ENGLISH LITERATURE- PAGE 12
1. In which poem did W.B. Yeats use the phrase "the artifice of eternity"?
A Sailing to Byzantium
B Byzantium
C The Second Coming
D Leda and the Swan
Ans: A
2. Who wrote Plain Tales from the Hills?
A Rudyard Kipling
B William Watson
C G.B.Shaw
D John Davidson
Ans: A
3. Who is the writer of Riders to the sea'?
A R.L. Stevenson
B Joseph Conrad
C J.M. Synge
D Y.B. Yeats
Ans: C
4. A Passage to India was published in the year:
A 1924
B 1925
C 1926
D 1899
Ans: A
5. Name the play in which following lines occur:
"Nothing happens nobody comes,
Nobody goes, it's awful !"
A Waiting for Godot
B The Murder in the Cathedral
C The Caretaker
D Rides to the Sea
Ans: A
6. Who is the author of The Fountain Overflows ?
A Rebecca West
B Elizabeth Bowen
C Compton Burnett
D Rose Macaulay
Ans: A
7. 'Success is only a delayed failure' is a famous sentence from A Sort of Life. Who is the author of this book?
A Graham Greene
B Elizabeth Bowen
C John Osborne
D Rebecca West
Ans: A
8. Who is the author of The Female Eunuch ?
A Harold Pinter
B Germaine Green
C Stevie Smith
D Alan Sillitoe
Ans: B
9. Who is the author of Cloud Nine ?
A David Hare
B Trevor Griffith
C Caryl Churchil
D Howard Brenton
Ans: C
10. Who wrote An Artist of the Floating World?
A Salman Rushdie
B Kazvo Ishiguro
C Louis de Benieres
D Shashi Deshpande
Ans: B
11. Leaves of Grass is considered as one of the classics of world poetry. Who among the following wrote it?
A Walt Whitman
B Robert Frost
C T.S. Eliot
D Emily Dickinson
Ans: A
12. Shiva Trilogy is written by
A V.S. Naipaul
B Amish Tripathi
C Ashok K. Banker
D Shashi Tharoor
Ans: B
13. Which one the following is Sylvia Plath's novel?
A Ariel
B The Colossus
C The Bell Jar
D Catch 22
Ans: C
14. My True Faces is a novel by :
A Sudhir Ghosh
B Khushwant Singh
C Manohar Malgaonkar
D Chaman Nahal
Ans: C
15. Who wrote The Gift of India ?
A Kamala Das
B Ramanujan
C Toru Dutt
D Sarojini Noidu
Ans: D
16. Which of the following is not by Aristotle ?
A Metaphysics
B Ethics
C Poetics
D Symposium
Ans: D
17. Who represents Dryden himself in An essay on Dramatic Poesy ?
A Crites
B Eugenius
C Neander
D Lisideius
Ans: C
18. Which out of the following is not associated with I.A. Richards?
A Principles of Literacy Criticism
B The Meaning of Meaning
C The symbolist movement in Literature
D The Philosophy of Rhetoric
Ans: C
19. The Dhvanyaloka, a treatise on the structure of meaning, written by
A Anandavardhana
B Bharata
C Bhamaha
D vamana
Ans: A
20. The Vakroktijivitam by Kuntaka propounds
A The theory of aesthetic experience
B The theory of diction
C The theory of figures
D The theory of oblique expression
Ans: D
21. '______' is an extended narrative that carries a second meaning along with its surface story.
A Symbol
B Allegory
C Exposition
D Conceit
Ans: B
22. '______' is a device by which non-human and non-living nature is credited with human emotions:
A Parody
B Pathetic Fallacy
C Objective Correlative
D Unification of Sensibility
Ans: B
23. A Closet Drama is:
A A drama set in closet or in a single room
B A drama intended to be performed within a closet and not on stage
C A drama though written in the dramatic form, intended to be read rather than to be performed in the theater
D None of these is correct
Ans: C
24. Which form of sonnet falls into two main parts _ an octave and a sestet :
A Petrarchan
B Shakespearean
C Spenserian
D None of these is correct
Ans: A
25. Onomatopoeia means:
A Echoing the same sound repeatedly
B Echoing of the sense or the meaning in different words
C Echoing of the sense by the sound, shape, size or movemment
D Echoing of the sense by the movement
Ans: C
A Sailing to Byzantium
B Byzantium
C The Second Coming
D Leda and the Swan
Ans: A
2. Who wrote Plain Tales from the Hills?
A Rudyard Kipling
B William Watson
C G.B.Shaw
D John Davidson
Ans: A
3. Who is the writer of Riders to the sea'?
A R.L. Stevenson
B Joseph Conrad
C J.M. Synge
D Y.B. Yeats
Ans: C
4. A Passage to India was published in the year:
A 1924
B 1925
C 1926
D 1899
Ans: A
5. Name the play in which following lines occur:
"Nothing happens nobody comes,
Nobody goes, it's awful !"
A Waiting for Godot
B The Murder in the Cathedral
C The Caretaker
D Rides to the Sea
Ans: A
6. Who is the author of The Fountain Overflows ?
A Rebecca West
B Elizabeth Bowen
C Compton Burnett
D Rose Macaulay
Ans: A
7. 'Success is only a delayed failure' is a famous sentence from A Sort of Life. Who is the author of this book?
A Graham Greene
B Elizabeth Bowen
C John Osborne
D Rebecca West
Ans: A
8. Who is the author of The Female Eunuch ?
A Harold Pinter
B Germaine Green
C Stevie Smith
D Alan Sillitoe
Ans: B
9. Who is the author of Cloud Nine ?
A David Hare
B Trevor Griffith
C Caryl Churchil
D Howard Brenton
Ans: C
10. Who wrote An Artist of the Floating World?
A Salman Rushdie
B Kazvo Ishiguro
C Louis de Benieres
D Shashi Deshpande
Ans: B
11. Leaves of Grass is considered as one of the classics of world poetry. Who among the following wrote it?
A Walt Whitman
B Robert Frost
C T.S. Eliot
D Emily Dickinson
Ans: A
12. Shiva Trilogy is written by
A V.S. Naipaul
B Amish Tripathi
C Ashok K. Banker
D Shashi Tharoor
Ans: B
13. Which one the following is Sylvia Plath's novel?
A Ariel
B The Colossus
C The Bell Jar
D Catch 22
Ans: C
14. My True Faces is a novel by :
A Sudhir Ghosh
B Khushwant Singh
C Manohar Malgaonkar
D Chaman Nahal
Ans: C
15. Who wrote The Gift of India ?
A Kamala Das
B Ramanujan
C Toru Dutt
D Sarojini Noidu
Ans: D
16. Which of the following is not by Aristotle ?
A Metaphysics
B Ethics
C Poetics
D Symposium
Ans: D
17. Who represents Dryden himself in An essay on Dramatic Poesy ?
A Crites
B Eugenius
C Neander
D Lisideius
Ans: C
18. Which out of the following is not associated with I.A. Richards?
A Principles of Literacy Criticism
B The Meaning of Meaning
C The symbolist movement in Literature
D The Philosophy of Rhetoric
Ans: C
19. The Dhvanyaloka, a treatise on the structure of meaning, written by
A Anandavardhana
B Bharata
C Bhamaha
D vamana
Ans: A
20. The Vakroktijivitam by Kuntaka propounds
A The theory of aesthetic experience
B The theory of diction
C The theory of figures
D The theory of oblique expression
Ans: D
21. '______' is an extended narrative that carries a second meaning along with its surface story.
A Symbol
B Allegory
C Exposition
D Conceit
Ans: B
22. '______' is a device by which non-human and non-living nature is credited with human emotions:
A Parody
B Pathetic Fallacy
C Objective Correlative
D Unification of Sensibility
Ans: B
23. A Closet Drama is:
A A drama set in closet or in a single room
B A drama intended to be performed within a closet and not on stage
C A drama though written in the dramatic form, intended to be read rather than to be performed in the theater
D None of these is correct
Ans: C
24. Which form of sonnet falls into two main parts _ an octave and a sestet :
A Petrarchan
B Shakespearean
C Spenserian
D None of these is correct
Ans: A
25. Onomatopoeia means:
A Echoing the same sound repeatedly
B Echoing of the sense or the meaning in different words
C Echoing of the sense by the sound, shape, size or movemment
D Echoing of the sense by the movement
Ans: C
26: At nine O'clock in the morning, towards the end of November, the Warsaw train was approaching Petersburg at full speed. It was hawing, and so damp and foggy that it was difficult to distinguish anything ten paces from the line to right or left of the carriage windows. Some of the passengers were returning from abroad, but their third class compartment were most crowded, chiefly with people of humble rank, who had come a shorter distance on business. All of course, were tired and shivering, their eyes were heavy after the night's journey, and all their faces were pale and yellow to match the fog. In one of the third class carriages, two passengers had from early dawn been sitting facing one another by the window. Both were young men, not very well dressed and travelling with little luggage, both were of rather striking appearance and both showed a desire to enter into conversation. If they both had known what was remarkable in one another in that moment, they would have been surprised at the chance which had so strangely brought them opposite one another in a third class carriage of the Warsaw train. One of them was short man about twenty seven with almost black curly hair and small grey fiery eyes. He had a broad and flat nose and light cheek bones. His thin lips were continually curved in an insolent, mocking and even malicious smile. But the high and well shaped forehead redeemed the ignoble lines of the lower part of the face. What was particular about the young man's face was its death like pallor which gave him a look of exhaustion in spite of his sturdy figure, and at the same time an almost painfully passionate expression. He was warmly dressed in a full, black sheep–skin lined overcoat and not felt the cold at night, while his shivering neighbor had been exposed to the chill and damp of Russian November for which he was evidently unprepared.
Choose the right option regarding the space given to the passengers for description in the first paragraph of the passage :
A The passengers of humble rank are given less space than that given to those returning from abroad.
B The passengers of humble rank are given more space than that given to those returning from abroad.
C Both the passengers – the passengers of hunble rank and those returning from abroad – are given equal space
D It is uncertain to decide
Ans: B
27. At nine O'clock in the morning, towards the end of November, the Warsaw train was approaching Petersburg at full speed. It was thawing, and so damp and foggy that it was difficult to distinguish anything ten paces from the line to right or left of the carriage windows. Some of the passengers were returning from abroad, but their third class compartment were most crowded, chiefly with people of humble rank, who had come a shorter distance on business. All of course, were tired and shivering, their eyes were heavy after the night's journey, and all their faces were pale and yellow to match the fog. In one of the third class carriages, two passengers had from early dawn been sitting facing one another by the window. Both were young men, not very well dressed and travelling with little luggage, both were of rather striking appearance and both showed a desire to enter into conversation. If they both had known what was remarkable in one another in that moment, they would have been surprised at the chance which had so strangely brought them opposite one another in a third class carriage of the Warsaw train. One of them was short man about twenty seven with almost black curly hair and small grey fiery eyes. He had a broad and flat nose and light cheek bones. His thin lips were continually curved in an insolent, mocking and even malicious smile. But the high and well shaped forehead redeemed the ignoble lines of the lower part of the face. What was particular about the young man's face was its deathlike pallor which gave him a look of exhaustion in spite of his sturdy figure, and at the same time an almost painfully passionate expression. He was warmly dressed in a full, black sheep–skin lined overcoat and not felt the cold at night, while his shivering neighbor had been exposed to the chill and damp of Russian November for which he was evidently unprepared.
Most of the passenger can be said to have hailed from
A the low backrround
B the high background
C the foreign background
D the strange background
Ans: A
28. At nine O'clock in the morning, towards the end of November, the Warsaw train was approaching Petersburg at full speed. It was thawing, and so damp and foggy that it was difficult to distinguish anything ten paces from the line to right or left of the carriage windows. Some of the passengers were returning from abroad, but their third class compartment were most crowded, chiefly with people of humble rank, who had come a shorter distance on business. All of course, were tired and shivering, their eyes were heavy after the night's journey, and all their faces were pale and yellow to match the fog. In one of the third class carriages, two passengers had from early dawn been sitting facing one another by the window. Both were young men, not very well dressed and travelling with little luggage, both were of rather striking appearance and both showed a desire to enter into conversation. If they both had known what was remarkable in one another in that moment, they would have been surprised at the chance which had so strangely brought them opposite one another in a third class carriage of the Warsaw train. One of them was short man about twenty seven with almost black curly hair and small grey fiery eyes. He had a broad and flat nose and light cheek bones. His thin lips were continually curved in an insolent, mocking and even malicious smile. But the high and well shaped forehead redeemed the ignoble lines of the lower part of the face. What was particular about the young man's face was its death like pallor which gave him a look of exhaustion in spite of his sturdy figure, and at the same time an almost painfully passionate expression. He was warmly dressed in a full, black sheep–skin lined overcoat and not felt the cold at night, while his shivering neighbor had been exposed to the chill and damp of Russian November for which he was evidently unprepared.
Who were most conspicuous by their striking appearance in the train?
A the people of humble rank
B the people returning from abroad
C the youngman and his shivering fellow traverller
D the people of humble rank and those returning from abroad
Ans: C
29. At nine O'clock in the morning, towards the end of November, the Warsaw train was approaching Petersburg at full speed. It was thawing, and so damp and foggy that it was difficult to distinguish anything ten paces from the line to right or left of the carriage windows. Some of the passengers were returning from abroad, but their third class compartment were most crowded, chiefly with people of humble rank, who had come a shorter distance on business. All of course, were tired and shivering, their eyes were heavy after the night's journey, and all their faces were pale and yellow to match the fog. In one of the third class carriages, two passengers had from early dawn been sitting facing one another by the window. Both were young men, not very well dressed and travelling with little luggage, both were of rather striking appearance and both showed a desire to enter into conversation. If they both had known what was remarkable in one another in that moment, they would have been surprised at the chance which had so strangely brought them opposite one another in a third class carriage of the Warsaw train. One of them was short man about twenty seven with almost black curly hair and small grey fiery eyes. He had a broad and flat nose and light cheek bones. His thin lips were continually curved in an insolent, mocking and even malicious smile. But the high and well shaped forehead redeemed the ignoble lines of the lower part of the face. What was particular about the young man's face was its death like pallor which gave him a look of exhaustion in spite of his sturdy figure, and at the same time an almost painfully passionate expression. He was warmly dressed in a full, black sheep–skin lined overcoat and not felt the cold at night, while his shivering neighbor had been exposed to the chill and damp of Russian November for which he was evidently unprepared.
Which dominant sentiment is experienced in the passage?
A the sentiment of pathos
B the sentiment of wonder
C the sentiment of anger
D the sentiment of laughter
Ans: A
30: "What a piece of work is man" is spoken by
A Hamlet's uncle
B Hamlet
C Hamlet's mother
D Horatio
Ans: B
31: Which of the following Canterbury Tales is in Prose ?
A The Pardoner's Tale
B The Parson's Tale
C The Monk's Tale
D The Knight's Tale
Ans: B
32: The first folio edition of Shakespeare was published in the year :
A 1641
B 1623
C 1665
D 1564
Ans: B
33: Lullaby of a Lover is written by
A George Gascoigne
B Thomas More
C William Shakespeare
D Laurenee Minot
Ans: A
34: The word "coy" in the poem, "To His coy mistress" means
A timid
B voluptuousness
C sensuous
D shy
Ans: D
35. The concept of Bacon's essay is said to be borrowed from
A Montaigne
B Plato
C Aristotle
D Moilere
Ans: A
Choose the right option regarding the space given to the passengers for description in the first paragraph of the passage :
A The passengers of humble rank are given less space than that given to those returning from abroad.
B The passengers of humble rank are given more space than that given to those returning from abroad.
C Both the passengers – the passengers of hunble rank and those returning from abroad – are given equal space
D It is uncertain to decide
Ans: B
27. At nine O'clock in the morning, towards the end of November, the Warsaw train was approaching Petersburg at full speed. It was thawing, and so damp and foggy that it was difficult to distinguish anything ten paces from the line to right or left of the carriage windows. Some of the passengers were returning from abroad, but their third class compartment were most crowded, chiefly with people of humble rank, who had come a shorter distance on business. All of course, were tired and shivering, their eyes were heavy after the night's journey, and all their faces were pale and yellow to match the fog. In one of the third class carriages, two passengers had from early dawn been sitting facing one another by the window. Both were young men, not very well dressed and travelling with little luggage, both were of rather striking appearance and both showed a desire to enter into conversation. If they both had known what was remarkable in one another in that moment, they would have been surprised at the chance which had so strangely brought them opposite one another in a third class carriage of the Warsaw train. One of them was short man about twenty seven with almost black curly hair and small grey fiery eyes. He had a broad and flat nose and light cheek bones. His thin lips were continually curved in an insolent, mocking and even malicious smile. But the high and well shaped forehead redeemed the ignoble lines of the lower part of the face. What was particular about the young man's face was its deathlike pallor which gave him a look of exhaustion in spite of his sturdy figure, and at the same time an almost painfully passionate expression. He was warmly dressed in a full, black sheep–skin lined overcoat and not felt the cold at night, while his shivering neighbor had been exposed to the chill and damp of Russian November for which he was evidently unprepared.
Most of the passenger can be said to have hailed from
A the low backrround
B the high background
C the foreign background
D the strange background
Ans: A
28. At nine O'clock in the morning, towards the end of November, the Warsaw train was approaching Petersburg at full speed. It was thawing, and so damp and foggy that it was difficult to distinguish anything ten paces from the line to right or left of the carriage windows. Some of the passengers were returning from abroad, but their third class compartment were most crowded, chiefly with people of humble rank, who had come a shorter distance on business. All of course, were tired and shivering, their eyes were heavy after the night's journey, and all their faces were pale and yellow to match the fog. In one of the third class carriages, two passengers had from early dawn been sitting facing one another by the window. Both were young men, not very well dressed and travelling with little luggage, both were of rather striking appearance and both showed a desire to enter into conversation. If they both had known what was remarkable in one another in that moment, they would have been surprised at the chance which had so strangely brought them opposite one another in a third class carriage of the Warsaw train. One of them was short man about twenty seven with almost black curly hair and small grey fiery eyes. He had a broad and flat nose and light cheek bones. His thin lips were continually curved in an insolent, mocking and even malicious smile. But the high and well shaped forehead redeemed the ignoble lines of the lower part of the face. What was particular about the young man's face was its death like pallor which gave him a look of exhaustion in spite of his sturdy figure, and at the same time an almost painfully passionate expression. He was warmly dressed in a full, black sheep–skin lined overcoat and not felt the cold at night, while his shivering neighbor had been exposed to the chill and damp of Russian November for which he was evidently unprepared.
Who were most conspicuous by their striking appearance in the train?
A the people of humble rank
B the people returning from abroad
C the youngman and his shivering fellow traverller
D the people of humble rank and those returning from abroad
Ans: C
29. At nine O'clock in the morning, towards the end of November, the Warsaw train was approaching Petersburg at full speed. It was thawing, and so damp and foggy that it was difficult to distinguish anything ten paces from the line to right or left of the carriage windows. Some of the passengers were returning from abroad, but their third class compartment were most crowded, chiefly with people of humble rank, who had come a shorter distance on business. All of course, were tired and shivering, their eyes were heavy after the night's journey, and all their faces were pale and yellow to match the fog. In one of the third class carriages, two passengers had from early dawn been sitting facing one another by the window. Both were young men, not very well dressed and travelling with little luggage, both were of rather striking appearance and both showed a desire to enter into conversation. If they both had known what was remarkable in one another in that moment, they would have been surprised at the chance which had so strangely brought them opposite one another in a third class carriage of the Warsaw train. One of them was short man about twenty seven with almost black curly hair and small grey fiery eyes. He had a broad and flat nose and light cheek bones. His thin lips were continually curved in an insolent, mocking and even malicious smile. But the high and well shaped forehead redeemed the ignoble lines of the lower part of the face. What was particular about the young man's face was its death like pallor which gave him a look of exhaustion in spite of his sturdy figure, and at the same time an almost painfully passionate expression. He was warmly dressed in a full, black sheep–skin lined overcoat and not felt the cold at night, while his shivering neighbor had been exposed to the chill and damp of Russian November for which he was evidently unprepared.
Which dominant sentiment is experienced in the passage?
A the sentiment of pathos
B the sentiment of wonder
C the sentiment of anger
D the sentiment of laughter
Ans: A
30: "What a piece of work is man" is spoken by
A Hamlet's uncle
B Hamlet
C Hamlet's mother
D Horatio
Ans: B
31: Which of the following Canterbury Tales is in Prose ?
A The Pardoner's Tale
B The Parson's Tale
C The Monk's Tale
D The Knight's Tale
Ans: B
32: The first folio edition of Shakespeare was published in the year :
A 1641
B 1623
C 1665
D 1564
Ans: B
33: Lullaby of a Lover is written by
A George Gascoigne
B Thomas More
C William Shakespeare
D Laurenee Minot
Ans: A
34: The word "coy" in the poem, "To His coy mistress" means
A timid
B voluptuousness
C sensuous
D shy
Ans: D
35. The concept of Bacon's essay is said to be borrowed from
A Montaigne
B Plato
C Aristotle
D Moilere
Ans: A
36: A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable is
A Trochaic foot
B Iambic foot
C Dactylic foot
D Monosyllabic foot
Ans: A
37: Who wrote Television Culture
A Susan Bordo
B Riccloto Canudo
C John Fiske
D Andrew Sarris
Ans: C
38: Empire, a collaborative book which deals with :
A Criticism
B Film
C Drama
D Painting
Ans: A
39: Rising measure means
A The stress as one syllable hovers over the next
B Those feet which end with a stressed syllable
C Those feet which begin with a stressed syllable and fall away to an unstressed syllable
D The stress as one syllable
Ans: B
40: Around the time of the Norman Conquest English Vocabulary was enriched by
A French
B Scandinavian
C Spanish
D Hungarian
Ans: A
41: Who among the following has written The History of Canadian Literature
A Margaret Atwood
B W.H.New
C Archibald Lampman
D G.D.Roberts
Ans: B
42: The Mahabharta was written by
A Maharishi Vyas himself
B Ganapati to the dictation of Maharishi Vyas
C Rishi Parashar to the dictation of Mahrishi Vyas
D Shukadev to the dictation of Maharishi Vyas
Ans: B
43: The Tin Drum is written by
A Robert Musli
B Frank Kafka
C Thomas Mann
D Gunter Grass
Ans: D
44: Phantom Dwelling is written by
A Judith Wright
B Rosemary Dobson
C Jack Davis
D Dorothy Hewett
Ans: A
45: Mister Pip – novel by Lloyd Jones came in the year
A 2000
B 2006
C 2007
D 2011
Ans: B
46: Hilde Domin with pseudonym Hilde Palm was born in
A 1909
B 1920
C 1923
D 1942
Ans: A
47: Which of the following poems is not composed by Sarojini Naidu
A Palanquin Bearer
B Songs of Radha
C Fishermen of Coromondal
D Indian Philosophy
Ans: D
48: Bharta enumerates in his classical manual to drama
A ten rasas
B nine rasas
C eight rasas
D seven rasas
Ans: C
49: Kuntaka's Theory of Vakrokti works at ---- levels of language.
A five
B six
C seven
D eight
Ans: B
50: What was strange about Emily Dickenson
A She rarely left home
B She wrote in code
C She never attempted to publish her poetry
D She wrote her poems in invisible ink
Ans: A
A Trochaic foot
B Iambic foot
C Dactylic foot
D Monosyllabic foot
Ans: A
37: Who wrote Television Culture
A Susan Bordo
B Riccloto Canudo
C John Fiske
D Andrew Sarris
Ans: C
38: Empire, a collaborative book which deals with :
A Criticism
B Film
C Drama
D Painting
Ans: A
39: Rising measure means
A The stress as one syllable hovers over the next
B Those feet which end with a stressed syllable
C Those feet which begin with a stressed syllable and fall away to an unstressed syllable
D The stress as one syllable
Ans: B
40: Around the time of the Norman Conquest English Vocabulary was enriched by
A French
B Scandinavian
C Spanish
D Hungarian
Ans: A
41: Who among the following has written The History of Canadian Literature
A Margaret Atwood
B W.H.New
C Archibald Lampman
D G.D.Roberts
Ans: B
42: The Mahabharta was written by
A Maharishi Vyas himself
B Ganapati to the dictation of Maharishi Vyas
C Rishi Parashar to the dictation of Mahrishi Vyas
D Shukadev to the dictation of Maharishi Vyas
Ans: B
43: The Tin Drum is written by
A Robert Musli
B Frank Kafka
C Thomas Mann
D Gunter Grass
Ans: D
44: Phantom Dwelling is written by
A Judith Wright
B Rosemary Dobson
C Jack Davis
D Dorothy Hewett
Ans: A
45: Mister Pip – novel by Lloyd Jones came in the year
A 2000
B 2006
C 2007
D 2011
Ans: B
46: Hilde Domin with pseudonym Hilde Palm was born in
A 1909
B 1920
C 1923
D 1942
Ans: A
47: Which of the following poems is not composed by Sarojini Naidu
A Palanquin Bearer
B Songs of Radha
C Fishermen of Coromondal
D Indian Philosophy
Ans: D
48: Bharta enumerates in his classical manual to drama
A ten rasas
B nine rasas
C eight rasas
D seven rasas
Ans: C
49: Kuntaka's Theory of Vakrokti works at ---- levels of language.
A five
B six
C seven
D eight
Ans: B
50: What was strange about Emily Dickenson
A She rarely left home
B She wrote in code
C She never attempted to publish her poetry
D She wrote her poems in invisible ink
Ans: A
51: How many years of happiness was Dr. Faustus promised by the Devil?
A 16 years
B 20 years
C 24 years
D 28 years
Ans: C
52: Which of the following statements about Christopher Marlowe are true
I. Edward II was written in the last year of Marlowe's life
II. Many critics consider Doctor Faustus to be Marlowe's best play
III. His Spanish Tragedy comes a close second
IV. Marlowe was less educated than Shakespeare
A I & II
B II & III
C II & IV
D III & IV
Ans: A
53: Who said following lines about metaphysical poets? 'The metaphysical poets were men of learning and to show their learning was their whole endevour ... they neither copy nature nor life'
A T.S. Eliot
B Johnson
C John Carey
D John Fiske
Ans: B
54: 'Shepherdes Calender' was written is Elizabthan period by
A George Gascoigne
B Thomas Sackville
C Lord Buckhlerst
D Edmund Spenser
Ans: D
55: 'Hymn to Adversity' is poen by
A Alexander Pope
B Thomas Gray
C Edward Gibbon
D William Blake
Ans: B
56: Who speaks the following "Friendship without freedom is as dull as love without enjoyment" The Way of the Word
A Witwoud
B Millamont
C Mirabel
D Lady Wishfort
Ans: A
57: 'The Dunciad', a long and elaborate satire, does not deal with one of the following
A The bad poets
B Pedants
C Pretntious critics
D Contemporary artitsts
Ans: D
58: Bhaktirasa was given by
A Madhusudan Saraswati
B Rupa Goswami
C Adi Shankaracharya
D Abhinavagupta
Ans: B
59: John Donne "affects the metaphysics". This remark was made by
A Samuel Johnson
B Allen Tete
C T.S. Eliot
D John Dryden
Ans: D
60: Inquiry concerning Political Justice by William Godwin is a book that primarily deals with one of the following aspects
A Political and social ideas
B Literary ideas
C Religious ideas only
D Metaphysic and spirituality
Ans: A
61: Who among the following was most influenced by William Godwin ?
A William Wordsworth
B John Keats
C Robert Burns
D P.B. Shelley
Ans: D
62: Alexander Pope's an Essay in Criticism
I. Purpots to define "wit" and "nature" as they apply to the literature of his age
II. Claims no originality in the thought that governs this work
III. is a prose essay that gives us such quotes as "A little learning is a dangerous thing!"
IV. Appeared in 1701
A III & IV are incorrect
B I & II are incorrect
C I & IV are correct
D only I and IV are correct
Ans: A
63: These are the last words of a Romantic poet. Read the lines carefully and find out who among the following is the poet
"I am dying but without capitation of a speedy release. Is it not strange that very recently by-gone images and scenes of early life have stolen into my mind like breezes blown from the spice-islands of youth and hope – those twin realities of the phantom world? I do not add love, but what is love but youth and hope embracing, and seen as one?
A S.T. Coleridge
B William Wordsworth
C P.B. Shelley
D William Blake
Ans: A
64: Who wrote the Religion of the Heart
A Leigh Hunt
B Thomas De Quincey
C S.T. Coleridge
D William Hazlitt
Ans: A
65 : 'Cry of the children' is a poem written by
A Elizabeth Barrett Browning
B Robert Browning
C Dante D. Rossetti
D Sir Henry Talor
Ans: A
66: Unto this Last (1861) is a well known book by John Ruskin. One of the following Indian leaders the was much influenced by this book. It was
A Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
B Sardar Patel
C Sarojini Naidu
D M.K. Gandhi
Ans: D
67: Who among the following wrote these lines ‘The conduct of the upper classes is screened by conversations , and thus the real character is not easily seen ; if it is seen , it must be portrayed subjectively ; where as in the lower walks, conduct is a direct expression of the inner life ; and thus character can be directly portrayed through the act ’
A Thomas Hardy
B George Eliot
C William Makepeace Thaekaray
D Oscar Wilde
Ans: A
68: In his distinction between imagination and fancy , Coleridge identifies the following
I. It dissolves , diffuses, dissipate in order to create
II. It has aggregative and associative power
III. It plays with fixities and definities
IV. It has shaping and modifying power
The correct combination reads
A I & II for fancy ; III & IV for imagination
B I & III for fancy ; II & IV for imagination
C II & III for fancy ; I & IV for imagination
D III & IV for fancy ; I & II for imagination
Ans: A
69: Which of the following phrases indicates the ‘interior flow of thought’ in modern British literature
A Automatic writing
B Confused daze
C Total recall
D Stream of Consciousness
Ans: D
70: Who wrote Undertones of War in 1928
A Edmund Blunden
B Elizabeth Bowen
C Edward Bond
D Malcolm Bradbury
Ans: A
71: The Cantos a long poem based on Dante’s Divine Comedy is written by
A Ezra Pond
B Ramsey Campbell
C A.S. Byatt
D Peter Carey
Ans: A
72: Choose from the following correct group of Cavalier poets
A Thomas Carew , Sir John Suckling , Richard Lovelace , Robert Burton
B Thomas Carew , Sir John Suckling , Robert Herrick , Richard Lovelace
C Thomas Carew , Henry Vaughan , Richard Lovelace , Robert Herrick
D Izak Walton , Sir John Suckling , Richard Lovelace , Robert Herrick
Ans: B
73: Bertolt Brecht’s play ------- was written against the backdrop of the rise of Hitler
A Jungle of the Cities
B Man Equals Man
C A Respectable Wedding
D Mother Courage and her Children
Ans: D
74: Giles Cooper's best known work for television ------ depicted relations between Britain and Germany
A Everything in the Garden
B Happy Family
C The Other Man
D None of these is correct
Ans: C
75: Which comedy , among the following, written by Howard Newby, describes the encounter between European and Arabic Culture ?
A A Guest and His Going
B Kith
C A Lot to Ask
D A Step to Silence
Ans: A
76: Which of the following is in chronological order as per their birth
A Philip Larkin , William Golding , C.S Lewis
B C.S Lewis, Philip Larkin , William Golding
C William Golding, C.S Lewis , Philip Larkin
D C.S. Lewis , William Golding , Philip Larkin
Ans: D
77: Who remained Poet Laureate from 1984 to 1998?
A Doris Lessing
B Iris Murdoch
C Ted Hughes
D C.S. Lewis
Ans: C
78: Which of the following is not correct about Hardy
A The interpreter of Life
B The interpreter of Death
C The interpreter of Nature
D The Interpreter of Character
Ans: B
79: Who said these lines about Longinus “ And Longinus , who was undoubtedly , after Aristotle, the greatest critics among the Greeks “
A T.S. Eliot
B W.B. Yeats
C Hazlitt
D John Dryden
Ans: D
80: Robert Buchanan described Rossetti’s poetry as belonging to
A the fleshly school of poetry
B the Platonic school of poetry
C The metaphysical school of poetry
D The romantic school of poetry
Ans: A
81: Who said following lines
'Those rules of old discovered , not devised,
Are nature still , but Nature methodized'
A WordsworthB Alexender Pope
C Coleridge
D Keats
Ans: B
82: "The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry... our race, as time goes on , will find an ever surer and surer stay". This claim for poetry he has been made in
A Arnold’s "The Study of Poetry"
B Shelley’s "A Defence of Poesy"
C Sidneys "An Apology for Poetry"
D Eliot's "Poetry and Poets"
Ans: A
83: Who wrote the History of Australian Literature ?
A Randolph Stow
B H.M. Green
C Handel Richardson
D Francis Adam
Ans: D
84: Who wrote The History of Sexuality?
A Michel Foucault
B Wolfgang Iser
C Stanley Fish
D Gaytri Spivak
Ans: A
85: In Orientalism Edward Said examines
A Indian Tradition of Criticism
B The Tradition of Western Criticism
C The vast tradition of Western construction of the Orient .
D Greek Tradition of Criticism
Ans: C
86: Who wrote The Life Divine
A Sri Aurobindo
B Rabindranath Tagore
C Sarojini Naidu
D R.K. Narayan
Ans: A
87: Who among the following was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1950
A Whitman
B William Faulkner
C Alice Walker
D None of these is correct
Ans: B
88: 'Under the old Elm' is a/an …
A Lyric
B Sonnet
C Ode
D Ballad
Ans: C
89: Robert Frost got the Pulitzer Prize ---- times
A Two
B Four
C Three
D Five
Ans: B
90: The Path of Thunder is written by
A Peter Abrahams
B Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
C Mohammed Nasechu Ali
D Elechi Amadi
Ans: A
91: Anandavardhan's theory of dhvani is based on
A abhidha
B abhidha and lakshna
C abhidha and vyanjana
D abhidha , lakshana and vyanjane
Ans: D
92: Which of the following is not included in some larger containing structure by the structuralist critics to analyze prose narratives
A The convention of a particular literary genre
B A series of random comments on narrative arranged alphabetically
C A notion of narrative as a complex of recurrent patterns or motifs
D A network of intertextual connections
Ans: B
93. Who defined poetry as ‘the best words in the best order’?
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Coleridge
(C) Keats
(D) Shelley
Ans: B
94. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by “Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe”?
(A) Britain’s pre-eminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.
(B) Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.
(C) Even a foreign author is better than a home-grown scoundrel.
(D) Leave England and immigrate to Germany.
Ans: B
95. Conrad’s Heart of Darkness presents two conflicting discourses present in his own culture. Identify the two discourses from the following:
(A) Modernism and anticolonialism
(B) Modernism and structuralism
(C) Anti-colonialism and Eurocentricism
(D) Material culturalism and tribalism
Ans: C
96. Who among the following poets defined free verse as playing tennis without a net?
(A) Robert Frost
(B) Ezra Pound
(C) Philip Larkin
(D) William Carlos Williams
Ans: A
97. Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays except
(A) Tamburlaine the Great
(B) The Jew of Malta
(C) Richard III
(D) Edward II
Ans: C
98. According to Barthes, a text which draws attention to its artifice, to the ways in which it is structured, is called
(A) Writerly text
(B) Aesthetic text
(C) Readerly text
(D) Formal text
Ans: A
99. Which of the following descriptions is not applicable to Pope’s The Rape of the Lock?
(A) A mock heroic poem
(B) Written in heroic couplets
(C) Pope’s tribute to Queen Anne
(D) Produced in two versions, consisting of 2 and 5 cantos
Ans: C
100. From the following list, choose the work which is not written by E.M. Forster:
(A) Where Angels Fear to Tread
(B) Maurice
(C) A Room of One’s Own
(D) The Longest Journey
Ans: C
A 16 years
B 20 years
C 24 years
D 28 years
Ans: C
52: Which of the following statements about Christopher Marlowe are true
I. Edward II was written in the last year of Marlowe's life
II. Many critics consider Doctor Faustus to be Marlowe's best play
III. His Spanish Tragedy comes a close second
IV. Marlowe was less educated than Shakespeare
A I & II
B II & III
C II & IV
D III & IV
Ans: A
53: Who said following lines about metaphysical poets? 'The metaphysical poets were men of learning and to show their learning was their whole endevour ... they neither copy nature nor life'
A T.S. Eliot
B Johnson
C John Carey
D John Fiske
Ans: B
54: 'Shepherdes Calender' was written is Elizabthan period by
A George Gascoigne
B Thomas Sackville
C Lord Buckhlerst
D Edmund Spenser
Ans: D
55: 'Hymn to Adversity' is poen by
A Alexander Pope
B Thomas Gray
C Edward Gibbon
D William Blake
Ans: B
56: Who speaks the following "Friendship without freedom is as dull as love without enjoyment" The Way of the Word
A Witwoud
B Millamont
C Mirabel
D Lady Wishfort
Ans: A
57: 'The Dunciad', a long and elaborate satire, does not deal with one of the following
A The bad poets
B Pedants
C Pretntious critics
D Contemporary artitsts
Ans: D
58: Bhaktirasa was given by
A Madhusudan Saraswati
B Rupa Goswami
C Adi Shankaracharya
D Abhinavagupta
Ans: B
59: John Donne "affects the metaphysics". This remark was made by
A Samuel Johnson
B Allen Tete
C T.S. Eliot
D John Dryden
Ans: D
60: Inquiry concerning Political Justice by William Godwin is a book that primarily deals with one of the following aspects
A Political and social ideas
B Literary ideas
C Religious ideas only
D Metaphysic and spirituality
Ans: A
61: Who among the following was most influenced by William Godwin ?
A William Wordsworth
B John Keats
C Robert Burns
D P.B. Shelley
Ans: D
62: Alexander Pope's an Essay in Criticism
I. Purpots to define "wit" and "nature" as they apply to the literature of his age
II. Claims no originality in the thought that governs this work
III. is a prose essay that gives us such quotes as "A little learning is a dangerous thing!"
IV. Appeared in 1701
A III & IV are incorrect
B I & II are incorrect
C I & IV are correct
D only I and IV are correct
Ans: A
63: These are the last words of a Romantic poet. Read the lines carefully and find out who among the following is the poet
"I am dying but without capitation of a speedy release. Is it not strange that very recently by-gone images and scenes of early life have stolen into my mind like breezes blown from the spice-islands of youth and hope – those twin realities of the phantom world? I do not add love, but what is love but youth and hope embracing, and seen as one?
A S.T. Coleridge
B William Wordsworth
C P.B. Shelley
D William Blake
Ans: A
64: Who wrote the Religion of the Heart
A Leigh Hunt
B Thomas De Quincey
C S.T. Coleridge
D William Hazlitt
Ans: A
65 : 'Cry of the children' is a poem written by
A Elizabeth Barrett Browning
B Robert Browning
C Dante D. Rossetti
D Sir Henry Talor
Ans: A
66: Unto this Last (1861) is a well known book by John Ruskin. One of the following Indian leaders the was much influenced by this book. It was
A Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
B Sardar Patel
C Sarojini Naidu
D M.K. Gandhi
Ans: D
67: Who among the following wrote these lines ‘The conduct of the upper classes is screened by conversations , and thus the real character is not easily seen ; if it is seen , it must be portrayed subjectively ; where as in the lower walks, conduct is a direct expression of the inner life ; and thus character can be directly portrayed through the act ’
A Thomas Hardy
B George Eliot
C William Makepeace Thaekaray
D Oscar Wilde
Ans: A
68: In his distinction between imagination and fancy , Coleridge identifies the following
I. It dissolves , diffuses, dissipate in order to create
II. It has aggregative and associative power
III. It plays with fixities and definities
IV. It has shaping and modifying power
The correct combination reads
A I & II for fancy ; III & IV for imagination
B I & III for fancy ; II & IV for imagination
C II & III for fancy ; I & IV for imagination
D III & IV for fancy ; I & II for imagination
Ans: A
69: Which of the following phrases indicates the ‘interior flow of thought’ in modern British literature
A Automatic writing
B Confused daze
C Total recall
D Stream of Consciousness
Ans: D
70: Who wrote Undertones of War in 1928
A Edmund Blunden
B Elizabeth Bowen
C Edward Bond
D Malcolm Bradbury
Ans: A
71: The Cantos a long poem based on Dante’s Divine Comedy is written by
A Ezra Pond
B Ramsey Campbell
C A.S. Byatt
D Peter Carey
Ans: A
72: Choose from the following correct group of Cavalier poets
A Thomas Carew , Sir John Suckling , Richard Lovelace , Robert Burton
B Thomas Carew , Sir John Suckling , Robert Herrick , Richard Lovelace
C Thomas Carew , Henry Vaughan , Richard Lovelace , Robert Herrick
D Izak Walton , Sir John Suckling , Richard Lovelace , Robert Herrick
Ans: B
73: Bertolt Brecht’s play ------- was written against the backdrop of the rise of Hitler
A Jungle of the Cities
B Man Equals Man
C A Respectable Wedding
D Mother Courage and her Children
Ans: D
74: Giles Cooper's best known work for television ------ depicted relations between Britain and Germany
A Everything in the Garden
B Happy Family
C The Other Man
D None of these is correct
Ans: C
75: Which comedy , among the following, written by Howard Newby, describes the encounter between European and Arabic Culture ?
A A Guest and His Going
B Kith
C A Lot to Ask
D A Step to Silence
Ans: A
76: Which of the following is in chronological order as per their birth
A Philip Larkin , William Golding , C.S Lewis
B C.S Lewis, Philip Larkin , William Golding
C William Golding, C.S Lewis , Philip Larkin
D C.S. Lewis , William Golding , Philip Larkin
Ans: D
77: Who remained Poet Laureate from 1984 to 1998?
A Doris Lessing
B Iris Murdoch
C Ted Hughes
D C.S. Lewis
Ans: C
78: Which of the following is not correct about Hardy
A The interpreter of Life
B The interpreter of Death
C The interpreter of Nature
D The Interpreter of Character
Ans: B
79: Who said these lines about Longinus “ And Longinus , who was undoubtedly , after Aristotle, the greatest critics among the Greeks “
A T.S. Eliot
B W.B. Yeats
C Hazlitt
D John Dryden
Ans: D
80: Robert Buchanan described Rossetti’s poetry as belonging to
A the fleshly school of poetry
B the Platonic school of poetry
C The metaphysical school of poetry
D The romantic school of poetry
Ans: A
81: Who said following lines
'Those rules of old discovered , not devised,
Are nature still , but Nature methodized'
A WordsworthB Alexender Pope
C Coleridge
D Keats
Ans: B
82: "The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry... our race, as time goes on , will find an ever surer and surer stay". This claim for poetry he has been made in
A Arnold’s "The Study of Poetry"
B Shelley’s "A Defence of Poesy"
C Sidneys "An Apology for Poetry"
D Eliot's "Poetry and Poets"
Ans: A
83: Who wrote the History of Australian Literature ?
A Randolph Stow
B H.M. Green
C Handel Richardson
D Francis Adam
Ans: D
84: Who wrote The History of Sexuality?
A Michel Foucault
B Wolfgang Iser
C Stanley Fish
D Gaytri Spivak
Ans: A
85: In Orientalism Edward Said examines
A Indian Tradition of Criticism
B The Tradition of Western Criticism
C The vast tradition of Western construction of the Orient .
D Greek Tradition of Criticism
Ans: C
86: Who wrote The Life Divine
A Sri Aurobindo
B Rabindranath Tagore
C Sarojini Naidu
D R.K. Narayan
Ans: A
87: Who among the following was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1950
A Whitman
B William Faulkner
C Alice Walker
D None of these is correct
Ans: B
88: 'Under the old Elm' is a/an …
A Lyric
B Sonnet
C Ode
D Ballad
Ans: C
89: Robert Frost got the Pulitzer Prize ---- times
A Two
B Four
C Three
D Five
Ans: B
90: The Path of Thunder is written by
A Peter Abrahams
B Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
C Mohammed Nasechu Ali
D Elechi Amadi
Ans: A
91: Anandavardhan's theory of dhvani is based on
A abhidha
B abhidha and lakshna
C abhidha and vyanjana
D abhidha , lakshana and vyanjane
Ans: D
92: Which of the following is not included in some larger containing structure by the structuralist critics to analyze prose narratives
A The convention of a particular literary genre
B A series of random comments on narrative arranged alphabetically
C A notion of narrative as a complex of recurrent patterns or motifs
D A network of intertextual connections
Ans: B
93. Who defined poetry as ‘the best words in the best order’?
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Coleridge
(C) Keats
(D) Shelley
Ans: B
94. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by “Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe”?
(A) Britain’s pre-eminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.
(B) Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.
(C) Even a foreign author is better than a home-grown scoundrel.
(D) Leave England and immigrate to Germany.
Ans: B
95. Conrad’s Heart of Darkness presents two conflicting discourses present in his own culture. Identify the two discourses from the following:
(A) Modernism and anticolonialism
(B) Modernism and structuralism
(C) Anti-colonialism and Eurocentricism
(D) Material culturalism and tribalism
Ans: C
96. Who among the following poets defined free verse as playing tennis without a net?
(A) Robert Frost
(B) Ezra Pound
(C) Philip Larkin
(D) William Carlos Williams
Ans: A
97. Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays except
(A) Tamburlaine the Great
(B) The Jew of Malta
(C) Richard III
(D) Edward II
Ans: C
98. According to Barthes, a text which draws attention to its artifice, to the ways in which it is structured, is called
(A) Writerly text
(B) Aesthetic text
(C) Readerly text
(D) Formal text
Ans: A
99. Which of the following descriptions is not applicable to Pope’s The Rape of the Lock?
(A) A mock heroic poem
(B) Written in heroic couplets
(C) Pope’s tribute to Queen Anne
(D) Produced in two versions, consisting of 2 and 5 cantos
Ans: C
100. From the following list, choose the work which is not written by E.M. Forster:
(A) Where Angels Fear to Tread
(B) Maurice
(C) A Room of One’s Own
(D) The Longest Journey
Ans: C
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