Arrange the following groups of poets in their chronological sequence in relation to English literary history :
(a) The Imagist poets
(b) The Cavalier poets
(c) The Movement poets
(d) The Lake poets
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Which of these characters figure in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot ?
(a) Estragon
(b) Pozzo
(c) Bassanio
(d) Murphy
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Which two of the following poems are by Judith Wright ?
(a) "Meditation on a Bone"
(b) "Imperial Adam"
(c) "Woman to Man
(d) "The Old Prison
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Who, in "The World as India," argues that English can be the only common "unifying language" of India ?

Match List-I with List-II :
     List-I                                    List-II
  (Writer)                                  (Book)
(a) Homi Bhabha                   I. Reading the Popular
(b) T.S. Eliot                          II. The Location of Culture
(c) Roland Barthes               III. Notes towards the Definition of Culture
(d) John Fiske                      IV. Image-Music-Text
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Which among the following are examples of the Kiinstlerroman ?
(a) The Portrait of a Lady
(b) David Copperfield
(c) Tom Jones
(d) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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With which of the following movements is Charles Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil generally associated ?
(a) Neo-classical
(b) Symbolist
(c) Modernist
(d) Postmodernist
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Words with the same pronunciation and different meanings are :

The MLA Style Sheet, a compilation of scholarly conventions and directives, was first published in :

Arrange the following journals in the chronological order of publication .
(a) Longman's Magazine
(b) Cornhill Magazine
(c) Blackwood's Magazine
(d) Bentley's Miscellany
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Which of these are generally taken to be true of Cultural Studies ?
(a) It is politically engaged
(b) It privileges text over context
(c) It has a symbiotic relationship with Formalism
(d) It studies the means of production of a text
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Which of the following statements best articulates Frantz Fanon's political position ?

Who among the following says that ideology is "a representation of the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence" ?

Who wrote a postmodern reworking of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations without altering the original title ?

In which book of Paradise Lost does Milton refer to "Agra and Lahore of Great Mogul" ?

Match List-I with List-II :
   List-I                                                                            List-II
   (Text)                                                                        (Author)
(a) Advancement of Learning                                   I.  Susan Sontag
(b) Past and Present                                                II. Francis Bacon
(c) English Traits                                                      III. Thomas Carlyle
(d) Illness as Metaphor                                            IV. R.W. Emerson
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Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : The implied reader shifts attention from the real reading individual to a disembodied dimension of reception, intricately interwoven into the text
Reason (R) : The 'Dear Reader,' invoked in the realist novels, is a fictional representation of the distant reader
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

Choose the right chronological sequence of the following books :
(a) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
(b) Kiran Desai. The Inheritance of Loss
(c) Shashi Deshpande, That Long Silence
(d) Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
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Which pair of linguists in the following list is associated with speech acts' ?

Which of the following does Urvashi Butalia's The Other Side of Silence primarily seek to do ?
(a) To understand the Partition as something more than a political divide
(b) To foreground a personal history of the Partition
(c) To foreground the Partition as an event more tragic than the Holocaust
(d) To find and unite families separated at the Partition
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Which of these themes best sums up the preoccupation of most of Vijay Tendulkar's plays ?

Match List-I with List-II :
     List-I                                                                         List-II
   (Book)                                                                      (Poet)
(a) Anniversaries                                                       I. Abraham Cowley
(b) The Temple                                                          II. John Donne
(c) The Rehearsal Transpros'd                                 III. George Herbert
(d) Pindarique Odes                                                 IV. Andrew Marvell
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Who is the author of Radiant Textually ?

Which of these may be said to be true of the journal published from Bowling Green University from 1969, which carried essays on Spiderman comics, rock music, and detective films ?
(a) It sought to highlight the importance of popular culture
(b) It sought to highlight the importance of elite culture
(c) It sought to buttress the canon by making it more elitist
(d) It sought to break down the dominance of 'high' culture
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How does T.S. Eliot sum up the peculiar quality of Marvell's "Horatian Ode" ?

Match List-I with List-II :
    List-I                                                                      List-II
   (Novel)                                                                   (Writer)
(a) A Handful of Dust                                              I. E.M. Forster
(b) Brighton Rock                                                   II. Evelyn Waugh
(c) Howard's End                                                   II. D.H. Lawrence
(d) The Plumed Serpent                                        IV. Aldous Huxley
(e) Those Barren Leaves                                       V. Graham Greene
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Given below are two statements :
Statement I : A pidgin is formed by two mutually unintelligible speech communities trying to communicate using the most obvious features of each other's language
Statement II : Notwithstanding the number of years a pidgin is spoken, it can never become the mother tongue of a community
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

Who among the following has coined the term, 'eco-feminism' ?

Who wrote the short story, "The Voter" ?

Which two of the following are fallacious evaluations of poetry according to Matthew Arnold's "The Study of Poetry" ?
(a) contextual estimate
(b) personal estimate
(c) comparative estimate
(d) historic estimate
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In his recasting the canon of English poetry in New Bearings in English Poetry which of the following pairs was downgraded by F.R. Leavis ?

Which of the following fictional characters is believed to be based on the 15th-century reallife character, Vlad the Impaler ?

Arrange in the right sequence the following stages of a child's first language acquisition :
(a) holophrastic                         
(b) babbling
(c) telegraphic speech                   
(d) cooing
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Which of the following is a dead language ?

Which book by J.G. Ballard is about a virus that freezes anything it comes in contact with ?

Who among the following posits the tradition of great writers as an inescapable fact, and takes the ambivalent position of considering it as both a blessing and a curse ?

Who among the following was of the view that poetry was only an imitation of an imitation and therefore trivial ?

Who is the author of "The Typology of Detective Fiction" ?

Which two are the works of Ted Hughes ?
(a) Wildtrack                                     
(b) Wodwo
(c) Lupercal                                      
(d) Jack Straw's Castle
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Arrange the following poems by W. B. Yeats in the chronological order of publication .
(a) "The Wild Swans at Coole"
(b) "The Second Coming"
(c) "Among School Children"
(d) "Adam's Curse"
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Arrange chronologically the following texts in terms of their years of first publication :
(a) Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
(b) Coleridge and Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads
(c) Pablo Neruda's Canto General
(d) Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil
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Which of the following is true of mass media ?

Who wrote the essay "My First Acquaintance with Poets" ?

Who, among these, are songwriters who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
(a) Elton John                                  
(b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Bob Dylan                                   
(d) Bob Marley
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Match List-I with List-II .
  List-I                                                                        List-II
(Author)                                                                    (Text)
(a) Robert Browning                                                 I. Queen Mary
(b) S.T. Coleridge                                                     II. The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
(c) A.W. Pinero                                                         III. Remorse
(d) Alfred Tennyson                                                  IV. The Borderers
(e) William Wordsworth                                            V. Strafford
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Who wrote The Labyrinth of Solitude ?

Arrange the following terms in the chronological order as these appeared in literary theory :
(a) phallogocentrism
(b) locutionary act
(c) interpellation
(d) interpretive community
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Which of the following did Owuor Anyumba, Taban Lo Liyong and Ngugi wa Thiongo object to in 1968 ?
(a) the primacy of English literatures and cultures
(b) the centrality of Africa in the Department of English
(c) the primacy of orature in the syllabus
(d) the focus on the study of the historic continuity of English literature
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Which of the following abbreviations refers to a documentation style ?

Who among the following is associated with a 'philosophy of praxis' ?

Given below are two statements :
Statement I : Language is not a reliable tool of communication, says deconstruction, but argues in favors of a theory of sign as a self-sufficient union of signifier and signified 
Statement II : Deconstruction claims that language is non-referential since it refers neither to the things in the world nor to our concepts of things but only to the play of signifiers
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

Which of the following are true of the dramatic legacy of Ben Jonson ?
(a) Jonson's physiological interpretation of character and personality did not have any precedent
(b) Taking after the practice of the Moralities and Interludes, Jonson named his dramatis personae aptronymically
(c) Chapman's All Fools and Middleton's A Trick to Catch the Old One belong to the genre of Comedy of Humours that Jonson is said to have pioneered
(d) John Marston and Thomas Dekker collaborated with Jonson in writing for a children's company of players
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Which two of the following are the earliest colonial publishing initiatives that apply to India ?
(a) Andrew Lang Colonial Book Series
(b) Murray Colonial and Home Library Series
(c) Colonial Library Series by Macmillan
(d) Colonial Library Series by Chatto & Windus
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Which of the following are novels by David Lodge ?
(a) The British Museum is Falling down
(b) The Seven Sisters
(c) Changing Places
(d) Nice Work
(e) Empire of the Sun
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Which of the following are books by Noam Chomsky ?
(a) Syntactic Structures
(b) Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
(c) Language and Society
(d) Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
(e) The Pragmatics of Politeness
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Which two of the following conform to the documentation style prescribed by the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook ?
(a) Puig, Manuel, Kiss of the Spider Woman, translated by Thomas Colchie, Vintage Books, 1991
(b) Kincaid, Jamaica. "In History." Callao, vol. 24, no. 2, Spring 2001, pp. 620-26
(c) Nurnberg, Geoffrey, editor. The Future of the Book. U of California P, 1996
(d) Wellek, Rene. A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950, Yale UP, 1986
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Which of these departments did the Wood's Despatch of 1854 recommend setting up in the universities ?
(a) Arabic                                                      
(b) English
(c) French                                                     
(d) Law
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Which character in Hamlet utters the line: "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" ?

Match List-I with List-II .
    List-I                                                                       List-II
   (Text)                                                                     (Author)
(a) The Lie of the Land                                            I. Alok Mukherjee
(b) Masks of Conquest                                            II. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
(c) Rethinking English                                             III. Gauri Viswanathan
(d) This Gift of English                                            IV. Svati Joshi
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Match List-I with List - II :
     List -I                                                                  List -II
  (Library/Institute)                                                (Location)
(a) Connemara Public Library                               I. Kolkata
(b) Dhvanyaloka                                                    II. Chennai
(c) Bhandarkar Oriental Institute                           III. Mysore
(d) Asiatic Society                                                  IV. Pune
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Which two of the following essays form part of Mikhail Bakhtin's The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays ?
(a) "From the History of Novelistic Discourse"
(b) "Discourse in the Novel"
(c) "Romance and Novel"
(d) "Forms of Time and the Chronotope in the Novel"
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Which Shakespearean comedy is structured as a play within a play ?

Which of these is identified by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattel art as having been deployed in Walt Disney comic books to propagate imperialist ideology ?

Which of the following narrative cycles is referred to in Michel Foucault's "What is an Author" ?

Which two among the following condemned the transportation of 50000 slaves into England in 1771 ?
(a) Samuel Johnson                                  
(b) Alexander Pope
(c) Horace Walpole                                     
(d) Thomas Gray
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Arrange the following characters in the chronological order in which they appeared in Indian literature .
(a) Praneshacharya (Samsara)                
(b) Sakuni (Mahabharata)
(c) Rusty (The Room on the Roof)           
(d) Gobar (Godan)
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Given below are two statements :
Statement I : The opening and closing lines of Waiting for Godot are spoken by Estragon
Statement II : Towards the end of the play Waiting for Godot, Estragon echoes Pozzo's statement, "They give birth astride of a grave ..."
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Match List-I with List-II .
   List-I                                                         List-II
  (Plays)                                                     (Playwrights)
(a) Madmen and Specialists                      I. Dennis Scott
(b) The Sea at Dauphin                             II. Wole Soyinka
(c) The Trial of Dedan Kimathi                  III. Derek Walcott
(d) An Echo in the Bone                            IV. Ngugi wa Thiong's
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Arrange the following terms in their chronological sequence of appearance :
(a) dissociation of sensibility
(b) unreliable narrator
(c) theatre of cruelty
(d) egotistical sublime
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Who is the author of The Otherness of English: India's Aunty Tongue Syndrome ?

The deductive method differs from the inductive method in drawing its conclusions from :

Which one of the following journals publishes articles related to critical theory exclusively ?

Which one of the following assumptions best expresses the position of Post-Structuralist criticism ?

Which one of the following is correct about Saussure's analysis of language ?

Who among the following theorists particularly emphasized the social and historical dimensions of a text's reception ?

Which one among the following is a set of the Metaphysical Poets ?

Which one of the following statements is true about Aristotle's poetics ?

Who said of the blank verse, quoting an unnamed critic, that it is ".....verse only to the eye", adding further that it has neither the easiness of prose, nor the melody of numbers" ?

Poetry according to Sir Philip Sidney is of three kinds. They are :

In Anxiety of Influence which of the following definitions is given by Harold Bloom to explain the term, 'clinamen' ?

Who among the following is known to have popularized the term 'glocalization' ?

Who among the following coined the dictum, "the medium is the message" ?

Who among the following presented the concept of 'multi-accentually' of the sign, saying that signs possess an 'inner dialectical quality' and evaluative accent' ?

On December 11, 1823, Ram Mohan Roy addressed a letter to the British authority which pleaded for modern western education and is considered historically important for the introduction of English education in India. Who was the letter addressed to ?

Which British administrator sought "to make everything as English as possible in a country which resembles England in nothing", as recorded by Sir Thomas Munro ?

Who among the following was the first Director of the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad (now EFL University) ?

Which one of the following best explains the term 'paralanguage' ?

Which two of the following oppositions are best evoked by Hamlet's utterance-"To be or not to be" ?
(a) Between life and death
(b) between action and emotion
(c) between affirmation and confirmation
(d) between doing and abstaining from doing
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Who among the following linguists proposed the terms, 'competence' and 'performance' ?

Which one of these statements defines the scope of semiotics ?

Which according to Thomas Hobbes is the only 'science' God has bestowed on mankind, that informs the structure of his monumental work, Leviathan ?

As mentioned in "My First Acquaintance with Poets" which poet does William Hazlitt describe as the "only person I ever knew who answered the idea of a man of genius" ?

Which one of the following essays holds that "As a method, realism is a complete failure" ?

Which of the following novels is structured into a poem of 999 lines, preceded by a Foreword, followed by a Commentary and an Index ?

Which among the following novels includes a questionnaire for the reader such as "Do you like the story so far" Yes ( ) No ( ) ?

What is the subject of Ivan's controversial essay in Brothers Karamazov ?

Which one of the following Sherlock Holmes stories refers to a significant event in English history ?

Harold Skim pole is a character in : 

Who is the author of "A Fragment" (1819), one of the earliest vampire stories in English ?

Lala Kanshi Ram is a character in :

Which of the following poems by Philip Larkin deals with the trauma of a rape victim who says "Even so distant, I can taste the grief" ?

In which of the Bog poems does Seamus Heaney speak about the "perishable treasure" of a body "Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible" ?

Which book of Paradise Lost incorporates the speech rhythms of Adam and Eve's marital quarrel ?

Who among the following wrote Mazeppa, a long narrative poem about a seventeenth century military leader of Ukraine ?

Which one of the following statements is appropriately true of Harold Pinter's plays ?

To which mythological character is Faustus compared in the Prologue of Dr. Faustus ?

Who makes the following speech in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot ?
"Astride of a grave and a difficult birth, Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave-digger puts on the forceps ."

Which of the following are the major themes in William Congreve's The Way of the World ?

What game do the characters play in Act II of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party ?

The Duchess of Malfi is based on :

Which two of the following strictly follow the parameters of documentation prescribed by the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook ?
(a) Nurnberg, Geoffrey, editor, The Future of the Book, U of California P, 1996
(b) Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman. Trans. Thomas Colchie, London: Vintage, 1991
(c)  Nurnberg, Geoffrey, ed. the Future of the Book. Berkeie: U of California P, 1996
(d) Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman. Translated by Thomas Colchie, Vintage Books, 1991
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A research hypothesis is :
(a) a proposition which is always true
(b) a provisional explanation of anything
(c) a theory which will be disproved by evidence
(d) a statement which is assumed to be true for the sake of argument
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Which two of the following aspects are to be scrupulously followed to avoid the trap of plagiarism ?
(a) subjectivity
(b) acknowledgement
(c) citation
(d) interpretation
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Which two texts among the following are linked to literary feminism ?
(a) A Small Place
(b) The Yellow Wallpaper
(c) Emma
(d) A Room of One's Own
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Who among the following feminist theorists posited a separate realm of female experience captured in a style of writing different from men's ?
(a) Elaine Showalter
(b) Luce Irigaray
(c) Kate Millett
(d) Simone de Beauvoir
(e) Helene Cixous
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Which of these statements describe correctly the basic assumption of Structuralism ?
(a) Structuralism is concerned with signs and signification
(b) A structuralise theory considers only verbal conventions and codes
(c) Structuralism began in the works of Jacques Derrida that influenced the 20^th century literary criticism
(d) Structuralism challenges the long-standing belief that literature reflects a given reality
(e) All signs are arbitrary but without them we cannot comprehend reality
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Which two terms among the following are associated with formalist criticism ?
(a) aura
(b) actant
(c) narratee
(d) defamiliarization
(e) foregrounding
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Who among the following believed that rhyme is not an integral part of poetry ?
(a) William Wordsworth
(b) Horace
(c) Samuel Daniel
(d) Philip Sidney
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Who among the following are the two great masters of the French language that T.S. Eliot contrasts with Dryden and Milton in "The Metaphysical Poets" ?
(a) Francois Villon
(b) Jean Racine
(c) Charles Baudelaire
(d) Arthur Rimbaud
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Which two terms from among the following are specifically linked to the work of Pierre Bourdieu ?
(a) habitus
(b) consciousness
(c) desire
(d) distinction
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Macaulay's Minute of 1835 sought to :
(a) promote European literature and science among the natives
(b) impart knowledge of English literature and science through translated texts
(c) encourage branches of native learning by more useful studies
(d) stop expenditure on the publication of oriental works and spend funds only on English education
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Which two of the following statements are applicable to met language' ?
It is :
(a) a technical language which describes the properties of language
(b) known as a 'first-order' language
(c) a 'second-order' language that replaces a first-order' language with metaphors
(d) a 'second-order' language
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"Hari wrote a poem on the mountains". Which two of the following are admissible statements about the above sentence ?
(a) The sentence is an example of lexical ambiguity
(b) The sentence is an example of structural ambiguity
(c) The sentence involves two deep structures
(d) The sentence involves two surface structures
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Which two of the following events are described in Samuels Pepys's Diary ?
(a) The Plague in London
(b) The Great Fire of London
(c) The War of Spanish Succession
(d) Essex Rebellion
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Which two of the following inspired the rise of the periodical essay ?
(a) Robert Burton
(b) Francois Rabelais
(c) Francis Bacon
(d) Michel de Montaigne
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Which two of the following works does Walter Pater regard as examples of "great art" in his essay "Style" ?
(a) Iliad
(b) The Divine Comedy
(c) Les Miserable
(d) Faust
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According to his essay “Civil Disobedience”, what two things did Thoreau learn from the night he spent in jail ?
(a) He concluded that the State is ultimately weak
(b) He realized that captivity inspires courage
(c) He realized that the neighbours are only friends during good times
(d) He concluded that captivity brings wisdom about human affairs
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Which two of the following are the titles of the sections in Thomas De Quincy’s "The English Mail-Coach" ?
(a) The Glory of Mobility
(b) The Vision of Sudden Death
(c) The Glory of Motion
(d) The Vision of Unexpected Truth
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Which two of the following books are explorations of the art of the novel by novelists ?
(a) The Brief Compass
(b) The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
(c) The Visionary Company
(d) Testaments Betrayed
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The lives of which of the following writers have been the subject matter of novels by Anthony Burgess  ?
(a) Milton
(b) Marlowe
(c) Shelley
(d) Keats
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