1. Who wrote: "The Ideal of a Christian Church"
(a) John Keble (b) Newman to Nash (d) William George Ward
2. Which of the following is not the off-shoot of Romanticism
(a) Aesthetic Theory (b) Pre-Raphaelitism to Classicism (d) Super-naturalism
3. The greatest worshipper of beauty among the Romantic poets was
(a) Keats (b) Shelley to Byron (d) Wordsworth
4. Humanism is most pronounced in
(a) Romanticism (b) Renascence to Classicism (d) Pre-Raphaelitism
5. When was Hazlitt born
(a) 1782 (b) 1780 (c) 1778 (d) 1785
6. Which of the following odes is not by Keats
(a) Ode on Intimations of Immortality (b) Ode to a Nightingale
(c) Ode on a Grecian Urn (d) Ode to Autumn
7. Which of the following is not a Romantic characteristic?
(a) An atmosphere of wonder (b) An impression of strangeness
(c) A conscious adherence to set rules (d) Spontaneousness
8. In which country was Romanticism associated with an innovatory aesthetic creed
(a) England (b) France (c) Italy (d) Germany
9. English Romanticism from 1790 to 1830 being a native development, was partly influenced by (a)
Germany (b) France (c) Spain (d) Italy
10. Crabbe was mainly a.........poet.
(a) Romantic (b) Realistic (c) Metaphysical (d) None of these
11. Which characteristic among the following is not contained in "The Monk" by Lewis
(a) Lack of moral depth (b) Highly religious atmosphere (c) A sense of unreality
(d) Melodramaticism
12. Which of the following works is not that of David Hume
(a) Treatise of Human Nature (b) The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
(c) Political Discourses (d) History of Great Britain
13. In Tristram Shandy, the hero is born in
(a) the second book (b) the fourth book (c) the third book (d) the fifth book
14. Don Quixote basically presents
(a) the romantic nature of man (b) the contrasting glory and misery of mankind
(c) the greedy nature of man (d) the foolish instincts inherent in man's nature
15. In writing Tristram Shandy, Sterne was mainly influenced by
(a) Shakespeare (b) Chaucer (c) Cervantes (d) Lamb
16. Tristram Shandy is primarily a.........novel
(a) sentimental (b) romantic (c) comical (d) intellectual
17. In the 'Vicar of Wakefield' Goldsmith mainly offers a.............figure
(a) romantic (b) moral (c) carefree (d) extremely worried
18. What is A.C. Bradley mainly known for
(a) Shakespearean comedy (b) Historical plays of Shakespeare (c) Shakespearean tragedy
(d) Shakespeare's romances
19. Who is the writer of 'The School for Scandal'
(a) Ben Jonson (b) R.B. Sheridan (c) Congreve (d) Webster
20. Raymond Williams is primarily a
(a) Dramatist (b) Novelist (c) Essayist (d) Critic
21. Who is the writer of the poem "The Canonization"
(a) Milton (b) Dryden (c) Donne (d) Chaucer
22. Name the writer of the poem "Wind Hour"
(a) Hopkins (b) Eliot (c) Dryden (d) Yeats
23. Who is the writer of the poem "Adam's Course"
(a) Eliot (b) Tagore (c) Yeats (d) Shelley
24. Who wrote the poem: "Lay Your Sleeping Head".
(a) Auden (b) Yeats (c) Stephen Spender (d) Ted Hughes
25. The play "The Birthday Party" is written by
(a) G.B. Shaw (b) Galsworthy (c) Harold Pinter (d) Osborne
26. Who is believed to be the writer of "On the Sublime"
(a) Aristotle (b) Longinus (c) Plato (d) M.Arnold
27. Name the author of "An Essay on Dramatic Poesie"
(a) Dryden (b) Sidney (c) Shelley (d) Arnold
28. Who is the writer of "Culture and Society"
(a) Cleanth Brooks (b) Eliot (c) Bertrand Russell (d) Raymond Williams
29. The writer of the 'Mirror and the Lamp' is
(a) Hume (b) Lionel Trilling (c) M.H. Abrams (d) Sean Lucy
30. The writer of "Provide Provide" is
(a) Whitman (b) Frost (c) Yeats (d) Auden
31. In whose essays the idea of the "oversoul" pervades...........
(a) Thoreau (b) Emerson (c) Whitman (d) Mark Twain
32. Who wrote "Desire Under the Elms"
(a) Arthur Miller (b) Osborne (c) Eugene O'Neill (d) Shaw
33. Who is the writer of "A Severed Head"
(a) Iris Murdoch (b) Paul Scott (c) Goldwing (d) Huxley
34. 'Das Kapital' is written by
(a) Engel (b) Freud (c) Marx (d) Lawrence
35. "Waiting for Godot" is written by
(a) Samuel Beckett (b) Ibsen (c) Brecht (d) Chekhov
36. Who is the writer of "A House for Mr. Biswas"?
(a) Salman Rushdie (b) V.S. Naipaul (c) Vikram Seth (d) R.K. Narayan
37. Name which is not the work of Marlowe
(a) Richard I (b) Tambarlaine (c) The Jew of Malta (d) Dr. Faustus
38. Name the writer of the poem "The Weary Blues"
(a) Longfellow (b) Whitman (c) Frost (d) Langston Hughes
39. Which of the following poems is not written by Robert Lowell
(a) In the Cage (b) Dolphin(c) Good Morning (d) The Old Flame
40. Which of the following poems is written by Wallace Stevens
(a) Red Sun Blues (b) Sunday Morning (c) From Survivor (d) "Going"
41. Which of the following poems is not written by Philip Larkin
(a) Art Grass (b) Sad Steps (c) Traveller (d) Church going
42. Oedipus Rex was written by
(a) Sophocles (b) Homer (c) Seneca (d) Aeschylus
43. Flaubert's famous work is
(a) Odysseus (b) Madame Bovary (c) The Trial (d) The Outsider
44. Northrop Fry is basically a
(a) Dramatist (c) Poet (b) Novelist (d) Critic
45. The writer of "The Beauty in a State" is
(a) Raja Rao (b) Tagore (c) Shelley (d) Ananda Coomaraswami
46. The most essential work of K.R. Srinivas Iyengar is
(a) Indian Way of Writing (b) Indians Under the Foreign Rule
(c) Indian Writing in English(d) Indian Literary Scene
47. The writer of "The Swan and the Eagle" is
(a) M.K. Naik (b) CD. Narasimhaiah (c) Bruce King ..(d) V.K. Gokak
48. Name the writer of the book "Introducing Applied Linguistics" (Penguin)
(a) Allen (b) Mac Arthur (c) G.A. Leech (d) S. Pittcorder
49. Danglars is a character in
(a) The Treasure Island (b) Monte Cristo (c) Oliver Twist (d) Huckleberry Finn
50. "A sleepless hour or more has its strange value only in the middle." Name the writer of the lines given above
(a) KamalaDas (c) Dilip Chitre (b) Daruwalla (d) Nissim Ezekiel
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