1. Who wrote Don Juan?
(a) Shakespeare (b) Tennyson (c) Byron (d) T.S. Eliot
2. Who wrote The Life of Johnson?
(a) Boswell (b) Macaulay (c) Churchill (d) Sir Walter Raleigh
3. Priest's Nun's Tale was written by
(a) Spenser (b) Charles Lamb(c) Tennyson (d) Chaucer
4. Malvolio is a character in
(a) Macbeth (b) Hamlet (c) Twelfth Night (d) Much Ado About Nothing
5. Pip is a character in
(a) Much Ado About Nothing (b) Great Expectations (c) Mrs. Dalloway (d) A Passage to India
6. In which poem does the following line occur: "Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest
thought"
(a) Ulysses (b) Faery Queene (c) Ode to Skylark (d) The Wasteland
7. Who is said to have first used the term "Metaphysics"?
(a) Matthew Arnold (b) Sidney (c) Donne (d) Dr. Johnson
8. The writer of Volpone is
(a) Johnson (b) Milton (c) Jonson (d) Shelley
9. Which is the correct chronological sequence
(a) Spenser--Chaucer--Milton—Donne (b) Spenser--Wordsworth--Tennyson--T.S. Eliot
(c) Milton--Shakespeare--Philip Larkin—Keats (d) Auden--Eliot--Shelley--Keats
10. Pilgrim's Progress was written by
(a) Milton (b) Shelley (c) Swinburne (d) John Bunyan
11. The writer of the line: "Stone walls do not a
prison make" is
(a) Lovelace (b) Milton (c) W.B.Yeats (d) T.S. Eliot
12. "Monkey's Paw" is a
(a) Poem (b) Drama (c) Short story (d) Novel
13. Lyrical Ballads appeared in
(a) 1690 (b) 1798 ...(c) 1802 (d) 1800
14. The writer of 'A Pair of Blue Eyes' is
(a) Thackeray (b) Dickens (c) George Eliot (d) Thomas Hardy
15. Hard Times was written by
(a) Thackeray (b) Dickens (c) Trollope (d) Marquese
16. Elizabeth Bennet is a character in
(a) Emma (b) The Mill on the Floss (c) Pride and Prejudice (d) Herzog
17. Ariel is a character in
(a) Tempest (b) Paradise Lost (c) In Memoriam (d) Murder in the Cathedral
18. Which of the following poets was most impressed by German philosophy?
(a) Chaucer (b) Wordsworth (c) Coleridge (d) Southey
19. The two cities referred to in "A Tale of Two Cities" are
(a) London and Paris(b) London and Rome (c) Rome and Paris(d) Moscow and Rome
20. The Peasant's Bread is a story by (a) Maupassant (b) Tagore (c) R.K. Narayan (d) Tolstoy
21. The Financial Express was written by
(a) Raja Rao (b) R.K. Narayan (c) Tagore (d) Mulk Raj Anand
22. "Negative Capability" is a term associated with
(a) Tagore (b) Shelley (c) Keats (d) Coleridge
23. The most impressive treatment of "imagination" has been given by
(a) Coleridge (b) Shelley (c) Eliot (d) Yeats
24. Maggie is a character in
(a) The Middlemarch (b) The Vanity Fair (c) The Mill on the Floss (d) None of these
25. Who said about poetry "Emotion recollected in tranquillity"
(a) Wordsworth (b) Eliot (c) Shelley (d) Arnold
26. Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned because it was considered
(a) obscene (b) revolutionary (c) obscurantist (d) None of these
27. For Whom The Bell Tolls was written by
(a) Marquese (b) Hemingway (c) Hawthorne (d) None of these
28. Who said: "I awoke one morning and found myself famous"
(a) Byron (b) Tennyson (c) Eliot (d) Keats
29. Paradise Lost comprises
(a) 10 books (b) 12 books (c) 6 books (d) 8 books
30. Who used the expression "unaging monuments of intellect"?
(a) Yeats (b) Shakespeare (c) Whitman (d) Auden
31. Which poet was invited by John F. Kennedy to his inauguration ceremony?
(a) Whitman (b) Frost (c) Eliot (d) Masefield
32. The writer of: "A Pair of Mustachios" is
(a) Anand (b) Tagore (c) Raja Rao (d) Anita Desai
33. Estella is a character in
(a) Joseph Andrews (b) Great Expectations (c) A Tale of Two Cities (d) Old Man and the Sea
34. The writer of the Scarlet Letter is
(a) Henry James (b) James Joyce (c) Hawthorne (d) None of these
35. In which poem does the following line occur: "To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield"
(a) Morte de Arthur (b) Ulysses (c) Maud (d) Ode to the West Wind
36. Rousseau is associated with
(a) French Revolution (b) American War of Independence (c) Russian (Bolshevik) Revolution
(d) None of these
37. Which of the following novelists got the Nobel Prize?
(a) Virginia Woolf (b) James Joyce (c) Hemingway (d) Conrad
38. Which of the following statesmen got the Nobel Prize?
(a) M.K. Gandhi (b) Stalin (c) Churchill (d) Saddam Hussein
39. Who wrote 'Train to Pakistan'
(a) Narayan (b) Manohar Malgaon (c) Khushwant Singh (d) Anand
40. Henchard is the hero of
(a) Jude the Obscure (b) The Return of the Native (c) The Mayor of Casterbridge (d) Far From the
Madding Crowd
41. Who is the writer of Azadi?
(a) R.K. Narayan (b) Khushwant Singh (c) Tagore (d) Chaman Nahal
42. "The God of Small Things" is written by
(a) R.K. Narayan (b) Hemingway (c) Graham Greene (d) Arundhati Roy
43. Who wrote the poem "Listeners"?
(a) Tennyson (b) Thomas Hood (c) Goldsmith (d) Walter de la Mare
44. In writing "Canterbury Tales" Chaucer was influenced by
(a) Decameron (b) The Divine Comedy (c) The Holy Bible (d) None of these
45. Which poem starts with "Behold her single in the field...."
(a) Lucy Gray (b) The Solitary Reaper (c) Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (d) Dover Beach
46. 'Animal Farm' was written by
(a) James Joyce (b) Virginia Woolf (c) George Orwell (d) Hemingway
47. Shobha De is a
(a) poet (c) novelist (b) dramatist (d) an actress
48. Dunciad was written by
(a) Dry den (b) Pope (c) Tennyson (d) Shelley
49. King Magnus is a character in
(a) Apple Cart (b) Man and Superman (c) Pygmalion (d) Saint Joan
50. Bernard Shaw got the Nobel Prize for
(a) Pygmalion (b) Man and Superman (c) Saint Joan (d) None of these
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