PG TRB - ENGLISH


1.Who is called ‘The Prince of English Essayist’?
a).Charles Lamp
b).ST Coleridge
c).William Hazlitt
d).Robert Southey

Answer : a).Charles Lamp

2.Which of the following is a poetic manifesto or statement of revolutionary aims?
a).Essays of Elia
b).Ode to Dejection
c).Adonais
d).Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

Answer : d).Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

3.Who declared good poetry is ‘the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’?
a).ST Coleridge
b).William Wordsworth
c).PB Shelley
d).John Keats

Answer : b).William Wordsworth

4.Which of the following is right one proceeding to deal Wordsworth’s ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’?
a).A degradation of language really used by men
b).A metaphysic language really used by men
c).A neoclassic language really used by men
d).A selection of language really used by men

Answer : d).A selection of language really used by men

5.Which of the following is completed in 1805 and published in revised form 1850 after the author’s death?
a).Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
b).A Defence of Poetry
c).Ode to the West Wind
d).Prelude

Answer : d).Prelude

6.Who is the silent auditor in Tintern Abbey?
a).Wordsworth himself
b).Wordsworth's mother
c).Wordsworth's sister
d).ST Coleridge

Answer : c).Wordsworth's sister

7.What is the figure of speech emphasis in ‘thou still unravished bride of quitness’, this line indicates ‘URN’?
a).Anaphora
b).Anastrophe
c).Apostrophe
d).Paralipsis

Answer : c).Apostrophe

8.A direct and explicit address either to an abstract person or to an abstract or nonhuman entity is called?
a).Anaphora
b).Anastrophe
c).Apostrophe
d).Paralipsis

Answer : c).Apostrophe

9.In which stanza Keats personifies the season, autumn, as a woman?
a).1
b).2
c).5
d).4

Answer : b).2

10.‘If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?’ is the concluding line of _________.
a).Ode on a Grecian Urn
b).Ode to Autumn
c).Ode to the West Wind
d).Tintern Abbey

Answer : c).Ode to the West Wind

11.Which of the following is not right one for ‘Prelude’
a).Rendering at epic length
b).A spiritual autobiography
c).or, Growth of a Poet's Mind
d).It has 12 books at the time of final and revised publication in 1850

Answer : d).It has 12 books at the time of final and revised publication in 1850

12.‘ handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her’ To whom this lines indicate?
a).Emma Woodhouse
b).Catherine
c).Jane Fairfax
d).Isabella Linton

Answer : a).Emma Woodhouse

13.Who attacked on the neoclassical doctrine of a special language for poetry?
a).ST Coleridge
b).William Wordsworth
c).PB Shelley
d).John Keats

Answer : b).William Wordsworth

14.Who is Edgar Linton’s lawyer arrives too late to hear Edgar’s final instruction to change his will?
a).Mr. Green
b).Zillah
c).Frances Earnshaw
d).Nelly Dean

Answer : a).Mr. Green

15.The estate of Edgar Linton is
a).Wuthering Heights
b).Thrushcross Grange
c).Liverpool
d).Moor land

Answer : b).Thrushcross Grange

16.Who asks Nelly Dean, to tell him the story of Heathcliff and the strange denizens of Wuthering Heights?
a).Mr. Linton
b).Mr. Earnshaw
c).Hindley Earnshaw
d).Lockwood

Answer : d).Lockwood

17.Whose diary has recollected the main parts of Wuthering Heights?
a).Heathcliff
b).Nelly Dean
c).Hindley Earnshaw
d).Lockwood

Answer : d).Lockwood

18.Why was Catherine forced to stay in Thrushcross Grange when Catherine and Heathcliff wandered there?
a).She is injured while jumping a pit
b).A dog bit her and she stayed there
c).Heathcliff left her alone
d).She was affected by insane

Answer : b).A dog bit her and she stayed there

19.Who teaches Catherine to act like a gentle-woman and a proper young lady?
a).Mrs. Linton
b).Mrs. Earnshaw
c).Isabella Linton
d).Nelly Dean

Answer : a).Mrs. Linton

20.How many children for John Knightley and Isabella Knightley?
a).2
b).3
c).4
d).5

Answer : d).5

21.Where was the novel Emma took place mostly?
a).Cambridge
b).Wessex
c).Highbury
d).Gooseberry

Answer : c).Highbury

22.Which character in Wuthering Heights was inspired by Emily’s aunt?
a).Hindley
b).Joseph
c).Heathcliff
d).Earnshaw

Answer : b).Joseph

23.Frank Churchill is the son of
a).Mr. Elton
b).Mr. Weston
c).Mr. Robert Martin
d).Mr. knightly

Answer : b).Mr. Weston

24.Which of the following character remains unmarried at the end in Emma?
a).Miss Bates
b).Mr. Elton
c).Harriet Smith
d).Mr. Knightly

Answer : a).Miss Bates

25.What token does Jane return to Frank, symbolizing the relinquishment of his affection?
a).A lock of hair
b).A photograph
c).An engagement ring
d).His letters

Answer : d).His letters

26.What do ghosts represent in Wuthering Heights?
a).The power of the past
b). The eternal nature of love
c). The ambiguity of an afterlife
d). The influence of nature

Answer : a).The power of the past

27.Which has come to be seen as a de facto manifesto of the Romantic movement.
a).A Defence of Poetry
b).Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
c).Prelude
d).Essays of Elia

Answer : b).Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

28.According to Wordsworth what is the choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, and even figurative language?
a).Thought
b).Spectacle
c).Diction
d).feeling

Answer : c).Diction

29.who has observed, is an acquired talent, which can only be produced by thought and a long continued intercourse with the best models of composition in Wordsworth’s manifesto?
a).Sir Joshua Reynolds
b).ST Coleridge
c).Hamilton Court
d).Shelly

Answer : a).Sir Joshua Reynolds

30.Wordsworth proposed to choose the situation and incidents for poems from _______.
a).Nature
b).Language
c).Common life
d).Diction

Answer : c).Common life

31.Wordsworth says Poetry is the image of man and _______.
a).Nature
b).Language
c).Common life
d).Diction

Answer : a).Nature

32.To whom did shelly address his ‘Defence of Poetry’?
a).Stephan Gossan
b).Thomas Love Peacock
c).William Wordsworth
d).Sir Philip Sydney

Answer : b).Thomas Love Peacock

33.When was the ‘A Defence of Poetry’ published posthumously?
a).1812
b).1820
c).1821
d).1840

Answer : d).1840

34.What are the two classes of mental action which is mentioned by shelly in A Defence of Poetry?
a).Reason and Imagination
b).Fancy and imagination
c).Though and feeling
d).Sense and wit

Answer : a).Reason and Imagination

35.‘Language, color, form, and religious and civil habits of action, are all the instruments and _________of poetry’ said by Shelley.
a).Materials
b).Thought
c).Diction
d).Aids

Answer : a).Materials

36.According to Shelly, what is the production and assurance of pleasure in this highest sense?
a).True utility
b).Humanity
c).Negativity
d).Desirability

Answer : a).True utility

37.‘My First Acquaintance with Poets’ here ‘my’ represents.
a).William Wordsworth
b).ST Coleridge
c).William Hazlitt
d).Robert Southey

Answer : c).William Hazlitt

38.Hazlitt eagerly awaited and crossed ten miles in the mud to listen to the young Enthusiast. Who is young Enthusiast?
a).William Wordsworth
b).ST Coleridge
c).William Hazlitt
d).Robert Southey

Answer : b).ST Coleridge

39.When was the essay ‘My First Acquaintance with Poets’ published?
a).1778
b).1823
c).1821
d).1850

Answer : b).1823

40.Who is the mother of two children in ‘Dream-Children; A Reverie’?
a).Elia
b).Field
c).Alice
d).Mary

Answer : c).Alice

41.When was ‘The Essays of Elia’ first published in book form?
a).1820
b).1821
c).1822
d).1823

Answer : d).1823

42.Which is not correct one accordingly the essay ‘South Sea House’?
a).It delivers past of Lamp
b).Lamp was the clerk at South Sea House
c).The South sea house situated in India
d).It was a centre of trade and commerce

Answer : c).The South sea house situated in India

43.Who was the head cashier and a man of melancholic mood in the essay ‘The South Sea House’?
a).John Tipp
b).Henry Man
c).Richard Plumer
d).Evans

Answer : d).Evans

44.Who has played fiddle in his leisure time in the essay ‘The South Sea House’?
a).John Tipp
b).Henry Man
c).Richard Plumer
d).Evans

Answer : a).John Tipp

45.‘Dream-Children - A Reverie’ is an essay by Charles Lamb. Reverie means.
a).Fragment
b).Incomplete
c).Day dream
d).Autobiography

Answer : c).Day dream

46.Adonais is an elegy written by Shelly on the death of _________.
a).A Roman Emperor
b).John Milton
c).John Keats
d).Shelly’s wife Mary Shelly

Answer : c).John Keats

47.‘I weep for_______—he is dead! ‘ this line appeared in Shelly’s elegy Adonais. Complete the line.
a).Adonais
b).John Keats
c).Nature
d). A poet

Answer : a).Adonais

48.John Keats died of _______
a).High fever
b).Drowned sea
c).Tuberculosis
d).suicide

Answer : c).Tuberculosis

49.Who was in mourning for the loss of her son?
a).Urania
b).Adonais
c).Persephone
d).Zeus

Answer : a).Urania

50.What is the subtitle of The Prelude?
a).Autobiographical life
b).Growth of a Poet’s Mind
c).A poem to Shelly
d).Growth of my Personal acquaintance

Answer : b).Growth of a Poet’s Mind

51.How many books are in The Prelude when it was published in 1850?
a).10
b).11
c).13
d).14

Answer : d).14

52.In which book Wordsworth talks about school life in ‘The Prelude’?
a).Book 1
b).Book 5
c).Book 9
d).Book 13

Answer : a).Book 1

53.Choose the wrong match of author and death year
a).William Wordsworth - 1850
b).Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834
c).John Keats - 1823
d).Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1822

Answer : John Keats - 1823

54.William Wordsworth was born in _______.
a).1770
b).1870
c).1759
d).1783

Answer : a).1770

55.‘O wild West Wind, thou breath of ______ being’ complete the line
a).Autumn
b).Spring
c).Summer
d).Winter

Answer : a).Autumn

56.How long William Wordsworth being a part of Poet Laureate
a).7
b).8
c).9
d).10

Answer : 7

57.In which stanza Keats describe how autumn a season ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’?
a).First stanza
b).Second stanza
c).Third Stanza
d).Fourth Stanza

Answer : a).First stanza

58.Who wrote ‘The Necessity of Atheism’ which expelled the author form Oxford?
a).ST Coleridge
b).William Wordsworth
c).PB Shelley
d).John Keats

Answer : c).PB Shelley

59.Where are the songs of ______? Ay, Where are they? This line appeared in Keats ‘To Autumn’. Complete the line using season.
a).Autumn
b).Spring
c).Summer
d).Winter

Answer : b).Spring

60.‘Five years have past; five summers, with the length Of five long winters!’ this line emphasised in _________.
a).Ode to Dejection
b).Ode to the West Wind
c).Tintern Abbey
d).Ode to Autumn

Answer : c).Tintern Abbey

61.When did William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth revisit the Banks of the Wye during a Tour on?
a).July 13, 1793
b).July 13, 1798
c).July 13, 1795
d).July 13, 17991

Answer : b).July 13, 1798

62.‘And gathering ______twitter in the skies’ complete the concluding line of Ode to Autumn.
a).swallows
b).Squirrel
c).Cuckoo
d).Autumn bird

Answer : a).swallows

63.Opening line of the ‘Ode to the West Wind’.
a).O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being
b).If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind
c).Thou on whose stream, mid the steep sky's commotion,
d).Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams

Answer : a).O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being

64.What did the author ask to drive over the universe in ‘Ode to the West Wind’?
a).Dead leaves
b).Seeds
c).Dead thoughts
d).Ghost

Answer : c).Dead thoughts

65.Who wrote the famous novel ‘Wuthering Heights’ ?
a).Anne Bronte
b).Emily Bronte
c).Charlotte Bronte
d).Jane Austen

Answer : b).Emily Bronte

66.Which of the following poem has preface, and the preface is excerpted from ‘Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence’?
Christabel
Kubla Khan
Frost at Midnight
Dejection: An Ode

Answer : Dejection: An Ode

67. Which of the element is correct one in this poem Dejection: An Ode. Coleridge sees ___________
The old moon holding the new moon in her lap
The new moon holding the old moon in her lap
Dejection is full of joy
Conversation with moon

Answer : The new moon holding the old moon in her lap

68. Which of the following poem is not a conversation poem of Coleridge
Dejection : An Ode
Frost at Midnight
This Lime – Tree Bower my prison
Kubla Khan

Answer : Kubla Khan

69.When did Coleridge first meet Wordsworth?
1791
1794
1795
1798

Answer : 1795

70.To whom did Coleridge make conversation in his poem Dejection Ode?
Sara Fricker
Mary Hutchinson
Edith Fricker
Sara Hutchinson

Answer : Sara Hutchinson

71. Dejection Ode , is originally _______
a verse letter to Sara Hutchinson
has a silent listener, his son
Sara Hutchinson is a supernatural element
The dying old man is telling the truth about his experiences.

Answer : a verse letter to Sara Hutchinson

72. Who is the speaker in this poem ‘Dejection Ode’?
Poet Himself
Sara Hutchinson
Sara Fricker
Sir Patrick Spence

Answer : Poet Himself

73. Coleridge can see that except the following one in Part two in Dejection Ode.
Clouds
Stars
Moon
Tree

Answer : Tree

74. Which of the following is not a theme in ‘Dejection Ode’?
Love
Dejection
Man and the natural world
Supernatural

Answer : Supernatural

‘75. O Lady! we receive but what we _____’ Complete the line from Dejection Ode.
need
love
give
pass

Answer : give

76. ‘In _______ did Kubla Khan,A stately pleasure-dome decree’ chose right word to complete the lines from Kubla Khan.
Alph
Twice five miles
China
Xanadu

Answer : Xanadu

77. Which of the following work is not written by ST Coleridge
Remorse
Osorio
Christabel
Orlando Furiso

Answer : Orlando Furiso

78. When did Wordsworth and Coleridge publish a joint volume poetry ‘Lyrical Ballads’
1797
1798
1800
1802

Answer : 1798

79. Where did Coleridge meet Robert Southey
Christ’s Hospital
Jesus College
Germany
Trinity College

Answer : Jesus College

80. Which of the following journal is associated with Coleridge?
Criterion
Spectator
Dial
The Friend

Answer : The Friend

81. How many poems are in Lyrical Ballads ?
19
4
23
10

Answer : 23

82. Which of the following choice is correct in Coleridge’s Kubla Khan – except?
Based on Coleridge’s dream
The author presents an exotic landscape
Author has exposed gothic setting
Author is pointing towards a sense of mystery and supernatural in the setting

Answer : Author has exposed gothic setting

83. Complete the concluding line through Coleridge’s Kubla Khan of this incomplete line ‘For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the __________.’
milk of Paradise
milk of heaven
water of Alph
wit of God

Answer : milk of Paradise

84. Kubla Khan, a Mongol emperor and the grandson of _________.
Genghis Khan
Cambyuskan
Xiongu Khan
None of the above

Answer : Genghis Khan

85. Coleridge tells us about a river that runs across the land and then flows through some underground caves and into ______.
Pleasure dome
The sea
Heaven
Forest

Answer : The sea

86. Who is listening to this noisy river and thinking about war in the poem Kubla Khan?
Coleridge
Abyssinian maid
Kubla Khan
People of Xanadu

Answer : Kubla Khan

87. ‘A damsel with a dulcimer’ this line appeared in Kubla Khan, here what is the meaning for the word ‘Damsel’?
A young unmarried men
A young married women
A young unmarried women
A young married men

Answer : A young unmarried women

88. Who approached Coleridge to ask the possibility of translate Goethe’s Faust?
Lord Byron
John Murray
James Gillman
William Wordsworth

Answer : John Murray

89. ‘For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise' .This line appeared in Kubla Khan, in this line who is he?.
coleridge
Kubla Khan
God of paradise
Abyssinian maid

Answer : Kubla Khan

90. How many miles are there fertile ground ‘Kubla Khan’?
6
8
10
12

Answer : 10