PG TRB - ENGLISH


1.Francis Bacon, who inaugurated the English use of the terms in his own Essays, took from Montaigne who belongs to ________
a).Greek
b).Rome
c).French
d).German

Answer : c).French

2.What is the main components and celebration of the poem Epithalamion?
a).Celebration of Queen’s Birthday
b).Celebration of Feast
c).Celebration of festival
d).Celebration of a marriage

Answer : d).Celebration of a marriage

3.‘The Woods shall to me answer, any uny echo ring’ choose the option which is not appropriate of this line.
a).It is a refrain of Prothalamion
b).It is a refrain of Epithalamion
c).It is a famous refrain of Edmund Spencer
d).It indicates the successive hours at the poet’s wedding day

Answer : a).It is a refrain of Prothalamion

4.Spenserian Stanza is a 9 lines stanza. In this form first 8 lines are Iambic Pentameter and the last line is _________.
a).Terza Rime
b).Rime Royal
c).Iambic Hexameter
d).Anapestic Meter

Answer : c).Iambic Hexameter

5.Which of following pilgrimage’s tale is best hilarious and fabliaux.
a).Miller’s Tale
b).Host’s Tale
c).Harry Bailey’s Tale
d).Ploughman’s Tale

Answer : a).Miller’s Tale

6.Who proposed the concept about a poet ‘ nothing affirmes, therefore never lyeth. For, as I take it, to lye is to affirm that to be true which is false’
a).Ben Jonson
b).Wyatt
c).Philip Sidney
d).The host of the Tabard Inn

Answer : c).Philip Sidney

7.Arrange in the order of authors birth date (1) Geoffrey Chaucer, (2) Francis Bacon, (3) Sir Philip Sidney, (4) Edmund Spencer, (5) Ben Jonson
a).54321
b).15432
c).14325
d).12354

Answer : c).14325

8.Who are the two virtuous ladies, honoured by Edmund Spenser?
a).M. Henry Gilford and M. William Peter
b).Lady Elizabeth and Lady Katherine Somerset
c).Lady Elizabeth and Lady Boyle
d).Lady Cinthia and Lady Elizabeth

Answer : b).Lady Elizabeth and Lady Katherine Somerset

9.What is the Virtue in the Faerie Queene, Book I?
a).Friendship
b).Chastity
c).Temperance
d).Holiness

Answer : d).Holiness

10.Where did Faustus go for his studies in Doctor Faustus?
a).Berlin
b).Wittenberg
c).Munich
d).Frankfrut

Answer : b).Wittenberg

11.Who is the prince of Portugal and son of the Portuguese viceroy in Spanish Tragedy ?
a).Balthazar
b).Lorenzo
c).Horatio
d).Andrea

Answer : a).Balthazar

12.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

13.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

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

Answer : d).Foible

15.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

16.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

17.‘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 announce to the audience

Answer : a).Prologue to She Stoops to Conquer

18.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

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

Answer : d).Love

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

Answer : b).Brillante

21.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

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

Answer : A tree

23.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

24.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

25.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

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

Answer : b).Mr. Weston

27.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

28.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

29.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

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

Answer : d).14

31.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

32.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

33. 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

34.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

35.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

36.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

37.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

38.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

39.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

40.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

41.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

42.‘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

43.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

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

Answer : Tiresias

45.Where can you find character ‘Gadshill’ in the following Shakespeare’s plays?
a).King Henry IV (Part I)
b).Measure for Measure
c).Macbeth
d).Antonio and Cleopatra

Answer : a).King Henry IV (Part I)

46.Who begs Angelo to release Claudio in Measure for Measure?
a).Vincentio
b).Lucio
c).Isabella
d).Juliet

Answer : c).Isabella

47.Duke has pretended to leave town but instead dresses as a ______to observe the conditions of his absence.
a).Angelo
b).Friar
c).A peasant
d).A horse man

Answer : b).Friar

48.Whose quote is ‘I dreamt there was an emperor Antony.Oh, such another sleep, that I might see But such another man!’?
a).Cleopatra
b).Dolabella
c).Fulvia
d).Octavia

Answer : a).Cleopatra

49.Who has married Glyndwr's daughter in Henry IV – i?
a).Price Hal
b).King Henry
c).Mortimer
d).Hotspur

Answer : c).Mortimer

50.Who helps Prospero and his daughter, and leaves supplies and some magic books ?
a). Francisco
b).Adrian
c).Trinculo
d).Gonzalo

Answer : d).Gonzalo

51.Who is the goddess of the rainbow?
a).Juno
b).Iris
c).Ceres
d).Una

Answer : b).Iris

52.With whom does Duncan arrives to Inverness before he was murdered __________
a).Malcolm
b).Macduff
c).Donalbain
d).Banquo

Answer : d).Banquo

53.Who mourns ‘will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood/ clean from my hand’?
a).Macbeth
b).Lady Macbeth
c).Duncan
d).Macduff

Answer : a).Macbeth

54. Whom does the Earl of Douglas kill?
King Henry
Sir John Falstaff
Prince Hal
Sir Walter Blunt

Answer : Sir Walter Blunt

55. Which of these characters is aware of the Duke's disguise before the end?
Friar Thomas
Angelo
The provost
Isabella

Answer : Friar Thomas

56.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

Answer : b).The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

57.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?

Answer : b).The Death of a Salesman

58.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

Answer : d).Edward Albee - Stella Kowalski

59.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

Answer : c).31 August 1837

60.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

Answer : b).Transcendentalism

61.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

Answer : b).The Pet Department

62.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

Answer : a).Telephone cable line across the Atlantic, rail line joining America coast to coast and opening of Suez Canal

63.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). Beyond the Horizon

Answer : b).Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

64.‘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

Answer : b).Emily Dickinson

65.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

Answer : b).death and immortality

66.‘Marble-heavy, a bag full of_____,’ complete the lines of Daddy
a).Shoe
b).God
c).Knife
d).Sin

Answer : b).God

67.Machine-Civilization is a concurrent word to applicable to this work.
a).Larins Sahib
b).Tughlaq
c).Muktha Dhara
d).The English Teacher

Answer : c).Muktha Dhara

68.Which of the following character works in a pickle factory?
a).Krishna
b).Ravi
c).Munoo
d).Moorthy

Answer : c).Munoo

69.In which century the historical figure Tughlaq, ruled Delhi?
a).12th century
b).14th century
c).16th century
d).18th century

Answer : b).14th century

70.In which district was Kanthapura – a village situated?
a).Dandi
b).Kara
c).Tippur
d).Santur

Answer : b).Kara

71.Who (Engineer) has been given the task of building a dam over the river Mukta Dhara?
a).Abhijit
b).Bibhuti
c).Dhananjaya
d).Sanjaya

Answer : b).Bibhuti

72.Which dance is in origin that of a pre-Aryan divinity, half-god, half-demon, who holds his midnight revels in the burning ground.
a).Tandava
b).Nadanta dance
c).Sabha
d).Dance of Forest

Answer : a).Tandava

73.Whose play is a fascinating reconstruction of the rise to power and influence in the Punjab in the years 1846-7 of Henry Lawrence, who was appointed Agent of the East India Company to the Sikh Kingdom?
a).Larins Sahib
b).Tughlaq
c).Muktha Dhara
d).Kanthapura

Answer : a).Larins Sahib

74.Who wrote the introduction for Tagore’s Gitanjali: Song Offerings of English versions?
a).T.S. Eliot
b).Ezra Pound
c).W B Yeats
d).Walt Whitman

Answer : c).W B Yeats

75.Who told Kumalo about Gertude and her condition, how she turned her dignity with some incidents?
a).Absalom Kumalo
b).Arthur Jarvis
c).Mrs. Lithebe
d).Theophilus Msimangu

Answer : d).Theophilus Msimangu

76.Who said the following: ‘My father, they have killed me!’ in Things Fall Apart?
a).Agbala
b).Ezinma
c).Ikemefuna
d).Nwoye

Answer : c).Ikemefuna

77. the Kelly gang’s hold-up in the town of ______
a).Jerilderie
b).sydney
c).Melbourne
d).Canberra

Answer : a).Jerilderie

78.Who was the founder of Modern Linguistics, as well as of structuralism?
a).Noam Chomsky
b).Roland Barthes
c).Claude Levi-Strauss
d).Ferdinand de Saussure

Answer : d).Ferdinand de Saussure

79.Hellenism refers to the spread of ________culture
a).Roman
b).Greek
c).French
d).German

Answer : b).Greek

80.Choose the wrong match of author and work.
a).Roland Barthes - The Death of the Author
b).Jacques Derrida - Of Grammatology
c).IA Richards - S/Z
d).Terry Eagleton - After Theory

Answer : c).IA Richards - S/Z

81.Which is the general aim of trustful, accurate, and objective representation of the real world, avoidance of imaginary and mystical?
a).Realism
b).Imagism
c).Pre-Raphaelitism
d).Surrealism

Answer : a).Realism

82.Who made a distinction between two dimensions of language – langue and parole?
a).Roland Barthes
b).Ferdinand de Saussure
c).Jonathan Culler
d).Claude Levi-Strauss

Answer : b).Ferdinand de Saussure

83.‘Correspondence’ is a succinct expression of symbolist aesthetic by _____.
a).Charles Baudelaire
b).Gustave Flaubert
c).Victor Cousin
d).Arthur Symons

Answer : a).Charles Baudelaire

84. Which is also called natural method?
a).Direct method
b).Grammar–translation method
c).Bilingual method
d).Lecturer Method

Answer : a).Direct method

85.____________ of foreign language teaching was developed by C.J. Dodson (1967).
a).Direct method
b).Grammar–translation method
c).Bilingual method
d).Lecturer Method

Answer : c).Bilingual method

86. List out the French feminist writers. (i) Julia Kristeva (ii) Helene Cixous (iii) Luce Irigaray (iv) Elaine Showalter
II Only
II and IV only
I, II, III only
All

Answer : I, II, III only

87. Who coined the term ‘ecriture feminine’?
Elaine Showalter
Alice Walker
Julia Kristeva
Helene Cixous

Answer : Helene Cixous

88. Who was the terms ‘the symbolic’ and ‘the semiotic’ to designate two different aspects of language?
Elaine Showalter
Alice Walker
Julia Kristeva
Helene CIxous

Answer : Julia Kristeva

89.Which theory’s speech was produced by man’s attempting to imitate some characteristics sound?
a).The Pooh – Pooh theory
b).The bow-wow theory
c).The ding – dong theory
d).The gesture theory

Answer : b).The bow-wow theory

90.Bulgarian, Serbian, Czech,Russian, and Polish are languages of ________ group.
a).Armenian
b).Albanian
c).Balto-salvonic
d).Celtic

Answer : c).Balto-salvonic

91.Which of the option is not consisted in Middle English Period.
a).–an regular for ending of plural
b).–en is became the regular ending for the verbs
c).Chaucer’s day the infinitive without the prefixed to us almost obsolete
d).Greater simplification of the language, was the reduction of inflections

Answer : a).–an regular for ending of plural

92.Etymology : The study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history. The words ‘senior, junior, animal, interim, curriculum, genius, axis’ are etymologically comes from ______.
a).Latin
b).Scandinavian
c).Greek
d).French

Answer : a).Latin

93. A minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function is called_____________.
Semantics
Syntax
Pragmatics
Morpheme

Answer : Morpheme

94. The word ‘homekeeping’ is used by ______.
Ben Jonson
William Shakespeare
Samuel Johnson
John Milton

Answer : William Shakespeare

95. Which of the following is not a characteristic of Old English.
Some nouns made their genitive singular in –es, other in –e, other in –a, and others in –an
The endings which marked the nominative Plurals were –as, -a, -u, -e, -an
Inflections were strictly followed in using nouns and verbs as modern English
We now say ‘I sing, we sing, I sang, We sang’, the old English forms were ‘ic singe’, ‘we singath’, ‘ic sang’ ‘we sungon’

Answer : Inflections were strictly followed in using nouns and verbs as modern English

96. Avestan is the language of Avesta. In which group does Avestan belong?
Iranian
Armenian
Hellenic
Albanian

Answer : Iranian

97. A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group is called.
Idiolect
dialect
Pidgin
Syntax

Answer : dialect

98. A combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable is called.
Monophthongs
gliding vowel
zero vowel
null phoneme

Answer : gliding vowel

99. Prefix and suffix come to under the category of which morpheme?
Free morpheme
Bound morpheme
lexical morpheme
Inflectional morpheme

Answer : Bound morpheme

100.‘The power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature’ is one of the cardinal points of poetry, said by ______.
a).John Dryden
b).TS Eliot
c).ST Coleridge
d).William Wordsworth

Answer : c).ST Coleridge

101.ST Coleridge titled his literary criticism, and religious and philosophical theory, as Biographia Literaria or _______________________.
a).Criticism to William Wordsworth
b).Biographical sketches of my literary life with William Wordsworth.
c).biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions
d).Literary criticism of my personal opinions on Poetry

Answer : c).biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions

102.Among the four friends in in ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy’ their witty conversation turns into debate on the virtues of___________.
a).New and old
b).Prose and drama works
c).Ancient and modern writers
d).Wit and Knowledge

Answer : c).Ancient and modern writers

103. City and building is __________ world.
Human world
Animal world
Mineral world
Water world

Answer : Mineral world

104. In whose letter did Keats describe theory of knowledge and of the human experience of the world that the intellect is a ‘Mansion of Many Apartments’.?
Letter to Shelley
Letter to Benjamin Bailey
Letter to John Taylor
Letter to J H Reynolds

Answer : Letter to J H Reynolds

105. T. S. Eliot in his essay ‘The Metaphysical Poets’, which first appeared in 1921 as a review of _________ edition of ‘Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century’ (1921).
H. J. C. Grierson's
John Donne’s
Ezra Pound’s
Irving Babbitt’s

Answer : H. J. C. Grierson's

106. Who defined metaphysical poetry is ‘the most heterogeneous ideas are yoked violence together’?
T.S Eliot
Daniel Defoe
John Dryden
Dr. Samuel Johnson

Answer : Dr. Samuel Johnson

107. Eliot gives concrete illustrations to show that such unification of sensibility, such fusion of thought and feeling, is to be found in the poetry of Donne as well as in much of modern poetry, but it is lacking in the poetry of ________.
Elizabeth Robert Browning
Mathew Arnold
Tennyson
William Wordsworth

Answer : Tennyson

108. Which of the following was not right one for Eliot’s phrase ‘Dissociation of sensibility and unification of sensibility’?
Metaphysical poets thought as immediately as the odour of a rose
direct sensuous apprehension of thought
the fusion of thought and feeling
a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion

Answer : a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion

109. Choose the correct match:
Peripeteia - error of judgement
Hamartia - tragic incident
Catastrophe - reversal of situation
Anagnorsis - recognition

Answer : Anagnorsis - recognition

110. The imitation of action, serious, complete and certain magnitude are related to the definition of _____.
Comedy
Romance
Tragedy
Love

Answer : Tragedy