ENGLISH LITERATURE- PAGE 14
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, according to the code
(A) I & II
(B) II & IV
(C) I & IV
(D) I & III
Ans: C
2. Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy contains
(A) Six volumes
(B) Nine volumes
(C) Ten volumes
(D) Four volumes
Ans: B
3. Which of the following statement is NOT true of Areopagitica ?
(A) It was published in 1644.
(B) It argues for the liberty of Unlicensed Printing.
(C) It pleads for British privileges regarding Free Trade.
(D) It is a speech addressed to the Parliament of England.
Ans: C
4. Thomas Hardy’s last major novel was _______.
(A) Tess of the D’urbervilles
(B) Jude the Obscure
(C) The Return of the Native
(D) The Trumpet Major
Ans: B
5. The Hind and the Panther Transvers’d to the Story of the Country Mouse and the City Mouse is a satire on
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Jonathan Swift
(C) John Dryden
(D) Samuel Butler
Ans: C
6. Match the columns :
Terms Theorists
I. Apollonian – Dionysian 1. Matthew Arnold
II. Fancy – Imagination 2. Friedrich Nietzsche
III. Hellenism – Hebraism 3. G.H. Hopkins
IV. Inscape – Instress 4. S.T. Coleridge
I II III IV
(A) 2 4 1 3
(B) 2 4 3 1
(C) 1 4 2 3
(D) 4 2 1 3
Ans: A
7. In King Lear who among the following speaks in the voice of Poor Tom ?
(A) Kent
(B) Edgar
(C) Edmund
(D) Gloucester
Ans: B
8. In Wordsworth’s Prelude the Boy of Winander is affected by
(A) Blindness
(B) Deafness
(C) Muteness
(D) Lameness
Ans: C
9. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as part of the London locale in The Waste Land ?
(A) St. Magnus Martyr
(B) King Arthur Street
(C) St. Mary Woolnoth
(D) Lower Thames Street
Ans: B
10. Which of the following novels is NOT written by Jean Rhys ?
(A) After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
(B) Good Morning, Midnight
(C) The Quiet American
(D) Wide Sargasso Sea
Ans: C
11. The first official royal Poet Laureate in English literary history was _______.
(A) Ben Jonson
(B) William Davenant
(C) John Dryden
(D) Thomas Shadwell
Ans: C
12. Who does Alexander Pope refer to in the following lines ?
“Born to no pride; inheriting no strife,
Nor marrying discord in a noble wife,
Stranger to civil and religious rage,
The good man walked innoxious through his age.”
(A) Pope’s father
(B) Pope himself
(C) Dr. Arbuthnot
(D) The Duke of Marlborough
Ans: A
13. The Theory of Natural Selection is attributed to ________.
(A) Arthur Schopenhauer
(B) Charles Darwin
(C) A.N. Whitehead
(D) Aldous Huxley
Ans: B
14. Which character in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies maintains, “Life is scientific” ?
(A) Simon
(B) Piggy
(C) Ralph
(D) Jack
Ans: B
15. Match the authors under List – I with the titles under List – II :
List – I List – II
I. Claude Levi-Strauss 1. Of Grammatology
II. Jacques Derrida 2. The Archaeology of Knowledge
III. Northrop Frye 3. Structural Anthropology
IV. Michel Foucault 4. Anatomy of Criticism
I II III IV
(A) 1 3 4 2
(B) 3 1 2 4
(C) 3 1 4 2
(D) 2 1 3 4
Ans: C
16. How did Chaucer’s Pardoner make his living ?
(A) By selling stolen cattle from the neighbourhood ottery
(B) By selling indulgences to those who committed sins
(C) By pardoning those who stole property or committed other crimes
(D) By assisting the Friar in Church services
Ans: B
17. From among the following, identify Coleridge’s companion in a fanciful scheme to establish a Utopian community of free love on the banks of the Susquehaina river ?
(A) Lord Byron
(B) Robert Southey
(C) William Hazlitt
(D) William Wordsworth
Ans: B
18. Which of the following novels by H.G. Wells is about the condition of England as Empire ?
(A) The Island of Dr. Moreau
(B) The War of the Worlds
(C) Tono-Bungay
(D) The Invisible Man
Ans: C
19. Joothan by Om Prakash Valmiki is
(A) a collection of poems
(B) a play
(C) an autobiography
(D) a novel
Ans: C
20. Listed below are some English plays across several centuries :
Twelfth Night, She Stoops to Conquer, The Importance of Being Earnest, Pygmalion and Blithe Spirit. What is common to them ?
(A) All problem plays; scheming and intrigue
(B) All tragedies; sin and redemption
(C) All ideologically framed; class and gender
(D) All romantic comedies; love and laughter
Ans: D
21. Who among the following wrote a poem comparing a lover’s heart to a hand grenade ?
(A) John Donne
(B) Abraham Cowley
(C) Wilfred Owen
(D) Robert Graves
Ans: B
22. The Uncertainty Principle is attributed to
(A) William James
(B) John Dewey
(C) Werner Heisenberg
(D) Charles Darwin
Ans: C
23. “Jabberwocky” is a creation in _______.
(A) Edward Lear’s poetry
(B) Lewis Carroll’s work
(C) Charles Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit
(D) Thomas Hardy’s Woodlanders
Ans: B
24. Who are Didi and Gogo ?
(A) They are two characters in Endgame.
(B) They are nicknames, respectively, for Lucky and Pozzo.
(C) They are nicknames, respectively, for Vladimir and Estragon.
(D) They are two characters in Breath.
Ans: C
25. Who among the following theorists talks about “the circulation of social energy” ?
(A) Raymond Williams
(B) Stephen Greenblatt
(C) Antonio Gramsci
(D) Haydon White
Ans: B
26. How many legends of good women could Chaucer complete in his The Legend of Good Women ?
(A) Six
(B) Seven
(C) Eight
(D) Nine
Ans: D
27. The Round Table is a collection of essays jointly written by ________.
(A) Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
(B) Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt
(C) William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt
(D) William Hazlitt and Thomas de Quincey
Ans: C
28. Dylan Thomas is associated with the group _______.
(A) The New Apocalypse
(B) The Black Arts
(C) The Movement
(D) Deep Image Poetry
Ans: A
29. Which of the following writers writes from Canada ?
(A) V.S. Naipaul
(B) Margaret Atwood
(C) Derek Walcott
(D) James Joyce
Ans: B
30. “The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
Awaits alike the inevitable hour
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”
What is the subject of awaits ?
(A) Hour
(B) The things mentioned in the first 2 lines.
(C) “And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave”
(D) Grave
Ans: A
I. John Osborne
II. C.P. Snow
III. Anthony Powell
IV. Kingsley Amis
The right combination, according to the code
(A) I & II
(B) II & IV
(C) I & IV
(D) I & III
Ans: C
2. Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy contains
(A) Six volumes
(B) Nine volumes
(C) Ten volumes
(D) Four volumes
Ans: B
3. Which of the following statement is NOT true of Areopagitica ?
(A) It was published in 1644.
(B) It argues for the liberty of Unlicensed Printing.
(C) It pleads for British privileges regarding Free Trade.
(D) It is a speech addressed to the Parliament of England.
Ans: C
4. Thomas Hardy’s last major novel was _______.
(A) Tess of the D’urbervilles
(B) Jude the Obscure
(C) The Return of the Native
(D) The Trumpet Major
Ans: B
5. The Hind and the Panther Transvers’d to the Story of the Country Mouse and the City Mouse is a satire on
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Jonathan Swift
(C) John Dryden
(D) Samuel Butler
Ans: C
6. Match the columns :
Terms Theorists
I. Apollonian – Dionysian 1. Matthew Arnold
II. Fancy – Imagination 2. Friedrich Nietzsche
III. Hellenism – Hebraism 3. G.H. Hopkins
IV. Inscape – Instress 4. S.T. Coleridge
I II III IV
(A) 2 4 1 3
(B) 2 4 3 1
(C) 1 4 2 3
(D) 4 2 1 3
Ans: A
7. In King Lear who among the following speaks in the voice of Poor Tom ?
(A) Kent
(B) Edgar
(C) Edmund
(D) Gloucester
Ans: B
8. In Wordsworth’s Prelude the Boy of Winander is affected by
(A) Blindness
(B) Deafness
(C) Muteness
(D) Lameness
Ans: C
9. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as part of the London locale in The Waste Land ?
(A) St. Magnus Martyr
(B) King Arthur Street
(C) St. Mary Woolnoth
(D) Lower Thames Street
Ans: B
10. Which of the following novels is NOT written by Jean Rhys ?
(A) After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
(B) Good Morning, Midnight
(C) The Quiet American
(D) Wide Sargasso Sea
Ans: C
11. The first official royal Poet Laureate in English literary history was _______.
(A) Ben Jonson
(B) William Davenant
(C) John Dryden
(D) Thomas Shadwell
Ans: C
12. Who does Alexander Pope refer to in the following lines ?
“Born to no pride; inheriting no strife,
Nor marrying discord in a noble wife,
Stranger to civil and religious rage,
The good man walked innoxious through his age.”
(A) Pope’s father
(B) Pope himself
(C) Dr. Arbuthnot
(D) The Duke of Marlborough
Ans: A
13. The Theory of Natural Selection is attributed to ________.
(A) Arthur Schopenhauer
(B) Charles Darwin
(C) A.N. Whitehead
(D) Aldous Huxley
Ans: B
14. Which character in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies maintains, “Life is scientific” ?
(A) Simon
(B) Piggy
(C) Ralph
(D) Jack
Ans: B
15. Match the authors under List – I with the titles under List – II :
List – I List – II
I. Claude Levi-Strauss 1. Of Grammatology
II. Jacques Derrida 2. The Archaeology of Knowledge
III. Northrop Frye 3. Structural Anthropology
IV. Michel Foucault 4. Anatomy of Criticism
I II III IV
(A) 1 3 4 2
(B) 3 1 2 4
(C) 3 1 4 2
(D) 2 1 3 4
Ans: C
16. How did Chaucer’s Pardoner make his living ?
(A) By selling stolen cattle from the neighbourhood ottery
(B) By selling indulgences to those who committed sins
(C) By pardoning those who stole property or committed other crimes
(D) By assisting the Friar in Church services
Ans: B
17. From among the following, identify Coleridge’s companion in a fanciful scheme to establish a Utopian community of free love on the banks of the Susquehaina river ?
(A) Lord Byron
(B) Robert Southey
(C) William Hazlitt
(D) William Wordsworth
Ans: B
18. Which of the following novels by H.G. Wells is about the condition of England as Empire ?
(A) The Island of Dr. Moreau
(B) The War of the Worlds
(C) Tono-Bungay
(D) The Invisible Man
Ans: C
19. Joothan by Om Prakash Valmiki is
(A) a collection of poems
(B) a play
(C) an autobiography
(D) a novel
Ans: C
20. Listed below are some English plays across several centuries :
Twelfth Night, She Stoops to Conquer, The Importance of Being Earnest, Pygmalion and Blithe Spirit. What is common to them ?
(A) All problem plays; scheming and intrigue
(B) All tragedies; sin and redemption
(C) All ideologically framed; class and gender
(D) All romantic comedies; love and laughter
Ans: D
21. Who among the following wrote a poem comparing a lover’s heart to a hand grenade ?
(A) John Donne
(B) Abraham Cowley
(C) Wilfred Owen
(D) Robert Graves
Ans: B
22. The Uncertainty Principle is attributed to
(A) William James
(B) John Dewey
(C) Werner Heisenberg
(D) Charles Darwin
Ans: C
23. “Jabberwocky” is a creation in _______.
(A) Edward Lear’s poetry
(B) Lewis Carroll’s work
(C) Charles Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit
(D) Thomas Hardy’s Woodlanders
Ans: B
24. Who are Didi and Gogo ?
(A) They are two characters in Endgame.
(B) They are nicknames, respectively, for Lucky and Pozzo.
(C) They are nicknames, respectively, for Vladimir and Estragon.
(D) They are two characters in Breath.
Ans: C
25. Who among the following theorists talks about “the circulation of social energy” ?
(A) Raymond Williams
(B) Stephen Greenblatt
(C) Antonio Gramsci
(D) Haydon White
Ans: B
26. How many legends of good women could Chaucer complete in his The Legend of Good Women ?
(A) Six
(B) Seven
(C) Eight
(D) Nine
Ans: D
27. The Round Table is a collection of essays jointly written by ________.
(A) Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
(B) Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt
(C) William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt
(D) William Hazlitt and Thomas de Quincey
Ans: C
28. Dylan Thomas is associated with the group _______.
(A) The New Apocalypse
(B) The Black Arts
(C) The Movement
(D) Deep Image Poetry
Ans: A
29. Which of the following writers writes from Canada ?
(A) V.S. Naipaul
(B) Margaret Atwood
(C) Derek Walcott
(D) James Joyce
Ans: B
30. “The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
Awaits alike the inevitable hour
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”
What is the subject of awaits ?
(A) Hour
(B) The things mentioned in the first 2 lines.
(C) “And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave”
(D) Grave
Ans: A
31. “Heav’n has no rage, like love to hatred turn’d / Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn’d.”
Identify the text in which the above quote occurs :
(A) The Double-Dealer
(B) The Way of the World
(C) The Mourning Bride
(D) Love for Love
Ans: C
32. A Young Lady’s Entrance into the World is the sub-title of _______.
(A) Belinda
(B) Cecilia
(C) Evelina
(D) Camilla
Ans: C
33. “The old order changeth, yielding place to new” is from ________.
(A) “Morte d’Arthur”
(B) “Idylls of the King”
(C) “Paracelsus”
(D) “Asolando”
Ans: B
34. Which of the following cannot be classified as fantasy fiction ?
(A) The Inheritors (William Golding)
(B) The Magus (John Fowles)
(C) The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkein)
(D) The History Man (Malcolm Bradbury)
Ans: D
35. Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a work associated with _______.
(A) Wilhelm von Humboldt
(B) Ernst Cassirer
(C) Immanuel Kant
(D) Battista Vico
Ans: B
36. Which of the following facts is NOT true of Spenser ?
(A) He is a kind of English Homer, telling stories of heroic confrontations.
(B) He fashioned an original verse form : The Spenserian Stanza.
(C) He opposed England’s break with the Roman Catholic Church.
(D) He is a Christian poet.
Ans: C
37. William Blake developed the ideas of “Prolifics” and “Devourers” in
(A) Jerusalem
(B) Milton
(C) Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(D) Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
Ans: C
38. Surrealism is associated with
(A) Ernst Cassirer
(B) Tristan Tzara
(C) Henrik Ibsen
(D) Andre Breton
Ans: D
39. “And miles to go before I sleep” is a line from a poem by
(A) Emily Dickinson
(B) Walt Whitman
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(D) Robert Frost
Ans: D
40. What common link do you find among
“The Disquieting Muses” by Sylvia Plath,
“The Starry Night” by Anne Sexton,
“Mourning Picture” by Adrienne Rich, and
“Musee des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden ?
(A) They inspired paintings.
(B) They are confessional poems.
(C) They are all inspired by paintings.
(D) They are all inspired by Van Gogh’s paintings.
Ans: C
41. “All Rising to Great Place is by a _____ staire.” (Francis Bacon)
(A) Murky
(B) Winding
(C) Crooked
(D) Sinister
Ans: B
42. In Jeremy Collier’s 1698 pamphlet attacking the immorality and profaneness of the English stage, who among the following was the principal target ?
(A) William Congreve
(B) John Dryden
(C) John Vanbrugh
(D) William Wycherley
Ans: C
43. Charles Dickens’s visit to the United States produced _________.
(A) Hard Times
(B) Nicholas Nickleby
(C) Martin Chuzzlewit
(D) Oliver Twist
Ans: C
44. Who among the following is a working-class poet ?
(A) John Betjeman
(B) Tony Harrison
(C) Thom Gunn
(D) Robert Graves
Ans: B
45. New Science is a work associated with _______.
(A) Ernest Cassirer
(B) Wilhelm von Humboldt
(C) G. Battista Vico
(D) Immanuel Kant
Ans: C
46. Identify Petrarch’s sonnet sequence from among the following :
(A) Rine Sparse
(B) Astrophel and Stella
(C) Amoretti
(D) Delia
Ans: A
47. The island setting of Latmos figures in Keats’s
(A) Endymion
(B) The Eve of St. Agnes
(C) Lamia
(D) Hyperion
Ans: A
48. The Artist Hero is a theatrical creation emphasized by ________.
(A) W.B. Yeats
(B) Charles Baudelaire
(C) Oscar Wilde
(D) Andre Gide
Ans: All options are correct
49. Which of the following African writers won the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
(A) Chinua Achebe
(B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Ngugi wa Thiong’o
(D) Bessie Head
Ans: B
50. “My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow
With thy green mother in some shady groove”
– William Drummond
The above quote is an example of _______.
(A) End-stopped rhyme
(B) Alliteration
(C) Run-on line
(D) Tercet
Ans: C
Identify the text in which the above quote occurs :
(A) The Double-Dealer
(B) The Way of the World
(C) The Mourning Bride
(D) Love for Love
Ans: C
32. A Young Lady’s Entrance into the World is the sub-title of _______.
(A) Belinda
(B) Cecilia
(C) Evelina
(D) Camilla
Ans: C
33. “The old order changeth, yielding place to new” is from ________.
(A) “Morte d’Arthur”
(B) “Idylls of the King”
(C) “Paracelsus”
(D) “Asolando”
Ans: B
34. Which of the following cannot be classified as fantasy fiction ?
(A) The Inheritors (William Golding)
(B) The Magus (John Fowles)
(C) The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkein)
(D) The History Man (Malcolm Bradbury)
Ans: D
35. Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a work associated with _______.
(A) Wilhelm von Humboldt
(B) Ernst Cassirer
(C) Immanuel Kant
(D) Battista Vico
Ans: B
36. Which of the following facts is NOT true of Spenser ?
(A) He is a kind of English Homer, telling stories of heroic confrontations.
(B) He fashioned an original verse form : The Spenserian Stanza.
(C) He opposed England’s break with the Roman Catholic Church.
(D) He is a Christian poet.
Ans: C
37. William Blake developed the ideas of “Prolifics” and “Devourers” in
(A) Jerusalem
(B) Milton
(C) Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(D) Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
Ans: C
38. Surrealism is associated with
(A) Ernst Cassirer
(B) Tristan Tzara
(C) Henrik Ibsen
(D) Andre Breton
Ans: D
39. “And miles to go before I sleep” is a line from a poem by
(A) Emily Dickinson
(B) Walt Whitman
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(D) Robert Frost
Ans: D
40. What common link do you find among
“The Disquieting Muses” by Sylvia Plath,
“The Starry Night” by Anne Sexton,
“Mourning Picture” by Adrienne Rich, and
“Musee des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden ?
(A) They inspired paintings.
(B) They are confessional poems.
(C) They are all inspired by paintings.
(D) They are all inspired by Van Gogh’s paintings.
Ans: C
41. “All Rising to Great Place is by a _____ staire.” (Francis Bacon)
(A) Murky
(B) Winding
(C) Crooked
(D) Sinister
Ans: B
42. In Jeremy Collier’s 1698 pamphlet attacking the immorality and profaneness of the English stage, who among the following was the principal target ?
(A) William Congreve
(B) John Dryden
(C) John Vanbrugh
(D) William Wycherley
Ans: C
43. Charles Dickens’s visit to the United States produced _________.
(A) Hard Times
(B) Nicholas Nickleby
(C) Martin Chuzzlewit
(D) Oliver Twist
Ans: C
44. Who among the following is a working-class poet ?
(A) John Betjeman
(B) Tony Harrison
(C) Thom Gunn
(D) Robert Graves
Ans: B
45. New Science is a work associated with _______.
(A) Ernest Cassirer
(B) Wilhelm von Humboldt
(C) G. Battista Vico
(D) Immanuel Kant
Ans: C
46. Identify Petrarch’s sonnet sequence from among the following :
(A) Rine Sparse
(B) Astrophel and Stella
(C) Amoretti
(D) Delia
Ans: A
47. The island setting of Latmos figures in Keats’s
(A) Endymion
(B) The Eve of St. Agnes
(C) Lamia
(D) Hyperion
Ans: A
48. The Artist Hero is a theatrical creation emphasized by ________.
(A) W.B. Yeats
(B) Charles Baudelaire
(C) Oscar Wilde
(D) Andre Gide
Ans: All options are correct
49. Which of the following African writers won the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
(A) Chinua Achebe
(B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Ngugi wa Thiong’o
(D) Bessie Head
Ans: B
50. “My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow
With thy green mother in some shady groove”
– William Drummond
The above quote is an example of _______.
(A) End-stopped rhyme
(B) Alliteration
(C) Run-on line
(D) Tercet
Ans: C
51. In As You Like It when Oliver brings in the bloody napkin dyed in Orlando’s blood, why does Rosalind faint? Which of the following is not the correct answer?
(A) Many will swoon when they look at blood.
(B) She faints because of her real concern and anxiety for Orlando.
(C) Frailty, thy name is woman.
(D) She is counterfeiting as she herself later claims.
Ans: D
52. Which is the correct statement about Euripides’s Medea? In Euripides’s Medea the chorus consists of
(A) Fifteen Corinthian women who are Medea’s next door neighbours
(B) Fifteen Athenian elders
(C) Fifteen Spartan women
(D) Fifteen Sicilian Women
Ans: A
53. Which of the following is not an award received by Mahasweta Devi?
(A) Ramon Magsaysay Award
(B) Jnanpith Award
(C) Padmashri
(D) Commonwealth Writers Prize
Ans: D
54. In coining the term ‘Ecriture feminine’ Helene Cixous signifies a mode of textual production, not necessarily written by women. Who among the following male writers is used by her as an example?
(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) Joseph Conrad
(C) James Joyce
(D) E.M. Forster
Ans: C
55. The Statute of Pleadings makes English the official language of the English Parliament in
(A) 1755
(B) 1362
(C) 1611
(D) 1879
Ans: B
56. Resistance to slavery created a literature of the abolitionist movement in the last quarter of the eighteenth century in Britain. Suchliterature included books written byformer slaves. Two such writings are
Code:
I. Mary Robinson
II. Olaudah Equiano
III. Mary Prince
IV. Anne Cromarty Yearsley
The right combination according to the code is
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) I and II are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
Ans: D
57. Hippolyte Taine published his four volume History of English Literature in 1864 based on the following categories except one. Which one?
(A) Race
(B) Psychology
(C) Historical moment
(D) Milieu
Ans: B
58. The two ‘mother-figures’ in Dickens’s Great Expectations are
Code:
I. Estella
II. Miss Havisham
III. Mrs Joe
IV. Georgiana
The right combination according to the code is:
(A) II and III are correct.
(B) I and II are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) I and III are correct.
Ans: A
59. Judith Wright’s works reveal the following features except one. Which one?
(A) A keen focus on the Australian environment
(B) Concern for the relationship between the settlers, indigenous Australians and the bush.
(C) A correspondence between inner existence and objective reality.
(D) An obsession with religious and political issues.
Ans: D
60. Arrange the following books in the order in which they appeared:
Code:
I. Leviathan
II. Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
III. Le MorteD’Arthur
IV. Utopia
The correct combination according to the code is:
(A) I, IV, III, II
(B) III, IV, I, II
(C) III, IV, II, I
(D) III, I, IV, II
Ans: C
61. Which of the two novels of Anita Desai were shortlisted for the Booker Prize?
(A) The Artist of Disappearance and In Custody
(B) In Custody and Feasting, Fasting
(C) Feasting, Fasting and the Zig Zag Way
(D) In Custody and Fire on the Mountain
Ans: B
62. Edward Said points to two forms of orientalism. They are
(A) Real and fake
(B) Voluntary and involuntary
(C) Subjective and objective
(D) Latent and manifest
Ans: D
63. Which of the plays in its Preface was described by Eugene O’Neill as ‘a play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood’?
(A) Desire under the Elms
(B) The Hairy Ape
(C) Long Day’s Journey into Night
(D) Mourning Becomes Electra
Ans: C
64. “With all the eagerness to know the truths of life, she retained very childlike ideas about marriage … the really delightful marriage must be that when your husband was a sort ofa father, and could even teach you Hebrew, if you wished it.” She is the protagonist in one of George Eliot’s novels. Who is she?
(A) Romola
(B) Hetty Sorel
(C) Maggie
(D) Dorothea
Ans: D
65. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R):
Assertion (A): The term “Standard English” is misleading.
Reason (R): There are manylinguistic communities that dohave a genuine standard variety,a fixed and invariant form of the language that is used for certain kinds of communication.
In the context of the above statements, which one of the following is correct?
Code:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Ans: B
66. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R):
Assertion (A): The Waste Land ends in a flurry of random allusions.
Reason (R): The ending of the poem reflects the poet’s divided life between America and England and a life given over to primitivism.
In the context of the above statements, which one of the following is correct?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Ans: C
67. Which of the following novels acted as an influence on Salman Rushdie in forging a new narrative style in English?
(A) Raja Rao’s Kanthapura
(B) G.V. Desani’s All about H Hatterr
(C) Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable
(D) R.K. Narayan’s The Sweet Vendor
Ans: B
68. Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho is a novel about
(A) A father and a daughter setting out on a journey.
(B) The kidnapping of Emily by Montoni and her visit to Venice.
(C) Emily’s adventures in the castle of Udolpho, the outcome of the adventures, her escape and her final union with Valencourt.
(D) The adventures of Montoni and his men in Udolpho.
Ans: C
69. In Marxist criticism the term ‘interpellation’ defines
(A) The ways in which the ideological structure in social formation is constructed out of material practices.
(B) The ways in which the ideological structure in social formation is constructed out of discursive practices.
(C) The ways in which the subjects of an ideology are placed in false positions of knowledge regarding themselves.
(D) The ways in which the subjects ofan ideology resist false positionsof knowledge regarding others.
Ans: C
70. According to Longinus, the sublime has the following features except :
(A) It is the essence of all great poetry and oratory.
(B) It is interested in the usual rhetorical goal of persuasion.
(C) It valorises a special use of language.
(D) It is a matter of reader-response.
Ans: B
71. In a trickster tale
Code:
I. an anthropomorphized animal often serves as the protagonist
II. The ending is ambiguous
III. The hero can be a shape shifter, a cheat or a liar
IV. Humans act as a mouth piece for the gods
The correct combination according to the code is:
(A) II and III are correct.
(B) I, II and III are correct.
(C) I and III are correct.
(D) I and IV are correct.
Ans: C
72. The best source for historical evidence of individual words in English is
(A) The American Heritage Dictionary
(B) Fennell
(C) The Oxford English Dictionary
(D) The Online Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary
Ans: C
73. Which of the following statements on the ending of Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” is correct? The death of Gregor Samsa is marked by
(A) Violent convulsions.
(B) A slow ebbing a way of life hardly perceptible.
(C) The miraculous appearance of a priest to administer the last rites.
(D) The intense mourning of the cleaner who discovers the body.
Ans: B
74. Jimmy Porter in John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger displays
Code:
I. Rebelliousness
II. Nostalgia
III. Restlessness
IV. Mendacity
The right combination according to the code is:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) III and IV are correct.
Ans: B
75. The following are two lists of works and their themes. Match them correctly:
Code:
List – I List – II
(Works) (Themes)
I. The Heart of Midlothian, Tess of the D’urbervilles 1. Suicide
II. The End of the Affair, the Golden Bowl 2. Greed
III. The Heart of theMatter, Lord Jim 3. Infanticide
IV. Heart of Darkness, Nostromo 4. Adultery
The correct combination according to the code is:
I II III IV
(A) 3 4 1 2
(B) 4 3 1 2
(C) 1 3 2 1
(D) 4 1 3 2
Ans: A
76. In the following cluster of poems by Shelley, which one has the voyage motif?
(A) “Adonais”
(B) The Revolt of Islam
(C) “Ode to the West Wind”
(D) Alastor
Ans: D
77. In Sydney’s sonnet sequence, Astrophil and Stella, the final sonnet (#108)
(A) Brings no resolution
(B) Ends in joy
(C) Brings a definite resolution
(D) Promises another sonnet sequence
Ans: A
78. Who among the following English writers opposed the Licensing Act of 1643?
(A) John Milton
(B) Thomas Browne
(C) Andrew Marvell
(D) Abraham Cowley
Ans: A
79. Who claimed: “I have not published a single paper that is not written in a spirit of benevolence and with a love of mankind”?
(A) Pope
(B) Dryden
(C) Swift
(D) Addison
Ans: D
80. 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
Ans: D
81. Dryden’s dramatization of Paradise Lost is entitled
(A) All for Love
(B) The State of Innocence
(C) Annus Mirabilis
(D) Religio Medici
Ans: B
82. Two pioneering feminist tracts, Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics and Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch were published in
(A) 1969
(B) 1968
(C) 1970
(D) 1967
Ans: C
83. The ‘Vulgate Bible’ was prepared to make the Bible available to
(A) The ecclesiastics
(B) The elite class
(C) The courtiers
(D) The common men
Ans: D
84. Archetypal criticism accepts as its informing principle that archetypes are present in all literature and provide the basis of its interconnectedness. Practitioners include
Code:
I. Northrop Frye
II. Dorothy Van Ghent
III. Derek Traversi
IV. Maud Bodkin
The correct combination according to the code is:
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I and II are correct.
Ans: A
85. In the sonnet “Death, Be Not Proud”, Donne says to death: “Those whom thou think’st thou dost over-throw / Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.” What does he mean?
(A) Death is very strong.
(B) Death is not death, because after death we wake up to live eternally.
(C) One must face death courageously and defiantly.
(D) Death is not as strong as he thinks he is.
Ans: D
86. In which of the following plays of Luigi Pirandello the stage itself, the symbol of appearance and reality, becomes the setting of the play?
(A) Right You Are (If You Think, You Are)
(B) To Clothe the Naked
(C) The Life I Gave You
(D) Six Characters in Search of an Author
Ans: D
87. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R):
Assertion (A): Many modern British writers infused their works with an extreme sense of uncertainty, disillusionment and despair.
Reason (R): The writers were responding to the devastation of war and feeling disconnected from the traditions of the past.
In the context of the above statements, which one of the following is correct?
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Ans: A
88. Which among the following statements is not correct? Badal Sircar’s Pagla Ghora is a play about
(A) The condition of women in post- Second World War Bengal.
(B) The political and religious conditions of the time.
(C) Sexual passion.
(D) Lack of communication between men and women.
Ans: B
89. The various symbols used in Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq are associated with
Code:
I. Pythons
II. Vultures
III. Wasps
IV. Butterflies
The correct combination according to the code is:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
Ans: A
90. “Collocations” refer to
(A) The combination of words in a phrase
(B) The act of positioning words
(C) Grouping of words in a sentence
(D) Combination of natural words
Ans: C
91. Of the following statements, which one is not true of Congreve’s The Way of the World?
(A) The Way of the World was staged in 1700.
(B) It was played at the theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
(C) It was a failure on the stage.
(D) The dialogue was unintelligible.
Ans: D
92. Which of the following novels is not written by Arun Joshi?
(A) The Foreigner (B) The Last Labyrinth
(C) A House for Mr Biswas (D) The Apprentice
Ans: C
93. Consider the following statements about The Sellout by Paul Beatty and identify the wrong one:
(A) It is a 2015 American novel and was published in UK in 2016.
(B) The story takes place in and around New York.
(C) It concerns a protagonist who grows artisanal marijuana and watermelons.
(D) It won the 2016 Man Booker Prize, making Beatty the first US writer to win that award.
Ans: B
94. Following are email novels; one of them consists of unanswered emails. Identify the novel.
(A) The White Tiger (B) The Lawgiver
(C) The Correspondence Artist (D) The Closeness that Separates Us
Ans: A
95. Which of these novels is narrated by a first person narrator?
(A) The Wuthering Heights (B) Robinson Crusoe
(C) Pride and Prejudice (D) Rock Redemption
Ans: B
96. Find the odd one out:
(A) Angelo (B) Richard III (C) Tamora (D) Speed
Ans: D
97. Who among the following has won Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016?
(A) Patrick Modiano (B) Alice Munro (C) Bob Dylan (D) Mo Yan
Ans: C
98. In Greek mythology he is regarded as the wisest Titan, a benefactor of mankind, whom he created. His name means “forethought”. Originally an ally of Zeus; he later tickled Zeus and was chained in the Caucasus Mountains, where an eagle fed upon his liver daily. Identify the Titan:
(A) Oceanus (B) Epimetheus (C) Prometheus (D) Hyperion
Ans: C
99. “When my grave is broke up againe
Some second guest to entertaine,
(For graves have learn’d that women-head
to be to more than one a bed)’”
These lines occur in the poem:
(A) “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
(B) “The Scholar Gipsy”
(C) “Funerall”
(D) “The Relique”
Ans: D
100. Which of the following is not an African-American novel?
(A) Native Son (B) The Round House
(C) Song of Solomon (D) The Known World
Ans: B
(A) Many will swoon when they look at blood.
(B) She faints because of her real concern and anxiety for Orlando.
(C) Frailty, thy name is woman.
(D) She is counterfeiting as she herself later claims.
Ans: D
52. Which is the correct statement about Euripides’s Medea? In Euripides’s Medea the chorus consists of
(A) Fifteen Corinthian women who are Medea’s next door neighbours
(B) Fifteen Athenian elders
(C) Fifteen Spartan women
(D) Fifteen Sicilian Women
Ans: A
53. Which of the following is not an award received by Mahasweta Devi?
(A) Ramon Magsaysay Award
(B) Jnanpith Award
(C) Padmashri
(D) Commonwealth Writers Prize
Ans: D
54. In coining the term ‘Ecriture feminine’ Helene Cixous signifies a mode of textual production, not necessarily written by women. Who among the following male writers is used by her as an example?
(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) Joseph Conrad
(C) James Joyce
(D) E.M. Forster
Ans: C
55. The Statute of Pleadings makes English the official language of the English Parliament in
(A) 1755
(B) 1362
(C) 1611
(D) 1879
Ans: B
56. Resistance to slavery created a literature of the abolitionist movement in the last quarter of the eighteenth century in Britain. Suchliterature included books written byformer slaves. Two such writings are
Code:
I. Mary Robinson
II. Olaudah Equiano
III. Mary Prince
IV. Anne Cromarty Yearsley
The right combination according to the code is
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) I and II are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
Ans: D
57. Hippolyte Taine published his four volume History of English Literature in 1864 based on the following categories except one. Which one?
(A) Race
(B) Psychology
(C) Historical moment
(D) Milieu
Ans: B
58. The two ‘mother-figures’ in Dickens’s Great Expectations are
Code:
I. Estella
II. Miss Havisham
III. Mrs Joe
IV. Georgiana
The right combination according to the code is:
(A) II and III are correct.
(B) I and II are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) I and III are correct.
Ans: A
59. Judith Wright’s works reveal the following features except one. Which one?
(A) A keen focus on the Australian environment
(B) Concern for the relationship between the settlers, indigenous Australians and the bush.
(C) A correspondence between inner existence and objective reality.
(D) An obsession with religious and political issues.
Ans: D
60. Arrange the following books in the order in which they appeared:
Code:
I. Leviathan
II. Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
III. Le MorteD’Arthur
IV. Utopia
The correct combination according to the code is:
(A) I, IV, III, II
(B) III, IV, I, II
(C) III, IV, II, I
(D) III, I, IV, II
Ans: C
61. Which of the two novels of Anita Desai were shortlisted for the Booker Prize?
(A) The Artist of Disappearance and In Custody
(B) In Custody and Feasting, Fasting
(C) Feasting, Fasting and the Zig Zag Way
(D) In Custody and Fire on the Mountain
Ans: B
62. Edward Said points to two forms of orientalism. They are
(A) Real and fake
(B) Voluntary and involuntary
(C) Subjective and objective
(D) Latent and manifest
Ans: D
63. Which of the plays in its Preface was described by Eugene O’Neill as ‘a play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood’?
(A) Desire under the Elms
(B) The Hairy Ape
(C) Long Day’s Journey into Night
(D) Mourning Becomes Electra
Ans: C
64. “With all the eagerness to know the truths of life, she retained very childlike ideas about marriage … the really delightful marriage must be that when your husband was a sort ofa father, and could even teach you Hebrew, if you wished it.” She is the protagonist in one of George Eliot’s novels. Who is she?
(A) Romola
(B) Hetty Sorel
(C) Maggie
(D) Dorothea
Ans: D
65. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R):
Assertion (A): The term “Standard English” is misleading.
Reason (R): There are manylinguistic communities that dohave a genuine standard variety,a fixed and invariant form of the language that is used for certain kinds of communication.
In the context of the above statements, which one of the following is correct?
Code:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Ans: B
66. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R):
Assertion (A): The Waste Land ends in a flurry of random allusions.
Reason (R): The ending of the poem reflects the poet’s divided life between America and England and a life given over to primitivism.
In the context of the above statements, which one of the following is correct?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Ans: C
67. Which of the following novels acted as an influence on Salman Rushdie in forging a new narrative style in English?
(A) Raja Rao’s Kanthapura
(B) G.V. Desani’s All about H Hatterr
(C) Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable
(D) R.K. Narayan’s The Sweet Vendor
Ans: B
68. Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho is a novel about
(A) A father and a daughter setting out on a journey.
(B) The kidnapping of Emily by Montoni and her visit to Venice.
(C) Emily’s adventures in the castle of Udolpho, the outcome of the adventures, her escape and her final union with Valencourt.
(D) The adventures of Montoni and his men in Udolpho.
Ans: C
69. In Marxist criticism the term ‘interpellation’ defines
(A) The ways in which the ideological structure in social formation is constructed out of material practices.
(B) The ways in which the ideological structure in social formation is constructed out of discursive practices.
(C) The ways in which the subjects of an ideology are placed in false positions of knowledge regarding themselves.
(D) The ways in which the subjects ofan ideology resist false positionsof knowledge regarding others.
Ans: C
70. According to Longinus, the sublime has the following features except :
(A) It is the essence of all great poetry and oratory.
(B) It is interested in the usual rhetorical goal of persuasion.
(C) It valorises a special use of language.
(D) It is a matter of reader-response.
Ans: B
71. In a trickster tale
Code:
I. an anthropomorphized animal often serves as the protagonist
II. The ending is ambiguous
III. The hero can be a shape shifter, a cheat or a liar
IV. Humans act as a mouth piece for the gods
The correct combination according to the code is:
(A) II and III are correct.
(B) I, II and III are correct.
(C) I and III are correct.
(D) I and IV are correct.
Ans: C
72. The best source for historical evidence of individual words in English is
(A) The American Heritage Dictionary
(B) Fennell
(C) The Oxford English Dictionary
(D) The Online Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary
Ans: C
73. Which of the following statements on the ending of Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” is correct? The death of Gregor Samsa is marked by
(A) Violent convulsions.
(B) A slow ebbing a way of life hardly perceptible.
(C) The miraculous appearance of a priest to administer the last rites.
(D) The intense mourning of the cleaner who discovers the body.
Ans: B
74. Jimmy Porter in John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger displays
Code:
I. Rebelliousness
II. Nostalgia
III. Restlessness
IV. Mendacity
The right combination according to the code is:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) III and IV are correct.
Ans: B
75. The following are two lists of works and their themes. Match them correctly:
Code:
List – I List – II
(Works) (Themes)
I. The Heart of Midlothian, Tess of the D’urbervilles 1. Suicide
II. The End of the Affair, the Golden Bowl 2. Greed
III. The Heart of theMatter, Lord Jim 3. Infanticide
IV. Heart of Darkness, Nostromo 4. Adultery
The correct combination according to the code is:
I II III IV
(A) 3 4 1 2
(B) 4 3 1 2
(C) 1 3 2 1
(D) 4 1 3 2
Ans: A
76. In the following cluster of poems by Shelley, which one has the voyage motif?
(A) “Adonais”
(B) The Revolt of Islam
(C) “Ode to the West Wind”
(D) Alastor
Ans: D
77. In Sydney’s sonnet sequence, Astrophil and Stella, the final sonnet (#108)
(A) Brings no resolution
(B) Ends in joy
(C) Brings a definite resolution
(D) Promises another sonnet sequence
Ans: A
78. Who among the following English writers opposed the Licensing Act of 1643?
(A) John Milton
(B) Thomas Browne
(C) Andrew Marvell
(D) Abraham Cowley
Ans: A
79. Who claimed: “I have not published a single paper that is not written in a spirit of benevolence and with a love of mankind”?
(A) Pope
(B) Dryden
(C) Swift
(D) Addison
Ans: D
80. 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
Ans: D
81. Dryden’s dramatization of Paradise Lost is entitled
(A) All for Love
(B) The State of Innocence
(C) Annus Mirabilis
(D) Religio Medici
Ans: B
82. Two pioneering feminist tracts, Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics and Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch were published in
(A) 1969
(B) 1968
(C) 1970
(D) 1967
Ans: C
83. The ‘Vulgate Bible’ was prepared to make the Bible available to
(A) The ecclesiastics
(B) The elite class
(C) The courtiers
(D) The common men
Ans: D
84. Archetypal criticism accepts as its informing principle that archetypes are present in all literature and provide the basis of its interconnectedness. Practitioners include
Code:
I. Northrop Frye
II. Dorothy Van Ghent
III. Derek Traversi
IV. Maud Bodkin
The correct combination according to the code is:
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I and II are correct.
Ans: A
85. In the sonnet “Death, Be Not Proud”, Donne says to death: “Those whom thou think’st thou dost over-throw / Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.” What does he mean?
(A) Death is very strong.
(B) Death is not death, because after death we wake up to live eternally.
(C) One must face death courageously and defiantly.
(D) Death is not as strong as he thinks he is.
Ans: D
86. In which of the following plays of Luigi Pirandello the stage itself, the symbol of appearance and reality, becomes the setting of the play?
(A) Right You Are (If You Think, You Are)
(B) To Clothe the Naked
(C) The Life I Gave You
(D) Six Characters in Search of an Author
Ans: D
87. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R):
Assertion (A): Many modern British writers infused their works with an extreme sense of uncertainty, disillusionment and despair.
Reason (R): The writers were responding to the devastation of war and feeling disconnected from the traditions of the past.
In the context of the above statements, which one of the following is correct?
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Ans: A
88. Which among the following statements is not correct? Badal Sircar’s Pagla Ghora is a play about
(A) The condition of women in post- Second World War Bengal.
(B) The political and religious conditions of the time.
(C) Sexual passion.
(D) Lack of communication between men and women.
Ans: B
89. The various symbols used in Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq are associated with
Code:
I. Pythons
II. Vultures
III. Wasps
IV. Butterflies
The correct combination according to the code is:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
Ans: A
90. “Collocations” refer to
(A) The combination of words in a phrase
(B) The act of positioning words
(C) Grouping of words in a sentence
(D) Combination of natural words
Ans: C
91. Of the following statements, which one is not true of Congreve’s The Way of the World?
(A) The Way of the World was staged in 1700.
(B) It was played at the theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
(C) It was a failure on the stage.
(D) The dialogue was unintelligible.
Ans: D
92. Which of the following novels is not written by Arun Joshi?
(A) The Foreigner (B) The Last Labyrinth
(C) A House for Mr Biswas (D) The Apprentice
Ans: C
93. Consider the following statements about The Sellout by Paul Beatty and identify the wrong one:
(A) It is a 2015 American novel and was published in UK in 2016.
(B) The story takes place in and around New York.
(C) It concerns a protagonist who grows artisanal marijuana and watermelons.
(D) It won the 2016 Man Booker Prize, making Beatty the first US writer to win that award.
Ans: B
94. Following are email novels; one of them consists of unanswered emails. Identify the novel.
(A) The White Tiger (B) The Lawgiver
(C) The Correspondence Artist (D) The Closeness that Separates Us
Ans: A
95. Which of these novels is narrated by a first person narrator?
(A) The Wuthering Heights (B) Robinson Crusoe
(C) Pride and Prejudice (D) Rock Redemption
Ans: B
96. Find the odd one out:
(A) Angelo (B) Richard III (C) Tamora (D) Speed
Ans: D
97. Who among the following has won Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016?
(A) Patrick Modiano (B) Alice Munro (C) Bob Dylan (D) Mo Yan
Ans: C
98. In Greek mythology he is regarded as the wisest Titan, a benefactor of mankind, whom he created. His name means “forethought”. Originally an ally of Zeus; he later tickled Zeus and was chained in the Caucasus Mountains, where an eagle fed upon his liver daily. Identify the Titan:
(A) Oceanus (B) Epimetheus (C) Prometheus (D) Hyperion
Ans: C
99. “When my grave is broke up againe
Some second guest to entertaine,
(For graves have learn’d that women-head
to be to more than one a bed)’”
These lines occur in the poem:
(A) “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
(B) “The Scholar Gipsy”
(C) “Funerall”
(D) “The Relique”
Ans: D
100. Which of the following is not an African-American novel?
(A) Native Son (B) The Round House
(C) Song of Solomon (D) The Known World
Ans: B
- English
- English Literature- Page 1
- English Literature- Page 2
- English Literature- Page 3
- English Literature- Page 4
- English Literature- Page 5
- English Literature- Page 6
- English Literature- Page 7
- English Literature- Page 8
- English Literature- Page 9
- English Literature- Page 10
- English Literature- Page 11
- English Literature- Page 12
- English Literature- Page 13
- English Literature- Page 14
- English Literature- Page 15
- English Literature- Page 16
- English Literature- Page 17
- English Literature- Page 18