PG TRB - ENGLISH


1.Which novel has been commanded as sexual content and scathing critiques of Christianity and marriage?
a).Great Expectations
b).Jude the Obscure
c).Middle March
d).Power and the Glory

Answer : b).Jude the Obscure

2.Which novel has honoured Hawthornden Prize, a prestigious British literary award in 1941?
a).Great Expectations
b).Jude the Obscure
c).Middle March
d).Power and the Glory

Answer : d).Power and the Glory

3.‘Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled’ is the line from Mathew Arnold’s Dover Beach. What is the figure of speech emphasised in this line.
a).Cacophony
b).Erziehungsroman
c).Litnotes
d).Paralipsis

Answer : a).Cacophony

4.Marygreen, Christminister, Melchester, Shaston, and Aldbrickham are the places to help the story to drag the scenes in a particular novel _________.
a).Great Expectations
b).Jude the Obscure
c).Middle March
d).Power and the Glory

Answer : b).Jude the Obscure

5.Which character is apt for Bildungsroman in the novel Great Expectations?
a).Pip
b).Mr. Joe Gargery
c).Mr. Wopsle
d).Miss Havisham

Answer : a).Pip

6.Who attacks Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace in his works Culture and Anarchy?
a).G M Hopkins
b).Charles Dickens
c). Mathew Arnold
d).TS Eliot

Answer : c). Mathew Arnold

7.Who has great expectations in Dickens’ Great Expectations?
a).Pip
b).Uncle Pumblechook
c).Miss Havisham
d).Magwitch

Answer : a).Pip

8.Who wore wedding gown usually and seems most happy when Estella insults Pip?
a).Mrs. Joe Gargery
b).Miss Skiffins
c).Miss Havisham
d).Biddy

Answer : c).Miss Havisham

9.Who is theoretically Pip's adoptive father, Pip sees him as an equal and a friend?
a).Mr. Joe Gargery
b).Mr. Wopsle
c).Orlick
d).Matthew Pocket

Answer : a).Mr. Joe Gargery

10.Who was appointed as the inspector of schools?
a).G M Hopkins
b).Charles Dickens
c). Mathew Arnold
d).TS Eliot

Answer : c). Mathew Arnold

11.Who has suffered brain damage in Great Expectations?
a).Biddy
b).Mrs. Joe
c).Miss Havisham
d).Estella

Answer : b).Mrs. Joe

12.Who tells pip ‘Office is one thing, private life is another’ in Dickens’ novel Great Expectations?
a).Wemmick
b).Drummle
c).Miss Havisham
d).Mr. Wopsle

Answer : a).Wemmick

13.‘I suffered every kind and degree of torture that Estella could cause me’ whose words is this in Great Expectations?
a).Pip
b).Mr. Joe Gargery
c).Mr. Wopsle
d).Miss Havisham

Answer : a).Pip

14.Who is Magwitch's mortal enemy and was the fiancé that swindled Miss Havisham on her wedding day?
a).Startop
b).Drummle
c).Wemmick
d).Compeyson

Answer : d).Compeyson

15.Who gave Pip nine hundred pounds to help Herbert in Great Expectations?
a).Miss Havisham
b).Clara
c).Estella
d).Geogiana

Answer : a).Miss Havisham

16.Which novel has the main components Sin, Salvation and Totalitarianism affects the story directly and indirectly ?
a).Great Expectations
b).Jude the Obscure
c).Middle March
d).Power and the Glory

Answer : d).Power and the Glory

17.Which of the following place is not intended by Dickens in Great Expectations?
a).Satis House
b).Bernard's Inn
c).Newgate
d).Hortifield

Answer : d).Hortifield

18.Who is the daughter of priest in The Power and The Glory?
a).Coral Fellows
b).Brigitta
c).The Pious Woman
d).Maria

Answer : b).Brigitta

19.Who applied the term ‘high seriousness’ and ‘grand style’ to the poets and poetry?
a).T.S. Eliot
b).Carlyle
c).Mathew Arnold
d).Tennyson

Answer : c).Mathew Arnold

20.Women lost many of their legal rights when they got married. Although they could inherit property and obtain money in other ways, their husband had ultimate control over all of a woman's assets it symbolizes to novel _____.
a).Great Expectations
b).Jude the Obscure
c).Middle March
d).Power and the Glory

Answer : b).Jude the Obscure

21.Which of the following novel and its copies has been burnt publicly by Bishop of Wakefield?
a).Great Expectations
b).Jude the Obscure
c).Middle March
d).Power and the Glory

Answer : b).Jude the Obscure

22.Where does the priest secretly plan to escape further religious persecution by sailing ?
a).Vera Cruz
b).Las Casas.
c).San Francisco.
d).Britain

Answer : a).Vera Cruz

23.Who introduced the word Touchstone in literary criticism?
a).T.S. Eliot
b).Carlyle
c).Mathew Arnold
d).Tennyson

Answer : c).Mathew Arnold

24.‘A single person utters the speech that makes up the whole person and That person address and interacts with one or more other people’ which of the following poem has this feature?
a).Byzantium
b).The Waste land
c).The Wreck of the Deutschland
d).Andrea Del Sarto

Answer : d).Andrea Del Sarto

25.Which of the following sacraments play a vital role in The Power and The Glory?
a).Anglicanism
b).Protestantism
c).Puritanism
d).Catholicism

Answer : d).Catholicism

26.What is the retitled name of The Power and the Glory while adapting film in?
a).The Labyrinthine Ways
b).The Power and the Glory
c).The Fugitive
d).A Mexican Priest

Answer : c).The Fugitive

27.Who says the famous phrase ‘age of reason and prose’?
a).T.S. Eliot
b).Carlyle
c).Mathew Arnold
d).Tennyson

Answer : c).Mathew Arnold

28.Carmen is a/an _________in The Power and the Glory.
a).Name of person
b).Coral Fellows’s pet dog
c).Name of book
d).Name of Place

Answer : d).Name of Place

29.Who is a German-American living in Mexico The Power and the Glory?
a).Mrs. Fellows
b).Mr. Lehr
c).Mr. Tench
d).Padre Jose

Answer : b).Mr. Lehr

30.Who is the believer in the law, a staunch opponent of the Catholic Church, and the priest's pursuer?
a).Captain Fellows
b).Mr. Lehr
c).The Mestizo
d).The Lieutenant

Answer : d).The Lieutenant

31.Choose the not right match
a).Captain Fellows - Coral's father
b).Mr. Tench - a dentist
c).Mr. Lehr - A German-American
d).The Gringo - religious educator

Answer : d).The Gringo - religious educator

32.Who commented ‘The best of Greene’s novels will be remembered as literary perfection.’?
a).Seamus Heaney
b).Samuel Becket
c).William Golding
d).John Le Carre

Answer : c).William Golding

33.Who described Green as his ‘guiding star’?
a).Seamus Heaney
b).Samuel Becket
c).William Golding
d).John Le Carre

Answer : d).John Le Carre

34.Which of the following work is not written by Graham Greene?
a).Lord of the Flies
b).The End of the Affair
c).The Heart of the Matter
d).A Burnt-Out Case

Answer : a).Lord of the Flies

35.When was the novel Jude the Obscure published?
a).1890
b).1895
c).1880
d).1885

Answer : b).1895

36.‘Cathedral? Yes. Though I think I'd rather sit in the railway station’ who says in Jude the Obscure?
a).Jude Fawley
b).Aunt Drusilla
c).Sue Bridehead
d).Arabella Donn

Answer : c).Sue Bridehead

37.Which of these is one of the reasons Jude is reluctant to pursue a relationship with Sue?
a).She is less attractive than he expected
b).People in his family have a history of bad romances
c).He is hoping to salvage his relationship with Arabella
d).She is poor and will probably want to marry him

Answer : b).People in his family have a history of bad romances

38.She works first as an artist-designer and later as a teacher in Jude the Obscure?
a).Jude Fawley
b).Sue Bridehead
c).Arabella Donn
d).Mr. Richard Phillotson

Answer : b).Sue Bridehead

39.Choose the unmatched one for the novel Jude the Obscure?
a).pessimistic outlook on marriage
b).optimistic outlook on marriage
c).sexual content
d).Corrupting the society’s thought

Answer : b).optimistic outlook on marriage

40.‘Done because we are too menny’ whose words is this in Dickens’ novel Jude the Obscure?
a).Jude Fawley
b).Sue Bridehead
c).Little Father Time
d).Jack Stagg

Answer : c).Little Father Time

41.Who begs the gravedigger to let her see Children last time?
a).Jude Fawley
b).Sue Bridehead
c).Arabella Donn
d).Aunt Drucilla

Answer : b).Sue Bridehead

42.Who believes ‘mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us’?
a).T.S. Eliot
b).Thomas Carlyle
c).John Ruskin
d).Mathew Arnold

Answer : d).Mathew Arnold

43.To whom does Arnold states ultimately lacks the “high seriousness” of classic poets.?
a).Dante
b).Homer
c).Geoffrey Chaucer
d).Shakespeare

Answer : c).Geoffrey Chaucer

44.‘Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill’ is the opening line of __________.
a).Dover Beach
b).Scholar Gypsy
c).Byzantium
d).Andrea Del Sarto

Answer : b).Scholar Gypsy

45.How does Sue get the Roman statues past her landlady?
a).She hides them under her skirts
b).She claims they are blocks of plaster that she will be sculpting for her job
c).She breaks them in half and brings them in her bag, to be put back together later
d).She claims they are statues of saints

Answer : d).She claims they are statues of saints

46.‘He was very fond of me, and we lived honourable enough, and as respectable as any married couple in the colony!’ whose words is this in Jude the Obscure?
a).Jude Fawley
b).Aunt Drusilla
c).Sue Bridehead
d).Arabella Donn

Answer : d).Arabella Donn

47.‘The Study of Poetry,’ was originally published as the general introduction to _______’s anthology, The English Poets (1880)
a).T.H. Ward
b).John Ruskin
c).Walter Pater
d).John Caravan

Answer : a).T.H. Ward

48.Arnold says ‘Criticism of life must conform to the laws of poetic truth and _________.’
a).poetic beauty
b).poetic nature
c).poetic lies
d).poetic seriousness

Answer : a).poetic beauty

49.Who calls poetry ‘the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science’?
a).T.S. Eliot
b).Carlyle
c).Mathew Arnold
d).Wordsworth

Answer : d).Wordsworth

50.According to Arnold, Which of the following poet cannot considered as a classic ?
a).Geoffrey Chaucer
b).Shakespeare
c).Homer
d).Virgil

Answer : a).Geoffrey Chaucer

51.Who is the glorious founder?
a).Dryden
b).Alexander Pope
c).Milton
d).Robert Burns

Answer : a).Dryden

52.Who is the splendid high priest?
a).Dryden
b).Alexander Pope
c).Milton
d).Robert Burns

Answer : b).Alexander Pope

53.According to Mathew Arnold, Who are the prose classics of 18th Century?
a).Homer and Dante
b).Chares Lamp and Thomas de Quincey
c).Alexander Pope and Dryden
d).Samuel Pepys and Evelyn

Answer : c).Alexander Pope and Dryden

54.How many parts are there in Tradition and Individual Talent?
a).1
b).2
c).3
d).4

Answer : c).3

55.In which part Eliot has talked about ‘emotion recollected in tranquillity’?
a).1
b).2
c).3
d).4

Answer : b).2

56.Who are the three heroes that Carlyle speaks about them in ‘Hero as Man of Letters’?
a).Milton, Shakespeare, Johnson
b).Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson
c).Samuel Johnson, Rousseau, Robert Burns
d).Samuel Johnson, William Wordsworth, Robert Burns

Answer : c).Samuel Johnson, Rousseau, Robert Burns

57.How many Franciscan nuns who tragically drowned in the shipwreck of the steamship Deutschland?
a).4
b).5
c).6
d).7

Answer : b).5

58.‘Far-sighted as falcons, they looked down another future.’ Whose line is this?
a).GM Hopkins
b).WH Auden
c).Wilfred Owen
d).Stephen Spender

Answer : b).WH Auden

59.Which poem mostly displays Owen’s mastery of assonance and alliteration, ‘soldiers in merciless wind and snow find themselves overwhelmed by nature’s hostility and unpredictability’?
a).Exposure
b).Dulce et Decorum Est
c).The Show
d).Strange Meeting

Answer : a).Exposure

60.In which stanza, Mathew Arnold finished the stanza by calling the music of the world an ‘eternal note of sadness.’ In Dover Beach?
a).1
b).2
c).3
d).4

Answer : a).1

61.In Which stanza, Arnold introduce the metaphor with ‘The Sea of Faith’?
a).1
b).2
c).3
d).4

Answer : c).3

62.In which stanza, Mathew Arnold talks about Sophocles and Aegean Sea in ‘Dover Beach’?
a).1
b).2
c).3
d).4

Answer : b).2

63.The sea is _______tonight. Complete the line of Dover Beach?
a).Faith
b).Truth
c).Calm
d).Blue

Answer : c).Calm

64.Who is an Oxford student, leaves his studies and join a band of gypsies?
a).Joseph Cambell
b).Joseph Glanvill
c).Joseph Graniousted
d).John Marknice

Answer : b).Joseph Glanvill

65.Scholar Gypsies is a __________ setting
a).Pessimistic
b).Monument
c).Pastoral
d).Moorland

Answer : c).Pastoral

66.Which of the following poem is written by WB Yeats?
a).Andrea Del Sarto
b).Morte D’Arthur
c).Byzantium
d).The Waste Land

Answer : c).Byzantium

67.Where does the golden bird sit in Byzantium?
a).Centre of the city
b).Wooden tomb
c).Golden tree
d).Back of the dolphins

Answer : c).Golden tree

68.To whom did Andrea ask to come and sit with him for a moment?
a).Elizabeth Robert Browning
b).Lucrezia
c).Philomila
d).Lucy

Answer : b).Lucrezia

69.Who appointed Andrea as court painter?
a).Francis
b).Fra Lippo Lippi
c).Lucrecia
d).Michelangelo

Answer : a).Francis

70.To whom does king instruct to take his sword and throw it into the lake?
a).Arthur
b).Sir Shallot
c).Sir Bedivere
d).Tambuctoo

Answer : c).Sir Bedivere

71.‘A study of Provincial Life’ is the title joins with particular novel. Most of the critic says it’s very suitable as alternative title for that novel.
a).To the Light House
b).Jude the Obscure
c).Great Expectations
d).Middle March

Answer : d).Middle March

72.Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, novel by George Eliot. Here Middlemarch means.
a).A town in England
b).Name of a person
c).Two sisters are called Midlemarchian
d).A fictional town

Answer : d).A fictional town

73.Who are the two idealistic and principal character, both of whom marry disastrously in Middlemarch?
a).Dorothea Brooke and Tertius Lydgate
b).Mr. Cadwallader and Mrs. Cadwallader
c).Mr. Vincy and Mrs. Vincy
d).Mr. Bulstrode and Mrs. Bulstrode

Answer : a).Dorothea Brooke and Tertius Lydgate

74.Who called Middlemarch ‘one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.’
a).Mathew Arnold
b).James Joyce
c).Virginia Woolf
d).I A Richards

Answer : c).Virginia Woolf

75.To whom did Lydgate seeks a loan to pit back from his financial condition in ‘Middlemarch’
a).Mr. Featherstone
b).Sir James Chettam
c).Edward Casaubon
d).Nicholas Bulstrode

Answer : d).Nicholas Bulstrode

76.Choose the wrong match of author and character.
a).Charles Dickens - Biddy
b).Virginia Woolf - Kennedy
c).George Eliot - Sir James Chettam
d).Thomas Hardy - Uncle Pumblechook

Answer : d).Thomas Hardy - Uncle Pumblechook

77.Who wants to go to the Lighthouse in ‘To the Lighthouse’?
a).Lily Briscoe
b).Mrs. Ramsay
c).Jasper Ramsay
d).James Ramsay

Answer : d).James Ramsay

78.Which section has opened just before the start of World War I in ‘To the Lighthouse’?
a).Window
b).Time Passes
c).The Lighthouse
d).Sky Land

Answer : a).Window

79.What is the third section of ‘To the Lighthouse’?
a).Window
b).Time Passes
c).The Lighthouse
d).Sky Land

Answer : c).The Lighthouse

80.Which section is filled with death and absence. Mrs. Ramsay dies. The eldest son, Andrew, gets killed in battle. One of the daughters, Prue, dies while giving birth?
a).Window
b).Time Passes
c).The Lighthouse
d).Sky Land

Answer : b).Time Passes

81.The opening section of ‘The Waste Land’ is entitled
‘The burial of the dead’
‘death by water’
‘the fire sermon’
‘Shantih’

Answer : ‘The burial of the dead’

82. Who visits the typist in 'The Waste Land'?
Mrs. Porter
Prufrock
The young man carbuncular
A Bradford millionaire

Answer : The young man carbuncular

83.Mr. Eugenides invites the Narrator to
The cannon street hotel
The Ritz Carlton
The plaza
Venice

Answer : The cannon street hotel

84.In 'The Waste Land', Mr. Eugenides invites the Narrator to
The cannon street hotel
The Ritz Carlton
The plaza
Venice

Answer : The cannon street hotel

85.Who is ‘throbbing between two lives’?
Mr. Eugenides
Phlebas
The typist
Tiresias

Answer : Tiresias

86.In 'The Waste Land',The narrator is told that he should fear death by
Starvation
Disease
Fire
Water

Answer : Water

87. ‘When lovely woman stoops to folly’ is an allusion to
Hamlet
Oliver Goldsmith's the Vicar of Wakefield
The Koran
Ovid's metamorphoses

Answer : Oliver Goldsmith's the Vicar of Wakefield

88. Who rapes Philomela?
The typist
Tereus
Odysseus
Zeus

Answer : Tereus

89. Translate ‘Oed' und leer das Meer’
‘A kiss is just a kiss’
‘desolate and empty is the sea’
‘Isolde is lost forever’
‘the ship has arrived, appearing on the horizon’

Answer : ‘Isolde is lost forever’

90. Which of the following works of literature does Eliot NOT cite?
On the road
The inferno
The Spanish Tragedie
Hamlet

Answer : On the road