ENGLISH LITERATURE- PAGE 1
1. Who is the author of these lines?
Unless this general evil they maintain, All men are bad, and in their badness reign.
(a). Shakespeare
(b). Earl of Southey
(c). Queen Elizabeth
(d). John Milton
Answer: Option-A
2. Which poem ends with the following line? "They also serve who only stand and wait."
(a). Fro Lippo Lippi
(b). On His Blindness
(c). Daffodils
(d). Scholar Gypsy
Answer: Option-B
3. The meter in which Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is written:
(a). Iambic pentametre
(b). iambic monometre
(c). iambic dimetre
(d). iambic trimetre
Answer: Option-A
4. When was Ode on a Grecian Urn written?
(a). 1817
(b). 1818
(c). 1819
(d). 1820
Answer: Option-C
5. Who was Telemachus?
(a). The Son of Ulysses
(b). Ulysses himself
(c). A popular Priest
(d). An Oracle
Answer: Option-A
6. Which poem of Sylvia Plath is rich with Holocaust imagery?
(a). Lady Lazarus
(b). Daddy
(c). The Colossus
(d). Crossing the Water
Answer: Option-B
7. In which anthology of Kamala Das the poem An Introduction appeared?
(a). Summer In Calcutta
(b). the Descendants
(c). Ya Allah!
(d). Only the Soul Knows how to Sing
Answer: Option-A
8. The predominant themes of Frost’s poem Home Burial are...
(a). Death of a child and collapse of a marriage
(b). First World War
(c). Death and Rebirth
(d). Politics and democracy
Answer: Option-A
9. Wole Soyinka is a ------------------poet
(a). South African
(b). Kenyan
(c). Latin American
(d). Nigerian
Answer: Option-D
10. Who is the author of the poem This is a Photograph of Me?
(a). Kamala Das
(b). Emily Dickinson
(c). Margaret Atwood
(d). Sylvia Plath
Answer: Option-C
11. What instrument does Nora use to dance the tarantella?
(a). Trumpet
(b). Tambourine
(c). Violin
(d). Drums
Answer: Option-B
12. Maurya in Risers to the Sea tries to discourage ------------, her last living son from going to Connemara country fair in the mainland.
(a). Patch
(b). Michael
(c). Sheamus
(d). Bartley
Answer: Option-D
13. The original subtitle of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is -------
(a). A Trivial Comedy for Subtle People
(b). A Comedy in Three Acts
(c). A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
(d). A Severe Comedy of Manners
Answer: Option-C
14. The film version of Shaw's Pygmalion is -------------
(a). My Flower Lady
(b). My Fair Lady
(c). Cockney Dialect of Eliza Doolittle
(d). Pygmalion: The Sculptor
Answer: Option-B
15. Snake is a character in --------
(a). The School for Scandal
(b). The Importance of Being Earnest
(c). The Critic
(d). She Stoops to Conquer
Answer: Option-A
16. Who kills Macbeth in the battle at the end of the play?
(a). Malcolm
(b). Banquo
(c). Fleance
(d). Macduff
Answer: Option-D
17. Who becomes blind in the Second Act of Beckett's play Waiting for Godot?
(a). Lucky
(b). Pozzo
(c). Didi
(d). Gogo
Answer: Option-B
18. What is the sweet that Nora has been forbidden to eat?
(a). Candy Canes
(b). Fruit Cakes
(c). Macaroons
(d). Nut Cakes
Answer: Option-C
19. Which character in Death of a Salesman says, "He had the wrong dreams. All, all wrong"?
(a). Biff
(b). Hap
(c). Charley
(d). Bernard
Answer: Option-A
20. Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie is interested in writing --------
(a). Fiction
(b). Poetry
(c). Journalistic Essays
(d). Plays
Answer: Option-B
21. Who plays the villainous role in The God of Small Things?
(a). Mammachi
(b). Pappachi
(c). Chacko
(d). Baby Kochamma
Answer: Option-D
22. In "Of Studies", Bacon says that "Histories make man -----------"
(a). Witty
(b). Wise
(c). Subtle
(d). Grave
Answer: Option-B
23. Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights was published in ------
(a). 1845
(b). 1846
(c). 1847
(d). 1848
Answer: Option-C
24. In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, ----------- is obsessed with white complexion.
(a). Claudia
(b). Pecola
(c). Bertha
(d). Cholly
Answer: Option-B
25. Who is Santiago's only friend and companion in The Old Man and the Sea?
(a). Manolin
(b). Marlin
(c). The Sea
(d). The Fish
Answer: Option-A
26. To which Scene in 'The Hamlet' the line "To be or not to be, that is the question" belong?
A:-Act III Scene 1
B:-Act III Scene 2
C:-Act III Scene 3
D:-Act III Scene 4
Ans: A
Unless this general evil they maintain, All men are bad, and in their badness reign.
(a). Shakespeare
(b). Earl of Southey
(c). Queen Elizabeth
(d). John Milton
Answer: Option-A
2. Which poem ends with the following line? "They also serve who only stand and wait."
(a). Fro Lippo Lippi
(b). On His Blindness
(c). Daffodils
(d). Scholar Gypsy
Answer: Option-B
3. The meter in which Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is written:
(a). Iambic pentametre
(b). iambic monometre
(c). iambic dimetre
(d). iambic trimetre
Answer: Option-A
4. When was Ode on a Grecian Urn written?
(a). 1817
(b). 1818
(c). 1819
(d). 1820
Answer: Option-C
5. Who was Telemachus?
(a). The Son of Ulysses
(b). Ulysses himself
(c). A popular Priest
(d). An Oracle
Answer: Option-A
6. Which poem of Sylvia Plath is rich with Holocaust imagery?
(a). Lady Lazarus
(b). Daddy
(c). The Colossus
(d). Crossing the Water
Answer: Option-B
7. In which anthology of Kamala Das the poem An Introduction appeared?
(a). Summer In Calcutta
(b). the Descendants
(c). Ya Allah!
(d). Only the Soul Knows how to Sing
Answer: Option-A
8. The predominant themes of Frost’s poem Home Burial are...
(a). Death of a child and collapse of a marriage
(b). First World War
(c). Death and Rebirth
(d). Politics and democracy
Answer: Option-A
9. Wole Soyinka is a ------------------poet
(a). South African
(b). Kenyan
(c). Latin American
(d). Nigerian
Answer: Option-D
10. Who is the author of the poem This is a Photograph of Me?
(a). Kamala Das
(b). Emily Dickinson
(c). Margaret Atwood
(d). Sylvia Plath
Answer: Option-C
11. What instrument does Nora use to dance the tarantella?
(a). Trumpet
(b). Tambourine
(c). Violin
(d). Drums
Answer: Option-B
12. Maurya in Risers to the Sea tries to discourage ------------, her last living son from going to Connemara country fair in the mainland.
(a). Patch
(b). Michael
(c). Sheamus
(d). Bartley
Answer: Option-D
13. The original subtitle of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is -------
(a). A Trivial Comedy for Subtle People
(b). A Comedy in Three Acts
(c). A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
(d). A Severe Comedy of Manners
Answer: Option-C
14. The film version of Shaw's Pygmalion is -------------
(a). My Flower Lady
(b). My Fair Lady
(c). Cockney Dialect of Eliza Doolittle
(d). Pygmalion: The Sculptor
Answer: Option-B
15. Snake is a character in --------
(a). The School for Scandal
(b). The Importance of Being Earnest
(c). The Critic
(d). She Stoops to Conquer
Answer: Option-A
16. Who kills Macbeth in the battle at the end of the play?
(a). Malcolm
(b). Banquo
(c). Fleance
(d). Macduff
Answer: Option-D
17. Who becomes blind in the Second Act of Beckett's play Waiting for Godot?
(a). Lucky
(b). Pozzo
(c). Didi
(d). Gogo
Answer: Option-B
18. What is the sweet that Nora has been forbidden to eat?
(a). Candy Canes
(b). Fruit Cakes
(c). Macaroons
(d). Nut Cakes
Answer: Option-C
19. Which character in Death of a Salesman says, "He had the wrong dreams. All, all wrong"?
(a). Biff
(b). Hap
(c). Charley
(d). Bernard
Answer: Option-A
20. Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie is interested in writing --------
(a). Fiction
(b). Poetry
(c). Journalistic Essays
(d). Plays
Answer: Option-B
21. Who plays the villainous role in The God of Small Things?
(a). Mammachi
(b). Pappachi
(c). Chacko
(d). Baby Kochamma
Answer: Option-D
22. In "Of Studies", Bacon says that "Histories make man -----------"
(a). Witty
(b). Wise
(c). Subtle
(d). Grave
Answer: Option-B
23. Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights was published in ------
(a). 1845
(b). 1846
(c). 1847
(d). 1848
Answer: Option-C
24. In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, ----------- is obsessed with white complexion.
(a). Claudia
(b). Pecola
(c). Bertha
(d). Cholly
Answer: Option-B
25. Who is Santiago's only friend and companion in The Old Man and the Sea?
(a). Manolin
(b). Marlin
(c). The Sea
(d). The Fish
Answer: Option-A
26. To which Scene in 'The Hamlet' the line "To be or not to be, that is the question" belong?
A:-Act III Scene 1
B:-Act III Scene 2
C:-Act III Scene 3
D:-Act III Scene 4
Ans: A
27. What is the relationship between the Squire and the Knight in the Prologue to Canterbury Tales?
A:-Two unrelated pilgrims
B:-A pilgrim and the innkeeper
C:-Father and son
D:-Son and father
Ans: D
28. Shakespeare's Sonnet number 129 is addressed to
A:-Earl of Southampton
B:-Thomas Thorpe
C:-A Dark Lady
D:-Earl of Pembroke
Ans: C
29. What is the predominant feeling of Satan as reflected in (The Paradise Lost) the quoted lines?
"Determined to advance into our room
A creature formed of earth,..."
A:-Man has usurped his place
B:-He would compass the fall of man
C:-He is going to assert his supremacy
D:-He is to affirm his sovereignty
Ans: A
30. How many years Faustus has before the Devil comes to claim him his own?
A:-25
B:-23
C:-26
D:-24
Ans: D
31. Which one of the following is NOT a character in the 'Tempest' ?
A:-Miranda
B:-Coriolanus
C:-Ariel
D:-Alonso
Ans: B
32. "Sweet Thames run softly, till I end my song" is extracted from:
A:-Epithalamion
B:-Mac Flecknoe
C:-Prothalamion
D:-'Atticus Passage'
Ans: C
33. Whom did the Dutchess of Malfi secretly marry?
A:-Bosola
B:-Antonio Bologna
C:-Roderigo
D:-Ferdinand
Ans: B
34. Which of the following characters is the villain in 'Tom Jones' ?
A:-Blifil
B:-Square
C:-Thwackaum
D:-Allworthy
Ans: A
35. "What is the truth? Said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer" (Of Truth)
The line is an example for:
A:-Grand style
B:-Blank verse
C:-Aphoristic style
D:-Biblical style
Ans: C
36. "Did he who made the Lamb make thee"? here "thee" refers to?
A:-Stars
B:-The Tiger
C:-Sky
D:-Forest
Ans: B
37. To whom "Dejection: An Ode" was originally addressed?
A:-Dorothy Wordsworth
B:-William Wordsworth
C:-David Hartley
D:-Sara Hutchinson
Ans: D
38. What does Wordsworth's line "Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears" reflect?
A:-Loss of the sense of joy in nature
B:-Memories of the joyous things in nature
C:-Pessimism
D:-Dejection
Ans: B
39. Which of the following is NOT an essential theme of 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' ?
A:-Materialism
B:-Timelessness
C:-Themes of art,death and life
D:-Permanence of art as opposed to transient life
Ans: A
40. Which of the following is the prominent idea in the "Dover Beach" ?
A:-Love
B:-Beauty
C:-Loss of faith
D:-Romantic view of life
Ans: C
41. Which English society is portrayed in Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest' ?
A:-All the English society
B:-Middle class
C:-Commons
D:-The upper class
Ans: D
42. What was the initial/original title of the "Pride and Prejudice" ?
A:-Sense and Sensibility
B:-First Impressions
C:-Mansfield Park
D:-Emma
Ans: B
43. What is the pen name of 'Mary Ann Evans' ?
A:-George Eliot
B:-T. S. Eliot
C:-Emily Bronte
D:-Charlotte Bronte
Ans: A
44. Why did Heath Cliff slip away? Because:
A:-Hindley bullied him
B:-He was a foundling
C:-Isabella refused to marry him
D:-Catherine refused to marry him
Ans: D
45. Who according to Charles Lamb (in the Dream Children) was the best dancer during her youth?
A:-Alice, the daughter
B:-Alice, the mother
C:-Mrs. Field
D:-Bridget
Ans: C
46. Who is Lil's husband in the poem The Waste Land ?
A:-Alfred
B:-Albert
C:-Araon
D:-Arnold
Ans: B
47. "It was my ---------- year to heaven
Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood
And the mussel pooled and the heron Priested shore ."
Fill the blank .
A:-Twentieth
B:-Fortieth
C:-Fiftieth
D:-Thirtieth
Ans: D
48. Identify the writer of the following :
"And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assu
A:-T.S. Eliot
B:-Raymond Williams
C:-Elaine Showalter
D:-Virginia Woolf
Ans: D
49. Who acts as chorus in Murder in the Cathedral
A:-Canterbury Women
B:-Cathedral Women
C:-The Archbishop
D:-The Knights
Ans: A
50. Pygmalion fell in love with -------
A:-His disciple
B:-His slave
C:-A statue carved by him
D:-a Princess
Ans: C
51. The clothes that the priest brings to Maurya's house are from the body of ------
A:-Bartley
B:-Shawn
C:-Sheamus
D:-Michael
Ans: D
52. "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named ------"
A:-baby kochamma
B:-baby tristy
C:-baby tuckoo
D:-baby daedalus
Ans: C
53. Who is the owner of the factory where Paul Morel works?
A:-Baxter Dawes
B:-John Field
C:-Jerry Purde
D:-Thomas Jordan
Ans: D
54. The twins in the Lord of the Flies are together known as
A:-Samneric
B:-Buffaloes
C:-Ralphjacy
D:-The flies
Ans: A
55. Which year did Doris Lessing win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
A:-2007
B:-2006
C:-1997
D:-1996
Ans: A
56.The key textbook of the emotional theory of Rasa.
A:-Sangitadarpana
B:-Dharmasutra
C:-Padyachudamani
D:-Natyashastra
Ans: D
A:-Two unrelated pilgrims
B:-A pilgrim and the innkeeper
C:-Father and son
D:-Son and father
Ans: D
28. Shakespeare's Sonnet number 129 is addressed to
A:-Earl of Southampton
B:-Thomas Thorpe
C:-A Dark Lady
D:-Earl of Pembroke
Ans: C
29. What is the predominant feeling of Satan as reflected in (The Paradise Lost) the quoted lines?
"Determined to advance into our room
A creature formed of earth,..."
A:-Man has usurped his place
B:-He would compass the fall of man
C:-He is going to assert his supremacy
D:-He is to affirm his sovereignty
Ans: A
30. How many years Faustus has before the Devil comes to claim him his own?
A:-25
B:-23
C:-26
D:-24
Ans: D
31. Which one of the following is NOT a character in the 'Tempest' ?
A:-Miranda
B:-Coriolanus
C:-Ariel
D:-Alonso
Ans: B
32. "Sweet Thames run softly, till I end my song" is extracted from:
A:-Epithalamion
B:-Mac Flecknoe
C:-Prothalamion
D:-'Atticus Passage'
Ans: C
33. Whom did the Dutchess of Malfi secretly marry?
A:-Bosola
B:-Antonio Bologna
C:-Roderigo
D:-Ferdinand
Ans: B
34. Which of the following characters is the villain in 'Tom Jones' ?
A:-Blifil
B:-Square
C:-Thwackaum
D:-Allworthy
Ans: A
35. "What is the truth? Said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer" (Of Truth)
The line is an example for:
A:-Grand style
B:-Blank verse
C:-Aphoristic style
D:-Biblical style
Ans: C
36. "Did he who made the Lamb make thee"? here "thee" refers to?
A:-Stars
B:-The Tiger
C:-Sky
D:-Forest
Ans: B
37. To whom "Dejection: An Ode" was originally addressed?
A:-Dorothy Wordsworth
B:-William Wordsworth
C:-David Hartley
D:-Sara Hutchinson
Ans: D
38. What does Wordsworth's line "Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears" reflect?
A:-Loss of the sense of joy in nature
B:-Memories of the joyous things in nature
C:-Pessimism
D:-Dejection
Ans: B
39. Which of the following is NOT an essential theme of 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' ?
A:-Materialism
B:-Timelessness
C:-Themes of art,death and life
D:-Permanence of art as opposed to transient life
Ans: A
40. Which of the following is the prominent idea in the "Dover Beach" ?
A:-Love
B:-Beauty
C:-Loss of faith
D:-Romantic view of life
Ans: C
41. Which English society is portrayed in Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest' ?
A:-All the English society
B:-Middle class
C:-Commons
D:-The upper class
Ans: D
42. What was the initial/original title of the "Pride and Prejudice" ?
A:-Sense and Sensibility
B:-First Impressions
C:-Mansfield Park
D:-Emma
Ans: B
43. What is the pen name of 'Mary Ann Evans' ?
A:-George Eliot
B:-T. S. Eliot
C:-Emily Bronte
D:-Charlotte Bronte
Ans: A
44. Why did Heath Cliff slip away? Because:
A:-Hindley bullied him
B:-He was a foundling
C:-Isabella refused to marry him
D:-Catherine refused to marry him
Ans: D
45. Who according to Charles Lamb (in the Dream Children) was the best dancer during her youth?
A:-Alice, the daughter
B:-Alice, the mother
C:-Mrs. Field
D:-Bridget
Ans: C
46. Who is Lil's husband in the poem The Waste Land ?
A:-Alfred
B:-Albert
C:-Araon
D:-Arnold
Ans: B
47. "It was my ---------- year to heaven
Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood
And the mussel pooled and the heron Priested shore ."
Fill the blank .
A:-Twentieth
B:-Fortieth
C:-Fiftieth
D:-Thirtieth
Ans: D
48. Identify the writer of the following :
"And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assu
A:-T.S. Eliot
B:-Raymond Williams
C:-Elaine Showalter
D:-Virginia Woolf
Ans: D
49. Who acts as chorus in Murder in the Cathedral
A:-Canterbury Women
B:-Cathedral Women
C:-The Archbishop
D:-The Knights
Ans: A
50. Pygmalion fell in love with -------
A:-His disciple
B:-His slave
C:-A statue carved by him
D:-a Princess
Ans: C
51. The clothes that the priest brings to Maurya's house are from the body of ------
A:-Bartley
B:-Shawn
C:-Sheamus
D:-Michael
Ans: D
52. "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named ------"
A:-baby kochamma
B:-baby tristy
C:-baby tuckoo
D:-baby daedalus
Ans: C
53. Who is the owner of the factory where Paul Morel works?
A:-Baxter Dawes
B:-John Field
C:-Jerry Purde
D:-Thomas Jordan
Ans: D
54. The twins in the Lord of the Flies are together known as
A:-Samneric
B:-Buffaloes
C:-Ralphjacy
D:-The flies
Ans: A
55. Which year did Doris Lessing win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
A:-2007
B:-2006
C:-1997
D:-1996
Ans: A
56.The key textbook of the emotional theory of Rasa.
A:-Sangitadarpana
B:-Dharmasutra
C:-Padyachudamani
D:-Natyashastra
Ans: D
57. The return of which season is described in the opening of "The Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales ?
A:-Autumn
B:-Summer
C:-Spring
D:-Winter
Correct Answer:- Option-C
58. The pilgrims in "The Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales represent a cross section of __________ English society.
A:-Twelfth Century
B:-Thirteenth Century
C:-Fourteenth Century
D:-Fifteenth Century
Correct Answer:- Option-C
59. The two beautiful maidens in "Prothalamion" are the daughters of __________ .
A:-The Earl of Lancaster
B:-The Earl of Worcester
C:-The Earl of Leicester
D:-Lord Burghley
Correct Answer:- Option-B
60. /To this I witness call the fools of Time/
Which die for goodness who have lived for crime/
These lines are from Shakespeare's Sonnet __________ .
A:-Eighteen
B:-Twenty Nine
C:-Fifty Seven
D:-One Hundred and Twenty Four
Correct Answer:- Option-D
61. The number of lines in Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is __________ .
A:-Eighteen
B:-Thirty Six
C:-Fourteen
D:-Thirty Two
Correct Answer:- Option-B
62. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
These lines are from a poem by :
A:-Shakespeare
B:-Thomas Gray
C:-John Dryden
D:-Alexander Pope
Correct Answer:- Option-B
63. According to Francis Bacon, the chief use for ornament in studies is in __________ .
A:-privateness
B:-retiring
C:-discourse
D:-judgement
Correct Answer:- Option-C
64. The servant of Faustus who uses his master's books to learn how to summon devils :
A:-Wagner
B:-Robin
C:-Rafe
D:-Cornelius
Correct Answer:- Option-A
65. The University where Hamlet studied :
A:-Wittenberg
B:-Oxford
C:-Cambridge
D:-Constantinople
Correct Answer:- Option-A
66. Crabtree is a character in :
A:-The Tempest
B:-The Rivals
C:-The Way of the World
D:-The School for Scandal
Correct Answer:- Option-D
67. "The Tiger" is __________ stanzas in length.
A:-four
B:-six
C:-eight
D:-nine
Correct Answer:- Option-B
68. "Ode on Intimations of Immortality" recollects __________ .
A:-Old age
B:-Childhood
C:-Middle age
D:-Early Childhood
Correct Answer:- Option-D
69. If winter comes, can spring be far behind ?
Who wrote this line ?
A:-Wordsworth
B:-Coleridge
C:-Shelly
D:-Keats
Correct Answer:- Option-C
70. Each stanza of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" consists of __________ lines.
A:-four
B:-six
C:-eight
D:-ten
Correct Answer:- Option-D
71. "Ulysses" is a poem written in __________ .
A:-Free verse
B:-Blank verse
C:-Rhymed verse
D:-Trochee
Correct Answer:- Option-B
72. The poem "My Last Duchess" is set during the late __________ .
A:-French Renaissance
B:-British Renaissance
C:-Spanish Renaissance
D:-Italian Renaissance
Correct Answer:- Option-D
73. Which sea is mentioned in connection with Sophocles in "Dover Beach" ?
A:-English Channel
B:-Red Sea
C:-Aegean Sea
D:-Strait of Dover
Correct Answer:- Option-C
74. Essays of Elia is collection of essays written by __________ .
A:-Dryden
B:-Charles Lamb
C:-J.S. Mill
D:-E.V. Lucas
Correct Answer:- Option-B
75. How many daughters Mrs. and Mr. Bennet have in Pride and Prejudice ?
A:-five
B:-six
C:-three
D:-four
Correct Answer:- Option-A
76. The alternate title of Oliver Twist is :
A:-A Rake's Progress
B:-The Orphan's Progress
C:-A Kid's Progress
D:-The Parish Boy's Progress
Correct Answer:- Option-D
77.What was the first title of W.B. Yeats's "The Second Coming" ?
A:-The Second Birth
B:-The Apocalypse Gyre
C:-The Rebirth
D:-The Widening
Correct Answer:- Option-A
78. The title of the third section of Eliot's The Waste Land is _________ .
A:-A Game of Chess
B:-Death by Water
C:-The Burial of the Dead
D:-The Fire Sermon
Correct Answer:- Option-D
79. The meaning of the word "simples" in "Church Going" :
A:-Herbs
B:-Irish coins
C:-Stones
D:-Articles
Correct Answer:- Option-A
80. Which King opposed Thomas Becket ?
A:-Henry II
B:-Henry IV
C:-Henry VI
D:-Henry VIII
Correct Answer:- Option-A
81. In Pygmalion, Henry Higgins was professor of __________ .
A:-Linguistics
B:-Literature
C:-Grammar
D:-Phonetics
Correct Answer:- Option-D
82. Which is the subtitle of the English version of Waiting for Godot ?
A:-a comedy in two acts
B:-a tragedy in two acts
C:-a comedy
D:-a tragicomedy in two acts
Correct Answer:- Option-D
83. Stanley Webber was a former __________ in The Birthday Party.
A:-Drum Player
B:-Piano Player
C:-Organ Player
D:-Opera Singer
Correct Answer:- Option-B
84. What is the name of Stephen Dedalus's father ?
A:-Simon
B:-Charles
C:-Cranly
D:-Henry
Correct Answer:- Option-A
85. When did Paul Morel become his mother's favourite ?
A:-after his birth
B:-after his affair with Clara
C:-after the birth of Arthur
D:-after the death of William
Correct Answer:- Option-D
86. The young painter who begins a portrait of Mrs. Ramsay :
A:-Minta
B:-Mrs. McNab
C:-Lily
D:-Cam
Correct Answer:- Option-C
87."Theory of Rasa" is taken from __________ .
A:-Atharvaveda
B:-Natyasastra
C:-Upanishad
D:-Dhammapada
Correct Answer:- Option-B
88. Aristotle's Poetics is specifically concerned with __________ .
A:-tragedy
B:-comedy
C:-drama
D:-epic
Correct Answer:- Option-C
89. "On the Sublime" was written by :
A:-Plato
B:-Aristotle
C:-Longinus
D:-Horace
Correct Answer:- Option-C
90. According to Dr. Johnson, "Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of
__________".
A:-mankind
B:-divinity
C:-love
D:-nature
Correct Answer:- Option-D
91. "Willing suspension of disbelief" figures in _________ .
A:-Preface to the Fables
B:-Study of Poetry
C:-Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
D:-Biographia Literaria
Correct Answer:- Option-D
92. Who authored Anatomy of Criticism ?
A:-Northrop Frye
B:-Matthew Arnold
C:-T.S. Eliot
D:-Cleanth Brooks
Correct Answer:- Option-A
93. According to Viktor Shklovsky, the technique of art is to make objects :
A:-familiar
B:-unfamiliar
C:-habitual
D:-aesthetic
Correct Answer:- Option-B
94. In classical thought the centre is within the structure and outside it because, according to Derrida, the centre escapes __________ .
A:-episteme
B:-play
C:-rupture
D:-structurality
Correct Answer:- Option-D
95. In "What is an author ?", Foucault considers __________ as characteristic of the mode of existence, circulation and functioning of certain discourses within a society and he analyses it elaborately.
A:-author
B:-authorship
C:-author-function
D:-ownership
Correct Answer:- Option-C
96. Who can write Dalit literature, according to Sharankumar Limbale ?
A:-a Dalit
B:-any writer
C:-a varna
D:-an avarna
Correct Answer:- Option-A
97. In philology, Grimm's law gives systematic statements on :
A:-Sound change
B:-Vowels
C:-Consonants
D:-Allophones
Correct Answer:- Option-A
98. Old English is also known as :
A:-Celtic
B:-Teutonic
C:-Gaelic
D:-Anglo-Saxon
Correct Answer:- Option-D
99. The Norman Conquest of England took place in __________ Century.
A:-9th
B:-10th
C:-11th
D:-12th
Correct Answer:- Option-C
100. Through the Great Vowel Shift, all Middle English _________ changed their pronunciation.
A:-long vowels
B:-short vowels
C:-semi vowels
D:-diphthongs
Correct Answer:- Option-A
A:-Autumn
B:-Summer
C:-Spring
D:-Winter
Correct Answer:- Option-C
58. The pilgrims in "The Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales represent a cross section of __________ English society.
A:-Twelfth Century
B:-Thirteenth Century
C:-Fourteenth Century
D:-Fifteenth Century
Correct Answer:- Option-C
59. The two beautiful maidens in "Prothalamion" are the daughters of __________ .
A:-The Earl of Lancaster
B:-The Earl of Worcester
C:-The Earl of Leicester
D:-Lord Burghley
Correct Answer:- Option-B
60. /To this I witness call the fools of Time/
Which die for goodness who have lived for crime/
These lines are from Shakespeare's Sonnet __________ .
A:-Eighteen
B:-Twenty Nine
C:-Fifty Seven
D:-One Hundred and Twenty Four
Correct Answer:- Option-D
61. The number of lines in Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is __________ .
A:-Eighteen
B:-Thirty Six
C:-Fourteen
D:-Thirty Two
Correct Answer:- Option-B
62. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
These lines are from a poem by :
A:-Shakespeare
B:-Thomas Gray
C:-John Dryden
D:-Alexander Pope
Correct Answer:- Option-B
63. According to Francis Bacon, the chief use for ornament in studies is in __________ .
A:-privateness
B:-retiring
C:-discourse
D:-judgement
Correct Answer:- Option-C
64. The servant of Faustus who uses his master's books to learn how to summon devils :
A:-Wagner
B:-Robin
C:-Rafe
D:-Cornelius
Correct Answer:- Option-A
65. The University where Hamlet studied :
A:-Wittenberg
B:-Oxford
C:-Cambridge
D:-Constantinople
Correct Answer:- Option-A
66. Crabtree is a character in :
A:-The Tempest
B:-The Rivals
C:-The Way of the World
D:-The School for Scandal
Correct Answer:- Option-D
67. "The Tiger" is __________ stanzas in length.
A:-four
B:-six
C:-eight
D:-nine
Correct Answer:- Option-B
68. "Ode on Intimations of Immortality" recollects __________ .
A:-Old age
B:-Childhood
C:-Middle age
D:-Early Childhood
Correct Answer:- Option-D
69. If winter comes, can spring be far behind ?
Who wrote this line ?
A:-Wordsworth
B:-Coleridge
C:-Shelly
D:-Keats
Correct Answer:- Option-C
70. Each stanza of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" consists of __________ lines.
A:-four
B:-six
C:-eight
D:-ten
Correct Answer:- Option-D
71. "Ulysses" is a poem written in __________ .
A:-Free verse
B:-Blank verse
C:-Rhymed verse
D:-Trochee
Correct Answer:- Option-B
72. The poem "My Last Duchess" is set during the late __________ .
A:-French Renaissance
B:-British Renaissance
C:-Spanish Renaissance
D:-Italian Renaissance
Correct Answer:- Option-D
73. Which sea is mentioned in connection with Sophocles in "Dover Beach" ?
A:-English Channel
B:-Red Sea
C:-Aegean Sea
D:-Strait of Dover
Correct Answer:- Option-C
74. Essays of Elia is collection of essays written by __________ .
A:-Dryden
B:-Charles Lamb
C:-J.S. Mill
D:-E.V. Lucas
Correct Answer:- Option-B
75. How many daughters Mrs. and Mr. Bennet have in Pride and Prejudice ?
A:-five
B:-six
C:-three
D:-four
Correct Answer:- Option-A
76. The alternate title of Oliver Twist is :
A:-A Rake's Progress
B:-The Orphan's Progress
C:-A Kid's Progress
D:-The Parish Boy's Progress
Correct Answer:- Option-D
77.What was the first title of W.B. Yeats's "The Second Coming" ?
A:-The Second Birth
B:-The Apocalypse Gyre
C:-The Rebirth
D:-The Widening
Correct Answer:- Option-A
78. The title of the third section of Eliot's The Waste Land is _________ .
A:-A Game of Chess
B:-Death by Water
C:-The Burial of the Dead
D:-The Fire Sermon
Correct Answer:- Option-D
79. The meaning of the word "simples" in "Church Going" :
A:-Herbs
B:-Irish coins
C:-Stones
D:-Articles
Correct Answer:- Option-A
80. Which King opposed Thomas Becket ?
A:-Henry II
B:-Henry IV
C:-Henry VI
D:-Henry VIII
Correct Answer:- Option-A
81. In Pygmalion, Henry Higgins was professor of __________ .
A:-Linguistics
B:-Literature
C:-Grammar
D:-Phonetics
Correct Answer:- Option-D
82. Which is the subtitle of the English version of Waiting for Godot ?
A:-a comedy in two acts
B:-a tragedy in two acts
C:-a comedy
D:-a tragicomedy in two acts
Correct Answer:- Option-D
83. Stanley Webber was a former __________ in The Birthday Party.
A:-Drum Player
B:-Piano Player
C:-Organ Player
D:-Opera Singer
Correct Answer:- Option-B
84. What is the name of Stephen Dedalus's father ?
A:-Simon
B:-Charles
C:-Cranly
D:-Henry
Correct Answer:- Option-A
85. When did Paul Morel become his mother's favourite ?
A:-after his birth
B:-after his affair with Clara
C:-after the birth of Arthur
D:-after the death of William
Correct Answer:- Option-D
86. The young painter who begins a portrait of Mrs. Ramsay :
A:-Minta
B:-Mrs. McNab
C:-Lily
D:-Cam
Correct Answer:- Option-C
87."Theory of Rasa" is taken from __________ .
A:-Atharvaveda
B:-Natyasastra
C:-Upanishad
D:-Dhammapada
Correct Answer:- Option-B
88. Aristotle's Poetics is specifically concerned with __________ .
A:-tragedy
B:-comedy
C:-drama
D:-epic
Correct Answer:- Option-C
89. "On the Sublime" was written by :
A:-Plato
B:-Aristotle
C:-Longinus
D:-Horace
Correct Answer:- Option-C
90. According to Dr. Johnson, "Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of
__________".
A:-mankind
B:-divinity
C:-love
D:-nature
Correct Answer:- Option-D
91. "Willing suspension of disbelief" figures in _________ .
A:-Preface to the Fables
B:-Study of Poetry
C:-Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
D:-Biographia Literaria
Correct Answer:- Option-D
92. Who authored Anatomy of Criticism ?
A:-Northrop Frye
B:-Matthew Arnold
C:-T.S. Eliot
D:-Cleanth Brooks
Correct Answer:- Option-A
93. According to Viktor Shklovsky, the technique of art is to make objects :
A:-familiar
B:-unfamiliar
C:-habitual
D:-aesthetic
Correct Answer:- Option-B
94. In classical thought the centre is within the structure and outside it because, according to Derrida, the centre escapes __________ .
A:-episteme
B:-play
C:-rupture
D:-structurality
Correct Answer:- Option-D
95. In "What is an author ?", Foucault considers __________ as characteristic of the mode of existence, circulation and functioning of certain discourses within a society and he analyses it elaborately.
A:-author
B:-authorship
C:-author-function
D:-ownership
Correct Answer:- Option-C
96. Who can write Dalit literature, according to Sharankumar Limbale ?
A:-a Dalit
B:-any writer
C:-a varna
D:-an avarna
Correct Answer:- Option-A
97. In philology, Grimm's law gives systematic statements on :
A:-Sound change
B:-Vowels
C:-Consonants
D:-Allophones
Correct Answer:- Option-A
98. Old English is also known as :
A:-Celtic
B:-Teutonic
C:-Gaelic
D:-Anglo-Saxon
Correct Answer:- Option-D
99. The Norman Conquest of England took place in __________ Century.
A:-9th
B:-10th
C:-11th
D:-12th
Correct Answer:- Option-C
100. Through the Great Vowel Shift, all Middle English _________ changed their pronunciation.
A:-long vowels
B:-short vowels
C:-semi vowels
D:-diphthongs
Correct Answer:- Option-A
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