ENGLISH LITERATURE- PAGE 18
1. Which of the following is the first book printed in English by Caxton ?
(a) Beowulf
(b) Morte D. Arthur
(c) The Canterbury Tales
(d) The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye
Ans: D
2. Which of the following theories establishes the critic not as a mere interpreter of the text but as a co-creator of the text ?
(a) Marxist Criticism (b) Structuralism
(c) Deconstruction (d) Post-colonial criticism
Ans: C
3. Match the Playwrights with their Plays :
A B
(A) Pratap Sharma (i) The Miracle Seed
(B) Asif Currimbhoy (ii) A Touch of Brightness
(C) Mahasweta Devi (iii) The Fire and The Rain
(D) Girish Karnad (iv) Mother of 1084
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(a) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(b) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
(c) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(d) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
Ans: B
(a) Beowulf
(b) Morte D. Arthur
(c) The Canterbury Tales
(d) The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye
Ans: D
2. Which of the following theories establishes the critic not as a mere interpreter of the text but as a co-creator of the text ?
(a) Marxist Criticism (b) Structuralism
(c) Deconstruction (d) Post-colonial criticism
Ans: C
3. Match the Playwrights with their Plays :
A B
(A) Pratap Sharma (i) The Miracle Seed
(B) Asif Currimbhoy (ii) A Touch of Brightness
(C) Mahasweta Devi (iii) The Fire and The Rain
(D) Girish Karnad (iv) Mother of 1084
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(a) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(b) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
(c) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(d) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
Ans: B
4. The first long narrative poem written by Chaucer is
(a) The Book of the Duchess
(b) The House of Fame
(c) The Parliament of Foules
(d) Troylus and Criseyde
Ans: A
5. The oldest of the Anglo-Saxon Biblical poems which dates from the beginning of the eighth century is
(a) Daniel
(b) Exodus
(c) Vulgate
(d) The Dream of the Road
Ans: B
6. “Genesis” the longest poem based on Old Testament Story, contains nearly
(a) One thousand lines
(b) Two thousand lines
(c) Four thousand lines
(d) Three thousand lines
Ans: D
7. Choose the playwright who was killed in a brawl.
(a) Thomas Nash
(b) Thomas Watson
(c) Christopher Marlowe
(d) Edward Moore
Ans: C
8. Among the following works which one is not written by Ben Jonson ?
(a) Volpone or The Fox
(b) Epicoene or The Silent Woman
(c) Pericles
(d) The Alchemist
Ans: C
9. Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus written by Mary Shelley is
(a) Picaresque novel
(b) Gothic tale
(c) Tragedy
(d) Murder Mystery
Ans: B
10. What is the subtitle of Goldsmith’s semi-autobiographical poem, The Traveller ?
(a) A Song to David
(b) The Citizen of the World
(c) A Prospect of Society
(d) The Prince
Ans: C
11. Which of the following poems was completed by Tennyson in seventeen years ?
(a) The Lotus Eaters
(b) In Memoriam
(c) The Princess
(d) The Lady of Shalott
Ans: B
12. Identify the members of the Cockney School of Poetry.
(a) Leigh Hunt, John Keats, William Wordsworth
(b) John Keats, P.B. Shelley, Lord Byron
(c) Leigh Hunt, John Keats, Wilfred Owen
(d) Leigh Hunt, John Keats
Ans: D
13. In which of Hardy’s novel does the character sorrow appear ?
(a) A Pair of Blue Eyes
(b) Tess of the D’urbervilles
(c) Under the Greenwood Tree
(d) Jude the Obscure
Ans: B
14. Which one out of the following is not a dystopian novel ?
(a) When the Sleeper Wakes (b) Nineteen Eighty Four
(c) Riddley Walker (d) Animal Farm
Ans: D
15. The first secular usage of the term “Epiphany” was done by
(a) Oscar Wilde (b) Shakespeare (c) James Joyce (d) Marlowe
Ans: C
16. “The pen is mightier than the sword.” This is an example of
(a) Apostrophe (b) Metathesis (c) Metonymy (d) Archaism
Ans: C
17. In which of the following texts does the character Madame Sosostris appear ?
(a) The Waste Land (b) Ulysses
(c) Dubliners (d) The Rainbow
Ans: A
18. Which one out of the following novels by Virginia Woolf was published posthumously ?
(a) To The Lighthouse (b) Between the Acts
(c) Orlando (d) The Years
Ans: B
19. The Grapes of Wrath is written by
(a) John Steinbeck (b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
(c) Gertrude Stein (d) Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ans: A
20. Who, out of the following literary artists, declared himself “a classicist in literature, an
Anglo-Catholic in religion and a royalist in politics” ?
(a) F.R. Leavis (b) James Joyce (c) William Empson (d) T.S. Eliot
Ans: D
21. Two prominent figures of post-structuralism are :
(a) Roland Barthes and Edward Said
(b) Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida
(c) Jacques Derrida and Ferdinand de Saussure
(d) Ferdinand de Saussure and Freud
Ans: B
22. “Implied Reader” is a term introduced by
(a) Wolfgang Iser (b) Cleanth Brooks
(c) Ferdinand de Saussure (d) Roland Barthes
Ans: A
23. Which element, out of the following, is not essential for accurate pronunciation ?
(a) Stress (b) Fluency (c) Intonation (d) Semantics
Ans: D
24. The existence of conflicting discourses within any field of linguistic activity, such as a
national language, a novel, or a specific conversation is called
(a) heteroglossia (b) hermeneutics (c) denotation (d) circumlocution
Ans: A
25. Which critic out of the following has expressed the theory, that “the technique of analysis
each teacher will, for the most part, have to develop for himself” ?
(a) Cleanth Brooks (b) T.S. Eliot
(c) I.A. Richards (d) F.R. Leavis
Ans: D
26. Milton’s first work is
(a) Paradise Lost (b) On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
(c) Samson Agonistes (d) Defensio
Ans: B
27. Poetry was composed in the East Midland dialect by
(a) Skelton (b) Stephen Hawes (c) Chaucer (d) Thomas Wyatt
Ans: C
28. In which century were the two parts of Cervantes’s Don Quixote published ?
(a) Fourteenth century (b) Early sixteenth century
(c) Seventeenth century (d) Early eighteenth century
Ans: C
29. “As flies to wanton boys, are we to the Gods;
They kill us for their sport” – Who uttered these lines ?
(a) Gloucester in Kign Lear (b) King Lear in King Lear
(c) Othello in Othello (d) Hamlet in Hamlet
Ans: A
30. Who wrote these lines and in which poem do these lines appear ? –
“Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death’s dream kingdom.”
(a) W.B. Yeats in Leda and the Swan (b) T.S. Eliot in The Hollows Man
(c) T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land (d) Rudyard Kipling in Recessional
Ans: B
31. “Poetry is simply the most delightful and perfect form of utterance that human words can
reach.” The above definition has been given by
(a) Francis Bacon (b) Edgar Allan Poe (c) Leigh Hunt (d) Matthew Arnold
Ans: D
32. In which year was the Tatler first issued ?
(a) 1611 (b) 1711 (c) 1609 (d) 1709
Ans: D
33. Who is Achitophel in Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel ?
(a) Earl of Shaftesburg (b) Earl of Monmouth
(c) James (d) None of the above
Ans: A
34. A blending or confusion of different kinds of sense-impression, in which one type of
sensation is referred to in terms more appropriate to another is called
(a) Morpheme (b) Symbolist (c) Synaesthesia (d) Synchronic
Ans: C
35. “A kind of criticism that restricts itself to describing the critics’ own subjective response to
a literary work, rather than ascribing intrinsic qualities to it” is called
(a) Legislative Criticism (b) Impressionistic Criticism
(c) Comparative Criticism (d) New Criticism
Ans: B
36. A kind of literary interpretation that regards literary works as expressions or embodiments
of recurrent patterns or of timeless archetypes is known as
(a) Formalism (b) Expressionism (c) Myth Criticism (d) Dadaism
Ans: C
37. Match the following authors/poets from List ‘A’ to the titles of their works/poems in List ‘B’ :
A B
A. Gower (i) Heroides
B. Robert Manning (ii) The Romance of the Rose
C. Geoffrey Chaucer (iii) Vox Clamantis
D. Ovid (iv) Handlyng Synne
A B C D
(a) iii iv ii i
(b) ii iii i iv
(c) ii iv iii i
(d) i iii ii iv
Ans: A
38. The story of Robinson Gusoe was inspired by the real life adventures of a sailor who spent
four years on a deserted island. Name the sailor.
(a) Juan Fernandez (b) Borneo
(c) Squire Lagoon (d) Alexander Selkirk
Ans: D
39. Charles Lamb characterises her manner as “innocence resembling boldness” and William
Hazlitt found in her “that forced and practised presence of mind”. Identify that character.
(a) Vittoria in The White Devil (b) Duchess in The Duchess of Malfi
(c) Miranda in The Tempest (d) Isabella in The White Devil
Ans: A
40. Paston Letters is the collection of the descriptions of the three generations of
(a) Edward family (b) Norfolk family
(c) Georges (d) Olivers
Ans: B
41. Which among the following is not a play by William Congreve ?
(a) The Double Dealer (b) The Mourning Bride
(c) The Way of the World (d) All for Love
Ans: D
42. The letters of which English poet have been described by T.S. Eliot as “certainly the most
notable and most important ever written by any English poet” ?
(a) P.B. Shelley (b) John Keats (c) Lord Byron (d) S.T. Coleridge
Ans: B
43. Arrange the following works in chronological order :
(i) Almayer’s Folly (ii) The Niger of Narcissus
(iii) An Outcast of the Islands (iv) Under Western Eye
(a) i, ii, iv, iii (b) i, iv, ii, iii (c) i, iii, ii, iv (d) i, iii, iv, ii
Ans: C
44. The Wind Among the Reeds is a collection of lyrics composed by
(a) William Wordsworth (b) T.S. Eliot
(c) W.B. Yeats (d) P.B. Shelley
Ans: C
45. Which of the following is not written by Anita Desai ?
(a) Fasting, Feasting (b) Games at Twilight
(c) The Inheritance of Loss (d) Diamond Dust
Ans: C
46. ‘Peripeteia’ is generally explained as
(a) a reversal of situation (b) the conclusion
(c) the conflict in the play (d) the change from ignorance to knowledge
Ans: A
47. Who considered Dryden “the father of English Criticism” ?
(a) William Hazlitt (b) Charles Lamb
(c) T.S. Eliot (d) Samuel Johnson
Ans: D
48. Anatomy of Criticism is a work by
(a) Northrop Frye (b) I.A. Richards
(c) George Saintsbury (d) Raymond Williams
Ans: A
49. For which book did Ruskin Bond get Sahitya Akademy Award ?
(a) A Handful of Nuts (b) Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra
(c) The Room on the Roof (d) Vagrants in the Valley
Ans: B
50. In which of the following works of Ruskin Bond Mariam Labadoor is found as a character ?
(a) When Darkness Falls (b) Strangers in the Night
(c) A Flight of Pigeons (d) Rain in the Mountains
Ans: C
51. “Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night”
Who wrote these lines ?
(a) Blake (b) Hardy (c) Shakespeare (d) None of these
Ans: A
52. Which one out of the following is not a characteristic feature of Ruskin Bond’s short stories ?
(a) They are children stories.
(b) His heroes have an openness of mind.
(c) They spring up from the Himalayan soil.
(d) They are totally objective in nature.
Ans: D
53. When was Irwin Allan Sealy’s first novel The Trotter Nama published ?
(a) 1990 (b) 1986 (c) 1988 (d) 1987
Ans: C
54. Which one out of the following is not found in the fiction of Ruskin Bond ?
(a) It appeals to eradicate the roots of evil and violence against man and animal.
(b) It wants to keep this earth beautiful and healthy.
(c) It interrelates liberty and dreams.
(d) It intellectualises nature.
Ans: D
55. Who out of the following Indian playwrights has started the theatre group play pen ?
(a) Badal Sircar (b) Mohan Rakesh (c) Vijay Tendulkar (d) Mahesh Dattani
Ans: D
56. Which one out of the following is the first novel of V.S. Naipaul ?
(a) A House for Mr. Biswas (b) The Mimic Men
(c) In a Free State (d) Mystic Masseur
Ans: D
57. Which of the following novels of R.K. Narayan has Nataraj as narrator ?
(a) The Financial Expert (b) The Bachelor of Arts
(c) The Man-eater of Malgudi (d) The Guide
Ans: C
58. Which of the following novels of Raja Rao has the description of the freedom struggle of the 1930’s ?
(a) The Cat and Shakespeare (b) The Serpent and the Rope
(c) Kanthapura (d) None of the above
Ans: C
59. Which one out of the following is not written by Jim Corbett ?
(a) Man-Eaters of Kumaon (b) The Jungle Book
(c) Jungle Lore (d) My India
Ans: B
60. Which one out of the following poems is not written by Nissim Ezekiel ?
(a) Night of the Scorpion (b) A Time to Change
(c) The Professor (d) Ways of Belonging
Ans: D
61. Which of the following is not a language activity ?
(a) Listening (b) Learning (c) Reading (d) Writing
Ans: B
(a) The Book of the Duchess
(b) The House of Fame
(c) The Parliament of Foules
(d) Troylus and Criseyde
Ans: A
5. The oldest of the Anglo-Saxon Biblical poems which dates from the beginning of the eighth century is
(a) Daniel
(b) Exodus
(c) Vulgate
(d) The Dream of the Road
Ans: B
6. “Genesis” the longest poem based on Old Testament Story, contains nearly
(a) One thousand lines
(b) Two thousand lines
(c) Four thousand lines
(d) Three thousand lines
Ans: D
7. Choose the playwright who was killed in a brawl.
(a) Thomas Nash
(b) Thomas Watson
(c) Christopher Marlowe
(d) Edward Moore
Ans: C
8. Among the following works which one is not written by Ben Jonson ?
(a) Volpone or The Fox
(b) Epicoene or The Silent Woman
(c) Pericles
(d) The Alchemist
Ans: C
9. Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus written by Mary Shelley is
(a) Picaresque novel
(b) Gothic tale
(c) Tragedy
(d) Murder Mystery
Ans: B
10. What is the subtitle of Goldsmith’s semi-autobiographical poem, The Traveller ?
(a) A Song to David
(b) The Citizen of the World
(c) A Prospect of Society
(d) The Prince
Ans: C
11. Which of the following poems was completed by Tennyson in seventeen years ?
(a) The Lotus Eaters
(b) In Memoriam
(c) The Princess
(d) The Lady of Shalott
Ans: B
12. Identify the members of the Cockney School of Poetry.
(a) Leigh Hunt, John Keats, William Wordsworth
(b) John Keats, P.B. Shelley, Lord Byron
(c) Leigh Hunt, John Keats, Wilfred Owen
(d) Leigh Hunt, John Keats
Ans: D
13. In which of Hardy’s novel does the character sorrow appear ?
(a) A Pair of Blue Eyes
(b) Tess of the D’urbervilles
(c) Under the Greenwood Tree
(d) Jude the Obscure
Ans: B
14. Which one out of the following is not a dystopian novel ?
(a) When the Sleeper Wakes (b) Nineteen Eighty Four
(c) Riddley Walker (d) Animal Farm
Ans: D
15. The first secular usage of the term “Epiphany” was done by
(a) Oscar Wilde (b) Shakespeare (c) James Joyce (d) Marlowe
Ans: C
16. “The pen is mightier than the sword.” This is an example of
(a) Apostrophe (b) Metathesis (c) Metonymy (d) Archaism
Ans: C
17. In which of the following texts does the character Madame Sosostris appear ?
(a) The Waste Land (b) Ulysses
(c) Dubliners (d) The Rainbow
Ans: A
18. Which one out of the following novels by Virginia Woolf was published posthumously ?
(a) To The Lighthouse (b) Between the Acts
(c) Orlando (d) The Years
Ans: B
19. The Grapes of Wrath is written by
(a) John Steinbeck (b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
(c) Gertrude Stein (d) Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ans: A
20. Who, out of the following literary artists, declared himself “a classicist in literature, an
Anglo-Catholic in religion and a royalist in politics” ?
(a) F.R. Leavis (b) James Joyce (c) William Empson (d) T.S. Eliot
Ans: D
21. Two prominent figures of post-structuralism are :
(a) Roland Barthes and Edward Said
(b) Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida
(c) Jacques Derrida and Ferdinand de Saussure
(d) Ferdinand de Saussure and Freud
Ans: B
22. “Implied Reader” is a term introduced by
(a) Wolfgang Iser (b) Cleanth Brooks
(c) Ferdinand de Saussure (d) Roland Barthes
Ans: A
23. Which element, out of the following, is not essential for accurate pronunciation ?
(a) Stress (b) Fluency (c) Intonation (d) Semantics
Ans: D
24. The existence of conflicting discourses within any field of linguistic activity, such as a
national language, a novel, or a specific conversation is called
(a) heteroglossia (b) hermeneutics (c) denotation (d) circumlocution
Ans: A
25. Which critic out of the following has expressed the theory, that “the technique of analysis
each teacher will, for the most part, have to develop for himself” ?
(a) Cleanth Brooks (b) T.S. Eliot
(c) I.A. Richards (d) F.R. Leavis
Ans: D
26. Milton’s first work is
(a) Paradise Lost (b) On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
(c) Samson Agonistes (d) Defensio
Ans: B
27. Poetry was composed in the East Midland dialect by
(a) Skelton (b) Stephen Hawes (c) Chaucer (d) Thomas Wyatt
Ans: C
28. In which century were the two parts of Cervantes’s Don Quixote published ?
(a) Fourteenth century (b) Early sixteenth century
(c) Seventeenth century (d) Early eighteenth century
Ans: C
29. “As flies to wanton boys, are we to the Gods;
They kill us for their sport” – Who uttered these lines ?
(a) Gloucester in Kign Lear (b) King Lear in King Lear
(c) Othello in Othello (d) Hamlet in Hamlet
Ans: A
30. Who wrote these lines and in which poem do these lines appear ? –
“Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death’s dream kingdom.”
(a) W.B. Yeats in Leda and the Swan (b) T.S. Eliot in The Hollows Man
(c) T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land (d) Rudyard Kipling in Recessional
Ans: B
31. “Poetry is simply the most delightful and perfect form of utterance that human words can
reach.” The above definition has been given by
(a) Francis Bacon (b) Edgar Allan Poe (c) Leigh Hunt (d) Matthew Arnold
Ans: D
32. In which year was the Tatler first issued ?
(a) 1611 (b) 1711 (c) 1609 (d) 1709
Ans: D
33. Who is Achitophel in Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel ?
(a) Earl of Shaftesburg (b) Earl of Monmouth
(c) James (d) None of the above
Ans: A
34. A blending or confusion of different kinds of sense-impression, in which one type of
sensation is referred to in terms more appropriate to another is called
(a) Morpheme (b) Symbolist (c) Synaesthesia (d) Synchronic
Ans: C
35. “A kind of criticism that restricts itself to describing the critics’ own subjective response to
a literary work, rather than ascribing intrinsic qualities to it” is called
(a) Legislative Criticism (b) Impressionistic Criticism
(c) Comparative Criticism (d) New Criticism
Ans: B
36. A kind of literary interpretation that regards literary works as expressions or embodiments
of recurrent patterns or of timeless archetypes is known as
(a) Formalism (b) Expressionism (c) Myth Criticism (d) Dadaism
Ans: C
37. Match the following authors/poets from List ‘A’ to the titles of their works/poems in List ‘B’ :
A B
A. Gower (i) Heroides
B. Robert Manning (ii) The Romance of the Rose
C. Geoffrey Chaucer (iii) Vox Clamantis
D. Ovid (iv) Handlyng Synne
A B C D
(a) iii iv ii i
(b) ii iii i iv
(c) ii iv iii i
(d) i iii ii iv
Ans: A
38. The story of Robinson Gusoe was inspired by the real life adventures of a sailor who spent
four years on a deserted island. Name the sailor.
(a) Juan Fernandez (b) Borneo
(c) Squire Lagoon (d) Alexander Selkirk
Ans: D
39. Charles Lamb characterises her manner as “innocence resembling boldness” and William
Hazlitt found in her “that forced and practised presence of mind”. Identify that character.
(a) Vittoria in The White Devil (b) Duchess in The Duchess of Malfi
(c) Miranda in The Tempest (d) Isabella in The White Devil
Ans: A
40. Paston Letters is the collection of the descriptions of the three generations of
(a) Edward family (b) Norfolk family
(c) Georges (d) Olivers
Ans: B
41. Which among the following is not a play by William Congreve ?
(a) The Double Dealer (b) The Mourning Bride
(c) The Way of the World (d) All for Love
Ans: D
42. The letters of which English poet have been described by T.S. Eliot as “certainly the most
notable and most important ever written by any English poet” ?
(a) P.B. Shelley (b) John Keats (c) Lord Byron (d) S.T. Coleridge
Ans: B
43. Arrange the following works in chronological order :
(i) Almayer’s Folly (ii) The Niger of Narcissus
(iii) An Outcast of the Islands (iv) Under Western Eye
(a) i, ii, iv, iii (b) i, iv, ii, iii (c) i, iii, ii, iv (d) i, iii, iv, ii
Ans: C
44. The Wind Among the Reeds is a collection of lyrics composed by
(a) William Wordsworth (b) T.S. Eliot
(c) W.B. Yeats (d) P.B. Shelley
Ans: C
45. Which of the following is not written by Anita Desai ?
(a) Fasting, Feasting (b) Games at Twilight
(c) The Inheritance of Loss (d) Diamond Dust
Ans: C
46. ‘Peripeteia’ is generally explained as
(a) a reversal of situation (b) the conclusion
(c) the conflict in the play (d) the change from ignorance to knowledge
Ans: A
47. Who considered Dryden “the father of English Criticism” ?
(a) William Hazlitt (b) Charles Lamb
(c) T.S. Eliot (d) Samuel Johnson
Ans: D
48. Anatomy of Criticism is a work by
(a) Northrop Frye (b) I.A. Richards
(c) George Saintsbury (d) Raymond Williams
Ans: A
49. For which book did Ruskin Bond get Sahitya Akademy Award ?
(a) A Handful of Nuts (b) Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra
(c) The Room on the Roof (d) Vagrants in the Valley
Ans: B
50. In which of the following works of Ruskin Bond Mariam Labadoor is found as a character ?
(a) When Darkness Falls (b) Strangers in the Night
(c) A Flight of Pigeons (d) Rain in the Mountains
Ans: C
51. “Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night”
Who wrote these lines ?
(a) Blake (b) Hardy (c) Shakespeare (d) None of these
Ans: A
52. Which one out of the following is not a characteristic feature of Ruskin Bond’s short stories ?
(a) They are children stories.
(b) His heroes have an openness of mind.
(c) They spring up from the Himalayan soil.
(d) They are totally objective in nature.
Ans: D
53. When was Irwin Allan Sealy’s first novel The Trotter Nama published ?
(a) 1990 (b) 1986 (c) 1988 (d) 1987
Ans: C
54. Which one out of the following is not found in the fiction of Ruskin Bond ?
(a) It appeals to eradicate the roots of evil and violence against man and animal.
(b) It wants to keep this earth beautiful and healthy.
(c) It interrelates liberty and dreams.
(d) It intellectualises nature.
Ans: D
55. Who out of the following Indian playwrights has started the theatre group play pen ?
(a) Badal Sircar (b) Mohan Rakesh (c) Vijay Tendulkar (d) Mahesh Dattani
Ans: D
56. Which one out of the following is the first novel of V.S. Naipaul ?
(a) A House for Mr. Biswas (b) The Mimic Men
(c) In a Free State (d) Mystic Masseur
Ans: D
57. Which of the following novels of R.K. Narayan has Nataraj as narrator ?
(a) The Financial Expert (b) The Bachelor of Arts
(c) The Man-eater of Malgudi (d) The Guide
Ans: C
58. Which of the following novels of Raja Rao has the description of the freedom struggle of the 1930’s ?
(a) The Cat and Shakespeare (b) The Serpent and the Rope
(c) Kanthapura (d) None of the above
Ans: C
59. Which one out of the following is not written by Jim Corbett ?
(a) Man-Eaters of Kumaon (b) The Jungle Book
(c) Jungle Lore (d) My India
Ans: B
60. Which one out of the following poems is not written by Nissim Ezekiel ?
(a) Night of the Scorpion (b) A Time to Change
(c) The Professor (d) Ways of Belonging
Ans: D
61. Which of the following is not a language activity ?
(a) Listening (b) Learning (c) Reading (d) Writing
Ans: B
62. Who is the father of American lexicography ?
(a) Noah Webster (b) Merriam Webster
(c) Charles Random (d) Wifred Funk
Ans: A
63. Who is the lord of the flies in Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies ?
(a) The Pig (b) Satan (c) Beelzebub (d) Belial
Ans: C
64. Who wrote The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) and Intimacy (1998) ?
(a) Caryl Phillips (b) Buchi Emcheta (c) A.S. Byatt (d) Hanif Kureishi
Ans: D
65. Which poet out of the following wrote the lines :
“Was it a vision, or a waking dream ?
Feed is that music : do I wake or sleep ?”
(a) P.B. Shelley (b) Robert Browning
(c) William Wordsworth (d) John Keats
Ans: D
66. ‘The Touchstone method’ of literary criticism has been propounded by
(a) T.S. Eliot (b) Mathew Arnold (c) A.C. Bradley (d) Homi Bhabha
Ans: B
67. In which play of Shakespeare is there a tribute to Marlowe as the ‘dead shepherd’ ?
(a) Twelfth Night (b) Measure for Measure
(c) As You Like It (d) The Tempest
Ans: C
68. Who wrote the novel Waverley ?
(a) Maria Edgeworth (b) Mrs. Radcliff
(c) Walter Scott (d) Lawrence Sterne
Ans: C
69. Which chapter of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria contains his famous distinction between Fancy and Imagination ?
(a) Chapter I (b) Chapter X (c) Chapter XIII (d) Chapter XV
Ans: C
70. Charles Dickens was the first editor of a newspaper which started in 1846. Which was it ?
(a) The Morning Chronicle (b) Daily News
(c) Morning Post (d) Daily Chronicle
Ans: B
71. Which American critic applied the term ‘New Criticism’ in 1910 to a range of critical methods that were developing in Europe ?
(a) Cleanth Brooks (b) T.S. Eliot
(c) William Empson (d) Joel Spingarn
Ans: D
72. Who wrote All About H. Hatterr (1948) ?
(a) M.G. Vassanji (b) G.V. Desani
(c) Shauna Singh Baldwin (d) Rohinton Mistry
Ans: B
(a) Noah Webster (b) Merriam Webster
(c) Charles Random (d) Wifred Funk
Ans: A
63. Who is the lord of the flies in Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies ?
(a) The Pig (b) Satan (c) Beelzebub (d) Belial
Ans: C
64. Who wrote The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) and Intimacy (1998) ?
(a) Caryl Phillips (b) Buchi Emcheta (c) A.S. Byatt (d) Hanif Kureishi
Ans: D
65. Which poet out of the following wrote the lines :
“Was it a vision, or a waking dream ?
Feed is that music : do I wake or sleep ?”
(a) P.B. Shelley (b) Robert Browning
(c) William Wordsworth (d) John Keats
Ans: D
66. ‘The Touchstone method’ of literary criticism has been propounded by
(a) T.S. Eliot (b) Mathew Arnold (c) A.C. Bradley (d) Homi Bhabha
Ans: B
67. In which play of Shakespeare is there a tribute to Marlowe as the ‘dead shepherd’ ?
(a) Twelfth Night (b) Measure for Measure
(c) As You Like It (d) The Tempest
Ans: C
68. Who wrote the novel Waverley ?
(a) Maria Edgeworth (b) Mrs. Radcliff
(c) Walter Scott (d) Lawrence Sterne
Ans: C
69. Which chapter of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria contains his famous distinction between Fancy and Imagination ?
(a) Chapter I (b) Chapter X (c) Chapter XIII (d) Chapter XV
Ans: C
70. Charles Dickens was the first editor of a newspaper which started in 1846. Which was it ?
(a) The Morning Chronicle (b) Daily News
(c) Morning Post (d) Daily Chronicle
Ans: B
71. Which American critic applied the term ‘New Criticism’ in 1910 to a range of critical methods that were developing in Europe ?
(a) Cleanth Brooks (b) T.S. Eliot
(c) William Empson (d) Joel Spingarn
Ans: D
72. Who wrote All About H. Hatterr (1948) ?
(a) M.G. Vassanji (b) G.V. Desani
(c) Shauna Singh Baldwin (d) Rohinton Mistry
Ans: B
73. “Its characters, instead of being taken from sacred narratives, or legends of the saints, were personified abstractions.” Which dramatic form does this statement refer to ?
(a) Miracle Play (b) Morality Play (c) Interlude (d) Romantic Comedy
Ans: B
74. Which of the following plays has not been written by Christopher Marlowe ?
(a) Dr. Faustus (b) The Spanish Tragedy
(c) Edward II (d) The Jew of Malta
Ans: B
75. Which of the following novels has not been written by Thomas Hardy ?
(a) Desperate Remedies (b) Under the Greenwood Tree
(c) Vanity Fair (d) A Pair of Blue Eyes
Ans: C
76. Who made the following comment on the first publication of Leaves of Grass – “The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed” ?
(a) Robert Frost (b) R.W. Emerson
(c) H.D. Thoreau (d) Ernest Hemingway
Ans: B
77. Which play has been approved by Sir Philip Sidney in his Defence of Poesie ?
(a) Gorboduc (b) The Spanish Tragedy
(c) Hamlet (d) Tamburlaine
Ans: A
78. Whose lines are these ?
“What we call the beginning is often the end,
And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
(a) W.B. Yeats (b) T.S. Eliot
(c) D.H. Lawrence (d) William Empson
Ans: B
79. “For art’s sake alone I would not face the toil of writing a single sentence.” Who made the above statement ?
(a) John Gabworthy (b) G.B. Shaw
(c) Stephen Phillips (d) Oscar Wilde
Ans: B
80. Which of the following is the first novel by Tobias Smollett ?
(a) Roderick Random (b) Peregrine Pickle
(c) Ferdinand Count Fathom (d) Humphry Clinker
Ans: A
81. Who out of the following does not belong to “Scottish Chaucerians” ?
(a) Gavin Douglas (b) Cynewulf
(c) William Dunbar (d) Robert Henryson
Ans: B
82. Meaning of Meanings is a book by I.A. Richards and
(a) C.K. Ogden (b) J.C. Ransom
(c) William Empson (d) F.R. Leavis
Ans: A
83. Who launched the “Criterion” in 1922 ?
(a) T.S. Eliot (b) F.R. Leavis (c) Northrope Frye (d) J.C. Ransom
Ans: A
84. Match the following novels of E.M. Forster with their year of publication :
A B
(A) A Passage to India (i) 1907
(B) The Longest Journey (ii) 1910
(C) Howard’s End (iii) 1905
(D) Where Angels Fear to Tread (iv) 1924
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(a) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
(b) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
(c) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(d) None of the above
Ans: A
(a) Miracle Play (b) Morality Play (c) Interlude (d) Romantic Comedy
Ans: B
74. Which of the following plays has not been written by Christopher Marlowe ?
(a) Dr. Faustus (b) The Spanish Tragedy
(c) Edward II (d) The Jew of Malta
Ans: B
75. Which of the following novels has not been written by Thomas Hardy ?
(a) Desperate Remedies (b) Under the Greenwood Tree
(c) Vanity Fair (d) A Pair of Blue Eyes
Ans: C
76. Who made the following comment on the first publication of Leaves of Grass – “The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed” ?
(a) Robert Frost (b) R.W. Emerson
(c) H.D. Thoreau (d) Ernest Hemingway
Ans: B
77. Which play has been approved by Sir Philip Sidney in his Defence of Poesie ?
(a) Gorboduc (b) The Spanish Tragedy
(c) Hamlet (d) Tamburlaine
Ans: A
78. Whose lines are these ?
“What we call the beginning is often the end,
And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
(a) W.B. Yeats (b) T.S. Eliot
(c) D.H. Lawrence (d) William Empson
Ans: B
79. “For art’s sake alone I would not face the toil of writing a single sentence.” Who made the above statement ?
(a) John Gabworthy (b) G.B. Shaw
(c) Stephen Phillips (d) Oscar Wilde
Ans: B
80. Which of the following is the first novel by Tobias Smollett ?
(a) Roderick Random (b) Peregrine Pickle
(c) Ferdinand Count Fathom (d) Humphry Clinker
Ans: A
81. Who out of the following does not belong to “Scottish Chaucerians” ?
(a) Gavin Douglas (b) Cynewulf
(c) William Dunbar (d) Robert Henryson
Ans: B
82. Meaning of Meanings is a book by I.A. Richards and
(a) C.K. Ogden (b) J.C. Ransom
(c) William Empson (d) F.R. Leavis
Ans: A
83. Who launched the “Criterion” in 1922 ?
(a) T.S. Eliot (b) F.R. Leavis (c) Northrope Frye (d) J.C. Ransom
Ans: A
84. Match the following novels of E.M. Forster with their year of publication :
A B
(A) A Passage to India (i) 1907
(B) The Longest Journey (ii) 1910
(C) Howard’s End (iii) 1905
(D) Where Angels Fear to Tread (iv) 1924
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(a) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
(b) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
(c) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(d) None of the above
Ans: A
85. Which Road did the traveller choose in Robert Frost’s poem Road Not Taken ?
(A) The less travelled road (B) The one covered with leaves (C) The neatly paved one (D) The grassy pathway.
Ans: A
86. The heads of Devadatta and __________ were interchanged in Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana.
(A) Bhagavanta (B) Hayavadana (C) Kapila (D) Padmini
Ans: C
87. Brutus in Eugene O ‘Neil’s play Emperor Jones Keeps his followers under control with his much acclaimed __________.
(A) Rifle (B) Silver Bullet (C) Cartridge (D) Gun Powder
Ans: B
88. The broken Unicorn is the symbol of _________ in the play Glass Menagerie.
(A) Laura (B) Amanda Wingfield (C) Blue Roses (D) Gentleman Caller
Ans: A
89. What time did the clock hands show at Salim Sinai’s birth in The midnight’s children ?
(A) 10.10 A.M. (B) 12 midnight (C) 1.00 A.M. (D) 12.30 P.M.
Ans: B
90. Which letter is used to brand the protagonist in Hawthorn’s novel The Scarlet Letter ?
(A) X (B) S (C) A (D) Z
Ans: C
91. “Black Skin, White Masks” is a work by __________.
(A) Edward. W. Said (B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(C) Frantz Fanon (D) Aime Cesaire
Ans: C
92. An inter disciplinary approach to the relation between literature and environment is found in __________.
(A) Deep Ecology (B) Eco criticism (C) Environmentalism (D) Green movement
Ans: B
93. “Enemies, A Love Story” is a __________ narrative by I saac Bashevis Singer.
(A) Holocaust (B) Chicana (C) Bayesian (D) Fable
Ans: A
94. The feminist anthology “This Bridge Called my Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color” is edited by __________.
(A) Juanita Ramos (B) Ana Castillo
(C) Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga (D) Cherrie Moraga and Juanita Ramos
Ans: C
95. The terms “Lesbian existence” and “Lesbian Continuum” were advocated by _________.
(A) Diana Fuss (B) Adrienne Rich (C) Alcaeus (D) Judith Butler
Ans: B
96. The terms “thick description” was used by the anthropologist clifford Geertz in his work __________.
(A) Cultural Materialism (B) The New Historicism (C) Modern Literary Theory (D) The Interpretation of Cultures
Ans: D
97. The term “Culture Industry” is associated with __________.
(A) Terry Eagleton and Marshall Mcluhan (B) Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
(C) Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall (D) Herbert Marcuse and Jean Baudrillard
Ans: B
98. The German sociologist who is the author of “The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere” _________.
(A) Wilhelm Dilthey (B) Jurgen ɺɺ Habermas
(C) Hans Joas (D) George Simmel
Ans: B
99. The author of “The Post Modern Condition” :
(A) Jean - Francois Lyotard (B) Jurgen ɺɺ Habermas
(C) Gilles Deleuze (D) Feli x Guattari
Ans: A
100. __________ is a key feature of diasporic literature.
(A) Displacement (B) Distortion (C) Fragmentation (D) Deconstruction
Ans: A
(A) The less travelled road (B) The one covered with leaves (C) The neatly paved one (D) The grassy pathway.
Ans: A
86. The heads of Devadatta and __________ were interchanged in Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana.
(A) Bhagavanta (B) Hayavadana (C) Kapila (D) Padmini
Ans: C
87. Brutus in Eugene O ‘Neil’s play Emperor Jones Keeps his followers under control with his much acclaimed __________.
(A) Rifle (B) Silver Bullet (C) Cartridge (D) Gun Powder
Ans: B
88. The broken Unicorn is the symbol of _________ in the play Glass Menagerie.
(A) Laura (B) Amanda Wingfield (C) Blue Roses (D) Gentleman Caller
Ans: A
89. What time did the clock hands show at Salim Sinai’s birth in The midnight’s children ?
(A) 10.10 A.M. (B) 12 midnight (C) 1.00 A.M. (D) 12.30 P.M.
Ans: B
90. Which letter is used to brand the protagonist in Hawthorn’s novel The Scarlet Letter ?
(A) X (B) S (C) A (D) Z
Ans: C
91. “Black Skin, White Masks” is a work by __________.
(A) Edward. W. Said (B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(C) Frantz Fanon (D) Aime Cesaire
Ans: C
92. An inter disciplinary approach to the relation between literature and environment is found in __________.
(A) Deep Ecology (B) Eco criticism (C) Environmentalism (D) Green movement
Ans: B
93. “Enemies, A Love Story” is a __________ narrative by I saac Bashevis Singer.
(A) Holocaust (B) Chicana (C) Bayesian (D) Fable
Ans: A
94. The feminist anthology “This Bridge Called my Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color” is edited by __________.
(A) Juanita Ramos (B) Ana Castillo
(C) Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga (D) Cherrie Moraga and Juanita Ramos
Ans: C
95. The terms “Lesbian existence” and “Lesbian Continuum” were advocated by _________.
(A) Diana Fuss (B) Adrienne Rich (C) Alcaeus (D) Judith Butler
Ans: B
96. The terms “thick description” was used by the anthropologist clifford Geertz in his work __________.
(A) Cultural Materialism (B) The New Historicism (C) Modern Literary Theory (D) The Interpretation of Cultures
Ans: D
97. The term “Culture Industry” is associated with __________.
(A) Terry Eagleton and Marshall Mcluhan (B) Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
(C) Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall (D) Herbert Marcuse and Jean Baudrillard
Ans: B
98. The German sociologist who is the author of “The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere” _________.
(A) Wilhelm Dilthey (B) Jurgen ɺɺ Habermas
(C) Hans Joas (D) George Simmel
Ans: B
99. The author of “The Post Modern Condition” :
(A) Jean - Francois Lyotard (B) Jurgen ɺɺ Habermas
(C) Gilles Deleuze (D) Feli x Guattari
Ans: A
100. __________ is a key feature of diasporic literature.
(A) Displacement (B) Distortion (C) Fragmentation (D) Deconstruction
Ans: A
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