1. When was the Wasteland published ?
a. 1922
b. 1921
c. 1920
d. 1919
2. ‘Ithuriel’s spear’, ‘the last infirmity of noble minds’ ‘writ large’, ‘fresh woods and pastures new’ are examples of the many echoes of ________ poetry which abound in subsequent literature.
a. Shakespearean
b. Wordsworthian
c. Miltonic
d. Byronic
3. According to Bacon, Ambition is like _________. He mentioned that in Of Ambition, which the line begins like.
a. Jesting Pilate
b. Active
c. Choler
d. God
4. When we speak of ‘Paying for one’s board’, here the word ‘board’ has come to denote ________.
a. food
b. book
c. Bill
d. Wages
5. Which of the following Shakespeare’s play evoked Goldsmith to retitle the play ‘She Stoops to Conquer’?
a. Twelfth Night
b. As You Like it
c. Midsummer’s Night Dream
d. Measure for Measure
6. Who defines poetry as ‘medium of imitation’?
a. Dryden
b. Aristotle
c. Allen Tate
d. I.A. Richards
7. Who has planned to kill Duncan in Macbeth?
a. Macbeth
b. Lady Macbeth
c. Thane of Lochaber
d. Banquo
8. Which of the following types of Anagnorisis is most effective according to Aristotle ?
a. The messenger in Oedipus
b. When Orestes makes himself known to Iphigenia
c. The scar discovered in the bath by Odysseous
d. All of the above
9. Johnson did not like Milton’s Samson Agonistes on the Aristotelian grounds, because
a. It had a beginning and a middle but no end
b. It had a middle and end but no beginning
c. It had a begging and an end but no middle
d. None of the above
10. Match the correct one
a. John Locke - Association Ideas
b. I.A. Richards - objective Correlative
c. Coleridge - synaesthetics
d. T.S. Eliot - Primary Imagination
11. Which poet was a leader of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement in Art and Literature?
a. Morris
b. Everett Millais
c. Thomas Woolney
d. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
12. Who was chosen as King of England around the year of death of Chaucer, by the England’s Parliament?
a. Henry IV
b. Henry V
c. Henry VII
d. Richard III
13. Which of the following was an epic?
a. Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads
b. Milton’s Paradise Lost
c. Coleridge’s Kubla Khan
d. Keat’s Hyperion
14. Which paly of Shakespeare was left out in the first collection of his plays?
a. Pericles
b. Twelfth Night
c. The Tempest
d. Winter’s Tale
15. Coleridge has been called a ‘muddle headed metaphysician’ by
a. Matthew Arnold
b. William Morris
c. Compton Richards
d. I.A. Richards
16. Which of Huxley’s novels has borrowed its title from a phrase occurring in Shakespeare’s play ‘The Tempest’?
a. After many a summer
b. Time must stope
c. A Brave New World
d. Caliban’s Treachery
17. Who among the following talks of ‘the rhetorical theory of tropes’ in criticism?
a. Horace
b. Michael Foucault
c. Lacan
d. Northop Frye
18. ‘A dialect used by only one particular class of people’ is called
a. Jargon
b. Slang
c. Tapinosis
d. Idiolect
19. The most prominent and influential of the New Critics is
a. I.A. Richards
b. Cleanth Brooks
c. John Crowe Ransom
d. None
20. Thomsa Kyd began the tradition of
a. Political Play
b. Domestic tragedy
c. Poetic drama
d. Revenge Play
21. Who, of the mentioned ones, is not a metaphysical poet?
a. Donne
b. Herbert
c. Cowley
d. Dryden
22. The idea of ‘Decorum’ in poetry, is associated with
a. Dryden
b. Horace
c. Johnson
d. T.S. Eliot
23. Who out of the following gave the first ‘affective’ theory of literature in the real sense?
a. Longinus
b. Horace
c. Aristotle
d. Plato
24. ‘A poetry of revolt against moral ideas is a poetry of revolt against life; a poetry of indifference towards moral ideas is a poetry of indifference towards life’ who has been quoted here?
a. F.R. Leavis
b. T.S. Eliot
c. Mathew Arnold
d. Allen Tate
25. Who among the following said of Paradise Lost that ‘Milton was in the Devil’s Party with out knowing it’?
a. Arnold
b. Lamb
c. Coleridge
d. None of the above
26. Who was the ruler of England when Pope’s The Rape of the Lock was published?
a. George III
b. George II
c. Queen Anne
d. George V
27. Virginia Woolf belonged to a group of eminent literary figures known as
a. Angry Young Man
b. Avant Garde
c. Bloomsbury Group
d. Frakfrut school
28. When was Tagore’s Gitanjali published in English ?
a. 1905
b. 1912
c. 1919
d. 1921
29. Which critical work has been written by by Horace
a. An Apologie for Poetrie
b. A Defence of Poetry
c. The Defence of Rhyme
d. Ars Poetica
30. Nemesis means
a. Change of fate
b. Fate
c. Denouncement
d. Complication
31. Which Language became the official language in England after Norman Conquest?
a. English
b. Latin
c. German
d. French
32. In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales which tale deals with two young Theban warriors?
a. The Knight’s Tale
b. The Squire’s Tale
c. The Miller’s Tale
d. The Friar’s Tale
33. Shakespeare’s First Folio was published in
a. 1600
b. 1610
c. 1620
d. 1623
34. Francis Bacon was born in
a. 1591
b. 1561
c. 1565
d. 1550
35. Which poet helped Milton in writing when he became blind?
a. Andrew Marvell
b. Henry Vaughan
c. Donne
d. Robert Herrick
36. In Congreve’s The Way of the World, Lady Wishfort is the aunt of
a. Millamant
b. Mirabel
c. Mrs. Fainall
d. Marwood
37. The Age of Pope is called
a. Elizabethan Age
b. Victorian Age
c. Augustan Age
d. Georgian Age
38. Marlowe mistake the house of Mr.Hardcastle for an inn. Who played the mischief?
a. Mr.Hardcastle himself
b. Tony Lumpkin
c. Hastings
d. Diggory
39. Who is the character in The School for Scandal, whom Sheridan has presented as a poet?
a. Benjamin Backbite
b. Charles
c. Mrs.Clackit
d. Mr.Snake
40. Who said ‘Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains’?
a. Rousseau
b. Francis Bacon
c. Socrates
d. Edmund Burke
41. Who has been called the leader of Angry Young Men?
a. Allan Sillitoe
b. John Wain
c. Colin Wilson
d. John Osborne
42. For Emerson, nature was the great source of
a. Joy
b. Pain
c. Inspiration
d. Ecstasy
43. H.D. Thoreau’s style is
a. Satirical
b. Poetical
c. Conversational
d. Rhetorical
44. Which book of Melville reflects Shakespearean soliloquies?
a. Omoo
b. Typee
c. Moby Dick
d. Pierre
45. Emily Dickinson belonged to
a. 1830-1886
b. 1850-1906
c. 1815-1850
d. 1830-1896
46. How was Whitman’s ‘Passage to India’ can be described?
a. A transcendental poem, envisioning the spiritual unification and fulfilment of man
b. A poem to celebrate achievement of mankind
c. Scientific-sociological record of America
d. Glorification of American Life
47. Emerson can be described by which one of the following
a. Transcendentalist
b. Spiritualist
c. Sage
d. Pre-Raphaelite
48. ‘ Good fences make good neighbours’ lines by
a. Robert Frost
b. Sylvia Plath
c. Walt Whitman
d. Emerson
49. What did Cummings write about the Cambridge Ladies?
a. Their superficialities
b. Their belief in Theory of best value
c. Their ‘coy’ appearance and a life of ‘bandy scandal’ are unrelated fragmented
d. Beauty, comfort, coyness, lavender are unrealistic
50. Santigo is the hero of
a. Great Expectations
b. Hairy Ape
c. Moby Dick
d. The Old man and the Sea
51. William Faulkner died in
a. 1949
b. 1950
c. 1954
d. 1962
52. The Hairy Ape is a drama which can be labelled as
a. Realist
b. Expressionist
c. American Transcendentalist
d. Symbolist
53. Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is Albee’s
a. One-act Play
b. Five-act play
c. Three-act play
d. Short novel
54. Willy Loman stands for
a. Success
b.Love
c. Failure
d. Alcoholism
55. ‘The Young Spanish Maiden’, a well known novel has been written by
a. Toru Dutt
b. Phirozeshah Mehta
c. Rabindranath Tagore
d. Parthasarathy
56. ‘The Life of Divine’ is a well known work of
a. Sarojini Naidu
b. Kamala Das
c. Sri Aurobindo
d. Toru Dutt
57. ‘Life is a prism of My light / and Death the shadow of My face’ These lines have been uttered by
a. Toru Dutt
b. Sri Aurobindo
c. Sarojini Naidu
d. Rabindranath Tagore
58. ‘The accumulated strength of his giant bosy glistened in him with the desire for revenge, while horror, rage, indignation swept over his frame ’. Here Mulk Raj Anand is talking about which character?
a. Munoo
b. Lalu
c. Bakha
d. Gangu
59. ‘Marg’ a reputed journal devoted to the Arts has been edited by?
a. Raja Rao
b. Mulk Raj Anand
c. R.K. Narayan
d. Bhabani Bhattacharya
60. Which is the first novel of Raja Rao?
a. Kanthapura
b. The Serpent and the Rope
c. The Cat and Shakespeare
d. None of the above
61. Arrange the following group of English writers in Chronological order: (1) The Metaphysical Poets (2) The Georgians (3) The University Wits (4) The High Modernist
a. 1234
b. 3124
c. 4321
d. 3214
62. Modernism has been described as being concerned with ‘Disenchantment of our culture with culture itself’. Who is critic?
a. Stephen Spender
b. Malcolm Bradbury
c. Lionell Trilling
d. Joseph Frank
63. John Dryden in his heroic tragedy ‘All for Love ’ takes the story of Shakespeare’s
a. Troilus and Cressoda
b. The Merchant of Venice
c. Antonio and Cleopatra
d. Measure for Measure
64. The Color Purble is a novel by
a. Ralph Ellison
b. Richard Wright
c. Alice Walker
d. Zora Neale Hurston
65. ‘Power circulates in all directions, to and from all social levels, at all times’ who said this?
a. Edward Said
b. Michel Foucault
c. Jacques Derrida
d. Roland Barthes
66. In the early day of the speaker’s religious devotion ‘There was no month but ____’
a. December
b. March
c. April
d. May
67. Who is the tobacco seller in Ben Jonson’s play The Alchemist?
a. Face
b. Drugger
c. Subtle
d. Surly
68. ‘Revenge is a kind of __________’ complete the sentence. Bacon begins his essay ‘Of Revenge’ same as.
a. redefined Justice
b. wild justice
c. tragedy
d. sanction to hell
69. The word ‘chest’ in old English, and until the sixteenth century, meant _______. It has since become the name for that part of the body which contains the lungs and heart.
a. Box
b. Coffin
c. Casket
d. Breast
70. Myth Criticism also called
a. Psycho-analytic Criticism
b. Archetypal Criticism
c. Marxist Criticism
d. Formalist Criticism
71. ‘O Lady! we receive but what we _____’ Complete the line from Dejection Ode.
a. need
b. love
c. give
d. pass
72. What is the term that of the French theorist Helene Cixous, from her essay ‘The Laugh of Medusa’?
a. Androtext
b. Gynotext
c. Ecriture feminine
d. Symbolic and semiotic
73. Which of the following is not a characteristic of Old English.
a. Some nouns made their genitive singular in –es, other in –e, other in –a, and others in –an
b. The endings which marked the nominative Plurals were –as, -a, -u, -e, -an
c. Inflections were strictly followed in using nouns and verbs as modern English
d. We now say ‘I sing, we sing, I sang, We sang’, the old English forms were ‘ic singe’, ‘we singath’, ‘ic sang’ ‘we sungon’
74. Happiness, contentment, and fulfilment, And a small bird singing on a _______. This is the concluding line of The Meaning of Africa poem. where does the small bird sit and singing on ?
a. Africa
b. Mango tree
c. Palm tree
d. Coastal line
75. When was T.S. Eliot received ‘Order of Merit’ which was founded by Edward VII in 1902.
a. 1915
b. 1922
c. 1948
d. 1965
76. Identify the stem in the word ‘carelessness’
a. care
b. less
c. ness
d. carelessness
77. According to Aristotle which of the following is superior because it includes all the elements of epic?
a. Plot
b. Epic
c. Tragedy
d. Diction
78. Which is the combination of the incidents of the story?
a. Plot
b. Imitation
c. Language
d. Thought
79. Chose the right answer: For the post-modernist __________
a. Fragmentation is an exhilarating
b. Have deep nostalgia for an earlier age
c. Having tone of lament
d. Thinking is pessimism
80. Who prophesying war, which is heard by Kubla Khan.
a. People of Xanadu
b. The Speaker
c. A widow lady
d. Ancestral
81. 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
82. Caliban, who is a character in ‘The Tempest’, is a creature of ______.
a. Fire
b. Air
c. Earth
d. sky
83. Which of the following writer is not a post-modernist theorist?
a. Jean Francois Lyotard
b. Jean Baudrillard
c. Geoges Bataille
d. E.M. Tillyard
84. 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
85. 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
86. 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
87. 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
88. Cry, the Beloved country is written by Alan Paton. It is a ______
a. Novel
b. Poem
c. Prose
d. Drama
89. ‘The Experience of Professor Ramsay and his wife have been described in which of the novel
a. Mrs. Dollaway
b. To The Light House
c. Way of The world
d. School for Scandals
90. Whose words are these 'Drink to me only with thine eyes'?
a. Shakespeare
b. Milton
c. Ben Jonson
d. Marlowe