1. The name of the captain’s daughter, who offers hide out to the priest in ‘The Power and the Glory’ is ________.
a. Brigita
b. Maria
c. Trixie Fellows
d. Coral Fellows
2. The only commodity which is scarce in Vanity Fair is_______.
a. Honesty
b. Lies
c. Pride
d. Truth
3. While larger divisions of time like day, night, week, month and year are of native origin words for smaller units like hour, minute, second are from _______.
a. Latin
b. Greek
c. French
d. Scandinavian
4. Fortitude is the virtue of
a. Friendship
b. Ambition
c. Love
d. Adversity
5. ‘Good fences make good neighbours’. In this passage the speaker symbolizes:
a. The spirit of restraint
b. The spirit of revolt
c. A pragmatic sprit
d. An intractable spirit
6. This was once a house of trade –a centre of busy interest. ‘A house of trade’ refers to:
a. Business
b. The South – Sea house
c. A house of ill repute
d. The bank of England
7. _______ states that ‘every language has its improprieties and absurdities, which it is the duty of the lexicographer to correct or proscribe’.
a. Merriam Webster
b. Dr. Johnson
c. Noah Webster
d. Earl of Chesterfield
8. ‘Redeem your birthday by yielding to my will, or he shall die tomorrow’. Who speaks these words to Isabella?
a. Claudio
b. Marianna
c. Angelo
d. Lucio
9. Which of the following is the oldest method employed to teach English as a second language?
a. Direct Method
b. Grammar Translation Method
c. Bilingual Method
d. Dr. West’s New Method
10. The title for the second section of the wasteland is taken from:
a. Holinshed’s Chronicles
b. Baudelaire’s poem
c. Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
d. Thomas Middleton’s play
11. The reference to ‘Walpurgisnacht’ in the Act II of Who’s afraid of Virgina Woolf is:
a. Satire
b. Elegiae
c. Euphuistic
d. Allegorical
12. Who coined the term ‘Imagism’?
a. W.B Yeats
b. T.S Eliot
c. Arthur Symons
d. Ezra Pound
13. Faustus orders Mephistopheles to appear in the form of a
a. Little boy
b. Little girl
c. Handsome man
d. Franciscan Friar
14. Virginia Woolf’s ______ is an important precursor of feminist literary criticism
a. A Room of one’s own
b. Mrs. Dalloway
c. To the Lighthouse
d. The Waves
15. William Wordsworth’s ode:Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood is about:
a. The Legacy left by ancestors to man
b. The Legacy left by the child to man
c. The lessons offered by nature to man
d. The lessons man learnt through experience
16. One Phenome can occur in the phonetic environment of another phoneme. That is, phonemes are intersubstitutable and so are in:
a. Contrastive distribution
b. Complementary distribution
c. Vowel harmony
d. Phonetic symbols
17. Ben Jonson’s ‘The Alchemist’ is a :
a. Sentimental comedy
b. Anti-sentimental comedy
c. Comedy of Humours
d. Tragic-Comedy
18. In which essay did Bacon mention that poesy is ‘the wine of devils’?
a. Of Studies
b. Of Revenge
c. Of Truth
d. Of Ambition
19. Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay bring their eight children to their summer home in the ‘Hebrides’ which is:
a. A holiday location in the Scottish Highlands
b. A holiday island near the coast of Australia
c. A group of islands west of Scotland
d. The other name for Hawaian islands
20. According to Aristotle, all arts in their general nature are forms of:
a. Contemplation
b. Imitation
c. Oblivion
d. Copying
21. _______ are called suprasegmental phonemes
a. Plosives
b. Affricates
c. Stress, Pitch and Intonation
d. Allophones
22. Allworthy is called the favourite of ______
a. Tom Jones
b. Nature and Fortune
c. Good and Honesty
d. King and Richard
23. The first part of The Pilgrims Progress was published in ______.
a. 1677
b. 1688
c. 1678
d. 1679
24. Whose son is Fleance
a. Macduff
b. Malcolm
c. King Doncan
d. Banquo
25. The traditional Indian narrative technique of ‘sthala-purana’ or legendary history is employed in:
a. Raja Rao’s Kanthapura
b. R.K. Narayan’s ‘The Guide’
c. Tagore’s ‘Gora’
d. Kamala Markandaya’s ‘A Handful of Rice’
26. ‘As some bright archangel in vision flies plunged in dream-caught spirit immensities’ identify the poem and poet:
a. ‘Lotus’ by Toru Dutt
b. ‘The Palanquin Bearers’ by Sarojini Naidu
c. ‘Under Another Sky’ by R. Parthasarathy
d. ‘Thought the, paradise’ by Sri Aurobindo
27. Hotspur , Worceter, Mortimer and Glendower plan to dethrone ______.
a. Richard II
b. Prince Hal
c. Henry IV
d. Thomas Percy
28. Historical sense and sense of art were viewed as one by:
a. Hopkins
b. W.H. Auden
c. Nietzsche
d. Mathew Arnold
29. Sophocles long ago heard it on the Aegean, and it bought. Sophocles is:
a. A mythological figure
b. A fictitious name
c. A Greek dramatist known for tragedies
d. A soldier
30. Which part of the day is ideal for nurturing art and poetry, according to Thoreau?
a. Night
b. Evening
c. Afternoon
d. Morning
31. The French philosopher , _______ lecture at the 1966 conference at John Hopkins’s University is considered to be the manifesto against structuralism.
a. Mikhail Bakhtin’s
b. Noam Chomsky’s
c. Jacques Derrida’s
d. Michael Foucault’s
32. ______ is delivered from the mouth of Giant Slaygood.
a. Mr. Despondency
b. Mr. Feeble-mind
c. Christiana
d. Much-afraid
33. Who believes the air on the island ‘breathes upon us here most sweetly’?
a. Adrian
b. Ferdinand
c. Francisco
d. Gonzalo
34. Identity the figure of speech employed in the following lines. Why should I pay the Roman fool, and die on mine own sword? While I see lives and the gashes do better upon them?
a. Metonymy
b. Hyperbole
c. Allusion
d. Litotes
35. The minimum meaningful unit is called a :
a. Phoneme
b. Morpheme
c. Consonant
d. Fricative
36. The Philologist who improved upon Grimm’s Law was”
a. C.C. Fries
b. Chomsky
c. Verner
d. A.C. Baugh
37. Earth’s the right place for love; I don’t know where it’s likely to go better. This lines are from_____
a. The road not taken
b. Mending Wall
c. Birches
d. West Running Brook
38. ‘I call them all three genuine men, more or less; faithfully, for the most part unconsciously, struggling to be genuine, and plant themselves on the everlasting truth of things ’. who are the three men referred to by Carlyle?
a. Homer, Shakespeare, Dante
b. Johnson, Rousseau, Burns
c. Cromwell, Napoleon, Alexander
d. Johnson, Shakespeare, Burns
39. ‘O Lady! We receive but what we give / And in our life alone does Nature live’ these lines occur in the poem:
a. Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn
b. Coleridge’s Ode to Dejection
c. Shelly’s Ode to the west Wind
d. Wordsworth’s Immortality Ode
40. The phrase ‘Prima facie, vice verse, ab inito’ are of ______ origin.
a. Latin
b. Greek
c. French
d. Scandinavian
41. It was in ______ , Hazlitt got the chance to hear the celebrated poet’s speech?
a. June, 1798
b. July, 1798
c. March, 1798
d. January, 1798
42. The contradictory impulses that arise out of the seventh type of ambiguity:
a. Lead to conflict of ideas
b. Lose sight of the conflict and the poet states their reconciliation
c. Could not be reconciled by the poet
d. Are mere stylistic devices employed by the poet
43. Can storied Urn or animated bust / back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Humour’s voice provoke the silent dust,
a. The Philosophy of life
b. Sense and feeling
c. The tone of irony
d. The seventh type of ambiguity
44. The Way of the World was first acted in________.
a. 1700
b. 1701
c. 1699
d. 1710
45. Eliot states, ‘the experience, you will notice, the elements which enter the presence of the transforming catalyst, are of two kinds’
a. Emotional and Feelings
b. Imagination and Feelings
c. Reason and Emotion
d. Reason and Feelings
46. The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, the guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul of all the moral being. The soul of the poet’s moral being is:
a. poetry
b. his/her farther
c. nature
d. his/ her teacher
47. ‘An ill advised marriage between two people who are inherently incompatible never becomes completely harmonious’. This is true of :
a. Hardy’s ‘Jude the Obscure’
b. Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’
c. George Elliot’s ‘Middlemarch’
d. Hopkins’ ‘The Wreck of Deutschland’
48. ‘Feminist criticism _______ is a specific kind of political discourse, a critical and theoretical approach committed to the struggle against patriarchy and sexism________’ whose words are these?
a. Simon de Beauvoir
b. Virginia Woolf
c. Kate Millet
d. Toril Moi
49. Lamb’s dream children are:
a. Alice and John
b. Alice and Jack
c. Alice and Smith
d. Alice and Ann
50. Identify the character who is a victim of child-labour, overworked and dies of tuberculosis at the age of fifteen:
a. Munoo
b. Lalu
c. Bakha
d. None of the above
51. Thus far O’Friend! Did I, not used to make / A present joy the matter of a song. Name the friend of the poet referred to here.
a. Keats
b. Charles Lamb
c. Coleridge
d. William Wordsworth
52. Which of the following play is not a pessimistic play of Shakespeare?
a. Measure for Measure
b. King Lear
c. Macbeth
d. Othello
53. Which of the following is an exponent of post-modernist writing.
a. Jacques Derrida
b. Roland Barthes
c. Mikhail Bakktin
d. Clande Levi-strauss
54. The central theme of the Cosmic dance of Shiva is:
a. To Critique modern industrial civilization
b. To emphasize the annihilation of one’s self
c. To describe the Indian ethos
d. To unite the East and West
55. ‘A bracelet of bright hair about the bone’ In above line the most powerful effect is produced by:
a. Milton
b. Spenser
c. Donne
d. Gray
56. ‘………O thou art fairer that the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars’ these lines are from_____.
a. The Spanish Tragedy
b. The Alchemist
c. Dr. Faustus
d. Of Revenge
57. Graham Greene’s ‘The Way of the World’ was initially published in the United States with the title_______.
a. The Martyr
b. The Labyrinthine Ways
c. The Man Within
d. The End of the Affair
58. The Background of Guru Charan Das’s ‘Larins Sahib’ is:
a. Colonial rule in Maharasthra
b. Bengal Partition
c. Punjab’s history after the demise of Maharaja Ranjit Singh
d. Princely state of Gwalior under British Rule
59. ‘And like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering O’er my fault shall shoe more goodly……’ whose words are these?
a. Falstaff
b. Hotspur
c. Prince Hal
d. Lord Mortimer
60. The term simulacrum where the real is replaced by its shadow was first used by_____.
a. Roland Barthes
b. Jean Baudrillard
c. Jean-Francoise Lyotard
d. Jacques Lacan
61. Catharsis means
a. Misfortune
b. Error of judgement
c. Purgation of emotions
d. Moral failure
62. In Tennessee Williams’ Street Car Named Desire, Blache Du Bois is a lady caught in the vortec of:
a. Love and sympathy
b. Illusion and artifice
c. Candour and patience
d. Pride and Prejudice
63. ‘I do not hate progress, only its nature which makes all roofs and faces look the same….’ The above passage reflects.
a. Lakunle’s progressive ideals
b. Sidi’s pride
c. Baroka’s guile
d. Sadiku’s ambivalent attitude
64. In ‘Hero as Divinity’ Carlyle deals with:
a. Heroic divinities of Germanic tribes
b. Pagan divinities of Scandinavian origin
c. Early Christian divinities of Anglo-Saxon period
d. Heroic divinities of Norse Mythology
65. Which of these statements are true of Whitman’s Passage to India? (a) is transcendental. (b) forecasts the spiritual unity of mankind (c) sees the present as an outcome of the infinite greatness of the past. (d) celebrate the four feats of engineering
a. A, B, and D
b. A, C, and D
c. A, B, and C
d. A, B, C, and D
66. Cleopatra takes refuge in her______.
a. Palace
b. Monument
c. Cave
d. Attendant’s house
67. The general plan of the Faerie Queene is expounded in the author’s letter to _____.
a. Alfred Noyses
b. Sir Walter Raleigh
c. Sir Walter Scott
d. Queen Elizabeth
68. Chose the wrong match
a. Kate Millet - Sexual Politics
b. Sandra Gilbert - The Madwoman in the Attic
c. Mary Ellman - Thinking about Woman
d. Elaine Showalter - Sexual Textual Politics
69. The Zenith, summer, and marriage or triumph phase are_______.
a. Myths of revival and resurrection
b. Myths of apotheosis and of entering into paradise
c. Myths of fall
d. Myths of the return of chaos
70. Which of the letters written by John Keats contains the following words? ‘That if poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all’
a. Letter to Benjamin Bailey
b. Letter to Prichard Woodhouse
c. Letter to P.B. Shelly
d. Letter to John Taylor
71.‘It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition’ This observation is made by:
a).S.T. Coleridge
b).William Wordsworth
c).PB Shelley
d).John Keats
72.Thrushcross Grange is my own sir, he interrupted Wincing, ‘I Should not allow anyone to inconvenience me, if I could hinder it – walk in’ Thrushcross Grange refers to:
a).Emily Bronte’s Home
b).An Old ruin
c).A Parsonage
d).The Home of the Linton Family
73.H.D. Thoreau’s Walden was based in his life at Walden Pond from:
a).August 7, 1843 to March 1845
b).July 4, 1845 to September 1847
c).September 12, 1847 to July 1849
d).June 6, 1842 to September 1844
74. Audiolingualism openly claimed that it was derived from linguistics and influenced by behaviourists such as ________.
a).Skinner and Os Good
b).Sweet and Jespersen
c).Krashen and Terrel
d).Brumfit and Johnson
75.Which is the auction in The School for Scandal?
a).Act, SC III
b).Act IV, SC I
c).Act Iv, SC II
d).Act V, SC I
76.Miss. Hard Castle was struck by the ________ of Mr. Marlow
a).Behaviour
b).Looks
c).Timidity
d).Knowledge
77.If ‘Coach, shop, lift, booking-office’ are British English, the corresponding American Words
a).Car, a business outlet, an elevator, a ticket office
b).Car, a store, an elevator, a ticket office
c).Car, a store, an elevator, a booking counter
d).Cab, a store, an elevator, a ticket office
78.The historical incident that eventually paved way for the evolution of middle English:
a).Celtic influence
b).Latin influence
c).The Scandinavian invasion of England
d).Norman Conquest AD 1066
79.Choose the wrong match of the character with the play of Shakespeare
a).Boastswain - The Tempest
b).Seleucus - Antony and Cleopatra
c).Lucio - Measure for Measure
d).Blunt - Macbeth
80.Where does the opening scene of The Alchemist take place?
a).Mamman
b).Lovewit’s house
c).Doll’s House
d).Subtle’s house
81.‘All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’. Who is the speaker?
a).Macbeth
b).Macduff
c).Lady Macduff
d).Lady Macbeth
82._____________ laments that ‘our language has been gradually departing from its original Teutonic character and deviating towards a Gallic structure and phraseology’.
a).F.T. Wood
b).C.L. Wren
c).Dr.Johnson
d).Otto Jespersen
83.Match: (1). Jacques Derrida, (2). Terry Eagleton, (3). Ferdiand de Saussure, (4). Maud Bandkin
a).Marxist, Archetypal, Post Structural, Structuralism
b).Post Structural, Marxist, Structuralism, Archetypal
c).Archetypal, Post Structural, Structuralism, Marxist
d).Structuralism, Marxist, Archetypal, Post Structural
84.‘And her five cities, like five teeming sores / Each drains her: a vast parasite robber-state’ these lines from the poem:
a).Australia Twice Traverese by Ernest Giles
b).The Song of Australia by Caroline Carleton
c).Australia by A.D. Hope
d).The Shepherd by A.J. Boyd
85.In Emily Dickenson’s ‘Because I could not stop for Death’, death is objectified through the figure of
a).Children
b).Setting sun
c).Grains
d).Genteel driver
86.Which of the following arrangements of the writers is chronologically correct according to their dates of birth?
a).Chaucer, Marlowe, Sidney, Bacon
b).Bacon, Chaucer, Marlowe, Sidney
c).Chancer, Sidney, Bacon, Marlowe
d).Marlowe, Bacon, Sidney, Chaucer
87.Who is pilgrims’ host at the inn, in the ‘Prologue to the Canterbury Tales’?
a).Harry Bailey
b).Nathan Bailey
c).Harry Blamires
d).Joan Baillie
88.‘Those ancients have been faithful imitators and wise observes of that nature….’ This statements is made by
a).Eugenius
b).Crites
c).Lisideius
d).Neander
89.‘I Know not how thou singest, my master / I ever listen in silent amazement’ these lines are form the poem:
a).The Farewell Song by Kasiprasad Ghosh
b).The Harp of India by Henry L. Derozio
c).Gitanjali by Tagore
d).Bhagobati Gita by Ram Sharma
90.When prospero first arrives on the island, he sets Ariel free from a __________.
a).Bush
b).Pine Tree
c).Cave
d).Sea
91.‘Where are the songs of spring? Ay, Where are they? Think not of them, thou has thy music too’. The ‘thou’ here referred to is:
a).Summer
b).Winter
c).Autumn
d).Nightingale
92.Mathew Arnold refers to __________ and ____________ as ‘Pales’ and ‘dingles’ in the following lines ‘On some mild pastoral slope Emerge, and resting on the moonlit pales Freshen they flowers as in former years with dew, or listen with enchanted ears From the dance dingles, to the Nightingales’
a).Lakes, meadows
b).Fences, valleys
c).Meadows, hills
d).Lakes, valleys
93.Of all sound of all bells – (bells, the music highest boarding upon heaven)- most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the old year. What do the church bells signify?
a).Joyous tidings
b).Enthusiasm for life
c).Most solemn and touching
d).Commencement of New Year
94.Match : (1). Aristotle, (2). Longinus, (3)Horace, (4). Dante
a).On the sublime, Divine Comedy, Poetics, Ars Poetica
b).Poetics , On the sublime, Divine Comedy, Ars Poetica
c).Poetics , On the sublime, Ars Poetica, Divine Comedy
d).Ars Poetica , On the sublime, Poetics , Divine Comedy
95.A Speaker’s attitude to what he is talking about is revealed by his:
a).Sense
b).Feeling
c).Tone
d).Intention
96.The Mistakes of a Night is the subtitle of _____________.
a).The Conscious Lovers
b).The Good Natured Man
c).She Stoops to Conquer
d).The Rivals
97.Which statement is not true of ‘Epithalamion’. The Poem Epithalamion is:
a).An Ode
b).About the poet’s wedding day
c).A musical and visual celebration
d).Ends with fears of ill omen
98.In the poem ‘The Sacrifice’ George Herbert states various sets of conflicts in:
a).The Sphere of Philosophy
b).The field of Psychology
c).The Christian doctrine of sacrifice
d).The area of sociology
99. ____________ comments that The Rape of the Lock is the most exquisite example of ludicrous poetry.
a).Samuel Johnson
b).John Dryden
c).John Donne
d).Matthew Arnold
100.In Paradise Lost Book IX Adam eats the forbidden fruit because of his________.
a).Fear of Satan
b).Hunger for Power
c).Love for Eve
d).Desire for Knowledge
101.Match the following dictionaries with their respective authors / compilers: (1). Nathaniel Bailey, (2). Robert Cawdney, (3). Edward Philips, (4). Henry Cockeram
a).The Table Alphabetical of Hard Words, English Dictionaries, Universal Etymological English Dictionary, New World of Words
b).Universal Etymological English Dictionary, The Table Alphabetical of Hard Words, , New World of Words, English Dictionaries
c).The Table Alphabetical of Hard Words, Universal Etymological English Dictionary, New World of Words, , English Dictionaries
d).The Table Alphabetical of Hard Words, New World of Words, English Dictionaries, Universal Etymological English Dictionary
102.Sarojini Naidu’s poetry is said to have been strongly influenced by:
a).Fin de Siecle
b).Bers Libre
c).Chivalric Romance
d).English Romantic Irony
103.Toru Dutt’s ‘The Lotus’ is structurally a __________.
a).Spenserian Sonnet
b).Pindaric Ode
c).Petrarchan Sonnet
d).Cowleyan Ode
104.Which one of the following statements aptly summarizes Melville’s Moby Dick?
a).It is about the preservation of the giant whale
b).It is a search for the mysteries of man and nature and the universe
c).It is an account of the New England Whaling Industry
d).It is a revenge story of monomaniac
105.Who among the following is not an Irish Playwright?
a).GB Shaw
b).John Galsworthy
c).JM Synge
d).WB Yeats
106.Which of the following characters is the Tomahawk associated with?
a).Ahab
b).Ishmael
c).Queequeg
d).Father Mapple
107.In ‘Our Casuarina Tree’ the tree is a symbol and in it are implicated:
a).Politics and Power
b).Time and Eternity
c).Fate and impermanence
d).Death and Gloom
108.Who does Browning refer to as ‘Legate’ in the following lines? ‘I do not boast, perhaps: yourself are judge, who listened to the Legate’s talk last week’
a).Francis I, King of France
b).George Vasari
c).An Ambassador of the Pope
d).Michealangelo
109.‘The Owl in the Attic’ was first published in _________.
a).1941
b).1931
c).1935
d).1933
110.Rosamond’s Pond is a __________.
a).Theatre
b).Lake
c).Coffee-House
d).Novel