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1). Which of the following begins with these words?

“Good morning to the day; and next, my gold!
Open the shrine that I may see my saint"
A). The Poetaster
B). Cynthias Revels
C). Volpone
D). None of these

Correct Answer: Volpone

2). Who could have written The Book of Job?

A). John Milton
B). Henry Waughn
C). William Shakespeare
D). None of these

Correct Answer: None of these

3). The theatres were reopened in 1660. When were they closed last?
A). 1616
B). 1642
C). 1650
D). 1652
Correct Answer: 1642

4). The “Circulating Libraries” were popular during

A). The Eighteenth Century
B). The seventeenth Century
C). The Nineteenth Century
D). Both A and C

Correct Answer: Both A and C

5). The Closed Heroic Couplet used by pope is unique because...

A). The two lines act as a stanza
B). It makes use of an end stopped first line
C). Every Line contains, a caesura
D). All the above

Correct Answer: All the above

6). Which of the following Chaucers tale is in Prose?

A). The Pardoners tale
B). The Cooks tale
C). The Prioress's tale
D). The Parsons tale

Correct Answer: The Parsons tale

7). Don Juan written by Lord Byron is specimen of

A). A Heroic Play
B). Epic Satire
C). Epic Narrative
D). Romantic Poem

Correct Answer: Epic Satire

8). The first Folio edition of Shakespeare's plays was printed in ?

A). 1616
B). 1660
C). 1623
D). None of these

Correct Answer: 1623

9). Look Back in Anger was year preformed in year

A). 1955
B). 1956
C). 1957
D). 1958

Correct Answer: 1956

10). Who is the movement poet

A). Philip Larkin
B). Ted Hughes
C). T.S. Eliot
D). W.H. Auden

Correct Answer: Philip Larkin

11). __________ is not a character in Jane Austen's 'Emma'

A). Catherine Morland
B). George Knightley
C). Harriet Smith
D). Frank Churchill

Correct Answer: Catherine Morland

12). Who said A thought to Donne was an experience. It modified his

Sensibility
A). F.R. Leavis
B). T.S. Eliot
C). Samuel Johnson
D). I.A. Richards

Correct Answer: T.S. Eliot

13). The Great Tradition was written by _________

A). G. Wilson Knight
B). T.S. Eliot
C). F.R. Leavis
D). Allen Tate

Correct Answer: F.R. Leavis

14). Rape of the lock by Pope contains _________ cantes

A). Two
B). Three
C). Four
D). Five

Correct Answer: Five

15). Romeo & Juliet is based on the story by which Italian Author?
A). Bandello
B). Virgil
C). John Stow
D). H.B. Stowe

Correct Answer: Bandello

16). A Reed Shaken by the wind is written by ________

A). W.H. Auden
B). Tim May
C). T.S.Eliot
D). Gavin Maxwell

Correct Answer: Gavin Maxwell

17). “Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it but moulds it
to its purpose" was said by
A). Oscar Wilde
B). Ezra Pound
C). Coleridge
D). Aristotle

Correct Answer: Oscar Wilde

18). Who said, “I awoke one morning and found myself" famous
A). Chaucer
B). Matthew Arnold
C). Shakespeare.
D). Byron

Correct Answer: Byron

19). Who wrote under pseudonym of 'y.y'

A). Bertrand Russell
B). Jerome K. Jerome
C). Robert Lynd.
D). Francis Bacon

Correct Answer: Robert Lynd.

20). Who said 'Get Stewed, Books are a load crop'

A). Philip larkin
B). B. Behan
C). Hitler
D). Nixon

Correct Answer: Philip larkin

21). Who is the Author of 'Toba Tek Singh'

A). Saadat Hasan Manto
B). Kishan Chander
C). Prem Chand
D). K.A. Abbas

Correct Answer: Saadat Hasan Manto

22). Who was the first recipient of Sahitya Akademi award for English
A). Raja Rao
B). R.K. Narayan
C). Bhabani Bhattacharya
D). Mulk Raj Anand

Correct Answer: R.K. Narayan

23). Which among the following gods and goddesses takes sides in the
Trojan was in 'Iliad'?
A). Athena
B). Aphiodite
C). Zeus
D). Hera

Correct Answer: All

24). Who wrote 'The rising of the moon'

A). Lady Gregory
B). W.B. Yeats
C). John Osborne
D). Harold Pinter

Correct Answer: Lady Gregory

25). Who is not regarded as the Georgian Poet?

A). Hopkins
B). W.H. Davies
C). Walter de la Mare
D). John Masefield

Correct Answer: Hopkins

26). 'Cry the beloved country' is written by
A). Alan Paton
B). Nadine Gordimes
C). Alodus Huxley
D). J.D. Salinger

Correct Answer: Alan Paton

27). New Testament has __________ books

A). 27
B). 29
C). 31
D). 33

Correct Answer: 27

28). Sean 0' Casey wrote which work?

A). The Shadow of the Glen
B). The Rising of the Moon
C). The Tinker's Wedding
D). Juno and the Paycock

Correct Answer: Juno and the Paycock

29). The manuscripts of Shakespeare's play are available?

A). Certainly yes
B). Certainly no
C). Partly available
D). None of these
Correct Answer: Certainly no

30). Shakespeare's sonnets are in the following form:

A). Three quartrains and a couplet.
B). An octave and sestet
C). Both 'a' and 'b'
D). None of these

Correct Answer: Three quartrains and a couplet.

31). Who is the heroine in Shakespeare 'Tempest'

A). Viola
B). Portia
C). Miranda
D). Beatrice

Correct Answer: Miranda

32). “France standing on the topo f nature seeming born again." These
lines are from...
A). The Prelude
B). Daffodils
C). Tintern Abbey
D). None of these

Correct Answer: The Prelude

33). Which of the following of G.B. Shaw was prescribed because of its
protrayal sexual exploitation?
A). Widower's Houses
B). Mrs. Warren's Profession
C). The Philanderer
D). Buyant Billions

Correct Answer: Mrs. Warren's Profession

34). Shelley's Queen Mab is about..

A). Religious persecution
B). Domestic bondage
C). Both 'a' and 'b'
D). None of these

Correct Answer: Both 'a' and 'b'

35). Who wrote Abasalom Abasalom?

A). Dryden
B). Dr. Johnson
C). Willaim Faulkner
D). Fitzgerald

Correct Answer: Willaim Faulkner

36). The Quintessence of Ibsenism was written by...

A). G.B. Shaw
B). Oscar Wilde
C). R.L. Stevenson
D). None of these

Correct Answer: G.B. Shaw

37). What does Arnold's 'Scholar Gypsy' deal with?
A). About scholarship
B). About the Gypsies
C). About the decay of youth and hope
D). None of these

Correct Answer: About the decay of youth and hope

38). The 'prefaces' of Shaw to his own plays are very popular
A). Yes
B). No
C). Perhaps
D). None of these

Correct Answer: Yes

39). The novel, No name (1862) was written by...

A). Anthony Trollope
B). Charles Kingsley
C). Wilkie Collins
D). None of these

Correct Answer: Wilkie Collins

40). Shakaspeare's Sonnets were printed by...

A). Thomas Thorpe
B). Ben Jonson
C). Francis Beaumont
D). John Fletcher
Correct Answer: Thomas Thorpe

41). The year 1776 was associated with

A). Invention of steam engine
B). The Wars of Roses
C). American Independence
D). None of these

Correct Answer: American Independence

42). Who is an 18th century author, essayist and a painter. One of the
paintings is still in National Portrait Gallery
A). Joseph Addison
B). Bacon
C). Hazlitt
D). W.M. Thackeray

Correct Answer: Hazlitt

43). Which of Charles Lamb friend said “Lamb was the most delightful,
the most provoking and sensible of men. He always made the best
pun, and the best remarks in the course of evening."
A). Hazlitt
B). Coleridge
C). Bacon
D). Wordsworth

Correct Answer: Hazlitt

44). Who among the following introduced sonnets?
A). Thomas Wyatt
B). Philip Sidney
C). Shakespeare
D). Spenser

Correct Answer: Thomas Wyatt

45). The Term 'Negative Capability' is associated with

A). Wordsworth
B). John Keats
C). T.S. Eliot
D). Shelley

Correct Answer: John Keats

46). What is everyman

A). Essay by Camb
B). Essay by Bacon
C). A Morality Play
D). A Comedy

Correct Answer: A Morality Play

47). 'Light breaks where no sunshines' is written by

A). D.H. Lawrence
B). T.S. Eliot
C). W.B. Yeats
D). Dylan Thomas

Correct Answer: Dylan Thomas

48). Who wrote 'Daffodils'
A). Keats
B). Shelley
C). Byron
D). Wordsworth

Correct Answer: Wordsworth

49). When was Johnson's Dictionary published

A). 1754
B). 1755
C). 1756
D). 1757

Correct Answer: 1755

50). Orwell's Animal Farm is about ...

A). The animal world
B). The Homosapiens
C). The degeneration of communist ideas
D). None of these

Correct Answer: The degeneration of communist ideas

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