1. Whose tale included the seven deadly sins in Canterbury Tales?
a. Knight
b. Ploughman
c. Parson
d. Squire
2. Which of the following option not right one for the meaning of George Herbert’s Affliction.
a. illness
b. Misery
c. Suffering
d. Mistry
3. ‘The Metaphysical Poets’ (1921), is an essay written by _________.
a. T.S. Eliot
b. John Donne
c. Dr. Samuel Johnson
d. I.A. Richards
4. When was the first three books of Faerie Queene published?
a. 1590
b. 1596
c. 1603
d. 1616
5. The Romantic period begins in 1798, which saw the publication of Lyrical Ballads, and ends in 1832, a year which saw the death of _______.
a. S.T. Coleridge
b. John Keats
c. Sir Walter Scott
d. Lord Byron
6. ‘In _______ did Kubla Khan,
A stately pleasure-dome decree’
chose right word to complete the lines from Kubla Khan.
a. Alph
b. Xanadu
c. China
d. Twice five miles
7. From among the following, identity Coleridge’s companion in a fanciful scheme to establish a utopian community of free love on the banks of the Susquehaina river?
a. Lord Byron
b. Robert Southey
c. William Hazlitt
d. William Wordsworth
8. Which of the following writers did not receive the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
a. Wole Soyinka
b. Chinua Achebe
c. J.M. Coetzee
d. Nadine Gordimer
9. ‘I weep for ______-he is dead!
Oh, weep for Adonais! though our tears’
Complete the sentence where the line appears in the first stanza.
a. Adonais
b. Keats
c. Shelly
d. Elia
10. In which novel, does the hero, driven by passion and revenge, add a new dimension to the concept of sufferings?
a. Great Expectations
b. Jude the Obscure
c. Middle March
d. Wuthering Heights
11. Where did the all the pilgrims plan to go for pray in Canterbury Tales?.
a. Tomb of St. Thomas Becket
b. Tomb of St. Pope XIV
c. Tomb of Thomas More
d. Tomb of St.Henry II
12. Shakespeare's plays were performed at
a) The Dionysia festival
b) The Blackfriars Theater
c) Both the Globe Theater and the Blackfriars Theater
d) The Globe Theater
13. Who are the ‘courty makers’ of Henry VIII’s reign?
(i)Sit Thomas Wyatt (ii) Sir Philip Sydney (iii) Edmund Spenser (iv) Earl of Surrey. Choose the correct option.
b. II , III
c. III, IV
d. IV, I
e. I, II
a.
14. ‘Let me not love thee, if I love the not’ it is the concluding line of _________
a. Pulley
b. Affliction
c. To His Coy Mistress
d. Epithalamion
15. The phrase ‘The soul to seek heavenly comfort’ promotes to __________.
a. Paradise lost
b. The Rape of the Lock
c. Affliction
d. Pulley
16. Which of the following metaphysical poets have attraction to the history and the writing of the great Spanish mystic, Teresa of Avila?
a. Richard Crashaw
b. George Herbert
c. Andrew Marwell
d. John Donne
17. Who is not one of the hero according to Thomas Carlyle’s ‘On Heroes and Hero Worship’?
a. William Shakespeare
b. Samuel Johnson
c. Jean Rousseau
d. John Milton
18. Who argues that ‘No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone’?
a. T.S. Eliot
b. William Wordsworth
c. John Dryden
d. ST Coleridge
19. Who is in love with Artegall, whom she first saw in Merlin’s mirror?
a. Britomart
b. Glauce
c. Merlin
d. Una
20. Whose lines is this?
‘Water, Water, every where, nor any drop to drink‘
a. Shelly
b. Coleridge
c. Tennyson
d. Robert Browning
21. In poetry, line lengths can extend from one foot monometer to eight feet octameter, including dimeter(2), trimester (3), tetrameter (4), pentameter (5), hexameter(6), __________(7).
a. Heptameter
b. Trochoic meter
c. Spondaic meter
d. Iambic meter
22. Which of the following author is the first generation of Romantics ?
a. Lord Byron
b. Shelly
c. John Keats
d. ST Coleridge
23. What instrument did the Abyssinian maid play?
a. lyre
b. tambor
c. dulcimer
d. flute
24. What was the age of Queen Victoria when she rose to the throne?
a. 15
b. 17
c. 18
d. 21
25. The often impercipient, would-be misanthrope Lockwood is the primary narrator in
a. Middle March
b. Wuthering Heights
c. Great Expectations
d. Moby Dick
26. Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as the Poet Laureate in
a. 1843
b. 1847
c. 1850
d. 1896
27. Middlemarch published in 1871-72 which is very closely related to the determining spirit of the age, is set in the years\?
a. 1829-32
b. 1839-42
c. 1849-52
d. 1859-62
28. Whom does Dorothe marry n the end in Middlemarch?
a. Casaubon
b. Lydgate
c. Ladislaw
d. Fred Vincy
29. The oxford movement in the Victorian period stated in the early
a. 1830s
b. 1840s
c. 1850s
d. 1860s
30. Who wrote ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’, mocking at the mid-Victorian confidence and earnestness?
a. Oscar Wilde
b. Charles Dickens
c. E.J Pratt
d. Edward Albee
31. The leader of the Decadent Movement, he joined hands with Henry Highland in bringing out a periodical ‘The Yellow Book’. Identify him from among the following :
a. Aurey Beardsley
b. Arthur Symons
c. Oscar Wilde
d. Earnest Dowson
32. Who propagated the idea of ‘High seriousness’ and ‘Grand style’ in poetry?
a. Byron
b. Spenser
c. Mathew Arnold
d. Walter Scott
33. Who advocated ‘disinterestedness’ in literary criticism?
a. T.S. Eliot
b. Aristotle
c. Mathew Arnold
d. None of the above
34. Who said about Shakespeare:
‘Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask- thou smilest and art still, out-topping knowledge….
a. Robert Browning
b. Alfred Tennyson
c. Mathew Arnold
d. Clough
35. Gorge Eliot wrote under the pseudonym of aa man?
a. G.H. Lewes
b. G.B. Shaw
c. G. Tilloston
d. W.Allen
36. Who wrote ‘Essays on Milton’ ?
a. Carlyle
b. Macaulay
c. James Boswell
d. Samuel Johnson
37. What is meant ‘DENOUEMENT’ in drama?
a. The final unravelling of the plot
b. The anti-climax
c. The expected consequence or end
d. None of the above
38. What is caesura in poetry?
a. A pause in a line of verse dictated by the meters
b. Any pauce in poetry
c. A pause in a line of verse not dictated by the meters but by the natural rhythm of the language
d. A pause after every stanza inbuilt into the rhythm of the language and matter
39. Who coined the term ‘dissociation of sensibility’
a. I.A. Richards
b. Mathew Arnold
c. S.T. Coleridge
d. T.S. Elliot
40. To get the complete meaning of a poem ontological criticism puts emphasis on
a. The texture
b. The structure
c. The narrator
d. Both (A) and (B)
41. Which of the following is not mentioned as part of the London locale in ‘The Waste Land’
a. St. Magnus Martyr
b. King Arthur street
c. St. Mary Woolnoth
d. Lower Thames street
42. The first official royal Poet Laureate in English history was_______
a. Ben Jonson
b. William Davenant
c. John Dryden
d. Thomas Shadwell
43. How many chapters are in Biographia Literaria ?
a. 19
b. 4
c. 23
d. 10
44. Surrealism is associated with
a. Ernest Cassirer
b. Tristan Tzara
c. Henrik Ibsen
d. Andre Breton
45. ‘And miles to go before I sleep’ is a line from a poem by
a. Emily Dickinson
b. Walt Whitman
c. R W Emerson
d. Robert Frost
46. While foregrounding, the marginal presence of woman in history in ‘A Room of One’s Own’ Virginia Woolf refers to _____History of England.
a. Cambell’s
b. Trevelyan’s
c. Sander’s
d. Carter’s
47. The term ‘womanism’ was first used by
a. Helene Cixous
b. Gayatri Spivak
c. Kate Millet
d. Alice Walker
48. ‘Nasal Tone’, in speech is a distinguishing feature of ____
a. British English
b. Scottish English
c. Australian English
d. American English
49. ‘Hath really neithr joy, nor love, nor light,, nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain’ This passage showing Arnold’s pessimism has been extracted from his poem
a. Rugby Chapel
b. Dover Beach
c. The Scholar Gipsy
d. Sohrab and Rustam
50. Works like The Earthly Paradise, Dante and His Circle, Gobin Market and other poems and the journal, The Germ are associated with____
a. The Pre-Raphaelites
b. Higher criticism
c. The cavalier poets
d. The Pre-Romantics
51. Whom does Mirabell deceive into believing that he loves her in ‘The Way of the World’
a. Milamant
b. Lady Wishfort
c. Mrs. Marwood
d. Mrs.Fainall
52. Among the following playwrights, who was awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1920?
a. Eugene O’Neill
b. Sean O’Casey
c. William Somerset Maugham
d. J.B. Priestly
53. Morris and Swinburne belonged to the school of poetry which rejected didacticism or moralisation as one of the aims of poetry. What is this school called as?
a. Edwardian School
b. Pre-modern school
c. Pre-Raphaelite school
d. None of the above
54. Bacon's essays in first edition are ______ in number.
a) 12
b) 20
c) 10
d) 15
55. Fausus sells his soul in exchange for a period of service from the devil. What is this period of time?
a. Until his twenty fourth birthday
b. Twenty four years
c. Until his fortieth birthday
d. Forty years
56. Why is Andrea not allowed to cross the river Acheron when he first arrives?
a. His funeral rites have not been performed
b. The three judges cannot decide what place in the underworld he should go to
c. He was killed unfairly by Balthzar
d. His love for Bel-Imperia prevents him
57. Which of the three judges of the underworld suggests that Andrea go see Pluto and Proserpine?
a. Eacus
b. Radamanth
c. Minos
d. Charon
58. At what time do “sleepless lovers” awake in The Rape of the Lock?
a. Dawn
b. Noon
c. Tea-time
d. Midnight
59. Who is Shock?
a. Belinda’s horse
b. Belinda’s lapdog
c. The Baron’s horse
d. The poet’s muse
60. By which river would she find rubies if they had all the time in the world in Toy His Coy Mistress?
a) Ganges
b) Amazon
c) Nile
d) Arno
61. After listing the other parts of her body how many years would he spend on praising "the rest" in Toy His Coy Mistress?
a) Sixty thousand.
b) Forty thousand.
c) Thirty thousand.
d) Fifty thousand.
62. In poems such as ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’ and ‘Andrea Del Sarto’, Browning reflects his love for_______
a. Greece
b. Spain
c. Italy
d. None of the above
63. ‘You do not do, you do not do
Any more, ______ shoe’
Complete the sentence, these lines from Sylvia Plath’s Daddy
a. Red
b. Green
c. Black
d. Tear
64. Who is last introduced in the play ‘The Tempest’?
a) Trinculo and Stephano
b) Sebastian
c) Ferdinand
d) Miranda
65. Who is Alonso's son?
a) Sebastian
b) Ferdinand
c) Prospero
d) Gonzalo
66. Who is the Jewel?
a) Sadiku
b) Baroka
c) The favorite
d) Sidi
67. Sidi is doing what at the beginning of the play The lion and the Jewel?
a) Looking at the magazine
b) Dancing
c) Practicing math
d) Carrying water
68. Who is a major twentieth century Australian poet, as well as short story writer, essayist and literary editor. He published thirteen collections of poetry, five verse plays, including the well-known ‘Ned Kelly’
a. Douglas Stewart
b. A.D Hope
c. Judith Wright
d. Alan Paten
69. Seven Types of Ambiguity is a work of literary criticism by William Empson which was first published in _______
a. 1930
b. 1940
c. 1933
d. 1937
70 . Who said this lines in Jude the Obscure ‘Why should you care so much for Christminster? ... Christminster cares nothing for you, poor dear!’
a. Sue Bridehead
b. Aunt Drusilla
c. Arabella Donn
d. Jude Fawley
71. ‘Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and_______; hear, oh hear! ‘ complete the lines of P B Shelley
a. Preserver
b. tangled
c. Maenad
d. summer dreams
72. According to Bacon, which of the following one makes men active?
a. Studies
b. Revenge
c. Truth
d. Ambition
73. What color is the western sky in Dejection Ode?
a. orange red
b. blue black
c. yellow green
d. pink brown
74. In the title of the play ‘She stoops to Conquer’ SHE stands for
a. Mrs. Hardcastle
b. Miss Kate Hardcastle
c. Miss Neville
d. None of these
75. In ‘She stoops to Conquer’ Tony Lumpkin is __________. Choose the correct and meaningful answer
a. Son of Mr.Hardcastle
b. Son of Mr.Hardcastele and Mrs.Hardcastle
c. Son of Mrs.Hardcastle and her first husband
d. Son of Mrs.Hardcastle
76. Name the character who has been ‘the cause of six matches being broken off and three sons disinherited, four forced elopements, and as many close confinements nine separate maintenances and two divorces ’.
a. Lady Sneerwell
b. Mrs. Clackit
c. Mr. Snake
d. Joseph
77. Who has acted as a guardian to two young men, Joseph and Charles, after their father’s death?
a. Rawley
b. Sir Oliver
c. Sir Peter Teazle
d. Mr. Snake
78. What is the equal word for Autumn in American English
a. Season
b. Fall
c. Condition
d. Storm
79. What is a policeman before a Gandhi’s man? Tell me, does a boar stand before a lion or a jackal before an elephant? These lines appear in the novel
a. Coolie
b. The English Teacher
c. A Handful of Rice
d. Kanthapura
80. Which is the volume written by R.Parthasarthy
a. Rough Passage
b. Subterfuges
c. Articulate Silences
d. Woodpeckers
81.
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
82.
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
83.
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
84.
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
85.
‘Women in the Nineteenth Century’ century is written by__________.
a. John Stuart Mill
b. Margaret Fuller
c. Simone de Beavoir
d. Elaine Showalter
86.
‘Sexual Politics’ is written by________
a. John Stuart Mill
b. Margaret Fuller
c. Toril Moi
d. Kate Millet
87.
Which is the wrong match of Northtop Frye’s four mythos.
a. Spring-comedy
b. Summer – romance
c. Autumn-irony
d. Winter- satire
88.
The New Testament opens with
a. St.Mathew
b. St.Mark
c. Philemon
d. Hebrews
89.
In Chapter 38 of the ‘Book of Job’ the Lord answered out of the
a. Whirlwind
b. Fire
c. Sky
d. Sea
90.
‘The subjucation of Women’ is written by ___________.
a. John Stuart Mill
b. Margaret Fuller
c. Simone de Beavoir
d. Elaine Showalter