UGC SOLVED PAPER II December 2008

Note : This paper contains fifty (50) multiple-choice questions, each question carrying two (2) marks. Attempt all of them.

1. The Victorian period refers to the reign of Queen Victoria of England during :

(A) 1830 - 1890

(B) 1837 - 1905

(C) 1837 - 1901
(D) 1850 – 1910


2. The Rambler appeared every :

(A) Tuesday and Saturday
(B) Sunday and Wednesday
(C) Friday and Monday
(D) Thursday and Monday

3. “Tottel's Miscellany” contained :

(A) 30 sonnets
(C) 50 sonnets
(B) 40 sonnets
(D) 60 sonnets


4.’Imagism' is associated with :

(A) T. S. Fliot
(C) E. E. Cummings
(B) D. H. Lawrence
(D) T. E. Hulme


5. The title Things Fall Apart is drawn from a poem by :

(A) W. B. Yeats
(B) Ted Hughes
(C) W. H. Auden
(D) Robert Lowell

 'Things Fall Apart' is one of the most widely read African novels ever published. It is written by one of Nigeria's leading novelists Chinua Achebe, published in 1958.


6. 'Formal Criticism' relates to the structure of :

(A) Literary devices
(B) Myths
(C) Content
(D) Form

7. A 'Foot' in prosody is a basic unit of :

(A) rhyme
(B) length
(C) rhythmic measurement
(D) height


8. Who of the following is known for aphoristic prose style ?

(A) William Hazlitt
(B) Francis Bacon
(C) John Ruskin
(D) G. K. Chesterton

9. The confessions of an English Opium Eater was written by :

(A) William Hazlitt
(B) S. T. Coleridge
(C) Landor
(D) De Quincey


10. Ireland emerges as the most important metaphor in :

(A) Seamus Heaney
(B) Elizabeth Jennigs
(C) Arnold Wesker
(D) Edward Albee

11. Which of the following Shakespearean plays is in the correct chronological order ?

(A) King Lear, Hamlet, Much Ado..., Troilus and Cressida
(B) Much Ado..., Hamlet, King Lear, Troilus and Cressida
(C) Troilus and Cressida, King Lear, Hamlet, Much Ado...
(D) Hamlet, Much Ado..., King Lear, Troilus and Cressida

Much Ado about Nothing - 1600
Hamlet -                             1603
King Lear -                        1608
Troilus and Cressida -        1609


12. The major contribution of the Restoration period is in the field of :

(A) Philosophical writings
(B) Poetry
(C) Drama
(D) Letters


13. The correct chronological order of the following poets is :

(A) Byron, Shelley, Keats, Walter Scott
(B) Shelley, Walter Scott, Keats, Byron
(C) Keats, Byron, Walter Scott, Shelley
(D) Walter Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats

Walter Scott - 1771-1832,
Byron -           1788-1824,
Shelley -          1792-1822,
Keats -            1795-1821.

14. Where Angels Fear to Tread is a novel by :

(A) Virginia Woolf
(B) E. M. Forster
(C) D. H. Lawrence
(D) James Joyce


15. The plays of Edward Albee deal with :

(A) problems of middle-class
(B) hypocracy of aristocracy
(C) mechanizations of politics
(D) simplicity of lower-class


16. Heptameter consists of :

(A) five metrical feet
(B) six metrical feet
(C) seven metrical feet
(D) eight metrical feet


17. In formalistic school of criticism art is :

(A) entertainment
(B) preaching
(C) matter
(D) style


18. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner is a novel by :

(A) Alan Sillitoe
(B) Paul Scott
(C) Peter Porter
(D) Muriel Spark


19. 'Rugby Chapel' is a poem by Matthew Arnold in the memory of his :

(A) mother
(B) brother
(C) father
(D) sister


20. The earliest woman novelist of significance in the 18th century is :

(A)Mary Edgeworth
(B) Aphra Behn
(C) Mary Russell
(D) Mrs Gaskell


21. 'Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight' is a line that occurs in :

(A) Dr Faustus
(B) Hamlet
(C) Macbeth
(D) The Spanish Tragedy


22. Pope's 'Essay on Man' can best be read as a poem of :

(A) classical understanding of nature
(B) anti-romantic view of life
(C) sociological estimate of man
(D) philosophical apprehension of life

23. The term 'Victorian' evokes the attitudes of :

(A) philistinism
(B) moral earnestness
(C) licentiousness
(D) transcendentalism

24. Larry slate is a character in :

(A) Desire Under the Elms
(B) The Emperor Jones
(C) The Iceman Cometh
(D) Hairy Ape
The Iceman Cometh is a play by Eugene O'Neill

25. 'Iambus' is a metrical foot consisting of :

(A) two syllables
(B) three syllables
(C) four syllables
(D) one syllable

26. The lines ''Not that he wished is greatness to create / For politicians neither love nor hate,'' occur in :

(A) The Rape of the Lock
(B) Abslam and Achitophel
(C) Mac Flecknoe
(D) Essay on man


27. 11,396 definitions of romanticism were given by :

(A) Friedrich Schlegel
(B) Victor Hugo
(C) Edger Allan Poe
(D) F. L. Lucas


28. The term 'a stream of consciousness' is derived from the writing of :

(A) Mary Sinclair
(B) Dorothy Richardson
(C) William James
(D) Gertrude Stein

29. Sean O' Casey's Juno and the Paycock is :

(A) a romantic comedy
(B) a historical tragedy
(C) a mythical reconstruction
(D) a tragi-comedy

30. The 'Reader-Response Theory' implies that :

(A) there is no one correct meaning of the text
(B) the readers of an age construct the meaning
(C) beliefs determine meaning
(D) a style is the hallmark of the text


31. Which of the following author-book pair is correctly matched ?

(A) Walter Pater - Unto This Last
(B) Browning - The Ring and the Book
(C) M. Arnold - Idylls of the King
(D) Thackray - Bleak House


32. 'Myth Criticism' focuses on :

(A) a study of myths and mythology
(B) archetypes of spiritual experience
(C) recurrence of archetypal patterns
(D) the confluence of different traditions


33. The phrase disassociation of sensibility was first used by :

(A) Philip Sydney
(B) T. S. Eliot
(C) John Dryden
(D) Mathew Arnold


34. An Idyll is usually a poem about a :

(A) picturesque city life
(B) panoramic view of nature
(C) picture of industrial society
(D) picturesque country life


35. 'The Lost Generation' refers to the generation that came to maturity in the :

(A) 1920s
(B) 1930s
(C) 1910s
(D) 1940s

36. The French Revolution had a significant impact on :

(A) Victorian Literature
(B) Romantic Literature
(C) Neo-classic Literature
(D) Modern Literature


37. In which poem does the following line appear ? ''Our birth is but a sleep and aforgetting.'' :

(A) “Michael”
(B) “Immortality Ode”
(C) “Rejection : An Ode”
(D) “Tintern Abbey”

Read the Poem Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

38. Tale of a Tub is about :

(A) Warring political factions
(B) Struggling lower-class people
(C) Controversial philosophical documents
(D)Contemning religious parties

39. Congreve's The way of the world ends with :

(A) a dance party
(B) punishment of Lady Wishfort
(C) sending of Mr Fainall to prison
(D)reconciliation of Petulant Whitwood

40. On seeing whom does Miranda exclaim, “O, father, surely that is a spirit. Lord! How  it looks about ?”

(A) Caliban
(B) Ferdinand
(C) Alonso
(D) Stephano


41. Secular influences on the early English drama were :

(A) political squabbles, religious sermons and social customs
(B) rural politicking, hypocracy of the elite and falsity of aristocracy
(C) village festivals, folk plays and minstrels
(D) middle-class life, moral beliefs and uprising of the subaltans

42. John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress was written while he was :

(A) in prison
(B) on a pilgrimage
(C) on a social mission
(D) in a church

Bunyan wrote The Pilgrim's Progress while he was in Bedford Jail.
43. In Juvenalian satire the speaker is :

(A) a political orator
(B) a propagandist
(C) a social revolutionary
(D) a serious moralist

The speaker who is a serious moralist uses a dignified and public style of utterance to decry modes of vice and error.

44. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice most clearly shows the influence of :

(A) Fielding Smollett
(B) Richardson
(C) Smollett
(D) Sterne


45.The most important of the ‘evolutionists’ during the Victorian period was :

(A) Erasmus Darwin
(B) Robert Chambers
(C) Charles Darwin
(D) Alfred Russell Wallace

46. A philosophical attitude pervading much of modern literature is :

(A) Absurdism
(B) Dadaism
(C) Imagism
(D) Surrealism


47. The term 'magic realism' was first introduced by :

(A) Hannah Arendt
(B) Franz Roh
(C) Jean Arp
(D) Peter Behrens


48. The Indian English novelist who, for the first time, addressed the question of language and indigenous experience was :

(A) Mulk Raj Anand
(B) R K Narayan
(C) Arun Joshi
(D) Raja Rao


49. G. V. Desani's All About H. Hatterr is written in the :

(A) stream-of- consciousness mode
(B) first person narrative mode
(C) picaresque mode
(D) naturalistic mode


50. The rhyme scheme of the Shakespearean sonnet is :

(A) abab, cdcd, efef, gg
(B) abba, cddc, effe, gg
(C) abab, cdcd, efef, gh
(D) aabb, ccdd, eeff, gg

Read a sonnet by Shakespeare



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UGC NET English Solved Paper II JUNE:2010

 

1. The epithet “a comic epic in prose” is best applied to

(A) Richardson’s Pamela

(B) Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey
(C) Fielding’s Tom Jones
(D) Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe


2. Muriel Spark has written a dystopian novel called

(A) Memento Mori

(B) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

(C) Robinson

(D) The Ballad of Peckham Rye

3. Samuel Butler’s Erewhon is an example of

(A) Feminist Literature
(B) Utopian Literature
(C) War Literature
(D) Famine Literature


4. The line “moments of unageing intellect” occurs in Yeats’s

(A) Byzantium
(B) Among School Children
(C) Sailing to Byzantium
(D) The Circus Animals’ Desertion


5. In his 1817 review of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey grouped the following poets together as the ‘Lake School of Poets’:

(A) Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge
(B) Wordsworth, Byron and Coleridge
(C) Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge
(D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey


6. Which of the following novels is not by Patrick White?

(A) The Vivisector
(B) The Tree of Man
(C) Voss
(D) Oscar and Lucienda


7. The famous line “……. where ignorant armies clash by night” is taken from a poem by

(A) Wilfred Owen
(B) W.H. Auden
(C) Siegfried Sassoon
(D) Matthew Arnold


8. Which among the following novels is not written by Margaret Atwood?

(A) Surfacing
(B) The Blind Assassin
(C) The Handmaid’s Tale
(D) The Stone Angel


9. The term ‘theatre of cruelty’ was coined by

(A) Robert Brustein
(B) Antonin Artaud
(C) Augusto Boal
(D) Luigi Pirandello


10. The verse form of Byron’s Childe Harold was influenced by

(A) Milton
(B) Spenser
(C) Shakespeare
(D) Pope


11. Tennyson’s Ulysses is

(I) a poem expressing the need for going forward and braving the struggles of life
(II) a dramatic monologue
(III) a morbid poem
(IV) a poem making extensive use of satire

The right combination for the above statement, according to the code, is

(A) I & IV
(B) II and III
(C) III and IV
(D) I and II


12. Which post-war British poet was involved in a disastrous marriage with Sylvia Plath?

(A) Philip Larkin
(B) Ted Hughes
(C) Stevie Smith
(D) Geoffrey Hill


13. Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowles is in part

(I) a puzzle
(II) a debate
(III) a threnody
(IV) a beast fable

The correct combination for the above statement, according to the code, is

(A) I, II & IV
(B) II, III & IV
(C) I & IV
(D) II & IV


14. Who among the following wrote a book with the title The Age of Reason ?

(A) William Godwin
(B) Edmund Burke
(C) Thomas Paine
(D) Edward Gibbon


15. The Restoration comedy has been criticized mainly for its

(A) excessive wit and humour
(B) bitter satire and cynicism
(C) indecency and permissiveness
(D) superficial reflection of society


16. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses is an essay by

(A) Terry Eagleton
(B) Karl Marx
(C) Raymond Williams
(D) Louis Althusser


17. Sexual possessiveness is a theme of Shakespeare’s

(A) Coriolanus
(B) Julius Caesar
(C) Henry IV Part – I
(D) A Midsummer Night’s Dream


18. The term ‘Cultural Materialism’ is associated with

(A) Stephen Greenblatt
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) Richard Hoggart


19. Which of the following author book pair is correctly matched ?

(A) Muriel Spark – Under the Net
(B) William – Girls of Golding Slender Means
(C) Angus Wilson – Lucky Jim
(D) Doris Lessing – The Grass is Singing


20. Who among the following is a Canadian critic?

(A) I.A. Richards
(B) F.R. Leavis
(C) Cleanth Brooks
(D) Northrop Frye


21. Sethe is a character in

(A) The Colour Purple
(B) The Women of Brewster Place
(C) Beloved
(D) Lucy


22. Imagined Communities is a book by

(A) Aijaz Ahmad
(B) Edward Said
(C) Perry Anderson
(D) Benedict Anderson


23. Who among the following is a Cavalier poet?

(A) Henry Vaughan
(B) Richard Crashaw
(C) John Suckling
(D) Anne Finch


24. Which play of Wilde has the subtitle, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People ?

(A) A Woman of No Importance
(B) Lady Windermere’s Fan
(C) The Importance of Being Earnest
(D) An Ideal Husband


25. Which of the following plays is not written by Wole Soyinka ?

(A) The Lion and the Jewel
(B) The Dance of the Forests
(C) Master Harold and the Boys
(D) Kongi’s Harvest

26. Which of the following plays by William Wycherley is in part an adaptation of Moliere’s The Misanthrope ?

(A) The Plain Dealer
(B) The Country Wife
(C) Love in a Wood
(D) The Gentleman Dancing Master


27. ‘Inversion’ is the change in the word order for creating rhetorical effect, e.g. this book I like. Another term for inversion is

(A) Hypallage
(B) Hubris
(C) Haiku
(D) Hyperbaton


28. The phrase ‘the willing suspension of disbelief ’ occurs in

(A) Biographia Literaria
(B) Preface to Lyrical Ballads
(C) In Defence of Poetry
(D) Poetics


29. The religious movement ‘Methodism’ in the 18th century England was founded by

(A) John Tillotson
(B) Bishop Butler
(C) Bernard Mandeville
(D) John Welsey


30. My First Acquaintance with Poets, an unforgettable account of meeting with literary heroes, is written by

(A) Charles Lamb
(B) Thomas de Quincey
(C) Leigh Hunt
(D) William Hazlitt

31. The figure of the Warrior Virgin in Spenser’s Faerie Queene is represented by the character

(A) Britomart
(B) Gloriana
(C) Cynthia
(D) Duessa


32. The book Speech Acts is written by

(A) John Austin
(B) John Searle
(C) Jacques Derrida
(D) Ferdinand de Saussure


33. Which among the following is not a sonnet sequence ?

(A) Philip Sydney – Astrophel and Stella
(B) Samuel Daniel – Delia
(C) Derek Walcott – Omeroos
(D) D.G. Rossetti – The House of Life


34. ‘Incunabula’ refers to

(A) books censured by the Roman Emperor
(B) books published before the year 1501
(C) books containing an account of myths and rituals
(D) books wrongly attributed to an author


35. The most notable achievement in Jacobean prose was

(A) Bacon’s Essays
(B) King James’ translation of the Bible
(C) Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy
(D) None of the above


36. The Court of Chancery is a setting in Dickens’

(A) Little Dorrit
(B) Hard Times
(C) Dombey and Son
(D) Bleak House


37. Which romantic poet coined the famous phrase ‘spots of time’?

(A) John Keats
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) S.T. Coleridge
(D) Lord Byron


38. The statement ‘I think, therefore, I am’ is by

(A) Schopenhauer
(B) Plato
(C) Descartes
(D) Sartre


39. Verse that has no set theme – no regular meter, rhyme or stanzaic pattern is

(I) open form
(II) flexible form
(III) free verse
(IV) blank verse

The correct combination for the statement, according to the code, is

(A) I, II and III are correct
(B) III and IV are correct
(C) II, III and IV are correct
(D) I and III are correct


40. Which is the correct sequence of publication of Pinter’s plays?

(A) The Room, One for the Road, No Man’s Land, The Homecoming
(B) The Homecoming, No Man’s Land, The Room, One for the Road
(C) The Room, The Homecoming, No Man’s Land, One for the Road
(D) One for the Road, The Room, The Home coming, No Man’s Land


41. Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language was published in the year

(A) 1710
(B) 1755
(C) 1739
(D) 1759


42. The literary prize, Booker of Bookers, was awarded to

(A) J.M. Coetzee
(B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Martin Amis
(D) Salman Rushdie


43. In Keats’ poetic career, the most productive year was

(A) 1816
(B) 1817
(C) 1820
(D) 1819


44. Pope’s The Rape of the Lock was published in 1712 in

(A) three cantos
(B) four cantos
(C) five cantos
(D) two cantos


45. Stephen Dedalus is a fictional character associated with

I. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
II. Sons and Lovers
III. Ulysses
IV. The Heart of Darkness

The correct combination for the above statement according to the code is

(A) I &; II
(B) I, II &; III
(C) III &; IV
(D) I &; III


46. In Moby Dick Captain Ahab falls for his

(A) ignorance
(B) pride
(C) courage
(D) drunkenness


47. The first complete printed English Bible was produced by

(A) William Tyndale
(B) William Caxton
(C) Miles Coverdale
(D) Roger Ascham


48. Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel Mary Barton is sub-titled

(A) The Two Nations
(B) A Tale of Manchester Life
(C) A Story of Provincial Life
(D) The Factory Girl


49. Some of the Jacobean playwrights were prolific. One of them claimed to have written 200 plays. The playwright is

(A) John Ford
(B) Thomas Dekker
(C) Philip Massinger
(D) Thomas Heywood


50. The concept of “Star-equilibrium” in connection with man-woman relationship appears in

(A) Women in Love
(B) Maurice
(C) Mrs. Dalloway
(D) The Old Wives’ Tales

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UGC English Worksheet 1

1. The epigraph of The Waste Land is borrowed from?
     (A) Virgil   (B) Petronius  (C) Seneca  (D) Homer

2. Who called ‘The Waste Land ‘a music of ideas’?

    (A) Allen Tate (B) J. C. Ransom (C) I. A. Richards (D) F. R Leavis

3. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ‘Unreal City’ in the first and third sections from?

     (A) Baudelaire (B) Irving Babbit (C) Dante (D) Laforgue

4. Which of the following myths does not figure in The Waste Land?

     (A) Oedipus (B) Grail Legend of Fisher King (C) Philomela (D) Sysyphus

5. Joe Gargery is Pip’s?

     (A) brother (B) brother-in-law (C) guardian (D) cousin

6. Estella is the daughter of?

     (A) Joe Gargery (B) Abel Magwitch (C) Miss Havisham (D) Bentley Drumnile

7. Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi?

     (A) Sesame and Lilies (B) The Seven Lamps of Architecture  (C) Unto This Last (D) Fors Clavigera

8. Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?

     (A) Catholicism (B) Protestantism (C) Paganism (D) Buddhism

9. One important feature of Jane Austen’s style is?

     (A) boisterous humour (B) humour and pathos (C) subtlety of irony (D) stream of consciousness

10. The title of the poem ‘The Second Coming’ is taken from?

     (A) The Bible (B) The Irish mythology (C) The German mythology (D) The Greek mythology

11. The main character in Paradise Lost Book I and Book II is?

      (A God (B) Satan (C) Adam (D) Eve

12. In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel’s mother’s name is?

      (A)Susan (B)Jane (C)Gertrude (D) Emily

13. The twins in Lord of the Flies are?

      (A)Ralph and Jack (B) Simon and Eric (C) Sam and Eric (D) Simon and Jack

14.Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a___________

     (A) lawyer (B) postman (C)Judge (D) School teacher

15. What does ‘I’ stand for in the following line? ‘To Carthage then I came’

      (A) Buddha (B) Tiresias (C)Smyrna Merchant (D) Augustine

16. The following lines are an example……… of image.

‘The river sweats

Oil and tar’

      (A) visual (B) kinetic (C) erotic (D) sensual

17. Which of the following novels has the sub-title ‘A Novel Without a Hero’?

      (A) Vanity Fair (B) Middlemarch (C) Wuthering Heights (D) Oliver Twist

18. In ‘Leda and the Swan’, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan?

      (A) Mars (B) Hercules (C) Zeus (D) Bacchus

19. Who invented the term ‘Sprung rhythm’?

     (A)Hopkins (B)Tennyson (C)Browning (D)Wordsworth

20.Who wrote the poem ‘Defence of Lucknow’?

      (A) Browning (B) Tennyson (C) Swinburne (D) Rossetti

21.Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue?

      (A) The Tempest (B) Henry IV, Pt I (C) Hamlet (D) Twelfth Night

22. Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be,or not to be; that is the question’ occurs in?

      (A) Act II, Scene I (B) Act III, Scene III (C) Act IV, Scene III (D) Act III, Scene I

23. Identify the character in The Tempest who is referred to as an honest old counselor

      (A) Alonso (B) Ariel (C) Gonzalo (D) Stephano

24. What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night?

      (A) Or, What is you Will (B) Or, What you Will (C) Or, What you Like It (D) Or, What you Think

25. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare, according to T. S. Eliot, is ‘artistic failure’?

      (A) The Tempest (B) Hamlet (C) Henry IV, Pt I (D) Twelfth Night

26. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I?

      (A) Earl of Northumberland (B) Earl of March (C) Earl of Douglas (D) Earl of Worcester

27. Paradise Lost was originally published in?

      (A) ten books (B) eleven books (C) nine books (D) eight books

28. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with?

      (A) Darcy (B) Wickham (C) William Collins (D) Charles Bingley

29. Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical Sublime’?

     (A) William Wordsworth (B) P.B.Shelley (C) S. T. Coleridge (D) John Keats

30. Who is commonly known as ‘Pip’ in Great Expectations?

      (A) Philip Pirrip (B) Filip Pirip (C)Philip Pip (D) Philips Pirip

31. The novel The Power and the Glory is set in?

       (A)Mexico (B) Italy (C)France (D) Germany

32. Which of the following is Golding’s first novel?

     (A) The Inheritors (B) Lord of the Flies (C) Pincher Martin (D) Pyramid

33.Identify the character who is a supporter of Women’s Rights in Sons and Lovers?

     (A) Mrs. Morel (B) Annie (C) Miriam (D) Clara Dawes

34. 'Vanity Fair' is a novel by?

     (A) Jane Austen (B) Charles Dickens (C) W. M. Thackeray (D) Thomas Hardy

35. Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on the death of?

     (A) Milton (B) Coleridge (C) Keats (D) Johnson

36. Which of the following is the first novel of D. H. Lawrence?

     (A) The White Peacock (B) The Trespasser (C) Sons and Lovers (D) Women in Love

37. In the poem ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘dearest friend’ refers to?

     (A) Nature (B) Dorothy (C) Coleridge (D) Wye

38. Who, among the following, is not the second generation of British Romantics?

     (A) Keats (B) Wordsworth (C) Shelley (D) Byron

39. Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad?

     (A) Work Without Hope (B) Frost at Midnight (C) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (D) Youth and Age


40. Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet—

      (A) P. B. Shelley (B) Charles Lamb (C) Hazlitt (D) Coleridge

41. Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to?

      (A) Leigh Hunt (B) Milton (C) Shakespeare (D) Thomas Chatterton

42. The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in?

      (A) 1823 (B) 1826 (C) 1834 (D) 1833

43. Which of the following poets does not belong to the ‘Lake School’?

      (A) Keats (B) Coleridge (C) Southey (D) Wordsworth

44.Who, among the following writers, was not educated at Christ’s Hospital School, London?

      (A) Charles Lamb (B) William Wordsworth (C) Leigh Hunt (D) S. T. Coleridge

45. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’?

      (A) Tennyson (8) Charles Lamb (C) Lockhart (D) T. S. Eliot

46. Tennyson’s poem ‘In Memoriam’ was written in memory of?

       (A) A. H. Hallam (B) Edward King (C) Wellington (D) P. B. Shelley

47. Who, among the following, is not connected with the Oxford Movement?

      (A) Robert Browning (B) John Keble (C) E. B. Pusey (D) J. H. Newman

48. Identify the work by Swinburne which begins “when the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces..”?

      (A) Chaste lard (B) A Song of Italy (C) Atalanta in Calydon (D) Songs before Sunrise

49. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, HeroWorship and the Heroic in History is a course of?

       (A) six lectures (B) five lectures (C) four lectures (D) seven lectures

50. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’?

      (A) Johnson (B) Cromwell (C) Shakespeare (D) Luther

51. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner?

      (A) The Stones of Venice (B) The Two Paths (C) The Seven Lamps of Architecture

       (D) Modem Painters

52. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of?

      (A) Charles Dickens (B) Anthony Trollope (C) W. H. White (D) B. Disraeli

53. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’—

       (A) Tennyson (B) Browning (C) Swinburne (D) D. G. Rossetti

54. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as?

       (A) Spenserian Stanza (B) Ballad (C) Ottava Rima (D) Rhyme Royal

55. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry?

      (A) Sir Thomas Wyatt (B) William Shakespeare (C) Earl of Surrey (D) Milton

56. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by?

      (A) The Pre-Raphaelites (B) Ruskin (C) Pater (D) Matthew Arnold

57. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson “Faith un-faithful kept him falsely true.”

      (A) Oxymoron (B) Metaphor (C) Simile (D) Synecdoche

58. W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem?

      (A) Sailing to Byzantium (B) Byzantium (C) The Second Coming (D) Leda and the Swan

59. Who is Pip’s friend in London?

      (A) Pumblechook (B) Herbert Pocket (C) Bentley Drummle (D) Jaggers

60. Who is Mr. Tench in ‘The Power and the Glory'?

      (A) A teacher (B) A clerk (C) A thief (D) A dentist



ANSWERS:

1.B 2.C 3.A 4.D 5.B 6.B 7.C 8.A 9.B 10.A 11.B 12.C 13.C 14.A 15.D 16.C 17.A 18.C 19.A 20.B 21.A 22.D 23.C 24.B 25.B 26.A 27.A 28.B 29.D 30.A 31.A 32.B 33.D 34.C 35.C 36.A 37.B 38.B 39.C 40.A 41.D 42.D 43.A 44.B 45.C 46.A 47.A 48.C 49.A 50.B 51.D 52.B 53.A 54.C 55.C 56.D 57.A 58.A 59.B 60.D


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