The famous Chitrakot waterfall in Chhattisgarh state is situated in ?
A
Baghel Khand Plateau
B
Chhattisgarh Basin
C
Jashpoor-Samri Region
D
Dandkaranya Region
Question 4Single Answer
Export of Iron-ore from Bastar is done from which of the following sea ports?
A
Chennai
B
Vishakhapatnam
C
Cochin
D
Mumbai
Question 5Single Answer
In which of the following districts is the maximum Iron-ore produced in Chhattisgarh ?
A
Rajnandgaon
B
Bastar
C
Korea
D
Mahasamund
Question 6Single Answer
In which of the following districts of Chhattisgarh is the Korba super power station established?
A
Raigarh
B
Korba
C
Sarguja
D
Raipur
Question 7Single Answer
The only Jute industry of Chhattisgarh is located in which of the following districts ?
A
Raigarh
B
Korea
C
Jashpoor
D
Raipur
Question 8Single Answer
In which of the following districts is Dandkaranya project located ?
A
Raipur
B
Jagdalpur
C
Bastar
D
Durg
Question 9Single Answer
Total no. of M.L.A. seats in Chhattisgarh ?
A
60
B
80
C
90
D
93
Question 10Single Answer
In which of the following districts in Chhattisgarh is Kutumsar cave situtated ?
A
Dantewara
B
Mahasamund
C
Korea
D
Bastar
Question 11Single Answer
In which of the following districts is Maa danteshwari temple located ?
A
Kanker
B
Dantewara
C
Bastar
D
Raipur
Question 12Single Answer
In which of the following districts was the Bhilai institute of technology in the memory of Seth Bal Krishan established in September, 1986 ?
A
Durg
B
Rajnandgaon
C
Raipur
D
Jagdalpur
Question 13Single Answer
At which of the following rivers is Mini Mata project situated ?
A
Mahanadi
B
Hasdo
C
Eb
D
Shiv Nath
Question 14Single Answer
Density of population (census 2001) in the state ?
A
130
B
154
C
156
D
160
Question 15Single Answer
The capital of Chhattisgarh ?
A
Bilaspur
B
Raipur
C
Jagdalpur
D
Durg
Question 16Single Answer
How many tehsils are there in Chhattisgarh state?
A
16
B
48
C
97
D
100
Question 17Single Answer
How many universities are there in Chhattisgarh ?
A
2
B
3
C
7
D
5
Question 18Single Answer
The Sex-Ratio (census 2001) in Chhattisgarh state ?
A
952
B
962
C
898
D
992
Question 19Single Answer
The Rate of population increase (1991-2001) in Chhattisgarh was?
A
16.21
B
17.06
C
18.06
D
22.26
Question 20Single Answer
The average height of the Dandakaranya region ?
A
200 metre
B
400 metre
C
800 metre
D
900 metre
Question 21Single Answer
No. of habitated villages in Chhattisgarh ?
A
18,720
B
20,308
C
20,378
D
20,478
Question 22Single Answer
The total no. of towns in Chhattisgarh ?
A
85
B
97
C
95
D
100
Question 23Single Answer
Which of the following is situated in the North of tropic of cancer ?
A
Ramanujung
B
Ambikapur
C
Baikunthpur
D
Dareea
Question 24Single Answer
At which of the following rivers is Chitrakot dam situated ?
A
Eb
B
Indravati
C
Shiv Nath
D
Jonk
Question 25Single Answer
What is the percentage of forested land in Chhattisgarh ?
A
35.01
B
38.01
C
40.85
D
43.85
Question 26Single Answer
Ari Dongari range of district Kanker produces Iron-ore. In which of the tehsils is this range situated ?
A
Bhanupratap Pur
B
Narharpur
C
Antagarh
D
Kanker
Question 27Single Answer
Which district of Chhattisgarh state has maximum no. of tehsils ?
A
Janjgir
B
Rajnandgaon
C
Raipur
D
Durg
Question 28Single Answer
In which of the following districts is Kosse cloth prepared by Kosta tribe?
A
Durg
B
Bastar
C
Raigarh
D
Korba
Question 29Single Answer
Bristal and Panama are the main cigrettes which are manufactured in Chhattisgarh. Where are the Bristal cigrattes manufactured ?
A
In Durg
B
In Raigarh
C
In Bilaspur
D
In Raipur
Question 30Single Answer
Where is the South-Eastern coal field Ltd ?
A
In Jagdalpur
B
In Bilaspur
C
In Durg
D
In Raipur
Question 31Single Answer
In which of the following districts are Joggimara caves situated ?
A
Jashpoor
B
Sarguja
C
Bilaspur
D
Kavardha
Question 32Single Answer
Where is the Bamleshwari temple situated ?
A
Dongargarh
B
Antagarh
C
Bishrampur
D
Bilaspur
Question 33Single Answer
In which of the following districts is the maximum concentration of population ?
A
Raipur
B
Durg
C
Bilaspur
D
Bastar
Question 34Single Answer
As per 2001 census the literacy rate of Chhattisgarh state is 65.18%. What is the literacy of male and female ?
A
50.28%, 30.24%
B
60.81%, 50.76%
C
65.38%, 69.70%
D
77.86%, 52.40%
Question 35Single Answer
Which of the following tribes Dhanka is a sub tribe ?
A
Orang
B
Korba
C
Bhetra
D
Kamar
Question 36Single Answer
In which of the following districts is the Cement Corporation of India factory not situated ?
A
Durg
B
Raipur
C
Janjgir
D
Raigarh
Question 37Single Answer
What per cent of the arabe land in Chhattisgarh is main cultivation ?
A
43%
B
65%
C
35%
D
29%
Question 38Single Answer
In which of the following districts Century is Mill of Birla situated ?
A
Raigarh
B
Raipur
C
Bilaspur
D
Durg
Question 39Single Answer
Where is the Belladella Iron project situated ?
A
In Bacheli (Jagdalpur)
B
In Bastar
C
In Raigarh
D
In Raipur
Question 40Single Answer
Where was the plastic complex in Chhattisgarh established ?
A
Korba
B
Dantewara
C
Raigarh
D
Raipur
Question 41Single Answer
In which district of Chhattisgarh are the maximum no. of wild life sancturies ?
A
Sarguja
B
Dhamtari
C
Bilaspur
D
Korea
Question 42Single Answer
In which of the following distircts are the maximum no. of forests in Chhattisgarh ?
A
Durg
B
Jashpoor
C
Sarguja
D
Dhamtari
Question 43Single Answer
Which of the following is the smallest unit of democracy ?
A
Gram Panchayat
B
Janpad Panchayat
C
District Panchayat
D
None of these
Question 44Single Answer
Which of the following are new districts created after the bifurcation of Bastar ?
A
Mahasamund and Dhamtari
B
Kanker and Dantewara
C
Kanker and Dhamtari
D
Kanker and Bastar
Question 45Single Answer
Where was the High Court bench of Chhattisgarh established ?
A
In Raipur
B
In Bilaspur
C
In Durg
D
In Jagdalpur
Question 46Single Answer
Who is the first Director General of Police in Chhattisgarh ?
A
Arun Kumar
B
S. M. Shukla
C
U. K. Sayal
D
Satyanand Misra
Question 47Single Answer
Who among the following took the Oath as the first Governor of Chhattisgarh state ?
A
Dinesh Nandan Sahai
B
W. A. Sheshak
C
K. Shankar Narayan
D
Surjit Singh Barnala
Question 48Single Answer
Which one of the following is the underground mechanised coal mine of the state ?
A
Sohagpur
B
Raipur
C
Korba
D
Manikpur
Question 49Single Answer
Where is the Railway wagon (luggage) repairing centre ?
A
In Raisain
B
In Raipur
C
In Raigarh
D
In Sajapur
Question 50Single Answer
Where is the matchbox factory in Chhattisgarh ?
A
Raigarh
B
Balaghat
C
Chhindwara
D
Bilaspur
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Question 51Single Answer
Which British University figures in William Wordsworth 's Prelude ?
A
Durham
B
Glasgow
C
Cambridge
D
Oxford
Question 52Single Answer
Who is the author of A Woman Killed with Kindness ?
A
John Marston
B
Thomas Middleton
C
John Fletcher
D
Thomas Heywood
Question 53Single Answer
In William Congreve's The Way of the World identify the speaker of the line :"One's cruelty is one's power, and when one parts with one's cruelty, one parts with one's power".
A
Mirabell
B
Witwoud
C
Millamant
D
Mincing
Question 54Single Answer
T. S. Eliot found spiritual support in
A
Christianity
B
Hinduism
C
Buddhism
D
Judaism
Question 55Single Answer
By what name is Gulliver know in Brobdingag?
A
Grildrig
B
Glumdalclitch
C
Splacknuck
D
Mannikin
Question 56Single Answer
Who among the following was born in India?
A
Paul Scott
B
Lawrence Durrell
C
E. M. Forster
D
V. S. Naipaul
Question 57Single Answer
What metaphor does Edmund Spenser employ (Faerie Queene Book 1 Can to 12) to frame his tale and to describe the relationship
between the tale and its readers?
A
(1) That of a caravan of lost souls, traversing a desert.
B
That of a stagecoach, which picks up diverse passengers along the way.
C
That of a ship filled with jolly mariners.
D
That of a riderless horse, following his Own direction.
Question 58Single Answer
Who among the following is not associated with Russian formalism?
A
Roman Jaskoson
B
Georges Poulet
C
Boris Eichenbaum
D
Victor shklovsky
Question 59Single Answer
Which character in Dickens keeps on hoping that "something will turn up"?
A
Barkis
B
Micawber
C
Uriah Heep
D
Miss Havisham
Question 60Single Answer
What is the name of the boat that tescues Ishmael in Herman Melville's Moby Dick?
A
Pequod
B
Rachel
C
Hagar
D
Sphinx
Question 61Single Answer
Northanger Abbey is a parody of the............. romance.
A
Oriental
B
French
C
Gothic
D
Popular
Question 62Single Answer
Who among the following authors were greatly influenced by Thomas Carlyle's writings ?
I. Charles Dickens
II. Elizabeth Gaskell
III. Emily Bronte
IV. Oscar Wilde
The right combination according to the code is
A
I and II
B
II and III
C
I and IV
D
I and III
Question 63Single Answer
Which of the following is another term to describe "art for art's sake" ?
A
Aestheticism
B
Didacticism
C
Realism
D
Neo-realism
Question 64Single Answer
The statement that there are " none so credulous as infidels " is an illustration of
A
Oxymoron
B
Antithesis
C
Paradox
D
Metonomy
Question 65Single Answer
Who narrates Heart of Darkness?
A
Marlow
B
Director of Companies
C
Kurtz
D
An unnamed narrator
Question 66Single Answer
The Mistakes of a Night is the subtitle of
A
The Conscious Lovers
B
The Good Natur'd Man
C
She Stoops to Conquer
D
The Rivals
Question 67Single Answer
Identify the first novel written by Patrick White :
A
The Living and the Dead
B
The Tree of Man
C
Happy Valley
D
The Aunt's Story
Question 68Single Answer
In King Lear for what reason does Kent assume a disguise?
A
To continue to serve Lear, thought Lear has banished him.
B
To spy on Edmund.
C
To antagonize Goneril and Regan.
D
To revenge upon Lear for banishing him.
Question 69Single Answer
What is a feminine rhyme?
A
A rhyme on two syllables in which the last syllable is unstressed.
B
A rhyme on two syllables.
C
A rhyme on three syllables.
D
A poem in which every third syllable rhymes.
Question 70Single Answer
Identify two of the following written by Christopher Fry :
I. French Without Tears
II. The Lady's Not for Burning
III. Venus Observed
IV. The Deep Blue Sea
The right combination according to the code is
A
II and III
B
I and III
C
II and IV
D
I and Iv
Question 71Single Answer
In " Tradition and Individual Talent ", according to T.S. Eliot, the term " Traditional " usually means
A
something positive
B
something negative
C
something historical
D
something old
Question 72Single Answer
Who of the following is a Cavalier poet?
A
George Herbert
B
John Donne
C
Robert Herrick
D
Andrew Marvell
Question 73Single Answer
Which of the following is not Jacques Derrida's work?
A
of Spirit : Heidegger and the Question
B
The Transcendence of the Ego
C
of Grammatology
D
The Work of Mourning
Question 74Single Answer
In Paradise Lost which character narrates the story of the making of Eve from a rib in Adam's side?
A
Adam
B
Eva
C
Raphael
D
God
Question 75Single Answer
A. S. Byatt's Possession attempts the imitation of the work of two Victorian poets, loosely based on
I. Alfred Tennyson
II. Robert Browning
III. Christina Rossetti
IV. William Morris
The right combination according to the code is
A
I and II
B
II and IV
C
II and III
D
III and IV
Question 76Single Answer
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a short comedy by
A
Bernard Shaw
B
W. B. Yeats
C
J. M. Synge
D
John Osborne
Question 77Single Answer
John Milton's description of gold as a " precious bane" ( Paradise Lost, Book II,) is best described as
A
a dactyl
B
an oxymoron
C
ejambment
D
zeugma
Question 78Single Answer
There is a play on the name of Machiavelli in the prologue to Christopher Marlowe's
A
Doctor Faustus
B
The Jew of Malta
C
Tamburlaine, the Great
D
Edward II
Question 79Single Answer
Shakespeare famously neglects to observe Aristotle 's rules concerning the three dramatic unities, and Samuel Johnson undertakes to defend Shakespeare from these criticisms in his Preface to Shakespeare. Which of the Aristotelian dramatic unities does Johnson believe Shakes to observe most successfully
A
Time
B
Place
C
Action
D
Johnson does not feel that the Aristotelian dramatic unities are important
Question 80Single Answer
Who among the following was praised and patronized as a " Ploughman Poet "?
A
John Clare
B
George Crabbe
C
Robert Burns
D
Walter Scott
Question 81Single Answer
Which novel of Doris Lessing ends with a projection forward in time after a devastating atomic war ?
A
The Grass is Singing
B
The Golden Notebook
C
The Four - Gated City
D
A Proper Marriage
Question 82Single Answer
Name the dominant meter of the following quatain : The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
A
Iambic Hexameter
B
Trochaic Pentameter
C
Iambic Pentameter
D
Terza Rima
Question 83Single Answer
Which two novels of Buchi Emecheta provide a fictionalized portrait of poor, young Nigerian woman struggling to bring up their children in London?
I. The Slave Girl
II. The Joys of Motherhood
III. Second Class Citizen
IV. In the Ditch
The right combination according to the code is
A
I and II
B
II and III
C
III and IV
D
I and IV
Question 84Single Answer
In John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress who keeps Christian's head above water in the River of Death?
A
Hopeful
B
Helpful
C
Faithful
D
Cheerful
Question 85Single Answer
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a
A
religious allegory
B
fairy tale
C
long poem
D
Utopian novel
Question 86Single Answer
In Thomas More's Utopia which of the following leisure pastimes is not a favorite among Utopians?
A
Music
B
Public lectures
C
Conversation
D
Dicing and cards
Question 87Single Answer
Which of the following statements does not describe Michel Foucault 's position?
A
In Foucault 's work sexuality is literally written on the body.
B
Power operates through discourse.
C
There is connection between power and Knowledge.
D
Where there is power, it is possible to find resistance.
Question 88Single Answer
In which year did the Great Exhibition taken place?
A
1851
B
1857
C
1861
D
1871
Question 89Single Answer
When Fidessa says, " but I fear the fickle freakes..... / of fortune false, and oddes of armes in field " ( Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto 5 ), this is a fine example of
A
Alliteration
B
Allegory
C
Assonance
D
Antithesis
Question 90Single Answer
Match the work with author :
a. " The Excursion " 1. S. T. Coleridge
b. " Christabel " 2. P. B. Shelley
c. Milton 3. William Wordsworth
d. Queen Mab 4. William Blake
A
Codes :
a. b. c. d
3. 1. 2. 4
B
3. 1. 4. 2
C
2. 3. 1. 4
D
2. 1. 3. 4
Question 91Single Answer
Which of the following phrases is not found in Thomas Gray's "Elegy written in a Country Churchyard "?
A
" Far from the madding crowd "
B
" A youth to Fortune and Fame unknown "
C
" Full many a flower is born to blush unseen "
D
" All nature is but art, unknown to three "
Question 92Single Answer
Robert Browning 's " Rabbi Ben Ezra "is a defence of
A
Youth against old age
B
Old age again youth
C
Power against knowledge
D
Knowledge against power
Question 93Single Answer
In Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims, like the medieval society of which they are a part are made up of three social groups or " estates ". What are the three estates?
A
Nobility, church and commoners
B
Royalty, nobility and peasantry
C
Royalists republicans and peasants
D
Country, city and commons
Question 94Single Answer
Which novel of Toni Morrison tells the wrenching story of a protagonist who murders her child rather than to allow him/her to live as a slave?
A
Sula
B
Tar Baby
C
Song of Solomon
D
Beloved
Question 95Single Answer
Who among the following translated Homer?
A
Thomas Gray
B
Samuel Johnson
C
Oliver Goldsmith
D
Alexander Pope
Question 96Single Answer
Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy is a
A
Picaresque novel
B
Epistolary novel
C
Diary novel
D
Coming - of - age novel
Question 97Single Answer
When was the English ban on James Joyce's Ulysses lifted?
A
1924
B
1945
C
1936
D
1962
Question 98Single Answer
Who among the following is not an imagist?
A
Ezra Pound
B
W. B. Yeats
C
Amy Lowell
D
T. E. Hulme
Question 99Single Answer
Thomas Carew's Poems appeared in print in 1640 and contain a variety of amorous addresses to and reflections on, a fictional mistress known as
A
Celia
B
Julia
C
Anne
D
Melanie
Question 100Single Answer
Match the novelists with their work :
a. William Golding 1. Grimus
b. Salman Rushdie 2. Hawksmoor
c. Graham Swift 3. Darkness Visible
d. Peter Ackroyd 4. Waterlamd
A
Codes :
a. b. c. d
4. 1. 3. 2
B
3. 1. 4. 2
C
2. 3. 1. 4
D
2. 1. 3. 4
Question 101Single Answer
To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text may open up, Derrida makes use of the term.
A
aporia
B
difference
C
erasure
D
supplement
Question 102Single Answer
Who, among the following English play wrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love ?
A
Harold Pinter
B
Alan Bennett
C
Caryl Churchill
D
Tom Stoppard
Question 103Single Answer
Arrange the following in the chronological order.
1. Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women.
2. Lyrical Ballads
3. French Revolution
4. Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
A
4 , 3, 1, 2
B
3, 2, 1, 4
C
1, 2, 4. 3
D
2, 1, 3, 4
Question 104Single Answer
Which of the following employs a narrative structure in which the main action is relayed at second hand through an enclosing frame story?
A
Sons and Lovers
B
Ulysses
C
The Power and the Glory
D
Heart of Darkness
Question 105Single Answer
The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as
A
W. B. Yeats, Lady George and Edward Martyn
B
Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries
C
H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John Ervine
D
Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries
Question 106Single Answer
Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt?
A
Troilus and Criseyde
B
The House of Fame
C
The Book of Duchess
D
The Legend of Good Women
Question 107Single Answer
The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is the other title of
A
Gorboduc
B
Ralph Roister Doister
C
Damon and Pythias
D
Lamentable Tragedy
Question 108Single Answer
Who of the following poets is Australian?
A
Austin Clarke
B
Judith Wright
C
Edwin Muir
D
Derek Walcott
Question 109Single Answer
"He found it ( English) brick and left it marble ", remarked one great writer on another. Who were they?
A
Milton on Shakespeare
B
Dryden on Milton
C
Johnson on Dryden
D
Jonson on Shakespeare
Question 110Single Answer
List -- I List -- II
I. "Because I could not stop for death....." 1. Robert Frost
II. "O Captain ! My Captain !" 2. William Carlos Williams
III. " Two roads diverged in a wood.........." 3. Emily Dickinson
IV."So much depends / upon " 4. Walt Whitman
The correctly matched series would be :
A
I. II III. IV
4. 3. 2. 1
B
1. 2. 3. 4
C
2. 1. 4. 3
D
3. 4. 1. 2
Question 111Single Answer
The predominant tone and thrust of Jonathan Swift 's '" A Modest Proposal " are
A
comic
B
solemn
C
hortatory
D
irony
Question 112Single Answer
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty Second Street, Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire, Of a low dishonest decade. So begins Auden's " September 1, 1939 ". What is the meaning of the word in italics?
A
bench
B
night club
C
house
D
park
Question 113Single Answer
C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were reputed in the 1930s for introducing
A
Practical Criticism
B
New Criticism
C
Standard English Project
D
Basic English Project
Question 114Single Answer
In which of the following works does Mrs. Malaprop appear?
A
She Rivals
B
She Stoops to Conquer
C
The Mysteries of Udolpho
D
The Way of the World
Question 115Single Answer
Which of the following statements about Christopher Marlowe are true?
1. Edward II was written in the last year of Marlowe's life.
2. Many critics consider Doctor Faustus to be Marlowe 's best play.
3. His Spanish Tragedy comes a close second.
4. Marlowe was less educated than Shakespeare.
A
1 and 2 are correct.
B
2 and 3 are correct.
C
2 and 4 are correct.
D
3 and 4 are correct.
Question 116Single Answer
" Art for Art ' s Sake " because a rallying cry for.
A
the Aesthetes
B
the Symbolists
C
the Imagists
D
the Art Noveau School
Question 117Single Answer
Confessions of an English Opium Eater is a literary work by
A
S. T. Coleridge
B
P. B. Shelley
C
Thomas De Quincey
D
Lord Byron
Question 118Single Answer
Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true?
A
" The General Prologue " is appended to The Canterbury Tales.
B
In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this work.
C
The Canterbury Tales remained unfinished at the time of its author's death.
D
The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain and The Franklin are characters and tale-tellers in this work.
Question 119Single Answer
Who among the following was a Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film critic and set his fictions in far - away places wrecked by political conflicts?
A
Anthony Powell
B
Evelyn Waugh
C
William Golding
D
Graham Greene
Question 120Single Answer
List -- I List -- II
i.Good sense is the body of poetic 1. Brooks," The Formalist Critic "
genius
II. Poetry is the breath and a finer 2. Sidney, Defence/An Apology for Poetry
spirit of all Knowledge.
III. Literary criticism is a description 3. Wordsworth,Preface to Lyrical Ballads
and evolution of its object
IV. Nature never set forth the earth in as 4. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
rich a tapestry as diverse poets have done
A
I. II. III. IV
4. 3. 1. 2
B
2. 4. 3. 1
C
3. 2. 1. 4
D
4. 2. 1. 3
Question 121Single Answer
In which of the following travel books does Mark Twain give an account of his visit to India?
A
A Tramp Abroad
B
Roughing It
C
The Innocents Abroad
D
Following the Equator
Question 122Single Answer
William Blake's famous poems such as " London ", " The Sick Rose " , and " The Ryget " appear in
A
Songs of Innocence
B
Songs of Experience
C
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
D
Vision of the Daughters of Albion
Question 123Single Answer
Who among the following English artists illustrated the novels of Dickens and Scott?
A
Richard Hogarth
B
Joshua Reynolds
C
George Cruishank
D
John Tennial
Question 124Single Answer
The last of Gulliver 's Travels is to
A
The Land of the Houyhnhnms
B
The Land of Homosapiens
C
The Land of the Hurricanes
D
The newfound Land
Question 125Single Answer
Madam Merle is a character in
A
The Great Gatsby
B
The Portrait of a Lady
C
The Jungle
D
The Heart is an Lonely Hunter
Question 126Single Answer
In which of the following scenes of The Waste Land do we have departure from Standard English?
A
The typist scene
B
The pub scene
C
The hyacinth garden scene
D
The Chapel Periluos scene
Question 127Single Answer
The words " If it were done when its done, then were well/It were done quickly..... " are uttered by
A
Hamlet
B
Lear
C
Othello
D
Macbeth
Question 128Single Answer
John Dryden 's Absalom and Achotophel a
A
religious tract
B
political allegory
C
comic verse epic
D
comedy
Question 129Single Answer
The term ' the comedy of menace ' is associated with the early plays of
A
Arnold Wesker
B
John Arden
C
Harold Pinter
D
David Hare
Question 130Single Answer
Examine the following statements and identify one of them which is not true.
A
Rudyard Kipling died in the year 1936.
B
He was born in India but schooled I in England.
C
He returned to India as a police constable in Burma.
D
He is the author of Jungle Book and Barrack Room Ballads.
Question 131Single Answer
Name the poet who choose his successor and the successor - poet whom Dryden satirises in his famous poem.
A
James Shirley and Charles Shirley
B
Henry Terence and Charles Triesten
C
Richard Flecknoe and Thomas Shadwell
D
Thomas Percy and Samuel Pepys
Question 132Single Answer
" ----------- comes, can ----- be far behind? " ( Shelley, " Ode to the West Wind ")
A
winter, spring
B
autumn, summer
C
wind, rains
D
spring, winter
Question 133Single Answer
The following passages ate the very first lines of well - know works, Match the lines and the works :
I. Let us go then, you and I........
II. Call me Ishmael .........
III. When shall we three meet again?
IV. He wish disappeared in the dead of winter
V. I wish either ..... be got me .......
1. Moby Dick
2. Macbeth
3. " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock "
4. Tristram Shandy
5. " In Memory of W. B. Yeats "
A
I. II. III. IV V
3. 1. 2. 5. 4
B
5. 2. 1. 3. 4
C
2. 1. 4. 5. 3
D
2. 5. 4. 3. 1
Question 134Single Answer
Which of the following is not a revenge tragedy?
A
Hamlet
B
The Duchess of Malfi
C
Volpone
D
Gorboduc
Question 135Single Answer
What is a neologism ?
A
A word with roots in a native language
B
A word whose meaning changes with every renewed use.
C
A word newly coined or used in a new sense.
D
An obsession with new words and phrases.
Question 136Single Answer
Which of the following is not true of Edward Said 's Orientalism?
A
Makes use of Foucault 's concept of discursive foulation
B
Is one of the founding texts of Postcolonial theory
C
Makes use of Barthes's concept of writerly text
D
Utilises the Gramscian notion of hegemony
Question 137Single Answer
Thomas Love Peacock classified poetry into 4 periods. They are :
A
carbon, gold, silver and brass
B
brass, silver, gold and diamond
C
iron, gold, silver and brass
D
gold, platinum, silver and diamond
Question 138Single Answer
Which among the following novels has more than one ending?
A
Lucky Jim
B
The Prime of Jean Brodie
C
The French Lieutenant 's Woman
D
The Clockwork Orange
Question 139Single Answer
" You have seen how a man was made a slave " you shall see how a slave was made a man " is an example of
A
Bathos
B
Epistrophe
C
Chiasmus
D
Anti - Climax
Question 140Single Answer
Which of the following statements is NOT correct?
A
Chaucer used the rhyme royal, a stanzaic form in some of his major poems.
B
Chaucer was the author of The Legend of Good Women.
C
Chaucer wrote in English when the court poetry of his day was written in Anglo-Norman and Latin.
D
Chaucer wrote The Book Named the Governor
Question 141Single Answer
Material feminism studies inequality in terms of
A
only gender
B
only class
C
both class and gender
D
only patriarchy
Question 142Single Answer
Who among the following is not an Irish writer?
A
Oscar Wilde
B
Oliver Goldsmith
C
Edmund Burke
D
Thomas Gray
Question 143Single Answer
Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys begins after
A
The Restoration
B
The Glorious Revolution
C
The Reformation
D
The French Revolution
Question 144Single Answer
In a poem, a line may either be end stopped or
A
rhymed
B
broken
C
accented
D
run - on
Question 145Single Answer
Which of the following poets wrote the essay " Naipaul 's India and Mine "?
A
Kamala Das
B
R. Parthasarthy
C
A. K. Ramanujan
D
Nissim Ezekiel
Question 146Single Answer
Match the following :
I. James Joyce 1. Peter Ackroyd
II. T. S. Eliot 2. James Boswell
III. Life of Johnson 3. Samuel Johnson
IV. Lives of Poets 4. Richard Ellman
A
I. II. III. IV
3. 4. 1. 2
B
4. 1. 2. 3
C
1. 2. 3. 4
D
2. 3. 1. 4
Question 147Single Answer
" The pen is mightier than the sword " is an example of
A
simile
B
image
C
conceit
D
metonymy
Question 148Single Answer
An epilogue is
A
prefixed to a text which it introduces.
B
suffixed to a text which it sums up or extends.
C
a piece of writing or speech that formally begins a book.
D
a piece of writing or speech that bears no relation to the text at hand.
Question 149Single Answer
In Ben Jonson's Volpone, the animal imagery includes
1. the fox and the vulture
2. the fly and the cockroach
3. the fly, the crow and the raven
4. the fox, the vulture and the goat
A
1 and 2 are correct.
B
only 4 is correct.
C
2 and 4 are correct.
D
1 and 3 are correct.
Question 150Single Answer
Salman Rushdie 's "Imaginary Homelands" is ------------------------ .
A
a discussion of imperialist assumptions.
B
an essay that propounds an anti - essentialist view of place.
C
an existential lament on triumphant colonialism.
D
an orientalist description of his favorite homelands.
