1.Choose the correct option of The Faerie Queene: (1). First three books in 1590, (2). Books IV-VI in 1596,(3). It is comparable in scope to Dante’s Divine Comedy, (4). Allegorical book, (5). Red Cross Knight stands for ‘Holiness’, (6). Spencer devised an eight line stanza, (7). All the eight lines are in iambics hexameter.
a).All are correct
b).123457 correct
c).12345 correct
d).12347 correct
2.Which poems makes a mystical religious experience of joining of the souls of two lovers
a).The Rape of the Lock
b).The Canonization
c).The Ecstasy
d).To his Coy Mistress
3.Paradise Lost is Milton’s monumental epic poem, in _______.
a).Iambic pentameter
b).Blank verse
c).Rime Royal
d).Heroic Couplet
4.Which of the poem is based on an actual quarrel between two families?
a).The Rape of the Lock
b).Prothalamion
c).To His Coy Mistress
d).Morte D' Arthur
5.Which of the following work is an example of carpe diem poem?
a).To His Coy Mistress
b).Ode on a Grecian Urn
c).Byzantium
d).Andrea Del Sarto
6.Which is the reflection of the poet’s pessimism at the loss of religious faith in his time?
a).Dover Beach
b).The Scholar Gypsy
c).Jude the Obscure
d).The Power and the Glory
7.The novel is suitable for ‘comic epic poem in prose’
a).Tom Jones
b).The Power and the Glory
c).Emma
d).Jude the Obscure
8.Which is not related and not a theory of ‘Preface to the Lyrical Ballads’?
a).Purest form in simple rural life
b).Recollected tranquillity
c).Belief of ‘the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’
d).Attacks social morality as interpreted by organized religion
9. Who is the historical figure which Bacon used in his essay ‘Of Friendship’?
a).Queen Elizabeth
b).Earl of Lancaster
c).Julius Ceaser
d).Henry IV
10‘Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and_______; hear, oh hear! ‘ complete the lines of P B Shelley
Preserver
tangled
Maenad
summer dreams
11.Which of the following is not a part of place in Pilgrim’s Progress?
a).City of Destruction
b).Slough of Despond
c).Wicket Gate
d).Caleb Grave
12.This play has opened with a conversation at chocolate house.
a).All for Love
b).The School for Scandal
c).The way of the World
d).She stoops to conquer
13.Who defined poetry as ‘the expression of the imagination’?
a).Sir Philip Sydney
b).William Wordsworth
c).Shelley
d).Coleridge
14.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
15. Who has been called the high priest or prophet of postmodernism?
a).Jurgen Habermas
b).Jean Baudrillard
c).Jean Francois Lyotard
d).Jacques Derrida
16.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
17.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
18.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
19.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
20.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
21.What does Albee title the final act?
a). Fun and Games
b). Not My Wife
c). Walpurgisnacht
d). The Exorcism
22.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
23.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
24.Where does the Loman family live?
a).Boston
b).Brooklyn
c).Long island
d).Queens
25. 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
26.‘Deaf to the mighty symphony of wings, And brooding over the lost empire of the peaks.’ Who wrote the above lines?
a).F.R. Scott
b).P.K. Page
c).A.M. Klein
d).E.J. Pratt
27.‘Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t’ who speaks the above lines?
a).Macbeth
b).Banquo
c).Malcolm
d).Lady Macbeth
28.‘But at my back I always hear Time’s Winged Chariot hurrying near’ who wrote the above line?
a).Donne
b).Shakespeare
c).Milton
d).Marvell
29.Tagore’s Gitanjali appeared in the year
a).1910
b).1912
c).1915
d).1920
30.Who wrote the following words? ‘If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to the tree, it had better not come at all’
a).Coleridge
b).Keats
c).Shelley
d).Wordsworth
31.‘The American Scholar’ was addressed by Emerson in the year
a).1837
b).1839
c).1842
d).1854
32.Which of the followings dialects came to be recognized as literary standard in the old English period?
a).Northumbrian
b).Merican
c).West Saxon
d).Kentish
33.Which of the following sections does not find a place in ‘The Waste Land’?
a).The Burial of the Dead
b).A Game of Chess
c).Death by fire
d).What the Thunder said
34.The Scholar’s influence in The American Scholar consists of three influences ________ the Past, Books and Action.
a).Religion
b).Nature
c).Society
d).Education
35.Apollyon is the lord of
a).Valley of Humiliation
b).The city of Destruction
c).The flies
d).The celestial City
36.The ______ falls back on the tendency of imitation of movement
a).Ding-Dong Theory
b).Pooh- Pooh Theory
c).Ta-Ta Theory
d).Bow-Bow Theory
37.A ‘Spousal Ode’ privately printed in 1596 is
a).Astrophel
b).Epithalamion
c).Prothalamion
d).Amerotti
38.Samson Agonistes tells of Samson’s death as a prisoner of the
a).Philistines
b).Phonecians
c).Arameans
d).Assyrians
39.In a letter to ________ keats says, ‘Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity’
a).John Taylor
b).Benjamin Bailey
c).PB Shelley
d).J.H. Reynolds
40.The Pulley emphasises that if a man is given _________ he will not adore God but his gifts.
a).Work
b).Wealth
c).Rest
d).Family
41._____________ refuses to have the priest hear his confession in ‘The Power and the Glory’.
a).The Jefe
b).Mr.Tench
c).The Gringo
d).The Policeman
42.Pert I of Tate’s essay Tension in Poetry deals with the ________ in poetry.
a).Fallacy of communication
b).Fallacy of word choice
c).Fallacy of figures of speech
d).Fallacy of tropes
43.An Avant-garde movement that began in response to the devastation of World War I, produced nihilistic and antiological prose, poetry and art and rejected the tradition, rules and Ideals of pre-war Europe in
a).Formalism
b).Structuralism
c).Dadaism
d).Post – colonialism
44.Who was called by Keats as ‘The Egoistical Sublime’?
a).Wordsworth
b).Shelley
c).Byron
d).Coleridge
45. Coleridge’s Biograohia Literaria was published in
a).1801
b).1808
c).1827
d).1817
46.Allen Tale’s Tension in Poetry is taken from ____________.
a).The Man of Letters in the Modern World
b).Allen Tate and his works
c).I’ll Take My Stand
d).The Fathers
47.The purpose of the Pre-Raphaelites was primarily to promote
a).Complexity and ambivalence in art and literature
b).Simplicity and naturalness in art and literature
c).Symbolic and classical modes in art and literature
d).Psychological and mythic modes in art and literature
48.‘Lexis’ refers to
a).All word forms having meaning or grammatical functions
b).The history of words
c).Study of select word forms
d).The selection of words
49.A close friend of Dickens objected to the original ending of ‘Great Expectations’ in which Estella remarries and Pip remain single. Dickens accordingly revised to a more conventional ending which suggests that Pip and Estella will marry. Who was the friend?
a).Wilkie Collins
b).Thomas Beard
c).Thomas Carlyle
d).Richard Bentley
50.Which one of the following characters in Shakespeare’s Tempest is associated with the Earth?
a).Ferdinand
b).Caliban
c).Ariel
d).Prospero
51.Who defined poetry as ‘the best words in the best order’?
a).Wordsworth
b).Coleridge
c).Shelley
d).Keats
52.An extremely simplified form of a language used as a contact language among speakers of different language is a
a).Dialect
b).Creole
c).Pidgin
d).Register
53.Which of the following is called ‘The Holy grail of puritanism’?
a).Paradise Lost
b).Faerie Queene
c).Pilgrim’s Progress
d).Dr Faustus
54. Who condemns the studies?
Common men
Crafty men
Simple men
Wise men
55. What does the second apparition tell Macbeth?
‘None of woman born shall harm Macbeth’
‘none of woman born shall take Dunsinane’
‘none of woman born shall become king.’
‘none of woman born shall beware thee’
56.Who among the following profound ‘Organic sensibility’ in his work?
a).Coleridge
b).Wordsworth
c).Shelly
d).Blake
57.Archetypal criticism accepts as its informing principles that archetypes are present in all literature and provide the basis of its interconnectedness. Practitioners include: (1). Northrop Frye, (2). Dorothy Van Ghent, (3). Derek Traversi, (4). Maud Bodkin
a).1 and 4 are correct
b).1 and 3 are correct
c).2 and 4 are correct
d).1 and 2 are correct
58. The Irish Dramatic Movement was herald by such figures as
a).W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn
b).Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries
c).H.Drummond, Edward Irving and John Ervine
d).Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries
59.‘The Good sense is the body of poetic genius’ is the phrase appeared in ________.
a).Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
b).Biographia Literaria
c).Keats Letters
d).Tradition and individual Talent
60.Tom Jones by Henry Fielding was dedicated to
a).Richardson
b).Defoe
c).G. Lyttleton
d).Bishop Percy
61.Crites in An Essay of Dramatic Poesy is the fictional person representing Dryden’s brother-in-law.
a).Sir Robert Howard
b).Dr. Samuel Johnson
c).John Donne
d).Ben Johnson
62.Who had said that the Metaphysical Poets ‘Yoked by violence together the most heterogeneous ideas’?
a).Eliot
b).Dryden
c).Johnson
d).Cleanth Brooks
63.Which of the following is true regarding Eliot’s opinion on poetry?
a).Poetry is an extension of the poet’s personality
b).Poetry has a life of its own independent of poet’s personality
c).The line between the poet’s life and the life of his poetry is thin and hazy
d).Poetry is the antithesis of the poet’s personality
64.Mr. Brooke fails to get himself elected to the new parliament in
a).Great Expectations
b).Middle March
c).Jude the Obscure
d).Emma
65.At what tavern do Falstaff and friends congregate?
a).The Boar’s Head
b). The Sow’s Ear
c). The Pearl & Swine
d). The Ford of Sevens
66. When was the Wasteland published ?
1922
1921
1920
1919
67. Who is the chief justice, gave the historical judgement in Tughlaq ?
a).Muhammad Tughlaq
b).Aziz
c).Kazi-i-Mumalik
d).Shikab-ud-Din
68. Which is a marriage song written in honour of the two marriages at Essex House, of Lady Elizabeth and Lady Catherine Somerset?
a).Prothalamion
b).Epithalamion
c).Amoretti
d).Astrophel and Stella
69.Which poem opens with a description of quiet and peaceful morning. Zephyr is gentle and blows pleasantly, carrying the sweet smells around?
a).Prothalamion
b).Epithalamion
c).Amoretti
d).Astrophel and Stella
70. Surrealism is associated with
Ernest Cassirer
Tristan Tzara
Henrik Ibsen
Andre Breton
71.The words borrowed from ____________ are generally pronounced with sk: skill, sky, skin, scrape, scrub, bask and whisk.
a).Scandinavian
b).French
c).Latin
d).Dutch
72.In manner articulation, the complete closure and sudden release is _______.
a).Plosive
b).Affricative
c).Fricative
d).Lateral
73.Who thought an accountant the greatest character in the world, and himself the greatest accountant in it in South Sea House?
a).John Tipp
b).Thomas Tame
c).Henry Man
d).Richard Plumer
74.‘Ode to Dejection’ was first written as a poetical letter, and sent to Sara Hutchinson dated on
a).4 April, 1802
b).7 April, 1816
c).12 April, 1817
d).14, April, 1821
75.Why does Jean Baudrillard adopt Disneyland as his own sign?
a).Disneyland is by far the most eminently noticeable cultural sign in the post modern world
b).Disneyland captures ‘essence’ and ‘non-essence’ of Reality more convincingly than other cultural venues
c).Disneyland is an artefact that so obviously announces its own fictiveness that it would seem it imply some counter balancing reality
d).Disneyland is both ‘appearance’ and ‘reality’ in the post modern visual game of handy – dandy
76.Choose not correct pair:
a).George Eliot - Mary Anne Evans
b).Emily Bronte - Ellis Bell
c).Mark Twain - Samuel Langhorne Clemens
d).Jane Austen - Saki
77.‘The future of Poetry is immense, because in poetry…. Our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay.’ This claim for poetry is made in
a).Tradition and Individual Talent
b).The Study of Poetry
c).An Apology for Poetry
d).An Essay on Dramatic Poesy
78.In which of critical work has ‘the poet has, not a personality to express, but a particular medium, which is only a medium and not a personality, in which impressions and experiences combine in peculiar and unexpected ways’
a).The sacred wood
b).The metaphysical poets
c).Speculations
d).Tradition and individual Talent
79. Who is the author of ‘On Heroes and Hero worship’?
a).Tennyson
b).Dickens
c).Carlyle
d).Thackeray
80.In 1835, ‘Morte d’ Arthur’ was read to
a).Swinburne
b).Rossetti
c).Morris
d).Edward Fitz Gerald
81.The main exponents of Aestheticism as a self conscious movement were
a).The American
b).The British
c).The Greek
d).The French
82.How long have Prospero and Miranda been on their island?
a).Ten years
b). Fifteen years
c).Twelve years
d).One day
83.Upon leaving Egypt, what does Antony send to Cleopatra as a gift?
a).A golden comb
b).A pearl
c). A snake-shaped bracelet
d). A cask of fine wine
84.Who says, ‘historians and philosophers would never have become popular only through their content and subject, without borrowing from poetry’?
a).Sir Philip Sydney
b).William Wordsworth
c).Matthew Arnold
d).Aristotle
85.The full title of Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedie is
a).The Spanish Tragedie: or, Hieronimo is mad againe.
b).The Spanish Tragedie: or, Ghost’s Revenge
c).The Spanish Tragedie: or, murder within a play
d).The Spanish Tragedie: or, Full of Revenge and Tragedy
86.What was the philosophy of life Emerson preached?
a).Individualism, self-reliance and simplicity
b).Simple life
c).Conscientious life
d).A life which combines philosophy and poetry; conscientious and self-reliant
87.Expressionism, a European artist movement, stated in 1900 in
a).England
b).America
c).Germany
d).France
88.Which section of The Wasteland has Spenser’s ‘Prothalamion’ line: ‘Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.’?
a).The Burial of the Dead
b).A Game of Chess
c).The Fire Sermon
d).Death by Water
89.With whom are the Scots at war at the beginning of the play Macbeth?
a).Norway
b). Denmark
c). Poland
d). Finland
90.How does Hemingway describe Santiago’s eyes?
a).They are full of pain.
b). They are blank with defeat.
c). They betray the weariness of his soul.
d).They are the color of the sea.
91. West Running Brook is the poem by Robert Frost in ______________.
Pastoral Form
Dialogue Form
Reverie
none
92. Error of Judgement notes______
Peripeteia
Hamartia
Catastrope
The Tragic Incident
93.Which of the following was defined by Coleridge as ‘a mode of Memory emancipated from the order of time and space’?
a).Fancy
b).Primary imagination
c).Secondary imagination
d).All of the above
94.Who found in the bold and often strenuous figurative language in his work, ‘a direct sensuous apprehension of thought and feeling ’?
a).Coleridge
b).Arnold
c).TS Eliot
d).William Wordsworth
95.Which romantic poet coined the famous phrase ‘spot of time’?
a).John Keats
b).William Wordsworth
c).ST Coleridge
d).Shelley
96.Pope’s The Rape of the Lock was published in 1712 in
a).Three cantos
b).Four cantos
c).Five cantos
d).Two cantos
97.Which novel has been called ‘a Character novel’ by Edwin Muir?
a).Coolie
b).Kantapura
c).The English Teacher
d).A Handful of Rice
98.Who said ‘imitation is the power of depicting and fancy of yoking and combining’?
a).Wordsworth
b).Keats
c).Coleridge
d).Shelley
99.Who said ‘imagination I hold to be the living and primary agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the infinite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am. – it dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate; or where this process is rendered impossible, yet all events it struggles to idealize and to unity’?
a).Wordsworth
b).Coleridge
c).Keats
d).Shelley
100. At what time do “sleepless lovers” awake in The Rape of the Lock?
Dawn
Noon
Tea-time
Midnight