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
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
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
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
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
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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