1. Which of the following statements is true :
(a) Browning's work is more original in content than that of Tennyson
(b) Wordsworth was the older brother of Coleridge (c) Shelley was a pessimistic poet
(d) James Joyce received the Nobel Prize in 1933
2. Which of the following statements is true :
(a) Fanny Burney was a poetess of the first rank. (b) Wordsworth and Coleridge were always at daggers' drawn with each other (c) Keats died at the age of fifty (d) Mrs. Virginia Woolf committed suicide
3. Which of the following statements is true :
(a) Goldsmith hated mankind (b) Horace Walpole is a historian of the second order
(c) Crashaw was a Victorian novelist (d) Donne was the grandson of Spenser
4. Which of the following statements is true :
(a) Mrs. Montagu is one of the queens of the Blue Stockings (b) French Revolution had no effect on
Shelley (c) Southey fought in the battle of Blenheim (d) Lamb had his hut in a forest
5. Dryden's comedy 'The Wild Gallant' belongs to the year
(a) 1661 (b) 1663 (c) 1665 (d) 1667
6. Sir Thomas Browne was overwhelmingly a
(a) poet of the first order (b) a prose writer (c) a dramatist (d) a novelist
7. "Gallathea" is written by
(a) Spenser (b) Herbert (c) Lyly (d) Shelley
8. In which category should Lyly's "Love's Metamorphosis" be counted:
(a) Tragedy (b) Historical Play (c) Pastoral (d) None of these
9. When was James Thomson born
(a) 1701 (b) 1700 (c) 1702 (d) 1699
10. In which year was Jane Austen born
(a) 1775 (b) 1772 (c) 1780 (d) 1778
11. Blackwood's magazine was founded in
(a) 1815 (b) 1817(c) 1816 (d) 1818
12. Which one among the following was a periodical
(a) The Spectator (b) The Doll's House (c) The Portrait of a Lady (d) Shepherd's Calendar
13. The dramas of nineteenth-century England appeal to
(a) the eye (b) the imagination (c) the reason (d) the conscience
14. Who wrote: "The Harp of India"
(a) Govind Chunder Dutt (b) Michael Madhusudan Dutt (c) Henry L.V. Derozio (d) V.K. Gokak
15. "King Porus--A Legend of Old" is written by
(a) Henry Derozio (b) Toru Dutt (c) Sarojini Naidu (d) Michael Madhusudan
16. Who is the writer of the poem "The Dance of the Eunuchs"
(a) Nissim Ezekiel (b) Kamala Das (c) Daruwallah (d) A.K. Ramanujan
17. Which Indian poet wrote the poem "The Trojan War"
(a) Vikram Seth (b) Keki N. Daruwalla (c) Sri Aurbindo (d) Tagore
18. Who wrote: "Jonathan Wild"
(a) Richardson (b) Smollett (c) Defoe (d) Fielding
19. Which one among the following is not a Gothic novelist
(a) Mrs. Anne Radicliffe (b) Virginia Woolf (c) Horace Walpole (d) Matthew Gregory Lewis
20. Horace Walpole was the..........of Mr. Walpole, the Prime Minister of England.
(a) son (b) brother (c) cousin (d) father
21. Which one among the following cannot be regarded as a stream-of-consciousness novelist?
(a) Dorothy M. Richardson (b) Thackeray (c) Virginia Woolf (d) James Joyce
22. What is it to which Stephen Dedalus finally gets inclined in "A Portrait of the Artist as A Young
Man"?
(a) Religion (b) Art (c) Nature (d) God
23. George Eliot's real name was
(a) Mary Evans (b) Maggie (c) Sophia (d) Miss Crompton
24. Which one of the following novels created a lot of controversies even in America
(a) A Tale of Two Cities (b) Ulysses (c) The Mill on the Floss (d) Pride and Prejudice
25. Which characters does Forster consider better in his Aspects of the Novel
(a) Flat (b) Oblong (c) Rich (d) Round
26. Stephen Guest is a character in
(a) Adam Bede (b) The Middlemarch (c) The Mill on The Floss (d) Silas Marner
27. "Of Revenge" is one of the essays of
(a) Lamb (b) Hazlitt (c) Gardiner (d) Bacon
28. "Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."
In which of Bacon's essays does the sentence mentioned above appear?
(a) Of Studies (b) Of King (c) Of Simulation and Dissimulation (d) Of Revenge
29. In which category should Samuel Pepys be placed
(a) A novelist (b) a poet (c) a diarist (d) a dramatist
30. Addison wrote the autobiography of a coin. What was it?
(a) a pound (b) a shilling (c) a pence (d) a half-crown
31. Which one among the following was the periodical to which Addison did not contribute his works?
(a) The Tafler (b) The Edinburg Review (c) The Spectator (d) The Guardian
32. What secured Addison's political patronage
(a) a poem (b) a drama (c) an essay (d) a novel
33. 'Meditation on a Broomstick' by Swift is primarily a
(a) study in nature (b) an anatomy of love (c) a bitter criticism of human nature
(d) a dive into the spiritual world
34. Goldsmith died in
(a) 1772 (b) 1770 (c) 1774 (d) 1771
35. "Beau Tibbs" by Goldsmith is a satire on
(a) fops and beaus (b) politicians (c) astrologers (d) social reformers
36. When did De Quincey die
(a) in 1860 (b) in 1862 (c) in 1861 (d) in 1859
37. About whom did Wordsworth write the following line?
"She was a phantom of delight."
(a) about Dorothy (b) his beloved (c) his wife (d) Mrs. Coleridge
38. Who is one of the persons described in De Quincey's "Wordsworth's Household"
(a) Dorothy (b) Mary Shelley (c) Jane Austen (d) Emile Bronte
39. Who accompanied Wordsworth when he was alone in the lap of nature?
(a) Mrs. Hutchinson (b) Dorothy (c) His children (d) Coleridge
40. Who wrote: "The Confessions of An English Opium-Eater"?
(a) Coleridge (b) Shelley (c) De Quincey (d) James Joyce
41. Charles Lamb was born in
(a) 1775 (b) 1776 (c) 1774 (d) 1778
42. Who among the following is called the Prince of Essayists?
(a) Bacon (b) Hazlitt (c) De Quincey (d) Lamb
43. In which of his essays does Lamb use the oxymoron "busy-idle" diversions
(a) All Fools's Day (b) Dream Children (c) St. Valentine's Day
(d) Bachelors' Complaint Against the Behaviour of Married People.
44. What, according to Lamb, as in his essay " The Convalescent," comprise the mind of a sick man?
(a) humanism (b) rationalism (c) complete self-absorption (d) philanthropy
45. Who focused attention on the metaphysical poets in the 20th century?
(a) Yeats (b) Joyce (c) Virginia Woolf (da) T.S. Eliot
46. Mention the date of Eliot's Hollow Men
(a) 1922 (b) 1925 (c) 1927 (d) 1921
47. Who wrote the poem "Rhapsody on a Windy Day"?
(a) Yeats (b) Spenser (c) Eliot (d) Housman
48. Who wrote the line: "The weariness, the fever, and the fret"
(a) Shelley (b) Keats (c) Southey (d) Swinburne
49. In which poem does the following poem by Keats occur?
"Forever wilt thou love and she be fair."
(a) Ode to a Nightingale (b) Hyperion (c) Ode to a Grecian Urn (d) Ode on Indolence
50. Who was Pericles?
(a) A great French poet (b) A German philosopher (c) An Italian sonnet-writer
(d) A great Athenian statesman
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