1. Who first coined the term ‘The Theatre of The Absurd’ in 1961?

(A) Martin Esslin

(B) Arthur Copit

(C) Genet

(D) Adamov

2. The term ‘The Theatre of The Absurd’ was philosophically based on-

(A) Myth of Sisphus

(B) The Balcony

(C) Ping Pong

(D) Decamaroon

3. Arnold’s Thyrsis is a fine example of —

(A) monody

(B) sonnet

(C) ballad

(D) idyll

4. Terence and Plautus were two names related to—

(A) The Theatre of the Absurd

(B) Restoration Comedy

(C) Archetype

(D) Academic Drama

5. Academic dramas were popular in …….century.

(A) 16th

(B) 20th

(C) 21st

(D) 18th

6. Acmeism, an anti-symbolist movement, flourished during the …..century.

(A) 20th

(B) 21st

(C) 19th

(D) 18th

7. Who made the practice of 4-Acts plays?

(A) Shakespeare

(B) Jonson

(C) Dryden

(D) Ibsen

8. ‘Art for art’s sake’ is the basis of---

(A) Aestheticism

(B) Expressionism

(C) Futurism

(D) Acmeism

9. Who coined the phrase “I’ art pour I’ art”?

(A) Benjamin Constant

(B) Gautier

(C) Baudlaire

(D) None of the above

10. The French aestheticism was brought into England by—

(A) Oscar Wilde

(B) Gautier

(C) Walter Pater

(D) Shaw

11. Which one is known as the Regular Ode ?

(A) Strophe

(B) Epode

(C) Anti-strophe

(D) None of the above

12. Who defined the term ‘Affective Fallacy’?

(A) Wimsatt

(B) Beardsley

(C) None of these

(D) Both (A) & (B)

13. “……means playing with any familiar person, event, legend or idea or an oblique hint to something in passing, without explicitly mentioning it.”

(A) Paradox

(B) Conceit

(C) Saga

(D) Allusion

14. Which term is used when the event or person is historically incorrect?

(A) Allusion

(B) Conceit

(C) Saga

(D) Anachronism

15. A literary from, which describes the physical and psychological details author’s personality, is known as—

(A) Dumb show

(B) Antithesis

(C) Anti-novel

(D) None of these

16. Who used first this term?

(A) Lesslie

(B) Nathalie Sarraute

(C) Balzac

(D) Michel Butor

17. This term was first used in the year—

(A) 1948

(B) 1957

(C) 1965

(D) 1951

18. To evoke maximum excitement with minimum information is the chief characteristic of—

(A) anti-novel

(B) dramatic monologue

(C) biography

(D) anti-drama

19. The well known example of Allegory is—

(A) Pilgrim’s Progress

(B) Animal Farm

(C) Lord of the Flies

(D) All the above

20. Which one betrays a spiritual or morl lesson under a familiar story at the surface level?

(A) Parable

(B) Allusion

(C) Comic-epic

(D) Burlesque

21. When some human emotions or feeling are ascribed to an inanimate natural object, the term, used, is --

(A) repartee

(B) pathetic fallacy

(C) invocation

(D) conceit

22. Who coined the phrase ‘pathetic fallacy’?

(A) T.S. Eliot

(B) Ruskin

(C) Coleridge

(D) Pater

23. Which form of novel is known as a novel of the road?

(A) Realistic

(B) Psychological

(C) Picaresque

(D) Romantic

24. An excellent instance of a well-knit plot is—

(A) Richardson’s Pamela

(B) Fielding’s Tom Jones

(C) Fielding’s Joseph Andrews

(D) None of the above

25. The well-known instance of the ‘novel of action’ is—

(A) Fielding’s Joseph Andrews

(B) Stevenson’s Treasure Island

(C) Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

(D) None of these

26. Donne and his followers were christened ‘Metaphysical Poets’ by—

(A) C.S. Lewis

(B) Dr. Johnson

(C) Bacon

(D) Dryden

27. ‘Metaphysical Poetry’, as it stands today, implies—

(A) intellectual flight and a blend of passion and thought

(B) wit and far-fetched conceits

(C) logical analysis and mysticism

(D) all the above

28. Who used the term ‘Oedipus complex’ for the first time ?

(A) T. S. Eliot

(B) Dr. Jhonson

(C) Nietzache

(D) Sigmund Freud

29. The influential essay ‘Metaphysical Poets’ has been written by—

(A) Donne

(B) Vaughan

(C) Cowley

(D) T.S. Eliot

30. The metre which is most common in English poetry is—

(A) syllabic metre

(B) quantitative

(C) accentual syllabic metre

(D) accentual metre

31. The normal group of syliables in English are—

(A) iambic

(B) anapaestic

(C) trochaic

(D) all of these

32. A

metre line is further named according to the number of ‘feet’ composing it. As such, ‘Pentametre’ has ……. Feet.

(A) 4

(B) 5

(C) 7

(D) 8

33. ‘Hexametre’, which was the most popular ancient measure, consists of …..feet.

(A) 4

(B) 6

(C) 7

(D) 8

34. Almost the whole of modern English poetry has been dominated by—

(A) iambic pentameter

(B) iambic hexameter

(C) iambic heptameter

(D) iambic tetrameter

35. The term ‘mime’, which denotes a type of drama in which an actor tells a story by means of gestures, originated in—

(A) ancient Greek and Rome

(B) France and Rome

(C) Italy and England

(D) none of the above

36. In recent times, the artists who have brought mime to the attention of audiences all over the world are—

(A) Jean Louis Barranlt

(B) Marcel Marcean

(C) Both (A) & (B)

(D) none of the above

37. The ‘Miracle Plays’ flourished in England from about the—

(A) 12th to 14th century

(B) 12th to 15th century

(C) 14th to 16th century

(D) 12th to 16th century

38. One of the earliest instances of a mock-epic poem in literature is believed to be—

(A) The Battle of Frog and Mice

(B) Culex

(C) Canterbury Tales

(D) None of the above

39. The first successful example of a truly mock-heroic poem is believed to be—

(A) “The Battle of Frog and Mice” by Homer

(B) “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” by Chaucer

(C) “The Rape of the Bucket” by Tassoni

(D) None of the above

40. The best example of ‘Novel of Character’ is supposed to be—

(A) Thackeray’s Vanity Fair

(B) Scott’s Ivanhoe

(C) Richardson’s Pamela

(D) None of the above

41. The famous ‘Novel of Manners’ are—

(A) Pamela

(B) Tom Jones

(C) Vanity Fair

(D) All these

42. Which term is used when sexual pleasure is derived by inflicting psychological or physical pain on the victim?

(A) Stream of consciousness

(B) Oedipus Complex

(C) Sadism

(D) Electra complex

43. In which literary form a legendary hero of the past performs some wonderful adventures and makes some heroic achievements?

(A) Romance

(B) Picaresque novel

(C) Saga

(D) Sadistic novel

44. Who coined the term, ‘sensuousness’?

(A) Keats

(B) Browning

(C) Spenser

(D) Milton

45. Who criticized Coleridge for the latter’s lack of Negative Capability?

(A) Keats

(B) Wordsworth

(C) Eliot

(D) Hudson

46. The prime example of the Negative Capability as viewed by Keats, was---

(A) Coleridge

(B) Milton

(C) Shakespeare

(D) Wordsworth

47. Novel is the ……. of the literary forms.

(A) youngest

(B) oldest

(C) most primitive

(D) none of these

48. The term ‘Medievalism’ was first used by –

(A) Dr. Jhonson

(B) Carlyle

(C) Coleridge

(D) Ruskin

49. Who invented the term ‘comic-epic in prose’ ?

(A) Pope

(B) Walter Scott

(C) Henry Fielding

(D) Henry James

50. Who originated the genre ‘Melodrama’ ?

(A) Tom Taylor

(B) Martin Esslin

(C) Thomas Carlyle

(D) Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Answers : 1. (A) 2. (A) 3. (A) 4. (D) 5. (A) 6. (A) 7. (D) 8. (A) 9. (A) 10. (C) 11. (B) 12. (D) 13. (D) 14. (D) 15. (C) 16. (B) 17. (B) 18. (D) 19. (D) 20. (A) 21. (B) 22. (B) 23. (C) 24. (B) 25. (B) 26. (B) 27. (D) 28. (D) 29. (D) 30. (C) 31. (D) 32. (B) 33. (B) 34. (A) 35. (A) 36. (C) 37. (D) 38. (A) 39. (C) 40. (A) 41. (D) 42. (C) 43. (C) 44. (D) 45. (A) 46. (C) 47. (A) 48. (D) 49. (C) 50. (D).

Plays: The Swamp Dwellers, pr. 1958; The Invention, pr. 1959 (one act); The Lion and the Jewel, pr. 1959; A Dance of the Forests, pr. 1960; The Trials of Brother Jero, pr. 1960; The Strong Breed, pb. 1963; Three Plays, 1963; Five Plays, 1964; Kongi’s Harvest, pr. 1964; The Road, pr., pb. 1965; Madmen and Specialists, pr. 1970 (revised pr., pb. 1971); The Bacchae, pr., pb. 1973 (adaptation of Euripides’ play); Jero’s Metamorphosis, pb. 1973; Collected Plays, 1973-1974 (2 volumes); Death and the King’s Horseman, pb. 1975; Opera Wonyosi, pr. 1977 (adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s play The Three-penny Opera); Requiem for a Futurologist, pr. 1983; A Play of Giants, pr., pb. 1984; Six Plays, 1984; From Zia, with Love, pr., pb. 1992; The Beatification of Area Boy: A Lagosian Kaleidoscope, pb. 1995; Plays: Two, 1999.

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#QUIZ
11. Which literary scholar wrote Towards Greek Tragedy?

(a) Edmund Burke
(b) William Ridgeway
(c) William Hazlitt
(d) Brian Vickers ✅

12. Which mathematician/ scholar wrote the work The Impact of Science on Society?

(a) Newton
(b) Russell ✅
(c) Descartes
(d) Rousseau

13. What is the major concern of Arnold’s Literature and Dogma?

(a) Criticism
(b) Culture
(c) Theology ✅
(d) Society

14. Which Modernist writer wrote the poem “Coriolanus”?

(a) T. S. Eliot ✅
(b) Dylan Thomas
(c) Louis MacNeice
(d) Stephen Spender

15. “The Figure a Poem Makes” is an essay by the Pulitzer winning writer________.

(a) Allan Poe
(b) Walt Whitman
(c) John Crowe Ransom
(d) Robert Frost✅

16. Which is the first archaeological treatise in English?

(a) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
(b) Hydriotaphia ✅
(c) The Antiquary
(d) Anatomy of Melancholy

17. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is dedicated to which contemporary American writer?

(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(b) Edgar Allan Poe
(c) Nathaniel Hawthorne ✅
(d) James Fenimore Cooper

18. A.C. Bradley’s 10 essay collection Shakespearean Tragedy was published in which year?

(a) 1920
(b) 1909
(c) 1917
(d) 1904 ✅

19. Where was the essay “Hamlet and his Problems,” which regards Hamlet as an artistic failure, originally published?

(a) The Criterion
(b) The Egoist
(c) The Sacred Wood ✅
(d) TLS

20. Who called Henry James, “the Victorian of fine consciousness”?

(a) Matthew Arnold
(b) Virginia Woolf
(c) Joseph Conrad ✅
(d) Thomas Hardy

#QUIZ
1. Name the subtitle of the 1852 anti‐slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin by the American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(a) The Plight of the Blacks
(b) A Man against Slavery
(c) Life Among the Lowly
(d) Story of the Downtrodden

2. Name the founder of the Chicago School of criticism.

(a) I. A. Richards
(b) F.R. Leavis
(c) William Empson
(d) R.S. Crane

3. In which year did King James I declare himself King of Great Britain?
(a) 1603
(b) 1604
(c) 1605
(d) 1606

4. RUR, an experimental play in which the term ‘robot’ first appeared is by __.
(a) Antonin Artaud
(b) H.G. Wells
(c) Bertolt Brecht
(d) Karel Capek

5. Who defined Romanticism as “the renaissance of wonder”?
(a) S. T. Coleridge
(b) Wilson Knight
(c) Theodore Watts Dunton
(d) William Blake

6. Name G.K. Chesterton’s priest‐detective.
(a) Father James
(b) Father Brown
(c) Father Henry
(d) Father Augustine

7. Which is the first work of the sci‐fi‐horror genre?
(a) The Time Machine
(b) Psycho
(c) Frankenstein
(d) The Invisible Man

8. Which Victorian novelist is regarded the father of the sensation novel, a precursor
of the detective fiction?
(a) Wilkie Collins
(b) Henry James
(c) Benjamin Disraeli
(d) H.G. Wells

9. Who compiled the Cambridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional Usage?
(a) Daniel Jones
(b) Miriam Webster
(c) Eric Partridge
(d) Margaret Drabble

10. __ was the first biographer to use Freudian insights in his analysis.

(a) Dr. Johnson
(b) Lytton Strachey
(c) James Boswell
(d) Margaret Cavendish



Answers:
1. (c) Life among the Lowly
2. (d) R.S. Crane
3. (b) 1604
4. (d) Karel Capek
5. (c) Theodore Watts Dunton
6. (b) Father Brown
7. (c) Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
8. (a) Wilkie Collins
9. (c) Eric Partridge
10. (b) Lytton Strachey

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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