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TIME 75 MINUT                   QUESTION 50

1.         ‘Piers Plowman’ has a subtitle. It is :

A.        The Judgement

B.         A Journey

C.         A Vision

D.        A War

Ans.    C

2.         Chaucer’s “Troilus and Criseyde’ is influenced by:

A.        The Consolation of Philosophy

B.         The House of Fame

C.         Book of the Leone

D.        The tale of Two Cities

Ans.    B

3.         Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?

A.        William Langland –          Piers the Plowman

B.         Wycliffe                    –          the Pope’s Power

C.         John Gover               –          Confession Amantis

D.        Chaucer                     –         On His blindness

Ans.    D

4.         Who is the hero in Spenser’s Faerie Queene ?

A.        Prince Edward

B.         Prince George

C.         Prince Arthur

D.        Prince Charlse

Ans.    C

5.         Who among the following has been known as, “The Morning Star of the Renaissance’?

A.        Dryden

B.         Milton

C.         Chaucer

D.        Shakespeare

Ans.    C

6.         Who among the following is not a dramatist of the Elizabethan Age?

A.        John Lyle

B.         Thomas Lodge

C.         Robert Green

D.        William Tyndale

Ans.    D

7.         Who was Othello ?

A.        A Great Fighter

B.         A Scholar

C.         Good Commander

D.        Mature, Old King

Ans.    C

8.         “The Old Wives Tale’ was written by :

A.        Nashe

B.         George Peele

C.         Ben Jonson

D.        Thomas Kid

Ans.    B

9.         Which of the following statements about ‘As You Like It’ is correct ?

A.        It is written by Thomas Kyd

B.         It is a long elegy

C.         It is based in the forest of Arden

D.        It is a tragedy

Ans.    C

10.       Which play of Shakespeare contains the famous line “…………… there is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow”?

A.        King Lear

B.         Macbeth

C.         Othello

D.        Hamlet

Ans.    D

11.       “The Spanish Tragedy” of Thomas Kyd was influenced by :

A.        Aristotle

B.         Seneca

C.         Dante

D.        Plato

Ans.    B

12.       First work of John Milton is :

A.        On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity

B.         On His Blindness

C.         paradise Lost

D.        Samson Agonists

Ans.    A

13.       In which epic Adam was lured/tempted by Satan and resulting his exile ?

A.        Paradise Regained

B.         Paradise Lost

C.         On His Blindness

D.        Lycidas

Ans.    B

14.       The poem “The Storm’ was written by :

A.        Ben Jonson

B.         John Keats

C.         John Donne

D.        John Milton

Ans.    C

15.       ‘Holy War’ belongs to :

A.        Thomas Kyd

B.         Bunyan

C.         Chapman

D.        Robert Herrick

Ans.    B

16.       John Keats’s famous theory of ‘negative capability’ was expressed in a/an:

A.        Letter

B.         Essay

C.         Poem

D.        Novel

Ans.    A

17.       Who among the following was a prominent writer of sentimental fiction ?

A.        Mary Wollstonecraft

B.         Jane Austen

C.         Walter Scott

D.        Fanny Burney

Ans.    D

18.       The Songs of Innocence portrays images of :

A.        Men, Women and Squirrels

B.         Children, Sheep and Lambs

C.         Lambs, Donkeys and Cats

D.        None of these

Ans.    B

19.       John Woodvil was written by :

A.        Charles Lamb

B.         William Hazlitt

C.         Jane Austen

D.        S.T. Coleridge

Ans.    A

20.       William Cowper’s The Task is structured around:

A.        Seasons

B.         Animals

C.         Planets

D.        None of these

Ans.    A

21.       Elinor and Marianne are the two famous sisters in jane Austen’s :

A.        Pride and Prejudice

B.         Sense and Sensibility

C.         Mansfield Park

D.        Emma

Ans.    B

22.       Which Matthew Arnold’s poem best captures the uncertainty of Victorian Age?

A.        Scholar Gypsy

B.         Growing Old

C.         A Dream

D.        Dover Beach

Ans.    D

23.       Which of the following is Elizabeth Gaskell’s non-fiction ?

A.        French Life

B.         Mary Burton

C.         Cranford

D.        Ruth

Ans.    A

24.       “One Word More” is a famous poem written by :

A.        Alfred Tennyson

B.         Matthew Arnold

C.         Robert Browning

D.        A. H. Hallam

Ans.    C

25.       Bill sikes is a famous character of which novelist ?

A.        Thomas Hardy

B.         Charles Dickens

C.         George Eliot

D.        Charles Lamb

Ans.    B

26.       Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason :

A.        Highlights the corruption of the Christian Church

B.         Talks about plight of the peasants

C.         Eulogises the Christian Church

D.        None of the above

Ans.    A

27.       The Waverly novel series was written by :

A.        W. M. Thackeray

B.         Edwin Godwin

C.         Walter Scott

D.        Leigh Hunt

Ans.    C

28.       D. H. Lawrence’s best known short stories are :

A.        “The Box”

B.         “Animal House”

C.         “Psychopaths”

D.        All of these

Ans.    A

29.       Which of the following is Virginia Woolf’s non-fiction ?

A.        The Death of the Moth and Other Essays

B.         The Rainbow

C.         Orlando

D.        jacob’s Room

Ans.    A

30.       Cyril Fielding is E.M. Forster’s famous character in which novel ?

A.        Howards End

B.         Maurice

C.         A Passage to India

D.        A Room with a View

Ans.    C

31.       “God is Dead” is a famous quote of :

A.        T.S. Eliot

B.         Friedrich Nietzsche

C.         Tiresias

D.        J.B. Priestly

Ans.    B

32.       Dorrislessing’s first novel The Grass Is Singing is located in :

A.        Southren America

B.         Southern Rhodesia

C.         Southern India

D.        Southern Australia

Ans.    B

33.       Boxer, a cart horse features in the novel of :

A.        Antonia Byatt

B.         Pamels Hensford

C.         George Orwell

D.        Tom Stoppard

Ans.    C

34.       Which of the following novels is not written by John Braine ?

A.        Room at the Top

B.         Life at the Top

C.         Man at the Top

D.        Snow Drop

Ans.    D

35.       Cecil Day-Lewis remained The Poet Laureate from :

A.        1964 to 1967

B.         1968 to 1972

C.         1972 to 1976

D.        None of these

Ans.    B

36.       Who of the following is an African novelist ?

A.        Nadine gordimer

B.         John Milton

C.         Patrick White

D.        None of these

Ans.    A

37.       The poem “ode to tomato’ is written by :

A.        John Keats

B.         Thomas Nash

C.         Anthony Trollope

D.        None of these

Ans.    D

38.       Blood Wedding is written by :

A.        Frantz Fanon

B.         Tim Woods

C.         Lorca

D.        Charles jenks

Ans.    C

39.       Who is the central character of Hemingway’s famous novella ‘Old Man and the Sea’?

A.        Marlyn Jacobs

B.         Santiago

C.         Jurgen

D.        None of these

Ans.    B

40.       Willy Loman, the central character of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman deals in :

A.        Sports Equipment

B.         Business of spare parts

C.         Books Dealer

D.        None of these

Ans.    D

41.       “Art is a way of experiencing the artfulness of an object; the object is not important.” Which school of criticism dies this statement apply most suitably?

A.        New Historicism

B.         Archetypal Criticism

C.         Formalism

D.        Chicago Criticism

Ans.    C

42.       “Culture is Ordinary : that is where we must start.” Who said it ?

A.        Raymond Williams

B.         Hayden White

C.         Henri Lefebvre

D.        Marjorie Garber

Ans.    A

43.       Who of the following introduced the term ‘Ecocriticism’?

A.        Cheryll Glotfelty

B.         Harold Fromm

C.         Scott Slovic

D.        William Rueckert

Ans.    D

44.       Althusser mentions two major mechanisms for ensuring that people within a state behave according to the rules of state, even when it’s not in their best interest in regard to their class position to do so. The mechanisms are Ideological State Apparatuses and :

A.        Responsive State Apparatuses

B.         Reductive State Apparatuses

C.         Repressive State Apparatuses

D.        Residual State Apparatuses

Ans.    C

45.       ‘Simulacrum’ is one of the best known ideas of :

A.        Foucault

B.         Gramsci

C.         Lyotard

D.        Baudrillard

Ans.    D

46.       In a novel set in World War I, soldiers are shown listening to iPods in the trenches is an example of :

A.        Anachronism

B.         Parachronism

C.         Anaphora

D.        None of these

Ans.    A

47.       “When the going gets tough, the tough get going” is an example of :

A.        Metaphor

B.         Syncrisis

C.         Cliché

D.        Chiasmus

Ans.    D

48.       The personifications in which dogs laugh, clouds look sullen, leaves dance is called :

A.        Pathetic fallacy

B.         Periphrasis

C.         Pleonasm

D.        Tautology

Ans.    A

49. Identify the metre in this line : “To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells”  :

A.        Trochee

B.         Iamb

C.         Anapaest

D.        Dactyl

Ans.    B

50.       Each unit of rhythm in English poetry is called :

A.        Tetrameter

B.         Trimeter

C.         Pentameter

D.        Foot

Ans.    D

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