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1. Who steals corn and overcharge his clients in Canterbury Tales?
a. Miller
b. Reeve
c. Summoner
d. Pardoner

Answer : Miller
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2. When was the second three books of Faerie Queene published?
a. 1589
b. 1590
c. 1596
d. 1601

Answer : 1596
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3. How does Lady Macbeth knows Macbeth’s meeting with the witches?
a. Banquo told her
b. Macbeth himself revealed after he reached
c. She read in a letter by Macbeth
d. One of witches told her.

Answer : She read in a letter by Macbeth
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4. The word ‘board’ has acquired divergent ‘inclusive senses’. Chose not appropriate one of the meaning for the word ‘board’
a. Used for the table with food upon it and sit around it to deliberate
b. A board of directors of, a number of persons jointly entrusted
c. A board of guardians of poor – a number of person jointly around it
d. Used for immaterial part of the whole

Answer : Used for immaterial part of the whole
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5. When was ‘She Stoops to Conquer’ produced in London?
a. 1770
b. 1773
c. 1777
d. 1789

Answer : 1773
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6. Arrange in Chronological order. (i) Elizabetahn Age (ii) Caroline Age (iii) Jacobean Age (iv) The Augustan Age (v) The Restoration
a. I, II, III, V, IV
b. I, II, III, IV, V
c. I, III, II, V, IV
d. IV, I, II, III, V

Answer : I, III, II, V, IV
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7. Steeling herself to the murder, Lady Macbeth calls on ______ to ‘unsex me here’
a. God
b. The spirits of hell
c. The angels in heaven
d. No one in particular

Answer : The spirits of hell
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8. Which of the following periodical/journal printed many of the early essays, poems, and reviews by the Transcendentalist?
a. Criterion
b. Dial
c. Germ
d. Watchman

Answer : Dial
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9. Arrange the sections of The Waste Land in the order in which they appear in the poem. (1) the Fire Sermon, (2) Death by Water, (3) A Game of Chess, (4) What the Thunder Said, (5) The Burial of the Dead
a. 32154
b. 51234
c. 52314
d. 53124

Answer : 53124
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10. How many poems of Wordsworth are included in the Lyrical Ballads
a. 4
b. 14
c. 19
d. 23

Answer : 19
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11. No, no thou hast not felt the lapse of hours!, For What wears out the life of mortal men?, Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust the energy of strongest powers…. Who does the poet address here?
a. Dover Beach
b. The Scholar Gypsy
c. Ode to Grecian urn
d. Intimation of Immortality

Answer : The Scholar Gypsy
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12. Who among the following was NOT a member of the Scriblerus Club
a. Thomas Parnell
b. Alexander Pope
c. John Gay
d. Joseph Addison

Answer : Joseph Addison
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13. Identify the incorrectly matched set below;
a. The Norman Conquest – 1066
b. William Caxton and the introduction of Printing - 1575
c. The King James Bible – 1611
d. The Johnson’s English Dictionary – 1755

Answer : William Caxton and the introduction of Printing - 1575
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14. While ‘a well-boiled icicle’ for ‘a well boiled bicycle’ is an example of Spoonerism, someone saying ‘Congential food’ for ‘Continental food’ is an example of _______.
a. Malapropism
b. Pleonasm
c. Neologism
d. Archaism

Answer : Malapropism
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15. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Northrop Frye’s four generic plots?
a. The comic
b. The tragic
c. The ironic
d. The lyric

Answer : The lyric
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16. Who is the writer of ‘Manifesto on Surrealism’, leader and principal theorist of Surrealism?
a. Rober Desnos
b. Philippe Soupault
c. Louis Aragon
d. Andre Breton

Answer : Andre Breton
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17. Sir Plume is a character in ______.
a. Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy
b. Pope’s Rape of the Lock
c. Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory
d. Alan Paten’s Cry, the Beloved Country

Answer : Pope’s Rape of the Lock
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18. It is the act of talking to oneself, whether silently or aloud, In drama it denotes the convention by which a character, alone on the stage, utters his or her thoughts aloud is called______.
a. Dialogue
b. Conversation
c. Soliloquy
d. Lyric

Answer : Soliloquy
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19. Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side / Shouldst rubies find; I by the side / Of Humour would complain. Which poem ? Who is the poet?
a. Canonisation, Donne
b. The Pulley, Herbert
c. To His Coy Mistress, Marvell
d. Passage to India, Walt Whitman

Answer : To His Coy Mistress, Marvell
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20. In which of the following novels Harikatha is strategically used as a medium of ‘consciousness raising’
a. Coolie
b. Kantapura
c. The English Teacher
d. A Handful of Rice

Answer : Kantapura
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21. In which of his works Aristotle has distinguished between faults which affect a poem as such and those which do not?
a. Politics
b. Poetics
c. Metaphysics
d. Rhetoric

Answer : Poetics
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22. In Poetics, Aristotle argued that poetry is more philosophic and more serious that _____
a. Metaphysics
b. Biology
c. Visual art
d. History

Answer : History
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23. Which of the following in Aristotelian vocabulary means the plot?
a. Megethos
b. Mythos
c. Ethos
d. Phobou

Answer : Mythos
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24. Dryden’s dialogue, published in 1668 that is considered the most important for his general literary theory, was entitled
a. An essay of Dramatic Poesy
b. Defence of an Essay of Dramatic Poesy
c. Essay of Heroic Play
d. Aurangzebe

Answer : An essay of Dramatic Poesy
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25. Who is representation of Dryden himself in An Essay of Dranatic Poesy?
a. Critics
b. Eugenius
c. Neander
d. Lisideius

Answer : Neander
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26. Which of the following critical works is not by Dr. Johnson?
a. Rasselas
b. Preface to Shakespeare
c. Life of Cowley
d. None of the above

Answer : None of the above
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27. Who, according to Arnold, was an imperfect disciple of Shakespeare, for he had an excess of natural magic, not enough moral profundity, while Shakespeare had both qualities to the full?
a. Wordsworth
b. Keats
c. Tennyson
d. All of the above

Answer : Keats
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28. Who are the two great ‘classic of our prose’ according to Arnold?
a. Bacon and Johnson
b. Addison and Lamb
c. Pope and Johnson
d. Dryden and Pope

Answer : Dryden and Pope
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29. Who wrote the famous critical work, Seven Types of Ambiguity?
a. Robert Graves
b. I.A. Richards
c. Empson
d. Ogden

Answer : Empson
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30. Who attacked T.S. Eliot saying that The Waste Land betrays in its ‘Limp’ rhythms his own ‘spiritual Limpness’?
a. Ransom
b. Empson
c. Tate
d. Winters

Answer : Winters
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31. Who wrote the novel A Handful of Rice.?
a. Mulk Raj Anand
b. Raja Rao
c. R.K. Narayan
d. Kamala Markandaya

Answer : Kamala Markandaya
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32. Who wrote the poem ‘Fire in the Murdering Hut’?
a. E.J. Pratt
b. Judith Wright
c. Abioseh Nicoll
d. Africa A.D.Hope

Answer : Judith Wright
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33. Which of the following writer is called the Father of English criticism?
a. Dr.Johnson
b. John Dryden
c. Longinus
d. Mathew Arnold

Answer : John Dryden
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34. Who wrote the poem ‘To Brooklyn Bridge’?
a. Walt Whitman
b. E.E.Cummings
c. Hart Crane
d. Robert Frost

Answer : Hart Crane
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35. Imogen is character in
a. Pericles
b. Macbeth
c. Tempest
d. Cymbeline

Answer : Cymbeline
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36. Which play of Shakespeare ends without climax?
a. Troilus and Cressida
b. Antony and Cleopatra
c. All’s well that ends Well
d. Twelfth Night

Answer : Troilus and Cressida
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37. Shakespeare was born in ______.
a. 1550
b. 1505
c. 1510
d. 1564

Answer : 1564
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38. In which year was Ben Jonson made poet to King James I?
a. 1657
b. 1624
c. 1630
d. 1616

Answer : 1616
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39. Which one of poem ends with this line : ‘For ever will thou love, and she fair’
a. Ode to Dejection
b. Ode to Autumn
c. Ode on a Grecian Urn
d. Immortality Ode

Answer : Ode on a Grecian Urn
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40. Which work of Bacon was left incomplete due to his sudden death?
a. Sylva Sylvarum
b. Novum Organum
c. New Atlantis
d. None

Answer : New Atlantis
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41. Councels, Civil, and Moral is the subtitle given to
a. Shakespeare’s Sonnets
b. John Milton’s Masque
c. Bacon’s Essays
d. Herbert's poems

Answer : Bacon’s Essays
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42. Herbert’s collections of religious poems The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations was published in
a. 1620
b. 1630.
c. 1633
d. 1635

Answer : 1633
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43. Christian Struggle for salvation is the theme of ______.
a. Pilgrim’s Progress
b. Faerie Queene
c. Jude the Obscure
d. Great Expectations

Answer : Pilgrim’s Progress
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44. Milton’s ‘On His Blindness’ is a / an
a. Epic
b. Elegy
c. Sonnet
d. Blank verse

Answer : Sonnet
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45. The great ode ‘Dejection’ was written by
a. Keats
d. Wordsworth
c. Shelley
d. Coleridge

Answer : Coleridge
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46. In the beginning , God created Heaven and the ______.
a. Earth
b. Stars
c. Sun
d. Man

Answer : Earth
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47. Job’s friends sat on the ground with him seven days and seven nights and did not speak a word. Why?
a. His grief was great
b. He was sick
c. He was angry
d. He was excited

Answer : His grief was great
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48. Which puritan king ruled over England before Charles II?
a. Oliver Cromwell
b. Henry Crown
c. Elizabeth
d. Prince Charles

Answer : Oliver Cromwell
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49. ‘Motiveless, malgnity’ is a phrase from
a. Eliot
b. Coleridge
c. Samuel Johnson
d. I.A. Richards

Answer : Coleridge
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50. The period in English history after 1660 is called
a. Restoration Period
b. Elizabethan period
c. Jacobean Period
d. Victorian Period

Answer : Restoration Period
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51. Neo-Classical Age is called
a. The Romantic Age
b. The Elizabethan Age
c. The Victorian Age
d. The Augustan Age

Answer : The Augustan Age
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52. In Congreve’s The Way of the World Millamant is loved by
a. Mr. Fainall
b. Petulant
c. Witwoud
d. Mirabel

Answer : Mirabel
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53. Mirabell’s first plan to win Lady Wishfort has misfired because
a. Mrs. Marwood , a young Lady who is after him but whose advances have been rejected by him in off-handed manner, warned the old lady of his real intentions, that is , of pleasing simply, to get her consent to marry Millamant
b. Lady Wishfort came to know the illicit relationship going on between Mirabell and Marwood
c. Lady Wishfort had chosen someone else to be the husband of Millamant
d. Lady Wishfort is an old woman and she wants an old man as her lover

Answer : Mrs. Marwood , a young Lady who is after him but whose advances have been rejected by him in off-handed manner, warned the old lady of his real intentions, that is , of pleasing simply, to get her consent to marry Millamant
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54. What is the name of the first daily newspaper?
a. Gazetta
b. The Daily Courant
c. The Tatler
d. None of these

Answer : The Daily Courant
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55. Which of the following statements about Pope’s ‘The Rape of Lock’ may be correct?
a. In ‘the Rape of the Lock’, Pope mocks at the artificial social life of 18th century London
b. Pope wrote this to have his revenge on all those who had criticized, sometimes unjustly, his relations of Homer and his edition of Shakespeare
c. Pope satirises corruption in high places
d. None of these

Answer : In ‘the Rape of the Lock’, Pope mocks at the artificial social life of 18th century London
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56. The poet who succeeded Dryden as Laureate was?
a. Pope
b. Shadwell
c. Dr.Johnson
d. Fletcher

Answer : Shadwell
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57. Dr. Johnson in his Lives of the English Poets has made an elaborate comparison between of the following two authors?
a. Pope and Swift
b. Pope and Milton
c. Pope and Dryden
d. Pope and Cowley

Answer : Pope and Dryden
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58. Which of the following works of Milton is an epic poem?
a. Paradise Lost
b. Lycidas
c. Comus
d. On His Blindness

Answer : Paradise Lost
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59. The following lines have been extracted from which of the following works of Goldsmith? ‘All is not gold that glitters / pleasures seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters’
a. The Vicar of Wakefield
b. The Good Natured Man
c. The Traveller
d. She Stoops to Conquer

Answer : She Stoops to Conquer
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60. The title of ‘She Stoops to Conquer’ is very apt because
a. Miss Hardcastle is prepared to do anything to possess Marlow
b. Miss Hardcastle debases herself to fight against Marlow
c. Miss Hardcastle supplied very low quality wine to Marlow
d. Miss Hardcastel stoops to be a barmaid to conquer Marlow

Answer : Miss Hardcastel stoops to be a barmaid to conquer Marlow
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61. Why did Joseph want to marry Mary?
a. He loved her very much
b. She was very beautiful and virtuous
c. Mary loved Joseph
d. She was the only heiress of a considerable wealth

Answer : She was the only heiress of a considerable wealth
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62. Name the character in ‘The School for Scandel’ who was deaf and who asked ‘Has Miss Piper had Twins’
a. Mrs. Clackit
b. Mrs. Candour
c. Lady Dundizzy
d. None of these

Answer : Mrs. Candour
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63. Who gave the slogan ‘back to nature’?
a. Rousseau
b. Cowper
c. Wordsworth
d. Pope

Answer : Rousseau
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64. Who wrote ‘The Four Ages of Poetry’?
a. Shelley
b. Peacock
c. Eliot
d. Collins

Answer : Peacock
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65. The Prelude has been divided into ______ books.
a. 14
b. 16
c. 12
d. 20

Answer : 14
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66. Wordsworth in his Lyrical Ballads, repeatedly declared that good poetry is _________.
a. Spontaneous down flow of powerful feelings
b. Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
c. Ebb and low of common man’s feelings
d. Ebb and flow of feelingly thoughts

Answer : Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
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67. Shelley was influenced by
a. The Medal
b. The Season
c. Political Justice
d. Songs of innocence

Answer : Political Justice
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68. Who is not a Lake Poet?
a. Coleridge
b. Keats
c. Wordsworth
d. Southey

Answer : Keats
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69. Lamb produced his Essays of Elia in
a. 1817
b. 1823
c. 1797
d. 1805

Answer : 1823
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70. The greatest of the opponents of utilitarianism went back for their inspiration to
a. Russia
b. Europe
c. Germany
d. France

Answer : Germany
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71. Which of the following works of literature does Eliot NOT cite in his 'The Waste Land'?
a. On the road
b. The inferno
c. The Spanish Tragedie
d. Hamlet

Answer : On the road
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72. In Act I, Miranda is upset with her father because
a. Mariners might have been killed in the storm
b. Caliban still presents a danger to her
c. She does not want to marry Ferdinand
d. She cannot remember her past

Answer : Mariners might have been killed in the storm
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73. Which of the following choice is correct in Coleridge’s Kubla Khan – except?
a. Based on Coleridge’s dream
b. The author presents an exotic landscape
c. Author has exposed gothic setting
d. Author is pointing towards a sense of mystery and supernatural in the setting

Answer : Author has exposed gothic setting
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74. ‘What was post modernism?’ is an essay written by______
a. Malcolm Bradbury
b. Albert Camus
c. James Joyce
d. Gunther Grass

Answer : Malcolm Bradbury
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75. Which can be identified as set of separate English word forms such as basic nouns, adjectives and verbs?
a. Free morpheme
b. Bound morpheme
c. Derivational morpheme
d. Inflectional morpheme

Answer : Free morpheme
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76. Who defined metaphysical poetry is ‘the most heterogeneous ideas are yoked violence together’?
a. T.S Eliot
b. Daniel Defoe
c. John Dryden
d. Dr. Samuel Johnson

Answer : Dr. Samuel Johnson
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77. Who show that metaphysical poetry is distinguished from other poetry by unification of sensibility?
a. Ezra Pound
b. John Dryden
c. Dr. Samuel Johnson
d. T.S Eliot

Answer : T.S Eliot
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78. ‘That bad eminence’ is the phrase appears in Milton’s _____________.
a. Paradise Lost
b. Paradise Regained
c. Il Penseroso
d. Samson Agonistes

Answer : Il Penseroso
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79. ‘Caviare to the general’, ‘men in buckram’, ‘coign of Vantage’, ‘a tower of strength’, ‘Full of sound and fury’, ‘a Daniel come to judgement’, ‘yeoman service’, ‘the sere and yellow leaf’, ‘hoist with his own petard’, ‘to eat the leek’, ‘curled darlings’, ‘to the manner born’, ‘moving accident’, ‘a triton among the minnows’, ‘one’s pound of flesh’, ‘to wear one’s heart upon one’s sleeve’, ‘Sir Oracle’, ‘to gild refined gold’, ‘metal more attractive’, - all these phrased by ______.
a. Samuel Johnson
b. John Milton
c. Ben Johnson
d. William Shakespeare

Answer : William Shakespeare
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80. ‘What is truth, said jesting Pilate’ it is an opening sentence of Bacon’s _______
a. Of Revenge
b. Of Studies
c. Of Ambition
d. Of Truth

Answer : Of Truth
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81. Expressionism was revolt against
a. Naturalism
b. Realism
c. Impressionism
d. Surrealism

Answer : Realism
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82. Imagism was initiated by Ezra Pound and T.E. Hulme in
a. 1911
b. 1912
c. 1913
d. 1914

Answer : 1912
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83. What is the original name of George Eliot
a. Mary Ann Evans
b. Eric Arthur Blair
c. Currer Bell
d. Boz

Answer : Mary Ann Evans
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84. 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

Answer : Marriage and vocation
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85. 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 : Britomart
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86. 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 : I.A. Richards
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87. 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

Answer : Aurey Beardsley
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88. 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

Answer : The final unravelling of the plot
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89. When did William Faulkner receive 1949's literature Nobel Prize ?
a. 1948
b. 1950
c. 1954
d. 1986

Answer : 1950
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90. ‘Paid me my ______ in a world of mirth.’ Fill the right word of the poem Affliction
a. Book
b. Wages
c. God
d. Amount

Answer : Wages
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