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1. In Langlands’ Piers the Plowman, Piers appears finally as :
(A). Charity
(B). The Holy Trinity
(C). Jesus
(D). The Good Samaritan
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2. It is decided that each Canterbury pilgrim would tell in all :
(A). One story
(B). Two stories
(C). Three stories
(D). Four stories
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3. Venus and Adonis is a long narrative poem by :
(A). Shakespeare
(B). Marlowe
(C). Drayton
(D). Sydney
Right Answer:
4. The total number of poems in Shakespeare’s Sonnets is :
(A). 123
(B). 142
(C). 104
(D). 154
Right Answer:
5. Which of the following plays has a Machiavellean hero ?
(A). Tamburlaine Part I
(B). Dr. Faustus
(C). Jew of Malta
(D). Edward II
Right Answer:
6. Which of the following is written by Samuel Butler ?
(A). Religio Laici
(B). David Simple
(C). Hudibras
(D). Journal of the Plague Year
Right Answer:
7. Which of the following poems did Milton write in Octosyllabic Couplets ?
(A). IL Penseroso
(B). “On His Blindness”
(C). “On the Late Massacre in Piedmont”
(D). Lycidas
Right Answer:
8. Which of the following plays is not written by Congreve ?
(A). The way of the World
(B). The Old Bachelor
(C). Love for Love
(D). The Relapse
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9. Dryden’s All For Love is an adaptation of :
(A). Philaster
(B). Romeo and Juliet
(C). Antony and Cleopatra
(D). Edward II
Right Answer:
10. Which of the following books proposes a political theory ?
(A). Principia
(B). Leviathan
(C). Anatomy of Melancholy
(D). Liberty of Prophesying
Right Answer:
11. Which of the following books is written by a woman ?
(A). A Vindication of the Rights of Women
(B). Social Contract
(C). A Treatise of Human Nature
(D). The Wealth of Nations
Right Answer:
12. Which of the following books by Jonathan Swift is a religious allegory ?
(A). The Battle of the Books
(B). A Modest Proposal
(C). Gulliver’s Travels
(D). A Tale of a Tub
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13. Which of the following is a “Visionary” work by William Blake ?
(A). The Song of Los
(B). Songs of Experience
(C). Poetical Sketches
(D). The Vision of the Daughters of Albion
Right Answer:
14. Pope’s An Essay on Man is based on the ideas of :
(A). Lord Petrie
(B). Theobald
(C). Lord Bolingbroke
(D). Lord Harvey
Right Answer:
15. Which of the following works by Johnson is an imitation of the tenth satire of Juvenal ?
(A). London
(B). Vanity of Human Wishes
(C). The Life of Savage
(D). Rasselas
Right Answer:
16. The final version of Wordsworth’s The Prelude appeared in :
(A). 1798
(B). 1806
(C). 1850
(D). 1860
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17. “To Suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite” is written by :
(A). Shelley
(B). Wordsworth
(C). Keats
(D). Byron
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18. “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever” occurs in :
(A). “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
(B). “Ode to Autumn”
(C). “Ode to Psyche”
(D). “Endymion”
Right Answer:
19. Which of the following novels is a satire on the Gothic novel ?
(A). Pride and Prejudice
(B). Emma
(C). Sense and Sensibility
(D). Northanger Abbey
Right Answer:
20. Who distinguished between “the literature of Knowledge” and “the literature of power” ?
(A). Coleridge
(B). De Quincey
(C). Hazlitt
(D). Lamb
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21. Who among the following Victorian poets is the most sensitive to the conflict between the old and the new ?
(A). Tennyson
(B). Rossetti
(C). Browning
(D). Swinburne
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22. Under the Greenwood Tree is written by :
(A). Mrs. Gaskell
(B). George Eliot
(C). Thomas Hardy
(D). Emily Bronte
Right Answer:
23. The Office of Circumlocution occurs in :
(A). David Copperfield
(B). Bleak House
(C). Great Expectations
(D). Hard Times
Right Answer:
24. The novel Mary Barton is written by :
(A). Mrs. Gaskell
(B). George Eliot
(C). Emily Bronte
(D). Dickens
Right Answer:
25. The line”Poetry is a criticism of life” occurs in :
(A). Culture and Anarchy
(B). Modern Painters
(C). The Study of Poetry
(D). Sartor Resartus
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26. Martha Quest was written by :
(A). Jean Rhys
(B). Doris Lessing
(C). Iris Murdoch
(D). Nadine Gordimer
Right Answer:
27. The term “Stream of Consciousness” was taken from the book :
(A). The Human Mind
(B). The Principles of Psychology
(C). The Mind of Man
(D). Modes of Human Behaviour
Right Answer:
28. G.S. Fraser’s The Golden Bough focusses on :
(A). Images
(B). Metaphors
(C). Symbols
(D). Archetypes
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29. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman relies for its tragic seriousness on the fate of :
(A). Willy Loman
(B). Estragon
(C). Vladimir
(D). Lucky
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30. The character Leopald Bloom makes an appearance in the novel :
(A). The Sound and the Fury
(B). Ulysses
(C). To the Lighthouse
(D). The Europeans
Right Answer:
31. Who of the following authors represents the Sri Lankan diaspora ?
(A). Cyril Dabydeen
(B). Michael Ondaatje
(C). Arnold H. Itwaru
(D). M.G. Vassanji
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32. Australian aborigines receive a sympathetic treatment in :
(A). Les Murray
(B). Gwen Harwood
(C). Judith Wright
(D). A.D. Hope
Right Answer:
33. Margaret Atwood’s Survival makes a case for :
(A). Canadian literary studies
(B). Canadian nationalism
(C). The future of Canadian literature
(D). The past of Canadian literature
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34. V.S. Naipaul’s latest book is :
(A). The Mystic Masseur
(B). A Bend in the River
(C). Among the Believers
(D). Half a Life
Right Answer:
35. Which of the following books by Salman Rushdie refers to the 15th Century Spain as a starting point ?
(A). Haroun and the Sea of Stories
(B). The Moor’s Last Sigh
(C). Shame
(D). Grimus
Right Answer:
36. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf is written by :
(A). Arthur Miller
(B). Engene O Neil
(C). Edward Albee
(D). Tennessee Williams
Right Answer:
37. Imamu Amiri Baraka is :
(A). A Carribean writer
(B). An American writer
(C). An Arab writer
(D). A Sri Lankan writer
Right Answer:
38. The Miscellany was published from :
(A). Sahitya Akademi
(B). The Writers Workshop
(C). PEN
(D). Dhwanyalok
Right Answer:
39. Who of the following writers recreates the life of the Yoruba/Ibo community ?
(A). Derek Walcott
(B). Wole Soyinka
(C). Chinna Achebe
(D). Okot
Right Answer:
40. Who of the following White female authors are sympathetic to the cause of the Blacks ?
(A). Margaret Drabble
(B). Nadine Gordimer
(C). Muriel Spark
(D). Jean Rhys
Right Answer:
41. New Criticism considers text as a :
(A). Cultural construct
(B). Historical construct
(C). Linguistic construct
(D). Autotelic
Right Answer:
42. Mythologies was written by :
(A). Roland Barthes
(B). Jacques Derrida
(C). Homi K. Bhabha
(D). Ernest Dowson
Right Answer:
43. The word “Catharsis” signifies :
(A). Pontification
(B). Personification
(C). Purgation
(D). Publication
Right Answer:
44. The rejection of “Universalism” is a mark of :
(A). Deconstruction
(B). New Historicism
(C). Structuralism
(D). Postcolonial criticism
Right Answer:
45. Eliot’s theory of “objective correlative” appeared in his essay entitled :
(A). Three voices of Poetry
(B). Tradition and the Individual Talent
(C). The Metaphysical Poets
(D). Hamlet
Right Answer:
46. Sprung Rhythm is an example of :
(A). Verse
(B). Syllable
(C). Stress
(D). Meter
Right Answer:
47. “More is thy due than more than all can pay” is an example of :
(A). Weak - ending
(B). Inversion
(C). Alexandrine
(D). Extra Syllable
Right Answer:
48. Unrhymed metrical composition consisting of five iambic measures in each line is called :
(A). Rhyme royal
(B). Run-on-lines
(C). Blank verse
(D). Spenserian stanza
Right Answer:
49. Verse stories dealing with chivalry, Knight, errantry, enchantments, and love are known as :
(A). The epic
(B). The ballad
(C). The ode
(D). The metrical romances
Right Answer:
50. “He is a citizen of no mean city” is an example of :
(A). Periphrasis
(B). Tautology
(C). Prolepsis
(D). Litotes
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(A). Charity
(B). The Holy Trinity
(C). Jesus
(D). The Good Samaritan
Right Answer:
2. It is decided that each Canterbury pilgrim would tell in all :
(A). One story
(B). Two stories
(C). Three stories
(D). Four stories
Right Answer:
3. Venus and Adonis is a long narrative poem by :
(A). Shakespeare
(B). Marlowe
(C). Drayton
(D). Sydney
Right Answer:
4. The total number of poems in Shakespeare’s Sonnets is :
(A). 123
(B). 142
(C). 104
(D). 154
Right Answer:
5. Which of the following plays has a Machiavellean hero ?
(A). Tamburlaine Part I
(B). Dr. Faustus
(C). Jew of Malta
(D). Edward II
Right Answer:
6. Which of the following is written by Samuel Butler ?
(A). Religio Laici
(B). David Simple
(C). Hudibras
(D). Journal of the Plague Year
Right Answer:
7. Which of the following poems did Milton write in Octosyllabic Couplets ?
(A). IL Penseroso
(B). “On His Blindness”
(C). “On the Late Massacre in Piedmont”
(D). Lycidas
Right Answer:
8. Which of the following plays is not written by Congreve ?
(A). The way of the World
(B). The Old Bachelor
(C). Love for Love
(D). The Relapse
Right Answer:
9. Dryden’s All For Love is an adaptation of :
(A). Philaster
(B). Romeo and Juliet
(C). Antony and Cleopatra
(D). Edward II
Right Answer:
10. Which of the following books proposes a political theory ?
(A). Principia
(B). Leviathan
(C). Anatomy of Melancholy
(D). Liberty of Prophesying
Right Answer:
11. Which of the following books is written by a woman ?
(A). A Vindication of the Rights of Women
(B). Social Contract
(C). A Treatise of Human Nature
(D). The Wealth of Nations
Right Answer:
12. Which of the following books by Jonathan Swift is a religious allegory ?
(A). The Battle of the Books
(B). A Modest Proposal
(C). Gulliver’s Travels
(D). A Tale of a Tub
Right Answer:
13. Which of the following is a “Visionary” work by William Blake ?
(A). The Song of Los
(B). Songs of Experience
(C). Poetical Sketches
(D). The Vision of the Daughters of Albion
Right Answer:
14. Pope’s An Essay on Man is based on the ideas of :
(A). Lord Petrie
(B). Theobald
(C). Lord Bolingbroke
(D). Lord Harvey
Right Answer:
15. Which of the following works by Johnson is an imitation of the tenth satire of Juvenal ?
(A). London
(B). Vanity of Human Wishes
(C). The Life of Savage
(D). Rasselas
Right Answer:
16. The final version of Wordsworth’s The Prelude appeared in :
(A). 1798
(B). 1806
(C). 1850
(D). 1860
Right Answer:
17. “To Suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite” is written by :
(A). Shelley
(B). Wordsworth
(C). Keats
(D). Byron
Right Answer:
18. “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever” occurs in :
(A). “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
(B). “Ode to Autumn”
(C). “Ode to Psyche”
(D). “Endymion”
Right Answer:
19. Which of the following novels is a satire on the Gothic novel ?
(A). Pride and Prejudice
(B). Emma
(C). Sense and Sensibility
(D). Northanger Abbey
Right Answer:
20. Who distinguished between “the literature of Knowledge” and “the literature of power” ?
(A). Coleridge
(B). De Quincey
(C). Hazlitt
(D). Lamb
Right Answer:
21. Who among the following Victorian poets is the most sensitive to the conflict between the old and the new ?
(A). Tennyson
(B). Rossetti
(C). Browning
(D). Swinburne
Right Answer:
22. Under the Greenwood Tree is written by :
(A). Mrs. Gaskell
(B). George Eliot
(C). Thomas Hardy
(D). Emily Bronte
Right Answer:
23. The Office of Circumlocution occurs in :
(A). David Copperfield
(B). Bleak House
(C). Great Expectations
(D). Hard Times
Right Answer:
24. The novel Mary Barton is written by :
(A). Mrs. Gaskell
(B). George Eliot
(C). Emily Bronte
(D). Dickens
Right Answer:
25. The line”Poetry is a criticism of life” occurs in :
(A). Culture and Anarchy
(B). Modern Painters
(C). The Study of Poetry
(D). Sartor Resartus
Right Answer:
26. Martha Quest was written by :
(A). Jean Rhys
(B). Doris Lessing
(C). Iris Murdoch
(D). Nadine Gordimer
Right Answer:
27. The term “Stream of Consciousness” was taken from the book :
(A). The Human Mind
(B). The Principles of Psychology
(C). The Mind of Man
(D). Modes of Human Behaviour
Right Answer:
28. G.S. Fraser’s The Golden Bough focusses on :
(A). Images
(B). Metaphors
(C). Symbols
(D). Archetypes
Right Answer:
29. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman relies for its tragic seriousness on the fate of :
(A). Willy Loman
(B). Estragon
(C). Vladimir
(D). Lucky
Right Answer:
30. The character Leopald Bloom makes an appearance in the novel :
(A). The Sound and the Fury
(B). Ulysses
(C). To the Lighthouse
(D). The Europeans
Right Answer:
31. Who of the following authors represents the Sri Lankan diaspora ?
(A). Cyril Dabydeen
(B). Michael Ondaatje
(C). Arnold H. Itwaru
(D). M.G. Vassanji
Right Answer:
32. Australian aborigines receive a sympathetic treatment in :
(A). Les Murray
(B). Gwen Harwood
(C). Judith Wright
(D). A.D. Hope
Right Answer:
33. Margaret Atwood’s Survival makes a case for :
(A). Canadian literary studies
(B). Canadian nationalism
(C). The future of Canadian literature
(D). The past of Canadian literature
Right Answer:
34. V.S. Naipaul’s latest book is :
(A). The Mystic Masseur
(B). A Bend in the River
(C). Among the Believers
(D). Half a Life
Right Answer:
35. Which of the following books by Salman Rushdie refers to the 15th Century Spain as a starting point ?
(A). Haroun and the Sea of Stories
(B). The Moor’s Last Sigh
(C). Shame
(D). Grimus
Right Answer:
36. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf is written by :
(A). Arthur Miller
(B). Engene O Neil
(C). Edward Albee
(D). Tennessee Williams
Right Answer:
37. Imamu Amiri Baraka is :
(A). A Carribean writer
(B). An American writer
(C). An Arab writer
(D). A Sri Lankan writer
Right Answer:
38. The Miscellany was published from :
(A). Sahitya Akademi
(B). The Writers Workshop
(C). PEN
(D). Dhwanyalok
Right Answer:
39. Who of the following writers recreates the life of the Yoruba/Ibo community ?
(A). Derek Walcott
(B). Wole Soyinka
(C). Chinna Achebe
(D). Okot
Right Answer:
40. Who of the following White female authors are sympathetic to the cause of the Blacks ?
(A). Margaret Drabble
(B). Nadine Gordimer
(C). Muriel Spark
(D). Jean Rhys
Right Answer:
41. New Criticism considers text as a :
(A). Cultural construct
(B). Historical construct
(C). Linguistic construct
(D). Autotelic
Right Answer:
42. Mythologies was written by :
(A). Roland Barthes
(B). Jacques Derrida
(C). Homi K. Bhabha
(D). Ernest Dowson
Right Answer:
43. The word “Catharsis” signifies :
(A). Pontification
(B). Personification
(C). Purgation
(D). Publication
Right Answer:
44. The rejection of “Universalism” is a mark of :
(A). Deconstruction
(B). New Historicism
(C). Structuralism
(D). Postcolonial criticism
Right Answer:
45. Eliot’s theory of “objective correlative” appeared in his essay entitled :
(A). Three voices of Poetry
(B). Tradition and the Individual Talent
(C). The Metaphysical Poets
(D). Hamlet
Right Answer:
46. Sprung Rhythm is an example of :
(A). Verse
(B). Syllable
(C). Stress
(D). Meter
Right Answer:
47. “More is thy due than more than all can pay” is an example of :
(A). Weak - ending
(B). Inversion
(C). Alexandrine
(D). Extra Syllable
Right Answer:
48. Unrhymed metrical composition consisting of five iambic measures in each line is called :
(A). Rhyme royal
(B). Run-on-lines
(C). Blank verse
(D). Spenserian stanza
Right Answer:
49. Verse stories dealing with chivalry, Knight, errantry, enchantments, and love are known as :
(A). The epic
(B). The ballad
(C). The ode
(D). The metrical romances
Right Answer:
50. “He is a citizen of no mean city” is an example of :
(A). Periphrasis
(B). Tautology
(C). Prolepsis
(D). Litotes
Right Answer:
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