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Question 1Single 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 2Single 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 3Single 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 4Single 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 5Single Answer
Which of these is not a pastoral elegy ?
  1. A
    Lycidas     
  2. B
    In Memoriam
  3. C
    Thyrsis    
  4. D
    Adonais 
Question 6Single Answer
In Beckett's Waiting for Goddot the characters often use dislocated, repetitious and cliched speech primarily to :
  1. A
    Illustrate the essentially illogical, purpose - less nature of the human condition
  2. B
    re-create the workings of the sub- conscious
  3. C
    mock the exaggerated dignity and wisdom of modern, self - professed intellectuals
  4. D
    reinforce the comic action of farcical plots   
Question 7Single Answer
Which of the following sixteenth - century poets was NOT a courtier?
  1. A
    George Puttenham
  2. B
    Philip Sidney
  3. C
    Walter Raleigh      
  4. D
    Thomas Wyatt 
Question 8Single Answer
Patrick White published two novels in the 1950s  giving the eras of pioneering and exploration in Australian history an epic,
 ironic and psychological dimension. The  novels are :
(a)  A Fringe of Leaves
(b)  The Tree of Man
(c)  Voss
(d)  The Aunt's Story
The right combination according to the code is :
  1. A
    (a)  and  (b)  
  2. B
    (b)  and  (c)
  3. C
    (c)  and. (a) 
  4. D
    (c)  and  (d) 
Question 9Single Answer
In which of the following works did Bakhtin Propose his widely cited concept of the ' Carnivalesque '?
  1. A
    " Discourse in the novel "
  2. B
    Dialogic Imagination
  3. C
    Rabelais and his world
  4. D
    " Forms of Time and of the Chronotope  in the Novel "
Question 10Single Answer
Match the  columns :
      (  Author)                       (Text)
a.  Sebastian Faulks        1. Amsterdam
b.  Peter Ackroyd             2. Changing Places
c.  Ian McEwan                3. Hawksmoor
d.  David Lodge               4. Birdsong
  1. A
    Codes :
    a.       b.        c.      d
    1.       2.       3.       4
  2. B
    2.       3.       1.        4
  3. C
    4.       3.        1.       2
  4. D
    3.        4.        2.      1
Question 11Single Answer
 In New Criticism, the key term ' tension ' is associated with :
  1. A
    Cleanth Brooks
  2. B
    John  Crow Ransom
  3. C
    Austin Warren
  4. D
    Allen Tate 
Question 12Single Answer
While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela or  virtue  Rewarded?
  1. A
    an account of the plague in London
  2. B
    an instruction manual for manners
  3. C
    a book of devotion
  4. D
    a book of model letters 
Question 13Single Answer
Who among the war poets gained notoriety in  1917 ,when disenchanted with the way the war was being conducted he drafted his letter of " wilful defiance of the military authority  which captured attention in the House of Commons,  and was forcibly admitted to the war hospital at Craiglockhart, primarily to avoid his being court - martialled?
  1. A
    Rupert Brooke      
  2. B
    Siegfried Sassoon
  3. C
    Wilfred Owen    
  4. D
    Isaac Rosenberg 
Question 14Single Answer
If you cannot understand an argument and remark, " It's Greek to me ", you are quoting.
  1. A
    John Milton
  2. B
    Samuel  Johnson
  3. C
    William Shakespeare
  4. D
    John Donne 
Question 15Single Answer
Which of the following works did Walter Scott compile?
  1. A
    The Lay of the Last Minstrel
  2. B
    Marmion
  3. C
    Ivanhoe
  4. D
    The Minstrelsy of Scottish Border  +
Question 16Single Answer
Which of the following is NOT written by Wole Soyinka?
  1. A
    Home and Exile
  2. B
    Kongi's Harvest
  3. C
    The Interpreters
  4. D
    The Swamp Dwellers 
Question 17Single Answer
In the Defence of poesy Sidney says : " Now as in geometry the oblique must be known as well as right and in arithmetic, the odd as well as the even, so in the actions of our life who seeth not the filthiness of evil wanteth a great foil to perceive the beauty of virtue " Which of the following forms of poesy offers a  foil that helps us perceive the beauty of virtue?
  1. A
    Pastorals  
  2. B
    Parody
  3. C
    Comedy     
  4. D
    Tragedy  
Question 18Single Answer
John Dryden described a major English poet as " a rough diamond,  and must first be polished ere he shines...... " Identify him :
  1. A
    Geoffrey Chaucer   k 
  2. B
    John Gower
  3. C
    George Herbert  
  4. D
    Robert Herric 
Question 19Single Answer
In a remarkably proleptic insight, a critic wrote the following, anticipating Benedict Anderson 's definition of the nation as " animagined political community "  : "  Most novels are in sense knowable  Communities, It is of a traditional method - an underlying stance and aproachy-that a novelist offers to show people and their relationship in essentially knowable and communicable ways "  :
Name the critic and the reference. :
  1. A
    Van Wyck Brooks, The writer in America
  2. B
    Raymond Williams, The Country and the city
  3. C
    Joseph Wood Krutch, The Modern Temper
  4. D
    T. S. Eliot, Notes Towards a Definition of Culture 
Question 20Single Answer
 ." Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair, ' Her brow - shades frown, although her eyes are sunny " , The above lines are characterized by  : 
  1. A
    circumlocution  
  2. B
    antithesis
  3. C
    anticlimax     
  4. D
    bathos 
Question 21Single Answer
In his " Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot " Pope tells us that as a poet he had benefited from " This saving counsel ,'keep your piece nine years ' " --  which enjoins on writer 's patience and great are before they rush to print. Whose  "  counsel " is Pope referring to?
  1. A
    Longinus 's in On the Sublime
  2. B
    Horace's in Ars Poetica
  3. C
    Quintilian's Institutio Oratorio
  4. D
    Aristotle's Poetics    
Question 22Single Answer
An English architect and stage-designer - Beginning  1605s,  joined Jacobean court to design masques - contributed significantly to
the spectacular theatre which succeeded the commonwealth after his death - the first designer to use revolving screens to indicate
scene - changes on the English stage. Identify this artist / designer.
  1. A
    Henry Irving
  2. B
    Inigo Jones
  3. C
    Henry Arthur Jones
  4. D
    William Inge 
Question 23Single Answer
..................may be defined as any departure   from the rules of pronunciation or diction,  for the sake of rhyme or metre, or an unjustifiable departure from fact.
  1. A
    Poetic license  
  2. B
    Poetic justice
  3. C
    Poetic deviance 
  4. D
    Poetic dection 
Question 24Single Answer
That Humanities and the science were in fact " two cultures " was suggested by .......................    ..
  1. A
    Aldous Huxley in his Oxford lectures on Poetry
  2. B
    W. H. Anden in his Oxford lectures on Poetry
  3. C
    F. R. Leavis in his book, The Great Tradition
  4. D
    C. P. Snow in his Rede lecture 
Question 25Single Answer
Chaucer satirizes the Monk because the Monk :
  1. A
    is too concerned with courtesy and matters of etiquette
  2. B
    cheats the poor peasants by selling them false religious relics
  3. C
    courts favour of wealthy people but spends no time with poor people
  4. D
    spends too much time hunting and too little time on religious duty 
Question 26Single Answer
Divided into three sections this ground - breaking work published in  1953 uses as the frame of the spiritual and moral awakening of a fourteen - old during a Saturday night service in a Harlem church. Identify the work.
  1. A
    Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Are Watching God
  2. B
    James Baldwin's Go Tell it on the Mountain
  3. C
    Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
  4. D
    Richard Wright's  Native Son  
Question 27Single Answer
Charisma,  a political movement that took its  name from the People's Charter had six points. Identify the one point on the following list that was NOT Chartist :
a. Universal manhood sufferage
b. equal electoral districts
c. comprehensive insurance scheme for labour
d. vote by secret ballot
e. payment of MPs
f. no property qualifications for MPs
g. annual parliament
  1. A
    Codes :
    (e)                 
  2. B
    (g)
  3. C
    (c)       
  4. D
    (d) 
Question 28Single Answer
These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye........ ("Tintern Abbey Lines " )
Which of the following rhetorical terms best suits these lines?
  1. A
    Apostrophe     
  2. B
    Litotes
  3. C
    Hyperbole       
  4. D
    Catachresis   
Question 29Single Answer
The ' monster ' in Frankenstein is NOT responsible for the death of :
  1. A
    Clerval
  2. B
    Justine
  3. C
    Elizabeth
  4. D
    Alphonse Frankenstein  
Question 30Single Answer
Which of the following play's of William Shakespeare is NOT directly referred to in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land?
  1. A
    Hamlet            
  2. B
    King Lear
  3. C
    Coriolanus    
  4. D
    The Tempest 
Question 31Single Answer
Identify the group below which is known as the "  Sons of Ben ".
  1. A
    Noel Coward, E. G.  Craig,  William Macready,  Matheson, Lang
  2. B
    John Dryden,  the Earl of Rochester,  Samuel Butler
  3. C
    William Cartwright,  Richard Corbett, Thomas Randolph
  4. D
    William Holman Hurt, John E. Millais, D. G. Rossetti,  William Morris  
Question 32Single Answer
Christopher Marlowe was one of the first major writers to affirm what can be identified as a clearly homosexual sensibility. Which drama of his deals with it?
  1. A
    Edward II
  2. B
    The Jew of Malta
  3. C
    Doctor Faustus
  4. D
    Dido, Queen of Carthage
Question 33Single Answer
." When true silence falls we are still left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness ". Identify the playwright who underlines the significance of silence thus.
  1. A
    Samuel Beckett       
  2. B
    Harold Printer
  3. C
    Luigi Pirandello       
  4. D
    Joe Orton  
Question 34Single Answer
The determining feature of syllabic verse is neither............. nor.................... but the number of syllables in a line.
  1. A
    number,  numbers
  2. B
    sounds,  silences
  3. C
    stress,  quantity
  4. D
    gists,  piths
Question 35Single Answer
 In Robert Browning's  dramatic monologue,  which painter does Andrea del Sarto compare himself to?  What does he find lacking in his own work in comparison?
  1. A
    Fra Lippo  Lippi     ----       humour
  2. B
    Raphael                 ------      Soul
  3. C
    Leonardo da Vinci -------  Verisimilitude
  4. D
    Botticelli                 --------   liveliness  
Question 36Single Answer
In which of the following does Robert Southey detail the Indian superstitions as an idolatry to be suppressed by a civilizing protestant form of colonialism?
  1. A
    " Thalaba "
  2. B
    The Curse of Kehama
  3. C
    " Pitying the wolves "
  4. D
    Country Horrors!  
Question 37Single Answer
The following is the classic ending of a celebrated novella in English  : " I kept on creeping just the same, but I looked at him over my shoulder. 'I've got out at last ', said I,  " in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the papers, so you can't put me back! "
Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time! "
  1. A
    Yellow Woman ( Leslie Mormon Silko)
  2. B
    The yellow Wallpaper (CharloteP. Gilman)
  3. C
    Johny Panic and the Bible of Dreams ( Sylvia Plath)
  4. D
    Where Are You Going, Where Have you Been?  ( Joyce C. Oates)  
Question 38Single Answer
Harriet B. Stowe had wanted to write a work based on the life of an Afro -American writer which was later published as:
  1. A
    Uncle Tom's Cabin
  2. B
    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
  3. C
    Cry, The Beloved Country
  4. D
    Narrative of the Life of Frederick  Douglass   
Question 39Single Answer
Samuel Johnson's " Dissertation upon Poetry " is part of which of his following works?
  1. A
    the final section of his preface to Shakespeare
  2. B
    10th chapter of his novel Rasselas ( 1759)
  3. C
    the epilogue of his Lives of Poets
  4. D
    one of his Rambler essays  
Question 40Single Answer
A new series called "New Accents "was launched by Methuen in 1977. The first title to be published in the series was  :
  1. A
    Deconstruction  :  Theory and Practice
  2. B
    Formalism and Marxism
  3. C
    Structuralism and Semiotics
  4. D
    Making and Difference :  Feminist Literary Criticism 
Question 41Single Answer
" Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can their maturity, are less unde rrestraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language........ The language, too, of these men has been adopted...... because such men hourly  communicate with the best objects from which the best part of Language is originally derived ". Which of the following groups of the author's poem in the Lyrical Ballads ( 1800) contradict this statement in the " Preface to the Lyrical Ballads ", as pointed out by S. T. Coleridge?
  1. A
    " Ode on the Intonations of Immortality ", Prelude.
  2. B
    The Tasks, Seasons.
  3. C
    " Michael ", " Ruth ", " The Brothers ".
  4. D
    '" Elegy Written in a country churchyard ", " Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands ". 
Question 42Single Answer
A remarkable novelist of the English Modernist phase who wrote a short book on what the novel is ( and why it matters) remarked,  " Oh dear, yes - the novel tells a story ", Identify the novelist :
  1. A
    Virginia Woolf  
  2. B
    James Joyce
  3. C
    E. M. Forster      
  4. D
    D. H. Lawrence
Question 43Single Answer
What is the name of the angel, who of those who owed allegiance to Satan, dared to protest against his impious doctrine and left his compan to return to God ( Paradise Lost, Book V)?
  1. A
    Michael        
  2. B
    Abdiel
  3. C
    Uriel          
  4. D
    Gabriel 
Question 44Single Answer
Which of the following is NOT a school associated with Romantic period in English literature?
  1. A
    The Cockney School
  2. B
    The Fireside School
  3. C
    The Lake School
  4. D
    The Satanic School 
Question 45Single Answer
The idea of "new ethnicities " in post -war Britain was advanced by......................
  1. A
    Donald Hall       
  2. B
    Stuart Hall
  3. C
    Paul Gilroy       
  4. D
    Hanif Kureishi  
Question 46Single Answer
Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse begins in a piace of dialogue : 
" Yes of course, if it's fine tomorrow ", said Mrs. Ramsay. " But you'll have to be up with lark ", she added. Present among the listeners of her remark is .....   ....................
  1. A
    her father      
  2. B
    her nephew
  3. C
    her son    
  4. D
    her driver  
Question 47Single Answer
Match the phrase with character :
a. " Motiveless  malignity "           1. Macbeth
b. " Reason in Madness "              2. Hamlet
c. " Supp'd full of horrors "           3. Lear
d. " To be, or not to be "               4. Iago
  1. A
    Codes : 
    a.       b.       c.        d
    1.       3.        2.      4
  2. B
    4.       2.        3.       1
  3. C
    4.       3.        1.       2
  4. D
    3.       1.       2.        4  
Question 48Single Answer
In Tristram Shandy the narrator's presentation of his life and opinions is.......................
  1. A
    linear        
  2. B
    digressive
  3. C
    chronological     
  4. D
    rounded  
Question 49Single Answer
The famous sonnet of John Milton beginning '" When I consider how my light is spent...... ends with..............
  1. A
    Before me stares a wolfish eye, Behind me creeps a groan or sigh
  2. B
    They also serve who only stand and wait
  3. C
    And - which is more - you 'II be a Man,  my son!
  4. D
    And bless him for the sake of him that's gone 
Question 50Single Answer
He vision was of several caves. She saw herself in one, and she  watching its entrance, for Aziz to pass in. She failed to locate him. It was the doubt that had often visited her, but solid and attractive, like the hills." I am not -" speech was more difficult than vision. " I am not quite sure ". The above extract from A Passage to India is about Adela's cave experience. Who is questioning Adela?
  1. A
    Mrs.  Moore    
  2. B
    Mr.  McBryde
  3. C
    Fielding         
  4. D
    Ronney Heaslop  
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