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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
(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
Share This: Facebook Twitter Google+ Stumble Digg
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. 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
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
1. Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the
novel?
A. stream of consciousness
B. free indirect style
C. irresolute open endings
D. the “mythical method”
E. narrative realism
2. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new
“mythical method” in place of the old “narrative method”
and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think
about “making the modern world possible for art”?
A. Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
B. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
C. James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake
D. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
E. James Joyce’s Ulysses
3. Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen-Eighty-Four in which
Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic self-consciousness of modernist
writers?
A. George Orwell
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Evelyn Waugh
D. Orson Wells
E. Aldous Huxley
4. Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past
imperial glory?
A. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
B. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
D. Paul Scott’s Staying On
E. c and d
5. When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrence’s novel Lady
Chatterley’s Lover, written in 1928.
A. 1930
B. 1945
C. 1960
D. 2000
E. The ban has not yet been formally lifted.
6. Which of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre?
A. the Irish National Theatre
B. the Globe Theatre
C. the Independent Theatre
D. the Abbey Theatre
E. both a and d
7. How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot?
A. “nothing happens-twice”
B. “political correctness gone mad”
C. “kitchen sink drama”
D. “angry young men
E. “better than Cats”
8. What event allowed mainstream theater companies to commission and
perform work that was politically, socially, and sexually controversial without fear
of censorship?
A. the abolition of the Lord Chamberlain’s office in 1968
B. the illegal performance of work by Howard Brenton and Edward Bond
C. the collapse of liberal humanist consensus in the late 1960s
D. the foundation of the Field Day Theater Company in 1980
E. the establishment of the Abbey Theater
9. Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater
since the abolition of censorship in 1968?
A. the rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos
B. the emergence of a major cohort of women dramatists
C. the diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies
D. the death of the musical
E. all but d
10. What did Henry James describe as “loose baggy monsters”?
A. novels
B. plays
C. the English
D. publishers
E. his trousers
novel?
A. stream of consciousness
B. free indirect style
C. irresolute open endings
D. the “mythical method”
E. narrative realism
2. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new
“mythical method” in place of the old “narrative method”
and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think
about “making the modern world possible for art”?
A. Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
B. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
C. James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake
D. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
E. James Joyce’s Ulysses
3. Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen-Eighty-Four in which
Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic self-consciousness of modernist
writers?
A. George Orwell
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Evelyn Waugh
D. Orson Wells
E. Aldous Huxley
4. Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past
imperial glory?
A. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
B. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
D. Paul Scott’s Staying On
E. c and d
5. When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrence’s novel Lady
Chatterley’s Lover, written in 1928.
A. 1930
B. 1945
C. 1960
D. 2000
E. The ban has not yet been formally lifted.
6. Which of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre?
A. the Irish National Theatre
B. the Globe Theatre
C. the Independent Theatre
D. the Abbey Theatre
E. both a and d
7. How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot?
A. “nothing happens-twice”
B. “political correctness gone mad”
C. “kitchen sink drama”
D. “angry young men
E. “better than Cats”
8. What event allowed mainstream theater companies to commission and
perform work that was politically, socially, and sexually controversial without fear
of censorship?
A. the abolition of the Lord Chamberlain’s office in 1968
B. the illegal performance of work by Howard Brenton and Edward Bond
C. the collapse of liberal humanist consensus in the late 1960s
D. the foundation of the Field Day Theater Company in 1980
E. the establishment of the Abbey Theater
9. Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater
since the abolition of censorship in 1968?
A. the rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos
B. the emergence of a major cohort of women dramatists
C. the diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies
D. the death of the musical
E. all but d
10. What did Henry James describe as “loose baggy monsters”?
A. novels
B. plays
C. the English
D. publishers
E. his trousers