MCQs on Romantic, Victorian and Modern Age in English Literature
ROMANTIC AGE
1. The first published work of the Romantic age is --------------
a. Lyrical ballads b. Moll Flander c. Candida d. Fairy Queene
2. Wordsworth is a ------------- poet
a. Classical b. Romantic c. Restoration
d. Modern
3. Tintern Abbey is a poem written by ----------------
a. Keats b. Shelley c.
Wordsworth d. Byron
4. Keats was a ---------------poet
a. Classical b. Sensuous c. Social d. War
5. The Rime of Ancient Mariner is a famous poem by-------------
a. Keats b. Shelley c.
Byron d. Coleridge
6. Byron is a ----------------poet
a. Nature b. Revolutionar c. Classical d.
Modern
7. Kublakhan is a dream fragmant by---------------
a Shelly b. Keats c. Byron d. Coleridge
8. Ode to the West Wind is a poem by ---------------
a. Coleridge b. Keats c.
Byron d. Shelley
9. Walter Scott is a-------------------
a. epic poet b.
novelist c.
dramatist d.
essayist
10. Scott’s novels are called---------------novels
a. Wessex b.
Lake c. Waverly d.
domestic
11. Solitary Reaper is product of -------------tour.
a. Scottish b. Indian c. French d. England
12. Jane Austen is a -----------------novelist
a. historical b. domestic c. social d.
psychological
13.-----------------Revolution was one of the influencing factor in Romantic literature.
a. Russian b. American c.
French d. Indian
14. Wordsworth was a --------------poet.
a. Nature b.
Classical c. Historical d. Epic
15 The Romantic Movement was formally commenced with the publication of -----------
a. Lyrical Ballads b.
Tottel’s Miscellany c. Songs and Sonnets d.
Amoretti
16. The Romantic Movement was described as the “ Renaissance of Wonder” by---------
a. Dr Johnson b. Hazlitt c. T.S.Eliot d.
Watts Dunton
17. Romanticism is disease and Classicism is health, is a statement of ----------------
a. Carlyle b.
Goethe c.
Arnold d. De Quencey
18 ----------------and ----------------belong to the elder generation of Romantic Period
a. Keats, Shelly b. Burns, Blake c. Wordsworth, Coleridge d. Scott, Byron
19. -----------was a political event that influenced Romantic Movement.
a. War of Roses b. World of War I c.
Russian Revolution d. French Revolution
20. Romantic Movement followed the tradition of ------------------
a. Classical Age b. Renaissance Period c. Restoration d. Neo-Classical
21. Return to Nature was a call given by -----------------
a. Wordsworth b. Keats c. Shelly d.
Rousseau
22. -------------------- is cardinal characteristic of Romanticism
a. Three Unities b. Metrical Rigidity c. Classical Rules d. Freedom of Imagination
23. --------------------was not affected by the turmoil of French Revolution.
a. Keats b. Wordsworth c. Shelly d. Coleridge
24. “ Bliss was it that dawn to be alive
But to be young was very heaven”
Are the words of --------------on----------------------
a. Shelly on French Revolution b. Coleridge on Russian Revolution
c. Wordsworth on French Revolution d. Scott on Scottish Revolution
25. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey are called --------------------poets.
a. Lake b.
Wessex c. London d. War
26. Lady of the Lake is by ----------------------
a. Shelly b. Byron c. Walter Scott d. Keats
27. Revolt of Islam is a famous work of -------------------
a. Alexander Pope b. Addison c.
Shelly d.
Walter Scott
28. Child Herald’s Pilgrimage is a masterpiece of ---------------------
a. Milton b.
Coleridge c. Byron d. Wordsworth
29. ‘ Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey’ was published in---------------
a. Lyrical Ballads b. Tottel’s Miscellany
c. Rime of Ancient Mariner d.Poems
Cheaply Lyrical
30. Wordsworth formulated -------------- poetic diction.
a. serious b. simple c. extraordinary d. sophisticated
31 Coleridge contributed --------- poems to Lyrical Ballads .
a. 4 b. 5 c. 6 d. 7
32. The name of the bird mentioned in the poem The Rime of Ancient Mariner is----------
a. Skylark b. Cuckoo c. Albatross d. Nightingale
33. The famous critical work of Coleridge is -------------------
a. Biographia Literaria b. Essays on Criticism c. Defence of Poetry d. Essays on Man
34. Lady of the Last Ministrel is written by-------------------
a. Byron b. Keats c.
Walter Scott d. Shelly
35. Colcridge is known for his ------------------ poetry
a. Supernatural b. Nature c. Domestic d.
Realistic
36. Walter Scott is famous for his -----------------
a. Lyrics b. Sonnets c.
Ballads d. Drama
37. The Curse of Minerva and Don Juan are the famous works of ---------------------
a. Byron b.
Shelley c. Wordsworth d. Coleridge
38. Byron is known for his ----------------- character
a. Classical b. Revolutionary c. Moderate d. Terrorist
39. Don-Juan is a---------- on modern society
a. Satire b. Elegy c. Sonnet d. Lyric
40. ‘She Walks in Beauty’ is a famous poem by -------------------
a. Shelly b. Byron c.
Keats d. Scots
41. The Queen Mab and Alastor are the poems written by ------------------
a. Shelley b.
Scott c. Coleridge d.
Blake
42. ‘To the Skylark’ and ‘The Cloud’ are the famous ----------- of Shelly
a. Love poems b.
Lyrics c. Elegies d. Sonnets
43. ----------------- is the famous Elegy of P. B. Shelley
a. Lycidas b.
Adonais c. Thyrsis d.
In Memoriam
44. Promethius Unbound is a ------------------ by Shelley
a. Tragedy b. Sonnet c. Comedy d. Lyrical drama
45. John Keats is called the most ---------------- poet in English
a. Romantic b. Classical c. Sensuous d. Revolutionary
46. “ Beauty is truth, Truth is beauty ” is the line taken from ----------------------
a. Hyperion b. Eve of St Agnes c. Kublakhan d. Solitary
Reaper
47 .Keats’ Endymion , Lamia , and Hyperion are based on ----------------legends .
a. Latin b. Greek c. Indian d.
American
48. “ On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer ”is a famous -------------by Keats
a. Lyric b. Sonnet c. Drama d.
Story
49. Jon of Arc and The Curse of Kehama are written by ------------------
a. Shelly b. Wordsworth c.
Southey d. Blake
50. Edinburgh Review was founded in ------------------
a. 1850 b. 1798 c. 1812 d. 1807
51. The Quarterly was the mouthpiece of ------------------party
a. The Whig b. The Tory c. The Conservative d. The Labour
53. Charles Lamb is influenced by ----------------------
a. Coleridge b. Keats c. Byron d.
Shelly
54. Bridget Elia is a famous character in the work of ----------------------
a. Hazlitt b. Charles Lamb c. Wordsworth d. Coleridge
55. My Relations and The Dream Children are the --------------------- works of Lamb
a. Autobiographical b. Humanitarian c. Historical d.
Biographical
56. Hazlitt was the regular contributor to --------------------
a. The Spectator b. The Rambler c. The Edinburgh Review d. The London Times
57. Characters in Shakespeare’s Plays is a series of lectures by-------------------
a. Charles Lamb b. Mary Lamb c. Hazlitt d. De Quincey
58 The Round Table and The Table Talk are the essays written by ---------------------
a. Coleridge b. Hazlitt c.
Lamb d. Richardson
59 The Confessions of an Opium Eater is a famous work of -----------
a De Quincey b Dickens c Bacon d.
Robert Carlyle
60. On Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth is a-------------------
a.
sonnet b. lyric c. critical essay d. drama
61. W B Lander was a --------------- of Romantic Period
a. prose writer b. poet c. novelist d.
dramatist
62. Walter Scott is regarded as the father of ------------------novel
a. domestic b. historical c.
psychological d. scientific
63. Scott’s historical novels are called --------------- novels
a. Wessex b. Essex c.
Waverly d. Lake
64. Ivanhoe is a famous --------------- novel
a. Historical b. Domestic c. Social d. Humanitarian
65. The Rob Roy and Kenilworth are famous works of --------------------
a. Shakespeare b. Richardson c. Walter Scott d. Kipling
66. Which of the following is not the work of Walter Scott ?
a. Kidnapped b. Ivanhoe c. The Betrothed d.
Lady of the Lake
67. The popular themes of Jane Austin are --------------------
a. War and peace b.Love and honour c. Blood and revenge d.
Love and marriage
68. Pride and Prejudice is the masterpiece of ---------------------
a.
Jane Austin b. Anne Frank c. Emily Dickinson d. Walter Scott
69. Sense and Sensibility is a ----------------------
a. historical novel b. domestic comedy c. domestic tragedy d. regional novel
70. Northenger Abbey and Emma are the famous novels of -------------
a. Jane Austin b.
Antony Trollope c. Defoe d. Richardson
71. N H Ainsworth and Thomas Lovepeacock were the novelists of --------------
a. Romantic Period b. Victorian Period c. Neo-Classical Period d. Modern Period
72. The Great Exhibition was held in ---------------
a. 1867 b. 1853 c.
1778 d. 1851
73. Prosperity and Progress is an important characteristic of ---------------- Age
a. Romantic b. Modern c. Restoration d.
Victorian
74. The Darwinian Theory of Evolution shook the very roots of ------------------
a. Religion b.
Science c. Literature d. Society
75. ____________ is called the representative poet of Victorian Age
a. Wordsworth b. Tennyson c. Blake d.
Darwin
76. Tennyson succeeded ---------------------- as a poet laureate
a. P B
Shelly b. Lord Byron c. Wordsworth d. Matthew Arnold
77. The Lady of the Lake and The Lotus Eaters are the famous works of ---------------
a. Tennyson b.
Matthew Arnold c. Kipling
d. Wordsworth
78. Tennyson’s ---------------- deals with the of Greek hero
a. Paris b. Achilles c.
Adonais d. Ulysses
79. ----------------- is the famous work of Tennyson on women’s progress
a. Diana b. The Princess c. Fairy Queen d.
Lady of the Lake
80. “ Man for the field, woman for hearth
Man for the sword , and for needle she ”
Are the famous lines taken from-----------------
a. Wordsworth’s Solitary
Reaper b. Tennyson’s The Miller’s Daughter(princess)
c. Blake’s London d.
Keats’ La Belle Dame Sans Mercy
81. The famous elegy written by Tennyson is ------------
a.
Lycidas b. Adonais c. In Memoriam d. The Scholar Gipsy
82. In Memoriam is written on the death of ---------------
a.
Arthur Hallam b. Edward King c. A H Clough d. Keats
83. The hero of the Idylls of the King is ------------------
a. King John b. King Arthur c. Charles II d. King Lear
84. Break, Break, Break is a famous lyric by -----------------
a. Wordsworth b. Shelly c. Byron d.
Tennyson
85. Which of the following is not Tennyson’s poem?--------------------
a. Tears Idle Tears b. Ulysses c.
Lycidas d. The Mary Queen
86. ---------------------- is a famous Victorian poet known for dramatic monologues
a. Hardy b. Rossetti c.
Morris d. Browning
87. Pauline is a ---------------- work
a. Poetical b. Dramatic c.
Prose d. Fictional
88. Match the following
A B
A. Jane Austin 1. Dramatic Monologue
B. Walter Scott 2. Pride and Prejudice
C. Browning 3. Ivanhoe
D. Tennyson 4. Ulysses
a. A-3 , B- 2 , C- 1, D-4 b. A-2 , B-3, C-1,
D-4
c. A-4 , B-3 , C-2, D-1 d.
A- 1, B-4, C-2, D-3
89. My Last Duchess and My Last Ride Together are ----------------------
a. sonnets b. novels c. elegies d. dramatic monologues
90. Which among the following is not a dramatic monologue?------------------
a. Dramatic Romances of Men and
Women b. Dramatic Poesie
c. Ulysses d. Dramatic
Personae
91. Fra Lippo Lippi is a ------------------ by Browning
a. a short poem b. an elegy c. prose romance d.
love song
92. The Ring and the Book is a narrative poem by ----------------------
a.
Tennyson b. T S Eliot c. Browning d. W B Yeats
93. Elizabeth Browning was the ---------- of Robert Browning
a.
mother b. sister c. aunt d. wife
94. The Scholar Gipsy and Thyrsis are the ------------------- elegies
a. pastoral b. urban c. romantic d. personal
95. Thyrsis is an elegy written on the death of ------------------
a. Edward King b. A H Clough c. Keats d. Tennyson
96. In Thyrsis and The Scholar Gipsy ------------- forms the background
a.
London b. Cambridge c. Lake d. Oxford
97. -------------------- is the leader of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
a.
Rossetti b. Morris c.
Donne d. Dr Johnson
9. The Pre-Raphaelite poetry was influenced by-----------------------
a. Greek
writers b. Indian philosophy c. Italian painters d. English history
99. Who among the following is not a Pre-Raphaelite poet ?
a. Rossetti b. Morris c.
Swinburne d. Hardy
100. The Blessed Damozel is a famous poetical work of ----------------------
a. Browning b. Rossetti c. T S Eliot d. Morris
101. The Life and Death of Jason is a -------------- by William Morris
a. painting b. narrative poem c. drama d.
novel
102. The Earthly Paradise is a collection of -------------------by Morris
a. 24 tales b. 88 sonnets c. 37 dramas d. 23 lyrics
103. Tristram and Other Poems and The Songs Before Sunrise are the poetical works of ----------------------------
a. Schorer b. Morris c. Rossetti d. Swinburne
104. Christiana Rossetti was the ------------- of Gabriel Rossetti
a. sister b. cousin c. wife d.
mother
105. Match the following
A B
A. Arnold 1. The Ode on Gracian Urn
B. Keats 2. Rubeyet of Omar Khayyam
C. Morris 3. Poet critic
D. Edward Fitzgerald 4. Pre-Raphaelite poet
a. A-3, B-2, C-4, D-1 b. A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4
c. A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2 d.
A-4, B-3, C-1, D-2
106. The Rubeiyeth of Omer Khayyam is the poetic adoption from --------- story
a. Greek
b. Persian c. Arabian d. Indian
107. Who among the following is not a prose writer of 19th century ?
a. Carlyle b. Ruskin c. Tennyson d. R L Stevenson
108. Past and Present is a prose work by ------------------
a. Ruskin b. Carlyle c. J S Mill d. Eliot
109. ---------------------- was the most influencing economist of 19th century
a. Adam Smith b. J S Mill c. Keynes d.
Kautilya
110. French Revolution is a ------------------ work of Carlyle
a. Political b. Historical c. Social d. Socio-political
111. Dover Beach is a ------------------ poem by Arnold
a. Satirical b. Epic c. Melancholic d.
Autobiographical
112. Arnold is famous for --------------
a. sonnets b. elegies c. novels d. essays
113. The famous critical work of Arnold is --------------
a. Essays in Criticism b. Metaphysical poets c. Renaissance d.
Essay on Dramatic Poesie
114. Say not the Struggle Naught Availeh is famous poem by -----------------
a. Arnold b. Clough c. Shelly d. Tennyson
115. Newman wrote books on ------------------
a. philosophy b. history c. economics d.
theology
116. The Idea of a University and Apologia Pro-Vita are written by -----------------
a. Ruskin b.
Carlyle c. Dante d. Bacon
117. Apologia Pro –Vita – Sua of Newman was written in response to an attack by-----------------
a. Charles Kinsley b. Carlyle c. Rossetti d.
Ruskin
118. The Stone of Venice is a famous work by -------------------
a. H G Wells b. Carlyle c. Ruskin d. J S Mill
119 --------------------------- is the famous work on the Gothic architecture by Ruskin
a. Past
and Present b. Modern
Painters c. Unto the Last d.The Stone of Venice
120. Modern Painters is famous work on fine arts by-----------------
a. Ruskin b. Leonardo c. Plato d.
Kingsley
121. Mahatma Gandhi was influenced by Ruskin’s ------------------
a. Modern Painters b. Unto This Last
c. Stone of Venice d.
Seven Lamps of Architecture
122. Match the following
A B
A. Ruskin 1. Culture and Anarchy
B. Carlyle 2. The Idea of University
C. Arnold 3. Munera Pulveris
D. Newman 4. Hero and Hero Worship
a. A-4, B-1, C-3, D-2 b. A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1
c. A-1, B-3, C-4, D-2 d. A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2
123. Arnold’s critical ideas are ---------------- in nature
a. Romantic b. Classical c.
Modern d. Neo-classical
124. Culture and Anarchy is a criticism on ---------------------
a. Civilization b. Political system c. Education d. Modern Society
125. Arnold introduced -------------- method in criticism
a.
historical b. psychological c. Marxist d. Touchstone
126. Westward Hoe and Two Years Ago are the famous novels of ----------------
a. Dickens b. Charles Kingsley c. Hardy d. George Eliot
127. The Cloister and the Hearth is a ----------------- novel by Charles Reade
a. Historical b. Social c. Psychological d.
Regional
128. Who among the following was a novelist besides being the prime minister of England ? -------------------------
a. Wilson George b. Tony Blair c. Margaret Thackeray d.
Benjamin Disraili
129. The Vivian Gray of Benjamin Disreli is a -------------------
a. Satire on Society b. Satire on
Politics
c. Satire on Materialism d. Satire on
Industrialization
130. The Moonstone is a suspense novel by --------------
a. Richardson b. Dickens c. Carlyle d.
Defoe
131. William Thackeray belongs to
--------------------- group of novels
a. Realistic b. Historical c. Social d. Humanitarian
132. The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man are the famous scientific prose works of --------------------
a. J S
Mill b. Aristotle c. Arnold d. Charles Darwin
133. ---------------------- introduced novel of social reform in English
a. Dickens b. Hardy c. Jane Austin d. George Eliot
134. George Eliot is a --------------- novelist
a. social b. political c. historical d. psychological
135. Which among the following is not a novel of Dickens?
a David
Copper field b. Great Expectations c. Middlemarch d. Dombey and the Son
136. ---------------------- is an autobiographical novel by Dickens
a. Great Expectations b.
David Copperfield c. Bleak
House d. A Tale of Two Cities
137. The Tale of two Cities deals with theme of ---------------------
a. Russian Revolution b. Exile c. American War of Independence d. French Revolution
138. The two cities mentioned in the novel The Tale of Two Cities are--------------
a. New
York and London b. London and
Paris c. Paris and Rome d. London and Delhi
139. ------------- is the hero of Dickens’ novel Great Expectations
a. Pip b. Havisham c.
Stephen d. Darcy
140. The Bleak House is a novel by ----------------
a. Hardy b. Theckeray c.
Wilson d. Dickens
141. Charles Kinsley and Charles Reade are the practitioners of -------------- novel
a. social b. psychological c. historical d. regional
142. ----------------- is the masterpiece of William Thackeray
a. Dombey and the Son b. Treasure Island c.
Candida d. Vanity Fair
143. Pendennis is a ----------------- novel by Thackeray
a. satirical b. realistic c. psychological d. historical
144. -------------------- is the pen name of Mary Anne Evans
a. Jane
Austin b. Elizabeth Gaskell c. George Eliot d. Anne Frank
145. Middlemarch is a masterpiece of ---------------------
a. T S
Eliot b. George Eliot
c. Kingsley d. Dickens
146. Match the following
A B
A. George Eliot 1. Emma
B. Thackeray 2. Waverly Novels
C. Walter Scott 3. Henry Edmond
D. Jane Austin 4. Daniel Doranda
a. A-4, B-2, C-3, D-1 b. A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
c. A-1, B-4, C-2, D-3 d. A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2
147. Silas Mariner is a novel by -----------------
a Emily
Dickinson b George Eliot c.
Jane Austin d. T S Eliot
148. Antony Trollope was --------- century novelist
a. 17th b. 18th c. 19th d.
20th
149. A Terrible Temptation was written by -----------------
a. Shakespeare b. Dryden c. Richardson d. Charles Reade
150. The Cloister and the Hearth is a -------------------- novel
a. Social b. Historical c.
Humanitarian d.
Provincial
151. The three Bronte Sisters are ---------- ------------ --------------
a. Emily, Charlotte and Anne b.
Mary, Anne and Jane
c. Emily, Jane and Charlotte d. Mary, Emily and Charlotte
152. Jane Eyre is the well known work of -------------------
a. Thomas Hardy b. D H Lawrence c. Charlotte Bronte d.
Anne Bronte
153. ---------------------- is the masterpiece of Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell
a.
Cranford b. Middlemarch c.
Tono Bungay d. Lord
Jim
154. Which among the following is a novel by Mrs Gaskell?
a. Time and Tide b. Sense and Sensibility c. North and South d. The Professor
155. Diana of the Crossway is the masterpiece of -----------------
a. George Eliot b. Meredith c. Hardy d. Carlyle
156. Hardy’s novels are known as -------------- novels
a. Waverly b. Essex c. Wessex d. Sussex
157. ------------------- is the hero of Hardy’s The Return of the Native
a. Darcy b. Kim c.
Pip d. Clym Yoebright
158. Hardy was ------------------
a. an
optimist b. a pessimist
c. a misanthrope d. a realist
159. Match the following
A B
A. Stevenson 1. Wuthering Heights
B. Hardy 2. Woodlanders
C. Emily Bronte 3. The Egoist
D. Meredith 4. Kidnapped
a. A-4, B-2, C-1, D-3 b.
A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1
c. A-2, B-3, C-4, D-1 d. A-1, B-2, C-4,
D-3
160. Thomas Macaulay was ------------------- of 19th century
a. a novelist b.
an essayist c. a poet d.
a dramatist
161. Macaulay contributed his essays to -----------------
a. The
Times b. The Spectator c. The Quarterly d. The Edinburgh Review
162. The famous critical work of Macaulay in English is --------------
a. Essays in Criticism b. Essay on Milton
c. Defence of Poetry d.
Tradition and Individual Talent
ROMANTIC AGE [UGC]
1. The term Romantic stands for ------------------------
a. the principle of spontaneity
b. The emancipation of imagination
c. The fantastic, the
visionary, the mystical d. a combined effect of all the above
2. The magazine to which Lamb and Hazlitt contributed was --------------
a. The Edinburgh Review b The Quarterly
c. Blackwood’s Edinburgh d. The London Magazine
3. The Waverly Novels are ---------------
a. domestic b. historical c. gothic d. sentimental
4. The Reform Bill of 1832 -----------------
a. brought about a
peaceful revolution in England b. promoted the feudal system
c. promoted industrial
revolution d. hindered the progress of democracy
5. Gracian Urn is symbol of --------------
a. permanence in the world of
flux b. morality in the mundane world
c. permanence in the world of
frozen immobility d. none of the above
6. In ‘ Ode to the West Wind ’the west wind is presented as -------------
a. a destroyer b. a preserver c.
both destroyer and preserver d.
none of the above
7. Lucy mentioned in Wordsworth’s poems is a ----------------
a. real poem b. personification of nature c.
personification of virtue d.
fictitious person
8. In the ‘Little Black Boy’, Bleak hits out against --------------
a. Seclusion b. Child abuse c. Anarch d. Racism
9. The Little Black Boy ends on a note of
a. optimism b. surrender c. pessimism d. compromise
10. Coleridge’s Kubla Khan is a -----------
a. Dream Fragment b.
Romantic Ballad c. Heroic Ode d. Petrarchan Sonnet
11. In Ode on a Gracian Urn Keats has immortalized -------------------
a. Greek Art
b. Sculpture c. The beauty
of trut d. Love
12. Shelly in his poems celebrates the thrill of----------------
a. Nature b. Liberty c. Revolution
d. Beauty
13. Shelly considered the west wind as a ---------------
a. friend and philosopher b.
destroyer and preserver
c. giver and taker d. conqueror and
comforter
14. The Ode to the West Wind ends on a note of -----------------
a. optimism b. pessimism c. doubt d. fear
15. Charles Lamb’s essays are ---------------------
a. impersonal
b. reminiscent c. argumentative d. descriptive
16. The major problem in Austin’s Emma is -----------------
a. incompatibility of desire
and reason b. getting the characters married
c. complication of obvious
things d. has to portray High bury social life
17. Shelley in Ode to the West Wind expresses his ------------------
a. pessimism b. passion c. revolt d. optimism
18. Shelley’s To A Skylark is rich in -------------
a. myths b.
allusions c. metaphors d. allegory
19. Shelly’s Ode to the West Wind -------------------
a. begins in despair and
ends in hope b. begins in hope and ends in despair
c. begins and ends in despair d. begins in belief and ends in disbelief
20. Lucy in Wordsworth’s poem is --------------
a. Nature’s Child b. Wordsworth’s child c. any Child
d. a fairy
21. Wordsworth’s The Prelude -------------------
a. deals with the events in
poet’s life b. is an introduction to
the poet’s philosophy
c. deals with events in British
History d. deals with events in Bible
22. In The Dream Children, Charles Lamb talks about ------------------
a. imaginary children b. all children
c. all children he had d. children he would have had
23. In his essays Charles Lamb --------------
a. wrote artistically about his
personal feelings b. wrote
objectively about world affairs
c. wrote elaborately about
world affairs d. wrote
critically about society
24. Coleridge’s Kubla Khan is ---------------
a. an autobiography b. a heroic tragedy c. an unfinished tragedy d. a fulfilled wish
25. In his novels , Sir Walter Scott --------------
a. held the past in high
esteem b. ridiculed the past
c. tried to change the past d. felt sorry for the past
26. In the Waverly Novels, Scott-------------
a. fictionalized reality b.
fictionalized history
c. fictionalized politics d. fictionalized the
future
27. The Eve of St Agnes is based on --------------
a. religious belief b. superstitious belief c. social custom d. tribal belief
28. The Cenci was written by ------------
a. Boccaccio b. Shelly c. Carducci d. Keats
29. Who wrote the following lines,
“ I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed”
a. Shakespeare b. Dryden c. Shelley d. Johnson
30. Shelly’s last unfinished poem is --------------
a. The Triumph of Life
b. Crossing the Bar
c. Lines to an Indian Air d. Bright Star ! Would I
were Steadfast
31. The year of publication of Lyrical Ballads was------------
a. 1798 b.
1788 c. 1790 d. 1804
32. The poet who was most influenced by French Revolution --------------
a. Wordsworth b. Blake c. Robert Southe d. Thomas More
33. The title of poem based on Byron’s travels is-------------------
a.
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage b.
Hours of Idleness c. The Giaour d. Parisina
34. ‘O My Love is a red red rose
That’s newly sprung in June”
These lines are written by ------------
a. Shelly b.
Burns c. Wordsworth d.
Tennyson
35. Essays of Elia is written by ----------
a. De Quence b. Coleridge c. Lamb d. Wordsworth
36. Which poem of Coleridge is described as the echo of a dream – the shadow a shadow ---------------
a. France an Ode b. Frost at Midnight c.
Kublakhan d. Dejection an Ode
37. Wordsworth’s autobiographical poem is --------------
a. The Recluse b. The Prelude c. The Excursion d. The Leech Gatherer
38. Identify the Pre-Romantic poet ---------------
a. Oliver Goldsmith b. George Crabbe c. William Collins d.
Macperson
39. The Revolt of Islam is written by -------------
a. S T Coleridge
b. Khalil Gibran c. Omar Khayyam d. P B Shelly
40. The theme of Wordsworth’s immortality ode was anticipated by Henry Vaughan’s ------------------------------
a. The Collar b. The Retrial
c. Steps to the Temple d. I
saw eternity the other night
41. The title of along Romantic poem which is partly an imitation of Milton is -------------
a. Hyperion b. Child Harold Pilgrimage c. The Revolt of Islam d. The Ancient Mariner
42. Drug addition is the subject of a work by
a. Coleridge b. Lawrence c. De Quincey d.
Swift
43. In Shakespeare’s lines that come before the swallow dares Daffodils and
The winds of March with beauty --------------------
a. ‘Take’ means b. Enchant c. pleas d. Surpass
44. It may be safely affirmed that there neither is nor can be any essential difference in the language of prose and metrical composition. This was written by -----------------
a. Keats b.
Coleridge c. Byron d. Wordsworth
45. Neo- classical was fundamentally advanced by
a. Plato b. Coleridge c.
Castelvetro d. Rousseau
46. Geraldine is a character in------------------
a. Jane Austin’s Pride and
Prejudice b. Waller Scott’s
Ivanhoe
c. George Eliot’s Mill on the
Floss d.
Colerdige’s Chirstabel
47. The English writer who wrote a delightful essay on Children he never had
a. De
Quincey b. William Hazlitt c. James Boswell d. Charles Lamb
48. “Alone, alone, all all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea
These lines occur in a poem by ------------------
a. Robert Burns b.
St Coleridge c. John Keats d d. William Wordsworth
49. “Heroine whom no one but myself will make much like” said Jane Austin of ---------
a. Emma b. Catherine Morland c. Marta Rush worth d.
Jane Fairfax
50. “That light whose smile kindles the universe, that beauty in which all things work and move …………..now beams on me,
Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality”
These lines occurs in
a. Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound b. Keats’ The fall of Hyperion
c. Wordsworth’s Immortality ode d. Coleridge’s ‘Limbo’
51. Identify the poem which is an elegy on the death of Keats
a. Adonais b. Thyrsis c. In Memoriam d. “Prometheus
52. “I am certain of nothing but of holiness of the hearts affections and the truth of the imagination. This was said by-----------------
a. S, T, Coleridge b. John Keats c.
W, Hazlitt d. W, Blake
53. “ And never lifted up a single stone ” This line occurs in Wordsworth’s ----------------
a.
“Michael” b.
“ The old Cumberland and Beggar”
c. “ Resolution and
Independence” d. “ The Idiot
Boy”
54. “ Let nature be your teacher” a line that occurs in a Wordsworth’s poem ---------------
a.
Tintern Abbey b. The Tables
Turned c. The Excursion d.
The Prelude
55. “Fame is the spur that the clear spirit cloth rise To skim delights and line laborious days ” ……………
a. Shakespeare b. Milton c. Wordsworth d.
Tennyson
56. Wordsworth was accused of being the ‘ Lost leader’ by -----------------
a.
Shelley b. Arnold c. Byron d. Browning
57. Cain is the subject of a work by -------------------
a. Keats b. Scott c.
Byron d. Southey
58. The English writer who was imprisoned in France during the French Revolution was --------------------
a. Byron b. Wordsworth c.
Tom Paine d. Edmond Burke
VICTORIEAN- AGE
1. Wandering between two words, one dead
The other powerless to be born
These lines of Mathew Arnold occur in ---------------
a.
Dover Beach b. Scholar Gypsy c. Stanzas from the Grande chartreuse d.
Resignation
2. George Eliot is the pen name of -------------------
a. Emily Bronte b. Mrs. Gaskell c. Mary Ann Evans d. Anne
Bronte
3. The epithet ‘ decadent ’ suits well the prose of ----------------
a. Arnold b. Ruskin c. Newman d.
Walter Pater
4. Dickens novels represent this movement --------------------
a. Satiric b. Humanitarian
c. Calvinistic d. Tractarian
5. The Lotus Eaters is about --------------
a. Ulysses and his men
b. Aeneas and his sailors c.
Achilles d. Agamemnon
6. The Last Ride Together is a a/an --------------
a. Sonnet b. Lyric c. Ode d. Dramatic monologue
7. What sets David Copperfield apart from Dickens other novels is its--------------
a. Autobiographical element b. social criticism c. didactic tone d.
characterization
8. Sue Bredhead in Jude the Obscure is -------------
a. A typical Victorian woman b. A woman with romantic
c. A typical feminist woman d. None of the above
9. Middlemarch is a -------------
a. historical novel b. provincial novel c. political novel d. didactic novel
10. In Dream Children Lamb writes about children --------------
a. in general b. he could have ha c.
he ha d. that are poor
11. In Dream Children Lamb made art out of --------------
a. psychology b. domestic issue
c. public issues d. personal experiences
12. In both New year’s Eve and Dream Children Lamb speaks about -------------
a. Bridget Eli
b. Alice Winterton c. Levy Bartrum d. Grace Field
13. David Copperfield has a freshness because it --------------
a. offers deep insight into the
psychology of men b. portrays the life of an innocent boy
c. offers a gallery of
unforgettable characters d. is
rooted in social realism
14. Miss Besly Trotwod, left the house indignantly on the birth of David because ---------
a. David was not a baby girl
b. David was an illegitimate child
c. She had a quarrel with
David’s mother d. She did not like the place Blundrston
15. After the death of his mother David was placed by his stepfather in-----------------
a. A school b. A export warehouse c. A law firm d. A
poor house
16. Middlemarch is-----------------
a. the time of the events of
the novel b. A character in the novel
c. A place in the novel d.A seasonal
symbol
17. Middlemarch is about
a. the misconception human
beings in the 19th century b.
Victorian social life
c. Dorothea and Casaubo
d. 19th century religious life
18. The will left by Casaubon said that Dorothea could have all his property if she -------
a. did not marry Ladislaw b.
remained his widow
c. married Ladislaw d.
studied philosophy
19. In The Jude the Obscure , Little Father Time is -------------------
a. a symbol of time in the
story b. a character with chronic
function
c. Arabella’s child by Jude
d. child of Jude and Sue
20. The locale of Jude the Obscure is -----------
a. Essex b. Surrey c.
Sussex d. Wessex
21. Jude in Jude the Obscure, is --------------------
a. a manipulator b. the villain c. the victim d. the winner
22. Browning is famous for his
a. Sonnets b. Songs c. Dramatic monologues d. Elegies
23. In David Copperfield, Mudstones are presented as they
a. Were in reality b.
Appeared to the child David
c. Appeared to the each other d. Ought to be
24. In David copper field David is
a. The hero b. The villain c. The
hero narrator d. The hero commentator
25. In novels of Charles Dickens ------------------
a. There only laughter b. There only laughter
and tears
c. There are only and tears d. There terror
26. Mr. Macawbre in David Copperfield ----------------
a. Always expects a gloomy future b. Is always afraid of life
c. Ridicules life d.
Is always hoping for some things good
27. What impresses the readers most in George Eliot’s novels is her ------------------
a. picturesque description b. Critical observation
c. Ironic perception d. Philosophical out look
28. R. L. Stevenson’s Treasure Island shows the British people’s ------------------
a. Attempt to make easy money b. Love of adventure
c. Taking risks to become wealthy d. Love of sailing
29. The Lotus eaters in The Lotus Eaters were the -------------------
a. Warriors going to the war
b. Warriors returning from the war
c. Warriors preparing for war d. Warriors who escaped
from war
30. Tennyson’s The Lotus Eaters celebrates ------------------
a. A life of hard work b. A life battles
c. A life of adventure d. A life of pleasure
31. Mathew Arnold can be best called --------------
a. A poet b. A critic c. A poetic – critic d. An essayist
32. Which was the first book of essays to be published ?-------------
a. Cicero’s De Amecitia b. Bacon’s Essays
c. La Rochefouauld’s d. Montaigne’s Essays
33. Who wrote Confessions? ----------------
a. Rousseau b. Bacon c. Waller
Paler d. Oscar Wild
34. Clym is a character in -----------------
a. Far from The Madding Crowd b. The Return of The Native
c. The Mayor of Casterbridge d. Tess of the D’
Urbervilles
35. Who wrote Culture and Anarchy -------------------
a. Eliot b. Ruskin c.
Shelley d. Arnold
36. A book written by Charles Dodson, a Victorian mathematician and priest of the church of England which become a classic ----------------
a. Treasure Island b. Peter Pan c.
Gulliver’s Travels c. Alice of the
Wonderland
37. “For men may come, men may go…I go on forever…” Where does this quotation come from? -------------
a. Mathew Arnold b. Tennyson c. Browning d.
Arthur Clough
38. Which Victorian novel has the polemic war as background ------------------
a. Great Expectations b. The Woodlanders c. The Moonstone d. Vanity Fair
39. Bleak House is novel by -----------------
a. R. L. Stevenson b.
Thomas Hardy c.
William Thackaray d. Charles Dickens
40. Arnold’s touchstone method is a critical method for evalvaling -------------------
a. Greek Latin epics b.
All literature c. Dante’s Divine
Comedy d. All poetry of Vernacular
41. Mary Shelley’s famous Gothic novel which is receiving a lot of interest at present ----------------------
a. Wuthering Heights b. Jane Eyre c. Mysteries of Rudolph d.
Frankenstein
42. Lady Catherine de Borough is a creation of ------------------
a. Lane Austin b. Charles Dickens c. William Thackeray d. Keats
43. The Lady of shallot is a poem by ------------------
a. Browning b. Tennyson c. Scott d. Arnold
44. Gabriel Oak is a character in Hardy’s----------------
a. A Pair of Blue Eyes b. The Return of the Native
c. The Mayer of Casterbridge d. Far from the Madding Crowd
45. Eminent Victorians was written by----------------
a. C. Day Lewis b. Litton Starchy c.
Edith Sitwell d. Virginia
Woolf
46. ‘For handful of silver he left us’ is a line from the following poem ----------------
a. Rabbi Ben Ezra
b. A Gram Marian’s Funeral
c. Love among the Ruins d. The Last Ride Together
47. In Memoriam was written in memory of ----------------
a. Arthur Hallam b. Arthur Hugh Clough c.
D. G. Rossetti d. The Duke of Wellington
48. Who killed Abel, a character in the Book of Genesis? ---------------
a. Abraham b. Cain c.
Jacob d. Isaac
49. ‘And we are here as on a darkling plain.
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and night.
Where ignorant armies clash by night.’
These lines are from the poem.
a. The Terror of Death b. The Scholar Gypsy c. Dover Beach
d. To in a Compagna
50. ‘Some are Born great some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon
them’ is a line from ---------------
a. Henry the fourth Part – I b. Much ado about Nothing c. Twelfth Night d. Macbeth
51. The English associationist philosopher John Locke conceived of the mind as ----------
a. A Conduit b. A filter of imagination
c. An Ocean d. A
tabula Rasa
52. The Victorian poet whose work was published only after his death is --------------
a. Tennyson b. Hopkins c. Bridges d. Rosseti
53. Jane Austin’s novels were written during the -----------------
a. Anglo – Dutch novel encounters b. Hundred years war
c. American war of Independence d. Napoleonic war
54. The struggle for radical social reform in the 19th century forms the background of --------------------------
a. “ The Last Ride Together ” b. “ Andrea Del Sarto”
c. “
Two in a Compagana” d. “
Saul”
55. A strong sense of the overriding power of circumstance distinguishes the novels of ------------
a. George Meredith b. Thomas Hardy c. R. S. Stevenson d. Arnold Bennett
56. Identify the character in Vanity Fair who has made for his fortune in India ------------
a. Joseph Sedley b.
Lord Steyne c. George Osborn d. Rawdon Crawley
57. Belief in progress and in the superiority of the present to the past char aclweges the work of -----------------
a. T. B. Macaw lay b.
Arnold c. Carlyle d. Ruskin
58. The Victorian poet who cultivated many arts successfully besides poetry was ---------
a. Tennyson b.
William Morris c. Mathew Arnold d.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
59. Cardinal Newman described the character of a gentleman in his book ----------------
a. The Idea of a University b. Apologia Provita Sua
c. Loss and Gain
d. The Grammar of Assent
60. The poet whose work rescued John Stuart Mill from sever mental depression was ---------------------------
a. John Keats b.
William Shakespeare c. William Wordsworth d. George Herbert
61. The book of Ruskin which influenced Gandhi’s out look was ----------------
a. Unto this Last b.
Sesame and Lilies c. Munera Polveris
d. The Stones of Venice
62. Dickens gave an unfavorable portrait of American life and manners in his novel ---------- -
a. Nicholas Nickelby b. Martin Chuzzlewit c. Dombey and Son d. Hard Times
63. Natural Supernaturalism is The title of a chapter in ---------------
a. Sartor Resartus b. Past and Present c. Culture and Anarchy d.
Literature and Dogma
64. Will Honey comb is a character in ----------------
a. The plain Dealer in Wycherley b. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
c. The Pickwick Papers by Dickens d. The Spectator by Addison
65.Tennyson’s The Princess deals with ------------------
a. Enchantment b. Women’s emancipation c. Arthurian Legend d.
Evolution
66. Dickens treats of the law delay in ---------------
a. Hard Times b. Oliver
Twist c. Little Dorrit d. Nicholas Nickelby
67. Hardy’s title Far From the Madding Crowd is taken from a poem by ---------------
a. Gray b. Collins c. Wordsworth d.
Keats
68. A Vindication of the Rights of Women was written by -----------------
a. Mary Woolstonecraft b.
Eloune Showalter c. Julia Kristeva d. Mary Shelley
69. Queen Victoria ascended the throne in -----------------
a. 1830 b. 1837 c. 1832 d. 1857
70. The assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand led to -----------------
a. Fragmentation of the Balkan b. World War I c. World War I d. The rise of Bismark
MODERN AGE
1. Oscar Wilde was the mentor of --------------
a. The Aesthetic Movement b. The Tractarian Movement
c. The Pre- Raphaelite Movement d. None of these
2. Who amongst the following was not a Georgian----------------
a. Walter de La Mare b. John Mansfield c. Kipling d. Brooke
3. Hopkins was associated with this innovation in poetry----------------
a. Free Verse b. Sprung Rhythm c.
Blank Verse d. Closed couplet
4. “What a life if full of care We have no time to stand and stare”
These lines expressing modern day tension were uttered by ----------------
a. Alfred Noyes b. W. H. Davies c. Wilfred Gibson d. Segfried
Sassoon
5. This novels often depict adventures on the sea --------------
a. H. G. Wells b. Joseph Conrad c. Arnold Bennett d James Joys
6. The historical importance of T. S. Eliot is that he is leader of the -------------------
a. Symbolist movement b. Surrealist movement
c. Modernist movement d. Imagist movement
7. Yeats The Crazy Jane poems belong to him -----------------
a. early period b. last period c. middle period d. whole career and period same
8. Arnold Wesker was associated with
a. Working class drama b. Drawing room drama c. Kitchen sink drama d. None of these
9. The old man out of group in -----------------
a. Show b. Yeats c.
Eliot d. Fry
10. The Ascent of F. 6 war written by ---------------
a. W. H. Auden
b. Christopher Isherwoo
c. Auden and Isherwood in collaboration d. None of these
11. A refrain of Yeats “Easter 1916” in “A terrible beauty is born” refers to --------------
a. the tragedy of the first World War b.
the death of Romantic Ireland
c. the Dublin tragedy
d. None of the above
12. “ Things fall apart, the center can not hold ” This line depicts the state of ---------------
a. England b.
Ireland c. Europe d. the poet’s mind
13. The Second section of the Waste Land is called ------------------
a. A Game of Ches b. A
Game of Chance c. A
Game of
Love d. A Game of Dice
14. Easter 1916 is Yeats’ reaction to --------------
a. the Christian feast b. the
Irish Rebellion c. the attitude of the
British d. Christian Myth
15. The Rainbow is the study of ------------
a. mother – son relationship b. father – son relationship
c. man – women relationship d. human relationship in general
16. The major concern of D H Lawrence’s The Rainbow is ------------------
a. the sexual aspects of love and marriage b. sexuality
of human beings
c. history of three generations d. emotional
adjustment
17. Ursula and Skrebensky broke their affair after -----------
a. Skrebensky planned to go to India after
marriage
b. Ursula realized that Skrebensky’s Polish
origin would become a problem
c. a house party when realized that they
could not match
d. Ursula became ill
18. Shaw’s Saint John has a / an ---------------
a. happy ending b. sad ending c. ambiguous endin d.
ironic ending
19. In The Windhover, Hopkins expresses his -----------------
a. love of Nature b. love of humanity c. religious
fervor d. political commitment
20. Besides poems T S Eliot also wrote -----------
a. novels b.
short stories c. travelogues d. dramas
21. According to Yeats the “second coming” will be -----------------
a. peaceful b. terrible c. chaotic
d. joyful
22. Easter 1916 celebrates ------------------
a. a Christian feast b. a
national event c. the kings wedding d. a rebellion
23. Eliot’s Waste Land refers to ----------------
a. the middle Ages b. modern civilization c. Ancient civilization d. the Dark Ages
24. In Waste Land Eliot uses symbols from -------------
a. All civilization and cultures b. Western culture c. Indian culture d.
Pop culture
25. Jim Corbett wrote about -------------
a. Maharajah’s b. British rules c. Man-eating tigers d. Rural people
26. The film version Pygmalion is --------------
a. The sound of music b. The sound and Fury c. My Fair Lady d.
27. Pozzo appears in ---------------
a. The Rose Tatoo b. Macro Millions c.
The Birthday Party d. Waiting for
Godot
28. Who wrote the Accidental Man? --------------
a. Murdoch
b. Amis c. Orwell d. Osborne
29. Who is the author of A Gun For Sale? --------------
a. Hardy b. Housma c. Stein beck d. Greene
30. Which one of the following is associated with the Royal Court Theatre London? -----------------------
a. Arnold Wesker b. Alan
Plater c. Edward Bond d. Tom Stoppard
31. James Joyce’s Ulysses was published in ----------------
a. 1916 b.
1922 c. 1926 d. 1930
32. Time held Green and dying though I sang in my chains like the sea --------------
Who wrote the above lines
a. Hopkins b. Shelly c.
Dylan Thomas d. Owen
33. Who made this statement
An aged man is but a paltry thing? ---------------
a. Pound b. Yeats c.
Eliot d. Auden
34. A Grain of Wheat is written in the background of ------------------
a. Suez b. Boer War c.
Apartheid d. Mau-Mau Rebellion
35. The Great Indian Novel is reworking of ------------------
a. The Ramayana b. The Mahabharat c. Kathasaga d. Panchatantra
36. King George VI formerly abandoned his title of “ Emperor of India ” in -------------
a.August 1947 b. June
1947 c. July 1947 d.
September 1947
37. “ And I am dumb to tell the lovers tomb
How at my sheet goes the same crooked worm ”
These lines occur in a poem by ------------
a. Dylan Thomas b. Philip Larkin c. R S Thomas d.
Robert Graves
38. The poet who wrote ‘Little Gidding ’is ----------
a. W H Auden b. Stephen
Spender c. T S Eliot d. W B Yeats
39. “ All changed, changed utterly
A terrible beauty is born ”
These lines occur in a poem by -----------------
a. W B Yeats b.
Robert Brooke c. Louis Mac Niece d. W H Davies
40. One of the was not a member of the Bloomsbury group --------------------
a. Sidney Webb b. E. M. Foster c. Virginia Woolf d. Aldous Huxley
41. The year in which the famous modern poem The Waste Land was published? ---------------------------
a. 1922 b.
191 c. 1936 d.
1928
42. “Arose is arose is a rose is a rose” This statement was made by -------------------
a. Shakespeare’s Julie b. Sylvia Plath c. Robert Burns d. Gertrude Stein
43. Which English writer claimed to have played “the sedulous ape” to great men of letters? ---------------
a. Bernard Show b. Robert Lynd c. D. H. Lawrence d. R. L. Stevenson
44. The Western Weddings is a poem by --------------
a. Philip Larkin b. Tom Gun c.
Ted Hughes d. Roy Fuller
45. The poet who cut down the manuscript of The Waste Land to about one third of its original size was -----------------
a. T. L. Hulme b. Robert Frost c. Ezra Pound
d. W. B. Yeats
46. Which modern play is centered on the conflict between a medieval king and an Archbishop -----------------
a. St. Joan b. The
Lark c. A man for all seasons
d. Murder in the Cathedral
47. The Birthday Party is written by ------------------
a. Arnold Wesker b. Harold Pinter c. John Osborne d. Edward Bond
48. ‘Did she put on his knowledge with his power’
Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?
These lines are from
a. ‘A Prayer for My Daughter’ b.
‘The second coming’
c. ‘Among School Children’ d. ‘Leda and the Swan’
49. Prof Higgins is a character in -----------------
a. Pygmalion b. The Apple Cart c. Heart broke House d.
The Man of Destiny
50. Crow is a collection of poems by
a. Ted Hughes b. Philip Larkin c.
Sylvia Plath d. Dylan Thomas
51. The first of the Four Quartets by Eliot is entitled -------------------
a. ‘Burnt Norto b. ‘Ash Wednesday’ c. What the Thunder Said d.
East Coker
52. Do not go gentle into that good night is a poem by -----------------
a. W. H. Auden b. Dylan Thomas c. E. E. Cummings d. Wilfred Owen
53. The Testament of Beauty is written by -------------------
a. John Mansfield b. Robert Bridges c. Edmund Blundon d. Hilda
Dolittle
54. Sophia and Constance are the sisters in a novel by ------------------
a. John Galsworthy b. Arnold Bennet c. H.
G. Wells d. George Meredith
55. The 1995 Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to -----------------
a. Jaques Derrid b. Wole Soyinka
c. Derek Walcott d.
Seamus Heaney
56. Helena in Look Back in Anger becomes a mistress of -----------------
a. Jimmy Porter b.Colonel Redford c. Cliff d. Hugh Tanner
57. Which of the following characters in Waiting for Godot goes dumb in the second act? ---------------------
a. Pozzo b.
Godot c. Lucky d. Estragon
58. Mrs Clarissa Dalloway is a character in a novel written by ------------------
a. Henry James b. Virginia Woolf c.
Irish Murdoch d. Penelope Mortimer
59. Which of these writers has written substantially in a language other than English ? ------------------
a. George Eliot b. T. S. Eliot c. Conrad d. Beckett
60. The novelist has provided two alternative ending to ----------------
a. The French Lieutenants Women b. Midnight’s Children
c. Lady Chatterley’s Lover d. Ulysses
61. The English poet associated with Mussolini’s rule was ------------------
a. W. H. Auden b. T. S. Eliot c. Ezra Pound d. W. B. Yeats
62. T. T. Eliot’s line I had not thought death had undone so many is a quotation from --------------------------
a. King Lear b.
Faust c. W. H. Auden d. T. S. Eliot
63. Which war made the statement that his subject was the pity of war that the poetry was in the pity ? ---------------
a. Rupert Broke b.
Siegfrid Sassoon c. Wilfred Owen d. Isaac Rosen bury
64. I have measured out my life in coffee spoons is a statement made by ----------------
a. Mrs. Warren b. Elizabeth Bennet c. Alfred Prufrock d.Celia Copplestone
65. Waiting for Godot is an example -------------------
a. theatre of society b. classical tragedy c.
the absurd drama d. an expressionist
66. A European flay sight who had a dominant influence on British drama of the first half of the 20th century was ------------------
a. Racine b. Goethe
c. Ibsen d. Chekov
67. Which 20th century poet the phrase to stand and stare popular? -----------------
a. Walter de la Mare b. John Drink
water c. Oliver Goldsmith d Sheridan
68. One of the following did not belong to the group writers known as “The Angry Young Men
-----------
a. Kingsley Amis b. Lawrence Durrell c.
John Osborne d. John Wayne
69. Which famous poem contains the line Hiermirnt is mad ? ---------------
a. Lapis Lazuli b. The Waste
Land c. Dover Beach d. The
Wreck of Deutschland
70. The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog was written by -----------------
a. C. P. Snow b. James Joyce c. Dylan Thomas d. Angus Wilson
71. A modern play which employs The classical convention of the chorus is ---------------
a. St. Joan b. Murder in the
Cathedral c. Becket d.
Lady Windermere’s Fan
72. Identify poet who emerged in the 30s in England -------------------
a. T. E. Eliot b. W. B. Yeats c. Dylan Thomas
d. W. H. Auden
73. D. H. Lawrence gives a portrait of himself in the character of ------------------
a. Gerald Crich b. Rupert Burkin c.
Will Brangwen d. The Sculptor
74. Identify novel, which is a dystrophic in the list. -----------------
a. Ere Ho b. Ninteen Eighly Four c. News from Nowhere d. Cooking Backwards
75. Post second World War British drama may be said to make a new beginning with ------------
a. Look Back in Anger b.
The Cocktail Party c. The Winslow Boy d.
The Care Taker
76. Mussolini and Fauvism in were admired by ----------------
a. W. H. Auden b. Ezra Pound c. Christopher Isherwood d.
Graham Greene
77. Conrad examines the impact of American capitalism in South America in his novel -----------
a. Under Western Eyes b. Lord Jim c.
Heart of Darkness d. Nostrum
78. The Indian whose name gives the title of one of Yeats poems was --------------------
a. Rabindranath Tagore b. Shri Purohit Swami c. Mohini Chatterjee d. Bhagwan Shri Hamsa
79. T. S. Eliot’s line “Sweet Thomas run softly till I end song ” is a quotation from ----------------
a. Shakespeare b. Done c. Wordsworth d. Spenser
80. The group known as the Movement Poets does not include ------------------
a. Robert Conquest b. Kingsley Amis c. W. H. Auden d. Philip Larkin
81. Shaw’s concept of Life Force is emanated in -----------
a. Arms and the Man b.
Candida c. Man and Superman d. The Applecart
82. Many of D. H. Lawrence’s novels are set in ------------------
a. The Nottingham region b. Yorkshire c. Wessex
d. Ulster
83. Robert Frost’s nature poems chiefly set in -------------------
a. The Midwest b. New Hampshire
c. The South d. California
84. The Zoo Story in an absurdial play because -----------------
a. There are animal characters in it b.
The characters are obscured in it
c. Mad person appear in it d. It lacks external
action
85. Hesler wrote the Scarlet Latter as ------------------
a. a mark of sexual transgression b. a
taken of dirmes dales guilt
c. a movement of her relationship with the
pastor d. a religious
observance
86. Strong lined poetry was a term applied to -------------------
a. Metaphysical poetry b. Augustan Satire c.
Hopki’s poetry d. Imagist poetry
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