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*41. Which of the following plays is NOT part of the so-called Arnold
Wesker Trilogy?*
(1) I’m Talking about Jerusalem
(2) Chips with Everything
(3) Roots
(4) Chicken Soup with Barley
Answer: 2

*42. Identify the play from among the following in which a spendthrift
young man auctions away the portraits of his ancestors :*
(1) The Taming of the Shrew
(2) The School for Scandal
(3) The Strife
(4) The Philanderer
Answer: 2

*43. Which of the following is NOT written by Rudyard Kipling?*
(1) Just So Stories
(2) Puck of Pook’s Hill
(3) The Secret Garden
(4) Rewards and Faeries
Answer: 3

*44. In Faerie Queene what is Redcrosse’s reward for slaying the Dragon?*
(1) The Dragon’s treasure hoard
(2) The satisfaction of accomplishing the end of a righteous quest
(3) Eternal salvation
(4) Una’s hand in marriage and her parents’ kingdom
Answer: 4

*45. Which of the following novels has the death of General Muhammad Zia
ul-Haq, the former President of Pakistan, at its centre?*
(1) The Kite Runner
(2) A Case of Exploding Mangoes
(3) Shame
(4) Kartography
Answer: 2

*46. Lewis Carroll is a pseudonym that refers to*
(1) E.L. Woodward
(2) Charles Lutwidge Dodson
(3) Michael Brock
(4) W.E. Houghton
Answer: 2

*47. One of the following collections initiated confessional poetry in
America, a new mode in which the poet bared his/her most tormenting
personal problems with great honesty and intensity.*
(1) Live or Die
(2) Words for the Wind
(3) Life Studies
(4) Ariel
Answer: 3

*48. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a …………… by …………….*
(1) novel, Nathaniel Hawthorne
(2) play, Mrs. Radcliffe
(3) poem, William Blake
(4) sermon, Laurence Sterne
Answer: 3

*49. In the poem or invocation at the opening of Book 3, Paradise Lost,
Milton asks for divine help in writing his epic. He states that he is in
particular need of aid because he has what he considers to be a
disability. What is it?*
(1) Lameness
(2) Deafness
(3) Prolixity
(4) Blindness
Answer: 4

*50. Match the poets with the collection :*
List – I
I. Philip Larkin
II. Geoffrey Hill
III. Ted Hughes
IV. Seamus Heaney
List – II
A. Lupercal
B. Door into the Dark
C. The Less Deceived
D. For the Unfallen
I II III IV
(1) C D B A
(2) C B D A
(3) C D A B
(4) D C B A
Answer: 3

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*1. Who was the original English translator for Of Grammatology?*
(1) Samuel Weber
(2) G.C. Spivak
(3) Paul de Man
(4) Jean-luc Nancy
Answer: 2

*2. Which figure explains the meaning of the play Everyman at its
conclusion?*
(1) Angel
(2) Knowledge
(3) Doctor
(4) Good Deeds
Answer: 3

*3. Who in his preface to Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent makes the
following remark?
“the achievement of modern art is that it has ceased to recognize the
categories of tragic and comic or the dramatic classifications ‘tragedy’
and ‘comedy’, and views of life as tragicomedy.”*
(1) August Strindberg
(2) Luigi Pirandello
(3) D.H. Lawrence
(4) Thomas Mann
Answer: 4

*4. The Restoration period’s most characteristic drama, the “comedy of
manners”, was gradually replaced by “sentimental drama” in response to
shifts in the audience’s taste. Which of the following statements best
represents the difference between these two types of comedy?*
(1) Comedies of manners expose human follies to laughter, sentimental
comedies provoke sympathetic tears for the characters’ faults.
(2) Comedies of manners were commercially successful; sentimental
comedies were not.
(3) Comedies of manners were critically successful; sentimental comedies
were not.
(4) Comedies of manners were written in rhymed couplets; sentimental
comedies were written in blank verse.
Answer: 1

*5. The epitaph on her tombstone that Emily Dickinson composed herself
reads*
(1) The List is done
(2) Redemption – Brittle Lady
(3) Judge tenderly – of Me
(4) Called Back
Answer: 4

*6. Shel is a character in Virginia Woolf’s novel ……………*
(1) Mrs. Dalloway
(2) To the Lighthouse
(3) The Waves
(4) Orlando
Answer: 4

*7. Thomas Mann described the theme of one of his fictional works as
“the fascination of death, the triumph of disorder in a life founded on
order.” Which of his works was he referring to?*
(1) Buddenbrooks
(2) Death in Venice
(3) The Magic Mountain
(4) Doctor Faustus
Answer: 2

*8. In the middle of the story the narrator in Oroonoko digresses from
the central tale of Oroonoko’s revolt and tells of various expeditions
taken in company with Oroonoko.
What is the purpose of these digressions, according to the narrator?*
(1) To illustrate the richness of the country of Surinam
(2) To enliven the dullness of the central narrative
(3) To give proof of Oroonoko’s daring and curiosity
(4) To convince the reader that the narrator is indeed an eye-witness to
the events described
Answer: 3

*9. In 1941 John Day Company in New York published Jawaharlal Nehru’s
autobiography under the title*
(1) Toward Freedom
(2) In Search of Freedom
(3) Toward Independence
(4) In Search of Independence
Answer: 1

*10. “In honoured poverty thy voice did weave/songs consecrate to truth
and liberty, – / Deserting
these, thou leavest me to grieve” are lines from “To Wordsworth”. Who is
the poet?*
(1) Coleridge
(2) Shelley
(3) Byron
(4) Keats
Answer: 2

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*11. Speaking of Siva is an English translation by A.K. Ramanujan of
some …………. Bhakti poems composed by Virasaiva saints.*
(1) Konkani
(2) Tamil
(3) Telugu
(4) Kannada
Answer: 4

*12. In Beowulf, Beowulf accuses Unferth of*
I. pagan beliefs
II. killing his own “kith and kin”
III. “unchecked atrocity”
IV. unprovoked war
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) I and IV
(4) I and III
Answer: 2

*13. Charles Dickens opined that “no man ever before had the art of
making himself mentally so like a woman since the world began.” He was
acknowledging the quality of the work of which writer?*
(1) Walter Scott
(2) William Mackpeace Thackeray
(3) George Meredith
(4) George Eliot
Answer: 4

*14. In his well-known essay “Politics and the English Language”, George
Orwell provides representative examples of what common faults?*
(1) Staleness of imagery and lack of precision
(2) Lack of precision and incorrect formatting
(3) Incorrect formatting and staleness of imagery
(4) Staleness of precision and lack of imagery
Answer: 1

*15. According to Roland Barthes, the “writerly text” is*
(1) a unique expression of the writer’s individual genius
(2) consumed by way of a seemingly unitary meaning
(3) linked to active participation of the reader in the establishment of
the text’s meaning
(4) immediately accessible to the reader
Answer: 3

*16. The Canadian Nobel Laureate Alice Munro is known for her*
(1) novels
(2) poems
(3) short stories
(4) novellas
Answer: 3

*17. A critical question Eliot’s Prufrock poses, so important to an
understanding of his character, is*
(1) “To be or not to be?”
(2) “What are you thinking of?”
(3) “Do I dare?”
(4) “Is there nothing in your head?”
Answer: 3

*18. A test of listening comprehension is a test of*
(1) Receptive skill
(2) Productive skill
(3) Hearing skill
(4) Phonology
Answer: 1

*19. Colin Clout, Spenser’s persona in The Shepheardes Calendar appears
in two of these ecologues.*
I. ‘June’
II. ‘February’
III. ‘November’
IV. ‘December’
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and IV
(2) II and III
(3) III and IV
(4) I and III
Answer: 1

*20. Which character in Crime and Punishment speaks of St. Petersburg as
a city of half crazy people filled with gloomy, harsh and strange
influences?*
(1) Razumikhin
(2) Peter Petrovich Luzhyn
(3) Raskolnikov
(4) Svidrigailov
Answer: 4

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*21. At the conclusion of Swift’s Modest Proposal, the narrator declares that he has “not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the public good of my country.” What evidence does the narrator give that his advice is free from other motives?*
I. The narrator is Irish and a sworn bachelor, unlikely to father children.
II. He has no children who will be affected by the scheme, and thus
cannot make money from it.
III. His wife is past childbearing, and thus the narrator cannot benefit
by “breeding” her.
IV. The narrator is English, and therefore this scheme will not affect
him personally.
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) IV and III
(4) I and III
Answer: 2

*22. The Grammar Translation Method was historically used in teaching*
(1) Greek and French
(2) Greek and Latin
(3) Latin and Scandinavian
(4) French and German
Answer: 2

*23. Most of the titles of Aldous Huxley’s novels are taken from various
literary works. Match the titles of his novels with the works from which
they have been borrowed :*
I. Brave New World A. Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
II. The Doors of Perception B. Marlowe’s Edward II
III. Antic Hay C. Wordsworth’s “The Tables Turned”
IV. Those Barren Leaves D. Shakespeare’s The Tempest
The right code according to the key is :
I II III IV
(1) D C A B
(2) D A B C
(3) C D A B
(4) B C D A
Answer: 2

*24. “There is no set and there are no wings; the stage is empty and in almost total darkness. This is in order that right from the beginning the audience shall receive the impression of being present not at a performance of a carefully rehearsed play, but at a performance of a play that suddenly happens.”
Which of the following plays have the above stage directions?*
(1) Eugene Ionesco’s The Chairs
(2) August Strindberg’s A Dream Play
(3) Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author
(4) Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape
Answer: 3

*25. In Thomas Hobbes’s grand metaphor in Leviathan, a commonwealth is
like ………….*
(1) a great ship piloted by one man, but managed by the efforts of many.
(2) an artificial man imbued with the strength of many men.
(3) an octopus whose many tentacles represent the competing interests of
men.
(4) an ostrich, which thrusts its head in the sand to avoid danger and
self examination.
Answer: 2

*26. The word “Calamus”, a kind of water reed referenced in the title
Calamus Poems, is a symbol for Whitman of*
(1) water nymphs
(2) male companions
(3) the spirit of American democracy
(4) the impending American Civil War
Answer: 2

*27. Assertion (A) : The world is becoming increasingly multilingual.
Reason (R) : To monolingual Anglophones it may look like everyone in the
world is learning English.
In the context of these two statements*
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of
(A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer: 2

*28. The first scene in Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq opens in front of a …………..*
(1) court
(2) temple
(3) tavern
(4) shop
Answer: 1

*29. What is the final word in Joyce’s Ulysses?*
(1) Love
(2) Sex
(3) Death
(4) Yes
Answer: 4

*30. Which Victorian novel has the subtitle “New Foes with an Old Face”?*
(1) Hypatia
(2) Sybil
(3) Pendennis
(4) Phineas Finn
Answer: 1

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*31. In which of the following poems does W.H. Auden call 1930s “a low
dishonest decade”?*
(1) “September 1, 1939”
(2) “In Memory of W.B. Yeats”
(3) “No Change of Place”
(4) “The Watershed”
Answer: 1

*32. Two examples of closet drama are*
I. Byron’s Manfred
II. Shelley’s Cenci
III. Marlowe’s Edward II
IV. Shaw’s Widower’s Houses
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) I and III
(3) II and III
(4) II and IV
Answer: 1

*33. Who among the following postcolonial critics worked on the fiction
of Joseph Conrad in his/her early career?*
(1) Edward Said
(2) G.C. Spivak
(3) Homi Bhabha
(4) Dipesh Chakrabarty
Answer: 1

*34. In The Trial what is the main character Joseph K’s job?*
(1) He works in a bank
(2) He’s a politician
(3) He works in a government office
(4) He is an entomologist
Answer: 1

*35. Which of the following best summarises the structural approach to
literature?*
(1) Meaning is inherent in the word itself.
(2) A language’s history explains how it works.
(3) Meaning is generated through relationships in a system of signs.
(4) Binary oppositions are to be avoided at all costs.
Answer: 1

*36. The Australian poet A.D. Hope is best known for his*
I. elegies
II. Satires
III. Sonnets
IV. Doggerel verses
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and IV
(3) I and III
(4) II and III
Answer: 1

*37. At the conclusion of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver argues that his
motivation for telling the tale is*
(1) to entertain his readers
(2) to inform and instruct mankind
(3) to assist the British nation in enlarging her colonies
(4) to produce a travelogue of genius and learning
Answer: 2

*38. Match the character with the play :*
Character
I. Everyman in His Humour
II. Volpone
III. Epicoene
IV. The Alchemist
Play
A. Bonario
B. Subtle
C. Knowles
D. Morose
I II III IV
(1) B D C A
(2) B C A D
(3) C D B A
(4) C A D B
Answer: 4

*39. Which of the following novels by Nuruddin Farah deals with foreign
aid?*
(1) Maps
(2) Gifts
(3) Secrets
(4) Links
Answer: 2

*40. In the house of Holinesse in Faerie Queene, Redcross learns

repentance and the way to heaven from Dame Caelia and her daughters, who
are named :*
(1) Fidelia, Speranza and Charissa
(2) Fidelia, Speranza and Una
(3) Fidelia, Speranza and Humilita
(4) Fidelia, Speranza and Zele
Answer: 1

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*41. A new historical reading, above everything else, is influenced by
the philosophy of*
(1) Jacques Derrida
(2) Jacques Lacan
(3) Michel Foucault
(4) Theodore Adorno
Answer: 3

*42. The Behaviourist Theory is explained in terms of*
(1) conditioning
(2) behaviour
(3) attitude
(4) personality
Answer: 1

*43. Who is the author of the poems “Elegy for Mrs. Virginia Woolf” and
“William Butler in Limbo”?*
(1) Keith Douglas
(2) W.H. Auden
(3) Sidney Keyes
(4) Stephen Spender
Answer: 3

*44. The form of Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy is*
(1) an essay
(2) an epic poem
(3) a dialogue
(4) a play
Answer: 3

*45. Which Flemish poet is Jacques Derrida related to?*
(1) Anton Bergmann
(2) Karel L. Ledeganck
(3) Jan Frans Willems
(4) Jan Van Beers
Answer: 4

*46. In Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress which of the following are found in
the Slough of Despond?*
(1) Hope, great expectations, and dreams of the future.
(2) Joy and happiness.
(3) Fears and doubts, discouraging apprehensions, sinful thoughts.
(4) False doctrines.
Answer: 3

*47. Who among the following wrote a book on the life and works of Dante
Gabriel Rossetti?*
(1) Graham Greene
(2) Evelyn Waugh
(3) William Golding
(4) Kingsley Amis
Answer: 2

*48. Among the Romantic poets William Blake was a total artist,
undertaking many roles usually separated. In his last years he produced
some of his finest engravings. Which of the following was NOT
illustrated by Blake?*
(1) The Book of Job
(2) The rape of Leda
(3) Virgil’s Pastorals
(4) The works of Dante
Answer: 2

*49. Identify the two Indian texts translated by the Orientalist William
Jones*
I. Abhignanamshakuntalam
II. Katha Sarita Sagar
III. Mahabharatha
IV. Manusmriti
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) I and IV
(4) III and IV
Answer: 3


*50. Which work by a famous poet does Thomas de Quincey refer to as “the
feeblest and least interesting” of his writings “being substantially a
mere versification, like a metrical multiplication table, of common
places, the most mouldy with which criticism has baited its rat-traps”?*
(1) John Dryden’s An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
(2) Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Criticism
(3) Shelley’s Defence of Poetry
(4) Sidney’s An Apologie for Poetry
Answer: 2

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*51. “On or about December 1910 human character changed,” Virginia Woolf
wrote. A more assertive declaration, “It was in 1915 the old world
ended”, was made by a novelist in one of his/her novels, picking a date
of far more historical moment, the point when an entire cultural
tradition seemed to end in war. Name the novelist and the novel.*
(1) D.H. Lawrence – Kangaroo
(2) Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
(3) Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway
(4) James Joyce – Ulysses
Answer: 1

*52. Semiotics, the general science of signs, traces its lineage to*
I. Edmund Husserl
II. Charles Sanders Pierce
III. Ferdinand de Saussure
IV. Claude Levi-Strauss
The right combination according to the code is
(1) II and III
(2) I and III
(3) III and IV
(4) II and IV
Answer: 1

*53. After the Norman Conquest of 1066, Norman French was the dominant
language used by*
(1) ordinary people
(2) religious clerics
(3) the upper classes
(4) farmers
Answer: 3

*54. Which novel of George Eliot was read with pleasure by Queen
Victoria and also commissioned for two paintings of scenes as a mark of
recognition?*
(1) Romola
(2) Scenes of Clerical Life
(3) Adam Bede
(4) Middlemarch
Answer: 3

*55. In More’s Utopia there are 54 cities, all built on a similar plan
and distributed over the island such that each city is surrounded by
agricultural lands. Who does the agricultural labour in Utopia?*
(1) Agricultural labour is performed by slaves.
(2) Adulterers and other criminals are forced to work on farms.
(3) All citizens take two-year stints at farm work.
(4) Farm labourers are brought in from allied countries.
Answer: 3

*56. Direct Method in English Language Teaching is also known as*
(1) Functional Method
(2) Natural Method
(3) Indirect Approach
(4) Inductive Approach
Answer: 2

*57. Vikram Seth’s From Heaven Lake is a/an*
(1) verse novel
(2) exhibition of poster poetry
(3) travel book
(4) collection of philosophical essays
Answer: 3

*58. Which of the following is NOT a punishment given by God to Adam and
Eve as a consequence of tasting the forbidden fruit?*
(1) ‘Children thou shalt bring/In sorrow forth’
(2) Expulsion from Eden
(3) ‘Cursed is the ground for thy sake, thou in sorrow / Shalt eat
thereof all the days of thy life’
(4) ‘Dust shalt eat all the days of life’
Answer: 4

*59. …………… attempted to draw a distinction between two kinds of Truth, a
theological Truth ‘drawn from the word and oracles of God’ and
determined by faith, and a ‘scientific’ Truth based on the light of
nature and the dictates of reason.*
(1) Treatise on the laws of Ecclesiastical Piety
(2) Literature and Pulpit in Medieval England
(3) The Advancement of Learning
(4) The New Atlantis
Answer: 3

*60. In Defence of Poesy what arguments does Sidney make for considering

the Biblical Psalms poetry?*
I. They are written in meter.
II. They originated in Church choirs
III. They were written by a single author.
IV. David uses imagery and personification to portray faith.
The right combination according to the code is
(1) II and III
(2) I and III
(3) I and IV
(4) II and IV
Answer: 3

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1️⃣ Which novel by Walter Scott was not set in Scotland?
A. Guy Mannering
B. Rob Roy
C. The Heart of Midlothian
✅D. Ivanhoe

2️⃣ Which of the following novel was published post humously ?

A. Emma
B. Mansfield Park
✅C. Northanger Abbey
D. Sense and Sensibility

3️⃣ Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize in the year
✅A. 1993
B. 1997
C. 1990
D. 1998

4⃣ Tennyson's Ulysses wants to depart from?
A. Algernon
B. Greece
C. Rome
✅D. Ithaca

5⃣ Their Eyes Were watching God was written by
A. Toni Morrison
✅B. Zora Neal Hurston
C. James Baldwin
D. William Collins

6⃣ Chinua Achebe critiqued Conrad's Heart of Darkness in the essay entitled?
A. An African Perspective
✅B. An Image of Africa
C. The Light of Prejudice
D. The Third World Image.

7⃣ How many times did Shelly marry?
A. 1
✅B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

8⃣ Mr and Mrs Browning's love is shown in which poetry collection?
A. Bells and Pomegranate
B. The Ring and the Book
✅C. Sonnets from Portuguese
D. Dramatic Romances

9⃣ Lolita was published in?
✅A. 1955
B. 1922
C. 1977
D. 1965

🔟 Hudibras by Butler was a mock epic targeting
✅A. Puritans
B. Pope
C. Science
D. Education

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1. Two of the following list are “Angry Young Men” of the 1950’s
British literary scene.
I. John Osborne
II. C.P. Snow
III. Anthony Powell
IV. Kingsley Amis
The right combination, accordingto the code
(A) I & II
(B) II & IV
(C) I & IV
(D) I & III
Answer: C

2. Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy contains
(A) Six volumes
(B) Nine volumes
(C) Ten volumes
(D) Four volumes
Answer: B

3. Which of the following statement is NOT true of Areopagitica ?
(A) It was published in 1644.
(B) It argues for the liberty of Unlicensed Printing.
(C) It pleads for British privileges regarding Free Trade.
(D) It is a speech addressed to the Parliament of England.
Answer: C

4. Thomas Hardy’s last major novel was _______.
(A) Tess of the D’urbervilles
(B) Jude the Obscure
(C) The Return of the Native
(D) The Trumpet Major
Answer: B

5. The Hind and the Panther Transvers’d to the Story of the Country
Mouse and the City Mouse is a satire on
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Jonathan Swift
(C) John Dryden
(D) Samuel Butler
Answer: C

6. Match the columns :
Terms Theorists
1. Matthew Arnold
2. Friedrich Nietzsche
3. G.H. Hopkins
4. S.T. Coleridge

I. Apollonian – Dionysian
II. Fancy – Imagination
III. Hellenism – Hebraism
IV. Inscape – Instress

I II III IV
(A) 2 4 1 3
(B) 2 4 3 1
(C) 1 4 2 3
(D) 4 2 1 3
Answer: A

7. In King Lear who among the following speaks in the voice of Poor Tom ?
(A) Kent
(B) Edgar
(C) Edmund
(D) Gloucester
Answer: B

8. In Wordsworth’s Prelude the Boy of Winander is affected by
(A) Blindness
(B) Deafness
(C) Muteness
(D) Lameness
Answer: C

9. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as part of the London locale
in The Waste Land ?
(A) St. Magnus Martyr
(B) King Arthur Street
(C) St. Mary Woolnoth
(D) Lower Thames Street
Answer: B

10. Which of the following novels is NOT written by Jean Rhys ?
(A) After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
(B) Good Morning, Midnight
(C) The Quiet American
(D) Wide Sargasso Sea
Answer: C

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11. The first official royal Poet Laureate in English literary history
was _______.
(A) Ben Jonson
(B) William Davenant
(C) John Dryden
(D) Thomas Shadwell
Answer: C

12. Who does Alexander Pope refer to in the following lines ?
“Born to no pride; inheriting no strife,
Nor marrying discord in a noble wife,
Stranger to civil and religious rage,
The good man walked innoxious through his age.”
(A) Pope’s father
(B) Pope himself
(C) Dr. Arbuthnot
(D) The Duke of Marlborough
Answer: A

13. The Theory of Natural Selection is attributed to ________.
(A) Arthur Schopenhauer
(B) Charles Darwin
(C) A.N. Whitehead
(D) Aldous Huxley
Answer: B

14. Which character in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies maintains,
“Life is scientific” ?
(A) Simon
(B) Piggy
(C) Ralph
(D) Jack
Answer: B

15. Match the authors under List – I with the titles under List – II :
1. Of Grammatology
2. The Archaeology of Knowledge
3. Structural Anthropology
4. Anatomy of Criticism

I. Claude Levi-Strauss
II. Jacques Derrida
III. Northrop Frye
IV. Michel Foucault

I II III IV
(A) 1 3 4 2
(B) 3 1 2 4
(C) 3 1 4 2
(D) 2 1 3 4
Answer: C

16. How did Chaucer’s Pardoner make his living ?
(A) By selling stolen cattle from the neighbourhood ottery
(B) By selling indulgences to those who committed sins
(C) By pardoning those who stole property or committeed other crimes
(D) By assisting the Friar in Church services
Answer: B

17. From among the following, identify Coleridge’s companion in a
fanciful scheme to establish a Utopian community of free love on the
banks of the Susquehaina river ?
(A) Lord Byron
(B) Robert Southey
(C) William Hazlitt
(D) William Wordsworth
Answer: B

18. Which of the following novels by H.G. Wells is about the condition
of England as Empire ?
(A) The Island of Dr. Moreau
(B) The War of the Worlds
(C) Tono-Bungay
(D) The Invisible Man
Answer: C

19. Joothan by Om Prakash Valmiki is
(A) a collection of poems
(B) a play
(C) an autobiography
(D) a novel
Answer: C

20. Listed below are some English plays across several centuries :
Twelfth Night, She Stoops to Conquer, The Importance of Being Earnest,
Pygmalion and Blithe Spirit. What is common to them ?
(A) All problem plays; scheming and intrigue
(B) All tragedies; sin and redemption
(C) All ideologically framed; class and gender
(D) All romantic comedies; love and laughter
Answer: D

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21. Who among the following wrote a poem comparing a lover’s heart to a
hand grenade ?
(A) John Donne
(B) Abraham Cowley
(C) Wilfred Owen
(D) Robert Graves
Answer: B

22. The Uncertainty Principle is attributed to
(A) William James
(B) John Dewey
(C) Werner Heisenberg
(D) Charles Darwin
Answer: C

23. “Jabberwocky” is a creation in _______.
(A) Edward Lear’s poetry
(B) Lewis Carroll’s work
(C) Charles Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit
(D) Thomas Hardy’s Woodlanders
Answer: B

24. Who are Didi and Gogo ?
(A) They are two characters in Endgame.
(B) They are nicknames, respectively, for Lucky and Pozzo.
(C) They are nicknames, respectively, for Vladimir and Estragon.
(D) They are two characters in Breath.
Answer: C

25. Who among the following theorists talks about “the circulation of
social energy” ?
(A) Raymond Williams
(B) Stephen Greenblatt
(C) Antonio Gramsci
(D) Haydon White
Answer: B

26. How many legends of good women could Chaucer complete in his The
Legend of Good Women ?
(A) Six
(B) Seven
(C) Eight
(D) Nine
Answer: D

27. The Round Table is a collection of essays jointly written by ________.
(A) Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
(B) Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt
(C) William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt
(D) William Hazlitt and Thomas de Quincey
Answer: C

28. Dylan Thomas is associated with the group _______.
(A) The New Apocalypse
(B) The Black Arts
(C) The Movement
(D) Deep Image Poetry
Answer: A

29. Which of the following writers writes from Canada ?
(A) V.S. Naipaul
(B) Margaret Atwood
(C) Derek Walcott
(D) James Joyce
Answer: B

30. “The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
Awaits alike the inevitable hour
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”
What is the subject of awaits ?
(A) Hour
(B) The things mentioned in the first 2 lines.
(C) “And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave”
(D) Grave
Answer: A

Q.1 The character, Bosola from The Duchess of Malfi compares himself to which Greek
mythological figure?
👉A) Tantalus
B) Cronus
C) Dioskouroi
D) Epimetheus

Q.2 At the beginning of the play in Volpone, Volpone pretends to be on his deathbed to dupe
three men. Who of the following is NOT that man?
A) Voltore
B) Corbaccio
👉C) Mosca
D) Corvino

Q.3 Who schemes to bring Vittoria and Brachiano together in the hopes of advancing his career
in the play The White Devil?
A) Lodovico
👉B) Flamineo
C) Giovanni
D) Camillo

Q.4 Who eventually marries Dame Pliant in the play The Alchemist?
A) Face
B) Subtle
👉C) Lovewit
D) Drugger

Q.5 A Tale of a Tub is a play by _________.
A) John Webster
B) Jonathan Swift
C) Cyril Tourneur
👉D) Ben Jonson

Q.6 “The Puppet show” in the play Bartholomew Fair is a burlesque of ________.
A) Hero and Leander
B) Damon and Pythias
👉C) Both A & B
D) Only A

Q.7 The play The Lady’s Not for Burning is set in the_______________
A) Modern Age
B) Renaissance Age
👉C) Middle Age
D) during world war II

Q.8 In 1733, Lewis Theobald rewrote and directed an adaptation of a Jacobean play and entitled
it The Fatal Secret. Which play was this?
A) The White Devil
B) Every Man Out of His Humour
👉C) The Duchess of Malfi
D) Eastward Ho

Q.9 In 1912, she accused H. G. Wells of being “the Old Maid among novelists” in a provocative review of his novel Marriage. Who was this critic?
A) Zora Neale Hurston
👉B) Rebecca West
C) Willa Cather
D) Gabriela Mistral

Quiz#17

1. Which poem ends 'I shall but love thee better after death'?
👉a. How do I love thee
b. Ode to a Grecian urn
c. In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
d. Let me not to the marriage of true minds

2. Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?
a. John keats
👉b. Lord Byron
c. Solan
d. Sappho

3. Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?
a. Nature
b. Epics
c. Sonnets
👉d. Nonsense

4. In coleridge's poem 'The rime of the Ancient
Mariner'where were the three gallants going?
a. A funeral
👉b. A wedding
c. Market
d. To the races

5. Harold Nicholson described which poet as 'Very yellow
and glum. Perfect manners'?
a. e. e. Cummings
👉b. T. S. Elliot
c. John Greenleaf Whittier
d. Walt Whitman

6. What was strange about Emily Dickinson?
a. She rarely left home
b. She wrote in code
c. She never attempted to publish her poetry
d. She wrote her poems in invisible ink

7. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?
a. Boer War
b. Second World War
c. Korean War
👉d. First World War

8. Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?
👉a. Betjeman
b. Hughes
c. Marvel
d. Larkin

9. Which American writer published 'A brave and startling
truth' in 1996
a. Robert Hass
b. Jessica Hagdorn
👉c. Maya Angelou
d. Micheal Palmer

10. Who wrote about the idyllic 'Isle of Innisfree'?
a. Dylan Thomas
b. Ezra Pound
👉c. W. B. Yeats
d. e. e. cummings