✔📓 Paper 3- August 2016
*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
*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
🇶🇺🇮🇿 15
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
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
🔅🔰🔅 Paper 2- December 2014
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
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
🔅🔰🔅 Paper 2 December 2014
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
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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🔅🔰🔅 Paper 2 December 2014
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
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
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
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
*QUIZ* #18
1. The novel The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene is set in?
👉(A)Mexico
(B) Italy
(C)France
(D) Germany
2. Which of the following is Golding’s first novel?
(A) The Inheritors
👉(B) Lord of the Flies
(C) Pincher Martin
(D) Pyramid
3. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’?
(A) Tennyson
(8) Charles Lamb
(C) Lockhart
👉(D) T. S. Eliot
4. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of?
(A) Charles Dickens
(B) Anthony Trollope
(C) W. H. White
👉(D) B. Disraeli
5. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’—
(A) Tennyson
(B) Browning
(C) Swinburne
👉(D) D. G. Rossetti
6. W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem?
👉(A) Sailing to Byzantium
(B) Byzantium
(C) The Second Coming
(D) Leda and the Swan
7. The phrase ‘Pathetic fallacy’ is coined by?
(A) Milton
(B) Coleridge
(C) Carlyle
👉(D) John Ruskin
8. Identify the character who is a supporter of Women’s Rights in Sons and Lovers?
👉(A) Mrs. Morel
(B) Annie
(C) Miriam
(D) Clara Dawes
9. Which of the following is the first novel of D. H. Lawrence?
👉(A) The White Peacock
(B) The Trespasser
(C) Sons and Lovers
(D) Women in Love
10. Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet—
👉(A) P. B. Shelley
(B) Charles Lamb
(C) Hazlitt
(D) Coleridge
1. The novel The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene is set in?
👉(A)Mexico
(B) Italy
(C)France
(D) Germany
2. Which of the following is Golding’s first novel?
(A) The Inheritors
👉(B) Lord of the Flies
(C) Pincher Martin
(D) Pyramid
3. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’?
(A) Tennyson
(8) Charles Lamb
(C) Lockhart
👉(D) T. S. Eliot
4. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of?
(A) Charles Dickens
(B) Anthony Trollope
(C) W. H. White
👉(D) B. Disraeli
5. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’—
(A) Tennyson
(B) Browning
(C) Swinburne
👉(D) D. G. Rossetti
6. W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem?
👉(A) Sailing to Byzantium
(B) Byzantium
(C) The Second Coming
(D) Leda and the Swan
7. The phrase ‘Pathetic fallacy’ is coined by?
(A) Milton
(B) Coleridge
(C) Carlyle
👉(D) John Ruskin
8. Identify the character who is a supporter of Women’s Rights in Sons and Lovers?
👉(A) Mrs. Morel
(B) Annie
(C) Miriam
(D) Clara Dawes
9. Which of the following is the first novel of D. H. Lawrence?
👉(A) The White Peacock
(B) The Trespasser
(C) Sons and Lovers
(D) Women in Love
10. Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet—
👉(A) P. B. Shelley
(B) Charles Lamb
(C) Hazlitt
(D) Coleridge
🔅🔰🔅
Quiz #19
1. You Can’t Do Both is a novel by
(A) John Fowles
(B) Doris Lessing
👉(C) Kingsley Amis
(D) Irish Murdoch
2. Hamlet, lying wounded, says to his friend, “Horatio, I am dead.” This is an example of
(A) protasis
(B) anacrusis
👉(C) prolepsis
(D) pun
3. The character, Nathan Zuckerman, is associated with the fiction of
(A) Norman Mailer
(B) Saul Bellow
👉(C) Philip Roth
(D) Bernard Malamud
4. Plato censured poetry because he believed it
(A) eliminates the ego.
(B) promotes sensuality.
👉(C) distorts reality.
(D) cripples the imagination.
5. Which of the following Tennyson poems is a dramatic monologue ?
(A) In Memoriam
(B) “The Charge of the Light
Brigade”
(C) “Crossing the Bar”
👉(D) “Tithonus”
6. Eliot uses the term “objective correlative” in his essay.
(A) “The Metaphysical Poets”
👉(B) “Hamlet and His Problems”
(C) “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
(D) “Dante”
7. Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in the year
👉(A) 1995
(B) 1996
(C) 1997
(D) 1998
8. “Heteroglossia” refers to
(A) the multiple readings of a text.
👉(B) the juxtaposition of multiple voices in a text.
(C) the comments on the margins of a text.
(D) the gloss or commentary relating to a text.
9. “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift” is written by
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Samuel Johnson
(C) John Gay
👉(D) Jonathan Swift
10. MacFlecknoe is an attack on Dryden’s literary rival,
(A) Richard Flecknoe
👉(B) Thomas Shadwell
(C) John Wilmot
(D) Matthew Prior
Quiz #19
1. You Can’t Do Both is a novel by
(A) John Fowles
(B) Doris Lessing
👉(C) Kingsley Amis
(D) Irish Murdoch
2. Hamlet, lying wounded, says to his friend, “Horatio, I am dead.” This is an example of
(A) protasis
(B) anacrusis
👉(C) prolepsis
(D) pun
3. The character, Nathan Zuckerman, is associated with the fiction of
(A) Norman Mailer
(B) Saul Bellow
👉(C) Philip Roth
(D) Bernard Malamud
4. Plato censured poetry because he believed it
(A) eliminates the ego.
(B) promotes sensuality.
👉(C) distorts reality.
(D) cripples the imagination.
5. Which of the following Tennyson poems is a dramatic monologue ?
(A) In Memoriam
(B) “The Charge of the Light
Brigade”
(C) “Crossing the Bar”
👉(D) “Tithonus”
6. Eliot uses the term “objective correlative” in his essay.
(A) “The Metaphysical Poets”
👉(B) “Hamlet and His Problems”
(C) “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
(D) “Dante”
7. Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in the year
👉(A) 1995
(B) 1996
(C) 1997
(D) 1998
8. “Heteroglossia” refers to
(A) the multiple readings of a text.
👉(B) the juxtaposition of multiple voices in a text.
(C) the comments on the margins of a text.
(D) the gloss or commentary relating to a text.
9. “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift” is written by
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Samuel Johnson
(C) John Gay
👉(D) Jonathan Swift
10. MacFlecknoe is an attack on Dryden’s literary rival,
(A) Richard Flecknoe
👉(B) Thomas Shadwell
(C) John Wilmot
(D) Matthew Prior
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*QUIZ* #18 1. The novel The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene is set in? 👉(A)Mexico (B) Italy (C)France (D) Germany 2. Which of the following is Golding’s first novel? (A) The Inheritors 👉(B) Lord of the Flies (C) Pincher Martin (D) Pyramid 3. Who derided…
In question 8 Clara stands for women's rights as she is a suffragette and not Mrs Morel.