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Quiz #21

1. What is a funny poem of five lines called?
a. Quartet
👉b. Limerick
c. Sextet
d. Palindrome

2. The use of "whale-road"for sea and "life-house"for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry?
a) symbolism
b) simile
c) metonymy
👉d) kenning
e) appositive expression

3. About whom did T. S. Eliot write “A thought to him was an experience” :
(A) Herbert
(B) Marvell
👉(C) Donne
(D) Crashaw

4. Who edited The Tatler :
(A) Steele and John Locke
(B) Addison and Dryden
(C) Addison and Blackmore
👉(D) Addison and Steele

5. 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”

6. 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

7. Which of the following women writers did not receive the Noble Prize :
(A) Toni Morrison
(B) Nadine Gordiner
👉(C) Buchi Emcheta
(D) Doris Lessing

8. Which of the following is not an Australian author :
👉(A) Margaret Laurence
(B) David Malauf
(C) Mudooroo Narogin
(D) Peter Carey

9. 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

10. Which of the following prose-writers do not belong to the Romantic Period :
(A) Peacock
(B) De Quincey
(C) Hazlitt
👉(D) Gibbon

Quiz #22

Indian English Literature

1. Find the odd one out
A. A Tiger for Malgudi
✅B. Malgudi Days
C. The Man-Eater of Malgudi
D. The Dark Room
Explanation : All the others are novels while this is a collection of short stories.

2. Arrange in chronological sequence.
A. Coolie
B. Untouchable
C. The Sword and the Sickle
D. Two Leaves and Bud
✅: B,A,D,C

3. Achakka is the narrator of
A. On the Ganga Ghat
B. The Serpent and the Rope
✅C. Kanthapura
D. The English Teacher

4. Timothy Penpoem was the pseudonym of
A. Toru Dutt
B. Sri Aurobindo
✅C. Michael Madhusudan Dutt
D. R. C. Dutt

5. Which of these writer's work did Premchand not translate
A. John Galsworthy
B. George Eliot
C. Anatole France
✅D. E. M. Foster

6. Which of these women authors compared suppression of women's rights to loss of country's freedom?
A. Toru Dutt
✅B. Sarojini Naidu
C. Attia Hosain
D. Rashid Jahan

7. The East is Blue is a non-fictional work by
A. V. S. Naipaul
✅B. Salman Rushdie
C. Nissim Ezekiel
D. Girish Karnad

8. Journey to Ithaca(1995) is a book by
A. Chaman Nahal
✅B. Anita Desai
C. Shashi Deshpande
D. Kamala Markandeya

9. Which of these plays was banned in India?
A. Tara
B. Hayavadana
✅C. Sakharam Binder
D. Dance Like a Man

10. Writers Workshop was founded in
A. 1964
B. 1932
✅C. 1958
D. 1972

Philip Larkin, 1922–85, English poet. He graduated from St. John's College, Oxford (B.A., 1943; M.A., 1947) and was for many years librarian at the Univ. of Hull. With an eye for the ordinary and a diction that is profoundly lucid and determinedly plain, Larkin wrote poetry of diminution that quietly exposes the weakness and pretensions of English life. His wit was subtle, delicate, and deadly. Among his volumes of poetry are The North Ship(1946), The Less Deceived (1955), The Whitsun Weddings (1964), and High Windows (1974). Larkin also edited The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse (1973). In addition, he published two novels, Jill(1940) and A Girl in Winter (1947); and two collections of critical pieces, All What Jazz: A Record Diary, 1961–1968 (1970) and Required Writing (1983). With the onset of deafness in the 1970s Larkin ceased writing poetry and jazz criticism. Despite a slim body of mature work, Larkin has a secure reputation as one of the finest and most original poets of his era. 

A typo had crept in the answer of question 10, as pointed by a fellow member. It is 1958 instead of 1954. Please report any discrepancy @gaarlicbread

Quiz 23

Canadian Literature

1. Which group of poets were also called the Maple Tree School of poets?
A. Lake Poets
B. Cockney School of poets
✅C. Confederation Group
D. Sons of Ben

2. The Handmaid in The Handmaid's Tale is
A. Offglen
✅B. Offred
C. Gilead
D. Moira

3. Which author penned a book that was made into an Oscar-winning movie?

A. Margaret Atwood
✅B. Michael Ondaatje
C. Northrop Frye
D. Robert Munsch

4. Who was the first Canadian to win the Booker prize?
A. Margaret Atwood
✅B. Michael Ondaatje
C. Wole Soyinka
D. Nadine Gordimer

5. Who was the Canadian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A. Margaret Atwood
B. Michael Ondaatje
✅C. Alice Munro
D. Yann Martel

6. The Deptford Trilogy was by
A. Alice Munro
B. Lawrence Hill
C. Margaret Lawrence
✅D. Robertson Davies

7. Which author received Man Booker Prize for a lifetime body of work?
A. Margaret Atwood
B. Michael Ondaatje
✅C. Alice Munro
D. Alistair MacLeod

8. Who among the following was a poet and a music composer?
✅A. Leonard Cohen
B. Lawrence Hill
C. Carol Shields
D. Lawrence Hill

9. In which novel did Margaret Lawrence create a fictional town of Manawaka in Manitoba?

A. The Fire Dwellers
B. A Jest of God
✅C. The Stone Angel
D. The Diviners

10. The Edible Woman was published in ?
A. 1972
✅B. 1969
C. 1985
D. 1976

Who wrote the following?

1. The Sound and the Fury
✏ William Faulkner
2. Darkness at Noon
✏ Arthur Koestler
3. Native Son
✏ Richard Wright
4. The Grapes of Wrath
✏ John Steinbeck
5. Brave New World
✏ Aldous Huxley
6. On the Road
✏ Jack Kerouac
7. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
✏ Muriel Spark
8. A Bend in the River
✏ V. S. Naipaul
9. A Bend in the Ganges
✏ Manohar Malgonkar
10. Lord Jim
✏ Joseph Conrad

Match the following:

1. Astrophel and Stella
2. Mother Hubbard's Tale
3. The Scourge of Villainy
4. Steps to the Temple
5. The Temple

a. Richard Crashaw
b. Spenser
c. George Herbert
d. John Marston
e. Philip Sidney

1. E
2. B
3. D
4. A
5. C

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Quiz 24


1. Who is called the poet's poet?
A. Chaucer
B. Spenser
C. Shakespeare
D. Philip Sydney

2. Which book of The Faerie Queen deals with the virtue of Chastity?
A. Book III
B. Book VI
C. Book I
D. Book II

3.Tottel's Miscellany was published in the year
A. 1567
B. 1557
C. 1579
D. 1496

4. Who wrote Hero and Leander?
A. Spenser
B. Ben Jonson
C. Shakespeare
D. Marlowe

5. The sonnets of Shakespeare are dedicated to?
A. H.W
B. F.L
C. C.H
D. H.H

6. Who shot to fame with her poem collection "Standing Female Nude"?
A. Carol Ann Duffy
B. Elizabeth Jennings
C. Wendy Cope
D. Stevie Smith

7. Making Cocoa for Kinglsey Amis was was the first collection of poems by?
A. Carol Ann Duffy
B. Elizabeth Jennings
C. Wendy Cope
D. Stevie Smith

8. Which of these authors belonged to the "Movement" poetry?
A. Carol Ann Duffy
B. Elizabeth Jennings
C. Wendy Cope
D. Stevie Smith

9. The Unfortunate Travellor was writter by?
A. Robert Burton
B. Thomas Nash
C. Thomas Brown
D. John Bunyan

10. Thyrisis(1866) an elegy on the death of Arthur Hugh Clark was writter by?
A. William Wordsworth
B. Mathew Arnold
C. P. B. Shelley
D. W.H. Auden

The Sound and the Fury is a novel by William Faulkner in which the intellectual, moral and emotional falling apart of the world is shown. It tells the tumultuous story of the Compson family’s gradual deterioration.

Textual Background

It was published in 1929. The novel is divided into four sections, each told by a different narrator on a different date. The three Compson brothers, Benjy, Quentin, and Jason, each relate one of the first three sections while the fourth is told from an omniscient, third-person perspective. At the center of the novel is the brothers’ sister, Caddy Compson, who, as an adult, becomes a source of obsessive love for two of her brothers, and inspires savage revenge in the third.

Overview

The novel begins with the fall of an aristocratic family and the further fall after the death of an alcoholic father. Before his death he left his family in debts.

April 7,1928
The first view of the Compson family comes through the eyes of Benjy, a thirty-three year old mute with severe learning difficulties. With a narrator incapable of making sense of his own experiences, we have no choice but to watch, bewildered, as fractured images accumulate, and to share in Benjy’s own tortured incomprehension. The one thing that emerges clearly from this tale told by an idiot is Benjy's utter love for his sister Caddy, an impulsive and rebellious girl whose tragedy lies at the centre of a novel from which she herself, absconded and never accorded her own voice, is largely absent.

June 2,1910
Next 18 years to when Quentin, the oldest and most cerebral of the Compson children, was a freshman at Harvard University. On the last day of his life as he makes meticulous preparations for his suicide, although with his mind following a loosely-connected string of impressions, associations and memories, this will not become apparent until later. As with Benjy, his thoughts whirl around the image of Caddy, upon whom he has brought to bear all his deeply-cherished ideals of honour and virginity. The discovery that she is pregnant by one man, and intent upon marrying another to avoid the shame of a bastard child, completely shatters his faith in those values. Unwilling to countenance the suggestion that time will dull his horror, and drunk on the idea that he can chivalrously damn himself along with Caddy and thereby atone for her sin, he approaches suicide as an inevitability. His narrative ends on a note of Prufrockian bathos: before he sets out to throw himself in the river, he first takes care to clean his teeth and brush his hat.

April 6,1928
This time the narrator is Jason, who Faulkner described as “the most vicious character... I ever thought of”. Whilst for Benjy Caddy is the centre of all surety and for Quentin she is a fallen angel, in Jason’s eyes she is simply a bitch. When her husband, who had promised Jason a job in a bank, divorces Caddy on discovering she is pregnant by another man, Jason loses out on what he sees as the greatest opportunity of his life. Brimming with rage, he seeks recompense by blackmailing Caddy into making him the sole guardian of her daughter Quentin (named after their dead brother) and then pilfers the money she sends home for her. With Mr Compson dead from alcoholism, Jason is now head of the crumbling family, a role he bitterly resents and which he exploits to arrange for the shocking castration of Benjy.

April 8,1928
The final section told by Dilsey, the Compsons’ black servant and a figure of stoic endurance in the novel. Here we bear witness to Jason’s horror as he discovers that Quentin, sick of his tyranny, has run away with a travelling showman and stolen back the money he has pilfered. Meanwhile, Dilsey takes Benjy to an Easter service at a black church. With the words of the charismatic Reverend Shegog ringing in her ears, she declares, “I’ve seed de first en de last”, a statement which distils the ultimate and irrevocable disintegration of the family whose successive generation

s she has overseen. Only as the novel closes can the reader finally comprehend the full import of what has previously seemed so much sound and fury.