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
2.Which of the following is not a dialect of Old English Times?
a).Northumbrian
b).West Saxon
c).Merican
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
4.A scientific study of language or of particular languages is defines
a).Morphology
b).pidgin
c).linguistics
d).syntax
5.Which of the following is not the Respiratory System?
a).Lungs
b).Tongue
c).Windpipe
d).Bronchi
6.In manner articulation, the complete closure and sudden release is _______.
a).Plosive
b).Affricative
c).Fricative
d).Lateral
7.Who plays flute when Lord Shiva danced in Kailasa?
a).Sarasvati
b).Vishnu
c).Indra
d).Brahma
8.Who says that a perfection of tragedy should have begging, middle, and end?
a).Dr. Johnson
b).John Milton
c).Aristotle
d).Plato
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
10.Who is priest, scholar, statesman, producer, and soldier, according to RW Emerson?
a).Researcher
b).Man
c).Nature
d).Thought
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
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
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
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
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
16.‘The Teacher saw herself in the mirror.’ Which word is the Anaphoric in this sentence?
a).Teacher
b).Saw
c).Herself
d).Mirror
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
25.Which of the following letter is omitted in ‘Judgment’ by spelling reform?
a).g
b).e
c).t
d).d
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
44.Ikemefuna is a character in the Novel
a).Things Fall Apart
b).Cry, the Beloved Country
c).The English Teacher
d).Coolie
45.The phrase ‘Only Connect’ is associated with
a).T.S. Eliot
b).Virginia Woolf
c).E.M. Forster
d).Thoreau
46.Which of the following works of John Milton is an elegy?
a).Lycidas
b).L’Allegaro
c).Camus
d).Paradise Lost
47.The term ‘Egotistical Sublime’ was coined by
a).S.T. Coleridge
b).John Keats
c).William Wordsworth
d).Shelly
48.The term ‘Practical Criticism’ is an coined of
a).William Empson
b).IA Richards
c).TS Eliot
d).Allen Tate
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
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
51.Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy was influenced by
a).Seneca
b).Tertullian
c).Virgil
d).Plautus
52.In Rape of the Lock, Belinda’s lapdog is named
a).Luck
b).Shock
c).Muck
d).Pluck
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
54.Eliot uses the term ‘Objective Correlative’ in his essay.
a).The Metaphysical Poets
b).Hamlet
c).Tradition and Individual Talent
d).Dante
55.‘Widowers House’ was written by
a).Oscar Wilde
b).Harold Pinter
c).G.B. Shaw
d).John Galsworthy
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
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
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
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
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
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
62. Who is the author of ‘On Heroes and Hero worship’?
a).Tennyson
b).Dickens
c).Carlyle
d).Thackeray
63.Whom does Dorothea marry in the end in Middlemarch?
a).Casaubon
b).Lydgate
c).Ladislaw
d).Fred Vincy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
72.When was the finished dream poem ‘Kubla Khan’ published?
a).1816
b).1810
c).1820
d).1821
73.Bacon’s general conception of essay was borrowed from
a).Seneca
b).Montaigne
c).Hugh Walker
d).Shakespeare
74.Who told Job to ‘curse God and die’?
a).His wife
b).His neighbour
c).His sons
d).Satan
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
76.‘Essay on Criticism’ is associated with which of the following authors?
a).John Dryden
b).Alexander Pope
c).Dr. Johnson
d).Matthew Arnold
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
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
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
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
81.Heathcliff appears in the novel of
a).Charlotte Bronte
b).Emily Bronte
c).Jane Austen
d).Virginia Woolf
82.In 1835, ‘Morte d’ Arthur’ was read to
a).Swinburne
b).Rossetti
c).Morris
d).Edward Fitz Gerald
83.Robert Browning was born in
a).1810
b).1812
c).1820
d).1825
84.The works of Pre-Raphaelite group is characterized by
a).Scepticism
b).Religious faith
c).Emotional indulgence
d).Preponderance of art
85.Imagism was a self conscious movement in
a).Drama
b).Fiction
c).Poetry
d).Painting
86.The main exponents of Aestheticism as a self conscious movement were
a).The American
b).The British
c).The Greek
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
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
89.Stream of Consciousness novel is a product of
a).18th century
b).16th century
c).17th century
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
91.Who discovers Duncan’s body?
a). Lennox
b). Ross
c).Macduff
d). Donalbain
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
93.How long have Prospero and Miranda been on their island?
a).Ten years
b). Fifteen years
c).Twelve years
d).One day
94.What was the name of Caliban’s mother?
a). Ariel
b). Claribel
c).Sycorax
d). Setebos
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
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
97.What is Glyndwr’s nationality in Henry IV ?
a).Irish
b).Welsh
c). Scottish
d). Saxon
98.What is the Douglas’s nationality in Henry IV?
a). English
b).Welsh
c). French
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
106. How does Andrew Ramsay die?
Suicide
A boating accident
Fighting in world war I
Tuberculosis
107. What is Mrs. Ramsay knitting for the Lighthouse keeper's boy?
Stockings
A shawl
A scarf
A hat
108. What color is the western sky in Dejection Ode?
orange red
blue black
yellow green
pink brown
109. What is the equal word for Autumn in American English
Season
Fall
Condition
Storm
110. Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as the Poet Laureate in
1843
1847
1850
1896