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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Literary Terms:
aesthetic distance
The term implies a psychological relationship between the reader (or viewer) and a work of art. It describes the attitude or perspective
of a person in relation to a work, irrespective of whether it is interesting to that person. A reader may dislike a poem, for instance, for subjective reasons
but this should not vitiate his objective reaction. The reader or critic has at once to be involved with – and detached from – what he is concentrating on.
The work is ‘distanced’ so that it may be appreciated aesthetically and not confused with reality. The writer bears the responsibility for gauging and
determining the distance (not in any spatial sense) at which his work should be viewed. If he bullies the reader into attending, then his reader may be
repelled; if he undertakes too much, then his reader may not get the point. The concept of aesthetic distance became established in the 20th c., though
it appears to be inherent in 19th c. aesthetics; and, as long ago as 1790, Kant, in his Critique of Judgement, had already described the disinterestedness of our contemplation of works of art. In 1912, E. Bullough published an essay entitled Psychical Distance as a Factor in Art and an Aesthetic Principle (British Journal of Psychology, V) in which he defined ‘psychical distance’. This is an important essay in the history of the concept. Since Bullough a number of critics have addressed themselves to the matter, includ- ing David Daiches in A Study of Literature for Readers and Critics (1948). More recently, Hans Robert Jauss, in developing his theory of the ‘horizon of expectations’ (q.v.), has given the term a very different additional significance. In his theory literary value is measured according to ‘aesthetic distance’, the degree to which a work departs from the ‘horizon of expectations of its first readers.
horizon of expectations
A term (the German is Erwartungshorizont) devised by Hans Robert Jauss to denote the criteria which readers use to judge literary texts in any given period. It is a crucial aspect of Jauss’s aesthetics of reception, and the term designates the shared set of assumptions which can be attributed to any given generation of readers. The criteria help constitute readers’ judgements of, say, a poem (e.g. pastoral or elegy, qq.v.) in a trans-subjective way. Horizons of expectation change. The poetry of one age is judged, valued and interpreted by its contemporaries, but the views of that age do not necessarily establish the meaning and value of the poetry definitively. Neither meaning nor value is permanently fixed, because the horizon of expectations of each generation will change. As Jauss puts it: ‘A literary work is not an object which stands by itself and which offers the same face to each reader in each period. It is not a monument which reveals its timeless essence in a monologue.’ Each age reinterprets poetry (and literature in general) in the light of its own knowledge and experience, its own cultural environment. Literary value is measured according to ‘aesthetic distance’ (q.v.), the degree to which a work departs from the ‘horizon of expectations’ of its first readers. Jauss’s essay Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory (1967) attempts to provide a theory of literature based on a socio-historical context and a solution to the problem of how texts are evaluated. In ‘Reading and Interpretation’ (an essay published in Modern Literary Theory, 1982, ed. by Jefferson and Robey) Ian Maclean comments helpfully on the concept: ‘The “horizon of expectations” . . . is detectable through the textual strategies (genre, literary allusion, the nature of fiction and of poetical language) which confirm, modify, subvert or ironize the expectations of readers.’ ‘Aesthetic distance’ becomes a measure of literary value, ‘creating a spectrum on one end of which lies “culinary” (totally consumable) reading, and, on the other, works which have a radical effect on their readers’.
aesthetic distance
The term implies a psychological relationship between the reader (or viewer) and a work of art. It describes the attitude or perspective
of a person in relation to a work, irrespective of whether it is interesting to that person. A reader may dislike a poem, for instance, for subjective reasons
but this should not vitiate his objective reaction. The reader or critic has at once to be involved with – and detached from – what he is concentrating on.
The work is ‘distanced’ so that it may be appreciated aesthetically and not confused with reality. The writer bears the responsibility for gauging and
determining the distance (not in any spatial sense) at which his work should be viewed. If he bullies the reader into attending, then his reader may be
repelled; if he undertakes too much, then his reader may not get the point. The concept of aesthetic distance became established in the 20th c., though
it appears to be inherent in 19th c. aesthetics; and, as long ago as 1790, Kant, in his Critique of Judgement, had already described the disinterestedness of our contemplation of works of art. In 1912, E. Bullough published an essay entitled Psychical Distance as a Factor in Art and an Aesthetic Principle (British Journal of Psychology, V) in which he defined ‘psychical distance’. This is an important essay in the history of the concept. Since Bullough a number of critics have addressed themselves to the matter, includ- ing David Daiches in A Study of Literature for Readers and Critics (1948). More recently, Hans Robert Jauss, in developing his theory of the ‘horizon of expectations’ (q.v.), has given the term a very different additional significance. In his theory literary value is measured according to ‘aesthetic distance’, the degree to which a work departs from the ‘horizon of expectations of its first readers.
horizon of expectations
A term (the German is Erwartungshorizont) devised by Hans Robert Jauss to denote the criteria which readers use to judge literary texts in any given period. It is a crucial aspect of Jauss’s aesthetics of reception, and the term designates the shared set of assumptions which can be attributed to any given generation of readers. The criteria help constitute readers’ judgements of, say, a poem (e.g. pastoral or elegy, qq.v.) in a trans-subjective way. Horizons of expectation change. The poetry of one age is judged, valued and interpreted by its contemporaries, but the views of that age do not necessarily establish the meaning and value of the poetry definitively. Neither meaning nor value is permanently fixed, because the horizon of expectations of each generation will change. As Jauss puts it: ‘A literary work is not an object which stands by itself and which offers the same face to each reader in each period. It is not a monument which reveals its timeless essence in a monologue.’ Each age reinterprets poetry (and literature in general) in the light of its own knowledge and experience, its own cultural environment. Literary value is measured according to ‘aesthetic distance’ (q.v.), the degree to which a work departs from the ‘horizon of expectations’ of its first readers. Jauss’s essay Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory (1967) attempts to provide a theory of literature based on a socio-historical context and a solution to the problem of how texts are evaluated. In ‘Reading and Interpretation’ (an essay published in Modern Literary Theory, 1982, ed. by Jefferson and Robey) Ian Maclean comments helpfully on the concept: ‘The “horizon of expectations” . . . is detectable through the textual strategies (genre, literary allusion, the nature of fiction and of poetical language) which confirm, modify, subvert or ironize the expectations of readers.’ ‘Aesthetic distance’ becomes a measure of literary value, ‘creating a spectrum on one end of which lies “culinary” (totally consumable) reading, and, on the other, works which have a radical effect on their readers’.
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1. Which narrative poem by Lord Tennyson presents the story of a fisherman turned merchant-sailor who, after a shipwreck, is marooned on a desert island ?
(1) "Crossing the Bar"
(2) "Tithonus"
3) "Enoch Arden" ☑️
(4) "Maud"
Additional Info:
Enoch Arden is a narrative poem published in 1864 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The hero of the poem, fisherman turned merchant sailor Enoch Arden, leaves his wife Annie and three children to go to sea with his old captain, who offers him work after he had lost his job due to an accident; in a manner that reflects the hero's masculine view of personal toil and hardship to support his family, Enoch Arden left his family to better serve them as a husband and father. However during his voyage, Enoch Arden is shipwrecked on a desert island with two companions; both eventually die, leaving Arden alone there. Enoch Arden remains lost and missing for more than ten years.
He finds upon his return from the sea that, after his long absence, his wife, who believed him dead, is married happily to another man, his childhood friend Philip (Annie has known both men since her childhood, thus the rivalry), and has a child by him. Enoch's life remains unfulfilled, with one of his children now dead, and his wife and remaining children now being cared for by his onetime rival.
Enoch never reveals to his wife and children that he is really alive, as he loves her too much to spoil her new happiness. Enoch dies of a broken heart.
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2. In "Memorial Verses" Matthew Arnold pays tribute to three great poets. Who are they ?
(1) Goethe, Shakespeare, Wordsworth
(2) Goethe, Shakespeare, Milton -
(3) Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth
(4) Goethe, Wordsworth, Byron ☑️
Additional Info:
Memorial Verses April 1850
Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece,
Long since, saw Byron's struggle cease.
But one such death remain'd to come;
The last poetic voice is dumb—
We stand to-day by Wordsworth's tomb
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3. Who among the following English playwrights wrote screenplays on novels such as Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, John Fowles's French Lieutenant's Woman, and Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale ?
(1) John Arden
(2) Edward Bond
(3) Harold Pinter ☑️
(4) David Hare
Additional Info:
Harold Pinter was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993), and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Harold_Pinter
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4. The years in English literary history between 1649 and 1660 are known as
(1) the Neo-classical period
(2) the Commonwealth period ☑️
(3) the Stuart period
(4) the Jacobean period
Additional Info:
This era in English history can be divided into four periods:
The first period of the Commonwealth of England from 1649 until 1653
The Protectorate under Oliver Cromwell from 1653 to 1658
The Protectorate under Richard Cromwell from 1658 to 1659
The second period of the Commonwealth of England from 1659 until 1660
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5. In R.K. Narayan's Swami and Friends, which game offers Swami the best kind of emotional release from the strains and pressures of disagreeable circumstances ?
(1) cricket ☑️
(2) football
(3) tennis
(4) hockey
Additional Info:
Cricket is a game mentioned throughtout the novel. Swami's friend Rajam is the Captain of Malgudi Cricket Club (Victory Union Eleven). The other cricketers mentioned in the book are Jack Hobbs, Donald Bradman, Duleep, Maurice Tate
1. Which narrative poem by Lord Tennyson presents the story of a fisherman turned merchant-sailor who, after a shipwreck, is marooned on a desert island ?
(1) "Crossing the Bar"
(2) "Tithonus"
3) "Enoch Arden" ☑️
(4) "Maud"
Additional Info:
Enoch Arden is a narrative poem published in 1864 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The hero of the poem, fisherman turned merchant sailor Enoch Arden, leaves his wife Annie and three children to go to sea with his old captain, who offers him work after he had lost his job due to an accident; in a manner that reflects the hero's masculine view of personal toil and hardship to support his family, Enoch Arden left his family to better serve them as a husband and father. However during his voyage, Enoch Arden is shipwrecked on a desert island with two companions; both eventually die, leaving Arden alone there. Enoch Arden remains lost and missing for more than ten years.
He finds upon his return from the sea that, after his long absence, his wife, who believed him dead, is married happily to another man, his childhood friend Philip (Annie has known both men since her childhood, thus the rivalry), and has a child by him. Enoch's life remains unfulfilled, with one of his children now dead, and his wife and remaining children now being cared for by his onetime rival.
Enoch never reveals to his wife and children that he is really alive, as he loves her too much to spoil her new happiness. Enoch dies of a broken heart.
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2. In "Memorial Verses" Matthew Arnold pays tribute to three great poets. Who are they ?
(1) Goethe, Shakespeare, Wordsworth
(2) Goethe, Shakespeare, Milton -
(3) Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth
(4) Goethe, Wordsworth, Byron ☑️
Additional Info:
Memorial Verses April 1850
Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece,
Long since, saw Byron's struggle cease.
But one such death remain'd to come;
The last poetic voice is dumb—
We stand to-day by Wordsworth's tomb
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3. Who among the following English playwrights wrote screenplays on novels such as Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, John Fowles's French Lieutenant's Woman, and Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale ?
(1) John Arden
(2) Edward Bond
(3) Harold Pinter ☑️
(4) David Hare
Additional Info:
Harold Pinter was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993), and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Harold_Pinter
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4. The years in English literary history between 1649 and 1660 are known as
(1) the Neo-classical period
(2) the Commonwealth period ☑️
(3) the Stuart period
(4) the Jacobean period
Additional Info:
This era in English history can be divided into four periods:
The first period of the Commonwealth of England from 1649 until 1653
The Protectorate under Oliver Cromwell from 1653 to 1658
The Protectorate under Richard Cromwell from 1658 to 1659
The second period of the Commonwealth of England from 1659 until 1660
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5. In R.K. Narayan's Swami and Friends, which game offers Swami the best kind of emotional release from the strains and pressures of disagreeable circumstances ?
(1) cricket ☑️
(2) football
(3) tennis
(4) hockey
Additional Info:
Cricket is a game mentioned throughtout the novel. Swami's friend Rajam is the Captain of Malgudi Cricket Club (Victory Union Eleven). The other cricketers mentioned in the book are Jack Hobbs, Donald Bradman, Duleep, Maurice Tate
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6. William Blake expressed the importance of the particular when he said that "To Generalize is to be____. To particularize is the alone Distinction of Merit." Fill in the blank.
(1) an idiot ☑️
(2) a poet
(3) a dreamer
(4) a skunk
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7. Which of the following was not a dialect of Old English ?
1) Irish
(2) Northumbrian
(3) Mercian
(4) Kentish
Additional Info:
Saxons — South of the Thames (West Saxon area)
Angles — Middle and Northern England (Mercia and Northumbria), including lowland Scotland
Jutes — South-East of England (Kent)
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8. Anthony Burgessrs last novel, published in 1993, is called A Dead Man in Deptford Who is the central character to whom the title refers ?
(1) Sir Walter Raleigh
(2) Sir Philip Sidney
(3) Christopher Marlowe ☑️
(4) Earl of Southampton
Additional Info:
A Dead Man in Deptford is a 1993 novel by Anthony Burgess, the last to be published during his lifetime. It depicts the life and character of Christopher Marlowe, a renowned playwright of the Elizabethan era. Kit Marlowe is portrayed as a secretive, solitary and eventually isolated person. Burgess explores his sexual addiction and passion for the theatre.
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9.Choose the correct Chronological order :
(1) William Caxton prints the first English book - William Shakespeare’s First Folio - John
Milton’s Areopagitica - “Tottel’s Miscellany” (Songs and Sonnets).
(2) "Tottel’s Miscellany” (Songs and Sonnets) - William Shakespeare’s First Folio - William
Caxton prints the first English book - John Milton’s Areopagitica.
(3) William Caxton prints the first English book - "Tottel’s Miscellany" (Songs and Sonnets)
- William Shakespeare’s First Folio - John Milton’s Areopagitica. ☑️
(4) William Shakespeare’s First Folio - John Milton’s Areopagitica - William Caxton prints
the first English book - "Tottel’s Miscellany” (Songs and Sonnets).
Additional Info:
William Caxton prints the first English book - 1476
"Tottel’s Miscellany" (Songs and Sonnets) - 1557
William Shakespeare’s First Folio - 1623
John Milton’s Areopagitica -1644
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10. What does the phrase 'ut pictura poesis' from Horace’s Art of Poetry mean ?
(1) “as in painting, so in poetry” ☑️
(2) "poetry beggars pictorial description".
(3) “as in poetry, so in painting”.
(4) “picture above all poetry”.
Additional Info:
Poetry resembles painting. Some works will captivate you when you stand very close to them and others if you are at a greater distance. This one prefers a darker vantage point, that one wants to be seen in the light since it feels no terror before the penetrating judgment of the critic. This pleases only once, that will give pleasure even if we go back to it ten times over. Horace meant that poetry (in its widest sense, "imaginative texts") merited the same careful interpretation that was, in Horace's day, reserved for painting.
6. William Blake expressed the importance of the particular when he said that "To Generalize is to be____. To particularize is the alone Distinction of Merit." Fill in the blank.
(1) an idiot ☑️
(2) a poet
(3) a dreamer
(4) a skunk
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7. Which of the following was not a dialect of Old English ?
1) Irish
(2) Northumbrian
(3) Mercian
(4) Kentish
Additional Info:
Saxons — South of the Thames (West Saxon area)
Angles — Middle and Northern England (Mercia and Northumbria), including lowland Scotland
Jutes — South-East of England (Kent)
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8. Anthony Burgessrs last novel, published in 1993, is called A Dead Man in Deptford Who is the central character to whom the title refers ?
(1) Sir Walter Raleigh
(2) Sir Philip Sidney
(3) Christopher Marlowe ☑️
(4) Earl of Southampton
Additional Info:
A Dead Man in Deptford is a 1993 novel by Anthony Burgess, the last to be published during his lifetime. It depicts the life and character of Christopher Marlowe, a renowned playwright of the Elizabethan era. Kit Marlowe is portrayed as a secretive, solitary and eventually isolated person. Burgess explores his sexual addiction and passion for the theatre.
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9.Choose the correct Chronological order :
(1) William Caxton prints the first English book - William Shakespeare’s First Folio - John
Milton’s Areopagitica - “Tottel’s Miscellany” (Songs and Sonnets).
(2) "Tottel’s Miscellany” (Songs and Sonnets) - William Shakespeare’s First Folio - William
Caxton prints the first English book - John Milton’s Areopagitica.
(3) William Caxton prints the first English book - "Tottel’s Miscellany" (Songs and Sonnets)
- William Shakespeare’s First Folio - John Milton’s Areopagitica. ☑️
(4) William Shakespeare’s First Folio - John Milton’s Areopagitica - William Caxton prints
the first English book - "Tottel’s Miscellany” (Songs and Sonnets).
Additional Info:
William Caxton prints the first English book - 1476
"Tottel’s Miscellany" (Songs and Sonnets) - 1557
William Shakespeare’s First Folio - 1623
John Milton’s Areopagitica -1644
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10. What does the phrase 'ut pictura poesis' from Horace’s Art of Poetry mean ?
(1) “as in painting, so in poetry” ☑️
(2) "poetry beggars pictorial description".
(3) “as in poetry, so in painting”.
(4) “picture above all poetry”.
Additional Info:
Poetry resembles painting. Some works will captivate you when you stand very close to them and others if you are at a greater distance. This one prefers a darker vantage point, that one wants to be seen in the light since it feels no terror before the penetrating judgment of the critic. This pleases only once, that will give pleasure even if we go back to it ten times over. Horace meant that poetry (in its widest sense, "imaginative texts") merited the same careful interpretation that was, in Horace's day, reserved for painting.