sympathize with (8) “Idylls of the (b) Keats

(1) The other King” is illustration (c) Byron

subjugation of (b) Say bad thing, of Tennyson’s (d) Tennyson
Women (1869) is about others deep interest in:
an important text (c) To empathize (b) Keats
of: (a) Medieval
(c) To empathize legends
(a) George Eliot (b) The role of the (12) Little Time is a
(b) Byron king character in
(c) John Mill (5) “Art for arts (c) Hero worship Hardy’s
(d) Hardy sake” found its (d) The
true adherent in: contemporary (a) The return of
(c) John Mill condition the native
(a) Wordsworth (b) Jude the
(2) Which of the (b) Byron (b) The role of the Obscure
following poems (c) Browning king (c) Mayor of
by Tennyson is a (d) Wilde Casterbridge
monodrama?
(d) Wilde (9) Who believed (b) Jude the
(a) Ulysses that poetry is the Obscure
(b) Break, Break, spontaneous
Break (6) It as the best of overflow of
(c) Maud times, it was the emotions? (13) Which is the
(d) Crossing the worst of time, it (a) Blake famous elegy
Bar was the worst – (b) Byron written by Shelley?
the opening of (c) Wordsworth
(c) Maud Dickens’ (d) Keats (a) In Memoriam
(b) Lycidas
(a) Hard Times (c) Wordsworth (c) Adonis
(3) The line “she (b) David (d) Thyrsis
dwells with Beauty Copperfield
– Beauty that must (c) Oliver Twist (10) Who after the (c) Adonis
be” occurs in (d) A Tales of Two publication of a
Keats’ Cities poem, awoke and
found himself (14) The moral
(a) Lamia (d) A Tales of Two famous? choice is
(b) Ode to a Cities everything in the
Grecian Urn (a) Shelley works of:
(c) Ode on (b) Browning
Melancholy (7) The character (c) Wordsworth (a) Dickens
(d) Endymion of Little Neil is a (d) Keats (b) George Eliot
creation of: (c) Hardy
(c) Ode on (c) Wordsworth
Melancholy (a) Hardy (a) Dickens
(b) Eliot
(c) Oscar Wilde (11) The image of
(4) Negative (d) Dickens the femme fatale (15) Which of the
Capability to dominates the following is
Keats, means (d) Dickens poetry of: illustrative of
Ruskin’s interest in
(a) The ability to (a) Wordsworth social economy?
 Gulliver’s Travels? Dickens
(a) The Seven
Lamps (19) Would you tell (a) Charles Dickens
(b) Unto this Last Sordelo (b) Chaucer (8) Who wrote
(c) The Stones of (Browning) as a: (c) Jonathan Swift “Jane Eyre”?
Venice
(a) Dramatic (c) Jonathan Swift (a) Charlotte
(b) Unto this Last Monologue Bronte
(b) Dramatic Lyrics (b) Emile Bronte
(c) Tragic Drama (4) Which of the (c) Anne Bronte
(16) Which one of following is not a
the following (b) Dramatic Lyrics dramatist? (a) Charlotte
poets named the Bronte
Romantic poet as (a) Ben Johnson
the “pond poets”? (20) Which one of (b) Byron
the following (c) Eliot (9) After whom is
(a) Southey poets was the Elizabethan
(b) Shelley appointed Poet (b) Byron Age named?
(c) Keats Laureate in the
(d) Byron year 1813? (a) Elizabeth-I
(5) Which of the (b) Elizabeth-II
(a) Southey (a) Tennyson following is not a (c) Elizabeth
(b) Byron play by Browning
(c) Southey Shakespeare?
(17) The Charge of (d) Wordsworth (a) Elizabeth-I
the Light Brigade” (a) Hamlet
(Tennyson) (c) Southey (b) Macbeth
commemorates: (c) Dr. Faustus (10) What is the
1) Shakespeare’s name of
(a) The Boer War Hamlet is (c) Dr. Faustus Wordsworth’s long
(b) The battle of (a) A tragedy poem?
Trafalgar (b) Comedy
(c) The Crimean (6) E. M. Foster is (a) The Canterbury
War (a) A tragedy a Tales
(b) Don Juan
(c) The Crimean (a) Novelist (c) The Prelude
War (2) Earnest (b) Poet
Hamingway has (c) Playwright (c) The Prelude
written
(18) The Elgin (a) Novelist
Marbles inspired (a) Old Man and (11) A poem
Keats to write: the Sea mourning
(b) Mr. Chips (7) “The Pickwick someone’s death
(a) Endymion (c) Pride and Papers” is a novel is called:
(b) Lamia Prejudice by:
(c) The Grecian (a) Fable
Urn (a) Old Man and (a) Jane Austen (b) Epic
(d) Melancholy the Sea (b) Charles Dickens (c) Elegy
(c) Thackery
(c) The Grecian (c) Elegy
Urn (3) Who wrote (b) Charles
(12) Which of the (c) Pygmalion (e) An "airy fairy"
following is not a (20) Who is the
tragedy written by heroine of
Shakespeare? (16) Which one of Shakespeare’s play (3) Wordsworth’s
the following “Hamlet”? Poetry always
(a) Macbeth writers is not reflects:
(b) Othello woman? (a) Cordella
(c) Merchant of (b) Desdemona (a) The creation of
Venice (a) Emily Bronte (c) Portia abstract concepts
(b) Jane Austen (d) Ophelia (b) An
(c) Merchant of (c) Robert endorsement of
Venice Browning (d) Ophelia the scientific
tradition
(c) Robert (1) Romanticism (if (c) The creation of
(13) Who wrote Browning it can be an original
“The Second pinpointed) is philosophy
Coming”? usually assumed to (d) An examination
(17) Who is the date from: of extraneous
(a) E. Spencer villain in matters
(b) Eliot “Hamlet”? (a) Publication of (e) His belief in a
(c) W. B. Yeats "Intimations of world to come.
(a) Horatio Immortality"
(c) W. B. Yeats (b) Iago (b) The beginning (c) The creation of
(c) Claudius of Queen Victoria’s an original
reign philosophy
(14) What period (c) Claudius (c) The Reform Bill
in English of 1832
Literature is called (d) Publication of (4) Byron’s Poetry
the “Augustans (18) Who kills "Lyrical Ballads" is ambiguous and
Age”? Macbeth in the and its preface has a vividness of
play “Macbeth”? (e) 1800 – 1801 phrasing which
(a) Early 16th sometimes
Century (a) Duncan (d) Publication of reaches the point
(b) 17th Century (b) Bonquo "Lyrical Ballads" of abstraction:
(c) Early 18th (c) Macduff and its preface
Century (a) True
(c) Macduff (b) False
(c) Early 18th (2) Which of the
Century following would a (a) True
(19) Which is the Romantic Poet be
last of most likely to use?
(15) Which play Shakespeare’s (5) "English Bards
among the great tragedies? (a) A "feathered and Scotch
following plays is chorister" Reviewers" is a
not blank verse? (a) Macbeth (b) A "member of satirical attack on
(b) King Lear the plumy race" contemporary
(a) Hamlet (c) Othello (c) A "bird" writers who had
(b) The Jew of (d) Hamlet (d) A "tenant of annoyed Byron.
Malta the sky"
(c) Pygmalion (b) King Lear (e) An "airy fairy" (a) True
(b) False (b) Shakespeare (c) Allow the Poems, Chiefly
writer to draw on Lyrical (1830) to
(a) True his death of Queen
(10) Shelly was a (d) Be brooding Victoria (1901)
firm believer in all and meditative.
(6) In 1850, of the following own personality
Tennyson except: (15) Which of the
succeeded (a) Objectify the following works
Wordsworth as (a) Personal issue in terms of a ‘had the greatest
poet laureate. freedom cause influence on the
(b) The individual’s Victorian Age?
(a) True responsibility to
(b) False society (13) Charles (a) Mill’s "On
(c) The power of Lamb’s "Dream Liberty"
(a) True love Children" is (b) Tennyson’s "In
(d) Human notable for its: memoriam"
conduct based on (c) Darwin’s
(7) Mary Anne conviction (a) Crushing "Origin of Species"
Evans is the same tragedy (d) Carlyle’s
person as George (d) Human (b) Humor "Sartor Resartus"
Eliot. conduct based on (c) Whimsical (e) Ruskin’s "The
conviction Pathos stones of Venice"
(a) True (d) Cynicism
(b) False (b) Tennyson’s "In
(11) Shelley’s (c) Whimsical memoriam"
(a) True poetry used all of Pathos
the following
components for (16) In which of
(8) Keats’ themes except: (14) The Victorian the following
widespread appeal age can be dated Genres did
is to the Reader’s (a) Worship of God by which of the Victorian
interest in the (b) Passion following events Literature achieve
supernatural. (c) Narcissism and years: its greatest
(d) Emotional self- success:
(a) True indulgence (a) Mills’s "on
(b) False liberty’ (1859) to (a) Drama
(a) Worship of end of century (b) Epic Poetry
(b) False God (1900) (c) Lyric Poetry
(b) Reform Bill (d) The Essay
(1832) to end of (e) The Novel
(9) The literary (12) The prose of Boer War (1902)
figure who had the the Romantic (c) Birth of (e) The Novel
most pronounced period had a Tennyson (1809)
effect on Keats tendency to: to his death (1892)
was: (d) Tennyson’s (17) Identify the
(a) Objectify the Poems, Chiefly sources of the
(a) Dante issue in terms of a Lyrical (1830) to quotations listed
(b) Shakespeare cause death of Queen below:
(c) Wordsworth (b) Advance a Victoria (1901)
(d) Shelley single system to 1. "Hail to thee
the public (d) Tennyson’s blithe spirit"
2. "Spirit of beauty
that dost 1-B (c) Milton
consecrate" 2-H (5) Who is the
3. "Paint/Must 3-A Villain in ‘Hamlet’?
never hope to 4-C (10) "After Apple
reproduce the- 5-F (a) Horatio Picking" is written
faint Halfflush that 6-G (b) Iago by:
dies along her 7-D (c) Claudius
throat". 8-E (a) Robert
4. " Where are the (c) Claudius Browning
songs of Spring? (1) Who wrote (b) Robert Frost
Ay,- where are "Shakespeare’s
they? Later Comedies’? (6) Who is the (b) Robert Frost
Think not of them, heroine of
thou hast thy (a) A.C. Bradley ‘Hamlet’?
music too (b) Palmer D.J. (11) Ernest
5. "Ah, happy, (c) Dr.Johnsofl (a) Cordelia Hemingway wrote:
happy boughs! (b) Portia
that cannot shed (b) Palmer D.J. (c) Ophelia (a) Mr. Chips
your leaves, nor (b) Pride and
ever bid the Spring (c) Ophelia Prejudice
adieu", (2) Which of the (c) Old Man and
6. "Our birth is but following is not a the Sea
a sleep and a dramatist? (7) After whom the (c) Old Man and
forgetting" Elizabethan Age is the Sea
7. "A hand may (a) Ben Johnson named:
first and then a lip (b) Eliot
be kist; (c) S. Backett (a) Elizabeth I (12) "Intellectual
For my part, to (b) Elizabeth II Beauty" is written
such doings I’m a (c) Elizabeth by:
stranger" (3) Which. of the Browning
8. "My hair is grey, following is not a (a) Bertrand
but not with years, play by (a) Elizabeth I Russell
nor grew it white, Shakespeare? (b) Huxley
In a single night" (c) P.B.Shelley
(a) Tempest (8) Who wrote
A "May Last (b) Pygmalion ‘Common Pursuit’? (c) P.B.Shelley
Duchess" (c) King Lear
B "To a sky Lark" (a) Leavis, F.R.
C "Ode to (b) Pygmalion (b) Cecil, D. (13) Who wrote
Autumn" (c) E.M.Foster "20th Century
D "Don Juan" Views"?
E "The Prisoner of (4) Who is the (a) Leavis, F.R.
Chillon" author of ‘After (a) Abrahams, M.
F "Ode on a Strange Gods’? H.
Grecian Urn" (9) ‘ Paradise Lost (b) Palmer, D. J.
G "Intimations of (a) Shaw is an epic by: (c) Bertrand
Immortality’ (Ode) (b) Robert Frost Russell
H "Hymn to (c) Eliot (a). Spenser
Intellectual (b) Chaucer (a) Abrahams, M.
Beauty" (c) Eliot (c) Milton H.
 (c) The age of earth’s shadows 5. ‘Withdrawal
Milton fly; from an
(14) ‘Desert Places’ uncongenial world
is a: (b) The The above two of escape either to
Restoration lines occur in: death or more
(a) Poem a) Keats’ Hyperion often, to an ideal
(b) Play b) Shelley’s Hymn dream world’, is
(c) Novel (19) Who wrote to Intellectual the theme of
"The Pilgrim’s Beauty Tennyson’s:
(a) Poem Progress"? c) Shelley’s Adonis a) Ulysses
d) Keats’ Ode to b) The Palace of
(a) John Bunyan Psyche Arts
(15) The University (b) Daniel Defoe e) None of these c) The Lotos -
Wits were: (c) Dryden Eaters
c) Shelley’s Adonis d) None of these
(a) Poets (a) John Bunyan
(b) Playwrights c) The Lotos -
(c) Novelists 3. Name the Eaters
(20) ‘‘The Conduct character of a
(b) Playwrights of the Allies’ is a novel of Thomas
famous work of: Hardy, which is 6. Philip Waken,
much like Oedipus, Aunt Pallet and
(16) William (a) Jonathan Swift King Lear and Tom Tulliver are
Shakespeare was (b) Samuel Faust. the characters of
Born in: Johnson G. Eliot’s novel:
(c) Oliver Answer. Tess. a) Silas Manner
(a) 1564 ‘Goldsmith b) Adam Bede
(b) 1534 c) Middle March
(c) 1616 (a) Jonathan Swift 4. She can not d) The Mill on the
fade, though thou Floss
(a) 1564 1) The abstract hast not the bliss,
theory of For ever wilt thou d) The Mill on the
utilitarianism is the love, and she be Floss
(17) Francis Bacon theme of Dicken’s fair!
died in: novel:
a) Bleak House The above two 7. "In all things, in
(a) 1616 b) A Tale of Two lines have been all natures, in the
(b) 1626 Cities taken from: stars,
(c) 1648 c) Hard Times a) Keats’ Ode to a This active
d) Great Nightingale principle abides,"
(b) 1626 Expectations b) A Thing of Identify the poet
e) None of these Beauty and his peculiar
c) La Belle Dame belief that can be
(18) The period c) Hard Times Sans Mercy understood from
between 1660 to d) Ode on a the above lines.
1750 is known as: Grecian Urn
2. The one Answer. William
(a) The Age of remains, the many d) Ode on a Wordsworth as he
Classicism change and pass; Grecian Urn was of the opinion
(b) The Heaven’s light for that in this
Restoration ever shines, universe ‘nature’
is the point of Monologue d) A Tale of Two
focus for 11. ‘Unto This Last’ d) Dramatic Cities
everything. is a book written Romance
by: e) None of these
a) Mill on 18. Love of
8. “Thy, economic reforms a) Monologue political freedom,
Damnation, b) Carlyle on moral always the noblest
Slunbreth, Not” reforms of Byron’s
Name the writer, c) Ruskin on moral 15. A pioneer is passions, inspired
his book and the reforms psychological him to write:
character who d) None of these analysis in fiction a) Manfred
uttered/wrote is: b) The Island
these words. c) Ruskin on moral a) Charles Dickens c) The prisoner of
reforms b) Thackeray Chillon
Writer – Thomas c) Charlotte d) The Prophecy of
Hardy Bronte Dante
Book – Tess of the 12. Mathew d) G. Eliot
D'Urbervilles Arnold said: “An e) None of these c) The prisoner of
Character – a ineffectual angel Chillon
young man who is beating in the void d) G. Eliot
traveling the his luminous wings
countryside in vain”, about: 19. An aesthetic
painting scripture a) Keats 16. “Thou glorious delight in art and a
on the sides of b) Byron mirror, where the streak of extreme
barns walks c) Shelley Almighty’s form sadistic cruelty can
d) Blake Glasses itself in be observed in
e) None of these tempest”. Browning’s Poem:
9. In Memoriam by The above line a) Paracelsus
Tennyson is: c) Shelley occur in Byron’s: b) My Last
a) an elegy a) Fame Duchess
b) a collection of b) Waterloo c) Sordello
elegies 13. For whom it is c) Roll on, Thou d) Pippa Passes
c) a lyric said: deep and dark
d) a dramatic lyric “sensuousness is a Blue Oceans d) Pippa Passes
e) None of these paramount bias of
his genius”: c) Roll on, Thou
a) an elegy a) Blake deep and dark 20. Edward
b) Keats Blue Oceans Fitzgerald’s “The
c) Tennyson Rubaiyat of Omar
10. The poem, d) Shelley Khayyam” inspired
“The Marriage of e) None of these 17. Dickens gives a Browning to write:
Heaven and Hell” tragic picture of a) The Last Ride
was written by: b) Keats the French Together
a) Shelley Revolution in his b) Rabbi Ben Ezra
b) Blake novel: c) Ester Day
c) Byron 14. “Meeting at a) Little Dorrit d) Abt Vogler
d) Browning Night” by b) Hard Times
e) None of these Browning is a: c) Bleak House b) Rabbi Ben Ezra
a) Monologue d) A Tale of Two
b) Blake b) Dramatic Lyric Cities 1) Shakespeare
c) Dramatic uses soliloquy for:
a) revelation of c) An Epic Artistic failure known for his:
character d) None of these a) Bradley a) Dramatic
b) dramatic b) Eliot Monologue
purposes c) An Epic c) Kermode b) Parody
c) establishing the d) None of these c) Blank verse
theme d) None of these
d) None of these 6. T. S. Eliot wrote: b) Eliot
a) The Pasture a) Dramatic
a) revelation of b) The Waste Land Monologue
character c) Birches 11. Which
d) None of these influence is shown
in the work of 16. Which novel is
2. ‘Gulliver’s b) The Waste Shaw? written by D. H.
Travels’ is a: Land a) French Lawrence?
a) Thrilling story b) German a) The Ice Age
b) Tragedy c) None of these b) Sons and Lovers
c) Satire 7. G.B. Shaw’s c) None of these
d) None of these principles of a) French
criticism are b) Sons and Lovers
c) Satire similar to those of:
a) Karl Marx 12. Eliot shows a
b) S. Butler bent towards 17. The ‘Arcadia’
3. Hemingway c) None of these a) Romanticism by Sir Philip
wrote: b) Victorianism Sydney is a:
a) The Sun also a) Karl Marx c) None of these a) Pastoral
Rises b) Romance
b) The Rivals a) Romanticism c) Comedy
c) The Jew of 8. “The Waste d) None of these
Malta Land’ is:
d) None of these a) An Allegory 13. Mrs. Dalloway b) Romance
b) A Sonnet is the masterpiece
a) The Sun also c) Blank verse of:
Rises d) None of these a) M. Drabble 18. ‘The Faerie
b) V. Woolf Queene’ was
c) Blank verse c) None of these written by:
4. The heroine of a) Milton
Pride and b) V. Woolf b) Lyly
Prejudice is 9. Yeats poetry c) Spenser
a) Emma possess the d) None of these
b) Elizabeth imaginative 14. The Central
c) Lydia mysticism of: Figure among the c) Spenser
d) None of these a) Nationalism Victorian Poets is:
b) Criticism a) Keats
b) Elizabeth c) Romanticism b) Tennyson 19. ‘The Crowns of
d) None of these c) Milton Wild Olive’ was
d) None of these written by:
5. ‘Hyperion’ by b) Criticism a) Huxley
Keats may be b) Tennyson b) Ben Johnson
classified as: c) Ruskin
a) An Ode 10. Who considers d) None of these
b) Sonnet Hamlet to be an 15. Browning is
c) Ruskin b) Carlyle c) The Last
4. In 1857, Duchess
Matthew Arnold as d) None of these
20. David Copper Professor of 8. Which poem of
Field, Hard Times Poetry at Oxford Tennyson was a) The Last Ride
and Little Dorrit, delivered his particularly like by together
all were written inaugural lecture Queen Victoria?
by: in: a) The Idylls of the
a) Hardy a) English kings 12. The Prelude
b) Dickens b) Latin b) Charge of the was written in”
c) Moore c) Greek Light Brigade a) 1810
d) None of these d) None of these c) In Memoriam b) 1840
d) None of these c) 1805
b) Dickens a) English d) None of these
c) In Memoriam
1) ‘All good poetry d) None of these
is spontaneous 5. The second
overflow of generation of the 9. Hardy’s Nature
powerful feelings’ romantic poets is: 13. The Crown of
who made this (Shelley, Byron a) Friendly Wild Olive is
statement? and Keats) was b) Indifferent written by:
a) Shelly dead by: c) Vindictive a) Charles Lamb
b) De Quincey a) 1820 d) None of these b) Carlyle
c) Wordsworth b) 1825 c) Ruskin
d) None of these c) 1830 b) Indifferent d) None of these
d) None of these
c) Wordsworth c) Ruskin
b) 1825 10. Does the
personal name
2. “A long poem is Lucy (in 14. Oscar Wilde
a combination of 6. The Wordsworth’s believed in:
short poems.” Advertisement poetry) stands for a) Aestheticism
Who has held the added to the a) Anneta Vallon b) Escapism
above opinion? Lyrical Ballads was b) Dorothy c) Pragmatism
a) Coleridge published in: c) Drawn from folk d) None of these
b) Keats a) 1800 song heroines
c) Wordsworth b) 1802 d) None of these a) Aestheticism
d) None of these c) 1798
d) None of these b) Dorothy
c) Wordsworth 15. ‘Bliss was it, in
c) 1798 that Dawn to be
11. ‘Who knows alive But to be
3. Rabbi Ben Ezra but the world young was very
was written by? 7. Hero and Hero many end to- heaven.’ Who has
a) Tennyson Worship was night.’ In which of written these
b) Browning written by: Browning’s poems lines?
c) Matthew Arnold a) Ruskin the above line a) Shelley
d) None of these b) Carlyle appears? b) Browning
c) J. S. Mill a) The Last Ride c) Wordsworth
b) Browning d) None of these together d) None of these
b) One Word More
c) Wordsworth d) None of these a) Catharsis d) None of these
b) Catastrophe
b) One Summer c) Hamartia b) Backett
16. When was the Evening d) None of these
poem Tintern
Abbey written? c) Hamartia 8. Which of the
a) 1793 20. “But God’s novels of
b) 1795 eternal Laws are Hemingway is
c) 1798 kind And break the 4. The Winter’s called
d) None of these heart of stone.” In Tale is Hemingway’s
which poem do Shakespeare Waste Land?
c) 1798 these lines a) Dramatic a) The Old Man
appear? monologue and the Sea
a) We Are Seven b) Comedy b) Farewell to
17. The correct (Wordsworth) c) Tragedy Arms
date of French b) Ballad of d) None of these c) For Whom the
Revolution: Reading Goal Bell Tolls
a) 1793 (Oscar Wilde) a) Dramatic d) None of these
b) 1802 c) Prisoner of monologue
c) 1789 Chillon (Byron) d) None of these
d) None of these d) None of these
5. Who is believed
c) 1789 b) Ballad of to be suffering 9. Poetry is
Reading Goal from Oedipus defined as
(Oscar Wilde) Complex: ‘Spontaneous
18. Human a) Oedipus overflow of
situation in 1) Fortinbras is a b) Hamlet powerful feeling’
Hardy’s novels is character of the c) Macbeth by:
controlled by: play: d) None of these a) Shelley
a) Social Forces a) Othello b) Coleridge
b) Providence b) Hamlet a) Oedipus c) Wordsworth
c) Fate c) King Lear d) None of these
d) None of these d) None of these
6. Whose c) Wordsworth
c) Fate b) Hamlet comedies are
called ‘Comedies
of Mask’: 10. Which is called
19. "Prophets of 2. Who wrote a) Ben Johnson’s the Victorian Age:
Nature ……… preface to b) Bernard Shaw’s a) 18th Century
……………. What Shakespeare: c) Shakespeare’s b) 19th Century
we have loved a) Sir Philip d) None of these c) 20th Century
Other will love Sydney d) None of these
…………….” b) Dryden b) Bernard Shaw’s
In which poem by c) Dr. Johnson b) 19th Century
Wordsworth do d) None of these
these lines 7. Who belongs to
appear? c) Dr. Johnson the theatre of 11. A poem which
a) Excursion Absurd consists of
b) One Summer a) Oscar Wilde fourteen line is
Evening 3. The ‘Tragic Flaw’ b) Backett called:
c) Prelude is also called: c) Ibsen a) A Sonnet
b) An Ode a) Oxymoron for Adonis
c) A ballad b) Conceit b) Lycidas
d) None of these c) Alliteration 20. ‘My Fair Lady’ c) In Memoriam
d) None of these is a Cinematic d) None of these
a) A Sonnet Version of:
c) Alliteration a) Pygmalion a) Bion’s lament
b) Candida for Adonis
12. ‘Murder in the c) Getting Married
Cathedral’ is 16. ‘Pleasant Pain’ d) None of these
written by” is an example of” 5. Hardy is a:
a) Yeats a) Metaphor a) Pygmalion a) Pessimist
b) T. S. Eliot b) Paradox b) Meliorist
c) D. H. Lawrence c) Oxymoron 1) Who said ‘The c) Mystic
d) None of these d) None of these true opposite of d) None of these
Poetry is not Prose
b) T. S. Eliot c) Oxymoron but Science’. a) Pessimist
a) Wordsworth
b) T. S. Eliot
13. ‘End Game’ is 17. Which of the c) Coleridge 6. Who is one of
written by: plays is not written d) None of these the lake poets:
a) Hemingway by T. S. Eliot? a) Coleridge
b) Somerset a) The Rock c) Coleridge b) Blake
Maugham b) The Family c) Browning
c) Beckett Reunion d) None of these
d) None of these c) The importance 2. “The first in
of being Earnest beauty should be a) Coleridge
c) Beckett d) None of these first in might” … is
the line spoken in
c) The importance Hyperion by: 7. Ernest De
14. My soul had of being Earnest a) Oceanus Selincourt is the
been a lawn b) Hyperion editor of:
besprinkled O’er c) Apollo a) Prometheus the
with flowers, and 18. Which of the d) None of these Unbound
Stirring Shades, novels is not b) The Prelude
and baffled written by Jane b) Hyperion c) Songs of
dreams is an Austen? innocence and of
example of: a) Adam Bede experience
a) Metaphor b) Mansfield Park 3. The Eve of St. d) None of these
b) Simile c) Emma Agnes is written
c) Personification d) None of these by: b) The Prelude
d) None of these a) Keats
a) Adam Bede b) Blake
a) Metaphor c) Tennyson 8. Who usually
d) None of these caricatures his
19. ‘Lapis Lazuli’ is: characters?
15. Iron, times a) A Poem a) Keats a) Dickens
of doubts, b) Novel b) George Eliot
disputes, c) Drama c) Hardy
distraction and d) None of these 4. Adonis is d) None of these
Fear is an example modeled on:
of: a) A Poem a) Bion’s lament a) Dickens
 lines of a sonnet Windermere’s fan’ upon Shakespeare.
are called is written by: a) Lyly and
9. Tradition and a) Octave a) Oscar Wilde Marlowe
Individual Talent is b) Sestet b) Galsworthy b) Robert Greene
a critical essay by: c) Refrain c) T. S. Eliot and Thomas Nash
a) Shelley d) None of these d) None of these c) George Peele
b) Oscar Wilde and Thomas Lodge
c) T. S. Eliot a) Octave a) Oscar Wilde d) None of these
d) None of these
a) Lyly and
c) T. S. Eliot 14. The Revolt of 18. Who wrote Marlowe
Islam is a: ‘Tales From
a) Novel Shakespeare’?
10. ‘Hebrew b) An epic a) Charles Lamb 2. Shakespeare has
Melodies’ is c) Lyrical Drama and his sister written
written by: d) None of these b) Dr. Johnson a) Comedies
a) Tennyson c) Dryden b) Tragedies
b) Byron c) Lyrical Drama d) None of these c) Historical Plays
c) Keats d) All of these
d) None of these a) Charles Lamb
15. The repetition and his sister d) All of these
b) Byron of sounds in a
sequence of words
is called 19. ‘East Coker’ is 3. Jane Austen’s
11. ‘She dwells a) Assonance written by: other writings are:
with beauty – b) Rhythm a) Browning a) Sense and
beauty that must c) Alliteration b) Wordsworth Sensibility
die’ is a line from d) None of these c) T. S. Eliot b) Emma
a) Ode to d) None of these c) Persuasion
Nightingale c) Alliteration d) All of these
b) Ode on c) T. S. Eliot
Indolence d) All of these
c) Ode to 16. ‘The child is
Melancholy the father of man’ 20. In which poem
d) None of these is a line from lies the line ‘The 4. Texts like
Wordsworth’s: One remain, the Waiting for Godot
c) Ode to a) Immortality Ode many change and are:
Melancholy b) The Prelude pass’? a) Ageless
c) My heart leaps a) Adonis b) Rare
when I Behold a b) Hymn to c) Priceless
12. ‘A Little Girl Rainbow in the Intellectual d) None of these
Lost’ is written by: Sky. Beauty
a) Wordsworth d) None of these c) The cloud a) Ageless
b) Blake d) None of these
c) Keats c) My heart leaps
d) None of these when I Behold a a) Adonis 5. “We are such
Rainbow in the stuff as dreams are
b) Blake Sky. 1) OF all his made”. Whose
predecessors, the words are these.
following exerted a) Shakespeare
13. The first eight 17. ‘Lady a direct influence b) Marlowe
c) Philip Sydney a) Wordsworth d) None of these
d) None of these a) George Bernard
Shaw
a) Shakespeare 14. The word b) Much ado
renaissance about nothing
10. ‘Proper study means:
6. The only play by of Mankind is man’ a) Rebirth
Shakespeare which – who has said b) Revival 19. ‘Paradise Lost’
confirms to the these words: c) Renewal is written by:
classical unities is: a) Pope d) None of these a) Milton
a) Hamlet b) Swift b) Pope
b) Twelfth Night c) Shelley a) Rebirth c) Swift
c) Romeo and d) None of these d) None of these
Juliet
d) None of these a) Pope 15. ‘Of Studies’ an a) Milton
essay is written by:
b) Twelfth Night a) Francis Bacon
11. b) Carlyle 20. ‘Money is a tie
‘Supernaturalism’ c) Montaine of all ties. It is a tie
7. Yahoo’s was an important d) None of these which ties and
according to feature of the unties all ties’ is
Gulliver were: poetry of: a) Francis Bacon quotation from
a) European a) Wordsworth a) Past and
b) Indians b) Byron Present
c) American c) Coleridge 16. Spenser was: b) Of Money
d) None of these d) None of these a) Novelist c) Of Marriage
b) Dramatist d) None of these
a) European c) Coleridge c) Prose writer
d) None of these b) Of Money

8. ‘Young leading 12. ‘Sweet Hellen d) None of these 1) Hellenism of

the young is like make me immortal Keats connotes:
blind leading the with kiss’. Who has
blind’ who has said said these words? 17. All is well that a) his love of
these words: a) Marlow ends well is a: poetry
a) Carlyle b) Shakespeare a) Comedy b) his love of
b) Bacon c) Benjonson b) Tragedy ancient cultures
c) Mantaine d) None of these c) Historical Play c) his love of Greek
d) None of these d) None of these culture and art
a) Marlow d) None of these
d) None of these a) Comedy
c) his love of
13. Who did Greek culture and
9. Arms and the write/publish 18. The second art
Man – a novel is preface to lyrical shortest play of
written by: ballads: Shakespeare is:
a) George Bernard a) Wordsworth a) The Winter’s 2. The line ‘Beauty
Shaw b) Shelley Tale is truth, truth
b) Samuel Beckett c) Keats b) Much ado about beauty’ occurs in
c) Jane Austen d) None of these nothing which one of
d) None of these c) Tempest Keats’ following
poems: a) Adam Bede d) Arnold
b) Middle March b) Carlyle
a) Ode to c) The Mill on the
Nightingale Floss 13. ‘The Revolt of
b) Ode to Grecian d) Silas Morner 9. The French Islam’ was written
Urn e) None of these Revolution took by:
c) Ode to Psyche place in:
d) None of these c) The Mill on the a) Wordsworth
Floss a) 1793 b) Coleridge
b) Ode to Grecian b) 1796 c) Shelley
Urn c) 1798 d) None of these
6. Which of d) None of these
following Books c) Shelley
3. In his poetry consists of d) None of these
Tennyson is: Ruskin’s lectures:
14. ‘The Lotos
a) The a) Modern 10. ‘The Eaters’ was
representative painters Metaphysical written by:
poet of Victorian b) The Stones of Poets’ is a critical
Age Venice essay by: a) Blake
b) The c) The Crown of b) Byron
representative wild olive a) Arnold c) Tennyson
poet of Romantic d) None of these b) T. S. Eliot d) None of these
Age c) Shelley
c) The best nature c) The Crown of d) None of these c) Tennyson
poet wild olive
d) None of these b) T. S. Eliot
15. ‘Importance of
a) The 7. Who described Being Earnest’ was
representative poetry as 11. “David written by:
poet of Victorian “Spontaneous Copperfield” was
Age overflow of written by: a) Oscar Wilde
powerful feelings”: b) Browning
a) Hardy c) Blake
4. T. Hardy is: a) Shelley b) Dickens d) None of these
b) Wordsworth c) Thackeray
a) A social c) Coleridge d) None of these a) Oscar Wilde
reformer d) Arnold
b) A satirist e) None of these b) Dickens
c) A fatalist 16. The treatise
d) A lover of b) Wordsworth ‘On Liberty’ was
nature 12. Who said this written by:
e) None of these “Poetry is the
8. ‘Hero and Hero Criticism of life”: a) Ruskin
c) A fatalist worship’ was b) Lamb
written by: a) Wordsworth c) Mill
b) Byron d) Oscar Wilde
5. Maggie is the a) Ruskin c) T. S. Eliot e) None of these
central character b) Carlyle d) Arnold
in George Eliot’s: c) Mill e) None of these c) Mill
d) None of these
 e) None of these Coming
17. Ruskin is a) Friendship and d) None of these
famous for: b) Browning benevolence
b) Bitterness and c) The Second
a) Being a critic of 1) Frost is: revenge Coming
art c) Hatred and
b) A social a) a nature poet jealousy
reformer b) Poet of Country d) None of these 8. T. S. Eliot was a
c) A moral teacher life
d) None of these c) a poet of nature a) Friendship and a) Critic
and country life benevolence b) Poet
b) A social d) None of these c) Both
reformer d) None of these
b) Poet of Country 5. Gulliver was
life expelled from the c) Both
18. Stephen Guest land of Yahoos
is an important because he was
Character in One 2. Who said these considered 9. T. S. Eliot was
of the following words in ‘The Old
novels of George Man and the Sea’ a) a yahoo a) Romantic
Eliot: … “No one should b) a criminal b) Classicist
be alone in their c) he hated their c) Both
a) The Mill on the old age”: king d) None of these
Floss d) None of these
b) Adam Bede a) Hemingway b) Classicist
c) Silas Marner b) Santiago c) he hated their
d) None of these c) Manolin king
d) None of these 10. Shakespeare
a) The Mill on the wrote
Floss b) Santiago 6. Yeats was
a) Tragedies
a) Victorian poet b) Comedies
19. ‘Lucy Gray’ is a 3. Santiago is an b) a modern poet c) Poems
poem written by: illustration of: c) Both d) All of above
d) None of these
a) Coleridge a) Hemingway’s d) All of above
b) Wordsworth respect for c) Both
c) Keats struggle
d) None of these b) Hemingway’s 11. Shakespeare
total view of life 7. ‘How can we was born in:
b) Wordsworth c) Hemingway’s know the dancer
philosophy of life from the dance’? a) 1570
d) None of these This line written by b) 1564
20. ‘Andrea Del Yeats is taken c) 1590
Sarto’ is a poem c) Hemingway’s from: d) None of these
written by: philosophy of life
a) Sailing to b) 1564
a) Tennyson Byzantium
b) Browning 4. The Cardinal b) Among School
c) Keats virtues of the Children 12. Pure tragedies
d) T. S. Eliot Houyhnhnms are: c) The Second written by
Shakespeare are: d) None of these represents written by Blake
Prejudice in Jane was published in:
a) Four b) Hamlet Austen’s novel
b) Six ‘Pride and a) 1790
c) Eight Prejudice’: b) 1794
d) None of these 17. Jane Austen’s c) 1820
main theme in her a) Mr. Darcy d) None of these
a) Four novels especially in b) Miss Elizabeth
‘Pride and c) Miss Jane b) 1794
Prejudice’ is: d) None of these
13. Shakespeare
died in: a) Love and b) Miss Elizabeth 5. ‘The Excursion’
marriage was written by:
a) 1625 b) Life of big 1) Byron wrote
b) 1616 landlords ‘Childe Harold’ in: a) Coleridge
c) 1618 c) Politicians b) Blake
d) None of these d) None of these a) 1808 c) Shelley
b) 1812 d) None of these
b) 1616 a) Love and c) 1818
marriage d) None of these d) None of these
(Wordsworth)
14. Shakespeare’s b) 1812
‘Hamlet’ was 18. Who is the
published in: major male 6. The Last Ride
character in Jane 2. Which English Together was
a) 1602 Austen’s ‘Pride romantic poet written by:
b) 1608 and Prejudice’: admired Pope:
c) 1610 a) Byron
d) None of these a) Mr. Darcy a) Coleridge b) Tennyson
b) Mr. Bennett b) William c) Browning
a) 1602 c) Mr. Collius Wordsworth d) None of these
d) None of these c) Byron
d) None of these c) Browning
15. Hamlet was a) Mr. Darcy
killed by: c) Byron
7. ‘A Tale of Two
a) Polonius 19. Who Cities’ was written
b) Learteus represents Pride in 3. The poem “the by:
c) Claudius Jane Austen’s Triumph of life”
d) None of these ‘Pride and was written by: a) Dickens
Prejudice’: b) Hardy
b) Learteus a) Keats c) George Eliot
a) Mr. Bennett b) Blake d) None of these
b) Mr. Bingley c) Shelley
16. The kind c) Miss Elizabeth d) None of these a) Dickens
Claudius was killed d) None of these
by: c) Shelley
d) None of these 8. ‘Adam Bede’ is a
a) Laerteus novel written by
b) Hamlet 4. ‘Songs of
c) Horatio 20. Who Experience’ a) Dickens
b) Hardy b) Browning 20. Which novel of
c) George Eliot b) Charles Lamb c) Tennyson Hardy presents
d) None of these d) None of these ‘Egdon Heath’ as
the background of
c) George Eliot 13. ‘The Stone of b) Browning the story?
Venice’ was
written by: a) Tess of the
9. ‘The Ring and 17. ‘The D’Urberville
the Book’ is a a) J. S. Mill importance of b) Return of the
poem written by: b) Carlyle Being Earnest’ was Native
c) Ruskin written by: c) Jude the
a) Browning d) None of these Obscure
b) Mathew Arnold a) Byron d) None of these
c) Tennyson c) Ruskin b) Wordsworth
d) None of these c) Oscar Wilde b) Return of the
d) None of these Native
a) Browning 14. Which poem of
Keats contains c) Oscar Wilde 1) It is for the
‘Heard melodies world to decide
10. ‘The Lotus- are sweet, but whether you are a
Eaters’ was those unheard are 18. Which of the poet or not. For
written by sweeter’. following novels of whom these words
Hardy has ‘clymn’ are meant:
a) Tennyson a) Ode to Autumn as the main male
b) Browning b) Ode on a character? a) Frost
c) Blake Grecian Urn b) Pope
d) None of these c) Ode to a) Tess of the c) Byron
melancholy D’Urberville d) None of these
a) Tennyson d) None of these b) Major of the
Casterbridge a) Frost
b) Ode on a c) Jude the
11. ‘The Art for Art Grecian Urn Obscure
sake’ theory was d) None of these 2. Earnest
presented by: Hemingway in
15. Which of the d) None of these addition to ‘Old
a) Ruskin Romantic poets is Man and the Sea’
b) Carlyle called an escapist? bad written:
c) Oscar Wilde 19. The principle
d) None of these a) Keats of political a) A Farewell to
b) Shelley Economy was the Arms
c) Oscar Wilde c) Wordsworth main theme of the b) For Whom the
d) None of these writings of: Bell Tolls
c) Death in the
12. ‘The Old a) Keats a) Ruskin Afternoon
Familiar Faces’ was b) J. S. Mill d) All of the above
written by: c) Carlyle
16. ‘Andrea del d) None of these d) All of the above
a) Ruskin Sarto’ is a poem
b) Charles Lamb written by b) J. S. Mill
c) J. S. Mill 3. All that glitters
d) None of these a) Shelley is not gold. You
have heard often Tamburlaine b) Comedies good one if a girl
this told. This d) None of these c) Tragedies only wants to be
maxim is included d) All of these married. Who said
in Shakespeare’s a) Helen of Troy – these words?
Dr. Faustus d) All of these
a) Merchant of a) Charlotte
Venice / b) Mr. Bennet
Shakespeare’s 6. “Lyrical ballads” 10. Famous c) Mr. Bingley
b) Shakespeare’s were published by: romantic poets d) None of these
Tempest were
c) Shakespeare’s a) Coleridge a) Charlotte
Much ado about b) Wordsworth a) Five
nothing. c) Both Coleridge b) Four
d) None of these and Wordsworth c) Six 14. In Chapter XVI
d) None of these d) None of these the word muffled
a) Merchant of in ‘Pride and
Venice / c) Both Coleridge c) Six Prejudice’ is:
Shakespeare’s and Wordsworth
a) Confused
11. ‘The quality of b) Amazed
4. “I have suffered 7. The proper Mercy is not c) Not thinking
with those, that I study of mankind strained’ the line is clearly
saw suffering”. in man. This line is taken from d) None of these
These Humanistic taken from the
words are work of: a) Merchant of a) Confused
attributed to: Venice
a) Wordsworth b) Two gentleman
a) Miranda in the b) Pope of Verona 15. Beckett was
‘Tempest’ c) Swift c) Midsummer’s born in Dublin
b) Portia in d) Thomson Night Dream Ireland.
‘Merchant of d) Anthony and
Venice’ b) Pope Cleopatra a) In 1906
c) Lady Macbath in b) In 1969
‘Macbeth’ a) Merchant of c) In 1952
d) None of these 8. There is no man Venice d) None of these
like Showman.
a) Miranda in the These views were a) In 1906
‘Tempest’ held by: 12. A thing of
beauty is joy
a) Thomas Carlyle forever. It is 16. To err is
5. “None of thou b) Spencer composed by: human, forgive is
shalt be my c) Shakespeare divine. Who has
paramour” these d) None of these a) Keats said these words:
words are b) Shelley
attributed to: a) Thomas Carlyle c) Byron a) Pope
d) None of these b) Swift
a) Helen of Troy – c) Dryden
Dr. Faustus 9. Shakespeare has a) Keats d) None of these
b) Marlow’s Jew of written:
Malta a) Pope
c) Marlow’s a) Historical plays 13. Your plan is a
 a) Socrates 9. A dominant
17. Poetry is b) Aristotle (c) C. Bronte theme in Hardy's
spontaneous c) Plato novels is:
overflow of d) All of these
powerful feelings. 5. Who was a (a) naturalism
It takes it origin d) All of these known aesthete? (b) romanticism
from emotions (c) fatalism
recollected in 1. Restoration (a) Ruskin (d) classicism
tranquility. Who period was known (b) Russell
has given the as the age of : (c) Huxley (c) fatalism
description of the (d) J.S. Mill
poetry? (a) satire
(b) paganism (c) Huxley 10. "The Recluse"
a) Aristotle (c) classicism was written by:
b) Plato (d) puritanism
c) Wordsworth 6. "In Memoriam" (a) Worsdworth
d) None of these (a) satire is : (b) Coleridge
(c) W. Blake
c) Wordsworth (a) an ode (d) Southey
2. Who is famous (b) an elegy
for representing (c) a sonnet (a) Worsdworth
18. Jane Austen in London in his (d) neither
addition to, ‘Pride novels.
and Prejudice’ had (b) an elegy 11. Dorothy was
also written: (a) Thackeray the gifted sister
(b) Hardy of:
a) Emma (c) Dickens 7. Tennyson was:
b) Sense and (d) W. Scott (a) R. Browning
Sensibility (a) a romantic (b) Shelley
c) Persuasion (c) Dickens (b) a Victorian (c) Wordsworth
d) All of these (c) a Pre- (d) Coleridge
Raphaelite
d) All of these 3. Great (d) none of these (c) Wordsworth
Expectations was
published in: (b) a Victorian
19. Mr. and Mrs. 12. "The
Bennet had (a) 1860-1 Frankenstein" is a
__________ (b) 1857-8 8. Who is the most novel by:
Daughters. (c) 1852-3 illustrious
(d) none of these representative of (a) W. Scott
a) Six the doctrine of (b) Lewis
b) Seven (a) 1860-1 utilitarianism? (c) Mrs. Shelley
c) Five (d) If none of these
d) None of these (a) Ruskin then by whom
4. Jane Eyre was (b) Russell
c) Five written by: (c) Huxley (c) Mrs. Shelley
(d) None of these
(a) C. Dickens
20. Father of (b) G. Eliot (a) Ruskin 13. An element of
antiquities were: (c) C. Bronte the supernatural is
(d) J. Austen present in the
poetry of : 17. "The Crown of
Wild Olive", is (a) C.Bronte (a) The Winter’s
(a) Wordsworth written by: (b) Hardy Tale
(b) Coleridge (c) Emile Bronte (b) Taming of the
(c) Browning (a) Ruskin (d) Jane Austen Shrew
(d) Byron (b) J.S.Mill (c) Tempest
(c) C. Lamb (c) Emile Bronte (d) None of these
(b) Coleridge (d) Russell
(1)Who has (a) The Winter’s
(a) Ruskin defined tragedy as Tale
14. Don Juan is an “an imitation of an
ironic replica of action”?
the very subject of 18. Mr. Rochester (5) “Gyre” is a
: is the major (a) Shakespeare favorite symbol
character of: (b) Dryden with
(a) Childe Harolde (c) Aristotle
(b) Queen Mab (a) Silas Marner (d) None of these (a) T. S. Eliot
(c) Prometheus (b) Jane Eyre (b) Yeats
(d) The Recluse (c) Jude the (c) Aristotle (c) Emily
Obscure Dickenson
(a) Childe Harolde (d) Adam Bede (d) None of these
(2) In Shakespeare
(b) Jane Eyre “Character is not (b) Yeats
15. "The Rime of Destiny” but
the Ancient “character and
Mariner" was 19. In which novel Destiny”. Whose (6) Who is labeled
written by: by Hardy are comment is this? as misanthropist?
"Hayshope", "Flint
(a) W.Scott Comb Ash" and (a) Bradley (a) Jane Austen
(b) Coleridge "stone Henge" (b) Dr. Johnson (b) Hardy
(c) Shelley used as backdrop: (c) Nicoll (c) Swift
(d) None of these (d) None of these (d) None of these
(a) A pair of Blue
(b) Coleridge Eyes (a) Bradley (c) Swift
(b) Jude the
Obscure
16. Adonias, (c) Return of the (3) A poet is a man
Prometheus and Native speaking to men (7) ‘Tradition and
"The triumph of (d) if none of these says? Individual Talent’
life" are some of then give the is written by:
the beautiful correct answer (a) Pope
poems by: (b) Robert Frost (a) Russell
Tess of the (c) Wordsworth (b) Carlyle
(a) W. Blake d'Urbervilles (d) None of these (c) T. S. Eliot
(b) Byron (d) None of these
(c) Shelley (c) Wordsworth
(d) none of these 20. "The (c) T. S. Eliot
Wuthering
(c) Shelley Heights" is a (4) Hermione is
famous novels the heroine of (8) ‘Nothing more
written by: Shakespeare in: real than nothing’
are the words of? (a) 1922
(12) ‘I care for life, (b) Comedy
(a) Harold Pinter for humanity, and
(b) Beckett you are a part of (16) T. S. Eliot and
(c) Shaw it.’ Whose words George Eliot were: (20) ‘Preface to
(d) None of these are these? Shakespeare’ is
(a) Brothers written by:
(b) Beckett (a) Doolittle (b) Father and Son
(b) Huggins (c) Novelists (a) Bradely
(c) Pickering (d) None of these (b) Dryden
(9) ‘Earth is the (d) None of these (c) Dr. Johnson
right place for (d) None of these (d) None of these
Love and I do not (b) Huggins
know where it is (c) Dr. Johnson
likely to go better.’ (17) Feminine
These lines are (13) Yeats was Ending is: (1) ‘Songs of
from: awarded the Experience’ was
Nobel Prize for (a) a Novel written by:
(a) The Road Not literature in: (b) a poem (a) Blake
Taken (c) a metrical (b) Wordsworth
(b) Fire and Ice (a) 1927 device (c) Keats
(c) Birches (b) 1832 (d) None of these (d) Shelley
(d) None of these (c) 1924 (e) None of these
(d) None of these (c) a metrical
(c) Birches device (a) Blake
(d) None of these

(10) ‘Lapis Lazuli’ is (18) ‘Persona’ is (2) ‘The Prelude’

a poem written by: (14) Whose work is was composed by:
called ‘mock (a) the actor in a (a) Keats
(a) Hopkins utopia’? play (b) Wordsworth
(b) W. B. Yeats (b) the plural of (c) Blake
(c) Larkin (a) Swift’s Person (d) Byron
(d) None of these (b) Sir Thomas (c) a projection of (e) None of these
More’s the poet into
(b) W. B. Yeats (c) Wordsworth’s another person (b) Wordsworth
(d) None of these (d) None of these

(11) Which of the (a) Swift’s (a) the actor in a (3) Which writing
plays has an play includes the
epilogue? manifesto of
(15) The Waste Romantic poetry?
(a) Man and Land was (19) A Winter’s (a) The Prelude
Superman published by Eliot Tale by (b) Lyrical Ballads
(b) Devils’ Disciple in: Shakespeare is a: (c) The Ancient
(c) Pygmalion Mariner
(d) None of these (a) 1922 (a) Dramatic (d) Songs of
(b) 1923 Monologue Innocence
(b) Devils’ (c) 1932 (b) Comedy (e) None of these
Disciple (d) None of these (c) Tragedy
(d) None of these (b) Lyrical Ballads
 (b) Ode on a (b) Morris following novelists
Grecian Urn (c) Browning is known for his
(4) Who does (c) Ode to a (d) Swinburne Satire in the
consider ‘love’ as a Nightingale (e) None of these Victorian
transcending (d) Ode on literature?
power handling all Melancholy (c) Browning (a) Charlotte
things into (e) None of these Bronte
beauty? (b) Thackeray
(a) Wordsworth (b) Ode on a (12) ‘The last (c) Hardy
(b) Keats Grecian Urn Essays of Elia’ was (d) Meredith
(c) Shelley written by: (e) None of these
(d) Byron (a) Carlyle
(e) None of these (8) Lord Byron was (b) Lamb (b) Thackeray
born in: (c) Hunt
(b) Keats (a) 1788 (d) Ruskin
(b) 1789 (e) None of these (16) Amongst the
(c) 1790 following, who is
(5) Who did write (d) 1791 (b) Lamb considered to be
an epic on the (e) None of these the “pioneer of the
growth of his own novel of female
mind? (a) 1788 (13) Hazlitt’s emancipation”?
(a) Blake intellectual (a) Jane Austin
(b) Tennyson awakening had (b) Charlotte
(c) Browning (9) Tennyson talks been stimulated Bronte
(d) Wordsworth about the equality by: (c) Emily Bronte
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under the (a) Shakespeare
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melodies are (e) None of these forms the back-
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confessed to be a
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(d) Burns Idleness
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written by:
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poets chores the poetry of: Elia was written
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by: remain free …”
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not always bound (c) Blake was: (b) J.S. Mill
up with the (d) Shelley (a) Hellas (c) Ruskin
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from a: life
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from Monologues class origin
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(c) Upper class her; but who (c) Marian Evans romantic critic.
tolerance passed without (d) Marian Eliot (a) Wordsworth
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enlightenment This was written was an:
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(b) Newman nature.
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from 1660 to the or lines repeated (a) Parallelism are:
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(e) None of these Ending (11) ‘Hamlet and
(d) Alexandrine Oedipus’ was (a) Husband and
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Period (a) Bradley
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(5) ‘Stream of (d) Freud Agnes is a poem
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the phrase first and Superman’ is (a) Milton
used by: an example of: (c) Earnest Jones (b) Keats
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(d) Romantic thoughts of love,
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(e) None of these revenge’ is a Tree’ is a
speech from. collection of
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consists of nine- (c) Othello (b) Carlyle
eight five foot (d) Hamlet (c) Huxley
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followed by an called as: (e) None of these
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phrase coined by: your magnanimity Park’ is a novel by:
(a) Keats and be more of a (b) Ernest De Selin (a) Katherine
(b) Wordsworth poet’? Court Mansfield
(c) Coleridge (a) Wordsworth (b) Emily Bronte
(d) Byron (b) Coleridge (c) George Eliot
(e) None of these (c) Keats (vi) ‘The Lay of the (d) Jane Austen
(d) Blake Last Minstrel’ is (e) None of these
(a) Keats (e) None of these written by:
(a) Blake (d) Jane Austen
(c) Keats (b) Byron
(19) ‘Apologie for (c) Tennyson
Poetrie’ is written (d) Walter Scott (x) ‘I am half sick
by: (iii) The lines ‘The (e) None of these of shadows’ is a
(a) Arnold one remains, the line from:
(b) Philip Sidney many change and (d) Walter Scott (a) Shelley
(c) Pope pass; Heaven’s (b) Wordsworth
(d) Dryden light for ever (c) Coleridge
(e) None of these shines, earth’s (vii) __________ (d) Tennyson
shadow fly; are the quality when (e) None of these
(b) Philip Sidney composed by: man is capable of
(a) Shelley being in (d) Tennyson
(b) Byron uncertainties,
(20) ‘I count (c) Keats mysteries, doubts,
religion but a (d) Southey without any (xi) Adonais is an
childish toy’ is a (e) None of these irritable reaching elegy on the death
line from after fact and of:
Marlowe’s play: (a) Shelley reason’ ___ is: (a) Moschus
(a) Dr. Faustus (a) Objectivity (b) Edward
(b) The Jew of (b) Subjectivity William
Malta (iv) ‘On Pathetic (c) Negative (c) John Keats
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(e) None of these (a) Carlyle (e) None of these
(b) Lamb (c) John Keats
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(i) Wordsworth (viii) ‘The criticism of life’ is a
was appointed (c) Ruskin Quarterly Review’ view about poetry
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(b) Dr. Johnson (d) Darwin (a) David Cecil
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Sister (e) None of these
(a) Arnold (b) Contemporary
(xvii) Who gave writers (d) E.M. Forster
the aesthetic (c) Modern poets
(xiii) ‘The Pickwick theory of Art For (d) Critics
Papers’ by Dickens Arts’ Sake: (e) None of these (iv) Lotos Eaters is
was published in: (a) Wordsworth a poem by:
(a) 1837 (b) Browning (b) Contemporary (a) Browning
(b) 1838 (c) Oscar Wilde writers (b) Tennyson
(c) 1839 (d) Galsworthy (c) Yeats
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(e) None of these Shakespeare’s (e) None of these
(e) None of Tragedies
(a) 1837 these (Walter Character is not (b) Tennyson
Pater) Destiny but there
is Character and
(xiv) ‘On Heroes Destiny is a remark (v) ‘The Hollow
and Hero-worship (xviii) “Poetry is by: Men’ is written by:
is written by: not like reasoning, (a) Nicoll (a) T.S. Eliot
(a) Huxley a power to be (b) Goddord (b) Ezra Pound
(b) Carlyle exerted according (c) Bradley (c) Yeats
(c) Ruskin to the (d) Coleridge (d) Larkin
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(e) None of these will”, is a
statement by: (c) Bradley (a) T.S. Eliot
(b) Carlyle (a) Wordsworth
(b) Shelley
(c) Coleridge (ii) “How came he (vi) William
(xv) Dickens, (d) Arnold dead? I shall not Faulkner was
Thackeray, George (e) None of these be juggled with: To awarded Nobel
Eliot and Trollope hell allegiance! Prize for literature
are: (b) Shelley Vows, to the in:
(a) Novelists blackest devil! (a) 1949
(b) Poets Is a speech in (b) 1950
(c) Critics (xix) ‘A woman of Hamlet spoken by: (c) 1951
(d) Essayists no importance’ is a (a) Hamlet (d) 1953
(e) None of these ______ by (b) Laertes (e) None of these
Oscarwilde: (c) Polonius
(a) Novelists (a) Comedy (d) Claudius (a) 1949
(b) Tragedy (e) None of these
(c) Dramatic
(xvi) ‘The Voyage Romance (b) Laertes (vii) G.B. Shaw was
of the Beagle’ was (d) Farce awarded Nobel
written by: (e) None of these Prize for literature
(a) J.S. Mill (iii) Aspect of the in:
(a) 1925 (a) The Taming of hard, clear image (a) Declamation
(b) 1929 the Shrew was essential to (b) Sermon
(c) 1930 (b) As you Like it verse are called: (c) Monologue
(d) 1949 (c) Two Gentlemen (a) Imaginists (d) Harangue
(e) None of these of Verona (b) Romanticists (e) None of these
(d) Titus (c) Classicists
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(e) None of these (e) None of these

(viii) ‘The Winding (d) Titus (d) Imagists (xviii) ‘Hearing’ a

Stair’ is written by: Andronicus colour or ‘Seeing’ a
(a) Ted Hughes smell is an
(b) T.S. Eliot (xv) A figure of example of:
(c) W.B. Yeats (xii) ‘If music be speech which (a) Oxymoron
(d) W.H. Auden the food of love, contains an (b) Synaesthesia
(e) None of these play on, exaggeration for (c) Sensuousness
give me excess of emphasis is called: (d) Contrast
(c) W.B. Yeats it, that Surfeiting (a) Over tone (e) None of these
The appetite may (b) Rhetoric
sicken and die? (c) Extended (b) Synaesthesia
(ix) ‘Murder in the is a speech from metaphor
Cathedral’ is a play (a) Twelfth Night (d) Hyperbole
written by: (b) A Mid Summer (e) None of these (xix) Drama which
(a) Shakespeare Nights’ Dream seeks to mirror life
(b) Marlowe (c) As you Like it (d) Hyperbole with the utmost
(c) Oscar Wilde (d) The Winters’ fidelity is called:
(d) T.S. Eliot Tale (a) Realistic
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decasyllables, drama
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iambic drama
Pentameters (d) Problem play
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is a novel written classical form in are called:
by: which one (a) Heroic Couplet (a) Realistic
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(c) E.M. Forster of another is (d) Spenserian (xx) When Leontes
(d) D.H. Lawrence called: stanza discovers the
(e) None of these (a) Pastoral (e) None of these identity of Perdita
Romance in ‘The Winter’s
(d) D.H. Lawrence (b) Pastoral Elegy (a) Heroic Couplet Tale’ is an example
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Oxford crowd to incite
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is: who believe that a action is:
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by (e) None of these a. Wuthering
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in (e) None of these (b) Wordsworth
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(b) 1779 (a) Tennyson (d) Coleridge
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(d) 1790 7. 'Heroes and
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written by Hunt and Hazlitt
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(e) None of these (e) None of written by
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is written by (a) Shaw (c) Mansfield Palck (d) Old man and
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(d) Hardy (a) Gulliver’s
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Prejudice
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(e) None of these
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(a) Ruskin (viii) “Major Lawrence banned
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(iv) “Ullyses” is by: was:
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writer of (a) James Joyce (b) Pinter Lovers
a. Don Juan (b) Virginia Woolf (c) Eliot (b) Lady
b. Prometheus (c) Hardy (d) Shaw Chatterley’s Lover
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c. Adonias (e) None of these (d) The Rainbow
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e. None of the (a) James Joyce
above (b) Lady
(v) Elizabeth is a (ix) Lilliput is a Chatterley’s Lover
a. Don Juan character from character from:
Jane Austen’s: (a) Gulliver’s
1. Who belongs to (a) Emma Travels (xiii) “Undo this
the Absurd School (b) Pride and (b) Pygmalion Button” is a line
from (xvii) “Good i. Intense emotion two great poems
Shakespeare’s: flences make good coupled with an written by:
(a) Hamlet neighbours” is intense display of a. Shelley
(b) Othello from Frosts’: imagery are b. Byron
(c) King Lear (a) Revelation characteristics of c. Blake
(d) Julius Caeser (b) Mending __________ age d. Pope
(e) None of these (c) Pasture a. Victorian e. None of these
(d) Birches b. Elizabethan
(c) King Lear (e) None of these c. Romantic a. Shelley
d. Classic
(e) None of e. None of these
(xiv) “Ode to these (Mending vi. Hyperion is
Psyche” is a poem Wall) c. Romantic a/an __________
by: (xviii) ‘April is the poem
(a) Milton Cruelest month of a. Elegy
(b) Byron all is taken from ii. S.T. Coleridge b. Epic
(c) Keats Eliot’s: was born in c. Ode
(d) Blake (a) The Wasteland a. 1798 d. Lyric
(e) None of these (b) The Hollow b. 1772 e. None of these
men c. 1749
(c) Keats (c) East Coker d. 1797 b. Epic
(d) Prufrock e. None of these
(e) None of these
(xv) “I am no b. 1772 vii. Romanticism
Prince Hamlet” is a (a) The Wasteland expressed a
line written by: restlessness of
(a) Shakespeare iii. Wordsworth a. Mind
(b) Yeats (xix) “A Farewell to settled in b. Soul
(c) Eliot Arms” is written a. Lake District c. Senses
(d) Auden by: b. Sussex d. Body
(e) None of these (a) Faulkner c. Dorset Shire e. None of these
(b) Hemmingway d. Cumber Land
(c) Eliot (c) James Joyce e. None of these b. Soul
(d) Virginia Woolf
(e) None of these a. Lake District
(xvi) “Things fall viii. Northanger
apart” is a line (b) Hemmingway Abbey, Emma and
from Yeats’s: iv. Childe Harold’s Sense and
(a) Among School Pilgrimmage is Sensibility are
Children (xx) “A passage to written by: novels written by
(b) Byzentium India” is written a. Blake a. G. Eliot
(c) Sailing to by: b. Shelley b. Miss Burney
Byzentium (a) Forester c. Browning c. C. Bronte
(d) The Second (b) Conrad d. Byron d. Jane Austen
coming (c) Lawrence e. None of these e. None of these
(e) None of these (d) Hardy
(e) None of these d. Byron d. Jane Austen
(d) The Second
coming (a) Forester
v. Queen Mab is ix. Shelley is
one of the first remembered as a
_______ poet e. None of these a. Richardson
a. Lyric b. Defoe
b. Tragic c. Idealist xviii. The Picture of c. Fielding
c. Dramatic Dorian Gray is d. Bunyan
d. Mythical written by: e. None of these
e. None of these xiv. Shirley, Jane a. Gissing
Eyre, Villete were b. D. H. Lawrence c. Fielding
a. Lyric written by: c. Oscar Wilde
a. E. Bronte d. Trollope
b. J. Austen e. None of these iii. Shakespeare
x. Keats is c. G. Eliot was born in
prominently a man d. C. Bronte c. Oscar Wilde a. 1570
of: e. None of these b. 1601
a. Emotions c. 1547
b. Sensations d. C. Bronte xix. Ruskin was d. 1564
c. Imagination born in: e. None of these
d. Aestheticism a. 1819
e. None of these xv. Emile Bronte’s b. 1843 d. 1564
verse reveals a c. 1860
b. Sensations conscious d. 1851
a. Paganism e. None of these iv. ‘The Wheel of
b. Pantheism Fire’ a criticism
xi. As a moralist J. c. Idealism a. 1819 was written by
S. Mill develops d. Lyricism a. Bradley
the doctrine of: e. None of these b. W. Knight
a. Utilitarianism xx. __________ is c. Hazlitt
b. Intellect b. Pantheism a novel by Miss d. Dryden
c. Radicalism Burney e. None of these
d. Puritanism a. Evelina
e. None of these xvi. The Mayor of b. Emma b. W. Knight
Caster Bridge was c. Pamela
a. Utilitarianism written by: d. Persuasion
a. Trollope e. None of these v. Kubla Khan was
b. Thomas Hardy written by
xii. Charles Dickens c. Charles Dickens a. Evelina a. Wordsworth
was born in d. G. Eliot b. Coleridge
a. 1800 e. None of these i. In Greek tragedy c. Shelley
b. 1789 irony and d. Keats
c. 1812 b. Thomas Hardy ____________ are e. None of these
d. 1833 fused into one.
e. None of these a. Allegory b. Coleridge
xvii. Thomas Hardy b. Idealism
c. 1812 was brought up to c. Imagery
the profession of: d. Satire vi. G. B. Shaw
a. Architect e. None of these began his literary
xiii. C. Dickens is b. Engraver career first as:
known for being a c. Sculptor d. Satire a. Journalist
a. Socialist d. Painter b. Novelist
b. Humorist e. None of these c. Dramatist
c. Idealist ii. Joseph Andrews d. Critic
d. Romantic a. Architect was written by e. None of these
 b. 1888
b. Novelist xi. The ________
age tended to xv. Keats’
favour the taste aestheticism was xix. Jane Eyre was
vii. W. B. Yeats was and search for later turned into written by
born in truth in art: a. Romanticism a. Jane Austen
a. 1914 a. Classical b. Pre- b. G. Eliot
b. 1856 b. Romantic Raphaelitism c. C. Bronte
c. 1865 c. Victorian c. Idealism d. E. Bronte
d. 1838 d. Elizabethan d. Angilicanism e. None of these
e. None of these e. None of these e. None of these
c. C. Bronte
c. 1865 b. Romantic b. Pre-
Raphaelitism
xx. Ophelia, Julia ,
viii. Jane Austen’s xii. Maud and In Viola, Imogen are
Work is transfused memoriam were xvi. _________ is the characters
with the spirit of written by the animating created by
a. Classicism a. Tennyson force in the work a. Richardson
b. Puritanism b. Keats of C. Bronte b. Fielding
c. Idealism c. Pope a. Idealism c. Hardy
d. Rationalism d. Shelley b. Romanticism d. Shakespeare
e. None of these e. None of these c. Lyricism e. None of these
d. Radicalism
a. Classicism a. Tennyson e. None of these d. Shakespeare

a. Idealism
ix. The Waste Land xiii. Tennyson was
by T. S. Elliot is an born in ===============
a. Ode a. 1809 xvii. The Wilde ===============
b. Elegy b. 1798 Swans at Coole is ============
c. Allegory c. 1709 first great
d. Epic d. 1890 collection of 1. The epigraph of
e. None of these e. None of these poems of
The Waste Land is
a. W. Lewis
b. Elegy a. 1809 b. Yeats borrowed from?
c. E. Sitwell
d. D. H. Lawrence (A) Virgil
x. Waiting for xiv. ___________ e. None of these
Godot by S. has a super (B) Fetronius
Beckett was abundant wealth b. Yeats
originally written of words and
(C) Seneca
in superfluous
a. Italian ornaments xviii. T. S. Eliot was
b. Spanish a. Hyperbole born in (D) Homer
c. German b. Metaphor a. 1887
d. French c. Rhetoric b. 1888 2. Who called ‘The
e. None of these d. Overtone c. 1817 Waste Land ‘a
e. None of these d. 1870
music of ideas’?
d. French e. None of these
a. Hyperbole
(A) Allen Tate
(B) J. C. Ransom (C) guardian 9. One important 12. In Sons and
feature of Jane Lovers, Paul
(C) I. A. Richards (D) cousin Austen’s style is? Morel’s mother’s
name is?
(D) F. R Leavis 6. Estella is the (A) boisterous
daughter of? humour (A)Susan
3. T. S. Eliot has
borrowed the (A) Joe Gargery (B) humour and (B)Jane
term ‘Unreal City’ pathos
in the first and (B) Abel Magwitch (C)Gertrude
third . (C) subtlety of
irony (D) Emily
sections from? (C) Miss Havisham
(D) stream of 13. The twins in
(A) Baudelaire (D) Bentley consciousness Lord of the Flies
Drumnile are?
(B) Irving Babbit 10. The title of the
7. Which book of poem ‘The Second (A)Ralph and Jack
(C) Dante John Ruskin Coming’ is taken
influenced from? (B) Simon and Eric
(D) Laforgue Mahatma Gandhi?
(A) The Bible (C) Ralph and Eric
4. Which of the (A) Sesame and
following myths Lilies (B) The Irish (D) Simon and Jack
does not figure in mythology
The Waste (B) The Seven 14.Mr. Jaggers, in
Lamps of (C) The German Great
Land? Architecture mythology Expectations, is a

(A) Oedipus (C) Unto This Last (D) The Greek (A) lawyer
mythology
(B) Grail Legend of (D) Fors Clavigera (B) postman
Fisher King 11. The main
8. Graham character in (C)Judge
(C) Philomela Greene’s novels Paradise Lost Book
are marked by? I and Book II is? (D) School teacher
(D) Sysyphus
(A) Catholicism (A God 15. What does ‘I’
5. Joe Gargery is stand for in the
Pip’s? (B) Protestantism (B) Satan following line?

(A) brother (C) Paganism (C) Adam ‘To Carthage then I

came’
(B) brother-in-Jaw (D) Buddhism (D) Eve
(A) Buddha
(A) Mars 22. Hamlet’s (D) Or, What you
(B) Tiresias famous speech ‘To Think
(B) Hercules be,or not to be;
(C) Smyrna that is the 25. Which of the
Merchant (C) Zeus question’ following plays of
Shakespeare,
(D) Augustine (D) Bacchus occurs in? according to T. S.

16. The following 19. Who invented (A) Act II, Scene I Eliot, is ‘artistic
lines are an the term ‘Sprung failure’?
example……… of rhythm’? (B) Act III, Scene III
image. (A) The Tempest
(A)Hopkins (C) Act IV, Scene III
‘The river sweats (B) Hamlet
(B)Tennyson (D) Act III, Scene I
Oil and tar’ (C) Henry IV, Pt I
(C)Browning 23. Identify the
(A) visual character in The (D) Twelfth Night
(D)Wordsworth Tempest who is
(B) kinetic referred to as an 26. Who is Thomas
20.Who wrote the honest old Percy in Henry IV,
(C) erotic poem ‘Defence of counselor Pt I?
Lucknow’?
(D) sensual (A) Alonso (A) Earl of
(A) Browning Northumberland
17. Which of the (B) Ariel
following novels (B) Tennyson (B) Earl of March
has the sub-title ‘A (C) Gonzalo
Novel Without a (C) Swinburne (C) Earl of Douglas
Hero’? (D) Stephano
(D) Rossetti (D) Earl of
(A) Vanity Fair 24. What is the Worcester
21.Which of the sub-title of the
(B) Middlemarch following plays of play Twelfth 27. Paradise Lost
Shakespeare has Night? was originally
(C) Wuthering an epilogue? written in?
Heights (A) Or, What is you
(A) The Tempest Will (A) ten books
(D) Oliver Twist
(B) Henry IV, Pt I (B) Or, What you (B) eleven books
18. In ‘Leda and Will
the Swan’, who (C) Hamlet (C) nine books
wooes Leda in (C) Or, What you
guise of a swan? (D) Twelfth Night Like It (D) eight books
 (D) Thomas Hardy generation of
28. In Pride and (B) Italy British
Prejudice, Lydia 35. Shelley’s
elopes with? (C)France Adonais is an elegy Romantics?
on the death of?
(A) Darcy (D) Germany (A) Keats
(A) Milton
(B) Wickham 32. Which of the (B) Wordsworth
following is (B) Coleridge
(C) William Collins Golding’s first (C) Shelley
novel? (C) Keats
(D) Charles Bingley (D) Byron
(A) The Inheritors (D) Johnson
29. Who coined 39. Which of the
the phrase (B) Lord of the 36. Which of the following poems of
‘Egotistical Flies following is the Coleridge is a
Sublime’? first novel of D. H. ballad?
(C) Pincher Martin Lawrence?
(A) William (A) Work Without
Wordsworth (D) Pyramid (A) The White Hope
Peacock
(B) P.B.Shelley 33.Identify the (B) Frost at
character who is a (B) The Trespasser Midnight
(C) S. T. Coleridge supporter of
Women’s Rights in (C) Sons and (C) The Rime of
(D) John Keats Sons and Lovers? Lovers the Ancient

30. Who is (A) Mrs. Morel (D) Women in Love Mariner

commonly known
as ‘Pip’ in Great (B) Annie 37. In the poem (D) Youth and Age
Expectations? ‘Tintern Abbey’,
(C) Miriam ‘dearest friend’ 40. Identify the
(A) Philip Pirrip refers to? writer who was
(D) Clara Dawes expelled from
(B) Filip Pirip (A) Nature Oxford for
34. Vanity Fair is a circulating a
(C)Philip Pip novel by? (B) Dorothy pamphlet—

(D) Philips Pirip (A) Jane Austen (C) Coleridge (A) P. B. Shelley

31. The novel The (B) Charles Dickens (D) Wye (B) Charles Lamb
Power and the
Glory is set in? (C) W. M. 38. Who, among (C) Hazlitt
Thackeray the following, is
(A)Mexico not the second (D) Coleridge
 Christ’s Hospital with the Oxford 50. Who is praised
41. Keats’s School, Movement? as a hero by
Endymion is Carlyle in his
dedicated to? London? (A) Robert lecture on the
Browning ‘Hero as King’?
(A) Leigh Hunt (A) Charles Lamb
(B) John Keble (A) Johnson
(B) Milton (B) William
Wordsworth (C) E. B. Pusey (B) Cromwell
(C) Shakespeare
(C) Leigh Hunt (D) J. H. Newman (C) Shakespeare
(D) Thomas
Chatterton (D) S. T. Coleridge 48. Identify the (D) Luther
work by
42. The second 45. Who derided Swinburne which 51. Identify the
series of Essays of Hazlitt as one of begins “when the work by Ruskin
Elia by Charles the members of hounds of spring which began as a
Lamb was the ‘Cockney are on winter’s defence of
published in? School of Poetry’? traces..”? contemporary
landscape artist
(A) 1823 (A) Tennyson (A) Chastelard especially Turner?

(B) 1826 (8) Charles Lamb (B) A Song of Italy (A) The Stones of
Venice
(C) 1834 (C) Lockhart (C) Atalanta in
Calydon (B) The Two Paths
(D) 1833 (D) T. S. Eliot
(D) Songs before (C) The Seven
43. Which of the 46. Tennyson’s Sunrise Lamps of
following poets poem ‘In Architecture
does not belong to Memoriam’was 49. Carlyle’s work
the ‘Lake School’? written in memory On Heroes, (D) Modem
of? HeroWorship and Painters
(A) Keats the Heroic in
(A) A. H. Hallam History is a course 52. The term ‘the
(B) Coleridge of? Palliser Novels’ is
(B) Edward King used to describe
(C) Southey (A) six lectures the political novels
(C) Wellington of?
(D) Wordsworth (B) five lectures
(D) P. B. Shelley (A) Charles Dickens
44.Who, among (C) four lectures
the following 47. Who, among (B) Anthony
writers, was not the following, is (D) seven lectures Trollope
educated at not connected
(C) W. H. White (C) OttavaRima (C) The Second
(D) Matthew Coming
(D) B. Disraeli (D) Rhyme Royal Arnold
(D) Leda and the
53. Identify the 55. Identify the 57. Identify the Swan
poet, whom writer who first rhetorical figure
Queen Victoria, used blank verse in used in the 59. Who is Pip’s
regarded as the English poetry? following line of friend in London?
perfect poet of Tennyson “Faith
‘love and loss’— (A) Sir Thomas un-faithful kept (A) Pumblechook
Wyatt him falsely true.”
(A) Tennyson (B) Herbert Pocket
(B) William (A) Oxymoron
(B) Browning Shakespeare (C) Bentley
(B) Metaphor Drummle
(C) Swinburne (C) Earl of Surrey
(C) Simile (D) Jaggers
(D) D. G. Rossetti (D) Milton
(D) Synecdoche 60. Who is Mr.
54. A verse form 56. The Aesthetic Tench in The
using stanza of Movement which 58. W. B. Yeats Power and the
eight lines, each blossomed during used the phrase Glory?
with eleven the 1880s was not ‘the artifice of
syllables, is known influenced by? eternity’ in his (A) A teacher
as? poem?
(A) The Pre- (B) A clerk
(A) Spenserian Raphaelites (A) Sailing to
Stanza Byzantium (C) A thief
(B) Ruskin
(B) Ballad (B) Byzantium (D) A dentist
(C) Pater
ANSWERS: 7C 15 D 23 C

8A 16 C 24 B

1D 9B 17 A 25 B

2A 10 A 18 D 26 A

3C 11 B 19 A 27 D

4D 12 C 20 C 28 B

5C 13 A 21 A 29 C

6A 14 A 22 D 30 C
31 A

32 B

33 A

34 C

35 C

36 A

37 B

38 B

39 C

40 A

41 A

42 D

43 A

44 A

45 D