l. In which poem do the following lines occur:
"Grow old along with me,
The best is yet to be."
(a) The Last Ride Together (b) Rabbi Ben Ezra (c) Prospice (d) Sordello
2. Which of Browning's poems did Tennyson complain that was unintelligible to him except for the
first and the last lines both of which were wrong?
(a) The Grammarian's Funeral (b) The Last Ride Together (c) Sordello (d) Prospice
3. Which of the following writers did not get the Nobel Prize?
(a) Octavio Paz (b) R.N. Tagore (c) Aurobindo (d) W.B. Yeats
4. Who wrote the following lines :
"The wind disentangles itself from your
frenzied body as hurricanes of dreams follow me."
(a) Nissim Ezekiel (b) R, Parthasarthy (c) Jayanta Mahapatra (d) Pritish Nandy
5. Which one of the following is not Gurdial Singh's novel
(a) Addh Chanini Rat (Night of the Half-Moon) (b) Parsa (c) Godan (d) Marhi Da Deeva (The Last
Flicker)
6. Who made the sensational pronouncement of "end of ideology" in 1960
(a) David Bell (b) Graham Greene (c) Mulk Raj Anand (d) Octavio Paz
7. Gurdial Singh was born in
(a) 1930 (b) 1931 (c) 1932 (d) 1933
8. Which novel of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaya has caught the imagination of the Indians the most,
so much so that even another film bearing this name has been made?
(a) SesPrasna (b)GrihDaha (c) Devdas (d) Chritraheen
9. Whose rendering into English (as given below) are the following lines by Tagore:
"What voice is that I hear From the land of dawn,
'Fear not! Fear not!
Who will give up his life
Retaining nothing
Will never end, never perish!'"
(a) Khushwant Singh (b) Sir Jadunath Sircar (c) Tagore himself (d) Sister Nivedita
10. When was the famous Hindi poet Kumar Vikal born
(a) 1939 (b) 1930 (c) 1932 (d) 1935
11. Whose novel "The Foundation Pit?" was discovered only a few years ago?
(a) Andrey Platanov (b) Cherneshevysky (c) Jane Austen (d) George Eliot
12. The novel "We" was written by
(a) Andrey Platanov (b) Tolstoy (c) Maxim Gorky (d) Zamayatin
13. Name the writer of "What Is To Be Done"
(a) Zamayatin (b) Gorky (c) Cherneshevysky (d) Chekhov
14. Who in "Paradise Lost' tells Adam: "Be lowly wise
Dream not of other worlds."
(a) Satan (b) Angel Gabriel (c) Mammon (d) Mephistophilis
15. Name the writer of the novel "Les Miserables"
(a) Virginia Woolf (b) Mrs. Radcliffe (c) Victor Hugo (d) James Joyce
16. Who wrote the following lines: "Hurrah for revolution,
Let the cannon shoot."
(a) Eliot (b) Stephen Spender (c) Auden (d) Yeats
17. Who was the renowned English novelist who became the first great foreign writer to show a keen
interest in R.K. Narayan's fiction which finally made the latter so famous
(a) E.M. Forster (b) D.H. Lawrence (c) Graham Greene (d) Virginia Woolf
18. R.K. Narayan was a
(a) Tamilian (b) Bengali (c) Gujarati (d) Maharashtrian
19. Which of the following novels is not by Salman Rushdie?
(a) Midnight's Children (b) Grimus (c) The Moor's Last Sigh (d) The Lighthouse
20. Which novel of Salman Rushdie was adjudged the best one to have won the Booker Prize in its
first 25 years
(a) Grimus (b) Midnight's Children (c) The Satanic Verses (d) Shame
21. When was Rushdie awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature
(a) 1993 (b) 1990 (c) 1991 (d) 1995
22. When was Ted Hughes made the poet laureate of England?
(a) 1980 (b) 1982 c) 1981 (d) 1984
23. In which year between 1921 and 1940 no Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded
(a) 1925 (b) 1930 (c) 1935 (d) 1939
24. In which year did Galsworthy receive the Nobel Prize
(a) 1930 (b) 1934 (c) 1931 (d) 1932
25. In which year did Dylan Thomas die?
a) 1951 (b) 1950 (c) 1955 (d) 1953
26. Aurobindo's Savitri is
(a) en epic (b) a long narrative poem (c) a dramatic monologue (d) a historical work
27. Lamb's essays are full of
(a) irony and satire (b) humor and pathos (c) sarcasm (d) None of these
28. Shelley's genius was basically
(a) dramatic (b) narrative (c) lyrical (d) descriptive
29. A sonnet comprises
(a) 16 lines (b) 14 lines (c) 12 lines (d) 20 lines
30. Civil war in England was fought in........century
(a) fifteenth (b) sixteenth (c) seventeenth (d) fourteenth
31. The soldiers of Cromwell were known as
(a) Dark heads (b) Round heads (c) Large heads (d) Brave heads
32. Who is renowned for his outstanding work "Holy Sonnets"
(a) Donne (b) Herrick (c) Milton (d) Pope
33. When did Frederic Mistral of France and Jose Eizaguirre of Spain jointly win the Nobel Prize in
Literature?
(a) 1910 (b) 1920 (c) 1902 (d) 1904
34. Name the Russian who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1933
(a) Mayakovsky (b) Ivan Bunin (c) Checkov (d) Stalin
35. In what field did Churchill win the Nobel Prize?
(a) Peace (b) Literature (c) Economics (d) Medicine
36. From which book are the following lines taken: "And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea;
and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night........."
(a) The Holy Bible (b) Paradise Lost (c) Pilgrim's Progress (d) None of these
37. In which book do the following lines occur: "Heaven's lights forever shine, Earth's shadows fly."
(a) The Holy Bible (b) Adonais (c) Paradise Lost (o) Pilgrim's Progress
38. Who wrote the Latin "History of the Britons"
(a) Henry I (b) Geoffrey of Monmouth (c) Wycliffe (d) Walter Giffart
39. When was the final result of the slow transformation of Anglo-Saxon into modern English felt?
(a) In the fourteenth century (b) In the fifteenth century (c) In the sixteenth century
(d) In the seventeenth century
40. Normandy was lost by John Lackland in
(a) 1205 (b) 1204 (c) 1201 (d) 1203
41. Until about the middle of the 14th century English literature was mostly
(a) romantic (b) revolutionary (c) metaphysical (d) religious and didactic
42. The book "Ormulum" comprised forty gospels translated and paraphrased by the monk named (a)
Augustine (b) Cynewulf (c) Omi (d) John
43. Thomas Henry Huxley associates
(a) science with daily life (b) God and man (c) man and nature (d) man and society
44. Brave New World was published in
(a) 1930 (b) 1928 (c) 1935 (d) 1932
45. Which of the following is not written by Hugo Charteris
(a) Pictures in the wall (b) A Piece of String (c) The Old Boys (d) The Boarding House
46. Cecil Day Lewis's 'The Poetic Image' appeared in
(a) 1938 (b) 1945 (c) L946 (d) 1947
47. Ann Jellicoe became famous in 1958
(a) with the production of a play (b) by writing a novel (c) by getting a poem published
(d) by getting a short story telecast over the T. V.
48. Which of the following statements is not true:
(a) Shelley was a cricketer (b) Byron was a cricketer (c) Keats had been a physician
(d) Lamb was a clerk
49. Which of the following statements is true :
(a) Shakespeare died by falling from a horse (b) Dr. Johnson was a contemporary of Shakespeare
(c) Richardson's Pamela was written in the form of letters (d) Shelley did not like revolutionary ideas.
50. Which of the following works is by H.G. Wells
(a) All in a Garden Fair (b) The Invisible Man (c) A Child of the Jago (d) Point Counter Point
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