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1.Who says in his work ‘Discourse Concerning Satire’ that John Donne ‘affects the metaphysics’ in his poetry?
a).Cleanth Brooks
b).J.E. Duncan
c).John Dryden
d).Samuel Johnson

Answer : c).John Dryden

2.The metaphysical poets is a group belonged to __________.
a).Fourteenth century
b).Fifteenth century
c).Sixteenth century
d).Seventeenth century

Answer : d).Seventeenth century

3.Who used the term ‘Metaphysical’ to indicate the writes use of figurative language, way of organizing, poetic style and poetic argument?
a).Cleanth Brooks
b).J.E. Duncan
c).John Dryden
d).Samuel Johnson

Answer : d).Samuel Johnson

4.The Canonization is an example for ___________
a).Dystopia
b).Dramatic lyric
c).Doggerel
d).None of the above

Answer : b).Dramatic lyric

5.In John Donne’s Canonization, the speaker addresses a/an __________.
a).Active person
b).Absent person
c).Object
d).Dishonest person

Answer : b).Absent person

6.Mock-heroic poem is type of parody which imitates form and style of epic genre. The Rape of the Lock is a masterpiece of this type. Mock – heroic comes under the varieties of _______.
a).High Burlesque
b).Low Burlesque
c).Travesty
d).Hudibrastic

Answer : a).High Burlesque

7.‘the glittering forfex’ is an epithet for The Rape of the Lock’s __________.
a).Belinda’s lab dog
b).Nymphs
c).The scissors
d).The game

Answer : c).The scissors

8.Who asks Belinda in The Rape of the Lock, ‘Gods! Shall the ravisher display your hair, while the fops envy, and the ladies stare’?
a).The Baron
b).Shock
c).Crispissa
d).Thalestris

Answer : d).Thalestris

9.Latin phrase ‘Carpe diem’ means
a).Seize the day
b).Gaelic revival
c).Give delight
d).Standard canon of knowledge

Answer : a).Seize the day

10.‘My vegetable love should grow’ is the line in To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell. What is the figure of speech is the line consists?
a).Prosopopoeia
b).Hyperbole
c).Alliteration
d).Allusion

Answer : b).Hyperbole

11.Which of the following author has took the title Vanity Fair from Pilgrims Progress?
a).Aldus Huxley
b).George Orwell
c).Margret Atwood
d).William Makepeace Thackeray

Answer : d).William Makepeace Thackeray

12.Who defined Biography as ‘the history of particular men’s lives’
a).Samuel Johnson
b).John Donne
c).John Dryden
d).John Bunyan

Answer : c).John Dryden

13.Who defined ‘poetic License’ as ‘the liberty which poets have assumed to themselves, in all ages, of speaking things in verse which are beyond the severity of prose’.?
a).Samuel Johnson
b).John Donne
c).John Dryden
d).John Bunyan

Answer : c).John Dryden

14.Wind-blind, daughter-laughter, pillow – billow are the examples of
a).Perfect rhyme
b).Imperfect rhyme
c).Eye rhyme
d).Slant rhyme

Answer : c).Eye rhyme

15.All for Love is the adaption to the heroic formula of ________
a).Measure for Measure
b).All is well that Ends well
c).As you Like it
d).Antony and Cleopatra

Answer : d).Antony and Cleopatra

16.This is a type of comedy designed to provoke the audience to simple, hearty laughter – ‘belly laughs’ in the parlance of the theatre.
a).Farce
b).Conceit
c).Pathos
d).Fable

Answer : a).Farce

17.The death of Oliver Cromwell in 1660 brought an end to the Puritan Rule and from here starts a period as
a).Restoration period
b).Elizabethan period
c).Shakespearean period
d).Medieval period

Answer : a).Restoration period

18.In ‘The Way of the World’ Mirabel is making pretensions of love towards?
a).Lady Wishfort
b).Mrs. Fainall
c).Millamant
d).Mrs. Marwood

Answer : a).Lady Wishfort

19.Lady WIshfort hated Mirabell because
a).Mirabell was a depraved man
b).Mirabell had been pretending to love her (Lady Wishfort)
c).Mirabell’s father had harmed her
d).Mirabell and Lady Wishfort belonged to two different political parties

Answer : b).Mirabell had been pretending to love her (Lady Wishfort)

20.Mirabell had been making false love to Lady Wishfort because
a).He was infatuated by her beauty
b).He wanted to seduce her
c).Miravell flattered Lady Wishfort to be in her good books so that he could get her permission to marry her daughter
d).Mirabell flattered Lady Wishfort to be in her good books so that he could get her permission to marry her niece.

Answer : d).Mirabell flattered Lady Wishfort to be in her good books so that he could get her permission to marry her niece.

21.Waitwell had been secretly married to
a).Mrs. Fainall
b).Marwood
c).Lady Wishfort
d).Foible

Answer : d).Foible

22.Which of the following statements about The Way of the World is true?
a).Waitwell was disguised as Sir Rowland and he was to woo Lady Wishfort
b).Waitwell was disguised as Sir Rowland and he was to woo Foible
c).Mirabell disguised himself as Sir Rowland
d).Sir Rowland was sincerely in love with Lady Wishfort

Answer : a).Waitwell was disguised as Sir Rowland and he was to woo Lady Wishfort

23.‘The Proviso Scene’ in The Way of the World refers to
a).The scene of Sir Rowland and Lady Wishfort in the latter’s chamber
b).The scene of gambling between Mirabell and Mr. Fainall
c).The scene of quarrel between Mr. and Mrs, Fainall
d).The scene in which Mirabell and Millamant strike a bargain

Answer : d).The scene in which Mirabell and Millamant strike a bargain

24.Which of the following characters in The Way of the World was sent to prison at the end of the play?
a).Waitwell
b).Mr. Fainall
c).Mirabell
d).Witwoud

Answer : a).Waitwell

25.Which of the following statements about Pope’s ‘The Rape of the Lock’ correct?
a).A girl has lost her locks
b).It is a mock heroic poem
c).It is an epic poem
d).It is an anti-sentimental comedy

Answer : b).It is a mock heroic poem

26.Which of the following statement about Pope’s ‘The Rape of the Lock’ correct?
a).In this poem, 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 translations of Homer and his edition of Shakespeare
c).Pope satirises corruption in high places
d).None of these

Answer : a).In this poem, Pope mocks at the artificial social life of 18th century London

27.Pope’s ‘The Rape of the Lock’ has been written in
a).Spenserian Stanza
b).Blank Verse
c).Free verse
d).Heroic couplet

Answer : d).Heroic couplet

28.Epistolary novel is a novel
a).Written in the form of letters
b).Based on a letter written by a great man
c).Based on fanciful stories of ghosts and witches
d).Based on science fiction

Answer : a).Written in the form of letters

29.E.M. Forster has divided characters in a novel into two categories – Round and Flat. In which category would you keep the majority of characters in Tom Jones?
a).Round characters
b).Flat characters
c).Flat and round both
d).Neither flat nor round

Answer : b).Flat characters

30.Which of the following statements gives a very accurate picture of Blifil in Fielding’s Tom Jones?
a).Blifil is treacherous, lecherous, hypocritical and entirely self-seeking
b).Blifil is naïve and he is deceived by all in the novel
c).Blifil is very kind and generous towards the poor people
d).Blifil is a comic figure and a miser

Answer : a).Blifil is treacherous, lecherous, hypocritical and entirely self-seeking

31.Which of the following statement about Tom and Sophia in Tom Jones true?
a).Tom and Sophia are lover and beloved
b).Tom and Sophia are brother and sister
c).Tom and Sophia are mother and son
d).Tom and Sophia are father and daughter

Answer : a).Tom and Sophia are lover and beloved

32.In Fielding’s ‘Tom Jones’ Mr. Western, the father Sophia, wants her to marry
a).Tom Jones
b).Mr. Blifil
c).Allworthy
d).Black George

Answer : b).Mr. Blifil

33.In Fielding’s ‘Tom Jones’ ‘Nightingale’ is the name of
a).A bird
b).An Inn
c).A male character
d).A female character

Answer : c).A male character

34.In Fielding’s ‘Tom Jones’, who saved the life of Mrs.Waters from the villain Northerton?
a).Tom
b).An Oldman
c).Allworthy
d).Blifil

Answer : a).Tom

35.In Fielding’s ‘Tom Jones’, Tom has a misapprehension of having committed incest with his mother, Mrs. Waters, this situation is called
a).Quixotic
b).Homeric
c).Oedipus – like
d).Herculean

Answer : c).Oedipus – like

36.In Fielding’s ‘Tom Jones’, there is too much plot, who said this?
a).Arnold Kettle
b).F.R. Leavis
c).Coleridge
d).Ian Watt

Answer : a).Arnold Kettle

37.In Fielding’s ‘Tom Jones’, Tom is found as a new-born infant in the bed of a benevolent person. Who is the character?
a).Squire Allworthy
b).Blifil
c).Black George
d).Thwackum

Answer : a).Squire Allworthy

38.A character in ‘She Stoops to Conquer’ who is always playing mischievous roguish tricks upon others.
a).Marlowe
b).Tony Lumpkin
c).Hastings
d).Mr.Hardcastle

Answer : b).Tony Lumpkin

39.Who loves ‘everything that’s old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine’ in She Stoops to Conquer?
a).Marlowe
b).Tony Lumpkin
c).Mr.Hardcastle
d).Hastings

Answer : c).Mr.Hardcastle

40.Sir Charles Marlowe in She Stoops to Conquer has proposed a match between young Marlowe and _______
a).Miss. Neville
b).Kate Hardcastle
c).Mrs. Hardcastle
d).None of the above

Answer : b).Kate Hardcastle

41.In Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer, she is to conquer whom?
a).Tony Lumpkin
b).Mr. Hardcastle
c).Hastings
d).Marlowe

Answer : d).Marlowe

42.‘The Comic Muse long sick is now dying’ this line appears in
a).Prologue to She Stoops to Conquer
b).Preface to She Stoops to Conquer
c).Act I of She Stoops to Conquer
d).Goldsmith announces to the audience

Answer : a).Prologue to She Stoops to Conquer

43.Another title of She Stoops to Conquer
a).The Mistake of a morning
b).The Mistake of a noon
c).The Mistake of an evening
d).The Mistake of a night

Answer : d).The Mistake of a night

44.Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer was not exactly an original work, it is derived from
a).Congreve’s The Way of the World
b).Sheridan’s The Rivals
c).Farquhar’s Beaux Stratagem
d).Richard Steele’s Tender Husband

Answer : c).Farquhar’s Beaux Stratagem

45.Bee is a periodical started by Oliver Goldsmith started in
a).1762
b).1759
c).1791
d).1756

Answer : b).1759

46.Which of the following is not written by Sheriden?
a).The Rivals
b).The School for Scandal
c).The Critics
d).She Stoops to Conquer

Answer : d).She Stoops to Conquer

47.Who was Lady Sneerwell in The School for Scandal?
a).Mother of Mr.Snake
b).A poor woman
c).A religious and kind hearted woman
d).A rich widow and the chief of the scandal group

Answer : d).A rich widow and the chief of the scandal group

48.Name the Scandal monger who was responsible for the following scandals, Miss Gadabout has eloped with Sir Fligue, Miss Prim has committed an indiscretion and eloped with her dancing master?
a).Mrs. Candour
b).Lady Sneerwell
c).Lady Teazle
d).None of the above

Answer : a).Mrs. Candour

49.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 the above

Answer : b).He wanted to examine their conduct

50.Sir Benjamin says that after she has finished painting her face, ‘She joins it so badly to the neck that she looks like a mended statue, in which the connoisseur se at once that the head’s modern, though the trunk’s antique’. Who is being described?
a).Maria
b).Lady Teazle
c).Lady Sneerwell
d).Mrs. Ochre

Answer : d).Mrs. Ochre

51.‘Nine out of ten of the malicious inventions are founded on some ridiculous misinterpretation.’ Who said it in The School for Scandal?
a).Sir Peter Teazle
b).Sir Oliver
c).Benjamin Backbite
d).None of these

Answer : a).Sir Peter Teazle

52.In The School for Scandal, who goes to Charles’ house posing as Mr. Premium?
a).Sir Oliver
b).Joseph
c).Rowley
d).Maria

Answer : a).Sir Oliver

53.Which scene is known as the ‘Screen scene’ in The School for Scandal?
a).Act I, Scene III
b).Act II, scene III
c).Act IV, Scene III
d).Act III, Scene III

Answer : c).Act IV, Scene III

54.‘When an old bachelor marries a young wife, he deserves, no, the crime carries its punishment along with it.’ In this line who is this ‘Old Bachelor’?
a).Benjamin Backbite
b).Charles
c).Joseph
d).Sir Peter Teazle

Answer : d).Sir Peter Teazle

55.Which is not correct one according to George Herbert?
a).A religious metaphysical poet
b).All his works published posthumously
c).His poetic theme is mostly love
d).He died in 1633

Answer : c).His poetic theme is mostly love

56.The Canonization is a five stanza poem, each stanza ends with the word_____.
a).God
b).Tongue
c).Soul
d).Love

Answer : d).Love

57.What did the lawyers still find in Canonization?
a).Honour
b).Soldier
c).litigious men
d).love

Answer : c).litigious men

58.who travels to the Cave of Spleen and returns with bundles of sighs and tears to aggravate Belinda’s vexation?
a).Umbriel
b).Brillante
c).Momentilla
d).Crispissa

Answer : a).Umbriel

59.Who lends the Baron the pair of scissors with which he cuts Belinda’s hair?
a).Umbriel
b).Brillante
c).Momentilla
d).Clarissa

Answer : d).Clarissa

60.Shock is a Belinda’s _______
a).Parrot
b).Sylph
c).Lap dog
d).Lap cat

Answer : c).Lap dog

61.who is assigned to guard Belinda’s earrings?
a).Umbriel
b).Brillante
c).Momentilla
d).Clarissa

Answer : b).Brillante

62.Who delivers a moralizing lecture in The Rape of the Lock?
a).Umbriel
b).Brillante
c).Momentilla
d).Clarissa

Answer : d).Clarissa

63.who builds Pandemonium, Satan’s palace in Hell?
a).Mulciber
b).Sin
c).Gabriel
d).Raphael

Answer : a).Mulciber

64.She guards the gates of Hell in Paradise Lost?
a).Death
b).Sin
c).Beelzebub
d).Satan

Answer : b).Sin

65.Who is Samson’s father visits him in prison?
a).Harpha
b).Manoa
c).Dalila
d).Moses Samson

Answer : b).Manoa

66.Which is not correct one
a).Samson Agosnistes is a closet play
b).Samson Agosnistes is published in 1671
c).Samson Agosnistes follows loosely the Biblical story
d).Samson Agosnistes is written by John Milton

Answer : c).Samson Agosnistes follows loosely the Biblical story

67.Who cuts Samson’s hair?
a).Harpha
b).Manoa
c).Dalila
d).Moses Samson

Answer : c).Dalila

68.When was the second part of The Pilgrim’s Progress published ?
a).1678
b).1684
c).1696
d).1698

Answer : b).1684

69.How many parts are in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress?
a).One
b).Two
c).Three
d).Four

Answer : b).Two

70.To whom did John Dryden dedicate his play All For Love to an aristocratic patron?
a).Thomas Osborne
b).Charles II
c).Henry Wishduff
d).Jack Paradise

Answer : a).Thomas Osborne

71.Who are two priests of the Temple of Isis in All For Love?
a).Serapion and Myris
b).Dolabella and Iras
c).Octavius. Antony
d).Serapion and Dolabella

Answer : a).Serapion and Myris

72.How many daughter(s) have and Antonio and Octavia ?
a).1
b).2
c).3
d).4

Answer : b).2

73.How does Cleopatra kill herself?
a).Biting of dog
b).Cuts her neck
c).Biting of snake
d).Drowned in water

Answer : c).Biting of snake

74.Milton’s life period
a).1633 – 1674
b).1608 – 1674
c).1608 – 1686
d).1644 – 1712

Answer : b).1608 – 1674

75.When was 12-volume of Paradise Lost published ?
a).1667
b).1671
c).1674
d).1678

Answer : c).1674

76. Who published George Herbert’s manuscript posthumously?
His wife
His friend
His brother
Himself

Answer : His friend

77. Which of the following authors has written “The Life of George Herbert?
Izaak Walton
John Donne
Nicholas Ferrar
Edward Herbert

Answer : Izaak Walton

78. What does the verb “augment” mean?
Increase
Enlighten
Decrease
Weaken

Answer : Increase

79. When was ‘The Temple: Sacred poems private Ejaculations’ published?
1651
1633
1623
1591

Answer : 1633

80. Who described himself as a ‘convert’ to Herbert?
Andrew Marwell
John Donne
Henry Vaughan
Richard Crashaw

Answer : Henry Vaughan

81. In the early day of the speaker’s religious devotion ‘There was no month but ____’
December
March
April
May

Answer : May

82. What does the speaker wish to become in Herbert's Affliction?
Wages
A bird
A couch
A tree

Answer : A tree

83. Some readers of Herbert have seen him as a:
Politician
Farmer
Rebel
Saint

Answer : Saint

84. Herbert spent the FINAL years of his life in:
The university of Cambridge
St Andrews church, Bemerton
The court of king James I
The Globe Theatre

Answer :St Andrews church, Bemerton

85. 'furniture so fine' is an example of:
Assonance
Alliteration
Allegory
Anachronism

Answer : Alliteration

86. The tree in the poem 'Affliction' might be an allusion to
Genesis
Exodus
Book of job
Gospel of Matthew

Answer : Genesis

87. What is not a theme in 'Affliction'?
The benefits of studying
False expectations
Sickness
The relationship of humans and god

Answer : The benefits of studying

88. What does it mean to 'make a party unawares for woe'
To band together with other sad people
To accidentally take the side of sadness
Throw a party for sadness
To be unaware of your sadness

Answer : To accidentally take the side of sadness

89. Each stanza of the poem is a sestain, meaning ___ lines
6
5
7
4

Answer : 6

90. Which of these is not mentioned in the poem Affliction?
Book
Treasure
Gown
Tree

Answer : Treasure