ENGLISH LITERATURE- PAGE 23
1. Who is the author of the work Opus Majus? (A) Roger Bacon (B) Miles Coverdale (C) Robert Glouster (D) John Gower
2. Identify the first autobiography in the English Language (A) The Boke of Margery Kempe. (B) Le Morte d”Arthur (C) Handling Sin (D) Orrmulum
3. Who wrote the work The Battle of Agincourt (A) Samuel Daniel (B) Sir Philip Sidney (C) Sir Edmund Spencer (D) Micheal Drayton
4. Who wrote the work Epicaene or the Silent Women (A) Thomas Dekker (B) Thomas Middleton (C) Ben Jonson (D) Philip Massinger
5. Who wrote the work A Woman Killed with Kindness (A) John Marston (B) Thomas Heywood (C) Sir Philip Sydney (D) Francis Bacon
6. Who wrote the History of the World (A) Walter Raleigh (B) Raphael Holinshed (C) Richard Hakluyt (D) Richard Hooker
7. Who wrote the work The Unfortunate Traveller or the Life of Jack Wilton (A) Thomas Lodge (B) Robert Greene (C) Christopher Marlow (D) Thomas Nash
8. Who wrote the work The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (A) John Lyly (B) Thomas Kyd (C) George Peele (D) George Chapman
9. Who is the author of the work Marriage à-la-Mode (A) John Dryden (B) Samuel Butler (C) John Oldham (D) John Gay
10. The English Restoration (1660–1689) corresponds to the last years of the direct _____ reign in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. (A) House of Plantagenet (B) House of Lancaster (C) House of Stuart (D) House of Tudor
11. The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts by John Dryden is a: (A) Ode (B) Sonnet (C) Allegory (D) Elegy
12. The first printing press in Europe was set up by (A) Johannes Gutenberg (B) William Caxton (C) Sir Thomas More (D) Erasmus
13. Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy was influenced by (A) Seneca (B) Tertullian (C) Virgil (D) Plautus
14. In a 1817 review of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey coined the term ‘Lake School of Poets’ grouping... (A) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Crabbe (B) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron (C) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Haslitt (D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey
15. “His life was gentle and the elements so mixed in him, that Nature might stand up and say to all the world, ‘This was a man!”’ Who is the speaker, and about whom is this spoken ? (A) Enobarbus on Antony (B) Brutus on Caesar (C) Cleopatra on Antony (D) Marc Antony on Caesar
16. “When my love swears that she is made of truth I do believe her, though I know she lies”. The author of these lines is... (A) Philip Sidney (B) Edmund Spenser (C) Christopher Marlowe (D) William Shakespeare
17. The poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge was notably influenced by... (A) The Napoleonic Wars (B) The Glorious Revolution (C) The French Revolution (D) Magna Carta Agreements
18. Who is the author of the work Mappings? (A) Amitav Ghosh (B) Rohinton Mistry (C) Arundathi Roy (D) Vikram Seth
19. Who is the author of the work Gulamgiri? (A) Jawaharlal Nehru (B) Babasaheb Ambedkar (C) Jyotirao Phule (D) Pandita Ramabai
20. Which among the following texts do not fall into the genre of autobiography? (A) Kamala Das’s My Story (B) Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (C) Marjane Satrape’s Persepolis (D) Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of my Mother
21. “Great wits are sure to madness near allied and thin partitions do their bounds divide”. The above lines appear in... (A) Mac Flecknoe (B) Absalom and Achitophel (C) Essay on Man (D) Alexander’s Feast
22. ‘Jabberwocky’ is a character in.... (A) The Importance of Being Earnest (B) Fra Lippo Lippi (C) Through the Looking Glass (D) Goblin Market
23. Everyman is... (A) A medieval play based on an episode from the Bible (B) A medieval morality play (C) A Tudor interlude (D) A miracle play
24. “Verses on the Death of Dr Swift” was written by... (A) Jonathan Swift (B) Alexander Pope (C) Samuel Johnson (D) James Boswell
25. Which among the following is a novel set in Pakistan? (A) Taslima Nasrin’s Lajja (B) Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran (C) Khalid Hossein’s The Kite Runner (D) Mohsin Hamid’s Moth Smoke
26. Which year did Rabindranath Tagore receive the Nobel Prize for literature? (A) 1900 (B) 1913 (C) 1942 (D) 1950
27. The idea that the unconscious is structured ‘like a language’, was introduced by (A) Carl Jung (B) Sigmund Freud (C) Jacques Lacan (D) Ferdinand De. Saussure
28. Which of the following novels is by Patrick White? (A) Oscar and Lucinola (B) Possession (C) Voss (D) The Famished Road
29. Who among the following is not well-known as a poet? (A) Faiz Ahmed Faiz (B) Ebrahim Alkazi (C) Adil Jussawalla (D) Gopal Krishna Adiga
30. One Hundred Years of Solitude is written by (A) Nelson Mandela (B) Wole Soyinka (C) Roberto Bolano (D) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
31. Who is the writer of the collection Hymns for drowning: Poems for Vishnu by Nammalvar (A) Khushwant Singh (B) A K Ramanujan (C) Manju Kapoor (D) Ranajit Guha
32. What do we mean by the term “omniscient narrator”? (A) A narrator who speaks in the first person voice (B) A narrator who is not reliable (C) A narrator who is from the past (D) An all-knowing narrator
33. In which language did Saadat Hasan Manto write his stories? (A) Telugu (B) Marathi (C) Punjabi (D) Urdu
34. Who among the following won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2013? (A) Alice Walker (B) Toni Morrison (C) Doris Lessing (D) Alice Munro
35. Who among the following is a well-known writer from Sri Lanka? (A) Shyam Selvadurai (B) C. S. Lakshmi (C) O. V. Vijayan (D) Raj Kamal Jha
36. The person who translated M K Gandhi’s autobiography into English is (A) Mahadev Desai (B) Morarji Desai (C) Kantilal Desai (D) Mahatma Gandhi
37. Who among the following is a psychoanalytical theorist? (A) Helene Cixous (B) Toril Moi (C) Sandra Gilbert (D) Gayatri Spiyak
38. Tender Buttons is authored by (A) Getrude Stein (B) Rajeshwari Sundarajan (C) Susie Tharu (D) Virginia Woolf
39. Who among the following is a theorist of decolonization? (A) Raymond Williams (B) Andrea Dworkin (C) Frantz Fanon (D) Simone De Beauvoir
40. Who is the author of the essay “A Cyborg Manifesto”? (A) Donna Haraway (B) Audre Lorde (C) Charlotte Perkins Gilman (D) Julia Kristeva
41. Who among the following is not an American Women Poet? (A) A. S. Byatt (B) Amy Lowell (C) Sylvia Plath (D) Adrienne rich
42. Edward Said’s Orientalism was published in the year __________. (A) 1900 (B) 1950 (C) 2000 (D) 1978
43. Death of a Discipline is written by (A) David Damrosch (B) Walter Benjamin (C) Gayatri Chakravarthi Spivak (D) Susan Bassnett
44. Which among the following books is written by Partha Chatterjee? (A) Nation and its Fragments (B) The Wretched of the Earth (C) Provincializing Europe (D) Imagined Communities
45. Which among the following books is not written by Terry Eagleton? (A) Literary Theory: An Introduction (B) After Theory (C) Criticism and Ideology (D) Of Grammatology
46. “Habitus” is a concept associated with (A) Michel Foucault (B) Frederic Jameson (C) Slavoj Zizek (D) Pierre Bourdieu
47. “Public Sphere” is a concept associated with (A) Giorgio Agamben (B) Jurgen Habermas (C) Elaine Showalter (D) Susan Sontag
48. In The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the NineteenthCentury Literary Imagination the reference in the title is about a character in which of the following books? (A) Jane Eyre (B) Sense and Sensibility (C) The Middle March (D) The Awakening
49. Who among the following theorist is central to the field of Cultural Studies? (A) F.R. Lewis (B) Stuart Hall (C) I .A. Richards (D) Cleanth Brooks
50. Natyashastra was composed by (A) Bhasa (B) Kalidasa (C) Bharata (D) Jagannatha
Answer Key:
1 A
2 A
3 D
4 C
5 B
6 A
7 D
8 D
9 A
10 C
11 C
12 A
13 A
14 D
15 D
16 D
17 C
18 D
19 C
20 D
21 B
22 C
23 B
24 A
25 D
26 B
27 C
28 C
29 B
30 D
31 B
32 D
33 D
34 D
35 A
36 A
37 A
38 A
39 C
40 A
41 A
42 D
43 C
44 A
45 D
46 D
47 B
48 A
49 B
50 C
2. Identify the first autobiography in the English Language (A) The Boke of Margery Kempe. (B) Le Morte d”Arthur (C) Handling Sin (D) Orrmulum
3. Who wrote the work The Battle of Agincourt (A) Samuel Daniel (B) Sir Philip Sidney (C) Sir Edmund Spencer (D) Micheal Drayton
4. Who wrote the work Epicaene or the Silent Women (A) Thomas Dekker (B) Thomas Middleton (C) Ben Jonson (D) Philip Massinger
5. Who wrote the work A Woman Killed with Kindness (A) John Marston (B) Thomas Heywood (C) Sir Philip Sydney (D) Francis Bacon
6. Who wrote the History of the World (A) Walter Raleigh (B) Raphael Holinshed (C) Richard Hakluyt (D) Richard Hooker
7. Who wrote the work The Unfortunate Traveller or the Life of Jack Wilton (A) Thomas Lodge (B) Robert Greene (C) Christopher Marlow (D) Thomas Nash
8. Who wrote the work The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (A) John Lyly (B) Thomas Kyd (C) George Peele (D) George Chapman
9. Who is the author of the work Marriage à-la-Mode (A) John Dryden (B) Samuel Butler (C) John Oldham (D) John Gay
10. The English Restoration (1660–1689) corresponds to the last years of the direct _____ reign in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. (A) House of Plantagenet (B) House of Lancaster (C) House of Stuart (D) House of Tudor
11. The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts by John Dryden is a: (A) Ode (B) Sonnet (C) Allegory (D) Elegy
12. The first printing press in Europe was set up by (A) Johannes Gutenberg (B) William Caxton (C) Sir Thomas More (D) Erasmus
13. Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy was influenced by (A) Seneca (B) Tertullian (C) Virgil (D) Plautus
14. In a 1817 review of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey coined the term ‘Lake School of Poets’ grouping... (A) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Crabbe (B) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron (C) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Haslitt (D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey
15. “His life was gentle and the elements so mixed in him, that Nature might stand up and say to all the world, ‘This was a man!”’ Who is the speaker, and about whom is this spoken ? (A) Enobarbus on Antony (B) Brutus on Caesar (C) Cleopatra on Antony (D) Marc Antony on Caesar
16. “When my love swears that she is made of truth I do believe her, though I know she lies”. The author of these lines is... (A) Philip Sidney (B) Edmund Spenser (C) Christopher Marlowe (D) William Shakespeare
17. The poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge was notably influenced by... (A) The Napoleonic Wars (B) The Glorious Revolution (C) The French Revolution (D) Magna Carta Agreements
18. Who is the author of the work Mappings? (A) Amitav Ghosh (B) Rohinton Mistry (C) Arundathi Roy (D) Vikram Seth
19. Who is the author of the work Gulamgiri? (A) Jawaharlal Nehru (B) Babasaheb Ambedkar (C) Jyotirao Phule (D) Pandita Ramabai
20. Which among the following texts do not fall into the genre of autobiography? (A) Kamala Das’s My Story (B) Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (C) Marjane Satrape’s Persepolis (D) Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of my Mother
21. “Great wits are sure to madness near allied and thin partitions do their bounds divide”. The above lines appear in... (A) Mac Flecknoe (B) Absalom and Achitophel (C) Essay on Man (D) Alexander’s Feast
22. ‘Jabberwocky’ is a character in.... (A) The Importance of Being Earnest (B) Fra Lippo Lippi (C) Through the Looking Glass (D) Goblin Market
23. Everyman is... (A) A medieval play based on an episode from the Bible (B) A medieval morality play (C) A Tudor interlude (D) A miracle play
24. “Verses on the Death of Dr Swift” was written by... (A) Jonathan Swift (B) Alexander Pope (C) Samuel Johnson (D) James Boswell
25. Which among the following is a novel set in Pakistan? (A) Taslima Nasrin’s Lajja (B) Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran (C) Khalid Hossein’s The Kite Runner (D) Mohsin Hamid’s Moth Smoke
26. Which year did Rabindranath Tagore receive the Nobel Prize for literature? (A) 1900 (B) 1913 (C) 1942 (D) 1950
27. The idea that the unconscious is structured ‘like a language’, was introduced by (A) Carl Jung (B) Sigmund Freud (C) Jacques Lacan (D) Ferdinand De. Saussure
28. Which of the following novels is by Patrick White? (A) Oscar and Lucinola (B) Possession (C) Voss (D) The Famished Road
29. Who among the following is not well-known as a poet? (A) Faiz Ahmed Faiz (B) Ebrahim Alkazi (C) Adil Jussawalla (D) Gopal Krishna Adiga
30. One Hundred Years of Solitude is written by (A) Nelson Mandela (B) Wole Soyinka (C) Roberto Bolano (D) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
31. Who is the writer of the collection Hymns for drowning: Poems for Vishnu by Nammalvar (A) Khushwant Singh (B) A K Ramanujan (C) Manju Kapoor (D) Ranajit Guha
32. What do we mean by the term “omniscient narrator”? (A) A narrator who speaks in the first person voice (B) A narrator who is not reliable (C) A narrator who is from the past (D) An all-knowing narrator
33. In which language did Saadat Hasan Manto write his stories? (A) Telugu (B) Marathi (C) Punjabi (D) Urdu
34. Who among the following won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2013? (A) Alice Walker (B) Toni Morrison (C) Doris Lessing (D) Alice Munro
35. Who among the following is a well-known writer from Sri Lanka? (A) Shyam Selvadurai (B) C. S. Lakshmi (C) O. V. Vijayan (D) Raj Kamal Jha
36. The person who translated M K Gandhi’s autobiography into English is (A) Mahadev Desai (B) Morarji Desai (C) Kantilal Desai (D) Mahatma Gandhi
37. Who among the following is a psychoanalytical theorist? (A) Helene Cixous (B) Toril Moi (C) Sandra Gilbert (D) Gayatri Spiyak
38. Tender Buttons is authored by (A) Getrude Stein (B) Rajeshwari Sundarajan (C) Susie Tharu (D) Virginia Woolf
39. Who among the following is a theorist of decolonization? (A) Raymond Williams (B) Andrea Dworkin (C) Frantz Fanon (D) Simone De Beauvoir
40. Who is the author of the essay “A Cyborg Manifesto”? (A) Donna Haraway (B) Audre Lorde (C) Charlotte Perkins Gilman (D) Julia Kristeva
41. Who among the following is not an American Women Poet? (A) A. S. Byatt (B) Amy Lowell (C) Sylvia Plath (D) Adrienne rich
42. Edward Said’s Orientalism was published in the year __________. (A) 1900 (B) 1950 (C) 2000 (D) 1978
43. Death of a Discipline is written by (A) David Damrosch (B) Walter Benjamin (C) Gayatri Chakravarthi Spivak (D) Susan Bassnett
44. Which among the following books is written by Partha Chatterjee? (A) Nation and its Fragments (B) The Wretched of the Earth (C) Provincializing Europe (D) Imagined Communities
45. Which among the following books is not written by Terry Eagleton? (A) Literary Theory: An Introduction (B) After Theory (C) Criticism and Ideology (D) Of Grammatology
46. “Habitus” is a concept associated with (A) Michel Foucault (B) Frederic Jameson (C) Slavoj Zizek (D) Pierre Bourdieu
47. “Public Sphere” is a concept associated with (A) Giorgio Agamben (B) Jurgen Habermas (C) Elaine Showalter (D) Susan Sontag
48. In The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the NineteenthCentury Literary Imagination the reference in the title is about a character in which of the following books? (A) Jane Eyre (B) Sense and Sensibility (C) The Middle March (D) The Awakening
49. Who among the following theorist is central to the field of Cultural Studies? (A) F.R. Lewis (B) Stuart Hall (C) I .A. Richards (D) Cleanth Brooks
50. Natyashastra was composed by (A) Bhasa (B) Kalidasa (C) Bharata (D) Jagannatha
Answer Key:
1 A
2 A
3 D
4 C
5 B
6 A
7 D
8 D
9 A
10 C
11 C
12 A
13 A
14 D
15 D
16 D
17 C
18 D
19 C
20 D
21 B
22 C
23 B
24 A
25 D
26 B
27 C
28 C
29 B
30 D
31 B
32 D
33 D
34 D
35 A
36 A
37 A
38 A
39 C
40 A
41 A
42 D
43 C
44 A
45 D
46 D
47 B
48 A
49 B
50 C
51. Which of the following is not a poet of the Bhakti movement (A) Kabir (B) Akka Mahadevi (C) Gangadhar Meher (D) Meerabhai
52. The author of the book Argumentative Indian is (A) Amartya Sen (B) Salman Rushdie (C) V.S. Naipaul (D) Ramchandra Guha
53. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge by Jean-François Lyotard was published in the year (A) 1924 (B) 1979 (C) 2002 (D) 1905
54 . Which among these is a novel authored by Pearl. S. Buck (A) Uncle Tom’s Cabin (B) The Grapes of Wrath (C) The Good Earth (D) Sister Carrie
55. Identify the author of The Second Sex (A) Julia Kristeva (B) Margaret Mead (C) Virginia Wolf (D) Simone de Beauvoir
56. Which of the following is not a novel by Amitav Ghosh (A) The Shadow Lines (B) Shalimar the Clown (C) The Circle of Reason (D) Sea of Poppies
57. Karnad’s Hayavadana is a play based on (A) Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (B) Thomas Mann’s Transposed Heads (C) Albert Camus’ The Outsider (D) Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author
58. Plato expresses the opinion that “art is twice removed from reality” in the work: (A) Phaedrus (B) Republic (C) Ion (D) Parmenides
59. William Blake is a --------poet. (A) Metaphysical (B) Romantic (C) Post-modern (D) Modern
60. Remembrances of the Things Past is a work by ----- (A) Alexander Dumas (B) Marcel Proust (C) Jules Verne (D) Emile Zola
61. This movement was founded by the poet Andre Briton in Paris. It proposed that the 17th and the 18th centuries laid too much emphasis on reason and intellect and suppressed finer qualities of irrational and unconscious. Which movement is this? (A) Surrealism (B) Expressionism (C) American Romanticism (D) Symbolism
62. Which of the following is not written by Michael Foucault? (A) The Birth of the Clinic (B) Madness and Civilization (C) Being and Time (D) History of Sexuality
63. T.B. Macaulay’s minutes on English education was published in (A) 1811 (B) 1822 (C) 1830 (D) 1835
64. Which of the following is not a work by Dr. Babsaheb Ambedkar: (A) Castes in India: their Mechanism, Genesis and Development (B) The Annihilation of Caste (C) The Buddha and his Dhamma (D) Slavery: In the Civilized British Government Under The Clock Of Brahmanism
65. Who first translated Abhijnana Sakuntalam from Sanskrit to English? (A) William Jones (B) Charles Wilkins (C) J.S. Mill (D) C.P. Brown
66. The Trial is a novel by: (A) Italio Calvino (B) Victor Hugo (C) Franz Kafka (D) Jean Paul Sartre
67. Who is the author of A Train to Pakistan? (A) Khushwant Singh (B) Saadat Hasan Manto (C) Chaman Nahal (D) Bisham Sahani
68. Which among the following poems has been inspired by Irish nationalist movement? (A) A Song of Despair (B) September 1st , 1939 (C) Easter 1916 (D) The Second Coming
69. Which among the following is not written by Girish Karnad? (A) Nagamandala (B) Evam Indrajit (C) Hayavadana (D) Tuglaq
70. Who is the author of The Home and the World? (A) Sarojini Naidu (B) Mulkraj Anand (C) Rabindranath Tagore (D) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
71. Which among the following is a post-independence Indian English poet? (A) Jayanta Mahapatra (B) Henry Derozio (C) Toru Dutt (D) Michael Madhusudhan Dutt
72. Mahasweta Devi’s Breast Stories were translated into English by --------. (A) Jai Ratan (B) Lakshmi Holmstrom (C) Tejaswini Niranjana (D) Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak
73. Black Skin, White Masks is written by (A) Arjun Appadurai (B) Frantz Fanon (C) Ania Loomba (D) Aime Cesaire
74. ______ tales refer to a voluminous body of literature native to India concerning the previous births of Buddha in human and in animal form. (A) Panchatantra (B) Jataka (C) Hitopadesa (D) Arthashastra
75. Which among the following is not a Booker prize winning novel? (A) The English Patient (B) The God of Small Things (C) Midnight’s Children (D) A Bend in the River
76. Who among the following does not belong to the category of Indian writers in English? (A) Raja Rao (B) Nissim Ezekiel (C) Bama (D) Mahesh Dattani
77. Hind Swaraj was written by M.K. Gandhi in the year (A) 1890 (B) 1909 (C) 1930 (D) 1945
78. Svapnavasavadatta is a play written by (A) Bhasa (B) Kalidasa (C) Asvaghosha (D) Kumarilabhatta
79. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism is authored by (A) Ernest Gellner (B) Eric Hobsbawm (C) Frantz Fanon (D) Benedict Anderson
80. Which of the following options is not a regional or social variety of a language, especially a variety of speech differing from the standard literary language or speech pattern of the culture in which it exists : (A) Pidgin (B) Linguistic Competence (C) Dialect (D) Creole
81. The critic who added the Santa Rasa as the ninth rasa is: (A) Panini (B) Abhinava Gupta (C) Dandin (D) Manmata
82. Who does defend the English dramatists in Essay on Dramatic Poesy? (A) Neander (B) Lisideius (C) Eugenius (D) Crites
83. Preface to the Plays of Shakespeare was written by (A) Alexander Pope (B) Matthew Arnold (C) William Wordsworth (D) Dr. Samuel Johnson
84. A Spenserian stanza is the one which has (A) eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single alexandrine line in iambic hexameter (B) a single alexandrine line in iambic hexameter followed by eight lines in iambic pentameter (C) a single alexandrine line in iambic hexameter followed by a quatrain in iambic pentameter (D) three quatrains in iambic pentameter followed by a couplet
85. Which author-book pair is incorrect? (A) Endymion: John Lyly (B) The Famous Chronicle of King Edward-1: George Peele (C) King Richard the Second: William Shakespeare (D) The Wounds of Civil War: Thomas Nash
86. The Life of Savage was written by (A) Richard Steele (B) Dr. Samuel Johnson (C) Alexander Pope (D) William Cowper
87. Who is not associated with the Pre-Raphaelite School of Poetry? (A) William Holman Hunt (B) Thomas Woolner (C) James Collinson (D) Herbert Read
88. In Memoriam by Alfred Tennyson was written to mourn the death of (A) Edward King (B) Arthur Hallam (C) Richard King (D) W.B. Yeats
89. Which of the following arrangements of Shakespeare’s plays is correct?
(A) Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra
(B) Antony and Cleopatra, Merchant of Venice, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet
(C) Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Merchant of Venice, Hamlet
(D) Merchant of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet
90. Who is the poet of the following lines: “But Europe at that time was filled with joy France standing on the top of golden hours And human nature seeming born again” (A) Walter Scott (B) William Wordsworth (C) S.T. Coleridge (D) P.B. Shelley
91. To which of the following critics the phrase “Art for Art’s sake” is associated? (A) Thomas Carlyle (B) Oscar Wilde (C) F.R. Levis (D) I. A. Richards
92. The famous opening line, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” is of which novel? (A) Pride and Prejudice (B) Huckleberry Finn (C) Anna Karenina (D) The Great Gatsby
93. Gabriel Oak is a character in (A) The Portrait of a Lady (B) Return of the Native (C) Far from the Madding Crowd (D) Mill on the Floss
94. Who is the author of Dejection: An Ode? (A) Jane Collier (B) John Keats (C) P.B. Shelly (D) S.T. Coleridge
95. Who said about poetry- “Poetry is not turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion”? (A) T. S. Eliot (B) Robert Frost (C) Samuel Johnson (D) Matthew Arnold
96. One of O Henry’s story ends with these lines. “But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the ________” Supply the missing word.
(A) Wisest (B) Best (C) Gems (D) Magi
97. One of Katherine Mansfield’s famous stories echoes these lines from King Lear: “As flies to wanton boys are we to th’ Gods./ They kill us for their sport.” Identify the story.
(A) “Bliss” (B) “The Garden Party” (C) “The fly” (D) “Something Childish”
98. The Times Literary Supplement is a ________ literary review published in London.
(A) Daily (B) Weekly (C) Bi-monthly (D) Monthly
99. Who has criticized Shakespeare’s art of characterization asserting that Shakespeare “is lacking in the chief, if not the sole, means of portraying character, which is individuality of language— that each person should speak in a way suitable to his own character.” “The words of one can be put in the mouth of another, and by the character of the speech it is impossible to know who is speaking”?
(A) Dr Johnson (B) T S Eliot (C) Tolstoy (D) G Wilson Knight
100. The protagonist of D H Lawrence’s novel Sons and Lovers is often associated with the hero of a famous play by
(A) Aeschylus (B) Euripides (C) Sophocles (D) Aristophanes
Answer Key:
51 C
52 A
53 B
54 C
55 D
56 B
57 B
58 B
59 B
60 B
61 A
62 C
63 D
64 D
65 A
66 C
67 A
68 C
69 B
70 C
71 A
72 D
73 B
74 B
75 D
76 C
77 B
78 A
79 D
80 B
81 B
82 A
83 D
84 A
85 D
86 B
87 D
88 B
89 A
90 B
91 B
92 C
93 C
94 D
95 A
96 D
97 C
98 B
99 C
100 C
52. The author of the book Argumentative Indian is (A) Amartya Sen (B) Salman Rushdie (C) V.S. Naipaul (D) Ramchandra Guha
53. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge by Jean-François Lyotard was published in the year (A) 1924 (B) 1979 (C) 2002 (D) 1905
54 . Which among these is a novel authored by Pearl. S. Buck (A) Uncle Tom’s Cabin (B) The Grapes of Wrath (C) The Good Earth (D) Sister Carrie
55. Identify the author of The Second Sex (A) Julia Kristeva (B) Margaret Mead (C) Virginia Wolf (D) Simone de Beauvoir
56. Which of the following is not a novel by Amitav Ghosh (A) The Shadow Lines (B) Shalimar the Clown (C) The Circle of Reason (D) Sea of Poppies
57. Karnad’s Hayavadana is a play based on (A) Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (B) Thomas Mann’s Transposed Heads (C) Albert Camus’ The Outsider (D) Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author
58. Plato expresses the opinion that “art is twice removed from reality” in the work: (A) Phaedrus (B) Republic (C) Ion (D) Parmenides
59. William Blake is a --------poet. (A) Metaphysical (B) Romantic (C) Post-modern (D) Modern
60. Remembrances of the Things Past is a work by ----- (A) Alexander Dumas (B) Marcel Proust (C) Jules Verne (D) Emile Zola
61. This movement was founded by the poet Andre Briton in Paris. It proposed that the 17th and the 18th centuries laid too much emphasis on reason and intellect and suppressed finer qualities of irrational and unconscious. Which movement is this? (A) Surrealism (B) Expressionism (C) American Romanticism (D) Symbolism
62. Which of the following is not written by Michael Foucault? (A) The Birth of the Clinic (B) Madness and Civilization (C) Being and Time (D) History of Sexuality
63. T.B. Macaulay’s minutes on English education was published in (A) 1811 (B) 1822 (C) 1830 (D) 1835
64. Which of the following is not a work by Dr. Babsaheb Ambedkar: (A) Castes in India: their Mechanism, Genesis and Development (B) The Annihilation of Caste (C) The Buddha and his Dhamma (D) Slavery: In the Civilized British Government Under The Clock Of Brahmanism
65. Who first translated Abhijnana Sakuntalam from Sanskrit to English? (A) William Jones (B) Charles Wilkins (C) J.S. Mill (D) C.P. Brown
66. The Trial is a novel by: (A) Italio Calvino (B) Victor Hugo (C) Franz Kafka (D) Jean Paul Sartre
67. Who is the author of A Train to Pakistan? (A) Khushwant Singh (B) Saadat Hasan Manto (C) Chaman Nahal (D) Bisham Sahani
68. Which among the following poems has been inspired by Irish nationalist movement? (A) A Song of Despair (B) September 1st , 1939 (C) Easter 1916 (D) The Second Coming
69. Which among the following is not written by Girish Karnad? (A) Nagamandala (B) Evam Indrajit (C) Hayavadana (D) Tuglaq
70. Who is the author of The Home and the World? (A) Sarojini Naidu (B) Mulkraj Anand (C) Rabindranath Tagore (D) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
71. Which among the following is a post-independence Indian English poet? (A) Jayanta Mahapatra (B) Henry Derozio (C) Toru Dutt (D) Michael Madhusudhan Dutt
72. Mahasweta Devi’s Breast Stories were translated into English by --------. (A) Jai Ratan (B) Lakshmi Holmstrom (C) Tejaswini Niranjana (D) Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak
73. Black Skin, White Masks is written by (A) Arjun Appadurai (B) Frantz Fanon (C) Ania Loomba (D) Aime Cesaire
74. ______ tales refer to a voluminous body of literature native to India concerning the previous births of Buddha in human and in animal form. (A) Panchatantra (B) Jataka (C) Hitopadesa (D) Arthashastra
75. Which among the following is not a Booker prize winning novel? (A) The English Patient (B) The God of Small Things (C) Midnight’s Children (D) A Bend in the River
76. Who among the following does not belong to the category of Indian writers in English? (A) Raja Rao (B) Nissim Ezekiel (C) Bama (D) Mahesh Dattani
77. Hind Swaraj was written by M.K. Gandhi in the year (A) 1890 (B) 1909 (C) 1930 (D) 1945
78. Svapnavasavadatta is a play written by (A) Bhasa (B) Kalidasa (C) Asvaghosha (D) Kumarilabhatta
79. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism is authored by (A) Ernest Gellner (B) Eric Hobsbawm (C) Frantz Fanon (D) Benedict Anderson
80. Which of the following options is not a regional or social variety of a language, especially a variety of speech differing from the standard literary language or speech pattern of the culture in which it exists : (A) Pidgin (B) Linguistic Competence (C) Dialect (D) Creole
81. The critic who added the Santa Rasa as the ninth rasa is: (A) Panini (B) Abhinava Gupta (C) Dandin (D) Manmata
82. Who does defend the English dramatists in Essay on Dramatic Poesy? (A) Neander (B) Lisideius (C) Eugenius (D) Crites
83. Preface to the Plays of Shakespeare was written by (A) Alexander Pope (B) Matthew Arnold (C) William Wordsworth (D) Dr. Samuel Johnson
84. A Spenserian stanza is the one which has (A) eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single alexandrine line in iambic hexameter (B) a single alexandrine line in iambic hexameter followed by eight lines in iambic pentameter (C) a single alexandrine line in iambic hexameter followed by a quatrain in iambic pentameter (D) three quatrains in iambic pentameter followed by a couplet
85. Which author-book pair is incorrect? (A) Endymion: John Lyly (B) The Famous Chronicle of King Edward-1: George Peele (C) King Richard the Second: William Shakespeare (D) The Wounds of Civil War: Thomas Nash
86. The Life of Savage was written by (A) Richard Steele (B) Dr. Samuel Johnson (C) Alexander Pope (D) William Cowper
87. Who is not associated with the Pre-Raphaelite School of Poetry? (A) William Holman Hunt (B) Thomas Woolner (C) James Collinson (D) Herbert Read
88. In Memoriam by Alfred Tennyson was written to mourn the death of (A) Edward King (B) Arthur Hallam (C) Richard King (D) W.B. Yeats
89. Which of the following arrangements of Shakespeare’s plays is correct?
(A) Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra
(B) Antony and Cleopatra, Merchant of Venice, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet
(C) Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Merchant of Venice, Hamlet
(D) Merchant of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet
90. Who is the poet of the following lines: “But Europe at that time was filled with joy France standing on the top of golden hours And human nature seeming born again” (A) Walter Scott (B) William Wordsworth (C) S.T. Coleridge (D) P.B. Shelley
91. To which of the following critics the phrase “Art for Art’s sake” is associated? (A) Thomas Carlyle (B) Oscar Wilde (C) F.R. Levis (D) I. A. Richards
92. The famous opening line, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” is of which novel? (A) Pride and Prejudice (B) Huckleberry Finn (C) Anna Karenina (D) The Great Gatsby
93. Gabriel Oak is a character in (A) The Portrait of a Lady (B) Return of the Native (C) Far from the Madding Crowd (D) Mill on the Floss
94. Who is the author of Dejection: An Ode? (A) Jane Collier (B) John Keats (C) P.B. Shelly (D) S.T. Coleridge
95. Who said about poetry- “Poetry is not turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion”? (A) T. S. Eliot (B) Robert Frost (C) Samuel Johnson (D) Matthew Arnold
96. One of O Henry’s story ends with these lines. “But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the ________” Supply the missing word.
(A) Wisest (B) Best (C) Gems (D) Magi
97. One of Katherine Mansfield’s famous stories echoes these lines from King Lear: “As flies to wanton boys are we to th’ Gods./ They kill us for their sport.” Identify the story.
(A) “Bliss” (B) “The Garden Party” (C) “The fly” (D) “Something Childish”
98. The Times Literary Supplement is a ________ literary review published in London.
(A) Daily (B) Weekly (C) Bi-monthly (D) Monthly
99. Who has criticized Shakespeare’s art of characterization asserting that Shakespeare “is lacking in the chief, if not the sole, means of portraying character, which is individuality of language— that each person should speak in a way suitable to his own character.” “The words of one can be put in the mouth of another, and by the character of the speech it is impossible to know who is speaking”?
(A) Dr Johnson (B) T S Eliot (C) Tolstoy (D) G Wilson Knight
100. The protagonist of D H Lawrence’s novel Sons and Lovers is often associated with the hero of a famous play by
(A) Aeschylus (B) Euripides (C) Sophocles (D) Aristophanes
Answer Key:
51 C
52 A
53 B
54 C
55 D
56 B
57 B
58 B
59 B
60 B
61 A
62 C
63 D
64 D
65 A
66 C
67 A
68 C
69 B
70 C
71 A
72 D
73 B
74 B
75 D
76 C
77 B
78 A
79 D
80 B
81 B
82 A
83 D
84 A
85 D
86 B
87 D
88 B
89 A
90 B
91 B
92 C
93 C
94 D
95 A
96 D
97 C
98 B
99 C
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