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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