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. 

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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.

Quiz 25

1. First Blank Verse satire was
A. Rape of the lock
✅B. Steel Glass
C. Absalom and Achitophel
D. Utopia

2. Who among these knights from The Fairy Queen represent Courtesy?
✅A. Sir Calidore
B. Sir Guyon
C. Artegall
D. Britomartis

3. Ben Jonson said about Spenser that he 'writ no language'. What was this remark regarding?
A. Spenser's choice of language
B. His content
✅C. His archaicness in language
D. His education

4. The Spasmodics had spasms or fits of _____ in their poetry
A. Conceits
B. Philosophy
C. Allegories
✅D. Romanticism

5. The Germ is a magazine associated with
A. Romantics
B. Spasmodics
✅C. Pre-Raphaelites
D. Georgians

6. Sartor Resartus__ literally means
✅A. Tailor Repatched
B. Clothes professor
C. the philosophy of clothes
D. Things in General

7. Thackeray was the editor of
✅A. Cornhill Magazine
B. The Germ
C. The Spectator
D. Edinburgh Review

8. Who wrote 'Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Writers before Jane Austin (1986)
✅A. Dale Spender
B. Judith Butler
C. Elaine Showalter
D. Maggie Humm

9. Who among the following spearheaded the Postcolonial feminist movement in India?
A. Rajeshwari Sunder Rajan
B. Sharmila Rege
✅C. Chandra Mohanty Talpade
D. Nivedita Menon

10. Anthology titled 'This Bridge Called My Back' is a collection of writings of
A. Muslim women from Pakistan
✅B. Women of color
C. Dalit Feminist writers
D. Translations of writings from Indian women

Quiz 26

1. Graham Greene's The Power and The Glory was published in?
✅A. 1940
B. 1938
C. 1942
D. 1941

2. All about H Hatter(1948) was written by
✅A. G.V Desani
B. C. P. Snow
C. Milan Kundera
D. J. P. Donleavy

3. In which novel does Graham Greene satirizes spy novels?
A. The Power and The Glory
B. The Quiet American
✅C. Our Man in Havana
D. Brighton Rock

4. Passage to India was composed by
A. E.M. Foster
✅B. Walt Whitman
C. Nirad C. Chaudhari
D. Macaulay

5. The Strange Case of Billy Biswas(1971) was a novel by
A. Amitav Ghosh
B. Khushwant Singh
✅C. Arun Joshi
D. Vikram Chandra

6. Who is regarded as the first woman poet in Australia?
✅A. Ada Cambridge
B. Judith Wright
C. Rosemary Dobson
D. Amanda Stuart

7. Which novel by an Indian administrator exposes the moribund culture of Babudom?
A. Red Earth and Pouring Rain
B. Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
C. The Last Labyrinth
✅D. English August : An Indian Story


8. A Dance in the Forests(1960), a celebration of Nigerian Independence, was written by
A. Chinua Achebe
✅B. Wole Soyinka
C. Ngugi wa Thiango
D. Flora Nwapa

9. The Solid Mandala, a pre-war urban Australian novel was written by
✅A. Patrick White
B. Judith Wright
C. A.D. Hope
D. Kenneth Slessor

10. Mandela's Ego is a novel by
✅A. Lewis Nkosi
B. Nadine Gordimer
C. Leon Damas
D. Christopher O Kigbo

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Quiz 27

1. Who among the following wrote a book with the title The Age of Reason ?
(A) William Godwin
(B) Edmund Burke
✅(C) Thomas Paine
(D) Edward Gibbon

2. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses is an essay by :
(A) Terry Eagleton
(B) Karl Marx
(C) Raymond Williams
✅(D) Louis Althusser

3. The term ‘Cultural Materialism’ is associated with :
(A) Stephen Greenblatt
✅(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) Richard Hoggart

4. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is written by :
(A) Martin Amis
(B) Roger Federer
✅(C) Alan Sillitoe
(D) Dan Brown

5. Exiles is the only play written by :
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) Virgina Woolf
✅(C) James Joyce
(D) Gabriel Garcia Marquez

6. The term “Negritude” was coined by :
(A) Frantz Fanon and Homi Bhabha
(B) Ngugi Wa’ Thiongo and Wole Soyinka
✅(C) Aimee Cesaire and Leopold Senghor
(D) K. Alfred Memi and Chinua Achebe

7. The gap–toothed character in “prologue” to The Canterbury Tales is :
(A) The Prioress
(B) The Nun
✅(C) The Wife of Bath
(D) The Narrator

8. Edmund Burke denounced the French Revolution in :
(A) Political Philosophy
(B) A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our
Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
✅(C) Reflections
(D) The Annual Register

9. Who among the following is called “A New England Poet” ?
✅(A) Robert Frost
(B) Edwin Arlington Robinson
(C) William Carlos Williams
(D) Allen Ginsberg

10. Which of the following is not a play by Tennessee
Williams ?
(A) Night of the Iguana
(B) A Streetcar named Desire
(C) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
✅(D) The Zoo Story

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