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1)Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions became dangerous habits. It is also a startling and unusual love story. Oscar is a young English clergyman who has broken with his past and developed a disturbing talent for gambling. A country girl of singular ambition, Lucinda moves to Sydney, driven by dreams of self-reliance ...                   
 A.   "Oscar and Lucinda", Peter Carey

B.   "Utz", Bruce Chatwin
C.   "The Beginning of Spring", Penelope Fitzgerald
D.   "Nice Work", David Lodge
E.    "The Satanic Verses", Salman Rushdie
F.    "The Lost Father", Marina Warner 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ans:A  

 

 

2)The speaker, referring to the country that he has left, says that it is "no country for old men": it is full of youth and life, with the young lying in one another's arms, birds singing in the trees, and fish swimming in the waters. There, "all summer long" the world rings with the "sensual music" that makes the young neglect the old, whom the speaker describes as "Monuments of unageing intellect."  An old man, the speaker says, is a "paltry thing," merely a tattered coat upon a stick, unless his soul can clap its hands and sing; and the only way for the soul to learn how to sing is to study “monuments of its own magnificence." Therefore, the speaker has “sailed the seas and come / To the holy city of Byzantium." The speaker addresses the sages "standing in God's holy fire / As in the gold mosaic of a wall," and asks them to be his soul's "singing-masters." He hopes they will consume his heart away, for his heart "knows not what it is"--it is "sick with desire / And fastened to a dying animal," and the speaker wishes to be gathered "Into the artifice of eternity."The speaker says that once he has been taken out of the natural world, he will no longer take his "bodily form" from any "natural thing," but rather will fashion himself as a singing bird made of hammered gold, such as Grecian goldsmiths make "To keep a drowsy Emperor awake," or set upon a tree of gold "to sing / To lords and ladies of Byzantium / Or what is past, or passing, or to come."
(A)          Byzantium
 (B)          Among School Children
 (C)          Sailing to Byzantium
 (D)          The Circus Animals’ Desertion
Ans: Sailing to Byzantium
3) the main character Hagar Shipley refused to compromise which shaped the outcome of her life as well as the lives of those around her. “Pride was my wilderness and the demon that led me there was fear… [I was] never free, for I carried my chains within me, and they spread out from me and shackled all I touched.” (Laurence, 292). Hagar’s pride and stubbornness were the causes of her failed relationships and lack of love in her life. following novels is
A.   "Oscar and Lucinda", Peter Carey
B.   "Utz", Bruce Chatwin
C.   "The Beginning of Spring", Penelope Fitzgerald
D.   "Nice Work", David Lodge
E.    The stone angle , Margarete Laurence
F.    "The Lost Father", Marina Warner 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Ans:E                                 

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4)A.   Surfacing, her second novel  is structured around the point of view of a young woman who travels with her friends on a lake in Northern Quebec, to search for her missing father. This psychological mystery tale presents a compelling study of a woman who is also searching for herself- present, past and future.
 B.   The Blind Assassin, centred on the protagonist, Iris Chase, and her sister Laura, novel is pictorial details of lives around the time of the Second World War.
 C.   The Handmaid’s Tale, a dystopian novel , explores themes of women in subjugation and the various means by which they gain individualism engaging with the social structure.
 The author of the above novel is—
A)   Margaret Atwood
B)   Peter Carey
C)   Margarete Laurence
D)   Marina Warner
Ans:A
5)The correct incorrect pair is----A)   The Theatre of the Oppressed ------- Augusto Boal,
B)   Theater of Cruelty --- Antonin ArtaudC)   Experimental theatre (also known as avant-garde theatre) --- Alfred JarryD)   Yale Repertory Theatre,The Theatre of Revolt---- Robert BrusteinE)   “theater within the theater---- Luigi Pirandello
F)   “theater within the theater---brecht 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ans:F 

                                                                                                    

6) Who among the following wrote a book with the title The Age of Reason ? 

 

 

 (A)          William Godwin
 (B)          Edmund Burke
 (C)          Thomas Paine
 (D)          Edward Gibbon
Ans:C
7)The Parlement of Foules,a dream poem, shows the influence of Dante and of Giovanni Boccaccio on Chaucer. In The Parlement we witnesses an inconclusive debate about love among the different classes of birds.The Parlement of Foules  contains a mixture of comedy and serious speculation about the puzzling nature of love. Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowles is in part
(I) a puzzle
(I) a puzzle(II) a debate
(III) a threnody
(IV) a beast fable
The correct combination for the above statement, according to the code, is
(A) I, II & IV
(B) II, III & IV
(C) I & IV
(D) II & IV
Ans:A

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8) Which of the following author book pair is incorrectly matched ?
(A) irish murdoch – Under the Net
(B) Muriel Spark – Girls of Golding Slender Means
(C) Angus Wilson – Lucky Jim
(D) Doris Lessing – The Grass is Singing
Ans:C
9)Royalists,i. e.  the followers of King Charles I at the time of the English Civil War. Three of them—Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace—were attached to the court of Charles, and one, Robert Herrick, was a clergyman. These poets were influenced by Ben Jonson and formed an informal social, as well as literary circle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 .A)cavalier                                B)metaphysical                 C)transitional                             D)pre-romantic Ans:A"MASTER 10)HAROLD"...and the boys is a play Set in 1950, it was first produced at the Yale Repertory Theatre in March 1982 and made its premiere on Broadway on 4 May at the Lyceum Theatre, where it ran for 344 performances.                                                             (A)          The Lion and the Jewel-wole soyinka
 (B)          The Dance of the Forests---wole soyinka
 (C)          Master Harold and the Boys---Athol Fugard                      (D)          Kongi’s Harvest----wole Soyinka

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Ans:C
12)The Plain Dealer is a Restoration comedy, first performed on 11 December 1676. The play is based on Molière's Le Misanthrope, and is generally considered ... The French philosopher, historian, and dramatist Voltaire adapted The Plain Dealer to make his own play, titled La Prude (The Prude)
A)   William Wycherley
B)   William congrew
C)   Stern
D)   Eliot
Ans:A
13. My First Acquaintance with Poets, an unforgettable account of meeting with literary heroes, is written by
(A) Charles Lamb
(B) Thomas de Quincey
(C) Leigh Hunt
(D) William Hazlitt
Ans:D
 14) Five works set in the Canadian prairie town of Manawaka constitute the major body of HER fiction: The Stone Angel (1964), A Jest of God (1966), The Fire-Dwellers (1969), A Bird in the House (1970), and The Diviners (1974).THE AUTHOR IS                                                                                                   a)      Margaret Laurence
b)      Margaret Atwood                                                                        c)       Margaret Avery                                                                  d)      Margaret Mead                                                                           Ans: Margaret Laurence                                                                  15)Intrigued by the extensive oral literature of the Somali people, she searched out and translated examples of the folk tales, love poems, and formal, highly-developed gabei, gathering them together in a book called A Tree for Poverty, published in 1954. In Ghana she began to write the short stories later collected and published as The Tomorrow-Tamer (London, 1963; New York, 1964). Her first novel, This Side Jordan (1960), is set in Ghana, and The Prophet's Camel Bell(1963), published in the United States as New Wind in a Dry Land (1964), is a retrospective account of her experiences in Somaliland. THE AUTHOR IS                             a)      Margaret Laurence
b)      Margaret Atwood                                                                   c)       Margaret Avery                                                                  d)      Margaret Mead                                                                     Ans: Margaret Laurence                                                                                                   17) Ottava rima is a stanza of eight lines: a verse form made up of eight lines in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abababcc. The stanza is remodeled by Edmund Spenser as seen in his long allegorical romance The Faerie Queene (1590–6). {Spenserian stanza, an English poetic stanza of nine iambic lines, the first eight being pentameters while the ninth is a longer line known either as an iambic hexameter or as an alexandrine. The rhyme scheme is ababbcbcc. }The meter is again revived successfully by the younger English Romantic poets of the early 19th century: Byron used it for Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812, 1816), Keats for ‘The Eve of St Agnes’ (1820), and Shelley for The Revolt of Islam (1818) and Adonais (1821). The stanza of Byron’s Childe Harold is
A)Thou wert the morning star among the living, Ere thy fair light had fled; Now, having died, thou art as Hesperus, giving New splendor to the dead.                                                                                                           B)Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child!
Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart?
When last I saw thy young blue eyes they smiled,
And when we parted,—not as now we part,
C)Adonis- ‘An Elegy on the Death of John Keats’written in the spring of 1821, and first published July 1821                                                                                                  D) a light is passed from the revolving year, / And man, and woman; and what still is dear / Attracts to crush, repels to make thee wither."
Ans:B                                                                                          Raymond Williams coined the term Cultural Materialism. Jonathan Dollimore and Allen Sinfield made current and defined Cultural materialism as “designating a critical method which has characteristics:

1. Historical Context: what was happening at the time the text was written.

1. Theoretical Method: Incorporating older methods of theory—Structuralism, Post-structuralism etc.

1. Political Commitment: Incorporating non-conservative andnon-Christian frameworks—such as Feminist and Marxist theory.

1. Textual Analysis: building on theoretical analysis of mainly canonical texts that have become “prominent cultural icons.”

1. All

Ans:All
Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Cary, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Finch, Aemelia Lanyer, Katherine Philips, Ester Sowernam, Rachel Speght, and Mary Wroth.a)     They are 17^th c women writer
b)     They are 17^th c men writer
c)     They are 17^th c novelist writer
d)     They are 17^th c essyiest writer
Ans:A
Aphra Behn, Anne Bradstreet, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Aemilia Lanyer, Lady Mary Wrotha)     They are 17^th c women writer
b)     They are 17^th c men writer
c)     They are 17^th c women poet
d)     They are 17^th c essyiest writer
Ans:C
As the author of the collection of poetry known as "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum" (1611) she was the first woman in England to publish a book of original poetry. ... After the central poem there is a verse "Description of Cookham," dedicated to Margaret, Countess of Cumberland. She is A)Margaret Cavendish,B) Duchess of Newcastle,C) Aemilia Lanyer or Emilia LanierD) Lady Mary WrothAns: C) Aemilia Lanyer,Orestes (published in Theatre One: New South African Drama, 1978), and the documentary expressiveness of Sizwe Banzi Is Dead (revised as Sizwe Bansi Is Dead), The Island, and Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act (all published in Statements: Three Plays, 1974),A much more traditionally structured play, Dimetos (1977), was performed at the 1975 Edinburgh Festival. A Lesson from Aloes (published 1981) and “Master Harold”…and the Boys (1982) were performed to much acclaim in London and New York City, as was The Road to Mecca (1985; film 1992), the story of an eccentric older woman about to be confined against her will in a nursing home. Throughout the 1970s and ’80s he worked to create and sustain theatre groups that, despite South African drama’s particular vulnerability to censorship, produced plays defiantly indicting the country’s apartheid policy.the author is—
a)     Athol  Fugardb)      Sir David Harec)     Julian Fellowesd)     Sir Noël CowardAns:A
26.         The play is a Restoration comedy , first performed on 11 December 1676. The play is based on Molière's Le Misanthrope, and is generally considered Wycherley's finest work along with The Country Wife. Which of the following plays by William Wycherley is in part an adaptation of Moliere’s The Misanthrope ? (A)            The Plain Dealer (B)            The Country Wife (C)            Love in a Wood (D)            The Gentleman Dancing MasterAns:A
"On Gusto": Gusto in art is power or passion defining any object. -- It is not so difficult to explain this term in what relates to expression (of which it may be said to be the highest degree) as in what relates to things without expression, to the natural appearances of objects, as mere colour or form. In one sense, however, there is hardly any object entirely devoid of expression, without some character of power belonging to it, some precise association with pleasure or pain: and it is in giving this truth of character from the truth of feeling, whether in the highest or the lowest degree, but always in the highest degree of which the subject is capable, that gusto consists. Gusto is defined by(A)            Charles Lamb
 (B)            Thomas de Quincey
 (C)            Leigh Hunt
 (D)            William Hazlitt
Ans:D 31.         My First Acquaintance with Poets, an unforgettable account of meeting with literary heroes, is written by (A)            Charles Lamb
 (B)            Thomas de Quincey
 (C)            Leigh Hunt
 (D)            William Hazlitt
Ans:D34.           “Incunable” is the anglicized singular form of "incunabula", Latin for "swaddling clothes" or “cradle,” which can refer to “the earliest stages or first traces in the development of anything The end date for identifying a printed book as an incunable.  ‘Incunabula’ refers to
 (A)            books censured by the Roman Emperor
 (B)            books published before the year 1501
 (C)            books containing an account of myths and rituals
 (D)            books wrongly attributed to an author
ans: books published before the year 1501
 
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