1.
‘Birches’ is a poem by Robert Frost, it was included in collection of poetry ______.
a. Leaves of Grass
b. Mountain Interval
c. Sketches of Boz
d. Descriptive Sketches
2.
‘Australia’ is a poem by A.D. Hope. Choose the right answer of following options which is not related with this poem.
a. First five stanzas dealt with how Australia was
b. A.D.Hope said Australia was a mechanical and monotonous land
c. This poem gave positive perception of Australian country
d. It reflected the lack of individualism and spiritual poverty
3.
Which of the lines occurred with alliteration, that line would be an opening line of a poem.
a. Out of the cradle endlessly rocking
b. A nation of trees, drab green
c. And fill all fruit with ripens to the core
d. O wild west wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being
4.
Which is not related with Kanthapura
a. It is the first novel of Raja Rao
b. Kanthapura is a name of village
c. This novel narrated in form of sthalapurana
d. It is published in 1966
5.
Who is the queen of Faerie Land in Spenser’s Faerie Queene?
a. Una
b. Duessa
c. Florimell
d. Gloriana
6.
Who is the first African to receive the Nobel Prize for literature?
a. Wole Soyinka
b. Chinua Achebe
c. Alan Paten
d. Doughlas Stewart
7.
When did the author of Telephone Conversation receive Nobel Prize?
a. 1948
b. 1949
c. 1954
d. 1986
8.
Who is a salesman in Arthur Miller’s ‘The Death of a Salesman’?
a. Linda Loman
b. Biff Loman
c. Harold Loman
d. William Loman
9.
What is the original name of George Eliot
a. Mary Ann Evans
b. Eric Arthur Blair
c. Currer Bell
d. Boz
10.
Who succeeded as poet laureate after William Wordsworth?
a. John Dryden
b. Robert Southey
c. Alfred LordTennyson
d. John Masefield
11.
The phrase ‘Faultless painter’ refers to
a. Andrea Del Sarto
b. Dover Beach
c. Byzantium
d. Morte D’Arthur
12.
Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time.
Which of the following poem has consisted above lines?
a. Ode to the west wind
b. Ode on a Grecian Urn
c. Ode to Autumn
d. Ode to Dejection
13.
What is the first section of ‘The Waste Land’
a. The Burial of Dead
b. A game of Chess
c. The Fire Sermon
d. Death by water
14.
What is the first lines of Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘Because I could not stop for Death’
a. I first surmised the Horses’ heads were toward eternity
b. We passed the fields of Grazing Grain
c. We passed the setting sun
d. Because I could not stop for death
15.
‘The Dying Eagle’ is a poem written by _______
a. E.J.Pratt
b. Judith Wrigh
c. Abioseh Nicoll
d. Douglas Stewart
16.
which is not right one for Edmund Spenser’s Epithalamion
a. It is an ode
b. Spenser wrote this to his bride Elizabeth Boyle
c. It has 12 stanzas
d. This poem contains Greek mythology
17.
Canterbury Tales is a collection of ______stories
a. 120
b. 31
c. 30
d. 24
18.
Cry, the Beloved country is written by Alan Paton. It is a ______
a. Novel
b. Poem
c. Prose
d. Drama
19.
Who is the boy who comes to live with Okonkwo’s family for years until he is killed?
a. Unoka
b. Ikemefuna
c. Enoch
d. Nwoye
20.
‘The novelist as a teacher’ is written by _________.
a. Allen Tate
b. Lionel Trilling
c. William Empson
d. Chinua Achebe
21.
Which is a radio play and later adapted into a stage play?
a. Ned Kelly
b. The Lion and the Jewel
c. Tughlaq
d. The Hairy Ape
22.
When was The Lion and the Jewel first performed ?
a. 1959
b. 1960
c. 1961
d. 1962
23.
When did William Faulkner receive Nobel Prize?
a. 1948
b. 1950
c. 1954
d. 1986
24.
Which place did the play Muktha Dhara opens?
a. Bihar
b. Uttar Pradesh
c. Uttarakut
d. Malgudi
25.
Larine Sahib is a __________
a. Historical play
b. Religious play
c. Canadian play
d. None
26.
Jawaharlal Nehru was born on _________
a. November 14, 1869
b. November 14, 1879
c. November 14, 1889
d. November 14, 1888
27.
What is the second well known dance of Shiva ?
a. Tandava
b. Nadanta dance
c. Samhara
d. Anugraha
28.
What is Apu’s profession in A Handful of Rice
a. Tailor
b. Carpenter
c. Teacher
d. Rice dealer
29.
Who is the creator of fictional place Malgudi?
a. Kamala Markandaya
b. Raja Rao
c. Aurobindo
d. R.K. Narayan
30.
Munoo is a character in ____________
a. A handful of rice
b. Coolie
c. Kanthapura
d. Muktha Dhara
31.
Babu Nathoo Ram is a character in ____________
a. A handful of rice
b. Coolie
c. Kanthapura
d. Muktha Dhara
32.
Which of the following is not written by Kamala Markandaya?
a. Necter in a Sieve
b. A Handful of Rice
c. Coolie
d. A silence of Desire
33.
Who was awarded The Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983 for his poetry collection ‘Latter-Day Psalms’?
a. Sarojini Naidu
b. Toru Dutt
c. R. Parthasarathy
d. Nissim Ezekiel
34.
Who got the first Sakitya Akademi award?
a. Kamala Markandaya
b. Raja Rao
c. Aurobindo
d. R.K. Narayan
35.
Gitanjali Song Offerings is a collection of ____ prose poems
a. 100
b. 102
c. 103
d. 104
36.
Who asked who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?
a. Martha
b. George
c. Nick
d. Honey
37.
When was the play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ opened?
a. December 3, 1951
b. December 3, 1947
c. December 3, 1954
d. December 3, 1948
38.
When the novella opens, how long has it been since Santiago last caught a fish?
a. 40 days
b. 84 days
c. 87 days
d. 120 days
39.
Manolin’s parents refuse to let the boy fish with the old man because they believe Santiago is salao. How does Hemingway translate this word?
a. Selfish
b. Washed up
c. Crazy
d. The worst form of unlucky
40.
Who is Santiago’s hero in The Old man and the Sea?
a. Joe DiMaggio
b. Harry Truman
c. Dick Sisler
d. Fidel Castro
41.
A novel by Herman Melville is an epic tale of the voyage of the whaling ship the Pequod and its captain, Ahab. Which is the novel?
a. Tom Sawyer
b. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
c. Moby Dick
d. The Old man and the Sea
42.
How does Huck know that Pap has returned to St. Petersburg?
a. Tom tells him
b. Pap visits Judge Thatcher to demand Huck’s money
c. The authorities determine that the corpse found in the river is not Pap
d. He sees Pap’s boot print in the snow
43.
Which Wilks sister is initially suspicious of Huck?
a. Mary Jane
b. Susan
c. Sophia
d. Joanna
44.
West Running Brook is the poem by Robert Frost in ______________.
a. Pastoral Form
b. Dialogue Form
c. Reverie
d. None
45.
It is a dark, surreal, and at times painful allegory that uses metaphor and other devices to carry the idea of a female victim finally freeing herself from her father. Which is the right one?
a. Because I could not stop for death
b. Mending Wall
c. Daddy
d. The Cambridge Ladies
46.
“I have almost forgot the taste of fears” here I represents_____.
a. Macbeth
b. Lennox
c. Macduff
d. Malcolm
47.
“Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here” this lines occurred in one of the Shakespeare’s play. Find out the play.
a. Macbeth
b. The Tempest
c. Hamlet
d. The Merry Wives of Windsor
48.
What is the name of Miss Havisham’s manor?
a. Satis House
b. Lockmont
c. Larchmont
d. Satyr house
49.
How old is Pip when Magwitch returns to his life?
a. 9
b. 23
c. 18
d. 24
50.
To what genre of fiction, defined by its depiction of a character’s growth from childhood to adulthood.
a. Bildungsroman
b. Kunstlerspiegel
c. Mannerism
d. Victorian paternalism
51.
Who is Pip’s tutor in London?
a. Harold Pocket
b. Walter Pocket
c. Herbert Pocket
d. Matthew Pocket
52.
The narrative of Middlemarch is governed by which two major life choices?
a. Marriage and children
b. Vocation and location
c. Marriage and vocation
d. Home-buying and childrearing
53.
Rosamond’s plotline demonstrates the dangers of ____________
a. Adultery
b. Education
c. Alcohol
d. Stifled ambition
54.
As the novel begins, how does young James Ramsay occupy himself?
a. He stares out the window at the lighthouse
b. He hunts rabbits
c. He clips pictures from the Army and Navy Stores catalogue
d. He plays with the skull that hangs on the nursery wall
55.
To whom does Lily show her painting?
a. Mrs. Ramsay
b. William Bankes
c. Mr. Ramsay
d. Charles Tansley
56.
How does Andrew Ramsay die?
a. He is shot by Jasper
b. He falls from a train
c. He catches typhoid fever
d. He is killed in World War I
57.
Legislative Criticism means______
a. The critic sought to teach writers how to write
b. It considers writers family background, personal circumstances, friends etc.
c. Which deals with unconscious
d. It is the reference of social milieu of its author
58.
Which of the critics not belong to Neo Class criticism
a. John Dryden
b. Alexander Pope
c. Ben Johnson
d. Dr. Samuel Johnson
59.
Which of the following deals with enjoyment and appreciation of beauty?
a. Aesthetics
b. Burlesque
c. Tautology
d. Parody
60.
Six elements of Tragedy (i) Plot (ii) Character (iii) thought (iv) Language (v) Music (vi) ______
a. Diction
b. Spectacle
c. Imitation
d. Harmony
61.
Peripeteia refers_________
a. Pity and fear
b. Error of judgement
c. Hamartia
d. Reversal of situation
62.
‘Sidney shows that poetry does not deserve this scorn. Poetry instructs that its purpose is moral’ who comments these lines about Sidney?
a. Edmund Brooks
b. J.W.H. Atkins
c. Wimsatt
d. R.A.Scot James
63.
The Publication year of Dr. Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary
a. 1745
b. 1755
c. 1765
d. 1775
64.
Renewelleck stated that ‘He holds a position in the history of criticism which must be called ambiguous or transitional’ here he represents
a. William Wordsworth
b. John Dryden
c. Mathew Arnold
d. T.S Eliot
65.
Who is the editor of Criterion
a. T.S Eliot
b. I.A. Richards
c. Dr. Johnson
d. Elaine Showalter
66.
Who is the writer of ‘The Second Sex’
a. John Stuart Mill
b. Margaret Fuller
c. Simone de Beavoir
d. Elaine Showalter
67.
‘The subjucation of Women’ is written by ___________.
a. John Stuart Mill
b. Margaret Fuller
c. Simone de Beavoir
d. Elaine Showalter
68.
‘Women in the Nineteenth Century’ century is written b__________.
a. John Stuart Mill
b. Margaret Fuller
c. Simone de Beavoir
d. Elaine Showalter
69.
‘Sexual Politics’ is written by________
a. John Stuart Mill
b. Margaret Fuller
c. Toril Moi
d. Kate Millet
70.
Which is the wrong match of Northtop Frye’s four mythos.
a. Spring-comedy
b. Summer – romance
c. Autumn-irony
d. Winter- satire
71.
Blank verse is _______
a. Unrhymed iambic pentameter
b. Rhymed iambic pentameter
c. Unrhymed iambic hexameter
d. Rhymed iambic hexameter
72.
Shakespearean sonnet’s rhyme scheme is
a. Abab cdcd efef gg
b. Abab abab abcd ff
c. Aabb ccdd eeff gg
d. Abba cddc effe fg
73.
He is a real snake. In this sentence ‘snake’ is a
a. Simile
b. Metaphor
c. Symbol
d. Conceit
74.
‘Drink to me only with thine eyes’ is an example of
a. Understatement
b. Hyperbole
c. Sarcasm
d. Invective
75.
Syntax is a study of
a. Sounds
b. Syllables
c. Arrangement of words
d. Patten of sounds
76.
‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ addresses the Urn as ‘Thou still Unravishe’d bride of quietness’
This address is an example of
a. Apostrophe
b. Personification
c. Allegorisation
d. Symbolization
77.
‘if winter comes, can spring be far behind’ is an example of
a. Simple interrogative
b. Soliciting
c. Socratic questioning
d. Rhetorical questioning
78.
Morphology is the study of ______
a. Word structure
b. Sound structure
c. Sentence structure
d. Plot structure
79.
‘Poetic justice’ aims at
a. Punishing evil
b. Rewarding good
c. Rewarding virtue and punishing evil
d. Moderating between good and evil
80.
Which is the wrong combination
a. Autumn- fall
b. Flat - apartment
c. Nappy- trash
d. Angry – mad
81.
Who is the father of Miranda
a. Prospero
b. Ferdinand
c. Alonso
d. Gonzalo
82.
Who is the long term prisoner in the jail.
a. Barnadine
b. Elbow
c. Mariana
d. Claudio
83.
Who is the best companion of Prince Hal
a. Buck
b. Falstaff
c. Viola
d. Miranda
84.
Who is the most loyal supporter of Antony in Antony and Cleopatra?
a. Enobarbus
b. Eros
c. Ventidius
d. Camidius
85.
James Thomson was contemporary of
a. Shakespeare
b. Dryden
c. Pope
d. Johnson
86.
Johnson’s discussion of Metaphysical poets appears in
a. Life of Cowley
b. Life of Gray
c. Life of Dryden
d. Life of Pope
87.
Who wrote ‘Life of Samuel Johnson’
a. Gray
b. Collins
c. Boswell
d. Blake
88.
Goldsmith’s ‘She Stoops to Conquer’ was composed in
a. 1763
b. 1773
c. 1770
d. 1775
89.
Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’ was published in
a. 1771
b. 1781
c. 1800
d. 1791
90.
Which is not one of the sections of ‘The Waste Land’
a. The Burial of Dead
b. A game of Chess
c. The Fire Sermon
d. Death by sea