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MA II Sem. - Literary Criticism MCQ.pdf

1. Wordsworth wrote a sonnet on :
(a) Sidney
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Ben Jonson
(d) Milton
2. In Dickens’s novel, A Tale of Two Cities, the two cities referred to are -
(a) London and Paris
(b) London and Athens
(c) Paris and Berlin
(d) Paris and Rome
3. Mathew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy deals with -
(a) Ethics
(b) Religion
(c) Civilization
(d) Theology
4. In Keats’s Lamia, Lamia was a -
(a) A fairy
(b) A nymph
(c) An enchantress
(d) A serpent-woman
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5. Who called the 18th century the age of Prose and Reason ?
(a) Coleridge
(b) Mathew Arnold
(c) Dr. Johnson
(d) William Hazlitt
6. Who has published his essays under the title ‘The Round Table’ ?
(a) Thomas Carlyle
(b) William Hazlitt
(c) S. T. Cleridge
(d) Thomas De Quincey
7. What is meant by ‘Denouement’ ?
(a) The ending of a romance
(b) The ending of a comedy
(c) The ending of a tragedy
(d) The ending of a Farce
8. The first English tragedy Gorboduc was later given the title ?
(a) Corpus Christi
(b) Endymion
(c) Ferrex and Porrex
(d) Gammer Gurton’s Needle
9. “Frailty thy name is woman !” These lines occur in -
(a) King Lear
(b) Macbeth
(c) Othello
(d) Hamlet
10. The term ‘Stream of Consciousness’ was first used by :
(a) William James
(b) James Joyce
(c) Virginia Woolf
(d) Sigmund Freud

1. D, 2. A, 3. A, 4. D, 5. B, 6. B, 7. B, 8. C, 9. D, 10. A

1. Which work by Sir Philip Sidney, written in 1578 is considered an impressive appeal for the social value of imaginative fiction?
a. Arcadia b. The Lady of May c. Astrophel and Stella d. The Defence of Poesie
2. Who is the author of The Art of Rhetoric (1553) that could be regarded the first modern
treatise on English composition?
a. Thomas Wilson b. Thomas Hardy c. F.R.Leavis d. T.S.Eliot
3. According to Sir Philip Sidney, which kind of poetry evokes pity because it deals with the
weakness of mankind and the desolation of the world.
a. lyric b.elegiac poetry c. tragedy d. dramatic monologue
4. Dickens, in Hard Times brings out certain crucial aspects of which philosophy through the
characters Gradgrind and Bounderby?
a. Victorian Utilitarianism b. Romanticism c. Individualism d. Marxism
5. Who considers Hard Times “a moral fable” with a definite intention that exhibits satiric irony in the first two chapters of his book The Great Tradition?
a. Thomas Hardy b. T.S.Eliot c. F.R.Leavis d. Charles Dickens
6. Who praised the English Metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century, especially John Donne, and the nineteenth century French symbolist poets that included Baudelaire and Jules Laforgue because of the radical innovations in poetic technique and subject matter?
a. F.R.Leavis b. T.S.Eliot c. John Crowe Ransom d. I.A.Richards
7. What, according to T.S.Eliot is neither a slavish imitation nor a mere repetition of what has
already been achieved?
a. Impersonality b. Individuality c. Depersonalisation d. Tradition
8. Who is the author of “Principles of Literary Criticism” (1924) and “Practical Criticism” (1929)?
a. I.A.Richards b. Robert Pen Warren c. Joel Spingarn d. William K. Wimsatt
9. In the opinion of the New Critics, which are the devices that contribute to multiplicity of
meanings in a work, and render a work complex?
a. irony b. paradox c. ambiguity d. all these
10. Which play of Shakespeare does Northrop Frye use to explicate the inductive method of
analysis?
a. Othello b. King Lear c. Hamlet d. Macbeth