1.Whose journey is the poem involves mustering the strength to kill Otto in her memory?
a).Emily Dickinson
b).Hart Crane
c).E.E.Cummings
d).Sylvia Plath
2.Who wrote ‘singing my days; singing the great achievements of the present / singing the strong light works of engineers’
a).Walt Whitman
b).Emily Dickinson
c).Robert Frost
d).Sylvia Plath
3.For whom was the sea a rich source of metaphor?
a).Herman Melville
b).H.D. Thoreau
c).Eugene O’ Neil
d).Arthur Miller
4.Conflict between civilization and natural life is the proponent theme of the following novel is
a).Passage to India
b).The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
c).The Old Man and the Sea
d).Moby Dick
5. ‘The old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed – love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.’ Who said in his / her speech?
a).Emerson
b).Faulkner
c).Thoreau
d).James Thurber
6.The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities is a book by
a).Emerson
b).Faulkner
c).Thoreau
d).James Thurber
7.Who asked the question to audience ‘When will I be blown up?’
a).Emerson
b).Faulkner
c).Thoreau
d).James Thurber
8.Which play takes place right after World War II, in New Orleans, Louisiana?
a). The Hairy Ape
b).The Death of a Salesman
c).A Street Car named Desire
d).Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
9.Which of the following play consists symbolism and expressionism in its story?
a). The Hairy Ape
b).The Death of a Salesman
c).A Street Car named Desire
d).Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
10.Which of the following play is in ‘two acts and a requiem’
a).The Hairy Ape
b).The Death of a Salesman
c).A Street Car named Desire
d).Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
11.Arthur Miller depicts his uncle, who is salesman, and cousin in The Death of Salesman, For which category did it win the Pulitzer Prize?
a).Fiction
b).History
c).Drama
d).Biography
12.When did the play Death of Salesman win Pulitzer Prize for drama?
a).1948
b).1949
c).1950
d).1954
13.How the salesman Willy Loman did died in play The Death of Salesman?
a).High fever
b).Murdered by fellow salesman
c).Suicide
d).Truck accident
14.Who is the new boss of Willy Loman in the play Death of the Salesman?
a).Frank Wagner
b).Howard Wagner
c).Bernard
d).Stanley
15.Who is the real Irish Sailor, depicted by O'Neill for his play The Hairy Ape ?
a).Driscoll
b).Willy Loman
c).Newman
d).Brown Smith
16.Who expresses a desire to ‘know how the other half lives’ by witnessing the working class in The Hairy Ape?
a).Mildred's Aunt
b).Mildred Douglas
c).president of the Steel Trust
d).A successful businessman of Brooklyn
17.Who is ‘filthy beast’ in the play Hairy Ape?
a).Yank
b).Mildred Douglas
c).Mildred's Aunt
d).Paddy
18.Which character symbolizes the rich capitalist class living an artificial life of comfort and luxury, enervated and anemic, incapable of any originality or vigorous action in the play Hairy Ape?
a).Yank
b).Mildred Douglas
c).Mildred's Aunt
d).Paddy
19.Choose the wrong math of author and character.
a).Eugene O’ Neil - Yank
b).Arthur Miller - Willy Loman
c).Tennesse Williams - Eunice Hubbell
d).Edward Albee - Stella Kowalski
20.When Blanche begins dancing to a waltz on the radio and Mitch tries to follow, what does Stanley do?
a).He changes the music to a faster tempo.
b).He cuts in on Blanche and Mitch.
c).He invites Stella to dance with him.
d).He throws the radio out the window.
21.What happens after Stanley’s friends force him under the shower?
a).Blanche and Mitch resume dancing.
b).Eunice reports domestic violence to the police.
c).Stanley writes a note of apology.
d).Stella goes to stay with Eunice.
22.Choose the wrong match of character and their position
a).Blanche DuBois - school teacher
b).Mildred Douglas - daughter of steel Company owner
c).Biff Loman - a football star
d).Martha - wife of biology professor
23.Who must need stand wistful and admiring before this great spectacle?
a).Naturalist
b).Scholar
c).Common men
d).Common women
24.When was ‘The American Scholar’ speech delivered by Emerson?
a).31 August 1937
b).31 July 1837
c).31 August 1837
d).31 September 1851
25.Emerson said, ‘The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past,—in whatever form, whether of literature, of art, of institutions, that mind is inscribed’. Which of the following is the best type of the influence of the past, and perhaps we shall get at the truth,—learn the amount of this influence more conveniently,—by considering their value alone?
a).Pioneer’s experience
b).Research scholar’s own ideas
c).Books
d).Research in rural area and village
26.Emerson said ‘the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of _______’.
a).God
b).Books
c).Scientist
d).Research Scholar
27.Who is man of genius who has done much for this philosophy of life, whose literary value has never yet been rightly estimated, Emerson said he is most imaginative of men.
a).Shakespeare
b).Plato
c).Newton
d). Emanuel Swedenborg.
28.When did William Faulkner deliver his Nobel acceptance speech at the City Hall in Stockholm?
a).10 December 1950
b).10 December 1949
c).10 December 1954
d).25 December 1950
29.Which of the following work is not written by William Faulkner?
a).The Sound and the Fury
b).Self-Reliance
c).As I Lay Dying
d).Light in August
30.How long Thoreau lived at Walden from _______ to _________.
a).July 4, 1845–September 6, 1847
b).July 4, 1847–September 6, 1849
c).July 6, 1845–September 8, 1847
d).July 4, 1843–September 6, 1845
31.Who is targeted by Thoreau through his ‘Walden’ as specific audience?
a).New England audience
b).England audience
c).California audience
d).Cambridge audience
32.Who is Thoreau's Concord neighbour and one of his strongest literary influences?
a).Walden pond
b).R W Emerson
c).Ezra Pound
d).Walt Whitman
33.What idea was reflected in both Thoreau’s writing about nature as well as his political views?
a).Tabula Rasa
b).Transcendentalism
c).Communism
d).Syllogism
34.According Thoreau, What is a manifesto of social thought and meditations on domestic management, he purposefully intended this in the first Chapter in ‘Walden’?
a).Economy
b).Religion
c).God
d).Nature
35.What crop does Thoreau raise while at Walden?
a).Corn
b).Potatoes
c).Beans
d).Tobacco
36.How many parts are there in James Thurber’s The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities?
a).One
b).Two
c).Three
d).Four
37.What is part two of The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities?
a).Mr and Mrs Monroe
b).The Pet Department
c).Ladies and Gentlemen's Guide to Modern English Usage
d).None of the above
38.When was The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities first published?
a).1930
b).1931
c).1932
d).1933
39.Aunt Polly, Mrs. Judith Loftus, Miss Sophia Grangerford are the characters in
a).The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
b).The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
c).The Old Man and the Sea
d).Moby Dick
40.By whom was Huck adopted in the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
a).Widow Douglas and Miss Watson
b).Colonel Sherburn
c).Joanna Wilks
d).Mary Jane Wilks and Peter Wilks
41.Which book of Melville reflects Shakespearean, soliloquies?
a). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
b).The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
c).The Old Man and the Sea
d).Moby Dick
42.In Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Hucklebery Finn and Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain wrote about?
a).Love
b).Religion
c).Town
d).Nature
43.Who wrote ‘Because I could stop for death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held just ourselves’
a).Walt Whitman
b).Emily Dickinson
c).Robert Frost
d).Sylvia Plath
44.What techniques are characteristics of Walt Whitman?
a).Sprawling lines and cataloguing technique
b).Straightforwardness
c).Ornamental and elaborate
d).Use of monosyllables
45.In ‘Passage to India’ what Whitman records the achievement of man like?
a).Telephone cable line across the Atlantic, rail line joining America coast to coast and opening of Suez Canal
b).The great engineering feats of mankind
c).Making of new canal
d).Archaeological achievements
46.Passage to more than __________! Are thy wings plumed indeed for such far flights?. Complete the Whitman lines
a).India
b).America
c).England
d).Germany
47.How does 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
48.In ‘Passage to India’ Whitman wrote: ‘the races, neighbours, to marry, and be given in marriage / the oceans to be crossed, the distant brought near, / the lands to be welded together’ what was his real intention?
a).Marriage of continents, races and oceans
b).He is prophetic in these and presents a blue print for globalization, unification of mankind
c).East – West encounter and sealing of the contract
d).Unification
49.Walt Whitman was influenced by
a).Virgil
b).Koran
c).Shakespeare and Homer
d).Buddhism
50.E.E. Cummings was born in the year
a).1858
b).1884
c).1899
d).1894
51.Santigo is the hero of
a).Passage to India
b).The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
c).The Old Man and the Sea
d).Moby Dick
52.Which of the following work was not awarded Pulitzer Prize
a).A streetcar Named Desire
b).Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
c).The Death of a Salesman
d).c. Beyond the Horizon
53.‘We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground ‘ lines composed by
a).Walt Whitman
b).Emily Dickinson
c).Robert Frost
d).Sylvia Plath
54.Match the correct: work and Pulitzer prize year
a).The Death of a Salesman - 1947
b).A streetcar Named Desire - 1948
c).Beyond the Horizon - 1950
d).Strange Interlude - 1951
55. They are bent because boys have been ‘swinging’ them. Which of the following adopted
a).Mending Wall
b).Birches
c).West Running Brook
d).Because I could not Stop for Death
56.According to Robert Frost ‘ Earth’s the right place for ______'
a).Love
b).Heaven
c).Play
d).swinging
57.Which of the following poem of Robert Frost is a form in Conversation?
a).West Running Brook
b).Because I could not Stop for Death
c).Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
d).To Brooklyn Bridge.
58.Concluding line of Mending Wall.
a).Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
b).He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’
c).‘Why do they make good neighbors?
d).One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
59.Which of the following is communicating from beyond the grave, describing journey with Death?
a).West Running Brook
b).Because I could not Stop for Death
c).Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
d).To Brooklyn Bridge.
60.What are the two personified characters in ‘Because I could not stop for Death’?
a).death and birth
b).death and immortality
c).immortality and sin
d).marriage and life
61.In which stanza children playing and fields of grain in ‘Because I could not stop for Death’?
a).1
b).2
c). 3
d). 4
62.Why is Manolin particularly devoted to Santiago?
a).Because he thinks he can take advantage of Santiago
b).Because Santiago taught him how to fish
c).Because Santiago is really his father
d).Because Santiago lent him money
63.Which of the following does Santiago dream about?
a).Eating the fish
b).Getting a bigger boat
c).Lions on the beach
d).Soldiers fighting
64.What type of fish does Santiago catch?
a).A mackerel
b).A marlin
c).A swordfish
d).A tuna
65.Santiago is compared with which religious figure?
a).Buddha
b).Christ
c).Krishna
d).Muhammad
66.What baseball player does Santiago idolize?
a).Babe Ruth
b).Joe DiMaggio
c).Lou Gehrig
d).Ty Cobb
67.Where does Ishmael want to go to find a berth on a whaling ship?
a).Boston
b).Nantucket
c). New Bedford
d). New York
68.Which biblical figure is the focus of Father Mapple’s sermon?
a). Job
b). Solomon
c).Isaiah
d).Jonah
69.What is the name of Ahab’s ship?
a). The Town-Ho
b). The Rachel
c). The Samuel Enderby
d).The Pequod
70.Which of the following characters falls overboard and goes insane as a result?
a). Tashtego
b).Pip
c).Queequeg
d).Starbuck
71.What is cetology?
a).The skill of navigation
b). The study of old manuscripts
c). The process used to render oil out of a whale
d).The study of whales
72.‘You do not do, you do not do’ is the opening line of
a).Mending Wall
b).Birches
c).Daddy
d).Because I could not Stop for Death
73.‘Marble-heavy, a bag full of_____,’ complete the lines of Daddy
a).Shoe
b).God
c).Knife
d).Sin
74.Who is the father of Sylvia Plath
a).Ted Hughes
b).Otto Plath
c).Tulips
d).Colossus
75.To whom did Sylvia Plath describe him / her as heavy, like a ‘bag full of God,’?
a).Her father
b).Her husband
c).Jew people
d).Who are in Heaven
76.Who wrote ‘To Brooklyn Bridge’?
a).Emily Dickinson
b).Hart Crane
c).E.E.Cummings
d).Sylvia Plath
77.To Brooklyn Bridge is a long poem written by Hart Crane, dedicate to
a).Modern life
b).Classical people
c).Ancients
d).Who are living in Mars
78. Who wrote the novel A Passage to India
a).Walt Whitman
b).Hart Crane
c).Emily Dickenson
d).E. M. Forster
79.Birches is a famous poem written by Robert Frost. The author imagines that the arching bends. Here Birches represents
a).Bridge between human and god
b).Tree
c).Name of river
d).Pond
80.In ‘Birches’ branches are bent the result of a boy “swinging” on them. He realizes that the bends are actually caused by _______
a).ice storms
b).children playing again and again
c).devil bends the branch to stop children’s swinging
d).peasant bent to create arch
81.Who wrote ‘Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking’?
a).Emily Dickinson
b).Walt Whitman
c).E.E.Cummings
d).Sylvia Plath
82.‘Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking’ is a poem of __________
a).Reminiscence
b).Moon
c).Future cradle
d).Devil
83. When was Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? play first staged ?
1960
1961
1962
1973
84. Which symbol is suggested by Edward Albee in his play ‘Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf’?
Symbol of Berlin
Symbol of Paris
Symbol of Vienna
Symbol of Israel
85. The young Nick is the professor of ______.
Physics
History
Biology
Zoology
86. Who is German premier and signified Nick?
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Edward Albee
George Washington
87. Choose the right matched couple
George and Honey
George and Virginia Woolf
Honey and Nick
Martha and Nick
88. How many Act/s in the play Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
One
Two
Three
Five
89. Which of the following prize does not the play Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf win?
Tony Award for Best Play
New York Drama Critics' Circle
Pulitzer Prize
None of the above
90. Why did the trustees of the Columbia university reject ‘Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ to award Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1962?
interest in 'taboo' subjects
controversial public reception
sexual content shocking
All the above