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## English Literature ### 1. The play, Gorboduc (or) Ferrex and Porrex, a Tragedy has five Acts. The first three acts of it were written by Thomas Norton. Who had written the last two acts? - (A) Geoffrey of Monmouth - (B) Thomas Sackville - (C) John Still - (D) Robert Greene ### 2. Which of the U...

## English Literature ### 1. The play, Gorboduc (or) Ferrex and Porrex, a Tragedy has five Acts. The first three acts of it were written by Thomas Norton. Who had written the last two acts? - (A) Geoffrey of Monmouth - (B) Thomas Sackville - (C) John Still - (D) Robert Greene ### 2. Which of the University Wits was not a university graduate? - (A) Thomas Nashe - (B) John Lyly - (C) Thomas Lodge - (D) Thomas Kyd ### 3. Which among the following in Doctor Faustus is not among the Seven Deadly Sins? - (A) Gluttony - (B) Covetousness - (C) Lechery - (D) Hatred ### 4. Who is called "Abhorred Slave" by Miranda in The Tempest? - (A) Ariel - (B) Caliban - (C) Sebastian - (D) King of Naples ### 5. Which Shakespearean tragic heroine was strangled by her husband? - (A) Juliet - (B) Cordelia - (C) Desdemona - (D) Lady Macbeth ### 6. What is the correct sequence of the following periods of English Literature? - a. Augustan Age - b. Caroline Age - c. Commonwealth Period - d. Jacobean Age - e. Restoration Age - (A) d, b, c, e, a - (B) a, e, b, c, d - (C) b, a, d, c, e - (D) e, c, a, d, b ### 7. "If music be the food of love, play on". It is the first line of a Shakespearean comedy. Identify it. - (A) A Midsummer Night's Dream - (B) As You Like It - (C) Twelfth Night - (D) Much Ado About Nothing ### 8. "The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together" is a quote that describes the style of metaphysical poetry. Who is credited with saying this about Metaphysical poetry? - (A) Richard Crashaw - (B) Samuel Johnson - (C) Alexander Pope - (D) John Dryden ### 9. "For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me _______". Which of the following words is missing from the first line of "The Canonization" by John Donne? - (A) speak - (B) write - (C) sing - (D) love ### 10. Who among the following is not a Metaphysical poet? - (A) Andrew Marvell - (B) Abraham Cowley - (C) George Herbert - (D) Thomas Carew ### 11. Which of the following is not a popular form of Comedy during the Restoration era? - (A) Romantic Comedy - (B) Comedy of Manners - (C) Comedy of Humour - (D) Comedy of Intrigue ### 12. Which author - work combination is incorrect? - (A) John Dryden – The Rivals - (B) William Congreve - The Way of the World - (C) William Wycherley - The Country Wife - (D) Aphra Behn – The Rover ### 13. The Heroic Tragedy in Restoration period is characterized by larger-than-life heroes, sensationalistic action often played out in exotic locales, highly stylized poetic dialogues and _______ - (A) social commentary - (B) idealized heroines - (C) money and sexual intrigue - (D) sexual innuendoes ### 14. What is the subtitle of All for Love by John Dryden? - (A) Lost Love - (B) Truth Found too Late - (C) The Mistakes of a Night - (D) The World Well Lost ### 15. "Those rules of old discovered, not devised, Are Nature still but Nature methodised." Which Neoclassical writer wrote these lines? - (A) Alexander Pope - (B) John Dryden - (C) Samuel Johnson - (D) Oliver Goldsmith ### 16. Who wrote “Absalom and Achitophel," a satirical poem that reflects political events of the time? - (A) John Milton - (B) Alexander Pope - (C) John Dryden - (D) Samuel Johnson ### 17. Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal Darkness buries All. This is the concluding couplet of Alexander Pope's work. Identify the text. - (A) The Rape of the Lock - (B) An Essay on Criticism - (C) The Dunciad - (D) The Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot ### 18. "Secure whate'er he gives, he gives the best." This is the poet's message to man, who are wrecked by their wishes for 'gain and grandeur', so as to accept what God has ordained for him. Identify the poem in which this line occurs. - (A) An Essay on Man - (B) Vanity of Human Wishes - (C) The Disappointment - (D) "London" ### 19. Who is called the father of the English novel, because he was the first to give genuine pictures of men and women of his age, without moralising over their vices and virtues? - (A) Samuel Richardson - (B) Daniel Defoe - (C) Jonathan Swift - (D) Henry Fielding ### 20. "The four wheels of English novel" comprise Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett and ______ - (A) Laurence Sterne - (B) Daniel Defoe - (C) Horace Walpole - (D) Robert Louis Stevenson ### 21. Who is the author of Pamela (or) Virtue Rewarded, an epistolary novel? - (A) Laurence Sterne - (B) Oliver Goldsmith - (C) R. L. Stevenson - (D) Samuel Richardson ### 22. Gulliver's last voyage was to ______ - (A) Lilliput - (B) Brobdingnag - (C) The land of Houyhnhnms - (D) Flying Island Laputa ### 23. "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting." >In which poem of William Wordsworth does this line occur? - (A) "Michael" - (B) "Immortality Ode" - (C) "Rejection: An Ode" - (D) "Tintern Abbey" ### 24. What is the central theme of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"? - (A) A perilous voyage in the sea - (B) The accidental killing of an Albatross - (C) The curse of a sea God - (D) The sin, suffering and expiation of the Ancient Mariner ### 25. With which of the following is the nightingale in "Ode to a Nightingale" identified? - (A) 'the blushful Hippocrene' - (B) 'light-winged Dryad' - (C) 'full-throated ease' - (D) 'a draught of vintage' ### 26. "Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." >In which poem does this line occur? - (A) "To A Skylark" - (B) "To Autumn" - (C) "To Wordsworth" - (D) "To the Skylark" ### 27. Which Romantic poet was last to take birth and first to die? - (A) William Wordsworth - (B) John Keats - (C) Percy Bysshe Shelley - (D) Lord Byron ### 28. Which Romantic poet has asserted that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world"? - (A) S. T. Coleridge - (B) Robert Southey - (C) Percy Bysshe Shelley - (D) Lord Byron ### 29. Who is the protagonist of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations? - (A) Oliver Twist - (B) Philip Pirrip - (C) Joe Gargery - (D) David Copperfield ### 30. Sophocles long ago >Heard it on the Ægean, and it brought >Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow >Of human misery. >In which poem of Matthew Arnold do these lines occur? - (A) The Scholar Gipsy - (B) Rugby Chapel - (C) Sohrab and Rustum - (D) Dover Beach ### 31. The Theory of Evolution made Europe's middle class doubt the biblical teachings that the universe was created in 7 days. Who propounded this theory? - (A) Isaac Newton - (B) Charles Darwin - (C) Jeremy Bentham - (D) Sigmund Freud ### 32. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink >Life to the lees: >In which Victorian poem do these lines occur? - (A) "The Last Ride Together" - (B) "Break, Break, Break" - (C) "Ulysses" - (D) "The Lotus-Eaters" ### 33. Which of the following Character - Novel combinations does not match? - (A) Bathsheba Everdene - Far from the Madding Crowd - (B) Tess Durbeyfield - Tess of the d'Urbervilles - (C) Elizabeth-Jane Newson - The Mayor of Casterbridge - (D) Catherine Earnshaw - Jude the Obscure ### 34. Which novel of R. L. Stevenson deals with disintegrated self? - (A) Treasure Island - (B) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - (C) Kidnapped - (D) The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses ### 35. Which is the subtitle of Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton? - (A) A Tale of Manchester Life - (B) A Tale of a Pure Woman - (C) A Meditation on the Plight of Manchester Cotton Weavers - (D) The Condition of England ### 36. Which novel has the subtitle A Novel without a Hero? - (A) The Egoist - (B) The Woman Who Did - (C) The Warden - (D) Vanity Fair ### 37. "I am not an angel... and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself." Which female protagonist says it? - (A) Elizabeth Bennet - (B) Jane Eyre - (C) Grace Melbury - (D) Maggie Tuliver ### 38. Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. >Shantih shantih shantih >These closing lines of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land refer to: - (A) Brihadaranyaka Upanishad - (B) Isha Upanishad - (C) Mundaka Upanishad - (D) Chhandogya Upanishad ### 39. How many swans are mentioned in Yeats' "The Wild Swans at Coole"? - (A) forty-nine - (B) eighty-five - (C) fifty-nine - (D) ninety-five ### 40. What disease did Oswald inherit from his father in The Ghosts? - (A) syphilis - (B) tuberculosis - (C) schizophrenia - (D) diabetes ### 41. Time present and time past >Are both perhaps present in time future, >And time future contained in time past. >These are the opening lines of: - (A) "Prelude" - (B) "The Hollow Men" - (C) Four Quartets - (D) "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" ### 42. "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?": It is said that these words set in motion the events that led to Thomas Becket's death. Who said it? - (A) King Henry I - (B) King Henry II - (C) King Henry III - (D) King Henry IV ### 43. Waiting for Godot opens with: "Nothing to be done." Who is the speaker? - (A) Vladimir - (B) Lucky - (C) Pozzo - (D) Estragon ### 44. In which poem of W.B. Yeats the future ruin of Troy and the murder of Agamemnon are referred to? - (A) "The Second Coming" - (B) "No Second Troy" - (C) "When You Are Old" - (D) "Leda and the Swan" ### 45. Earth, receive an honoured guest: >William Yeats is laid to rest. >These lines occur in "In Memory of W. B. Yeats". Identify its poet. - (A) T. S. Eliot - (B) W. H. Auden - (C) Walt Whitman - (D) Stephen Spender ### 46. In Six Characters in Search of an Author, the six characters are: the Father, the Mother, the Son, the Boy, the Sister, and ______ - (A) The Stepdaughter - (B) The Stepson - (C) Grandfather - (D) Grandmother ### 47. In the beginning of A Farewell to Arms, there is the description of a battle. >What is the name of the battle? - (A) The Battle of Verdun - (B) The Battle of Marne - (C) The Battle of Caporetto - (D) The Battle of Gallipoli ### 48. Which of the following novels does not employ stream of consciousness technique? - (A) Pointed Roofs - (B) Brave New World - (C) To The Lighthouse - (D) Ulysses ### 49. Who was the lone survivor in Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco? - (A) Daisy - (B) Botard - (C) Berenger - (D) Dudard ### 50. How many of Mother Courage's children survive the war in Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht? - (A) Only One - (B) Only Two - (C) All the Three - (D) None ### 51. Which of the following is not a characteristic feature of an epic poem? - (A) An invocation to the Muse - (B) Heroic protagonist - (C) Supernaturalism - (D) Trochaic hexameter ### 52. Which elegy does not mourn a single individual? - (A) "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" - (B) "Break, Break, Break" - (C) "O Captain! My Captain!" - (D) "Adonais" ### 53. Comedy of Manners is also known as : - (A) Romantic Comedy - (B) Dark Comedy - (C) Anti-sentimental Comedy - (D) Classical Comedy ### 54. Who introduced the heroic tragedy in English literature? - (A) Alexander Pope - (B) John Dryden - (C) John Webster - (D) Thomas Marlowe ### 55. Who coined the term "Theatre of the Absurd"? - (A) Samuel Beckett - (B) Eugene Ionesco - (C) John Osborne - (D) Martin Esslin ### 56. Which dramatic genre is based on the Verfremdungseffekt to remind the audience that they are watching a piece of theatre - a presentation of life, not real life itself? - (A) Theatre of Menace - (B) Kitchen-sink theatre - (C) Proletarian Theatre - (D) Epic Theatre ### 57. Who is often considered the Father of Historical Novel? - (A) Charles Dickens - (B) Victor Hugo - (C) Sir Walter Scott - (D) Leo Tolstoy ### 58. Who pioneered the Expressionist plays with his autobiographical trilogy To Damascus? - (A) Eugene O'Neill - (B) August Strindberg - (C) Jean Paul Sartre - (D) Luigi Pirandello ### 59. Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, which is often considered the first epistolary novel in English literature, has been attributed to : - (A) Aphra Behn - (B) Samuel Richardson - (C) Mary Shelley - (D) Alice Walker ### 60. Who is the author of the autobiographical novel The Bell Jar? - (A) J. G. Ballard - (B) Maya Angelou - (C) Sylvia Plath - (D) Louisa May Alcott ### 61. Which among the following is not a type of meaning in a poem as proposed by I.A. Richards in his Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgement? - (A) feeling - (B) form - (C) tone - (D) intention ### 62. Which of the following statements with regard to the binary pair 'langue' and 'parole' introduced by Ferdinand de Saussure is not correct? - (A) Langue is the system and parole is the use of the system. - (B) Langue is translated as speech and parole as language. - (C) Langue is well-defined with a fixed set of rules. - (D) Parole is the conditional release of prisoners before the full completion of their sentence. ### 63. Which literary theory emphasizes the impact of economic and class structures on the creation and reception of literature? - (A) Marxism - (B) Formalism - (C) New Criticism - (D) Postcolonialism ### 64. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge is considered a Bible of Postmodernism. Who is its author? - (A) Jean Francois Lyotard - (B) Roland Barthes - (C) Jean Baudrillard - (D) Gilles Louis René Deleuze ### 65. In postcolonial theory, which term refers to the process through which the colonized subject copies the colonizer’s behaviour, culture, and values, but in a way that's "almost the same but not quite"? - (A) Hybridity - (B) Diaspora - (C) Subalternity - (D) Mimicry ### 66. Which literary theory reopened the interpretation of literature to the social, political, and historical milieu that produced it? - (A) New Criticism - (B) New Historicism - (C) Psychoanalysis - (D) Structuralism ### 67. Who introduced the concept of “Orientalism,” examining Western representations of the East in literature and art? - (A) Frantz Fanon - (B) Stephen Greenblatt - (C) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - (D) Edward Said ### 68. In New Criticism, which term is used to describe the emotional or intellectual impact created by a literary work? - (A) Aesthetic Distance - (B) Affective Fallacy - (C) Catharsis - (D) Atmosphere ### 69. Who is known for introducing the concept of "Heteroglossia," emphasizing the coexistence of diverse voices and languages in literature? - (A) Michel Foucault - (B) F. R. Leavis - (C) Mikhail Bakhtin - (D) Roland Barthes ### 70. Which of the following concept - critic combinations is **not** correct? - (A) Chora - Julia Kristeva - (B) Lipstick Feminism – Sandra Gilbert - (C) Male gaze – Laura Mulvey - (D) Écriture feminine – Hélène Cixous ### 71. Which dramatic technique does "the gravedigger scene" (Act 5 Scene 1) in Hamlet exemplify? - (A) Peripeteia - (B) Comic Relief - (C) Catharsis - (D) Irony ### 72. The major turning point in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles when king Oedipus realizes that he has killed his father and married his mother is known as : - (A) hamartia - (B) anagnorisis - (C) catharsis - (D) peripeteia ### 73. "She's all states, and all princes, I, >Nothing else is. >Which figure of speech has been used in this quotation from Donne's "The Sun Rising"? - (A) conceit - (B) simile - (C) antithesis - (D) paradox ### 74. What is the process in which a story's tragic ending allows audiences to experience profound emotional release? - (A) Hubris - (B) Tragic flaw - (C) Catharsis - (D) Poetic justice ### 75. In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein creates a monster in the hope of achieving greatness, but the creature ultimately brings about his ruin and the deaths of his loved ones. It's ironical that Victor's ambition leads to his destruction. It is an example of: - (A) Verbal Irony - (B) Dramatic Irony - (C) Situational Irony - (D) Socratic irony ### 76. "The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light. >Which figure of speech is used in this line from "Fault in Our Stars" of John Green? - (A) Simile - (B) Metaphor - (C) Irony - (D) Allusion ### 77. "I must be cruel only to be kind." This excerpt from Act III Scene iv of Hamlet is an example of: - (A) Paradox - (B) Irony - (C) Simile - (D) Allusion ### 78. T.S. Eliot used this phrase to describe "a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion" that the poet feels and hopes to evoke in the reader. What is it called? - (A) 'simultaneous order' - (B) 'objective correlative' - (C) 'fusion of past and present' - (D) 'historic timelessness ' ### 79. 'Mine is a long and a sad tale!' said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing. 'It is a long tail, certainly,' said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse's tail, "but why do you call it sad?" Wordplay with 'tale' (tail) is a literary device called: - (A) metonymy - (B) litotes - (C) epigram - (D) pun ### 80. Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man is struck still by the pure beauty of a woman standing in the surf at the beach. It is this ordinary but exalted image that compels him to turn to the pursuit of expressing beauty. Dedalus decides to become a writer. What is this literary device that brings about a life-changing realization known as? - (A) epiphany - (B) poetic justice - (C) pathetic fallacy - (D) negative capability ### 81. One morning an old man bent with age >(walk) along a lonely road slowly. >The correct form of the verb is : - (A) is walking - (B) was walking - (C) walked - (D) walks ### 82. Which of the following is a grammatically correct sentence? - (A) A young boy said to him, "What you are looking for, granduncle?" - (B) A young boy said to him, "What are you looking for, granduncle?" - (C) A young boy said to him, "What you looking for, granduncle?" - (D) A young boy said to him, "What you look for, granduncle?" ### 83. The old man said, "I am trying ______ my lost years”. >The correct expression to complete the sentence is : - (A) finding - (B) find - (C) found - (D) to find ### 84. The boy was amused and gazed ______ the old man for a while. >Pick out the appropriate preposition. - (A) on - (B) for - (C) at - (D) to ### 85. The old man looked ______ he had not eaten for years. >Which is the correct linking device to complete the sentence? - (A) as if - (B) even though - (C) even if - (D) whereas ### 86. The boy said, “______ I can give you something to eat”. >Which of the following is the correct conditional clause? - (A) If you will come with me, - (B) If you would come with me, - (C) If you come with me, - (D) If you can come with me, ### 87. The old man said to the boy, "Thank you, my child!" >It can be reported as: - (A) Addressing the boy fondly as 'my child', the old man thanked him. - (B) The old man said that thank you, my child. - (C) The old man thanked the boy. - (D) Addressing the boy fondly as 'my child', the old man thanks him. ### 88. The boy asked the old man to kindly follow him to his house. >It can be changed into direct speech as : - (A) The boy said to the old man, "Please, follow to my house." - (B) The boy said to the old man, "Kindly follow him to my house." - (C) The boy said to the old man, "Please, follow me to his house." - (D) The boy said to the old man, "Please, follow me to my house." ### 89. The boy's mother fed the old man ______ >Which expression best completes the sentence? - (A) for his heart's content - (B) to his heart's content - (C) with his heart's content - (D) by his heart's content ### 90. Which of the following sentences is grammatically acceptable? - (A) Not only the old man was glad but also pleased. - (B) The old man was not only glad but also pleased. - (C) The old man was not only glad and also pleased.. - (D) The old man was not only glad but pleased. ### 91. What is the central theme of the poem? - (A) The splendour of valley, rock, or hill in the evening - (B) Overwhelming beauty of a city by a river in an early morning - (C) The beauty of a river flowing down - (D) The beauty of the sunrise in a country ### 92. What is the main idea expressed in the octave? - (A) Majestic beauty of the city in an early morning - (B) Beauty of towers and domes in a city - (C) Beauty of ships sailing in a river - (D) Beauty of the sky in an early morning ### 93. What kind of a poem is it? - (A) A Shakespearean sonnet - (B) A lyrical ballad - (C) A Petrarchan sonnet - (D) A Horatian ode ### 94. "Dull would he be of soul ______ . >Whom does 'he' refer to here? - (A) An onlooker - (B) A late riser - (C) A passer-by - (D) A silent angler ### 95. "And all that mighty heart is lying still!" – What does 'mighty heart' imply here? - (A) The beauty of the morning - (B) The gliding river - (C) The heart of the poet - (D) The silent city ### 96. "The river glideth at his own sweet will:"- Which figure of speech is used here? - (A) symbol - (B) simile - (C) metonymy - (D) personification ### 97. “Never did sun more beautifully steep >In his first splendour," >Which figure of speech is used here? - (A) hyperbole - (B) metaphor - (C) litotes - (D) understatement ### 98. "Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!" - Which figure of speech is used here? - (A) paradox - (B) inversion - (C) pun - (D) chiasmus ### 99. “Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;" >Which literary device is used here? - (A) anaphora - (B) antithesis - (C) apostrophe - (D) personification ### 100. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem? - (A) abba abba cdc dcd - (B) abba abba cde dce - (C) abba abba cdc dce - (D) abba abba cde dce