ENGLISH LITERATURE- PAGE 4
1:-Who termed the present environmental crisis as a crisis of our imagination ?
A:-Lawrence Buell
B:-Henry Thoreau
C:-Richard Adams
D:-Aldo Leopold
Ans: B
2:-During the Middle English period, many words were borrowed from __________ .
A:-Celtic and Norse
B:-Sanskrit and Pali
C:-Latin and French
D:-Greek and Latin
Ans: C
3:-Wordsworth's primary concern in the Lyrical Ballads was __________ .
A:-the language of poetry
B:-the subject matter of poetry
C:-the rejection of neoclassical principles
D:-to formulate a new genre of poetry
Ans: A
4:-What aspect of the main character is mirrored in the structure of The Golden Note Book ?
A:-The complexity of her looks
B:-The simplicity of her looks
C:-The simplicity of her life
D:-The complexity of her life
Ans: D
5:-According to Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest, what is the essence of romance ?
A:-Consistency
B:-Fidelity
C:-Uncertainty
D:-Passion
Ans: C
6:-What is meant by 'language transfer' ?
A:-The carry over of rules of the Second language syntax, phonology, or semantic system to the mother tongue in
B:-The carry over of rules of the mother tongue syntax, phonology, or semantic system to the Second language in
C:-The vocabulary and sentence structure transferred haphazardly during Second language acquisition from any other language accessed by the learner
D:-Knowledge generated in the development of a learner on account of other domains of knowledge
Ans: C
7:-What is considered as the central principle of literary criticism in Sanskrit Literature ?
A:-Dhwani
B:-Rasa
C:-Vakrokthi
D:-Vyanjana
Ans: D
8:-Which angel does Satan trick by disguising himself as a cherub ?
A:-Abdiel
B:-Uriel
C:-Raphael
D:-Michael
Ans: B
9:-The Grecian Urn is called "cold pastoral" because :
A:-it has remained unchanged till now
B:-it is mysterious
C:-it is made of marble
D:-all of these
Ans: D
10:-In which section of The Waste Land does Tiresias appear ?
A:-What the Thunder Said
B:-A Game of Chess
C:-The Fire Sermon
D:-The Burial of the Dead
Ans: C
11:-"Shakespeare approximates the remote and familiarizes the wonderful". Whose words are these ?
A:-Samuel Johnson
B:-John Dryden
C:-William Wordsworth
D:-Samuel Coleridge
Ans: A
12:-The term for describing someone's death as "someone is no more" or that "someone has breathed his/her last" is __________ .
A:-Euphism
B:-Euphony
C:-Understatement
D:-Euphemism
Ans: D
13:-What does Noam Chomsky's theory of language development emphasize ?
A:-Children's cognitive abilities
B:-Learning and conditioning principles
C:-Innate structures and biological mechanisms
D:-The language support system provided by parents
Ans: C
14:-Shelly used which stanza form in "Ode to the West Wind" ?
A:-Rime Royal
B:-Terza Rima
C:-Ottava Rima
D:-Spenserian Stanza
Ans: B
15:-From which poem is the line, "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity" taken
from ?
A:-The Waste Land
B:-Tintern Abbey
C:-The Second Coming
D:-Prayer for My Daughter
Ans: C
16:-The term 'Peripeteia' means __________ .
A:-Constancy in the fortune of the hero
B:-Change in the fortune of the hero from bad to good
C:-Fluctuations occurring in the fortunes of the hero
D:-Change in the fortune of the hero from good to bad
Ans: C
17:-Who is the native chief who leads the revolt against Brutus Jones in Emperor Jones ?
A:-Lem
B:-Len
C:-Leon
D:-Lix
Ans: A
18:-'Spenser writ no language'. Who said this ?
A:-Dryden
B:-Dr. Johnson
C:-Ben Jonson
D:-Matthew Arnold
Ans: C
19:-The theme of "Dejection : An Ode" is :
A:-unhappy marriage
B:-loss of poetic imagination
C:-broken friendship
D:-inability to bear defeat
Ans: B
20:-The poem in which Yeats uses the famous "stone metaphor" is __________ .
A:-Among School Children
B:-Second Coming
C:-Sailing to Byzantium
D:-Eastern 1916
Ans: D
21:-In which essay did Matthew Arnold regarded poetry as "a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty" ?
A:-Culture and Anarchy
B:-Essays in Criticism
C:-The Study of Poetry
D:-Literature and Dogma
Ans: C
22:-Who in "My Last Duchess" is said to have made the Duchess' painting ?
A:-George Vasari
B:-Fra Pandolf
C:-Duke of Ferrari
D:-Not mentioned
Ans: B
23:-What poison did Claudius pour into the ear of Hamlet's father to kill him ?
A:-Hebenon
B:-Baneberry
C:-Burdock
D:-Hemlock
Ans: A
24:-What was the original title of Pride and Prejudice ?
A:-'Last Impressions'
B:-'False Impressions'
C:-'First Impressions'
D:-'True Impressions'
Ans: C
25:-Harold Nicholson described which poet as 'Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners' ?
A:-E.E. Cummings
B:-T.S. Eliot
C:-John Greenleaf Whittier
D:-Walt Whitman
Ans: B
A:-Lawrence Buell
B:-Henry Thoreau
C:-Richard Adams
D:-Aldo Leopold
Ans: B
2:-During the Middle English period, many words were borrowed from __________ .
A:-Celtic and Norse
B:-Sanskrit and Pali
C:-Latin and French
D:-Greek and Latin
Ans: C
3:-Wordsworth's primary concern in the Lyrical Ballads was __________ .
A:-the language of poetry
B:-the subject matter of poetry
C:-the rejection of neoclassical principles
D:-to formulate a new genre of poetry
Ans: A
4:-What aspect of the main character is mirrored in the structure of The Golden Note Book ?
A:-The complexity of her looks
B:-The simplicity of her looks
C:-The simplicity of her life
D:-The complexity of her life
Ans: D
5:-According to Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest, what is the essence of romance ?
A:-Consistency
B:-Fidelity
C:-Uncertainty
D:-Passion
Ans: C
6:-What is meant by 'language transfer' ?
A:-The carry over of rules of the Second language syntax, phonology, or semantic system to the mother tongue in
B:-The carry over of rules of the mother tongue syntax, phonology, or semantic system to the Second language in
C:-The vocabulary and sentence structure transferred haphazardly during Second language acquisition from any other language accessed by the learner
D:-Knowledge generated in the development of a learner on account of other domains of knowledge
Ans: C
7:-What is considered as the central principle of literary criticism in Sanskrit Literature ?
A:-Dhwani
B:-Rasa
C:-Vakrokthi
D:-Vyanjana
Ans: D
8:-Which angel does Satan trick by disguising himself as a cherub ?
A:-Abdiel
B:-Uriel
C:-Raphael
D:-Michael
Ans: B
9:-The Grecian Urn is called "cold pastoral" because :
A:-it has remained unchanged till now
B:-it is mysterious
C:-it is made of marble
D:-all of these
Ans: D
10:-In which section of The Waste Land does Tiresias appear ?
A:-What the Thunder Said
B:-A Game of Chess
C:-The Fire Sermon
D:-The Burial of the Dead
Ans: C
11:-"Shakespeare approximates the remote and familiarizes the wonderful". Whose words are these ?
A:-Samuel Johnson
B:-John Dryden
C:-William Wordsworth
D:-Samuel Coleridge
Ans: A
12:-The term for describing someone's death as "someone is no more" or that "someone has breathed his/her last" is __________ .
A:-Euphism
B:-Euphony
C:-Understatement
D:-Euphemism
Ans: D
13:-What does Noam Chomsky's theory of language development emphasize ?
A:-Children's cognitive abilities
B:-Learning and conditioning principles
C:-Innate structures and biological mechanisms
D:-The language support system provided by parents
Ans: C
14:-Shelly used which stanza form in "Ode to the West Wind" ?
A:-Rime Royal
B:-Terza Rima
C:-Ottava Rima
D:-Spenserian Stanza
Ans: B
15:-From which poem is the line, "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity" taken
from ?
A:-The Waste Land
B:-Tintern Abbey
C:-The Second Coming
D:-Prayer for My Daughter
Ans: C
16:-The term 'Peripeteia' means __________ .
A:-Constancy in the fortune of the hero
B:-Change in the fortune of the hero from bad to good
C:-Fluctuations occurring in the fortunes of the hero
D:-Change in the fortune of the hero from good to bad
Ans: C
17:-Who is the native chief who leads the revolt against Brutus Jones in Emperor Jones ?
A:-Lem
B:-Len
C:-Leon
D:-Lix
Ans: A
18:-'Spenser writ no language'. Who said this ?
A:-Dryden
B:-Dr. Johnson
C:-Ben Jonson
D:-Matthew Arnold
Ans: C
19:-The theme of "Dejection : An Ode" is :
A:-unhappy marriage
B:-loss of poetic imagination
C:-broken friendship
D:-inability to bear defeat
Ans: B
20:-The poem in which Yeats uses the famous "stone metaphor" is __________ .
A:-Among School Children
B:-Second Coming
C:-Sailing to Byzantium
D:-Eastern 1916
Ans: D
21:-In which essay did Matthew Arnold regarded poetry as "a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty" ?
A:-Culture and Anarchy
B:-Essays in Criticism
C:-The Study of Poetry
D:-Literature and Dogma
Ans: C
22:-Who in "My Last Duchess" is said to have made the Duchess' painting ?
A:-George Vasari
B:-Fra Pandolf
C:-Duke of Ferrari
D:-Not mentioned
Ans: B
23:-What poison did Claudius pour into the ear of Hamlet's father to kill him ?
A:-Hebenon
B:-Baneberry
C:-Burdock
D:-Hemlock
Ans: A
24:-What was the original title of Pride and Prejudice ?
A:-'Last Impressions'
B:-'False Impressions'
C:-'First Impressions'
D:-'True Impressions'
Ans: C
25:-Harold Nicholson described which poet as 'Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners' ?
A:-E.E. Cummings
B:-T.S. Eliot
C:-John Greenleaf Whittier
D:-Walt Whitman
Ans: B
26:-LAD is
A:-Linguistic Auditory Derivative
B:-Living Auditory Dialect
C:-Loudness Assisting Device
D:-Language Acquisition Device
Ans: D
27:-A standard form of pronunciation is named Received Pronunciation by
A:-A. J. Ellis
B:-Daniel Jones
C:-Henry Sweet
D:-C. L. Wrenn
Ans: A
28:-___________ is the direct ancestor of modern literary English.
A:-Kentish
B:-Mercian
C:-Northumbrian
D:-West Saxon
Ans: B
29:-The first Bible was written in
A:-Latin
B:-Greek
C:-Hebrew
D:-Arabic
Ans: C
30:-Find out the Latin loan word
A:-Academy
B:-Bible
C:-Album
D:-Theatre
Ans: C
A:-Linguistic Auditory Derivative
B:-Living Auditory Dialect
C:-Loudness Assisting Device
D:-Language Acquisition Device
Ans: D
27:-A standard form of pronunciation is named Received Pronunciation by
A:-A. J. Ellis
B:-Daniel Jones
C:-Henry Sweet
D:-C. L. Wrenn
Ans: A
28:-___________ is the direct ancestor of modern literary English.
A:-Kentish
B:-Mercian
C:-Northumbrian
D:-West Saxon
Ans: B
29:-The first Bible was written in
A:-Latin
B:-Greek
C:-Hebrew
D:-Arabic
Ans: C
30:-Find out the Latin loan word
A:-Academy
B:-Bible
C:-Album
D:-Theatre
Ans: C
31:-Eliot's "Objective Correlative" first appeared in
A:-"Function of Criticism"
B:-For Lancelot Andrews
C:-"Metaphysical Poetry"
D:-"Hamlet and His Problems"
Ans: D
32:-Another name of Bacon's Essays was
A:-Councils, Civil and Moral
B:-Novum Organum
C:-Perswasion and Disswasion
D:-Wisdom of the Ancients
Ans: A
33:-Three members of School for Scandal
A:-Lady Sneerwell, Fairall, Mrs. Marwood
B:-Backbite, Mr. Marwood, Crabtree
C:-Mrs. Candour, Lady Sneerwell, Backbite
D:-Fairall, Crabtree, Marwood
Ans: C
34:-Prothalamion is written to celebrate the double marriage of
A:-Lady Elizabeth and lady Katherine Somerset
B:-Lady Montgomery and Lady Christine Worcester
C:-Lady Margaret Reynolds and Lady Isabella Winchester
D:-Lady Mary Ferguson and Lady Valentine Whitmore
Ans: A
35:-Milton changed the first edition of Paradise Lost with ten books into a second edition with twelve, altering the number of lines also. After the overall modifications the epic is finalized with a total number of ___________ lines.
A:-1104
B:-10550
C:-10565
D:-1674
Ans: C
36:-Who is not an eighteenth century critic of Shakespeare ?
A:-Dr. Johnson
B:-Theobald
C:-Edward Capel
D:-Clarendon
Ans: D
37:-Gray's "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day" has a reference to a new system introduced by
A:-James I
B:-William the Conqueror
C:-Charles II
D:-William and Mary
Ans: B
38:-In Canterbury Tales pilgrims are also known as
A:-Psalmers
B:-Faithful
C:-Palmers
D:-Merciful
Ans: C
39:-Restoration Comedy is not connected with ___________ in its origination.
A:-Shakespeare
B:-Jonson
C:-Beaumont
D:-Fletcher
Ans: A
40:-Mac Flecknoe is published in
A:-1675
B:-1682
C:-1660
D:-1688
Ans: B
41.
42:-A poet echoes his philosophy through his character, Los, who says, " I must create a system or be enslaved by another Man's." Who is the poet ?
A:-Shelley
B:-Tennyson
C:-Byron
D:-Blake
Ans: D
43:-Charlotte Bronte's first biography The Life of Charlotte Bronte was written by her friend
A:-Elizabeth Gaskell
B:-Lytton Strachey
C:-Edward Chitham
D:-Juliet Barker
Ans: A
44:-Who took care of Hopkin's manuscripts ?
A:-D. J. Rossetti
B:-Swinburne
C:-John Millais
D:-Robert Bridges
Ans: D
45:-The first title of Austen's Pride and Prejudice
A:-Real and Unreal
B:-Dreary Lives
C:-First Impression
D:-Pleasant Fancies
Ans: C
46:-A Russian writer who influenced the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
A:-Trotsky
B:-Ruskin
C:-Pushkin
D:-Chekhov
Ans: B
47:-"Ulysses" by Tennyson is based on
A:-Homer's Odyssey
B:-Homer's Iliad
C:-Dante's Divine Comedy
D:-Dante's Inferno
Ans: D
48:-Four poet-laureates
A:-Dryden, Shadwell, Day-Lewis, Eliot
B:-Cobber, Bridges, Masefield, Tennyson
C:-Rowe, Southey, Rossetti, Yeats
D:-Wordsworth, Tennyson, Hughes, Motion
Ans: D
49:-Hopkin's inscape refers to
A:-Inner landscape of the language
B:-The force sustaining an instress
C:-The individual quality of a thing
D:-Devise that holds together lines
Ans: C
50:-Complete the title, Songs of Innocence and Experience
A:-Shewing the Contrary States of Human Soul
B:-Showing Two Contrary States of the Human Soul
C:-Two Contrary States of Human Soul
D:-Two Contrary Souls in Human State
Ans: B
51:-The subtitle of Waiting for Godot
A:-A Tragic-Comedy in Two Acts
B:-An Absurd Play
C:-A Comedy of Absurd
D:-A Comic View
Ans: A
52:-Who wrote Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being in 1912 ?
A:-W. H. Auden
B:-W. B. Yeats
C:-Ted Hughes
D:-Seamus Heaney
Ans: C
53:-Who is the supporter of woman's rights in Sons and Lovers ?
A:-Clara
B:-Miriam
C:-Mrs. Morel
D:-Paul
Ans: A
54:--The /t/ in 'that river' is
A:-Alveolar
B:-Post Alveolar
C:-Dental
D:-Palato Alveolar
Ans: B
55:-Shaw adapted the Pygmalion myth from Ovid's Metamorphosis
A:-Book V
B:-Book VII
C:-Book IX
D:-Book X
Ans: D
56:-The intruders who take over Stanley in Birthday Party
A:-A Irishman and a Jew
B:-A Scot and an Irish man
C:-An Englishman and an Irish man
D:-An English man and a Scot
Ans: A
57:-Greene quoted __________ as an epigraph to the Heart of the Matter.
A:-Charles Pierre Peguy
B:-Jean Genet
C:-Jean Paul Sartre
D:-Albert Camus
Ans: A
58:-The Portrait of the Artist as an Young Man was published serially during 1914-15 in
A:-The Egoist
B:-The Times Literary Supplement
C:-South West Review
D:-Yale Review
Ans: A
59:-The first mention of The Wasteland occurs in a letter that Eliot wrote to
A:-James Joyce
B:-John Quinn
C:-Wyndham Lewis
D:-Ezra Pound
Ans: B
60:-Eponym
A:-name associated with its previous derivatives
B:-Thing's name derived from the person concerned
C:-Root noun that goes through transformation
D:-An unchanging noun
Ans: B
61:-Actress not mentioned in Bluest Eye.
A:-Greer Garson
B:-Gretta Garbo
C:-Ginger Rogers
D:-Shirley Temple
Ans: A
62:-Who wrongs Saleem in Midnight's Children out of a misguided sense of social justice at the time of his birth ?
A:-Mary Pereira
B:-Amina
C:-Naseem Ghani
D:-Alia
Ans: A
63:-Who called Frost "a poet of terror" ?
A:-Lionel Trilling
B:-Ezra Pound
C:-Cleanth Brooks
D:-I. A. Richards
Ans: A
64:-Gitanjali is a selection of poems from four of Tagore's Bengali works - Gitanjali, Gitimaly, Naivedya and
A:-Varsha Mangal
B:-Manas Sundari
C:-Kheya
D:-Akash Pradeep
Ans: C
65:-The four parts in The Sound and the Fury are arranged as
A:-April 7 1928, June 2 1910, April 6 1928, April 8 1928
B:-June 2 1910, April 6 1928, April 7 1928, April 8 1928
C:-April 6 1928, April 7 1928, June 2 1910, April 8 1928
D:-April 8 1928, June 2 1910, April 7 1928, April 6 1928
Ans: A
66:-Which work is not semi-autobiographical in nature ?
A:-Glass Menagerie``
B:-Sons and Lovers
C:-Golden Notebook
D:-Emperor Jones
Ans: D
67:-Title of Nissim Ezekiel's poem "Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher" resembles a line from Shakespeare's
A:-Merchant of Venice
B:-As you Like It
C:-A Midsummer Night's Dream
D:-Twelfth Night
Ans: C
68:-Sylvia Plath's biography by Anne Stevenson is
A:-The Bell Jar
B:-The Other Sylvia Plath
C:-Bitter Fame
D:-Rough Magic
Ans: C
69:-Fill in -
Rose of God, vermillion strain on the
Sapphires of heaven,
Rose of ___________, fire sweet, seven-
tinged with the ecstasies seven !
A:-Day
B:-Bliss
C:-Gift
D:-Flame
Ans: B
70:-Brotherhood in The Invisible Man is not associated with
A:-Jack
B:-Hambro
C:-Clifton
D:-Rinehart
Ans: D
71:-Sidney agrees with Aristotle that "Poetry dealeth with Katholou" which means
A:-Philosophical consideration
B:-Universal consideration
C:-Aesthetic aspect
D:-Instructive aspect
Ans: B
72:-Aristotle separated literary texts from their socio-political context and analyse them in __________ and _____________ terms.
A:-Philosophical and theoretical
B:-Practical and imaginative
C:-Metaphysical and didactic
D:-Aesthetic and formalistic
Ans: D
73:-Who is not a good poet according to Sidney ?
A:-Surrey
B:-Chaucer
C:-Spenser
D:-Wyatt
Ans: D
74:-Who is not an example of sublime according to Longinus ?
A:-Homer
B:-Aristotle
C:-Aristophanes
D:-Sappho
Ans: B
75:-"Poetic speech is formed speech. Prose is ordinary speech." Shklovsky means
A:-Poetry is perfect speech formed for writing; prose is ordinary speech of reality
B:-Poetry is attenuated speech; prose is economical
C:-Poetic speech is refined speech; prose is easy one for expression
D:-Poetry is rhythmic and formed; prose is natural and common
Ans: B
76:-Which idea is unsuitable to Showalter's concept of a feminist text ?
A:-Losing its gender to enjoy equality
B:-Continuing to be tumultuous in the difference
C:-Attaining undifferentiated universality
D:-Demanding to be lifted from the differentiating humiliations
Ans: C
77:-Aristotle defines the "exode" as
A:-That part of a tragedy where there is no choric song following it
B:-That part of a tragedy which comes between two choric songs
C:-The first utterance of the chorus
D:-The choral song having no anapaests or trochees
Ans: A
78:-Which of the following reveals Dr. Johnson's Neoclassical outlook in the criticism of Shakespeare ?
A:-Shakespeare is a poet of nature who had a "central" style
B:-Shakespeare's tragicomedy is justifiable as also his attitude to the Unities
C:-Shakespeare's lapses to an extend can be ignored on account of his Age
D:-Shakespeare has a mastery of generality and so his characters represent species
Ans: D
79:-Lyrical Ballads, ___________ in some of its statements, invited debate from critics like Coleridge and T. S. Eliot.
A:-Powerful and iconoclastic
B:-Controversial and provocative
C:-Revolutionary and open
D:-Meritorious and innovative
Ans: B
80:-"The progress of an artist is a continual sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality." Eliot means that
A:-a poet should not have any personality to express when he writes
B:-a poet should sacrifice himself for others extinguishing his personality
C:-a poet could attain objectivity of expression if he escapes from his personality
D:-a poet can progress as an artist with continual extinction of personal interests
Ans: C
81:-The concept of Public Sphere is not associated with
A:-Umberto Eco
B:-Nancy Frazer
C:-Jurgen Habermas
D:-Gerald Hauser
Ans: A
82:-What does Spivak mean when she suggest that the subaltern finds it difficult to speak ?
A:-Subalterns are marginalized people and they have no voice
B:-Subalterns are the women who find it unable to speak about their state
C:-Subaltern women are interpreted through conceptual procedures that cannot understand the speaker
D:-The marginalized subalterns cannot speak or be heard because of restrictions
Ans: C
83:-For the Diasporic imagination the concept of "home" does not include the idea
A:-Home acts as a means of orientation giving a sense of our place
B:-Home stands for shelter, security and comfort
C:-Home represents a mystic place of desire
D:-Home fulfills itself when one could return to the geographical territory
Ans: D
84:-What is foreign to Queer theory is
A:-Accounting for transactional identities and linkages
B:-Declining the connection between cultural differences of sexuality and one's native legacy
C:-Studying intellectual and political diaspora based on new ethnic and racial awarenesses
D:-Finding close alignment between race and sexuality
Ans: B
85:-Laminal means
A:-A sound produced with the blade of the tongue
B:-A sound like 'intruding r'
C:-A sound produced near the Glottis
D:-A sound resembling a lateral sound
Ans: A
86:-New Historicism refuses to accommodate
A:-The search for motifs where existing power relations are subverted
B:-The comparative irrelevance of the cultural matrixes of the time reflected in literary texts
C:-The interest in the modes of inclusion and exclusion visible in the marginalized culture
D:-The emphasis of culture as text, adding more texts to its subject of study and sees various objects also as texts
Ans: B
87:-The one idea not applicable to Cyber Feminism is
A:-The cyborg transcends the gender binary, like woman, cyborgs are biologically and symbolically produced and reproduced through social interaction
B:-"Weaving" of the World Wide Web is compared to traditional weaving and it asserts identity with woman's conscious agency as weaver in the web
C:-The feminist weaver does not suggest linkage, mutual dependency and community
D:-There is a theoretically informed appropriation of cyber cultures and also a conscious effort to access the material
contexts of cyber cultures
Ans: C
88:-Trauma Theory does not accept that
A:-The real is achieved through representation and that fictional world properly deals with the real world
B:-Cultural political trauma is examined with depth in relation to literature
C:-The positioning of readers as writers gives trauma literature and its interpretation an ethical dimension
D:-The only difference between Trauma studies and eco centric studies is that the latter lacks an approved subject as
the former bare witness for survivors
Ans: D
89:-The one principle that is not related to Hyperreality is that
A:-There is a lack of any intensive affective energies, power of the symbolic and the strength of fantasy
B:-The gap between science and their referents are destroyed
C:-Time is conceived as an eternal present without end giving up the linear concept of it
D:-The concept of Hyperreality means experiencing as less real than the real because it is a 'real' without origin or reality
Ans: D
A:-"Function of Criticism"
B:-For Lancelot Andrews
C:-"Metaphysical Poetry"
D:-"Hamlet and His Problems"
Ans: D
32:-Another name of Bacon's Essays was
A:-Councils, Civil and Moral
B:-Novum Organum
C:-Perswasion and Disswasion
D:-Wisdom of the Ancients
Ans: A
33:-Three members of School for Scandal
A:-Lady Sneerwell, Fairall, Mrs. Marwood
B:-Backbite, Mr. Marwood, Crabtree
C:-Mrs. Candour, Lady Sneerwell, Backbite
D:-Fairall, Crabtree, Marwood
Ans: C
34:-Prothalamion is written to celebrate the double marriage of
A:-Lady Elizabeth and lady Katherine Somerset
B:-Lady Montgomery and Lady Christine Worcester
C:-Lady Margaret Reynolds and Lady Isabella Winchester
D:-Lady Mary Ferguson and Lady Valentine Whitmore
Ans: A
35:-Milton changed the first edition of Paradise Lost with ten books into a second edition with twelve, altering the number of lines also. After the overall modifications the epic is finalized with a total number of ___________ lines.
A:-1104
B:-10550
C:-10565
D:-1674
Ans: C
36:-Who is not an eighteenth century critic of Shakespeare ?
A:-Dr. Johnson
B:-Theobald
C:-Edward Capel
D:-Clarendon
Ans: D
37:-Gray's "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day" has a reference to a new system introduced by
A:-James I
B:-William the Conqueror
C:-Charles II
D:-William and Mary
Ans: B
38:-In Canterbury Tales pilgrims are also known as
A:-Psalmers
B:-Faithful
C:-Palmers
D:-Merciful
Ans: C
39:-Restoration Comedy is not connected with ___________ in its origination.
A:-Shakespeare
B:-Jonson
C:-Beaumont
D:-Fletcher
Ans: A
40:-Mac Flecknoe is published in
A:-1675
B:-1682
C:-1660
D:-1688
Ans: B
41.
42:-A poet echoes his philosophy through his character, Los, who says, " I must create a system or be enslaved by another Man's." Who is the poet ?
A:-Shelley
B:-Tennyson
C:-Byron
D:-Blake
Ans: D
43:-Charlotte Bronte's first biography The Life of Charlotte Bronte was written by her friend
A:-Elizabeth Gaskell
B:-Lytton Strachey
C:-Edward Chitham
D:-Juliet Barker
Ans: A
44:-Who took care of Hopkin's manuscripts ?
A:-D. J. Rossetti
B:-Swinburne
C:-John Millais
D:-Robert Bridges
Ans: D
45:-The first title of Austen's Pride and Prejudice
A:-Real and Unreal
B:-Dreary Lives
C:-First Impression
D:-Pleasant Fancies
Ans: C
46:-A Russian writer who influenced the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
A:-Trotsky
B:-Ruskin
C:-Pushkin
D:-Chekhov
Ans: B
47:-"Ulysses" by Tennyson is based on
A:-Homer's Odyssey
B:-Homer's Iliad
C:-Dante's Divine Comedy
D:-Dante's Inferno
Ans: D
48:-Four poet-laureates
A:-Dryden, Shadwell, Day-Lewis, Eliot
B:-Cobber, Bridges, Masefield, Tennyson
C:-Rowe, Southey, Rossetti, Yeats
D:-Wordsworth, Tennyson, Hughes, Motion
Ans: D
49:-Hopkin's inscape refers to
A:-Inner landscape of the language
B:-The force sustaining an instress
C:-The individual quality of a thing
D:-Devise that holds together lines
Ans: C
50:-Complete the title, Songs of Innocence and Experience
A:-Shewing the Contrary States of Human Soul
B:-Showing Two Contrary States of the Human Soul
C:-Two Contrary States of Human Soul
D:-Two Contrary Souls in Human State
Ans: B
51:-The subtitle of Waiting for Godot
A:-A Tragic-Comedy in Two Acts
B:-An Absurd Play
C:-A Comedy of Absurd
D:-A Comic View
Ans: A
52:-Who wrote Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being in 1912 ?
A:-W. H. Auden
B:-W. B. Yeats
C:-Ted Hughes
D:-Seamus Heaney
Ans: C
53:-Who is the supporter of woman's rights in Sons and Lovers ?
A:-Clara
B:-Miriam
C:-Mrs. Morel
D:-Paul
Ans: A
54:--The /t/ in 'that river' is
A:-Alveolar
B:-Post Alveolar
C:-Dental
D:-Palato Alveolar
Ans: B
55:-Shaw adapted the Pygmalion myth from Ovid's Metamorphosis
A:-Book V
B:-Book VII
C:-Book IX
D:-Book X
Ans: D
56:-The intruders who take over Stanley in Birthday Party
A:-A Irishman and a Jew
B:-A Scot and an Irish man
C:-An Englishman and an Irish man
D:-An English man and a Scot
Ans: A
57:-Greene quoted __________ as an epigraph to the Heart of the Matter.
A:-Charles Pierre Peguy
B:-Jean Genet
C:-Jean Paul Sartre
D:-Albert Camus
Ans: A
58:-The Portrait of the Artist as an Young Man was published serially during 1914-15 in
A:-The Egoist
B:-The Times Literary Supplement
C:-South West Review
D:-Yale Review
Ans: A
59:-The first mention of The Wasteland occurs in a letter that Eliot wrote to
A:-James Joyce
B:-John Quinn
C:-Wyndham Lewis
D:-Ezra Pound
Ans: B
60:-Eponym
A:-name associated with its previous derivatives
B:-Thing's name derived from the person concerned
C:-Root noun that goes through transformation
D:-An unchanging noun
Ans: B
61:-Actress not mentioned in Bluest Eye.
A:-Greer Garson
B:-Gretta Garbo
C:-Ginger Rogers
D:-Shirley Temple
Ans: A
62:-Who wrongs Saleem in Midnight's Children out of a misguided sense of social justice at the time of his birth ?
A:-Mary Pereira
B:-Amina
C:-Naseem Ghani
D:-Alia
Ans: A
63:-Who called Frost "a poet of terror" ?
A:-Lionel Trilling
B:-Ezra Pound
C:-Cleanth Brooks
D:-I. A. Richards
Ans: A
64:-Gitanjali is a selection of poems from four of Tagore's Bengali works - Gitanjali, Gitimaly, Naivedya and
A:-Varsha Mangal
B:-Manas Sundari
C:-Kheya
D:-Akash Pradeep
Ans: C
65:-The four parts in The Sound and the Fury are arranged as
A:-April 7 1928, June 2 1910, April 6 1928, April 8 1928
B:-June 2 1910, April 6 1928, April 7 1928, April 8 1928
C:-April 6 1928, April 7 1928, June 2 1910, April 8 1928
D:-April 8 1928, June 2 1910, April 7 1928, April 6 1928
Ans: A
66:-Which work is not semi-autobiographical in nature ?
A:-Glass Menagerie``
B:-Sons and Lovers
C:-Golden Notebook
D:-Emperor Jones
Ans: D
67:-Title of Nissim Ezekiel's poem "Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher" resembles a line from Shakespeare's
A:-Merchant of Venice
B:-As you Like It
C:-A Midsummer Night's Dream
D:-Twelfth Night
Ans: C
68:-Sylvia Plath's biography by Anne Stevenson is
A:-The Bell Jar
B:-The Other Sylvia Plath
C:-Bitter Fame
D:-Rough Magic
Ans: C
69:-Fill in -
Rose of God, vermillion strain on the
Sapphires of heaven,
Rose of ___________, fire sweet, seven-
tinged with the ecstasies seven !
A:-Day
B:-Bliss
C:-Gift
D:-Flame
Ans: B
70:-Brotherhood in The Invisible Man is not associated with
A:-Jack
B:-Hambro
C:-Clifton
D:-Rinehart
Ans: D
71:-Sidney agrees with Aristotle that "Poetry dealeth with Katholou" which means
A:-Philosophical consideration
B:-Universal consideration
C:-Aesthetic aspect
D:-Instructive aspect
Ans: B
72:-Aristotle separated literary texts from their socio-political context and analyse them in __________ and _____________ terms.
A:-Philosophical and theoretical
B:-Practical and imaginative
C:-Metaphysical and didactic
D:-Aesthetic and formalistic
Ans: D
73:-Who is not a good poet according to Sidney ?
A:-Surrey
B:-Chaucer
C:-Spenser
D:-Wyatt
Ans: D
74:-Who is not an example of sublime according to Longinus ?
A:-Homer
B:-Aristotle
C:-Aristophanes
D:-Sappho
Ans: B
75:-"Poetic speech is formed speech. Prose is ordinary speech." Shklovsky means
A:-Poetry is perfect speech formed for writing; prose is ordinary speech of reality
B:-Poetry is attenuated speech; prose is economical
C:-Poetic speech is refined speech; prose is easy one for expression
D:-Poetry is rhythmic and formed; prose is natural and common
Ans: B
76:-Which idea is unsuitable to Showalter's concept of a feminist text ?
A:-Losing its gender to enjoy equality
B:-Continuing to be tumultuous in the difference
C:-Attaining undifferentiated universality
D:-Demanding to be lifted from the differentiating humiliations
Ans: C
77:-Aristotle defines the "exode" as
A:-That part of a tragedy where there is no choric song following it
B:-That part of a tragedy which comes between two choric songs
C:-The first utterance of the chorus
D:-The choral song having no anapaests or trochees
Ans: A
78:-Which of the following reveals Dr. Johnson's Neoclassical outlook in the criticism of Shakespeare ?
A:-Shakespeare is a poet of nature who had a "central" style
B:-Shakespeare's tragicomedy is justifiable as also his attitude to the Unities
C:-Shakespeare's lapses to an extend can be ignored on account of his Age
D:-Shakespeare has a mastery of generality and so his characters represent species
Ans: D
79:-Lyrical Ballads, ___________ in some of its statements, invited debate from critics like Coleridge and T. S. Eliot.
A:-Powerful and iconoclastic
B:-Controversial and provocative
C:-Revolutionary and open
D:-Meritorious and innovative
Ans: B
80:-"The progress of an artist is a continual sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality." Eliot means that
A:-a poet should not have any personality to express when he writes
B:-a poet should sacrifice himself for others extinguishing his personality
C:-a poet could attain objectivity of expression if he escapes from his personality
D:-a poet can progress as an artist with continual extinction of personal interests
Ans: C
81:-The concept of Public Sphere is not associated with
A:-Umberto Eco
B:-Nancy Frazer
C:-Jurgen Habermas
D:-Gerald Hauser
Ans: A
82:-What does Spivak mean when she suggest that the subaltern finds it difficult to speak ?
A:-Subalterns are marginalized people and they have no voice
B:-Subalterns are the women who find it unable to speak about their state
C:-Subaltern women are interpreted through conceptual procedures that cannot understand the speaker
D:-The marginalized subalterns cannot speak or be heard because of restrictions
Ans: C
83:-For the Diasporic imagination the concept of "home" does not include the idea
A:-Home acts as a means of orientation giving a sense of our place
B:-Home stands for shelter, security and comfort
C:-Home represents a mystic place of desire
D:-Home fulfills itself when one could return to the geographical territory
Ans: D
84:-What is foreign to Queer theory is
A:-Accounting for transactional identities and linkages
B:-Declining the connection between cultural differences of sexuality and one's native legacy
C:-Studying intellectual and political diaspora based on new ethnic and racial awarenesses
D:-Finding close alignment between race and sexuality
Ans: B
85:-Laminal means
A:-A sound produced with the blade of the tongue
B:-A sound like 'intruding r'
C:-A sound produced near the Glottis
D:-A sound resembling a lateral sound
Ans: A
86:-New Historicism refuses to accommodate
A:-The search for motifs where existing power relations are subverted
B:-The comparative irrelevance of the cultural matrixes of the time reflected in literary texts
C:-The interest in the modes of inclusion and exclusion visible in the marginalized culture
D:-The emphasis of culture as text, adding more texts to its subject of study and sees various objects also as texts
Ans: B
87:-The one idea not applicable to Cyber Feminism is
A:-The cyborg transcends the gender binary, like woman, cyborgs are biologically and symbolically produced and reproduced through social interaction
B:-"Weaving" of the World Wide Web is compared to traditional weaving and it asserts identity with woman's conscious agency as weaver in the web
C:-The feminist weaver does not suggest linkage, mutual dependency and community
D:-There is a theoretically informed appropriation of cyber cultures and also a conscious effort to access the material
contexts of cyber cultures
Ans: C
88:-Trauma Theory does not accept that
A:-The real is achieved through representation and that fictional world properly deals with the real world
B:-Cultural political trauma is examined with depth in relation to literature
C:-The positioning of readers as writers gives trauma literature and its interpretation an ethical dimension
D:-The only difference between Trauma studies and eco centric studies is that the latter lacks an approved subject as
the former bare witness for survivors
Ans: D
89:-The one principle that is not related to Hyperreality is that
A:-There is a lack of any intensive affective energies, power of the symbolic and the strength of fantasy
B:-The gap between science and their referents are destroyed
C:-Time is conceived as an eternal present without end giving up the linear concept of it
D:-The concept of Hyperreality means experiencing as less real than the real because it is a 'real' without origin or reality
Ans: D
90:-In which year was Ellison's Invisible Man published ?
A:-1958
B:-1952
C:-1960
D:-1955
Ans: B
91:-Name the postcolonial critic who used the phrase 'derivative discourse' as the subtitle of his book which challenges Benedict Anderson's model.
A:-Aijaz Ahmed
B:-Homi Bhabha
C:-Partha Chatterjee
D:-Edward Said
Ans: C
92:-Which postcolonial critic, in reworking the Oedipal concept of identity formation, described colonialism as an Oedipal scene of forbidden desire (for the white woman) ?
A:-Albert Memmi
B:-Benita Parry
C:-Aime Cesaire
D:-Frantz Fanon
Ans: D
93:-Who is the author of Epistemology of the Closet ?
A:-Judith Butler
B:-Eva Sedgwick
C:-Michael Warner
D:-Tobin Siebers
Ans: B
94:-A method based on the parallel reading of literary and non-literary texts is called
A:-New Historicism
B:-Cultural Materialism
C:-Pluralism
D:-Narratology
Ans: A
95:-The founder of Ecocriticism as an institutional movement in the USA is
A:-William Rueckert
B:-Karl Kroeber
C:-Cheryll Glotfelty
D:-Margaret Fuller
Ans: C
96:-Name the author of the work, Finding the Centre : Two Narratives, in which home is figured as an illusion for immigrants.
A:-Homi Bhabha
B:-Salman Rushdie
C:-V.S. Naipaul
D:-Amitav Ghosh
Ans: C
97:-What is the term Homi Bhabha appropriates from Freud to describe border disruptions causing trauma and anxiety that subvert binaries in diasporic identity constructions ?
A:-Hybridity
B:-Uncanny
C:-Oedipal
D:-Transference
Ans: B
98:-The idea that everything is a model or an image, all is surface without depth is termed _________ by Baudrillard.
A:-Simulation
B:-Simulacra
C:-Representation
D:-Hypereality
Ans: D
99:-The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is the work of
A:-Jurgen Habermas
B:-Nancy Fraser
C:-Stuart Hall
D:-Simon During
Ans: A
100:-Cultural Studies in Britain developed out of the work of __________ through Hoggart and Raymond Williams.
A:-Mathew Arnold
B:-F. R. Leavis
C:-Michel Foucault
D:-Theodor Adorno
Ans: B
A:-1958
B:-1952
C:-1960
D:-1955
Ans: B
91:-Name the postcolonial critic who used the phrase 'derivative discourse' as the subtitle of his book which challenges Benedict Anderson's model.
A:-Aijaz Ahmed
B:-Homi Bhabha
C:-Partha Chatterjee
D:-Edward Said
Ans: C
92:-Which postcolonial critic, in reworking the Oedipal concept of identity formation, described colonialism as an Oedipal scene of forbidden desire (for the white woman) ?
A:-Albert Memmi
B:-Benita Parry
C:-Aime Cesaire
D:-Frantz Fanon
Ans: D
93:-Who is the author of Epistemology of the Closet ?
A:-Judith Butler
B:-Eva Sedgwick
C:-Michael Warner
D:-Tobin Siebers
Ans: B
94:-A method based on the parallel reading of literary and non-literary texts is called
A:-New Historicism
B:-Cultural Materialism
C:-Pluralism
D:-Narratology
Ans: A
95:-The founder of Ecocriticism as an institutional movement in the USA is
A:-William Rueckert
B:-Karl Kroeber
C:-Cheryll Glotfelty
D:-Margaret Fuller
Ans: C
96:-Name the author of the work, Finding the Centre : Two Narratives, in which home is figured as an illusion for immigrants.
A:-Homi Bhabha
B:-Salman Rushdie
C:-V.S. Naipaul
D:-Amitav Ghosh
Ans: C
97:-What is the term Homi Bhabha appropriates from Freud to describe border disruptions causing trauma and anxiety that subvert binaries in diasporic identity constructions ?
A:-Hybridity
B:-Uncanny
C:-Oedipal
D:-Transference
Ans: B
98:-The idea that everything is a model or an image, all is surface without depth is termed _________ by Baudrillard.
A:-Simulation
B:-Simulacra
C:-Representation
D:-Hypereality
Ans: D
99:-The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is the work of
A:-Jurgen Habermas
B:-Nancy Fraser
C:-Stuart Hall
D:-Simon During
Ans: A
100:-Cultural Studies in Britain developed out of the work of __________ through Hoggart and Raymond Williams.
A:-Mathew Arnold
B:-F. R. Leavis
C:-Michel Foucault
D:-Theodor Adorno
Ans: B
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