1. Who is the writer of the poem: The Pied Piper of Hamelin?
(a) Tennyson (b) M. Arnold to Wordsworth (d) Browning
2. The sculptures on the gateway of the Sanchi Stupa built by Emperor Ashoka in the 3rd century B.C.,
illustrate, inter alia,
(a) Jataka stories (b) The stories of Aesop (c) Stories from the Panchtantra (d) Stories from the Punch
3. In which poem of Shelley does the following line occur :
"O antique verse and high romance."
(a) Ode to a Skylark (b) Epipsychidion (c) Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (d) Hellas
4. Who is the writer of the following lines: "Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem To copy
Nature is to copy, them."
(a) Dryden (b) Ben Jonson (c) M. Arnold (d) Pope
5. Who wrote about Vivekananda,
"If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive, nothing negative."
(a) Gandhi (b) Jawaharlal Nehru (c) Tagore (d) Sarojini Naidu
6. When did Swami Vivekananda die?
(a) July 2, 1902 (b) June 3, 1902 (c) July 14, 1902 (d) July 04, 1902
7. In which year did Vivekananda participate in the Parliament of Religions in Chicago, USA?
(a) 1891 (c) 1895 (b) 1893 (d) 1890
8. Who wrote: "Science and Life"?
(a) Newton (b) Einstein (c) V.C. Ramana (d) J.B.S. Haldane
9. Who wrote the following line :
"History is largely a record of self-deception."
(a) A.G. Gardiner (b) Lynd (c) J.B. Priestley (d) Lucas
10. Who spoke the following words in his defence in the court:
"I believe that only God is really wise, and......
that man's wisdom is worth little or nothing."
(a) Gandhi (b) St. Joan to Socrates (d) Oscar Wilde
11. In which work does the following sentence appear:
"Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things that seem to us self-evident."
(a) 'Skeptial Essays' by Russell (b) 'An Autobiography' by Jawaharlal Nehru (c) 'My Experiments with
Truth' by M.K. Gandhi (d) 'Brave New World Revisited' by Aldous Huxley
12. What kind of book is "Three Men In A Boat"?
(a) A funny or humorous book (b) A melodramatic book (c) A narrative book (d) An extremely serious
work
13. Which of the following is not concerned with fun or humour?
(a) Irony (b) Pathetic Fallacy (c) Understatement (d) Exaggeration
14. In which book do the following words appear: "...man is a brief episode in the life of a small plant
in a little corner of the universe."
(a) Emerson's 'Essays' (b) Huxley's 'Music At Night' (c) Russell's 'Unpopular Essay'
(d) Gandhi's 'My Experiments with Truth.'
15. In which of Shakespeare's play does a character speak the following words:
"If your leisure serv'd, I would speak with you."
(a) The Merchant of Venice (b) Much Ado About Nothing
(c) Julius Caesar (d) Cymbeline
16. Which kind of life can be best described as led by Dr. Jekyll in R.L. Stevenson's "The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."
(a) a double life (b) a single life (c) a happy life (d) a sad life
17. Who was the founder of the system of philosophy known as "Positivism"
(a) Goethe (b) Victor Hugo (c) Proust (d) Auguste Comte
18. What is meant by "sing-song tone"
(a) a happy tone (b) a rash or flourishing tone (c) a boring childish tone (d) None of these
19. What is meant by 'jink and muck'?
(a) a new dress (b) a colorful thing (c) a dancing toy (d) old thing of little or no value
20. Delphi was a place in ancient Greece that was known for the oracle of
(a) Apollo (b) Urania (c) Venus (d) God Mercury
21. Who said the following words :
"I must set God's command above everything." (a) Plato (b) Socrates (c) Christ (d) Gandhi
22. What is meant by the expression "Homeric Fight"?
(a) a great fight (b) a foolish fight (c) a cowardly fight (d) a stylish fight
23. Henry Dunant was associated with :
(a) Clearing of mines (b) Red cross (c) Anti-smuggling laws
(d) Demonstrations against the use and maintenance of nuclear weapons
24. The name of Shelley's wife who committed suicide was
(a) Mary (b) Sophia (c) Hutchinson (d) Harriet
25. The philosopher who influenced Pope was (a) Bolingbroke (b) Godwin (c) Nietzsche (d) Kant
26. Who is the writer of the book "The Impact of Science on Society"?
(a) Huxley (b) Priestley (c) B. Russell (d) Gardiner
27. Who wrote the following line: "What, there's nothing in the moon noteworthy?" (in 'One Word More')
(a) Tennyson (b) Browning (c) Keats (d) Wordsworth
28. Who was Michelangelo?
(a) A physician (b) A painter (c) A musician (d) A statesman
29. Mention which of the following Tagore was not--
(a) school teacher (b) novelist (c) dramatist (d) painter
30. Who is the writer of the following lines as quoted by M. Arnold at the start of his "Thyrsis". "Thus yesterday, today, tomorrow comes, They hustle one another and they pass."
(a) Ovid (b) Lucretius (c) Pericles (d) Chaucer
31. When did Arthur Hugh Clough die?
(a) 1861 (b) 1864 (c) 1863 (d) 1865
32. In which poem of M. Arnold does the following line appear?
"Where ignorant armies clash by night."
(a) Sohrab and Rustam (b) Thyrsis (c) Dover Beach (d) The Scholar Gipsy
33. Who is the writer of the play "The Miracle Merchant"
(a) Tagore (b) Synge (c) Barrie (d) Saki
34. 'The Miracle Merchant" was based on the story
(a) 'The Hen' (b) Monkey's Paw (c) Dusk (d) The Open Window
35. The essay "An Apology for Idlers" is written by
(a) Russell (b) Huxley (c) R.L. Stevenson (d) Goldsmith
36. Who is the writer of the following line in his introduction to a book on social history: "And
Reality, if rightly interpreted is grander than Fiction."
(a) Macaulay (b) Trevelyan (c) Legouis (d) Crompton
37. Who used the term "Dry as dust" for the antiquarian or historical researcher?
(a) Trevelyan (b) Macaulay (c) Carlyle (d) Legouis
38. Who among Chaucer's characters spoke the following lines :
"Wold the see were kept for anything Betwixt Middleburgh and Orwell
(a) Knight (b) Squire (c) Nun (d) Merchant
39. Under what category, should Langland's 'The Piers Plowman' be placed
(a) Romance (b) Pastoral (c) Religious allegory (d) Supernatural poetry
40. In which work do the following lines appear: "Labourers that have no land to live on but their hands Designed not dine a day on worts a night old."
(a) Piers Plowman (b) Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (c) Faerie Queene
(d) Song to the Men of England
41. Wat Tyler was slain at.........in the presence of the mob be led
(a) London (b) Manchester (c) Smithfield (d) None of these
42. About which character does Chaucer say the following words :
"It snowed in his house of meat and drink of all dainties that men could think."
(a) Merchant (b) Franklin (c) Knight (d) Parson
43. By whom was Christ's Hospital founded?
(a) Edward II (b) Henry II (c) Edward VI (d) Henry V
44. Kett's rising in Norfolk in 1549 was a
(a) Peasants' rising (b) Factory workers' rebellion (c) Barons' rebellion against the king
(d) Priests' uprising
45. Who is the writer of "Angler"
(a) Blake (b) Cowper (c) Izaak Walton (d) Goldsmith
46. Name the writer of the book "Illusion and Reality"
(a) Christopher Caudwell (b) Ruskin (c) Carlyle (d) Oscar Wilde
47. When did George II die?
(a) 1780 (b) 1760 (c) 1762 (d) 1765
48. George IV reigned from
(a) 1820-30 (b) 1820-25 (c) 1820-33 (d) 1820-35
49. Who wrote:'Wealth of Nations'
(a) Malthus (b) Marx (c) Engels (d) Adam Smith
50. Dr. Chalmers was associated with
(a) Evangelical revival (b) Peasants' revolt (c) Adult Franchise movement (d) Restoration of the monarchy
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