1.‘Sublimity is the echo of the noble mind’ is the statement of ___________.
a).Horace
b).Shelley
c).Longinus
d).ST Coleridge
2. Who says poet as a ‘most marvellous Sophist ’ and ‘truly clever and wondrous man’?
a).Plato
b).Shelley
c).Sir Philip Sydney
d).Aristotle
3.Who was the most brilliant student at Plato’s Academy?
a).Sophocles
b).Socrates
c).Aristotle
d).Alexander
4.What are the two complexes notions of Aristotle’s poetics?
a).Language and melancholy
b).Imitation and action
c).Picture and poetry
d).Epic and Sublime
5.Who defined novel is ‘a personal, a direct impression of life’?
a).Henry James
b).William James
c).William Dean Howells
d).Emile Zola
6.Who is not the precursor of the symbolist movement?
a).Baudelaire
b).Verlaine
c).Rimbaud
d).Emile Zola
7.Who is not a modernist female writer?
a).Hilda Doolittle
b).Katherine Mansfield
c).Gertrude stein
d).Mary Wollstonecraft
8.Which is not the binary opposition ?
a).Men and woman
b).Black and white
c).Pen and Gun
d).Master and slave
9.The term ‘poststructuralism’ is often identified with __________.
a).Deconstruction
b).Structuralism
c).Symbolism
d).Romanticism
10.Who presented a paper entitled ‘Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences’ at John Hopkins University in 1966.
a).Ferdinand de Saussure
b).Jacques Derrida
c).Michel Foucault
d).Sigmund Freud
11.‘Modernity Versus Postmodernity’ is written by _________.
a).Jurgen Habermas
b).Jean Baudrillard
c).Jean Francois Lyotard
d).Jacques Derrida
12. Who has been called the high priest or prophet of postmodernism?
a).Jurgen Habermas
b).Jean Baudrillard
c).Jean Francois Lyotard
d).Jacques Derrida
13.Which of the following is not written by the high priest of postmodernist Jean Baudrillard?
a).Defining the Postmodern
b).Simulations
c).The Mirror of Production
d).The system of Objects
14.Who wrote the play Widowers Houses?
a).Henrik Ibsen
b).George Bernard Shaw
c).Gertrude Stein
d).John Galsworthy
15.Strife, Justice, Eldest Son, Skin Game, and Loyalties are the famous plays by a famous English dramatist who won the Noble Prize for Literature in 1932.
a).Maurice Maeterlinck
b).George Bernard Shaw
c).Luigi Pirandello
d).John Galsworthy
16.It is written in dramatic form, with dialogue, indicated setting and state directions, but intended bu the author to be read rather than performed, famous example is Milton’s Samson Agonistes.
a).Poetic drama
b).Closet drama
c).Dramatic Monologue
d).Dramatic Lyric
17. The novelist, pseudonym of Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, is _________.
a).Henry James
b).Arnold Bennet
c).Joseph Conrad
d).Amy Lowell
18.Who wrote the famous novel ‘Sons and Lovers’?
a).DH Lawrence
b).James Joyce
c).Lady Gregory
d).Hugh MacDiarmid
19. Which work is the effect of industrialization and technological progress on the worker. Industrialization has reduced the human worker into a machine?
a).The Hairy Ape
b).The Death of a Salesman
c).A Street Car named Desire
d).Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
20.The method makes use of two languages – the mother tongue and the target language is ___.
a).Direct Method
b).Lecture Method
c).Bilingual Method
d).Grammar – Translation Method
21.Which of the following novel has ‘The Skeffington Coffee Estate’ is forms the sub-plot to this novel?
a).Coolie
b).Kantapura
c).The English Teacher
d).A Handful of Rice
22.The colonist Americans and Native Americans got some words from other colonist, in this series, the words portage, chowder, cache, and Bureau are got from.
a).French
b).Dutch
c).German
d).Scandinavian
23.Which language is by far the largest language in India?
a).Tamil
b).Hindi
c).Bengali
d).Pali
24.DNA stands for
a).Deoxyribonucleic acid
b).Dyno Nuron Acid
c).Deoxidicnucleic acid
d).Defence Natural Accumheredity
25.Gestalt, angst, festschrift, weltanschauung, and zither are the words borrowed form _______.
a).German
b).Spanish
c).French
d).Russia
26.In which work can you find the activists of ‘Wobblies’?
a).The Hairy Ape
b).The Death of a Salesman
c).A Street Car named Desire
d).Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
27.Periodical ‘Phonotypic Journal’, later changed to the ‘Phonetic Journal’ are promoted during the 1840s, led to several plans of phonetic spelling for general use, by_________.
a).Isaac Pitman and Alexander J. Eillis
b).Furnivall and Murrey
c).John Webster and Jonathan Culler
d).Noam Chomsky and Ferdinand de Saussure
28.Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind. Which is dative case here?
a).wind
b).west
c).ode
d).Shelley’s
29.Which of the following groups were found in Gaul and Spain, in Great Britain, in Western German?
a).Celtic
b).Germanic
c).Albanian
d).Armenian
30.Fill- filled- filled, which form the verb ‘fill’ as ‘filled’ in Past tense, as same in Past Participle tense by adding –ed. This verb is _____.
a).Irregular verb
b).Strong verb
c).Weak verb
d).Intransitive Verb
31.Which of the following theory traces all forms of speech utterance back to emotional interjections evoked by pain, surprise, pleasure, wonder, etc.?
a).The gesture theory
b).The pooh-pooh theory
c).The ding-dong theory
d).The bow-wow theory
32.Which law can be possible thus: In early Anglo-Saxon, vowels in accented syllables were modified through the influence of an i or j in the next syllable, the i or the j subsequently disappearing.
a).Gradation
b).Ablaut
c).Umlaut
d).Versification
33. Yacht, yawl, smack, sloop, dock, deck, buoy, bulwark, and cruise are the words connected with ships and sailings, words reached English from _____.
a).Latin
b).French
c).Dutch
d).Portuguese
34.A regionally or socially distinctive variety of language, identified by a particular set of words and grammatical structures.
a).Pidgin
b).Creole
c).Dialect
d).Idiolect
35.Choose the labio-dental sound:
a).[n]
b).[f]
c).[d]
d).[i]
36.Choose the clipped forms of word given below:
a).Gym
b).Smog
c).Cyborg
d).Emotion
37.Which of the following is also used in the context of learning a foreign language of second language?
a).Acrolect
b).Acquisition
c).circonstant
d).adequacy
38.Which of the following poem is full of sarcastic view of the author?
a).The Cedars
b).The Meaning of Africa
c).Australia
d).Birches
39.Two types of affix are recognized: prefix and suffix are participated with word formation of _______.
a).Phonology
b).Morphology
c).Phoneme
d).Semantics
40.A term used in generative grammar for a process in which an element incorporates a syntactic feature that it does not normally possess. An example would be a case feature on a verb, normally assigned to an NP object.
a).Absorption
b).Absolutive
c).Accent
d).Adposition
41.Which is first published as under the title ‘A Child's Reminiscence’ ?
a).Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
b).Because I could not Stop for Death
c).To Brooklyn Bridge.
d).The Cambridge Ladies
42.Who depicts a close encounter with Death and Immortality in his or her poem?
a).Walt Whitman
b).Emily Dickinson
c).Hart Crane
d).Robert Frost
43.Which poem has vivid use of imagination and controversial use of Holocaust as metaphors by the author?
a).Because I could not Stop for Death
b).To Brooklyn Bridge.
c).The Cambridge Ladies
d).Daddy
44.In Which stanza depicts the splendid panorama of Brooklyn Bridge which spanned Easte River and is the earliest used steel cable bridge?
a).Stanza 1
b).Stanza 2
c).Stanza 3
d).Stanza 4
45.Which poem celebrates the achievement of material science and industry, but the poem merely used these physical forms to accomplish what he termed the ‘unfolding of cosmic purposes’?
a).Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
b).Because I could not Stop for Death
c).Passage to India
d).The Cambridge Ladies
46.What does Albee title the final act?
a). Fun and Games
b). Not My Wife
c). Walpurgisnacht
d). The Exorcism
47.To whom did the local people call as ‘salao’, a pathetic loser?
a).Willy Loman
b).Ned Kelley
c).Santiago
d).Ahap
48.Old man’s favourite player, famous player ‘Joe DiMaggio’, is a/an _____.
a).Cricket player
b).Soccer Player
c).Baseball Player
d).Tennis Player
49.To whom did Melville dedicate his novel Moby Dick?
a).Nathaniel Hawthorne
b).Walt Whitman
c).Ernest Hemingway
d).His Wife
50.Ishmael only survives at last, he floats for a day and a night , he was rescued by ________
a).The Rachel
b).Jungfrau
c).Jeroboam
d).Pequod
51.Which institution serves as a setting for the play ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’?
a).A hospital
b).A university campus
c).A library
d).A church
52.The story is an examination of life at the center: the centerof America’s premiere river, the Mississippi in the middle of the geographical United States, with slave states below, free states above?
a).The Death of a Salesman
b).The Hairy Ape
c).The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
d).Moby Dick
53.Which is not the source of Education that Emerson mentioned in American Scholar?
a).Nature
b).Action
c).Books
d).Website
54.Which is not the duties and responsibilities of an American Scholar ?
a).Save the books of older period
b).Self – relief
c).Free form greed of fame and cheap popularity
d).True patriotic feelings and sense of justice
55.What is immortal that Faulkner said in his Noble Acceptance Speech ?
a).Man
b).Science
c).Books
d).Novels
56.Which is a manifesto of social thought and meditations on domestic management in WALDEN by Thoreau?
a).Economy
b).Solitude
c).House-Warming
d).Baker Farm
57.Which work shows the concepts of culture that has focused on the conflicts between old and new, western and tradition?
a).Ned Kelly
b).The Lion and the Jewel
c).A Street Car named Desire
d).Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
58.Who owns the land Thoreau stays on?
a). John Field
b). Amos Alcott
c). William Channing
d). Ralph Waldo Emerson
59.Who does Thoreau describe as an honest, hard-working, but shiftless man ?
a).Alex Therien
b).John Field
c).William Channing
d).Henry Clay
60.Streetcar takes place in
a).Laurel
b).Stratford-On-Guy
c).New Orleans
d).Atlanta
61.Which of the following poem has prejudicial question in its lines?
a).West Running Brook
b).Gitanjali
c).The Dying Eagle
d).The Telephone conversation
62.In this novel, the readers can find these elements like love, life of heaven, communication, child psychology, social issues, superstitions and nature.
a).A Handful of Rice.
b).The English Teacher
c).Kantapura
d).Coolie
63.The Dubois home was
a).a mansion called 'Troezen'
b).a mansion called 'Jamais Defonc'
c).a shack in Atlanta
d).a mansion called 'Belle Reve'
64.Where does the Loman family live?
a).Boston
b).Brooklyn
c).Long island
d).Queens
65.Who is the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize for Literature?
a).Wole Soyinka
b).Rabindranath Tagore
c).A.D.Hope
d).Douglas Stewart
66.What is Bernard’s profession in ‘The Death of a Salesman’?
a).Doctor
b).Lawyer
c).Priest
d).Professional football player
67.‘Father, when he passed on left dust on a table full of papers, left debts and daughters’ this line is taken from ‘Obituary’ is written by ?
a).A.K.Ramanujam
b).R. Parthasarathy
c).Kamala Das
d).Nissim Ezekiel
68.In which battle was Sheikh Imam-ud-din died in Tughlaq?
a).Battle of Lahore
b).Battle of Kannauj
c).Battle of ladak
d).Battle of Gazhidabad
69.When was Kamala Markandaya’s A Handful of Rice published?
a).1932
b).1952
c).1966
d).1982
70.Who calls Munoo loudly ‘Munoo ohe Munoo oh Munddu’ in the opening scene of the novel in Mulk Raj Anand’s ‘Coolie’?
a).Gujri
b).Jimmie Thomas
c).Bibi Uttam Kaur
d).Mrs. Mainwarning
71.‘Hubris’ is extreme pride and arrogance shown by a character, which ultimately brings about his / her downfall. Which of the following work has adopted this term?
a).Muktha Dhara
b).Larine Sahib
c).The English Teacher
d).A Handful of Rice
72.The Author admittedly chose the title inspired by the Phgla-jhora or the Mad-stream, the waterfall at Darjeeling.
a).Coolie
b).Kantapura
c).A Handful of Rice
d).Muktha Dhara
73.Who plays on a drum when the Lord Shiva dances in Kailasa?
a).Sarasvati
b).Indra
c).Brahma
d).Vishnu
74.Which is described as leaving behind earth conscious¬ness and flying into the vasts of God passing over the seas of life and skies of the mystic mind in Aurobindo’s ‘Thought the Paraclete’?
a).Dream
b).Spirit
c).Thought
d).Deity
75.Who suspects that it will be the Afrikaner policeman Binnendyk, when he / she saw a police car from Ixopo?
a).James Jarvis
b).Mr. Carmichael
c).Dhlamini
d).Arthur Jarvis
76.How many years was Okonkwo in exile in Mbanta?
a).Five
b).Seven
c).Fourteen
d).Twenty
77.Who replaces Mr. Brown as the head of the church?
a).The District Commissioner
b). Nwoye
c). Enoch
d).Reverend James Smith
78.Who expects that his audience will look to him as a teacher of the culture?
a).Alan Paten
b).Chinua Achebe
c).Wole Soyinka
d).Abioseh Nicoll
79.Who is Australian poet given below the option?
a).Judith Wright
b).E.J. Pratt
c).Abioseh Nicoll
d).Wole Soyinka
80.To whom was the Africa a name for which they had screamed freedom, the author mentioned in his lines?
a).Judith Wright
b).Abioseh Nicoll
c).E.J. Pratt
d).Wole Soyinka
81.Which biblical figure is the focus of Father Mapple’s sermon?
a). Job
b). Solomon
c).Isaiah
d).Jonah
82. In which of Helene Cixous’s essay consists the term ‘ecriture feminie’ which means literally ‘feminie writing’?
The Newly Born Woman
Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
The Mad woman in the Attic
The Laugh of the Medusa
83. Which case is alternative for possessive?
Nominative case
Objective case
accusative case
Genitive case
84. ‘Dissociation of sensibility’ is a famous phrase used by T.S. Eliot in the essay _________.
The Wasteland
The Sacred Wood
Hamlet and his problems
The Metaphysical Poets
85. Which play made much of Australia as a breeding and testing ground for the heroic impulse, while also confronting its destructive consequences.
a).Kantapura
b).Ned Kelly
c).Things Fall Apart
d).Cry, the Beloved Country
86.Who among the following is not a ‘New Critic’?
a).William Wimsatt
b).Cleanth Brooks
c).FR Leavis
d).John Crowe Ransom
87.Aristotle, while comparing epic and tragedy, holds
a).Epic Superior to Tragedy
b).Tragedy Superior to Epic
c).Epic and Tragedy are equal merit
d).Epic and tragedy having nothing in common
88.Who is the author of the book ‘Coleridge on Imagination’?
a).Allen Tate
b).I.A. Richards
c).Lionel Trilling
d).Coleridge
89.Cleanth Brooks has mainly used his critical tools on
a).Poetry
b).Prose
c).Short stories
d).Fiction
90.Lionel Trilling was associated with literary magazine
a).Southern Review
b).The Kenyon Review and Partisan Review
c).Transition
d).The Literary Criterion