5. Richard Sheridan

6. Roger Ascham

7. Trick Question - There is no subtitle. People confuse Volpone (the fox) which is the character to be the title.

8. Gunter Grass

9. 2008 - Best of the Bookers
It won Booker prize in 1981 and Booker of the Bookers in 1993. Altogether this book has won three prizes from the Booker, which is bonkers.

Quiz #07
Difficulty level:▫️▫️◾️◾️◾️

1️⃣ Shakespeare makes fun of the Puritans in his play?
(A) Twelfth Night
(B) Hamlet
(C) The Tempest
(D) Henry IV,Pt I

2️⃣"Under the green wood tree" is a song in:
a) As you like it
b) Love's labour's lost
c) A mid Summer night's dream
d) Much ado about nothing

3️⃣Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" come from?
a) King Lear
b)As You Like It
c)The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII
d)The Life and Death of King John

4️⃣Edmund Spenser dedicated his Shepherd's Calendar to his friend describing him as "the distinguished and virtuous gentleman most worthy of all titles both of learning and chiv-alry." Who was this friend?
(a) Sir Walter Raleigh
(b) Leicester
(c) Harvey
(d) Sir Philip Sidney

5️⃣Which of Ben Jonson's work is a seething satire on false poets of the age?
(a) Poetaster
(b) Vulpine, The Fox
(c) Cynthia's Revel
(d) Epicene or The Silent Woman , Who among the following was a friend of

6️⃣In a poem, a line may either be end-stopped or
(A) rhymed
(B) broken
(C) accented
(D) run-on

7️⃣ What is a neologism?
(A) A word with roots in a native language
(B) A word whose meaning changes with every
renewed use
(C) A word newly coined or used in a new sense
(D) An obsession with new words and phrases

8️⃣ “You have seen how a man was made a slave;
you shall see how a slave was made a man” is
an example of
(A) Chiasmus
(B) Epistrophe
(C) Bathos
(D) Anti-climax

9️⃣ “Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender”. This is an important statement defining the womanist perspective advanced by
(A)Toni Morrison
(B) Zora Neale Hurston
(C) Alice Walker
(D) Bell Hooks

🔟 The term invective refers to
(A) the abusive writing or speech in which there is harsh denunciation of some person or thing.
(B) an insulting writing attack upon a real person, in verse or prose, usually involving caricature and ridicule.
(C) a written or spoken text in which an apparently straightforward statement or event is undermined in its context so as to give it a very different significance.
(D) the chanting or reciting of words deemed to have magical power.

Answers

1. A
2. A
3. A
4. D
5. A
6. D
7. C
8. A
9. C
10. A

Quiz #08


1️⃣ The imaginary member(s) who was the subject of the essays in The Spectator?

A. Sir Andrew Freeport
B. Captain Sentry
C. Will Honeycomb
D. Sir Roger de Coverley

2️⃣ Who 'came like a Torrent and swept all before him' according yo John Gay?

A. Sir Roger De Coverley
B. Mr. Spectator
C. Addison
D. Steele


3️⃣ C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were reputed in the 1930s for introducing
(A) Practical Criticism
(B) New Criticism
(C) Standard English Project
(D) Basic English Project

4️⃣ Who, among the following, was a Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film critic and set his fictions in far-away places wrecked by political conflicts?
(A) Anthony Powell
(B) Evelyn Waugh
(C) William Golding
(D) Graham Greene

5️⃣ In which of the following travel books does Mark Twain give an account of his visit to India?
(A) A Tramp Abroad
(B) Roughing It
(C) The Innocents Abroad
(D) Following the Equator

6️⃣ Name the poet who chooses his successor and the successor-poet whom Dryden satirises in his famous poem.
(A) James Shirley and Chris Shirley
(B) Henry Treece and Charles Triesten
(C) Richard Flecknoe and Thomas Shadwell
(D) Thomas Percy and Samuel Pepys

7️⃣ Which of the following is not a revenge tragedy?
(A) Hamlet
(B) The Duchess of Malfi
(C) Volpone
(D) Gorboduc

8️⃣ Which among the following novels has more than one ending?
(A) Lucky Jim
(B) The Prime of Jean Brodie
(C) The French Lieutenant's Woman
(D) The Clockwork Orange

9️⃣ The term 'the comedy of menace' is associated with the early plays of
(A) Amold Wesker
(B) John Arden
(C) Harold Pinter
(D) David Hare

🔟 Name the poet who chooses his successor and the successor-poet whom Dryden satirises in his famous poem.
(A) James Shirley and Chris Shirley
(B) Henry Treece and Charles Triesten
(C) Richard Flecknoe and Thomas Shadwell
(D) Thomas Percy and Samuel Pepys

Answers

1. All of them
2. B
3. D
4. D
5. D
6. C
7. C
8. C
9. C
10. C

Poetry Quiz

Identify the poet from the extracts of their poems:

1️⃣ "Beyond all this, the wish to be alone"
A. Philip Larkin
B. T. S. Eliot
C. W.H. Auden
D. Nissim Ezekiel

2️⃣ "I've heard it in the chillest land—
And on the strangest Sea—
Yet, never, in Extremity,
It asked a crumb—of Me. "

A. Maya Angelou -
B. Emily Dickinson
C. Sylvia Plath]
D. Kamla Das

3️⃣ "Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need."

A. Tennyson
B. Browning
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Yeats

4️⃣ "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come."

A. Eliot
B. Hughes
C. Browning
D. Auden

5️⃣ "O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,"

A. Wordsworth
B. Tennyson
C. Arnold
D. Whitman

Answers

1. Larkin - Wants
2. Emily Dickinson - Hope is a thing with Feathers
3. Emily Dickinson - Success is counted sweetest
4. Auden - Funeral Blues or Stop all the clocks
5. Whitman - O Captain! my Captain!

Quiz #09

1️⃣ Which author coined the word 'feminist'?
A. William Wordsworth
B. John Milton
C. Alexandre Dumas
D. William Shakespeare


2️⃣ Which poet once confessed to the wife of the prime minister that he found the suede-lined lift at No 10 “very erotic”?
A. Ted Hughes
B. Philip Larkin
C. Craig Raine
D. John Betjeman

3️⃣ F Scott Fitzgerald based the party scenes in The Great Gatsby in part on the work of which poet?
A.William Blake
B. John Keats
C. Lord Byron
D. Percy Bysshe Shelley


4️⃣ Henry James got the idea for The Turn of the Screw from a story told to him by which person?
A. William James
B. George du Maurier
C. The Archbishop of Canterbury
D. John Singer Sargent

5️⃣ Vendela Vida’s fourth novel, The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty, was published this year. What does it have in common with Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller and Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia?
A. They all include scenes set in Morocco
B. They all feature repeated opening chapters
C. They are all written using the second-person narrative form

6️⃣ Which character was supposedly based on Charles Dickens’s father?
A. Wilkins Micawber
B. Bill Sykes
C. Samuel Pickwick

7️⃣ Who published her first novel under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas?
A. Muriel Spark
B. Sylvia Plath
C. Ruth Rendell
D. Margaret Atwood

8️⃣ Which famous novel was initially entitled Strangers from Within by its author?
A. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
C. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
C. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
D. The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham

9️⃣ The literary device used in
"I came, I saw, I conquered" is
A. Enaphora
B. Epiphora
C. Anaphora
D. Climax

🔟 The opposite of Euphemism is
A. Dysphemism
B. Hyphallage
C. Litotes
D. Enumerism

Answers

1. A
2. D
3. B
4. C
5. C
6. A
7. A
8. A
9. C
10. A

Quiz #10

1️⃣ The author of Gender Trouble is
(A) Elaine Showalter (B) Helene Cixous
(C) Michele Barrett (D) Judith Butler


2️⃣ Essays of Elia was published in
(A) 1800 (B) 1823 (C) 1827 (D) 1850

3️⃣ Which of the following is an example of homosexual fiction ?
(A) The Well of Loneliness (B) Maurice
(C) Orlando (D) The Ballad of the Reading Gaol

4️⃣ William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity is
(A) A structuralist study of narrative
(B) A piece of psychoanalytic criticism
(C) A study of the media
(D) An analysis of poetic ambivalence

5️⃣ Philip Sidney wrote An Apology for Poetry in immediate response to
(A) Plato’s Republic
(B) Aristotle’s Poetics
(C) Stephen Gosson’s The School of Abuse
(D) Jeremy Collier’s Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage.

6️⃣ Silence ! The Court is in Session is a _____ play translated into English.
(A) Gujarati (B) Bengali (C) Marathi (D) Kannada

7️⃣ The Temple is a collection of poems by
(A) Thomas Carew (B) Robert Herrick
(C) George Herbert (D) Richard Crashaw

8️⃣ Who among the following writers belonged to the American Beat Movement ?
(A) Allen Ginsberg (B) Mark Beard
(C) Isaac McCaslih (D) Charles Beard

9️⃣ “The Lost Generation” is a name applied to the disillusioned intellectuals and aesthetes
of the years following the First World War. Who called them “The Lost Generation” ?
(A) H.L. Mencken (B) Willa Cather
(C) Jack London (D) Gertrude Stein

🔟 “Imagined Communities” is a concept propounded by
(A) Benedict Anderson (B) Homi Bhabha
(C) Aijaz Ahmed (D) Partha Chatterjee

Answers

1. D
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. C
6. C
7. C
8. A
9. D
10. A

Match the following:

a) Rugby Chapel - (i) Eliot
b) Ambulance - (ii) Browning
c) Four Quartets - (iii) Arnold
d) Fra Lippo Lippi - (iv) Larkin
e) Philosophy - (v) Ezekiel

Answer
a - iii
b - iv
c - i
d - ii
e - v

Quiz #10

1️⃣ Which of the following is a spoof of a Gothic novel ?
(A) Frankenstein (B) Northanger Abbey
(C) Castle of Otranto (D) Mysteries of Udolfo

2️⃣ What is the correct chronological sequence of the following ?
(A) Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy
(B) Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy, Pamela, Moll Flanders
(C) Tristram Shandy, Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph Andrews
(D) Pamela, Moll Flanders, Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy

3️⃣ Which of the following is an essentially Freudian concept ?
(A) Archetype (B) The Uncanny
(C) The Absurd (D) The Imaginary

4️⃣ Which of the following is NOT a Partition novel ?
(A) Train to Pakistan (B) Sunlight on a Broken Column
(C) The Shadow Lines (D) In Custody

5️⃣ Attia Hosain's novel Sunlight on a Broken Column takes its title from which poet?
(A) Tagore (B) Eliot
(C) Yeats (D) Sarojini Naidu

6️⃣ “Provincializing Europe” is a concept propounded by
(A) Edward Said (B) Paul Gilroy
(C) Abdul R. Gurnah (D) Dipesh Chakravarty

7️⃣ Choose the odd one out
(A) Walter (B) Paul
(C) Miriam (D) Martha

8️⃣ Which Chaucerian text parodies Dante’s The Divine Comedy ?
(A) The Canterbury Tales (B) The Book of the Duchess
(C) The House of Fame (D) Legend of Good Women

9️⃣ Who among the following is associated with the ideology of Utilitarianism ?
(A) J.A. Froude (B) Charles Kingsley
(C) J.S. Mill (D) Cardinal Newman

🔟 Fill in the blank Meg, Jo, _ and Amy
(A) Beth (B) Mary
(C) Jude (D) Pete

Answers
1. B
2. A
3. B
4. D
5. B
6. D
7. D
8. C
9. C
10. A

QUIZ #11

1️⃣ The plan of Arthurian stories has influenced the composition of Tennyson’s
(A) In Memoriam
(B) Idylls
(C) “Maud”
(D) “Locksley Hall”

2️⃣ Who, among the following Indian
writers in English, has created an identifiable imagined locale ?
(A) Mulk Raj Anand
(B) Raja Rao
(C) R.K. Narayan
(D) Anita Desai

3️⃣ The rhyme scheme of the Spenserian sonnet is
(A) abab bcbc cdcd ee
(B) abab cdcd efef gg
(C) abba cddc effe gg
(D) abba abba cde cde

4️⃣ Who among the following Marlovian characters is consumed by greed ?
(A) Barabas
(B) Tamburlaine
(C) Doctor Faustus
(D) Mephistopheles

5️⃣ A Shakespearean sonnet has the following rhyme scheme :
(A) ABBA, ABBA, CDCDCD
(B) ABAB, BCBC, CD CD EE
(C) ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG
(D) ABBA, ABBA, CDCD, EE

6️⃣Match the following:
(I) Patrick White (1) Canada
(II) Nadine Gordimer (2) New Zealand
(III) Margaret Atwood (3) Australia
(IV) Keri Hulme (4) South Africa

7️⃣ Which of the following is not about a dystopia ?
(A) George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
(B) Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
(C) William Golding’s Lord of the Flies
(D) R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island

8️⃣ The author of the pamphlet Short View of Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698) was
(A) John Bunyan
(B) Jeremy Collier
(C) William Wycherley
(D) John Vanbrugh

9️⃣ Arrange the following stages in a sequence in which all Shakespearean tragedies are structured. Use the code given below :
I. Denouement
II. Conflict
III. Exposition
IV. Climax
Code :
(A) III, II, IV, I
(B) III, IV, II, I
(C) II, IV, III, I
(D) II, IV, I, III

🔟 In The Rape of the Lock, Belinda’s lapdog is named
(A) Luck
(B) Shock
(C) Pluck
(D) Muck

Questions on Literary Theories of Marxism and Feminism tomorrow. Prepare if you will.

Answers
1. B
2. C
3. A
4. A
5. C
6. (I) - 3
(II) - 4
(III) - 1
(IV) - 2
7. D
8. B
9. A
10. B

Quiz #12

1️⃣ The Communist Manifesto claims ‘the history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of ___’
A) oppression
B) class stuggle
C) powerful
D) class imbalace

2️⃣ Complete the title of the seminal bookk written by Engels in 1867 - Preface to the Contribution to the Critique of ______.
A) Political Economy
B) Capital
C) Bourgeoisie
D) Economic Inequality

3️⃣ The Fourth Wave of feminism uses ___ as a medium of revolution
A) Newspapers
B) Social Media
C) Television
D) Universities

4️⃣ Who is cited by Beauvoir as the first instance of denouncing mysogyny in literature
A) Margret Cavendish
B) Jean de Meun
C) Christine de Pizan
D) Mary Wolstonecraft

5️⃣ Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1781) was written by
A) Jeremy Collier
B)Jeremy Banthem
C) Bacon
D) Beauvoir

6️⃣ Put these initial feminist texts in ascending order
A) The Second Sex
B) Principles of Morals and Legislation
C) A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
D) Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen

7️⃣ The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity is a book by
A) Barthes
B) Jameson
C) Habermas
D) Zizek

8️⃣ In which book did Frederic Jameson integrate dialectic thinking with insights from Structuralism and Freud?
A) The Political Unconscious
B) Marxism and Form
C) Postmodernism and the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

9️⃣ Who coined the term culture industry?
A) Lukacs
B) Gramsci
C) Adorno and Horkheimer
D) Jameson and Eagelton

🔟 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction is a seminal work by
A) Karl Marx and Engels
B) Ernesto Laclau
C) Walter Benjamin
D) Slavoj Zizek

Answers

1. B
2. A
3. B
4. C
5. B
6. B, D, C,A
7. C
8. A
9. C
10. C