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Question 1Single Answer
Mathew Arnold's "touchstones" were "short passages, even single lines" of classic poetry beside which the lines of other poets may be placed in order to detect the presence or absence of high poetic quality. In his "Study of Poetry " Arnold cited "touchstones" from poets as Homer and Dante and also from the English poets, Shakespeare and Milton. Which English poet did he disapprovingly call "not one of the great classics" in the list below?
  1. A
    Chaucer       
  2. B
    Sidney
  3. C
    Spenser   
  4. D
    Donne
Question 2Single Answer
Samuel Pepys began his diary on................
  1. A
    New Year's Day   1660
  2. B
    All Saints' Day 1662
  3. C
    Thanksgiving Day  1665
  4. D
    New Year's  Day  1667 
Question 3Single Answer
On which of the following authors has Peter Ackroyd not written a biography ?
  1. A
    Charles Dickens     
  2. B
    William Blake
  3. C
    T. S. Eliot      
  4. D
    W. B. Yeats 
Question 4Single Answer
Which group of the following poets was called the Auden Group because they developed a style and viewpoint similar to that of W. H. Auden?
  1. A
    Louis MacNeice, C. D.  Lewis Stephen Spender
  2. B
    John Masefield, Edwin Muir, Norman McCaig
  3. C
    MacDiarmid,  G. M. Hopkins, Edwin Muir
  4. D
    W. H. Davies, Robert Bridges, John Masefield 
Question 5Single Answer
When one line of poetry runs into the next, with no punctuation to slow the reading, it is a case of...........................   .
  1. A
    Caesura     
  2. B
    Consonance
  3. C
    enjambment     
  4. D
    hyperbole  
Question 6Single Answer
The just man justices. What kind of  foregrounding do you find in the above lines ?
  1. A
    Syntactic     
  2. B
    Semantic
  3. C
    Collocation   
  4. D
    None of the above 
Question 7Single Answer
Match the items in List - I with items in List - II according to the code given :
List - I                     List - II
(a)   Lambic        1. An unstressed syllable  followed by a stressed syllable 
(b)  Anapaestic   2. A stressed is followed by two unstressed syllables.
(c)  Dactylic       3. An unstressed syllable is  followed by a stressed syllable.
(d)  Trochaic       4. A stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.
  1. A
    Codes :
    a.       b.     c.    d
    2.      1.       3.    4
  2. B
    3.       2.       1.     4
  3. C
    4.        1.        2.      3
  4. D
    3.       1.         2.     4                                         
                                           
Question 8Single Answer
The separation of styles in accordance with class in medieval works of literature and art.
  1. A
    Ben Jonson 
  2. B
    Shakespeare
  3. C
    Philip Sidney   
  4. D
    Edmund Spenser 
Question 9Single Answer
"Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime." This statement is an example of
  1. A
    Irony
  2. B
    Paradox
  3. C
    Hyperbole
  4. D
    Euphemism 
Question 10Single Answer
A Spencerian stanza has
  1. A
    four iambic pentameters
  2. B
    six iambic pentameters
  3. C
    eight iambic pentameters
  4. D
    ten iambic pentameters
Question 11Single Answer
In Pinter's Birthday Party, Stanley is given a birthday present. What is it ?
  1. A
    A toy
  2. B
    A piano
  3. C
    A drum    
  4. D
    A violin
Question 12Single Answer
How does Lord Jim end ?
  1. A
    Jim is shot through the chest by Doramin
  2. B
    Jim kills himself with a last unflinching glance.
  3. C
    Jim Andrews " the call of exalted egoism " and betrays Jewel.
  4. D
    Jim surrenders himself to Doramin. 
Question 13Single Answer
"Where I lacked a political purpose, I wrote lifeless books," To which of the following authors can we attribute the above admission?
  1. A
    Graham Greene  
  2. B
    George Orwell
  3. C
    Charles Morgan 
  4. D
    Evelyn Waugh 
Question 14Single Answer
Modernism has been described as being concerned with "Disenchantment of our culture with culture itself ". Who is the critic?
  1. A
    Stephen Spender    
  2. B
    Malcolm Bradbury
  3. C
    Lionel Trilling           
  4. D
    Joseph Frank 
Question 15Single Answer
"Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing." The above lines are quoted from
  1. A
    "Tintern Abbey Revisited "
  2. B
    " Michael"
  3. C
    "Frost at Midnight"
  4. D
    "This Lime - Tree Bower, My prison"
Question 16Single Answer
To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text may open up, Derrida makes use of the term.
  1. A
    aporia         
  2. B
    difference
  3. C
    erasure          
  4. D
    supplement 
Question 17Single Answer
Who, among the following English play wrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love ?
  1. A
    Harold Pinter     
  2. B
    Alan Bennett
  3. C
    Caryl Churchill       
  4. D
    Tom Stoppard 
Question 18Single 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
  1. A
    4 ,  3,  1,    2       
  2. B
    3,    2,   1,    4
  3. C
    1,    2,    4.   3     
  4. D
    2,     1,     3,    4  
Question 19Single Answer
Which of the following employs a narrative structure in which the main action is relayed at second hand through an enclosing frame story?
  1. A
    Sons and Lovers
  2. B
    Ulysses
  3. C
    The Power and the Glory
  4. D
    Heart of Darkness   
Question 20Single Answer
The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as
  1. A
    W. B. Yeats, Lady George and Edward Martyn
  2. B
    Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries
  3. C
    H. Drummond,  Edward Irving and John Ervine
  4. D
    Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries  
Question 21Single Answer
Which British University figures in William Wordsworth 's Prelude ?
  1. A
    Durham
  2. B
    Glasgow
  3. C
    Cambridge
  4. D
    Oxford
Question 22Single Answer
Who is the author of A Woman Killed with Kindness ?
  1. A
    John Marston
  2. B
    Thomas Middleton
  3. C
    John Fletcher
  4. D
    Thomas Heywood 
Question 23Single 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".
  1. A
    Mirabell
  2. B
    Witwoud
  3. C
    Millamant
  4. D
    Mincing
Question 24Single Answer
T. S. Eliot found spiritual support in
  1. A
    Christianity    
  2. B
    Hinduism
  3. C
    Buddhism        
  4. D
    Judaism 
Question 25Single Answer
By what name is Gulliver know in Brobdingag?
  1. A
    Grildrig          
  2. B
    Glumdalclitch
  3. C
    Splacknuck  
  4. D
    Mannikin
Question 26Single Answer
Identify from the following the work Nirad C. Chaudhuri Called "The finest novel in the English language with an Indian theme" .
  1. A
    Kim       
  2. B
    A Passage to India
  3. C
    Train to Pakistan  
  4. D
    Private Life of an Indian Prince.
Question 27Single Answer
Who is the author of the poem "The Defence of Lucknow" dealing with the siege of Lucknow, one of the terrible incidents of the Indian Mutiny ?
  1. A
    Rudyary Kipling
  2. B
    Edward Lear
  3. C
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
  4. D
    Rebert Browning
Question 28Single Answer
Who among the following theorists holds that metaphor and metonymy are the two fundamental structures of language ?
  1. A
    Ferdinand de Saussure 
  2. B
    J. L. Austin
  3. C
    Roman Jakobson
  4. D
    Victor Shkolvsky
Question 29Single Answer
From among the following, who are the Dashwood sisters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility ?
(I) Elinor         (II) Marianne
(III) Mary         (IV) Amanda
The right combination according to the code is :
  1. A
    I and III      
  2. B
    I and II
  3. C
    II and III    
  4. D
    III and IV
Question 30Single Answer
Which among the following texts can be characterised as a lesbian Bildungsroman ?
  1. A
    Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop    
  2. B
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
  3. C
    Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
  4. D
    Ruth Pawar Jhabvala, Heat and Dust.             
Question 31Single Answer
Who among the following advanced the theory that the mind is a tabula rasa at birth and acquires all ideas by experience?
  1. A
    John Locke           
  2. B
    John Wesley
  3. C
    Isaac Watts           
  4. D
    Denis Diderot 
Question 32Single Answer
Which of the following authors wrote Studie in the History of the Renaissance?
  1. A
    Walter pater    
  2. B
    Oscar Wilde
  3. C
    Thomas Carlyle      
  4. D
    John Ruskin  
Question 33Single Answer
Whom does Harriet Smith finally marry in one of Jane Austen's novels?
  1. A
    Knightley      
  2. B
    Darcy
  3. C
    Collins    
  4. D
    Mr. Martin 
Question 34Single Answer
A poet once referred to an old man as " A tattered coat upon a stick ". That is an example of......................   .
  1. A
    Metonymy        
  2. B
    Sarcasm
  3. C
    Simile   
  4. D
    Metaphor  
Question 35Single Answer
Which of these is not a pastoral elegy ?
  1. A
    Lycidas     
  2. B
    In Memoriam
  3. C
    Thyrsis    
  4. D
    Adonais 
Question 36Single Answer
Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy contains :
  1. A
    Six volumes     
  2. B
    Nine Volumes
  3. C
    Ten  Volumes    
  4. D
    Four volumes 
Question 37Single Answer
Which of the following statements is NOT true of Areopagitica ?
  1. A
    It was published in 1644 
  2. B
    It argues for the liberty of Unlicensed Printing
  3. C
    It pleads for British privileges regarding Free Trade
  4. D
    It is a speech addressed to the Parliament of England
Question 38Single Answer
Thomas Hardy's last major novel was...........   .
  1. A
    Tess of the D'urbervilles
  2. B
    Jude the Obscure
  3. C
    The Return of the Native
  4. D
    The Trumpet  Major 
Question 39Single Answer
The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd to the Story of the Country Mouse and the City Mouse is a satire on :
  1. A
    Alexander Pope   
  2. B
    Jonathan Swift
  3. C
    John Dryden   
  4. D
    Samuel Butler 
Question 40Single Answer
Match the  columns :
   Terms                                   Theorists
I. Apollonian - Dionysian         1. Matthew Arnold 
II.  Fancy - Imagination           2. Friedrich Nietzsche
III.  Hellenism - Hebraism        3. G. H. Hopkins
IV. Inscape - Instress              4. S. T. Coleridge
  1. A
    I.     II.       III.      IV
    2.     4.        1.     3
  2. B
    2.      4.        3.    1
  3. C
    1.     4.          2.   3
  4. D
    4.      2.      1.     3 
Question 41Single Answer
------  the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self which word ?
  1. A
    Bird        
  2. B
    Immortal 
  3. C
    Forlorn   
  4. D
    Fancy   
Question 42Single Answer
In poems like "The Altar" and "Easter Wings" ---------------------  exploits ----------------- .
  1. A
    John Donne, alliteration
  2. B
    Robert Herrick, trimetre
  3. C
    G. M. Hopkins, sprung rhythm
  4. D
    George Herbert, typographic space  
Question 43Single Answer
 No, no thou hast not felt the lapse of hours ! For what wears out the life of moral men?'  Tis that repeated shocks, again and numb the elastic powers.............. Who does the poet address here?
  1. A
    The Scholar Gipsy
  2. B
    Telemachus
  3. C
    The Nightingale
  4. D
    The Poet's Sister, Dorothy 
Question 44Single Answer
The roman a clef ( French for "novel with a key") uses contemporary historical figures as its chief character. They are of course given fictional names. One explain is Aldous Hixley's point Counter Point. Its Mark Rampion is modelled on  ---------------------- .
  1. A
    D. H. Lawrence
  2. B
    E. M. Forster
  3. C
    Wyndham Lewis
  4. D
    Arnold Bennett  
Question 45Single Answer
She was a worthy woman al hir lyve, Housbondes at chirche - dore she hadde fyve, In the  'Prologue' Chaucer represents the Wife of Bath as :
I.   crude and Vulgar
II.   outspoken and boastfully licentious
III.   a witness to masculine oppression
IV.   bubbling with vitality
Find the correct combination according to the code :
  1. A
    I, II and III are correct
  2. B
    I,  II and IV are correct
  3. C
    I, III and IV are correct
  4. D
    II,  III and IV are correct 
Question 46Single Answer
Identify the work below that does not belong to the literature of the eighteenth century :
  1. A
    Advancement of Learning
  2. B
    Gulliver's Travels
  3. C
     The Spectator
  4. D
    An Epistle to Dr.  Arbuthnot  
Question 47Single Answer
Which, among the following is a place through which John Bunyan 's Christian does not pass?
  1. A
    The Slough of Despond
  2. B
    Mount Helicon
  3. C
    The Valley of Humiliation
  4. D
     Vanity Fair  
Question 48Single Answer
The period of Queen Victoria 's reign is :
  1. A
    1830 - 1900
  2. B
    1837 - 1901
  3. C
    1830 -  1901
  4. D
    1837 -  1900
Question 49Single Answer
Which of the following statements about The Lyrica Ballads is not true?
  1. A
    It carried only one ballad proper, which was Coleridge 's The Time of the Ancient Mariner.
  2. B
    It also carried pastoral and other poems.
  3. C
    It carried a " Preface " which Wordsworth added in 1800 .
  4. D
    It also printed from Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.  
Question 50Single Answer
One of the following texts was published earlier than 1995 . Identify the text.
  1. A
    William Golding, The Inheritors
  2. B
    Philip Larkin ,The Less Deceived
  3. C
    William Empson,  Collected Poems
  4. D
    Samuel Becket,  Waiting for Godot 
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