanl
i
ne:
Letmenot
t
othemar r
iageoft
ruemindsbr i
ng
____
___
_ _
___.
a.I
mpediments
b.I
nconveni
ences
c.Worr
ies
d.Tr
oubles
Ans:
a.I
mpedi
ment
s
429. Howdi
dW.H.Audendescr
ibepoet
ry?
a.Anawfulwaytoearnal i
vi
ng
b.Agameofknowl edge
c.Thesoulexposed
d.Anexpl
osionoflanguage
Ans:
b.Agameofknowl
edge
430. I
nwhatf
orm di
dDy
lanThomas'
s'UnderMi
l
kWood'
fir
stbecomeknown?
a.ABookofpoetr
y
b.Aradiopl
ay
c.Astageplay
d.Ashortfi
l
m
Ans:
b.Ar
adi
opl
ay
431. Ofwhichpoetwasitsaid'
Eveni
fhe'snota
gr
eatpoet
,he'scer
tai
nlyagreatsomet
hing'
?
a.El
liot
b.Ki
pl i
ng
c.Cummi ngs
d.Brooke
Ans:
b.Ki
pli
ng
432. Mar l
owe'spoem '
ThePassionateShepherd
t
oHisLove'begi
nswiththeli
ne"Comel i
vewith
meandbemyl ove";
Whi
chotherEngli
shauthorwrot
eaf amouspoem begi
nni
ngwi
tht
hisl
i
ne?
a.Wil
li
am Shakespear
e
b.ThomasKy d
c.JohnDryden
d.JohnDonne
Ans:
d.JohnDonne
433. I
nMar
lowe'
spl
ay,
whatwast
henameoft
heJewofMal
ta?
a.Lazarus
b.Solomon
c.Barabas
d.Shylock
Ans:
c.Bar
abas
434. Howmanyy
ear
sofhappi
nesswasDrFaust
uspr
omi
sedbyt
heDev
il
?
a.16
b.20
c.24
d.28
Ans:
c.24
435. OneofMar
lowe'
smostf
amouspoemswasanaccountofwhi
chl
over
s?
a.AnthonyandCleopat
ra
b.HeroandLeander
c.Troi
lusandCressi
da
d.Apoll
oandHy aci
nth
Ans:
b.Her
oandLeander
436. Marl
owe'
splay'
Tamburl
ainet
heGreat
'was
basedl
oosel
yontheli
feofwhi
chAsianr
uler
?
a.ZhuYuanzhang
b.Genghi
sKhan
c.Ti
mur
d.Kubl
aiKhan
Ans:
c.Ti
mur
437. Whatwastheti
tl
eoft
heplaybyMarl
owe
thatport
ray
edtheevent
ssur
roundi
ngtheSai
nt
Barthol
omew'sDayMassacr
ein1572?
a.TheMassacr
eatBer
li
n
b.TheMassacr
eatRome
c.TheMassacr
eatCopenhagen
d.TheMassacr
eatPari
s
Ans:
d.TheMassacr
eatPar
is
438. I
nthet
it
leofMar
lowe'
spl
ay,
ofwher
ewasDi
dot
heQueen?
a.Troy
b.Carthage
c.Sparta
d.Persia
Ans:
b.Car
thage
439. Atwhatf
amousuni
ver
sit
ywasFaust
usaschol
ar?
a.Wit
tenberg
b.Sor
bonne
c.Hei
delberg
d.Cambridge
Ans:
a.Wi
tt
enber
g
440. Thr
oughhi
smagi
c,Faust
usi
svi
sit
edf
ir
stbywhi
choft
hedev
il
'sangel
s?
a.Mephist
ophel
es
b.Beel
zebub
c.Aamon
d.Luci
fer
Ans:
a.Mephi
stophel
es
441. WhatdoesFaust
uspr omisetothedev
ili
n
exchangeforgr
eatknowledge,r
ichesandpowerforaper
iodof24y
ear
s?
a.hi
sbody
b.hi
shouse
c.hi
ssoul
d.hi
shorse
Ans:
c.hi
ssoul
442. Whowr
ote"
TheMassacr
eatPar
is"
?
a.Shakespeare
b.Chri
stopherMar
lowe
c.EdmundSpenser
d.JohnMi l
ton
Ans:
b.Chr
ist
opherMar
lowe
443. Af t
ert
hedeathofChrist
opherMar
lowewho
compl
etedhi
sunfi
nishedpoem "Her
oandLeander
"?
a.Shakespear
e
b.ThomasNash
c.GeorgeChapman
d.ThomasMor e
Ans:
c.Geor
geChapman
444. Whi
choftheMar
lowe'
spl
ayswer
ewr
it
ten
i
ncol
l
abor
ati
onwit
hThomasNash?
a.QueenofCart
hageandThepassi
onateShepher
d.
b.Thetr
agedyofDidoandQueenofCart
hage.
c.Thepassi
onateShepher
dandThetr
agedyofDido.
d.QueenofCart
hageandTheMassacreofPari
s.
Ans:
b.Thet
ragedyofDi
doandQueenofCar
thage.
445. Howmanypl
aysdi
dWi
l
li
am Shakespear
ewr
it
e?
a.36
b.37
c.38
d.39
Ans:
b.37
446. Howmanysonnet
sdi
dWi
l
li
am Shakespear
ewr
it
e?
a.110
b.154
c.175
d.187
Ans:
b.154
447. Whi
choft
hesewasnotoneofShakespear
e'spl
ays?
a.Ti
tusAndronicus
b.TheTempest
c.Cymbeline
d.Shakespeareinl
ove
Ans:
d.Shakespear
einl
ove
448. I
nwhaty
earwast
heFi
rstFol
i
opubl
i
shed?
a.1626
b.1621
c.1623
d.1629
Ans:
c.1623
449. Whi
chr
iveri
sassoci
atedwi
thShakespear
e'sbi
rt
hpl
ace?
a.TheThames
b.TheAvon
c.TheTybur
n
d.TheSeven
Ans:
b.TheAv
on
450. I
n1613t
heGl
obeTheat
rebur
neddowndur
ingapr
oduct
ionofwhi
chpl
ay?
a.Ki
ngJohn
b.Ri
chardI
I
c.Henr
yVII
I
d.Henr
yV
Ans:
c.Henr
yVI
II
451. Howar
ePol
oni
usandLaer
tesr
elat
ed?
a.Father/son
b.Uncle/nephew
c.Cousin/cousin
d.Brother/br
other
Ans:
a.Fat
her
/son
452. Whati
sthenameoft
hepl
ayl
etHaml
etst
agesf
orCl
audi
us?
a.Sl
ingsandAr r
ows
b.ViceofKings
c.TheMur derofGonzago
d.TheSlayingofLuci
anus
Ans:
c.TheMur
derofGonzago
453. WhodoesPol
oni
ussendt
ospyonLaer
tesi
nPar
is?
a.Franci
sco
b.Gorgonzol
a
c.Reynal
do
d.Samson
Ans:
c.Rey
nal
do
454. Whowastravel
l
ingwit
hMacbet
hwhenhef
ir
st
encounter
stheThreeWit
ches?
a.Macduff
b.Mercuti
o
c.LadyMacbet h
d.Banquo
Ans:d.Banquo
455. I
nwhi
chy
earGl
obet
heat
regotf
ir
eanddest
roy
ed?
a.1610
b.1611
c.1612
d.1613
Ans:
d.1613
456. I
nShakespear
e'sl
i
ter
aryout
put
,theper
iod16041608i
stheper
iodof
:
a.Comedyplays
b.Hist
ori
calpl
ays
c.GreatTr
agedi
es
d.Noneofabove
Ans:
b.Hi
stor
ical
play
s
457. "
Undert
hegr
eenwoodt
ree"i
sasongi
n:
a.Lov
e'sl
abour'
slost
b.Asyoul
ikeit
c.AmidSummerni ght
'sdream
d.Muchadoaboutnothing
Ans:
b.Asy
oul
i
kei
t
458. ‘Sev
enAgesofMan’appear nAsy
si oul
i
ke
i
t.Whi
chchar
act
er'
sspeechi
tis?
a.Amiens
b.Or
lando
c.Ol
iver
d.Jaques
Ans:
d.Jaques
459. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngar
echar
act
ersofMuchadoaboutnot
hing:
a.Her
o,Bor
achio,Antonio,Claudio,Leonato
b.Her
o,Orl
ando,Antonio,Claudio,Leanato
c.Mir
ri
nda,Bor
achio,Antonio,Claudio,Leanat
o
d.Her
o,Bor
adio,Antonio,Claudio,Horati
o
Ans:
b.Her
o,Or
lando,
Ant
oni
o,Cl
audi
o,Leanat
o
460. "Someborngreat,
someachi evegreatness,
andsomehavegreat
nesst hr
ustuponthem" .
Abovel
inesar
etakenfrom whichoffol
lowingplays?
a.Macbet h
b.Othell
o
c.Twelft
hni ght
d.Asy ouli
kei t
Ans:
c.Twel
ft
hni
ght
461. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngar
eKi
ngLear
'sdaught
ers?
a.Desdemona, Goner
ilandCordel
i
a
b.Goneri
l
, Opheli
aandRegan
c.Goneri
l
, ReganandCor del
ia
d.Regan,Cordeli
aandBeat r
ice
Ans:
c.Goner
il
,ReganandCor
del
i
a
462. Whocal
l
ed‘
TheWast
eLand‘
amusi
cofi
deas’
?
a.All
enTat e
b.J.C.Ransom
c.I
.A.Richards
d.F.RLeav i
s
Ans:
a.Al
l
enTat
e
463. T.S.El
i
othasbor
rowedt
het
erm‘
Unr
eal
Cit
y’i
nthef
ir
standt
hir
d
sect
ionsfrom?
a.Baudelai
re
b.I
rvi
ngBabbi t
c.Vi
rgil
d.Dante
Ans:
d.Dant
e
464. Gr
aham Gr
eene’
snov
elsar
emar
kedby
?
a.Catholi
cism
b.Protest
antism
c.Paganism
d.Buddhism
Ans:
a.Cat
hol
i
cism
465. Mr
.Jagger
s,nGr
i eatExpect
ati
ons,
isa
a.Lawyer
b.Postman
c.Judge
d.Schoolt
eacher
Ans:
a.Lawy
er
466. I
dent
if
ythechar
act nTheTempestwho
eri
i
sref
err
edtoasanhonestol
dcounsel
l
or
a.Al
onso
b.Ari
el
c.Gonzal
o
d.St
ephano
Ans:
c.Gonzal
o
467. Whati
sthesubt
it
leoft ayTwel
hepl ft
hNi
ght
?
a.Or
,Whati
syouWi l
l
b.Or
,Whaty
ouWi l
l
c.Or
,Whaty
ouLikeIt
d.Or
,Whaty
ouThink
Ans:
b.Or
,Whaty
ouWi
l
l
468. Whocoi
nedt
hephr
ase‘
Egot
ist
ical
Subl
i
me’
?
a.Will
i
am Wordswor
th
b.P.B.
Shel
ley
c.S.T.Col
eri
dge
d.JohnKeats
Ans:
c.S.T.Col
eri
dge
469. Whoi
scommonl
yknownas‘
Pip’
inGr
eatExpect
ati
ons?
a.Phi
li
pPir
ri
p
b.Fi
li
pPir
ip
c.Phi
li
pPip
d.Phi
li
psPir
ip
Ans:
c.Phi
l
ipPi
p
470. Thenov
elThePowerandt
heGl
oryi
sseti
n?
a.Mexico
b.I
taly
c.France
d.Ger
many
Ans:
a.Mexi
co
471. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
sGol
ding’
sfi
rstnov
el?
a.TheInheri
tor
s
b.LordoftheFli
es
c.PincherMart
in
d.Pyramid
Ans:
b.Lor
doft
heFl
i
es
472. Ident
if
ythechar
act
erwhoisasuppor
terof
Women’sRi
ghtsi
nSonsandLover
s?
a.Mrs.Mor
el
b.Annie
c.Mir
iam
d.Cl
araDawes
Ans:
a.Mr
s.Mor
el
473. Car
lyl
e’
swork“OnHeroes,Her
oWor
shi
p”and
“
theHeroi
cinHist
ory
”isacourseof?
a.sixl
ectures
b.fi
velectures
c.fourl
ectures
d.sevenlectur
es
Ans:
b.f
ivel
ect
ures
474. Thephr
ase‘
Pat
het
icf
all
acy
’iscoi
nedby
?
a.Mil
ton
b.Coleri
dge
c.Carly
le
d.JohnRuskin
Ans:
d.JohnRuski
n
475. Wi
l
li
am Mor
elnSonsandLov
i ersi
sdr
awnaf
ter
?
a.Lawr
ence’sfather
b.Lawr
ence’sbrother
c.Lawr
encehimsel f
d.Noneofthese
Ans:
d.Noneoft
hese
476. I
denti
fythewri
terwhousedapseudonym,
Mi
chaelAngeloTit
marsh,f
ormuchofhisearl
ywork?
a.Charl
esDickens
b.W.M.Thacker ay
c.Graham Greene
d.D.H.Lawrence
Ans:
c.Gr
aham Gr
eene
477. Pr
ideandPr
ejudi
cewasor
igi
nal
l
yay
out
hful
wor
kent
it
led?
a.‘
LastImpressions’
b.‘
FalseImpressions’
c.‘
Fi
rstImpressions’
d.‘
TrueImpressions’
Ans:
c.‘
Fi
rstI
mpr
essi
ons’
478. Thacker
aysEsmondi
’ sanov
elofhi
stor
ical
real
i
sm capt
uri
ngt
hespi
ri
tof
?
a.t
heMedievalage
b.t
heEl
izabethanage
c.t
heageofQueenAnne
d.t
heVict
ori
anage
Ans:
d.t
heVi
ctor
ianage
479. Shakespear
emakesf
unoft
hePur
it
ansi
nhi
spl
ay?
a.Twel
fthNight
b.Hamlet
c.TheTempest
d.Henr
yIV,PtI
Ans:
a.Twel
ft
hNi
ght
480. JaneAust sPr

en’ ideandPr
ejudi
cei
sa?
a.Pi
caresquenovel
b.Gothi
cnovel
c.Domesticnovel
d.Hist
ori
calnovel
Ans:
c.Domest
icnov
el
481. Whi
chofShakespear
e’schar
act
erscl
aims;
‘Br
ave,
new,
wor
ld!
’
?
a.Ferdi
nand
b.Antonio
c.Miranda
d.Prospero
Ans:
c.Mi
randa
482. WhoinHamletsuggeststhatoneshoul
d
nei
therbeal
endernoraborrower?
a.Ger
trude
b.Pol
onius
c.Hor
atio
d.Haml
et
Ans:
b.Pol
oni
us
483. Shakespear
e’sHenr
yIV,
PtIcont
ainshi
s?
a.senecanattit
ude
b.patri
oti
sm
c.l
ov eofnature
d.plat
onicideal
s
Ans:
b.pat
ri
oti
sm
484. Twel
ft
hni
ghti
sa:
a.Tragedy
b.Comedy
c.Problem pl
ay
d.Bothaandb
Ans:
b.Comedy
485. Whowasv
il
lai
ninOt
hel
l
o?
a.Claudi
us
b.I
ago
c.Egeus
d.Noneofabov
e
Ans:
b.I
ago
486. Haml
etconsi
stof act
s:
a.3
b.4
c.5
d.6
Ans:
c.5
487. WhichofShakespear
e'spl
ayishi
sonlyplay
t
hathasneverbeenadoptedforf
il
m orTel
evi
sion?
a.TamingoftheShr ew
b.ThetwoNobleKi nsmen
c.Troi
l
usandCr essida
d.Cymbeli
ne
Ans:
b.Thet
woNobl
eKi
nsmen
488. Whi
chofShakespear
e'spl
ayf
eat
uresSi
rJohnFal
staf
f?
a.Themerrywiv
esofWindsor
b.Troi
l
usandCressi
da
c.Ki
ngJohn
d.Ti
tusAndroni
cus
Ans:
a.Themer
rywi
vesofWi
ndsor
489. Inlit
erat
ure,someofShakespeare'
smost
powerf
ul pl
ayswerewr itt
enint
hatper
iod(for
exampleTheTempest Ki
, ngLearandMacbet
, h)
,
aswellaspower f
ul worksbyJohnWebsterand
____
___
_ .
a.Wil
li
am Shakespear
e
b.BenJonson
c.BenJonsonfoli
os
d.Engl
ishRenai
ssancetheat
re
Ans:
b.BenJonson
490. Famoussat
ir
icdr Vol
ama, pone,
iswr
it
tenby
?
a.Si
rWal t
erScot
b.Chri
stopherMarl
ow
c.BenJonson
d.GeorgeHerber
t
Ans:
c.BenJonson
491. Oneoft
hesemendi
dNOTwr
it
edur
ingt
heRest
orat
ionper
iod.Who?
a.JohnMil
ton
b.ThomasOtway
c.Si
rWalt
erScot
t
d.JohnDr
yden
Ans:
c.Si
rWal
terScot
t
492. Whichofthef
oll
owingpoet
swrotedur
ing
t
heVi
ctor
ianper
iodbutwasnotpubl
i
shedunti
lthe20t
hcent
ury
?
a.Chri
stinaRosset
ti
b.GerardManleyHopkins
c.El
izabethBarr
etBrowning
d.TedHughes
Ans:
b.Ger
aldManl
eyHopki
ns
493. Worl
dWarIaf fect
edthewri
ti
ngofmany
aut
hor
s.Whichofthefol
lowi
ngpoet
swouldnot
hav
ebeentouchedbythatev
ent
?
a.T.
S.Eliot
b.Si
egfri
edSassoon
c.Wil
fredOwen
d.OscarWilde
Ans:
d.OscarWi
l
de
494. The18t
hcent
ur kTom Joneswaswr
ywor it
tenby¬¬_
___
___
.
a.SamuelJohnson
b.HenryFi
eldi
ng
c.JohnDonne
d.Tobi
asSmol
l
ett
Ans:
b.Henr
yFi
eldi
ng
495. Joy
ce'
snov
elUl
yssest
akespl
aceov
erwhatper
iodoft
ime?
a.Aweek
b.24hours
c.Ali
fet
ime
d.6months
Ans:
b.24hour
s
496. Whatwast
henat
ional
i
tyofOscarWi
l
de?
a.I
rish
b.Scotti
sh
c.French
d.Engli
sh
Ans:
a.I
ri
sh
497. Whi
chmet
ri
cal
for
m wasPopesai
dtohav
ebr
oughtt
oper
fect
ion?
a.theheroi
ccoupl
et
b.blankver
se
c.freever
se
d.theode
Ans:
a.t
heher
oiccoupl
et
498. Whowr
ote:
"Ihav
emeasur
edoutmyl
i
fewi
thcof
feespoons.
"?
a.Wil
li
am Car
losWil
l
iams
b.T.
S.Eli
ot
c.Er
nestHemingway
d.HartCr
an
Ans:
b.T.S.El
i
ot
499. I
nwhichwor
kdoyouread:
"Ihave
measur
edoutmyli
fewi
thcof
feespoons.
"?
a.LovesongofJ.Al
fr
edPrufr
ock
b.Sonnet
sfrom t
hePort
uguese
c.Prel
ude
d.TheLastDecal
ogue
Ans:
a.Lov
esongofJ.Al
fr
edPr
ufr
ock
500. ATal
eofTwoCi
ti
esbyChar
lesDi
ckensi
nvol
veswhi
cht
woci
ti
es?
a.LondonandRome
b.Pari
sandRome
c.LondonandParis
d.Berl
inandLondon
Ans:
a.LondonandRome
501. _
___
_tr
acest
hewor
d‘ecocr
it
ici
sm’
a.Kar
lKr
oeber
b.Mi
chael
P.Br
anch
c.Thor
eau
d.Emer
son
Ans:
b.Mi
chael
P.Br
anch
502. Beckyshar
pwast
heher
oinei
nwhi
chnov
el?
a.Vanit
yFair
b.SenseandSensibi
li
ty
c.Pri
deandPr ej
udi
ce
d.Mansfiel
dPark
Ans:
a.Vani
tyFai
r
503. Whichofthefoll
owingnov el
i
stsbestrepresent
sthemid-Vi
ctor
ianper
iod'
s
content
mentwi t
hthebur geoni
ngeconomi c
prosper
it
yanddecr easedresti
venessoversocialandpol
it
ical
change?
a.AnthonyTrol
lope
b.Charl
esDickens
c.JohnRuskin
d.Fri
edri
chEngels
Ans:
a.Ant
honyTr
oll
ope
504. Whichnoveldi
dT.S.El
iotpraisefor
uti
l
izinganew" mythi
calmet
hod"inpl aceoft he
ol
d" narr
ati
vemethod"anddemonst ratestheuse
ofancientmythol
ogyinmoderni
stfictiontot hi
nk
about"makingthemodernworldpossi bl
ef orart
"?
a.JosephConr sHear
ad' tofDar
kness
b.JamesJoyce'sFi
nnegan'
sWake
c.E.M.Forst
ersAPassaget
' oI
ndi
a
d.JamesJoyce'sUl
ysses
Ans:
d.JamesJoy sUl
ce’ ysses
505. St
einbeck’
snov
elOfMi
ceandMender
ivesi
tst
it
lef
rom apoem by
a.Gr
ey
b.Cowper
c.Col
l
ins
d.Bur
ns
Ans:
d.Bur
ns
506. Ther
hymeschemeoft
heShakespear
eansonneti
s:
a.abab, cdcd,ef
ef,gg
b.abba, cddc,ef
fe,gg
c.abab, cdcd,ef
ef,gh
d. aabb,ccdd,eeff,
gg
Ans: a.abab,cdcd,ef
ef,
gg
507. Thet
it
leThi
ngsFal
lApar
tisdr
awnf
rom apoem by:
a.W.B.Yeat
s
b.TedHughes
c.W.H.Auden
d.Rober
tLowel
l
Ans:
a.W.B.Yeat
s
508. ___
_ _t
riest
oexplainthingswi
thoutassumingtheexistenceofawor
ld,
or
off
orces,beyondthenaturalworl
daroundus,andthesocietywel i
vei
n.
a.Femi
nism
b.NewCr
it
ici
sm
c.Ecocr
it
ici
sm
d.Mar
xism
Ans:
d.Mar
xism
509. Phi
l
ipSi
dneywr
oteAnApol
ogyf
orPoet
ryi
nimmedi
ater
esponset
o
a.Plato’sRepubl
ic
b.AristotlsPoet
e’ ics
c.StephenGosson’ sTheSchoolofAbuse
d.JeremyCol l
ier
’sImmorali
tyandProf
anenessoft
heEngl
i
shSt
age.
Ans:
c.St sTheSchool
ephenGosson’ ofAbuse
510. I
denti
fyt
hewr
it
erwhowasexpel
l
edf
rom Oxf
ordf
orci
rcul
ati
nga
pamphl
et—
a.P.B.Shel
l
ey
b.Char
lesLamb
c.Hazl
i
tt
d.Col
eri
dge
Ans:
a.P.B.Shel
l
ey
511. Alt
houghit
sulti
mateaim maybetocri
ti
cizeWest
ernl
ogi
c,_
___
__ar
ouse
asar
esponset
ostructur
ali
sm andf
ormal
ism
a.Post
-St
ruct
ural
i
sm
b.Deconst
ruct
ion
c.Femi
nism
d.Moder
nism
Ans:
b.Deconst
ruct
ion
512. The“
Spenser
ianSt
anza”consi
stsof
a.Sev
enl
i
nes
b.Ni
nel
i
nes
c.Ei
ghtl
i
nes
d.Si
xli
nes
Ans:
b.Ni
nel
i
nes
513. By
r sDonJuanwaswr
on’ it
teni
n
a.Her
oiccoupl
et
b.Spenser
ianst
anza
c.Bal
l
adSt
anza
d.Ot
tav
ari
ma
Ans:
d.Ot
tav
ari
ma
514. “
BlankVer
se”i
s
a.Unr
hymedi
ambi
cpent
amet
er
b.r
hymedi
ambi
cpent
amet
er
c.Unr
hymedi
ambi
chexamet
er
d.r
hymedi
ambi
chexamet
er
Ans:
a.Unr
hymedi
ambi
cpent
amet
er
515. Hei
sar
eal
snake.I
nthi
ssent
ence“
snake”i
sa
a.Si
mil
e
b.Met
aphor
c.Sy
mbol
d.Concei
t
Ans:
b.Met
aphor
516. _
_____
_ _
___
____i
safour
teen-
li
nepoem composedofthr
eefour
-l
ine
sect
ions,cal
ledquat
rai
nsandtworhymingl
inescal
ledcoupl
et.
a.APet
rar
chanSonnet
b.AShakespear
eansonnet
c.ASpenser
ianSonnet
d.AnI
tal
i
anSonnet
Ans:
b.AShakespear
eansonnet
517. “
Imagi
nedCommuni
ti
es”i
saconceptpr
opoundedby
a.Homi
Bhabha
b.Benedi
ctAnder
son
c.Par
thaChat
ter
jee
d.Ai
j
azAhmed
Ans:
b.Benedi
ctAnder
son
518. _
___
_ist
her
elat
ionbet
weensi
gnsandsi
gnusi
ngagent
sori
nter
pret
ers.
a.Semant
ics
b.Sy
ntact
ics
c.Pr
agmat
ics
d.Li
ngui
sti
cs
Ans:
c.Pr
agmat
ics
519. Thet
erm“
magi
cal
real
i
sm”wasf
ir
sti
ntr
oducedby
a.HannahAr
endt
b.Pet
erBehr
ens
c.JeanAr
p
d.Fr
anzRoh
Ans:
d.Fr
anzRoh
520. Who,amongthef
oll
owi
ngEngl
i
shpl
aywr
ight
s,scr
ipt
edt
hef
il
m
Shakespear
einLove?
a.Harol
dPi nter
b.AlanBennet t
c.Caryl
Chur chil
l
d.Tom Stoppard
Ans:
a.Har
oldPi
nter
521. Thephr
ase“
wil
l
ingsuspensi
onofdi
sbel
i
ef”wascoi
nedby
a.Mat
hewAr
nol
d
b.Wi
l
li
am Wor
dswor
th
c.T.
S.El
i
ot
d.S.
T.Col
eri
dge
Ans:
d.S.T.Col
eri
dge
522. ___
_ _i
sthehi
ngear
oundwhi
chBar
thest
urnsf
rom st
ruct
ural
i
sm t
opost
st
ruct
ural
ism
a.TheDeat
hoft
heAut
hor
b.TwoKi
ndsofLanguage
c.S/
Z
d.Empi
reofSi
gns
Ans:
a.TheDeat
hoft
heAut
hor
523. horofNat
Theaut ionandNar
rat
ioni
s
a.Edwar
dSai
d
b.Gay
atr
iChakr
avor
tySpi
vak
c.Fr
ant
zFanon
d.Homi
Bhabha
Ans:
d.Homi
Bhabha
524. AHi
stor
yofGayl
i
ter
atur
ewaswr
it
tenby_
___
_
a.ThomasWoods
b.Gr
egor
yWoods
c.ThomasGay
d.I
.A.Ri
char
ds
Ans:
b.Gr
egor
yWoods
525. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
sincor
rectsequence?
a.Wy
cli
ff
e,Cov
erdal
e,Ty
ndal
e
b.Ty
ndal
e,Cov
erdal
e,Wy
cli
ff
e
c.Cov
erl
ade,
Tyndal
e,Wy
cli
ff
e
d.Wy
cli
ff
e,Ty
ndal
e,Cov
erdal
e
Ans:
a.Wy
cli
ff
e,Cov
erdal
e,Ty
ndal
e
526. Namet
hef
ir
stEngl
i
shpr
int
er
a.Wi
l
li
am Caxt
on
b.Wi
l
li
am Dunbar
c.JohnCaxt
on
d.Noneoft
hese
Ans:
a.Wi
l
li
am Caxt
on
527. Whenwast
het
ransl
ati
onoft
heNewTest
amentpubl
i
shed?
a.1525
b.1535
c.1545
d.1555
Ans:
a.1525
528. .
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
.isacol
l
ect
ionoft
heAr
thur
ianr
omancest
oldi
nsi
mpl
eand
v
ivi
dpr
ose.
a.ThomasHer
ri
ot
b.Mal
ory
c.Mor
ted’
Art
hur
d.Ty
ndal
e
Ans:
c.Mor
ted’
Art
hur
529. Si
rThomasMor
e’s‘
Utopi
a’wasor
igi
nal
l
ywr
it
teni
n
a.Engl
i
sh
b.Fr
ench
c.Lat
in
d.Spani
sh
Ans:
c.Lat
in
530. Nameoft
hef
ir
stbookpr
int
edbyWi
l
li
am Caxt
oni
n1474.
a.TwoGent
lemenofVer
ona
b.Hi
stor
yofTr
oy
c.TheBi
ble
d.Ut
opi
a
Ans:
b.Hi
stor
yofTr
oy
531. Thei
nvent
ionoft
hegenr
e,t
heEcol
oguesi
sat
tr
ibut
edt
o
a.St
ephenHav
es
b.Wi
l
li
am Dunbar
c.Al
exanderBar
clay
d.Gav
inDougl
as
Ans:
c.Al
exanderBar
clay
532. ‘
Ever
yman’
(1490)i
sani
mpor
tantext
antexampl
eof
a.Rel
i
giouspl
ay
b.Mor
ali
typl
ay
c.I
nter
lude
d.Ar
ti
sti
cDr
ama
Ans:
b.Mor
ali
typl
ay
533. TheBestofJohnHey
wood’
sint
erl
udeswas
a.TheFourP’
s
b.Ral
phRoi
sterDoi
ster
c.Gr
ammerGur
ton’
sNeedl
e
d.Ki
ngJehan
Ans:
a.TheFourP’
s
534. Themostv
olumi
nousofChaucer
ians,
whohaswr
it
tenmor
ethan140000
l
i
nesi
s
a.Hawes
b.Bar
clay
c.Skel
ton
d.Ly
dgat
e
Ans:
d.Ly
dgat
e
535. Whoamongt
hef
oll
owi
nghasbeencal
l
ed,
TheMor
ningSt
arof
Ref
ormat
ion?
a.Wy
cli
ff
e
b.Mal
ory
c.Chaucer
d.Caxt
on
Ans:
a.Wy
cli
ff
e
536. Thef
ir
stt
ransl
atorofVi
rgi
li
ntoEngl
i
shwas
a.Chaucer
b.Ly
dgat
e
c.Dougl
as
d.Gower
Ans:
c.Dougl
as
537. The‘
Def
enseofRhy
me’
(1503)i
saf
amouscomposi
ti
onof
a.ThomasDekker
b.Hoccl
eve
c.Phi
l
ipSi
dney
d.Samuel
Dani
el
Ans:
d.Samuel
Dani
el
538. “
Oneoft
hef
amousmast
erpi
eceofEngl
i
shPr
osei
s”wr
it
tenby
a.Hoccl
eve
b.Wy
cli
ff
e
c.Bi
shopAndr
ews
d.Ri
char
dHooker
Ans:
d.Ri
char
dHooker
539. Lut
herpubl
i
shed95t
hesesatwr
it
tenber
gin
a.1518
b.1517
c.1516
d.1515
Ans:
b.1517
540. Ri
seof‘
ThomasCr
omwel
l
’tookpl
acei
n..
..
..
..
..
..y
ear
.
a.1528
b.1529
c.1530
d.1531
Ans:
b.1529
541. Thef
ir
stbat
tl
eof‘
War
rofRoses’
occur
edi
n..
..
..
..
..
..
a.1455
b.1456
c.1457
d.1458
Ans:
a.1455
542. Ear
lofSur
reywr
otesonnet
s,buthechangedi
tsr
hymi
ngscheme.What
wasi
t?
a.ab,
ab,
cdcd,
efef
,gg
b.abba,
abba,
cde,
cde
c.abab,
cdcd,
eg,
eg,
ff
d.abba,
abba,
cdc,
dee
Ans:
a.ab,
ab,
cdcd,
efef
,gg
543. ThomasWy at
tusedPetrar
chansonnetf
ormf orhispoems.Buthe
changeditssel
ect(l
astsi
xli
nes)whil
eoctave(
fi
rsteightl
ines)wer
ethesame.
Therhymeschemeofhi ssel
ectis
a.cde,
cde
b.cd,
cd,
ee
c.cdd,
cee
d.cd,
ef,
gg
Ans:
c.cdd,
cee
544. Fi
rstEngl
i
shComedywaswr
it
teni
n1533.I
twas
a.AsYouLi
keI
t
b.TheSecondShepher
d’sPl
ay
c.Vol
pone
d.Ral
phRoi
sterDoi
ster
Ans:
d.Ral
phRoi
sterDoi
ster
545. Whowr
otet
hef
ir
stEngl
i
shComedy
?
a.Ni
chol
asUdal
l
b.Wi
l
li
am Shakespear
e
c.BenJonson
d.Geor
gePeel
e
Ans:
a.Ni
chol
asUdal
l
546. Thef
ir
stman,
whowr
otel
yri
csi
nEngl
i
shwas
a.Si
rThomasWy
att
b.Ear
lofSur
rey
c.Si
rPhi
l
ipSi
dney
d.Shakespear
e
Ans:
a.Si
rThomasWy
att
547. ‘
LegendsofHol
yWomen’
waswr
it
tenby
a.ThomasNor
ton
b.Geor
geRi
pley
c.Osber
nBokenham
d.Henr
yBr
adshaw
Ans:
c.Osber
nBokenham
548. Whoamongt
hef
oll
owi
ngi
snotassoci
atedwi
tht
het
ransl
ati
onoft
he
Bi
ble?
a.Mi
l
esCov
erdal
e
b.Wi
l
li
am Ty
ndal
e
c.JohnWy
cli
ff
e
d.ThomasBr
owne
Ans:
d.ThomasBr
owne
549. Ref
ormat
ionwaspr
edomi
nant
lyamov
ementi
n
a.pol
i
tics
b.l
i
ter
atur
e
c.r
eli
gion
d.educat
ion
Ans:
c.r
eli
gion
550. Thef
ir
stcompl
etepr
int
edEngl
i
shBi
blewaspr
oducedby
a.Wi
l
li
am Ty
ndal
e
b.Wi
l
li
am Caxt
on
c.Mi
l
esCov
erdal
e
d.RogerAscham
Ans:
c.Mi
l
esCov
erdal
e
551. Ev
ery
mani
s
a.amedi
eval
playbasedonanepi
sodef
rom t
heBi
ble
b.amedi
eval
mor
ali
typl
ay
c.at
udori
nter
lude
d.ami
racl
epl
ay
Ans:
b.amedi
eval
mor
ali
typl
ay
552. El
i
zabet
hIascendedt
het
hronei
n
a.1558
b.1560
c.1559
d.1612
Ans:
a.1558
553. Phi
l
ipSi
dneywasbor
non
a.30thNov
ember
,1554
b.23rdApr
il
,1564
c.20thJune,
1607
d.Noneoft
hese
a.30thNov
Ans: ember
,1554
554. ‘
Ast
orphel
andSt
ell
a’consi
stedof
a.108sonnet
sand11songs
b.108sonnet
s
c.11songs
d.Noneoft
hese
Ans:
a.108sonnet
sand11songs
555. Thedr
amat
istknownf
orhi
smusi
cal
abi
l
ity
a.JohnLy
ly
b.Rober
tGr
eene
c.Geor
gePeel
e
d.ThomasKy
d
Ans:
c.Geor
gePeel
e
556. Whi
chpl
ayofGeor
gePeel
ewasapast
oral
play
?
a.TheBat
tl
eofAl
cazar
b.TheAr
rai
gnmentofPar
is
c.TheFamousChr
oni
cleofKi
ndEdwar
d
d.TheOl
dWi
vesTal
e
Ans:
b.TheAr
rai
gnmentofPar
is
557. WhodenouncedShakespear
eas“ Anupst
artcr
owbeauti
fi
edwi
thour
f
eat
her
sthatwi
thhisTi
ger’
sheartwrappedi
naplayer’
shi
de?”
a.Chr
ist
opherMar
lowe
b.Spenser
c.Rober
tGr
eene
d.Mi
chael
Dray
ton
Ans:
c.Rober
tGr
eene
558. Whi
choft
hesei
sther
omant
iccomedyofShakespear
e?
a.Twel
ft
hNi
ght
b.TheComedyofEr
ror
s
c.TheTami
ngoft
heShr
ene
d.Lov
e’sLabourLost
Ans:
a.Twel
ft
hNi
ght
559. Whi
choft
hesei
sthe‘
Dar
kComedi
es’
/’
Probl
em Comedi
es’
?
a.Measur
eforMeasur
e
b.AsYouLi
keI
t
c.MuchAdoAboutNot
hing
d.Noneoft
hese
Ans:
a.Measur
eforMeasur
e
560. Whowasknownf
orhi
str
agedi
es?
a.Shakespear
e
b.ThomasKy
d
c.JohnLy
ly
d.Spenser
Ans:
a.Shakespear
e
561. ThePoet
ast
er’
swaspubl
i
shedi
n
a.1598
b.1601
c.1602
d.1605
Ans:
c.1602
562. ‘
Vol
pone,
TheFox’
waspubl
i
shedi
n
a.1598
b.1601
c.1602
d.1605
Ans:
d.1605
563. BenJonsonTr
agedy‘
Sej
anus’
waspubl
i
shedi
n
a.1610
b.1611
c.1603
d.1602
Ans:
c.1603
564. ‘
Cat
il
ine’
waspubl
i
shedi
n
a.1610
b.1603
c.1602
d.1611
Ans:
d.1611
565. .
..
..
..
..
..
..hadf
ait
hin‘
Div
ineRi
ghtTheor
y’.
a.Ly
ly
b.Shakespear
e
c.Jonson
d.Bacon
Ans:
d.Bacon
566. .
..
..
..
..
..
..
.wasknownast
hef
atherofEngl
i
shessay
.
a.Wi
l
li
am Webbe
b.Hooker
c.Bacon
d.JohnFoxe
Ans:
c.Bacon
567. ‘
Nav
um Or
ganum’
ist
hebookwr
it
tenby
a.ThomasDel
oney
b.ThomasWat
son
c.Bacon
d.Wat
son
Ans:
c.Bacon
568. Thesonnet
swer
ewr
it
teni
nthest
yleofPet
rar
chandot
heri
nthest
yleof
a.Mar
lowe’
s
b.Johnson’
s
c.Ly
ly’
s
d.Shakespear
e
Ans:
d.Shakespear
e
569. Pet
rar
chansonnet
sconsi
stsof
a.t
heoct
ave
b.t
hesest
et
c.Bot
h‘a’
and‘
b’
d.Noneoft
hese
Ans:
c.Bot
h‘a’
and‘
b’
570. .
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..i
sknownf
orhi
sAmor
ett
i
a.Shakespear
e
b.Si
dney
c.Chapman
d.Spenser
Ans:
d.Spenser
571. .
..
..
..
..
..
..f
orhi
s‘Ast
rophel
andSt
ell
a’Lov
eist
hechi
efel
ementi
nthese
sonnet
s.
a.Dani
el
b.Si
dney
c.Spenser
d.Dr
ayt
on
Ans:
b.Si
dney
572. Shakespear
eansonnetf
oll
owst
her
hymescheme
a.abab,
cdcd,
efef
,gg
b.abcd,
abcd,
gg
c.abbcddd
d.aabbcc
Ans:
a.abab,
cdcd,
efef
,gg
573. Spenser
’sShepher
d’sCal
enderwaspubl
i
shedi
n
a.1564
b.1590
c.1616
d.1579
Ans:
d.1579
574. Spenser
’sFaer
ieQueenewaspubl
i
shedi
n
a.1564
b.1590
c.1616
d.1519
Ans:
b.1590
575. .
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..wast
helegendar
yqueenoft
heAmazons,
engagedt
oTheseus
i
nAMi
dsummerNi ght
’sDream.
a.Hel
ena
b.Her
mia
c.Hi
ppol
yta
d.Puck
Ans:
c.Hi
ppol
yta
576. ..
..
..
..
..
..wasHer
mia’
sfather
,whobr
oughtacompl
aintagai
nsthi
s
daught
ertoTheseusinAMidsummerNight
’sDream.
a.Ober
on
b.Egeus
c.Puck
d.Ly
sander
Ans:
b.Egeus
577. TheTr
agi
cComedyamongt
hesei
s
a.TheTwel
ft
h
b.AsYouLi
keI
t
c.Cy
mbel
i
ne
d.Lov
e’sLabourLost
Ans:
c.Cy
mbel
i
ne
578. Whi
chchar
act
erofShakespear
edescr
ibest
hought
ful
lov
e?
a.Or
landoandRosal
i
nd
b.Cel
i
aandOl
i
ver
c.PheboandSi
l
vius
d.Hel
enaandOber
on
Ans:
b.Cel
i
aandOl
i
ver
579. Whi
chchar
act
erofShakespear
edescr
ibesl
oveatf
ir
stsi
ght
?
a.Or
landoandRosal
i
nd
b.Cel
i
aandOl
i
ver
c.PheboandSi
l
vius
d.Hel
enaandOber
on
Ans:
a.Or
landoandRosal
i
nd
580. TheOl
dWi
vesTal
ewaswr
it
tenby
a.Geor
gePeel
e
b.JohnLy
ly
c.ThomasKy
d
d.Edwar
d
Ans:
a.Geor
gePeel
e
581. Thef
ir
stcomplet
etr
agedyoftheSenecant
ypewhi
chwaswr
it
tenby
ThomasMortonandThomasSackvi
l
le.
a.Ral
phRoi
sterDoi
ster
b.Needl
e
c.Jocast
a
d.Gor
boduc
Ans:
d.Gor
boduc
582. .
..
..
..
..
..
..wast
heGol
denAgeofsonnet
.
a.El
i
zabet
hanAge
b.JacobeanAge
c.Pur
it
anAge
d.Shakespear
eanAge
Ans:
d.Shakespear
eanAge
583. Thei
nvent
oroft
heEl
i
zabet
hanl
ovecomedy
a.Spenser
b.Johnson
c.Ly
ly
d.Shakespear
e
Ans:
c.Ly
ly
584. Themat
urecomedybyShakespear
eis
a.TheComedyofEr
ror
s
b.Twel
ft
hNi
ght
c.Al
l
’sWel
lThatEndsWel
l
d.Lov
e’sLabourLost
Ans:
b.Twel
ft
hNi
ght
585. ThePet
rar
chansonnet
’ssest
etconsi
stof
a.f
ivel
i
nes
b.si
xli
nes
c.sev
enl
i
nes
d.ei
ghtl
i
nes
Ans:
b.si
xli
nes
586. .
..
..
..
..
..
..
.isasympt
uousall
egor
ical
enter
tai
nmentcombi
ningpoet
ry,
musi
c,dance,scener
yandext
rav
agantcostumes.
a.Mosque
b.Bal
l
ad
c.Sat
inse
d.Ly
ric
Ans:
a.Mosque
587. Whi
chShakespear
eanplaycont
ainst
hel
i
ne:
“..
..
ther
eisaspeci
al
pr
ovi
dencei
nthefal
lofasparr
ow”?
a.Ki
ngLear
b.Haml
et
c.Cor
iol
anus
d.Macbet
h
Ans:
b.Haml
et
588. Hownobleinreason!howinfi
nit
ei nf
aculty!I
nfor
m andmovinghow
expr
essandadmirabl
e!Inactionhowl i
keanangel !I
nappr
ehensi
onhowli
kea
God!‘WhatdoesHamletmar vel
atinthispassage?
a.Hi
sownsel
f
b.Hi
sfat
her
c.Man
d.Woman
Ans:
c.Man
589. Thewords“I
fitwer
edonewhenhi
sdone,
thet
wer
ewel
l
/Itwer
edone
qui
ckl
y..
..
”ar
eutter
edby
a.Haml
et
b.Lear
c.Ot
hel
l
o
d.Macbet
h
Ans:
d.Macbet
h
590. Will
i
am Shakespear
e’sJul
i
usCaesarAnt
onyandCl
eopat
raandCor
iol
anus
ar
ebasedon.
..
..
..
..
a.Hol
i
nshed’
sChr
oni
cles
b.Fol
k-t
alesandl
egends
c.Ol
derRomanPl
ays
d.Pl
utar
ch’
sLi
ves
Ans:
d.Pl
utar
ch’
sLi
ves
591. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
snotar
evenget
ragedy
?
a.Haml
et
b.TheDuchessofMal
fi
c.Vol
pone
d.Gor
boduc
Ans:
c.Vol
pone
592. Whi
chofthefol
lowingcharact
ersofWebst
er’
sTheWhit
eDev
ilut
ter
sthe
memorabl
ewordsOftgayandhonour ’
drobest
hosetor
tur
est
ryWethi
nkcag’
d
bi
rdssi
ng,
whenindeedtheycry.
a.Vi
tt
ori
aCor
ombona
b.Br
acci
ano
c.TheCar
dinal
d.Fl
ami
neo
Ans:
d.Fl
ami
neo
593. ‘
TheUnf
ort
unat
eTr
avel
l
er’
hasbeenaut
hor
edby
a.Rober
tGr
eene
b.ThomasDel
oney
c.ThomasNashe
d.ThomasLodge
Ans:
c.ThomasNashe
594. Ther
hymeschemeoft
heSpenser
iansonneti
s
a.ababbcbccdcdee
b.ababcdcdef
efgg
c.abbacddcef
fegg
d.abbaabbacdecde
Ans:
a.ababbcbccdcdee
595. Whoamongt
hef
oll
owi
ngMar
lov
ianchar
act
ersi
sconsumedbygr
eed?
a.Bar
abas
b.Tambur
lai
ne
c.Doct
orFaust
us
d.Mephi
stophel
es
Ans:
a.Bar
abas
596. ThomasKy
d’sTheSpani
shTr
agedywasi
nfl
uencedby
a.Seneca
b.Ter
tul
l
ian
c.Vi
rgi
l
d.Pl
aut
us
Ans:
a.Seneca
597. Haml
et,
lyi
ngwounded,
say
stohi
sfr
iend,
‘Hor
ati
o,Iam dead.
’Thi
sisan
exampl
eof
a.pr
otasi
s
b.anacr
usi
s
c.pr
olepsi
s
d.pun
Ans:
c.pr
olepsi
s
598. AShakespear
eansonnethast
hef
oll
owi
ngr
hymescheme
a.abba,
abba,
cdcdcd
b.abab,
bcbc,
cdcdee
c.abab,
cdcd,
efef
,gg
d.abba,
abba,
cdcd,
ee
Ans:
c.abab,
cdcd,
efef
,gg
599. Sexual
jeal
ousyi
sat
hemei
nShakespear
e’s
a.TheMer
chantofVeni
ce
b.TheTempest
c.Ot
hel
l
o
d.Ki
ngLear
Ans:
c.Ot
hel
l
o
600. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
snotaRev
engeTr
agedy
?
a.TheWhi
teDev
il
b.TheDuchessofMal
fi
c.Doct
orFaust
us
d.TheSpani
shTr
agedy
Ans:
c.Doct
orFaust
us
601. ‘
Ripenessi
sal
l
’isal
i
nef
rom.
..
a.Haml
et
b.Ki
ngLear
c.Ot
hel
l
o
d.Macbet
h
Ans:
b.Ki
ngLear
602. I
nwhi checl
ogueofTheShephear
desCal
enderdoesSpenserpr
aise
QueenEl
izabethI
?
a.Januar
y
b.Apr
il
c.August
d.Nov
ember
Ans:
b.Apr
il
603. Thei
mmedi
atesour
ceofChr
ist
opherMar
lowe’
sDoct
orFaust
usi
s..
..
a.AFr
enchnar
rat
ive
b.ADut
chnar
rat
ive
c.AGer
mannar
rat
ive
d.Noneoft
hese
Ans:
c.AGer
mannar
rat
ive
604. Whoamongt
hef
oll
owi
ngi
snota‘
Uni
ver
sit
yWi
t’
?
a.Chr
ist
opherMar
lowe
b.Geor
gePeel
e
c.Rober
tGr
eene
d.BenJonson
Ans:
d.BenJonson
605. TheGl
obeTheat
reopenedi
n
a.1585
b.1593
c.1599
d.1603
Ans:
c.1599
606. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
samaj
orJacobeanpl
ay?
a.Ev
ery
man
b.Gor
boduc
c.RomeoandJul
i
et
d.TheDuchessofMal
fi
Ans:
d.TheDuchessofMal
fi
607. Whoi
sresponsi
blef
ort
hePur
it
anspi
ri
tandf
indsi
tsnobl
estexpr
essi
on?
a.Bur
ton
b.Donne
c.Her
ber
t
d.Mi
l
ton
Ans:
d.Mi
l
ton
608. Whoi
snotamet
aphy
sical
poetf
rom t
hef
oll
owi
ng?
a.Donne
b.Her
ber
t
c.Wal
l
er
d.Fl
etcher
Ans:
d.Fl
etcher
609. Fl
etcherwasa
a.Met
aphy
sical
poet
b.Pi
ndar
icpoet
c.Spenser
ianpoet
d.Sonnet
er
Ans:
c.Spenser
ianpoet
610. Whospokef
acet
ofacewi
thGodf
ort
hef
ir
stt
imei
nEngl
i
shpoet
ry?
a.Henr
yVaughan
b.JohnDonne
c.Geor
geHer
ber
t
d.EdmundSpenser
Ans:
c.Geor
geHer
ber
t
611. Whi
chi
sli
keanexcur
sioni
ntot
heEngl
i
shf
iel
dsatsunr
ise?
a.Par
adi
seRegai
ned
b.L’
All
egr
o
c.JohnGower
d.Rober
tHer
ri
ck
Ans:
b.L’
All
egr
o
612. Whichoutoft
hesepor
tray
sChr
ist
’sr
esi
stancet
oSat
an’
stempt
ati
onand
hi
svi
ctor
yovert
hem?
a.Par
adi
seLost
b.Ly
cidas
c.L’
All
egr
o
d.Par
adi
seRegai
ned
Ans:
d.Par
adi
seRegai
ned
613. Af
terbecomi
ngaCat
hol
i
cwhi
chf
amousr
eli
giouspoem JohnDr
yden
wr
ote
a.Rel
i
gioLai
ci
b.Al
lForLov
e
c.TheHi
ndandt
hePant
her
d.AnnusMi
rabi
l
is
Ans:
c.TheHi
ndandt
hePant
her
614. I
nwhichDry
denleaveshi
scher
ishedher
oiccoupl
etf
ort
hebl
ankv
erseof
Mar
loweandShakespear
e?
a.Ant
onyandCl
eopat
ra
b.DukeofMonmout
h
c.TheHi
ndandPant
her
d.Al
lForLov
e
Ans:
a.Ant
onyandCl
eopat
ra
615. I
n‘Absal
om andAchi
tophel
’theKi
ngDav
idwas
a.DukeofMonmout
h
b.Char
lesI
I
c.Char
lesI
II
d.DukeofBucki
ngham
Ans:
b.Char
lesI
I
616. Whoi
sknownast
hef
inestwr
it
eroft
heComedyofManner
s?
a.Geor
geEt
her
ege
b.Wi
l
li
am Bl
ack
c.Wi
l
li
am Congr
eve
d.JohnSuckl
i
ng
Ans:
c.Wi
l
li
am Congr
eve
617. ..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..cal
l
edhi
msel
faeunuchori
mpot
enti
nthepl
ayTheCount
ry
Wi
fe.
a.Josper
b.Hor
ner
c.Al
i
thea
d.Har
cour
t
Ans:
c.Al
i
thea
618. “
Hispoet
rycanbedi
vi
dedi
ntot
hreegr
oupsl
i
keanat
omypoems”
.The
st
atementi
sabout
a.JohnDonne
b.Rober
tHer
ri
ck
c.JohnMi
l
ton
d.JohnDr
yden
Ans:
b.Rober
tHer
ri
ck
619. I
nwhichbooknumberofMil
ton’
s‘Par
adi
seLost
’Adam t
ell
sRaphael
the
st
oryofhi
sownlif
eandthemeeti
ngwithEve?
a.BookI
I
b.BookVI
II
c.BookV
d.BookI
X
Ans:
b.BookVI
II
620. Whof
ir
stempl
oyedt
hecl
osedcoupl
et?
a.EdmundWal
l
er
b.Henr
yVaughan
c.ThomasCar
ew
d.Rober
tHer
ri
ck
Ans:
a.EdmundWal
l
er
621. I
nwhosepoet
rywef
indst
het
rai
tsoft
heMet
aphy
sical
poet
ryand
August
anpoet
ry?
a.Si
rJohnDenham
b.JohnMi
l
ton
c.Abr
aham Cowl
ey
d.Gal
i
leo
Ans:
c.Abr
aham Cowl
ey
622. Pi
ckoutt
hePast
oral
elegyf
rom t
hef
oll
owi
ng
a.TheHol
yWar
b.Ly
cidas
c.Cor
nus
d.I
llPenser
osa
Ans:
b.Ly
cidas
623. Whowasknownasaphy
sici
anandasal
ear
neddoct
or?
a.Si
rThomasBr
owne
b.Si
rJohnDenham
c.JohnBuny
an
d.ThomasFul
l
er
Ans:
a.Si
rThomasBr
owne
624. Whowascal
l
ed“
TheShakespear
eofDi
vi
nes”
?
a.Jer
emyTay
lor
b.ThomasFul
l
er
c.Rober
tBur
ton
d.Ri
char
dBat
er
Ans:
a.Jer
emyTay
lor
625. I
nwhi
chy
eart
hebook‘
Par
adi
seLost
’wascompl
eted?
a.1667
b.1664
c.1661
d.1668
Ans:
b.1664
626. Whoi
sknownast
hef
atherofl
i
ter
arycr
it
ici
sm?
a.JohnDr
yden
b.I
zaakWal
ton
c.JohnEl
i
ot
d.Cr
omwel
l
Ans:
a.JohnDr
yden
627. Whenwer
e‘Hy
mnsandSongsoft
heChur
ch’
publ
i
shed?
a.1620
b.1621
c.1622
d.1623
Ans:
d.1623
628. Whatwast
heper
iodofRi
char
dCr
ashaw?
a.1610-
1649
b.1613-
1649
c.1610-
1645
d.1613-
1645
Ans:
b.1613-
1649
629. Whi
choutoft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
snotaCav
ali
erpoet
?
a.Suckl
i
ng
b.Fl
etcher
c.Her
ri
ck
d.Lov
elace
Ans:
b.Fl
etcher
630. Her
oiccoupl
eti
swr
it
tenby
a.Dr
yden
b.Shakespear
e
c.Buny
an
d.Mi
l
ton
Ans:
a.Dr
yden
631. Whowr
ote‘
Rel
i
gioMedi
ci
’?
a.ThomasBr
owne
b.ThomasUdal
l
c.Rober
tHer
ri
ck
d.JohnMi
l
ton
Ans:
a.ThomasBr
owne
632. Whowr
ote‘
Odeont
heNat
ivi
ty’
?
a.JohnMi
l
ton
b.JohnBuny
an
c.Rober
tHer
ri
ck
d.Lov
elace
Ans:
a.JohnMi
l
ton
633. I
nwhi
chyeardi
dthepol
it
ical
chaosandi
nst
abi
l
ityendwi
tht
her
est
orat
ion
ofKi
ngChar
lest
othethr
oneofEngl
and?
a.1660
b.1661
c.1662
d.1663
Ans:
a.1660
634. ThePur
it
ansshutdownal
ltheat
ersi
nEngl
andi
n
a.1642
b.1640
c.1659
d.1660
Ans:
a.1642
635. I
nCant
o17oft
heI
nfer
no,
themonst
erGer
yonr
epr
esent
s.
a.Fr
aud
b.Usur
y
c.Sl
oth
d.Gl
utt
ony
Ans:
a.Fr
aud
636. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngwor
ksofJohnMi
l
toni
sanel
egy
?
a.Ly
cidas
b.L’
All
egr
o
c.Cammus
d.Par
adi
seLost
Ans:
a.Ly
cidas
637. Ident
ifyt
heaut
horoft
hefol
lowi
ngl
inesletsea-
discov
erer
stonewworlds
hav
egone, LetMapstoot
her
,worl
dsonworldshaveshownLetuspossessone
worl
d,eachhathoneandi
sone
a.Shakespear
e
b.Geor
geHer
ber
t
c.JohnDonne
d.Henr
yVaughan
Ans:
c.JohnDonne
638. MacFl
ecknoei
sanat
tackonDr
yden’
sli
ter
aryr
ival
,
a.Ri
char
dFl
ecknoe
b.ThomasShadwel
l
c.JohnWi
l
mot
d.Mat
thewPr
ior
Ans:
b.ThomasShadwel
l
639. AndrewMar
vel
l
’s“
AnHor
ati
anOdeuponCr
omwel
l
’sRet
urnf
rom I
rel
and”
waswr
it
tenin
a.1647
b.1649
c.1650
d.1648
Ans:
c.1650
640. “
ToDaf
fodi
l
s”i
sapoem,
wri
tt
enby
a.Rober
tHer
ri
ck
b.Wi
l
li
am Wor
dswor
th
c.JohnKeat
s
d.PBShel
l
ey
Ans:
a.Rober
tHer
ri
ck
641. TheEngl
i
shsat
ir
istwhousedt
heshar
pedgeofpr
aiset
oat
tackhi
s
v
ict
imswas
a.BenJonson
b.JohnDonne
c.JohnDr
yden
d.Samuel
But
ler
Ans:
c.JohnDr
yden
642. Whoamongt
hef
oll
owi
ngi
snotaRest
orat
ionpl
aywr
ight
?
a.Wi
l
li
am Congr
eve
b.Wi
l
li
am Wy
cher
ley
c.BenJonson
d.Geor
geEt
her
ege
Ans:
b.Wi
l
li
am Wy
cher
ley
643. TheRest
orat
ioncomedy
,TheDoubl
eDeal
erwaswr
it
tenby
a.JohnDr
yden
b.Wi
l
li
am Wy
cher
ley
c.Wi
l
li
am Congr
eve
d.Geor
geEt
her
ege
Ans:
c.Wi
l
li
am Congr
eve
644. Whoamongt
hef
oll
owi
ngi
saCav
ali
erpoet
?
a.Henr
yVaughan
b.Ri
char
dCr
ashaw
c.JohnSuckl
i
ng
d.AnneFi
nch
Ans:
c.JohnSuckl
i
ng
645. Whichoft
hef ol
l
owingplay
sbeWi
l
li
am Wy
cher
leyi
sinpar
tanadapt
ati
on
ofmoi
l
ere’
stheMisant
hrope?
a.ThePl
ainDeal
er
b.TheCount
ryWi
fe
c.Lov
einaWood
d.TheGent
lemanDanci
ngMast
er
Ans:
a.ThePl
ainDeal
er
646. Templ
eisacol
l
ect
ionofpoemsby
a.ThomasCar
ew
b.Rober
tHer
ri
ck
c.Geor
geHer
ber
t
d.Ri
char
dCr
ashaw
Ans:
c.Geor
geHer
ber
t
647. Whati
sL’
All
egr
o’scompani
onpi
ececal
l
ed?
a.Lami
a
b.Hy
per
ion
c.I
lPenser
oso
d.Thy
rsi
s
Ans:
c.I
lPenser
oso
648. “Gr
eatwitsar
esuret
omadnessnearal
l
iedAndt
hinpar
ti
ti
onsdot
hei
r
boundsdi
vide”
.Theabov
eli
nesappeari
n..
.
a.MacFl
ecknoe
b.Absal
om andAchi
tophel
c.EssayonMan
d.Al
exander
’sFeast
Ans:
b.Absal
om andAchi
tophel
649. .
..
..
..
..
..
..i
sthest
oryofar
oguebyFi
eldi
ng.
a.Amel
i
a
b.Jonat
hanWi
l
d
c.Jour
nal
ofaVoy
aget
oLi
sbon
d.Tom Jones
Ans:
b.Jonat
hanWi
l
d
650. ‘
EssayonMan’
,‘
EssayonCr
it
ici
sm’
,‘
TheRapeoft
heLock’
aret
hesat
ir
ical
wor
ksof.
..
.
a.Henr
yFi
eldi
ng
b.Adam Smi
th
c.Al
exanderPope
d.Edwar
dGi
bbon
Ans:
c.Al
exanderPope
651. The“
Elegywr
it
teni
naCount
ryChur
chy
ard”i
sthef
amouswor
kof
..
..
..
..
a.Ol
i
verGol
dsmi
th
b.ThomasGr
ay
c.Shakespear
e
d.Samuel
Johnson
Ans:
b.ThomasGr
ay
652. Thebi
ogr
aphy‘
Li
vesofPoet
s’waswr
it
tenby
a.Hume
b.Gi
bbon
c.Ber
kel
ey
d.Johnson
Ans:
d.Johnson
653. ‘
Soci
alCont
ract
’theor
ywasgi
venby
..
..
..
..
a.J.J.Rousseau
b.Henr
yFi
eldi
ng
c.Samuel
Richar
dson
d.Noneoft
hese
Ans:
a.J.J.Rousseau
654. ‘
Per
iodi
cal
Essay
s’emer
gedi
nthe.
..
..
..
a.18thcent
ury
b.17thcent
ury
c.16thcent
ury
d.Noneoft
hese
a.18thcent
Ans: ury
655. ‘
AJour
neyt
otheWest
ernI
slandsofScot
land’
waswr
it
tenby
a.Samuel
Johnson
b.Samuel
Richar
dson
c.Lawr
enceSt
erne
d.JosephAddi
son
Ans:
a.Samuel
Johnson
656. ‘
Gul
l
iver
’sTr
avel
s’i
sasat
ir
eon
a.TheSci
ent
istandPhi
l
osopher
s
b.HumanBei
ng
c.War
sandConquest
s
d.Al
loft
hese
Ans:
d.Al
loft
hese
657. “
Ref
lect
ionont
heFr
enchRev
olut
ion”i
sthegr
eatwor
kof
..
..
..
.
a.Lawr
enceSt
erne
b.EdmundBur
ke
c.JosephAddi
son
d.Ri
char
dSt
eel
e
Ans:
b.EdmundBur
ke
658. ‘
Jonat
hanWi
l
dtheGr
eat
’,
asat
ir
ical
romancewaswr
it
tenby
a.Lawr
enceSt
erne
b.Tobi
asSmol
l
ett
c.Henr
yFi
eldi
ng
d.Ol
i
verGol
dsmi
th
Ans:
c.Henr
yFi
eldi
ng
659. Thewor
kwhi
chdoesnotbel
ongt
oSamuel
Richar
dsoni
s..
..
..
..
.
a.Vi
rt
ueRewar
ded
b.Si
rChar
lesGr
andi
son
c.Cl
ari
ssaHar
lowe
d.Noneoft
hese
Ans:
d.Noneoft
hese
660. Odet
oEv
eni
ngwaswr
it
tenby
a.Wi
l
li
am Bl
ake
b.Jonat
hanSwi
ft
c.Al
exanderPope
d.Wi
l
li
am Col
l
ins
Ans:
d.Wi
l
li
am Col
l
ins
661. “
Tom Jones”i
sthef
amouswor
kof
a.Lawr
enceSt
erne
b.Tobi
asSmol
l
ett
c.Samuel
Richar
dson
d.Henr
yFi
eldi
ng
Ans:
d.Henr
yFi
eldi
ng
662. Whost at
est
hat,
“Fiel
dingmadeJaneAust
enpossi
blebyopeni
ngt
he
cent
ral
tradi
ti
onofEngl
ishfi
ction”
?
a.Samuel
Richar
dson
b.FRLeav
is
c.Edwar
dGi
bbon
d.Tobi
asSmol
l
ett
Ans:
b.FRLeav
is
663. .
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..i
sknownast
hef
atherofEngl
i
shnov
el.
a.Ri
char
dson
b.Smol
l
ett
c.Henr
yFi
eldi
ng
d.Geor
geCr
abbe
Ans:
c.Henr
yFi
eldi
ng
664. .
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..wast
hef
ir
stv
olumepubl
i
shedbyGi
bbonwhi
chmadehi
m
successful
a.Hi
stor
y
b.Memoi
rs
c.TheDecl
i
neandFal
loft
heRomanempi
re
d.Noneoft
heabov
e
Ans:
c.TheDecl
i
neandFal
loft
heRomanempi
re
665. .
..
..
..
..
..
..t
hewor
kwhi
chdoesnotbel
ongt
oWi
l
li
am Bl
ake.
a.TheBookofThel
b.TheFi
rstBookofBr
izen
c.TheUni
ver
sal
Chr
oni
cle
d.TheBookofLos
Ans:
c.TheUni
ver
sal
Chr
oni
cle
666. Popewr
it
esascat
hingexposeoft
hebadwr
it
ersandpseudo-
int
ell
ect
ual
s
ofhi
sdayin
a.Fr
ankenst
ein
b.TheFat
alRev
enge
c.Mor
alEpi
stl
er
d.Dunci
ad
Ans:
d.Dunci
ad
667. Whi
chamongt
hef
oll
owi
ngar
ethewor
ksofHenr
yFi
eldi
ng?
a.Amel
i
a
b.Jonat
hanWi
l
d
c.Tom Jones
d.Al
ltheabov
e
Ans:
c.Tom Jones
668. “
Elegyt
otheMemor
yofan“
Unf
ort
unat
eLady
”waswr
it
tenby
a.Wi
l
li
am Col
l
ins
b.Al
exanderPope
c.Wi
l
li
am Bl
ake
d.JamesThompson
Ans:
b.Al
exanderPope
669. “Nordi dheembraceme,buthi

ssi
ghs,
theCompulsi
vepressureofhi
s
arms,witnessedthatabi
tt
err
egretmi
ngl
edit
sel
fwit
hhiscaresses”
,isabri
ef
expr
essionof .
..
..
..
.
a.Char
lesChur
chi
l
l
b.Ol
i
verGol
dsmi
th
c.Henr
yFi
eldi
ng
d.JJRousseau
Ans:
d.JJRousseau
670. ThePer
iodi
cal
Essayi
nthe18thcent
urywasi
ntr
oducedby
a.Chur
chi
l
l
b.Rousseau
c.Tat
ler
d.Fi
eldi
ng
Ans:
c.Tat
ler
671. ‘
Discour
se’
afamouswor
kdoneby
a.Ol
i
verGol
dsmi
th
b.Al
exandrPope
c.JJRousseau
d.Char
lesChur
chi
l
l
Ans:
c.JJRousseau
672. Thef
amouspoem ‘
FourPast
oral
s’descr
ibes
a.f
est
ival
s
b.t
heShepher
ds
c.seasons
d.Noneoft
hese
Ans:
c.seasons
673. Whi
chamongt
hef
oll
owi
ngl
i
ter
arywor
kdoesnotbel
ongt
o‘Thomas
Gr
ay”
?
a.TheBar
d
b.Odes
c.ThePr
ogr
essofPoet
ry
d.TheTi
ger
Ans:
d.TheTi
ger
674. ‘
TheFat
herofEngl
i
shNov
el’
wasst
atedby
a.F.R.Leav
is
b.Tobi
asSmol
l
ett
c.Si
rWal
terScot
t
d.Lawr
enceSt
erne
Ans:
c.Si
rWal
terScot
t
675. ‘
ATr
endofCl
ubs’
and‘
Cof
feeHouses’
star
tedi
n..
..
..
..
..
..
a.TheAugust
anAge
b.TheRomant
icAge
c. TheModer
nAge
d.Noneoft
hese
Ans:
a.TheAugust
anAge
676. Ident
if
ytheaut
hort
owhom t
hecr
edi
tofwr
it
ingt
hef
ir
stmoder
nnov
el
goes?
a.JamesThomson
b.JamesMacpher
son
c.Samuel
Richar
dson
d.Wi
l
li
am Bl
ake
Ans:
c.Samuel
Richar
dson
677. Whi
chamongt
hef
oll
owi
ngar
enott
hewor
kdonebySamuel
Richar
dson?
a.Vi
rt
ueRewar
ded
b.Fami
l
iesLet
ter
s
c.Mol
lFl
ander
s
d.Cl
ari
ssa
Ans:
c.Mol
lFl
ander
s
678. Whoamongt hefol

l
owingiscredi
tedwit
hthemaki
ngoft
hef
ir
st
aut
hor
it
ati
veDi
cti
onar
yoftheEngli
shLanguage?
a.Bi
shopBer
kel
ey
b.Samuel
Johnson
c.EdmundBur
ke
d.Hor
aceWal
pol
e
Ans:
b.Samuel
Johnson
679. I
n‘TheRapeoft
heLock’
Poper
epeat
edl
ycompar
esBel
i
ndat
o
a.TheSun
b.TheMoon
c.TheNor
thSt
ar
d.TheRose
Ans:
a.TheSun
680. Thepr
edomi
nantt
oneandt
hrustofJonat
hanSwi
ft
’s‘
AModestPr
oposal
’
ar
e
a.comi
c
b.sol
emn
c.hor
tat
ory
d.i
rony
Ans:
d.i
rony
681. Ent
ri
esi
n‘TheDi
aryofSamuel
Pepy
s’begi
nsaf
ter
a.TheRest
orat
ion
b.TheGl
ori
ousRev
olut
ion
c.TheRef
ormat
ion
d.TheFr
enchRev
olut
ion
Ans:
a.TheRest
orat
ion
682. Whoamongt
hef
oll
owi
ngi
snotanI
ri
shwr
it
er?
a.OscarWi
l
de
b.Ol
i
verGol
dsmi
th
c.EdmundBur
ke
d.ThomasGr
ay
Ans:
d.ThomasGr
ay
683. I
nthewel
lknownpoem ‘
Tohi
scoymi
str
ess’
,t
hewor
dcoymeans
a.shy
b.t
imi
d
c.v
olupt
uous
d.sensuous
Ans:
a.shy
684. Inthesummerof1712,
‘TheSpect
ator
’publ
i
shedaser
iesofessay
son
‘
ThePl
easuresofI
magi
nati
on’
,wri
tt
enby
a.Ri
char
dSt
eel
e
b.JohnDenni
s
c.JohnLocke
d.JosephAddi
son
Ans:
d.JosephAddi
son
685. Whof
amousl
ysai
d,”
Thr
eeorf
ourf
ami
l
iesi
naCount
ryVi
l
lagei
sthev
ery
t
hingt
oworkon”
?
a.Cl
araReev
e
b.Mar
iaEdgewor
th
c.Fr
ancesBur
ney
d.JaneAust
en
Ans:
d.JaneAust
en
686. TheEnl
i
ght
enmentbel
i
evedi
ntheuni
ver
sal
aut
hor
it
yof
a.r
eli
gion
b.t
radi
ti
on
c.r
eason
d.sent
iment
s
Ans:
c.r
eason
687. Thesubt
it
leofWi
l
li
am Godwi
n’
s‘Cal
ebWi
l
li
ams’
is
a.ManAsHeI
sNot
b.ManAsHeI
s
c.Thi
ngsAsTheyAr
e
d.ThePupi
lofNat
ure
Ans:
c.Thi
ngsAsTheyAr
e
688. ‘
Ver
sesont
heDeat
hofDrSwi
ft
’iswr
it
tenby
a.Al
exanderPope
b.Samuel
Johnson
c.JohnGay
d.Jonat
hanSwi
ft
Ans:
d.Jonat
hanSwi
ft
689. Theauthoroft
hepamphl
etShor
tVi
ewofI
mmor
ali
tyandPr
ofanenessof
t
heEngl
i
shStage(1698)was
a.JohnBuny
an
b.Jer
emyCol
l
ier
c.Wi
l
li
am Wy
cher
ley
d.JohnVanbr
ugh
Ans:
b.Jer
emyCol
l
ier
690. TheCast
leofOt
rant
oisanexampl
eof
a.Got
hicFi
cti
on
b.Romance
c.Comi
cFi
cti
on
d.Bi
l
dungsr
oman
Ans:
a.Got
hicFi
cti
on
691. I
nTheRapeoft
heLock,
Bel
i
nda’
slapdogi
snamed
a.Luck
b.Shock
c.Pl
uck
d.Muck
Ans:
b.Shock
692. Tom Pai

ne’
sTheRi
ght
sofManwaspubl
i
shedi
n
a.1790
b.1791
c.1792
d.1793
Ans:
b.1791
693. Jer
emyColl
ier’
sAShor
tVi
ewoftheI
mmor
ali
tyandPr
ofanenessoft
he
Engl
i
shStageat
tackedamongot
her
s.
a.JohnBuny
an
b.ThomasRhy
mer
c.Wi
l
li
am Congr
eve
d.Henr
yFi
eldi
ng
Ans:
c.Wi
l
li
am Congr
eve
694. Whom doesAl

exanderPopesat
ir
isei
nthepor
trai
tofSpor
us?
a.LadyWor
tl
eyMont
ague
b.JosephAddi
son
c.Lor
dShaf
tsbur
y
d.Lor
dHar
vey
Ans:
d.Lor
dHar
vey
695. Ther
eli
giousmov
ementMet
hodi
sm i
nthe18thcent
uryEngl
andwas
f
oundedby
a.JohnTi
l
lot
son
b.Bi
shopBut
ler
c.Ber
nar
dMandev
il
le
d.JohnWel
sey
Ans:
d.JohnWel
sey
696. Whoamongt
hef
oll
owi
ngwr
oteabookwi
tht
het
it
leTheAgeofReason?
a.Wi
l
li
am Godwi
n
b.EdmundBur
ke
c.ThomasPai
ne
d.Edwar
dGi
bbon
Ans:
c.ThomasPai
ne
697. Johnson’
sDi
cti
onar
yoft
heEngl
i
shl
anguagewaspubl
i
shedi
nthey
ear
a.1710
b.1755
c.1739
d.1759
Ans:
b.1755
698. TheRest
orat
ioncomedyhasbeencr
it
ici
sedmai
nlyf
ori
ts
a.excessi
vewi
tandhumour
b.bi
tt
ersat
ir
eandcy
nici
sm
c.i
ndecencyandper
missi
veness
d.super
fi
cial
ref
lect
ionofsoci
ety
Ans:
c.i
ndecencyandper
missi
veness
699. Pope’
sTheRapeoft
heLockwaspubl
i
shedi
n1712i
n
a.t
hreecant
os
b.f
ourcant
os
c.f
ivecant
os
d.t
wocant
os
Ans:
d.t
wocant
os
700. Inwhi
ch,
JaneAust
ennovel
doyoufi
ndthechar
act
ersAnneEl
l
iot
t,Lady
Russel
l
,Loui
saMusgr
oveandcapt
ainWor
dswort
h?
a.Emma
b.Mansf
iel
dPar
k
c.Per
suasi
on
d.Nor
thangerAbbey
Ans:
c.Per
suasi
on
701. Whoamongt
hef
oll
owi
nghasbeencal
l
ed‘
TheMor
ningSt
aroft
he
Renai
ssance’
?
a.Shakespear
e
b.Spenser
c.Chaucer
d.Marlowe
Ans:
c.Chaucer
702. Whatf
iel
dsofl
ear
ningdoesFaust
usconsi
derbef
orehet
urnst
omagi
c?
a.Chemist
ry,biol
ogy ,andphy sics
b.Logi
c,medicine,law,andt heology
c.Navi
gati
on,ast r
onomy ,rhetoric,
andtheol
ogy
d.Grammar,history,sci
ence, andLati
n
Ans:
b.Logi
c,medi
cine,
lawandt
heol
ogy
703. Ther
epet
it
ionofbegi
nni
ngconsonantsounds
a.Rhyme
b.Onomatopoei
a
c.All
i
terat
ion
d.Epi
thet
Ans:
c.Al
l
iter
ati
on
704. Chaucer
'sCant
erbur
yTal
esi
sast
oryof
a.nineteenpilgri
ms
b.twent y
-fourpil
gri
ms
c.twent y
-ninepil
gri
ms
d.thir
ty-f
ourpi l
gri
ms
Ans:
c.t
went
y-ni
nepi
l
gri
ms
705. Whohasbeencal
l
ed‘
thepoet
’spoet
’?
a.Si
dney
b.Shakespear
e
c.Spenser
d.BenJonson
Ans:
c.Spenser
706. Thephr
ase“
disassoci
ati
onofsensi
bil
i
ty”wasf
ir
stusedby
a.Mat
hewAr
nol
d
b.JohnDr
yden
c.T.S.El
i
ot
d.Phi
l
ipSy
dney
Ans:
c.T.S.El
i
ot
707. I
nwhi
chmont
hdi
dthepi
l
gri
msmar
cht
o¬war
dst
heCant
erbur
y?
a.Apri
l
b.March
c.June
d.May
Ans:
b.Mar
ch
708. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngwr
it
erswr
otehi
stor
ical
nov
els?
a.JaneAust enandCharl
ott
eBr ont
e
b.SirWalterScot
tandMariaEdgewor t
h
c.Wi l
l
iam Wordswort
handSamuel Tayl
orCol
eri
dge
d.Mar yShell
eyandPercyByssheShell
ey
Ans:
b.Si
rWal
terScot
tandMar
iaEdgewor
th
709. ThePi
ckwi
ckPaper
sbyDi ckenswaspubli
shedi
n:
a.1836 b.1838 c.1839 d.1841
Ans:
a.1836
710. Al
chemyi
sthepr
act
iceoft
urni
ngbasemet
ali
nto_
___
___
__.
a.Lead
b.Gold
c.Sil
ver
d.Pewter
Ans:
b.Gol
d
711. Tot
t sMi
el
’ scel
l
any(
1557)cont
ainedt
hesongsandsonnet
sof
a.WyattandSurrey
b.WyattandRaleigh
c.Sur
reyandSidney
d.Si
dneyandSpencer
Ans:
a.Wy
attandSur
rey
712. Hor
ati
oiski
l
ledbyLor
enzo,
Bal
thazar
,andwhoel
se?
a.Pedr
inganoandSerberi
ne
b.Pedr
inganoandChrist
ophil
c.Pedr
inganoandhisevilt
winWedri
ngano
d.Pedr
ingano,
Serberi
ne,andChr
ist
ophil
Ans:
a.Pedr
inganoandSer
ber
ine
713. Thet
it
leofCar
lyl
e’
s‘Sar
torResar
tus’
means?
a.Reli
giousScri
ptur
e
b.SeasideResort
c.Tai
lorRepatched
d.Noneoft hese
Ans:
c.Tai
l
orRepat
ched
714. Whi
ch1934nov
eli
sbasedonOr
wel
l
'sexper
iencesi
ntheI
ndi
anI
mper
ial
Pol
i
ce?
a.Bur
meseDay s
b.HappyDays
c.CeylonDay
s
d.I
ndianDays
Ans:
a.Bur
meseDay
s
715. “
Myowngreatrel
i
gioni
sabel
iefi
nt he
bl
ood,
thef
leshasbei
ngwisert
hant
heintell
ect
.”
:Whowr
otet
his?
a.Graham Greene
b.D.H.Lawrence
c.Charl
esDickens
d.JaneAusten
Ans:
b.D.H.Lawr
ence
716. Whoi
sknownf
ort
heWav
erl
eynov
els?
a.JaneAust
en
b.ThomasHar dy
c.Walt
erScott
d.Charl
esDickens
Ans:
c.Wal
terScot
t
717. Whati
sthei
mit
ati
onofnat
ural
soundsi
nwor
dfor
m?
a.Personi
ficat
ion
b.Hyperboles
c.Al
li
terat
ion
d.Onomat opoeia
Ans:
d.Onomat
opoei
a
718. ‘
OnHer
oesandHer
o-wor
shi
p’i
swr
it
tenby
:
a.Huxl
ey
b.Car
lyl
e
c.Ruski
n
d.Mi
l
l
Ans:
b.Car
lyl
e
719. Geor
geOrwelli
sa“penname”orpseudonym adopt
edbyt
heaut
horof
1984.Whatist
hereal
,bi
rt
hnameoftheauthor?
a.Andr
ewMaci
nty
re
b.Er
icAr
thurBl
air
c.Geor
geO’
Nei
l
l
d.Samuel
Longhor
nCl
emons
Ans:
b.Er
icAr
thurBl
air
720. Whatdi
dBel
-I
mper
iagi
vet
obot
hherl
over
s(Hor
ati
oandAndr
ea)
?
a.Abr
acel
et
b.Akni
fe
c.Ascar
f
d.Abook
Ans:
c.Ascar
f
721. Di
ckens,
Thackr
ay,
Geor
geEl
i
otandTr
oll
opear
e:
a.Nov
eli
sts
b.Poet
s
c.Cr
it
ics
d.Essay
ist
s
Ans:
a.Nov
eli
sts
722. MyFai
rLadyi
samusi
cal
dramabasedonwhi
choft
hepl
ayofShaw?
a.Pygmal
ion
b.St
.Joan
c.ArmsandtheMan
d.Appl
eCart
Ans:
a.Py
gmal
i
on
723. Themagazine'
Cont
emporar
yPoet r
yand
Pr
ose'
wasi
nspir
edbywhichexhi
bit
ion?
a.TheFest
ivalofBr
it
ain
b.TheSurr
eali
stExhi
bit
ion
c.Peopl
eofthe20thCentury
d.Drawi
ngthe20thCentury
Ans:
b.TheSur
real
i
stExhi
bit
ion
724. Whi
chofthefol
l
owingnov
elsr
efl
ect
edGeor
geMer
edi
th’
sdi
sast
rous
mar
ri
aget
oMaryEll
enNicol
l
s?
a. AReadingofEar
th
b. AReadingofLi
fe
c. TheEmptyPurse
d. ModernLove
Ans:
d.Moder
nLov
e
725. Wal
terScot
tisknownast
hef
atherof
a.Hi
stor
ical
nov
el
b.Bi
ogr
aphi
calnov
el
c.Got
hicnov
el
d.Real
i
sti
cnov
el
Ans:
a.Hi
stor
ical
nov
el
726. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
snotaPar
tysl
ogani
nthenov
el1984?
a.Fr
eedom i
sSl
aver
y
b.I
gnor
ancei
sSt
rengt
h
c.Lov
eisHat
e
d.Wari
sPeace
Ans:
c.Lov
eisHat
e
727. Geor
geEl
i
otandT.
S.El
i
otar
e:
a.Brot
her&Sist
er
b.Contempor
arywri
ter
s
c.Modernpoets
d.Cri
ti
cs
Ans:
c.Moder
npoet
s
728. Whom doesCal

i
banmi
stakef
oroneofPr
osper
o’sspi
ri
tssentt
otor
ment
hi
m?
a.St
ephano
b.Fer
dinand
c.Mi
randa
d.Tr
incul
o
Ans:
d.Tr
incul
o
729. TheOl
dWi
ves’
Tal
eisanov
elby
a.Hawt
hor
ne
b.Ar
nol
dBennet
t
c.ThomasCar
lyl
e
d.Mar
gar
etAt
wood
Ans:
d.Mar
gar
etAt
wood
730. Al
dousHuxl
eywasapoet
,butwasbet
terknownas
a.Poli
ti
cian
b.Dramat i
st
c.Noveli
st
d.Archi
tect
Ans:
c.Nov
eli
st
731. Mar
gar
etAt sOr
wood’ yxandCr
akei
s
a.Sci
encef
ict
ion
b.Romance
c.Specul
ati
vef
ict
ion
d.Real
i
sti
cnov
el
Ans:
c.Specul
ati
vef
ict
ion
732. Char
lesDi sATal
ckens’ eofTwoCi
ti
esbegi
nswi
tht
hesent
ence
a.I
twast
hebestoft
imes;
itwast
hewor
stoft
imes.
b.I
twast
hebri
ghtestofti
mes;i
twasthedarkestofti
mes.
c.I
twast
heri
chestoftimes;
itwast
hepoorestoftimes.
d.I
twast
hehappiestofti
mes;i
twasthesaddestofti
mes.
Ans:
a.I
twast
hebestoft
imes;
itwast
hewor
stoft
imes.
733. _
___
___
__i
sapoet
icr
hyt
hm desi
gnedt
oimi
tat
ether
hyt
hm ofnat
ural
speech.
a.Spr
ungRhythm
b.Ter
zaRima
c.Ott
awaRima
d.RhymeRoyal
Ans:
a.Spr
ungRhy
thm
734. WhatwasProsper
o’st
it
lebef
orehi
sposi
ti
onwasusur
pedandhewas
f
orcedtof
leeI
tal
y?
a.DukeofMi
l
an
b.Ki
ngofNapl
es
c.DukeofNapl
es
d.PopeofRome
Ans:
a.DukeofMi
l
an
735. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
sthef
ir
stnov
elofD.H.Lawr
ence?
a.TheWhitePeacock
b.TheTrespasser
c.SonsandLov ers
d.Womeni nLov e
Ans:
a.TheWhi
tePeacock
736. Thechar
act
erofLi
tt
leNei
li
sacr
eat
ionof
:
a.Hardy
b.El
iot
c. OscarWil
de
d.Dickens
Ans:
d.Di
ckens
737. “
All
ani
mal
sar
eequal
,butsomeani
mal
sar
e__
___
___
___
___
___
___
___
___
_.”
a.moreequal t
hanot her
s
b.morepower f
ulthanothers
c.morei
ntell
igentthanother
s
d.smel
li
erthanot hers
Ans:
a.mor
eequal
thanot
her
s
738. Leari
ski
ngofwhatcount
ry?
a.France
b.Brit
ain
c.EastAnglia
d.Scotland
Ans:
b.Br
it
ain
739. WhoderidedHazli
ttasoneoft
hemember
s
oft
he‘
CockneySchoolofPoetr
y’?
a.Tennyson
b.Charl
esLamb
c.Lockhart
d.T.S.Eli
ot
Ans:
c.Lockhar
t
740. Whi
choneofLear
’sdaught
ersi
ssenti
ntoexi
l
e?
a.Goneri
l
b.Regan
c.Cordel
ia
d.Jul
iet
Ans:
c.Cor
del
i
a
741. Whyar
ethepi
l
gri
msgoi
ngt
oCant
erbur
y?
a.TomeetKi ngHenryI
II
b.Toseeamedi evalmyst
erypl
ay
c.Towor shi
ptherel
i
csofSaintThomasBecket
t
d.Becausetheyar
etouri
sts
Ans:
c.Towor
shi
pther
eli
csofSai
ntThomasBecket
t
742. D.
H.Lawr
enceusest
heexpr
essi
on‘
abr
ightbookofl
i
fe’
todescr
ibe
a.Thenovel
b.Thedramati
cmonol
ogue
c.TheBibl
e
d.Theshortl
yri
c
Ans:
a.Thenov
el
743. Whi
chbookofGeor
geMer
edi
thwaspubl
i
shedi
n1879?
a.TheEgot i
st
b.Emili
ainEngland
c.TheAdv entur
esofHar
ryRi
chmond
d.Vit
tori
a
Ans:
a.TheEgot
ist
744. G.
M.Hopki
ns’
s“Wi
ndhov
er”i
sdedi
cat
ed:
a.ToChr
ist,
ourLor
d
b.ToChr
istourl
ord
c.Tonoone
d.ToChr
ist,
theLor
d
Ans:
b.ToChr
istourl
ord
745. D.H.Lawr
ence’
s__
___
___
___
__i
ssetdur
ingt
heper
iodoft
heMexi
can
Rev
olut
ion.
a. TheTr
espasser
b. ThePl
umedSer pent
c. TheRainbow
d. TheEscapedCock
Ans:
b.ThePl
umedSer
pent
746. W.
M.Thacker
aysVani
’ tyFai
rowesi
tst
it
let
o
a.Browning’sFifi
neatt heFai
r
b.Shakespear sMer
e’ chantofVenice
c.Goldsmith’sVicarofWakef i
eld
d.Bunyan’sPilgri
m’sPr ogr
ess
Ans:
d.Buny
an’
sPi
l
gri
m’sPr
ogr
ess
747. Whoi
spr
aisedasaher
obyCar
lyl
einhi
slect
ureont
he‘
Her
oasKi
ng’
?
a.Johnson
b.Cromwell
c.Shakespear
e
d.Luther
Ans:
b.Cr
omwel
l
748. nAni
I malFar
m,whati
sthenameoft
hef
arm bef
oret
heani
mal
stakeov
er?
a.ColdComfortFar
m
b.GrangeFar
m
c.ManorFarm
d.Sunnybr
ookFarm
Ans:
c.ManorFar
m
749. “
Hark,har
k!
Bow-
wow.
Thewatch-
dogsbar
k!
Bow-
wow. ”
I
dent
if
ythef
igur
eofspeechf
oundi
nthequot
efr
om Shakespear
e’sTheTempest
.
a.Al
l
iter
ati
on
b.Hy
per
bol
e
c.Par
adox
d.Onomat
opoei
a
Ans:
d.Onomat
opoei
a
750. I
nOr
well
'
ssemi-
aut
obi
ographi
cal
accountofhi
sli
vi
ngi
npov
ert
yinbot
h
ci
ti hewasDownandOutwher
es, e?
a.LeedsandLi
verpool
b.LondonandGlasgow
c.MadrasandCalcutt
a
d.Pari
sandLondon
Ans:
d.Par
isandLondon
751. I
nwhi
chbookoft
heBi
bledoest
hest
oryofAdam andEv
eoccur
?
a.Levi
ticus
b.Exodus
c.Genesis
d.Deuteronomy
Ans:
c.Genesi
s
752. Harol
dNi
chol
sondescri
bedwhi
chpoetas
'
Ver
yyel
l
owandglum.Per
fectmanner
s'?
a.e.e.Cummings
b.T.S.Ell
i
ot
c.c.JohnGreenl
eafWhi
tt
ier
d.d.WaltWhitman
Ans:
b.T.S.El
i
ot
753. Whoi
stheaut hebookNi
horoft net
eenEi
ght
yFour
?
a.ThomasHardy
b.Emil
eZola
c.Geor
geOrwell
d.Walt
erScott
Ans:
c.Geor
geOr
wel
l
754. Geor
geBer
nar
dShaw,
thegr
eatdr
amat
ist
,was
a.AWel
sh
b.AnI
ri
shman
c.AScot
sman
d.AnEngl
i
shman
Ans:
b.AnI
ri
shman
755. Thef
amouschar
act
er'
Pickwi
ck'
wascr
eat
edby
a.St
evenSpi
elber
g
b.LeoTol
stoy
c.Wal
tDi
sney
d.Char
lesDi
ckens
Ans:
d.Char
lesDi
ckens
756. Al
dousHuxl
eysBr
’ aveNewWor
ldder
ivesi
tst
it
lef
rom
a.Fr
anci
sBacon
b.JohnMi
l
ton
c.Shakespear
e
d.Wor
dswor
th
Ans:
c.Shakespear
e
757. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngnov
elsofOr
wel
li
sasat
ir
eoncommuni
sm?
a.Ani
mal
Far
m
b.Ni
net
eenEi
ght
-Four
c.Bur
meseDay
s
d.ACl
ergy
man’
sDaught
er
Ans:
a.Ani
mal
Far
m
758. Whoat
tri
but
edt
hist
oShakespear
e?He“
wasnotofanage,
butf
oral
l
t
imes.
”
a.Br
adl
ey
b.Dekker
c.Dr
yden
d.Jonson
Ans:
d.Jonson
759. Whi
skey
-Pr
iesti
sachar
act
eri
n
a.TheHear
toft
heMat
ter
b.TheEndoft
heAf
fai
r
c.ThePowerandt
heGl
ory
d.TheMi
nist
ryofFear
c.ThePowerandt
Ans: heGl
ory
760. TheOl
dWi
ves’
Tal
eisanov
elby
a.Hawt
hor
ne
b.Ar
nol
dBennet
t
c.ThomasCar
lyl
e
d.Mar
gar
etAt
wood
Ans:
b.Ar
nol
dBennet
t
761. _
___
___
___
___i
sthesubt
it
leofChar
lesDi sOl
ckens’ i
verTwi
st.
a.ThePar
ishBoy
'sPr
ogr
ess
b.TheOr
phan
c.ASmal
lBoy
d.ASmal
lBoy
’sAdv
ent
ure
a.ThePar
Ans: ishBoy
’sPr
ogr
ess
762. __
____
___
_ i
saform ofpoet
rywhichexpr
essesper
sonal
emot
ionsor
f
eel
i
ngs,t
ypi
cal
lyspokeni
nt hefi
rstper
son.
a.Lyri
c
b.Ode
c.Sonnet
d.Idy
ll
Ans:
a.Ly
ric
763. Whowasnomi
nat
edf
ort
heNobel
Pri
zei
nLi
ter
atur
einf
ourdi
ff
erenty
ear
s?
a.H.G.Well
s
b.Harol
dPinter
c.MarkTwain
d.GeorgeEl
iot
Ans:
a.H.G.Wel
l
s
764. Useoft
heher
oiccoupl
etwaspi
oneer
edby
a.AlexanderPope
b.Chaucer
c.Dryden
d.Tennyson
Ans:
b.Chaucer
765. “
Themoanofdovesini
mmemor i
alel
ms,
Andmurmur
ingofi
nnumerabl
ebees…”
I
dent
if
ythef
igur
eofspeechusedi
ntheaboveci
tat
ionf
rom Tenny
son’
s“Come
Down,O Maid”
.
a.Onomat
opoei
a
b.Al
l
iter
ati
on
c.Hy
per
bol
e
d.Par
adox
Ans:
a.Onomat
opoei
a
766. Dr
ydenadmi
res_
___
___
___
___
___
_andl
oves_
___
___
__.
a.BenJonson&Wi l
l
iam Shakespear
e
b.Pl
ato&Arist
otl
e
c.Boi
leau&Neander
d.Beoumont&Flet
cher
Ans:
a.BenJonson&Wi
l
li
am Shakespear
e
767. Har
oldPi
nter
’sTheCar
etakeri
sapl
ayi
n__
___act
s.
a.one
b.two
c.three
d.four
Ans:
c.t
hree
768.Aboutwhom di
dDr
ydensayt
hef
oll
owi
ng?
“
Hewasamanwhoofal lmoder
ns,
andper
hapsanci
entpoet
s,t
hegr
eat
estand
t
hemostcompr
ehensi
vesoul.
”
a.Mil
ton
b.Shakespear
e
c.Si
dney
d.Spencer
Ans:
b.Shakespear
e
769. Whi
chnovelbyChar
lesDi
ckenshast
hef
oll
owi
ngast
heopeni
ngl
i
ne:
“
Nighti
sgener
all
ymytimeforwal
king.
”?
a.Ol
iverTwist
b.GreatExpect
ati
ons
c.HardTimes
d.TheOl
dCur
iosi
tyShop
d.TheOl
Ans: dCur
iosi
tyShop
770. Whoamongthefol
l
owi
ngisaNobel
Pri
zewi
nni
ngEngl
i
shpl
aywr
ight
,
scr
eenwr
it
er,
dir
ect
orandact
or?
a.GeorgeEliot
b.GeorgeOr well
c.SaulBell
ow
d.HaroldPinter
Ans:
d.Har
oldPi
nter
771. “
Lif
eisat
alet
oldbyani
diot
.”i
sut
ter
edby
a.Haml
et
b.Ot
hel
l
o
c.Lear
d.Macbet
h
Ans:
d.Macbet
h
772. TheAdv
ent
uresofTom Sawy
erwaswr
it
tenby_
___
__
a.GeorgeEli
ot
b.GeorgeOrwel
l
c.MarkTwain
d.noneofthese
Ans:
c.Mar
kTwai
n
773. "
Readi
nessi
sal
l
."occur
sin
a.Haml
et
b.Macbet
h
c.Ki
ngLear
d.Ot
hel
l
o
Ans:
a.Haml
et
774. "Ful
lFathom fi
vethyFat
herl
ies"i
sal
i
nef
rom Shakespear
e’s
¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬__
___
____
____.
a.TheTempest
b.Haml
et
c.Ot
hel
l
o
d.Ki
ngLear
Ans:
a.TheTempest
775. “
Mywaywar
dhusbandhat
hahundr
edt
imeswooedmet
ost
eal
it,
butshe
sol
ovesthe
token—
Forheconj
uredhersheshoul
dev
erkeepi
t”
—
Whoi
sthespeakeroft
heut
ter
ance?
a.Gert
rude
b.Emil
ia
c.Rosal
ind
d.Desdemona
Ans:
b.Emi
l
ia
776. IdentifytheShakespeareancharact
erwhout
ter
sthef
oll
owi
ng:
No,I
’l
lnotweep.
Ihav
ef ullcauseofweeping, butt
hisheart
shal
lbreaki ntoahundredthousandflaws,
orer
eI’llweep.Of ool
,Ishallgomad!
a.Gl
oucester
b.Ki
ngLear
c.Macbeth
d.Ot
hell
o
Ans:
b.Ki
ngLear
777. "
Ther
eispr
ovi
dencei
nthef
all
ofSpar
row"occur
sin
a.Hamlet
b.Macbeth
c.Ki
ngLear
d.Othel
l
o
Ans:
a.Haml
et
778. Ident
if
ytheShakespear
eancharact
erwhout
ter
sthef
oll
owi
ng:
“Asfl
i
est owantonboysarewetothegods;
Theykil
lusfort
heirspor
t.
”
a.KingLear
b.Haml et
c.Gloucester
d.Edmund
Ans:
c.Gl
oucest
er
779. Whi
chnov el
ofCharl
esDi
ckensi
sseti
nLondonandPar
isbef
oreand
dur
ingt
heFrenchRevol
uti
on?
a. Ol
iverTwist
b.ATal eofTwoCi t
ies
c.GreatExpectat
ions
d.Har
dTi
mes
b.ATal
Ans: eofTwoCi
ti
es
780. “NOW,whatIwanti
s,Fact
s.Teachtheseboysandgi
rl
snot
hingbutFact
s.”
Theabov
eistheopeningl
ineof___
_____
____
.
a.DavidCopperfi
eld
b.Li
ttl
eDor r
it
c.GreatExpectat
ions
d.HardTimes
Ans:
d.Har
dTi
mes
781. Identi
fyisthespeakeroft
hefol
lowing:
LikethebaseIndian,t
hrewapearlaway
Richerthanallhi
stri
be….”
a.Ki
ngRichar
dII
b.Cassi
us
c.Othel
l
o
d.Hamlet
Ans:
c.Ot
hel
l
o
782. Ruper
tBi
rki
ninD.H.Lawr sWomeni
ence’ nLov
eis
a. JohnMi ddl
etonMurr
y
b. Lawrencehimself
c. E.M.For st
er
d. Ma belDodgeLuhan
Ans:
b.Lawr
encehi
msel
f
act
erut
teredt
hef
oll
owi
ngst
atement
?
“
Somet
hingisr
otteninthestat
eofDenmark.
”
a.Rey
naldo
b.Hamlet
c.Marcel
lus
d.Hor
ati
o
Ans:
c.Mar
cel
l
us
784. _
___
___
___
___
___
___i
sthenar
rat
ori
nD.H.Lawr sTheWhi
ence’ tePeacock.
a.Cy
ril
Bear
dsal
l
b.Laet
it
ia
c.Let
ti
e
d.Cy
nthi
a
Ans:
a.Cy
ril
Bear
dsal
l
785. Whoopi
nedt
hefol
lowi
ng:“Wor
dswort
hist hegreat
estpoetonl
y"af
ter
Shakespear
eandMi
ltonf
rom El
i
zabet
hantopresentti
me"?
a.Mat
thewAr
nol
d
b.Dr
.Samuel
Johnson
c.BenJonson
d.T.S.El
i
ot
Ans:
a.Mat
thewAr
nol
d
786. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
snott
hewor
kofGeor
geEl
i
ot?
a. Adam Bede
b. TheMillontheFl
oss
c. Si
lasMar ner
d. Middl
emar ch
d.Mi
Ans: ddl
emar
ch
787. Thechar
act
erNi
ckBot
tom appear
sinShakespear
e’s
a. TheTami
ngoft
heShr
ew
b. AMi
dsummerNi
ght
'sDr
eam
c. Haml
et
d. TheWi
nter
'sTal
e
b.AMi
Ans: dsummerNi
ght
’sDr
eam
788. Whosaid:
“Shakespear
ehadnowher
ewr
it
tenmor
ethansi
xconsecut
ive
l
i
nesofgood
poet
ry”
?
a.Dr
.Johnson
b.Dr
yden
c.Mr
.Ar
nol
d
d.BenJonson
Ans:
a.Dr
.Johnson
789. Whi
chnov
elofD.H.Lawr
encehasachapt
ert
it
led"
Night
mar
e"?
a.Kangaroo
b.ThePlumedSer
pent
c.TheRainbow
d.SonsandLover
s
a.Kangar
Ans: oo
790. Onwhosetombt hefol

lowingli
neshav ebeeninscri
bed?
"
Goodf
ri
endforJesus'
sakeforebeartodigthedustenclosedhear
er;
Blestbe
theman t
hatspar
esthesestones,andcurstbehet hatmovesmybones"
a.Marlowe's
b.Si
dney '
s
c.Shakespeare'
s
d.Mil
ton's
Ans:
c.Shakespear
e’s
791. _
___
___
___
_ist
hepr
otagoni
stoft ayPy
hepl gmal
i
on.
a.El
iza
b.Hi
ggins
c.Fr
eddy
d.Pi
ckeri
ng
Ans:
a.El
i
za
792. Thechar
act
erTouchst
oneappear
sinShakespear
e’s
a. TheTempest
b. AsYouL i
keIt
c. TheMerchantofVeni
ce
d. All
'
sWellThatEndsWell
b.AsYouLi
Ans: keI
t
793. PaulMor
elwasor
igi
nal
tit
leofD.H.Lawr
ence’
s__
___
___
___
_.
a. TheTrespasser
b. SonsandLov er
s
c. TheRainbow
d. TheEscapedCock
b.SonsandLov
Ans: ers
794. __
____
___
___
___
_isanunseenchar
act
eri
nWi
l
li
am Shakespear
e' ayThe
spl
Tempest.
a.Ferdi
nand
b.Ari
el
c.Prosper
o
d.Sycorax
Ans:
d.Sy
cor
ax
795. __
___
___
___
___
___i
sthemostaut
obi
ogr
aphi
cal
oft
henov
elsofChar
les
Di
ckens.
a.DavidCopperfi
eld
b.Li
ttl
eDor r
it
c.GreatExpectat
ions
d.HardTimes
a.Dav
Ans: idCopper
fi
eld
796. Char
lesDi sGr
ckens’ eatExpect
ati
onsi
sa
a.Tragi
-comedy
b.Bi
ldungsroman
c.Tragedy
d.Comedy
Ans:
b.Bi
dungsr
oman
797. Whoi
sthepr
otagoni
stofD.H.Lawr sLadyChat
ence’ ter
ley
'sLov
er?
a.Cl
are
b.Const
ance
c.Fr
eda
d.Emil
ia
Ans:
b.Const
ance
798. D.H.Lawr
ence’
s__
___
___
___
__i
ssetdur
ingt
heper
iodoft
heMexi
can
Rev
olut
ion.
a. TheTr
espasser
b. ThePl
umedSerpent
c. TheRainbow
d. TheEscapedCock
b.ThePl
Ans: umedSer
pent
799. _
___
___
___
___
___
_ist
heant
agoni
stoft ayOt
hepl hel
l
o.
a.Roderigo
b.Brabanti
o
c.I
ago
d.Cassius
Ans:
c.I
ago
800. Samuel
ist
hepr
otagoni
stoft
henov
el_
___
___
___
___
___
_.
a. AChrist
masCar ol
b. Dombe yandSon
c. Davi
dCopper f
iel
d
d. ThePickwickPaper
s
d.ThePi
Ans: ckwi
ckPaper
s
801. Whohasdef
ined'
poet
ry'
as‘
afundament
alcr
eat
iveactusi
ngl
anguages’
?
a.H.W.Longf
ell
ow
b.Ral
phWal
doEmer
son
c.Dy
lanThomas
d.Wi
l
li
am Wor
dswor
th
Ans:
c.Dy
lanThomas
802. Whati
stheor
igi
nal
nameofGeor
geEl
i
ot?
a.SamuelLangorneCl
emens
b.MaryAnnEv ans
c.Saki
d.Boz
Ans:
b.Mar
yAnnEv
ans
803. Howdi
dW.H.Audendescr
ibepoet
ry?
a.Anawf
ulwayt
oear
nal
i
ving
b.Agameofknowl
edge
c.Thesoul
exposed
d.Anexpl
osi
onofl
anguage
Ans:
b.AgameofKnowl
edge
804. ‘
Onl
yconnect
’ist
heepi
grapht
oanov
elby
a.Geor
geOr
wel
l
b.JosephConr
ad
c.D.H.Lawr
ence
d.E.M.For
ster
Ans:
d.E.M.For
ster
805. Howmanyhusbandsdi
dthewi
feofBat
hhav
e?
a.7
b.6
c.5
d.4
Ans:
c.5
806. Whoamongt hef

emal
echar
act
er nTheCant
si erbur
yTal
escr
it
ici
sest
he
pat
ri
archal
soci
ety
?
a.ThePri
oress
b.TheSecondNun
c.TheWifeofBat
h
d.TheFi
rstNun
Ans:
c.TheWi
feofBat
h
807. ‘
Shei
sinspi
redbutdi
abol
i
cal
l
yinspi
red’
.Whoi
sthi
slady
?
a.Maj
orBar
bar
a
b.Sai
ntJoan
c.Ann
d.Candi
da
Ans:
b.Sai
ntJoan
808. Whati
sthef
ramewor
koft
heCant
erbur
yTal
es?
a.Tot
ell
twost
ori
est
ofor
gett
hetedium ofl
ongjourney
b.Tot
ell
twost
ori
est
okeepupthespir
itoft
hejourney
c.Tot
ell
twost
ori
est
ofor
getphy
sical
pai
n
d.Tot
ell
twost
ori
est
owhil
eawaytime
Ans:
a.Tot
ell
twost
ori
est
ofor
gett
het
edi
um ofl
ongj
our
ney
809. Iv
anhoe(1819)
,seti
n12t
h-cent
uryEngl
and,
mar
kedamov
eawayf
rom
hi
sfocusonthelocal
hi
stor
yofScotl
and.Whowrotet
hisnovel
?
a.GeorgeOrwell
b.Walt
erScott
c.MargaretAt
wood
d.SaulBell
ow
Ans:
b.Wal
terScot
t
810. “Booldwashirf
ace,andfair
,andr
eedofhewe”and“
Gat
-t
othedwasshe,
smoothlyfor
tosey
e.”
Theabov egi
venl
inesbestdescr
ibes:
a.TheWifeofBat
h
b.ThePri
oress
c.TheSecondNun
d.TheFi
rstNun
Ans:
a.TheWi
feofBat
h
811. Whi
chamongt
hef
oll
owi
ngi
sNOTawor
kbyScot
t?
a. RobRoy
b. OldMort
ali
ty
c. TheHeartofMi
dlot
hian
d. Holl
owMan
d.Hol
Ans: l
owMan
812. Thet
aleofCey
xandAl
cyoneappear
sinwhi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngwor
ks?
a.TheBookoftheDuchess
b.HouseofFame
c.Parl
i
amentofFowls
d.Troi
l
usandCressi
da
Ans:
a.TheBookoft
heDuchess
813. _
___
___isaCanadi
anpoet
,nov
eli
st,
li
ter
arycr
it
ic,
essay
ist
,and
env
ironmental
act
ivi
st.
a.GeorgeOrwell
b.Walt
erScott
c.MargaretAt
wood
d.SaulBell
ow
Ans:
c.Mar
gar
etAt
wood
hef
oll
owi
ngut
ter
ancei
nChaucer
’sTheLegendof
GoodWomen?
a.GodofLov
e
b.Al
ceste
c.Venus
d.Cupid
Ans:
b.Al
cest
e
815. Whi
choftheShakespeareanher
oesut
ter
edt
hef
oll
owi
ng:
“Letmebecruel,
notunnatur
al;
Iwill
speakdaggerst
oher,butusenone.”
a.Macbeth
b.Othel
l
o
c.Ki
ngLear
d.Hamlet
Ans:
d.Haml
et
816. TheHandmai
d'
sTal
ewaswr
it
tenby_
___
___
.
a.MargaretAtwood
b.Rohi
ntonMi str
y
c.Al
iceWal ker
d.Ar
avi
ndAdi
ga
Ans:
a.Mar
gar
etAt
wood
817. Abloodydeed!Almostasbad,goodmother
,
Aski
l
l aki
ng,andmar r
ywi t
hhisbr
other.
WhoistheShakespeareanher
owhout ter
edt
hegivenst
atement
?
a.Hamlet
b.Ki
ngLear
c.Macbeth
d.Othel
l
o
Ans:
a.Haml
et
818. __
____wasaCanadi an-
bornAmer icanwr i
ter
.Forhisli
terar
ywor k,Hewas
awardedthePuli
tzerPrize,theNobel Pri
zeforLiter
atur
e,andt heNationalMedal
ofArts.Heistheonlywr i
tertowi ntheNationalBookAwar dforFict
ionthree
ti
mesandher eceivedtheNat ionalBookFoundat i
on'sl
if
etimeMedal for
Dist
ingui
shedContribut
iont oAmer icanLetter
sin1990.Whoi she?
a.Rohint
onMi str
y
b.Ali
ceWal ker
c.SaulBell
ow
d.T.S.El
i
ot
Ans:
c.Saul
Bel
l
ow
819. Whoamongt heShakespeareancharact

ersut
ter
edt
hef
oll
owi
ngt
owhom?
“Gi
vethythoughtsnotongue,
Noranyunproporti
on’
dthoughthisact.
Bethoufamili
ar,
butbynomeansv ulgar
.”
a.Pol
oni
ustoLaert
es
b.Pol
oni
ustoReynal
do
c.Ki
ngLeart
oGoner i
l
d.Ki
ngLeart
oRegan
Ans:
a.Pol
oni
ust
oLaer
tes
820. Whi
chShakespear
eanChar
act
erut
ter
edt
hef
oll
owi
ngst
atement
?
“
Somet
hingi
srot
teni
nthest
ateofDenmar
k.”
a.Rey
naldo
b.Hamlet
c.Marcel
lus
d.Hor
atio
Ans:
c.Mar
cel
l
us
821. Hol
l
owManwaswr
it
tenby_
___
__.
a.Ali
ceWal ker
b.ArnoldBennet
c.SaulBellow
d.T.S.Eli
ot
Ans:
d.T.S.El
i
ot
822. ‘
Tobe, ornottobe:thatisthequestion:
Whether’
ti
snoblerinthemi ndtosuffer
Thesli
ngsandar r
owsofout r
ageousfortune
Ortotakearmsagainstaseaoft r
oubles…”
TheSol
il
oquyofHaml etexpresses:
a.Haml
et’
sdesir
et odream
b.Haml
et’
swishtocommi tsuici
de
c.Haml
et’
sdesir
et ofi
ghthisenemi
es
d.Haml
et’
sinabi
li
tytofaceseri
esofsuf
fer
ings
Ans:
b.Haml
et’
swi
sht
ocommi
tsui
cide
823. Al
dous____
__Huxl
eywasanEngl
ishwr
it
er,
nov
eli
st,
phi
l
osopherand
promi
nentmemberof
theHuxl
eyfami
l
y.Whatishi
smiddl
ename?
a.Leonar
d
b.Bernar
d
c.Theodore
d.Sherwi
n
Ans:
a.Leonar
d
824. Namet heShakespear

eancharact
erwhout
ter
sthef
oll
owi
ng:
“No,
I’
ll
notweep.
Ihav
efullcauseofweeping,
butthi
sheart
shal
lbr
eaki nt
oahundredthousandfl
aws,
orer
eI’
llweep.Ofool,
Ishallgomad!”
a.Gl
oucester
b.Ki
ngLear
c.Macbeth
d.Ot
hell
o
Ans:
b.Ki
ngLear
825. Char
lesDi
ckensWr
oteundert
hepenname_
___
.
a.Boxt
on
b.El
ia
c.El
isDol
l
d.Boz
Ans:
d.Boz
826. “Howl,howl
,howl,howl!O,youaremenofst ones:
HadIy ourtonguesandey es,
I’
duset hem sothatheaven’
svaul
tshoul
dcr
ack.
She’s gonefor ev
er!
Iknowwhenonei sdead,andwhenonel i
ves;
She’sdeadasear t
h.”
Whoi sthedeadper sonmentionedinthepassage?
a.Desdemona
b.Cordel
ia
c.Rosali
nd
d.Regan
Ans:
b.Cor
del
i
a
827. T.
S.El
i
ot’
smi
ddl
enamei
s__
___
.
a.St
urns
b.St
erns
c.St
ern
d.St
uart
Ans:
b.St
erns
828. Whoisthespeakerofthef
oll
owi
ng:
LikethebaseIndian,t
hrewapear
laway
Richerthanal
lhistri
be….”
a.Ki
ngRichar
dII
b.Cassi
us
c.Othel
l
o
d.Hamlet
Ans:
c.Ot
hel
l
o
829. G.
B.Shawr
ecei
vednobl
epr
izei
n__
___
.
a.1923
b.1932
c.1925
d.1936
Ans:
c.1925
hefol
l
owi
ng?
“
Ithri
cepr
esentedhi
m akingl
ycr
own,
Whichhedi
dthricer
efuse.
”
a.August
usCaesar
b.MarkAntony
c.Enobar
bus
d.Cassi
us
Ans:
b.Mar
kAnt
ony
831. Whoi sthespeakeroft

hefol
lowi
ngut t
erance:
“
Wil
lal
lgr
eatNept une’
soceanwashthi
sbloodcleanfrom myhand?No,thi
smy
hand wil
lrathert
hemul t
it
udi
nousseasincar
nadine,maki
ngthegreenonered.
”
a.LadyMacbet
h
b.Macbeth
c.Othel
lo
d.Gertr
ude
Ans:
b.Macbet
h
832. ___
__said“TheAtheni
ansmightnothaveanotheroppor
tunit
yofsinni
ng
agai
nstphi
losophyastheyhadal
readydoneinthepersonofSocrates”
a.Pl
ato
b.Ar
ist
otl
e
c.Longi
nus
d.Hor
ace
Ans:
b.Ar
ist
otl
e
833. Whoi sthespeakeroft hef
oll
owingutter
ance:
“Lif
e’sbutawal kingshadow,apoorplayer
thatstrut
sandf retshi
shourupont hestage,
andt henisheardnomor e.I
tisatal
e
toldbyani di
ot,full
ofsoundandfury,
signi
fyingnothi
ng. ”
a.Macbeth
b.Othel
lo
c.KingLear
d.LadyMacbet
h
Ans:
a.Macbet
h
834. _
___wast
hef
ir
stt
ouset
het
erm“
Mimesi
s”i
nconnect
ionwi
thpoet
ry.
a.Pl
ato
b.Ar
ist
otl
e
c.Longi
nus
d.Hor
ace
Ans:
a.Pl
ato
835. Whoi
sthespeakerofthef
oll
owingut
ter
ance:“
Imper
iousCæsar
,dead
andt
urnedt
oclay
,Mightstopaholet
okeepthewindaway.
”
a.Hamlet
b.Othel
l
o
c.Ki
ngLear
d.Horat
io
Ans:
a.Haml
et
836. Ar
ist
otl
est
ressedt
hata_
___
_shoul
dhav
eUni
tyofAct
ion.
a.char
act
er
b.t
hought
c.pl
ot
d.di
cti
on
Ans:
c.pl
ot
837. “Whenbeggarsdi
e,ther
earenocomet
sseen;
theheav
enst
hemsel
ves
bl
azef
ort
hthedeathofpr
inces.
”
Thesef
amousl
i
nesappeari
n:
a.Macbeth
b.HenryIV
c.AntonyandCl
eopat
ra
d.Jul
iusCaesar
d.Jul
Ans: i
usCaesar
838. ThebestofPur
it
anat
tacksi
srepr
esent
edby_
___
__School
ofAbuse
a.Phi
l
ipSi
dney
’s
b.JohnMi
l
ton’
s
c.Longi
nus’
d.St
ephenGosson’
s
Ans:
d.St
ephanGosson’
s
839. Whoi st
hespeakeroft
hisfamousst at
ement
:
“Cowar
dsdiemanytimesbeforet
heirdeaths;
Theval
iantnev
ert
asteofdeathbutonce.”
a.Juli
usCaesar
b.MarkAnt ony
c.Brutus
d.Cassius
Ans:
a.Jul
i
usCaesar
840. _
___i
sknownas“
Fat
herofEngl
i
shCr
it
ici
sm”
a.Pl
ato
b.Socr
ates
c.Pope
d.Dr
yden
Ans:
d.Dr
yden
hef
amousstatement:
“Oj
udgment
!Thouar
tfl
ed
t
obr
uti
shbeasts,
andmenhav el
ostt
hei
rreason.
”
a.Port
ia
b.MarkAntony
c.Rosal
ind
d.Cassi
us
Ans:
b.Mar
kAnt
ony
842. _
___
_st
andsoutpr
omi
nent
lyasachampi
onofl
i
ber
alcl
assi
cism
a.Pl
ato
b.Socr
ates
c.Pope
d.Dr
yden
Ans:
d.Dr
yden
843. Whoseactisref
err
edt
obyMar
kAnt
onywhenhesai
d:“
Thi
swast
hemost
unki
ndestcutofal
l
.”
a.Ci
nna
b.Cassi
us
c.Marcus
d.Brut
us
Ans:
d.Br
utus
844. “
Imagi
nedCommuni
ti
es”i
saconceptpr
opoundedby
a.Homi
Bhabha
b.Benedi
ctAnder
son
c.Par
thaChat
ter
jee
d.Ai
j
azAhmed
Ans:
b.Benedi
ctAnder
son
845. Thet
erm‘
dissemi
nat
ion’
wascoi
nedby
a.JacquesDerr
ida
b.Barbar
aJohnson
c.J.Hil
li
sMil
ler
d.PauldeMan
Ans:
a.JacquesDer
ri
da
846. Whocoi
nedt
het
erm“
int
ent
ional
fal
l
acy
”and“
aff
ect
ivef
all
acy
”?
a.T.S.El
i
ot
b.Wi
l
li
am Empson
c.W.K.Wi
msat
t
d.Cl
eant
hBr
ooks
Ans:
c.W.K.Wi
msat
t
847. Chaucerdev
el sCant
opedhi erbur
yTal
esusi
ngadev
icecal
l
ed
a.afabl
e.
b.thefr
amest ory.
c.monologues.
d.poeti
cnarrat
ive.
Ans:
b.t
hef
ramest
ory
848. _
___
_poi
ntedout“
Cri
ti
cism i
sasi
nev
itabl
easbr
eat
hing”
a.mWashi
ngt
onAl
l
ston
b.T.S.El
i
ot
c.Har
oldPi
nter
d.Wor
dswor
th
Ans:
b.T.S.El
i
ot
849. Who,amongthef
oll
owi
ngEngl
i
shpl
aywr
ight
s,scr
ipt
edt
hef
il
m
Shakespear
einLove?
a.Harol
dPi nter
b.AlanBennet t
c.Caryl
Chur chil
l
d.Tom Stoppard
Ans:
d.Tom St
oppar
d
850. Thephr
ase“
wil
l
ingsuspensi
onofdi
sbel
i
ef”wascoi
nedby
a.Mat
hewAr
nol
d
b.Wi
l
li
am Wor
dswor
th
c.T.
S.El
i
ot
d.S.
T.Col
eri
dge
Ans:
d.S.T.Col
eri
dge
851. Whohasr
emar
kedt
hat“
Chaucerf
oundEngl
i
shadi
alectandl
efti
ta
l
anguage”
?
a.Legoui
s
b.Hadow
c.Lang
d.Lowes
Ans:
d.Lowes
852. horofNat
Theaut ionandNar
rat
ioni
s
a.Edwar
dSai
d
b.Gay
atr
iChakr
avor
tySpi
vak
c.Fr
ant
zFanon
d.Homi
Bhabha
Ans:
d.Homi
Bhabha
853. Ut
opi
aisknownbyt
hename
a.AnUnknownIsl
and
b.TheSt
rangeCount
ry
c.TheWorl
dofImaginat
ion
d.TheKi
ngdom ofNowhere
Ans:
d.TheKi
ngdom ofNowher
e
854. Whocoi
nedt
hephr
ase,
“Mar
lowe’
smi
ght
yli
nes”
?
a.BenJonson
b.Dr.SamuelJohnson
c.R.
L.Stev
enson
d.Ri
chardSteel
e
Ans:
a.BenJonson
855. “
Prov
inci
ali
zi
ngEur
ope”i
saconceptpr
opoundedby
a.EdwardSaid
b.PaulGil
roy
c.AbdulR.Gurnah
d.DipeshChakrav
art
hy
Ans:
d.Di
peshChakr
avar
thy
856. Thel
i
ne“
Poet
ryi
sacr
it
ici
sm ofl
i
fe”occur
sin
a.Cul
tur
eandAnar
chy
b.Moder
nPai
nter
s
c.TheSt
udyofPoet
ry
d.Sar
torResar
tus
a.Cul
Ans: tur
eandAnar
chy
857. _
___
__i
sof
tenl
abel
l
edast
hef
atheroft
heNewCr
it
ici
sm
a.I
.A.Ri
char
ds
b.Pope
c.Al
l
enTat
e
d.Hor
ace
Ans:
a.I
.A.Ri
char
ds
858. Thet
erm‘
gynocr
it
ici
sm’
wascoi
nedby
a.Bet
tyFr
iedman
b.El
aineShowal
ter
c.LuceI
ri
gar
ey
d.SusanSont
ag
Ans:
b.El
aineShowal
ter
859. ‘
Kenni
ng’
is
a.Li
terar
ydevi
ce
b.poeti
cfor
m
c.compoundmetaphorcommont
oOl
dGer
mani
cPoet
ry
d.Styl
i
sti
cdevi
ce
Ans:
c.compundmet
aphorcommont
oOl
dGer
mani
cPoet
ry
860. Ast
oni
sachar
act
eri
nPi
nter
’s
a.TheBi
rt
hdayPar
ty
b.TheCar
etaker
c.TheDumbWai
ter
d.TheHomecomi
ng
b.TheCar
Ans: etaker
861. “
Panopt
ici
sm”i
sthet
it
leofachapt
eri
nawel
l
-knownbookby
a.RomanJakobson
b.JacquesLacan
c.Mi
chel
Foucaul
t
d.JacquesDer
ri
da
Ans:
c.Mi
chel
Foucaul
t
862. __
_ _
__i
sthesecond-
mostfrequent
lyquot
edwr
it nTheOxf
eri ord
Di
cti
onaryofQuot
ati
onsaft
erShakespear
e
a.I
.A.Ri
char
ds
b.Pope
c.Al
l
enTat
e
d.Hor
ace
Ans:
b.Pope
863. Thet
erm‘
Pract
icalCr
it
ici
sm’i
scoi
nedby
a.Wi
l
li
am Empson
b.W.K.Wi
msat
t,Jr
.
c.I
.A.Ri
char
ds
d.F.R.Leav
is
Ans:
c.I
.A.Ri
char
ds
864. I
nwhichofhisessay
sdoesHomiBhabhadi
scusst
he‘
discov
ery
’of
Engl
i
shincol
oni
alI
ndi
a?
a.“
Signst
akenf
orWonder
s”
b.“
Mimi
cry
”
c.“
Nat
ionandNar
rat
ion”
d. “
TheCommi
tmentt
oTheor
y”
Ans:
c.“
Nat
ionandNar
rat
ion”
865. Thet
erm‘
thecomedyofmenace’i
sassoci
atedwi
tht
heear
lypl
aysof
a.Ar
nol
dWesker
b.JohnAr
den
c.Har
oldPi
nter
d.Dav
idHar
e
Ans:
c.Har
oldPi
nter
866. Postmoder
nism i
satonceacont
inuat
ionofandabr
eakawayf
rom _
___
_
a.St
ruct
ural
i
sm
b.Deconst
ruct
ion
c.Femi
nism
d.Moder
nism
Ans:
d.Moder
nism
867. I
nthe___
__approachtoli
terat
uretherei
saconst
antmovementaway
fr
om theint
erpr
etat
ionofthei
ndivi
dualtheorywor
kandaparal
l
eldr
ivetowar
ds
under
standi
ngthelarger
,abst
ractstr
uctureswhi
chcont
aint
hem.
a.St
ruct
ural
i
sm
b.Deconst
ruct
ion
c.Femi
nism
d.Moder
nism
Ans:
a.St
ruct
ural
i
sm
868. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngt
hinkerconceptpai
riscor
rect
lymat
ched?
a.I
.A.Richar
ds–Ar chet
ypal Cri
ti
cism
b.Chri
stopherFry
e–My sti
cism
c.JacquesDerri
da–Deconst ruct
ion
d.Terr
yEagleton–Psychol
ogi calCri
ti
cism
Ans:
c.JacquesDer
ri
da–Deconst
ruct
ion
869. TheTheat
reoft
heAbsur
d(1961)wasabookby
a.Camus
b.Mart
inEssl
in
c.SamuelBecket
t
d.Adamov
Ans:
b.Mar
ti
nEssl
i
n
870. Whichamongt
heShakespear
e’spl
ayscanber
ight
lycal
l
ed“
Past
oral
Comedy”
?
a.TheWi nt
er’
sTale
b.MidsummerNi ght
’sDr
eam
c.MuchAdoAboutNot hi
ng
d.Troi
lusandCressi
da
Ans:
a.TheWi
nter
’sTal
e
871. Whichamongt
heShakespear
e’spl
ayscannotbegr
oupedunder
“
Romances”
?
a.RomeoandJul i
et
b.Cymbel
ine
c.TheWinter
'sTal
e
d.TheTempest
Ans:
a.RomeoandJul
i
et
872. Whi
choft
heseKi
ngswast
hesubj
ectofapl
aybyMar
lowe?
a.HenryV
b.Richar
dII
I
c.EdwardII
d.John
Ans:
c.Edwar
dII
873. Shakespear
ecomposedmuchofhi
spl
aysi
nwhatsor
tofv
erse?
a.All
i
terati
veverse
b.Sonnetform
c.I
ambicpent ameter
d.Dacty
lichexameter
Ans:
c.I
ambi
cpent
amet
er
874. From whi

chofShakespear
e'spl
aysisthi
sfamousli
ne:
'
Didmyheartlov
eti
lnow?/Forsweari
t,si
ght/ForInev
ersawatr
uebeaut
y
unti
lthi
snight
'
a.AMi dsummerNight
'
sDr
eam
b.Haml et
c.Othell
o
d.RomeoandJuliet
Ans:
d.RomeoandJul
i
et
875. Whi
chWel
shpoetwr
ote"
UnderMi
l
kWood?
"
a.Ant
honyHopkins
b.Ri
chardBurt
on
c.Tom Jones
d.Dyl
anThomas
Ans:
d.Dy
lanThomas
876. Whowr
ote"
TenLi
tt
leNi
gger
s?"
a.Si
rArt
hurConanDoy
le
b.I
rvi
neWelsh
c.Agat
haChrist
ie
d.Noneofabove
Ans:
c.Agat
haChr
ist
ie
877. Wi
l
li
am Shakespear
ewasbor
nint
hey
ear
:
a.1564
b.1544
c.1578
d.1582
Ans:
a.1564
878. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
snotaShakespear
etr
agedy
?
a.Ti
tusAndroni
cus
b.Othel
l
o
c.Macbeth
d.Noneoftheabove
Ans:
d.Noneoft
heabov
e
879. Whi
chr
epr
esent
sanexampl
eofal
l
iter
ati
on?
a.LanguageArts
b.PeterPi
perPickedPepper
s
c.Il
ikemusic.
d.Abeautif
ulscenerywi
thmusi
c
Ans:
b.Pet
erPi
perPi
ckedPepper
s
880. Whohasdef
ined'
poet
ry'
asaf
undament
alcr
eat
iveactusi
ngl
anguages?
a.H.W.Longf
ell
ow
b.Ral
phWaldoEmerson
c.Dyl
anThomas
d.Wil
l
iam Wor
dsworth
Ans:
c.Dy
lanThomas
881. Whati
sasonnet
?
a.Apoem ofsixli
nes
b.Apoem ofeightl
ines
c.Apoem oftwelveli
nes
d.Apoem offourt
eenlines
Ans:
d.Apoem off
our
teenl
i
nes
882. Whati
sst
udyofmet
er,
rhy
thm andi
ntonat
ionofapoem cal
l
edas?
a.Prosody
b.All
egory
c.Scansion
d.Assonance
Ans:
a.Pr
osody
883. Completet
hisShakespearanl
i
ne:
Letmenot
t
othemar r
iageoft
ruemindsbr i
ng
____
___
_ _
___.
a.I
mpediments
b.I
nconveni
ences
c.Worr
ies
d.Tr
oubles
Ans:
a.I
mpedi
ment
s
884. Howdi
dW.H.Audendescr
ibepoet
ry?
a.Anawfulwaytoearnal i
vi
ng
b.Agameofknowl edge
c.Thesoulexposed
d.Anexpl
osionoflanguage
Ans:
b.Agameofknowl
edge
885. I
nwhatf
orm di
dDy
lanThomas'
s'UnderMi
l
kWood'
fir
stbecomeknown?
a.ABookofpoetr
y
b.Aradiopl
ay
c.Astageplay
d.Ashortfi
l
m
Ans:
b.Ar
adi
opl
ay
886. Ofwhichpoetwasitsaid'
Eveni
fhe'snota
gr
eatpoet
,he'scer
tai
nlyagreatsomet
hing'
?
a.El
liot
b.Ki
pl i
ng
c.Cummi ngs
d.Brooke
Ans:
b.Ki
pli
ng
887. Mar l
owe'spoem '
ThePassionateShepherd
t
oHisLove'begi
nswiththeli
ne"Comel i
vewith
meandbemyl ove";
Whi
chotherEngli
shauthorwrot
eaf amouspoem begi
nni
ngwi
tht
hisl
i
ne?
a.Wil
li
am Shakespear
e
b.ThomasKy d
c.JohnDryden
d.JohnDonne
Ans:
d.JohnDonne
888. I
nMar
lowe'
spl
ay,
whatwast
henameoft
heJewofMal
ta?
a.Lazarus
b.Solomon
c.Barabas
d.Shylock
Ans:
c.Bar
abas
889. Howmanyy
ear
sofhappi
nesswasDrFaust
uspr
omi
sedbyt
heDev
il
?
a.16
b.20
c.24
d.28
Ans:
c.24
890. OneofMar
lowe'
smostf
amouspoemswasanaccountofwhi
chl
over
s?
a.AnthonyandCleopat
ra
b.HeroandLeander
c.Troi
lusandCressi
da
d.Apoll
oandHy aci
nth
Ans:
b.Her
oandLeander
891. Marl
owe'
splay'
Tamburl
ainet
heGreat
'was
basedl
oosel
yontheli
feofwhi
chAsianr
uler
?
a.ZhuYuanzhang
b.Genghi
sKhan
c.Ti
mur
d.Kubl
aiKhan
Ans:
c.Ti
mur
892. Whatwastheti
tl
eoft
heplaybyMarl
owe
thatport
ray
edtheevent
ssur
roundi
ngtheSai
nt
Barthol
omew'sDayMassacr
ein1572?
a.TheMassacr
eatBer
li
n
b.TheMassacr
eatRome
c.TheMassacr
eatCopenhagen
d.TheMassacr
eatPari
s
Ans:
d.TheMassacr
eatPar
is
893. I
nthet
it
leofMar
lowe'
spl
ay,
ofwher
ewasDi
dot
heQueen?
a.Troy
b.Carthage
c.Sparta
d.Persia
Ans:
b.Car
thage
894. Atwhatf
amousuni
ver
sit
ywasFaust
usaschol
ar?
a.Wit
tenber
g
b.Sor
bonne
c.Hei
delber
g
d.Cambr
idge
Ans:
a.Wi
tt
enber
g
895. Thr
oughhi
smagi
c,Faust
usi
svi
sit
edf
ir
stbywhi
choft
hedev
il
'sangel
s?
a.Mephist
ophel
es
b.Beel
zebub
c.Aamon
d.Luci
fer
Ans:
a.Mephi
stophel
es
896. WhatdoesFaust
uspr omisetothedev
ili
n
exchangeforgr
eatknowledge,r
ichesandpowerforaper
iodof24y
ear
s?
a.hi
sbody
b.hi
shouse
c.hi
ssoul
d.hi
shorse
Ans:
c.hi
ssoul
897. Whowr
ote"
TheMassacr
eatPar
is"
?
a.Shakespeare
b.Chri
stopherMar
lowe
c.EdmundSpenser
d.JohnMi l
ton
Ans:
b.Chr
ist
opherMar
lowe
898. Af t
ert
hedeathofChrist
opherMar
lowewho
compl
etedhi
sunfi
nishedpoem "Her
oandLeander
"?
a.Shakespear
e
b.ThomasNash
c.GeorgeChapman
d.ThomasMor e
Ans:
c.Geor
geChapman
899. Whi
choftheMar
lowe'
spl
ayswer
ewr
it
ten
i
ncol
l
abor
ati
onwit
hThomasNash?
a.QueenofCart
hageandThepassi
onateShepher
d.
b.Thetr
agedyofDidoandQueenofCart
hage.
c.Thepassi
onateShepher
dandThetr
agedyofDido.
d.QueenofCart
hageandTheMassacreofPari
s.
Ans:
b.Thet
ragedyofDi
doandQueenofCar
thage.
900. Howmanypl
aysdi
dWi
l
li
am Shakespear
ewr
it
e?
a.36
b.37
c.38
d.39
Ans:
b.37
901. Howmanysonnet
sdi
dWi
l
li
am Shakespear
ewr
it
e?
a.110
b.154
c.175
d.187
Ans:
b.154
902. Whi
choft
hesewasnotoneofShakespear
e'spl
ays?
a.Ti
tusAndronicus
b.TheTempest
c.Cymbeline
d.Shakespeareinl
ove
Ans:
d.Shakespear
einl
ove
903. I
nwhaty
earwast
heFi
rstFol
i
opubl
i
shed?
a.1626
b.1621
c.1623
d.1629
Ans:
c.1623
904. Whi
chr
iveri
sassoci
atedwi
thShakespear
e'sbi
rt
hpl
ace?
a.TheThames
b.TheAvon
c.TheTybur
n
d.TheSeven
Ans:
b.TheAv
on
905. I
n1613t
heGl
obeTheat
rebur
neddowndur
ingapr
oduct
ionofwhi
chpl
ay?
a.Ki
ngJohn
b.Ri
chardI
I
c.Henr
yVII
I
d.Henr
yV
Ans:
c.Henr
yVI
II
906. Howar
ePol
oni
usandLaer
tesr
elat
ed?
a.Father/son
b.Uncle/nephew
c.Cousin/cousin
d.Brother/br
other
Ans:
a.Fat
her
/son
907. Whati
sthenameoft
hepl
ayl
etHaml
etst
agesf
orCl
audi
us?
a.Sl
ingsandAr r
ows
b.ViceofKings
c.TheMur derofGonzago
d.TheSlayingofLuci
anus
Ans:
c.TheMur
derofGonzago
908. WhodoesPol
oni
ussendt
ospyonLaer
tesi
nPar
is?
a.Fr
ancisco
b.Gorgonzol
a
c.Reynal
do
d.Samson
Ans:
c.Rey
nal
do
909. Whowastravel
l
ingwit
hMacbet
hwhenhef
ir
st
encounter
stheThreeWit
ches?
a.Macduff
b.Mercuti
o
c.LadyMacbeth
d.Banquo
Ans:d.Banquo
910. I
nwhi
chy
earGl
obet
heat
regotf
ir
eanddest
roy
ed?
a.1610
b.1611
c.1612
d.1613
Ans:
d.1613
911. I
nShakespear
e'sl
i
ter
aryout
put
,theper
iod16041608i
stheper
iodof
:
a.Comedyplays
b.Hist
ori
calpl
ays
c.GreatTr
agedi
es
d.Noneofabove
Ans:
b.Hi
stor
ical
play
s
912. "
Undert
hegr
eenwoodt
ree"i
sasongi
n:
a.Lov
e'sl
abour'
slost
b.Asyoul
ikeit
c.AmidSummerni ght
'sdream
d.Muchadoaboutnothing
Ans:
b.Asy
oul
i
kei
t
913. ‘Sev
enAgesofMan’appear nAsy
si oul
i
ke
i
t.Whi
chchar
act
er'
sspeechi
tis?
a.Amiens
b.Orl
ando
c.Oli
ver
d.Jaques
Ans:
d.Jaques
914. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngar
echar
act
ersofMuchadoaboutnot
hing:
a.Her
o,Borachio,Antonio,Claudio,Leonato
b.Her
o,Orl
ando, Antonio,Claudio,Leanato
c.Mir
ri
nda,Borachio,Antonio,Claudio,Leanat
o
d.Her
o,Boradio,Antonio,Claudio,Horati
o
Ans:
b.Her
o,Or
lando,
Ant
oni
o,Cl
audi
o,Leanat
o
915. "Someborngreat,
someachi evegreatness,
andsomehavegreat
nesst hr
ustuponthem" .
Abovel
inesar
etakenfrom whichoffol
lowingplays?
a.Macbet h
b.Othell
o
c.Twelft
hni ght
d.Asy ouli
kei t
Ans:
c.Twel
ft
hni
ght
916. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngar
eKi
ngLear
'sdaught
ers?
a.Desdemona,Goner
ilandCor
del
i
a
b.Goneri
l
,Opheli
aandRegan
c.Goneri
l
, ReganandCordel
ia
d.Regan,Cordel
iaandBeatr
ice
Ans:
c.Goner
il
,ReganandCor
del
i
a
917. Whocal
l
ed‘
TheWast
eLand‘
amusi
cofi
deas’
?
a.All
enTat e
b.J.C.Ransom
c.I
.A.Richards
d.F.RLeav i
s
Ans:
a.Al
l
enTat
e
918. T.S.El
i
othasbor
rowedt
het
erm‘
Unr
eal
Cit
y’i
nthef
ir
standt
hir
d
sect
ionsfrom?
a.Baudelai
re
b.I
rvi
ngBabbi t
c.Vi
rgil
d.Dante
Ans:
d.Dant
e
919. Gr
aham Gr
eene’
snov
elsar
emar
kedby
?
a.Catholi
cism
b.Protest
antism
c.Paganism
d.Buddhism
Ans:
a.Cat
hol
i
cism
920. Mr
.Jagger
s,nGr
i eatExpect
ati
ons,
isa
a.Lawy
er
b.Postman
c.Judge
d.Schoolt
eacher
Ans:
a.Lawy
er
921. I
dent
if
ythechar
act nTheTempestwho
eri
i
sref
err
edtoasanhonestol
dcounsel
l
or
a.Al
onso
b.Ari
el
c.Gonzal
o
d.St
ephano
Ans:
c.Gonzal
o
922. Whati
sthesubt
it
leoft ayTwel
hepl ft
hNi
ght
?
a.Or
,Whati
syouWi l
l
b.Or
,Whaty
ouWi l
l
c.Or
,Whaty
ouLikeIt
d.Or
,Whaty
ouThink
Ans:
b.Or
,Whaty
ouWi
l
l
923. Whocoi
nedt
hephr
ase‘
Egot
ist
ical
Subl
i
me’
?
a.Will
i
am Wordswor
th
b.P.B.
Shel
ley
c.S.T.Col
eri
dge
d.JohnKeats
Ans:
c.S.T.Col
eri
dge
924. Whoi
scommonl
yknownas‘
Pip’
inGr
eatExpect
ati
ons?
a.Phi
li
pPir
ri
p
b.Fi
li
pPir
ip
c.Phi
li
pPip
d.Phi
li
psPir
ip
Ans:
c.Phi
l
ipPi
p
925. Thenov
elThePowerandt
heGl
oryi
sseti
n?
a.Mexico
b.I
taly
c.France
d.Germany
Ans:
a.Mexi
co
926. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
sGol
ding’
sfi
rstnov
el?
a.TheInheri
tor
s
b.LordoftheFli
es
c.PincherMart
in
d.Pyramid
Ans:
b.Lor
doft
heFl
i
es
927. Ident
if
ythechar
act
erwhoisasuppor
terof
Women’sRi
ghtsi
nSonsandLover
s?
a.Mrs.Mor
el
b.Annie
c.Mir
iam
d.Cl
araDawes
Ans:
a.Mr
s.Mor
el
928. Car
lyl
e’
swork“OnHeroes,Her
oWor
shi
p”and
“
theHeroi
cinHist
ory
”isacourseof?
a.sixl
ectures
b.fi
velectures
c.fourl
ectures
d.sevenlectur
es
Ans:
b.f
ivel
ect
ures
929. Thephr
ase‘
Pat
het
icf
all
acy
’iscoi
nedby
?
a.Mil
ton
b.Coleri
dge
c.Carly
le
d.JohnRuskin
Ans:
d.JohnRuski
n
930. Wi
l
li
am Mor
elnSonsandLov
i ersi
sdr
awnaf
ter
?
a.Lawr
ence’sfather
b.Lawr
ence’sbrother
c.Lawr
encehimsel f
d.Noneofthese
Ans:
d.Noneoft
hese
931. I
denti
fythewri
terwhousedapseudonym,
Mi
chaelAngeloTit
marsh,f
ormuchofhisearl
ywork?
a.Charl
esDickens
b.W.M.Thacker ay
c.Graham Greene
d.D.H.Lawrence
Ans:
c.Gr
aham Gr
eene
932. Pr
ideandPr
ejudi
cewasor
igi
nal
l
yay
out
hful
wor
kent
it
led?
a.‘
LastImpressions’
b.‘
FalseImpressions’
c.‘
Fi
rstImpressions’
d.‘
TrueImpressions’
Ans:
c.‘
Fi
rstI
mpr
essi
ons’
933. Thacker
aysEsmondi
’ sanov
elofhi
stor
ical
real
i
sm capt
uri
ngt
hespi
ri
tof
?
a.t
heMedievalage
b.t
heEl
izabethanage
c.t
heageofQueenAnne
d.t
heVict
ori
anage
Ans:
d.t
heVi
ctor
ianage
934. Shakespear
emakesf
unoft
hePur
it
ansi
nhi
spl
ay?
a.Twel
fthNight
b.Hamlet
c.TheTempest
d.Henr
yIV,PtI
Ans:
a.Twel
ft
hNi
ght
935. JaneAust sPr

en’ ideandPr
ejudi
cei
sa?
a.Pi
caresquenovel
b.Gothi
cnovel
c.Domesticnovel
d.Hist
ori
calnovel
Ans:
c.Domest
icnov
el
936. Whi
chofShakespear
e’schar
act
erscl
aims;
‘Br
ave,
new,
wor
ld!
’
?
a.Ferdi
nand
b.Antonio
c.Miranda
d.Prospero
Ans:
c.Mi
randa
937. WhoinHamletsuggeststhatoneshoul
d
nei
therbeal
endernoraborrower?
a.Ger
trude
b.Pol
onius
c.Hor
atio
d.Hamlet
Ans:
b.Pol
oni
us
938. Shakespear
e’sHenr
yIV,
PtIcont
ainshi
s?
a.senecanattit
ude
b.patri
oti
sm
c.l
ov eofnature
d.plat
onicideal
s
Ans:
b.pat
ri
oti
sm
939. Twel
ft
hni
ghti
sa:
a.Tragedy
b.Comedy
c.Problem pl
ay
d.Bothaandb
Ans:
b.Comedy
940. Whowasv
il
lai
ninOt
hel
l
o?
a.Claudi
us
b.I
ago
c.Egeus
d.Noneofabov
e
Ans:
b.I
ago
941. Haml
etconsi
stof act
s:
a.3
b.4
c.5
d.6
Ans:
c.5
942. WhichofShakespear
e'spl
ayishi
sonlyplay
t
hathasneverbeenadoptedforf
il
m orTel
evi
sion?
a.TamingoftheShr ew
b.ThetwoNobleKi nsmen
c.Troi
l
usandCr essida
d.Cymbeli
ne
Ans:
b.Thet
woNobl
eKi
nsmen
943. Whi
chofShakespear
e'spl
ayf
eat
uresSi
rJohnFal
staf
f?
a.Themerrywiv
esofWindsor
b.Troi
l
usandCressi
da
c.Ki
ngJohn
d.Ti
tusAndroni
cus
Ans:
a.Themer
rywi
vesofWi
ndsor
944. Inlit
erat
ure,someofShakespeare'
smost
powerf
ul pl
ayswerewr itt
enint
hatper
iod(for
exampleTheTempest Ki
, ngLearandMacbet
, h)
,
aswellaspower f
ul worksbyJohnWebsterand
____
___
_ .
a.Wil
li
am Shakespear
e
b.BenJonson
c.BenJonsonfoli
os
d.Engl
ishRenai
ssancetheat
re
Ans:
b.BenJonson
945. Famoussat
ir
icdr Vol
ama, pone,
iswr
it
tenby
?
a.Si
rWal t
erScot
b.Chri
stopherMarl
ow
c.BenJonson
d.GeorgeHerber
t
Ans:
c.BenJonson
946. Oneoft
hesemendi
dNOTwr
it
edur
ingt
heRest
orat
ionper
iod.Who?
a.JohnMil
ton
b.ThomasOtway
c.Si
rWalt
erScot
t
d.JohnDr
yden
Ans:
c.Si
rWal
terScot
t
947. Whichofthef
oll
owingpoet
swrotedur
ing
t
heVi
ctor
ianper
iodbutwasnotpubl
i
shedunti
lthe20t
hcent
ury
?
a.Chri
stinaRosset
ti
b.GerardManleyHopkins
c.El
izabethBarr
etBrowni
ng
d.TedHughes
Ans:
b.Ger
aldManl
eyHopki
ns
948. Worl
dWarIaf fect
edthewri
ti
ngofmany
aut
hor
s.Whichofthefol
lowi
ngpoet
swouldnot
hav
ebeentouchedbythatev
ent
?
a.T.
S.Eliot
b.Si
egfri
edSassoon
c.Wil
fredOwen
d.OscarWilde
Ans:
d.OscarWi
l
de
949. The18t
hcent
ur kTom Joneswaswr
ywor it
tenby¬¬_
___
___
.
a.SamuelJohnson
b.HenryFi
eldi
ng
c.JohnDonne
d.Tobi
asSmol l
ett
Ans:
b.Henr
yFi
eldi
ng
950. Joy
ce'
snov
elUl
yssest
akespl
aceov
erwhatper
iodoft
ime?
a.Aweek
b.24hours
c.Ali
fet
ime
d.6months
Ans:
b.24hour
s
951. Whatwast
henat
ional
i
tyofOscarWi
l
de?
a.I
rish
b.Scotti
sh
c.French
d.Engli
sh
Ans:
a.I
ri
sh
952. Whi
chmet
ri
cal
for
m wasPopesai
dtohav
ebr
oughtt
oper
fect
ion?
a.theheroi
ccoupl
et
b.blankver
se
c.freever
se
d.theode
Ans:
a.t
heher
oiccoupl
et
953. Whowr
ote:
"Ihav
emeasur
edoutmyl
i
fewi
thcof
feespoons.
"?
a.Wil
li
am Car
losWil
l
iams
b.T.
S.Eli
ot
c.Er
nestHemingway
d.HartCr
an
Ans:
b.T.S.El
i
ot
954. I
nwhichwor
kdoyouread:
"Ihave
measur
edoutmyli
fewi
thcof
feespoons.
"?
a.LovesongofJ.Al
fr
edPrufr
ock
b.Sonnet
sfrom t
hePort
uguese
c.Prel
ude
d.TheLastDecal
ogue
Ans:
a.Lov
esongofJ.Al
fr
edPr
ufr
ock
955. ATal
eofTwoCi
ti
esbyChar
lesDi
ckensi
nvol
veswhi
cht
woci
ti
es?
a.LondonandRome
b.Pari
sandRome
c.LondonandParis
d.Berl
inandLondon
Ans:
a.LondonandRome
956. _
___
_tr
acest
hewor
d‘ecocr
it
ici
sm’
a.Kar
lKr
oeber
b.Mi
chael
P.Br
anch
c.Thor
eau
d.Emer
son
Ans:
b.Mi
chael
P.Br
anch
957. Inwhi
chJaneAusti
nnov
eldoyouf
indthechar
act
ersAnneEl
l
iot
t,Lady
Russel
l
,Loui
saMusgrov
eandCaptai
nWordswort
h?
a.Emma
b.Mansfi
eldPar
k
c.Per
suasion
d.Nor
thangerAbbey
Ans:
c.Per
suasi
on
958. Whooft
hef
oll
owi
ngwasnotacont
empor
aryofWor
dswor
thandCol
ri
dge?
a.RobertSouthey
b.Si
rWal terScott
c.Wil
li
am Hazl i
tt
d.ACSwi nburne
Ans:
d.ACSwi
nbur
ne
959. Whoi
sJohnKeat
s’s‘
Syl
vanHi
stor
ian’
?
a.FannyBr awne
b.Night
ingal e
c.TheGr ecianUr
n
d.TheBridgeofQuiet
ness
Ans:
c.TheGr
eci
anUr
n
960. Whom di
dKeat
sregar
dast
hepr
imeexampl
eof‘
negat
ivecapabi
l
ity
’?
a.JohnMilt
on
b.Wil
li
am Wordsworth
c.Wil
li
am Shakespear
e
d.PBShel
ley
Ans:
c.Wi
l
li
am Shakespear
e
961. Whatal
ter
nat
ivet
it
lef
orherFr
ankenst
eindi
dMar
ryShel
l
eygi
ve?
a.AGothi
cTal
e
b.AGothi
cRomance
c.TheModer
nPrometheus
d.AModer
nPar
abl
e
Ans:
c.TheModer
nPr
omet
heus
962. Conf
essi
onsofanEngl
i
shOpi
um eat
eri
sal
i
ter
arywor
kby
a.STColer
idge
b.PBShell
ey
c.ThomasDeQuincey
d.LordByr
on
Ans:
c.ThomasDeQui
ncey
963. ‘
I
f..
..
.comes,
can.
..
..
.bef
arbehi
nd?
’(Shel
l
ey,
‘Odet
otheWestWi
nd’
)
a.winter
,spri
ng
b.autumn,summer
c.wind,r
ains
d.spri
ng,wint
er
Ans:
a.wi
nter
,spr
ing
964. Theworl
ddominat
edbycol
dandhy pocri
ti
calmat
eri
ali
stsi
srepr
esent
ed
byWi
l
li
am Bl
akeint
hemy t
hol
ogi
calf
igur
eof. .
..
..
..
.
a.Urizen
b.Albion
c.Ger yon
d.Satan
Ans:
a.Ur
izen
965. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngpoem byKeat
susest
heSpenser
ianst
anza?
a.Endy
mi on
b.TheFallofHy
per
ion
c.TheEveofStAgnes
d.Lamia
Ans:
c. TheEv
eofStAgnes
966. PoemsDescr
ipt
iveofRur
alLi
feandScener
yiswr
it
tenby
a.Wil
li
am Wor dswor
th
b.RobertSouthey
c.JohnClare
d.ThomasGr
ay
Ans:
c.JohnCl
are
967. Thet
erm‘
Egot
ist
ical
subl
i
me’
wascoi
nedby
a.STColer
idge
b.JohnKeats
c.Wil
li
am Wordswor
th
d.Wil
li
am Hazli
tt
Ans:
b.JohnKeat
s
968. Thepamphl
etont
heI
ri
shcondi
ti
on,
‘AnAddr
esst
otheI
ri
shPeopl
e’was
composedby
a.WBYeats
b.PBShell
ey
c.Jonat
hanSwi
ft
d.GBShaw
Ans:
b.PBShel
l
ey
969. By
ron’
s‘TheVi
sionofJudgement
’isasat
ir
edi
rect
edagai
nst
a.Charl
esLamb
b.JohnKeats
c.HenryHall
am
d.RobertSout
hey
Ans:
d.Rober
tSout
hey
970. Inalet
tert
ohisbrotherGeorgei
nSeptember1819,
JohnKeatshadthi
sto
sayaboutafel
lowromanti
cpoet :
“Hedescr
ibeswhatheseesIdescr
ibewhatI
i
magine:Mineisthehar
desttask.
”Thepoetunderr
efer
enceis
a.Wor dswor
th
b.Coleri
dge
c.Byr
on
d.Southey
Ans:
c.By
ron
971. Towhom i
sMar
yShel
l
ey’
sfamouswor
kFr
ankenst
eindedi
cat
ed?
a.Lor
dBy
ron
b.Cl
air
eClari
mont
c.Wil
l
iam Godwi
n
d.PBShel
ley
Ans:
c.Wi
l
li
am Godwi
n
972. About
,which19thcent
uryEngl
ishwri
terwasi
tsaidthat“
Hehad
succeededasawr i
ternotbyconfor
mi ngt
otheSpir
itoft
heAge,buti
n
oppositi
ontoit
”?
a.Lor
dBy r
ononColer
idge
b.Col
eri
dgeonKeats
c.Hazl
it
tonLamb
d.DeQuinceyonCr
abbe
Ans:
c.Hazl
i
ttonLamb
973. Thev
ersef
orm ofBy
ron’
sChi
l
deHar
oldwasi
nfl
uencedby
a.Mil
ton
b.Spenser
c.Shakespear
e
d.Pope
Ans:
b.Spenser
974. I
nKeat
s’poet
iccar
eer
,themostpr
oduct
ivey
earwas
a.1816
b.1817
c.1820
d.1819
Ans:
d.1819
975. MyFirstAcquaint
ancewi
thPoet
s,anunf
orget
tabl
eaccountofmeet
ing
wi
thl
i
ter
aryheroes,i
swr i
tt
enby
a.Charl
esLamb
b.ThomasDeQuincey
c.Lei
ghHunt
d.Wil
li
am Hazl
i
tt
Ans:
d.Wi
l
li
am Hazl
i
tt
976. Whi
chr
omant
icpoetcoi
nedt
hef
amousphr
ase‘
Spot
soft
ime’
?
a.JohnKeats
b.Wil
li
am Wordswor
th
c.STColer
idge
d.LordByr
on
Ans:
b.Wi
l
li
am Wor
dswor
th
977. Thephr
ase‘
Thewi
l
li
ngsuspensi
onofdi
sbel
i
ef’
occur
sin
a.Bi
ographiaLi
terar
ia
b.Pref
acet oLy
rical
Ballads
c.I
nDef enceofPoetry
d.Poeti
cs
Ans:
a.Bi
ogr
aphi
aLi
ter
ari
a
978. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
saspoofofaGot
hicnov
el?
a.Fr
ankenstei
n
b.Nort
hangerAbbey
c.Cast
leofOtrant
o
d.Myster
iesofUdolf
o
Ans:
b.Nor
thangerAbbey
979. Essay
sofEl
i
awaspubl
i
shedi
n
a.1800
b.1823
c.1827
d.1850
Ans:
b.1823
980. ‘
Themi
nd-
for
gedmanacl
es’
isphr
asef
rom:
(Wi
l
li
am Bl
ake)
a.‘
London’
b.‘
Eter
nit
y’
c.‘
APoisonTr
ee’
d.‘
IAskedaThi
ef’
Ans:
a.‘
London’
981. “
Heisnotful
l
yr ecognisedathome;heisnotrecogni
sedatall
abr
oad.Yet
If
ir
mlybel
i
evethatthepoeticalper
formanceof.
..
..
..
..
.is,af
tert
hatof
Shakespear
eandMi
lt
on,
undoubtedl
ymostconsider
ablei
nourl
anguage.
”
Towhom doesMatt
hewArnol
dreferi
ntheabovestat
ement?
a.EdmundSpenser
b.JohnKeats
c.Wil
li
am Wordswor
th
d.STColer
idge
Ans:
c.Wi
l
li
am Wor
dswor
th
982. Thepoet
ryofWor
dswor
thandCol
eri
dgewasnot
abl
yinf
luencedby.
..
..
..
..
.
a.TheNapoleoni
cWars
b.TheGlori
ousRevol
uti
on
c.TheFrenchRevol
uti
on
d.PoorLaws
Ans:
c.TheFr
enchRev
olut
ion
983. ‘
Byswaggeri
ngcouldIneverthr
ive,
fort
her
aini
trai
net
hev
ery
day
.These
l
i
nesf
rom Twel
ft
hNightoccuri
nt henovel
a.Middlemarch
b.Vanit
yFair
c.OurMut ualFr
iend
d.FarFrom theMaddingCr
owd
Ans:
a.Mi
ddl
emar
ch
984. Theper
iodofQueenVi
ctor
ia’
srei
gni
s
a.1830-
1900
b.1837-
1901
c.1830-
1901
d.1837-
1900
Ans:
b.1837-
1901
985. Herei
salistofwomenabandonedbyt
hei
rlov
esi
nHar
dy’
snov
els.Pi
ck
t
heoddoneout
.
a.FannyRobin
b.TessD’ Ur
bervi
l
le
c.MartySouth
d.BathshebaEver
dene
Ans:
d.Bat
hshebaEv
erdene
986. Whoamongt
hef
oll
owi
ngEngl
i
shar
ti
stsi
l
lust
rat
edt
henov
elsofDi
ckens
andScot
t?
a.Richar
dHogar th
b.JoshuaReynolds
c.GeorgeCruishank
d.JohnTennial
Ans:
c.Geor
geCr
uishank
987. Goet
he’
sFaust(
Par
tI,
Scene1)opensi
n
a.heaven
b.hel
l
c.for
est
d.Faust’
sst
udy
Ans:
d.Faust
’sst
udy
988. Whoamongt hef

oll
owi
ngwomenwr
it
ers,
famousl
yimagi
nedt
hepl
i
ghtof
Shakespear
e’ssi
ster
?
a.Geor
geEli
ot
b.Vi
rgi
niaWoolf
c.I
ri
shMurdoch
d.Fr
ancesBurney
Ans:
b.Vi
rgi
niaWool
f
989. Di
nahMor
ri
sisachar
act
eri
nGeor
geEl
i
ot’
snov
el
a.Middlemarch
b.Si
lasMar ner
c.DanielDeronda
d.Adam Bede
Ans:
d.Adam Bede
990. Thepl
anofAr
thur
ianst
ori
eshasi
nfl
uencedt
hecomposi
ti
onof
Tenny
son’
s
a.I
nMemor
iam
b.I
dyl
l
s
c.‘
Maud’
d.‘
Locksl
eyHal
l
’
Ans:
b.I
dyl
l
s
991. Li
tt
leNel
li
sachar
act
eri
nDi
cken’
s
a.HardTimes
b.GreatExpect
ati
ons
c.Oli
verTwist
d.TheOldCur i
osi
tyShop
Ans:
d.TheOl
dCur
iosi
tyShop
992. “TheCi
tyofDreadf
ulNight
”,al
ongpoem depi
cti
ngt
hel
ateVi
ctor
ian
senseofgl
oom anddespondency
,iswri
tt
enby”
a.MatthewArnol
d
b.RobertBr
owning
c.JamesThomson
d.JohnDavidson
Ans:
c.JamesThomson
993. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngTenny
sonpoemsi
sadr
amat
icmonol
ogue?
a.I
nMemor iam
b.‘
TheChargeoftheLi
ghtBr
igade’
c.‘
Crossi
ngtheBar’
d.‘
Tit
honus’
Ans:
d.Ti
thonus
994. Thet
erm‘
cur
tal
sonnet
’wascoi
nedby
a.JohnMi l
ton
b.Wil
liam Bl
ake
c.GeraldManleyHopki
ns
d.MatthewAr nol
d
Ans:
c.Ger
aldManl
eyHopki
ns
995. TheCr
yst
alPal
ace,
akeyexhi
bitoft
heGr
eatExhi
bit
ion,
wasdesi
gnedby
a.Char
lesDar
win
b.EdwardMoxon
c.JosephPaxt
on
d.Richar
dOwen
Ans:
c.JosephPaxt
on
996. Char
lesDar
win’
sOr
igi
noft
heSpeci
eswaspubl
i
shedi
nthey
ear
a.1859
b.1879
c.1845
d.1866
Ans:
a.1859
997. ‘
Engl
and,
myEngl
and’
isapoem by
a.WEHenley
b.AEHousman
c.RLStev
enson
d.Rudy
ardKipl
i
ng
Ans:
a.WEHenl
ey
998. Whoamongt
hef
oll
owi
ngwasnotamemberoft
heBl
oomsbur
yGr
oup?
a.Ly
ttonStrachey
b.Cl
iveBell
c.EM Forst
er
d.WinstonChurchi
ll
Ans:
d.Wi
nst
onChur
chi
l
l
999. Samuel
But
ler
’sEr
ewhoni
sanexampl
eof
a.Femini
stLiterature
b.Utopi
anLiterature
c.WarLiter
ature
d.FamineLit
er ature
Ans:
b.Ut
opi
anLi
ter
atur
e
1000. Thef amousl

i
ne“
..
..
.wher
eignor
antar
miescl
ashbyni
ght
”ist
akenf
rom a
poem by
a.Wi
l
fredOwen
b.WHAuden
c.Si
egfr
iedSassoon
d.Matt
hewAr nol
d
Ans:
d.Mat
thewAr
nol
d
1001. TheCour
tofChancer
yisaset
ti
ngi
nDi
cken’
s
a.Li
tt
leDorr
it
b.HardTi
mes
c.DombeyandSon
d.Bl
eakHouse
Ans:
d.Bl
eakHouse
1002. Thepr el
i
minar
yver
sionofJamesJoy
ce’
sPot
rai
toft
heAr
ti
stasaYoung
Manwascal
l
ed
a.StephenHero
b.Bl
oom’ sBlunder
c.ADayi ntheli
feofSt
ephenDedal
us
d.TheDead
Ans:
a.St
ephenHer
o
1003. DHLawr
enceusest
heexpr
essi
ona‘
bri
ghtbookofl
i
fe’
todescr
ibe
a.t
henovel
b.t
hedramati
cmonol
ogue
c.t
hebibl
e
d.t
heshortl
yri
c
Ans:
a.t
henov
el
1004. I nwhichofthefol
lowi
ngscenesofTheWast
eLanddowehav
ea
depar
turef
rom Standar
dEngli
sh?
a.Thetypi
stscene
b.Thepubscene
c.Thehyaci
nthscene
d.Thechapelperi
l
ousscene
Ans:
b.Thepubscene

lowi
ngwasaCatholi
cnoveli
st,
anInt
ell
igenceOffi
cer
,a
f
il
m cr
it
icandsethi
sfi
cti
onsi
nfarawaypl
aceswreckedbypoli
ti
calconfl
i
cts?
a.AntonyPowel l
b.EvelynWaugh
c.Will
iam Gol
ding
d.Graham Greene
Ans:
d.Gr
aham Gr
eene
1006. Thet
erm‘
thecomedyofmenace’
isassoci
atedwi
tht
heear
lypl
aysof
a.ArnoldWesker
b.JohnArden
c.HaroldPi
nter
d.DavidHare
Ans:
c.Har
oldPi
nter
1007. Fi ndtheodd(woman)manout
Bel
ladona,Engeni
des,
TheTypi
st,Mari
e,MadameSosost
ri
s,TheRui
n,Bi
bber
,
Ti
resias,
TheYoungMan,Carbuncul
ar
a.Bel
ladonna
b.MadameSosostris
c.Ti
resias
d.TheRuin,Bi
bber
Ans:
b.MadameSosost
ri
s
1008. Samuel
Becket
t’
sWai
ti
ngf
orGodothas
a.3Act
s
b.5Act
s
c.4Act
s
d.2Act
s
Ans:
d.2Act
s
1009. Whoamongt hef

oll
owi
ngwr
it
ers,
isknownf
orhi
sunf
orget
tabl
esenseof
humourandcomedy
?
a.DHLawrence
b.PGWodehouse
c.ThomasHardy
d.JohnGal
swort
hy
Ans:
d.JohnGal
swor
thy
l
owi
ngdoesnotbel
ongt
othe‘
GreatTr
adi
ti
on’
,
enunci
atedbyFRLeavi
s?
a.JosephConrad
b.JamesJoy ce
c.JaneAusten
d.GeorgeEl
iot
Ans:
b.JamesJoy
ce
1011. Wi
dower
s’sHouseswaswr
it
tenby
a.OscarWi
lde
b.TSEli
ot
c.JohnGal
swort
hy
d.GBShaw
Ans:
d.GBShaw
1012. Mol
l
yBl
oom i
sachar
act
eri
nJamesJoy
ce’
s.
a.APortrai
toft
heAr
ti
stasaYoungMan
b.Dubli
ners
c.Uly
sses
d.Exi
les
Ans:
c.Ul
ysses
1013. Mar
gar
etDr
abbl
eist
heaut
horof
a.TheMemoirsofaSurv
ivor
b.TheWit
chofExmoor
c.TheSer
viceofCl
ouds
d.TheGodl
essinEdam
Ans:
b.TheWi
tchofExmoor
1014. YouCan’
tDoBot
hisanov
elby
a.JohnFowl es
b.DorisLessing
c.Kingsl
eyAmi s
d.I
rishMur doch
Ans:
c.Ki
ngsl
eyAmi
s
1015. SeamusHeaneywasawar
dedt
heNobel
Pri
zef
orl
i
ter
atur
eint
hey
ear
a.1995
b.1996
c.1997
d.1998
Ans:
a.1995
1016. I
nit
sfi
nal
publ
i
shedv
ersi
on,
Eli
ot’
sTheWast
eLandcont
ainsat
otal
of
a.334l
i
nes
b.433l
i
nes
c.373l
i
nes
d.423l
i
nes
Ans:
b.433l
i
nes
1017. Whooft
hef
oll
owi
ngi
stheaut
horof‘
Junoandt
hePay
cock’
?
a.LadyGregory
b.W BYeats
c.OscarWilde
d.SeanO’Casey
Ans:
d.SeanO’
Casey
1018. Al though,
Nobel
Laur
eateSeamusHeaneywr
it
esi
nEngl
i
shi
nvoi
ceand
subj
ectmatt
erhi
spoemsare
a.Welsh
b.Scott
ish
c.I
rish
d.Poli
sh
Ans:
c.I
ri
sh
1019. I
nfl
uenceoft
heI
ndi
anPhi
l
osophyi
sseeni
nthewr
it
ingsof
a.GBShaw
b.NoelCoward
c.Tom Stoppar
d
d.TSEliot
Ans:
d.TSEl
i
ot
1020. Whi
chEl
i
oti
anchar
act
erut
ter
sthequest
ion,
‘DoIeatapeach?
’
a.Mari
na
b.Pruf
rock
c.Sweeney
d.St
etson
Ans:
b.Pr
ufr
ock
1021. Ast
oni
sachar
act
eri
nPi
nter
’s
a.TheBi
rt
hdayParty
b.TheCar
etaker
c.TheDumbWal t
er
d.TheHomecoming
Ans:
b.TheCar
etaker
1022. Thet
erm‘
theat
re;
ofcr
uel
ty’
wascoi
nedby
a.RobertBrustei
n
b.AntoninArtaud
c.AugustoBoal
d.Lui
gi Pi
randell
o
Ans:
b.Ant
oni
nAr
taud
1023. Whi
choft
hef
oll
owi
ngnov
elsi
snotbyPat
ri
ckWhi
te?
a.TheVivi
sect
or
b.TheTreeofMan
c.Voss
d.OscarandLuci
enda
Ans:
b.TheTr
eeofMan
1024. Theconceptof‘ St
ar-
equi
l
ibr
ium’
inconnect
ionwi
thman-
woman
r
elat
ionshi
pappear
sin
a.WomeninLov e
b.Mauri
ce
c.MrsDall
oway
d.TheOldWives’
Tal
es
Ans:
a.Womeni
nLov
e
1025. ‘ TheLostGener
ati
on’i
sanameappl
i
edtothedisi
l
lusi
onedint
ell
ect
ual
s
andaest
het
esoftheyear
sfoll
owi
ngt
heWorldWarI.Whocall
edthem ‘
TheLost
Gener
ati
on’
?
a.HLMencken
b.Will
aCather
c.JackLondon
d.Gertr
udeStei
n
Ans:
d.Ger
trudeSt
ein
1026. Wal l
aceStevens‘
TheManwi
tht
heBl
ueGui
tar
’maybel
i
nkedt
othewor
k
oft
hef
oll
owingart
ist
a.Modigl
iani
b.Chagall
c.Pi
casso
d.Cezanne
Ans:
c.Pi
casso.
1027. Poet
ry:
AMagazi
neofVer
sewasf
oundedbyHar
ri
etMonr
oei
n
a.1922
b.1920
c.1918
d.1912
Ans:
d.1912
1028. Dor
isLessi
ng’
sint
eresti
n..
..
..
..
..i
swi
del
yrecogni
sed
a.Hinduism
b.Sufi
sm
c.Zen
d.Judaism

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446)Elizabethans were notoriously 449)Which of the following was the

447)The fine arts flourished in (a) Pope Pius V

454)What type of non-rhymed poetry 460)Who succeeded Elizabeth I?

455)Elizabeth and Mary I belonged to

466)Elizabeth's reign was longer than

467)What was Elizabeth’s nickname for

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545. Inspired by Satan's victory over

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Advance English Literature

Courtesy: Last Island (cssforum)

(1) The subjugation of Women (1869) is an important text of:

(a) George Eliot

(c) John Mill

(2) Which of the following poems by Tennyson is a monodrama?