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1. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist
especially Turner-
(A) The Stones of Venice
(B) The Two Paths
(C) The Seven Lamps of Architecture
(D) Modern Painters
Answer:D
2. The term âthe Palliser Novelsâ is used to describe the political novels ofâ
(A) Charles Dickens
(B) Anthony Trollope
(C) W.H.White
(D) B. Disraeli
Answer:B
3. Identify the poet whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of â1ove and lossâ-
(A) Tennyson
(B) Browning
(C) Swinburne
(D) D. G. Rossetti
Answer:D
4. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known asâąâ
(A) Spenserian Stanza
(B) Ballad
(C) Ottava Rima
(D) Rhyme Royal
Answer:C
5. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry~â
(A) Sir Thomas Wyatt
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) Earl of Surrey
(D) Milton
Answer:C
6. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced byâ
(A) The Pre-Raphaelites
(B) Ruskin
(C) Pater
(D) Matthew Arnold
Answer:D
7. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson : âFaith unfaithful
kept him falsely true/â
(A) Oxymoron
(B) Metaphor
(C) Simile
(D) Synecdoche
Answer:A
8. W. B. Yeats used the phrase âthe artifice of eternityâ in his poemââ
(A) Sailing to Byzantium
(B) Byzantium
(C) The Second Coming
(D) Leda and the Swan
Answer:A
9. Who is Pipâs friend in London ?
(A) Pumblechook
(B) Herbert Pocket
(C) Bentley Drummle
(D) Jaggers
Answer:D
10. Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory ?
(A) A teacher
(B) A clerk
(C) A thief
(D) A dentist
Answer:C
11. Pride and Prejudice was originally a youthful work entitled-
(A) Last Impressions
(B) False Impressions
(C) First Impressions
(D) True Impressions
Answer:C
12. Identify the novel in which the character of Charlotte Lucas figures-
(A) Great Expectations
(B) The Power and the Glory
(C) Lord of the Flies
(D) Pride and Prejudice
Answer:D
13. âThereâs a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.â
The line given above occurs in
(A) Hamlet
(B) Henry IV, Pt I
(C) The Tempest
(D) Twelfth Night
Answer:A
14, Who said that Shakespeare in his comedies has only heroines and no heroes?
(A) Ben Jonson
(B) John Ruskin
(C) Thomas Carlyle
(D) William Hazlitt
Answer:B
15. Sir John Falstaff is one of Shakespeareâs greatest-
(A) comic figures
(B) historical figures
(C) romantic figures
(D) tragic figures
Answer:A
16. That Milton was of the Devilâs party without knowing it, was said byââ
(A) Blake
(B) Eliot
(C) Johnson
(D) Shelley
Answer:A
17. Who called Shelley âa beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vainâ ?
(A) Walter Rater
(B) A. C. Swinburne
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) T. S. Eliot
Answer:C
18. Essays of Elia areââ
(A) full of didactic sermonizing
(B) practically autobiographical fragments
(C) remarkable for their aphoristic style
(D) satirical and critical
Answer:B
19. The theme of Tennysonâs Poem âThe Princessâ is-
(A) Queen Victoriaâs coronation
(B) Industrial Revolution
(C) Womenâs Education and Rights
(D) Rise of Democracy
Answer:C
20. Thackerayâs Esmond is a novel of historical realism capturing the spirit of-
(A) the Medieval age
(B) the Elizabethan age
(C) the age of Queen Anne
(D) the Victorian age
Answer:A
21. Oedipus Complex is-
(A) a kind of physical ailment
(B) a kind of vitamin
(C) a brotherâs attraction towards his sister
(D) a sonâs attraction towards his mother
Answer:D
22. âMy own great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh as being wiser than the intellectâ Who wrote this ?
(A) Graham Greene
(B) D. H. Lawrence
(C) Charles Dickens
(D) Jane Austen
Answer:B
23 Shakespeare makes fun of the Puritans in his play-
(A) Twelfth Night
(B) Hamlet
(C) The Tempest
(D) Henry IV, Pt I
Answer:A
24. âThe rarer action is in virtue that in vengeance.â This line occurs
(A) Hamlet
(B) Henry IV, Pt I
(C) The Tempest
(D) Twelfth Night
Answer:C
25. Jane Austenâs Pride and Prejudice is aâ
(A) Picaresque novel
(B) Gothic novel
(C) Domestic novel
(D) Historical novel
Answer:C
26. âHeaven lies about us in our infancyâ. This line occurs in the poemâ
(A) Immortality Ode
(B) Tintern Abbey
(C) The Second Coming
(D) Leda and the Swan
Answer:A
27. Wordsworth calls himself âa Worshipper of Natureâ in his poemâ
(A) Immortality Ode
(B) Tintern Abbey
(C) The Prelude
(D) The Solitary Reaper
Answer:B
28. When Wordsworthâs âimmortality Odeâ was first published in 1802, it had on1yâ-
(A) Stanzas I to IV
(B) Stanzas I to V
(C) Stanzas Ito VI
(D) Stanzas I to VII
Answer:B
29. Which method of narration has been employed by Dickens in his novel Great Expectations ?
(A) Direct or epic method
(B) Documentary method
(C) Stream of Consciousness technique
(D) Autobiographical method
Answer:A
30. Who said âKeats was a Greekâ ?
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Coleridge
(C) Lamb
(D) Shelley
Answer:D
31. D. G. Rossetti was a true literary descendant of-
(A) Keats
(B) Byron
(C) Shelley
(D) Wordsworth
Answer:A
32. To which character in Hamlet does the following description apply ?
âThe tedious wiseacre who meddles his way to his doom.â
(A) Claudius
(B) Hamlet
(C) Polonius
(D) Rosencrantz
Answer:B
33. âBrevity is the soul of witâ is a quotation from-
(A) Milton
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) T. S. Eliot
(D) Ruskin
Answer:B
34. âDost thou think, because thou art virtuous,
there shall be no more cakes and aleâ
Who speaks the lines given above in Twelfth Night ?
(A) Duke Orsino
(B) Malvolio
(C) Sir Andrew Aguecheek
(D) Sir Toby Belch
Answer:D
35. ln Paradise Lost, Book I, Satan is the embodiment of Miltonâsâ
(A) Sense of injured merit
(B) Hatred of tyranny
(C) Spirit of revolt
(D) All these
Answer:C
36. Who calls poetry âthe breadth and finer spirit of all knowledgeâ ?
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Shelley
(C) Keats
(D) Coleridge
Answer:A
37. Twelfth Night opens with the speech of-
(A) Viola
(B) Duke
(C) Olivia
(D) Malvolio
Answer:B
38. What was the cause of Williamâs death in Sons and Lovers ?
(A) An accident
(B) An overdose of morphia
(C) Suicide
(D) Pneumonia
Answer:D
39. Which poem of Coleridge is an opium dream ?
(A) Kubla Khan
(B) Christabel
(C) The Ancient Mariner
(D) Ode on the Departing Year
Answer:A
40. Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem âOde to the West Windâ ?
(A) Rime royal
(B) Ottava rirna
(C) Terza rima
(D) Spenserian Stanza
Answer:C
41. The phrase âPathetic fallacyâ is coined by-
(A) Milton
(B) Coleridge
(C) Carlyle
(D) John Ruskin
Answer:D
42. Tracts for the Times relates to-
(A) The Oxford Movement
(B) The Pre-Raphaelite Movement
(C) The Romantic Movement
(D) The Symbolist Movement
Answer:A
43. The Chartist Movement sought-
(A) Protection of the political rights of the working class
(B) Recognition of chartered trading companies
(C) Political rights for women
(D) Protection of the political rights of the middle class
Answer:A
44. Who wrote Biographia Literaria ?
(A) Byron
(B) Shelley
(C) Coleridge
(D) Lamb
Answer:C
45. Who was Fortinbras ?
(A) Claudiusâs son
(B) Son to the king of Norway
(C) Opheliaâs lover
(D) Hamletâs friend
Answer:B
46. How many soliloquies are spoken by Hamlet in the play Hamlet ?
(A) Nine
(B) Seven
(C) Five
(D) Three
Answer:C
47. âThe best lack all conviction,
while the worst are full of passionate intensityâ
The above lines have been taken fromâ `
(A) The Waste Land
(B) Tintern Abbey
(C) The Second Coming
(D) Prayer for My Daughter
Answer:C
48. William Morel in Sons and Lovers is drawn afterâ
(A) Lawrenceâs father
(B) Lawrenceâs brother
(C) Lawrence himself
(D) None of these
Answer:D
49. The most notable characteristic of Keatsâ poetry is-
(A) Satire
(B) Sensuality
(C) Sensuousness
(D) Social reform
Answer:C
50. The keynote of Browningâs philosophy of life is-
(A) agnosticism
(B) optimism
(C) pessimism
(D) skepticism
Answer:B
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