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1. Who is the first story teller in Canterbury Tales?
a. Knight
b. Parson
c. Plough Man
d. Squire

Answer :a. Knight

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2. Which is not related one for Faerie Queene?
a. Elizabeth is Gloriana
b. Elizabeth is effectively present in each of the all massive books
c. Spenser’s grand original scheme is twelve books
d. First three books published in 1596

Answer : d. First three books published in 1596

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3. Bacon’s Essayes or Counsels is based and practice of ______________
a. Michel de Montaigne
b. Martin Luther
c. Thomas De Quincey
d. William Shakespeare

Answer : a. Michel de Montaigne

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4. When Shakespeare first came to London, England was under the reign of
a) King James I
b) Queen Elizabeth II
c) Queen Elizabeth I
d) King Henry VIII

Answer : c) Queen Elizabeth I

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5. In Canterbury Tales, the Knight’s tale an abbreviated version of Boccaccio’s__________
a. Teseida
b. Decorumn
c. Dulce et Decorum Est
d. Orlando Furioso

Answer : a. Teseida

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6. In Which chapter does Coleridge deal about “ESEMPLASTIC”
a. VII
b. VIII
c. IX
d. X

Answer : d. X

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7. Satan's name before he fell from heaven was:
a) Michael
b) Lucifer
c) Beelzebub
d) Belial

Answer : b) Lucifer

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8. Which is not matched one of the works and writer?.
a. “Life of Cowley” by Dr.Johnson.
b. “The life of George Herbert” by Izaac Walton.
c. “Flush : A Biography of Barret Browning” by Harold Pinter.
d. “Life of Samuel Johnson” by James Boswell.

Answer :c. “Flush : A Biography of Barret Browning” by Harold Pinter.

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9. Why does Manolin no longer fish with Santiago?
a) Santiago no longer needs him
b) He dislikes Santiago
c) His parents have told him to fish with others
d) Manolin has left for the city

Answer : c) His parents have told him to fish with others

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10. Which of the following spencer’s characters had modelled on a parallel figure in Aristo’s Orlando Furioso?
a. Gloriana
b. Una
c. Britomart
d. Florimel

Answer : c. Britomart

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11. Error of Judgement notes______
a. Peripeteia
b. Hamartia
c. Catastrope
d. The Conceits

Answer : b. Hamartia

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12. SEMPER EADEM is a Queen’s personal motto. In which book is it mentioned by Spencer in Faerie Queene.
a. Constancy
b. Friendship
c. Courtesy
d. Chastity

Answer : a. Constancy

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13. Who was the first to use the term “Metaphysical” in critical currency?.
a. T.S.Eliot.
b. John Donne.
c. Dr.Johnson.
d. Ben Johnson.

Answer : c. Dr.Johnson.

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14. “Conceits” which is use to determine the metaphysical term, means.
a. Witty and ingenious ideas.
b. Slow motion.
c. Melongoly tone.
d. Ideas about soul.

Answer :a. Witty and ingenious ideas.

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15. Where did the pilgrims meet together before start their journey in Canterbury Tales?.
a. Eagle Inn.
b. Pigeon Inn.
c. Tabard Inn.
d. Talisman Inn.

Answer : c. Tabard Inn.

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16. Constantinople fell to Turks in _______
a. 1593
b. 1453
c. 1583
d. 1492

Answer : b. 1453

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17. In Which book does Plato condemn poetry for presenting a false picture of life and being quite useless.
a. VII
b. VIII
c. IX
d. X

Answer : d. X

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18. Hamartia is a __________word used by Aristotle.
a. Hebrew
b. Latin
c. French
d. Greek

Answer : d. Greek

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19. Which of the following option mentions to the mythological of Zephyr?
a. Autumn
b. Nightingale
c. Grecian Urn
d. West Wind

Answer : d. West Wind

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20. Lionel Trilling says about a poet “the poet’s vision gave the prose writer is his goal”. Who is the poet?
a. Mathew Arnold
b. T.S. Eliot
c. Shelly
d. William Wordsworth

Answer : a. Mathew Arnold

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21. Excessive pride or self confidence that leads protagonist to disregard a divine warning or to violate an important moral law is _____________
a. Hubris
b. Mythos
c. Eiron
d. Agnon

Answer : a. Hubris

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22. The study of the meaning of words and of the combination of words in phrases and sentences is called _________
a. Morphology
b. Phonology
c. Syntax
d. Semantics

Answer : d. Semantics

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23. A smallest meaningful unit of speech sounds within any one language is called________
a. Morpheme
b. Phoneme
c. Dialect
d. phonology

Answer : a. Morpheme

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24. who profound the term “Four kinds of Meaning”. The author mentioned the four factors are (i) Sense (ii) Feeling (iii) Tone (iv) Intention
a. I.A. Richards
b. William Empson
c. Allen Tate
d. Lionel Trilling

Answer : a. I.A. Richards

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25. “The Origin of the Family” is a work contribute to feminism, by _______________
a. John Stuart Mill
b. Friedrich Engels
c. D.H. Lawrence
d. Olive Schreiner

Answer : b. Friedrich Engels

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26. Who coined the term “Gynocritics”?
a. Elaine Showalter
b. Rachel Brownstein
c. Catherine Belsey
d. Virginia Woolf

Answer : a. Elaine Showalter

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27. “Psychoanalysis and Feminism” is written by ________
a. Juliet Mitchell
b. Kate Millet
c. Helene Cixous
d. Julia Kristeva

Answer : a. Juliet Mitchell

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28. Where does Heathcliff live?
a) the chase
b) Lowood
c) Wuthering heights
d) Thrushcross grange

Answer : c) Wuthering heights

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29. Why does Lockwood visit Heathcliff in Chapter 1?
a) he and Heathcliff were friends in their school days
b) to inquire about his health
c) to sell him a bible
d) to rent property from him

Answer : d) to rent property from him

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30. Why does Heathcliff think his dogs attacked Lockwood?
a) his dogs have rabies
b) Lockwood tried to steal something
c) Lockwood smells bad
d) Lockwood is unfamiliar to them

Answer : b) Lockwood tried to steal something

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31. What does Joseph accuse Lockwood of stealing?
a) jewelry
b) a lantern
c) a horse
d) money

Answer : b) a lantern

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32. In what year was "Emma" published?
a) 1815
b) 1790
c) 1805
d) 1811

Answer : a) 1815

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33. Who was Emma's governess?
a) Mrs. Weston
b) Miss Smith
c) Miss Fairfax
d) Miss Bates

Answer : a) Mrs. Weston

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34. What is the name of Emma's sister?
a) Isabella
b) Jane
c) Anne
d) Harriet

Answer : a) Isabella

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35. Where did Pip get his name?
a) from his sister and caregiver Mrs. Joe Gargery who thought he was an irritating pip-squeak.
b) it was the county where he was from.
c) from Joe Gargery.
d) it was how he pronounced his last name when he was a child.

Answer : d) it was how he pronounced his last name when he was a child.

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36. Who is the narrator of Great Expectations?
a) An old sailor who heard the story.
b) Pip
c) An unknown omnipotent narrator who uses the third person.
d) Joe Gargery

Answer : b) Pip

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37. What are the names of Mr. Brooke's estate and parish?
a) Stone court, Lowick
b) Lowick, Middlemarch
c) Freshitt, Middlemarch
d) The Grange, Tipton

Answer : d) The Grange, Tipton

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38. Dorothea's two suitors at the beginning of the novel are:
a) Casaubon and Sir James
b) Casaubon and Lydgate
c) Ned Plymdale and Sir James Chettam
d) Lydgate and Farebrother

Answer : a) Casaubon and Sir James

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39. What item does Mr. Phillotson have trouble moving to Christminster?
a) A large portrait of his father
b) A piano
c) An antique vase
d) A dining table

Answer : b) A piano

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40. Which of these best describes the village of Marygreen?
a) It looks exactly as it did 200 years ago
b) It is part of Christminster's 'urban sprawl' and was founded fairly recently
c) The working class lives in the old corner of the village, while the wealthier citizens live on the modernized east side
d) Many of its older buildings have been torn down and replaced

Answer : d) Many of its older buildings have been torn down and replaced

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41. How does Andrew Ramsay die?
a) Suicide
b) A boating accident
c) Fighting in world war I
d) Tuberculosis

Answer : c) Fighting in world war I

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42. What is Mrs. Ramsay knitting for the Lighthouse keeper's boy?
a) Stockings
,,,,,, b) A shawl
c) A scarf
d) A hat

Answer : a) Stockings

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43. Where is the Ramsays' summer home?
a) Long Island
b) The Riviera
c) Barbados
d) The Hebrides

Answer : d) The Hebrides

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44. How does Augustus Carmichael infuriate Mr. Ramsay at dinner?
a) By criticizing his work
b) By asking for more soup
c) By yelling at prue
d) By flirting with Mrs. Ramsay

Answer : b) By asking for more soup

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45. What does Macbeth do to Macdonald after he defeats him?
a) He takes him prisoner and brings him to Duncan
b) Rips out his heart
c) Cuts off his head and places it on the battlements
d) Takes his family crest and title

Answer : c) Cuts off his head and places it on the battlements

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46. What new title does Macbeth receive early in Act one?
a) Thane of Cawdor
b) King of Scotland
c) Thane of Glamis
d) Earl of Northumberland

Answer : a) Thane of Cawdor

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47. The Weird Sisters greet Macbeth as ________________.
a) Thane of Cawdor, thane of Lochaber, and thane of Glamis
b) Thane of Cawdor, thane of Fife, and king hereafter
c) Thane of Glamis, thane of Cawdor, and king hereafter
d) Thane of Glamis, thane of Fife, and father of kings

Answer : c) Thane of Glamis, thane of Cawdor, and king hereafter

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48. Alonso is king of what Italian realm?
a) Naples
b) Lombardy
c) Venice
d) Tuscany

Answer : a) Naples

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49. What is the name of Caliban's mother?
a) Ceres
b) Iris
c) Sycorax
d) Miranda

Answer : c) Sycorax

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50. Which of the following mythological figures does NOT appear in the play Tempest?
a) Ceres
b) Iris
c) Juno
d) Diana

Answer : d) Diana

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51. Cleopatra is
a) Empress of Rome
b) Queen of Denial
c) Queen of Parthia
d) Queen of Egypt

Answer : d) Queen of Egypt

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52. A triumvir is
a) A roman lieutenant
b) One of the three members of the triumvirate, an alliance of powerful generals who rule Rome and all her territories
c) One of the three members of the triumvirate, an alliance of admirals who rule the Sicilian Pirate fleet
d) An Egyptian courtesan

Answer : b) One of the three members of the triumvirate, an alliance of powerful generals who rule Rome and all her territories

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53. Where does Measure for Measure take place?
a) Vienna
b) Naples
c) Venice
d) Paris

Answer : a) Vienna

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54. Who is Mariana in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure?
a) Claudio's Fiancee
b) Angelo's former Fiancee
c) A prostitute
d) A nun

Answer : b) Angelo's former Fiancee

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55. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published in:
a) 1700
b) 1884
c) 1800
d) 1774

Answer : b) 1884

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56. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn can best be described as:
a) A humor novel
b) An abolitionist novel
c) An epic
d) A social commentary

Answer : d) A social commentary

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57. During their travels down the river, Huck talks to Jim about all of the following except:
a) King Solomon
b) Royalty
c) Money
d) Women

Answer : d) Women

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58. In which inn does Ishmael stay while in New Bedford?
a) The Trap
b) The Swordfish
c) The Crossed Harpoons
d) The Spouter

Answer : d) The Spouter

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59. Which character does Ishmael describe as "neither caterpillar nor butterfly"?
a) Moby Dick
b) Starbuck
c) Ahab
d) Queequeg

Answer : d) Queequeg

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60. To which historical person does Ishmael compare Queequeg?
a) Oliver Cromwell
b) Julius Caesar
c) George Washington
d) Thomas Jefferson

Answer : c) George Washington

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61. Hemingway says everything about Santiago is old except what?
a) His hands
b) His neck
c) His mouth
d) His eyes

Answer : d) His eyes

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62. Which of the following never hung on Santiago's wall?
a) Picture of the virgin of Cobre
b) Tinted photograph of his wife
c) Picture of sacred heart of Jesus
d) Picture of Fidel Castro

Answer : d) Picture of Fidel Castro

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63. Where does the Loman family live?
a) Boston
b) Long island
c) Queens
d) Brooklyn

Answer : d) Brooklyn

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64. What is Happy's real name?
a) William
b) Harold
c) Benjamin
d) Harlan

Answer : b) Harold

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65. Which of the following characters does attend Willy's funeral?
a) Ben
b) Charley
c) Howard
d) Bernard

Answer : b) Charley

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66. In what town does this play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf take place ?
a) New Carthage
b) New London
c) New Sparta
d) New Haven

Answer : a) New Carthage

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67. How old are protagonists George and Martha, respectively?
a) 40 and 46
b) 46 and 40
c) 52 and 46
d) 46 and 52

Answer : d) 46 and 52

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68. What is George's position at the college?
a) Head of the History department.
b) Interim head of the History department.
c) President of the college.
d) Associate professor of History

Answer : d) Associate professor of History

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69. The battle between God's army and Satan's rebels in heaven lasted:
a) Seven days
b) Three days
c) One hour
d) One day

Answer : b) Three days

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70. In the phrase, "thy seed shall bruise our foe," the "seed" refers to:
a) The tree of knowledge
b) Cane and Abel
c) Adam
d) Jesus Christ

Answer : d) Jesus Christ

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71. Chinua Achebe was born and educated in
a) Chad
b) South Africa
c) Mali
d) Nigeria

Answer : d) Nigeria

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72. The novel Things Fall Apart takes place in
a) Mbanto
b) Johannesburg
c) Umuofia
d) Both Umuofia and Mbanto

Answer : d) Both Umuofia and Mbanto

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73. Okonkwo's father was named
a) Nwoye
b) Unoka
c) Obierika
d) Ikemefuna

Answer : b) Unoka

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74. What is the former occupation of John Kumalo?
a) Mine worker
b) Pastor
c) Carpenter
d) Thief

Answer : c) Carpenter

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75. With whom does Stephen Kumalo stay when he arrives in Johannesburg?
a) Mr. Mafolo
b) Mrs. Lithebe
c) Gertrude kumalo
d) Theophilus Msimangu

Answer : b) Mrs. Lithebe

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76. Which of the following does not give Kumalo and Msimangu information concerning Absalom?
a) Mrs. Mkize
b) Hlabeni
c) Mrs. Ndlela
d) Johannes Pafuri

Answer : d) Johannes Pafuri

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77. Who does Lady Sneerwell love?
a) Snake
b) Sir peter
c) Charles
d) Joseph

Answer : c) Charles

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78. Who does Joseph love in The School for Scandal?
a) Lady Sneerwell
b) Maria
c) Lady Teazle
d) Lady Sneerwell's servant

Answer : b) Maria

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79. Ben Jonson was almost executed for which crime?
a) Sorcery
b) Murder
c) Exposing himself
d) Conmanship

Answer : b) Murder

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80. Who says, "I fart at thee"?
a) Ananias
b) Dol Common
c) Face
d) Subtle

Answer : d) Subtle

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81. 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

Answer : b. Ode on a Grecian Urn

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82. 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

Answer : a. The Burial of Dead

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83. 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

Answer : d. O wild west wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being

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84. The phrase ‘Faultless painter’ refers to
a. Andrea Del Sarto
b. Dover Beach
c. Byzantium
d. Morte D’Arthur

Answer : a. Andrea Del Sarto

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85. ‘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

Answer : c. This poem gave positive perception of Australian country

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86. ‘The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria’s reign was celebrated in
a. 1857
b. 1837
c. 1877
d. 1887

Answer : d. 1887

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87. 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

Answer : c. Joseph Glanvil

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88. In ‘Dover Beach’ Arnold hears the melancholy long withdrawing roar of the sea of _______
a. Emotion
b. Doubt
c. Faith
d. Grief

Answer : c. Faith

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89. 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

Answer : b. On Translating Homer

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90. 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

Answer : b. Robert Browning

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