PG TRB - ENGLISH

1.The term ‘Epithalamion’ means in Greek
a).A celebration
b).Marriage
c).At the bridal chamber
d).At the funeral

2.Which of the following lines is the refrain of Prothalamion
a).‘The Woods shall to me answer, any uny echo ring’
b).‘Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song’
c).‘Calm was the day, and through the trembling air’
d).‘Ye Learned sisters which have often times’

3.Whose tale is the ‘Beast Fable’ in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
a).Nun’s Priest’s Tale
b).Knight’s Tale
c).Parson’s Tale
d).Squire’s Tale

4.The first eight lines Iambic pentameter and the last iambic hexameter is called
a).Spenserian Stanza
b).Wyatt’s stanza
c).Sprung Rhythm
d).Sprezzatura

5.Which Greek mythological God has inspired Edmund Spenser in Epithalamion
a).Muses
b).Zeus
c).Hera
d).Athena

6.Who is the God of marriage in Greek Mythology
a).Poseido
b).Diana
c).Athena
d).Hymenaeus

7.Prothalamion is _______. (A) Poem by Edmund Spenser, (B) A spousal Verse, (C) Honour of Double Marriage, (D) Nuptial Song,( E) Conventional form of a marriage song (F) honoured Earl of Lancaster daughters’ marriage.
a).A,B,C,D,F
b).A,C,D,E
c).A,B,C,D,E
d).ALL

8.Valdes and Cornelus are related to Dr. Faustus as _________.
a).Friend and trainer of black magic
b).Horse trader
c).Companion in hell
d).Angels who rescue from Lucifer

9.Who is not participated to the murder of Horatio ?
a).Balthazar
b).Serberine
c).Lorenzo
d).Bazulto

10. The play The Alchemist is dedicated to _____________.
Mary, Lady Wroth
Sir Philip Sydney
Lovewit
Edmund Spenser

11.Who asks Belinda in The Rape of the Lock, ‘Gods! Shall the ravisher display your hair, while the fops envy, and the ladies stare’?
a).The Baron
b).Shock
c).Crispissa
d).Thalestris

12.Which of the following statements about The Way of the World is true?
a).Waitwell was disguised as Sir Rowland and he was to woo Lady Wishfort
b).Waitwell was disguised as Sir Rowland and he was to woo Foible
c).Mirabell disguised himself as Sir Rowland
d).Sir Rowland was sincerely in love with Lady Wishfort

13.‘The Proviso Scene’ in The Way of the World refers to
a).The scene of Sir Rowland and Lady Wishfort in the latter’s chamber
b).The scene of gambling between Mirabell and Mr. Fainall
c).The scene of quarrel between Mr. and Mrs, Fainall
d).The scene in which Mirabell and Millamant strike a bargain

14.In Fielding’s ‘Tom Jones’, there is too much plot, who said this?
a).Arnold Kettle
b).F.R. Leavis
c).Coleridge
d).Ian Watt

15.who travels to the Cave of Spleen and returns with bundles of sighs and tears to aggravate Belinda’s vexation?
a).Umbriel
b).Brillante
c).Momentilla
d).Crispissa

16.who builds Pandemonium, Satan’s palace in Hell?
a).Mulciber
b).Sin
c).Gabriel
d).Raphael

17.Which is not correct one
a).Samson Agosnistes is a closet play
b).Samson Agosnistes is published in 1671
c).Samson Agosnistes follows loosely the Biblical story
d).Samson Agosnistes is written by John Milton

18. In the early day of the speaker’s religious devotion ‘There was no month but ____’
December
March
April
May

19. What is not a theme in 'Affliction'?
The benefits of studying
False expectations
Sickness
The relationship of humans and god

20.Who cuts Samson’s hair?
a).Harpha
b).Manoa
c).Dalila
d).Moses Samson

21.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

22.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

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

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

25.‘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

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

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

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

29.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

30. 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.

31.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

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

33.‘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

34.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

35.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

36.‘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

37.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

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

39.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

40.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

41.‘Death is a fearful thing’ and ‘And shamed life a hateful’ are the famous quotes has appeared in one of the play given below.
a).Antonio and Cleopatra
b).Measure for Measure
c).Macbeth
d).The Tempest

42.To whom did Duke grant the temporary leadership of ________? in Measure for Measure?
a).Isabella , Claudio
b).Angelo , Vienna
c).Claudio , Vienna
d).Angelo, Norway

43.Who said ‘I had rather give my body than my soul’ in Measure for Measure?
a).Isabella
b).Juliet
c).Mariana
d).Mistress Overdone

44.Who is nicknamed as Henry Percy
a).Hal
b).Prince Harry
c).Hotspur
d).Sir John Falstaff

45.Who is the daughter of Alonso in The Tempest?
a).Claribel
b).Miranda
c).Juno
d).Sycorax

46.Who imprisoned Ariel in a tree before Prospero came to the island?
a).Caliban
b).Sycorax
c).Necromancy
d).Ceres

47.‘Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and / fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty.’ Who stated this line in Macbeth?
a).Macbeth
b).Lady Macduff
c).Lady Macbeth
d).Three Witches

48.Who announced the death of Lady Macbeth?
a).Seyton
b).Macbeth
c).Siward
d).Macduff

49.Bard of Avon is _________
a).Christopher Marlowe
b).John Shakespeare
c).William Shakespeare
d).King James I

50. Who is the speaker of the epilogue in The Tempest, and to whom is it addressed?
Alonso , the entire party
Prospero, the audience
Ariel, the audience
Prospero, Miranda

51. ‘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

52.When did the play Death of Salesman win Pulitzer Prize for drama?
a).1948
b).1949
c).1950
d).1954

53.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

54.Who must need stand wistful and admiring before this great spectacle?
a).Naturalist
b).Scholar
c).Common men
d).Common women

55.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

56.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

57.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

58.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.

59.Where does Ishmael want to go to find a berth on a whaling ship?
a).Boston
b).Nantucket
c). New Bedford
d). New York

60. When was Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? play first staged ?
1960
1961
1962
1973

61.Which of the following novel consisted idyllic village Bilaspur, where an orphan boy is forced to move from Bilaspur?
a).Kantapura
b).The English Teacher
c).A Handful of Rice.
d).Coolie

62.What is the Sultan’s decision of shifting the capital at first?
a).From Daulatabad to Delhi
b).From Delhi to Daulatabad
c).Form Delhi to Rajkot
d).From Delhi to Agra

63.Who is the narrator of the novel ‘Kanthapura’?
a).Achakka
b).Moorthy
c).Rangamma
d).Kenchamma

64.Who accepts ‘it is part of his business as a writer to teach’?
a).Chinua Achebe
b).W B Yeats
c).Walt Whitman
d).Wole Soyinka

65.Nissim Ezekiel was born in Bombay, which of the work is not written by him?
a).Night of the Scorpion
b).My Grandmother’s House
c).Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S
d).Poem of the Separation

66.The English Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a collection of ____ English poems
a).100
b).103
c).104
d).108

67.Where does Okonkwo and his family move from Umuofia?
a).Uchendu
b).Mbanto
c).Igobinia
d).Mohihanio

68.‘A light had gone out from his vanquished eyes; His head was cupped within the hunch of his shoulders; His feathers were dull and bedraggled’ reflects to __________
a).Dying man in Africa
b).Dying Eagle
c).Dying sparrow
d).Dying Australia

69.Which of the following is written by Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol?
a).The meaning of Australia
b).Heart of Darkness
c).The Dance of the Forest
d).The Meaning of Africa

70. The play ‘Lion and the Jewel’ is set in the village ____
Ndotsheni
Johannesburg
Umuofia
Ilunjinle

71.Choose the wrong match:
a).Psychoanalytic theory - Jacques Lacan
b).Structuralist Marxist - Louis Althusser
c).Feminists - Julia Kristeva
d).Simulacra - Roman Jacobson

72.Choose the equal word of ‘imitation’ which gives the same meaning .
a).Pathos
b).Mythos
c).Mimesis
d).Pity

73.The National Theatre of Ireland ________.
a).The Abbey Theatre
b).The Absurd Theatre
c).The Angry Men Theatre
d).Kicken Sink Drama

74.Who first formulated the manifesto of Naturalism?
a).Gustave Flaubert
b).Émile Zola
c).Stéphane Mallarmé
d).Arthur Rimbaud

75.Choose the wrong match of these option: Movement and the author who belongs the movement.
a).Romanticism - Victor Hugo
b).Pre-Raphaelitism - Dante Gabriel Rossetti
c).Transcendentalism - Henry David Thoreau
d).Dark romanticism - Stephen Crane

76.Symbolism, aestheticism, and impressionism, fallen under the label of _________.
a).Decadence
b).Pre-Raphaelitism
c).Transcendentalism
d).Dark romanticism

77.Who are the French symbolists of this given list.
a).Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne
b).Leo Tolstoy, Frank Norris
c).Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud
d).Guillaume Apollinaire, Kurt Schwitters

78. 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

79. Which of the following writer is not a post-modernist theorist?
Jean Francois Lyotard
Jean Baudrillard
Georges Bataille
Charles Baudelaire

80. Who coined the term ‘gynocriticism’ which means the history, styles, themes, genres and structures of writing by women
Toril Moi
Elaine Showalter
Alice walker
Helene Cixous

81.Which of the following theory is associated with the German scholar and philologist Max Muller?
a).The Pooh – Pooh theory
b).The bow-wow theory
c).The ding – dong theory
d).The gesture theory

82.It is the name given to that process, seen most clearly in the principle parts of verbs, by which vowel sounds undergo a change according to whether they occur in a stressed or an unstressed syllable.
a).gradation
b).mutation
c).umlaut
d).inflection

83.Creda (creed), cometa (comet), idol (idol), sanct (saint), cleric (clergyman) these words are mostly used in Christianity, introduced in Anglo-Saxon period. These words are originated in _____.
a).Latin
b).Hebrew
c).Greek
d).French

84.Which of the following foreign contribution have the great influx at the time of Renaissance and Elizabethan period?
a).Latin
b).Hebrew
c).Greek
d).French

85. The phrase ‘squire of dames’ comes form ________.
Pilgrims progress
Faerie Queene
Canterbury Tales
Vicar of Wakefield

86. A term used to describe a pidgin after it has become the mother tongue of a certain population
Creole
dialect
accent
parole

87. Which language group is found in a small area south of the Caucaus Mountains and the eastern end of the Black Sea.
Armenican
Indian
Sanskrit
Albanian

88. A branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in spoken languages and signs in sign languages is called.
Morphology
Sociology
Phonology
Philology

89. ‘To hide one’s diminished head’ is the phrase appears in Milton’s _____________.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
On His Blindness
Samson Agonistes

90. ‘kernel sentences’ means
A sentence has multiple verbs
It is a complex sentence
A simple declarative construction
A sentence is formed using noun words only without verb

91.Who projected the famous phrase ‘willing suspension of disbelief ’?
a).IA Richards
b).William Wordsworth
c).ST Coleridge
d).Allen Tate

92.Which is the species of composition, that is stated by Coleridge in Biographia Literaria?
a).Prose
b).Poem
c).Novel
d).biography

93.Who suggests drama is “a just and lively Image of Humane Nature.” in ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy’?
a).Eugenius
b).Lisideius
c).Neander
d).Crites

94. According to Northrop Frye Tragedy is associated to the downfall of the protagonist as _______ suggests the demise of the season.
Autumn
Spring
Summer
Winter

95. When a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason is called according to Ketas?
Positive Capability
Negative Capability
Profound similarity
Visionary mode of creation

96. Which is darkened and at the same time on all sides of it many doors are set open and all leading to dark passages, we see not the balance of good and evil?
Infant Chamber
Thoughtless chamber
Chamber of Maiden Thought
Chamber of enemy’s apartment

97. Which of the following writes do not feel their thoughts as immediately as the odour of a rose according to T.S. Eliot’s notes or his observation?
W.H Auden and W.B Yeats
Tennyson and Robert Browning
Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane
Walt Whitman and Robert Frost

98. According to Eliot ‘sensibility’ means a synthetic faculty which can amalgamate and unite
thought and feeling
emotion and situation
image and picture
fallacy and imagination

99. According to T.S Eliot, Which of the following two writers were great poets and they rendered important service to the cause, of poetry and under their influence, the English language became more pure and refined.
Tennyson and Robert Browning
John Milton and Dryden
Chaucer and Edmund Spenser
William Collins and Ben Johnson

100. According to Aristotle which of the following is superior because it includes all the elements of epic?
Plot
Epic
Tragedy
Diction