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Trivandrum
7 March 2011
Prof. (Dr.) V. Rajakrishnan
Senior academic and writer

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TEST ONE
1. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is based on _____________. 13. The Tempest is a Shakespearean ____________.
(a) Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (b) Dante’s Divine Comedy
(a)Romance (b) Comedy
(c) Tragedy (d) History play (c) Boccaccio’s Decameron (d) Montaigne’s Essays

2. The Norman Conquest took place in the year ___________. 14. The Forest of Arden appears in ___________.
(a) All’s Well that Ends Well (b) Macbeth
(a) 1170 (b) 1066 (c) 1215 (d) 1485
(c) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (d) As You Like It
3. The name of the prioress in The Canterbury Tales is _________. 15. Bacon’s New Atlantis is modelled on ___________.
(a) Eglentyne (b) Alison (c) Beatrice (d) Laura
(a)The Tempest (b)
Utopia (c) The Kingis Quair (d) Divine Comedy

4. Piers the Plowman was written by _________. 16. The Anatomy of Melancholy is a work written by __________.
(a) John Gower (b) William Langland (c) Geoffrey Chaucer (d) Thomas Wyatt
(a)Robert Burton (b) John
Lyly (c) John Gay (d) Robert Greene
5. Morte d’ Arthur is a prose romance by ___________. 17. “Lycidas” mourns the death of ___________.
(a) Alfred Tennyson (b) John Dryden (c) John Lyly (d) Thomas Malory
(a)Arthur Hallam (b)
Arthur Clough (c) Oliver Cromwell (d) Edward King
6. Rhyme Royal was introduced into English poetry by __________. 18. Milton’s “On His Blindness” is _________ that laments his loss of eyesight.
(a) William Shakespeare (b) King James I
(a)an ode (b) an elegy (c)
a sonnet (d) a play (c) Geoffrey Chaucer (d) Sir Walter Ralegh
7. Everyman is an example of a ___________. 19. There are _______ books in Paradise Lost.
(a) 10 (b) 12 (c) 24 (d) 25
(a) Morality play (b) Mystery play (c) Miracle play (d) Interlude

8. The Spanish Armada was defeated in the year ________. 20. The sub‐title of Richardson’s Pamela is ___________.
(a) An Autobiography (b) A Pure Woman
(a) 1755 (b) 1688 (c) 1588 (d) 1455
(c) A Comic Epic in Prose (d) Virtue Rewarded

9. Gloriana in The Faerie Queene represents ____________. 21. Which poet wrote the line, “My love is like a red, red rose”?
 (a) Catholic Church (b) Queen Elizabeth
(a)Robert Burns (b)
William Wordsworth (c) William Blake (d) John Keats (c) Mary, Queen of Scots (d) Anne Boleyn

10. “Hieronimo is Mad Again” is the sub‐title of ___________. 22. The Lyrical Ballads was published in the year ________.
(a) 1789 (b) 1798 (c) 1800 (d) 1802
(a) The Jew of Malta (b) The Duchess of Malfi
(c) Utopia (d) The Spanish Tragedy 23. Whom does Keats call, “sylvan historian”?
11. Sidney’s Apologie for Poetrie is a reply to _____________. (a) Chaucer (b) Nightingale (c) Skylark (d) Grecian Urn
(a) Four Ages of Poetry (b) The School of Abuse 24. Culture and Anarchy is a prose work by ___________.
(c) A Model Proposal (d) Euphues (a) T. S. Eliot (b) Ezra Pound (c) Matthew Arnold (d) I. A. Richards
12. Senecan tragedy of blood is based on the theme of __________. 25. The character Pip is the protagonist of Dickens’s ____________. (a) love (b) murder (c)
revenge (d) supernatural intervention in human life (a) Great Expectations (b) David Copperfield (c) Nicholas Nickleby (d) Pickwick Papers
(a) Dombey (b) Chockumchild (c) Oliver Twist (d) David Copperfield
TEST TWO
1. Eight iambic pentameter lines followed by an alexandrine is called 9. Wessex is associated with the novels of ____________.
___________. (a) George Eliot (b) Thomas Hardy (c) Charles Dickens (d) D. H. Lawrence
(a) rime royale (b) ottava rima (c) sonnet (d) Spenserian stanza
10. The protagonist of Eliot’s The Waste Land is ___________.
2. What is Samuel Pepys chiefly remembered for? (a) Tiresias (b) Madame Sosostris (c) Fisher King (d) the poet
(a) autobiography (b) diaries (c) graveyard poetry (d) satire
11. _________ is the pen name of Mary Ann Evans.
3. Who wrote the philosophical treatise, “An Essay Concerning Human (a) Charlotte Bronte (b) O. Henry (c) Virginia Woolf (d) George Eliot
Understanding”?
12. John Osborne’s play Look Back in Anger was first performed in the year
(a) Francis Bacon (b) Thomas Hobbes (c) John Locke (d) J. S. Mill
_________.
4. Who does the spider represent in Swift’s The Battle of the Books? (a) 1945 (b) 1950 (c) 1954 (d) 1956
(a) Ancients (b) Moderns (c) Deity of Criticism (d) Dryden
13. The theory of mimesis was introduced by _____________.
5. What is the sub‐title of Hopkins’s poem, “The Windhover”? (a) Plato (b) Aristotle (c) Homer (d) Dryden
(a) To Christ Our Lord (b) God’s Grandeur (c) To Christ (d) The Inscape of a
14. The term “objective correlative” was introduced by Eliot in the essay
Bird
__________.
6. ___________ is the narrator in Wuthering Heights. (a) Tradition and the Individual Talent (b) Hamlet and His Problems (c) The
(a) Heathcliff (b) Lockwood (c) Nelly Dean (d) Linton Function of Criticism (d) The Metaphysical Poets
15. Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto is ___________ novel.
7. The essay “Quintessence of Ibsenism” was written by ___________.
(a) a picaresque (b) an epistolary (c) a Gothic (d) a realist
(a) George Orwell (b) J. B. Priestley (c) Thomas Carlyle (d) G. B. Shaw
16. __________ is the author of A Room of One’s Own.
8. Which of Dickens’s characters dared to ask for more?
(a) E. M. Forster (b) Sylvia Plath (c) D. H. Lawrence (d) Virginia Woolf
17. In which poem does W. B. Yeats use the phrase, “a terrible beauty is born”?
(a) Among School Children (b) The Second Coming (c) Easter 1916 (d)
Byzantium
18. Who is the author of Seven Types of Ambiguity?
(a) William Empson (b) Cleanth Brooks (c) T. S. Eliot (d) I. A. Richards
19. “Daddy” is a confessional poem by _________.
(a) Emily Dickinson (b) Dylan Thomas (c) Sylvia Plath (d) T. S. Eliot
20. “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” was a
paper presented by __________ in 1966.
(a) Saussure (b) Derrida (c) Harold Bloom (d) Roland Barthes
21. “Life is like a dream”, is an example of ___________.
(a) metaphor (b) metonymy (c) personification (d) simile
22. The first section of Eliot’s The Waste Land is titled _____________.
(a) The Fire Sermon (b) Death by Water
(c) The Burial of the Dead (d) A Game of Chess
23. “Hatless, I take off; // My cycle‐clips in awkward reverence.” These lines are
taken from ___________.
(a) Fern Hill (b) The Waste Land (c) In memory of W. B. Yeats (d) Church
Going
24. Who is the protagonist in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man?
(a) Stephen Dedalus (b) Paul Morel (c) Leopold Bloom (d) Simon Dedalus
25. Frantz Fanon, in his book __________________, written during the Algerian
struggle for independence, the controversial introduction of which was
written by
Sartre, said “Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.”
(a) Black Skin, White Masks (b) The Wretched of the Earth
(c) The Colonizer and the Colonized (d) The Pillar of Salt
TEST THREE
1. The first English play in blank verse is __________.
(a) Titus Andronicus (b) Gorboduc (c) Hamlet (d) Spanish Tragedy
2. The writer of ‘Holy Sonnets’ is ___________.
(a) John Donne (b) G. M. Hopkins (c) William Blake (d) Thomas Traherne
3. Who introduced blank verse into English poetry? (a) Geoffrey Chaucer (b)
Thomas Wyatt
(c) Earl of Surrey (d) Christopher Marlowe
4. The Peasants Revolt took place in the year __________.
(a) 1215 (b) 1300 (c) 1345 (d) 1381
5. Tottel’s Miscellany was published in the year __________.
(a) 1552 (b) 1557 (c) 1560 (d) 1564
6. Who called Spenser “the poets’ poet”?
(a) Charles Lamb (b) Dr. Johnson (c) Matthew Arnold (d) T. S. Eliot
7. The line “If music be the food of love, play on” appears in Shakespeare’s
_________.
(a) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (b) As You Like It
(c) Twelfth Night (d) The Tempest
8. The famous book Shakespearean Tragedy was written by ___________.
(a) Dover Wilson (b) S. T. Coleridge (c) Charles Lamb (d) A. C. Bradley
9. The Metaphysical poets used the “carpe diem” philosophy which means
___________.
(a) Remember you will die (b) Seize the day
(c) Eat, drink and be merry (d) Organic unity
10. The major theme of Milton’s Paradise Lost is __________.
(a) mourning a death (b) Satan’s disobedience
(c) Fall of man (d) the creation of Man
11. In “MacFlecknoe,” Dryden ridiculed his principal opponent ___________.
(a) Thomas Shadwell (b) Alexander Pope (c) Colley Cibber (d) Lewis
Theobald
12. The biographer of Dr. Samuel Johnson is ___________.
(a) Izaak Walton (b) Oliver Goldsmith (c) David Garrick (d) James Boswell
13. Squire Allworthy is a country gentleman who appears in ____________.
(a) Tristram Shandy (b) Oliver Twist (c) Tom Jones (d) Jane Eyre
14. Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience were written by __________.
 (a) Robert Burns (b) William Blake (c) Thomas Gray (d) William Wordsworth
15. Under what name does Lamb’s sister Mary appear in his essays?
(a) Bridget (b) Alice (c) Mary (d) Anne
16. What is the sub‐title of Waiting for Godot?
(a) A Comedy in Two Acts (b) An Absurd Play
(c) A Tragedy (d) A Tragi‐comedy in Two Acts
17. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is a line from _____________.
(a) Endymion (b) Ode to a Sky Lark (c) Ode on a Grecian Urn (d) Tintern
Abbey
18. The Confessions of a English Opium Eater published in 1821 was written by
_________.
(a) S. T. Coleridge (b) Robert Southey (c) Lord Byron (d) Thomas de Quincey
19. Maggie Tulliver is the central character in _____________.
(a) Mill on the Floss (b) Pride and Prejudice
(c) Wuthering Heights (d) Far from the Madding Crowd
20. The protagonist of D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers is _____________.
(a) Stephen Dedalus (b) Paul Morel (c) Leopold Bloom (d) William Morel
21. What is the sub‐title of Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles?
(a) Virtue Rewarded (b) Mistakes of a Night
(c) A Pure Woman (d) A Tragi‐comedy
22. Fern Hill is a poem of childhood memories by ___________.
(a) Dylan Thomas (b) Philip Larkin (c) Ted Hughes (d) W. H. Auden
23. Nineteen Eighty Four is a dystopian novel by ___________.
(a) George Orwell (b) Anthony Powell (c) D. H. Lawrence (d) Graham
Greene
24. Which novel ends with the words, “The horror, the horror”?
(a) Lord of the Flies (b) The Power and the Glory
(c) Sons and Lovers (d) Heart of Darkness
25. The first regular English tragedy was ___________.
(a) Titus Andronicus (b) Gorboduc (c) The Spanish Tragedy (d) Tamburlaine
TEST FOUR
1. Which was the first group of pilgrims to come to the Tabard Inn?
(a) The five Guildsmen (b) The Knight, The Squire and the Yeoman
(c) The Pardoner and the Summoner (d) The Plowman and the Parson
2. In which language was John Gower’s Speculum Meditantis written?
(a) Italian (b) Latin (c) French (d) English
3. The heroic couplet was used for the first time in ___________.
(a) The Book of the Duchess (b) Troilus and Criseyde
(c) The Parliament of Fowls (d) The Legend of Good Women
4. What is the verse medium of Milton’s Paradise Lost?
(a) heroic couplet (b) quatrains (c) Spenserian stanza (d) blank verse
5. Utopia was first published in English in the year __________.
(a) 1551 (b) 1557 (c) 1571 (d) 1584
6. Under what name does Dryden speak in the essay, “Of Dramatick Poesie”?
(a) Eugenius (b) Crites (c) Lisideius (d) Neander
7. The topographical poem Cooper’s Hill (1642) was written by _________.
(a) John Denham (b) Abraham Cowley (c) George Herbert (d) Richard
Lovelace
8. Who wrote the famous line, “God made the country and man made the
town”?
(a) William Blake (b) William Cowper (c) William Collins (d) William
Wordsworth
9. In which poem do you find the line, “The paths of glory lead but to the
grave”?
(a) The Prelude (b) Ancient Mariner
(c) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (d) Ode to Duty
10. Who called Milton “the poetical son of Spenser”?
(a) Charles Lamb (b) Alexander Pope (c) Samuel Johnson (d) John Dryden
11. What are the two colours symbolically employed throughout the novel, Tess
of D’Urbervilles?
(a) black and red (b) white and red (c) green and red (d) white and green
12. How many lyrics are there in Tennyson’s In Memoriam? (a) 132 (b) 78 (c) 60
(d) 45
13. Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley are characters in ____________.
(a) Far from the Madding Crowd (b) Jane Eyre (c) Vanity Fair (d) Mansfield
Park
14. “Nothing to be done” is a line that is repeatedly found in _____________.
(a) Tristram Shandy (b) King Lear (c) Pickwick Papers (d) Waiting for Godot
15. World Within the World is the autobiography of __________.
(a) Stephen Spender (b) Philip Larkin (c) Ted Hughes (d) Andrew Motion
16. Which character represents Karl Marx in Orwell’s Animal Farm?
(a) Napoleon (b) Boxer (c) Snowball (d) Old Major
17. The figure of speech in “Was this the face that launched a thousand ships” is
_________.
(a) hyperbole (b) synecdoche (c) metaphor (d) paradox
18. W.B. Yeats received the Nobel Prize in the year _________.
(a) 1940 (b) 1936 (c) 1926 (d) 1923
19. Gravity’s Rainbow and V are novels by __________.
(a) Angela Carter (b) Peter Ackroyd (c) Thomas Pynchon (d) Doris Lessing
20. Who wrote Morphology of the Folk Tale?
(a) Vladimir Propp (b) Viktor Shklovsky
(c) Roman Jakobson (d) Boris Eichenbaum
21. An Ode for Ben Jonson was written by ___________.
(a) Andrew Marvell (b) Robert Herrick (c) John Suckling (d) John Donne
22. Culture and Society and The Long Revolution are works by _____________.
(a) Stuart Hall (b) Terry Eagleton (c) Louis Althusser (d) Raymond Williams
23. Roland Barthes’ essay “Death of the Author” was published in the year
_________.
(a) 1966 (b) 1968 (c) 1970 (d) 1975
24. The major feminist text The Second Sex was written by ______________.
(a) Kate Millett (b) Elaine Showalter (c) Simone de Beauvoir (d) Toril Moi
25. Madness and Civilization, The Birth of the Clinic, and The Order of Things are
works by __________.
(a) Michel Foucault (b) Jacques Derrida (c) Mikhail Bakhtin (d) Jacques
Lacan
TEST FIVE
1. Cato is a tragedy written by __________.
(a) John Lyly (b) Ben Jonson (c) Joseph Addison (d) Lord Byron
2. Who of the following wrote an ode on the birth of Christ?
(a) John Donne (b) John Milton (c) John Dryden (d) G. M. Hopkins
3. The comic character Tony Lumpkin appears in ____________.
(a) She Stoops to Conquer (b) The Importance of Being Earnest
(c) Arms and the Man (d) Juno and the Paycock
4. Who said that Shakespeare is above all modern writers “the poet of nature”?
(a) Arnold (b) Coleridge (c) Dr. Johnson (d) Dryden
5. Who of the following critics does Sidney NOT draw upon in Apologie for
Poetrie?
(a) Plato (b) Aristotle (c) Horace (d) Longinus
6. Shaw’s Apple Cart exposes the unrealities of ___________.
(a) elections (b) democracy
(c) political leadership (d) the ethics of politics
7. Brighton Rock is a novel by ____________.
(a) William Golding (b) Iris Murdoch (c) Aldous Huxley (d) Graham Greene
8. In which Tale of The Canterbury Tales does Chaucer present the mob as the
“stormy people”?
(a) The Monk’s Tale (b) The Knight’s Tale
(c) The Clerk’s Tale (d) The Wife of Bath’s Tale
9. Which is Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy?
(a) Hamlet (b) Othello (c) King Lear (d) Macbeth
10. Alexander’s Feast, or the Power of Music is an ode written by Dryden in
celebration of ______________.
(a) Restoration (b) St. Cecilia’s Day
(c) St. Valentine’s Day (d) His religious conversion
11. Which of the following poems by Browning is on the life of a musician? 23. The title of “The Waste Land” was derived from ___________.
(a) Caliban Upon Setebos (b) Fra Lippo Lippi (c) Abt Vogler (d) Rabbi Ben (a) The Golden Bough (b) From Ritual to Romance
Ezra (c) Charles Dickens (d) Baudelaire
12. The periodical All the Year Round was founded by __________. 24. In Gulliver’s Travels, Lilliput stands for ___________.
(a) Charles Dickens (b) W. M. Thackeray (c) G. B. Shaw (d) Robert Browning (a) England (b) Inferno (c) a dystopia (d) anarchy
13. What has been defined as “that which presents an intellectual and emotional
25. The Peggottys and Micawbers are characters in _______________.
complex in an instant of time”? (a) epiphany (b) symbol (c) metaphor (d)
image (a) Great Expectations (b) David Copperfield
(c) Nicholas Nickleby (d) Dombey and Son
14. D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love is the sequel of __________.
(a) Sons and Lovers (b) The Rainbow (c) The Plumed Serpent (d) The
Kangaroo
15. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass was inspired by ___________.
(a) Abraham Lincoln (b) Herman Melville
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson (d) Henry David Thoreau
16. Eugene O’Neill is known for having introduced the techniques of _________
to
American drama.
(a) realism (b) expressionism (c) romanticism (d) modernism
17. Who of the following wrote the famous Life of Charles Dickens in the 19th
century?
(a) Lytton Strachey (b) Emil Ludwig (c) John Forster (d) Leslie Stephen
18. Who of the following is not a Yale critic?
(a) Geoffrey Hartman (b) Harold Bloom (c) Paul de Man (d) Barbara Johnson
19. The concept of Affective fallacy was clearly articulated in __________.
(a) The Well‐Wrought Urn (b) The Verbal Icon
(c) Frontiers of Criticism (d) The Meaning of Meaning
20. The Colossus is a confessional poem by __________.
(a) Robert Lowell (b) Anne Sexton (c) Sylvia Plath (d) Adrienne Rich
21. In Anatomy of Criticism, Northrop Frye relates tragedy to ________.
(a) spring (b) summer (c) autumn (d) winter
22. “The Deconstructive Angel” is an essay by ____________.
(a) M. H. Abrams (b) J. Hillis Miller (c) Barbara Johnson (d) Jonathan Culler

1.
TEST SIX
In which year were the theatres closed down in England after the Civil War?
(a) 1639 (b) 1640 (c) 1642 (d) 1649
2. Which earlier work is the theme of Dryden’s All for Love based on?
(a) Hecatommithi (b) Romaunt of the Rose
(c) The Spanish Tragedy (d) Antony and Cleopatra
3. The Vanity of Dogmatizing was written by ________.
(a) Samuel Johnson (b) Joseph Glanville (c) Joseph Addison (d) Jeremy Taylor
4. Where do you find these lines: “True wit is Nature to advantage dressed / What
oft was thought, but never so well expressed?” (a) MacFlecknoe (b) Essay on
Man
(c) Essay on Criticism (d) Vanity of Human Wishes
5. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding was written by _________.
(a) John Locke (b) Thomas Hobbes (c) Edmund Burke (d) J. S. Mill
6. Dr. Primrose is a character in _____________.
(a) Vanity Fair (b) Jude the Obscure (c) The Vicar of Wakefield (d) Persuasion
7. Neo‐classical satire was influenced by the Roman satirists _______ and
________.
(a) Menippus and Juvenal (b) Menippus and Seneca
(c) Persius and Juvenal (d) Horace and Juvenal
8. Moral Essays, a series of 4 poems on ethical subjects, was written by
__________.
(a) John Dryden (b) Samuel Johnson (c) Alexander Pope (d) Jonathan Swift
9. Swift’s The Battle of the Books was written in support of his patron __________.
(a) William Godwin (b) William Temple
(c) William Davenant (d) William Wycherley
10. Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary was published in the year ________.
13.
(a) 1735 (b) 1745 (c) 1750 (d) 1755
11. Blank verse was introduced in English literature in Surrey’s translation of
_________.
(a) Aeneid (b) Metamorphosis (c) Iliad (d) Orlando Furioso
12. In which novel did Thomas Hardy introduce Wessex?
(a) A Pair of Blue Eyes (b) Under the Greenwood Tree
(c) Far from the Madding Crowd (d) Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Imagination is the subtitle of the
book ____________.
(a) Sexual Politics (b) Man Made Language
(c) The Feminine Mystique (d) The Mad Woman in the Attic
14. The first mention of Shakespeare’s works can be found in __________.
(a) Passionate Pilgrim (b) Timber (c) Tottel’s Miscellany (d) Palladis Tamia
15. Sonnets from the Portuguese was written by ___________.
(a) Byron (b) Robert Southey (c) Elizabeth Barrett Browning (d) Matthew Arnold
16. Which of the following is a curtal sonnet (10½ lines)?
(a) On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer (b) Death, be not proud
(c) The world is too much with us (d) Pied Beauty
17. Where did Satan hold a solemn council with the fallen angels?
(a) Paracelsus (b) Pandemonium (c) Celestial City (d) Garden of Eden
18. In which year was Tottel’s Miscellany published?
(a) 1551 (b) 1554 (c) 1557 (d) 1569
19. What is the name of the Wife of Bath in Canterbury Tales?
(a) Alison (b) Eglantyne (c) Beatrice (d) Emily
20. Which is the last tale in the Canterbury Tales?
(a) The Cook’s Tale (b) The Pardoner’s Tale
(c) The Parson’s Tale (d) Tale of Sir Thopas

1. Who
21. Bacon wrote _______ essays in all.
(a) 46 (b) 58 (c) 106 (d) 120
22. What is the name of the play within a play in Hamlet?
(a) The Murders in the Rue Morgue (b) The Murder of Gonzago
(c) The Murder of Gonzalo (d) Murder at Baskervilles
23. The only literary epic in English is __________.
(a) Beowulf (b) The Faerie Queene (c) Hyperion (d) Paradise Lost
24. Which of the following is a Christian humanistic epic?
(a) The Faerie Queene (b) Aeneid (c) Paradise Lost (d) Prometheus Bound
25. Donne wrote _____ Holy Sonnets.
(a) 27 (b) 22 (c) 19 (d) 15
TEST SEVEN
said that Dryden and Pope are classics of our prose, not poetry?
(a) Matthew Arnold (b) T. S. Eliot (c) F. R. Leavis (d) Harold Bloom
2. To whom is Poe’s Dunciad dedicated?
(a) Lewis Theobald (b) Daniel Defoe (c) Jonathan Swift (d) Colley Cibber
3. Who is described by Pope as, “Willing to wound but afraid to strike”?
(a) Dryden (b) Swift (c) Fielding (d) Addison
4. The name assumed by Arnold in Thyrsis is __________.
(a) Colin (b) Moschus (c) Corydon (d) Hobbinoll
5. Bathsheba Everdene is a character in __________.
(a) Far From the Madding Crowd (b) The Return of the Native
(c) Jude the Obscure (d) Under the Greenwood Tree
6. “The Life and Death of a Man of Character” is the sub‐title of ___________.
(a) Vanity Fair (b) The Trumpet Major
(c) Jude the Obscure (d) The Mayor of Casterbridge
7. The character Lilith appears in Shaw’s play __________.
13.
(a) Man and Superman (b) Back to Methuselah (c) Apple Cart (d) Pygmalion
8. In which poem does the line “To purify the dialect of the tribe” occur?
(a) Little Gidding (b) Ash Wednesday (c) Burnt Norton (d) The Waste Land
9. Savage John is a character in __________.
(a) The Power and the Glory (b) The Inheritors
(c) Brave New World (d) Melone Dies
10. The Moon and Sixpence, a novel based on the life of the artist Paul Gauguin, is
written by _____________.
(a) Aldous Huxley (b) Lawrence Durrell
(c) Malcolm Lowry (d) Somerset Maugham
11. Which 1945 novel is a satire in fable form on Revolutionary and post
Revolutionary Russia?
(a) Darkness at Noon (b) Animal Farm (c) Erewhon (d) Brave New World
12. Who of the following wrote a famous study of Thomas Hardy, which became a
statement of his own philosophy of art?
(a) James Joyce (b) D. H. Lawrence (c) Leslie Stephen (d) E. M. Forster
13. Essay on Man is a philosophical poem in heroic couplets by ___________.
(a) Abraham Cowley (b) John Dryden (c) Alexander Pope (d) Samuel Johnson
14. Who translated Montaigne’s essays into English?
(a) George Chapman (b) Thomas North (c) Arthur Golding (d) John Florio
15. Who first translated Longinus into English?
(a) John Hall (b) Ben Jonson (c) John Milton (d) Henry Howard
16. The concluding line of Spenserian stanza is called __________.
(a) Poulter’s measure (b) Alexandrine (c) Spondee (d) Hemistich
17. Who wrote the poem ‘Deserted Village’?
(a) Thomas Gray (b) Oliver Goldsmith (c) William Collins (d) William
Wordsworth
18. The first sonnet in English was an adaptation of a sonnet by the Italian humanist
1. Who
_________. (a) Satanic School (b) Fleshly 8. Carlyle describes __________
(a) Dante (b) Boccaccio (c) Montaigne (d) Petrarch School (c) Cockney School and __________ as Hero as
(d) Lake School Poet.
19. A unit of three lines in a poem is called _______.
(a) Homer and Dante (b) Milton
(a) terza rima (b) strophe (c) tercet (d) tetrameter 4. In Wordsworth’s pastoral poem
and Shakespeare
“Michael,” what is the name of
20. Which famous Elizabethan man of letters wrote the first masque in English, The (c) Homer and Milton (d) Dante
the old farmer’s son who has left
Masque of Blacknesse? and Shakespeare
or the town in search of a job?
(a) Ben Jonson (b) John Lyly (c) Thomas Nashe (d) Thomas Wyatt (a) Luke (b) Mike (c) Eddie (d) 9. ________ is the author of the
21. The name of Belinda’s pet dog in Pope’s The Rape of the Lock is ________. (a) Jake twentieth century poem “I
Plume (b) Shock (c) Lock (d) Brown remember, I remember”.
5. Who distinguishes between
(a) Dylan Thomas (b) W. H.
22. In which poem does the line, “We can die by it, if not live by love” appear? “mental consciousness” and
Auden (c) Philip Larkin (d)
(a) Hymn to God The Father (b) Valediction, Forbidding Mourning “blood consciousness”
Thom Gunn
(c) Canonization (d) The Flea (“sense” and “perception”), the
latter of which is a major aspect 10. The subtitle of Tess of the
23. The meaning of the phrase ‘carpe diem’ is _________. of his novels? d’Urbervilles is _________.
(a) argument (b) pleasure is good (c) conversational style (d) seize the day (a) James Joyce (b) D. H. (a) Virtue Rewarded (b) A Pure
Lawrence (c) Samuel Beckett Woman (c) An
24. ‘Asra’ poems were written by ________ as a tribute to his sweetheart.
(d) William Golding Autobiography (d) A Tragedy
(a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge (c) Shelley (d) Keats 6. Somerset Maugham’s 11. The book The Elizabethan World
autobiographical novel Of Picture was written by
25. What is the meaning of ‘agonistes’ in Milton’s poem ‘Samson Agonistes’? (a) the
Human Bondage takes its title ________________.
sufferer (b) the giant (c) the warrior (d) the wrestler
from _________. (a) Dover Wilson (b) Wilson
2. Bully Bottom is a character in
TEST __________.
(a) Plato (b) Aristotle (c) Leibniz Knight (c) F. L. Lucas (d) E.
(d) Spinoza M. W. Tillyard
EIGHT (a) The Pickwick Papers (b) A
wrote The Citizen of the World, a Midsummer Night’s Dream 7. The lusty London woman, Lady 12. Chris Wallace Crabbe is a poet
collection of letters claimed to be (c) Tristram Shandy (d) Tom Bellaston is a character in from ______________.
Jones ________. (a) New Zealand (b) Canada (c)
written
(a) Tom Jones (b) Pride and Australia (d) West Indies
by an imaginary Chinaman? 3. Keats, Leigh Hunt and Hazlitt
Prejudice (c) Jane Eyre (d) Praeterita is the unfinished
(a) Carlyle (b) Thackeray (c) were ridiculed in Blackwood’s
Nicholas Nickleby autobiography of ___________.
Lamb (d) Goldsmith Magazine as _________.
(a) Ruskin (b) Carlyle (c)
Macaulay (d) Chesterton

1. Who
14. The symbol “Sick Rose” was
famously used by ________.
(a) W. B. Yeats (b) D. H.
Lawrence (c) Virginia Woolf
20. Which novel begins, “I was born
(d) William Blake
15. The Life and Times of Michael K.,
the story of a simple, hare‐lipped
gardener set in the apartheid
era, was written by __________.
(a) Ian McEwan (b) J. M.
21. In An Antique Land is based on
Coetzee (c) John Banville (d)
Ben Okri
16. James Dixon is the central figure
in the 1954 comic campus novel
____________.
22. The satirical novel, Catch‐22, set
(a) Lord Jim (b) Kim (c) Lucky
Jim (d) The Masters
17. Who is the author of Writing
Degree Zero?
(a) Jacques Derrida (b) Roland
Barthes (c) Terry Eagleton
23. Who says his desire is “To follow
(d) Gayatri Spivak
18. My Name is Red and Snow are
works by the Turkish writer
_________.
(a) Orhan Pamuk (b) Naguib
Mahfouz (c) Khaled Hosseini
24. Which of the following poems
(d) Ismail Kadare
19. Walter de la Mare belonged to
the ________ School of Poets.
(a) Edwardian (b) Georgian (c)
Pre‐Raphaelite (d) Fin de
Siecle
in the city of Bombay”?
(a) The Ice Candy Man (b) Such
a Long Journey
(c) An Equal Music (d)
Midnight’s Children
an anthropological project in
_____.
(a) Burma (b) Greece (c) Egypt
(d) Ireland
against World War II, was
written by ______.
(a) J. D. Salinger (b) Saul Bellow
(c) William Styron (d) Joseph
Heller
knowledge like a sinking star, /
Beyond the utmost bound of
human thought”?
(a) Ulysses (b) Hamlet (c)
Doctor Faustus (d) Tiresias
refers to a painting made by Fra
Pandolf?
13.
(a) The Princess (b) Lamia (c)
My Last Duchess (d) The
Blessed Damozel
25. In which poem does Keats
describe the contemporary
world as “where men sit and
hear each other groan; / Where
palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray
hairs, /
Where youth grows pale, and
spectre‐thin, and dies”?
(a) Ode on a Grecian Urn (b)
Ode to a Nightingale
(c) Ode to Autumn (d) Ode to
Melancholy
TEST
NINE
wrote this Imagist‐influenced poem:
“so much depends / upon / a red
wheel
/ barrow / glazed with rain /
water / beside the white /
chickens”?
(a) J. C. Ransom (b) William
Carlos Williams (c) E. E.
Cummings (d) Robert Lowell
2. In which year was Things Fall
Apart published?
(a) 1949 (b) 1952 (c) 1956 (d)
1958
3. Anna Wulf, the writer who
records her life in four books,
appears in _________.
(a) Hotel du Lac (b) Fire on the
Mountain
(c) The Golden Notebook (d) The
Binding Vine
4. _______ is an influential figure
within the New Left, whose work
laid the foundations of Cultural
Studies, and who wrote novels,
short stories and plays along
with pioneering critical texts like
Marxism and Literature. (a) Louis
Althusser (b) Raymond Williams
(c) Terry Eagleton (d) Georg
Lukacs
5. In which year did the first issue
of The Tatler come out?
(a) 1701 (b) 1706 (c) 1709 (d)
1711
6. “Death is the end of life; ah, why
// Should life all labour be?”
These lines are from
________.
(a) The Lotos‐Eaters (b) Doctor
Faustus (c) Hamlet (d)
Gerontion
7. The Ascent of F6 is a play by
________.
1. Who
(a) John Osborne (b) Arnold
Wesker (c) Philip Larkin (d)
W. H. Auden
8. The postmodern work If on a
Winter’s Night a Traveller is
written by ________.
(a) Mario Vargas Llosa (b) Orhan
Pamuk (c) Italo Calvino (d)
Jorges Luis Borges
9. Who ridiculed the Auden group
of poets as “Macspaunday”?
(a) Robert Buchanan (b) Roy
Campbell (c) Dylan Thomas
(d) David Lodge
10. Who is this line about: “Of
remedies of love she knew
perchance”?
(a) The Duchess of Malfi (b) The
Prioress (c) Wife of Bath (d)
Cleopatra
11. Who in The Canterbury Tales
was hot and lecherous as a
sparrow?
(a) Friar (b) Pardoner (c) Reeve
(d) Summoner
12. Who in The Canterbury Tales
was fond of playing a bagpipe?
(a) Miller (b) Squire (c) Friar (d)
Monk
13. Which character in The Vicar of
Wakefield is supposed to be
portrayal of
Goldsmith’s father?
(a) Mr. Wilmot (b) Dr. Primrose
(c) Mr. Thornhill (d) Mr.
Burchell
14. John Hall, the Metaphysical
poet, is known for his translation
of _____.
(a) Aeneid (b) On the Sublime
(c) Ars Poetica (d) Iliad
15. Purchas, His Pilgrimage, which
influenced Coleridge in writing
Kubla Khan, was written by
________.
(a) Hakluyt (b) Froissart (c)
Whetstone (d) Belleforest
16. In which poem does Keats say,
“Heard melodies are sweet, but
those unheard are sweeter”?
(a) Endymion (b) Hyperion (c)
Ode on a Grecian Urn (d)
Ode to a Nightingale
17. “Thy soul was like a star and
dwelt apart.” Who said this
about whom?
(a) Dryden about Chaucer (b)
Arnold about Milton (c)
Wordsworth about Chaucer
(d) Wordsworth about Milton
18. The character _________ in The unknown // Dipp’d me in ink, my
Faerie Queene has been parents’ or my own”?
considered a personification of (a) Dunciad (b) An Epistle to Dr
Sir Philip Sidney. Arbuthnot (c) Vanity of
(a) Archemago (b) Artegall (c) Human Wishes (d) The
Redcrosse Knight (d) Guyon Medal
19. “Do Not Go Gentle into the Good 24. In which work do you find these
Night” and “And Death Shall lines, “Sweet are the uses of
Have No Dominion” are poems adversity // Which like the toad,
by ________. ugly and venomous, // Wears
(a) Dylan Thomas (b) Seamus yet a precious jewel in his
Heaney (c) Elizabeth head”?
Jennings (d) Andrew Motion (a) King Lear (b) The Tempest
(c) Antony and Cleopatra (d)
20. Who accompanied Wordsworth
As You Like It
on his visit to Tintern Abbey?
(a) Coleridge (b) Dorothy (c) 25. Which Shakespearean character
Mary (d) Sara says, “I am a man // More sinned
against than sinning”?
21. Who wrote this line: “My life
(a) King Lear (b) Prospero (c)
closed twice before its close”?
Hamlet (d) Henry IV
(a) Sylvia Plath (b) Virginia
Woolf (c) Emily Bronte (d)
Emily Dickinson
22. Who wrote the massive work,
An American Tragedy?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson (b)
Ernest Hemingway (c)
Theodore Dreiser (d) F. Scott
Fitzgerald
23. Which poem begins thus: “Why
did I write? What sin to me

1.
TEST TEN
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765), which contained 180 ballads in three
volumes, was compiled by _______.
(a) Francis Child (b) Francis Meres (c) Thomas Percy (d) Thomas D’Urfey
2. Thomas More’s Utopia was originally written in _________.
(a) Greek (b) Latin (c) English (d) French
3. Who said a woman writer should killing the “Angel in the House”?
(a) Mary Wollstonecraft (b) Virginia Woolf
(c) Simone de Beauvoir (d) Elaine Showalter
4. Bosola is a character who spies on the protagonist and is involved in her murder,
in the play ________.
(a) The Duchess of Malfi (b) The White Devil (c) Philaster (d) The Spanish
Tragedy
5. In The World, the Text and the Critic, ____________ says, “Texts are in the world
and hence worldly.”
(a) Gayatri Spivak (b) Michel Foucault (c) Roland Barthes (d) Edward Said
6. The novel Rich Like Us, set in New Delhi in the turbulent time between the 1930s
and 70s, which follows the lives of Rose and Sonali, was written by _________.
(a) Nayantara Sahgal (b) Upamanyu Chatterjee (c) Vikram Seth (d) Anita Desai
7. Who said ‘image’ is “an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of
time”?
(a) T. S. Eliot (b) F. R. Leavis (c) Ezra Pound (d) William Carlos Williams
8. _________ by Thomas Pynchon is set in the final months of the II World War,
and the characters are ironically unaware of historical events such as the
Holocaust.
(a) V. (b) the Crying of Lot 49 (c) Inherent Vice (d) Gravity’s Rainbow
9. Ngugi wa Thiongo’s A Grain of Wheat is set in __________ during the country’s
struggle for independence.
(a) Nigeria (b) Kenya (c) South Africa (d) Chile
13.
10. The Female Quixote, an imitation of Don Quixote, and a feminist commentary on
women’s estrangement from male society, was written by __________. (a) Aphra
Behn (b) Fanny Burney (c) Charlotte Lennox (d) Elizabeth Gaskell
11. The first life in Johnson’s Lives of the Poets was that of ______________.
(a) John Donne (b) Abraham Cowley (c) Richard Savage (d) John Milton
12. Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and Parliament of Fowles were written in the
metrical form __________.
(a) heroic couplet (b) blank verse (c) Poulter’s measure (d) Chaucerian stanza
Which novel by Dickens is the story of an orphan writing about his life, finally
becoming a gentleman in London?
(a) Great Expectations (b) David Copperfield (c) Oliver Twist (d) Hard Times
14. Who wrote the early Romantic poem, “The Grave”?
(a) Thomas Parnell (b) William Cowper (c) Edward Young (d) Robert Blair
15. Who famously critiqued Jane Austen for rejecting “even a speaking acquaintance
with that stormy sisterhood” of the Bronte sisters”? (i.e., the Bronte sisters are
referred to as “that stormy sisterhood”)
(a) Charles Lamb (b) William Hazlitt (c) Charlotte Bronte (d) Matthew Arnold
16. Who calls poetry “a speaking picture with the end to teach and delight”?
(a) Shelley (b) Wordsworth (c) Coleridge (d) Sidney
17. “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, // Are of imagination all compact”—These
are lines from _______.
(a) Twelfth Night (b) Merchant of Venice
(c) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (d) As You Like It
18. Who defined the Essay as “A loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested
piece; not a regular and orderly composition”?
(a) Charles Lamb (b) Dr. Johnson (c) Joseph Addison (d) Matthew Arnold
19. Where does Bacon say: “a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in gold and silver,
which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it”? (a) Of Marriage
and Single Life (b) Of Adversity (c) Of Friendship (d) Of Truth
20. How many acts does the Irish play Riders to the Sea have?
1.
(a) one (b) two (c) three (d) four
21. Which fifteenth century English writer was imprisoned for fighting in the Wars of
the Roses in support of the Yorkists?
(a) Sir Thomas Malory (b) John Lydgate (c) Thomas Hoccleve (d) John Fortescu
22. Who wrote What Happens in Hamlet?
(a) L. C. Knights (b) Wilson Knight (c) Dover Wilson (d) Kenneth Burke
23. A half‐line of verse, followed and preceded by a caesura, is called __________.
(a) distich (b) hemistich (c) monostich (d) acephalous line
24. Into how many parts is Divine Comedy divided?
(a) four (b) three (c) two (d) one
25. Blank verse first appeared in English poetry in Surrey’s translation of ________.
(a) Odyssey (b) Iliad (c) Metamorphoses (d) Aeneid
TEST ELEVEN
In which language did Dante write Divine Comedy?
(a) Latin (b) Italian (c) French (d) Greek
2. Which Jacobean poet wrote An Ode to Himself?
(a) George Chapman (b) John Donne (c) Ben Jonson (d) Abraham Cowley
3. Thomas Occleve’s The Regiment of Princes mourns the death of ________.
(a) King James I (b) John Lydgate (c) King Richard II (d) Geoffrey Chaucer
4. The song “Full fathom five thy father lies” occurs in the play _______.
(a) King Lear (b) The Tempest (c) As You Like It (d) Henry IV Part II
5. “Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, // That struts and frets his hour upon
the stage”—these lines occur in _________. (a) Macbeth (b) Hamlet (c) Othello
(d) King Lear
6. What genre does Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound belong to?
(a) tragedy (b) poetic drama (c) epic (d) narrative poem
7. Sue Bridehead is a character in ______.
(a) Far from the Madding Crowd (b) The Return of the Native (c) Jude the
Obscure
(d) The Mayor of Casterbridge
8. In which year was the Globe Theatre built?
(a) 1569 (b) 1579 (c) 1589 (d) 1599
9. George Eliot’s Romola is a historical novel set in the ________ century.
(a) 15th (b) 16th (c) 17th (d) 18th
10. Samuel Butler’s mock heroic narrative poem Hudibras derives its name from
______________.
(a) Iliad (b) Faerie Queene (c) Pilgrim’s Progress (d) Arcadia
11. The dystopian science fiction novel Oryx and Crake was written by the Canadian
novelist __________.
(a) Margaret Atwood (b) Alice Munro (c) Rohinton Mistry (d) Michael Ondaatje
12. The book __________ by Michel Foucault is an anti‐humanist excavation of the
human sciences.
(a) The Archaeology of Knowledge (b) The Birth of the Clinic (c) The History of
Sexuality (d) The Order of Things
13. Charles Dodgson wrote under the pen name ____________.
(a) Mark Twain (b) O. Henry (c) Saki (d) Lewis Caroll
14. Which is Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy?
(a) Hamlet (b) Othello (c) Macbeth (d) King Lear
15. Lady Bracknell is a character in the play ________.
(a) She Stoops to Conquer (b) The School for Scandal (c) The Importance of Being
Earnest (d) Arms and the Man
16. In which year was Paradise Lost published?
(a) 1661 (b) 1667 (c) 1669 (d) 1670
17. The epic novel The Name of the Rose is written by _______.
(a) Umberto Eco (b) Orhan Pamuk (c) Angela Carter (d) Doris Lessing
18. In which work does Spenser describe Chaucer as “the well of English undefiled”?
1.
(a) Epithalamion (b) The Faerie Queene (c) A View of the Present State of Ireland
(d) Colin Clouts Come Home Again
19. Benedict Anderson’s book Imagined Communities was published in the year
_____.
(a) 1999 (b) 1990 (c) 1983 (d) 1971
20. In which year was the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Beckett, assassinated?
(a) 1089 (b) 1135 (c) 1159 (d) 1170
21. Orhan Pamuk is a novelist from _________.
(a) Lebanon (b) Egypt (c) Turkey (d) Colombia
22. The Perishable Empire and Twice‐born Fiction are works by _______.
(a) Meenakshi Mukherjee (b) Aijaz Ahmad (c) Partha Chatterjee (d) Gayatri
Spivak
23. The Adding Machine (1923), the first American Expressionist play, was written by
__________.
(a) Eugene O’Neill (b) Arthur Miller (c) Clifford Odets (d) Elmer Rice
24. Buck is the protagonist of a novel written by the American novelist, _________.
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald (b) Jack London (c) J. D. Salinger (d) John Steinbeck
25. Which poem ends thus: “And we are here as on a darkling plain // Swept with
confused alarms of struggle and flight, // Where ignorant armies clash by night”?
(a) The Scholar Gypsy (b) Dover Beach (c) In Memoriam (d) Ulysses
TEST TWELVE
______ by Wilson Knight is subtitled “Interpretations of Shakespearean
Tragedy.”
(a) The Burning Oracle (b) Chariot of Wrath
(c) The Saturnian Quest (d) The Wheel of Fire
2. Which is Edward Bond’s political play influenced by Bertolt Brecht, which depicts
an aging William Shakespeare concerned more with financial security than with
art or the people around him? (a) Bingo (b) The Bundle (c) Lear (d) Saved
3. Which critic made scathing attacks on T. S. Eliot in the 1920s, wrote a standard
introduction to Aristotle’s Poetics, and is the author of The Decline and Fall of the
Romantic Ideal?
(a) J. L. Lowes (b) F. L. Lucas (c) F. R. Leavis (d) L. C. Knights
4. Who coined the term “objective correlative”?
(a) T. S. Eliot (b) John Crowe Ransom (c) Ezra Pound (d) Washington Allston
5. Who introduced the phrase, “The Empire writes back to the centre”?
(a) Edward Said (b) Salman Rushdie (c) Bill Ashcroft (d) Chinua Achebe
6. Which poem has the following line: “We can die by it, if not live by love.”
(a) Ulysses (b) Andrea del Sarto (c) Canonization (d) My Last Duchess
7. The Victorian comic opera Patience that satirized the aesthetic movement was
written by Gilbert and ________. (a) Arnold (b) Tennyson (c) Clough (d) Sullivan
8. Which verse play by T. S. Eliot dealing with an individual’s opposition to
authority, was written in response to the rising Fascism in Central Europe?
(a) The Cocktail Party (b) Murder in the Cathedral
(c) The Family Reunion (d) The Confidential Clerk
9. Which is the sequel of Things Fall Apart?
(a) No Longer at Ease (b) Arrow of God
(c) The Man of the People (d) The Anthills of the Savannah
10. Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and Surfacing are examples
for the postmodern genre termed by Linda Hutcheon as _________.
(a) magic realism (b) metafiction (c) historiographic metafiction (d)
geografiction
11. Which is Shaw’s play based on the Don Juan legend?
(a) Man and Superman (b) Back to Methuselah
(c) Arms and the Man (d) Major Barbara
12. The concept of Ubermensch or Superman is related to ________.
(a) Heidegger (b) Gadamer (c) Adorno (d) Nietzsche
13. The passage beginning “All the world’s a stage” is spoken by __________ in As
You Like It.
1.
(a) Frederick (b) Touchstone (c) Orlando (d) Jaques 25. “Microcosmography” was written by the character writer _________.
(a) John Hall (b) Joseph Hall (c) John Earle (d) Thomas Overbury
14. To which country does the absurd playwright Eugene Ionesco belong?
(a) Germany (b) Romania (c) Argentina (d) Russia
15. The work Spectres of Marx was written by ________.
(a) Louis Althusser (b) Terry Eagleton (c) Jacques Derrida (d) Georg Lukacs
16. Carew, Marvell and Suckling are ______ poets.
(a) Cavalier (b) Caroline (c) Jacobean (d) Metaphysical
17. The verse play The Remorse was written by ________.
(a) Southey (b) Byron (c) Coleridge (d) Wordsworth
18. Which poet, whose works were sharply criticized by Pope in Dunciad,
collaborated with Dryden in completing the second part of Absalom and
Achitophel?
(a) Colley Cibber (b) Lewis Theobald (c) William Davenant (d) Nahum Tate
19. What is the metrical form of Wordsworth’s The Prelude?
(a) heroic couplets (b) blank verse (c) Spenserian stanza (d) rime royale
20. Which book in Paradise Lost describes Satan’s journey to the Garden of Eden?
(a) Book II (b) Book IV (c) Book VII (d) Book IX
21. Which novel by Dickens follows the life of a wealthy owner of the shipping
company, whose dream is to have a son to continue his business? (a) Hard Times
(b) Great Expectations (c) Dombey and Son (d) Little Dorritt
22. The Famished Road is a Booker Prize winning novel by the Nigerian novelist
________.
(a) Ben Okri (b) Chinua Achebe (c) Gabriel Okara (d) Christopher Okigbo
23. _________ is the author of the 16th century work Palace of Pleasure.
(a) Joseph Glanvill (b) Walter Ralegh (c) Richard Burbage (d) William Painter
24. The novel Magic Seeds, a sequel of Half a Life, is by the Nobel Laureate
________.
(a) Salman Rushdie (b) V. S. Naipaul (c) J. M. Coetzee (d) Saul Bellow

TEST THIRTEEN
1. The Wars of the Roses took place during the period _______.
(a) 1380‐1455 (b) 1455‐1485 (c) 1425‐1485 (d) 1425‐1455
2. Beau Tibbs and Man in Black are characters that appear in _________.
(a) The Citizen of the World (b) Essays of Elia
(c) The Vanity of Human Wishes (d) The Good Natur’d Man
3. A New Way to Pay Old Debts is an English Renaissance play by _______.
(a) Marston (b) Tourneur (c) Massinger (d) Dekker
4. The character Parson Adams appears in ________.
(a) Joseph Andrews (b) Scarlet Letter (c) Tom Jones (d) Tristram Shandy
5. The anti‐hero Manfred is a character in ____________.
(a) Clarissa Harlowe (b) Vicar of Wakefield
(c) Persuasion (d) The Castle of Otranto
6. ______ called Byron and Shelley the Satanic School, provoking Byron to reply in
The Vision of Judgement.
(a) Lockhart (b) Leigh Hunt (c) Southey (d) Hazlitt
7. Who does Wordsworth call “sweetest thing that ever grew”?
(a) solitary reaper (b) mountain roe (c) an 8‐year‐old child (d) Lucy Gray
8. What is Act III of Shaw’s Man and Superman famously called?
(a) Ann Whitefield in Pursuit (b) John Tanner
(c) Don Juan in Turkey (d) Don Juan in Hell
9. Who of the following was not a member of the Georgian Poets?
(a) W. H. Davies (b) Alfred Noyes (c) Edmund Blunden (d) Rupert Brooke
10. Which of the following poems uses the refrain “Nevermore”?
(a) The Raven (b) The Lay of the Last Minstrel (c) Christabel (d) Lamia
11. Who is the author of “Song of Myself”?
(a) Abraham Cowley (b) John Dos Passos (c) Robert Southey (d) Walt Whitman
12. Which Nobel Laureate was praised by the Swedish Academy for his affinity with
Joseph Conrad?
(a) Saul Bellow (b) Jose Saramago (c) V. S. Naipaul (d) William Golding
(a)
13. The satire on contemporary spy novels, Our Man in Havana, is by ________.
Anthony Powell (b) Graham Greene (c) Evelyn Waugh (d) Norman Mailer
14. A. D. Hope, the poet and essayist with a satirical slant, belonged to ______.
(a) New Zealand (b) Canada (c) Australia (d) United States
15. Who Do You Think You Are? is a collection of short stories by _______.
(a) Alice Munro (b) Margaret Atwood (c) Coral Ann Howells (d) Mavis Gallant
16. Pulitzer Prize is awarded by _______.
(a) Great Britain (b) United States (c) United Nations (d) Swedish Academy
17. _________ is a novel by Rohinton Mistry set in Mumbai during the Emergency.
(a) Such a Long Journey (b) Family Matters
(c) Tales from Firozsha Baag (d) A Fine Balance
18. The Sahitya Akademi award‐winning poem Relationship was written by
________.
(a) Nissim Ezekiel (b) Gieve Patel (c) Jayanta Mahapatra (d) A. K. Ramanujan
19. The Sleepwalkers is a one‐act farce by _________.
(a) Dom Moraes (b) Mahesh Dattani (c) Uma Parameswaran (d) Nissim Ezekiel
20. J. Hillis Miller’s “The Critic as Host” has been viewed as a reply to ________.
(a) Derrida’s Of Grammatology (b) Abrams’s The Deconstructive Angel
(c) Culler’s On Deconstruction (d) None of these
21. The __________ School of critics pioneered Structural Linguistics.
(a) Geneva (b) Chicago (c) Prague (d) Moscow
22. The feminist work ______ critiques male writers like D. H. Lawrence, Henry
Miller and Norman Mailer.
(a) Literature of Their Own (b) Second Sex
(c) Sexual Politics (d) Sexual/Textual Politics
23. In Orientalism and After, _______ critiques Edward Said’s concept of
Orientalism for being self‐contradictory.
(a) Homi Bhabha (b) Aijaz Ahmed (c) Partha Chatterjee (d) Ihab Hassan
24. The metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed
syllable is called _____.
(a) iamb (b) spondee (c) dactyl (d) trochee
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25. Which figure of speech is used in the following lines? “Come I to speak in
Caesar’s funeral, // He was my friend, faithful and just to me: // But Brutus says
he was ambitious, // And Brutus is an honourable man.” (a) Antithesis (b) Pun
(c) Irony (d) Hyperbole
TEST FOURTEEN
1. Arrange the following books chronologically: (i) Astrea Redux (ii) Paradise
Regained (iii) The Way of the World (iv) Anatomy of Melancholy
(a) iv‐i‐ii‐iii (b) iv‐iii‐i‐ii (c) i‐iii‐ii‐iv (d) iii‐i‐iv‐ii
2. Arrange the following authors chronologically: (i) Samuel Beckett (ii) Peter
Ackroyd (iii) John Fowles (iv) Graham Greene
(a) i‐iv‐ii‐iii (b) iv‐i‐iii‐ii (c) i‐iv‐iii‐ii (d) iv‐iii‐i‐ii
3. Which character in The Faerie Queene represents Mary Queen of Scots?
(a) Archimego (b) Abessa (c) Una (d) Duessa
4. In which of the following plays does Capulet’s Orchard figure?
(a) Romeo and Juliet (b) The Merry Wives of Windsor (c) As You Like It (d)
Henry V
5. The poem The Mistress, the last and most violent expression of the love
affectation of the 17th century, is by _______.
(a) John Donne (b) Andrew Marvell (c) Abraham Cowley (d) Richard Lovelace
6. In which work does Jonathan Swift show a public indignation at England’s
indifference to Ireland?
(a) A Tale of a Tub (b) Drapier’s Letters (c) Journal to Stella (d) Gulliver’s
Travels
7. Who praised Addison’s style as “the model of the middle style”?
(a) Alexander Pope (b) Jonathan Swift (c) Matthew Arnold (d) Samuel Johnson
8. Who wrote this? “Men of England, wherefore plough // For the lords who lay ye
low? // Wherefore weave with toil and care // The rich robes your tyrants
wear?”
(a) Shelley (b) Wordsworth (c) Byron (d) Southey
9. What is the sub‐title of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre?
(a)
(a) An Autobiography (b) A Tale of Love (c) A Tragi‐comedy (d) Virtue
Rewarded
10. The Shadow of the Glen and The Well of Saints are plays by _______.
(a) John Galsworthy (b) Sean O’ Casey (c) J. M. Synge (d) Lady Gregory
11. Who is the author of the novel Jill, set in Oxford during the II World War?
(a) Kingsley Amis (b) Philip Larkin (c) Dylan Thomas (d) Ted Hughes
12. Roman a Clef is a French term that means _______.
(a) a romantic novel (b) a verse novel
(c) a novel without an end (d) a novel with a key
13. The title of A Woman Killed with Kindness is an example of ________. (a)
antithesis (b) paradox (c) irony (d) pun
14. What is meant by a feminine ending of a line of verse?
(a) closing with an extra unstressed syllable (b) closing with an extra stressed
syllable (c) closing with an extra syllable (d) closing without an extra syllable
15. H. W. Longfellow and J. R. Lowell are called the _________.
(a) Vagabond Poets (b) Revolutionary Poets (c) Brahmin Poets (d) Sage Poets
16. The Great Gatsby, a 1925 novel that critiques the American Dream, is by
_______.
(a) H. W. Longfellow (b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
(c) Edward Fitzgerald (d) William Faulkner
17. Chief Nanga is a minister of culture, representing the old style of politics, in the
novel ________.
(a) A Man of the People (b) No Longer at Ease
(c) Arrow of God (d) Things Fall Apart
18. Who among the following writers is from Kenya?
(a) Chinua Achebe (b) Gabriel Okara (c) Nadine Gordimer (d) Ngugi wa
Thiong’o
19. The concept of “global village” was propounded by ________.
(a) Michel Ondaatje (b) Northrop Frye (c) Marshall McLuhan (d) Linda
Hutcheon
20. The play A Dance of the Forests (1960) is a half‐satirical celebration of Nigerian
Independence written by ________.
(a) Wole Soyinka (b) Chinua Achebe (c) Olive Schreiner (d) J. P. Clark
21. “Banjo” is the pseudonym of the Australian poet ________.
(a) Bruce Dawe (b) A. B. Paterson (c) Judith Wright (d) Inglis Moore
22. A Bend in the Ganges, a novel that depicts the violence that erupted during the
partition of India, was written by _________.
(a) V. S. Naipaul (b) Bhabani Bhattacharya (c) Manohar Malgonkar (d) Arun
Joshi
23. Who said: “Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;
Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing”?
(a) Arnold (b) Eliot (c) Johnson (d) Dryden
24. Who stated that literary meaning has four functions: sense, feeling, tone and
intention?
(a) Northrop Frye (b) I. A. Richards (c) F. R. Leavis (d) T. S. Eliot
25. Which of the following critics was influenced by Kant’s Critique of Judgement?
(a) Wolfgang Iser (b) Stanley Fish (c) Hans Robert Jauss (d) Roland Barthes
TEST FIFTEEN
Which dramatist had the avowed aim “to force the public to reconsider
its morals,” though he was attacked by T. S. Eliot for moral degeneracy?
(a) Philip Massinger (b) Ben Jonson (c) Shakespeare (d) Bernard Shaw
2. Donne’s the two “Anniversaries” were written for ________.
(a) Queen Elizabeth (b) A peasant girl (c) Sir Robert Drury (d) Anne Moor
3. ______ is Keats’s poem modelled on Paradise Lost.
(a) Ode on a Grecian Urn (b) Lamia (c) Endymion (d) Hyperion
4. Who of the following writers did the Bloomsbury group not include?
(a) Virginia Woolf (b) Lytton Strachey (c) A. C. Bradley (d) E. M. Forster
5. Repetition of the same idea in different expressions to produce a dramatic
effect is called ________.
(a) Tautology (b) Antithesis (c) Epithet (d) Zeugma
6. The novel in which standard components like plot, characterization and
timesequence are dissolved is called ________.
(a) Picaresque (b) Romance (c) Nouveau roman (d) Epistolary
7. Which of the following is not a dramatic monologue?
(a) Abt Vogler (b) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
(c) Tithonus (d) The Canonization
8. “He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the
largest and most comprehensive soul.” Who said this about whom?
(a) Johnson on Milton (b) Dryden on Shakespeare
(c) Quillercouch on Keats (d) Coleridge on Donne
9. Which one of the following poems is written in Spenserian Stanza?
(a) My Last Duchess (b) Lycidas (c) Adonais (d) Don Juan
10. A prominent practitioner of Archetypal Criticism is
(a) Raymond Williams (b) Maud Bodkin (c) Stanley Fish (d) E. D. Hirsch
11. Who wrote this line: All human things are subject to decay and when fate
summons, monarchs must obey?
(a) Dr. Johnson (b) Jonathan Swift (c) Dryden (d) Coleridge
12. Which one of the following offered a good‐humored satire on the Gothic
novel? Ivanhoe (b) Finnegan’s Wake (c) Mayor of Casterbridge (d) Northanger
Abbey
13. Who said, “The language of the age is never the language of poetry”?
(a) Gower (b) Goldsmith (c) Gray (d) Coleridge
14. Who invented the Curtal sonnet?
(a) Gray (b) Cowper (c) Hopkins (d) Drayton
15. In which countries are E. M. Forster’s novel A Room with a View set?
(a) England and India (b) England and Spain
(c) France and Italy (d) Italy and England
16. Which of these is by Cecil Day Lewis?
(a) The Orators (b) The Magnetic Mountain (c) The Still Centre (d) None of
these
17. In which novel by Anita Desai is Maya is the central character?
(a) Bye, Bye Blackbird (b) Voices in the City
(c) Cry, the Peacock (d) Fire on the Mountain
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18. Which of the following is not a short story by Edgar Allan Poe?
(a) The Black Cat (b) The Purloined Letter
(c) The Mezzotint (d) The Tell Tale Heart
19. Aurobindo’s epic, Savitri is in which stanzaic form?
(a) Blank verse (b) Terza Rima (c) Free verse (d) Spenserian Stanza
20. Who wrote the play The Return of Ulysses?
(a) Tennyson (b) Christopher Frye (c) J.M. Synge (d) Robert Bridges
21. Who criticized Georgian poetry as “the poetry of Rainbows, Cuckoos, Daffodils,
and timid hares”?
(a) Ezra Pound (b) W. B. Yeats (c) T. S. Eliot (d) W. H. Auden
22. Who said that classicism is “order in beauty” and that romanticism is the
“addition of strangeness to beauty”?
(a) Matthew Arnold (b) T. S. Eliot (c) Walter Pater (d) Theodore Watts Dunton
23. The Ideogrammic Method was associated with ________.
(a) G. B. Shaw (b) Ezra Pound (c) F. R. Leavis (d) Virginia Woolf
24. “The White Tiger” in the novel of that name is ________.
(a) a god (b) an animal (c) a rickshaw (d) a nickname
25. Harold Fromm is associated with __________. (a) Ecocriticism (b) New
Historicism
(c) Post‐Marxism (d) Reader Response Criticism

(a)
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TEST SIXTEEN
Which among these works is by Graham Greene?
(a) The End of the Affair (b) A Dance to the Music of Time
(c) A Sleep of Prisoners (d) Murphy
2. Who wrote the play, The Entertainer?
(a) Sean o’ Casey (b) Jean Genet (c) John Osborne (d) Eugene Ionesco
3. “I think we are in rats’ alley // Where the dead men lost their bones.” These
lines are taken from which work?
(a) “The Wasteland” (b) “Sailing to Byzantium”
(c) “Four Quartets” (d) “In a Station of the Metro”
4. Who wrote the epic poem, “The Wanderings of Oisin”?
(a) Dylan Thomas (b) W.H. Auden (c) W.B. Yeats (d) Ezra Pound
5. Who created the fictional character Natty Bumppo?
(a) Herman Melville (b) William Faulkner (c) Stephen Crane (d) James Cooper
6. Which is the religious work of Jonathan Swift?
(a) The Battle of the Books (b) The Tale of a Tub
(c) Gulliver’s Travels (d) A Modest Proposal
7. “Reflections on the Revolution in France”, one of the best‐known intellectual
attacks against the French Revolution, was written by whom?
(a) Carlyle (b) Burke (c) de Quincey (d) Rousseau
8. Which event marks the beginning of the French Revolution?
(a) The fall of the Bastille (b) The ringing of the bells of Notre dame
(c) The execution of Louis XVI (d) The invention of the guillotine
9. Which is Charles Dickens’s last and unfinished work?
(a) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (b) Little Dorrit (c) Hard Times (d) Bleak
House
10. The official magazine of the American Transcendental Movement.
(a) The Bee (b) The Germ (c) The Dial (d) The Liberal
11. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a
good fortune, must be in want of a wife” is the beginning of the novel,
________. (a) David Copperfield (b) Emma (c) Vanity Fair (d) Pride and
Prejudice
12. Who composed the poem “The Lady of the Lake”?
(a) Tennyson (b) Keats (c) Yeats (d) Walter Scott
13. Who famously retold the popular nursery tale, “Three Bears”?
(a) Scott (b) Byron (c) Lamb (d) Southey
14. Which of the following is an elegy on the death of Abraham Lincoln?
(a) “I Hear America Singing” (b) “Stopping by Woods”
(c) “O Captain! My Captain” (d) “Because I Could not Stop for Death”
15. In which of these plays does the character Shakespeare appear?
(a) Lear (b) Bingo (c) The Bundle (d) The Fool
16. Who wrote the play Heartbreak House?
(a) Caryl Churchill (b) Tennessee Williams (c) Bernard Shaw (d) Arthur Miller
17. Which American playwright’s debut work is No Villain?
(a) Tennnessee Williams (b) Eugene o'Neill (c) Harold Pinter (d) Arthur Miller
18. Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as the poet laureate in which year?
(a) 1848 (b) 1850 (c) 1854 (d) 1859
19. Who composed the epic novel/poem “Aurora Leigh”?
(a) Aphra Behn (b) Christina Rosssetti (c) Elizabeth Browning (d) Tennyson
20. A Study of Provincial Life is the subtitle of which work?
(a) Caleb Williams (b) Daniel Deronda (c) Absalom! Absalom (d) Middlemarch
21. “The course of true love never did run smooth”. This line appears in which
Shakespeare play?
(a) Romeo and Juliet (b) All’s Well that Ends Well
(c) Twelfth Night (d) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
22. Who wrote the work Apologia Pro Vita Sua?
(a) Robert Wace (b) W.G. Ward (c) Bishop Percy (d) Cardinal Newman
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23. Who composed the children’s poem “Macavity, The Mystery Cat”?
(a) Blake (b) Eliot (c) William Longfellow (d) Robert Frost.
24. Byron’s Don Juan has how many completed cantos? (a) 15 (b) 16 (c) 8 (d) 13
25. The 1798 edition of The Lyrical Ballads start with which poem?
(a) Dejection An Ode (b) The Daffodils (c) Ancient Mariner (d) Solitary Reaper
TEST
SEVEN
TEEN
Amoretti contains _______
sonnets.
(a) 66 (b) 74 (c) 78 (d) 89
2. Which of the following plays has
a play within a play?
(a) The Spanish Tragedy (b)
Volpone (c) Philaster (d)
The Duchess of Malfi
3. _______ is the only literary
(secondary) epic in English.
(a) The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner (b) Faerie Queene
(c) Beowulf (d) Paradise Lost
4. How many Holy Sonnets did
John Donne write?
(a) 27 (b) 19 (c) 17 (d) 14
5. Which 17th century writer is
best‐known for having rewritten
King Lear with a comic ending?
(a)
(a) Nahum Tate (b) John Hall
(c) William Congreve (d)
George Etherege
6. ________ wrote the sequel to
Dryden’s Absalom and
Achitophel in 1682 to which
Dryden contributed 200 lines.
(a) Thomas Shadwell (b)
Nahum Tate (c) William
Congreve (d) George
Etherege
7. In the first edition of the Lyrical
Ballads (1798), there are _____
poems by
Wordsworth, and ______
poems by Coleridge.
(a) 24, 6 (b) 22, 6 (c) 19, 4 (d)
16, 8
8. The subtitle of Browning’s
“Andrea del Sarto” is
_________.
(a) The Italian Painter (b) A
Portrait in Twilight
(c) A Dramatic Monologue (d)
The Faultless Painter
9. Sprung Rhythm is the rhythm of
______.
(a) Norman poetry (b) Old
English poetry
(c) Poetry of the Aesthetic
Movement (d) Modernist
poetry
10. All for Love is written in
________.
(a) heroic couplets (b) ottava
rima (c) terza rima (d)
blank verse
11. “On First Looking into
Chapman’s Homer” is a
_______ by Keats.
(a) sonnet (b) narrative poem
(c) ode (d) lyric
12. _________ is a city‐comedy by
Ben Jonson, George Chapman
and Marston, that offended
King James I for its anti‐Scottish
references.
The Poetaster (b) Sejanus
(c) Eastward Ho (d)
Satiromastix
13. The idea of the Tabula Rasa put
forward by the Enlightenment
thinker John Locke is central to
_______.
(a) rationalism (b) empiricism
(c) idealism (d) realism
14. Closet Drama, which is meant
for reading alone, was popular
during the _______ period.
(a) Restoration (b) Neoclassical
(c) Romantic (d) Modernist
15. Who of the following is not
attacked by Pope in The
Dunciad?
(a) Nahum Tate (b) Thomas
Heywood (c) Daniel Defoe
(d) Joseph Addison
16. “St. Agnes’ Eve” is a poem by
_______.
(a) Tennyson (b) D. G. Rossetti
(c) Keats (d) Browning
17. The Pre‐Raphaelite
Brotherhood was greatly
influenced by the poetry of
______.
(a) Shakespeare (b) Pope (c)
Gray (d) Keats
18. ________ is known as the
English Virgil.
(a) Chaucer (b) Lydgate (c)
Milton (d) Spenser
19. ______ was an early English
comedy written by a
schoolmaster to be performed
by his students, which
illustrates the early Renaissance
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belief in the educational
advantages of acting.
(a) Ralph Roister Doister (b)
Gammer Gurton’s Needle
(c) The Old Wives’ Tale (d) The
Shoemaker’s Holiday
20. The first blank verse tragedy in
English is ______.
(a) Titus Andronicus (b)
Catiline (c) Gorboduc (d)
The Duchess of Malfi
21. The first pastoral romance in
English is _________.
(a) The Romance of the Rose
(b) Sidney’s Arcadia
(c) The Shepheardes Calender
(d) As You Like It
22. A.C. Bradley’s Shakespearean
Tragedy consists of _____
lectures.
(a) 23 (b) 16 (c) 12 (d) 10
23. The Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Dog is a collection of 13
stories by _______.
(a) Dylan Thomas (b) Somerset
Maugham (c) James Joyce
(d) Kingsley Amis
24. Isabel Archer is the protagonist
of a novel by ________, which
explores the differences
between the New World and
the Old.
(a) James Joyce (b) D. H.
Lawrence (c) Henry James
(d) Ford Madox Ford
25. The Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man was first serialized
in ________.
(a) The Criterion (b) The Egoist
(c) The Scrutiny (d) Times
Literary Supplement
TEST
EIGHT
EEN
The line “Better to reign in Hell
than serve in Heaven” appears
in _______.
(a) Don Juan (b) King Lear (c)
Paradise Lost (d) A Murder in
the Cathedral
2. Astrophel is a pastoral elegy
written by Spenser in memory
of _______.
(a) Sidney (b) Shakespeare (c)
Wyatt (d) Queen Elizabeth
3. The Second Nun’s Tale in The
Canterbury Tales recounts the
legend of ________.
(a) Holy Grail (b) a child martyr
(c) St Agnes (d) St Cecilia
4. “Song for St Cecilia’s Day” by
Dryden, which glorifies music,
is _______.
(a) a sonnet (b) a narrative
poem (c) an ode (d) a
threnody
5. Bertolt Brecht’s play Mother
Courage and Her Children is a
plea against ______.
(a) realism (b) colonialism (c)
Enlightenment (d) war
6. The plays of W. B. Yeats were
influenced by _________.
(a) Indian theatre (b) Japanese
theatre (c) French theatre
(d) African theatre
7. Who said, “The hero of
Shakespeare’s great classical
trilogy is Rome”?
(a) Wilson Knight (b) L. C.
Knights (c) Dover Wilson (d)
Edward Dowden
8. The Battle of Philippi features
in ____________.
(a) Antony and Cleopatra (b)
Julius Caesar (c) Coriolanus
(d) Richard III
9. The Battle of Actium waged at
sea appears in ___________.
(a) Julius Caesar (b) Macbeth
(c) Coriolanus (d) Antony
and Cleopatra
10. Circulating libraries came into
vogue in Britain during the
________.
(a) 1850s (b) 1800s (c) 1780s
(d) 1660s
11. Women Beware Women, a play
by Middleton, uses the device
of the game of
________.
(a) crochet (b) chess (c) hide
and seek (d) bowling
12. The fictional character,
_________, is based on the real
life person Dr. Joseph Bell.
(a) Dr. Arbuthnot (b) Dr.
Gulliver (c) Sherlock Holmes
(d) Robinson Crusoe
13. The Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire (1776) was
written by the 18th century
historian _________.
(a) Edward Gibbon (b) Edmund
Burke (c) F. L. Lucas (d)
Arnold J. Toynbee
14. “When sorrows come ‐ they
come not single spies but in
battalions,” is a quote from
__________. (a) Othello (b)
Romeo and Juliet (c) King Lear
(d) Hamlet
15. “The Bishop Orders his Tomb,”
is a poem by ___________.
(a) Tennyson (b) Browning (c)
Yeats (d) Hopkins
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16. “I awoke one morning and
found myself famous. ...” are
words of _________.
(a) D. G. Rossetti (b) Tennyson
(c) Byron (d) Keats
17. Tennyson’s In Memoriam was
written over a period of _____
years.
(a) 40 (b) 25 (c) 17 (d) 7
18. “Abou Ben Adhem” is a poem
by the 19th century British poet
_________.
(a) Leigh Hunt (b) Byron (c)
John Millais (d) Elizabeth
Browning
19. Epipsychidion is an
autobiographical poem by
_________.
(a) Walter Scott (b) Southey (c)
Emily Bronte (d) P. B.
Shelley
20. Herman Melville’s novel Moby
Dick is dedicated to
__________.
(a) Christopher Columbus (b)
Nathanial Hawthorne
(c) Walt Whitman (d) Ralph
Waldo Emerson
21. Which of the following novels
has extended the use of
semiotics to fiction, and
(a)
combined various genres such (c) Doctor Faustus (d) Othello
as literary theory, medieval
studies, mystery, and biblical
exegesis?
(a) The Da Vinci Code (b) Lord
of the Rings
(c) The Name of the Rose (d)
My Name is Red
22. The revolutionary play A Raisin
in the Sun, which defuses
idealistic views of race and
gender relations, was written
by __________.
(a) Lorraine Hansberry (b) Zora
Neale Hurston
(c) Langston Hughes (d) Toni
Morrison
23. The Blue Stocking Circle/ Ladies
were a group of women who
were active in the second part
of _______ century.
(a) 15th (b) 18th (c) 19th (d) 20th
24. Who said, “Satan is the real
hero of Paradise Lost”?
(a) Blake (b) Johnson (c) Arnold
(d) Dryden
25. “Cut is the branch that might
have grown full straight,” is a
line from _________.
(a) The Tempest (b) Elegy
Written in a Country
Churchyard
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TEST NINETEEN
________ is set against the Second World War, and the Partition of India, and
has an unnamed narrator who admires his uncle Tridib.
(a) Such a Long Journey (b) The Shadow Lines (c) English, August (d) Shame
2. On which of the following novels is Deepa Mehta’s 1998 film Earth based?
(a) Ice Candy Man (b) The Mistress of Spices (c) The Namesake (d) Karma Cola
3. Gita Mehta’s A River Sutra is a collection of stories depicting the diversity of the
Indian society, united by the motif of the ________ River.
(a) Ganga (b) Brahmaputra (c) Cauvery (d) Narmada
4. Which novel depicts the story of a young Indian woman in the United States who
is struggling to adapt to the American way of life in order to be able to survive?
(a) Sister of My Heart (b) The Inheritance of Loss (c) Jasmine (d) Heat and Dust
5. ______ is set in Mumbai during the Emergency and follows the lives of Dina
Dalal,
Ishvar Darji, his nephew Omprakash Darji and the young student Maneck
Kohlah?
(a) Family Matters (b) Such a Long Journey
(c) A Fine Balance (d) Tales from Firozsha Baag
6. In which of the following novels is Moraes Zogoiby the narrator? (a) The Moor’s
Last Sigh (b) Shame
(c) The Ground Beneath Her Feet (d) Shalimar, the Clown
7. _________ is the first Indian playwright in English to be awarded the Sahitya
Akademi Award in 1998?
(a) Vijay Tendulkar (b) Girish Karnad (c) Uma Prameswaran (d) Mahesh Dattani
8. J.M. Coetzee’s novel, Foe is a reworking of ________.
(a) Iliad (b) Gulliver’s Travels (c) Robinson Crusoe (d) Wuthering Heights
9. Who is the author of the collection of critical essays, The Perishable Empire?
(a) G. N. Devy (b) Meenakshi Mukherjee
(c) C. D. Narasimhaiah (d) Alok Mukherjee
10. Which of the following novels by Raja Rao is semi‐autobiographical and a
modern rendering of the Mahabharata legend of Satyavan‐Savitri?
(a) Cat and Shakespeare (b) The Cow of the Barricades
(c) Comrade Kirilov (d) The Serpent and the Rope
11. In which novel do you find the character Moorthy, an idealist and supporter of
ahimsa and satyagraha, who wants to cross the traditional barriers of caste? (a)
A Tiger for Malgudi (b) Coolie (c) Kanthapura (d) Swami and Friends
12. Who wrote the famous trilogy, The Village, Across the Black Waters, and The
Sword and the Sickle?
(a) Mulk Raj Anand (b) Raja Rao (c) R. K. Narayan (d) Nirad C. Chaudhuri
13. R. K. Narayan uses the Bhasmasura Myth in the novel, _________.
(a) A Tiger for Malgudi (b) The Man Eater of Malgudi (c) The Financial Expert (d)
Swami and Friends
14. What is the name of the tour guide in Swami and Friends, who becomes a
spiritual guide in the novel, The Guide? (a) Sampath (b) Margayya (c)
Swaminathan (d) Raju
15. The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is the autobiography of __________.
(a) Nirad C. Chaudhuri (b) Nissim Ezekiel (c) R. K. Narayan (d) Jayanta
Mahapatra
16. The poems of Gitanjali were translated into English by _________.
(a) W. B. Yeats (b) A. K. Ramanujan (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Gayatri Spivak
17. The poet Christopher Okigbo hailed from ________.
(a) Kenya (b) Nigeria (c) South Africa (d) Ghana
18. Who of the following created the character, Arthur Sammler?
(a) Saul Bellow (b) J. M. Coetzee (c) Vladimir Nabokov (d) Michael Ondaatje
19. Pablo Neruda is a poet from _______.
(a) Argentina (b) Brazil (c) Chile (d) Czechoslovakia
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20. Who wrote the famous work that begins “There is only one really serious 5. George Lamming, Derek Walcott and Jamaica Kincaid are writers from _______.
philosophical question, and that is suicide”? (a) The Caribbean Islands (b) New Zealand (c) South Africa (d) Australia
(a) Jean‐Paul Sartre (b) Salman Rushdie (c) Khalil Gibran (d) Albert Camus
6. Which novel, set against the II World War, has the protagonist Captain John
21. Who created the character Mersault who shoots an Arab on a beach without Yossarian?
reason or motivation? (a) For Whom the Bell Tolls (b) The French Lieutenant’s Woman
(a) Albert Camus (b) Fyodor Dostoevsky (c) Jean‐Paul Sartre (d) Gabriel Garcia (c) Catch‐22 (d) Slaughterhouse‐Five
Marquez
7. Who wrote these lines?
22. Who of the following is a Holocaust writer? We live in an old chaos of the sun, // Or old dependency of day and night,
(a) Knut Hamson (b) Elias Canetti (c) Italo Calvino (d) Umberto Eco Or island solitude, unsponsored, free, // Of that wide water, inescapable.
(a) William Carlos Williams (b) Wallace Stevens
23. Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor are associated with ________.
(c) Walt Whitman (d) H. W. Longfellow
(a) Harlem Renaissance (b) apartheid (c) negritude (d) Nigerian Civil War
8. Who said the famous statement, “A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”?
24. Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage comprises _____ cantos.
(a) Alice Walker (b) bell hooks (c) Virginia Woolf (d) Gertrude Stein
(a) 4 (b) 6 (c) 12 (d) 24
9. Who created the 16‐year‐old character Holden Caulfield who runs away from
25. The seminal 1947 essay “What is Literature?” was written by ________.
home to discover himself?
(a) Roland Barthes (b) Samuel Beckett (c) Michel Foucault (d) Jean Paul Sartre
(a) Mark Twain (b) J. D. Salinger (c) Ernest Hemingway (d) F. Scott Fitzgerald
TEST TWENTY
10. Who explored the themes of mafia, violence, crime and family bondage in the
Which of the following novels by Virginia Woolf follows in soliloquies the lives of
monumental novel The Godfather?
six persons from childhood to old age?
(a) Mario Puzo (b) Italo Calvino (c) Mario Vargas Llosa (d) Umberto Eco
(a) Jacob’s Room (b) The Waves (c) To the Lighthouse (d) The Voyage Out
11. Who wrote the novel To Kill a Mockingbird featuring the character Atticus Finch?
2. Which of the following is a “memory play”?
(a) Margaret Mitchell (b) Toni Morrison (c) Harper Lee (d) William Faulkner
(a) Emperor Jones (b) All My Sons (c) The Glass Menagerie (d) Iceman Cometh
12. Jill and A Girl in Winter are novels by ________.
3. Who is the author, The Western Canon, a survey of major literary works from
(a) Graham Greene (b) H. G. Wells (c) Kingsley Amis (d) Philip Larkin
post‐Roman Europe?
Who wrote the autobiographical novel, On the Road?
(a) Wilson Knight (b) Roland Barthes (c) Jonathan Culler (d) Harold Bloom
(a) Allen Ginsberg (b) Jack Kerouac (c) William S. Burroughs (d) Truman Capote
4. The epic poem The Song of Hiawatha featuring a Native American hero is by
14. What is the name of the protagonist in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House?
____.
(a) Nora (b) Dora (c) Dolly (d) Nelly
(a) Edward Fitzgerald (b) H. W. Longfellow (c) R. L. Stevenson (d) Edgar Allan
Poe 15. The dystopian novel ________ overturns H. G. Wells’s scientific optimism.
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(a) Chrome Yellow (b) Point Counterpoint
(c) Nineteen Eighty Four (d) Brave New World
16. Which poet uses the symbol of the bog in his poems, the wide unfenced county
millions of years old, the starting‐point for his exploration of the past? (a) W. B.
Yeats (b) Hugh McDiarmid (c) Seamus Heaney (d) Dylan Thomas 2.
17. Who of the following created the character Oskar who at the age of three
resolves not to grow, and becomes obsessed with his drum? (a) Orhan Pamuk 3.
(b) Hermann Hesse (c) Gunter Grass (d) Albert Camus
18. Who wrote July’s People, a futuristic novel about a white family fleeing from 4.
wartorn Johannesburg, seeking refuge with their African servant in his village?
(a) J. M. Coetzee (b) Nadine Gordimer (c) Andre Brink (d) Athol Fugard 5.
19. Who wrote the multi‐generational Magic Realist story of the Buendia family, who
live in the town Macondo?
(a) Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b) Mario Vargas Llosa 6.
(c) Jose Saramago (d) Italo Calvino
20. Anne Frank’s Diary was written during the ____________.
(a) I World War (b) II World War (c) Spanish Civil War (d) Industrial Revolution 7.
21. Who wrote the famous essay, “Two Cheers for Democracy”?
(a) Walt Whitman (b) Abraham Lincoln (c) E. M. Forster (d) M. H. Abrams
22. Who said, “The progress of an artist is a continual self‐sacrifice”? 8.
(a) D. H. Lawrence (b) Walt Whitman (c) Ezra Pound (d) T. S. Eliot
23. Who wrote the poem “'Safe in their Alabaster Chambers”? 9.
(a) Sylvia Plath (b) Wallace Stevens (c) Edgar Allan Poe (d) Emily Dickinson
24. Which novel begins thus: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”? 10.
(a) Midnight’s Children (b) A Tale of Two Cities
(c) Nineteen Eighty Four (d) Ulysses
25. Which novel begins with the line, “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks 11.
were striking thirteen”?
(a) Nineteen Eighty Four (b) A Tale of Two Cities (c) Mrs Dalloway (d) Ulysses
TEST TWENTY‐ONE
In which year did the first edition of Hopkins’s poetry come out?
(a) 1900 (b) 1918 (c) 1926 (d) 1949
Hopkins’s “terrible sonnets” are characterized by _________.
(a) technical innovation (b) religious crisis (c) melancholy (d) all of these
What according to Hopkins is the only lasting thing in poetry?
(a) inscape (b) instress (c) sprung rhythm (d) form
Who was the editor of the first edition of Hopkins’s poetry?
(a) Edwin Arnold (b) Earnest Dowson (c) Robert Bridges (d) Aubrey Beardsley
What was Hopkins’s name for the common English rhythm as opposed to the
new rhythm he introduced into his poetry?
(a) sprung rhythm (b) running rhythm (c) syllabic rhythm (d) lolling rhythm
What poetic device did Hopkins derive from Welsh language and poetry?
(a) iambic rhythm (b) syllabic rhythm
(c) metrical rhythm (d) consonant rhythm
Name the 13th century Franciscan religious thinker whose philosophy had a
profound influence on Hopkins’s thought.
(a) Thomas Aquinas (b) St. Augustine (c) Duns Scotus (d) Boethius
Which 19th century poet is famous for his predilection for Anglo‐Saxon words?
(a) G. M. Hopkins (b) Robert Bridges (c) Edmund Blunden (d) W. B. Yeats
What according to Hopkins is the very soul of art?
(a) piety (b) form (c) instress (d) inscape
According to Hopkins, ______ is the impression or awareness that is laid deep
in the mind by inscape.
(a) sociality (b) instress (c) epiphany (d) grandeur
___________ is a sonnet by Hopkins that was inspired by his work as a parish
priest in visiting the sick and the dying. (a) The Wreck of Deutschland (b) Pied
Beauty
(c) Felix Randall (d) God’s Grandeur
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12. Where is this line from: “Glory be to God for dappled things”? 22. Which of the following poems of Eliot deals with the concept of time?
(a) The Windhover (b) Pied Beauty (c) Felix Randall (d) God’s Grandeur (a) Burnt Norton (b) Ash Wednesday (c) Sweeney Among the Nightingales (d)
13. Which 19th century reformist movement influenced Hopkins? 23. The epigraph to “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is taken from ________.
(a) Oxford Movement (b) Positivism (c) Utilitarianism (d) Calvinism (a) Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy (b) The Holy Bible
14. In which poem do you have the following lines: “All changed, changed utterly: (c) Dante’s Inferno (d) Shakespeare’s Hamlet
// A terrible beauty is born.”?
24. In which plays by Eliot is the protagonist pursued by the mythical Eumenides?
(a) Among School Children (b) The Second Coming (c) Byzantium (d) Easter
(a) The Cocktail Party (b) Murder in the Cathedral
1916
(c) The Elder Statesman (d) The Family Reunion
15. What is Yeats’s symbol of the antithetical era in “The Second Coming”?
25. In which of these plays is the Chorus an integral part, with its voice changing
(a) gyre (b) tower (c) beast (d) swan
and developing, offering comments about the action and providing a link
16. Name Yeats’s long narrative poem which draws on Gaelic legends. between the audience and the characters and action, as in Greek drama?
(a) The Circus Animals’ Desertion (b) An Irishman Foresees His Death (a) The Cocktail Party (b) Murder in the Cathedral
(c) The Wild Swans at Coole (d) The Wanderings of Oisin (c) The Elder Statesman (d) The Family Reunion
17. In which poem does Yeats prophesy the birth of an era of anarchy?
(a) The Second Coming (b) Easter 1916 (c) Byzantium (d) Leda and the Swan
18. Which poem by Yeats combines his personal views and impressions with the
customs and beliefs of Christian Ireland?
(a) An Irishman Foresees His Death (b) The Circus Animals’ Desertion
(c) Among School Children (d) Sailing to Byzantium
19. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst // Are full of passionate
intensity.”
Where does Yeats thus criticize society?
(a) Byzantium (b) Leda and the Swan (c) The Second Coming (d) Easter 1916
20. By what name are the seven poems by Yeats called, that are based on a real‐
life old peasant woman, Cracked Mary?
(a) Lucy Poems (b) Mad Mary Poems (c) Old Sally Poems (d) Crazy Jane
Poems
21. Who of the following was not a major influence on T. S. Eliot?
(a) Laforgue (b) Balzac (c) Rimbaud (d) Mallarme
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TWENTY‐TWO
___________ is regarded as a palinode (retraction of a statement from an earlier
poem) to Yeats’s poem “September 1913”.
(a) Easter 1916 (b) No Second Troy (c) To Ireland (d) Sailing to Byzantium
2. Yeats’s poem “No Second Troy” is an angry attack on _________.
(a) Britain (b) Irish politics (c) John MacBride (d) Maud Gonne
3. ______ is Yeats’s daughter, for whom “A Prayer for My Daughter” was written.
(a) Mary (b) Anne (c) Iseult (d) Matilda
4. In the sonnet ______, Yeats presents two modes of thought—western
intellectual and oriental mystic.
(a) Byzant Scriptorium (b) The Lake Isle of Innisfree
(c) Meru (d) Leda and the Swan
5. In which poem does Yeats give a vignette of himself as a “sixty year old smiling
public man”?
(a) A Prayer for My Daughter (b) Among School Children
(c) The Circus Animals’ Desertion (d) The Wild Swans at Coole
6. It was ______ who brought French symbolism to the attention of Yeats.
(a) Arthur Symons (b) A. C. Swinburne (c) Alfred Tennyson (d) Robert Bridges
7. Yeats’s poem “Byzantium” is a response to the criticism of its companion piece
“Sailing to Byzantium” by _______.
(a) George Saintsbury (b) Robert Bridges (c) Richard Ellmann (d) T. Sturge
Moore
8. In which literary magazine was The Waste Land first published in England?
(a) The Little Review (b) The Egoist (c) The Criterion (d) English Review
9. Eliot took the words of the dedication of The Waste Land from ______.
(a) Dante’s Divine Comedy (b) Petronius’s Satirycon
(c) Jessie Weston’s From Ritual to Romance (d) James Frazer’s The Golden Bough
10. ________ parodied Ash Wednesday as Cinder Thursday?
13.
(a) Wyndham Lewis (b) Herbert Palmer (c) Anthony Julius (d) F. T. Bateson
11. Who condemned The Waste Land as a “crossword puzzle of synthetic literary
chronology, of spurious verbal algebra”?
(a) Wyndham Lewis (b) Herbert Palmer (c) C. S. Lewis (d) F. T. Bateson
12. From where did Eliot take the title The Waste Land?
(a) The Bible (b) Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend
(c) Jessie Weston’s From Ritual to Romance (d) James Frazer’s The Golden Bough
From where did Eliot take the epigraph of The Waste Land?
(a) Dante’s Divine Comedy (b) Petronius’s Satirycon
(c) Homer’s Odyssey (d) Virgil’s Aeneid
14. Which is the shortest section of The Waste Land? (a) The Fire Sermon (b) A Game
of Chess
(c) What the Thunder Said (d) Death by Water
15. _________ is Eliot’s first published poem.
(a) Ash Wednesday (b) Hollow Men
(c) The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock (d) Burnt Norton
16. In the poem ________ Eliot gives us his interpretation of the birth at Bethlehem.
(a) The Journey of the Magi (b) Hollow Men (c) Little Gidding (d) Dry Salvages
17. The source for the story of Philomel in The Waste Land is_________.
(a) Aeneid (b) Odyssey (c) Iliad (d) Metamorphoses
18. In which part of The Waste Land does Eliot refer to St. Augustine’s visit to
Carthage?
(a) The Burial of the Dead (b) The Fire Sermon
(c) Death by Water (d) What the Thunder Said
19. Eliot took the legend of the Holy Grail for The Waste Land from _______.
(a) Greek mythology (b) The Bible
(c) The Golden Bough (d) From Ritual to Romance
20. The early stories in Joyce’s Dubliners have _________ as protagonists.
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(a) women (b) Irish peasants (c) children (d) mythical characters
21. ________ is the only play published by James Joyce.
(a) Exiles (b) The Dead (c) The Black Sun (d) Chamber Music
22. Krapp’s Last Tape is a famous play by _________.
(a) James Joyce (b) Samuel Beckett (c) Edward Bond (d) Harold Pinter
23. Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, who is the central character in the Rabbit series of
novels, was created by _________.
(a) Upton Sinclair (b) Philip Roth (c) Donald Barthelme (d) John Updike
24. Who of the following wrote a novel under the pen name “Victoria Lucas”?
(a) Doris Lessing (b) Ted Hughes (c) Sylvia Plath (d) Iris Murdoch
25. The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is awarded to ________ authors.
(a) immigrant (b) American and European (c) American (d) best‐selling
TEST TWENTY‐THREE
Which are the Four Quartets?
(a) Hollow Men, East Coker, Ash Wednesday, Dry Salvages (b) Burnt Norton, East
Coker, Ash Wednesday, Dry Salvages (c) Burnt Norton, East Coker, Dry Salvages,
Little Gidding (d) Burnt Norton, East Coker, Gerontion, Little Gidding
2. Eliot declared himself a ________ in literature, an Anglo Catholic in religion and a
Royalist in politics.
(a) modernist (b) classicist (c) reformist (d) futurist
3. In which essay has Eliot presented the famous “catalyst analogy”?
(a) Function of Criticism (b) Hamlet and His Problems (c) Metaphysical Poets (d)
Tradition and the Individual Talent
4. T.S. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize in the year ________.
(a) 1948 (b) 1949 (c) 1950 (d) 1951
5. _______ by Eliot was originally intended as the prologue to The Waste Land. (a)
Burnt Norton (b) Ash Wednesday (c) Gerontion (d) Hollow Men
6. Which part of The Waste Land has the line “HURRY UP, PLEASE, IT’S TIME”?
(a) Part I (b) Part II (c) Part III (d) Part IV
7. “This is the way the world ends // Not with a bang but with a whimper.” These
lines appear in which poem?
(a) Gerontion (b) East Coker (c) Dry Salvages (d) Hollow Men
8. Which are the German operas from which Eliot has quoted in The Waste Land?
(a) Singspiel and Tristran and Isolde (b) Gotterdammering and Tristran and Isolde
(c) Singspiel and Gotterdammering (d) All the three
9. Eliot’s poem Marina focuses on the Recognition Scene in Shakespeare’s _______.
(a) Pericles (b) The Tempest (c) Winter’s Tale (d) All’s Well that Ends Well
10. Who of the following wrote a poem set in the Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels?
(a) W. B. Yeats (b) Dylan Thomas (c) W. H. Auden (d) Philip Larkin
11. Auden’s “Birthday Poem” is addressed to ________.
(a) Stephen Spender (b) Louis MacNeice (c) Thom Gunn (d) Christopher
Isherwood
12. In ______, Auden satirizes modern society where the individual is unimportant.
(a) Petition (b) The Unknown Citizen (c) The Fall of Rome (d) Atlantis
13. Which English poet was a great influence on Philip Larkin? (a) Coleridge (b) Keats
(c) Browning (d) Hardy
14. Auden’s poem __________ re‐imagines Homeric descriptions in the 20 th century.
(a) The Shield of Achilles (b) The Unknown Citizen
(c) As I Walked Out One Evening (d) September 1, 1939
15. Who is the author of the poem “In Memory of Sigmund Freud”?
(a) Stephen Spender (b) W. H. Auden
(c) Christopher Isherwood (d) Louis MacNeice
16. ________ by Stephen Spender expresses the tension between the poet’s love for
the village and his admiration for the inventions of modern science. (a) An
Elementary School Classroom in a Slum (b) The Room Above the Square
(c) The Pylons (d) The Landscape near an Aerodrome
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17. In which poem does Stephen Spender expatiate his ideological positions on
government, economics, and education?
(a) An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum (b) Daybreak
(c) A Childhood (d) A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map
18. Dylan Thomas’s poem ________ celebrates the poet’s thirtieth birthday.
(a) All All and All (b) Before I Knocked (c) Author’s Prologue (d) Poem in October
19. What does “toad” in Philip Larkin’s poem “Toads” signify?
(a) ancestors (b) work (c) religious rituals (d) poetry
20. In ______, Larkin talks about his boring routine and the unavoidability of death.
(a) Annus Mirabilis (b) Autobiography at an Air Station
(c) Aubade (d) Deceptions
21. In ____, Ted Hughes gives an apocalyptic, cynical and surreal view of the
universe.
(a) Crow (b) Jaguar (c) Pike (d) Thrushes
22. Who wrote Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being that explores the
idea that Shakespeare has a “myth” of his own?
(a) Robert Graves (b) Donald Davie (c) Graham Holderness (d) Ted Hughes
23. Which long poem by Seamus Heaney, which describes a pilgrimage, explores the
theme of spiritual and socio‐political identity?
(a) Station Island (b) Seeing Things (c) Door into the Dark (d) The Spirit Level
24. Who of the following has famously translated Beowulf?
(a) Ted Hughes (b) Seamus Heaney (c) Philip Larkin (d) Elizabeth Jennings
25. Which poet, well‐known for writing about drug use, homosexuality and bohemian
lifestyle, wrote The Man With Night Sweats?
(a) Philip Larkin (b) Andrew Motion (c) Thom Gunn (d) Donald Davie
TWENTY‐FOUR
In the poem ________, Dylan Thomas re‐creates the innocence and happiness of
his childhood days on his aunt’s farm.
(a) Altarwise By Owl‐Light (b) A Letter to My Aunt (c) Poem in October (d) Fern
Hill
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2. Which pessimistic poem by Philip Larkin is a meditation on the closeness of
death, its randomness and its inevitability?
(a) Church Going (b) Dockery and Son (c) Ambulances (d) Annus Mirabilis
3. Who wrote the poem “The Fall of Rome” which draws a comparison between the
fall of Roman civilization and the decline of the modern? (a) W. H. Auden (b)
Dylan Thomas (c) Philip Larkin (d) Stephen Spender
4. In which poem do you find the lines, “The words of a dead man // Are modified in
the guts of the living”?
(a) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (b) In Memory of W. B. Yeats
(c) Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night (d) Ambulances
5. Whose painting is described in Thom Gunn’s poem “In Santa Maria del Popolo”?
(a) Leonardo da Vinci (b) Raphael (c) Michelangelo (d) Brueghel
6. Which poem ends “Nothing has changed since I began.//My eye has permitted no
change.//I am going to keep things like this”?
(a) Hawk in the Rain (b) Hawk Roosting (c) Crow (d) The Thought‐Fox
7. Which animal/bird does Ted Hughes glorify as majestic and eminent in contrast
to the apes, parrots, tigers and lions, whose lives, like those of contemporary
human societies, have become mechanized and reduced to mere biological
functions?
(a) Fox (b) Crow (c) Hawk (d) Jaguar
8. Which is Ted Hughes’s poem about writing a poem?
(a) The Thought‐Fox (b) The Harvest Moon (c) September (d) Daffodils
9. Which English poet held Fascism to be the end of an ancient tradition and
broadcast Fascist propaganda over Rome Radio during the Second World War?
(a) T. S. Eliot (b) Ezra Pound (c) W. H. Auden (d) Decil Day Lewis
10. Which movement was co‐founded by Ezra Pound with Wyndham Lewis?
(a) Futurism (b) Imagism (c) Vorticism (d) Surrealism
11. Ezra Pound’s “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” comprises ______ short poems. (a) nine
(b) twelve (c) eighteen (d) twenty‐four
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12. Which poem by Ezra Pound addresses his own alleged failure as a poet? (a) Roman Catholicism (b) Anglicanism (c) Deism (d) Theism
(a) The Cantos (b) Ripostes (c) Cathay (d) Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
23. To the Ends of the Earth is a trilogy of novels written by __________.
The career of which Nobel laureate, who has written the famous Canopus
(a) Graham Greene (b) William Golding (c) George Orwell (d) Anthony Trollope
sequence of science fiction novels, can be divided into the Communist phase, the
psychological phase and the Sufi phase (the last explored in the Canopus novels)? 24. The dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange was written by __________.
(a) Nadine Gordimer (b) Doris Lessing (c) Patrick White (d) Octavio Paz (a) Ray Bradbury (b) H. G. Wells (c) Anthony Burgess (d) Alan Moore
14. Which British writer, considered one of the last modernists, was a student, 25. Which twentieth century British novelist wrote novels set in Malaya?
assistant and friend of James Joyce? (a) Doris Lessing (b) Graham Greene (c) H. G. Wells (d) Anthony Burgess
(a) D. H. Lawrence (b) Lawrence Durrell (c) Samuel Beckett (d) Harold Pinter
15. D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love is a sequel to ________.
(a) The Rainbow (b) Kangaroo (c) The Plumed Serpent (d) Sons and Lovers
16. D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers is dedicated to _________.
(a) Ezra Pound (b) William Faulkner (c) Horace Liveright (d) Edward Garnett
17. In which novel is the protagonist paralleled with Septimus Warren Smith, who has
returned from the First World War bearing deep psychological scars? (a) To the
Lighthouse (b) The Waves (c) Mrs. Dalloway (d) Jacob’s Room
18. What is the name of the artist who struggles to paint in the midst of the family
drama, in To the Lighthouse?
(a) Augustus Carmichael (b) Lily Briscoe (c) James Ramsay (d) Paul Rayley
19. Which novel by Virginia Woolf satirizes the techniques used by historical
biographers?
(a) Orlando (b) The Waves (c) The Voyage Out (d) Night and Day
20. Which is Woolf’s last novel that sums up her chief preoccupations in a symbolic
narrative that encompasses almost the entire English history? (a) The Years (b)
Orlando (c) Between the Acts (d) The Waves
21. Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter and The End of
the Affair, novels in which religion plays a large part, are called ___________.
(a) Calvinist novels (b) Puritan novels (c) Jesuit novels (d) Catholic novels
22. Which of the following is a major theme in the poems of Elizabeth Jennings?
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11. Who has written the following lines: “And immediately I regretted it. // I thought
TWENTY‐FIVE how paltry, how vulgar, what a mean act! // I despised myself and the voices of
James Joyce’s Dubliners is a collection of _____ stories. my accursed human education.”?
(a) 10 (b) 15 (c) 20 (d) 25 (a) D. H. Lawrence (b) Ezra Pound (c) Dylan Thomas (d) Philip Larkin
2. James Joyce’s Ulysses was first serialized in the American journal, _________. 12. Who wrote the novel Murphy, the protagonist of which is a male nurse working
(a) The Kenyon Review (b) The Partisan Review in a mental hospital, who finds that the insanity of the patients is an appealing
(c) The Little Review (d) the North American Review alternative to conscious existence?
3. Which day is celebrated as Bloomsday? (a) Lawrence Durrell (b) Malcolm Lowry (c) Muriel Spark (d) Samuel Beckett
(a) 16 June (b) 16 July (c) 14 June (d) 14 July Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnameable form a trilogy of novels by _________.
(a) Aldous Huxley (b) C. S. Lewis (c) Samuel Beckett (d) Kingsley Amis
4. Joyce’s Ulysses is divided into _____ episodes.
(a) twelve (b) eighteen (c) twenty (d) twenty‐four 14. The blind master Hamm who cannot stand up and his servant Clov who cannot
sit down are characters in __________.
5. Which book did Joyce initially intend to call “Ulysses in Dublin”? (a) Travesties (b) Endgame (c) The Caretaker (d) The Zoo Story
(a) Finnegan’s Wake (b) Dubliners
(c) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (d) Ulysses 15. In which play by Edward Bond is the protagonist a paranoid autocrat, building a
wall to keep out imagined enemies?
6. Arrange chronologically: (i) Ulysses, (ii) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, (a) Lear (b) Saved (c) The Pope’s Wedding (d) The Bundle
(iii)
Finnegan’s Wake, (iv) Dubliners. 16. Which play by Edward Bond contains the infamous “stoning of a baby” scene?
(a) iv‐ii‐i‐iii (b) i‐iii‐iv‐ii (c) ii‐iv‐i‐iii (d) ii‐i‐iv‐iii (a) Lear (b) Saved (c) The Pope’s Wedding (d) The Bundle

7. In The Golden Notebook, the narratives of the black, red, yellow and blue 17. Whose birthday party in Pinter’s play is turned into a nightmare by two sinister
notebooks are tied together in _________. strangers, Goldberg and McCann?
(a) black (b) yellow (c) blue (d) gold (a) Meg (b) Pete Boles (c) Lulu (d) Stanley Webber

8. Who coined the name Vorticism, to connote vital, violent, rather mystical action?
(a) Wyndham Lewis (b) Ezra Pound (c) T. S. Eliot (d) Oscar Wilde
9. Who is the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey?
(a) Ray Bradbury (b) H. G. Wells (c) Arthur C. Clarke (d) Anthony Burgess
10. Which British writer won the Booker Prize for his novel Amsterdam?
(a) Ian McEwan (b) Peter Carey (c) Roddy Doyle (d) John Banville
18. In Pinter’s The Homecoming, which character comes home to London from the
US, with his wife?
(a) Teddy (b) Max (c) Sam (d) Joey
19. Lord Voldemort is a character in the ________ series of novels.
(a) Palliser (b) Harry Potter (c) Chronicles of Barsetshire (d) Rabbit
20. Who of the following wrotye “memory plays”?
(a) Samuel Beckett (b) Eugene O’Neill (c) Harold Pinter (d) Arthur Miller
21. Gibreel Farishta is a character in ______.
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14.
(a) Such a Long Journey (b) A Fine Balance 7. The History of Holy War was written by _________.
(c) Haroun and the Sea of Stories (d) Satanic Verses (a) Edward Hyde (b) Thomas Fuller (c) Jeremy Taylor (d) Thomas Carew
22. Who in Waiting for Godot says the first statement, “Nothing to be done,” which 8. Dryden’s Alexander’s Feast is known to be an excellent ________ (a) Elegy (b)
sums up the Theatre of the Absurd? Pindaric ode (c) satire (d) lyrical poem
(a) Vladimir (b) Estragon (c) Lucky (d) Pozzo
9. Who called Milton ‘the mighty‐mouthed inventor of harmonies’?
23. Winston Smith is the protagonist of the novel __________. (a) Dr. Johnson (b) T.S. Eliot (c) Alfred Tennyson (d) Matthew Arnold
(a) Brave New World (b) The French Lieutenant’s Woman
10. The neo‐classical writers were mainly concerned with ________.
(c) Nineteen Eighty‐Four (d) Catch‐22
(a) Love (b) human nature (c) aesthetic beauty (d) art and culture
24. Which poem begins with the line, “In my beginning is my end”?
11. The Tatler, which started publication in 1709, appeared ________.
(a) Song of Myself (b) Idylls of the King (c) Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (d) East
(a) once a week (b) twice a week (c) thrice a week (d) daily
Coker
12. Pope translated Homer’s Iliad which was published in instalments between
25. In which play does the women of Canterbury play a significant part?
_______.
(a) Murder in the Cathedral (b) Saint Joan
(a) 1715‐20 (b)1716‐21 (c) 1717 ‐22 (d) 1718‐23
(c) The Lady’s Not for Burning (d) Countess Cathleen
Defoe’s characters Moll Flanders and Roxana are ________.
TWENTY‐SIX (a) prostitutes (b) orphans (c) dancers (d) musicians
The Legend of Good Women by Chaucer was written for Queen Anne of _______.
14. ‘Tom Jones’ by Fielding appeared in ______books.
(a) Clarence (b) Kent (c) Bohemia (d) Dido
(a) 18 (b) 12 (c) 8 (d) 6
2. The School Master by Roger Ascham is _________.
15. Who is the most important writer of the Pindaric odes in English?
(a) a morality play (b) an educational treatise (c) a romance (d) an allegory
(a) Keats (b) Shelley (c) Gray (d) Dryden
3. Sir Philip Sidney’s sister, Mary Herbert, was the countess of _________.
16. French Revolution is a poem composed by ________.
(a) Verrotti (b) Pembroke (c) Lutien (d) York
(a) Wordsworth (b) Shelley (c) Keats (d) Scott
4. Thomas Middleton’s The Witch influenced Shakespeare in writing _________.
17. Shelley was greatly influenced by the rationalism of the philosopher named
(a) A Mid‐Summer Night’s Dream (b) The Tempest (c) Macbeth (d) Hamlet
(a) Brooker (b) Godwin (c) Claire (d) Radcliff
5. The Globe Theatre was rebuilt in ______.
18. Endymion in Greek mythology is a beautiful _______.
(a) 1613 (b) 1614 (c) 1615 (d) 1616
(a) bird (b) shepherd (c) nymph (d) god
6. Lucasta is a collection of poems composed by
19. Essays of Elia first appeared in ______.
(a) Herrick (b) Samuel Butler (c) Richard Lovelace (d) Thomas Heywood
(a) Quarterly Review (b) The Edinburgh Review
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1.
(c) The Blackwood’s Magazine (d) London Magazine 5. Who propounded the imagist 11. Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn
theory of poetry in the essay appeared in ______.
20. Reflector was a weekly periodical by _________.
“Imagisme”? (a) 1851 (b) 1841 (c) 1884 (d)
(a) Leigh Hunt (b) Charles Lever (c) Macaulay (d) Thomas Peacock
(a) T. S. Eliot (b) Ezra Pound (c) 1890
21. “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, // Or what’s a heaven for?” Who Wyndham Lewis (d) T. E.
12. Which of the following novels is
said this? Hulme
set on the ship “Pequod”?
(a) Tennyson (b) Milton (c) Carlyle (d) Browning 6. Who wrote in his (a) Heart of Darkness (b) The
22. Rugby Chapel by Arnold is written on the death of his _____. autobiographical memoir A Sort Old Man and the Sea (c)
(a) friend (b) daughter (c) father (d) wife of Life stating that “success is Nostromo (d) Moby Dick
only a delayed failure”? Whitman’s poem ‘When
23. The title of the novel ‘Vanity Fair’ is borrowed from _________. (a) Evelyn Waugh (b) John Lilacs Last in the Dooryard
(a) Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (b) Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Osborne (c) Graham Greene Bloom’d” laments on the
(c) Hardy’s Tess (d) Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (d) Elizabeth Bowen death of _______.
24. Shirley by Charlotte Bronte is a portrait of _________. (a) Anne (b) Maria (c) (a) John F. Kennedy (b)
7. Emile Zola was written by Angus
Elizabeth (d) Emily Abraham Lincoln (c) Roosevelt
Wilson in 1952. It is a _____.
(d) George Washington
(a) critical work (b) novel (c)
ballad (d) play The Turn of the Skrew by Henry
25. Who is the writer of Goblin Market? James is a _______.
8. Name Muriel Spark’s (a) Ghost story (b) Detective
(a) Christina Rossetti (b) D. G. Rossetti (c) Morris (d) Swinburne
autobiography. story (c) Comic Story (d) Love
(a) a Realist (b) a Pessimist (c)
TEST an Optimist (d) an Imagist
(a) Doctors of Philosophy (b) Story
Curriculum Vitae
TWENTY 3. The members of the Aesthetic (c) Memento Mori (d) The 15. Nathaniel Hawthorne was a
‐SEVEN Movement shared their mystical Takeover great novelist and ______.
sympathies through its (a) Moralist (b) Satirist (c)
An Ideal Husband and A Woman 9. Who is the protagonist in John
magazine _________. Playwright (d) Allegorist
of No Importance by Oscar Wilde Osborne’s Look Back in Anger?
are the (a) Red Book (b) Blue Book (c)
(a) Luther (b) Murphy (c) Martin 16. My Story is the autobiography of
Yellow Book (d) Green Book
_______. (d) Jimmy _______.
(a) Romances (b) Tragedies (c) 4. W. B. Yeats was awarded the (a) Mulk Raj Anand (b) M.
Comedies (d) Satires Nobel Prize for literature in 10. Who of the following is a K.Gandhi (c) Kamala Das (d)
______. Movement poet? Nissim Ezekiel
2. A. E. Housman was basically (a) Elizabeth Jennings (b) Ted
(a) 1921 (b) 1922 (c) 1924 (d)
___________. Hughes (c) T. S. Eliot (d) W.H. 17. Savitri is the heroine of _______.
1923
Auden
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(a) The Dark Room (b) The
English Teacher
(c) The Painter of Signs (d)
24. Who first applied the epithet
Bachelor of Arts
18. A Suitable Boy is written by
______.
(a) Vikram Seth (b) Amit Ghose
(c) Upamanyu Chatterjee
14.
(a) Ingram Bywater (b) Butcher
(c) Yeats (d) Eliot
Augustan to “English poetry
embellished by Dryden”?
(a) John Bunyan (b) Dr. Johnson
(c) William Congreve (d)
Thomas Shadwell

19. Sarojini Naidu’s The Queen’s 25. A song of grief, lamentation and
Rival is based on ________. mourning is known as ______.
(a) Indian Legend (b) Persian (a) Elegy (b) Doggerel (c) Dirge
Legend (c) Greek Legend (d) (c) Requiem
Roman Legend
20. The Exact Name is a collection of
poems by _______.
(a) Nissim Ezekiel (b) P. Lal (c)
Pritish Nandy (d) A. K.
Ramanujan

21. In which country was

Romanticism, in the late 19th
century, associated with an
innovatory aesthetic creed? (a)
England (b) Italy (c) France (d)
Germany
22. Who wrote “Poetry is a sword of
Lightning ever Unsheathed”? (a)
Wordsworth (b) Dryden (c) Eliot
(d) Shelley
23. Which translation of Aristotle’s
Poetics is considered a classic?
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TEST TWENTY‐EIGHT
Which Shakespearean character says this: “As flies to wanton boys, are we to
the
gods; // They kill us for their sport”?
(a) Othello (b) Prospero (c) Gloucester (d) Duke Senior
2. In which poem do these lines occur? “It is better to have loved and lost // Than
never to have loved at all.”
(a) In Memoriam (b) Othello (c) The Mistress (d) Andrea del Sarto
3. Which of the following novels was influenced by Carlyle’s French Revolution?
(a) A Tale of Two Cities (b) War and Peace (c) Ivanhoe (d) The Fall of the
Princes
4. Deism is a manifestation of the Enlightenment because of its _____________.
(a) concept of universality (b) rejection of revelation
(c) acceptance of revelation (d) emphasis on the philosophy of a work
5. Among Carlyle’s works, Sartor Resartus stands out as ___________. (a) an
account of German politics (b) a treatise on heroism (c) a personal response to
the French Revolution (d) a disguised spiritual autobiography
6. Which of the following philosophers denied the existence of innate ideas?
(a) Descartes (b) Longinus (c) Hobbes (d) Bacon
7. Warwickshire is an important element in the novels of ________.
(a) Charlotte Bronte (b) Thomas Hardy (c) George Eliot (d) William Makepeace
Thackeray
8. “It was the hour before the Gods awake.” This is a line from _________.
(a) Savitri (b) Brahma (c) Four Quartets (d) Meru
9. ________ is R. K. Narayan’s autobiography.
(a) The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (b) Roses in December
(c) Seven Summers (d) My Dateless Diary
10. The Elizabethan World Picture is written by ________.
(a) E. M. W. Tillyard (b) L. C. Knights (c) Dover Wilson (d) G. M. Trevelyan
11. The major architect for the masque stages in early seventeenth century was
__________.
(a) John Dee (b) Inigo Jones (c) Simon Forman (d) Ben Jonson
12. How many books did the Clerk of Oxford have in his library?
(a) Two hundred (b) Ninety (c) Fifty (d) Twenty
13. Culture and Society is a book by _________.
(a) T. S. Eliot (b) Matthew Arnold (c) Raymond Williams (d) Stuart Hall
14. Byron’s Don Juan is written in _________.
(a) Blank verse (b) Heroic couplet (c) Ottava Rima (d) Terza Rima
15. Which of the following characters is cited by E. M. Forster as the example of
round character?
(a) Becky Sharp (b) Tess (c) Jane Eyre (d) Catherine Linton
16. Which of the English Romantic poets were influenced by John Milton?
(a) Coleridge (b) Byron (c) Shelley (d) Keats
17. Lavinia is a character in the play _________.
(a) The Hairy Ape (b) Long Day’s Journey into Night
(c) Mourning Becomes Electra (d) All My Sons
18. How many times was Robert Frost honoured with the Pulitzer Prize?
(a) One (b) Two (c) Three (d) Four
19. A Dance to the Music of Time is a 12‐volume cycle of novels by _________.
(a) Aldous Huxley (b) Anthony Powell (c) Arnold Bennett (d) Graham Greene
20. Gora by Tagore is a ________.
(a) play (b) short story (c) novel (d) poem
21. Who said, “to judge of poets is only the faculty of poets; and not of all poets,
but the best”?
(a) Ben Jonson (b) Samuel Johnson (c) T. S. Eliot (d) Matthew Arnold
22. _____ was the pseudonym of William Sidney Porter.
(a) Lewis Carroll (b) Mark Twain (c) O. Henry (d) Somerset Maugham
23. Sacred Games is a 2006 novel written by ________.
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14.
(a) Anita Nair (b) Kunal Basu (c) Ashok Banker (d) Vikram Chandra 9. Words that share the same (a) Divine Comedy (b) The Bible
spelling and the same (c) an unnamed play (d) a
24. Who calls Francis Bacon “The wisest, brightest and meanest of mankind”? (a)
pronunciation but have Shakespearean play
Johnson (b) Pope (c) Coleridge (d) Arnold
different meanings are called
Which of the following plays is
__________.
25. Stephen Crane’s novel The Red Badge of Courage is set against the __________. based on Aeschylus’s
(a) Homophones (b) Eumenides, the third part of
(a) I World War (b) II World War (c) American Civil War (d) French Revolution
Homographs (c) Homonyms
(c) Pilgrim’s Progress (d) Oresteia?
TEST Anatomy of Melancholy
(d) Acronyms
(a) Murder in the Cathedral (b)
TWENTY 5. The name Hythloday in Greek
10. The formation of the word Family Reunion
“statistic” from “statistics” is an (c) The Cocktail Party (d) The
‐NINE means __________. example of Rock
In Gulliver’s Travels, Laputa is a (a) speaker of nonsense (b) the __________.
wise man (c) seize the day 15. Whom does Hardy describe as
__________. (a) back‐formation (b)
(d) the perfect man “less Byronic than Shelleyan”?
(a) an island of magicians (b) a metanalysis (c) syncopation
(a) Angel Clare (b) Alec
mountain 6. “Where wealth accumulates, (d) antonomasia
Durbeyfield (c) Michael
(c) an underground kingdom men decay” is a quotation from Henchard (d) Gabriel Oak
11. In which section of The
(d) a flying island _________. Wasteland is there the mention
(a) Essay on Man (b) 16. Who of the following authors
2. Who is the melancholy sprite in of Phlebas the
MacFlecknoe (c) The was not included by F. R. Leavis
The Rape of the Lock? Phoenician?
Deserted Village (d) The in The Great Tradition?
(a) Umbriel (b) Ariel (c) (a) Section I (b) Section III (c)
Prelude (a) George Eliot (b) Joseph
Crispissa (d) Thalestris Section IV (d) Section V
Conrad (c) Thomas Hardy
7. Who said, “Chaucer is a rough (d) Henry James
3. “Satire’s my weapon, but I’m 12. Which poem ends with the line,
diamond; and must be polished
too discreet // To run amuck.” “I should be glad of another
e’er he shines”? 17. Who described his friend
Who said this? death”?
(a) Johnson (b) Arnold (c) Eliot Coleridge as “logician,
(a) Dryden (b) Johnson (c) (a) Burnt Norton (b) Ash metaphysician, bard”?
(d) Dryden
Pope (d) Swift Wednesday
(a) Wordsworth (b) Hazlitt (c)
8. Which kind of meaning, (c) Sweeney Among the Southey (d) Lamb
4. The title of Samuel Butler’s
according to I. A. Richards, Nightingales (d) Journey of the
Hudibras is derived from 18. In which class of the society
predominates in poetry? Magi
________. does Arnold place himself in
(a) sense (b) feeling (c) tone Which book does Vladimir read
(a) Paradise Lost (b) Faerie Culture and Anarchy?
(d) intention for instruction, and Estragon, to
Queene
see the coloured maps?
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(a) barbarians (b) philistines (c)
populace (d) a fourth class
that is yet to emerge
19. Whom did Thomas Hardy call
“the literary puzzle of the 19th
century”?
(a) Charles Lamb (b) Alfred
Tennyson (c) Robert
Browning (d) S. T. Coleridge
20. The Gondibert stanza was
popularized by ________.
(a) William Davenant (b)
Walter Ralegh (c) Thomas
Wyatt (d) Walter Scott
21. Who described Hamlet as “the
Mona Lisa of Literature”?
(a) Dover Wilson (b) E. M.W.
Tillyard (c) L. C. Knights (d)
T. S. Eliot
22. What does the word “Lucifer”
originally mean?
(a) Prince of Darkness (b) Devil
(c) Enemy of God (d) Bearer
of Light
23. The word
“honorificabilitudinitatibus”
occurs in the play __________.
(a) Love’s Labour’s Lost (b)
Cymbeline (c) All’s Well
That Ends Well (d) King Lear
24. Who of the following is the
Muse of Tragedy?
(a) Calliope (b) Thalia (c)
Melpomene (d) Clio
25. Who first used the expression
“Character is destiny”?
(a) A. C. Bradley (b) S. T.
Coleridge (c) Euripides (d)
Heraclitus
TEST
THIRT
Y visit to a park
Who wrote this line, “Where
ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be
wise”?
(a) Shakespeare (b) Pope (c)
Gray (d) Southey
2. Which of the following is the
first Harry Potter novel?
(a) Harry Potter and the
Goblet of Fire (b) Harry
Potter and the
Philosopher’s
Stone (c) Harry Potter and the
Chamber of Secrets (d) Harry
Potter and the HalfBlood Prince
3. “The Cry of the Children” is a
poem against child labour
written by _________.
(a) William Wordsworth
(b) Alfred Tennyson
(c) Emily Bronte (d) Elizabeth
Barrett Browning
4. Which of the following poems ____________.
by Wordsworth describes the (a) All My Sons (b) Hairy
poet’s youthful encounter with Ape
nature? (c) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (d) A
(a) Nutting (b) Upon Streetcar Named Desire
Westminster Bridge (c)
10. Which two languages did Toru
Mutability (d) Desideria
Dutt write in?
5. Larkin’s poem “The Whitsun (a) English and
Weddings” describes a French
__________. (b) English
(a) wedding ceremony (b) and Bengali
(c) English and German (d)
(c) train journey (d) shopping English and Arabic
experience
11. Who wrote the book of
6. The crow in Hughes’s poetry, is confessional poems, Life
a __________. (a) predator (b) Studies?
mythological character (a) Sylvia Plath (b) Robert
(c) allegorical character (d) Lowell (c) Adrienne
symbol of eternal life Rich (d) Anne Sexton
12. The book The White Goddess: a
7. Who of the following has won
Historical Grammar of Poetic
the Booker Prize twice?
Myth, which influenced Ted
(a) Salman Rushdie (b)
Hughes, was written by
Nadine Gordimer (c) J.
_________.
M. Coetzee (d) Ian
(a) William Blake (b)
McEwan
Robert Bridges (c)
8. Whom does Keats call “Close Robert Graves (d) W. B.
bosom‐friend of the maturing Yeats
sun”?
13. Whose earliest publications
(a) Nightingale (b) wine (c)
were the Gothic novels
summer (d) autumn
Zastrozzi (with an atheistic
9. Stanley Kowalski, a member of protagonist) and St. Irvyne, or
the industrial urban working the Rosicrucian?
class, is a character in

1.
(a) William Blake (b)
Walter Scott (c) P. B.
Shelley (d) S. T.
Coleridge
14. Hardy’s semi‐fictional world of
Wessex was based on
___________.
(a) Southampton (b)
Dorchester (c)
Winchester (d) Sussex
15. “Why this is hell, nor am I out
of it” is a famous line from
_________.
(a) Doctor Faustus (b)
Hamlet (c) King Lear
(d) The Duchess of Malfi
16. The two key symbols in Frost’s
poem “Fire and Ice” stand for
_____ and _____.
(a) life and death (b) pain
and pleasure
(c) desire and hatred (d)
creativity and destruction
17. _________ is the longest Book
of Paradise Lost.
(a) Book IV (b) Book VI (c)
Book VII (d) Book IX
18. Who of the following famous
heroines was educated at
Lowood School?
13.
14.
(a) Catherine Linton (b) 23. The Wind Among the Reeds and
Jane Eyre (c) Elizabeth
Bennett (d) Clarissa
Harlowe
19. Which character in Midnight’s
Children plays the role of the
listener in the storytelling 24. The last of the modernist
structure of the novel?
(a) Aadam Aziz (b) Amina
Sinai (c) Cyrus the
Great (d) Padma (a) William Gibson (b) Ray Bradbury (c) William S. Burroughs (d) Arthur C. Clarke
Mangroli
20. The book of essays titled Uses
of Diversity was written by
_________.
(a) J. B. Priestley (b) A. G.
Gardiner (c) J. S. Mill
(d) G. K. Chesterton
21. Who wrote the novel The Light
2.
that Failed that is set in London,
Sudan and India?
(a) Rudyard Kipling (b)
Arnold Bennett (c) John
Masefield (d) Hilaire
Belloc
22. Who of the following was not a
3.
naturalist?
(a) Theodore Dreiser (b)
George Moore (c)
George Gissing (d)
Lionel Johnson
The Winding Stair are works by
_______.
(a) Robert Bridges (b) T. S.
Eliot (c) W. B. Yeats (d)
W. H. Auden
novels, Under the Volcano
(1947) was written by
TEST
THIRTY
‐ONE
A. J. Cronin was a __________.
(a) critic (b) essayist (c) short
story writer (d) novelist
Which witty English playwright
wrote works like Hay Fever, The
Vortex, Fallen Angels and Bitter
Sweet?
(a) Noel Coward (b) Terence
Rattigan (c) Shelagh Delaney
(d) John Osborne
Who of the following playwrights
expressed the exhaustion of the
Post‐War world with a play on the
medieval witch hunts?
_________.
(a) Malcolm Lowry (b)
Wyndham Lewis (c)
Evelyn Waugh (d)
Lawrence Durrell
25. Who wrote the dystopian
science fiction Farenheit 451?
(a) John Osborne (b) Edward
Bond (c) Arnold Wesker (d)
Christopher Fry
4. What does East Coker mean in
Eliot’s poem of that title?
(a) a profession (b) a nautical
instrument (c) a village (d) a
ship
5. Who wrote the poem “Still Falls
the Rain” that weaves a tapestry
of suffering around the world,
starting with the bombing of
London during the II World War?
(a) James Kirkup (b) D. J. Enright
(c) Stephen Spender (d) Edith
Sitwell
6. World Within World is the
autobiography of ________.
(a) Stephen Spender (b) D. H.
Lawrence (c) Kingsley Amis
(d) Dylan Thomas
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7. The Faber Book of Modern Verse
was first edited by _________.
(a) Margaret Drabble (b) Andrew
Motion (c) W. H. Auden (d)
Michael Roberts
8. The critical work New Bearings in
English Poetry was written by
_________.
(a) F. R. Leavis (b) William
Empson (c) C. Day Lewis (d)
David Daiches
9. “Great wits are sure to madness
near allied, // And thin partitions
do their bounds divide”—in which
book do these lines appear?
(a) Religio Laici (b) The Medal
(c) Absalom and Achitophel
(d) MacFlecknoe
10. George Meredith, English poet
and novelist, lived during the
_________.
(a) Post‐War period (b) inter‐war
period (c) Georgian era (d)
Victorian period
11. Which Romantic prose writer
wrote Imaginary Conversations,
drawing upon a vast array of
historical characters?
(a) Leigh Hunt (b) Walter Savage
Landor (c) William Hazlitt (d)
John Lockhart
12. The “Everlasting No” and
“Everlasting Yea” are characters
in _______.
(a) Sartor Resartus (b) On
Heroes, Hero‐Worship and
the Heroic in History
(c) Signs of the Times (d) Past and
Present
The Book of Snobs was written by
___________.
(a) Henry Fielding (b) Lawrence
Sterne
(c) William Makepeace Thackeray
(d) Charles Lamb
The first Englishman to write a
Pindaric ode was ___________.
(a) Ben Jonson (b) Abraham
Cowley (c) Thomas Wyatt (d)
Thomas Gray
15. Which of the following works
represents Chaucer as a lover? (a)
The Tale of Sir Thopas (b) The
Fall of the Princes
(c) The Parliament of Fowles (d)
The Book of the Duchess
16. “He was a man who of all modern
and perhaps ancient poets, had
the largest and most
comprehensive soul.” Who said
this about Shakespeare?
(a) Dryden (b) Johnson (c)
Coleridge (d) Arnold
17. Who called Shakespeare,
“Sweetest Shakespeare, fancy’s
child”?
(a) Johnson (b) Milton (c) Pope
24. The historical novel Lorna Doone
(d) Wordsworth
18. Who said Shakespeare “grew
immortal in his own despite”?
(a) Johnson (b) Milton (c) Pope
(d) Wordsworth
25. “The Children of Violence” is a
19. To whom is applied the epithet
“Shakespeare of Divines”?
(a) John Milton (b) Cardinal
Newman (c) George Herbert
(d) Jeremy Taylor
20. Ben Jonson’s tragedies Sejanus
and Catiline have _________
themes.
(a) Greek (b) Roman (c) medieval
(d) Renaissance
21. Which English poet wrote
“Prophetic Books”?
(a) W. B. Yeats (b) Walter Scott
(c) John Milton (d) William
2.
Blake
22. The Fall of Robespierre, written by
Southey and Coleridge, is
________.
(a) a play (b) a narrative poem
(c) a verse essay (d) a
3.
historical novel
23. The sonnet sequence The House
of Life was written by ________.
(a) P. B. Shelley (b) Alfred
Tennyson (c) D. G. Rossetti
(d) Walter Pater
was written by __________.
(a) George Gissing (b) A. C.
Swinburne (c) R. L. Stevenson
(d) Richard Blackmore
series of novels written by
________. (a) Doris Lessing (b)
Martha Quest (c) Muriel Spark
(d) Iris Murdoch
TEST
THIRTY‐
TWO
In which Shakespearean play is
the Battle of Agincourt a central
issue?
(a) Richard II (b) Henry IV Part II
(c) Henry V (d) King John
Arnold criticizes Chaucer for
lacking in ______________.
(a) high seriousness (b)
architectonics (c)
verisimilitude (d) classical
decorum
Cambridge, the second oldest
university in the English‐speaking
world, was established in the
______ century.

1.
(a) 11th (b) 12th (c) 13th (d) 14th
4. In which year was Francis Bacon’s
Essays first published?
(a) 1568 (b) 1580 (c) 1597 (d)
1604
5. Mirror for Magistrates was a
_________________ from the
Tudor period.
(a) prose romance (b) collection
of poems
(c) philosophical treatise (d)
allegorical play
6. Which of the following plays is set
in Athens?
(a) Love’s Labour’s Lost (b)
Troilus and Cressida
(c) The Winter’s Tale (d) A
Midsummer Night’s Dream
7. Which of the following
Shakespearean plays conforms to
the three unities?
(a) Comedy of Errors (b) All’s Well
that Ends Well
(c) Antony and Cleopatra (d)
Winter’s Tale
8. In Arcadia, Philoclea and Pamela
are daughters of __________.
(a) Pyrocles (b) Basilius (c)
Musidora (d) Eurachus
9. In which year was Oliver
Cromwell declared the Lord
Protector of England?
(a) 1642 (b) 1644 (c) 1649 (d)
1653
10. Arrange the following
chronologically:
(i) Anatomy of Melancholy (ii)
Urn Burial (iii) Euphues (iv)
Lycidas
(a) iii‐iv‐i‐ii (b) iii‐ii‐i‐iv (c) iii‐i‐iv‐ii
(d) ii‐iii‐i‐iv
11. Which playwright gives an honest
picture of the underworld in
London in The
Honest Whore?
(a) John Marston (b) Thomas
Dekker (c) Thomas Middleton
(d) Philip Massinger
12. Who said that the sonnet in
Milton’s hand “became a
trumpet”?
(a) Dr. Johnson (b) Alfred
Tennyson (c) S. T. Coleridge
(d) William Wordsworth
13. Videna is a character in a play by
__________.
(a) Beaumont (b) Jonson (c)
Congreve (d) Sackville
14. Horace Walpole published The
Castle of Otranto in ___________.
13.
14.
(a) 1784 (b) 1774 (c) 1764 (d)
1754
15. Lady Teazle is a character in
___________.
(a) The School for Scandal (b) She
Stoops to Conquer
(c) The Rivals (d) The Importance
of Being Earnest
16. The Peterloo Massacre which
moved Shelley to write The Mask
of Anarchy took place in
__________. (a) 1819 (b) 1821
(c) 1822 (d) 1824
17. “The lunatic, the lover and the
poet // Are of imagination all
compact”—these are lines from
_______.
(a) As You Like It (b) The Winter’s
Tale
(c) All’s Well that Ends Well (d) A
Midsummer Night’s Dream
18. The New Pygmalion is a work by
______________.
(a) G. B. Shaw (b) William Hazlitt
(c) G. K. Chesterton (d) J. B.
Priestley
19. In which work is Byron described
as the leader of the “Satanic
School” of poetry?
(a) Alastor (b) Men, Women and
Books (c) A Vision of
Judgement (d) Table Talk
20. Harold Skimpole in Bleak House is
a caricature of _______.
(a) Leigh Hunt (b) William Hazlitt
(c) Charles Lamb (d) Thomas
de Quincey
21. Bingley is a character in
__________.
(a) Jane Eyre (b) Wuthering
Heights (c) Mansfield Park (d)
Pride and Prejudice
22. Which of the following novels by
Dickens was not set in or around
London?
(a) Dombey and Son (b) The Old
Curiosity Shop
(c) Hard Times (d) Pickwick
Papers
23. Atlanta in Calydon, an imitation
of Greek tragedy, was written by
____________.
(a) Edward Fitzgerald (b) A. C.
Swinburburne
(c) Christina Rossetti (d) Elizabeth
Barrett Browning
24. Who, in his book Sign of the
Times said, “It is the Age of
Machinery, in every outward and
inward sense of that word”? (a)
1.
Hazlitt (b) Arnold (c) Ruskin (d) Carlyle

25. “The Weaver of Raveloe” is the subtitle of a work by ___________.

(a) Thomas Hardy (b) Thomas Carlyle (c) George Eliot (d) Charlotte Bronte
1.
TEST THIRTY‐THREE
Expressionism originated in _________.
(a) France (b) Germany (c) Italy (d) England
2. What does Coleridge define as a “mode of Memory emancipated from the order
of time and space”?
(a) Fancy (b) Primary Imagination (c) Secondary Imagination (d) Poetic Justice
3. The Uses of Literacy is written by _________.
(a) Raymond Williams (b) Stuart Hall (c) Anthony Easthope (d) Richard Hoggart
4. Second Shepherd’s Play is _________.
(a) an interlude (b) a miracle play (c) a mystery play (d) a morality play
5. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was published in ________.
(a) 1790 (b) 1806 (c) 1818 (d) 1827
6. Anatomy of Melancholy is an example of ___________.
(a) Menippean satire (b) Horatian satire (c) Juvenalian satire (d) Allegory
7. Which of the following was termed “mythos” by Aristotle?
(a) history (b) diction of poetry (c) character (d) plot
8. The terms ‘vehicle’ and ‘tenor’ in relation to the metaphor were introduced by
_________.
(a) T. S. Eliot (b) Cleanth Brooks (c) I. A. Richards (d) John Searle
9. The eulogy of England starting “This royal throne of kings, this scept’red isle” is
spoken by the Shakespearean character, _________. (a) Falstaff (b) John of
Gaunt (c) Henry V (d) Thomas Cromwell
10. Walter Pater’s essay, The Renaissance, is primarily on _________.
(a) Shakespeare (b) Leonardo da Vinci (c) Michelangelo (d) Marlowe
11. Mercutio, who says the famous line, “Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find
me a grave man,” is a character in ___________. (a) The Duchess of Malfi (b)
Macbeth
(c) Tamburlaine the Great (d) Romeo and Juliet
12. Who is the author of The Art of the Novel?
(a) Henry James (b) M. H. Abrams (c) James Joyce (d) E. M. Forster
13. Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room was published in the year _______.
(a) 1922 (b) 1923 (c) 1924 (d) 1925
14. Who of the following critiqued “Lycidas” for its “inherent improbability”?
(a) Matthew Arnold (b) P. B. Shelley (c) Samuel Johnson (d) T. S. Eliot
15. The ballad stanza is an example of __________.
(a) terza rima (b) quatrain (c) couplet (d) ottava rima
16. “Or stain her honour, or her new brocade” is an example of ___________.
(a) oxymoron (b) antithesis (c) periphrasis (d) zeugma
17. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones is a ____________ narrator.
(a) self‐conscious (b) unreliable (c) omniscient (d) none of these
18. Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado About Nothing are examples for
___________.
(a) satiric comedy (b) comedy of manners (c) farcical comedy (d) romantic
comedy
19. “ ‘O where are you going?’ said reader to rider” is a line from a poem by
___________.
(a) Dylan Thomas (b) Wilfred Owen (c) W. H. Auden (d) Philip Larkin
20. Who is the author of the 1975 work, Structuralist Poetics?
(a) Roman Jakobson (b) Jonathan Culler (c) C. S. Peirce (d) Terence Hawkes
21. Which of the following Shakespearean characters is considered a re‐rendering of
Vice from the morality play?
(a) Iago (b) Lady Macbeth (c) Falstaff (d) Caliban
22. “The woods shall to me answer, and my echo ring” is the refrain of
____________.
(a) The Rape of Lucrece (b) Venus and Adonais
(c) Prothalamion (d) Epithalamion
1.
23. Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead is set against the ___________.
(a) II World War (b) I World War (c) Civil War in Africa (d) Vietnam War
24. The incident of the pathetic death of Little Nell occurs in ___________.
(a) Oliver Twist (b) Barnaby Rudge (c) The Old Curiosity Shop (d) Great
Expectations
25. “The language of poetry is a language of paradox” is a line from ___________.
(a) Practical Criticism (b) The Well‐Wrought Urn
(c) The Verbal Icon (d) Principles of Literary Criticism
TEST THIRTY‐FOUR
Which critic, in the book, Shakespeare’s Imagery and What It Tells Us, analyzes
‘image motifs’ in Shakespearean plays, such as animal imagery in King Lear and
figures of disease, corruption and death in Hamlet?
(a) Cleanth Brooks (b) Robert Heilman (c) Frank Kermode (d) Caroline Spurgeon
2. In which year was H. J. C. Grierson’s edition of Metaphysical Lyrics published?
(a) 1927 (b) 1922 (c) 1921 (d) 1912
3. The line “The moonlight steeped in silence” from “The Ancient Mariner” is an
example of ___________.
(a) metaphor (b) zeugma (c) synaesthesia (d) oxymoron
4. The term “melodrama” is often applied to plays produced during the
____________ period.
(a) Elizabethan (b) Restoration (c) Victorian (d) II World War
5. Georg Lukacs is a Marxist thinker from _______________.
(a) Italy (b) Germany (c) Hungary (d) Austria
6. The French term belles lettres is a synonym for ________.
(a) literature (b) biography (c) autobiography (d) women’s writing
7. In which book did Noam Chomsky develop his idea of Transformational
Generative Grammar?
(a) The Structure of Language (b) Syntactic Structures
(c) Structural Linguistics (d) The Pursuit of Signs
8. The study of elementary speech sounds is called __________.
(a) phonetics (b) phonology (c) morphology (d) phonemics
9. Who is the author of the poem Cooper’s Hill?
(a) James Thomson (b) Dylan Thomas (c) Alexander Pope (d) John Denham
10. Miss Havisham is a character in ___________.
(a) David Copperfield (b) The Old Curiosity Shop
(c) Nicholas Nickleby (d) Great Expectations
11. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity is a book by
_____________.
(a) Kate Millett (b) Toril Moi (c) Judith Butler (d) Patricia Meyer Spacks
12. “Linguistics and Poetics” is an influential formalist essay by ______________.
(a) Jonathan Culler (b) Roman Jakobson
(c) Robert Penn Warren (d) John Crowe Ransom
13. The Adding Machine, an expressionistic play in which the protagonist Mr. Zero
experiences a mechanical, sterile and frightening world, is written by
__________.
(a) Elmer Rice (b) Edward Albee (c) Eugene Ionesco (d) Eugene O’ Neill
14. Which poet illustrated empathy in these lines, “if a sparrow comes before my
window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel”?
(a) Tennyson (b) Keats (c) Wordsworth (d) Shelley
15. ASLE is an organization that works in the field of _________.
(a) Cultural Studies (b) Linguistics (c) Ecocriticism (d) Theatre
16. Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference and Speech and Phenomena were all
published in ___________.
(a) 1966 (b) 1967 (c) 1968 (d) 1969
17. The Culture Industry is a book by ______________.
(a) Adorno (b) Horkheimer (c) Adorno and Horkheimer (d) Heidegger
18. “My mistress’s eyes are nothing like the sun” is ____________.
(a) a metaphor (b) an inversion
(c) a metaphysical conceit (d) a parody of Petrarchan conceit
1.
19. The 18th century poem The Task was written by __________.
(a) William Collins (b) Edward Young (c) William Cowper (d) Thomas Gray
20. Possession is a novel written by __________.
(a) Toni Morrison (b) A. S. Byatt (c) Bharati Mukherjee (d) Doris Lessing
21. Annette Kolodny has made important contributions to _________.
(a) Ecofeminism (b) Translation studies
(c) Cyberliterature (d) Reader‐Response Criticism
22. English and Scottish Popular Ballads is a collection edited by __________.
(a) Bertrand Bronson (b) Walter Scott (c) Francis J. Child (d) Thomas Percy
23. Humbert Humbert is a famous anti‐hero created by _________.
(a) Saul Bellow (b) Vladimir Nabokov (c) Boris Pasternak (d) William Faulkner
24. The line “The chair she sat in, like a burnished throne” from The Waste Land is
an allusion to ____________.
(a) The Duchess of Malfi (b) Doctor Faustus
(c) Antony and Cleopatra (d) Women Beware Women
25. Tom Stoppard’s plays Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Travesties
exploit the conventions of _____________.
(a) Folk theatre (b) Expressionist drama (c) Magic Realism (d) absurdism
TEST THIRTY‐FIVE
Who of the following wrote the influential play Dutchman?
(a) Lorraine Hansberry (b) Wole Soyinka (c) Athol Fugard (d) Amiri Baraka
2. Blindness and Insight and Allegories of Reading are works on deconstructive
literary criticism by __________.
(a) Barbara Johnson (b) Paul de Man (c) Jonathan Culler (d) J. Hillis Miller
3. Michael Holquist is known for his editions of __________.
(a) Bakhtin (b) Foucault (c) Derrida (d) Lacan
4. The 1845 work Woman in the Nineteenth Century was written by ___________.
(a) Mary Wollstonecraft (b) Helen Taylor Mill
(c) Margaret Fuller (d) Mary Ellmann
5. “British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing” is the sub‐title of a work by
__________.
(a) Patricia Meyer Spacks (b) Elaine Showalter
(c) Ellen Moers (d) Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
6. Unlike the Russian Formalists, the New Critics did not apply ___________ to an
analysis of poetry.
(a) semantics (b) phonotactics (c) morphology (d) linguistics
7. Which of the following English poetic movements was influenced by the
Japanese verse form haiku?
(a) Pre‐Raphaelite (b) Symbolism (c) Imagism (d) The Movement
8. Who of the following has written a seminal critical work on Restoration Drama?
(a) Basil Willey (b) Allardyce Nicoll (c) Catherine Belsey (d) F. O. Matthiessen
9. “Tasting of Flora and the country green” is an example of ____________. (a)
epithet (b) synecdoche (c) symbolism (d) synesthesia
10. The deconstructivist essay “How to do Things with Texts” was written by
__________.
(a) M. H. Abrams (b) Jonathan Culler (c) Jacques Derrida (d) Gayatri Spivak
11. “Interpreting the Variorum” (1976) is a critical essay by _________.
(a) Harold Bloom (b) Hans Robert Jauss (c) Stanley Fish (d) Wolfgang Iser
12. In which of the following novels do we have interior monologues by fifteen
different characters?
(a) Ulysses (b) Pilgrimage (c) Under the Volcano (d) As I Lay Dying
13. The term “differance” was first introduced by Derrida in the book
____________.
(a) Writing and Difference (b) Speech and Phenomena
(c) Of Grammatology (d) Spectres of Marx
14. The Female Imagination, a major gynocritical work, is written by __________.
(a) Judith Fetterley (b) Elaine Showalter (c) Betty Friedan (d) Patricia M. Spacks
15. Phenomenological criticism is associated with the ___________ School.
(a) Geneva (b) Yale (c) Frankfurt (d) Chicago
1.
16. The Germ was the literary magazine of the _______________. 3. John Skelton was an early (a) autobiography (b) translation
(a) PRB (b) Romantics (c) Transcendentalists (d) Realists _________ poet. studies (c) postcolonialism
(a) Jacobean (b) Hanoverian (c) (d) travel writing
17. In the Castle of My Skin is an early postcolonial novel by _________.
Tudor (d) Caroline
(a) Wilson Harris (b) Derek Walcott (c) Ralph Ellison (d) George Lamming 9. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson
4. Which of the following writers are well‐known for their work on
18. “Freytag’s Pyramid” refers to the classical conception of __________. __________.
was praised by Mikhail Bakhtin
(a) character (b) plot (c) ethics (d) politics for the dialogic nature of his (a) ecocriticism (b) translation
19. Who characterized pastiche as “blank parody”? (a) Linda Hutcheon (b) Fredrick novels? studies (c) subaltern studies
Jameson (a) Leo Tolstoy (b) Fyodor (d) autobiography
(c) Jean Francois Lyotard (d) Peter Childs Dostoevsky (c) Charles
10. ___________ is the expansion of
Dickens (d) Maxim Gorky
20. John Cleveland was a ___________ poet. the abbreviation MLA.
(a) Movement (b) Georgian (c) Romantic (d) Metaphysical 5. Who coined the phrase (a) Modern Literary Analysis (b)
“dialectical criticism” to denote a Modern Literature
21. Isabel Allende and Pablo Neruda are writers from ___________. Marxist approach that Association
(a) Chile (b) Cuba (c) Argentina (d) Guatemala synthesizes structuralist and (c) Modern Language Association
poststructuralist methodologies? (d) Mainstream Literature
22. Claude McKay is a writer associated with _________.
(a) negritude (b) postmodernism (c) Harlem Renaissance (d) Beat Movement (a) Macherey (b) Benjamin (c) Analysts
Marcuse (d) Jameson
23. A novel that recounts the education and upbringing of the protagonist is called 11. Ray Bradbury is associated with
________. 6. The term “affective stylistics” is the genre of _________ fiction.
associated with (a) detective (b) children’s (c)
(a) Bildungsroman (b) Kunstleroman (c) Erziehungsroman (d) Roman a clef
______________. science (d) adventure
24. The term „ecocriticism“ was coined by _________. (a) Stanley Fish (b) Paul de Man
12. Dorothy Richardson’s novel
(a) Cheryll Glotfelty (b) William Rueckert (c) Annette Kolodny (d) Arne Naess (c) H. G. Widdowson (d)
sequence Pilgrimage is a
Roman Jakobson
collection of _____ novels. (a) 13
25. A World of Difference is a work by the deconstructionist, ___________.
7. Which of the following is Gerard (b) 14 (c) 15 (d) 16
(a) Paul de Man (b) Geoffrey Hartman (c) Barbara Johnson (d) Jonathan Culler Genette associated with?
(a) Pindaric Ode (b) Horatian 13. American Transcendentalism
TEST Ode (c) Irregular Ode (d)
(a) Historiography (b) Myth
began in 1836 with the
criticism (c) Narratology (d)
THIRTY‐SIX Petrarchan Sonnet Diasporic criticism
publication of __________.
John Keats’s “To Autumn” is an (a) Emerson’s “Nature” (b)
2. Who of the following was a 8. Susan Bassnett has written
example of _________. Emerson’s “Self‐Reliance” (c)
religious existentialist? famous books on ___________. Thoreau’s “Civil
(a) Kierkegaard (b) Camus (c)
Sartre (d) Kafka
1.
Disobedience” and (d)
Thoreau’s “Walden”
14. “Renaissance” is a ________
word that means “rebirth”. (a)
Greek (b) French (c) Latin (d)
German
15. Who of the following was active
in the Prague Linguistic Circle?
(a) Leslie Fiedler (b) Rene Wellek
(c) R. S. Crane (d) Jonathan
Culler
16. Which of the following is not a
highly inflected language?
(a) Russian (b) Latin (c) Arabic
(d) French
17. Who wrote the essay “The Work
of Art in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction” (1936), which
anticipated the critical interest in
mass‐produced and
massconsumed culture?
(a) Fredric Jameson (c) Theodor
Adorno (c) Walter Benjamin
(d) Roland Barthes
18. Which film critic wrote the
seminal essay “Visual Pleasure
and Narrative Cinema” which
develops the concept of “gaze”
in the argument that classical
Hollywood cinema puts the
spectator in a masculine subject
position, looking upon the
woman on the screen as an
object of desire?
(a) Laura Mulvey (b) Christian
Metz (c) Andre Bazin (d)
Andrew Sarris
19. Which media theorist is known
for the expression “the medium
is the message,” meaning that
the medium influences how the
message is perceived, thereby
arguing that it should be the
medium itself, and not the
message, that should be
studied?
(a) Slavoj Zizek (b) Noam
Chomsky (c) Harold Innis (d)
Marshall McLuhan
20. Who is the author of Ain’t I a
Woman, which examines the
impact of sexism and racism on
black women?
(a) Maya Angelou (b) bell hooks
(c) Nancy Chodorow (d) Alice
Walker
21. Who advocated a “Dalitization”
of Indian culture in Why I Am
Not A Hindu?
(a) Sharankumar Limbale (b) B.
R. Ambedkar (c) Kancha Iliah
(d) Baburao Bagul
22. Which Nobel Laureate wrote a
trilogy of travelogues to India,
which has been criticized for its
subjective and pessimistic
portrayal of the country? (a)
Salman Rushdie (b) Gao Xingjian
(c) Naguib Mahfouz (d) V. S.
Naipaul
23. Which of the following novels
has been described by the
author as “non‐fiction fiction”?
(a) In Cold Blood (b) The Heart of
the Matter (c) The Lord of the
Rings (d) Catch‐22
24. Who argues in the book
Civilization and Its Discontents
that civilizations instill feelings of
discontent in their citizens by
repressing their instinctual
desires?
(a) Herbert Marcuse (b) Jacques
Lacan (c) Sigmund Freud (d)
Carl Jung
25. J. C. Ransome, Allan Tate and R.
P. Warren have been associated
with the _____________.
(a) Chicago School (b) Fugitives
(c) Symbolists (d) Prague
Linguistic Circle
TEST
THIRTY
‐SEVEN
Deconstruction and Criticism is
an anthology of essays that
brought
______________ into
prominence.
(a) the Yale School (b) Barbara
Johnson
(c) Gayatri Spivak (d)
poststructuralist feminists
2. In which year was the First
Reform Act introduced?
(a) 1825 (b) 1832 (c) 1867 (d)
1884
3. _________ refers to popular
English novels of the 1830s
based on legends of 18th century
highwaymen.
(a) Romance novels (b)
Sensation novels (c) Palliser
novels (d) Newgate novels
4. A novel with a political or social
message is called __________.
(a) romàn a thèse (b) roman a
clef (c) erziehungsroman (d)
nouveau roman
5. Leopold Sedar Senghor and
Aimee Cesaire were associated
with __________.
(a) Symbolism (b)
Postcolonialism (c) Negritude
(d) Harlem Renaissance
6. The term pathetic fallacy, which
denotes the convention by
which natural phenomena are
1.
attributed human feelings, was
coined by _____________.
(a) Thomas Rymer (b) John
Ruskin (c) Oscar Wilde (d)
Robert Southey
7. Renaissance Self‐Fashioning and
Shakespearean Negotiations are
works by _____.
(a) E. M. W. Tillyard (b) Harold
Bloom (c) Michel Foucault (d)
Stephen Greenblatt
8. Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer
More were champions of
________.
(a) Myth Criticism (b) Ne‐
Aristotelianism
(c) New Humanism (d) Reader
Response Criticism
9. “On the Genius of Biography”
was an important essay written
by ________.
(a) Dr. Johnson (b) Lytton
Strachey (c) D. H. Lawrence
(d) James Boswell
10. Which of the following was not a
kind of meaning described by I.
A. Richards?
(a) sense (b) context (c) feeling
(d) intention
11. Who wrote the dystopian novel,
When the Sleeper Wakes?
(a) George Orwell (b) Anthony
Trollope (c) H. G. Wells (d)
William Golding
12. Which of the following plays a
major role in Bakhtin’s theory of
the novel?
(a) Folk theatre (b) Slapstick
comedy (c) Senecan tragedy
(d) Menippean satire
13. Which of the following is a
fictional autobiography?
(a) David Copperfield (b) Sons
and Lovers
(c) Jane Eyre (d) A Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man
14. Roland Barthes introduced the
terms ‘lisible’ and ‘scriptible’ in
the work
________.
(a) S/Z (b) Writing Degree Zero
(c) The Pleasure of the Text
(d) Mythologies
15. The concept of “deep structure”
is fundamental to __________.
(a) Structuralist anthropology
(b) TG grammar
(c) Close reading (d) Saussurean
linguistics
16. Oscar Wilde’s “The Critic as
Artist” is written in the form of a
____________. (a) speech (b)
monologue (c) dialogue (d)
sermon
17. The heyday of the genre “little
magazine” was approximately
___________.
(a) 1700‐1750 (b) 1790‐1850 (c)
1890‐1950 (d) 1950‐1980
18. The term “ideology” is central to
____________’s work.
(a) Foucault (b) Lacan (c) Marx
(d) Althusser
19. Which theorist described herself
as “Jewoman” in an expression
of homelessness and hybridity?
(a) Julia Kristeva (b) Helene
Cixous (c) Elaine Showalter
(d) Luce Irigaray
20. Being and Time is the seminal
work of ___________.
(a) Martin Heidegger (b) Hans‐
Georg Gadamer
(c) Jacques Derrida (d) Walter
Benjamin
21. Who coined the term
“contrapunctal reading” to
describe a reading strategy that
exposes elements of colonial
discourse within a text?
(a) Homi Bhabha (b) Edward
Said (c) Gayatri Spivak (d)
Partha Chatterjee
22. Who defined the text as “a tissue
of quotations drawn from
innumerable centres of culture”?
(a) Roland Barthes (b) T. S. Eliot
(c) Jacques Derrida (d)
Jacques Lacan
23. About who of the following did
Friedrich Nietzsche write
scathing criticism?
(a) Freud (b) Kant (c) Wagner
(d) Da Vinci
24. Who of the following wrote the
major work, The Dialectic of the
Enlightenment?
(a) Deleuze and Guattari (b)
Lacan and Kristeva
(c) Adorno and Heidegger (d)
Adorno and Horkheimer
25. Bakhtin’s term “chronotope”
that denotes “dialogical space”
in a novel is borrowed from
________.
(a) Friedrich Nietzsche (b)
Immanuel Kant (c) Adam
Smith (d) Albert Einstein
TEST
THIRTY
‐EIGHT
Name the subtitle of the 1852
anti‐slavery novel Uncle Tom’s
Cabin by the
American writer Harriet Beecher
Stowe.
(a) The Plight of the Blacks (b) A
Man against Slavery
1.
(c) Life Among the Lowly (d)
Story of the Downtrodden
2. Name the founder of the
Chicago School of criticism.
(a) I. A. Richards (b) F.R.
Leavis (c) William
Empson (d) R.S. Crane
3. In which year did King James I
declare himself King of Great
Britain?
(a) 1603 (b) 1604 (c) 1605
(d) 1606
4. RUR, an experimental play in
which the term ‘robot’ first
appeared is by ______.
(a) Antonin Artaud (b) H.G.
Wells (c) Bertolt Brecht
(d) Karel Capek
5. Who defined Romanticism as
“the renaissance of wonder”?
(a) S. T. Coleridge (b)
Wilson Knight (c)
Theodore Watts Dunton
(d) William Blake
6. Name G.K. Chesterton’s priest‐
detective.
(a) Father James (b) Father
Brown (c) Father Henry
(d) Father Augustine
7. Which is the first work of the sci‐
fi‐horror genre?
(a) The Time Machine (b)
Psycho (c) Frankenstein
(d) The Invisible Man
8. Which Victorian novelist is
regarded the father of the
sensation novel, a precursor of
the detective fiction?
(a) Wilkie Collins (b) Henry
James (c) Benjamin
Disraeli (d) H.G. Wells
9. Who compiled the Cambridge
Dictionary of Slang and
Unconventional Usage? (a)
Daniel Jones (b) Miriam
Webster (c) Eric Partridge (d)
Margaret Drabble
10. ______ was the first biographer
to use Freudian insights in his
analysis.
(a) Dr. Johnson (b) Lytton
Strachey (c) James
Boswell (d) Margaret
Cavendish
11. Which literary scholar wrote
Towards Greek Tragedy?
(a) Edmund Burke (b)
William Ridgeway (c)
William Hazlitt (d) Brian
Vickers
12. Which mathematician/ scholar
wrote the work The Impact of
Science on Society? (a)
Newton (b) Russell (c) (c) Nathaniel Hawthorne (d)
Descartes (d) Rousseau James Fenimore Cooper
13. What is the major concern of 18. A.C. Bradley’s 10 essay collection
Arnold’s Literature and Dogma? Shakespearean Tragedy was
(a) Criticism (b) Culture (c) published in which year?
Theology (d) Society (a) 1920 (b) 1909 (c) 1917
(d) 1904
14. Which Modernist writer wrote
19. Where was the essay “Hamlet
the poem “Coriolanus”?
and his Problems,” which
(a) T. S. Eliot (b) Dylan
regards Hamlet as an artistic
Thomas (c) Louis failure, originally published?
MacNeice (d) Stephen
(a) The Criterion (b) The
Spender
Egoist (c) The Sacred
15. “The Figure a Poem Makes” is an Wood (d) TLS
essay by the Pulitzer winning
20. Who called Henry James, “the
writer________.
Victorian of fine consciousness”?
(a) Allan Poe (b) Walt
(a) Matthew Arnold (b)
Whitman (c) John
Virginia Woolf (c) Joseph
Crowe Ransom (d)
Conrad (d) Thomas
Robert Frost
Hardy
16. Which is the first archaeological
21. Swansea in South Wales figures
treatise in English?
in the works of ___________.
(a) The Decline and Fall of
(a) Dylan Thomas (b)
the Roman Empire (b)
Seamus Heaney (c)
Hydriotaphia
Kingsley Amis (d) Ezra
(c) The Antiquary (d) Anatomy of
Pound
Melancholy
22. Samuel Butler’s Hudibras is an
17. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is
attack ________.
dedicated to which
(a) Chivalry (b) Kingship (c)
contemporary American writer?
Puritanism (d)
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson Colonialism
(b) Edgar Allan Poe
23. Who coined the term ‘Imagism’?
1.
(a) Charles Baudelaire (b)
Immanuel Kant (c) Ezra
Pound (d) T. S. Eliot
24. Which century is known as the
age of circulating libraries?
(a) 16th (b) 17th (c) 18th (d) 19th
25. Who authored the long essay
commenting on the Porter Scene
in Macbeth?
(a) Richard Steele (b)
Thomas de Quincey (c)
Oliver Goldsmith (d)
Dover Wilson
TEST
THIRTY‐
NINE
Who founded the school of Neo‐
Platonism?
(a) Terence (b) Catullus (c)
Plotinus (d) Horace
2. Who was the leader of the
Peasant’s Revolt of 1381?
(a) Guy Fawkes (b) Vat
Tyler (c) William
Wallace (d) John Wyclif
3. How many works did Caxton
translate into English?
(a) 20 (b) 27 (c) 16 (d) 24
4. The Old Testament and the New
Testament were originally
written in which languages?
(a) Hebrew and Greek (b)
Hebrew and Latin
(c) Hebrew and Hebrew (d)
Greek and Latin
5. What was the name of
Marlowe’s theatrical company?
(a) Lord Admiral’s Men (b)
Lord Chamberlain’s Men
(c) King’s Men (d) Queen’s Men
6. Which printer and translator
wrote The Game and the Play of
Chess?
(a) Lord Berners (b) William
Caxton (c) John Skelton
(d) Gavin Douglas
7. Who wrote the Book of Martyrs
which is a record of the killings
of Queen Mary? (a) George
Meredith (b) Richard Hooker (c)
Izaak Walton (d) George Foxe
8. The House of Life is a collection
of 101 sonnets by which19th c
painter/poet?
(a) William Blake (b) A. C.
Swinburne (c) D. G.
Rossetti (d) William
Morris
9. Thomas Paine’s The Rights of
Man was a reply to __________.
(a) Leviathan (b) A View of the
Present State of Ireland
(c) The Wounds of Civil War (d)
Reflections on the French
Revolution
10. Which of Kipling’s poems is
written in Cockney dialect?
(a) White Man’s Burden (b)
Puck of Pook’s Hill (c) If
(d) Fuzzy Wuzzy
11. Marmion is a collection of
poems by which 19th c novelist?
(a) Charles Dickens (b)
Walter Scott (c) Thomas
Hardy (d) George Eliot
12. The Agony and the Ecstasy, a
biography of Michelangelo, was
written by __________.
(a) Bertrand Russell (b)
Oliver Goldsmith (c)
Charles Lamb (d) Irving
Stone
13. From which language did John
Wyclif translate the Bible?
(a) Latin Vulgate (b)
Hebrew (c) Greek (d)
Old English
14. The Augustan author whose life
was like a Marlovian tragedy.
(a) Dryden (b) Pope (c)
Jonathan Swift (d) John Gay
15. In which year did Tagore win the
Nobel Prize? (a) 1919 (b)
1920 (c) 1913 (d) 1916
16. Which is the first English prose‐
comedy?
(a) Ralph Roister Doister (b)
Supposes (c) Gammar
Gurton’s Needle (d)
Richard II
17. Robert Markham is the
pseudonym of which angry
young man?
(a) John Osborne (b)
Kingsley Amis (c) Allan
Sillitoe (d) Colin Wilson
18. Which modernist novel opens
with the chapter “1880”?
(a) A Portrait of the Artist as
a Young Man (b) To the
Lighthouse
(c) The Years (d) Tin Drum
19. Who wrote the work of verse
criticism Illusion and Reality?
(a) I.A. Richards (b)
Palgrave (c) Cleanth
Brooks (d) Christopher
Caudwell
20. Which Elizabethan/ Jacobean
writer wrote the comedy The
Devil is an Ass? (a) Webster
(b) Jonson (c) Marston (d)
Fletcher
1.
21. There were _________ members
in the Pre‐Raphaelite
Brotherhood.
(a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 7 (d) 8
22. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is
the last unfinished work of which
Victorian novelist?
(a) Thomas Hardy (b)
William Makepeace
Thackeray
(c) Charles Dickens (d) George
Eliot
23. Who co‐authored the tragedy
Dido Queen of Carthage along
with Marlowe?
(a) Ben Jonson (b) Thomas
Nashe (c) Thomas Kyd
(d) George Peele
24. Who authored the novel
Endymion?
(a) John Keats (b) Anthony
Trollope (c) Graham
Greene (d) Benjamin
Disraeli
25. Who wrote the essay collection
The English Comic Writers?
(a) William Hazlitt (b)
Charles Lamb (c) Oscar
Wilde (d) Richard
Brinsley Sheridan
6.
TEST
FORTY
The landmark publication of The
Interpretation of Dreams was in
________.
7.
(a) 1900 (b) 1905 (c) 1910 (d)
1915
2. Marxist philosophy of history is
called __________.
(a) historiography (b) dialectical
materialism
8.
(c) historical materialism (d)
cultural materialism
3. Ferdinand de Saussure was a
professor at the University of
_________.
(a) Leipzig (b) Geneva (c)
Frankfurt (d) Zurich
9.
4. Julia Kristeva’s concept of
intertextuality is based on the
theory of ____________.
(a) postmodernism (b) dialogism
(c) decentring (d) writerly
text
10. Who argued in the book Anti‐
5. Which is the author cited by Jean
Baudrillard in Simulations and
Simulacra, in whose story the
map replaces the territory? (a)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b) Alejo
Carpentier
(c) Honore Balzac (d) Jorge Luis
Borges
With whom is the term
“Zeitgeist” or “spirit of the age”
most associated?
(a) Voltaire (b) Rousseau (c)
Hegel (d) Nietzsche
The postcolonial critical work,
The Intimate Enemy is written by
_________.
(a) Ashis Nandy (b) Leela Gandhi
(c) Ania Loomba (d) Homi
Bhabha
Who famously said, in the book
Keywords, that “Culture is one of
the two or three most
complicated words in the English
language”?
(a) Theodor Adorno (b)
Raymond Williams (c) Stuart
Hall (d) Roland Barthes
No Man’s Land is a classic three‐
volume feminist text by
____________.
(a) Kate Millet (b) Judith Butler
(c) Nancy Chodorow (d)
Gilbert and Gubar
Oedipus that “desire” is not
“lack” as Freud saw it, but is
“production” and “productive”?
(a) Jacques Lacan (b) Deleuze
and Guattari
(c) Julia Kristeva (d) Simone de
Beauvoir
11. “Cultural poetics” is a term that
has been used in the place of
__________.
(a) Cultural Studies (b) Culture
Industry
(c) New Historicism (d)
Dialectical materialism
12. Paul Gilroy is a major scholar in
the field of ____________
studies.
(a) postmodern (b) gender (c)
media (d) race
13. In Search of Our Mothers’
Gardens is the defining essay of
___________.
(a) Womanism (b) Third World
Feminism (c) Ecofeminism
(d) Postfeminism
14. Who of the following authors
have not been criticized by
Edward Said for colonial
stereotyping of the Orient?
(a) Jane Austen (b) W. B. Yeats
(c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Henry
Fielding
15. CRT is the abbreviation for
__________.
(a) Centre for Reception Theory
(b) Council for Revisionist
Thought
(c) Critical Race Theory (d)
Centre for Romantic Thought
1.
16. The term “élan vital” means (a) Avtah Brah (b) Sara Suleri (c)
_________. Aijaz Ahmad (d) Kwame
(a) essence (b) ideal form (c) life Anthony Appiah
force (d) divine energy
22. Mudrooroo is a native writer
17. “Critical Philosophy” is a term from _________.
that describes the work of (a) Canada (b) Australia (c) New
__________. Zealand (d) Africa
(a) Adorno (b) Rousseau (c)
23. Who is the author of the book,
Hegel (d) Kant
The Rise of the Novel?
18. Barchester Towers, a novel in the (a) Dennis Walder (b) Catherine
series called “Chronicles of Belsey (c) Colin MacCabe (d)
Barsetshire,” is written by Ian Watt
_________.
24. Who of the following cannot be
(a) George Gissing (b) Anthony
termed an “anti‐philosopher”?
Trollope (c) W. H. Auden (d)
(a) Hegel (b) Nietzsche (c) Marx
Arnold Bennett
(d) Heidegger
19. Critical Practice is a major work
25. Who of the following held that
by _________.
human beings have an innate
(a) Catherine Belsey (b) Susan
capacity for acquiring, using and
Sontag (c) Barbara Johnson
interpreting language? (a)
(d) Linda Hutcheon
Derrida (b) Kant (c) Chomsky
20. The Rainbow and Women in (d) Lacan
Love were originally planned as
one work titled
_______.
(a) The Sisters (b) Illogical
Matters
(c) The Wedding Ring (d) Of
Love and Other Things
21. Cartographies of Diaspora is a
postcolonial critical work by
________.
 8. (c) Oliver Twist 18. (d) Thomas de Quincey 20. (a) Vladimir Propp
9. (b) Thomas Hardy 19. (a) Mill on the Floss
Answers to Test One 21. (b) Robert Herrick
10. (a) Tiresias 20. (b) Paul Morel
1. (c) Boccaccio’s Decameron 11. (d) George Eliot 21. (c) A Pure Woman 22. (d) Raymond Williams
2. (b) 1066 12. (d) 1956 22. (a) Dylan Thomas 23. (b) 1968
3. (a) Eglentyne 13. (a) Plato 23. (a) George Orwell
4. (b) William Langland
24. (c) Simone de Beauvoir
14. (b) Hamlet and His Problems 24. (d) Heart of Darkness
5. (d) Thomas Malory 15. (c) a Gothic 25. (b) Gorboduc 25. (a) Michel Foucault
6. (c) Geoffrey Chaucer 16. (d) Virginia Woolf
7. (a) Morality play 17. (c) Easter 1916 Answers to Test Four Answers to Test Five
8. (c) 1588 18. (a) William Empson 19. (c)
1. (b) The Knight, The Squire and the 1. (c) Joseph Addison
9. (b) Queen Elizabeth Sylvia Plath
10. (d) Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy Yeoman 2. (b) John Milton
20. (b) Jacques Derrida
11. (b) Stephen Gosson’s The School 21. (d) simile 2. (c) French 3. (a) She Stoops to Conquer
of Abuse 22. (c) The Burial of the Dead 4. (c) Dr. Johnson
3. (d) The Legend of Good Women
12. (c) revenge 23. (d) Larkin’s Church Going
13. (a) Romance 4. (d) blank verse 5. (d) Longinus
24. (a) Stephen Dedalus
14. (d) As You Like It 25. (b) The Wretched of the Earth 5. (a) 1551 6. (b) democracy
15. (b) Utopia 7. (d) Graham Greene
6. (d) Neander
16. (a) Robert Burton Answers to Test Three
17. (d) Edward King 7. (a) John Denham 8. (c) The Clerk’s Tale 9. (d)
1. (b) Gorboduc Macbeth
18. (c) a sonnet 2. (a) John Donne 8. (b) William Cowper, in “The Task”
19. (b) 12 10. (b) St. Cecilia’s Day
3. (c) Earl of Surrey 9. (c) Elegy Written in a Country
20. (d) Virtue Rewarded 4. (d) 1381 11. (c) Abt Vogler
Churchyard
21. (a) Robert Burns 5. (b) 1557 12. (a) Charles Dickens
22. (b) 1798 6. (a) Charles Lamb
10. (d) John Dryden
13. (d) image, quotation from Ezra
23. (d) Grecian Urn 7. (c) The Twelfth Night 11. (b) white and red Pound
24. (c) Matthew Arnold 8. (d) A. C. Bradley 12. (a) 132 14. (b) The Rainbow
25. (a) Great Expectations 9. (b) Seize the day
13. (c) Vanity Fair 15. (c) Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. (c) Fall of Man
Answers to Test Two 11. (a) Thomas Shadwell 14. (d) Waiting for Godot 16. (a) realism
1. (d) Spenserian Stanza 12. (d) James Boswell 15. (a) Stephen Spender
2. (b) diaries 17. (c) John Forster
13. (c) Tom Jones
3. (c) John Locke 16. (d) Old Major 18. (d) Barbara Johnson
14. (b) William Blake
4. (b) Moderns 15. (a) Bridget 17. (b) synecdoche 19. (b) The Verbal Icon
5. (a) To Christ Our Lord 16. (d) A Tragi‐comedy in Two Acts 18. (d) 1923
6. (c) Nelly Dean 20. (c) Sylvia Plath
17. (c) Ode on a Grecian Urn 19. (c) Thomas Pynchon
7. (d) G. B. Shaw
21. (c) autumn (Comedy‐ 25. (c) 19 25. (d) the wrestler, or champion 7. (d) W. H. Auden
RomanceTragedy‐Satire) 8. (c) Italo Calvino
Answers to Test Seven Answers to Test Eight 9. (b) Roy Campbell
22. (a) M. H. Abrams 10. (c) Chaucer’s Wife of Bath
1. (a) Matthew Arnold 1. (d) Oliver Goldsmith
23. (b) From Ritual to Romance 2. (b) A Midsummer Night’s Dream 11. (d) Summoner
24. (a) England (Blefuscu—France) 2. (c) Jonathan Swift 12. (a) Miller
3. (c) Cockney School 4. (a) Luke
25. (b) David Copperfield 3. (d) Addison, caricatured as 5. (b) D. H. Lawrence 13. (b) Dr. Primrose
Atticus in Prologue to the 6. (d) Spinoza 14. (b) Longinus’s On the Sublime
Satires 7. (a) Tom Jones 15. (a) Hakluyt. It was not written
Answers to Test Six by, but based on Hakluyt’s
1. (c) 1642 4. (c) Corydon 8. (d) Dante and Shakespeare
9. (c) Philip Larkin (retelling of works.
2. (d) Antony and Cleopatra 5. (a) Far From the Madding 16. (c) Ode on a Grecian Urn
Thomas Hood’s poem)
3. (b) Joseph Glanville Crowd 17. (d) Wordsworth about Milton
10. (b) A Pure Woman
4. (b) Essay on Man, by Alexander 18. (c) Redcrosse Knight
6. (d) The Mayor of Casterbridge 11. (d) E. M. W. Tillyard
Pope 19. (a) Dylan Thomas
5. (a) John Locke 7. (b) Back to Methuselah 12. (c) Australia
13. (a) John Ruskin 20. (b) Dorothy
8. (a) Little Gidding 21. (d) Emily Dickinson
6. (c) The Vicar of Wakefield, by 14. (d) William Blake
9. (c) Brave New World 15. (b) J. M. Coetzee 22. (c) Theodore Dreiser
Oliver Goldsmith
16. (c) Lucky Jim 23. (b) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
7. (d) Horace and Juvenal 10. (d) Somerset Maugham
17. (b) Roland Barthes 24. (d) As You Like It
8. (c) Alexander Pope 11. (b) Animal Farm
18. (a) Orhan Pamuk 25. (a) King Lear
9. (b) William Temple
12. (b) D. H. Lawrence 19. (b) Georgian
10. (d) 1755
Answers to Test Ten
11. (a) Aeneid 13. (c) Alexander Pope 20. (d) Midnight’s Children
21. (c) Egypt 1. (c) Thomas Percy
12. (b) Under the Greenwood Tree 14. (d) John Florio 2. (b) Latin
13. (d) The Mad Woman in the Attic 22. (d) Joseph Heller
15. (a) John Hall 23. (a) Tennyson’s Ulysses 3. (b) Virginia Woolf, in
14. (d) Palladis Tamia or Wit’s Professions for Women
Treasury 16. (b) Alexandrine 24. (c) Browning’s My Last Duchess
25. (b) Ode to a Nightingale 4. (a) The Duchess of Malfi
15. (c) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 17. (b) Oliver Goldsmith 5. (d) Edward Said
16. (d) Pied Beauty 18. (d) Petrarch Answers to Test Nine 6. (a) Nayantara Sahgal
17. (b) Pandemonium
19. (c) tercet 1. (b) William Carlos Williams 7. (c) Ezra Pound
18. (c) 1557
2. (d) 1958 8. (d) Gravity’s Rainbow
19. (a) Alison 20. (a) Ben Jonson
3. (c) Doris Lessing’s The Golden 9. (b) Kenya
20. (c) The Parson’s Tale 21. (b) Shock
Notebook 10. (c) Charlotte Lennox
21. (b) 58
22. (c) Canonization 4. (b) Raymond Williams 11. (b) Abraham Cowley
22. (b) The Murder of Gonzago
23. (d) seize the day 5. (c) 1709. It went on till 1711. 12. (d) Chaucerian stanza or Rime
23. (d) Paradise Lost Royale
6. (a) Tennyson’s The Lotos‐Eaters
24. (a) The Faerie Queene 24. (b) Coleridge
13. (a) Great Expectations 19. (c) 1983 23. (d) William Painter Astrea Redux 1660;
14. (d) Robert Blair 20. (d) 1170 24. (b) V. S. Naipaul Paradise Regained 1671;
15. (c) Charlotte Bronte 21. (c) Turkey 25. (c) John Earle The Way of the World 1700
16. (d) Sidney, in Apologie for 22. (a) Meenakshi Mukherjee 2. (b) iv‐i‐iii‐ii Graham Greene,
Poetrie 23. (d) Elmer Rice Answers to Test Thirteen Samuel Beckett, John Fowles,
17. (c) A Midsummer Night’s Dream 24. (b) Jack London, The Call of the 1. (b) 1455‐1485 Peter Ackroyd
18. (b) Dr. Johnson Wild 2. (a) The Citizen of the World 3. (d) Duessa
19. (d) Of Truth 25. (b) Arnold’s Dover Beach 3. (c) Massinger 4. (a) Romeo and Juliet
20. (a) one 4. (a) Joseph Andrews 5. (c) Abraham Cowley
21. (a) Sir Thomas Malory Answers to Test Twelve 5. (d) The Castle of Otranto 6. (b) Drapier’s Letters
22. (c) Dover Wilson 1. (d) The Wheel of Fire. The title 6. (c) Southey 7. (d) Samuel Johnson
23. (b) Hemistich means “a chain of tortuous 7. (d) Lucy Gray 8. (a) Shelley
24. (b) three: Inferno, Purgatorio, consequences that result from 8. (d) Don Juan in Hell 9. (a) An Autobiography
Paradiso a single action.” Othello’s 9. (b) Alfred Noyes 10. (c) J. M. Synge
25. (d) Aeneid wheel of fire is his vulnerability 10. (a) The Raven 11. (b) Philip Larkin
to jealousy, 11. (d) Walt Whitman 12. (d) a novel with a key
Answers to Test Eleven for eg. 12. (c) V. S. Naipaul 13. (b) paradox
1. (a) Latin 2. (a) Bingo 13. (b) Graham Greene 14. (a) closing with an extra
2. (c) Ben Jonson 3. (b) F. L. Lucas 14. (c) Australia unstressed syllable
3. (d) Geoffrey Chaucer 4. (d) Washington Allston 15. (a) Alice Munro 15. (c) Brahmin Poets
4. (b) The Tempest 5. (b) Salman Rushdie 16. (b) United States 16. (b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. (a) Macbeth 6. (c) Donne’s Canonization 17. (d) A Fine Balance 17. (a) A Man of the People
6. (b) Poetic drama (Verse play) 7. (d) Sullivan 18. (c) Jayanta Mahapatra 18. (d) Ngugi wa Thiong’o
7. (c) Hardy’s Jude the Obscure 8. (b) Murder in the Cathedral 19. (d) Nissim Ezekiel 19. (c) Marshall McLuhan, how the
8. (d) 1599 9. (a) No Longer at Ease 20. (b) Abrams’s The Deconstructive globe has been contracted into
9. (a) 15th 10. (c) historiographic metafiction Angel a village by electric technology
10. (b) Faerie Queene 11. (a) Man and Superman 21. (a) Geneva 20. (a) Wole Soyinka
11. (a) Margaret Atwood 12. (d) Nietzsche 22. (c) Sexual Politics 21. (b) A. B. Paterson
12. (d) The Order of Things 13. (d) Jaques 23. (b) Aijaz Ahmed 22. (c) Manohar Malgonkar
13. (d) Lewis Caroll 14. (b) Romania 24. (d) trochee 23. (d) Dryden
14. (c) Macbeth 15. (c) Jacques Derrida 25. (c) Irony 24. (b) I. A. Richards
15. (c) The Importance of Being 16. (a) Cavalier 25. (a) Wolfgang Iser
Earnest 17. (c) Coleridge Answers to Test Fourteen
16. (b) 1667 18. (d) Nahum Tate 1. (a) iv‐i‐ii‐iii Answers to Test Fifteen
19. (b) blank verse Anatomy of Melancholy 1621; 1. (a) Philip Massinger
17. (a) Umberto Eco 20. (b) Book IV 2. (c) Sir Robert Drury, his chief
18. (b) The Faerie Queene Book IV 21. (c) Dombey and Son patron. The two anniversaries
22. (a) Ben Okri
 were An Anatomy of the World Rice, a failing music hall 1. (d) 89 10. (c) 1780s
and Of the Progress of the Soul performer 2. (a) The Spanish Tragedy 11. (b) chess
3. (d) “Hyperion” 3. (a) The Wasteland 3. (d) Paradise Lost 12. (c) Sherlock Holmes
4. (c) A. C. Bradley 4. (c) W.B. Yeats. This work has a 4. (b) 19 13. (a) Edward Gibbon
5. (a) Tautology strong Pre‐Raphaelite tone. 5. (a) Nahum Tate 14. (d) Hamlet
6. (c) Nouveauroman 5. (d) James Cooper 6. (b) Nahum Tate 15. (b) Browning
7. (c) Tithonus 6. (b) The Tale of a Tub 7. (c) 19, 4 16. (c) Byron
8. (b) Dryden on Shakespeare 7. (b) Burke 8. (d) The Faultless Painter 17. (c) 17
9. (c) Adonais 8. (a) The fall of the Bastille 9. (b) Old English poetry 18. (a) Leigh Hunt
10. (b) Maud Bodkin 9. (a) The Mystery of Edwin 10. (d) blank verse 19. (d) P. B. Shelley
11. (c) Dryden Drood 11. (a) sonnet 20. (b) Nathanial Hawthorne
12. (d) Northanger Abbey 10. (c) The Dial 12. (c) Eastward Ho 21. (c) The Name of the Rose
13. (c) Gray 11. (d) Pride and Prejudice 13. (b) empiricism 22. (a) Lorraine Hansberry
14. (c) Hopkins, sonnet of 10 ½ lines. 12. (d) Walter Scott. Based on 14. (c) Romantic 23. (b) 18th
Pied Beauty, Peace and Ash Arthurian legends 15. (d) Joseph Addison 24. (d) Dryden
Boughs 13. (d) Southey 16. (a) Tennyson 25. (c) Doctor Faustus
15. (d) Italy and England 14. (c) O Captain! My Captain. 17. (d) Keats
16. (b) The Magnetic Mountain 15. (b) Bingo 18. (b) Lydgate Answers to Test Nineteen
17. (c) Cry, the Peacock. 16. (c) Bernard Shaw. This bold mix 19. (a) Ralph Roister Doister
18. (c) The Mezzotint is by M. R. of farce and tragedy set on the 20. (c) Gorboduc
1. (b) The Shadow Lines, by
James eve of the IWW lampoons Amitav Ghosh
21. (b) Sidney’s Arcadia
19. (a) Blank Verse. British society as it blithely 22. (d) 10 2. (a) Ice Candy Man, by Bapsi
20. (d) Robert Bridges sinks towards disaster.
23. (a) Dylan Thomas Sidhwa
21. (c) T.S. Eliot 17. (d) Arthur Miller
24. (c) Henry James. The novel is The
18. (b) 1850 3. (d) Narmada
22. (c) Walter Pater Portrait of a Lady
23. (b) Ezra Pound, the technique of 19. (c) Elizabeth Browning. Nine 25. (b) The Egoist 4. (c) Jasmine
dealing with abstract ideas books, the number of the
prophetic books of Sibyl.
5. (c) A Fine Balance
through concrete images Answers to Test Eighteen
24. (d) a nickname 20. (d) Middlemarch 6. (a) The Moor’s Last Sigh
1. (c) Paradise Lost
25. (a) Ecocriticism 21. (d) A Midsummer Night’s 7. (d) Mahesh Dattani
2. (a) Sidney
Dream. Lysander says this.
22. (d) Cardinal Newman, Latin for
3. (d) St Cecilia 8. (c) Robinson Crusoe
Answers to Test Sixteen 4. (c) an ode
A Defence of One’s Life 9. (b) Meenakshi Mukherjee
1. (a) The End of the Affair, it is set 5. (d) war
23. (b) Eliot 10. (d) The Serpent and the Rope,
in London, just after the II World 6. (b) Japanese theatre, called Noh
24. (b) 16 where the serpent is illusion
War. It is the last of Greene’s 7. (a) Wilson Knight
Catholic novels. 25. (c) Ancient Mariner and the rope is reality.
8. (b) Julius Caesar
2. (c) John Osborne. It is about an 9. (d) Antony and Cleopatra 11. (c) Kanthapura
angry middle‐aged man Archie Answers to Test Seventeen
12. (a) Mulk Raj Anand 8. (d) Gertrude Stein 11. (c) Felix Randall 15. (c) The Love Song of Alfred J
12. (b) Pied Beauty Prufrock
13. (b) The Man Eater of Malgudi 9. (b) J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in
13. (a) Oxford Movement 16. (a) The Journey of the Magi.
14. (d) Raju the Rye
14. (d) Easter 1916 17. (d) Ovid’s Metamorphoses
15. (a) Nirad C. Chaudhuri 10. (a) Mario Puzo 15. (c) rough beast 18. (b) Part III, The Fire Sermon
11. (c) Harper Lee 16. (d) The Wanderings of Oisin 19. (d) From Ritual to Romance
16. (c) Rabindranath Tagore
17. (a) The Second Coming 20. (c) children
17. (b) Nigeria. He was a friend of 12. (d) Philip Larkin 21. (a) Exiles
18. (b) The Circus Animals’
Achebe and was killed in the 13. (b) Jack Kerouac Desertion 22. (b) Samuel Beckett
Nigerian Civil War. 14. (a) Nora 19. (c) The Second Coming 23. (d) John Updike
18. (a) Saul Bellow, in Mr. 20. (d) Crazy Jane poems 24. (c) Sylvia Plath
15. (d) Brave New World
Sammler’s Planet 21. (b) Balzac 25. (c) American
16. (c) Seamus Heaney 22. (a) Burnt Norton
19. (c) Chile
17. (c) Gunter Grass 23. (c) Dante’s Inferno Answers to Test Twenty‐Three
20. (d) Albert Camus, The Myth of 24. (d) The Family Reunion. 1. (c) Burnt Norton, East Coker,
18. (b) Nadine Gordimer
Sisyphus Eumenides are mythical Dry Salvages, Little Gidding
19. (a) Gabriel Garcia Marquez avenging Furies. 2. (b) classicist
21. (a) Albert Camus, in The
20. (b) II World War 25. (b) Murder in the Cathedral 3. (d) Tradition and the Individual
Outsider
Talent
(or The Stranger) 21. (c) E. M. Forster
Answers to Test Twenty‐Two 4. (a) 1948
22. (b) Elias Canetti 22. (d) T. S. Eliot, in “Tradition and 1. (a) Easter 1916 5. (c) Gerontion
the Individual Talent” 2. (d) Maud Gonne 6. (b) Part 2 A Game of Chess
23. (c) negritude
23. (d) Emily Dickinson 3. (b) Anne 7. (d) The Hollow Men
24. (a) 4
4. (c) Meru 8. (b) Gotterdammering and
25. (c) Jean Paul Sartre 24. (b) A Tale of Two Cities Tristan and Isolde
5. (b) “Among School Children”
25. (a) Nineteen Eighty Four 6. (a) Arthur Symons 9. (a) Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Answers to Test Twenty 7. (d) T. Sturge Moore 10. (c) W. H. Auden, Musee des
1. (b) The Waves Answers to Test Twenty‐One 8. (c) The Criterion Beaux Arts
1. (b) 1918 9. (a) Purgatorio, in Dante’s Divine 11. (d) Christopher Isherwood
2. (c) The Glass Menagerie
2. (d) all of these Comedy 12. (b) The Unknown Citizen
3. (d) Harold Bloom 3. (a) inscape 10. (b) Herbert Palmer 13. (d) Hardy. Devotion to English
4. (b) H. W. Longfellow 4. (c) Robert Bridges 11. (a) Wyndham Lewis life and landscapes, somber
5. (b) Running rhythm 12. (c) The Legend of the Fisher King mood, refusal to entertain
5. (a) The Caribbean Islands
6. (d) Consonant rhythm described in From Ritual to illusions
6. (c) Catch‐22 7. (c) Duns Scotus Romance by Jessie Weston 14. (a) The Shield of Achilles
7. (b) Wallace Stevens, in “Sunday 8. (a) G. M. Hopkins 13. (b) The Satyricon by Petronius 15. (b) W. H. Auden
Morning” 9. (d) Inscape 14. (d) Part IV, Death by Water 16. (c) The Pylons
10. (b) Instress 17. (a) An Elementary School
 Classroom in a Slum 24. (c) Anthony Burgess 2. (b) an educational treatise 12. (d) Moby Dick
18. (d) Poem in October 25. (d) Anthony Burgess 3. (b) Pembroke 13. (b) Abraham Lincoln
19. (b) work 4. (c) Macbeth 14. (a) Ghost story
20. (c) Aubade Answers to Test Twenty‐Five 5. (b) 1614 15. (d) Allegorist
21. (a) Crow 1. (b) 15 6. (c) Richard Lovelace 16. (c) Kamala Das
22. (d) Ted Hughes 2. (c) The Little Review 7. (b) Thomas Fuller 17. (a) The Dark Room 18. (a)
23. (a) Station Island 3. (a) 16 June 8. (b) Pindaric ode Vikram Seth
24. (b) Seamus Heaney 4. (b) 18 episodes, in 3 parts 9. (c) Alfred Tennyson 19. (b) Persian Legend
25. (c) Thom Gunn 5. (b) Dubliners 10. (b) human nature 20. (a) Nissim Ezekiel
6. (a) iv‐ii‐i‐iii Dubliners, A Portrait 11. (c) thrice a week 21. (c) France
Answers to Test Twenty‐Four of the Artist as a Young Man, 12. (a) 1715‐20 22. (d) Shelley
1. (d) Fern Hill Ulysses, Finnegan’s Wake 13. (a) prostitutes 23. (a) Ingram Bywates
2. (c) Ambulances 7. (d) a fifth, gold‐coloured 14. (a) 18 24. (b) Dr. Johnson
3. (a) W. H. Auden notebook 15. (c) Gray 25. (c) Dirge
4. (b) Auden’s “In Memory of W. B. 8. (b) Ezra Pound 16. (a) Wordsworth
Yeats” 9. (c) Arthur C. Clarke 17. (b) Godwin Answers to Test Twenty‐Eight
5. (c) Michelangelo (The painting is 10. (a) Ian McEwan 18. (b) shepherd
1. (c) Gloucester
The Conversion of St. Paul) 11. (a) D. H. Lawrence, The Snake 19. (d) London Magazine
6. (b) Hawk Roosting 12. (d) Beckett 20. (a) Leigh Hunt 2. (a) In Memoriam
7. (d) Jaguar 13. (c) Samuel Beckett 21. (d) Browning 3. (a) A Tale of Two Cities
8. (a) The Thought‐Fox 14. (b) Beckett’s Endgame 22. (c) father 4. (b) rejection of revelation
9. (b) Ezra Pound 15. (a) Lear 23. (a) Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
10. (c) Vorticism 16. (b) Saved 24. (d) Emily 5. (d) a disguised spiritual
11. (c) eighteen 17. (d) Stanley Webber 25. (a) Christina Rossetti autobiography
12. (d) Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 18. (a) Teddy 6. (c) Hobbes
13. (b) Doris Lessing 19. (b) Harry Potter Answers to Test Twenty‐Seven
20. (c) Harold Pinter
7. (c) George Eliot
14. (c) Samuel Beckett 1. (c) Comedies
15. (a) The Rainbow 21. (d) Salman Rushdie’s Satanic 2. (b) a Pessimist 8. (a) Savitri
16. (d) Edward Garnett, who edited Verses 3. (c) Yellow Book 9. (d) My Dateless Diary
the novel heavily. 22. (b) Estragon 4. (d) 1923 10. (a) E. M. W. Tillyard
17. (c) Mrs. Dalloway 23. (c) Nineteen Eighty Four, by 5. (b) Ezra Pound
18. (b) Lily Briscoe Orwell 6. (c) Graham Greene 11. (b) Inigo Jones
19. (a) Orlando: A Biography 24. (d) T. S. Eliot’s “East Coker” 7. (a) critical work 12. (d) Twenty
20. (c) Between the Acts 25. (a) Murder in the Cathedral. 8. (b) Curriculum Vitae
They form the chorus.
13. (c) Raymond Williams
21. (d) Catholic novels 9. (d) Jimmy
22. (a) Roman Catholicism 10. (a) Elizabeth Jennings
14. (c) Ottava Rima
23. (b) William Golding Answers to Test Twenty‐Six 11. (c) 1884 15. (a) Becky Sharp
1. (c) Bohemia
16. (d) Keats
17. (c) Mourning Becomes Electra
18. (d) Four
19. (b) Anthony Powell
20. (c) novel
21. (a) Ben Jonson
22. (c) O. Henry
23. (d) Vikram Chandra
24. (b) Pope
25. (c) American Civil War
Answers to Test Twenty‐Nine
1. (d) a flying island
2. (a) Umbriel
3. (c) Pope
4. (b) Faerie Queene
5. (a) speaker of nonsense
6. (c) The Deserted Village
7. (d) Dryden
8. (b) feeling
9. (c) Homonyms
10. (a) back‐formation
11. (c) Death by Water
12. (d) Journey of the Magi
13. (b) The Bible
14. (b) Family Reunion
15. (a) Angel Clare
16. (c) Thomas Hardy
17. (d) Lamb
18. (b) philistines
19. (c) Robert Browning
20. (a) William Davenant
21. (d) T. S. Eliot
22. (d) Bearer of Light
23. (a) Love’s Labour’s Lost
24. (c) Melpomene
25. (d) Heraclitus
Answers to Test Thirty
1. (c) Gray
2. (b) Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone
3. (d) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
4. (a) Nutting
5. (c) train journey
6. (b) mythological character
7. (c) J. M. Coetzee
8. (d) autumn
9. (d) A Streetcar Named Desire
10. (a) English and French
11. (b) Robert Lowell
12. (c) Robert Graves
13. (c) P. B. Shelley
14. (b) Dorchester
15. (a) Doctor Faustus
16. (c) desire and hatred
17. (d) Book IX
18. (b) Jane Eyre
19. (d) Padma Mangroli
20. (d) G. K. Chesterton
21. (a) Rudyard Kipling
22. (d) Lionel Johnson
23. (c) W. B. Yeats
24. (a) Malcolm Lowry
25. (b) Ray Bradbury
Answers to Test Thirty‐One
1. (d) novelist
2. (a) Noel Coward
3. (d) Christopher Fry, The Lady’s
Not for Burning 4. (c) a village
5. (d) Edith Sitwell
6. (a) Stephen Spender
7. (d) Michael Roberts
8. (a) F. R. Leavis
9. (c) Absalom and Achitophel
10. (d) Victorian period
11. (b) Walter Savage Landor
12. (a) Sartor Resartus
13. (c) William Makepeace Thackeray
14. (a) Ben Jonson
15. (d) The Book of the Duchess
16. (a) Dryden
17. (b) Milton
18. (c) Pope
19. (d) Jeremy Taylor
20. (b) Roman
21. (d) William Blake
22. (a) a play
23. (c) D. G. Rossetti
24. (d) Richard Blackmore
25. (a) Doris Lessing
Answers to Test Thirty‐Two
1. (c) Henry V 2. (a)
high seriousness
3. (c) 13th
4. (c) 1597
5. (b) collection of poems
6. (d) A Midsummer Night’s
Dream
7. (a) Comedy of Errors
8. (b) King Basilius of Arcadia
9. (d) 1653
10. (c) iii‐i‐iv‐ii Euphues (1579)
Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
Lycidas (1637) Urn Burial (1658)
11. (b) Thomas Dekker
12. (d) William Wordsworth
13. (d) Sackville. Gorboduc’s wife
14. (c) 1764
15. (a) The School for Scandal
16. (a) 1819
17. (d) A Midsummer Night’s
Dream
18. (b) William Hazlitt
19. (c) A Vision of Judgement, by 20. (b) Jonathan Culler 3. (a) Bakhtin of a given text has on the minds
Southey which provoked Byron 21. (c) Falstaff 4. (c) Margaret Fuller of individual readers.
to write The Vision of Judgement 22. (d) Epithalamion 5. (b) Elaine Showalter, A Literature 7. (c) (Structuralist) narratology
20. (a) Leigh Hunt 23. (a) II World War of Their Own and reader response criticism
24. (c) The Old Curiosity Shop 6. (d) linguistics 8. (b) translation studies
21. (d) Pride and Prejudice 22. (c) 25. (b) The Well‐Wrought Urn 7. (c) Imagism 9. (d) autobiography
Hard Times 10. (c) Modern Language
Answers to Test Thirty‐Four 8. (b) Allardyce Nicoll
23. (b) A. C. Swinburburne 1. (d) Caroline Spurgeon 9. (d) synesthesia. The line is from Association
24. (d) Carlyle 25. (c) 2. (d) 1912 Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale, 11. (c) science fiction
George Eliot 3. (a) metaphor when he desires a draught of 12. (a) 13
4. (c) Victorian wine. 13. (a) Emerson’s “Nature”
Answers Thirty‐Three 5. (c) Hungary 10. (a) M. H. Abrams 14. (b) French
1. (b) Germany 6. (a) literature 11. (c) Stanley Fish. In this essay he 15. (b) Rene Wellek
2. (a) Fancy 7. (b) Syntactic Structures introduced the term “interpretive 16. (d) French
3. (d) Richard Hoggart 8. (b) phonology communities.” 17. (c) Walter Benjamin
4. (b) a miracle play 9. (d) John Denham 12. (d) As I Lay Dying, by Faulkner 18. (a) Laura Mulvey
5. (c) 1818 10. (d) Great Expectations 13. (b) Speech and Phenomena 19. (d) Marshall McLuhan
6. (a) Menippean satire (Northrop 11. (c) Judith Butler 14. (d) Patricia M. Spacks 20. (b) bell hooks
Frye, in Anatomy of Criticism, 12. (b) Roman Jakobson 15. (a) Geneva 21. (c) Kancha Iliah
called Menippean Satire, 13. (a) Elmer Rice 16. (a) PRB 22. (d) V. S. Naipaul
“anatomy,” after the major 14. (b) Keats 17. (d) George Lamming 23. (a) In Cold Blood, by Truman
English instance of the type, 15. (c) Ecocriticism 18. (b) plot Capote. An example of
Anatomy of Melancholy) 16. (b) 1967 19. (b) Fredrick Jameson “faction”
7. (d) plot 17. (a) Adorno 20. (d) Metaphysical 24. (c) Sigmund Freud
8. (c) I. A. Richards 18. (d) a parody of Petrarchan 21. (a) Chile 25. (b) Fugitives
9. (b) John of Gaunt conceit 22. (c) Harlem Renaissance
10. (b) Leonardo da Vinci 19. (c) William Cowper 23. (c) Erziehungsroman Answers to Test Thirty‐Seven
11. (d) Romeo and Juliet. The 20. (b) A. S. Byatt 24. (b) William Rueckert 1. (a) the Yale School
quoted line is an example for 21. (a) Ecofeminism 25. (c) Barbara Johnson 2. (b) 1832 [Second in 1867; Third
pun. 22. (c) Francis J. Child in
12. (a) Henry James 23. (b) Vladimir Nabokov, in Lolita Answers to Test Thirty‐Six 1884]
13. (a) 1922 24. (c) Antony and Cleopatra 1. (b) Horatian Ode 3. (d) Newgate novels
14. (c) Samuel Johnson 25. (d) absurdism 2. (a) Kierkegaard 4. (a) romàn a thèse
15. (b) quatrain 3. (c) Tudor 5. (c) Negritude
16. (d) zeugma Answers to Test Thirty‐Five 4. (b) Fyodor Dostoevsky 6. (b) John Ruskin
17. (a) self‐conscious 1. (d) Amiri Baraka 5. (d) Fredric Jameson 7. (d) Stephen Greenblatt
18. (b) comedy of manners 2. (b) Paul de Man 6. (a) Stanley Fish. Affective Stylistics 8. (c) New Humanism
19. (c) W. H. Auden refers to the impact the structure 9. (a) Dr. Johnson
10. (b) context. The four kinds, 5. (c) Theodore Watts Dunton 13. (a) Latin Vulgate 22. (b) Australia
according to Richards, were 6. (b) Father Brown 14. (c) Jonathan Swift 23. (d) Ian Watt 24. (a) Hegel
sense, feeling, tone and intention. 7. (c) Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 15. (c) 1913. 25. (c) Chomsky
11. (c) H. G. Wells 8. (a) Wilkie Collins 16. (b) George Gascoigne’s Supposes
12. (d) Menippean satire. Bakhtin 9. (c) Eric Partridge 17. (b) Kingsley Amis
argued that the overturning of 10. (b) Lytton Strachey 18. (c) The Years by Virginia Woolf
hierarchies in popular carnival – 11. (d) Brian Vickers 19. (d) Christopher Caudwell
its mingling of the sacred with 12. (b) Bertrand Russell 20. (b) Ben Jonson
the profane, the sublime with 13. (c) Theology 21. (c) 7
the ridiculous—lies behind the
14. (a) T.S. Eliot 22. (c) Charles Dickens
most open (dialogic, polyphonic)
15. (d) Robert Frost 23. (b) Thomas Nashe
literary genres, such
as 16. (b) Hydriotaphia or Urn Burial 24. (d) Benjamin Disraeli
Menippean satire and the novel, by Thomas Browne 25. (a) William Hazlitt
especially since the Renaissance. 17. (c) Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rabelias’s Gargantua and 18. (d) 1904 Answers to Test Forty
Pantagruel is an example of 19. (c) The Sacred Wood 1. (a) 1900
Menippean satire 20. (c) Joseph Conrad 2. (c) historical materialism
13. (c) Jane Eyre (novel disguised as 21. (a) Dylan Thomas 3. (b) Geneva
an autobiography) 22. (c) Puritanism 4. (b) dialogism
14. (a) S/Z 23. (c) Ezra Pound 5. (d) Jorge Luis Borges
15. (b) TG grammar 24. (c) 18th 6. (c) Hegel
16. (c) dialogue 25. (b) Thomas de Quincey 7. (a) Ashis Nandy
17. (c) 1890‐1950 8. (b) Raymond Williams
18. (d) Althusser Answers to Test Thirty‐Nine 9. (d) Gilbert and Gubar
19. (b) Helene Cixous 1. (c) Plotinus 10. (b) Deleuze and Guattari
20. (a) Martin Heidegger 2. (b) Vat Tyler 11. (c) New Historicism
21. (b) Edward Said 3. (d) 24 12. (d) race
22. (a) Roland Barthes 4. (a) Hebrew and Greek 13. (a) Womanism. It is by Alice
23. (c) Wagner 5. (a) Lord Admiral’s Men Walker
24. (d) Adorno and Horkheimer 6. (b) William Caxton 14. (d) Henry Fielding
25. (d) Albert Einstein 7. (d) George Foxe 15. (c) Critical Race Theory
8. (c) D.G. Rossetti 16. (c) life force
Answers to test Thirty‐Eight 9. (d) Edmund Burke’s Reflections 17. (d) Kant
1. (c) Life among the Lowly on the French Revolution 18. (b) Anthony Trollope
2. (d) R.S. Crane 10. (d) “Fuzzy Wuzzy“ 19. (a) Catherine Belsey
3. (b) 1604 11. (b) Walter Scott 20. (c) The Wedding Ring
4. (d) Karel Capek 12. (d) Irving Stone 21. (a) Avtah Brah