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*Quiz 4 21/3/2019*

1. Which dramatist had the avowed aim “to force the public to reconsider its
morals,” though he was attacked by T. S. Eliot for moral degeneracy?
(a) Philip Massinger (b) Ben Jonson (c) Shakespeare (d) Bernard Shaw

2. Donne’s the two “Anniversaries” were written for ____.
(a) Queen Elizabeth (b) A peasant girl (c) Sir Robert Drury (d) Anne Moor

3. __ is Keats’s poem modelled on Paradise Lost.
(a) Ode on a Grecian Urn (b) Lamia (c) Endymion (d) Hyperion

4. Who of the following writers did the Bloomsbury group not include?
(a) Virginia Woolf (b) Lytton Strachey (c) A. C. Bradley (d) E. M. Forster

5. Repetition of the same idea in different expressions to produce a dramatic effect
is called ____.
(a) Tautology (b) Antithesis (c) Epithet (d) Zeugma

6. The novel in which standard components like plot, characterization and timesequence
are dissolved is called ____.
(a) Picaresque (b) Romance (c) Nouveau roman (d) Epistolary

7. Which of the following is not a dramatic monologue?
(a) Abt Vogler (b) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
(c) Tithonus (d) The Canonization

8. “He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest
and most comprehensive soul.” Who said this about whom?
(a) Johnson on Milton (b) Dryden on Shakespeare
(c) Quillercouch on Keats (d) Coleridge on Donne

9. Which one of the following poems is written in Spenserian Stanza?
(a) My Last Duchess (b) Lycidas (c) Adonais (d) Don Juan

10. A prominent practitioner of Archetypal Criticism is
(a) Raymond Williams (b) Maud Bodkin (c) Stanley Fish (d) E. D. Hirsch

11. Who wrote this line: All human things are subject to decay and when fate
summons, monarchs must obey?
(a) Dr. Johnson (b) Jonathan Swift (c) Dryden (d) Coleridge

12. Which one of the following offered a good‐humored satire on the Gothic novel?
(a) Ivanhoe (b) Finnegan’s Wake (c) Mayor of Casterbridge (d) Northanger Abbey

13. Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley are characters in ________.
(a) Far from the Madding Crowd (b) Jane Eyre (c) Vanity Fair (d) Mansfield Park

14. “Nothing to be done” is a line that is repeatedly found in _________.
(a) Tristram Shandy (b) King Lear (c) Pickwick Papers (d) Waiting for Godot

15. World Within the World is the autobiography of ______.
(a) Stephen Spender (b) Philip Larkin (c) Ted Hughes (d) Andrew Motion

16. Which character represents Karl Marx in Orwell’s Animal Farm?
(a) Napoleon (b) Boxer (c) Snowball (d) Old Major

17. The figure of speech in “Was this the face that launched a thousand ships” is
_____.
(a) hyperbole (b) synecdoche (c) metaphor (d) paradox

18. W.B. Yeats received the Nobel Prize in the year _____.
(a) 1940 (b) 1936 (c) 1926 (d) 1923

19. Gravity’s Rainbow and V are novels by ______.
(a) Angela Carter (b) Peter Ackroyd (c) Thomas Pynchon (d) Doris Lessing

20. Who wrote Morphology of the Folk Tale?
(a) Vladimir Propp (b) Viktor Shklovsky
(c) Roman Jakobson (d) Boris Eichenbaum

21. An Ode for Ben Jonson was written by _______.
(a) Andrew Marvell (b) Robert Herrick (c) John Suckling (d) John Donne

22. Culture and Society and The Long Revolution are works by _________.
(a) Stuart Hall (b) Terry Eagleton (c) Louis Althusser (d) Raymond Williams

23. Roland Barthes’ essay “Death of the Author” was published in the year
_____.
(a) 1966 (b) 1968 (c) 1970 (d) 1975

24. The major feminist text The Second Sex was written by __________.
(a) Kate Millett (b) Elaine Showalter (c) Simone de Beauvoir (d) Toril Moi

25. Madness and Civilization, The Birth of the Clinic, and The Order of Things are
works by ______.
(a) Michel Foucault (b) Jacques Derrida (c) Mikhail Bakhtin (d) Jacques Lacan

MODERN CRITICISM AND THEORY

The Circulation of Social Energy-----Stephen Greenblatt
The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious----Jacques Lacan
Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness----Elaine Showalter
The Interpreter's Freud-----Geoffrey Hartman
The Death of the Author ----Roland Barthes
The Typology of Detective Fiction -----Tzveten Todorov
What is an Author-------Michel Fouault
Structure,Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences-------Jacques Derrida
The Ethics of Linguistics----Julia Kristeve
The Critic As Host-----J.Hillis Miller
The Bodily Encounter With Mother----Luce Irigaray
The Deconstructive Angel -------M.H.Abrams

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1. Which of the following statements is True? a. Shakespeare published all his plays b. Shakespeare never published his plays c. Shakespeare published only his Tragedies d. Shakespeare was never allowed to publish
2. ___________ is considered as the most popularly performed play of Shakespeare a. Othello b. Romeo and Juliet c. Julius Caesar d. Hamlet
3. Who initiated ‘literary clubs’ in England? a. Shakespeare b. Spenser c. Sidney d. Kempe
4. Which work is considered as the ‘finest single poem between Chaucer and Spenser’? a. Amoretti b. Induction c. Arcadia d. Shakespeare’s sonnets
5. Robert Greene’s ‘abuse’ of Shakespeare was in the year ______ a. 1594 b. 1596 c. 1592 d. 1598
6. During Shakespeare’s lifetime _____ monarchs ruled England. a. One b. Two c. Three d. Four
7. Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to _____ a. Queen Elizabeth b. His lady love c. A young man d. Thomas Thorpe
8. Who among the following poets was publicly executed during the reign of James I a. Elizabeth Throckmorton b. Walter Raleigh c. Michael Drayton d. Thomas Nashe
9. The play Henry VIII was completed by ______ a. Richard Burbage b. Henry Condell c. Fletcher d. Lord Chamberlain
10. The revival of the sonnet form is associated with _______ a. William Shakespeare b. Philip Sidney c. Wyatt and Surrey d. Edmund Spenser
11. William Kempe was ______ a. A poet b. A publisher c. A statesman d. An actor
12. How many sonnets were written by Shakespeare? a. 54 b. 154 c. 37 d. 157
13. Which among the following works had a sequel? a. Arcadia b. Euphues c. Voyages d. Astrophel and Stella
14. Edmund Spenser was educated at ____ a. Oxford b. Cambridge c. Italy d. France
15. Who was considered as the perfect Renaissance gentleman? a. Shakespeare b. Sidney c. Spenser d. Harvey
16. Spenser-Harvey debate was about
a. Drama b. Poetry c. Criticism d. Theology
17. Which is considered as the “noblest wedding hymn in English”? a. Epithalamion b. Arcadia c. Amoretti d. Endymion
18. Spenser is said to have loathed _______ a. The Irish b. The Spanish c. The French d. The English
19. Who is described as ‘the well of English undefiled’? a. Spenser b. Lamb c. Chaucer d. Shakespeare
20. Which was the most popular lyric form during the Elizabethan Age? a. Sonnet b. Soliloquy c. epics d. pastorals
21. Which writer responded to Stephen Gosson? a. Sidney b. Puttenham c. Campion d. Gascoigne
22. Who was described as the ‘poet’s poet’? a. Spenser b. Harvey c. Lamb d. Shakespeare
23. Shakespeare was influenced by a. Wars and conquests b. Renaissance c. University education d. Reformation

1. Who was deposed in the Glorious Revolution? a) Charles II b) James II c) William of Orange d) Anne
2. Which of the following events did not take place in 1688? a) Act of Union b) Glorious Revolution c) death of Bunyan d) birth of Pope
3. Which of the following statements is not true about The Rape of the Lock? a) a heroic epic mourning the abduction of Arabella Fermor b) Handles with seriousness and dignity of an epic, a trivial family feud c) Appeared in Lintot’s Miscellanies in 1712 d) Matthew Arnold called it “criticism of life”.
4. Which literary figure is satirized in the Prologue to Dr. Abuthnot? a) Pope b) Shadwell c) Addison d) Steele
5. Which of the following statements about Robert Walpole is not true? a) Britain’s first de facto Prime Minister b) Controlled Parliament during the rule of George II c) Praised by Swift, Pope Fielding and Johnson d) Maintained an effective working relationship between the Crown and the Parliament
6. Robert Burton, Thomas Gray, Edward Young and Robert Blair are associated with: a) Romantic Movement b) New-classical poetry c) Graveyard School of poetry d) the classical school
7. Which of the following statements does not hold true about The Tatler? a) Began in 1709 including political items from St. James’ coffee house b) Swift wrote essays in it under the pen-name Isaac Bickerstaff c) Ran for 21 months and published 271 numbers d) Managed by Steele while Addison was in Ireland.
8. Two major contributions of 18th century to the world of literature are: a) Pamphlets and blank verse b) heroic couplet and satires c) periodical essays and novels d) novels and short stories
9. “And why this Wrath against the Womens work? / Perhaps you’ll answer, because they meddle/ with things out of their Sphere”. Who wrote these lines? a) Aphra Behn b) Susanna Centlivre c) Eliza Haywood d) Mary Shelley
10. “But, say they, learning puts the sexes too much on an Equality, it would destroy the implicit obedience which it is necessary Women should pay to our commands.” This excerpt is from: a) The Female Spectator b) The Tatler c) The Review d) The Spectator
11. Which famous novel was influenced by the life of Alexander Selkirk who was marooned in Juan Fernando for 5 years? a) Gulliver’s Travels b) Tom Jones c) Captain Singleton d) Robinson Crusoe
12. Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, MB Drapier are the pseudonyms of: a) Defoe b) Steele c) Swift d) Addison
13. Which of the following is not true about A Tale of a Tub? a) Scathing attack on free-thinkers b) Published in the year 1704 c) A satire on church history d) To champion the Protestant church against the Roman church
14. “The proper study of mankind is man” is a popular quote from: a) Dunciad b) Rape of the Lock c) The Anatomy of Melancholy d) Essay on Man
15. In which voyage of Gulliver does Swift describe man as ‘that animal’ ‘sunk deep in degradation’, ‘little better than a brute’? a) Voyage to Lilliput b) voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms and Yahoos c) voyage to Brobdingnag d) voyage to Laputa
16. Who was the last Stuart monarch? a) James II b) Henry VIII c) Mary II d) Anne
17. Who coined the nickname Auld Reekie for Edinburgh? a) Fergusson b) Robert Burns c) Smollet d) Walter Scott
18. Name the journal run by Defoe a) The Rambler b) Gentleman’s Magazine c) The Monthly Review d) The Mercator
19. The only play written by Addison a) Cato b) Welsh opera c) Beggar’s Opera d) Richard III
20. Name the Whig supporter, critiqued by Pope in the second version of Duncaid and satirically tried by Fielding for the murder of English language. a) Defoe b) Parnell c) Cibber d) Addison
21. Which place is considered to be ‘the birthplace of Scottish Enlightenment’? a) Glasgow b) London c) Edinburgh d) Birmingham
22. Who wrote The Life of Samuel Johnson? a) Boswell b) Henry Home c) Hugh Blair d) Robert Burns
23. Who among the following is associated with the Ossianic poems? a) Henry Mackenzie b) Otto Jesperson c) James Macpherson d) Henry Jameson
24. Which work advocates the policy of la

issez faire? a) Treatise of Human Nature b) The Natural Religion of Philosophy c) Leviathan d) The Wealth of Nations
25. Who were regarded as the nucleus of the Scriblerus Club? a) Parnell and Pope b) Swift and Gay c) Swift and Parnell d) Swift and Pope

1. Which of the following statements is True? a. Shakespeare published all his plays b. Shakespeare never published his plays c. Shakespeare published only his Tragedies d. Shakespeare was never allowed to publish
2. ___________ is considered as the most popularly performed play of Shakespeare a. Othello b. Romeo and Juliet c. Julius Caesar d. Hamlet
3. Who initiated ‘literary clubs’ in England? a. Shakespeare b. Spenser c. Sidney d. Kempe
4. Which work is considered as the ‘finest single poem between Chaucer and Spenser’? a. Amoretti b. Induction c. Arcadia d. Shakespeare’s sonnets
5. Robert Greene’s ‘abuse’ of Shakespeare was in the year ______ a. 1594 b. 1596 c. 1592 d. 1598
6. During Shakespeare’s lifetime _____ monarchs ruled England. a. One b. Two c. Three d. Four
7. Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to _____ a. Queen Elizabeth b. His lady love c. A young man d. Thomas Thorpe
8. Who among the following poets was publicly executed during the reign of James I a. Elizabeth Throckmorton b. Walter Raleigh c. Michael Drayton d. Thomas Nashe
9. The play Henry VIII was completed by ______ a. Richard Burbage b. Henry Condell c. Fletcher d. Lord Chamberlain
10. The revival of the sonnet form is associated with _______ a. William Shakespeare b. Philip Sidney c. Wyatt and Surrey d. Edmund Spenser
11. William Kempe was ______ a. A poet b. A publisher c. A statesman d. An actor
12. How many sonnets were written by Shakespeare? a. 54 b. 154 c. 37 d. 157
13. Which among the following works had a sequel? a. Arcadia b. Euphues c. Voyages d. Astrophel and Stella
14. Edmund Spenser was educated at ____ a. Oxford b. Cambridge c. Italy d. France
15. Who was considered as the perfect Renaissance gentleman? a. Shakespeare b. Sidney c. Spenser d. Harvey
16. Spenser-Harvey debate was about
a. Drama b. Poetry c. Criticism d. Theology
17. Which is considered as the “noblest wedding hymn in English”? a. Epithalamion b. Arcadia c. Amoretti d. Endymion
18. Spenser is said to have loathed _______ a. The Irish b. The Spanish c. The French d. The English
19. Who is described as ‘the well of English undefiled’? a. Spenser b. Lamb c. Chaucer d. Shakespeare
20. Which was the most popular lyric form during the Elizabethan Age? a. Sonnet b. Soliloquy c. epics d. pastorals
21. Which writer responded to Stephen Gosson? a. Sidney b. Puttenham c. Campion d. Gascoigne
22. Who was described as the ‘poet’s poet’? a. Spenser b. Harvey c. Lamb d. Shakespeare
23. Shakespeare was influenced by a. Wars and conquests b. Renaissance c. University education d. Reformation