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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 ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of—
(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 ‘1ove and loss’-
(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 as•—
(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~—
(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 by—
(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 : “Faith unfaithful
kept him falsely true/’
(A) Oxymoron
(B) Metaphor
(C) Simile
(D) Synecdoche
Answer:A
8. W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem——
(A) Sailing to Byzantium
(B) Byzantium
(C) The Second Coming
(D) Leda and the Swan
Answer:A
9. Who is Pip’s 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. ‘There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.”
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 Shakespeare’s greatest-
(A) comic figures
(B) historical figures
(C) romantic figures
(D) tragic figures
Answer:A
16. That Milton was of the Devil’s party without knowing it, was said by——
(A) Blake
(B) Eliot
(C) Johnson
(D) Shelley
Answer:A
17. Who called Shelley ‘a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain’ ?
(A) Walter Rater
(B) A. C. Swinburne
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) T. S. Eliot
Answer:C
18. Essays of Elia are——
(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 Tennyson’s Poem ‘The Princess’ is-
(A) Queen Victoria’s coronation
(B) Industrial Revolution
(C) Women’s Education and Rights
(D) Rise of Democracy
Answer:C
20. Thackeray’s 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 brother’s attraction towards his sister
(D) a son’s attraction towards his mother
Answer:D
22. “My own great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh as being wiser than the intellect’ 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. “The rarer action is in virtue that in vengeance.” This line occurs
(A) Hamlet
(B) Henry IV, Pt I
(C) The Tempest
(D) Twelfth Night
Answer:C
25. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a—
(A) Picaresque novel
(B) Gothic novel
(C) Domestic novel
(D) Historical novel
Answer:C
26. ‘Heaven lies about us in our infancy’. This line occurs in the poem—
(A) Immortality Ode
(B) Tintern Abbey
(C) The Second Coming
(D) Leda and the Swan
Answer:A
27. Wordsworth calls himself ‘a Worshipper of Nature’ in his poem—
(A) Immortality Ode
(B) Tintern Abbey
(C) The Prelude
(D) The Solitary Reaper
Answer:B
28. When Wordsworth’s ‘immortality Ode’ was first published in 1802, it had on1y—-
(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 ‘Keats was a Greek’ ?
(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 ?
“The tedious wiseacre who meddles his way to his doom.”
(A) Claudius
(B) Hamlet
(C) Polonius
(D) Rosencrantz
Answer:B
33. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ is a quotation from-
(A) Milton
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) T. S. Eliot
(D) Ruskin
Answer:B
34. “Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous,
there shall be no more cakes and ale’
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 Milton’s—
(A) Sense of injured merit
(B) Hatred of tyranny
(C) Spirit of revolt
(D) All these
Answer:C
36. Who calls poetry “the breadth and finer spirit of all knowledge” ?
(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 William’s 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 ‘Ode to the West Wind’ ?
(A) Rime royal
(B) Ottava rirna
(C) Terza rima
(D) Spenserian Stanza
Answer:C
41. The phrase ‘Pathetic fallacy’ 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) Claudius’s son
(B) Son to the king of Norway
(C) Ophelia’s lover
(D) Hamlet’s 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. “The best lack all conviction,
while the worst are full of passionate intensity’
The above lines have been taken from— `
(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 after—
(A) Lawrence’s father
(B) Lawrence’s brother
(C) Lawrence himself
(D) None of these
Answer:D
49. The most notable characteristic of Keats’ poetry is-
(A) Satire
(B) Sensuality
(C) Sensuousness
(D) Social reform
Answer:C
50. The keynote of Browning’s philosophy of life is-
(A) agnosticism
(B) optimism
(C) pessimism
(D) skepticism
Answer:B
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