1.
Falstaff is a character in Shakespeare’s
a. Henry I
b. Henry VIII
c. Henry IV
d. Macbeth
2.
In ‘Dover Beach’ Arnold hears the melancholy long withdrawing roar of the sea of _______
a. Emotion
b. Doubt
c. Faith
d. Grief
3.
‘The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria’s reign was celebrated in
a. 1857
b. 1837
c. 1877
d. 1887
4.
Millamant appears in which of the following comedies of Congreve?
a. The Old Bachelor
b. Love for Love
c. The Way of the World
d. The Country Wife
5.
In Hardy’s ‘Jude the Obscure’ Jude is the name of a ______
a. Boy
b. Girl
c. Toy
d. Dog
6.
Oscar Wilde’s play ‘Importance of Being Earnest’ was published in
a. 1890
b. 1893
c. 1895
d. 1896
7.
Which of the following authors was born in India?
a. James Joyce
b. Henry James
c. T.S.Eliot
d. George Orwell
8.
George Herbert was educated at
a. Oxford
b. Cambridge
c. Harvard
d. None
9.
What is a picaresque novel? A novel whose hero is _______
a. a villain
b. a knight
c. a wandering rogue
d. a subordinate to the heroine
10.
The Oxford Movement was fundamentally a movement for
a. Religious reform
b. Political reform
c. Social reform
d. Economic reform
11.
Which work of Robert Greene gave the plot to Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale?
a. Groat’s Worth of Wit
b. Pandosto
c. Orlando Furioso
d. Friar Bacon
12.
Which comic character of Shakespeare is known more for his wisdom?
a. Feste
b. Fool
c. Bottom
d. Puck
13.
Dicken’s first article was printed
a. Sketches by Boz
b. David Copperfield
c. Great Expectations
d. Hard Times
14.
The poet who among Tennyson’s immediate predecessors had the greatest influence on him was
a. Byron
b. Shakespeare
c. John Keats
d. P.B. Shelly
15.
Which poet’s scepticism was anticipated in the quality of Tennyson’s faith?
a. W.B. Yeats
b. W.H. Auden
c. T.S. Eliot
d. Mathew Arnold
16.
Who said ‘God’s in Heaven and all’s right with the world?’
a. Tennyson
b. Robert Browning
c. T.S. Eliot
d. Mathew Arnold
17.
The basic idea of the term ‘grand style’ was elaborated and illustrated in Mathew Arnold’s______
a. On Study of Poetry
b. On Translating Homer
c. Scholar Gypsy
d. Essays in Criticism
18.
Arnold’s ‘Scholar Gypsy’ a pastoral poem is based upon an old legend related by
a. Alfred Tennyson
b. Robert Browning
c. Joseph Glanvil
d. D.G. Rossetti
19.
Which poetry is strongly pictorial
a. Metaphysical poetry
b. Romantic poetry
c. Pre-Raphaelite poetry
d. Victorian Poetry
20.
Expressionism was revolt against
a. Naturalism
b. Realism
c. Impressionism
d. Surrealism
21.
Imagism was initiated by Ezra Pound and T.E. Hulme in
a. 1911
b. 1912
c. 1913
d. 1914
22.
H.D. Thoreau’s style is
a. Satirical
b. Conventional
c. Poetical
d. Rhetorical
23.
Herman Merville’s which book is interesting to be studied as a preliminary to his ‘Moby Dick’?
a. Typee
b. Omoo
c. Mardi
d. White jacket
24.
‘The Experience of Professor Ramsay and his wife have been described in which of the novel
a. Mrs. Dollaway
b. To The Light House
c. Way of The world
d. School for Scandals
25.
Whose words are these? 'Drink to me only with thine eyes’
a. Shakespeare
b. Milton
c. Ben Jonson
d. Marlowe
26.
Face and subtle are the characters of
a. The alchemist
b. Volpone
c. The silent women
d. The poetaster
27.
Who said? ‘Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man’
a. Bacon
b. Deloney
c. Montaigne
d. Lodge
28.
The most important critical work of Elizabethan period is
a. Apologie for poetrie
b. The school of abuse
c. Defence of Rhyme
d. Arcadia
29.
John Donne revolted against the tradition of
a. Shakespeare
b. Ben Jonson
c. Spenser
d. Samuel Daniel
30.
Andrew Marvell was the son of
a. Lawyer
b. Yorkshire clergyman
c. Sailor
d. Doctor
31.
How many books are there in 'Paradise Lost'
a. 18
b. 12
c. 14
d. 6
32.
Which one is Milton’s elegy on Edward King?
a. L’Allegro
b. On His Blindness
c. Paradise Lost
d. Lycidas
33.
John Bunyan’s first work was?
a. Sighs from Hell
b. The Pilgrim’s Progress
c. The Holy War
d. The Holy City
34.
The New Testament opens with
a. St.Mathew
b. St.Mark
c. Philemon
d. Hebrews
35.
In Chapter 38 of the ‘Book of Job’ the Lord answered out of the
a. Whirlwind
b. Fire
c. Sky
d. Sea
36.
How many daughters was Job given in end by God
a. 3
b. 5
c. 7
d. 12
37.
The Old Testament was originally written in
a. Hebrew
b. Latin
c. Greek
d. English
38.
Who was restored to the throne of England in 1660
a. Charles I
b. Charles II
c. James II
d. James I
39.
The age of Pope is called
a. The romantic age
b. The Elizabethan age
c. The Victorian age
d. The Augustan age
40.
Who speaks this line in The Way of the World ‘A wit should no more be sincere than a woman constant’?
a. Witwoud
b. Millamant
c. Mirabel
d. Lady Wishfort
41.
Who Who speaks this line in The Way of the World ‘Friendship without freedom is as dull as love without enjoyment’?
a. Witwoud
b. Millamant
c. Mirabel
d. Lady Wishfort
42.
What is meant by ‘Churchyard school of poets’?
a. The poetry that suffered from melancholic strain
b. The poetry about the church
c. Both
d. None
43.
‘What oft was thought but never so well expressed’ is an epigram which can be associated with
a. Alexander Pope
b. John Dryden
c. Dr.Johnson
d. Jonathan Swift
44.
Pope’s ‘The Rape of Lock’ has been written in
a. Spenserian stanza
b. Blank verse
c. Free verse
d. Heroic couplet
45.
The term ‘bathos’ was first used by
a. Alexander Pope
b. John Dryden
c. Dr.Johnson
d. Jonathan Swift
46.
In ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ Gulliver sets out on
a. Four voyages
b. Five voyages
c. Three voyages
d. Six voyages
47.
Which of the following voyages was not undertaken by Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travels?
a. Voyage to Borbdingnag
b. Voyage to Lilliput
c. Voyage to the Land of Houyhnhnms
d. Voyage to Congo
48.
Yahoos appear in which of the following voyages of Gulliver?
a. Voyage to Borbdingnag
b. Voyage to Lilliput
c. Voyage to the Land of Houyhnhnms
d. Voyage to Laputa
49.
‘I called endeavour to enlighten morality with wit and to temper wit with morality’. Here ‘I’ stands for_______
a. Cowley
b. Addison
c. Steele
d. Defoe
50.
Who started the Journal ‘The Tatler’
a. Cowley
b. Addison
c. Steele
d. Defoe
51.
American Declaration of Independence took place in_____
a. 1775
b. 1776
c. 1777
d. 1778
52.
Dryden considered as ‘the father of English criticism’ who stated this?
a. Alexander Pope
b. Dr.Johnson
c. Ben Johnson
d. Bolingbroke
53.
Which of the following poet was blind?
a. Alexander Pope
b. John Dryden
c. Dr.Johnson
d. Milton
54.
Which of the following authors in his youth was so beautiful as to have been called ‘The Lady of the College’?
a. Alexander Pope
b. John Dryden
c. Dr.Johnson
d. Milton
55.
The Coffee house culture flourished in
a. The age of Ben Jonson
b. The age of Dr.Johnson
c. The age of Wordsworth
d. The age of Dryden
56.
Who said ‘What is for everything can fit nothing well’?
a. Alexander Pope
b. Dr.Johnson
c. Ben Johnson
d. Bolingbroke
57.
Which poem has the line: ‘The curfew tolls the knell of parting day’?
a. Collin’s Ode to Evening
b. Collin’s Ode on the passions
c. Gray’s Elegy written in a Country churchyard
d. Gray’s On the death of a favourite cat
58.
Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer was not exactly an original work it is derived from
a. Congreve’s Way of the World
b. Sheridan’s Rivals
c. Farquhar’s Beaux Stratagem
d. Richard Steele’s Tender Husband
59.
The complete title of She Stoops to Conquer is
a. She Stoops to Conquer or the mistakes of a night
b. She Stoops to Conquer or the mistakes of a morning
c. She Stoops to Conquer or the mistakes of an evening
d. She Stoops to Conquer or the mistakes of a noon
60.
Who is the agent of Lady Sneerwell in The School for Scandals who spreads the scandals?
a. Mr. Snake
b. Joseph
c. Maria
d. None of these
61.
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man’s possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.’ In which novel of Austen does this sentence occur?
a. Pride and Prejudice
b. Sense and Sensibility
c. Emma
d. Persuasion
62.
Wordsworth’s The Prelude is a/an
a. Philosophical Poem
b. Metaphysical Poem
c. Autobiographical poem
d. Biographical poem
63.
who is the lost leader in Browning’s poem ‘The Lost Leader’?
a. Shelly
b. Wordsworth
c. Milton
d. Shakespeare
64.
Shelly’s Defence of Poetry written in 1821 was published in
a. 1822
b. 1830
c. 1821
d. 1840
65.
Adonais is an elegy on
a. Shakespeare
b. Keats
c. Dryden
d. Shelly
66.
‘The Biography of Johnson’ was written by?
a. James Boswell
b. T.S. Eliot
c. Mathew Prior
d. George Orwell
67.
The term negative capability was given by
a. Coleridge
b. T.S. Eliot
c. John Keats
d. I.A.Richards
68.
Who wrote ‘For the sake tobacco I would do anything but I die’?
a. John Keats
b. Charles Lamb
c. Coleridge
d. Shelly
69.
Who has been called the Poet’s poet?
a. Sidney
b. Shakespeare
c. Spenser
d. Ben Jonson
70.
The most celebrated and the most successful of Marlowe’s character’s speech was by
a. Dr.Faustus
b. Edward II
c. Gaveston
d. Helen of Troy
71.
Who gave the name ‘Sporting Kyd’ to Thomas Kyd?
a. Shakespeare
b. Ben Jonson
c. Marlowe
d. John Lyly
72.
The Birth of Jesus is a famous
a. Morality plays
b. Miracle Plays
c. Mystery plays
d. Interlude
73.
In The Hairy Ape – O’Neil presents
a. Realism
b. Realism with symbolic expression
c. Symbolism
d. None of the above
74.
Willy Loman is a character in
a. Macbeth
b. Death of a sales Man
c. Moby Dick
d. Old man and the sea
75.
Who has written the poem ‘The Lotus’
a. Rabindranath Tagore
b. Toru Dutt
c. Sarojini Naidu
d. Sri Aurobindo
76.
Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his masterpiece
a. Gitanjali
b. Gora
c. The Wreck
d. The Home and the World
77.
Which dramatist writes his plays first in Kannada and then translate them into English?
a. Vijay Tendulkar
b. Krish Karnad
c. Tagore
d. R.Parthasarathy
78.
The English Teacher is a novel written by R.K. Narayanan which pair is appeared in this novel?
a. Krishnan and Kamala
b. Krishnan and Susila
c. Sambath and Susila
d. Sambath and kamala
79.
Kanthapura is described to be a/an
a. Purana
b. Upanishad
c. Epic
d. History
80.
Things Fall Apart is written by ________
a. Wole Soyinka
b. Chinua Achebe
c. Margret Atwood
d. Nadine Gordimer
81.
Aristotle’s Poetics is divided into ______ chapters
a. 23
b. 24
c. 25
d. 26
82.
Who coined the term ‘Esemplastic’
a. Coleridge
b. Alexander Pope
c. I.A Richards
d. Mathew Arnold
83.
Which Period of English history after the death of Chaucer was known as Post-Chaucerian age?
a. 1450-1480
b. 1400-1450
c. 1490-1530
d. 1401-1440
84.
The year of Norman Conquest of England in the Battle of Hastings was
a. 1066
b. 1068
c. 1070
d. 1072
85.
Peasant Rebellion took place in
a. 1380
b. 1381
c. 1382
d. 1283
86.
In which tale of Chaucer a daughter is killed by her father?
a. The Monk’s Tale
b. The Physician’s Tale
c. The Friar’s Tale
d. The Clerk’s Tale
87.
Which of the following tales in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is in prose?
a. The Pardoner’s Tale
b. The Parson’s Tale
c. The Monk’s Tale
d. The Knight’s Tale
88.
Wycllif’s The Bible is a translation of
a. Greek Texts
b. Latin Texts
c. Hebrew Texts
d. Arabic Texts
89.
The Licensing Act for closing of all theatres except Drury Lane and Covent Garden was passed in
a. 1734
b. 1735
c. 1736
d. 1737
90.
The First English playhouse called ‘The Theatre’ was founded in
a. 1574
b. 1575
c. 1576
d. 1577