1.Who among the following profound ‘Organic sensibility’ in his work?
a).Coleridge
b).Wordsworth
c).Shelly
d).Blake
2.Which of the following literary types is associated with the poetry of Charles Baudelaire?
a).Flaneur
b).Poete Maudit
c).Encomium
d).Honnete Homme
3.Which of the following statement is not applicable to the definition of New Historicism? New Historical Critics -
a).Remind us that it is treacherous to reconstruct the past as it really was rather than as we have been conditioned by our own place and time to believe the way it was.
b).are less likely to see history as linear and progressive, as something developing toward the present
c).tend to view history as literature’s background
d).are unlikely to suggest that a literary text has a single or easily identifiable historical context
4.In coining the term ‘Ecriture Feminine’, Helene Cixous signifies a mode of textual production, not necessarily written by women. Who among the following male writer is used by her as an example?
a).DH Lawrence
b).Joseph Conrad
c).James Joyce
d).E.M. Forster
5.Who is ‘The Nun of Amhrest’
a).Emily Dickinson
b).R.W. Emerson
c).T.S. Eliot
d).John Milton
6.The two ‘mother figures’ in Dickens’s Great Expectations are (1). Estella, (2). Miss Havisham, (3). Mrs. Joe, (4). Georgiana
a).2 and 3 are correct
b).1 and 2 are correct
c).3 and 4 are correct
d).1 and 3 are correct
7.In Marxist criticism the term ‘interpellation’ defines
a).The ways in which the ideological structures in social formation is constructed out of material practices.
b).The ways in which the ideological structure in social formation is constructed out of discursive practices
c).The ways in which the subjects of an ideology are placed in false positions of knowledge regarding themselves
d).The ways in which the subjects of an ideology resist false positions of knowledge regarding others
8.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
9.‘Collocations’ refers to
a).The combination of words in a phrase
b).The act of positioning words
c).Grouping of words in a sentence
d).Combination of natural words
10.Which of the following character is Kanthapura?
a).Ratna
b).Raghu
c).Padma
d).Gargi
11.In spite of being constant in his relationships with Sophia, Tom is involved in relationship with three other ladies in the three parts of Tom Jones. Here is a list of these women. Find the odd one.
a).Molly Seagrim
b).Mrs. Western
c).Lady Booby
d).Lady Bellaston
12.These critics transcend the subjective point of view. They bow to other forms of objective authority: the authority of the past and the authority of the social consensus. They adopt the scientific attitude without the science.
a).The Neoclassical Critics
b).The Romantic Critics
c).The art for art Sake Critics
d).The Symbolist Critics
13.Which of the following novelist does not belong to the ‘Campus Novelist’ group?
a).Angus Wilson
b).David Lodge
c).Anthony Powell
d).Malcolm Bradbury
14.Robert Buchanan, a minor poet, critic, and novelist, took sides in the literary squabbles of the 1860s against Swinburne and the Rosettis. He wrote a review which introduced the term.
a).The Earthly School of Poetry
b).The Fleshly School of Poetry
c).The Stealthy School of Poetry
d).The Esoteric School of Poetry
15.The Period of Queen Victoria’s reign is
a).1830-1901
b).1837-1901
c).1831-1900
d).1837-1900
16.Which of the following statements about The Lyrical Ballads is not true?
a).It carried only one ballad proper, which was Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
b).It also carried pastoral and other poems
c).It also printed from Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
d).It carried a ‘Preface’ which Wordsworth added in 1800
17.Who is ‘Sage of Concord’?
a).Emily Dickinson
b).R.W. Emerson
c).T.S. Eliot
d).Samuel L. Clemens
18.In ‘The Rape of the Lock’ Pope repeatedly compares Belinda to
a).The sun
b).The moon
c).The north star
d).The rose
19.Which of the following awards in not given to Indian-European writers?
a).The Booker Prize
b).The Sahitya Akademi Award
c).The Gyanpeeth
d).Whitebread Prize
20.W.M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair owes its title to
a).Browning’s Andrea Del Sarto
b).Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
c).Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer
d).Bunya’s Pilgrim’s Progress
21.The Puritans shut down all the theatres in England in
a).1642
b).1640
c).1659
d).1660
22.Who of the following was not a contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge
a).Robert Southey
b).Sir Walter Scott
c).William Hazlitt
d).A.C. Swinburne
23.In Dryden’s ‘Dramatic Poesy (1668)’, who opens the discussion on behalf of the ancients?
a).Lisideius
b).Crites
c).Eugenius
d).Neander
24.Identify the correct description of William Congreve ____
a).Wrote tragedies
b).Edited Shakespeare’s plays
c).Critics of Orwell’s Regime
d).Restoration playwright
25.‘Kubla Khan’ takes an epigraph from
a).Hakluyt’s Voyages
b).Samuel Purchas’ Purchas His Pilgrimage
c).The book of Named the Governour
d).Sir Thomas More’s Utopia
26.Which among the following titles set a course for academic literary feminism?
a).Nostromo
b).From Ritual to Romace
c).A Room of one’s Own
d).A Dance of the Music of Time
27.Shakespeare’s sonnets
a).Do not carry a dedication
b).Are dedicated to James I of England
c).Are dedicated to Mary Arden
d).Are dedicated to an unknown Mr.W.H
28.Whom did Keats regard as the prime example of ‘Negative Capability’?
a).John Milton
b).William Wordsworth
c).William Shakespeare
d).P.B. Shelly
29.The term ‘homology’ means a correspondence between two or more structures. Who of the following developed a theory of relation between literary works and social classes in term of homologies?
a).Raymond Williams
b).Christopher Caudwell
c).Lucien Goldmann
d).Antonio Gramsci
30.Which statement below on the Spenserian stanza is accurate?
a).A quatrain, unrhymed, but alliterative
b).A stanza of four lines in iambic pentameter
c).An eight line stanza with six iambic feet followed by a ninth in iambic pentameter
d).An eight line stanza in iambic pentameter followed by a ninth in six iambic feet
31.Which of the following themes with respective ‘The Way of the World’?
a).Fashion, courtship, seduction
b).The Liberty for unlicensed printing
c).Absolute sovereignty
d).The power of music
32.An epilogue is
a).Prefixed to a text which it introduces
b).Suffixed to a text which it sums up or extends
c).A piece of writing or speech that formally begins a book
d).A piece of writing or speech that bears no relation to the text at hand
33.(1). A Pastiche is a mixture of themes, stylistic elements or subject borrowed from other works, (2). A Pastiche is distinguished from parody because not all parody is pastiche, (3). A pastiche is also known as a ‘Purple passage’, (4). A pastiche is given to an elevated style, especially in its use of figurative language.
a).1 and 2 are correct
b).3 and 4 are correct
c).Only 1 is correct
d).Only 4 is correct
34. 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
35.‘Art for Art Sake’ n=became a rallying cry for
a).The aesthetes
b).The symbolists
c).The imagists
d).The art Novean school
36.Which of the following statements about ‘The Canterbury Tales’ is true?
a).The General Prologue is appended to The Canterbury Tales.
b).In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this work
c).The Canterbury Tales remained unfinished at the time of its author’s death
d).The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain and The Franklin are characters and tale tellers in this work.
37.‘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
38.In which of the following scenes of The Waste Land do we have a departure from standard English?
a).The typist scene
b).The pub scene
c).The hyacinth garden scene
d).The Chapel Perilous scene
39.The words ‘If it were done when tis one, then twere well / it were done quickly….’ are uttered by
a).Macbeth
b).Antonio
c).Claudio
d).Prospero
40.‘If __________ comes, can _____ be far behind’. This line appeared in the Ode to the West Wind.
a).Winter, Spring
b).Autumn, summer
c).Wind, rains
d).Spring, winter
41.Call me Ishmael ……. is the passage is the very first line of the work ___________.
a).Emma
b).Tom Jones
c).Moby Dick
d).Old Man and the Sea
42.What is a neologism ?
a).A word with roots in a native language
b).A word whose meaning changes with every renewed use
c).A word newly coined or used in a new sense
d).An obsession with new words and phrases
43.Who among the following is not an Irish Writer?
a).Oscar Wilde
b).Oliver Goldsmith
c).Edmund Burke
d).Thomas Gray
44.‘The pen is mightier than the sword’ is an example of
a).Simile
b).Image
c).Conceit
d).Metonymy
45.George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley, John Donne are
a).Georgian poets
b).War poets
c).Transitional poets
d).Metaphysical poets
46.In the prologue to the Canterbury Tales, the fading chivalry of Middle Ages is represented by the aged Knight, while the budding chivalry of Chaucerian times is represented by
a).The friar
b).The squire
c).The parson
d).Wyclif
47.The first English play house called The Theatre was founded in the suburbs of London in
a).1476
b).1526
c).1576
d).1626
48.The greatest demerit of Bacon as an essayist, when compared to Montaigne or Lamb, is
a).His excessive indulgence in himself
b).His over pragmatic notions
c).His lack of personal touch
d).Disjoined thoughts
49.Who is the hero in Spenser’s Fairy Queen?
a).Prince Arthur
b).Prince Edward
c).Henry VII
d).Spenser Himself
50. The Spanish Tragedy is historically important because it foreshadows shakespeare's
a).King Lear
b).Hamlet
c).Macbeth
d).Othello
51.William Shakespeare was born on
a).26 April 1563
b).23 April 1564
c).23 April 1563
d).3 May 1564
52.Dr Faustus is inordinate thirst for ________.
a).Wealth
b).Bloodshed
c).Knowledge
d).Lust
53.Shelly writes in Adonais, ‘A portion of the loveliness which once he made more lovely.’ Who does ‘he’ refer to in these lines?
a).Himself
b).Keats
c).Adonais
d).Lucettais
54.Who has been referred to as ‘the high priest of romanticism’?
a).Wordsworth
b).Keats
c).Blake
d).Coleridge
55.Tom Jones by Henry Fielding was dedicated to
a).Richardson
b).Defoe
c).G. Lyttleton
d).Bishop Percy
56.Who emphasized the use of the ‘language really used by men’ for poetry?
a).Coleridge
b).Shelly
c).Wordsworth
d).Keats
57.Who expressed his dislike for poetry ‘that has a palpable design upon us’ in one of his letters?
a).Arnold
b).Wordsworth
c).John Dryden
d).Keats
58.The Lyrical Ballads closes with
a).Kubla Khan
b).Rime of the Ancient Mariner
c).Christabel
d).Lines written above Tintern Abbey
59.Who is Elia of Charles Lamb’s Essays of Elia?
a).His friend
b).His patron
c).An Italian clerk with whom he had worked in the South Sea House
d).An Imaginary Figure
60.Regarding which character did the author say that she was a ‘heroine whom no one but myself will much like’?
a).Jane Austen
b).Emma
c).Emile Bronte
d).Catherine
61.Who called the Augustan Age as the ‘age of prose and reason’?
a).Johnson
b).T.S. Eliot
c).Arnold
d).Wordsworth
62.Oliver Goldsmith’s own periodical which ran to only eight weekly numbers was named
a).The Bee
b).The Wrangler
c).The Public Ledger
d).Coverly Papers
63.Who called Dr Johnson as ‘The Hero as Man of Letters’ ?
a).Thomas Carlyle
b).Boswell
c).Arnold
d).TS Eliot
64.The author of ‘The School for Scandal’
a).Goldsmith
b).William Congreve
c).RW Sheridan
d).RB Sheridan
65.Which of the following was the name of the daily newspaper that began in 1702?
a).Gazetta
b).The Daily Courant
c).The Daily Digest
d).The Daily Review
66. Which 18th century critic has criticised Paradise Lost for its lacking in human interest ?
a).Dr. Johnson
b).Mathew Arnold
c).Oliver Goldsmith
d).Richard Steele
67.Who among the following is another satirist of Dryden’s times?
a).Samuel Butler
b).Samuel Pepys
c).Roger North
d).John Bunyan
68.Which of the following is not one of the works of Aristotle?
a).Metaphysics
b).Ethics
c).Poetics
d).Symposium
69.In Poetics, Aristotle writes, ‘In a simpler and restrictive scene the action of a tragedy is not longer than’
a).Twelve hours
b).Eighteen hours
c).One day
d).Thirty six hours
70.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
71.Who opined that ‘it is exactly as wasteful for a poet to do what has been done already, as for a biologist to rediscover Mednel’s discoveris’?
a).IA Richards
b).T.S. Eliot
c).Allen Tate
d).Cleanth Brooks
72.IA Richards is not associated with
a).Principles of Literary Criticism
b).The Meaning of Meaning
c).The Symbolist Movement in Literature
d).The Philosophy of Rhetoric
73.Who had said that the Metaphysical Poets ‘Yoked by violence together the most heterogeneous ideas’?
a).Eliot
b).Dryden
c).Johnson
d).Cleanth Brooks
74.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
75.Mr. Brooke fails to get himself elected to the new parliament in
a).Great Expectations
b).Middle March
c).Jude the Obscure
d).Emma
76.The professor of poetry at Oxford who is considered as the father of the Oxford Movement in England is
a).G.K. Chesterton
b).Henry Newman
c).John Keble
d).Charles Kingsley
77.Who criticised the Pre-Raphaelite poetry severely in his essay ‘The Fleshly School of Poetry – D.G. Rossetti’?
a).A.H. Clough
b).Robert Buchanan
c).Hugh Walker
d).Matthew Arnold
78.Robert Browning is the first and foremost a
a).Philosopher
b).Moralist
c).Preacher
d).Satirist
79.Identify the novelist, who is known as ‘a novelist of civilization’?
a).Thomas Hardy
b).George Eliot
c).Virginia Woolf
d).Jane Austen
80.Pip is a character in
a).Great Expectations
b).Wuthering Heights
c).Emma
d).To the Light House
81.Who kills Macbeth?
a).Macduff
b).Banquo
c). Lady Macbeth
d). Malcolm
82.Whom does Lady Macbeth frame for the murder of Duncan?
a).Malcolm and Donalbain
b).Duncan’s drunken chamberlains
c).The porter
d).Macbeth
83.Whom does Caliban mistake for one of Prospero’s spirits sent to torment him?
a).Stephano
b). Ferdinand
c). Miranda
d).Trinculo
84.What was Prospero’s title before his position was usurped and he was forced to flee Italy?
a).Duke of Milan
b). King of Naples
c). Duke of Naples
d). Pope of Rome
85.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
86.Who was king before Henry IV?
a).Richard III
b).Richard II
c). Henry III
d). Edward III
87.Where is Measure for Measure set?
a).Zurich
b). Edinburgh
c).Vienna
d). Prague
88.What does the Duke dress up as to observe the goings-on in his ‘absence’ in Measure for Measure?
a). A constable
b).A friar
c). An executioner
d). A maid
89.What do Charmian and Iras do in order to foresee their futures?
a). Consult a crystal ball
b).Summon a soothsayer, who reads their palms
c). Read tea leaves
d). Visit a witch
90.How does Antony react to the news of Fulvia’s death?
a).He regrets having wished her dead and wishes her back
b). He weeps uncontrollably
c). He chastises Cleopatra for keeping him from his true family
d). The news does not faze him
91. When was the Wasteland published ?
1922
1921
1920
1919
92. Which of the following Shakespeare’s play evoked Goldsmith to retitle the play ‘She Stoops to Conquer’?
Twelfth Night
As You Like it
Midsummer’s Night Dream
Measure for Measure
93. What did Cummings write about the Cambridge Ladies?
Their superficialities
Their belief in Theory of best value
Their ‘coy’ appearance and a life of ‘bandy scandal’ are unrelated fragmented
Beauty, comfort, coyness, lavender are unrealistic
94. In ‘Dover Beach’, Arnold hears the melancholy, long, withdrawing roar of the sea of _______
Emotion
Doubt
Faith
Grief
95. The complete title of She Stoops to Conquer is
She Stoops to Conquer or the mistakes of a night
She Stoops to Conquer or the mistakes of a morning
She Stoops to Conquer or the mistakes of an evening
She Stoops to Conquer or the mistakes of a noon
96. ‘The Biography of Johnson’ was written by?
James Boswell
T.S. Eliot
Mathew Prior
George Orwell
97. In The Hairy Ape – O’Neil presents
Realism
Realism with symbolic expression
Symbolism
None of the above
98. How long Thoreau lived at Walden from _______ to _________.
a).July 4, 1845–September 6, 1847
b).July 4, 1847–September 6, 1849
c).July 6, 1845–September 8, 1847
d).July 4, 1843–September 6, 1845
99. one of the protagonists of the novel, has tried to reuniting the family and he/she rogued to find family in this novel.
a).Kantapura
b).Ned Kelly
c).Things Fall Apart
d).Cry, the Beloved Country
100. ‘Dissociation of sensibility’ is a famous phrase used by T.S. Eliot in the essay _________.
The Wasteland
The Sacred Wood
Hamlet and his problems
The Metaphysical Poets
101.One of the best plays, The Tempest is the last of Shakespeare’s plays. He was inspired to write it by the incident of
a).Sinking of a ship
b).The defeat of Armada
c).Return of the sailors of a ship that had disappeared
d).None of the above
102.To whom did Daya Ram address as ‘Mian Sahib’ in Coolie?
a).Munoo
b).Jay Singh
c).Pir Din
d).Nathoo Ram
103.Which story reveals Krishna’s deep love on his wife?
a).Kanthapura
b).The English Teacher
c).A handful of Rice
d).Muktha Dhara
104.The Skeffington Coffee Estate is the picture of __________.
a).French
b).Indian
c).Dutch
d).British
105.Which of the following is not a genre of novel?
a).The English Teacher
b).A Handful of Rice
c).Mukta Dhara
d).Coolie
106.Who requires a handful of rice in the novel ‘A Handful of Rice’?
a).Apu
b).Ravi
c).Thangam
d).Dhamodhar
107. Who is the chief justice, gave the historical judgement in Tughlaq ?
a).Muhammad Tughlaq
b).Aziz
c).Kazi-i-Mumalik
d).Shikab-ud-Din
108.‘Night of the Scorpion’ is a poem by _________.
a).Nissim Ezekiel
b).R.Parthasarathy
c).Sarojini Naidu
d).Toru Dutt
109. 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
110.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