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ENGLISH LITERATURE- PAGE 3

1. What is the name of the inn where Chaucer’s narrator meets the pilgrims?
 A:- a) Taffold Inn
 B:-Tabard Inn
 C:-Southwark Inn
 D:- Three Kings Inn
 Correct Answer:- Option-B

2. Prothalamion is a nuptial song on the occasion of the twin marriage of --------
 A:- Lady Victoria and Lady Katherine
 B:- Lady Belinda and Lady Bellona
 C:- Lady Elizabeth and Lady Victoria
 D:- Lady Elizabeth and LadyKatherine
 Correct Answer:- Option-D

3. The rhyme scheme of Shakespearian sonnet ---------------
 A:- abba abba cde cde
 B:- abab cdcd efef cc
 C:-abab cdcd efef gg
 D:- ababa ababa cdcd
 Correct Answer:- Option-C

4. In which poem does this line occur “Alas, alas, who's injured by my love?”
 A:-The Canonization
 B:-To a Skylark
 C:- A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
 D:-The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
 Correct Answer:- Option-A

5.  When was Paradise Lost published?
 A:-1768
 B:-1669
 C:- 1668
 D:-1667
 Correct Answer:- Option-D

6. In the poem McFlecknoe , Flecknoe, the poet is compared to -----
 A:-Augustus Caesar
 B:-Caligula
 C:-Postumus Agrippa
 D:- Julius Caesar
 Correct Answer:- Option-A

7. Identify the poem in which the following lines occur : The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
 A:-Hymn to Adversity
 B:- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
 C:-The Progress of Poesy
 D:- The Bard
 Correct Answer:- Option-B

8.  What is Hamlet’s hamertia?
 A:-madness
 B:-self-delusion
 C:-procrastination
 D:-ambition
 Correct Answer:- Option-C
 
9. What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? Who is Hecuba mentioned in this monologue by a Shakespearean character?
 A:- Priam's wife
 B:-Kolanos’ wife
 C:-Agamemnon’s wife
 D:- Argurios’ wife
 Correct Answer:- Option-A

10. Who speaks the epilogue in The School for Scandal?
 A:-Sir Olvier Surface
 B:-Charles Surface
 C:-Lady Teazle
 D:-Mr. Colman
 Correct Answer:- Option-C

11. In "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" Wordsworth talks about _______
 A:-Life after death
 B:-Devotion
 C:-Human folly
 D:-Pre-natal existence
 Correct Answer:- Option-D

12. The speaker in "Ode to the West Wind" is considered to the author's _______
 A:-alter-ego
 B:-persona
 C:-personification
 D:-poetic self
 Correct Answer:- Option-B

13. Whom does Ullysses refer to as 'a savage race' in Tennyson's poem "Ullysses"?
 A:-The Trojans
 B:-The Persians
 C:-The Greeks
 D:-The Spartans
 Correct Answer:- Option-C

14. The coast of which country does the poet see across the sea in Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach"?
 A:-France
 B:-Ireland
 C:-Spain
 D:-Portugal
 Correct Answer:- Option-A

15. Hopkins' poem "The Windhover" is notable for its use of _______
 A:-Sprung Rhythm
 B:-Simile
 C:-Conceit
 D:-None of the above
 Correct Answer:- Option-A

16. The title of Charles Lamb's essay "Dream Children" refers to _______
 A:-Ideal children
 B:-Children who dream
 C:-Children from a family called "Dream'
 D:-Children the author saw in a dream
 Correct Answer:- Option-D

17. The heroine of Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Ernest was named ________
 A:-Jane
 B:-Gwendolen
 C:-Tess
 D:-Elizabeth
 Correct Answer:- Option-B

18. Where was Oliver Twist the protagonist of Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist born?
 A:-In an orphanage
 B:-In a prison
 C:-In a workhouse
 D:-In a hospital
 Correct Answer:- Option-C

19. Wuthering Heights is a novel by ________
 A:-Charlotte Bronte
 B:-Branwell Bronte
 C:-Charlotte Bronte
 D:-Emily Bronte
 Correct Answer:- Option-D

20. The Mayor of Casterbridge like many of Hardy's novels and stories is set in ________
 A:-The market town of Dorchester
 B:-Stratford
 C:-The Lake District
 D:-The Scottish Highlands
 Correct Answer:- Option-A

21. Yeats' poem "Easter 1916" refers to _______
 A:-The poet's experiences on Easter, 1916 which he spent in Scotland.
 B:-The agreement signed between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland on Easter, 1916.
 C:-The uprising of Irish freedom fighters on Easter, 1916.
 D:-None of the above
 Correct Answer:- Option-C

22. Why is the poet sure that the unknown citizen in the poem "The Unknown Citizen" lived a happy life?
 A:-Because he lived in a welfare state
 B:-Because we would have known if there had been anything wrong
 C:-Because he had written in his diary that he was happy with his life
 D:-Because he was honoured by the Government
 Correct Answer:- Option-B

23. What does Phillip Larkin mean by the expression 'Another church' in the poem "Church Going"?
 A:-A church like any other
 B:-One among the many churches he visited
 C:-Another kind of church
 D:-None of the above
 Correct Answer:- Option-A

24. What according to the poet are the praying women in "In Santa Maria Del Popolo" incapable of?
 A:-Abandoning their faith
 B:-The grand gesture of the solitary man
 C:-Sympathy for the suffering
 D:-Sacrifice for their faith
 Correct Answer:- Option-B

25. Virginia Woolf considered the fiction of her contemporaries ________
 A:-Superior to that of their predecessors
 B:-Inferior to that of their predecessors
 C:-Only different from that of their predecessors
 D:-None of the above
 Correct Answer:- Option-C

26. Which of the following notions does Bernard Shaw seem to support in Pygmalion?
 A:-Women must be independent
 B:-Money is more important than beauty
 C:-Knowledge is power
 D:-Correct pronunciation is necessary for social success
 Correct Answer:- Option-D

27. Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot was first published in ______
 A:-English
 B:-Spanish
 C:-Russian
 D:-French
 Correct Answer:- Option-D

28. The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man can be described as _________
 A:-An epistolary novel
 B:-A picaresque novel
 C:-A kunstlerroman
 D:-Docufiction
 Correct Answer:- Option-C

29. Graham Greene's Heart of the Matter is set in ________
 A:-India
 B:-Sierra Leone
 C:-Nigeria
 D:-Scotland
 Correct Answer:- Option-B

30. Allan Sillitoe, author of the novel The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner has been described as _________
 A:-A proletarian fictionist
 B:-A formalist in fiction.
 C:-A satirist
 D:-None of the above
 Correct Answer:- Option-A

31. Who brought forth the 'Rasa-Dhwani Siddhanta' ?
 A:-Bharata
 B:-Manu
 C:-Vamana
 D:-Abhinavagupta
 Correct Answer:- Option-D

32. Aristotle defined poetry as:
 A:-Pleasure
 B:-Medium of imitation
 C:-Emotion
 D:-Spontaneous overflow
 Correct Answer:- Option-B

33. Which of the following is a 'Vice of Style' opposed to the 'Sublime' according to Longinus?
 A:-Grandeur of thought
 B:-Dignified expression
 C:-Vigorous treatment of the passions
 D:-Affectation
 Correct Answer:- Option-D

34. Who is called 'The Father of English Criticism' by Dr. Johnson?
 A:-John Dryden
 B:-Philip Sidney
 C:-Wordsworth
 D:-Arnold
 Correct Answer:- Option-A

35. Who stated that "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" ?
 A:-Coleridge
 B:-Arnold
 C:-Byron
 D:-Wordsworth
 Correct Answer:- Option-D
​36. Arnold's 'Touchstone Method' is modelled on:
 A:-Aristotle's 'Cathartic Reversal'
 B:-Dryden's 'Three Unities'
 C:-Longinus 'Test of Poetic Greatness'
 D:-Sidney's 'Classical Rules' application to poetry
 Correct Answer:- Option-C

37. Which of the following movement was initiated with Derrida's paper 'The Structure, Sign and Play in the Human Sciences' ?
 A:-Classical structuralism
 B:-Traditional humanism
 C:-Empiricism
 D:-Post-structuralism
 Correct Answer:- Option-D

38. What according to 'Elain Showalter' is the reason for the impasse that feminist criticism had reached in the 1970s
 A:-The 'Male' character of 'Theory' itself
 B:-Orthodox approach to male literary history
 C:-The women's liberation movement
 D:-Reviewing past works by feminists
 Correct Answer:- Option-A

39. Which of the following is NOT one of the main points in Lacan's 'Insistence of the letter in the unconscious' ?
 A:-There is no getting outside language
 B:-Human self or soul transcends the limits of language
 C:-Language is intimately figurative
 D:-Human subject is constituted through entry into language
 Correct Answer:- Option-B

40. Michel Foucault' elaborated upon the relationship between knowledge and power propounded by:
 A:-Kant
 B:-Saussure
 C:-Freud
 D:-Nietzsche
 Correct Answer:- Option-D

41. Syntactic Structures was published by
 A:-Saussure
 B:-Noam Chomsky
 C:-Zellig Harris
 D:-Robert May
 Correct Answer:- Option-B

42. A simplified form of speech formed out of one or more existing languages used by people who have no other language in common is called ....
 A:-Pidgins
 B:-Creole
 C:-Idiolect
 D:-Dialect
 Correct Answer:- Option-A

43. The language variety unique to a single speaker of a language is called -----
 A:-Dialect
 B:-Idiolect
 C:-Creole
 D:-Pidgins
 Correct Answer:- Option-B

44. The King James Bible was first published in ------
 A:-1611
 B:-1612
 C:-1610
 D:-1567
 Correct Answer:- Option-A

45. Grimm's law states the
 A:-consonant shift
 B:-vowel shift
 C:-Medieval Latin elusion
 D:-division of morpheme
 Correct Answer:- Option-A

46. Ablaut signifies change in --------
 A:-consonant
 B:-meaning
 C:-pronunciation
 D:-vowel
 Correct Answer:- Option-D

47. Minimalistic Program is a continuation of -----
 A:-Generative Grammar
 B:-Structural Linguistics
 C:-Historical Linguistics
 D:-Social Linguistics
 Correct Answer:- Option-A

48. The focus of Sociolinguistics is
 A:-The effect of the society on the language
 B:-Language's effect on the society
 C:-Effect of history on language
 D:-Effect of Political changes on language
 Correct Answer:- Option-A

49. Language was published by
 A:-Noam Chomsky
 B:-Ferdinand de Saussure
 C:-Aldous Huxley
 D:-Leonard Bloomfield
 Correct Answer:- Option-D

50. Who spoke of England and America as two countries separated by a common language
 A:-Winston Churchill
 B:-Bernard Shaw
 C:-Ronald Regan
 D:-Leonard Bloomfield
 Correct Answer:- Option-B

51. What is the central theme of the verses in the 'Geetanjali' ?
 A:-Love
 B:-God
 C:-Quest for the divine and devotion
 D:-beauty
 Correct Answer:- Option-C

52. What is the name of the protagonist in Ellison's 'Invisible Man' ?
 A:-Nameless
 B:-Jack
 C:-Clifton
 D:-Ras
 Correct Answer:- Option-A

53. Why was Mian Abdulla (Midnight's Children) assassinated? Because/ of:
 A:-He was the founder of 'Free Islam Convocation'
 B:-His anti-partition stance
 C:-Adam became his follower
 D:-Nadir Khan became his enemy
 Correct Answer:- Option-B

54. What is the new definition that 'Jaya' (Harvest) discovers for 'Winning' ?Winning by:
 A:-Refusing
 B:-Surrendering
 C:-Revolting
 D:-Losing
 Correct Answer:- Option-D

55. Which of the following is NOT one of the passions of 'Benjamin Compson' (Sound and the Fury) ?
 A:-Caddy
 B:-Jason
 C:-Fire
 D:-The family golf course
 Correct Answer:- Option-B

56. The lines "I speak three languages, write in Two, dream in One" is a reference to the multilingualism of:
 A:-Toru Dutt
 B:-Kamala Das
 C:-Ezekiel
 D:-Meena Alexander
 Correct Answer:- Option-B

57. When did 'Sylvia Plath' attempt to join her dead daddy for the first time?
 A:-At the age of 10
 B:-At the age of 15
 C:-At the age of 20
 D:-At the age of 25
 Correct Answer:- Option-C

58. What made Robert Frost choose the 'Road not Taken'?
 A:-His desire to make an impact with his life
 B:-To make money
 C:-To become famous
 D:-To be a role model
 Correct Answer:- Option-A

59. What metal was used in the bullet that killed 'Brutus Jones' ?
 A:-Gold
 B:-Iron
 C:-Copper
 D:-Silver
 Correct Answer:- Option-D

60. What does the 'Self-reliant' (Emerson's 'Self Reliance') man dislike?
 A:-To travel
 B:-To speak his mind
 C:-To speak truth
 D:-To be optimistic
 Correct Answer:- Option-A

61. _______ is the author of Black Skins, White Masks
 A:-Bell Hooks
 B:-Malcolm X
 C:-Frantz Fanon
 D:-Aime Cesaire
 Correct Answer:- Option-C

62. Deep Ecology is _________
 A:-A school of thought which advocates return to nature
 B:-A philosophy which attempts to redefine the relationship between humans and nature
 C:-A movement or body of concepts that considers humans no more important than other species
 D:-None of the above
 Correct Answer:- Option-C

63. The following is not generally associated with Queer Theory:
 A:-Judith Butler
 B:-Adrienne Rich
 C:-Michel Foucault
 D:-Homi Bhabha
 Correct Answer:- Option-D

64. Trauma Theory links the experience of trauma to
 A:-Language disorders
 B:-Identity Politics
 C:-The evolutionary heritage of humans
 D:-Patriarchy
 Correct Answer:- Option-C

65. The following is not a form of 'New Feminism':
 A:-Post-Feminism
 B:-Eco-Feminism
 C:-Power Feminism
 D:-Third Wave Feminism
 Correct Answer:- Option-B

66. The phrase "Historicity of texts and the textuality of history" was coined by _______
 A:-Louis Montrose
 B:-Stephen Greenblatt
 C:-Alan Sinfield
 D:-Raymond Williams
 Correct Answer:- Option-A

67. The following is associated with Culture Studies:
 A:-Stuart Hall
 B:-Jacque Derrida
 C:-Frantz Fanon
 D:-Edward Said
 Correct Answer:- Option-A

68. The following is not considered a Diasporic writer:
 A:-V S Naipaul
 B:-Chithra Banerjee Divakaruni
 C:-Derek Walcott
 D:-Michael Ontadje
 Correct Answer:- Option-C

69. _____ contributed some of the most important concepts and notions on the Public Sphere in the Twentieth Century.
 A:-Barbara Smith
 B:-Mikhail Bakhtin
 C:-Noam Chomsky
 D:-Jurgen Habermas
 Correct Answer:- Option-D
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70. Hyper-reality can be defined as __________
 A:-Extreme faithfulness to reality in representations
 B:-The inability of consciousness to recognize between reality and simulations of reality
 C:-The empathetic involvement in representations of reality
 D:-None of the above
 Correct Answer:- Option-B
71:-What are the two levels of language referred to by the term 'duality' ?
 A:-Morphology and Syntax
 B:-Structure and Use
 C:-Sound and Meaning
 D:-Phonetics and Phonology
 Ans: C

72:-Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819 ?
 A:-Emily Dickinson
 B:-Paul Dunbar
 C:-John Greenleaf Whittier
 D:-Walt Whitman
 Ans: D

73:-In "Archetypes of Literature" Northrope Frye equates 'autumn' to __________ .
 A:-Romance
 B:-Tragedy
 C:-Comedy
 D:-Satire
 Ans: B

74:-What does Michael do for a living in The Mayor of Casterbridge ?
 A:-An auctioneer
 B:-A sailor
 C:-A turnip-hoer
 D:-A hay-trusser
 Ans: D

75:-"Ecriture" means __________ .
 A:-Author
 B:-Writing
 C:-Reader
 D:-Text
 Ans: B

76:-The author of Nation and Narration is :
 A:-Edward Said
 B:-Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
 C:-Frantz Fanon
 D:-Homi Bhabha
 Ans: D

77:-__________ refers to word formation.
 A:-Morphology
 B:-Phonology
 C:-Semantics
 D:-Syntax
 Ans: A

78:-Who amongst the following belongs to the group of radical feminists ?
 A:-Helene Cixous
 B:-Monique Wittig
 C:-Simone de Beauvoir
 D:-Luce Irigaray
 Ans: B

79:-What is "the beast" in Lord of the Flies ?
 A:-The pig
 B:-The boar's head
 C:-The parachutist
 D:-The skull
 Ans: C

80:-In which figure of speech is there a play on the various meanings of a word ?
 A:-Metaphor
 B:-Irony
 C:-Transferred Epithet
 D:-Pun
 Ans: D

81:-The essay "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" was written by __________ .
 A:-Adrienne Rich
 B:-Judith Butler
 C:-Diana Fuss
 D:-Annamarie Jagose
 Ans: A

82:-"The pitfalls of national consciousness" is an essay by __________ .
 A:-Benedict Anderson
 B:-Benita Parry
 C:-Frantz Fanon
 D:-Partha Chatterjee
 Ans: C

83:-Who defined Postmodern as "incredulity towards metanarratives" ?
 A:-Jacques Lacan
 B:-Gilles Deleuze
 C:-Jean Baudrillard
 D:-Jean-Francois Lyotard
 Ans: D

84:-In his study of metaphor and metonymy, Roman Jakobson borrowed Saussure's "syntagm versus paradigm" which stands for __________ and __________ respectively.
 A:-Particular and General
 B:-Separation and Connection
 C:-Selection and Combination
 D:-None of these
 Ans: C

85:-Which of the following poets has written a poem on a tree in their garden house at Baugmaree ?
 A:-Sarojini Naidu
 B:-Toru Dutt
 C:-Meena Alexander
 D:-Kamala Das
 Ans: B

86:-Who supports Women's Rights in Sons and Lovers ?
 A:-Mrs. Morel
 B:-Annie
 C:-Miriam
 D:-Clara Dawes
 Ans: A

87:-For the Elizabethan audience, the Duchess of Malfi marrying her steward, Antonio, was a triple offence. Which of the following is not one ?
 A:-She was a widow marrying a second time
 B:-She married on her own outside the Church
 C:-She married beneath her status in disregard of 'degree'
 D:-She married against the wishes of her brothers who almost acted like her guardians
 Ans: B

88:-Where does young Catherine leave Thrushcross Grange for the first time to ?
 A:-Wuthering Heights
 B:-The nearby village
 C:-The fairy caves at Penistone Crags
 D:-London
 Ans: C

89:-How does John Donne describe the death of virtuous people in "A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning" ?
 A:-Painful
 B:-Silent
 C:-Clamorous
 D:-Slow
 Ans: B

90:-What was the preliminary version of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man known as ?
 A:-Stephen Hero
 B:-Bloom's Blunder
 C:-A Day in the life of Stephen Dedalus
 D:-The Dead
 Ans: A

91:-Who is the author of the two major works An Introduction to Language and Language ?
 A:-Leonard Bloomfield
 B:-Bernard Bloch
 C:-Noam Chomsky
 D:-Ferdinand de Saussure
 Ans: A

92:-Where does The Glass Menagerie take place ?
 A:-Cleveland
 B:-New York
 C:-Mississippi
 D:-St. Louis
 Ans: D

93:-The meaning of the term 'episteme' is __________ .
 A:-Knowledge
 B:-Archive
 C:-Theology
 D:-Scholarship
 Ans: A

94:-Which of the following is not a form of new Historicist criticism ?
 A:-Genealogy of Patriarchal Discourse
 B:-Archaeology of Social Constructs
 C:-Poststructural recovery of authorial intent
 D:-Cultural Materialism
 Ans: C

95:-According to Ralph Emerson, what do great works of art teach us ?
 A:-Truly great works of art inspire everyone
 B:-There are few true geniuses in the world
 C:-Art is a matter of personal taste
 D:-Obey your spontaneous impression
 Ans: D

96:-Who called Francis Bacon, "the wisest, the brightest and the meanest of mankind" ?
 A:-Dr. Johnson
 B:-Ben Jonson
 C:-Alexander Pope
 D:-John Dryden
 Ans: C

97:-Whom does "an embarrassed peacock, quite unused to its plumes" refer to ?
 A:-Toru Dutt
 B:-Sarojini Naidu
 C:-Emily Bronte
 D:-Emily Dickinson
 Ans: D

98:-What does Caroline see her youngest son's affliction as in The Sound and the Fury ?
 A:-As a blessing
 B:-As God's will
 C:-As part of life
 D:-As a curse on the family
 Ans: D

99:-The period in The Bluest Eye corresponds to __________ .
 A:-the Vietnam war and the violence against the poor
 B:-World War II and the Nazi regime's ideas of beauty
 C:-the Reconstruction era and the legacy of slavery
 D:-Reagan's racism and his war against America's black poor
 Ans: B

100:-The winner of Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014 is __________ .
 A:-Richard Flanagan
 B:-Patrick Modiano
 C:-Alice Munro
 D:-Elanor Catton
 Ans: B
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