1) “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion;
it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But,
of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to
want to escape from these things.”
(A) Arnold’s “The Study of Poetry”
(B) Shelley’s “A Defence of Poetry”
(C) Sidney’s “An Apology for Poetry”
(D)
Eliot’s of Poetry and Poets
Ans:D
2)“Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life; that the greatness of a poet
lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life — to the
question: How to live.”
(A) Arnold’s “The Study of Poetry”
(B) Shelley’s “A Defence of Poetry”
(C) Sidney’s “An Apology for Poetry”
(D)
Eliot’s of Poetry and Poets
Ans:A
3)“As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its
own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have
no belief n ‘tradition’ or a common myth-kitty or casual allusions in poems to
other poems or poets, which last I find unpleasantly like the talk of literary
understrappers letting you see they know the right people.”
(A) Arnold’s “The Study of Poetry”
(B) Shelley’s “A Defence of Poetry”
(C) Sidney’s “An Apology for Poetry”
(D)
Larkin
Ans:D
4) “Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent,
makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing,
makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and
suffering is forever shared and forever all your own.”
(A) Arnold’s “The Study of Poetry”
(B) Dylan thomas
(C) Sidney’s “An Apology for Poetry”
(D)
Larkin
)The Exposition means
(A)
Setting: Verona
Italy, 16th or 17th century
(B)
Characters: Capulets
and Montagues, specifically, Romeo and Juliet
(C)
Conflict: The
Montagues and Capulets are feuding
(D)
All
Ans:All
6).
Arrange
the following stages in a sequence in which all Shakespearean tragedies are
structured. Use the code given below :
I.
Denouement or resolution
II.
Conflict
III. Exposition
IV. Climax
Code :
(A)
III, II, IV, I
(B)
III, IV, II, I
(C) II, IV, III, I
(D)
II, IV, I, III
Ans:A
7)The Exposition means
(A)
Here,
the audience learns the setting (Time/Place), characters are developed, and a
conflict is introduced.
(B)
The
action of this act leads the audience to the climax. It is common for
complications to arise, or for the protagonist to encounter obstacles.
(C)
This
is the turning point of the play. The climax is characterized by the highest
amount of suspense.
(D)
The
opposite of Rising Action, in the Falling Action the story is coming to an end,
and any unknown details or plot twists are revealed and wrapped up.
(E)
This
is the final outcome of the drama. Here the authors tone about his or her
subject matter is revealed, and sometimes a moral or lesson is learned.
Ans:A
8)Nathan Zuckerman is a fictional
character who appears as the narrator or protagonist in many of Philip Roth’s
novels. Zuckerman makes his first appearance in the novel,
A)
My Life
As a Man (1974), where he
is the creation of another fictional character, writer Peter Tarnopol.
B)
The Ghost Writer, where he is the story's protagonist
and
C)
Zuckerman Unbound (1981) he is an established novelist.
(Zuckerman novels: The Ghost
Writer Zuckerman Unbound The Anatomy Lesson, The Prague Orgy, The Counter life, American
Pastoral, I Married
a Communist, The Human
Stain, Exit
Ghost
D)
All
Ans:D
9). Which of the
following novels by
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V.S. Naipaul is
set in Africa
and
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carries echoes of Joseph Conrad ?
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(A)
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(B)
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(C) A House for Mr. Biswas
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(D)
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Ans:B
. Which of the
following statement is correct?
A) Half a Life, Naipaul's 12th novel, is set in 1930s India,
1950s London and a Portuguese colony in Africa resembling Mozambique around
independence in the mid-70s.
B) When he was six, the family moved to Trinidad's capital, Port
of Spain, the setting for his first novel, Miguel Street (1959).
C)
The Mystic Masseur
(1957), The Suffrage of Elvira (1958) and what many still believe to be his
masterpiece, A House for Mr Biswas (1961), based on his father's life, and with
a character, Anand, who resembles the young Vidia. All these novels were set in
the Caribbean,
D) Mr Stone and the Knights Companion
his only book set in England
E) All
Ans:E
Wide
Sargasso Sea(1966) is the most successful and post colonial novel. The novel
parallels Charlotte Bronte’s ‘Jane Eyre’. Her other novel is Good morning ,
midnight. 1939. Part One takes place in Coulibri,
Jamaica and is narrated by Antoinette. Part Two alternates between the points
of view of her husband and of Antoinette following their marriage and is set in Granbois, Dominica.
A) by Dominican born v s naipaul
B) by Dominican born Jean Rhys
C) by Dominican born Hilma
Contreras Castillo
D) by Dominican born Junot DÃaz
Ans:B
Perhaps
the best known Latino author alive, he won a Pulitzer
Prize in 2008 for his debut novel, The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. However, before
he published Oscar Wao, he penned a magnificent work of short stories called Drown. The
10 stories focus upon issues of identity, love, family, sexuality and adulthood
in neighborhoods in the Dominican Republic, New Jersey and New York. The author
is---
E) by Dominican born v s naipaul
F) by Dominican born Jean Rhys
G) by Dominican born Hilma
Contreras Castillo
H) by Dominican born Junot DÃaz
You
can’t do both is a semi autobiographical novel published in 1994 and Lucky
Jim (1954),
That Uncertain Feeling (1955),I Like It Here (1958) Take a Girl Like You (1960) ,In The Anti-Death League (1966), The Green Man (1969)
(mystery/horror) and The Alteration (1976) (alternate
history) I Want It Now (1968) and Girl, 20(1971). In 1968 What Became of Jane Austen? and Other Essays, In 1965, he wrote the popular The
James Bond Dossier under his own name.the author is
(A)
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(B)
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(C)
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Kingsley Amis
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(D)
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Ans:C
Tis
pity she’s a whore’ one of the main themes is the incestuous relationship
between the central characters of Giovanni and Annabella. But a question rose
by the statement above ‘love is the most selfish of emotions’ is whether the
love in the play is a genuine everlasting ideal love or a more selfish in
essence.
(A) John Cleland’s
(B) John Ford’s ‘
(C) John Braine’s
(D)
John Evelyn’s
Ans:B
28. The character Giovanni features in
one of the following texts :
(A) John Cleland’s Fanny Hill : Memoirs of
a Woman of Pleasure
(B) John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore’
(C) John Braine’s Room at the Top
(D)
John Evelyn’s Diaries
Ans:B
34. The pamphlet on the Irish condition, “An
Address to the Irish People” was composed by
(A) W.B. Yeats
(B) P.B. Shelley
(C) Jonathan Swift
(D) G.B. Shaw
Ans:B
The
character Giovanni features in John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a
Whore’.the incorrect statement about him is--
1. The Friar wants Giovanni not to question why incest is
forbidden. Instead, Giovanni should simply obey the prohibition against incest.
2. Giovanni says blood and reason bind him to his sister. He
believes both their shared genes and logical reasoning are causes for his
desire for Annabella.
3. The Friar remembers Giovanni’s accomplishments at the
university in Bologna and praises his early brilliance there. However, he
criticizes Giovanni for leaving the university to pursue his desire for
Annabella.
4. Giovanni trusts the Friar’s advice because the Friar has
tutored him and he believes the Friar is wise.
5. The Friar says Giovanni should stay at his mother house for
seven days. Whilte there, he should pray for release from his incestuous
desire.
Ans:5
the correct statement
about John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore’.is--
1. Grimaldi disdains to fight Vasques because he is an
aristocrat and Vasques is a servant. He feels that servants are not equal to
aristocrats, so he would be lowering himself if he fought Vasques
2. Putana approves of Soranzo because he has many fine
qualities. She emphasizes that his sensual qualities are sure to satisfy
Annabella should she marry him.
3. Putana calls Bergetto a “brave old ape in a silken coat.” She
thinks he is a fool despite his fine dress, and not a man Annabella should
consider marrying.
4. Giovanni and Annabella promise that they will either love or
kill each other.
5. Donado tells Florio what he will give Bergetto if Annabella
marries Bergetto to show that Bergetto would have enough money to support
Annabella if they married.
6. all
Ans:6
31. The pamphlet on the Irish condition,
“An Address to the Irish People” was composed by
(A)
W.B. Yeats
(B)
P.B. Shelley
(C) Jonathan Swift
(D)
G.B. Shaw
Ans:B
39. “Heteroglossia” refers to
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(A)
the
presence of two or more expressed viewpoints in a text or other artistic work.
(B)
The juxtaposition of
multiple voices in a text.
(C)
a diversity of voices, styles of discourse, or
points of view in a literary work and especially a novel.
(D)
Heteroglossia (multilanguagedness)
is a term which originated with Mikhail Bakhtin and particularly in his work
"Discourse in the Novel.
Ans:D
‘Don’t make your eyes red, Oliver, but eat your food and be
thankful,’ said Mr. Bumble, in a tone of impressive pomposity. ‘You’re a going
to be made a ‘prentice of, Oliver.’
‘A prentice, sir!’ said the child, trembling.
‘It!’
replied the woman, laying her hand over the other’s mouth. ‘The only thing she
had. She wanted clothes to keep her warm, and food to eat; but she had kept it
safe, and had it in her bosom. It was gold, I tell you! Rich gold, that might
have saved her life!
The
author is
A) Charles Dickson
B) Jeremy Taylor
C) John Bunyan
D)
Andrew Marvell
E)
George Herbert
Ans:A
Chapter III of Oliver Twist opens
with a narratorial remark about Oliver being punished for “the commission of
the impious and profane offence of asking for more.” What did Oliver ask for more?
(1)
More time to play
(2)
More food to eat
(3) More books to read
(4) More money to spend
Ans:2
6.
Edmund Spenser’s Epithalamion is a carefully structured poem
carrying___corresponding to the
(1) twelve stanzas; months
of the year
(2)three hundred and sixty
five lines; days of the year
(3)fourteen stanzas; two
week-long bridal ceremonies
(4)eleven stanzas;
eleventh month, November
Ans: three hundred and
sixty five lines; days of the year
Each
stanza has a refrain, 6 of which, John B. Lord states, repeat one version or another, resulting in 17
variations to the refrain during which the "echo" rings from morning
to night and to silence. There are 365 long lines and 68 short lines. The long
lines correspond to the days of a year (365). The short lines correspond to the
number of weeks in a year (52), added to the number of months in a year (12),
added to the number of seasons in a year ( 4): 52 + 12 + 4 = 68. The poem is
A) Epithalamion
B) prothalmion
C) Calendar
d) Ode to the west wind
Ans: Epithalamion
7. Choose the right chronological
sequence below:
(1) Victorian Period – Jacobean
Period
– Tudor Period – Restoration Period
(2)
Edwardian Period – Tudor Period – Jacobean Period – Victorian Period
(3)
Tudor Period – Jacobean Period – Restoration Period – Edwardian Period
(4)
Jacobean Period – Tudor Period – Restoration Period – Edwardian Period
Ans:3
“That
women’s days were spent in ignorant good will…”: referring to Countess
Georgina Markiewicz, an upper class socialite and nationalist, later a cabinet
minister in the Irish Free State (1922). Yeats clearly thought her superficial
(“ignorant good will”) and loudly argumentative (“shrill”). She was however
once, he remembers, beautiful. Is this a sexist judgement? Markiewicz escaped
execution by the British, unlike the three men mentioned following.
The poem
is—
A)
Easter
1916
B)
Sailing
C)
Sailing
to byzantine
D)
Byzantine
E)
Ans:A
That woman’s days were spent
In ignorant good-will,
Her nights in argument
Until her voice grew shrill.
What voice more sweet than hers
When, young and beautiful,
She rode to harriers? (W. B. Yeats: “Easter 1916”)
In ignorant good-will,
Her nights in argument
Until her voice grew shrill.
What voice more sweet than hers
When, young and beautiful,
She rode to harriers? (W. B. Yeats: “Easter 1916”)
Who
is the poet referring to?
A)
Maud Gonne
B)
Lady Augusta Gregory
C)
Patrick Pearse
D)
Constance Gore – Booth Markievicz
Ans:D
This man had kept a
school
And rode our wingèd horse;
(W. B. Yeats: “Easter 1916”)
And rode our wingèd horse;
(W. B. Yeats: “Easter 1916”)
Who
is the poet referring to this man?
A)
Maud Gonne
B)
Lady Augusta Gregory
C)
Patrick Pearse
D)
Constance Gore – Booth Markievicz
Ans:C
Who
is the poet referring to This other his helper?
A)
Maud Gonne
B)
Thomas
MacDonagh
C)
Patrick Pearse
D)
Constance Gore – Booth Markievicz
Ans:B
Who is the poet referring to This
other
A)
Maud Gonne
B)
Thomas
MacDonagh
C)
Patrick Pearse
D)
Constance Gore – Booth Markievicz
E)
John MacBride, who married Maud Gonne
Ans:E
As the language theories underlying the Audiolingual method and the Sitiuational Language Teaching method were
questioned by prominent linguists like Chomsky (1957) during the 1960s, a new
trend of language teaching paved its way into classrooms.
A)
Motivational Approach
B)
Situational Language Teaching
C)
Natural Language Processing
D)
Structural Approach
E)
Communicative approach
Ans:E
1. Which of the following was replaced
by Communicative Language Teaching?
A)
Motivational Approach
B)
Situational Language Teaching
C)
Natural Language Processing
D)
Structural Approach
Ans:B
Hooker set out to refute the puritan contention
that scripture alone was the rule governing all the things that might be done
by humankind (I, p. 334: refences to volume and page of Keble’s edition). In
doing this, Hooker clarifies the question of authority in matters of doctrine
and practice. He shows the proper place of scripture, reason and tradition,
that famous 'threefold cord not quickly broken' which was to become the hall
mark of classical
A) Anglicanism
B) Puritanism
C) decadent
D)roman
Ans:A
1.
In
his masterpiece, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie, Richard Hooker
affirmed the Anglican tradition as that of a “threefold cord not quickly
broken.” He specifically referred to the following EXCEPT __________ .
A)
tradition
B)
scripture
C)
community
D)
reason
Ans:C
He was born at Great Torrington in 1522 and died
in 1571. He wrote the first major defence of the English Reformation and of the
reformed English Church the Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae.he was rewarded with
the bishopric of Salisbury and apparently proved to be an excellent bishop. He
was the patron of:here he means
A)
John Jewe
B)
Richard Hooker
C)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ans:A
'Sohrab and Rustum' (1853) advocates stoicism through the poignant tale of a father who inadvertently destroys his
son. It is epic poem in blank verse , published in 1853 in
his collection Poems. sources for this heroic romance set in ancient Persia were
translations of an epic by the Persian poet FerdowsÄ« and Sir John Malcolm’s History of Persia (1815). the poet is
A) Robert Browning
B) Matthew Arnold
C) Arthur Hugh Clough
D) Christina Rossetti
Ans:B
Story of pleasure-seeking Laura and
the conventionally moral Lizzie who resists temptations. This poem in 1859 while volunteering at the St Mary
Magdalene Penitentiary for ‘fallen women’ in Highgate. Dedicated to the reform
and rehabilitation of prostitutes, this Anglo-Catholic institution was
remarkable in the period for its conviction that women who had transgressed
sexually could be redeemed. Biographers and critics have argued that the themes
of temptation, sexual exchange and sisterly redemption in this poem are
influenced by its poet’s experience working as an ‘Associate Sister’ at
Highgate. – the poem is
A)Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book
B)The Prince's Progress and Other Poems
C)Goblin Market and Other Poems
D)Annus Domini: A Prayer for
Each Day of the Year
Ans:C
2. A sensational 17th century murder
presented through multiple dramatic monologues
A)
Christina Rossetti: Goblin Market
B)
Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book
C)
Matthew Arnold:
Sohrab and Rustom
D)
Arthur Hugh Clough: The Bothie of
Ans:B
The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich, his
first major work, appeared at the end of a long year of soul searching. It is Gently satiric account of an Oxford student on vacation.the
author is
A) Robert Browning
B) Matthew Arnold
C) Arthur Hugh Clough
D) Christina Rossetti
Ans:C
1.
Match the following:
List – I
A) Christina Rossetti: Goblin Market
B)
Matthew Arnold:
Sohrab and Rustom
C)
Robert
Browning: The Ring and the Book
D)
Arthur
Hugh Clough: The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich
List – II
i.
The
tale of a father who inadvertently destroys his son
ii.
Story
of pleasure-seeking Laura and the conventionally moral Lizzie who resists
temptations
iii.
A
sensational 17th century murder presented through multiple dramatic monologues
iv.
Gently
satiric account of an Oxford student on vacation
The right matching according to the
code is:
(a)
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(b)
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(c)
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(d)
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(1)
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(iii)
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(iv)
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(i)
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(ii)
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(2)
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(ii)
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(iv)
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(iii)
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(i)
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(3)
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(iii)
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(i)
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(iv)
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(ii)
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(4)
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(iv)
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(ii)
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(iii)
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(i)
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Ans:A-ii,B-I,c-iii,d-d
In which of the following works does
the narrator proclaim,
I’m just a red nigger
who love the sea,
I had a sound colonial
education,
I have Dutch, nigger,
and English in me,
and either I’m nobody,
or I’m a nation,
A. George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin
B. Derek Walcott’s “The Schooner Flight”
C.
Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl
D. Kamau Braithwaite’s “Nation Language”
Ans:B
1. In which of the following works does
the narrator proclaim, “either I’m nobody, or I’m the nation”?
a. George Lamming’s In the Castle of My
Skin
b. Derek Walcott’s “The Schooner
Flight”
c. Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl”
d. Kamau Braithwaite’s “Nation
Language”
Ans:B
40. Like Cordelia, the Fool is
A. killed by
Goneril's troops.
B. referred to by
Lear as his child.
C. disliked by
Regan and Corwall.
D. punished for
not telling the truth
Ans:B
Sindi was born in Africa to an Indian father and an
English mother, brought up by his Indian uncle, get his education in England
and America, yet he senses always a nowhere man and he states, “My foreignness
lay within me and I wouldn‟t leave myself behind wherever I went… The novel is
an enactment of the crisis of the present in the story of Sindi Oberoi. He is a
perennial outsider, an uprooted young man living in the latter half of the
twentieth century who belongs to no country, no people and finds himself an
outsider in Kenya, Uganda, England, America and India.the novel is
4 The Fictional Art
Ans:1
Sindi Oberoi, the narrator
hero in Arun Joshi’s The Foreigner says: “My foreignness lay within me and I
couldn’t leave myself behind wherever I went.” Identify the countries which
Sindi Oberoi went to.
1 Kenya, Uganda, England,
America, India
2 Kenya, Uganda, New
Zealand, England, India
3 Kenya, England, Canada,
India
4 Kenya, America, England,
Australia, India
Ans:1
Three of his novels The Foreigner (1968), The Strange Case of Billy Biswas (1971),
and The Apprentice (1974)
were published before 1980. Then came his Sahitya Akademi Award winning novel The Last Labyrinth (1981)
and finally the last The City and the River (1990).
The major themes that run through all of Joshi’s novels are the themes of
alienation and involvement,
Arun Joshi himself explains
that, “My novels are essentially attempts towards a better understanding of the
world and of myself” statement belong to the novel
1 The
Foreigner (1968),
2The Strange Case of Billy Biswas (1971),
3 The Apprentice (1974)
4 The
Fictional Art
Ans:3
A poet laureate said “I do not think that since Shakespeare
there has been such a master of the English language as I.” Who is the poet?
1 Stephen Spender
2 John Dryden
3 Alfred Lord Tennyson
4 Ted Hughes
Ans:3
Tennyson died at Aldworth House, his home in
Surrey, on October 6, 1892, at the age of eighty-three. He was buried in the
Poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey, and the copy of Shakespeare's
play -----, which he
had been reading on the night of his death, was placed in his coffin.
1 Cymbeline
2 hamlet
3kingleare
4 macbeth
Ans:1
Writing his most
influential play, August Strindberg called it “My most beloved drama, the child
of my greatest suffering.” The play is:
1 A Dream Play
2 Miss Julie
3 The Bridal Crown
4 The Dance of Death
Ans:1
In which essay does
Virginia Woolf observe that “if a writer were a free man [sic] and not a slave”
to the conventions of the literary market-place, there would be “no plot, no
comedy, no tragedy, no love interest, or catastrophe in the accepted style, and
perhaps not a single button sewn on as the Bond Street tailors would have it”?
1 “How it Strikes a
Contemporary”
2 “Modern Fiction”
3 “The Russian Point of View”
4 “Mr. Bennett and Mr.
Brown”
Ans:2
Who is the author of the
statement: “The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage संताप of Caliban seeing his own
face in the glass”?
1 Arthur Symons
2 Benjamin Disraeli
3 W. B. Yeats
4 Oscar Wilde
Ans:4
1. THE
artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist
is art's aim.
2. Those
who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these
there is hope.
All
the statement belong to Oscar
Wildes novel
1. Dorian
Gray,
Ans:2
Which of the following statements about Thomas Mann’s novels is
true?
A.
Buddenbrooks is a family saga set in the early decades of the
twentieth century.
B.
Aschenbach, the writer protagonist in Death in Venice, is
preoccupied with classicism, especially with classical ideals of male beauty
C.
In his second winter at the sanatorium, Hans Castorp,
protagonist of The Magic Mountain gets lost
D.
in a blizzard during a solitary skiing expedition.
E.
Adrian Leverkuhn, the modern day Faustus in Mann’s Doctor
Faustus is a musician. The right combination according to the code is:
1 Only (a) and (c) are
correct
2 Only (b) and (d) are
correct
3 (b), (c) and (d) are
correct
4 (a), (b) and (d) are
correct
Ans:4
To whom did Raja Ram Mohan
Roy write in 1823 his letter seeking the introduction of English education in
India?
1 Lord Amherst
2 Lord Bentinck
3 Lord Cunningham
4 Lord Hastings
Ans:1
Listed below are the
seemingly friendly characters in The Pilgrim’s Progress who give Christian
dangerous advice. Among them is one who does not belong to this group. Identify
this odd character.
1 Mr. Worldly Wiseman
2 Evangelist
3 Ignorance
4 Talkative
Ans:1
The direct French
influence on the English language during the Middle English period was in the
form of
1. loss
of inflections.
2. intake
of French words into English.
3. both
the loss of inflections and intake of French words into English.
4. addition
of inflections.
Ans:3
A significant development
in 1662 was the establishment of The Royal Society
in England. The main
purpose of the society was __________ .
1 to set the rules for the
royal court and governance
2 to guide and promote the
development of science and scientific exploration
3 to set norms for civil
society
4 to promote theatre
Ans;2
Alexander Pope, in Epistle
IV of his Essay on Man, refers to -------as
"the wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind" (281-282). This character
reference of Bacon's is referred to in many other essays.
A) John Dryden B) Sir Francis Bacon
C) Dr. Johnson
D) Jonathan Swift
Ans:B
‘As Plautus and Seneca are
accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among
the Latines: so
Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds
for the stage’. Who offers
this compliment to Shakespeare?
A) Francis Meres B) John
Dryden
C) S.T. Coleridge D) Matthew
Arnold
Ans:b
Which three plays, ignored
by Meres, were included by the editors of the First
Folio in the canon of
Shakespeare’s works?
A) Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Henry V
B) King John, Richard III, A Mid Summer Night’s Dream
C) Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear
D) Henry VI Part I, Part II, Part III
Ans:D
The first folio does
not include Two Noble Kinsmen, Edward-III, Sir-Thomas More and Pericles (added
in the third folio); these are all now thought to be at least partially by
Shakespeare. But more striking than this is the omission of Shakespeare’s
poems, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece and Shakespeare’s Sonnets,
which were all printed in Shakespeare’s lifetime, and under his name.
26. ‘-------------- is
more of a lyrical monologue than any other play by Shakespeare,
with the monologue very
exquisitely written’.
A) Richard II B) Romeo and Juliet
C) As You Like It D) Julius Caesar
Ans:A
28. Which literary
historian made the following comment?
‘Julius Caesar is
fine; Coriolanus is admirable; Antony and Cleopatra is superb.’
A) George Sampson B) C.S.
Lewis
C) W.H. Hudson D) Emile Legouis
Ans:A
Name the author of the
most reliable biography of Shakespeare, William
Shakespeare:
A Study of Facts and Problems.
A) Edward Chambers B)
Geoffrey Bullough
C) Granville-Barker D) G.B. Harrison
Ans:A
The clowning of Dogberry
and Verges appears in -------.
A) The Merchant of Venice B) Much Ado about Nothing
C) As You Like It D) Twelfth Night
Ans:B
In his famous letter to Benjamin
Bailey (November 22, 1817) John Keats wrote: “I am certain of nothing but the
holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of Imagination - What the
imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth.” Which of the following sentences
follows this passage?
A. Now I am sensible all this is a mere
sophistication, however it may neighbour to any truths, to excuse my own
indolence...
B. The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream, - he awoke
and found it truth.
C. This however I am persuaded of, that
nothing beside Imagination can give us sweet sensations and pleasurable
thoughts.
D. My pains at last some respite shall
afford, while I behold the battles Imagination maintains.
Ans:B
12. Which of the
following best describe the protagonist of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine?
A. He is a man of
sympathy B. He is man of cruelty and ambition
C. he is a man of
passion D. He is a man of apathy
Ans:B
13. Milton wrote a
number of pamphlets defending the English people.
Choose them
from the following.
A. Defende of the English
People C. L’allegro
B. Second Defence of the English people D. II
penseroso
Ans:A
14. “Forward and
backward anagrammatized, / the breviated names of holy saints, / figures of
every adjunct to the heavens, / and characters of signs and erring stars”. The
above excerpt is from .
A.
Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”
B.
Marlowe’s “Dr.Faustus”
C. Bacon’s
“Novum Organum”
D. Donne’s
“The Songs and Sonnets”
Ans:B
16. The tragedy of Dr.
Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of Dr.
Faustus, is the very fact that .
A. man is
confined to time
B. he tried
to join /Africa to Spain
C. he
became a man without soul after he sold it
D. he
conjured up Helen, the lady who was the very cause of the Trojan War
Ans:A
17. Here are two lined
from a long poem: “Upon a great adventure he was
bond, /that greatest
Gloriana to him gave.” The Poem must be
A.
Beowulf
B. John Milton’s Samson
Agonistes
C. Thomas gray’s Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard
D. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
Ans:D
19. Which of the
following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18?
A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature
B. The speaker satirizes human vanity
C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation
E.
The speaker meditated on
man’s salvation
Ans:C
20. “And we will sit
upon the rocks, /seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, /By shallow rivers to
whose falls, /Melodious birds sing madrigals.” The above lines are probably
taken from
A.
Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
B. John
Milton’s Paredise Lost
C. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18
D. Marlowe’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Ans:D
21. The true subject of
John Donne’s poem, “The Sun Rising”, is to
A. attack
the sun as an unruly servant
B. give
compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty
C.
criticize the sun’s intrusion into the lover’s private life
D.lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie
ANS:B
24. Which writing is the
most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English?
A. Samon
Agonistes B. Paradise Lost
C. Paradise
Regained D. Beowulf
Ans:A
25. Here is a sentence
from an essay, “Read not to contradict and confuse, nor to believe and take for
granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider”. The essay
must be .
A. Of
Studies By Francis Bacon
B. The
Advacement of Learning by Francis Bacon
C. Novum
Organum by Grancis Bacon
E.
Essays by Grancis
Bacon
Ans:A
26. Which writing is a typical example of /Shakespeare’s
pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years?
A. the
Tempest B. King Lear C. Hamlet D. Othello
Ans:A
30. “to be, or not to
be—that is the question; whether’tis nobler in the mind to suffer. The slings
and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
and by opposing end them?” who said these words?
A. King
Lear B. Romeo C. Antonio D. Hamlet
Ans:D
32. In , Shakespeare
has not only made a profound analysis of the social crisis in which the evils
can be seen everywhere, but also criticized the bourgeois egoism.
A. The Tempest B.
Hamlet C. King Lear D. Romeo and Juliet
Ans:C
33. is a
great tract on education written by Bacon.
A. Novum
Organum B. The New
Atlantis
C.
Essays
D. The Advancement of Learning
Ans:D
34. lays the foundation for modern
science with his insistence on scientific way of thinking and fresh observation
rather than authority
as a basis for obtaining knowledge.
A. Francis
Bacon
B. Thomas Hardy
C. Charles
Dickens D.
William Blake
Ans:A
35. ‘s great
proses are his sermons, which reveal his spiritual devotion to God as a
passionate preacher.
A. John Donne B. John
Milton C. John Keats D. Francis Bacon
Ans:A
39. Dr.Faustus is a play based on the of
a magical aspiring for knowledge.
A. German
legend B. Norman legend
C. French
legend D. American legend
Ans:A
40. Which of the following is not true of John
Donne?
A. John Donne is the leading figure
of the “metaphysical school”.
B. The most striking feature of
Donne’s poetry is precisely its tang of romance.
C. Donne is best known by the Songs
and Sonnets.
D. Donne’s great prose works are
his sermons.
Ans:B
45. The following the
main qualities of Spenser’s poetry except .
A. perfect
melody
B. rare sense of beauty
C.
dedicated idealism D.
bitter irony
Ans:D
46. As the
representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce to
England.
A.
rationalism B. criticism C. romanticism D.
realism
Ans:A
49. “Now fades the glimmering landscape on the
sight, and all the air a solemn stillness holds, save where the beetle wheels
his droning flight. And drowsy tinkling’s lull the distant folds,” the stanza
are taken from
A. elegy written in a country
churchyard
B. Paradise lost
C. Hamlet
D. The passionate shepherd to his
love
Ans:A
51. The Dunciad is generally considered to be
pope’s best work.
A. praising B.
satiric C. fabulous D. allegorical
Ans:B
52. In his novel, robinson Crusoe, Defoe
eulogizes the hero of the .
A. aristocratic
class
B. enterprising landlords
C. rising
bourgeoisie
D. hard-working people
Ans:C
57. Alexander Pope strongly advocated ,
emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules of order,
reason, logical, restrained emotion good taste and decorum.
A. idealism B.
neoclassicism C.
romanticism
D. sentimentalism
Ans:B
58. satirizes
the foolish, meaningless life of the lords and ladies in the aristocratic
bourgeoes society of the 18th England.
A. An Essay on
Criticism B. the dunciad
C. The rape of the
lock D. An Essay on man
Ans:C
60. The Rival and are
generally regarded as important links between the masterpiece of Shakespeare
and those of Bernard Shaw.
A. The
Duenna
B. Widower’s Houses
C. The
Doctor’s Dilemma D. The School for Scandal
Ans:D
62. Daniel defoe’s
novels mainly focus on
A. the
struggle of the unfortunate for mere existence
B. the
struggle of the shipwrecked persons for security
C. the
struggle of the pirates for wealth
D. the
desire of the criminals for property
Ans:A
63. In terms of Elegy
written in the county churchyard, which is wrong?
A. the
author employs metaphor in this poem.
B. the
author excessively expresses his personal melancholy
C. here he
reveals his sympathy for the poor and the unknown
D. He mocks the great ones who
despise the poor and bring havoc on them
Ans:B
64. which of the following cannot correctly
describe Enlightenment Movement.
A.
Enlightenment Movement flourished in France
B.
Enlightenment Movement was a furtherance of the renaissance
C. the
purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world
D. it
advocated individual education
Ans:D
67. The chief force that motivated John Bunyan
to write the Pilgrim’s Progress was his
A. political
commitment B.
religious fervency
C. artistic
pursuit
D. long suffering in the prison
Ans:B
68. As a result of the conscientious study he made
of the Bible, Bunyan’s language was
A. satiric, concise and
well-balanced
B. concrete, living and colloquial
C. general, Latinate and
polysyllabic
D. comic, neat and decent
Ans:
69. in the following writings by Henry fielding,
which brings him the name of the “prose Homer”?
A. The coffee-house Politician
B. the tragedy of tragedies
C. the history of tom Jones, a foundling
D. The History of Amelia
Ans:C
71. In his Moll Flanders, Defoe
A. satisfies his readers by making the
sinner justifiably punished.
B. convinces his reader that the
sinner is more sinned against than sinning
C. condemns the frailty of women
when sinned against
D. Beomans the unjust fate of the
female sinner
Ans:B
72. is important in the history
of the novel because it shows the
care for persistent record of the detail of
daily life, which was to become one of the most distinguishing characteristics
of the novel form.
A. moll
Flanders
B. Robinson Crusoe
C. A Journal of the plague
Year D. Roxana
Ans:C
73. By writing in apparently admiring terms of
the life of a notorious criminal in the Life of Jonathan Wild the Great,
Fielding hints that there is little difference between
A. Great rogue and lesser rogues
B. noted rogues and great
politicians
C. the nobles and the commons
D. discovered criminals and secret
sinners
Ans:B
74. Fielding started “the third-person
narration”, which enables the author to present as the not
only the characters’ external behaviors but also the internal working of their
minds.
A. truthful
observer B.
all-knowing God
C. intimate
particular D.
scrutinizing critic
Ans:B
75. which of the following phrased cannot be
used to describe the features of Gray’s poetry.
A. highly artificial in
diction B. distorted in word order
C. calculated in
rhythm D. lighted-hearted in
tone
Ans:D
77. Jonathan Swift held the opinion that human
nature , thus human nature and human
institutions both needed constant reform and improvement.
A. was seriously and permanently
flawed
B. had become corrupted and
depraved
C. was a mixture of the angelic and
the satanic
D. was erroneous but capable of
redemption
Ans:B
79. which play is regarded as the best English
comedy since Shakespeare?
A. She stoops to
conquer B. the rivals
C. the school for
scandal D. the conscious lovers
Ans:C
80. The following on Daniel Defoe are true
except
A. Robinson Crusoe is universally
considered his masterpiece
B. Robinson Crusoe is his first
novel
C. He was a member of the upper
class
D. in his novels, his sympathy for
the downtrodden, unfortunate poor is shown.
Ans:C
84. Statement is
not true in describing Gothic novel.
A. Gothic novel is a type of
romantic fiction.
B. Gothic novel predominated in the
early eighteenth century.
C. Its principal elements are
violence, horror and supernatural.
D. the Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann
Radcliff is a typical gothic romance.
Ans:B
"The Chimney Sweeper" is, published in two parts in Songs of Innocence in
1789 and Songs of experience in 1794. The poem "The Chimney Sweeper" is set against the dark background of child labour
that was prominent in England in the late XVIII and XIX Century.
A. William
wordsworth B.
William Blake
C. Robert Burns
D.
Samuel Tylor Coleridge
Ans:B
86. In Coleridge’s “the Rime of Ancient
Mariner,” the mariner suffers the horror of death, because
A. he
experiences a shipwreck
B. he
is tortured with starvation
C. he
undergoes much sufferings
D. he
kills an albatross
Ans:D
87. After reading the first chapter of Pride and
Prejudedce, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of
A simple character and poor
understanding
B. simple character and quick wit
C. intricate character and quick
wit
D. intricate character and poor
understanding
Ans:A
88. Literally, was
the first important Romantic poet showing a contempt ofr the rule of reason,
opposing the classical tradition of the 18th century.
A. William
wordsworth B.
William Blake
C. Robert Burns
D.
Samuel Tylor Coleridge
Ans:B
89. The English Romantic Period is said to have
ended in 1832 with death.
A. Wordsworth B. Coleridge
C. Sir Walter Scott D. Shelley
Ans:C
90. Which of following writings is not written
by William Wordsworth
A. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
B. Composed upon Westminster
Bridge, September3, 1802
C. the solitary Reaper D. The chimney
Sweeper
Ans:D
96. Don Juan is a long poem based on a traditional legend
of a
great lover and seducer of women.
A. Spanish B
Dutch C. English D. Russian
Ans:A
104. Byron’s Byronic hero appears first in
A. Don
Juan
B. Oriented Tales
C. Childe Harold’s
Pilgrimage D. Manfred
Ans:C
107. What does Wordsworth’s poem “The Solitary
Reaper” tell us about Romanticism?
A. To romanticists, poetry is an
expressing of an individual’s feelings and experiences no matter how fragmentary
and momentary these feelings and experience are.
B. Romanticists take delight only
in sound effect, the theme of a work is not their concern.
C. Romanticists are not patient people, they would
have before the
Revelation
of the theme.
D. poetry should present the
apparent and tangile.
Ans:A
108. The lines, “It was a miracle of rare
device, A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice”, are found in
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla
Khan”
B. William Wordsworth’s “Lines
Written in Early Spring”
C. John Keats’s “ode to Autumn”
D. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ode to
the West Wind”
Ans:A
109. Prometheus Unbound is Shelley’s greatest
achievement.
Prometheus, according to the Greek mythology,
was chained by
Zeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the
vulture’s feeding on his
liver for
A. planning
a revolt to dethrone God
B. misinterpreting
God’s decree to reconcile man and nature
C. stealing
the fire from heaven and giving it to man
D. prophesying
the arrival of spring in a winter season
Ans:D
111. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far
behind?” is an epigrammatic line by
A. J. Keats B. W.
Blake C. W.Wordsworth D. P.B.shelley
Ans:D
I fall upon the thorns
of life! I bleed! A heavy weight of hours has chain'd and
bow'd. One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud
A. J.
Keats B. W. Blake C. W.Wordsworth D.
P.B.shelley
Ans:D
"They are both gone up to the church to pray. Because I was happy upon the heath,. And smil'd among the
winter's snow,. They clothed me in the clothes of .
A. J.
Keats ode to autumn B. W.
Blake the chimney sweeper
C.
W.Wordsworth lyrical ballad D. P.B.shelley ode to west wind
Ans:B
Earth
has not anything to show more fair:
Dull
would he be of soul who could pass by
A
sight so touching in its majesty:
This
City now doth, like a garment, wear
The
beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships,
towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open
unto the fields, and to the sky;
All
bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Never
did sun more beautifully steep
In
his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne’er
saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The
river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear
God! the very houses seem asleep;
And
all that mighty heart is lying still!
A. J. Keats ode to autumn
B. W.
Blake the chimney sweeper
C. W.Wordsworth Upon Westminster Bridge,
D. P.B.shelley
ode to west wind
Ans:C
Earth has not anything to show more fair
A. J. Keats ode to autumn B. W. Blake the chimney sweeper
C.
W.Wordsworth west minister bridge D. P.B.shelley ode to west wind
Ans:C
112. Which of the following is taken from John
Keats’ “ode on a Grecian Urn”?
A. I fall upon the thorns of
life! I bleed!
B. They are both gone up to
the church to pray
C. Earth has not anything to
show more fair
D. Beauty is truth, truth
beauty
Ans:D
113. the Romantic writers would focus on all the
following issues except the in the English
literary history.
A. individual
feelings B. idea of survival of the fittest
C. strong imagination
D. return to nature
Ans:B
116. Coleridge’s poems “ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”,
“Christable”
and “Kubla Khan” are known as
A. myth
group B.
demonic group
C. conversational
group D. sentimental group
Ans:B
119. In the conversation with Mrs. Bennet in
Bennet in Chapter One of Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet uses a tone
and sarcastic humor.
A. solemn B.
Harsh C. intimate D. teasing
And:D
120. “It is a truth universally acknowledged,
that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
This sentence is presented in an tone.
A. ironic B.
indifferent C. delightful D. jealousy
Ans:A
121. Although writing from different points of
view and with different techniques, writers in the Victorian Period shared one
thing in common, that is, they were all concerned about
A. the love story about the
rich and the poor
B. the techniques in writing
C. the fate of the common
people
D. the future of their own
country
Ans:C
124. As a love story, Wuthering Heights is one
of the most moving, the passion between Proves
the most intense, the most beautiful and at the same time the most horrible.
A. Hareton and
Cathy B. Heathcliff and
Catherine
C. Hareton and Catherine
D. Heathcliff and Cathy
Ans:B
125. Which of the following statements about
Emily Bronte is not true?
A. She was famous for her Wuthering Heights.
B. She wrote 193 poems.
C. she lived a very short life
D. her masterpiece is noted for its optimistic tone.
Ans:D
127. In the Robert Browning’s works, which
established his position as one of the great English poets?
A.
Pauline
B. The Ring and the Book
C.
Sordello
D. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Ans:B
128. Which of the following
poems is not by Victorian poets?
A. “Break, Break, Break” B. “My Last Duchess”
C. In
Memoriam D. The
Isles of Greece
Ans:D
129. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure,
plain and little, I am soulless and heartless?..... and I God had gifted me
with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to
leave me, as it is now for me to leave.” The above passage is most probably
taken from
A. Great
Expectations B. Wuthering Heights
C. Jane
Eyre
D. Pride and Prejudice
Ans:C
130. The sentences “And now he stared at her so
earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze, would bring tears into
his eyes, but they burned with anguish, they did not melt” are found in
A. Wuthering Heights B. Jane Eyre
C. Gulliver’s Travels D. Pride
and Prejudice
Ans:A
131. The first two lines of Alfred Tennyson’s well-known poem
“Break, Break, Break” read “Break, break, break,/ On thy cold gey stones. O
Sea!” the repeated word “break” suggests
A. joy B. fear C.
fondness D. hatred
Ans:
132. In the long poem “The Ring and the book”,
the “book” is compared to
A.
love
B. comprehensive knowledge
C. the hard
truth D. the method of
study
Ans:C
133. Most of Thomas Hardy’s
novels are set in Wessex
A. a crude region in England B. a fictional primitive region
C. a remote rural area D.
Hardy’s hometown
Ans:D
134. Middlemarch is considered to be George
Eliot’s greatest novel, owing to all the following reasons except
A. it vividly depicts English
country life
B. it provides a panoramic
view of life
C. it reveals women’s true
feelings
D. it probes into perpetual
philosophical thoughts
Ans:B
135. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of Thomas
Hardy’s best known novels, portrays man as
A. being hereditarily good or
bad
B. being self-sufficient
C. having no control over his
own fate
D. still retaining his own
faith in a world of confusion
Ans:C
136. In the play “the Importance of Being
Earnest” by Wilde, the upper-class people is described as the following except
A. corrupt B. snobbish इतरांना तुच्छ लेखणारा
C. hypocritical D. ambitious
Ans:D
137. The success of Jane Eyre is not only
because of its sharp criticism of the existing society, but also due to its
introduction to the English novel the first heroine.
A. worker B. peasant C.
governess D. explorer
Ans:C
138. Which of the
following descriptions of Thomas Hardy is wrong?
A. most of his novels are set in Wessex.
B. Tess of the D’Urbervilles is one of the most
representatives of him as both a naturalistic and a critical realist writer.
C. Among Hardy’s major works, Under the
Greenwood Tree is the most cheerful and idyllic.
D. From The Mayor of Caster bridge on, the
tragic sense becomes the keynote of his novels.
Ans:D
139. “Every day, every hour, brought to him one
more little stroke of her nature, and to her one more of his”, the sentence is
found in
A. Middlemarch by George Eliot
B. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Hardy
C. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
D. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Ans:B
141. Which of the
following best describes the protagonist of Thomas Hardy’s “The Mayor of
Casterbridge”?
A. He is a man of self-esteem B. He
is a man of self-contempt
C. He is a man of self-confidence D. He is man of
self-sufficiency
Ans:D
142. not
only continued to expose and criticize all sorts of social iniquities, but
finally came to question and attack the Victorian conventions and morals.
A. George
Eliot
B. Thomas Hardy
C. D.H.
Lawrence D.
Charles Dickens
Ans:B
145. Among the writings by George Eliot, is
her only novel on English politics.
A. Felix Holt, the
Radical B. Middlemarch
C. Daniel
Deronda D.
Romola
Ans:A
147. Among George Eliot’s seven novels, is
essentially an auto-biographic account of her life.
A. Felix Holt, the
Radical B. Middlemarch
C. Daniel
Deronda D.
The Mill on the Floss
Ans:A
148. The author of makes
clear in the novel that it is wrong to discriminate on the basis of social
status and it is cruel and destructive to break genuine, natural human
passions.
A. Jane
Eyre
B. Wuthering Heights
C. Pride and
Prejudice D. Tess of the
D’Urbervilles
Ans:C
149. George Eliot holds that the individual life
is determined basically by two major forces:
A. the spiritual self and the
physical self
B. the good and the evil
C. the individual’s
personality and the outer social circumstances
D. the divided self and the
integrated self
Ans:B
152. The title of Alfred
Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses” reminds the reader of the following except
A. the Trojan War B. Homer C. quest
D. Christ
Ans:D
153. Tennyson’s poem,
Idylls of the King, was based on
A. the Celtic legends B. an
Italian document
C. a Roman murder case D. the Bible
Ans:D
154. One of the typical
features of Dickens’ novels is
A. complicated narration B. exaggerated
caricature
C. compressed syntax D.
streams of consciousness
Ans:B
157. The protagonist of the poem “Love Song of
T. Alfred Prufrock” is a king of tragic figure caught in a sense of deafened
idealism and torture by satisfied desires. Of the following description of him,
which isn’t suitable for him?
A. He is
neurotic
B. He is self-important
C. He is
illogical
D. He is a man of action
Ans:D
158. In which of the following poems by William
Bulter Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen and the Trojan War?
A. Sailing to
Byzantine B. Sown by the Sally Garden
C. The Lake Isle of
Innisfree D. Leda and the Swan
Ans:D
160. is a
poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in
which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.
A. Ulysses
B. the
Waste Land
B. The confidential Clark D. Dubliners
Ans:D
163. One of Lawrence’s novels, ,
is written out of his trip to Australia and it gives a rich portrayal of the
Australian life and scenery.
A. Women in
Love B. Lady Chartterley’s
Lover
C.
Kangaroo
D. The White Peacock
Ans:C
164. In his famous poem,
“Sailing to Byzantine”, Yeats did not explore the problem of
A. love B. death C. art D.
development
Ans:D
165. is
a story about the three generations of the Brangwen family on the Marsh Farm.
A. The
Rainbow B.
Women in Love
C. Sons and
Lovers D. The Plumed
Serpent
Ans:A
166. The following
comments on George Bernard Saw are true except
A. George Bernard Shaw’s career as a dramatist began in 1892, when
his first play Widower’s Houses was put on by
the Independent Theater Society.
B. Shaw began his literary career by writing novels soon after his
settling down in London
C. Shaw’s writings reflect the combination of realism and naturalism
D. Shaw’s plays can be termed as problem play
Ans:D
167. Much of ‘s
drama is constructed around the inversion of a conventional theatrical
situation.
A.
Yeats B. Gregory C. Galsworthy
D. Shaw
Ans:D
168. Which of the
following is not true according to James Joyce?
A. Ulysses has become a prime example of modernism in literature
B. Joyce is regarded as the most prominent stream-of-consciousness
novelist.
C. Joyce is a realistic writer in English literature history.
D. His novel “A Portrait of the Artist as a Yong
Man” is a naturalistic account of hero’s bitter experience and his final
artistic and spiritual liberation.
Ans:C
169. In ,
Joyce intends to present a microcosm of the whole human life by providing an
instance of how a single event contains all the events of its kind, and how
history is recapitulated in the happenings of one day.
A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
B. Ulysses C. Dubliners
D. Finnegan’s Wake
Ans:C
175. Which of the following novels doesn’t
belong to the stream-of-consciousness novel?
A. Pilgrimage B. Ulysses C. Mrs. Dalloway D. The
Rainbow
Ans:A
178. John Galsworthy’s
first trilogy includes the following except
A. The Man of
property B. In Chancery
C. To
Let
D. Modern Comedy
Ans:D
179. James Joyce’s Ulysses could hardly be
termed as a traditional novel, because
A. it is an account of daily
life
B. there is no story, no plot
and no action inside
C. it is divided into
episodes
D. there are only three
characters
Ans:B
180. In his famous poem .
Yeats explores the problems of death, love, old age and art.
A. Leda and the
/swan B. No Second Troy
C. September
1913 D. Sailing to Byzantine
Ans:D
181. Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a
realistic exposure of the
In the English society.
A. political
corruption
B. inequality
between men and women
C. slum
landlordism
D. economic
exploration of women
Ans:D
182. “ At last she spoke to me. When she
addressed the first words to me I was so confused that I did not know what to
answer. She asked me was I going to araby. I forget whether I answered yes or
no. it would be a splendid bazaar, she said, she would love to go.” The passage
is taken from
A. John Galsworthy’s the Man of property
B. James Joyce’s Dubliners
C. D.H Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers
D. James Joyce’s Ulysses
Ans:B
184. In “the lake of
isle of innisfree,” William Butler Yeats expresses his
A. hope to go abroad B. desire to
escape into a fairyland
C. love for comment life D. hatred for war
Ans:B
185. The major concern of fiction
lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in
his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist
industrialization on human nature.
A. John
Galsworthy’s B. Thomas Hardy’s
C. D.H.
Lawrence’s D. Charles’s Dickens
Ans:C
186. “Paul was afraid lest she might have
misread the letter, and might be disappointed after all. He scrutinized it
once, twice. Yes, he became convinced it was true. Then he sat down, his heart
beating with joy.” The above quotation is taken from
A. The Man of Property
B. Mrs. Warren’s Profession
C. Sons and Lovers
D. A Portrait of the Artist
as a Young Man
Ans:C
187. The Statement that the refined bourgeois
aristocrats are put to ridicule while a simple flower girl is lovingly
portrayed may refer to
A. Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion
B. Sheridan’s Murder in the
Cathedral
C. Sheridan’s the School for
Scandal
D. Galsworthy’s the Silver
Box
Ans:A
190. According to D. H. Lawrence, the is
the most responsible for the alienation of the human relationships and the
perversion of human personality.
A. pride of the aristocratic
class
B. vanity of the middle class
C. man’s desire for power and
money
D. capitalist mechanical
civilization
Ans:D
191. James Joyce’s
Dubliners is
A. a collection of short stories B.
a novel
C. an
autobiography
D. a short story
Ans:A
193. The statement “ A demanding mother turns
away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons” sums up the main
plot of D.H. Lawrence’s novel
A. Sons and
Lovers B. The
Rainbow
C. Women in
Love D. Lady
Chatterley’s Lover
Ans:A
195. All the following are characters of
Galsworthy’s The Man of Property except
A. Soames
B. Irene C. Dedalus D. Bosiney
Ans:C
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