PG TRB - ENGLISH


1.The subtitle of Prelude is
a).The Growth of a poet’s mind
b).The Growth of a philosophical mind
c).The Growth of the gentle mind
d).The Growth of the artist’s mind

Answer : a).The Growth of a poet’s mind

2.Andrea del Sarto is called __________ painter.
a).A tainted
b).A blemished
c).The faultless
d).An egoistic

Answer : c).The faultless

3.The figure of bird made of gold is placed on the branch of a _________ tree in Byzantium.
a).Forbidden
b).Evergreen
c).Golden
d).Mythical

Answer : c).Golden

4.The Scholar Gipsy contains many of the conventions of the
a).Thernody
b).Dirge
c).Pastoral Genre
d).Kommos

Answer : c).Pastoral Genre

5.Morte D’Arthur is a narrative poem adopted from
a).Thomas Jefferson
b).Thomas Mann
c).Thomas Lodge
d).Thomas Malory

Answer : d).Thomas Malory

6.The Dover Beach highlights the __________ of the Nineteenth Century.
a).Spiritual discontent
b).Infernal discontent
c).Mortal discontent
d).Secular discontent

Answer : a).Spiritual discontent

7._________ is Willy’s boss
a).Howard Johnson
b).Howard Hughes
c).Howard Gardner
d).Howard Wagnes

Answer : d).Howard Wagnes

8.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

Answer : b).Nature

9.The whole action of The Tempest takes place in
a).One week
b).Three weeks
c).Two days
d).One day

Answer : d).One day

10.__________ is the Goddess of Witchcraft in Macbeth
a).Hecate
b).Seyton
c).Angus
d).Menteith

Answer : a).Hecate

11.Macbeth is a/an _______ general.
a).Roman
b).Scottish
c).English
d).Irish

Answer : b).Scottish

12.Octavius calls Antony back to Rome from Alexandria in order to help him fight against
a).Sextus Pompey
b).Scarus
c).Taurus
d).Euphronius

Answer : a).Sextus Pompey

13.Caliban mistakes _________ for one of Prospero’s spirit sent to torment him
a).Stephano
b).Gonzalo
c).Trinculo
d).Ferdinand

Answer : c).Trinculo

14.The name of the ship in Moby Dick is
a).Bonovanture
b).May Flower
c).Pruy
d).Pequod

Answer : d).Pequod

15.Daddy is response to Plath’s complex relationship with her father
a).Otto Plath
b).Ted Hughes
c).Aurelia Plath
d).Peter Plath

Answer : a).Otto Plath

16.A representative novel ________ On the Road.
a).William Burrough’s
b).Jack keronac’s
c).Gregory Corso’s
d).Allen Ginsberg’s

Answer : b).Jack keronac’s

17.The Fourth section of The Wasteland is called
a).A Game of Chess
b).Burnt Norton
c).The Fire Sermon
d).Death by Water

Answer : d).Death by Water

18.Great Expectations belong to the genre called
a).Bildungsroman
b).Epistolary
c).Gothic
d).Picaresque

Answer : a).Bildungsroman

19.Dorothe’s more conventional younger sister, who does not share her idealism and ascerticism is
a).Mary
b).Rosamond Vincy
c).Susan
d).Celia

Answer : d).Celia

20.____________ accompany Mr.Ramsay To The Lighthouse at the end of the novel
a).James and Mrs. Ramsay
b).James and Cam
c).James and Lily Briscoe
d).James and Minta Doyle

Answer : b).James and Cam

21.The first ________ sonnets are addressed to Shakespeare’s friend urging him marry and have children.
a).Nine
b).Seventeen
c).Fifteen
d).Twenty three

Answer : b).Seventeen

22.The __________ runs the prison and is responsible for carrying out all Angelo’s order.
a).Elbow
b).Froth
c).Provose
d).Barnardine

Answer : c).Provose

23.___________ is Hotspur’s brother-in-law, referred to as Earl of March.
a).Sir Michael
b).Edmund Mortimer
c).Richard Vernon
d).Earl of Westmorland

Answer : b).Edmund Mortimer

24._________ is the illegitimate son of Gloucester.
a).Edgar
b).Curan
c).Oswald
d).Edmund

Answer : d).Edmund

25.Marlowe through Doctor Faustus gives an old _______ a glowing Renaissance setting.
a).Mesolithic legend
b).Neolithic tale
c).Medieval legend
d).Middle Paleolithic tale

Answer : c).Medieval legend

26.The general influence that acted upon Bacon to evolve a new prose style was the
a).Old English Bible
b).King James Bible
c).Wycliff’s Bible
d).Tyndale’s Bible

Answer : b).King James Bible

27.Job had
a).Three daughters and three sons
b).Seven daughters and seven sons
c).Seven daughters and three sons
d).Seven sons and three daughters

Answer : d).Seven sons and three daughters

28.Thera are excellent sketches of humbugs and gulls of every variety in
a).Antonia’s Revenge
b).Tumberlaine the Great
c).The White Devil
d).The Alchemist

Answer : d).The Alchemist

29.The Spanish Tragedy opens with the appearance of
a).Andrea’s Ghost
b).Rebellion of the Viceroy
c).Love of Balthazar
d).Dispute of Horatio

Answer : a).Andrea’s Ghost

30.Reading maketh a full man __________ and writing an exact man
a).Conference
b).Disquisition
c).Quietude
d).Sermon

Answer : a).Conference

31.Lady Sneerwell’s method of scandal mongering is
a).A garb of good intention
b).Cunning and vindictive
c).The habit of defaming others
d).The exercise of wit

Answer : b).Cunning and vindictive

32.Antony loses the war at
a).Actium
b).Anactorium
c).Epirus
d).Nicopolis

Answer : a).Actium

33.Apollyon is the lord of
a).Valley of Humiliation
b).The city of Destruction
c).The flies
d).The celestial City

Answer : b).The city of Destruction

34.To His Coy Mistress uses the ancient theme of
a).Tempus Fugit
b).Carpe Diem
c).Memonto Mori
d).Aphorism

Answer : b).Carpe Diem

35.Tintern Abbey is written on revisiting the banks of _______ during a tour on July 12, 1798.
a).River Mississippi
b).River Thames
c).River Wye
d).River Amazon

Answer : c).River Wye

36.The main theme of Ode to Autumn is
a).Ripeness is all
b).Flowering is all
c).Sapling is all
d).Withering is all

Answer : a).Ripeness is all

37.Dejection an Ode is addressed to ______ the sister-in law of Wordsworth.
a).Elizabeth Arden
b).Dorothea Wordsworth
c).Anne Barret
d).Sara Hutchinson

Answer : d).Sara Hutchinson

38.Immortality Ode is based on ______ philosophy
a).Political
b).Platonic
c).Domestic
d).Nirvana

Answer : b).Platonic

39.The rich daughter of an industrialist in the steel business refers to Yank as a
a).Nigger
b).Filthy Beast
c).Black Monger
d).Hairy Ape

Answer : b).Filthy Beast

40.The title ‘Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ is a pun on the title of the song ‘Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf’ from Walt Disney’s
a).Waking Ashland
b).The Three Little Pigs
c).Walter Hawkins
d).Wade Hayes

Answer : b).The Three Little Pigs

41.The Old Man and the Sea centers upon Santiago who struggles with a giant Marlin far out in
a).Gulf Stream
b).Puerto Rico
c).Marshall Island
d).Canary Island

Answer : a).Gulf Stream

42.A Street Car Named Desire deals with a ________ clash between two characters Blanche Dubois and Stanley Kowalski
a).Cultural
b).Religious
c).Filial
d).Societal

Answer : a).Cultural

43.___________ comes visit Kumalo and practice his Lulu
a).Jarvi’s son
b).John Harrison
c).Gertrude’s Son
d).Arthur’s son

Answer : d).Arthur’s son

44.Okonkwo beat ______ in his legendary wrestling match
a).Amalinze the cat
b).Ogbuedi the Snake
c).Isaac the Toad
d).Ekwefi Oghuedi Roster

Answer : a).Amalinze the cat

45.Henry Lawrence is appointed as the _________ . In the Court of Dalip Singh
a).Commander in East India Company
b).English Ambassador
c).East India Company’s Resident
d).English Governor

Answer : c).East India Company’s Resident

46.________ is a figure of speech by which one seeks to hide the real nature of something unpleasant.
a).Spoonerism
b).Pun
c).Euphemism
d).Euphony

Answer : c).Euphemism

47.English Language took its descent from the ______ language group.
a).Albanian
b).Primitive Germanic
c).Celtic
d).Italic

Answer : b).Primitive Germanic

48.__________ adopted a vigorous policy of England for the English.
a).Hubert de Burgh
b).Hore- Belisha
c).Peter de Rivaulx
d).Arthur Golding

Answer : a).Hubert de Burgh

49.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

Answer : a).Ding-Dong Theory

50.The word ‘sabotage’ became prominent due to the English
a).Painters
b).Novelties
c).Newspapers
d).Magazines

Answer : c).Newspapers

51._________ is an overall term for the growing class of novels which depart from realism and foreground the role of the author and reader in inventing and receiving the fiction.
a).Metafiction
b).Collaborative fiction
c).Blog fiction
d).Fan fiction

Answer : a).Metafiction

52.The term post-modernism is often applied to the literature and art after.
a).World War I
b).World War II
c).European Civil War
d).Russian War

Answer : b).World War II

53.Brecht employed a detached narrator and other devices to achieve
a).Endearment effect
b).Alienation effect
c).Aesthetic effect
d).Effect of imagination

Answer : b).Alienation effect

54.A ______ is intended by the author to be read rather than to be performed
a).Closet Drama
b).Heroic Drama
c).Poetic Drama
d).Drama of Sensibility

Answer : a).Closet Drama

55.__________ incorporates not only historical characters and events, but also reports of everyday events in contemporary newspapers.
a).Non – realistic fiction
b).Philosophical fiction
c).Science fiction
d).Documentary fiction

Answer :d).Documentary fiction

56.In Because I Could Not stop for Death , death is portrayed as a
a).Friend
b).Caller
c).Enemy
d).Suitor

Answer : d).Suitor

57.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn satirizes a _________ society that has ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published
a).Northern Antebellum
b).Eastern Antebellum
c).Southern Antebellum
d).Western Antebellum

Answer : c).Southern Antebellum

58.Mending Wall appeared in Frost’s collection of poetry called
a).North of Boston
b).Mountain Interval
c).A Further Range
d).Steeple Bush

Answer : a).North of Boston

59.Two of the stories in The Canterbury Tales are in prose. They are
a).Melibeus Tale and The Parson’s Tale
b).Second Nun’s Tale and Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale
c).Manciple’s Tale and Parson’s Tale
d).Nun’s Priest Tale and Monk’s Tale

Answer : a).Melibeus Tale and The Parson’s Tale

60.____________ ninety – six love poems appeared posthumously in a compendium called Tottel’s Miscellany.
a).Spencer’s
b).Chaucer’s
c).Sidney’s
d).Wyatt’s

Answer : d).Wyatt’s

61.Faerie Queene is set out to be a story with __________ who undertake various enterprises in her honour
a).Twelve Knights of Mary
b).Twelve Knights of Elizabeth
c).Twelve Knights of Matilda
d).Twelve Knights of Victoria

Answer : b).Twelve Knights of Elizabeth

62.Mirabel Arranges a marriage between _______and Foible
a).Fainall
b).Wishfort
c).Waitwell
d).Squire Witwood

Answer : c).Waitwell

63.__________ rises Hareton during the years of his life.
a).Nelly
b).Isabella
c).Catherine
d).Mrs. Earnshaw

Answer : a).Nelly

64.Lamb Loved a young lady whom he refers as ________ in his Essays of Elia
a).Alice Hutchinson
b).Alice Sutherland
c).Alice Winterton
d).Alice Walker

Answer : c).Alice Winterton

65.After the Boxhill party Jane decides to break with
a).Henry Woodhouse
b).Philip Ehon
c).George Knightly
d).Frank Churchill

Answer : d).Frank Churchill

66.‘Thou still unravished bride of quietness’ is the opening line of
a).Ode to Autumn
b).Ode on a Grecian Urn
c).Ode to the West Wind
d).Ode to Dejection

Answer : b).Ode on a Grecian Urn

67.A ‘Spousal Ode’ privately printed in 1596 is
a).Astrophel
b).Epithalamion
c).Prothalamion
d).Amerotti

Answer : c).Prothalamion

68.The lovers exemplify the riddle of the _______ in Canonization.
a).Harpy
b).Phoenix
c).Griffin
d).Sphinx

Answer : b).Phoenix

69.Satan having composed the earth, with meditated guile returns as a/an ____into paradise.
a).Apparition by Day
b).Mist by Day
c).
d).Mist by Night

Answer : d).Mist by Night

70.The ________is an answer to Gosson’s The School of Abuse
a).Apologia for Poetrie
b).Essay on Dramatic Poesy
c).Defence of Poetry
d).The Study of Poetry

Answer : Apologia for Poetrie (or, The Defence of Poesy)

71.The Rape of the Lock is based on a amorous prank played by ____________ upon Arabella Fermor.
a).Lord Richard
b).Lord James
c).Lord Petre
d).Lord Douglas

Answer : c).Lord Petre

72.Samson Agonistes tells of Samson’s death as a prisoner of the
a).Philistines
b).Phonecians
c).Arameans
d).Assyrians

Answer : a).Philistines

73._____________ in the Ecstasie are represented as standing outside their bodies
a).The soul of the lovers
b).The grace of God
c).The memory of the lovers
d).The longing of the lovers

Answer : a).The soul of the lovers

74.The individual self is united into the _______ in Thought the Paraclete
a).Egoistic self
b).Universal self
c).Psychological self
d).Physiological self

Answer : b).Universal self

75.Typhoid affects Susila in The English Teacher, after visiting
a).A friend’s house
b).Hospital
c).River Sarayu
d).Dirty lavatory

Answer : d).Dirty lavatory

76.____________ is dismissed from the heredity office as village executive chief.
a).Patel Range Nallappa
b).Patel Range Holla
c).Patel Range Gowda
d).Patel Range Rao

Answer : c).Patel Range Gowda

77.Munoo in Coolie dies of_______
a).Diarrhoea
b).Tuberculosis
c).Jaundice
d).Typhoid

Answer : b).Tuberculosis

78.Coleridge distinguishes between fancy and imagination drawing on the German philosopher _________ distinction.
a).Krueger’s
b).Lamert’s
c).Kant’s
d).Lessing’s

Answer : c).Kant’s

79.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

Answer : a).John Taylor

80.T.S. Eliot uses _______ poetry as the most prominent example of unified sensibility and thought.
a).Andrew Marwell’s
b).George Herbert’s
c).Henry Vaughan’s
d).John Donne’s

Answer : d).John Donne’s

81._________ is entitled to join in the dialogue in Dramatic Poesy on an equal footing with the three older men who are his social superiors.
a).Sir Robert Howard
b).John Dryden
c).Sir William Davenant
d).Roger Boyle

Answer : b).John Dryden

82.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

Answer : c).Rest

83.Antony compels _________ to kill him and then take his life, if he so should.
a).Ventidius
b).Enobarbus
c).Dollabella
d).Alexas

Answer : a).Ventidius

84.Hazlitt has great admiration for
a).Byron
b).Wordsworth
c).Shelley
d).Coleridge

Answer : d).Coleridge

85._____________ 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

Answer : c).The Gringo

86.Nalini’s father is Apu and mother is __________ in A Handful of Rice.
a).Jayamma
b).Bhagya
c).Shanthala
d).Joshamma

Answer : a).Jayamma

87. Tradition and Individual Talent by TS Eliot was first published in
a).The Egoist
b).Critical quarterly
c).Granta
d).Interventions

Answer : a).The Egoist

88.The third dance known as _______ by Nataraja is performed in the golden hall of Chidambaram.
a).Ananda Thandavam
b).Nadanta Dance
c).Kaikai Dance
d).Rudra Thandavam

Answer : b).Nadanta Dance

89.Current narrative patterns of Frye is called as
a).History
b).Folklore
c).Legends
d).Mythoi

Answer : d).Mythoi

90.The first type of ambiguity in William Empson’s The seventh type of Ambiguity
a).The simile
b).The metaphor
c).The metonymy
d).The hyperbole

Answer : b).The metaphor

91.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

Answer : a).Fallacy of communication

92.Adonais is a lament on the death of
a).Browning
b).Blake
c).Keats
d).Lamb

Answer : c).Keats

93.___________ is a deceiving or self deceived character in fiction, normally an object of ridicule in comedy or satire.
a).Alazon
b).Hamartia
c).Hybris
d).Eiron

Answer : a).Alazon

94.Trilling reassures the new critics that the sense of the past exist’s ‘side by with the ______’
a).Objective correlative of the work
b).Affective fallacy of the work
c).Formal elements of the work
d).Provincial elements of the work

Answer : c).Formal elements of the work

95.He ______ is called as the period of levelled inflections
a).Old English Period
b).Modern English Period
c).Middle English period
d).Stone age

Answer : c).Middle English period

96.The words ‘fashion’ and ‘dress’ are ________ words.
a).Italian
b).Greek
c).French
d).Latin

Answer : c).French

97.The __________ occurred in 1066
a).Dutch conquest
b).Scandinavian conquest
c).French conquest
d).Norman conquest

Answer : d).Norman conquest

98.In the received pronunciation of England the ________ sound has disappeared except before vowels.
a).‘g’
b).‘f’
c).‘s’
d).‘r’

Answer : d).‘r’

99.In contemporary English _______ results from an instinctive desire for freshness and novelty of expression.
a).Verbs
b).Slang
c).Idioms
d).Phrases

Answer : b).Slang

100.The branch of linguistic study which concerns itself with the meaning of words and the way meanings develop is known as
a).Semasiology
b).Graphetics
c).Etymology
d).Syntax

Answer : a).Semasiology

101.The ______ is a metaphor used by journalists to illustrate the placing of the most important information first within a text.
a).Rowback
b).Pool
c).Inverted pyramid
d).Puffery

Answer : c).Inverted pyramid

102.The author of The Second Sex published in 1949 is
a).Simon de Beauvoir
b).Kate Millet
c).Mary Wolstonecraft
d).Elaine Showalter

Answer : a).Simon de Beauvoir

103.The National Policy on Education adopted by the Government of India in ______ stressed the importance of the study of English.
a).1958
b).1968
c).1978
d).1988

Answer : b).1968

104.The ________ has become a standard way to designate the colonial subject that has been constructed by European discourse and internationalized by colonial people.
a).Rhetorical figure
b).Surrealism
c).Phenomenology
d).Subaltern

Answer : d).Subaltern

105.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

Answer : c).Dadaism

106. In which inn does Ishmael stay while in New Bedford?
a). The Trap
b).The Swordfish
c).The Crossed Harpoons
d).The Spouter

Answer : d).The Spouter

107. Which character does Ishmael describe as neither caterpillar nor butterfly?
a). Moby Dick
b).Starbuck
c).Ahab
d).Queequeg

Answer : d).Queequeg

108. To which historical person does Ishmael compare Queequeg?
a). Oliver Cromwell
b).Julius Caesar
c).George Washington
d).Thomas Jefferson

Answer : c).George Washington

109. Hemingway says everything about Santiago is old except what?
a). His hands
b).His neck
c).His mouth
d).His eyes

Answer : d).His eyes

110. Why does Manolin no longer fish with Santiago?
a). Santiago no longer needs him
b).He dislikes Santiago
c).His parents have told him to fish with others
d).Manolin has left for the city

Answer : c).His parents have told him to fish with others