ENGLISH LITERATURE- PAGE 24
1. What is the sub-title of A Tale of a Tub? (A) Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind (B) Apology for Truth (C) Founded on Fact (D) Temptation Sordid
2. “On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold-thread, appeared the letter A” In which literary work the above line comes? (A) Scholar Gypsy (B) The Scarlet Letter (C) The Blessed Damozel (D) Mary Stuart
3. Who said about Shakespeare- “Our myriad-minded Shakespeare”? (A) Ben Jonson (B) T.S. Eliot (C) S.T. Coleridge (D) D.H. Lawrence
4. Who is not a ‘Cavalier Poet’? (A) Thomas Carew (B) Ann Bradstreet (C) Richard Lovelace (D) John Suckling
5. Which novel of R.K. Narayan’s has Chandran as central character? (A) The Bachelor of Arts (B) Guide (C) The English Teacher (D) Malgudi Days
6. “Here lies one whose name was writ in water” Whose tombstone bears no name and only this line? (A) Lord Byron (B) John Keats (C) P.B. Shelly (D) S.T. Coleridge
7. Who among the following is associated with New Humanism? (A) George Abbot (B) Irving Babbitt (C) Paul Ableman (D) Humbert Wolfe
8. Feminine Rhyme is (A) the rhyming of single accented syllables (B) a rhyme in which accented syllables in two words are followed by identical unaccented syllables (C) a phrase, line or group of lines repeated at intervals during a poem (D) when excessive sentimentality or ludicrousness is exhibited
9. Which among the following is a novel written in verse? (A) The Golden Gate (B) The Great Indian Novel (C) The God of Small Things (D) Satanic Verses
10. Who among the following is not influenced by the symbolism movement in French poetry and art? (A) W. B. Yeats (B) T. S. Eliot (C) James Joyce (D) G.M. Hopkins
11. In which year was The Origin of Species published? (A) 1865 (B) 1832 (C) 1859 (D) 1874
12. When were the theatres in England reopened? (A) 1642 (B) 1660 (C) 1649 (D) 1625
13. Queen’s Men, The Admiral’s Men, Lord Strange’s Men, Lord Chamberlain’s Men were the famous names of (A) Sections of English Army (B) Theatre companies (C) Catholic groups belonging to different royals (D) Protestant groups belonging to different royals
14. Who among the following is not a Lake poet? (A) William Wordsworth (B) S. T. Coleridge (C) John Keats (D) Robert Southey
15. The novel Catch 22 is about (A) one point of view (B) black humour (C) chronicle structure (D) World War-1 setting
16. Who among the following is not a Poet Laureate (A) Samuel Johnson (B) Robert Southey (C) John Masefield (D) William Wordsworth
17. The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is written by (A) Mulk Raj Anand (B) Nirad C. Chaudhary (C) Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam (D) R.K. Narayan
18. The Serpent and the Rope is about (A) complex spiritual and philosophical ideas of existence and reality (B) the lives of snake-charmers (C) the caste system in India (D) the education system in India
19. War of Roses was fought between (A) two families, the House of York and the House of Lancaster (B) two political parties, Whigs and Tories (C) England and France (D) admirers of ancient Greek and Latin literature and English literature
20. To whom were majority of Shakespearean love sonnets addressed? (A) His lady love (B) His wife (C) Mr. W. H (D) His unknown mistress
21. The Hind and the Panther is about (A) the authority of Church and the distinction between the Catholic Church and the Church of England (B) the relationship between fatherhood and kingship (C) personal and literary satire on a contemporary poet (D) the mock astrologer
22. The Cakes and Ale is (A) a caricature of a fellow writer (B) a satire on London literary society between the wars (C) about love, desire and family (D) a novel in four different locations presenting human contradictions
23. House of Fame is written by (A) John Dryden (B) George Peele (C) Geoffrey Chaucer (D) John Gower
24. What is Eclectic Method of teaching English? (A) Teacher is free to choose techniques and activities from language teaching approaches and methodologies (B) Teaching grammar is more important than vocabulary (C) A set of rules should be followed while teaching in a classroom. (D) Teacher should translate every word of English in the classroom.
25. What is the structural approach to teach English? (A) Mother tongue is acquired in situations, similarly situations should be created to teach a foreign language like English. (B) It is based on the assumptions that language can be best learnt through a scientific selection and grading of the structures or patterns of sentences and vocabulary. (C) Mother tongue should not be used at all in the process of teaching- learning. (D) More and more practice should be emphasized.
26. In phonetics how many diphthongs and vowels are there in English language? (A) 20 (B) 08 (C) 13 (D) 18
27. Which of the following is true of the terms Code-mixing and Code-switching in English Language Teaching? (A) Parts of words from two different languages combined and moving from one language to another in speech (B) System that shows the clear relationship between written symbols and sounds in a language. (C) Mother tongue or language learned from infancy. (D) Reading quickly to get an idea or gist of content in two languages.
28. One Word More by Robert Browning is: (A) a poem which sets the mysterious mood of the poem in a laboratory location (B) about disclosure of his innermost feelings to E.B.B, his wife (C) about a lover who kills his lady love to keep her always with him (D) description of a duchess who was got murdered by her husband as she innocently smiled on small things
29. Who said about Thomas Gray That he is “dull, but dull in a new sort of way” (A) Thomas Addison (B) Samuel Johnson (C) John Keats (D) I.A. Richards
30. Who among the following English writers was not born in India? (A) Rudyard Kipling (B) George Orwell (C) E. M. Forster (D) W.M. Thackrey
31. Which playwright is known as the Father of Modern Realistic Drama? (A) John Galsworthy (B) Henrik Ibsen (C) Mark Twain (D) G.B. Shaw
32. “No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, and though no breath at all?” This line about a pathetic situation occurs in which Shakespearean play? (A) Macbeth (B) Richard III (C) King Lear (D) Othello
33. Which famous English poet wrote the Introduction to Tagore’s Gitanjali when it was first published in English? (A) E.M. Forster (B) Rudyard Kipling (C) T.S. Eliot (D) W.B. Yeats
34. The Age of Anxiety was hailed as “his best work to date” and criticized as “his one dull book, his one failure”. Who is the author? (A) W.B. Yeats (B) W. H. Auden (C) Sylvia Plath (D) T.S. Eliot
35. The other name of Gorboduc is (A) The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex (B) The Misfortunes of Arthur (C) The Tragedy of Blood (D) Gismond of Salerne in Love
36. Who among the following is NOT a war poet? (A) Wilfred Owen (B) C.D. Lewis (C) Siegfried Sassoon (D) Rupert Brooke
37. Wessex Poems were written by (A) Thomas Hardy (B) Robert Browning (C) Alfred Tennyson (D) Aphra Behn
38. The Modern Prometheus is the sub-title of (A) Othello (B) Frankenstein (C) Oliver Twist (D) Moby Dick
39. Whose Essays have the sub-title ‘or Councils, Civil and Moral’ ? (A) William Hazlitt (B) Charles Lamb (C) Francis Bacon (D) G.K. Chesterton
40. Whom did Mac-Flecknoe satirise? (A) The contemporary political situation of succession (B) Thomas Shadwell, a contemporary playwright (C) The politics of sedition in the times (D) The social manners of the 17th century England
41. Which Muse did John Milton invoke in Paradise Lost? (A) The Holy Spirit (B) Muse of Epic Poetry, Caliope (C) Muse of lyric, Euterpe (D) Muse of Music
42. Who is Harry Baily in The Canterbury Tales? (A) The Host (B) The Parson (C) The Monk (D) The Summoner
43. “The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new” This line is from (A) Albert Camus (B) Jean Genet (C) Harold Pinter (D) Samuel Beckett
44. Who among the following is not associated with the stream of consciousness technique? (A) James Joyce (B) Virginia Woolf (C) Henry James (D) Ralph Ellison
45. Who is the writer of The Doctor’s Dilemma? (A) Henerik Ibsen (B) George Bernard Shaw (C) Arthur Miller (D) John Paul Sartre
46. The Silver Box is a play which deals with (A) the double standards of law which acts differently for rich and poor (B) the campaign to improve conditions of British jails (C) contemporary social condition of London (D) the condition of factory labour
47. Which of the following is not written by Leo Tolstoy? (A) Anna Karenina (B) The Memoirs of a Madman (C) The Death of Ivan Iiyich (D) The Life Guard
48. Thomas Carlyle is best known for writing about (A) The Restoration (B) French Revolution (C) Great Northern war (D) Spanish succession war
49. Who is not a Bronte sister? (A) Charlotte (B) Anne (C) Jane (D) Emily
50. It was a religious movement within the Church of England and had its origin in Oxford. It preached for independence and spiritual status of the Church. Which movement was this? (A) Dada Movement (B) Oxford Movement (C) Confessional Poetry (D) Transcendentalism
Answer Key:
1 A
2 B
3 C
4 B
5 A
6 B
7 B
8 B
9 A
10 D
11 C
12 B
13 B
14 C
15 B
16 A
17 B
18 A
19 A
20 C
21 A
22 B
23 C
24 A
25 B
26 A
27 A
28 B
29 B
30 C
31 B
32 C
33 D
34 B
35 A
36 B
37 A
38 B
39 C
40 B
41 A
42 A
43 D
44 C
45 B
46 A
47 D
48 B
49 C
50 B
2. “On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold-thread, appeared the letter A” In which literary work the above line comes? (A) Scholar Gypsy (B) The Scarlet Letter (C) The Blessed Damozel (D) Mary Stuart
3. Who said about Shakespeare- “Our myriad-minded Shakespeare”? (A) Ben Jonson (B) T.S. Eliot (C) S.T. Coleridge (D) D.H. Lawrence
4. Who is not a ‘Cavalier Poet’? (A) Thomas Carew (B) Ann Bradstreet (C) Richard Lovelace (D) John Suckling
5. Which novel of R.K. Narayan’s has Chandran as central character? (A) The Bachelor of Arts (B) Guide (C) The English Teacher (D) Malgudi Days
6. “Here lies one whose name was writ in water” Whose tombstone bears no name and only this line? (A) Lord Byron (B) John Keats (C) P.B. Shelly (D) S.T. Coleridge
7. Who among the following is associated with New Humanism? (A) George Abbot (B) Irving Babbitt (C) Paul Ableman (D) Humbert Wolfe
8. Feminine Rhyme is (A) the rhyming of single accented syllables (B) a rhyme in which accented syllables in two words are followed by identical unaccented syllables (C) a phrase, line or group of lines repeated at intervals during a poem (D) when excessive sentimentality or ludicrousness is exhibited
9. Which among the following is a novel written in verse? (A) The Golden Gate (B) The Great Indian Novel (C) The God of Small Things (D) Satanic Verses
10. Who among the following is not influenced by the symbolism movement in French poetry and art? (A) W. B. Yeats (B) T. S. Eliot (C) James Joyce (D) G.M. Hopkins
11. In which year was The Origin of Species published? (A) 1865 (B) 1832 (C) 1859 (D) 1874
12. When were the theatres in England reopened? (A) 1642 (B) 1660 (C) 1649 (D) 1625
13. Queen’s Men, The Admiral’s Men, Lord Strange’s Men, Lord Chamberlain’s Men were the famous names of (A) Sections of English Army (B) Theatre companies (C) Catholic groups belonging to different royals (D) Protestant groups belonging to different royals
14. Who among the following is not a Lake poet? (A) William Wordsworth (B) S. T. Coleridge (C) John Keats (D) Robert Southey
15. The novel Catch 22 is about (A) one point of view (B) black humour (C) chronicle structure (D) World War-1 setting
16. Who among the following is not a Poet Laureate (A) Samuel Johnson (B) Robert Southey (C) John Masefield (D) William Wordsworth
17. The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is written by (A) Mulk Raj Anand (B) Nirad C. Chaudhary (C) Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam (D) R.K. Narayan
18. The Serpent and the Rope is about (A) complex spiritual and philosophical ideas of existence and reality (B) the lives of snake-charmers (C) the caste system in India (D) the education system in India
19. War of Roses was fought between (A) two families, the House of York and the House of Lancaster (B) two political parties, Whigs and Tories (C) England and France (D) admirers of ancient Greek and Latin literature and English literature
20. To whom were majority of Shakespearean love sonnets addressed? (A) His lady love (B) His wife (C) Mr. W. H (D) His unknown mistress
21. The Hind and the Panther is about (A) the authority of Church and the distinction between the Catholic Church and the Church of England (B) the relationship between fatherhood and kingship (C) personal and literary satire on a contemporary poet (D) the mock astrologer
22. The Cakes and Ale is (A) a caricature of a fellow writer (B) a satire on London literary society between the wars (C) about love, desire and family (D) a novel in four different locations presenting human contradictions
23. House of Fame is written by (A) John Dryden (B) George Peele (C) Geoffrey Chaucer (D) John Gower
24. What is Eclectic Method of teaching English? (A) Teacher is free to choose techniques and activities from language teaching approaches and methodologies (B) Teaching grammar is more important than vocabulary (C) A set of rules should be followed while teaching in a classroom. (D) Teacher should translate every word of English in the classroom.
25. What is the structural approach to teach English? (A) Mother tongue is acquired in situations, similarly situations should be created to teach a foreign language like English. (B) It is based on the assumptions that language can be best learnt through a scientific selection and grading of the structures or patterns of sentences and vocabulary. (C) Mother tongue should not be used at all in the process of teaching- learning. (D) More and more practice should be emphasized.
26. In phonetics how many diphthongs and vowels are there in English language? (A) 20 (B) 08 (C) 13 (D) 18
27. Which of the following is true of the terms Code-mixing and Code-switching in English Language Teaching? (A) Parts of words from two different languages combined and moving from one language to another in speech (B) System that shows the clear relationship between written symbols and sounds in a language. (C) Mother tongue or language learned from infancy. (D) Reading quickly to get an idea or gist of content in two languages.
28. One Word More by Robert Browning is: (A) a poem which sets the mysterious mood of the poem in a laboratory location (B) about disclosure of his innermost feelings to E.B.B, his wife (C) about a lover who kills his lady love to keep her always with him (D) description of a duchess who was got murdered by her husband as she innocently smiled on small things
29. Who said about Thomas Gray That he is “dull, but dull in a new sort of way” (A) Thomas Addison (B) Samuel Johnson (C) John Keats (D) I.A. Richards
30. Who among the following English writers was not born in India? (A) Rudyard Kipling (B) George Orwell (C) E. M. Forster (D) W.M. Thackrey
31. Which playwright is known as the Father of Modern Realistic Drama? (A) John Galsworthy (B) Henrik Ibsen (C) Mark Twain (D) G.B. Shaw
32. “No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, and though no breath at all?” This line about a pathetic situation occurs in which Shakespearean play? (A) Macbeth (B) Richard III (C) King Lear (D) Othello
33. Which famous English poet wrote the Introduction to Tagore’s Gitanjali when it was first published in English? (A) E.M. Forster (B) Rudyard Kipling (C) T.S. Eliot (D) W.B. Yeats
34. The Age of Anxiety was hailed as “his best work to date” and criticized as “his one dull book, his one failure”. Who is the author? (A) W.B. Yeats (B) W. H. Auden (C) Sylvia Plath (D) T.S. Eliot
35. The other name of Gorboduc is (A) The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex (B) The Misfortunes of Arthur (C) The Tragedy of Blood (D) Gismond of Salerne in Love
36. Who among the following is NOT a war poet? (A) Wilfred Owen (B) C.D. Lewis (C) Siegfried Sassoon (D) Rupert Brooke
37. Wessex Poems were written by (A) Thomas Hardy (B) Robert Browning (C) Alfred Tennyson (D) Aphra Behn
38. The Modern Prometheus is the sub-title of (A) Othello (B) Frankenstein (C) Oliver Twist (D) Moby Dick
39. Whose Essays have the sub-title ‘or Councils, Civil and Moral’ ? (A) William Hazlitt (B) Charles Lamb (C) Francis Bacon (D) G.K. Chesterton
40. Whom did Mac-Flecknoe satirise? (A) The contemporary political situation of succession (B) Thomas Shadwell, a contemporary playwright (C) The politics of sedition in the times (D) The social manners of the 17th century England
41. Which Muse did John Milton invoke in Paradise Lost? (A) The Holy Spirit (B) Muse of Epic Poetry, Caliope (C) Muse of lyric, Euterpe (D) Muse of Music
42. Who is Harry Baily in The Canterbury Tales? (A) The Host (B) The Parson (C) The Monk (D) The Summoner
43. “The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new” This line is from (A) Albert Camus (B) Jean Genet (C) Harold Pinter (D) Samuel Beckett
44. Who among the following is not associated with the stream of consciousness technique? (A) James Joyce (B) Virginia Woolf (C) Henry James (D) Ralph Ellison
45. Who is the writer of The Doctor’s Dilemma? (A) Henerik Ibsen (B) George Bernard Shaw (C) Arthur Miller (D) John Paul Sartre
46. The Silver Box is a play which deals with (A) the double standards of law which acts differently for rich and poor (B) the campaign to improve conditions of British jails (C) contemporary social condition of London (D) the condition of factory labour
47. Which of the following is not written by Leo Tolstoy? (A) Anna Karenina (B) The Memoirs of a Madman (C) The Death of Ivan Iiyich (D) The Life Guard
48. Thomas Carlyle is best known for writing about (A) The Restoration (B) French Revolution (C) Great Northern war (D) Spanish succession war
49. Who is not a Bronte sister? (A) Charlotte (B) Anne (C) Jane (D) Emily
50. It was a religious movement within the Church of England and had its origin in Oxford. It preached for independence and spiritual status of the Church. Which movement was this? (A) Dada Movement (B) Oxford Movement (C) Confessional Poetry (D) Transcendentalism
Answer Key:
1 A
2 B
3 C
4 B
5 A
6 B
7 B
8 B
9 A
10 D
11 C
12 B
13 B
14 C
15 B
16 A
17 B
18 A
19 A
20 C
21 A
22 B
23 C
24 A
25 B
26 A
27 A
28 B
29 B
30 C
31 B
32 C
33 D
34 B
35 A
36 B
37 A
38 B
39 C
40 B
41 A
42 A
43 D
44 C
45 B
46 A
47 D
48 B
49 C
50 B
51. Which of the following is not a dramatic monologue? (A) The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock (B) Ulysses (C) The Blessed Damozel (D) The Deserted Village
52. Which of the following is not an example of Closet Drama? (A) Samson Agonistes (B) The Borderers (C) The Apple Cart (D) The Fall of Robespierre
53. The First Preface to The Lyrical Ballads was published in (A) 1800 (B) 1798 (C) 1795 (D) 1802
54. Who wrote Castle of Otranto? (A) Horace Walpole (B) Tobias Smollett (C) Samuel Richardson (D) Laurence Sterne
55. Which of the following is not a satire? (A) Gulliver’s Travels (B) The Hind and the Panther (C) Dunciad (D) The Vicar of Wakefield
56. Which is a parody ? (A) A Tale of a Tub (B) Song to David (C) Evelina (D) Mayor of Casterbridge
57. Nineteen Eighty Four is written by (A) HG Wells (B) George Orwell (C) James Joyce (D) Somerset Maugham
58. Friedrich Nietzsche is associated with (A) Existentialism (B) Structuralism (C) Two Uses of Language (D) Realism
59. Who made the first comprehensive study of Indian literature in English? (A) K R S Iyenger (B) A K Ramanujan (C) Raja Rao (D) Saleem Peeradina
60. Who is not associated with New Criticism? (A) Cleanth Brooks (B) John Crowe Ransom (C) Allen Tate (D) Roland Barthes
61. Who has written Clear Light of Day? (A) Anita Desai (B) Ved Mehta (C) RP Jhabvala (D) Kamala das
62. Who was not a contemporary of Chaucer? (A) Langland (B) Gower (C) Wat Tyler (D) Sackville
63. Who is associated with the Beat Generation Movement? (A) Herbert Huncke (B) Samuel Beckett (C) Harold Pinter (D) Robert Graves
64. Shakespeare’s Second Period of Writing was in ? (A) 1595-1601 (B) 1600-1608 (C) 1598-1604 (D) 1588-98
65. Who is considered the father of American Lexicography? (A) Noah Webster (B) Dr. Samuel Johnson (C) Earnest Hemingway (D) TS Eliot
66. Who is the author of Hill of Devi? (A) Mulk Raj Anand (B) EM Forster (C) Khushwant Singh (D) Raja Rao
67. Which novel has been written in epistolary manner? (A) The White Tiger (B) Cry, the Peacock (C) Shadow Lines (D) Inheritance of Loss
68. Who has written So Many Hungers? (A) G V Desani (B) Babani Bhattacharya (C) L H Myers (D) E M Forster
69. Which novel has been set in the background of war? (A) Arms and the Man (B) A Farewell to Arms (C) Ulysses (D) Lord of the Flies
70. Who is not an American Jewish novelist? (A) Bernard Malamud (B) Philip Roth (C) Norman Mailer (D) Dylan Thomas
71. Who is NOT a writer of Children’s literature? (A) Lewis Carrol (B) J.K. Rowling (C) Ruskin Bond (D) Robert Bridges
72. Who gave the title ‘Nightingale of India’ to Sarojini Naidu? (A) Mahatma Gandhi (B) Pandit Nehru (C) Dr. Rajendra Prasad (D) Rabindranath Tagore
73. Who has not been a Poet Laureate? (A) John Dryden (B) William Wordsworth (C) ST Coleridge (D) Alfred Tennyson
74. Whose collection of poems is named Hymns in Darkness? (A) Nissim Ezekiel (B) Jayant Mahopatra (C) Kamla Markandya (D) Pritish Nandi
75. Utopia is a (A) Greek word (B) Latin Word (C) French word (D) English word
76. Who has written The Private Life of an Indian Prince? (A) Manohar Malgonkar (B) Mulk Raj Anand (C) Nirad C Chaudhary (D) AK Ramanujan
77. Samuel Pepy’s Diaries had covered many significant events of the 17th century. Which of the following is not covered in them? (A) Coronation of Charles II (B) Exile of Charles II (C) The Plague of 1665 (D) The Great Fire of London
78. Gateshead Hall is a place in (A) Emma (B) Jane Eyre (C) The Wuthering Heights (D) Pride and Prejudice
79. When was The Vindication of the Rights of Women published? (A) 1779 (B) 1792 (C) 1765 (D) 1832
80. What is NOT true about Death in the Afternoon? (A) Is about Spanish bull-fighting (B) Was published in 1932 by Earnest Hemingway, the famous American novelist (C) Is about the death of the American Dream (D) The author of this book also received Nobel Prize in Literature
81. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley owes its title to (A) W.B. Yeats (B) Shakespeare (C) W. H. Auden (D) William Blake
82. The Abbey Theatre is a famous theatre and is also called the National theatre of a country? Which country is this? (A) France (B) Ireland (C) Scotland (D) England
83. Mark the incorrect author-pen name pair (A) George Eliot- Mary Anne Evans (B) George Orwell- Samuel Langhorne Clemens (C) Lewis Carroll- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (D) Saki- Hector Hugh Munro
84. Who wrote the following? “It is a truth universally that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” (A) William Shakespeare (B) Jane Austen (C) Charlotte Bronte (D) Earnest Hemingway
85. Who wrote the following? “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” (A) Charles Dickens (B) W. M. Thackeray (C) Robert Browning (D) Henry Fielding
86. The following famous line by Alexander Pope occurs in which of his works? “What dire offence from am’rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things..” (A) An Essay on Criticism (B) The Rape of the Lock (C) An Essay on Man (D) Eloisa to Abelard
87. “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” What is the source of the above line? (A) The Tempest (B) Paradise Lost (C) Absalom and Achitophel (D) The Rover
88. Portia is a famous female character in a Shakespearean play. Which of the following? (A) Measure for Measure (B) The Merchant of Venice (C) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (D) Twelfth Night
89. Which of the following is NOT a play by G.B. Shaw? (A) Candida (B) Mrs. Warren’s Profession (C) Major Barbara (D) The Waves
90. Who said: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.”?
(A) Nissim Ezekiel (B) Robert Frost (C) William Wordsworth (D) John Dryden
91. What were the names of the three musketeers in the novel Three Musketeers? (A) Athos, Porthos and Aramis (B) Anthony, Julius, Athos (C) Ceasare, Tauras, Porthos (D) Zeus, Aramis, Thomas
92. What is common to writers such as HG Wells, Aldous Huxley, Arthur C. Clarke, Kingsley Amis (A) They all are war writers. (B) They all wrote science fiction. (C) They all wrote verse drama. (D) They asserted on traditional modes.
93. The Shadow Lines has some critical political events in the background. Which one of the following is NOT true? (A) The World War II (B) 1964 riots in East Pakistan, (C) Partition of India (D) Communal Riots of 1975
94. Identify the wrong match in the following: (A) J. M. Synge- The Playboy of the Western World (B) Dorothy Richardson- Pilgrimage (C) John Galsworthy- The Black Hermit (D) W.H. Auden- September 1, 1939
95. The term Intentional Fallacy was coined by (A) W.K. Wimsat and Monroe C. Beardsley (B) Julia Kristeva and Dan Jacobson (C) T.S. Eliot (D) I. A. Richards
96. Which of the following is not a mandatory part of a business letter? (A) Salutation (B) Inside Address (C) Complimentary close (D) Courtesy Copies (CC)
97. Which of the following is NOT true about business reports? (A) They should be written in objective way. (B) Keep the tone neutral. (C) Use active voice to keep focus on persons. (D) Use headings, bullet points and be simple.
98. Which one of the following does not work as a barrier in effective communication? (A) Use of inappropriate media (B) Information overload (C) Compatibility between verbal and non-verbal language (D) Varied perceptions due to different cultural, social, educational, psychological and financial backgrounds.
99. Which of the following does not have Revenge as theme? (A) Hamlet (B) Wuthering Heights (C) Great Expectations (D) Macbeth
100. Who has written Of Mice and Men? (A) John Steinbeck (B) Francis Jeffrey (C) Roman Jacobson (D) Lionel Johnson
1. Which of the following is NOT related to Decoding in communication? (A) Extracting the meaning of a message (B) It happens through verbal and non-verbal forms of communication (C) Process of translating a message into the thoughts and feelings which were communicated (D) Creation of a message which the sender wants to communicate
2. Who amongst the following is not included in ‘University Wits’? (A) Thomas Kyd (B) Thomas Middleton (C) George Peele (D) Robert Greene
3. Chronemics is a term related to communication. It is about (A) an active process of listening (B) to study how people perceive and structure time (C) feedback as a key component in communication process (D) a medium through which message is shared with audience
4. Which of the following is NOT argued in the essay The Death of the Author (A) Readers must separate a literary work from its creator (B) The historical context and the author’s attributes help in interpreting a text (C) The essential meaning of a work depends on the impressions of the reader (D) Readers should not rely on aspects of the writer’s identity
5. Which of the following is NOT related to Deductive teaching method? (A) A teaching technique in which teacher explains a concept followed by practice by students (B) It is a teacher-centric process (C) It makes use of the strategy called ‘Noticing’ (D) It works the best while teaching a particularly difficult concept and with highly motivated students
Answer Key:
51 D
52 C
53 A
54 A
55 D
56 A
57 B
58 A
59 A
60 D
61 A
62 D
63 A
64 A
65 A
66 B
67 A
68 B
69 B
70 D
71 D
72 A
73 C
74 A
75 A
76 B
77 B
78 B
79 B
80 C
81 B
82 B
83 B
84 B
85 A
86 B
87 B
88 B
89 D
90 B
91 A
92 B
93 D
94 C
95 A
96 D
97 C
98 C
99 C
100 A
1 D
2 B
3 B
4 B
5 B
52. Which of the following is not an example of Closet Drama? (A) Samson Agonistes (B) The Borderers (C) The Apple Cart (D) The Fall of Robespierre
53. The First Preface to The Lyrical Ballads was published in (A) 1800 (B) 1798 (C) 1795 (D) 1802
54. Who wrote Castle of Otranto? (A) Horace Walpole (B) Tobias Smollett (C) Samuel Richardson (D) Laurence Sterne
55. Which of the following is not a satire? (A) Gulliver’s Travels (B) The Hind and the Panther (C) Dunciad (D) The Vicar of Wakefield
56. Which is a parody ? (A) A Tale of a Tub (B) Song to David (C) Evelina (D) Mayor of Casterbridge
57. Nineteen Eighty Four is written by (A) HG Wells (B) George Orwell (C) James Joyce (D) Somerset Maugham
58. Friedrich Nietzsche is associated with (A) Existentialism (B) Structuralism (C) Two Uses of Language (D) Realism
59. Who made the first comprehensive study of Indian literature in English? (A) K R S Iyenger (B) A K Ramanujan (C) Raja Rao (D) Saleem Peeradina
60. Who is not associated with New Criticism? (A) Cleanth Brooks (B) John Crowe Ransom (C) Allen Tate (D) Roland Barthes
61. Who has written Clear Light of Day? (A) Anita Desai (B) Ved Mehta (C) RP Jhabvala (D) Kamala das
62. Who was not a contemporary of Chaucer? (A) Langland (B) Gower (C) Wat Tyler (D) Sackville
63. Who is associated with the Beat Generation Movement? (A) Herbert Huncke (B) Samuel Beckett (C) Harold Pinter (D) Robert Graves
64. Shakespeare’s Second Period of Writing was in ? (A) 1595-1601 (B) 1600-1608 (C) 1598-1604 (D) 1588-98
65. Who is considered the father of American Lexicography? (A) Noah Webster (B) Dr. Samuel Johnson (C) Earnest Hemingway (D) TS Eliot
66. Who is the author of Hill of Devi? (A) Mulk Raj Anand (B) EM Forster (C) Khushwant Singh (D) Raja Rao
67. Which novel has been written in epistolary manner? (A) The White Tiger (B) Cry, the Peacock (C) Shadow Lines (D) Inheritance of Loss
68. Who has written So Many Hungers? (A) G V Desani (B) Babani Bhattacharya (C) L H Myers (D) E M Forster
69. Which novel has been set in the background of war? (A) Arms and the Man (B) A Farewell to Arms (C) Ulysses (D) Lord of the Flies
70. Who is not an American Jewish novelist? (A) Bernard Malamud (B) Philip Roth (C) Norman Mailer (D) Dylan Thomas
71. Who is NOT a writer of Children’s literature? (A) Lewis Carrol (B) J.K. Rowling (C) Ruskin Bond (D) Robert Bridges
72. Who gave the title ‘Nightingale of India’ to Sarojini Naidu? (A) Mahatma Gandhi (B) Pandit Nehru (C) Dr. Rajendra Prasad (D) Rabindranath Tagore
73. Who has not been a Poet Laureate? (A) John Dryden (B) William Wordsworth (C) ST Coleridge (D) Alfred Tennyson
74. Whose collection of poems is named Hymns in Darkness? (A) Nissim Ezekiel (B) Jayant Mahopatra (C) Kamla Markandya (D) Pritish Nandi
75. Utopia is a (A) Greek word (B) Latin Word (C) French word (D) English word
76. Who has written The Private Life of an Indian Prince? (A) Manohar Malgonkar (B) Mulk Raj Anand (C) Nirad C Chaudhary (D) AK Ramanujan
77. Samuel Pepy’s Diaries had covered many significant events of the 17th century. Which of the following is not covered in them? (A) Coronation of Charles II (B) Exile of Charles II (C) The Plague of 1665 (D) The Great Fire of London
78. Gateshead Hall is a place in (A) Emma (B) Jane Eyre (C) The Wuthering Heights (D) Pride and Prejudice
79. When was The Vindication of the Rights of Women published? (A) 1779 (B) 1792 (C) 1765 (D) 1832
80. What is NOT true about Death in the Afternoon? (A) Is about Spanish bull-fighting (B) Was published in 1932 by Earnest Hemingway, the famous American novelist (C) Is about the death of the American Dream (D) The author of this book also received Nobel Prize in Literature
81. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley owes its title to (A) W.B. Yeats (B) Shakespeare (C) W. H. Auden (D) William Blake
82. The Abbey Theatre is a famous theatre and is also called the National theatre of a country? Which country is this? (A) France (B) Ireland (C) Scotland (D) England
83. Mark the incorrect author-pen name pair (A) George Eliot- Mary Anne Evans (B) George Orwell- Samuel Langhorne Clemens (C) Lewis Carroll- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (D) Saki- Hector Hugh Munro
84. Who wrote the following? “It is a truth universally that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” (A) William Shakespeare (B) Jane Austen (C) Charlotte Bronte (D) Earnest Hemingway
85. Who wrote the following? “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” (A) Charles Dickens (B) W. M. Thackeray (C) Robert Browning (D) Henry Fielding
86. The following famous line by Alexander Pope occurs in which of his works? “What dire offence from am’rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things..” (A) An Essay on Criticism (B) The Rape of the Lock (C) An Essay on Man (D) Eloisa to Abelard
87. “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” What is the source of the above line? (A) The Tempest (B) Paradise Lost (C) Absalom and Achitophel (D) The Rover
88. Portia is a famous female character in a Shakespearean play. Which of the following? (A) Measure for Measure (B) The Merchant of Venice (C) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (D) Twelfth Night
89. Which of the following is NOT a play by G.B. Shaw? (A) Candida (B) Mrs. Warren’s Profession (C) Major Barbara (D) The Waves
90. Who said: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.”?
(A) Nissim Ezekiel (B) Robert Frost (C) William Wordsworth (D) John Dryden
91. What were the names of the three musketeers in the novel Three Musketeers? (A) Athos, Porthos and Aramis (B) Anthony, Julius, Athos (C) Ceasare, Tauras, Porthos (D) Zeus, Aramis, Thomas
92. What is common to writers such as HG Wells, Aldous Huxley, Arthur C. Clarke, Kingsley Amis (A) They all are war writers. (B) They all wrote science fiction. (C) They all wrote verse drama. (D) They asserted on traditional modes.
93. The Shadow Lines has some critical political events in the background. Which one of the following is NOT true? (A) The World War II (B) 1964 riots in East Pakistan, (C) Partition of India (D) Communal Riots of 1975
94. Identify the wrong match in the following: (A) J. M. Synge- The Playboy of the Western World (B) Dorothy Richardson- Pilgrimage (C) John Galsworthy- The Black Hermit (D) W.H. Auden- September 1, 1939
95. The term Intentional Fallacy was coined by (A) W.K. Wimsat and Monroe C. Beardsley (B) Julia Kristeva and Dan Jacobson (C) T.S. Eliot (D) I. A. Richards
96. Which of the following is not a mandatory part of a business letter? (A) Salutation (B) Inside Address (C) Complimentary close (D) Courtesy Copies (CC)
97. Which of the following is NOT true about business reports? (A) They should be written in objective way. (B) Keep the tone neutral. (C) Use active voice to keep focus on persons. (D) Use headings, bullet points and be simple.
98. Which one of the following does not work as a barrier in effective communication? (A) Use of inappropriate media (B) Information overload (C) Compatibility between verbal and non-verbal language (D) Varied perceptions due to different cultural, social, educational, psychological and financial backgrounds.
99. Which of the following does not have Revenge as theme? (A) Hamlet (B) Wuthering Heights (C) Great Expectations (D) Macbeth
100. Who has written Of Mice and Men? (A) John Steinbeck (B) Francis Jeffrey (C) Roman Jacobson (D) Lionel Johnson
1. Which of the following is NOT related to Decoding in communication? (A) Extracting the meaning of a message (B) It happens through verbal and non-verbal forms of communication (C) Process of translating a message into the thoughts and feelings which were communicated (D) Creation of a message which the sender wants to communicate
2. Who amongst the following is not included in ‘University Wits’? (A) Thomas Kyd (B) Thomas Middleton (C) George Peele (D) Robert Greene
3. Chronemics is a term related to communication. It is about (A) an active process of listening (B) to study how people perceive and structure time (C) feedback as a key component in communication process (D) a medium through which message is shared with audience
4. Which of the following is NOT argued in the essay The Death of the Author (A) Readers must separate a literary work from its creator (B) The historical context and the author’s attributes help in interpreting a text (C) The essential meaning of a work depends on the impressions of the reader (D) Readers should not rely on aspects of the writer’s identity
5. Which of the following is NOT related to Deductive teaching method? (A) A teaching technique in which teacher explains a concept followed by practice by students (B) It is a teacher-centric process (C) It makes use of the strategy called ‘Noticing’ (D) It works the best while teaching a particularly difficult concept and with highly motivated students
Answer Key:
51 D
52 C
53 A
54 A
55 D
56 A
57 B
58 A
59 A
60 D
61 A
62 D
63 A
64 A
65 A
66 B
67 A
68 B
69 B
70 D
71 D
72 A
73 C
74 A
75 A
76 B
77 B
78 B
79 B
80 C
81 B
82 B
83 B
84 B
85 A
86 B
87 B
88 B
89 D
90 B
91 A
92 B
93 D
94 C
95 A
96 D
97 C
98 C
99 C
100 A
1 D
2 B
3 B
4 B
5 B
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