1. In which play of Shakespeare there exists "The Forest of Arden"
(a) Winter's Tale (b) Merry Wives of Windsor (c) Tempest (d) As You Like It
2. What is the other name for Euphues
(a) The Anatomy of Melancholy (b) The Anatomy of Wit (c) The Anatomy of Wisdom
(d) The Anatomy of Joy
3. Heathcliff is the most important character in the novel
(a) Jane Eyre (b) Hard Times (c) Wuthering Heights (d) Vanity Fair
4. 'Wuthering Heights' is the name of a farm owned by
(a) Earnshaws (b) Lintons (c) Bennets (d) Georges
5. How many knights enter the cathedral to kill St. Thomas in 'Murder in the Cathedral.'
(a) Three (b) Four (c) Five (d) Six
6. Which country could most probably stand for Samuel Butler's Erewhon which otherwise means nowhere?
(a) Australia (b) West Indies (c) Bahamas (d) New Zealand
7. In which novel Hardy does the character 'Arabella' exist?
(a) Jude the Obscure (b) The Return of the Native (c) Tess (d) Far From the Madding Crowd
8. Most of Hardy's novels are
(a) Comedies (b) Histories (c) Tragedies (d) Romances
9. What hastened Mr. Tulliver's death in "The Mill on the Floss".
(a) His terminal illness (b) His uncordial relations with Tom (c) His bankruptcy
(d) His fall from the horse
10. 'Rawdon Crawley' is a character in
(a) The Mayor of Casterbridge (b) Vanity Fair (c) Erewhon (d) Don Quixote
11. In which poem do the following lines occur: "Before the beginning of years
There came to the making of man Time, with a gift of tears."
(a) Hellas (b) Ode to Melancholy (c) Dunciad (d) Atlanta and Calydon
12. How many lines does each stanza of the "Scholar Gipsy" consist of
(a) Eight (b) Six (c) Ten (d) Nine
13. Milton wrote 'Paradise Lost' mainly to
(a) justify ways of God to man (b) justify ways of man to God (c) get himself established as a great poet
(d) subtly reject the life in Charles II's court
14. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (English translation) is written in
(a) Six line stanzas (b) Quatrains (c) Couplets (d) Three line stanzas
15. 'Maud' is a poem by (a) Tennyson (b) Shelley (c) Keats (d) Swinburne
16. In which poem does the following lyric in blank verse appear: "Come down, O maid."
(a) Maud (b) The Princess (c) In Memoriam (d) Sohrab and Rustam
17. What is the rhyme scheme of "In Memoriam" (a) a b b a (b) a b a b (c) a a b b (d) a b b b
18. Who satirized Wordsworth's poetic diction in the following lines :
"Who both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose."
(a) Tennyson (b) Arnold (c) Byron (d) Eliot
19. Who is the writer of the following: "Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments..."
(a) Milton (b) Spenser (c) Sidney (d) Shakespeare
20. Who wrote:
"Oh east is east and west is west,
And never the twain shall meet."
(a) Tennyson (b) Robert Bridges (c) Kipling (d) Eliot
21. Who wrote: "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers"
(a) Burns (b) Byron (c) Scott (d) Yeats
22. Who is the writer of the tragedy "Prometheus Bound."
(a) Shelley (b) Aeschylus (c) Sophocles (d) Euripides
23. How many poems did Wordsworth contribute to Lyrical Ballads : (a) 16 (b) 17 (c) 18 (d) 19
24. Samuel Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels is a (a) merchant (b) sailor (c) surgeon (d) carpenter
25. How many imaginary countries does Gulliver visit
(a) Three (b) Four (c) Five (d) Six
26. Who is the writer of "Leviathan"
(a) Rousseau (b) Locke (c) Adam Smith (d) Hobbes
27. Robinson Crusoe was published
(a) 1718 (b) 1717 (c) 1719 (d) 1720
28. In the Dunciad, Pope has satirized
(a) fallen literary standards (b) the contemporary political scenario
(c) the ancient literary standards (d) the miserable economic scene
29. "The Rape of the Lock" is a........poem
(a) mock-heroic (b) tragedy (c) comedy (d) dramatic monologue
30. The following lines occur in "........in Logic a great critic,
Profoundly skill'd in Analytic; He could distinguish and divide
A hair twixt south and south-west side."
(a) Macflecknoe (b) Deserted Village (c) Hudibras (d) The Rape of the Lock
31. In which country was TS Eliot born : (a) England (b) USA (c) Germany (d) Scotland
32. The 'Forsyte Saga' was written by (a) Shaw (b) H.G.Wells (c) Galsworthy (d) Eliot
33. Arnold Bennet died in (a) 1930 (b) 1931 (c) 1933 (d) 1932
34. Who is the writer of the comedy 'The Wild Gallant'
(a) Dryden (b) Pope (c) Shakespeare (d) Lyly
35. When was Crashaw born (a) 1610 (b) 1615 (c) 1617 (d) 1612
36. Who wrote the following line : "Death, thou wast once an uncouth hideous thing."
(a) Donne (b) Herbert (c) Crashaw (d) Lovelace
37. Robert Herrick died in
(a) 1670(b) 1672 (c) 1674 (d) 1679
38. Thomas Carew died in
(a) 1636 (b) 1637 (c) 1638 (d) 1639
39. Hobbes can be regarded as a precursor and pioneer of modern
(a) poetry (b) prose (c) drama (d) fiction
40. Which of the following is not a comic character
(a) Justice Shallow (b) Othello (c) Juliet's nurse (d) Falstaff
41. To whom can "courtly wit" be ascribed :
(a) Lyly (b) Ford (c) Heyword (d) Dekker
42. Who is the writer of the comedy "A New Way To Pay Old Debts."
(a) Webster (b) Massinger (c) Lyly (d) Jonson
43. In one of whose works does the character 'Sir Epicure Mammon' exist
(a) Jonson (b) Massinger (c) Ford (d) Fletcher
44. Who is now said to have collaborated with
Fletcher in writing the following plays :
The False one, The Spanish Curate,
The Beggar's Bush, etc.
(a) Jonson (b) Field (c) Massinger (d) Rowley
45. "The Woman-Hater' is a mock-heroic comedy by
(a) Fletcher (b) Beaumont (c) Ford (d) Massinger
46. 'Four Prentices of London' is written by
(a) Ford (b) Massinger (c) Heywood (d) Fletcher
47. In Epicoene, Jonson's chief aim is
(a) to moralize (b) to please the public (c) to satirize old customs (d) to catharsis the element of fear
48. In 'The Poetaster' Jonson presents one of the following as a bad poet
(a) Aristophanes (b) Fletcher (c) Martson (d) Dryden
49. Who is the writer of the following lines: "I'll strip the ragged follies of the time, Naked as at their birth."
(a) Jonson (b) Fletcher (c) Dryden (d) Shelley
50. Constantinople fell to the Turks in
(a) 1450 (b) 1453 (c) 1456 (d) 1459
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