1.‘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
2.Who among the following is a Post-Modernist novelist?
a).Henry James
b).John Barth
c).D.H. Lawrence
d).James Joyce
3.F.T. Wood assigns the following dates for Old English period
a).800n to 1200
b).600 to 1100
c).1100 to 1500
d).100 to 600
4.A seminal book Feminist Criticism ‘The Second Sex’ was written by
a).Julia Kristeva
b).Annie Lecleve
c).Simon de Beavoir
d).Marguerite Duras
5.Who deal with ‘Wife of Bath’?
a).Spenser
b).Sidney
c).Donne
d).Chaucer
6.‘Willing Suspension of Disbelief’ is a phrase by
a).Shelley
b).Coleridge
c).Hazlitt
d).Wordsworth
7.When did Constantinople fall?
a).1480
b).1444
c).1492
d).1453
8.Who wrote the following lines? ‘Some books are to be tested, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.’
a).Addison
b).Goldsmith
c).Bacon
d).Steele
9.Bunyan’s ‘Pilgrim Progress’ is
a).A satire
b).An allegory
c).A romance
d).A fable
10.In English literature the sonnet was introduced by
a).Thomas Wyatt
b).Shakespeare
c).Philip Sydney
d).Spenser
11.‘Byzantium’ for Yeats symbolizes an image of
a).Eternity
b).Happiness
c).Sorrow
d).Labour
12.‘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
13.Who wrote the novel ‘A Handful of Rice’?
a).Nayantara Shegal
b).Kamala Markandaya
c).Krish Karnard
d).RK Narayan
14.The pen name of Elia was adapted by
a).Goldsmith
b).Bacon
c).Charles Lamb
d).Hazlitt
15.‘A man can be destroyed, but cannot be defeated’ is the message of the novel.
a).The Sun also Rises
b).For whom the Bell Tolls
c).A Farewell to Arms
d).The Old Man and the Sea
16.Who wrote the poem ‘The Pulley’
a).Herrick
b).Vaughan
c).Herbert
d).Marvell
17.Helen of Troy appear in the play
a).Dr.Faustus
b).Edward II
c).The Jew of Malta
d).Tamburlaine
18.Which one of the systems of value is used in ‘All For Love’
a).Roman Law
b).English Love
c).French Love
d).Greek Law
19.The Rape of the Lock is
a).An epic
b).An ode
c).A mock epic
d).A satire
20.‘Comedy of Humours’ was developed in the 16th century by
a).Marlowe
b).Dekkar
c).Webster
d).Ben Jonson
21.‘Dark Lady’ appears in the sonnets of
a).Sydney
b).Spenser
c).Milton
d).Shakespeare
22.‘The Way of the World’ belongs to the type called
a).Farce
b).Sentimental comedy
c).Romantic comedy
d).Comedy of Manners
23.Who is associated with ‘Transformative Generative Grammar’?
a).Otto Jesperson
b).Noam Chomsky
c).C.L. Wrenn
d).AC Bough
24.Wilfred Owen is generally considered a
a).Romantic Poet
b).Classical Poet
c).War Poet
d).Metaphysical Poet
25.‘She is moon but she is also everybody’s moon’ through this line Andrea del Sarto is referring to his
a).Mother
b).Sister
c).Daughter
d).Wife
26.Who wrote Morte D’Arthur
a).Tennyson
b).Browning
c).Arnold
d).Spenser
27.The Great vowel shift took place in the
a).Old English period
b).Middle English period
c).Modern English period
d).Early modern English period
28.The famous dictionary of Johnson was brought out in the year
a).1755
b).1745
c).1765
d).1785
29.Who adapts Marlowe's Dr. Faustus
a).Homer
b).Virgil
c).Goethe
d).Plato
30.Samson Agonistes was written by
a).Donne
b).Coleridge
c).Byron
d).Milton
31.Which English king was associated with the publication of Authorized version of the Bible ?
a).James I
b).Edward V
c).George III
d).Henry VIII
32.Bernard Shaw wrote this play on the subject of correct Pronunciation?
a).St. John
b).Apple Cart
c).Pygmalion
d).Major Barbara
33.Tom Jones written by
a).Smollet
b).Defoe
c).Richardson
d).Fielding
34.Who does not appear in the play Alchemist?
a).Face
b).Subtle
c).Love
d).Mammon
35.‘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
36.The observation ‘Age cannot wither her……’ about Cleopatra was made by
a).Antony
b).Octavius
c).Lepidus
d).Enobarbus
37.Who wrote the play ‘The Spanish Tragedy’
a).Marlowe
b).Green
c).Kyd
d).Nashe
38.Milton’s Paradise Lost is
a).A masque
b).A pastoral
c).An Elegy
d).An Epic
39.Woodhouse appear in the novel
a).Pride and Prejudice
b).Sense and Sensibility
c).Emma
d).Mansfield Park
40.Which of the following falls into the group of Roman plays of Shakespeare ?
a).Merchant of Venice
b).Richard II
c).Antony and Cleopatra
d).Henry IV – part 1
41.Tagore’s Gitanjali appeared in the year
a).1910
b).1912
c).1915
d).1920
42.Who of the following first used the term ‘The Theatre of Absurd’?
a).Sartre
b).F. Nietzche
c).Martin Esslin
d).James Joyce
43.The Essay on Dramatic Poesy in the form of
a). A dialogue
b).A poem
c).A pity
d).A song
44.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
45.‘The American Scholar’ was addressed by Emerson in the year
a).1837
b).1839
c).1842
d).1854
46.Who wrote An Apologia for Poetry
a).Sidney
b).Shelley
c).Coleridge
d).Dryden
47.‘I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately’, who wrote these lines?
a).Emerson
b).Thoreau
c).Frost
d).Whitman
48.Sylvia Plath is noted for her
a).Realistic writing
b).Sentimental writing
c).Didactic writing
d).Confessional writing
49.Who wrote the essay ‘The Dance of Shiva’?
a).Tagore
b).Vivekananda
c).Gandhi
d).Ananda Coomaraswamy
50.Who is the playwright noted for his absurd plays?
a).Tennesse Williams
b).Arthur Miller
c).Beckett
d).Shaw
51.The love poem of Spenser is
a).L’Allegaro
b).Epithalamion
c).Il Penseroso
d).Astrophel and Stella
52.When Johnson remarks ‘before the greatness displayed in Milton’s poem all other greatness shrink away ’ is referring to
a).Comus
b).Lycidas
c).Paradise Regained
d).Paradise Lost
53.Dorothea and Celia appear in the novel
a).Emma
b).Middlemarch
c).The Mill on the Floss
d).To the Light House
54.‘Christ Hospital Five and Thirty years Ago’ is about
a).A school
b).A hospital
c).An office
d).A home
55.Standard English rose from the following dialect
a).Northern Midland
b).East Midland
c).West Midland
d).Southern Midland
56.‘O it is excellent to have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant’ who speaks these words?
a).Duke Vincentio
b).Lucio
c).Isabella
d).Claudio
57.In ‘My First Acquaintance with Poets’ Hazlitt did not meet
a).Wordsworth
b).Coleridge
c).Lamb
d).Donne
58.Who is associated with the word ‘Tension’
a).Ransom
b).Allen Tate
c).Blackmur
d).Brooks
59.‘If Winter comes can spring be far behind’- who wrote the above line?
a).Blake
b).Byron
c).Shelley
d).Coleridge
60.Which of the following is not an example for portmanteau words?
a).Radiogram
b).Brunch
c).Motel
d).Television
61.Which of the following is written by Shelley
a).Ode to the Dejection
b).Ode to the West Wind
c).Ode to a Nightingale
d).Ode to Psyche
62.Shelly’s Adonais brings to mind one of the following
a).Ode
b).Lyric
c).Elegy
d).Sonnet
63.‘Inscape and Instress’ have been used as effective forms of poetic language by?
a).Eliot
b).Yeats
c).Pound
d).Hopkins
64.Bernard Shaw was greatly interested in the reform of
a).Grammar
b).Syntax
c).Dictionaries
d).Spelling
65. ‘In thy voice I catch the language of my former heart and read, My former pleasures in the following light of thy wild eyes’ who is addressed here?
a).Coleridge
b).Annette Vallon
c).Dorothy
d).Lucy
66.Who does not belong to the triumvirate?
a).Anthony
b).Octavius Caesar
c).Julius Caesar
d).Lepidus
67.Tagore presents the problem of people when a dam is built over the rive in his
a).Chitra
b).Sacrifice
c).Chandalika
d).Muktadhara
68.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
69.Who wrote the ‘Biographia Literaria’?
a).Wordsworth
b).Shelley
c).Lamb
d).Coleridge
70.The tragic flaw of Macbeth is
a).Contemplation
b).Jealousy
c).Overvaulting ambition
d).Love
71.Which of the following is the historical play of the 14th century India?
a).Yayati
b).Hayavadana
c).Nagamandala
d).Tughlaq
72.Who wrote the play Larins Sahib?
a).Gurucharan Das
b).Badal Sircar
c).Mohan Rakesh
d).Asif Currimboy
73.‘Lyrical Ballads’ was published in the year
a).1788
b).1798
c).1778
d).1808
74.Who of the following is connected with ‘magical realism’
a).Marquez
b).RK Narayan
c).Joyce
d).Faulkner
75.Who wrote the poem ‘Australia’?
a).AD Hope
b).Judith Wright
c).Kenneth Slessor
d).Randolph Snow
76.Who wrote the novel Jude the Obscure?
a).Hardy
b).Dickens
c).Scott
d).Galsworthy
77.Yank appears in the play
a).The Emperor Jones
b).Days without End
c).The Hairy Ape
d).The Iceman Cometh
78.English belong to the branch of Indo-Germanic family called
a).East Germanic
b).West Germanic
c).North Germanic
d).Celtic
79.‘You taught me language, and the profit on’t Is I know how to curse’ who speaks these words?
a).Trinculo
b).Stephano
c).Aerial
d).Caliban
80.Ned Kelley is the legend of a famous
a).Warrior
b).King
c).Cheiftain
d).Outlaw
81.Gandhiji is driving force in the novel
a).Coolie
b).Untouchable
c).The Serpent and the Rope
d).Kanthapura
82.The poem about a Mangolian Conqueror is
a).Christabel
b).Frost at Midnight
c).The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
d).Kubla Khan
83.Willy Loman appears in the play
a).The Crucible
b).The prize
c).Death of the Salesman
d).All my Sons
84.Choose who of the following is associated with the technique ‘The Stream of Consciousness’?
a).George Eliot
b).EM Forster
c).Aldous Huxley
d).Virginia Woolf
85.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
86.Among the following who is not a romantic poet?
a).Wordsworth
b).Keats
c).Pope
d).Shelley
87.‘Catharsis’ meaning ‘Purgation’ was introduced by
a).Plato
b).Horace
c).Longinus
d).Aristotle
88.Harlem Renaissance began in the 1920’s in the city of
a).Paris
b).New York
c).London
d).Durban
89.‘Dissociation of Sensibility’ is a phrase popularized in critical circles by
a).F.R. Leavis
b).I.A. Richards
c).Mathew Arnold
d).T.S. Eliot
90.‘The English Pronouncing Dictionary’ was brought out by
a).Samuel Johnson
b).C.T. Onions
c).Fowler
d).Daniel Jones
91.‘Great Expectations’ is narrated by
a).Joe Gargery
b).Abel Magwitch
c).Mr.Jaggers
d).Philip Pirrip
92.Shakespeare did not write which of the following play?
a).Antony and Cleopatra
b).Julius Caesar
c).Henry V
d).Shoemaker’s Holiday
93.‘Immortality of Art’ is the theme of the Ode
a).To a Nightingale
b).On Melancholy
c).On Indolence
d).On a Grecian Urn
94.The Touchstone method was evolved by
a).T.S. Eliot
b).S.T. Coleridge
c).Mathew Arnold
d).Ezra Pound
95.‘Vers libre’ is the French term of
a).Modern Verse
b).Light Verse
c).Concrete Verse
d).Free Verse
96.The year of Norman Conquest
a).1066
b).966
c).1166
d).1266
97.About which school of poets did Johnson make the following remark? ‘The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence to-gether.’
a).The Elizabethans
b).The Classicists
c).The Romantics
d).The Metaphysicals
98.Who wrote the book ‘The Seven type of Ambiguity’?
a).I.A. Richards
b).William Empson
c).F.R. Leavis
d).Yvor Winters
99.As a retaliation to Thomas Love Peacock’s Four ages of Poetry, Shelley wrote
a).An Apologia for Poetry
b).An Essay on Dramatic Poesy
c).A Defence of Poetry
d).The Study of Poetry
100.Among the following who is not primarily a playwright?
a).Marlowe
b).Webster
c).Dekker
d).Chaucer
101.‘Because I could not stop for Death’ was written by
a).Emily Dickenson
b).Robert Frost
c).E.E. Cummings
d).Carl Sandburg
102.Who is the narrator in ‘Wuthering Heights’?
a).Heathcliff
b).Catherine
c).Ellen Dean
d).Lockwood
103.Tennessee William’s A streetcar Named Desire was produced in
a).1947
b).1955
c).1945
d).1961
104.‘Forgiveness and Reconciliation’ is the theme of
a).Macbeth
b).Henry IV part 1
c).The Tempest
d).A Midsummer Night’s Dream
105.‘Deconstruction’ was both created and has been profoundly influenced by
a).Barthes
b).Althusser
c).Saussure
d).Derrida
106.Identify which is not a one-act play of Edward Albee
a).The Zoo Story
b).Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
c).The Sandbox
d).none of the above
107. The greatest of the opponents of utilitarianism went back for their inspiration to
a). Russia
b). Europe
c). Germany
France
108. Which of the following works of literature does Eliot NOT cite in his 'The Waste Land'?
a). On the road
b). The inferno
c). The Spanish Tragedie
d). Hamlet
109. In Act I, Miranda is upset with her father because
a). Mariners might have been killed in the storm
b). Caliban still presents a danger to her
d). She does not want to marry Ferdinand
d). She cannot remember her past
110. ‘Paid me my ______ in a world of mirth.’ Fill the right word of the poem Affliction
a). Book
b). Wages
c). God
d). Amount