1.In
Langlands’ Piers the Plowman, Piers
appears finally as:
(A) Charity
(B) The Holy Trinity
(B) The Holy Trinity
(C) Jesus
(D) The Good Samaritan
(D) The Good Samaritan
Ans:The next mention is in a sequel. The following passage is noteworthy.
"Anima, after describing the tree of Charity, says that it is under the care of Piers the Plowman, the dreamer swoons, for joy, into a dream, in which he sees Piers and the tree, and hears a long account of the fruits of the tree which gradually becomes a narrative of the birth and betrayal of Christ. At the close of this he wakes, and wanders about, seeking Piers, and meets with Abraham (or Faith), who expounds the Trinity; they are joined by Spes (Hope); and a Samaritan (identified with Jesus) cares for a wounded man whom neither Faith nor Hope will help. After this, the Samaritan expounds the Trinity, passing unintentionally to an exposition of mercy; and the dreamer wakes. In the next vision (passus XIX) he sees Jesus in the armour of Piers ready to joust with Death; but, instead of the jousting, we have an account of the crucifixion, the debate of the Four Daughters of God and the harrowing of hell. He wakes and writes his dream, and, immediately, sleeps again and dreams that Piers, painted all bloody and like to Christ, appears. Is it Jesus or Piers? Conscience tells him that these are the colours and coat-armour of Piers, but he that comes so bloody is Christ. A discussion ensues on the comparative merits of the names Christ and Jesus, followed by an account of the life of Christ. Piers is Peter (or the church),"
"Anima, after describing the tree of Charity, says that it is under the care of Piers the Plowman, the dreamer swoons, for joy, into a dream, in which he sees Piers and the tree, and hears a long account of the fruits of the tree which gradually becomes a narrative of the birth and betrayal of Christ. At the close of this he wakes, and wanders about, seeking Piers, and meets with Abraham (or Faith), who expounds the Trinity; they are joined by Spes (Hope); and a Samaritan (identified with Jesus) cares for a wounded man whom neither Faith nor Hope will help. After this, the Samaritan expounds the Trinity, passing unintentionally to an exposition of mercy; and the dreamer wakes. In the next vision (passus XIX) he sees Jesus in the armour of Piers ready to joust with Death; but, instead of the jousting, we have an account of the crucifixion, the debate of the Four Daughters of God and the harrowing of hell. He wakes and writes his dream, and, immediately, sleeps again and dreams that Piers, painted all bloody and like to Christ, appears. Is it Jesus or Piers? Conscience tells him that these are the colours and coat-armour of Piers, but he that comes so bloody is Christ. A discussion ensues on the comparative merits of the names Christ and Jesus, followed by an account of the life of Christ. Piers is Peter (or the church),"
2.
It is decided
that each Canterbury pilgrim
would tell in all:
(A) One story (B) Two stories
(C) Three stories (D) Four stories
Ans:The Canterbury Tales begins with the introduction of each of the pilgrims making their journey to Canterbury to the shrine of Thomas a Becket. These pilgrims include a Knight, his son the Squire, the Knight's Yeoman, a Prioress, a Second Nun, a Monk, a Friar, a Merchant, a Clerk, a Man of Law, a Franklin, a Weaver, a Dyer, a Carpenter, a Tapestry-Maker, a Haberdasher, a Cook, a Shipman, a Physician, a Parson, a Miller, a Manciple, a Reeve, a Summoner, a Pardoner, the Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. Congregating at the Tabard Inn, the pilgrims decide to tell stories to pass their time on the way to Canterbury. The Host of the Tabard Inn sets the rules for the tales. Each of the pilgrims will tell two stories on the way to Canterbury, and two stories on the return trip. The Host will decide whose tale is best for meaningfulness and for fun. They decide to draw lots to see who will tell the first tale, and the Knight receives the honor.
3.
Venus and Adonis
is a long narrative
poem by:
(A) Shakespeare (B) Marlowe
(C) Drayton (D) Sydney
Ans:
Your honour's in all duty,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
Ans:
Venus and Adonis
'Vilia miretur vulgus; mihi flavus Apollo
Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua.'
TO THEI KNOW not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your lordship, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burden only, if your honour seem but pleased, I account myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle hours, till I have honoured you with some graver labour. But if the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry it had so noble a god-father, and never after ear so barren a land, for fear it yield me still so bad a harvest. I leave it to your honourable survey, and your honour to your heart's content; which I wish may always answer your own wish and the world's hopeful expectation.
RIGHT HONORABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLY,
EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON, AND BARON OF TICHFIELD.
RIGHT HONORABLE,
Your honour's in all duty,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
4. The
total number of poems in Shakespeare’s
Sonnets is:
(A) 123 (B) 142
(C) 104 (D) 154 Ans:D
5 Which of the following plays has a Machiavellean hero ?
(A) Tamburlaine Part I
(B) Dr. Faustus
(C) Jew of Malta
(C) Jew of Malta
(D) Edward II
Ans: Jew of Malta
Ans: Jew of Malta
6.
Which of the following is written
by Samuel Butler ?
(A) Religio Laici
(B) David Simple
(C) Hudibras
(D) Journal of the Plague
Year
Ans:
Ans:
7. Which of the following poems did Milton write in Octosyllabic Couplets?
(A) IL Penseroso
(B) “On His Blindness”
(C) “On the Late Massacre in Piedmont”
(D) Lycidas
Ans:Milton wrote Il Penseroso in octosyllabic couplet which is a tetrameter line containing eight syllables and usually consisting of iambic and trochaic feet.undefined undefined undefined undefined undefined undefined
Ans:Milton wrote Il Penseroso in octosyllabic couplet which is a tetrameter line containing eight syllables and usually consisting of iambic and trochaic feet.undefined undefined undefined undefined undefined undefined
8.Which of the following plays is not written
by Congreve?
(A) The way of the
World
(B) The Old
Bachelor
(C) Love for Love
(D) The Relapse
Ans: the work of congreve
Ans: the work of congreve
- The Old Bachelor (1693)
- The Double Dealer (1694)
- Love for Love (1695)
- The Mourning Bride (1697)
- The Way of the World (1700)
The Relapse, or, Virtue in Danger is a Restoration comedy from 1696 written by John Vanbrugh. The play is a sequel to Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift, or, The Fool in Fashion.
9. Dryden’s All For Love is
an adaptation of:
(A) Philaster
(B) Romeo and Juliet
(C) Antony and
Cleopatra
(D) Edward II
Ans: Dryden’s All for Love, or The World Well Lost is not an adaptation of Antony and Cleopatra, but a free treatment of the same subject on his own lines. The agreeable preface which precedes the published play, written in a style flavoured by the influence of Montaigne, which was perceptibly growing on Dryden, takes the censure of his production, as it were, out of the mouths of the critics, and then turns upon the poetasters with almost cruel ridicule, which may have helped to exasperate Rochester, evidently the principal object of attack
10. Which of the following
books proposes a political theory?
(A) Principia (B) Leviathan
(C) Anatomy of Melancholy
(D) Liberty of Prophesying
ans:Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil—commonly referred to as Leviathan—is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and published in 1651 book of political philosophy by Thomas Hobbes; Leviathan (Auster novel), a 1992 novel by Paul Auster;
ans:Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil—commonly referred to as Leviathan—is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and published in 1651 book of political philosophy by Thomas Hobbes; Leviathan (Auster novel), a 1992 novel by Paul Auster;
11. Which of the following books is written
by a woman ?
(A) A Vindication
of
the Rights
of Women
(B) Social Contract
(C) A Treatise
of Human
Nature
(D) The Wealth of Nations
12. Which of the following
books by Jonathan Swift is a
religious allegory?
(A) The Battle of
the Books
(B) A Modest Proposal
(C) Gulliver’s Travels
(D) A Tale
of
a Tub
13. Which of the following is a “Visionary”
work by William
Blake?
(A) The Song of Los
(B) Songs of Experience
(C) Poetical Sketches
(D) The Vision
of
the
Daughters of Albion
14. Pope’s An Essay on Man is based on the ideas
of:
(A) Lord Petrie
(B) Theobald
(C) Lord Bolingbroke
(D) Lord Harvey
15. Which of the following
works by Johnson
is an imitation of the tenth satire of Juvenal?
(A) London
(B) Vanity of Human
Wishes
(C) The Life of Savage
(D) Rasselas
16. The final version of Wordsworth’s The Prelude appeared
in:
(A) 1798 (B) 1806
(C) 1850 (D) 1860
17. “To Suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite”
is written
by:
(A) Shelley (B) Wordsworth
(C) Keats (D) Byron
18. “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever” occurs
in:
(A) “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
(B) “Ode to Autumn”
(C) “Ode to Psyche”
(D) “Endymion”
19. Which of the following
novels is a satire on
the Gothic novel?
(A) Pride and
Prejudice
(B) Emma
(C) Sense and Sensibility
(D) Northanger Abbey
20. Who distinguished between “the literature of Knowledge” and “the literature of power”?
(A) Coleridge
(B) De Quincey
(C) Hazlitt
(D) Lamb
21. Who among the following Victorian poets
is the most sensitive
to the conflict between
the old and the new?
(A) Tennyson
(B) Rossetti
(C) Browning
(D) Swinburne
22. Under the Greenwood Tree is written
by:
(A) Mrs. Gaskell
(B) George Eliot
(C) Thomas Hardy
(D) Emily Bronte
23. The Office
of Circumlocution occurs
in:
(A) David Copperfield
(B) Bleak House
(C) Little Dorrit
(D) Hard Times
24. The novel Mary Barton
is written by:
(A) Mrs. Gaskell
(B) George Eliot
(C) Emily Bronte
(D) Dickens
25. The line”Poetry is a criticism
of life” occurs in:
(A) Culture and
Anarchy
(B) Modern Painters
(C) The Study of Poetry
(D) Sartor Resartus
26. Martha Quest was
written by:
(A) Jean Rhys
(B) Doris Lessing
(C) Iris Murdoch
(D) Nadine Gordimer
27. The term “Stream
of Consciousness” was taken from the
book:
(A) The Human
Mind
(B) The Principles of Psychology
(C)
The Mind of Man
(D) Modes of Human
Behaviour
28. G.S. Fraser’s The Golden Bough focusses on:
(A) Images (B) Metaphors
(C) Symbols (D) Archetypes
29. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman relies for its tragic seriousness on the fate of:
(A) Willy Loman (B) Estragon
(C) Vladimir (D) Lucky
30. The character
Leopald Bloom makes an appearance in the
novel:
(A) The Sound and the Fury
(B) Ulysses
(C) To the
Lighthouse
(D) The Europeans
31. Who of the following
authors represents the Sri Lankan diaspora ?
(A) Cyril Dabydeen
(B) Michael Ondaatje
(C) Arnold H.
Itwaru
(D) M.G. Vassanji
32. Australian aborigines receive a sympathetic treatment in:
(A) Les Murray
(B) Gwen Harwood
(C) Judith Wright
(D) A.D. Hope
33. Margaret Atwood’s Survival makes a case for:
(A) Canadian
identity in
Canadian literature
(B) Canadian nationalism
(C) The future of
Canadian literature
(D) The past of Canadian
literature
34. V.S.
Naipaul’s latest book is:
(A) The Mystic Masseur
(B) A Bend
in the River
(C) Among the Believers
(D) Half a
Life
35. Which of the following
books by Salman Rushdie
refers to the 15th Century Spain
as a starting point ?
(A) Haroun and
the Sea of Stories
(B) The Moor’s
Last Sigh
(C) Shame
(D) Grimus
36. Who’s Afraid
of Virginia
Woolf is written by:
(A) Arthur Miller
(B) Engene O Neil
(C) Edward Albee
(D) Tennessee Williams
37. Imamu Amiri Baraka is:
(A) A Carribean writer
(B) An American
writer
(C) An Arab
writer
(D)
A Sri Lankan writer
38. The Miscellany was published from:
(A) Sahitya Akademi
(B) The Writers Workshop
(C) PEN
(D) Dhwanyalok
39. Who of the following
writers recreates the life of the
Yoruba/Ibo community?
(A) Derek Walcott
(B) Wole Soyinka
(C) Chinna Achebe
(D) Okot
40. Who of the
following White female
authors are sympathetic to the cause of the Blacks?
(A) Margaret Drabble
(B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Muriel Spark (D) Jean Rhys
41. New Criticism considers text as a:
(A) Cultural construct
(B) Historical construct
(C) Linguistic construct
(D) Autotelic
42. Mythologies was
written by:
(A) Roland Barthes
(B) Jacques Derrida
(C) Homi K. Bhabha
(D) Ernest Dowson
43. The word “Catharsis”
signifies:
(A) Pontification
(B) Personification
(C) Purgation
(D) Publication
44. The rejection of “Universalism” is a mark of:
(A) Deconstruction
(B) New Historicism
(C) Structuralism
(D) Postcolonial criticism
45. Eliot’s theory of “objective correlative” appeared in his essay entitled:
(A) Three voices
of
Poetry
(B) Tradition and the Individual Talent
(C) The Metaphysical Poets
(D)
Hamlet
46. Sprung Rhythm is an example
of:
(A) Verse (B) Syllable
(C) Stress (D) Meter
47. “More is thy due than more than all can pay”
is an example of:
(A) Weak - ending (B) Inversion
(C) Alexandrine
(D) Extra Syllable
48. Unrhymed metrical composition consisting of five iambic
measures in each line is
called:
(A) Rhyme royal
(B) Run-on-lines
(C) Blank verse
(D) Spenserian stanza
49. Verse stories dealing with chivalry, Knight, errantry,
enchantments, and love are known
as:
(A) The epic (B) The ballad
(C) The ode
(D) The metrical
romances
50. “He is a citizen
of no mean city” is an example
of:
(A) Periphrasis (B) Tautology
(C) Prolepsis (D) Litotes
No comments:
Post a Comment