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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
 Which of the following is NOT a characteristic to the Victorian Age?
  1. A
    The rise of a highly competitive industrial technology
  2. B
    An emphasis on strictly controlled social behaviour
  3. C
    A romantic focus on home and family
  4. D
    The growth of rural traditions and  movement from large cities 
Question 7Single Answer
 In The Heart of Midlothian, Walter Scott deals with real political and but notable among his characters is the depiction of....................  ...
  1. A
    Queen  Anne        
  2. B
    Queen Victoria
  3. C
    Queen Caroline 
  4. D
    Queen Elizabeth 
Question 8Single Answer
Chaucer's first work, The Book of the Duchess is a dream poem on the death of.................
  1. A
    Duchess of Malfi
  2. B
    Duchess of Lancaster
  3. C
    Duchess of Scotland
  4. D
    Duchess of Paris 
Question 9Single Answer
What was Charles Lamb's connection with India?
  1. A
    He was fascinated by the Indian jugglers and trades - people in London and wrote an essay on them
  2. B
    He was fascinated by Eastern mystical religions, especially Buddhism
  3. C
    He was a clerk for thirty three years in the  East India Company
  4. D
    He was clerk in South Sea House that prepared parents and British trading companies in India 
Question 10Single Answer
Find the odd one among the Marxist critics  below :
  1. A
    George Lukacs        
  2. B
    Louis Althusser
  3. C
    Raymond  Williams      
  4. D
    Northrop  Frye 
Question 11Single Answer
I go to Madurai by —– Vaigai Express
  1. A
    a
  2. B
    an
  3. C
    some
  4. D
    the
Question 12Single Answer
Have the car stolen!
  1. A
    Steal the car
  2. B
    You should have the stolen car
  3. C
    Get someone to steal the car
  4. D
    They have stolen the car
Question 13Single Answer
The payment was collected by the hardworking salesman.
  1. A
    The hardworking salesman collected the payment.
  2. B
    the salesman who worked heard was able to collect the payment.
  3. C
    to collect the payment the salesman had to work hard.
  4. D
    The hardworking salesman was able to collect the payment.
Question 14Single Answer
I had to stop all my work to complete this project.
  1. A
    All other work had to be stopped to complete this project by me
  2. B
    For completing this project all other work must be stopped
  3. C
    For completing this project I had to stop all my work
  4. D
    To complete this project all other work had been stopped by me
Question 15Single Answer
They have published the names of all the successful candidates.
  1. A
    The candidates who have succeeded their names they had published.
  2. B
    The names of all the successful candidates have been published by them
  3. C
    The candidates who have succeeded their names have been published by them.
  4. D
    The names of all the successful candidate were published by them. 
Question 16Single Answer
The online shopping site lowered the prices.
  1. A
    Lowering of the prices was done by the online shopping site
  2. B
    The prices were lowered by the online shopping site
  3. C
    The prices had been lowered by the online shopping site
  4. D
    The prices have been lowered by the online shopping site
Question 17Single Answer
Who taught you to drive a truck ?
  1. A
    To drive a truck by whom were you taught?
  2. B
    Driving a truck by who were you taught?
  3. C
    Driving a truck by who were you being taught?
  4. D
    By whom were you taught to drive a truck?
Question 18Single Answer
We shall invite Suresh.
  1. A
    Suresh would be invited by us
  2. B
    Suresh would have been invited by us
  3. C
    Suresh will be invited by us
  4. D
    Suresh will have been invited by us
Question 19Single Answer
Dark clouds have overcast the evening sky.
  1. A
    By the dark clouds the evening sky was overcast.
  2. B
    The evening sky has been overcast by the dark clouds.
  3. C
    Dark clouds overcastted the evening sky.
  4. D
    The sky of the evening was overcasted by dark clouds.
Question 20Single Answer
The partners will celebrate their triumph tomorrow. 
  1. A
    The triumph would be celebrated by the partners a day before
  2. B
    The triumph would be celebrated by the partners a day after
  3. C
    The triumph would have been celebrated by the partners a day after
  4. D
    The triumph will have been celebrated by the partners tomorrow
Question 21Single 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 22Single 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 23Single 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 24Single 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 25Single 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 26Single 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 27Single 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 28Single 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 29Single 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 30Single 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 31Single 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 32Single 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 33Single 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 34Single 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 35Single 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 36Single 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 37Single 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 38Single 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 39Single 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 40Single 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 41Single Answer
Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy contains :
  1. A
    Six volumes     
  2. B
    Nine Volumes
  3. C
    Ten  Volumes    
  4. D
    Four volumes 
Question 42Single 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 43Single 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 44Single 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 45Single 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 46Single 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 47Single 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 48Single 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 49Single 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 50Single 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 
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