Note : This paper contains fifty (50) multiple-choice questions, each question carrying two (2) marks. Attempt all of them.
1. Tennyson's poem about women's rights and women's sphere is :
(A) Maud
(D) The Princess
Read the pom Princess by Tennyson
2. 'Hymn To Adversity' is a poem by :
(A) Thomas Gray
(B) Edward Gibbon
(C) Alexander Pope
(D) William Blake
Read Hymn To Adversity
3.The King James Bible was published in :
(A)1609
(B) 1610
(C)1611
(D) 1612
4.'IL Migilor Fabro' is the expression Eliot used for :
(A) W. B. Yeats
(B) Samuel Beckett
(C) W. H. Auden
(D) Ezra Pound
Eliot calls Ezra Pound IL Migilor Fabro which means the finer craftsman in his dedication of The Waste Land because of his brilliance as an editor.
5. 'The Figure a poem Makes' is an essay by :
(A) Henry James
(B) Sylvia Plath
(C) Robert Frost
(D) Wallace Stevens
Read the Essay The Figure a Poem Makes
6. ''Ripeness is all” occurs in :
(A) King Lear
(B) Hamlet
(C) Macbeth
(D) Julius Caeser
7. A. C. Bradley’s Shakespearean Tragedy was published in :
(A) 1903
(B) 1904
(C) 1905
(D) 1906
8. 'Topsy' appears in :
(A) Uncle Tom's Cabin
(B) History of the United States
(C) Walden
(D) Tom Sawyer
9. A poem that captures the essence of a moment in a simple image is :
(A) Lyric
(B) Ballad
(C) Ode
(D) Haiku
10. Which of the following Shakespearean plays are in the correct chronological sequence ?
(A) The Merchant of Venice - Henry IV Part I - Romeo and Juliet - Richard II
(B) Richard II - Henry IV Part I - Romeo and Juliet - The Merchant of Venice
(C) Henry IV Part I - Romeo and Juliet - The Merchant of Venice - Richard II
(D) Romeo and Juliet -Richard II - Henry IV Part I - The Merchant of Venice
Shakespearean Plays a Timeline
11. The word 'nature' in the eighteenth century literature stands for :
(A) Nature of writing
(B) External nature
(C) Human nature
(D) The Universe
12. Who is given credit for first using the term“romantic?
(A) Friedrich Schlegel
(B) Kant
(C) Coleridge
(D) Schiller
13. Gudrun is a character in a novel by :
(A) James Joyce
(B) Virginia Woolf
(C) D. H. Lawrence
(D) E. M. Forster
14. July's People is a novel by :
(A) Margaret Atwood
(B) V. S. Naipul
(C) Wole Soyinka
(D) Nadine Gordimer
15. Heroic Couplet is a pair of :
(A) Rhyming iambic pentameter lines
(B) Unrhyming iambic pentameter lines
(C) Rhyming iambic hexameter
(D) Unrhyming iambic hexameter
16. 'Gestalt' theory of literature considers text as :
(A) a structure of metaphors
(B) a unified whole
(C) an experimentation in form
(D) construction of history
17. Margaret Laurence is a novelist from :
(A) Australia
(B) The U.S.A.
(C) Canada
(D) Britain
18.Sartor Resartus is a text by :
(A)Ruskin
(B) Arnold
(C) Carlyle
(D) Burke
19. Who of the following is not a university wit ?
(A)Webster
(B) Robert Greene
(C) Kyd
(D) Marlowe
20. Bosola is a character in a play by :
(A)Ben Jonson
(B) Webster
(C) Christopher Marlowe
(D) Thomas Middleton
21. 'Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven'. This occurs in a poem by :
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) S. T. Coleridge
(C) Byron
(D) Shelley
Read the Poem here: The French Revolution
22. A Dance of the Forest is written by :
(A) Margaret Atwood
(B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Chinua Achebe
(D) Wole Soyinka
23. The first Canadian poet is :
(A) Charles Sangster
(B) Oliver Goldsmith
(C) Charles Heavysege
(D) Alexander Machlachlan
24. Heroic quatrain is :
(A) a stanza in blank verse
(B) eight line stanza in iambic hexameter
(C) four line stanza in iambic pentameter
(D) six line stanza in iambic pentameter
25. 'Bildungsroman' translated literally means :
(A) Development novel
(B) Psychological novel
(C) Autobiographical novel
(D) Campus novel
26.A book that faithfully renders a young man's confused images of love and rejection is :
(A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man
(B) Lucky Jim
(C) Daisy Miller
(D) The brave New World
27. Victorian Age witnessed a clash between :
(A) faith and reason
(B) tradition and modernity
(C) oriental and occidental civilization
(D) romanticism and neo romanticism
28. “For gold in Physique is Cordial/Therefore, he loved gold in special” relates to Chaucer''s
(A) Friar
(B) Monk
(C) Doctor
(D) Pardoner
29. The historical novel began in ;
(A)Restoration Period
(B) Augustan Age
(C) Victorian Period
(D) Romantic Period
30. The term 'Campus novel' is associated with :
(A) Graham Green
(B) Kingsley Amis
(C) Margaret Drabble
(D) William Golding
31. Which of the following author-book pair is correctly matched ?
(A) Hard Times - George Eliot
(B) Heroes and Hero Worship - Walter Patar
(C) Sourab and Rustom - Matthew Arnold
(D) Ethics of the Dust- Macaulay
32. The title of William Faulkner's The Sound and Fury is derived from a play by :
(A) William Shakespeare
(B) Christopher Marlow
(C) John Webster
(D) Ben Jonson
33. The new humanism school of philosophy and literary criticism was popular in America during :
(A)1920-1940
(B) 1910-1930
(C)1930-1940
(D)1900-1910
34.Internal rhyme is :
(A) the basic rhythmic structure of a poem
(B) rhyming of two words in alternative lines
(C) rhyming of two or more words in the same line of poetry
(D) all the lines of a poem ending with the same line pattern
35. The macabre element in drama was introduced by :
(A) John Lyly
(B) Marlow
(C)Ben Jonson
(D)John Webster
36. The line “I am no Prince Hamlet nor was meant to be.......” appears in T. S. Eliot's
(A) Gerontion
(B) The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
(C) Four Quartets
(D) The Waste-Land
37. 'Fancy' deals with :
(A) Fixities and definities
(B) Imagination and Reason
(C) Judgement and Memory
(D) Structure and Superstructure
38. Swift's Modest proposal is written in the form of a :
(A) Project in political economy Social Satire
(B) Political allegory
(C) Social Satire
(D) Old-Testament history
39. The main idea of Pope's The Dunciad was taken from :
(A) Absalom and Achitophel
(B) Mac-Flecknoe
(C) The Medal
(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
40. Which of the following is not a Browning's work ?
(A) Dramatic Lyrics Men and Women
(B) Dramatic Personae
(C) Men and Women
(D) The Palace of Art
41. The most obvious feature of Johnson's The Lives of the Poets is the equipoise between :
(A) Language and form
(B) Style and content
(C) Biography and criticism
(D) Myth and archetype
42. “The Kelson of creation is love”. The line occurs in Walt Whitman's :
(A) Paumonak
(B) Passage to India
(C) O Captain, My Captain
(D) Song of Myself
43. With whom was Dr. Johnson intimately associated in his personal life ?
(A) Boswell
(B) Dryden
(C) Alexander Pope
(D) Lord Bolingbroke
44. The early religious drama is associated with :
(A) Superstitions and beliefs
(B) Mysteries and histories
(C) Interludes and mysteries
(D) Miracles and morality
45. The Tale of Two Cities has :
(A) a sentimental buffoon with a moral purpose
(B) a courageous lady in pain
(C) an optimist on verge of collapse
(D) a romantic hero with a weakness
46. Sheridan's first play was :
(A) The Rivals
(B) School for Scandal
(C) St. Patrick's Day
(D) A Trip to Scarborough
47. Anti-sentimental comedy is a criticism of :
(A) loss of moral purpose
(B) excess of emotion
(C) excess of reason
(D) loss of human feelings
48. Which of the following novel-novelist pair is correctly matched ?
(A) Bhabani Bhattacharya - All About H. Hatter
(B) Nayantara Sahgal - Cry, the Peacock
(C) Bhagwandas Gidwani - A Bend in the Ganges
(D) Arun Joshi - The Apprentice
49. The Indian English poet who addressed the question ‘of time’ in his poetry is :
(A) Nissim Ezeikel
(B) R. Parthsarathy
(C) A.K. Ramanujan
(D) Gieve Patel
50. Symbolist movement was influenced by :
(A) Poetic theory of Edgar Allan Poe
(B) Stephane Mallarme's Poetry
(C) Prose of Emerson
(D) Ezra Pound's Cantos
1. Tennyson's poem about women's rights and women's sphere is :
(A) Maud
(B) In Memoriam
(C) Idylls of the King(D) The Princess
Read the pom Princess by Tennyson
2. 'Hymn To Adversity' is a poem by :
(A) Thomas Gray
(B) Edward Gibbon
(C) Alexander Pope
(D) William Blake
Read Hymn To Adversity
3.The King James Bible was published in :
(A)1609
(B) 1610
(C)1611
(D) 1612
4.'IL Migilor Fabro' is the expression Eliot used for :
(A) W. B. Yeats
(B) Samuel Beckett
(C) W. H. Auden
(D) Ezra Pound
Eliot calls Ezra Pound IL Migilor Fabro which means the finer craftsman in his dedication of The Waste Land because of his brilliance as an editor.
5. 'The Figure a poem Makes' is an essay by :
(A) Henry James
(B) Sylvia Plath
(C) Robert Frost
(D) Wallace Stevens
Read the Essay The Figure a Poem Makes
6. ''Ripeness is all” occurs in :
(A) King Lear
(B) Hamlet
(C) Macbeth
(D) Julius Caeser
7. A. C. Bradley’s Shakespearean Tragedy was published in :
(A) 1903
(B) 1904
(C) 1905
(D) 1906
8. 'Topsy' appears in :
(A) Uncle Tom's Cabin
(B) History of the United States
(C) Walden
(D) Tom Sawyer
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.
9. A poem that captures the essence of a moment in a simple image is :
(A) Lyric
(B) Ballad
(C) Ode
(D) Haiku
10. Which of the following Shakespearean plays are in the correct chronological sequence ?
(A) The Merchant of Venice - Henry IV Part I - Romeo and Juliet - Richard II
(B) Richard II - Henry IV Part I - Romeo and Juliet - The Merchant of Venice
(C) Henry IV Part I - Romeo and Juliet - The Merchant of Venice - Richard II
(D) Romeo and Juliet -Richard II - Henry IV Part I - The Merchant of Venice
Shakespearean Plays a Timeline
11. The word 'nature' in the eighteenth century literature stands for :
(A) Nature of writing
(B) External nature
(C) Human nature
(D) The Universe
12. Who is given credit for first using the term“romantic?
(A) Friedrich Schlegel
(B) Kant
(C) Coleridge
(D) Schiller
13. Gudrun is a character in a novel by :
(A) James Joyce
(B) Virginia Woolf
(C) D. H. Lawrence
(D) E. M. Forster
14. July's People is a novel by :
(A) Margaret Atwood
(B) V. S. Naipul
(C) Wole Soyinka
(D) Nadine Gordimer
15. Heroic Couplet is a pair of :
(A) Rhyming iambic pentameter lines
(B) Unrhyming iambic pentameter lines
(C) Rhyming iambic hexameter
(D) Unrhyming iambic hexameter
16. 'Gestalt' theory of literature considers text as :
(A) a structure of metaphors
(B) a unified whole
(C) an experimentation in form
(D) construction of history
17. Margaret Laurence is a novelist from :
(A) Australia
(B) The U.S.A.
(C) Canada
(D) Britain
18.Sartor Resartus is a text by :
(A)Ruskin
(B) Arnold
(C) Carlyle
(D) Burke
19. Who of the following is not a university wit ?
(A)Webster
(B) Robert Greene
(C) Kyd
(D) Marlowe
20. Bosola is a character in a play by :
(A)Ben Jonson
(B) Webster
(C) Christopher Marlowe
(D) Thomas Middleton
21. 'Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven'. This occurs in a poem by :
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) S. T. Coleridge
(C) Byron
(D) Shelley
Read the Poem here: The French Revolution
22. A Dance of the Forest is written by :
(A) Margaret Atwood
(B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Chinua Achebe
(D) Wole Soyinka
23. The first Canadian poet is :
(A) Charles Sangster
(B) Oliver Goldsmith
(C) Charles Heavysege
(D) Alexander Machlachlan
24. Heroic quatrain is :
(A) a stanza in blank verse
(B) eight line stanza in iambic hexameter
(C) four line stanza in iambic pentameter
(D) six line stanza in iambic pentameter
25. 'Bildungsroman' translated literally means :
(A) Development novel
(B) Psychological novel
(C) Autobiographical novel
(D) Campus novel
26.A book that faithfully renders a young man's confused images of love and rejection is :
(A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man
(B) Lucky Jim
(C) Daisy Miller
(D) The brave New World
27. Victorian Age witnessed a clash between :
(A) faith and reason
(B) tradition and modernity
(C) oriental and occidental civilization
(D) romanticism and neo romanticism
28. “For gold in Physique is Cordial/Therefore, he loved gold in special” relates to Chaucer''s
(A) Friar
(B) Monk
(C) Doctor
(D) Pardoner
29. The historical novel began in ;
(A)Restoration Period
(B) Augustan Age
(C) Victorian Period
(D) Romantic Period
30. The term 'Campus novel' is associated with :
(A) Graham Green
(B) Kingsley Amis
(C) Margaret Drabble
(D) William Golding
31. Which of the following author-book pair is correctly matched ?
(A) Hard Times - George Eliot
(B) Heroes and Hero Worship - Walter Patar
(C) Sourab and Rustom - Matthew Arnold
(D) Ethics of the Dust- Macaulay
32. The title of William Faulkner's The Sound and Fury is derived from a play by :
(A) William Shakespeare
(B) Christopher Marlow
(C) John Webster
(D) Ben Jonson
33. The new humanism school of philosophy and literary criticism was popular in America during :
(A)1920-1940
(B) 1910-1930
(C)1930-1940
(D)1900-1910
New Humanism, critical movement in the United States between 1910 and 1930, based on the literary and social theories of the English poet and critic Matthew Arnold, who sought to recapture the moral quality of past civilizations—the best that has been thought and said—in an age of industrialization, materialism, and relativism.
Reacting against the scientifically oriented philosophies of literary realism and naturalism, New Humanists refused to accept deterministic views of human nature. They argued that: (1) human beings are unique among nature’s creatures; (2) the essence of experience is fundamentally moral and ethical; and (3) the human will, although subject to genetic laws and shaped by the environment, is essentially free. With these points of contention, the New Humanists—Paul Elmer More, Irving Babbitt, Norman Foerster, and Robert Shafer, to name only a few—outlined an entire program and aesthetic to incorporate their beliefs. By the 1930s the New Humanists had come to be regarded as cultural elitists and advocates of social and aesthetic conservatism, and their influence became negligible.
34.Internal rhyme is :
(A) the basic rhythmic structure of a poem
(B) rhyming of two words in alternative lines
(C) rhyming of two or more words in the same line of poetry
(D) all the lines of a poem ending with the same line pattern
35. The macabre element in drama was introduced by :
(A) John Lyly
(B) Marlow
(C)Ben Jonson
(D)John Webster
36. The line “I am no Prince Hamlet nor was meant to be.......” appears in T. S. Eliot's
(A) Gerontion
(B) The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
(C) Four Quartets
(D) The Waste-Land
37. 'Fancy' deals with :
(A) Fixities and definities
(B) Imagination and Reason
(C) Judgement and Memory
(D) Structure and Superstructure
38. Swift's Modest proposal is written in the form of a :
(A) Project in political economy Social Satire
(B) Political allegory
(C) Social Satire
(D) Old-Testament history
39. The main idea of Pope's The Dunciad was taken from :
(A) Absalom and Achitophel
(B) Mac-Flecknoe
(C) The Medal
(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
40. Which of the following is not a Browning's work ?
(A) Dramatic Lyrics Men and Women
(B) Dramatic Personae
(C) Men and Women
(D) The Palace of Art
41. The most obvious feature of Johnson's The Lives of the Poets is the equipoise between :
(A) Language and form
(B) Style and content
(C) Biography and criticism
(D) Myth and archetype
42. “The Kelson of creation is love”. The line occurs in Walt Whitman's :
(A) Paumonak
(B) Passage to India
(C) O Captain, My Captain
(D) Song of Myself
43. With whom was Dr. Johnson intimately associated in his personal life ?
(A) Boswell
(B) Dryden
(C) Alexander Pope
(D) Lord Bolingbroke
44. The early religious drama is associated with :
(A) Superstitions and beliefs
(B) Mysteries and histories
(C) Interludes and mysteries
(D) Miracles and morality
45. The Tale of Two Cities has :
(A) a sentimental buffoon with a moral purpose
(B) a courageous lady in pain
(C) an optimist on verge of collapse
(D) a romantic hero with a weakness
46. Sheridan's first play was :
(A) The Rivals
(B) School for Scandal
(C) St. Patrick's Day
(D) A Trip to Scarborough
47. Anti-sentimental comedy is a criticism of :
(A) loss of moral purpose
(B) excess of emotion
(C) excess of reason
(D) loss of human feelings
48. Which of the following novel-novelist pair is correctly matched ?
(A) Bhabani Bhattacharya - All About H. Hatter
(B) Nayantara Sahgal - Cry, the Peacock
(C) Bhagwandas Gidwani - A Bend in the Ganges
(D) Arun Joshi - The Apprentice
49. The Indian English poet who addressed the question ‘of time’ in his poetry is :
(A) Nissim Ezeikel
(B) R. Parthsarathy
(C) A.K. Ramanujan
(D) Gieve Patel
50. Symbolist movement was influenced by :
(A) Poetic theory of Edgar Allan Poe
(B) Stephane Mallarme's Poetry
(C) Prose of Emerson
(D) Ezra Pound's Cantos
