1. The meaning of "widsith" in old English is
(a) width (b) widely (c) wise id) wanderer
2. The name of William Golding's first novel is
(a) The Inheritors (b) Lord of the Flies (c) Pincher Martin id) The Pyramid
3. In his "Progress and Poverty", Henry George is influenced by
(a) The American War of Independence (b) The French Revolution (c) The Marxian Systemid) None of these
4. The author of Erewhon is
(a) Hardy (b) Marquese (c) Samuel Butler id) Cervantes
5. Which of the following is a Comedy of Manners?
(a) The Way of the World (b) The Duchess of Malfi
(c) The Lady's Not for Burning (d) The Hairy Ape
6. Which one among the following is not a pessimist?
(a) Gissing (b) Browning (c) Hardy (d) Thomson
7. Charles Reade's drama "Drink" was adapted from a work of
(a) Goethe (b) Zola (c) Mallarwe (d) Tennyson
8. James Mill was born in (a) France (b) Ireland (c) Scotland (d) Italy
9. The classical theory of rent was advocated by
(a) Bentham (b) Ricardo (c) James Mill id) Marx
10. Which one among the following was not a utilitarian?
(a) Rousseau (b) James Mill (c) Ricardo (d) Bentham
11. Kipling was born in
(a) 1872 (b) 1865 (c) 1870 (d) 1864
12. The monk Augustine came to England in
(a) 590 (b) 587 (c) 597 (d) 591
13. The Battle of Maldon was fought in
(a) 993 (b) 990 (c) 975 (d) 980
14. To whom are the following lines ascribed? "When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?"
(a) Gower (b) John Ball (c) Wat Tayler (d) Chaucer
15. 'The Praise of Folly' was written by
(a) Walter Raleigh (b) Thomas Moore (c) Charles Lamb (d) Ruskin
16. Who wrote: "In Praise of Idleness"?
(a) Bertrand Russell (b) Thomas More (c) Charles Lamb (d) Hazlitt
17. Which one of the following comprises one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable
(a) A Dactyl (b) An Anapaest (c) A trochee (d) An iambus
18. In which work does the following line occur: "That with no middle flight intends to soar." (a)
L'Allegro (b) IlPenseroso (c) Paradise Lost (d) Lycidas
19. The trial scene in 'The Merchant of Venice' was presided over by
(a) Portia (b) Antonio (c) Dr. Bellario (d) The Duke
20. The real name of Saki is
(a) H.H.Munro (b) Samuel Butler (c) George Orwell (d) The Duke
21. Who started: "The Tatler"?
(a) Addison (b) Swift (c) Steele (d) Stevenson
22. The poem 'The Song of the Shirt' was written by
(a) Mrs. Browning (b) Pope (c) Shelley (d) Thomas Hood
23; Sir Roger was originally the creation of
(a) Addison (b) Dryden (c) Steele (d) Milton
24. Who wrote: "Areopagitica"?
(a) Charles Lamb (b) Hazlitt (c) De Quincey (d) Milton
25. Mary Lamb killed her
(a) mother (b) father (c) sister (d) Brother
26. 'The Selfish Giant' is a story written by
(a) Tagore (b) Oscar Wilde (c) Maupassant (d) Tolstoy
27. Which one of the following is not a part of the proverbial "Three Unities"
(a) Unity of Purpose (b) Unity of Time (c) Unity of Place (d) Unity of Action
28. Which one of the following letters is most often not pronounced before a consonant?
(a) p (b) r (c) n (d) s
29. The setting of Walpole's novel "The Castle of Otranto" is
(a) ancient England (b) medieval France (c) medieval Italy (d) ancient Ireland
30. Who wrote: "Four Quartets"?
(a) T.S. Eliot (b) W.B. Yeats (c) W.H. Auden (d) Philip Larkins
31. Who wrote: "Look Back in Anger"?
(a) Steinbeck (b) Christopher Fry (c) John Osborne (d) Barrie
32. Who wrote: "The Devils of Loundun"?
(a) Bertrand Russell (b) Aldous Huxley (c) J.B.Priestley (d) Hazlitt
33. Iris Murdoch was born in
(a) 1921 (b) 1923 (c) 1930 (d) 1919
34. In the 'Heart of Darkness' Conrad has explored
(a) Ceylon (b) India (c) Congo (d) Brazil
35. Virginia Woolf died in
(a) 1941 (b) 1940 (c) 1943 (d) 1935
36. In which one of the following words 'b' is not silent
(a) plumber (b) comb (c) lumbago (d) lamb
37. Who wrote: "Principles of Human Knowledge"
(a) Milton (b) John Bunyan (c) Nash (d) George Berkeley
38. Who wrote: "Liber Amoris"
(a) Lamb (b) Hazlitt (c) Byron (d) Wordsworth
39. Fielding wrote Joseph Andrews in reaction against
(a) Pamela (b) Robinson Crusoe (c) Jane Eyre (d) Roderick Random
40. Fielding was a
(a) Romanticist (b) Supernaturalist (c) Realist (d) Science fiction writer
41. "A Railway Clerk" is a poem by
(a) Keki N. Daruwallah (b) Nissim Ezekiel (c) Shiv K. Kumar (d) Jayanta Mahapatra
42. Raju is the hero of
(a) Guide(b) The Mark of Vishnu (c). Azadi (d) The God of Small Things
43. The Indian novelist who won the Booker Prize in 1997 was
(a) Vikram Seth (b) Salman Rushdie (c) R.K. Narayan (d) Arundhati Roy
44. Who won The Booker of Bookers
(a) Arundhati Roy (b) Khushwant Singh (c) Mulk Raj Anand (d) Salman Rushdie
45. Who among the following is not a pre- Romantic poet
(a) William Mason (b) Beattie (c) Bowles (d) Byron
46. Disraeli was influenced by
(a) Carlyle (b) Burke (c) Benthem (d) Godwin
47. Dickens died in
(a) 1870 (b) 1865 (c) 1868 (d) 1872
48. Who is not a novelist besides being a poet
(a) Jayanta Mahapatra (b) Shiv K. Kumar (c) Kamala Das (d) Tagore
49. The favorite poet of Jawaharlal Nehru was (a) Whitman (b) Frost (c) Eliot (d) Yeats
50. Who wrote: "The Battle of Books"
(a) Bacon (b) Hazlitt (c) Swift (d) None of these
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