1.Who says, ‘historians and philosophers would never have become popular only through their content and subject, without borrowing from poetry’?
a).Sir Philip Sydney
b).William Wordsworth
c).Matthew Arnold
d).Aristotle
2.Who says ‘A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure.’
a).Bacon
b).Jesting Pilate
c).Montaigne
d).Aristotle
3.Whose quote is this ‘“a liar is a man who is brave towards God but is coward towards men’?
a).Bacon
b).Jesting Pilate
c).Montaigne
d).Aristotle
4.Who among the American playwrights is best described as a representative of the theatre of the Absurd?
a).Tennessee Williams
b).Eugene O’Neill
c).Edward Albee
d).Arthur Miller
5.After Faustus’ agreement, he discovers an inscription on his arm that ‘Homo fuge,’ . what does the word ‘Homo fuge’ mean ?
a).Sold Soul
b).Arrest of 24 years
c).man fly
d).Hell is magic
6.Which of the following is full of gullibility from beginning to end?
a).The Spanish Tragedy
b).Dr Faustus
c).The Alchemist
d).Samson Agonistes
7.The full title of Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedie is
a).The Spanish Tragedie: or, Hieronimo is mad againe.
b).The Spanish Tragedie: or, Ghost’s Revenge
c).The Spanish Tragedie: or, murder within a play
d).The Spanish Tragedie: or, Full of Revenge and Tragedy
8.Which of the following poet compares himself and his lover as Eagle and Dove through his poetic lines
a).John Donne
b).John Milton
c).George Herbert
d).Andrew Marvell
9.Does Whitman believe in a unification between East and West?
a).He explores the possibility
b).He believed Americans could certainly transcend their materialism with the Indian spiritualism
c).He did believe in such a unification
d).West was doomed if not rescued by the East
10.What was the philosophy of life Emerson preached?
a).Individualism, self-reliance and simplicity
b).Simple life
c).Conscientious life
d).A life which combines philosophy and poetry; conscientious and self-reliant
11.Who championed and helped in publication of the works of Rabindranath Tagore, James Joyce, DH Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, and W.B. Yeats in America?
a).Robert Frost
b).Ezra Pound
c).William Carlos William
d).Archibald Macleish
12.Robert Frost was born in
a).1874
b).1900
c).1884
d).1871
13.How ‘The Bridge’ acquired such great significance for Hart Crane ?
a).The greatest suspension Brooklyn bridge was an engineering feat and for Crane it became symbol of integration between machine and man, past and present
b).A myth which made absolute intelligible to Americans
c).Logo of a new dawn
d).Embodiment of an exile’s quest
14.William Faulkner received the Nobel prize in
a).1920
b).1925
c).1950
d).1954
15.The Hairy Ape depicts the life of
a).Early America
b).Post – colonial America
c).Comedy of ancient and modern life
d).Recent times
16.Which play of Tennessee Williams was awarded a Pulitzer award ?
a).The Glass Managerie
b).A streetcar Named Desire
c).You Touched Me
d).The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
17.In Death of a Salesman, the salesman in faced with
a).A new dawn
b).Conflicting situation caused by his own false values and American value system
c).Social economic changes
d).War and economic of the war time world
18.Who have contributed significantly to Commonwealth literature?
a).Third world emigrants
b).The native writers with exposure to English language and literature
c).The writers in Exile
d).None of the above
19.India’s newspaper ‘Hicky’s Bengal Gazette’ came out in
a).1776
b).1778
c).1780
d).1782
20.Who has written the poem ‘The Lotus’?
a).R. Parthasarathy
b).Ramanujan
c).Toru Dutt
d).Sarojini Naidu
21.Name of the first Indian poet who received the Nobel Prize for literature?
a).Sir Aurobindo
b).Nissim Ezekiel
c).Rabindranath Tagore
d).Toru Dutt
22.Which is Sarojini Naidu’s first collection of poems?
a).The Bird of Time
b).The Golden Threshold
c).The Broken Wing
d).The Feather of the Dawn
23.Which poem of Ezekiel is an autobiographical poem?
a).Background Casually
b).Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher
c).Torso of a Woman
d).Island
24.Which play is a commentary on our own society and its politicians and officials?
a).Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
b).Ned Kelly
c).Tughlaq
d).All for Love
25.Which character of Narayan teaches English in a college?
a).Krishnan
b).Margayya
c).Raman
d).Jagan
26.Which is the first novel of Mulk Raj Anand?
a).Coolie
b).Two Leaves and a Bud
c).Untouchable
d).The Village
27.African literature in English presents
a).An awareness of racial and cultural divide
b).An awareness of their own myths and their conflict with the Christian myths
c).Writings, the outcome of tension generated by co-existence of native God and Christ- the conflict of two myths
d).Wisdom of the ancients juxtaposed by western knowledge
28.Which is the difference between the community burning down the church and Okonkwo killings the messenger?
a).Both are ghastly deeds
b).The frenzy of the mass cannot be explained
c).Burning of the church has sanction of the tradition but Okonkwo’s action is personal. In the African eyes first deed is acceptable
d).There is hardly any difference in the western perspective
29.What were the areas in literary criticism in which Plato and Aristotle agreed?
a).Poetry is an imitative art; poetry arouses emotions; poetry produces pleasure; poetry has an effect on human personality
b).They agreed in all major areas
c).They agreed on the Mimetic theory of creativity
d).Plato was the master and Aristotle the pupil agreement was unconditional acceptance
30.Aristotle’s ‘Poetics’ is divided into how many chapters?
a).Twenty six
b).Twenty
c).Thirty
d).Twenty five
31.What are the six constituent elements in tragedy according to Aristotle? (1). Plot, (2). Character, (3). Thought, (4). Diction, (5). Melody, (vi)_________.
a).Incident
b).Rhetorical brilliance
c).spectacle
d).catharsis
32.sublimity has been defined as
a).excellence of language
b).uplifting effect
c).intensity of thought
d).grandeur of thought and intensity of feeling expressed in appropriate language
33.Sidney’s An Apology for Poetry is a defence of poetry against the charges brought against it by
a).Henry Howard
b).Roger Ascham
c).John Skelton
d).Stephen Gosson
34.Dryden’s An Essay of Dramatic Poesy is a work of
a).Interpretative criticism
b).Legislative Criticism
c).Comparative Criticism
d).Textual criticism
35.Pope was a great critic of the age of
a).Prose
b).Reason
c).Prose and reason
d).Romantic
36.Wordsworth’s Preface to The Lyrical Ballads is a landmark because
a).He makes a critical statement for the new romantic poetry
b).He explains his own poetry
c).He declares a departure from the classical mode of poetry
d).Presents the romantic ethics
37.In which chapter of Biographia Literaria, Coleridge examines and rejects Wordswoth’s statement on ‘real’ life and language of rustic?
a).XIV
b).XVII
c).XVIII
d).XIX
38.Where did Keats write ‘That if poetry comes not naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all’?
a).Letter to John Taylor
b).Letter to Shelly
c).Benjamin Robert Haydon
d). Jane Reynolds
39.Which of the following phrases has not been coined by T.S. Eliot?
a).Dissociation of Sensibility
b).Unified Sensibility
c).Objective correlative
d).Art for art’s sake
40.Who is known as the father of Deconstruction ?
a).T.S. Eliot
b).F.R. Leavis
c).I.A. Richards
d).Jacques Derrida
41.Cleanth Brooks is associated with the Southern Movement which is manifested by
a).His contribution to ‘Southern Review’
b).His editorship of ‘Southern Review’
c).His association with ‘Southern Review’ and ‘The Kenyon Review’
d).None of the above
42.In ‘The New Criticism’ (1941) Ransom wrote about
a).The writers of southern movement
b).Critics who belonged to the southern movement
c).Writers form the north
d).His contemporaries
43.The theme of ‘The Second Sex’ is
a).Individuality and independence of women
b).Emancipation of woman
c).Freedom of woman
d).Women as women, most precious creation of God
44.In which story, the character of Griselda appears?
a).The Clerk’s Tale
b).The Reeve’s Tale
c).The Miller’s Tale
d).The Friar’s Tale
45.Which play of Middleton is remembered more for its association with Macbeth than for its merit?
a).Witch
b).The old law
c).The changeling
d).A trick to catch the old one
46.Bacon’s essays in first edition are _______ in number.
a).20
b).15
c).10
d).12
47.Puritanism has Milton as its
a).Singer
b).Preacher
c).Playwright
d).Priest
48.Bunyan’s style was influence by
a).Bible
b).Faerie Queene
c).Euphues
d).Pandosto
49.Elihu’s wrath was kindled against his three friends because
a).They forsook him
b).They cursed him
c).They did not help him
d).They had condemned Job wrongly
50.During Augustan Age ________ came to be regarded as an essential quality of English Literature.
a).Classicism
b).Medievalism
c).Romanticism
d).Imagism
51.Mirabell’s first plan to win Lady Wishfort has misfired because
a).Mrs. Marwood, a young Lady who is after him but whose advances have been rejected by him in off-hand manner, warned the old lady of his real intentions, that is, of pleasing her simply, to get her consent to marry Millamant.
b).Lady Wishfort came to know the illicit relationship going on between Mirabell and Marwood
c).Lady Wishfort had chosen someone else to be the husband of Millamant
d).Lady Wishfort is an old woman and she wants an old man as her lover
52. Who is known as the high priest of a rationalist and social age?
a).Johnson
b).Dryden
c).Goldsmith
d).Pope
53.In the context of Fielding’s Tom Jones which of the following statements may be true?
a).Blifil has a friendly relationship with Tom
b).Blifil thinks Tom is an illegitimate upstart who ought to be put firmly in his place
c).Blifil is the godfather of Tom
d).Tom is the godfather of Blifil
54.What is the relationship between Hastings and Marlowe in She Stoops to Conquer?
a).Brother
b).Friends
c).Father and son
d).Uncle and nephew
55.In Sheridan’s The School for Scandal, a character has said about Charles that he had nothing against him just because he was extravagant. If his nephew did not do anything false or mean, he would make good the money he had lost. Who says this about Charles?
a).Sir Peter
b).Joseph
c).Sir Oliver
d).None of these
56.The prophetic words: ‘If winter comes, can spring be far behind’ have been uttered by
a).Keats
b).Shelly
c).Coleridge
d).Robert Browning
57.The Prelude completed in 1805 but was published in
a).1850
b).1840
c).1830
d).1810
58.Coleridge and Lamb died in the same year. The year is
a).1830
b).1834
c).1850
d).1828
59.To which of the following poets does the phrase ‘Willing suspension of disbelief’ apply?
a).Wordsworth
b).Coleridge
c).Shelley
d).Keats
60.Shelly’s ‘Adonais’ is
a).A satire
b).A defence
c).An elegy
d).A lyric
61.Which Victorian novelist acted as assistant editor of The Westminster’s Review?
a).Charles Dickens
b).George Eliot
c).Charlotte Bronte
d).Emily Bronte
62.Expressionism, a European artist movement, stated in 1900 in
a).England
b).America
c).Germany
d).France
63.What is meant by ‘Wessex’?
a).The region where Bronte sisters lived
b).The name of a country in Scotland
c).The region in which Hardy’s novels are set
d).The home town of George Eliot
64.The expression ‘hedonistic aestheticism’ is related to
a).Swinburne
b).Meredith
c).Walter Pater
d).Morris
65.Who wrote ‘The Forsyte Saga’?
a).Bennet
b).Galsworthy
c).Shaw
d).H.G.Wells
66.In which of Shaw’s plays, there is a reference of three men discussing a historical problem?
a).Arms and the Man
b).Candida
c).Saint Joan
d).Pygmalion
67.In what English village does Emma take place?
a).Waterbury
b).Oxford
c).Highbury
d).Sussex
68.What kind of countryside surrounds Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange?
a).Moorland
b). Savannah
c). Forest
d). Grassy plains
69.In what publication was Great Expectations originally serialized?
a).Home and Away
b). The English Almanac
c). Simple Wisdom
d).All the Year Round
70.Which section of The Wasteland has Spenser’s ‘Prothalamion’ line: ‘Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.’?
a).The Burial of the Dead
b).A Game of Chess
c).The Fire Sermon
d).Death by Water
71.What standard convention in women’s novels did Eliot refuse to bow to in Middlemarch?
a). A linear narrative
b).A happy ending
c).A marriage plot
d). A large cast of characters
72.What is Christminster in Hardy’s novel Jude the Obscure?
a).A large church
b).A university town
c). Hardy's birthplace
d). The name of Drusilla's bakery
73.What will outlive the memory of Shakespeare, according to Mr. Ramsay?
a).A small stone
b). A grain of sand
c).Titian’s oil paintings
d). His love for Mrs. Ramsay
74.Why does the gang of men chase the priest through the streets of the capital in The Power and the Glory?
a).Because they recognize that he is the priest
b). Because they mistake him for the gringo
c).Because they catch him trying to steal a bottle of wine from them
d).Because they discover a bottle of brandy in his coat pocket
75.What vision does Macbeth have before he kills Duncan?
a). He sees a floating head urging him to spill blood.
b). He sees a bloody axe lodged in Duncan’s brow.
c).He sees a pale maiden weeping in the moonlight.
d).He sees a floating dagger pointing him to Duncan’s chamber.
76.With whom are the Scots at war at the beginning of the play Macbeth?
a).Norway
b). Denmark
c). Poland
d). Finland
77.Which mythical figures appear in the wedding masque Prospero stages for Miranda and Ferdinand?
a).Cupid, Venus, and Mars
b). Jupiter and Saturn
c).Ceres, Iris, and Juno
d). Isis and Osiris
78.Which character is Prospero’s brother?
a).Alonso
b). Sebastian
c). Gonzalo
d).Antonio
79.What vocation does Isabella envision for herself at the beginning of the play Measure for Measure?
a).Nun
b). Lawyer
c).Governess
d). Princess
80.What moral failing makes Lord Angelo loathsome in Measure for Measure?
a).Gluttony
b).Hypocrisy
c). Greed
d). Wrath
81.Where did Gadshill get his name in Henry–IV Part-I ?
a).From a church
b).From a theater poster
c). From the queen herself
d).From a place where he has staged many robberies
82.Who is John of Lancaster in Henry–IV Part-I?
a).Harry’s older brother
b). Harry’s brother-in-law
c).Harry’s younger brother
d). Harry’s nephew
83.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
84.Why, according to the Soothsayer, should Antony leave Rome?
a).As long as Antony remains in Rome, his fortune will be overshadowed by Caesar’s
b). Caesar is plotting with Octavia to take Antony’s life
c). Cleopatra will make life miserable for him unless he returns to her
d). Antony’s new devotion to pleasure has compromised his military might, and he would surely be defeated in a battle with Pompey
85.How does Hemingway describe Santiago’s eyes?
a).They are full of pain.
b). They are blank with defeat.
c). They betray the weariness of his soul.
d).They are the color of the sea.
86.Which of the following characters falls overboard and goes insane as a result in Moby Dick?
a).Tashtego
b).Pip
c). Queequeg
d).Starbuck
87.What is the name of the wrecked steamboat on which Huck and Jim encounter the robbers?
a).The Royal Nonesuch
b).The Walter Scott
c).The Mississippi Queen
d). The New Orleans
88. Who advocated ‘disinterestedness’ in literary criticism?
T.S. Eliot
Aristotle
Mathew Arnold
None of the above
89. Surrealism is associated with
Ernest Cassirer
Tristan Tzara
Henrik Ibsen
Andre Breton
90. A term used in grammatical theory and description to refer to a formal relationship between elements, whereby a form of one word requires a corresponding form of another.
Concord
Semiotics
Semantics
Repertoire
91. West Running Brook is the poem by Robert Frost in ______________.
Pastoral Form
Dialogue Form
Reverie
none
92. Which of the following is the right meaning for Affliction- except?
Pain
Distress
Misery
Devotion
93. Who has been called the Poet’s poet?
Sidney
Shakespeare
Spenser
Ben Jonson
94. The Publication year of Dr. Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary
1745
1755
1765
1775
95. How many poems of Wordsworth are included in the Lyrical Ballads
4
14
19
23
96. Willy Loman stands for
Success
Love
Failure
Alcoholism
97. Error of Judgement notes______
Peripeteia
Hamartia
Catastrope
The Tragic Incident
98.Which of the following was defined by Coleridge as ‘a mode of Memory emancipated from the order of time and space’?
a).Fancy
b).Primary imagination
c).Secondary imagination
d).All of the above
99.In which of his critical works Eliot wrote that ‘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 experience combine in peculiar and unexpected ways’?
a).The Sacred Woods
b).The Metaphysical Poets
c).Speculations
d).Tradition and Individual Talent
100.Who found in the bold and often strenuous figurative language in his work, ‘a direct sensuous apprehension of thought and feeling ’?
a).Coleridge
b).Arnold
c).TS Eliot
d).William Wordsworth
Who said ‘God’s in Heaven and all’s right with the world?’
Tennyson
Robert Browning
T.S. Eliot
Mathew Arnold
The basic idea of the term ‘grand style’ was elaborated and illustrated in Mathew Arnold’s______
On Study of Poetry
On Translating Homer
Scholar Gypsy
Essays in Criticism
In ‘Dover Beach’, Arnold hears the melancholy, long, withdrawing roar of the sea of _______
Emotion
Doubt
Faith
Grief
Arnold’s ‘Scholar Gypsy’ a pastoral poem is based upon an old legend related by
Alfred Tennyson
Robert Browning
Joseph Glanvil
D.G. Rossetti
‘The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria’s reign was celebrated in
1857
1837
1877
1887
‘Australia’ is a poem by A.D. Hope. Choose the right answer of following options which is not related with this poem.
First five stanzas dealt with how Australia was
a. A.D.Hope said Australia was a mechanical and monotonous land
This poem gave positive perception of Australian country
It reflected the lack of individualism and spiritual poverty
The phrase ‘Faultless painter’ refers to
Andrea Del Sarto
Dover Beach
Byzantium
Morte D’Arthur
Which of the lines occurred with alliteration, that line would be an opening line of a poem.
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking
A nation of trees, drab green
And fill all fruit with ripens to the core
O wild west wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being
Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time. Which of the following poem has consisted above lines?
Ode to the west wind
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to Autumn
Ode to Dejection
What is the first section of ‘The Waste Land’
The Burial of Dead
A game of Chess
The Fire Sermon
Death by water