1. The Host of the Tabard propose that each of the pilgrims should tell____ tales on the way to Canterbury and ______tales on the return journey.
a. 2,4
b. 4,2
c. 4,4
d. 2,2
2. Who tells a long prose tale in Canterbury Tales?
a. Knight
b. Ploughman
c. Parson
d. Squire
3. Artegall is the lover of ________. She saw him first in Merlin’s magic mirror?
a. Britomart
b. Glauce
c. Una
d. Duessa
4. ‘CALM was the day, and through the trembling air ?
Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play’
This lines embedded in ____________.
a. Epithalamion
b. Prothalamion
c. Ode to the west Wind
d. Ode to Autumn
5. Which of the following philosopher’s high speech is opening line of Bacon’s essay ‘Of Adversity’?
a. Sophocles
b. Aristotle
c. Seneca
d. Plato
6. Philip Sidney in his Apology for Poetry reacts against the attacks made on poetry by the puritan, __________.
a. Stephen splender
b. Stephen Gosson
c. Aristotle
d. Sophocles
7. Where was a wealthy man Job living?
a. Urie
b. Mious
c. Uz
d. Uriel
8. Who is Faustus’ servant in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus ?
a. Mephastophilis
b. Lucifer
c. Rafe
d. Wagner
9. The Spanish Tragedy begins with the ghost of Don Andrea, a Spanish nobleman killed in a recent battle with ______.
a. Poland
b. Scotland
c. Portugal
d. Ireland
10. Which of the following Metaphysical poets wrote ‘Silex Scintillans’
a. George Herbert
b. John Donne
c. Andrew Marvell
d. Henry Vaughan
11. The Romantic age in literature is often contrasted with _______.
a. Neo-classical Age
b. Victorian Age
c. Elizabethan Age
d. Commonwealth period
12. The term ‘Georgian’ indicates English Poets whose work appeared in the period, during and immediately after _______.
a. First world War
b. Second World War
c. Post Modernism
d. Aesthetics
13. ‘Five miles meandering with a mazy motion’ this line refers to _____ in Kubla khan.
a. Fertile land
b. Palace of Xanadu
c. Sacred River
d. Song of Dulcimer
14. Which of the following writer is not a post-modernist theorist?
a. Jean Francois Lyotard
b. Jean Baudrillard
c. Georges Bataille
d. E.M. Tillyard
15. Who were the living writer by alive when king James Bible came out in 1611? (i) Ben Jonson, (ii) William Shakespeare, (iii) John Donne, (iv) John Milton, (v) George Herbert, (vi) George Chapman, (vii) Thomas Dekker
a. I, II, III, IV
b. IV, V, VI, VII
c. I , II, III, IV, V, VI
d. ALL
16. Duncan states that he plans to visit Macbeth at his home in ______.
a. Fife
b. Glamis
c. Inverness
d. England
17. Who tells Macbeth that the weather by night was full of strange events: chimneys were blown down, birds screeched all night, the earth shook, and ghostly voices were heard prophesying ominously?
a. Lady Macbeth
b. Macduff
c. Lennox
d. Ross
18. Caliban, who is a character in ‘The Tempest’, is a creature of ______.
a. Fire
b. Air
c. Earth
d. sky
19. ‘books by women’ this phrase gives the meaning of
a. Androtext
b. Gynotext
c. Feminine phase
d. Feminist phase
20. ‘The Rape of the Lock’ is belonged to the period
a. Neo-classical Age
b. Victorian Age
c. Elizabethan Age
d. Jacobian period
21. Samuel Pepys saw a production in 1661 and pronounced it ‘incomparable’. Which of the following work is mentioned by peppy?
a. Twelfth Night
b. The Alchemist
c. Samson Agonistes
d. The Pilgrim's Progress
22. The work opens with an argument, presenting title character’s current state and how he ended being a prisoner to the Philistine. Choose the right work from the option
a. The Pilgrim’s progress
b. Tom Jones
c. Samson Agonistes
d. The Power and the Glory
23. Which is a fusion of autobiography, literary criticism, and religious and philosophical theory?
a. Prelude
b. Essays of Elia
c. Biographia Literaria
d. Essay of Dramatic Poesy
24. During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbors, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colors of imagination. Who wrote this lines about points of poems and Wordsworth ?
a. William Hazlitt
b. S.T. Coleridge
c. Charles Lamb
d. Lord Byron
25. ‘The Scholar-Gipsy’ tells the famous story about an impoverished Oxford student who leaves his studies to join a band of gypsies. Who is the oxford student?
a. Mathew Arnold
b. Joseph Glanvill
c. Joseph Conrad
d. An unnamed fictional character
26. Who wrote the footnotes for the book form of ‘The Waste Land’?
a. Ezra Pound
b. T.S Eliot
c. W.B Yeats
d. Editor of The Criterion
27. How did the dead spirits arrive in Yeats’ Byzantium?
a. The backs of golden bird
b. The backs of dolphins
c. Through the clouds
d. Satan’s wagon
28. In Arnold’s Dover Beach, Dover is _______.
a. A city in France
b. A city in Ireland
c. A city in England
d. A sea shore in France
29. To whom did the Faultless Painter narrate a dramatic monologue?
a. Andrea Del Sarto
b. Robert Browning
c. Lucrezia
d. Elizabeth Robert Browning
30. Ambiguity means_____
a. Definite meaning
b. Possibility of more than one meaning
c. Lively exhibition of feelings
d. Recognition of the relation
31. To whom did Keats address his letter ( (3 May 1818))?
a. Benjamin Baily
b. John Taylor
c. John Hamilton Reynolds
d. Richard Woodhouse
32. Who coined the term ‘Imagism’?
a. W.B Yeats
b. T.S Eliot
c. Arthur Symons
d. Ezra Pound
33. Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal is the best example of ______.
a. Symbolism
b. Romanticism
c. Pre Raphaelites
d. Nihilism
34. Which of the following writer is not modern dramatist?
a. John Galsworthy
b. Thomas Dekker
c. G.B Shaw
d. Henrik Ibsen
35. The essay ‘Modern Fiction’, which was originally published under the title ‘Modern Novels’ in 1919. Who is the author of this essay?
a. Virginia Woolf
b. T.S. Eliot
c. James Joyce
d. Arnold Bennet
36. The ‘New Criticism’ in America was influenced by
a. T.S. Eliot and I.A Richards
b. Coleridge
c. Irving Babbit
d. None of the these
37. ‘The function of critic is to put the reader in possession of the work of art’ who said this?
a. I.A. Richards
b. T.S. Eliot
c. Yvor Winters
d. Cleanth Brooks
38. Cleanth Brooks has mainly used his critical tools on ____
a. Poetry
b. Prose
c. Short stories
d. Fiction
39. Which of the following phrases has been coined by T.S. Eliot?
a. Art for art’s sake
b. Suspension disbelief
c. Objective correlative
d. Touchstone method
40. The mental agony of Lady Macbeth has been expressed through the ‘sleep walking sense’ the mental agony has not been expressed directly. This may be cited as an example of ____
a. Objective correlative
b. Dissociation of sensibility
c. Unified sensibility
d. Tradition and individual talent
41. The phrase ‘dissociation of sensibility’ was first used by Eliot in his
a. Essays on Hamlet
b. Metaphysical Poets
c. Frontiers of Criticism
d. Tradition and individual talent
42. Bob Smith is the central figure in which of the following plays?
a. The death of salesman
b. Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf
c. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
d. The Hairy Ape
43. How does yank, the central character in The Hairy Ape differ from Aristotelean tragic heroes?
a. He does not meet a sad end despite his flaws
b. He meets a sad end without having any tragic flaw
c. There is a sudden reversal of fate at the end which is different from Aristotelean tragedy
d. None of the above
44. Who wrote the Leaves of Grass, one of the classics of world poetry?
a. Walt Whitman
b. T.S. Eliot
c. Robert Frost
d. Emily Dickinson
45. The old Man and The Sea recounts the 84 days’ adventure of
a. Manolin
b. Santiago
c. The Author
d. Philip
46. Which one is Sylvia Plath’s novel?
a. Ariel
b. Daddy
c. The Bell Jar
d. Catch – 22
47. What is the name of the poem celebrating the completion of the Suez Canal and the Transcontinental Railroad
a. Passage to India
b. To Brooklyn Bridge.
c. The Old Man and the Sea
d. West Running Brook
48. Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a
a. Novel by Melville
b. Play by Edward Albee
c. Critical study on Virginia Woolf’s novels
d. A poem by Toru Dutt
49. Who wrote under the pseudonym Mark Twain?
a. Washington Irving
b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
c. Walt Whitman
d. Arthur Conan Doyle
50. Where is R.K Narayan’s imaginary town Malgudi Located?
a. In Mysore state
b. In Cochin
c. In the Territory of the Nizam of Hydrabad
d. In Madras Presidency
51. Arthur Symons wrote about this person, ‘All the life of the tiny figure seemed to concentrate itself in the eyes: they turned towards beauty as the sunflower turns the sun.’ who is the person referred to?
a. Toru Dutt
b. Sarojini Naidu
c. Rabindranath Tagore
d. R. Parthasarathy
52. Who wrote ‘Our Casuarina Tree’ a splendid Keatsian poem?
a. Toru Dutt
b. Nissim Ezekiel
c. A.K. Ramanujam
d. Kamala Das
53. Who of the following was highly influenced by French Romanticism, French Language and Literature?
a. Sarojini Naidu
b. Rabindranath Tagore
c. Mulk Raj Anand
d. Toru Dutt
54. In which novel of Virginia Woolf does a painter in the act of painting actually figure as a character?
a. Wuthering Heights
b. The power and the Glory
c. To the Light House
d. The Voyage Out
55. Albert Camus, in his essay, ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’ conveys? (i) the concept of Naturalism, (ii) The Absurdity of Human Existence, (iii) The futility of al Human endeavour, (iv) the concept of Existentialism.
a. I, II, and III are correct
b. II, III and IV are correct
c. I, II and IV are correct
d. I, III, and IV are correct
56. Willy in Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman compares Biff and Happy to the mythic characters/ figures
a. Venus and Adonais
b. Adonais and Hercules
c. Jupiter and Hercules
d. Venus and Hercules
57. Identify the critics and their respective works:
a. Aristotle-Poetics; Dryden – An Apology for Poetrie
b. Sidney-An Apology for Poetrie; Horace – Poetics
c. Ben Jonson – Discoveries; Aristotle- Poetics
d. Dryden- An Essay of Dramatic Poesy; Sydney –Discoveries
58. According to Northrop Frye there are four main narrative genres associated with the seasonal cycle of Spring, summer, autumn, and winter. They are comedy, ______, tragedy, and Irony (satire). Which is the second one?
a. Romance
b. Epic
c. Novel
d. Fiction
59. William Wordsworth’s statement of purpose in publishing the Lyrical Ballads carries the following phrase. ‘to choose incidents from common life and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as possible, ______.’ Complete the phrase correctly.
a. In a section of language really used by men
b. In a relation to language really used by men
c. In a selection of language really used by a common man
d. In deference to language actually used by men
60. The old friend of Mr.Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer was
a. Sir Charles Marlow
b. Diggory
c. Hastings
d. Tony Lumpkin
61. Why did Marlowe mistake Mr.Hardcastle’s house for an inn?
a. It looked like an inn
b. Tony Lumpkin misguided them into thinking so
c. The inmates of this house looked like inn keepers
d. None of these
62. Why did Sir Oliver not inform his nephews, joseph and Charles about his arrival/
a. He wanted to give them a surprise
b. He wanted to examine their conduct
c. Joseph and Charles did not want to see him
d. None of these
63. Which scene is known as the ‘Screen scene’ in The School for Scandel?
a. Act I, Scene III
b. Act II, Scene III
c. Act IV, Scene III
d. Act III, Scene III
64. William Congreve was a
a. Restoration dramatist
b. Gothic Novelist
c. Jacobean dramatist
d. Augustan Satirist
65. The way of the world opens in a chocolate house and Mirabell and Fainall are shown rising from a card – table. Mirabell has not been concentrating on the game because.
a. Mirabell was losing the game
b. Mirabell had no more time for the game
c. Mirabell was disappointed by the determined opposition of Lady Wishfort to his plan of marrying Millamant, her niece.
d. Mirabell had to go to meet Mrs.Millamant
66. Which of the following statements is true regarding The Way of the World?
a. Mirabell disguised himself as Sir Rowland
b. Waitwell disguised himself as Sir Rowland
c. Witwoud disguised himself as Sir Rowland
d. Mr. Fainall disguised himself as Sir Rowland
67. Life of Shakespeare is written by
a. Sidney Lee
b. Philip Sidney
c. Marlowe
d. Spenser
68. ‘Venus and Adonais’ and ‘The Rape of Lucrece’ are
a. Love poems
b. Tragedies
c. Comedies
d. Novels
69. Shakespeare died in
a. 1600
b. 1601
c. 1610
d. 1616
70. Shakespeare’s first folio was published in
a. 1600
b. 1610
c. 1620
d. 1623
71. Who has been called the Poet’s poet?
a. Sidney
b. Shakespeare
c. Spenser
d. Ben Jonson
72. Who has written the poem ‘The Lotus’
a. Rabindranath Tagore
b. Toru Dutt
c. Sarojini Naidu
d. Sri Aurobindo
73. 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 ,
74. 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.
75. Hamartia is a __________word used by Aristotle.
a. Hebrew
b. Latin
c. French
d. Greek
76. ‘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
77. Which of the three judges of the underworld suggests that Andrea go see Pluto and Proserpine?
a. Eacus
b. Radamanth
c. Minos
d. Charon
78. In paradise Lost book IX, Milton writes that Adam was overcome with ‘_____’ and so ate the forbidden fruit against his ‘better Knowledge’ .
a. Female charm
b. Exceeding love
c. Faithful love
d. Taste so divine
79. What is meant by ‘Portmanteau’ a term introduced by Humpty Dumpty in Lewis Caroll’s Through the Looking Glass?
a. A word opposite in meaning to its sound
b. A word used in its original meaning
c. A word coined by fusing together two or more words
d. A word with very complex meaning.
80. Caliban thinks that Stephano is a ‘brave god’ because of his:
a. Regal appearance
b. Eloquent language
c. ‘celestial liquor’
d. Benevolence toward Caliban
81. Which of the following writer is not a postmodern writer?
a. Samuel Becket
b. Angela Carter
c. Virginia Woolf
d. Naguib Mahfouz
82. How many morphs are consists in the word ‘buses’
a. One
b. Two
c. Three
d. four
83. Under what condition will Angelo let Claudio live?
a. That Claudio will be banished
b. If Isabella will sleep with him
c. If the duke resigns
d. If Isabella marries him
84. Who engineers Claudio's escape and survival from punishment?
a. The duke
b. Isabella
c. Escalus
d. The provost
85. What is the full name of Davidson Nicol (Abioseh Nicol) ?
a. Sierra Leone Abioesh Nicol
b. Sierra Leone Davidson Nicol
c. Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol
d. Abioesh Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol
86. To what family does Hotspur belong?
a. Percy
b. Woodville
c. Lancaster
d. Plantagenet
87. Who is John of Lancaster?
a. Harry’s older brother
b. Harry’s brother-in-law
c. Harry’s younger brother
d. Harry’s nephew
88. Which of the following object was compared to lie by Bacon?
a. Ant
b. Fly
c. Snake
d. Owl
89. Who enters dressed as the Spaniard. Subtle and Face assume he knows no English.
a. Kestrel
b. Ananais
c. Surly
d. Dame Pliant
90. When did William Faulkner receive 1949's literature Nobel Prize ?
a. 1948
b. 1950
c. 1954
d. 1986