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1.Who neither pretend to high blood, nor in good truth cared one fig about the matter in South Sea House?
a).John Tipp
b).Thomas Tame
c).Henry Man
d).Richard Plumer

Answer : a).John Tipp

2.Which of the following is not a dialect of Old English Times?
a).Northumbrian
b).West Saxon
c).Merican
d).East Midlands

Answer : d).East Midlands

3.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

Answer : a).Scandinavian

4.A scientific study of language or of particular languages is defines
a).Morphology
b).pidgin
c).linguistics
d).syntax

Answer : c).linguistics

5.Which of the following is not the Respiratory System?
a).Lungs
b).Tongue
c).Windpipe
d).Bronchi

Answer : b).Tongue

6.In manner articulation, the complete closure and sudden release is _______.
a).Plosive
b).Affricative
c).Fricative
d).Lateral

Answer : a).Plosive

7.Who plays flute when Lord Shiva danced in Kailasa?
a).Sarasvati
b).Vishnu
c).Indra
d).Brahma

Answer : c).Indra

8.Who says that a perfection of tragedy should have begging, middle, and end?
a).Dr. Johnson
b).John Milton
c).Aristotle
d).Plato

Answer : c).Aristotle

9. Which contains sentiments, maxims of wisdom, and oracles of piety, and many passages written with the ancient spirit of choral poetry, in which there is a just and pleasing mixture of Seneca’s moral declamation, with the wild enthusiasm of the Greek writers?
a).Samson Agonistes
b).Paradise Lost
c).Faerie Queene
d).The Alchemist

Answer : a).Samson Agonistes

10.Who is priest, scholar, statesman, producer, and soldier, according to RW Emerson?
a).Researcher
b).Man
c).Nature
d).Thought

Answer : b).Man

11.‘A Nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey’ is opening line of
a).The Waste land
b).Passage to India
c).The Meaning of Africa
d).Australia

Answer : d).Australia

12.The essay ‘Four Kinds of Meaning’ is by
a).I.E. Richards
b).Irasgine Avoniling Richards
c).Ivor Armstrong Richards
d).Ivon Abraham Richards

Answer : c).Ivor Armstrong Richards

13.Which of the following place is not used by Anand in his Coolie, which is a narrative of the life and death of a coolie over a period of two years?
a).Bilaspur
b).Kangra Hills
c).Udaipur
d).Sham Nagar

Answer : c).Udaipur

14.An eclectic approach evolved through the combination of certain aspects of the Direct Method, the Oral approach and Audio lingualism came to be known as______.
a).Bilingual Method
b).Grammar Translation Method
c).Structural – Oral – Situational Approach
d).The Lexical Approach

Answer : c).Structural – Oral – Situational Approach

15.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

Answer : a).John Tipp

16.‘The Teacher saw herself in the mirror.’ Which word is the Anaphoric in this sentence?
a).Teacher
b).Saw
c).Herself
d).Mirror

Answer : c).Herself

17.‘The God in this work has no name or abode and cannot be identified with any specific Indian God. He has His own form and personality. He is referred to as ‘you’, ‘thou’ or ‘thee’.
a).Thought the Paraclete
b).Gitanjali
c).The Dance of Shiva
d).Muktha Dhara

Answer : b).Gitanjali

18.O’Neil’s Hairy Ape has many symbolizations which the author has handled significant manner. Which of the following is not right symbolise for Yank?
a).symbolizes the proletariat
b).symbolizes the animal nature of man
c).symbolizes the capitalist class
d).symbolizes primitive in perfect harmony with nature of environment

Answer : c).symbolizes the capitalist class

19.Who argues that meaning of universal significance is related through the ironies inherent in the structure of a poem?
a).Allen Tate
b).Cleanth Brooks
c).Matthew Arnold
d).William Wordsworth

Answer : b).Cleanth Brooks

20.Who says the two pieces, L’Allegro and Il Penseroso, believe opinion is uniform; every man that reads them, reads them with pleasure?
a).Samuel Johnson
b).Mathew Arnold
c).TS Eliot
d).IA Richards

Answer : a).Samuel Johnson

21.Name the river, where the pleasure dome is ordered to be built where the river ran and it is sacred.
a).Wye
b).Thames
c).Alph
d).Mangolian River

Answer : c).Alph

22.‘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

Answer : a).4 April, 1802

23.Which of the following play has been performed in many major Indian cities and at the Edinburgh Festival and the play has won ‘Sultan Padamsee Award’?
a).Muktha Dhara
b).Tughlaq
c).Larine Sahib
d).Kantapura

Answer : c).Larine Sahib

24.Honor, color and a score of words without the ‘u’ of English honour, colour. Like, traveler – traveller, wagon- waggon, and some words er instead of re like fiber, center, theater. These differences still current in America. Some of the differences have grown up since _________.
a).John Newman’s day
b).Noah Webster’s day
c).Noam Chomsky’s day
d).CAF Mahn’s day

Answer : b).Noah Webster’s day

25.Which of the following letter is omitted in ‘Judgment’ by spelling reform?
a).g
b).e
c).t
d).d

Answer : b).e

26.Dr. Franklin urged the omission of all superfluous or silent letters. Which is the silent letter in ‘bread’
a).r
b).e
c).a
d).d

Answer : c).a

27.Identify the statement that is not true among those that explain ‘stage directions’ in drama.
a).Stage directions inform readers how to stage, perform or imagine the play.
b).The place, time of action, design of the set and at times characters
c).Stage directions are often italicized in the text of a play in order to be spoken aloud.
d).Stage directions may appear at the beginning of a play, before a scene or attached to a line of dialogue

Answer : c).Stage directions are often italicized in the text of a play in order to be spoken aloud.

28.Ear-training in ELT is easily achieved by (1). Composition, (2)dictation, (3). Cloze tests, (4). Listening exercise (5). Precis writing
a).35
b).135
c).234
d).24

Answer : d).24

29.Which of the following statements on The Prelude by William Wordsworth is / are not true?
a).The Prelude was published posthumously
b).In this poem, Wordsworth records his development as a poet.
c).The poem runs to 14 books; at crucial stages the poet celebrates the sublime natural scenery in developing his spiritual, moral and imaginative nature
d).Poem like ‘Michael’, ‘The Old Cumberland Beggar’ are the highlights of this volume

Answer : d).Poem like ‘Michael’, ‘The Old Cumberland Beggar’ are the highlights of this volume

30.William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra are based on_____________.
a).Holinshed’s Chronicles
b).Folk-Tales and legends
c).Older Roman plays
d).Plutarch’s Lives

Answer : d).Plutarch’s Lives

31. In Virginia’s Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, the lighthouse does not symbolize:
a).Permanence at the heart of change
b).Change in the unchanging world
c).Celebration of life in the heart of death
d).Celebration of order in the heart of chaos

Answer : b).Change in the unchanging world

32.What is register ?
a).The way in which a language registers in the minds of its users
b).The way users of a language register the nuances of the languages
c).A variety of language used in social situation or on specially designed for the subject it deals with
d).A variety of language used in non-professional or informal situations by professionals

Answer : c).A variety of language used in social situation or on specially designed for the subject it deals with

33.One of the most important themes the speakers debate in Dryden’s An Essay on Dramatic Poesy is ________.
a).European and non-European perceptions of reality
b).English and Non-English perception of reality
c).The relative merits of French and English theatre
d).The relative merits of French and English poetry

Answer : c).The relative merits of French and English theatre

34.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

Answer : c).Disneyland is an artefact that so obviously announces its own fictiveness that it would seem it imply some counter balancing reality

35.Which among the following is Not a typical ‘Indian English Poem’ by Nissim Ezekiel?
a).‘How the English Lessons Ended’
b).‘The Railway Clerk’
c).‘Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.’
d).‘The Patriot’

Answer : d).‘The Patriot’

36.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

Answer : d).Jane Austen - Saki

37.One of the following Canterbury Tales is in Poetry, Identify
a).The Pardoner’s Tale
b).The Parson’s Tale
c).The Monk’s Tale
d).The Knight’s Tale

Answer : b).The Parson’s Tale

38.RW Emerson’s famous ‘American Scholar’ was delivered as an address in 1837 before ________.
a).Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge
b).Fugitive Society at Cambridge
c).Fleshy school Society at Oxford
d).Alpha Beta Natural society at Cambridge

Answer : a).Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge

39.‘Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender’ this is an important statement defining the womanist perspective advanced by
a).Toni Morrison
b). Emily Zola
c).Alice Walker
d).Julia Kristeva

Answer : c).Alice Walker

40.In a classic statement that inaugurated Feminist thought in English, we read: ‘A Woman writing thinks back through her mothers.’ Where does this occur?
a).Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
b).Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics
c).Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives
d).Mary Hiatt’s The Way Women Write

Answer : a).Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own

41.Whisky Priest transcends his weakness for drink and his human fears, moving towards martyrdom, is in ______
a).Jude the Obscure
b).Things Fall Apart
c).The Power and the Glory
d).Middle March

Answer : c).The Power and the Glory

42.Who among the following women writers, famously imagined the plight of Shakespeare’s sister?
a).George Eliot
b).Virginia Woolf
c).Emily Bronte
d).Jane Austen

Answer : b).Virginia Woolf

43.‘All great literature is, at bottom, a criticism of life’ – this statement is attributed to
a).Thomas Carlyle
b).Mathew Arnold
c).John Ruskin
d).Alexander Pope

Answer : b).Mathew Arnold

44.Ikemefuna is a character in the Novel
a).Things Fall Apart
b).Cry, the Beloved Country
c).The English Teacher
d).Coolie

Answer : a).Things Fall Apart

45.The phrase ‘Only Connect’ is associated with
a).T.S. Eliot
b).Virginia Woolf
c).E.M. Forster
d).Thoreau

Answer : c).E.M. Forster

46.Which of the following works of John Milton is an elegy?
a).Lycidas
b).L’Allegaro
c).Camus
d).Paradise Lost

Answer : a).Lycidas

47.The term ‘Egotistical Sublime’ was coined by
a).S.T. Coleridge
b).John Keats
c).William Wordsworth
d).Shelly

Answer : b).John Keats

48.The term ‘Practical Criticism’ is an coined of
a).William Empson
b).IA Richards
c).TS Eliot
d).Allen Tate

Answer : b).IA Richards

49.Who among the following Indian Writers in English, has created an identifiable imagined locale?
a).Mulk Raj Anand
b).RK Narayan
c).Raja Rao
d).Kamala Markandaya

Answer : b).RK Narayan

50.‘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

Answer : b).The Study of Poetry

51.Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy was influenced by
a).Seneca
b).Tertullian
c).Virgil
d).Plautus

Answer : a).Seneca

52.In Rape of the Lock, Belinda’s lapdog is named
a).Luck
b).Shock
c).Muck
d).Pluck

Answer : b).Shock

53.Which of the following poems features the phrase ‘the still, sad music of humanity’?
a).Ode: Intimations of Immortality
b).Tintern Abbey
c).Dejection Ode
d).Ode to Grecian Urn

Answer : b).Tintern Abbey

54.Eliot uses the term ‘Objective Correlative’ in his essay.
a).The Metaphysical Poets
b).Hamlet
c).Tradition and Individual Talent
d).Dante

Answer : b).Hamlet

55.‘Widowers House’ was written by
a).Oscar Wilde
b).Harold Pinter
c).G.B. Shaw
d).John Galsworthy

Answer : c).G.B. Shaw

56.The title, The New Criticism, published in 1941, was written by
a).Cleanth Brooks
b).John Crowe Ransom
c).Allan Tate
d).Lionel Trilling

Answer : b).John Crowe Ransom

57.The title of William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury is taken from a play by
a).John Milton
b).William Shakespeare
c).Ben Jonson
d).Oliver Goldsmith

Answer : b).William Shakespeare

58.In his review 1817 review of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey grouped the following poets together as the ‘Lake School of Poets’
a).Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge
b).Wordsworth, Byron and Coleridge
c).Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge
d).Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey

Answer : d).Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey

59.Regarding which of the following Aristotle said in Poetics that in ‘having passed through many phrases, reached its natural form, and there it stopped’?
a).Poetry
b).Philosophy
c).Tragedy
d).Comedy

Answer : c).Tragedy

60.Which of the works have the famous statement ‘All good poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’?
a).Prelude
b).Preface to Lyrical Ballads
c).Study of Poetry
d).A Defence of Poetry

Answer : b).Preface to Lyrical Ballads

61.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

Answer : d).Tradition and individual Talent

62. Who is the author of ‘On Heroes and Hero worship’?
a).Tennyson
b).Dickens
c).Carlyle
d).Thackeray

Answer : c).Carlyle

63.Whom does Dorothea marry in the end in Middlemarch?
a).Casaubon
b).Lydgate
c).Ladislaw
d).Fred Vincy

Answer : c).Ladislaw

64.The full title of Henry Fielding’s novel Tom Jones is
a).The History of Tom Jones
b).Tom Jones
c).Tom Jones, a Founding
d).The history of Tom Jones, a Founding

Answer : d).The history of Tom Jones, a Founding

65.‘Man is born free, but alas! he is everywhere in chains’ – these are the famous words of
a).Plato
b).Socrates
c).Hobbes
d).Rousseau

Answer : d).Rousseau

66.‘Hallas’, a frequent theme in Romantic Poetry is
a).A Greek God
b).An ancient Greek Sculptor
c).The oldest poet of Greece
d).The ancient name of Greece

Answer : d).The ancient name of Greece

67.‘Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty – that is all Ye know on earth, that’s all ye need to know’, these famous lines have been taken from one of famous odes. Name it.
a).Ode to Autumn
b).Ode to a Grecian Urn
c).Ode to the West Wind
d).Ode to Dejection

Answer : b).Ode to a Grecian Urn

68.These lines occur in which work ‘Those who have most virtue in their mouths, have least of it in their bosoms’?
a).The School for Scandal
b).She Stoops to Conquer
c).Way of the World
d).All for Love

Answer : b).She Stoops to Conquer

69.Who established his literary reputations as ‘Elia’, the author of a series of essays mostly contributed to the ‘London Magazine’?
a).Bacon
b).Charles Lamb
c).Keats
d).Coleridge

Answer : b).Charles Lamb

70.Many critics have hailed the publication of the Lyrical Ballads as the beginning of the Romantic Period. In which year was it published?
a).1796
b).1797
c).1798
d).1799

Answer : c).1798

71.‘It is no small thing to have so loved the principle of beauty as to perceive the necessary relation beauty with truth, and of both with joy’ who is Arnold talking about in this sentence?
a).Shakespeare
b).Wordsworth
c).Keats
d).Tennyson

Answer : c).Keats

72.When was the finished dream poem ‘Kubla Khan’ published?
a).1816
b).1810
c).1820
d).1821

Answer : a).1816

73.Bacon’s general conception of essay was borrowed from
a).Seneca
b).Montaigne
c).Hugh Walker
d).Shakespeare

Answer : b).Montaigne

74.Who told Job to ‘curse God and die’?
a).His wife
b).His neighbour
c).His sons
d).Satan

Answer : a).His wife

75.The consent of Lady Wishfort is important to Mirabell, regarding his marriage with Mrs. Millamant because
a).Lady Wishfort has in her keeping six thousand pounds belonging to Millamant as her marriage portion. If Millamant marries against her wishes she stands to lose half of this inheritance
b).Lady Wishfort has in her keeping ten thousand pounds belonging to Millamant
c).Lady Wishfort has in her keeping four thousand pounds belonging to Fainall
d).None of these

Answer : a).Lady Wishfort has in her keeping six thousand pounds belonging to Millamant as her marriage portion. If Millamant marries against her wishes she stands to lose half of this inheritance

76.‘Essay on Criticism’ is associated with which of the following authors?
a).John Dryden
b).Alexander Pope
c).Dr. Johnson
d).Matthew Arnold

Answer : b).Alexander Pope

77.Which of the following statements about Pope’s ‘The Rape of Lock’ correct?
a).A girl has lost her locks
b).It is a mock heroic poem
c).It is an epic poem
d).It is an anti-sentimental comedy

Answer : b).It is a mock heroic poem

78.Which of the following is distinguished as the writer of a dictionary?
a).Dr. Johnson
b).John Dryden
c).Ben Jonson
d).Alexander Pope

Answer : a).Dr. Johnson

79.Which of the following statements true about the protagonist of Fielding’s Tome Jones?
a).Tom and Sophia are rebels, revolting against the respectable accepted domestic standards of eighteenth century society
b).Tom and Sophia are anti-social elements of 18th century society
c).Tom and Sophia have revolted against the king of England
d).Tom and Sophia suffer meekly and teach us the moral lesson of patience and stoicism

Answer : a).Tom and Sophia are rebels, revolting against the respectable accepted domestic standards of eighteenth century society

80.Who has said this: ‘though she was brought up in the countryside she knows that women of fashion in London are accountable to nobody after they are married’?
a).Maria
b).Lady Teazle
c).Lady Sneerwell
d).None of these

Answer : b).Lady Teazle

81.Heathcliff appears in the novel of
a).Charlotte Bronte
b).Emily Bronte
c).Jane Austen
d).Virginia Woolf

Answer : b).Emily Bronte

82.In 1835, ‘Morte d’ Arthur’ was read to
a).Swinburne
b).Rossetti
c).Morris
d).Edward Fitz Gerald

Answer : d).Edward Fitz Gerald

83.Robert Browning was born in
a).1810
b).1812
c).1820
d).1825

Answer : b).1812

84.The works of Pre-Raphaelite group is characterized by
a).Scepticism
b).Religious faith
c).Emotional indulgence
d).Preponderance of art

Answer : d).Preponderance of art

85.Imagism was a self conscious movement in
a).Drama
b).Fiction
c).Poetry
d).Painting

Answer : c).Poetry

86.The main exponents of Aestheticism as a self conscious movement were
a).The American
b).The British
c).The Greek
d).The French

Answer : d).The French

87.Arabella Donn, is a character appears in the novel
a).Emma
b).Wuthering Heights
c).Jude the Obscure
d).Great Expectations

Answer : c).Jude the Obscure

88.The plays ‘Justice’ and ‘Loyalties’ which are known for their technical competence and humane feelings have been written by
a).Galsworthy
b).Shaw
c).Beckett
d).Arnold Bennet

Answer : a).Galsworthy

89.Stream of Consciousness novel is a product of
a).18th century
b).16th century
c).17th century
d).20th century

Answer : d).20th century

90.‘Leaves of Grass’ is Whitman’s great poem best defined by
a).Truly American Poem
b).Poetry of celebration of American achievements
c).American Puritanism
d).American experience of being a great cauldron of Human civilization

Answer : a).Truly American Poem

91.Who discovers Duncan’s body?
a). Lennox
b). Ross
c).Macduff
d). Donalbain

Answer : c).Macduff

92.Whom does Macbeth see sitting in his chair during the banquet?
a). himself
b).Banquo’s ghost
c). Duncan’s ghost
d).Lady Macbeth

Answer : b).Banquo’s ghost

93.How long have Prospero and Miranda been on their island?
a).Ten years
b). Fifteen years
c).Twelve years
d).One day

Answer : c).Twelve years

94.What was the name of Caliban’s mother?
a). Ariel
b). Claribel
c).Sycorax
d). Setebos

Answer : c).Sycorax

95.Why did Angelo abandon his former lover, Mariana?
a). She lost her faith
b). She lost her mind
c). She lost her looks
d).She lost her dowry

Answer : d).She lost her dowry

96.What does the Duke ask Isabella to do at the end of the play?
a). Leave Vienna
b). Become a nun
c). Marry Angelo
d).Marry him

Answer : d).Marry him

97.What is Glyndwr’s nationality in Henry IV ?
a).Irish
b).Welsh
c). Scottish
d). Saxon

Answer : b).Welsh

98.What is the Douglas’s nationality in Henry IV?
a). English
b).Welsh
c). French
d).Scottish

Answer : d).Scottish

99.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

Answer : b).A pearl

100. What solution does Agrippa propose to establish peace between Caesar and Antony?
a). Antony should make a public apology for neglecting his duties to the empire
b).Antony should marry Caesar’s sister, Octavia
c). Antony should turn over a portion of his kingdom to Caesar
d). Both men should drink heartily and forget the past

Answer : b).Antony should marry Caesar’s sister, Octavia

101. 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.

Answer : a).West Running Brook

102. Which of the following prize does not the play Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf win?
Tony Award for Best Play
New York Drama Critics' Circle
Pulitzer Prize
None of the above

Answer : Pulitzer Prize

103.Concluding line of Mending Wall.
a).Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
b).He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’
c).‘Why do they make good neighbors?
d).One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Answer : b).He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’

104. What is part two of The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities?
a).Mr and Mrs Monroe
b).The Pet Department
c).Ladies and Gentlemen's Guide to Modern English Usage
d).None of the above

Answer : b).The Pet Department

105.When Blanche begins dancing to a waltz on the radio and Mitch tries to follow, what does Stanley do?
a).He changes the music to a faster tempo.
b).He cuts in on Blanche and Mitch.
c).He invites Stella to dance with him.
d).He throws the radio out the window.

Answer : d).He throws the radio out the window.

106. How does Andrew Ramsay die?
Suicide
A boating accident
Fighting in world war I
Tuberculosis

Answer : Fighting in world war I

107. What is Mrs. Ramsay knitting for the Lighthouse keeper's boy?
Stockings
A shawl
A scarf
A hat

Answer : Stockings

108. What color is the western sky in Dejection Ode?
orange red
blue black
yellow green
pink brown

Answer : yellow green

109. What is the equal word for Autumn in American English
Season
Fall
Condition
Storm

Answer : Fall

110. Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as the Poet Laureate in
1843
1847
1850
1896

Answer : 1850