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1. The title The Sound and the Fury is taken from :
(A). Hamlet
(B). Macbeth
(C). The Tempest
(D). King Lear
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2. Pecola is a character in :
(A). The Bluest Eye
(B). Oliver Twist
(C). Don Quixote
(D). Beloved
Right Answer:
3. Which of the following was associated with the Bloomsbury Group.
(A). T. S. Eliot
(B). W. B. Yeats
(C). T. E. Hulme
(D). Virginia Woolf
Right Answer:
4. Which of the following characters appear in Waiting for Godot :
(A). Jerry
(B). Lucky
(C). Jimmy Porter
(D). Ham
Right Answer:
5. About whom did T. S. Eliot write A thought to him was an experience :
(A). Herbert
(B). Marvell
(C). Donne
(D). Crashaw
Right Answer:
6. The last book of Gulliver’s Travels is :
(A). Voyage to Houyhnhnms
(B). Voyage to Laputa
(C). Voyage to Brobdingnag
(D). Voyage to Lilliput
Right Answer:
7. Who edited The Tatler :
(A). Steele and John Locke
(B). Addison and Dryden
(C). Addison and Blackmore
(D). Addison and Steele
Right Answer:
8. John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding is about :
(A). nature of human behaviour
(B). nature of the human mind
(C). nature of human society
(D). nature of human ideology
Right Answer:
9. Restoration Comedy marks the restoration of :
(A). women’s rights
(B). democracy
(C). monarchy
(D). human rights
Right Answer:
10. Which of Alexander Pope’s poems begins with the line Shut, shut the door, good John, fatigued I said :
(A). Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
(B). Dunciad
(C). Epistles
(D). Rape of the Lock
Right Answer:
11. The statement One has to convey in a language that is not one’s own the spirit that is one’s own appears in :
(A). Ice-Candy Man
(B). The Guide
(C). Nagamandala
(D). Kanthapura
Right Answer:
12. Which of the following author-book pair is correctly matched :
(A). Arundhati Roy - The Autumn of the Patriarch
(B). Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera
(C). Umber to Eco - The Tin Drum
(D). Jhumpa Lahiri - Beloved
Right Answer:
13. Which of the following women writers did not receive the Noble Prize :
(A). Toni Morrison
(B). Nadine Gordiner
(C). Buchi Emcheta
(D). Doris Lessing
Right Answer:
14. Which of the following is not an Australian author :
(A). Margaret Laurence
(B). David Malauf
(C). Mudooroo Narogin
(D). Peter Carey
Right Answer:
15. The Tulsis of Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas lived in :
(A). Pagotes House
(B). Hanuman Mansion
(C). Tulsiana
(D). Hanuman House
Right Answer:
16. The quotation a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM appears in :
(A). Lyrical Ballads
(B). Biographia Literaria
(C). In Defense of Poetry
(D). Letters of Keats
Right Answer:
17. Fearful Symmetry appears in the poem :
(A). Introduction
(B). Chimney Sweeper
(C). The Tyger
(D). London
Right Answer:
18. The quotation when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reasons is a definition of :
(A). Negative capability
(B). Secondary imagination
(C). Criticism of life
(D). Dissociation of sensibility
Right Answer:
19. Which of the following prose-writers do not belong to the Romantic Period :
(A). Peacock
(B). De Quincey
(C). Hazlitt
(D). Gibbon
Right Answer:
20. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia and Wickham eloped to :
(A). Barchester
(B). Bath
(C). Gretna Green
(D). Glasgow
Right Answer:
21. Which of the following thinker-concept pairs is correctly matched :
(A). Frye ........... Mysticism
(B). Derrida ............. Deconstruction
(C). I. A. Richards ........... Archetypal Criticism
(D). Eagleton ............... Psychological Criticism
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22. Which of the following thinker concept pairs is correctly matched :
(A). Abhinava Gupta .............. Dhwanyaloka
(B). Vaman.............. Kavya Alankar
(C). Mamata.............. Kavya Prakash
(D). Bharata.............. Vakrokti
Right Answer:
23. Choose the correct sequence of the following schools of criticism :
(A). Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader-Response, New Historicism
(B). New Historicism, Reader-Response, Deconstruction, Structuralism
(C). Deconstruction, New Historicism, Structuralism, Reader-Response
(D). Reader-Response, Deconstruction, New Historicism, Structuralism
Right Answer:
24. Hamartia means :
(A). reversal of fortunes
(B). purgation of emotions
(C). depravity
(D). error of judgement
Right Answer:
25. The term gynocriticism was coined by :
(A). Betty Friedman
(B). Elaine Showalter
(C). Luce Irigarey
(D). Susan Sontag
Right Answer:
26. Which is the correct sequence :
(A). D. G. Rossetti, George Eliot, Bronte Sisters, Thackeray
(B). George Eliot, D. G. Rossetti, Bronte Sisters, Thackeray
(C). Thackeray, Bronte Sisters, George Eliot, D. G. Rossetti
(D). Bronte Sisters, George Eliot, Thackeray, D. G. Rossetti
Right Answer:
27. Which of Dickens’ novels opens with the words It was the best of times, it was the worst of times .... .
(A). A Tale of Two Cities
(B). Oliver Twist
(C). Pickwick Papers
(D). Hard Times
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28. The term The Fleshly School of Poetry is associated with the :
(A). Chartists
(B). Pre-Raphaelites
(C). Symbolists
(D). Imagists
Right Answer:
29. The line The sea is calm tonight occurs in :
(A). Tennyson’s Maude
(B). Arnold’s Thyrsis
(C). Tennyson’s The Lotos-Eaters
(D). Arnold’s Dover Beach
Right Answer:
30. The term gothic, a category of fiction, also applies to :
(A). architecture
(B). painting
(C). music
(D). theater
Right Answer:
31. The gap-toothed character in prologue to The Centerbury Tales is :
(A). the Prioress
(B). the Nun
(C). the Wife of Bath
(D). the Narrator
Right Answer:
32. Which of the following is not a Revenge Tragedy :
(A). Duchess of Malfi
(B). Volpone
(C). Hamlet
(D). Gorboduc
Right Answer:
33. Miracle plays are based on the lives of :
(A). Knights
(B). Crusaders
(C). Pilgrims
(D). Saints
Right Answer:
34. The Red cross Knight is Spenser’s Faerie Queene represents :
(A). Temperance
(B). Chastity
(C). Truth
(D). Falsehood
Right Answer:
35. The line Present fears/Are less than horrible imaginings appear in :
(A). Macbeth
(B). King Lear
(C). Othello
(D). Julius Caesar
Right Answer:
36. The author of Ars Poetica is :
(A). Plato
(B). Horace
(C). Virgil
(D). Aristotle
Right Answer:
37. Which of the following is not a work by Dr. Johnson :
(A). Preface to the English Dictionary
(B). Preface to Shakespeare
(C). Lives of English Poets
(D). Cowley
Right Answer:
38. Which novel of Daniel Defoe was considered to be the best by E. M. Forster ?
(A). Colonel Jack
(B). Robinson Crusoe
(C). Captain Singleton
(D). Moll Flanders
Right Answer:
39. Edmund Burke denounced the French Revolution in :
(A). Political Philosophy
(B). A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
(C). Reflections
(D). The Annual Register
Right Answer:
40. The line A man can be destroyed but not defeated appears in :
(A). For Whom the Bell Tolls
(B). The Old Man and the Sea
(C). The Snows of Kilimanjaro
(D). The Sun also Rises
Right Answer:
41. Who among the following is called A New England Poet :
(A). Robert Frost
(B). Edwin Arlington Robinson
(C). William Carlos Williams
(D). Allen Ginsberg
Right Answer:
42. Which of the following is not a play by Tennessee Williams :
(A). Night of the Iguana
(B). A Streetcar named Desire
(C). Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
(D). The Zoo Story
Right Answer:
43. Margaret Atwood’s Survival is :
(A). a critical assessment of Canadian writing
(B). a thematic guide to Canadian literature
(C). a critique of Canadian polity
(D). a exposition of Canadian history
Right Answer:
44. The term Negritude was coined by :
(A). Frantz Fanon and Homi Bhabha
(B). Ngugi Wa’ Thiongo and Wole Soyinka
(C). Ainee Cesaire and Leopold Senghor
(D). K. Alfred Memi and Chinua Achebe
Right Answer:
45. Bertolt Brecht’s concept of theatre was influenced by :
(A). Irwin Piscator
(B). Antonin Artaud
(C). Peter Brook
(D). Eugino Barba
Right Answer:
46. The relationship between Othello and Iago is an example of :
(A). inversion
(B). irony
(C). innuendo
(D). invective
Right Answer:
47. A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable is :
(A). dactyl
(B). trochee
(C). iamb
(D). anapaest
Right Answer:
48. The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is :
(A). abab, cdcd, efef, gg
(B). abba, cddc, effe, gg
(C). abcd, efgh, effe, hh
(D). abca, abca, bcab, dd
Right Answer:
49. Using the Bench for the judiciary is an example of :
(A). metaphor
(B). irony
(C). Synecdoche
(D). metonymy
Right Answer:
50. Four feet, comprising a monosyllable, trochee, dactyl and first paeon is often called :
(A). running rhythm
(B). sprung rhythm
(C). blank verse
(D). rhymed verse
Right Answer:
(A). Hamlet
(B). Macbeth
(C). The Tempest
(D). King Lear
Right Answer:
2. Pecola is a character in :
(A). The Bluest Eye
(B). Oliver Twist
(C). Don Quixote
(D). Beloved
Right Answer:
3. Which of the following was associated with the Bloomsbury Group.
(A). T. S. Eliot
(B). W. B. Yeats
(C). T. E. Hulme
(D). Virginia Woolf
Right Answer:
4. Which of the following characters appear in Waiting for Godot :
(A). Jerry
(B). Lucky
(C). Jimmy Porter
(D). Ham
Right Answer:
5. About whom did T. S. Eliot write A thought to him was an experience :
(A). Herbert
(B). Marvell
(C). Donne
(D). Crashaw
Right Answer:
6. The last book of Gulliver’s Travels is :
(A). Voyage to Houyhnhnms
(B). Voyage to Laputa
(C). Voyage to Brobdingnag
(D). Voyage to Lilliput
Right Answer:
7. Who edited The Tatler :
(A). Steele and John Locke
(B). Addison and Dryden
(C). Addison and Blackmore
(D). Addison and Steele
Right Answer:
8. John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding is about :
(A). nature of human behaviour
(B). nature of the human mind
(C). nature of human society
(D). nature of human ideology
Right Answer:
9. Restoration Comedy marks the restoration of :
(A). women’s rights
(B). democracy
(C). monarchy
(D). human rights
Right Answer:
10. Which of Alexander Pope’s poems begins with the line Shut, shut the door, good John, fatigued I said :
(A). Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
(B). Dunciad
(C). Epistles
(D). Rape of the Lock
Right Answer:
11. The statement One has to convey in a language that is not one’s own the spirit that is one’s own appears in :
(A). Ice-Candy Man
(B). The Guide
(C). Nagamandala
(D). Kanthapura
Right Answer:
12. Which of the following author-book pair is correctly matched :
(A). Arundhati Roy - The Autumn of the Patriarch
(B). Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera
(C). Umber to Eco - The Tin Drum
(D). Jhumpa Lahiri - Beloved
Right Answer:
13. Which of the following women writers did not receive the Noble Prize :
(A). Toni Morrison
(B). Nadine Gordiner
(C). Buchi Emcheta
(D). Doris Lessing
Right Answer:
14. Which of the following is not an Australian author :
(A). Margaret Laurence
(B). David Malauf
(C). Mudooroo Narogin
(D). Peter Carey
Right Answer:
15. The Tulsis of Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas lived in :
(A). Pagotes House
(B). Hanuman Mansion
(C). Tulsiana
(D). Hanuman House
Right Answer:
16. The quotation a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM appears in :
(A). Lyrical Ballads
(B). Biographia Literaria
(C). In Defense of Poetry
(D). Letters of Keats
Right Answer:
17. Fearful Symmetry appears in the poem :
(A). Introduction
(B). Chimney Sweeper
(C). The Tyger
(D). London
Right Answer:
18. The quotation when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reasons is a definition of :
(A). Negative capability
(B). Secondary imagination
(C). Criticism of life
(D). Dissociation of sensibility
Right Answer:
19. Which of the following prose-writers do not belong to the Romantic Period :
(A). Peacock
(B). De Quincey
(C). Hazlitt
(D). Gibbon
Right Answer:
20. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia and Wickham eloped to :
(A). Barchester
(B). Bath
(C). Gretna Green
(D). Glasgow
Right Answer:
21. Which of the following thinker-concept pairs is correctly matched :
(A). Frye ........... Mysticism
(B). Derrida ............. Deconstruction
(C). I. A. Richards ........... Archetypal Criticism
(D). Eagleton ............... Psychological Criticism
Right Answer:
22. Which of the following thinker concept pairs is correctly matched :
(A). Abhinava Gupta .............. Dhwanyaloka
(B). Vaman.............. Kavya Alankar
(C). Mamata.............. Kavya Prakash
(D). Bharata.............. Vakrokti
Right Answer:
23. Choose the correct sequence of the following schools of criticism :
(A). Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader-Response, New Historicism
(B). New Historicism, Reader-Response, Deconstruction, Structuralism
(C). Deconstruction, New Historicism, Structuralism, Reader-Response
(D). Reader-Response, Deconstruction, New Historicism, Structuralism
Right Answer:
24. Hamartia means :
(A). reversal of fortunes
(B). purgation of emotions
(C). depravity
(D). error of judgement
Right Answer:
25. The term gynocriticism was coined by :
(A). Betty Friedman
(B). Elaine Showalter
(C). Luce Irigarey
(D). Susan Sontag
Right Answer:
26. Which is the correct sequence :
(A). D. G. Rossetti, George Eliot, Bronte Sisters, Thackeray
(B). George Eliot, D. G. Rossetti, Bronte Sisters, Thackeray
(C). Thackeray, Bronte Sisters, George Eliot, D. G. Rossetti
(D). Bronte Sisters, George Eliot, Thackeray, D. G. Rossetti
Right Answer:
27. Which of Dickens’ novels opens with the words It was the best of times, it was the worst of times .... .
(A). A Tale of Two Cities
(B). Oliver Twist
(C). Pickwick Papers
(D). Hard Times
Right Answer:
28. The term The Fleshly School of Poetry is associated with the :
(A). Chartists
(B). Pre-Raphaelites
(C). Symbolists
(D). Imagists
Right Answer:
29. The line The sea is calm tonight occurs in :
(A). Tennyson’s Maude
(B). Arnold’s Thyrsis
(C). Tennyson’s The Lotos-Eaters
(D). Arnold’s Dover Beach
Right Answer:
30. The term gothic, a category of fiction, also applies to :
(A). architecture
(B). painting
(C). music
(D). theater
Right Answer:
31. The gap-toothed character in prologue to The Centerbury Tales is :
(A). the Prioress
(B). the Nun
(C). the Wife of Bath
(D). the Narrator
Right Answer:
32. Which of the following is not a Revenge Tragedy :
(A). Duchess of Malfi
(B). Volpone
(C). Hamlet
(D). Gorboduc
Right Answer:
33. Miracle plays are based on the lives of :
(A). Knights
(B). Crusaders
(C). Pilgrims
(D). Saints
Right Answer:
34. The Red cross Knight is Spenser’s Faerie Queene represents :
(A). Temperance
(B). Chastity
(C). Truth
(D). Falsehood
Right Answer:
35. The line Present fears/Are less than horrible imaginings appear in :
(A). Macbeth
(B). King Lear
(C). Othello
(D). Julius Caesar
Right Answer:
36. The author of Ars Poetica is :
(A). Plato
(B). Horace
(C). Virgil
(D). Aristotle
Right Answer:
37. Which of the following is not a work by Dr. Johnson :
(A). Preface to the English Dictionary
(B). Preface to Shakespeare
(C). Lives of English Poets
(D). Cowley
Right Answer:
38. Which novel of Daniel Defoe was considered to be the best by E. M. Forster ?
(A). Colonel Jack
(B). Robinson Crusoe
(C). Captain Singleton
(D). Moll Flanders
Right Answer:
39. Edmund Burke denounced the French Revolution in :
(A). Political Philosophy
(B). A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
(C). Reflections
(D). The Annual Register
Right Answer:
40. The line A man can be destroyed but not defeated appears in :
(A). For Whom the Bell Tolls
(B). The Old Man and the Sea
(C). The Snows of Kilimanjaro
(D). The Sun also Rises
Right Answer:
41. Who among the following is called A New England Poet :
(A). Robert Frost
(B). Edwin Arlington Robinson
(C). William Carlos Williams
(D). Allen Ginsberg
Right Answer:
42. Which of the following is not a play by Tennessee Williams :
(A). Night of the Iguana
(B). A Streetcar named Desire
(C). Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
(D). The Zoo Story
Right Answer:
43. Margaret Atwood’s Survival is :
(A). a critical assessment of Canadian writing
(B). a thematic guide to Canadian literature
(C). a critique of Canadian polity
(D). a exposition of Canadian history
Right Answer:
44. The term Negritude was coined by :
(A). Frantz Fanon and Homi Bhabha
(B). Ngugi Wa’ Thiongo and Wole Soyinka
(C). Ainee Cesaire and Leopold Senghor
(D). K. Alfred Memi and Chinua Achebe
Right Answer:
45. Bertolt Brecht’s concept of theatre was influenced by :
(A). Irwin Piscator
(B). Antonin Artaud
(C). Peter Brook
(D). Eugino Barba
Right Answer:
46. The relationship between Othello and Iago is an example of :
(A). inversion
(B). irony
(C). innuendo
(D). invective
Right Answer:
47. A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable is :
(A). dactyl
(B). trochee
(C). iamb
(D). anapaest
Right Answer:
48. The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is :
(A). abab, cdcd, efef, gg
(B). abba, cddc, effe, gg
(C). abcd, efgh, effe, hh
(D). abca, abca, bcab, dd
Right Answer:
49. Using the Bench for the judiciary is an example of :
(A). metaphor
(B). irony
(C). Synecdoche
(D). metonymy
Right Answer:
50. Four feet, comprising a monosyllable, trochee, dactyl and first paeon is often called :
(A). running rhythm
(B). sprung rhythm
(C). blank verse
(D). rhymed verse
Right Answer:
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