1.Which was first used to designate a committee of the Roman Catholic Church appointed for the purpose of organising and directing mission work. Later it was extended to cover mission work of publicity on behalf of any cause, whether religious, political, sociological or philanthropic?
a).Crescent
b).Anarchist
c).Propaganda
d).Muckinder
2. Chef, sachet, chaperon, and champagne are borrowed into English from________.
a).Latin
b).French
c).Scandinavian
d).Greek
3.‘Elfin’ is the word invented by _________.
a).Edmund Spenser
b).William Shakespeare
c).John Milton
d).Dr.Johnson
4.Which of the following option is not related to Old English and its period?
a).Some nouns made their genitive singular in –es, others in –e, -an,
b).Nominative plural were – as, -a, -u, -e, -an
c).The Old English Noun has only four cases
d).Northumbrian, Merican, West Saxon, and Kentish are dialects of Modern English
5.Gothic is the principle language of ____________.
a).West Germanic
b).East Germanic
c).Celtic
d).Balto Slavi
6.Which of the American regional dialect is followed in whole or part of states that lie to the east of the Connecticut River in Massachusetts and Connecticut and east of the Green Mountains in Vermont.
a).Eastern New England
b).Lower South
c).Upper South
d).Southern New England
7.A form of a language that is considered to have less prestige than other forms is called
a).Acrolect
b).Basilect
c).Dialect
d).Parlance
8.English alphabetical dictionary ‘A Table Alphabeticall’, is written by
a).Robert Cawdrey
b).Thomas Blount
c).Edward Phillips
d).Noah Webster
9.Sounds which are in complementary distribution with each other in a language can be grouped together into a single phoneme in that language. They are considered members or _______.
a).Phoneme
b).Allophones
c).Zerophone
d).Morpheme
10.An American linguist Noam Chomsky introduced the concept of ‘Performance’ and _____________ as part of the foundations in Generative Grammar.
a).Accordance
b).Noun Phrase
c).Competence
d).Langue
11.The two parts of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress was published in _______ and __________.
a).1690, 1686
b).1678, 1686
c).1678, 1684
d).1681, 1684
12.T.S. Eliot’s Wasteland was first published in ________.
a).The Criterion
b).The Yale Review
c).New Yorker
d).The Dial
13. ‘Relationship’ is a long poem by:
a).Kamala Das
b).Sarojini Naidu
c).A.K. Ramanujam
d).R.Parthasarathy
14.Which of the following arrangements of American plays in the correct chronological sequence?
a).The Hairy Ape, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire
b).Death of a Salesman, The Hairy Ape, A Streetcar Named Desire
c).The Hairy Ape, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman
d).A Streetcar Named Desire, The Hairy Ape, Death of a Salesman
15.‘Life, like a dome of many- coloured glass, Saints the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it into fragments’ this lines occur in :
a).Tintern Abbey
b).Immortality Ode
c).Dejection : An Ode
d).Adonais
16.The title ‘The Sound and the Fury’ is taken from :
a).Macbeth
b).The Tempest
c).Measure for Measure
d).Hamlet
17.Which of the following was associated with the ‘Bloomsbury Group’
a).T.S. Eliot
b).W.B. Yeats
c).T.E. Hulme
d).Virginia Woolf
18.About whom did T.S. Eliot write in The Metaphysical Poets‘ A thought to him was an experience’
a).Donne
b).Crashaw
c).Marvell
d).Herbert
19.The statement ‘One has to convey in a language that is not one’s own the spirit that is one’s own’ appears in
a).Kanthapura
b).Coolie
c).A Handful of Rice
d).The English Teacher
20.Which of the following thinker – concept pairs is correctly matched:
a).Eagleton – Psychological criticism
b).I.A. Richards – Archetypal criticism
c).Derrida – Deconstruction
d).Frye – Mysticism
21.The quotation ‘A repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM’ appears in:
a).Lyrical Ballads
b).Letters of Keats
c).In Defence of Poetry
d).Biographia Literaria
22.The Quotation : ‘when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reasons’ is a definition of:
a).Criticism of Life
b).Secondary imagination
c).Negative Capability
d).Dissociation of Sensibility
23.‘Hamartia’ means
a).Reversal of fortunes
b).Purgation of emotions
c).Depravity
d).Error of judgement
24.The term ‘gynocriticism’ was coined by
a).Betty Friedman
b).Elaine Showalter
c).Luce Irigary
d).Helene Cixous
25.The term ‘The Fleshly School of Poetry’ is associated with the :
a).Symbolists
b).Imagists
c).Chartists
d).Pre-Raphaelites
26.The line ‘The Sea is calm tonight’ occurs in:
a).Andrea Del Sarto
b).The Scholar Gypsy
c).Dover Beach
d).West Running Brook
27.The gap-toothed character in ‘Prologue’ to the Canterbury Tales
a).The Prioress
b).The Nun
c).The Wife of Bath
d).The Monk
28.The line ‘Present fears/ are less than horrible marriage’ appears in
a).The Tempest
b).Macbeth
c).The Hairy Ape
d).Dr Faustus
29.Who among the following is called ‘A New England Poet’
a).Robert Frost
b).Walt Whitman
c).EJ Pratt
d).Robert Browning
30.The figure of the ‘Abyssinian Maid’ appears in
a).Kubla Khan
b).Dejection Ode
c).The Cambridge Ladies
d).Essays of Elia
31.Coleridge’s statement that imagination ‘dissolves, diffuses, dissipates in order to recreate’ relates to
a).Fancy
b).Primary imagination
c).Secondary imagination
d).Esemplastic imagination
32.‘Essays of Elia’ are
a).Political ideology
b).Economic disparity
c).Literary criticism
d).Personal impressions
33.Which of the following thinker – concept pair is rightly matched:
a).Stanley Fish – Reader Response
b).Jacques Derida - New Historicism
c).Northrop Frye - practical Criticism
d).I.A. Richards - Archetypal criticism
34.Peripetia means:
a).Purgation of emotion
b).Tragic flaw
c).Reversal of fortune
d).Recognition of error
35.Arthur Miller’s ‘The Death of a Salesman’ is mainly about
a).American dream
b).American imperialism
c).American pragmatism
d).American transcendentalism
36.The Woman Character who is an artist by profession in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse is :
a).Lilly Briscoe
b).Mrs Ramsay
c).Mrs Dalloway
d).Miriam
37.The soul of Tragedy according to Aristotle is
a).Thought
b).Character
c).Plot
d).Spectacle
38.‘A Thing of beauty is a joy for ever’ occurs in
a).Ode to the West Wind
b).Ode to Autumn
c).Ode on a Grecian Urn
d).Ode to Dejection
39.The line ‘poetry is a criticism of life’ occurs in
a).The Study of Poetry
b).Tradition and Individual Talent
c).Sense of the past
d).Defence of Poetry
40.The expression ‘ancestral voices prophesying war’ occurs in:
a).Kubla Khan
b).The Cedars
c).Mending Wall
d).The Wreck of the Deutschland
41.Which famous poem contains the line ‘Hieronimo is mad again’?
a).The Waste Land
b).Wreck of the Deutschland
c).Dover Beach
d).Epithalamion
42.‘Full fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made’ this song appears in
a).The Tempest
b).The Power and the Glory
c).Measure for Measure
d).Moby Dick
43.the principles of literary criticism by I.A. Richards was published in
a).1924
b).1930
c).1936
d).1944
44.A European playwright who had a dominant influence on British drama of the first half of the twentieth century was
a).Racine
b).Goethe
c).Ibsen
d).Chekov
45.Dryden’s ‘Essay of Dramatic Poesy’ rejects ‘Tragic-comedy’ because
a).It is an innovative form
b).It violates the unity of tone
c).It is a poor imitation of French drama
d).It was practiced only by the ancients
46.What is the sub title of ‘The Prelude’?
a).An Autobiography
b).A preface to my life
c).Growth of a poet’s mind
d).A poet’s story
47.The lines ‘Things fall apart’ occur in
a).Byzantium
b).Gerontion
c).Second Coming
d).Sailing to Byzantium
48.Prothalamion is
a).Funeral song
b).Birthday verse
c).Spousal verse
d).Pastoral elegy
49.Who explains to Job that God communicates with humans by two ways—visions and physical pain?
a).His wife
b).Elihu
c).Bildad
d).Zophar
50.Who said ‘truly neither philosopher nor historiographer could at the first have entered into the gates of popular judgments, if they had not taken a great passport of poetry, which in all nations at this day’
a).Philip Sidney
b).Mathew Arnold
c).TS Eliot
d).Shelley
51.Who takes up Una's quest?
a).Britomart
b).Guyon
c).Redcrosse
d).Sansloy
52.To which Greek mythological character is Faustus compared in the Prologue?
a).Hercules
b). Perseus
c).Icarus
d). Theseus
53.In whose house is the play The Alchemist set?
a).Face's
b).Lovewit's
c).Subtle's
d).Mammon's
54.According to Andreas’s opening monologue, where did he go after his death?
a).Heaven
b).Hell
c). The ocean
d). A cold grave
55.Who says ‘Dry light is ever the best’ in Bacon’s Of Friendship?
a).Heraclitus
b).Antonius
c).Julius Caesar
d).Tiberius
56.who acts as a guard at the Garden of Eden?
a).Gabriel
b).Uriel
c).Adam
d).Beelzebub
57.Where is the party held in the Rape of the Lock?
a).Cheapside
b).St. James Park
c). The Tower of London
d).Hampton Court Palace
58.Who uses the phrase ‘vegetable love’ to suggest, in an ironical manner?
a).Herbert
b).Marvell
c).Donne
d).Gray
59.When was the play She Stoops to Conquer first performed in London?
a).1770
b).1773
c).1775
d).1781
60.Who is the giant of Gath in Samson Agonistes?
a).Samson
b).Dalila
c).Manoa
d).Harapha
61.What does Tom sell to Blifil in order to give money to Black George?
a).A Bible
b).A horse
c). A bird
d). A pipe
62.Where has Sir Oliver been travelling?
a).Ireland
b).The East Indies
c).America
d).China and Japan
63.Who said ‘Milton would not have excelled in Dramatic writing; he knew human nature only in the gross, and had never studied the shades of character, nor the combinations of concurring or the perplexity of contending passions.’
a).Alexander Pope
b).Samuel Johnson
c).Mathew Arnold
d).TS Eliot
64.What is the name of the server woman at the chocolate-house?
a).Millamant
b).Peg
c).Foible
d).Betty
65.Ode to the West Wind is written in ___________.
a).Heroic Couplet
b).Rhyme Royal
c).Terza rima
d).split rhyme
66.Who is the great grandmother of Charles Lamb in Dream Children?
a).Alice
b).Winderton
c).Field
d).Browne White
67.‘Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own’ lines by
a).William Wordsworth
b).Robert Browning
c).Keats
d).Shelley
68.Where does Earnshaw originally find Heathcliff?
a).London
b). Boston
c).Liverpool
d). Gimmerton
69.Who provides for Jane Fairfax’s education?
a).Mrs. Bates
b). Frank Churchill
c). Mr. Knightley
d).Colonel Campbell
70.Who said ‘ Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion’?
a).Philip Sidney
b).Mathew Arnold
c).TS Eliot
d).Shelley
71.What is Mr. Tench's occupation in The Power and the Glory?
a).Dentist
b). Policeman
c). Plantation Owner
d). Water-ski Instructor
72.What is Pip’s real name?
a).Peter Philips
b).Philip Pirrip
c). Pipper Philips
d). Paul Pirrip
73.Where was Ariel before Prospero set him free?
a).Inside a cave
b). Inside a cage
c). Inside a shell
d).Inside a tree
74.What has Prospero been doing on the island for twelve years?
a).Building a boat
b). Hiding
c). Plotting murder
d).Refining his magic
75.What was the name of the London playhouse that Shakespeare owned a partial share in?
a).The Orb Theatre
b).The Globe Theatre
c). The Sphere Theatre
d). The Ball Theater
76.How does the Duke respond when Escalus asks him where he’s from?
a).Claims to be ‘foreign’
b).Claims to be Viennese
c).Claims to be Scottish
d). Claims to be French
77.Which King does Macbeth murder in the beginning of the play?
a).The Thane of Cawdor
b).Duncan
c).Edward of England
d). Zhou Kang Wang of China
78.Whom does Antony order to kill him?
a).Enobarbus
b). Mardian
c). Diomedes
d).Eros
79.Which captive does Hotspur wish to have released?
a).Bolingbroke
b). York
c). Edmund of Norville
d).Mortimer
80. What is the name of the town where Huck, Jim, and Tom live at the novel’s opening?
a).Cairo
b). St. Louis
c). Pikesville
d).St. Petersburg
81.In what year was The Old Man and the Sea published?
a).1950
b). 1951
c).1952
d).1953
82.How is the Pequod decorated?
a).With images of demons
b).With whale bones
c). With bright colors
d). With carvings of whales
83.Which of the following is not mentioned by Emerson in American Scholar?
a).Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential
b).The actions and events of our childhood and youth, are now matters of calmest observation
c).the final value of action, like that of books, and better than books, is, that itis a resource.
d).Action is the opposite of the soul and nature is the supporter of the soul
84.What is the first part 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
85.What subject did Blanche teach at Laurel High School?
a).English
b). Music
c). Social Studies
d).Math
86.What kind of animal does George compare Martha's father to?
a).a guinea pig
b).a rat
c).a mouse
d). a hamster
87.Which Fireman talks about Marxist ideas in Hairy Ape?
a).Yank
b). Paddy
c). Isabelle
d).Long
88.Where are Absalom and Kumalo finally reunited?
a).At the Mission House
b).At the prison
c).In the courtroom
d). In Shanty Town
89. Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his masterpiece
Gitanjali
Gora
The Wreck
The Home and the World
90. ‘The Dying Eagle’ is a poem written by _______
E.J.Pratt
Judith Wright
Abioseh Nicoll
Douglas Stewart
91. Which is a radio play and later adapted into a stage play?
Ned Kelly
The Lion and the Jewel
Tughlaq
The Hairy Ape
92. Who was awarded The Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983 for his poetry collection ‘Latter-Day Psalms’?
Sarojini Naidu
Toru Dutt
R. Parthasarathy
Nissim Ezekiel
93. who profound the term “Four kinds of Meaning”. The author mentioned the four factors are (i) Sense (ii) Feeling (iii) Tone (iv) Intention
I.A. Richards
William Empson
Allen Tate
Lionel Trilling
94. Who show that metaphysical poetry is distinguished from other poetry by unification of sensibility?
Ezra Pound
John Dryden
Dr. Samuel Johnson
T.S Eliot
95. ‘That bad eminence’ is the phrase appears in Milton’s _____________.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
Il Penseroso
Samson Agonistes
96. ‘Caviare to the general’, ‘men in buckram’, ‘coign of Vantage’, ‘a tower of strength’, ‘Full of sound and fury’, ‘a Daniel come to judgement’, ‘yeoman service’, ‘the sere and yellow leaf’, ‘hoist with his own petard’, ‘to eat the leek’, ‘curled darlings’, ‘to the manner born’, ‘moving accident’, ‘a triton among the minnows’, ‘one’s pound of flesh’, ‘to wear one’s heart upon one’s sleeve’, ‘Sir Oracle’, ‘to gild refined gold’, ‘metal more attractive’, - all these phrased by ______.
Samuel Johnson
John Milton
Ben Johnson
William Shakespeare
97. ‘What is truth, said jesting Pilate’ it is an opening sentence of Bacon’s _______
Of Revenge
Of Studies
Of Ambition
Of Truth
98. Expressionism was revolt against
Naturalism
Realism
Impressionism
Surrealism
99. Imagism was initiated by Ezra Pound and T.E. Hulme in
1911
1912
1913
1914
100. What is the original name of George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans
Eric Arthur Blair
Currer Bell
Boz
101. ‘Paid me my ______ in a world of mirth.’ Fill the right word of the poem Affliction
Book
Wages
God
Amount
102. Nemesis means
Change of fate
Fate
Denouncement
Complication
103. Who has been called the leader of Angry Young Men?
Allan Sillitoe
John Wain
Colin Wilson
John Osborne
104. For Emerson, nature was the great source of
Joy
Pain
Inspiration
Ecstasy
105. How was Whitman’s ‘Passage to India’ can be described?
A transcendental poem, envisioning the spiritual unification and fulfilment of man
A poem to celebrate achievement of mankind
Scientific-sociological record of America
Glorification of American Life
106. William Faulkner died in
1949
1950
1954
1962
107. The Hairy Ape is a drama which can be labelled as
Realist
Expressionist
American Transcendentalist
Symbolist
108. Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is Albee’s
One-act Play
Five-act play
Three-act play
Short novel
109. ‘Marg’ a reputed journal devoted to the Arts has been edited by?
Raja Rao
Mulk Raj Anand
R.K. Narayan
Bhabani Bhattacharya
110. Which is the first novel of Raja Rao?
Kanthapura
The Serpent and the Rope
The Cat and Shakespeare
None of the above