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

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📓Quiz #13

1⃣ Which of the two novels of Anita Desai were shortlisted for the Booker Prize ?
(A) The Artist of Disappearance and In Custody
(B) In Custody and Feasting, Fasting
(C) Feasting, Fasting and The Zig Zag Way
(D) In Custody and Fire on the Mountain

2⃣ Which among the following statements is not correct?
Badal Sircar’s Pagla Ghora is a play about
(A) the condition of women in post- Second World War Bengal.
(B) the political and religious conditions of the time.
(C) sexual passion.
(D) lack of communication between men and women.


3⃣The various symbols used in Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq are associated with Code :
I. Pythons II. Vultures
III. Wasps IV. Butterflies
The correct combination according to the code is :
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.

4⃣ In Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, which character has two pages of unpunctuated speech ?
(A) Estragon
(B) Vladimir
(C) Lucky
(D) Pozzo

5⃣ Laura Mulvey’s pioneering essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” is an instance of the feminist appropriation of psychoanalysis. It particularly uses
(A) Freud’s concept of sublimation
(B) Jung’s concept of collective unconscious
(C) Lacan’s concept of the gaze
(D) Lacan’s notion of the fragmented body

6⃣ An extremely simplified form of a language used as a contact language among speakers of different languages is a
(A) dialect (B) creole
(C) pidgin (D) register

7⃣ Which of the following novels acted as an influence on Salman Rushdie in forging a new narrative style in
English ?
(A) Raja Rao’s Kanthapura
(B) G.V. Desani’s All About H Hatterr
(C) Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable
(D) R.K. Narayan’s The Sweet Vendor

8⃣ The ‘Angel in the House’ became a common label for the Victorian ideal of respectable middle-class femininity. The phrase originated with a popular long poem by
(A) Arthur Munby
(B) Arthur Hugh Clough
(C) Charlotte Mew
(D) Coventry Patmore

9⃣ Which of the following novels is NOTa Partition novel ?
(A) Azadi
(B) Tamas
(C) Clear Light of the Day
(D) That Long Silence

🔟 According to Bakhtin the idea of the Carnivalesque represents the following characteristics except :
(A) a liberation from the prevailing truth and established order
(B) a harking back to the past
(C) emphasis on play, parody, pleasure and the body
(D) the suspension of all hierarchical rank, principles, norms and prohibitions

💢Paper 2- January 2017

*1. Identify from the following the work Nirad C. Chaudhuri called “the
finest novel in the English language with an Indian theme”.*
(1) Kim
(2) A Passage to India
(3) Train to Pakistan
(4) Private Life of an Indian Prince
Answer: 1

*2. Who is the author of the poem “The Defence of Lucknow” dealing with
the siege of Lucknow, one of the terrible incidents of the Indian Mutiny ?*
(1) Rudyard Kipling
(2) Edward Lear
(3) Alfred Lord Tennyson
(4) Robert Browning
Answer: 3

*3. Who among the following theorists holds that metaphor and metonymy
are the two fundamental structures of language ?*
(1) Ferdinand de Saussure
(2) J.L. Austin
(3) Roman Jakobson
(4) Victor Shklovsky
Answer: 3

*4. From among the following, who are the Dashwood sisters in Jane
Austen’s Sense and Sensibility ?*
I. Elinor
II. Marianne
III. Mary
IV. Amanda
The right combination according to the code is :
(1) I and III
(2) I and II
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV
Answer: 2

*5. Which among the following texts can be characterised as a lesbian
Bildungsroman ?*
(1) Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop
(2) Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
(3) Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
(4) Ruth Pawar Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
Answer: 3

*6. Identify the correct chronological sequence of publication :*
(1) Paradise Lost – The Advancement of Learning – An Essay Concerning
Human Understanding – MacFlecknoe
(2) The Advancement of Learning – An Essay Concerning Human
Understanding – MacFlecknoe – Paradise Lost
(3) The Advancement of Learning – Paradise Lost – MacFlecknoe – An Essay
Concerning Human Understanding
(4) Paradise Lost – MacFlecknoe – The Advancement of Learning – An Essay
Concerning Human Understanding
Answer: 3

*7. Poe’s “The Raven” mourns the death of Poe’s*
(1) lost Lenore
(2) lost Abigail
(3) pet animal
(4) lost heritage
Answer: 1

*8. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth who was “untimely ripped” from his mother’s
womb ?*
(1) Macbeth
(2) Macduff
(3) Duncan
(4) Malcolm
Answer: 2

*9. Alexander Pope revised The Rape of the Lock three times. In the
final revision of the poem in 1717 he inserted a speech by*
(1) Belinda
(2) Clarissa
(3) Betty
(4) Thalestris
Answer: 2

*10. Identify, from the following list, two plays written by John Webster :*
I. A Woman Killed with Kindness
II. The Revenger’s Tragedy
III. The White Devil
IV. The Ducchess of Malfi
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I & IV
(2) II & IV
(3) III & IV
(4) I & III
Answer: 3