1. In which year was Magna Carta signed (a) 1205 (b) 1212 (c) 1215 (d) 1220
2. To which King of England did Pope give the title 'Defender of the Faith'
(a) Henry VII (b) Henry VIII (c) James I (d) Charles I
3. When did Mandeville's 'Travels' appear (a) 1500 (b) 1501 (c) 1496 (d) 1490
4. Who is the writer of "Metamorphoses" (a) Ovid (b) Dante (c) Petrarch (d) Virgil
5. When is Wyclif believed to have died? (a) 1380 (b) 1382 (c) 1383 (d) 1384
6. East India Company was set up in (a) 1604 (b) 1603 (c) 1600 (d) 1605
7. G.M. Trevelyan was primarily a
(a) historian (b) dramatist (c) poet (d) novelist
8. In which book does the following line appear:
"A god is not so glorious as a king." --Marlowe
(a) Dr. Faustus (b) The Jew of Malta (c) Tamburlaine (d) Edward II
9. The book "Euphues" was written by
(a) Greene (b) Jonson (c) Dryden (d) John Lyly
10. Bacon's essays are the finest example of
(a) wit and humour (b) practical wisdom (c) pathos (d) irony
11. Tamburlaine is basically an expression of the spirit of..........in full measure
(a) Renaissance (b) Romanticism (c) Imperialism (d) Materialism
12. In which poem do the following lines appear: "Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage."
(a) "To Lucasta" (b) 'To Althea, from Prison' (c) Ballad Upon a Wedding (d) None of these
13. Which one among the following was not a cavalier poet
(a) Herrick (b) Thomas Carew (c) John Suckling (d) Robert Bridges
14. Which age in English literature is known as the Augustan Age
a) That of Dryden (b) That of Dr. Johnson (c) That of Shakespeare (d) That of Pope
15. Who wrote to Pope in 1706 :
"The best modern poets in all languages are those that have nearest copied the ancients."
(a) Addison (b) Steele (c) Walsh (d) Dryden
16. The Age of Queen Anne in England was an era of
(a) political stability (b) political upheavals (c) great social unrest (d) great natural calamities
17. When was Swift born?
(a) 1660 (b) 1661 (c) 1680 (d) 1667
18. Which is Swift's most powerful general satire
(a) Gulliver's Travels (b) The Tale of a Tub (c) The Battle of Books (d) Nothing can be said in this connection
19. Who characterized D.G. Rossetti's poetry as belonging to "the fleshly school of poetry"
(a) Eliot (b) M. Arnold (c) Robert Buchanan (d) Yeats
20. In which poem does the following line occur: "The wild wine slips with the weight of its leaves."--
Swinburne
(a) The Blessed Damozel (b) Atalanta in Calydon (c) The Hounds of Spring (d) None of these
21. Which of the following should be regarded as the presiding deity of the Victorian period
(a) Mrs. Grundy (b) Mammon (c) Cupid (d) Venus
22. Who is the heroine of 'Vanity Fair'
(a) Sophia (b) Estella (c) Dora (d) Becky Sharp
23. The period of Edward VII's rule in England lasted from 1901 to.........
(a) 1912 (b) 1910 (c) 1909 (d) 1913
24. When was Old Age Pensions Act passed in England
(a) 1909 (b) 1907 (c) 1906 (d) 1908
25. In which decade in the nineteenth century did the Chartist Movement take a concrete shape in
England?
(a) Thirties (b) Twenties (c) Fifties (d) Sixties
26. Which one among the following was not the reason for the failure of the Chartist Movement?
(a) Peel's reforms and the growth of prosperity (b) Lack of a powerful leader among the working
classes (c) Fake signatures of people presented to parliament (d) Natural calamities
27. Which age is generally called the Age of Prose and Reason?
(a) Eighteenth century (b) Seventeenth century (c) Nineteenth century (d) Sixteenth century
28. Who can be said to be the greatest writer of the Comedy of Humours?
(a) Dryden (b) Ben Jonson (c) Congreve (d) Etherege
29. Which of the following is not a play by Ben Johnson?
(a) Volpone (b) Alchemist (c) Every man out of His Honour
(d) The Way of the World
30. Who is the writer of the book "Prince"
(a) Ovid (b) Boccaccio (c) Machiavelli (d) Montaigne
31. Who is the writer of the essay "Simulation and Dissimulation"?
(a) Montaigne (b) Lamb (c) De Quincey (d) Bacon
32. Name the figure of speech for which Lyly is chiefly remembered
(a) Malapropism (b) Euphuism (c) Melodramaticism (d) None of these
33. Utopia was written by (a) Walter Raleigh (b) Sir Thomas Moore (c) Daniel Defoe (d) None of these
34. The other name for Euphues is
(a) The Anatomy of Melancholy (b) The Anatomy of Joy (c) The Anatomy of Wit (d) None of these
35. Ferrex and Porrex is the other name for
(a) The Spanish Tragedy (b) Dr. Faustus (c) Goboduc (d) None of these
36. In the 'Spanish Tragedy', there is the ghost of
(a) Andrea (b) Horatio (c) Balthazar (d) Lorenzo
37. Which one among the following belongs to the group known as University Wits
(a) Shakespeare (b) Congreve (c) Dryden (d) Marlowe
38. Astrophel and Stella is a
(a) play (b) novel (c) sonnet sequence (d) short story
39. In the Duchess of Malfi, Ferdinand was the Duke of
(a) Milan (b) Calabria (c) Rome (d) None of these
40. The Alchemist was published in
(a) 1610 (b) 1611 (c) 1612 (d) 1609
41. In the Duchess of Malfi, spoke the following words "O horror, that not the fear of him which
binds the devils can prescribe man obedicence."
(a) Ferdinand (b) Cardinal (c) Bosola (d) Antonio
42. In 'Sons and Lovers', Paul Moral is the son of
(a) John Morel (b) Joseph Morel (c) Walter Morel (d) James Morel
43. Which of the following is not one of the five movements in 'The Wasteland'
(a) The Burial of the Dead (b) The Game of Chess (c) The Fire Sermon (d) The Joy of Riding
44. When was St. Thomas canonized: in
(a) 1170 (b) 1171 (c) 1173 (d) 1175
45. Who appointed St. Thomas Becket a Chancellor
(a) Henry III (b) Henry I (c) Henry II (d) None of these
46. T.S. Eliot died in
(a) 1960 (b) 1962 (c) 1961 (d) 1965
47. When was Erewhon first published
(a) 1871 (b) 1872 (c) 1873 (d) 1874
48. What is the Greek meaning of 'Utopia'
(a) An ideal place (b) A healthy place (c) A lovely place (d) Not a place (=ou=not; topos=a place)
49. What are the last words of Vanity Fair (a) Shantih! Shantih! Shantih (b) Vanitas Vanitatum! (c) Amen! (d) Let it be
50. 'Virtue Rewarded' is the other name for (a) Pamela (b) Joseph Andrews (c) Clarissa (d) Tom Jones
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