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Question 1Single 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 2Single 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 3Single 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 4Single 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 5Single 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 
Question 6Single Answer
Who among the poets in England during the 1930s had left -- leaning tendencies?
  1. A
    T. S. Eliot,  Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington
  2. B
    Wilfred Owen, Siegfried  Sassoon,  Rupert Brooke
  3. C
    W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice , Cecil Day Lewis
  4. D
    J. Fleckner,  W. H. Davies, Edward Marsh 
Question 7Single Answer
Match the following :
I.  The Sage of Concord          1. Emily Dickinson
II.  The Num of Amherst         2. R. W. Emerson
III.  Mark Twain                        3. T. S. Eliot
IV. Old Possum                        4. Samuel L. Clemens
  1. A
    I.    II.      III.     IV
    2.   1.      4.      3
  2. B
    1.   2.      3.      4
  3. C
    4.   3.      2.      1
  4. D
    3.    4.      1.     2 
Question 8Single Answer
Name the theorist who divided poets into " strong " and " weak " and  popularized the practice of misreading :
  1. A
    Alan Bloom
  2. B
    Harold Bloom
  3. C
    Geoffrey Hartman
  4. D
    Stanley Fish 
Question 9Single Answer
In The Rape of the Lock Pope repeatedly compares Belinda to
  1. A
    the sun       
  2. B
    the moon
  3. C
    the north star   
  4. D
    the rose 
Question 10Single Answer
Which of the following awards is not given to Indian - English writers?
  1. A
    The Booker Prize
  2. B
    The Sahitya Akademi Award
  3. C
    The Gyanpeeth
  4. D
    Whitbread Prize   
Question 11Single 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 12Single 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 13Single 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 14Single 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 15Single 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 16Single Answer
The novel tells the story of twin brothers, Waldo, the man of reason and intellect, and Arthur, the innocent half - wit, the lives are inextricably intertwined. Which is the novel?
  1. A
    The Tree of Man
  2. B
    Voss
  3. C
    The Solid Mandala
  4. D
    The Vivisector  
Question 17Single Answer
Who among the following was NOT a member of the Scriblerus Club?
  1. A
    Thomas Parnell
  2. B
    Alexander Pope
  3. C
    Joseph Addison
  4. D
    John Gay  
Question 18Single Answer
--------------  is a theological term brought into literary criticism by ----------------.
  1. A
    Entelechy, St. Augustine
  2. B
    Ambiguity, William Empson
  3. C
    Adeqution, Fr Walter Ong
  4. D
    Epiphany, James Joyce  
Question 19Single Answer
----------------- the Almighty Power Hurled heading flaming from th' Ethereal Sky, With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to Arms. (Paradise Lost, 1.44-49. Choose the appropriate word :
  1. A
    Him  
  2. B
    He
  3. C
    Satan      
  4. D
    The Fiend  
Question 20Single Answer
Which of the following works does not have a mad woman as a character in it?
  1. A
    The Yellow Wallpaper
  2. B
    The Mad Woman in the Attic
  3. C
    Jane Eyre
  4. D
    Wide Sargasso Sea 
Question 21Single Answer
Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy contains :
  1. A
    Six volumes     
  2. B
    Nine Volumes
  3. C
    Ten  Volumes    
  4. D
    Four volumes 
Question 22Single 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 23Single 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 24Single 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 25Single 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 26Single Answer
In King Lear,  who among the following speaker in the voice of Poor Tom?
  1. A
    Kent         
  2. B
    Edgar
  3. C
    Edmund      
  4. D
    Gloucester  
Question 27Single Answer
 In Wordsworth 's Prelude,  the Boy o Winander is affected by :
  1. A
    Blindness  
  2. B
    Deafness
  3. C
    Muteness      
  4. D
    Lameness  
Question 28Single Answer
Which of the following is NOT mentioned a as part of the London local in The Waste Land?
  1. A
    St.  Magnus  Martyr
  2. B
    King Arthur Street
  3. C
    St.  Mary Woolnoth
  4. D
    Lower Thames Street  
Question 29Single Answer
Which of the following novels is NOT written by Jean Rhys?
  1. A
    After Leaving Mr.  Mackenzie
  2. B
    Good Morning, Midnight
  3. C
    The Quiet American
  4. D
    Wide Sargasso Sea   
Question 30Single Answer
The first official royal Poet Laureate in English literary history was...........
  1. A
    Ben  Johnson 
  2. B
    William Davenant
  3. C
    John Dryden    
  4. D
    Thomas Shadwell 
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
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 37Single 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 38Single 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 39Single 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 40Single 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 41Single 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 42Single 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 43Single 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 44Single 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 45Single 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 46Single Answer
Identify the correct chronological sequence of piblication.
  1. A
    Paradise Lost - The Advancement of Learning - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - MacFlecknoe 
  2. B
    The Advancement of Learning - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - MacFlecknoe - Paradise Lost
  3. C
    The Advancement of Learning - Paradise Lost - MocFlecknoe - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  4. D
    Paradise Lost - MacFlecknoe - The Advancement of Learning - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
Question 47Single Answer
Poe's "The Raven" mourns the death of Poe's :
  1. A
    lost Lenore      
  2. B
    lost Abigail
  3. C
    pet animal      
  4. D
    lost heritage.
Question 48Single Answer
In Shakespeare's Macbeth who was "untimely ripped" from his mother's womb ?
  1. A
    Macbeth   
  2. B
    Macduff
  3. C
    Duncan   
  4. D
    Malcolm
Question 49Single Answer
Alexander Pope revised The Rape of the Lock three times. In the final revision of the poem in 1717 he inserted a speech by :
  1. A
    Belinda     
  2. B
    Clarissa
  3. C
    Betty    
  4. D
    Thalestris
Question 50Single Answer
Identify, from the following list, two plays written by John Webster.
I. A Woman Killed with Kindness    II. The Revenger's Tragedy
III. The White Devil             IV. The Ducchess of Malfi  
The right combination according to the code is :
  1. A
    I & IV   
  2. B
    II & IV
  3. C
    III & IV       
  4. D
    I & III.
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