1. What was the most dominating features of modern writers?

a) Optimism
b) Pessimism
c) Traditions
d) Social hierarchy
2. Modern century is marked with
a) Stability of existing orders
b) Belief in God
c) Doubts about stability orders
d) All of above
3. More population in Urban areas made society
a) More fragmented
b) More united
c) More radical
d) More stable
4. Boer war was fought during
a) 1900-1905
b) 1899-1904
c) 1885-1888
d) 1888-1902
5. Mass destruction of first world war led people to believe towards
a) Fascism
b) Marxism
c) Both a and b
d) Capitalism
6. In modern world, God’s concept was associated with
a) Death
b) Brutality
c) Religion only
d) Peace of society
7. Universal suffrage for women occurred in
 a) 1925
b) 1928
c) 1930
d) 1935
8. The education act of 1870 made literature
a) More popular
b) Less attractive to people
c) Classified for aristocratic class
d) All of the above
9. The intellectualization of modern era made literature
a) Interesting for folks
b) available to cultural and academic elite
c) popular in both
d) none of the above
10. which of he following is key feature of 20th century
a) Tension between popular & esoteric
b) Tension between popular & specialized
c) Tension between commercial & avant-grade
d) All of above
11. Which of the following is key feature towards modernism
a) World war 1
b) Charles Darwin’s publication
c) Lack of Religious thinking
d) Radicalism of people
12. Charles Darwin’s on the origin of species was published in
a) 1850
b) 1855
c) 1857
d) 1859
13. Modernism affected the religion in the way that
a) Religion was more strong
 b) Existence of God was questioned
c) God was declared dead
d) Stayed in its same position
14. Modern poetry and literature was based on
a) Stream of consciousness
b) Description or narration
c) External and social events
d) All of these
15. Modernism is influenced by
a) Religious thoughts
b) Social conditions
c) Psychological works
d) Advancements in technology
16. Thomas Hardy wrote his novel during
a) Victorian age
b) Modern age
c) From Victorian to modern
d) From romantic to Victorian
17. Which writing of Hardy made him to remain stuck to poetry
a) Jude the Obscure
b) Tess of d’Urbervilles
c) Wessex poems
d) The return of native
18. Poems of Hardy are
a) Radical in nature
b) pessimistic in nature
c) Traditional in nature
d) Optimistic in nature
19. Hardy in his writings made his focus on
a) Internal events
b) External events
 c) Social events
d) All of these
20. Hardy wrote his poems with context of
a) Love
b) Light comic verse
c) Ironical
d) All of above
21. Which of the following poem of Hardy shows sense of death and impermanence
a) During wind and rain
b) The darkling Thrush
c) Wessex poems
d) The Oxen
22. The most famous poem of Hardy is
a) Moments of vision
b) The Darkling Thrush
c) The Oxen
d) The Blinded Bird
23. The general tone of darkling Thrush
a) Optimistic
b) Romantic
c) Bleak
d) None of these
24. What is final ending of The darkling Thrush
a) Death
b) Hope
c) Suspension between hope and pessimism
d) Warnings of modern century
25. Which poem of Hardy carry the same mood as Darkling Thrush
a) The oxen
b) The Blinded Bird
c) During wind and Rain
 d) The respectable Burgher
26. The poems satires of circumstances have volumes
a) 5
b) 7
c) 8
d) 10
27. Hardy had the major influence by
a) Tennyson
b) William Barnes
c) T.S Eliot
d) Geoffrey Chaucer
28. Works of Hardy are full of traditions from 19th century due to
a) Religious values
b) Security of century
c) Influence of Victorian writers
d) Popularity of Victorian literature.
29. In general approach Hardy is seen as in his works
a) Realist
b) Naturalist
c) Optimist
d) Romanticist
30. Which era of literature produced the most literature for both folks and aristocracy?
a) Modern era
b) Renaissance
c) Victorian era
d) Romantic era
31. Which society did William Butler Yeats join?
a) Theosophical Society
b) Society of Jesus
c) Society of Friends
d) Royal Society
32. To whom did Yeats dedicate his verse play, The Countess Cathleen?
a) His friends Eva Gore-Booth and Constance Markiewicz
b) His wife, Georgie Hyde-Lees
c) His mother
d) Maud Gonne
33. What year did Yeats win the Nobel Prize for literature?
a)  1921
b) 1923
c) 1924
d) 1926
34. Which play of William Butler Yeats was first performed in 1916?
a)  Four Plays for Dancers
b) At the Hawk’s Well
c) Deirdre
d) The Hour Glass
35. What is W.B. Yeats' most famous poem of first published poetry collection “The
Wanderings of Oisin?
a) The Stolen Child 1886
b) Easter, 1916
c) The Winding Stair
d) The Second Coming
36. Which of the poem Yeats called, a poem of Idealistic escape
a) The Lake Isle of Innisfree
b) The second coming
c) Easter 1916
d) The Wild Swans at Coole 1917
37. What is the main focus of Yeats poetry?
a)  love, longing and loss, and Irish myths
b) Absurdity
c) Modern man and society
 d) Religion/Spirituality.
38. Which comic book character takes her name from one of Yeats' poems?
a) Cat woman
b) Crazy Jane
c) Harley Quinn
d) Poison Ivy
39. Yeats' family was a member of
a) the IRA
b) the Ulster Volunteer Force
c) the Protestant Ascendancy
d) the Catholic peasantry
40. Which poem of Yeats provided the title for a book by Chinua Achebe?
a) Easter 1916
b) Sailing to Byzantium
c) Leda and the Swan
d) The Second Coming
41. Which of these is not a dated title of a Yeats poem?
a) November 1918: Reflections
b) September 1913
c) Coole Park, 1929
d) Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
42. Which European city was William Butler Yeats born in?
a) Glasgow
b) London
c) Dublin
d)  Edinburgh
43. Which poem, and collection, took its name from the ancestral home of his friend Lady
Gregory?
a) To a Squirrel at Kyle-na-gno
b) The Fiddler of Dooney
c) The Wild Swans at Coole
 d) Ganders on the Liffey
44. What is the name of the legendary Irish giant featured in several Yeats poems and plays?
a) Fergus
b) Cuchulain
c) Aengus
d) Anashuya
45. Name the church yard were Yeats was interred a second and final time.
a) Drum cliff
b) Sistine
c)  Sligo
d) St. Mary's
46. Which was seen as a masterpiece of T.S. ELIOT?
a) The Love Song
b) "The Hollow Men"
c) The Waste Land
d) Ash Wednesday"
47. Why is T.S. Eliot's Tradition in the Individual Talent controversial?
a) It was full of political propaganda.
b) It claimed that poetry needs to be impersonal.
c) It opposed the British aristocracy.
d) It denounced American democracy.
48. Which poem of Thomas Stearns Eliot made him world famous?
a) The Sacred Wood
b) The Waste Land
c) Gerontion
d) Thoughts After Lambeth
49. When did Thomas Stearns Eliot get Nobel Prize for Literature?
a) 1969
b) 1967
c) 1955
d) 1948
50.  Harold Nicholson described which poet as 'Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners'?
a) e. e. Cummings
b) T. S. Elliot
c) John Greenleaf Whittier
d) Walt Whitman
51. In his famous poem 'The Wastelands' Eliot uses how many languages?
a) 8
b) 9
c) 4
d) 6
52. Where did Thomas Stearns Eliot study Sanskrit?
a) Calcutta
b) Bangalore
c) Trivandrum
d) Harvard
53. What did Thomas Stearns Eliot receive for his resistance work against Germans
during World War II?
a) Order of Merit
b) Victoria Cross
c) Croix de Guerre
d) Medal of Freedom
54. What is the main focus of T.S. Eliot’s poetry?
a) To express the fragile psychological state of humanity in the twentieth
century.
b) Modern man and society
c) Religion/Spirituality.
d) Immortality
55.  When was Thomas Stearns Eliot born?
a) 9 March 1881
b) 21 April 1896
c) 26 September1888
 d) 30 November 1885
56. Eliot was one of the leading figures of the New Critical Movement. Which of the
following was not?
a) F. R. Leavis
b) Robert Penn Warren
c) William Empson
d) Matthew Arnold
57. Eliot's "The Journey of The Magi", published in 1927, recalls which poem by poet
Matthew Arnold?
a) Preface to the Poems
b) Culture and Anarchy
c) Essays of Criticism
d) Dover Beach
58. To whom did Eliot dedicate the poem "The Wasteland"?
a) W.H. Auden
b) James Joyce
c) William Yeats
d) Ezra Pound
59. Which of the following best characterizes T.S. Eliot’s concept of the “objective
correlative”?
a) The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem’s formal
structure and its meaning.
b) The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem’s formal
structure and its rhetorical aim.
c) The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem’s theme and
its objective historical context.
d) The objective correlative refers to a set of objects, situations, or events which
necessarily produce a particular emotion.
60. The Hollow Men by T.S Eliot in
a) 1934
b) 1925
 c) 1915
d) 1922

61. What is so attractive about the fact that the church is a "serious house on serious earth?"
(Church Going)
a) Because there will always be some part of us to think that life has a serious
meaning
b) Because eventually, people get tired of laughing at each other's dumb jokes
c) Because religion is a very unhappy thing, and people secretly want to be
miserable
d) Because in terms of spiritual fulfillment, everything except religion is a big
62. Why is the silence inside the church "unignorable?"(Church Going)
a) Because the speaker fears the power of God
b) Because the speaker doesn't really know what he's looking for in the church
c) Because the place is very spooky and menacing
d) Because there might be someone else inside the church
63. Why does the speaker take off his "cycle-clips" inside the church?(Church Going)
a) Because they're hurting him
b) Because another churchgoer gives him a disapproving look, and he is worried
about being offensive
c) Because he's paranoid after letting the door thud shut
d) He doesn't have a hat, and figures he should take off something to show his
respect.
64. According to lines 47-51, why does the speaker tend to return to churches over and over?
(Church Going)
a) Because life is too short to spend being a bitter skeptic
b) Because it gives meaning to life's big moments
c) Because he's desperately lonely
d) Because his bicycle keeps strangely breaking down outside of churches
65. In which English City was Philip Larkin born on 9th August 1922?
a) Hull
b) London
 c) Coventry
d) Oxford
66. With which branch of the military did Larkin serve in World War Two?
a) Army
b) Navy
c) Air Force
d) None, he was rejected
67. Larkin's early poems were published by a minor press in 1945. What was the title of the
volume?
a) The North Ship
b) Jill
c) A Girl in Winter
d) The Whitsun Weddings
68. Larkin's first major love affair was with a 16 year old fellow librarian he met in 1944 at
Wellington, Shropshire. What was her name?
a) Sally Amis
b) Ruth Bowman
c) Patsy Strang
d) Winifred Arnott
69. Larkin met the major love of his life, Monica Jones, while working in the library of
which university?
a) Coventry
b) Leicester
c) Belfast
d) Hull
70. Which major comic novel of the 20th Century was inspired by the visit of the writer to
Larkin?
a) 'Decline and Fall' by Evelyn Waugh
b) 'The History Man' by Malcolm Bradbury
c) Billy Liar' by Keith Waterhouse
d) 'Lucky Jim' by Kingsley Amis
71. Which colour dresses are the children wearing in MCMXIV?
a) Blue
b) Green
c) White
d) Black
72. What type of people we find in the village of poem"MCMXIV"?
a) Youngster
b) Children
c) Aged
d) both b and c
73. What is less number in village In poem MCMXIV?
a) Women
b) Youngster
c) Aged
d) Children
74. How many flowers remain in the field In poem MCMXIV??
a) Ten
b) Two flowers
c) Many
d) none
75. "MCMXIV" poem title indicate??
a) 1st world war
b) 2nd world war
c) 3rd world war
d) both b and c
76. The poem "MCMXIV" divided in how many parts??
a) 3
b) 4
c) 2
d) 5
77. To what does Larkin refer when he talks about 'lost innocence'
 a) The year up to the Great war
b) when he was 14
c) when he was 15
d) The age of his older brother when he died
78. And the ______ not caring (MCMXIV)
a) God
b) Countryside
c) parents
d) people
79. The poem "MCMXIV" contrast between __?
a) World war 1 and 2
b) Rural and Urban life
c) Rural life and world war 1
d) both b and c
80. Which countries supported Germany in first world war?
a) Japan and Turkey
b) Turkey and Italy
c) Turkey and France
d) France and Japan
81. Never such ______? Never before on since..?
a) loneliness
b) innocence
c) happiness
d) Brutal
82. Philip Larkin completed 'Mr Bleaney' in _____?
a) May 1955
b) May 1954
c) May 1953
d) May 1952
83. Mr Bleaney reflect the theme of
a) Happiness
 b) loneliness
c) Companionship
d) Sociable
84. What does Poet see through the window in Mr. Bleaney?
a) back of houses
b) a rubbish
c) a piece of cloth
d) both a and c
85. How does Mr.Bleaney Judge the nature of man?
a) By his behaviour
b) By his habits
c) By his living standard
d) By his qualities
86. Mr Bleaney stands for_____?
a) Wretched state of modern man
b) Wretch State of middle-class life
c) State of Happy people
d) State of Royal class people
87. The name 'Bleaney' suggest insignificance and also appears in____?
a) Larkin's novel 'Jill'
b) Larkin's poem 'The Whitsun Wedding
c) larkin's poem 'MC M 14'
d) Larkin's poem 'Church Going'
88. Behind the door, no______ for book or bags. (Mr Bleaney)
a) place
b) room
c) space
d) capacity
89. "Talking in Bed" is one of Philip Larkin work published in_____?
a) 1964 volume
b) 1963 volume
 c) 1965 volume
d) 1964 volume
90. Who is 'Mr Bleaney' in Larkin's poem____?
a) A lodger
b) A shopkeeper
c) A vicar
d) A pub landlord
91. The name of Bleaney's house___?
a) Salem
b) The Bodies
c) Stockholm
d) New Orleans
92. In which of Philip larkin's poem does he refer to "Long uneven lines" of men waiting to
be enlisted for the war_?
a) Mr Bleaney
b) MCM 14
c) Church Going
d) Sad steps
93. What was Eliot's first working title for "The Waste Land"?
a) Unreal City
b) He do the Police in Different Voices
c) The Land of the Dead
d) Voices in the Desert
94. The Wasteland was first published in
a) 1922
b) 1923
c) 1911
d) 1920
95. Who helped Eliot edit the poem, and, in the process, suggested the deletion of large
portions of the poem, The Wasteland?
a) Milton
 b) Edmund spencer.
c) Ezra pound
d) Shakespeare
96. Which of these works did Eliot NOT make a reference to in "The Waste Land"?
a) Kyd's "Spanish Tragedy"
b) Spenser's "Prothalamion"
c) Goldsmith's "The Vicar of Wakefield"
d) Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure”
97. Who is "known to be the wisest woman in Europe, / With a wicked pack of cards"?
a) Madame Sosostris
b) The Typist
c) Mrs. Porter
d) Cleopatra
98. By the waters of ____ I sat down and wept..." (The Wasteland)
a) The Thames
b) Leman
c) The Nile
d) The Seine
99. The opening section of "The Waste Land" is entitled:
a) The Fire Sermon
b) Shantih
c) Death by water
d) The Burial of the Dead
100. What the thunder said" title comes from..
a) Upanishads
b) Milton's paradise lost
c) kyd's Spanish tragedy
d) shakespeare's measure for measure.
101. Who is the subject of the long discussion which begins Section V," what the
thunder said"?
a) Buddha
 b) Jesus christ
c) Vishnu
d) Virgin Mary
102. In Wasteland, section one is primarily about
a) Sex
b) Love
c) Birth
d) Death
103. When lovely woman stoops to folly" (The Wasteland) is an allusion to:
a) Ovid's Metamorphosis
b) Oliver Goldsmith's ThE Vcar OF Wakefield
c) Hamlet
d) The Koran
104. What is the name of the "Modern city"?
a) Hydrangea City
b) Metropolis City
c) Eugenides City
d) Unreal City
105. Translate "Oed' und leer das Meer" (The Wasteland)
a) "Isolde is lost forever"
b) "The Ship has arrived, appearing on the horizon"
c) "A Kiss is just a kiss"
d) Desolate and empty is the sea"
106. Who is "throbbing between two lives"? (The wasteland)
a) The typist
b) Mr. Eugendies
c) Tiresias
d) Phlebas
107. What concern dominates section two of the wasteland?
a) Sex
b) Love
 c) Birth
d) Disaster
108. What do all these cities, Jerusalem, Athens, Alexandria, Vienna, and London,
cited in Section V of The wasteland have in common?
a) They are all sites of political murders
b) All were destroyed or fell into moral decay
c) Each was the birthplace of a religious leader
d) All are ruled by kings
109. Who rapes Philomela?
a) The Typist
b) Tereus
c) Zeus
d) Odysseus
110. Eliot's concept about spring is in contrast to?
a) Arthur Miller
b) Shakespeare
c) Chaucer
d) Edmund spencer
111. In section 5 water is symbol for.?
a) Sex
b) Death
c) Life
d) Friendship
112. Which of the following establishes the setting of "The Darkling Thrush"?
a) "Frost Was Spectre-grey"
b) "Household fires"
c) "Strings of broken lyres"
d) A Coppice gate"
113. Which of the following best expresses the tone of the speaker in "The Darkling
Thrush"?
a) Pessimistic Despairing
 b) Disappointed, Unhinged
c) Joyous, Optimistic
d) Cynical, Indifferent.
114. Which of the following has led critics to classify "The Darkling Thrush" as an
early modernist work?
a) The Hopeless attitude towards the new century
b) The brevity of the poem
c) The presence of allusion
d) Hardy's use of a strict matric structure
115. What is the significance of the metaphor to "strings of broken lyres" in Darkling
thrush?
a) It Suggests that Classical poetry is no longer important
b) It suggests that poetry is also dying
c) It suggests that the speaker is distrustful of poetry
d) It suggests that song is the only way to bring the world back to life
116. Which of the following best approximates the meaning of the "pulse of germ and
birth" in line 13?
a) The cycle of decay and rejuvenation
b) The cycle of sadness and joy
c) The cycle of sickness and healing
d) The cycle of potential and birth
117. What is being compared in lines 8-9 of the darkilg thrush?
a) The Land and a Corpse
b) The land and a grave
c) The land and a Resurrection
d) The land and a funereal
118. Spectre-grey" foreshadows which of the following moments in the poem Darkling
thrush?
a) "Little cause for Caroling'"
b) "Some blessed hope"
c) "Shrunken hard and dry"
 d) The Century's Corpse outleant"
119. W.B Yeats won Nobel prize in Literature in
a) 1924
b) 1923
c) 1945
d) 1930
120. W.B Yeats had a life-long interest in
a) Mysticism
b) Spiritualism
c) Astrology
d) All of these
121. The first significant poem of W.B Yeats is
a) The Island of Statues
b) The Wanderings of Oisin
c) The Secret Rose
d) The Wind Among the Reeds
122. What kind of shapes does the word "gyre" from The Second Coming refer to?
a) Squares
b) Circles
c) Diamonds
d) Parallel Lines
123. What book of the Bible does the term "The Second Coming" originate from?
a) Exodus
b) Revelations
c) Deuteronomy
d) Genesis
124. What poetic form is "The Second Coming" based on?
a) Villanelle
b) Iambic pentameter
c) Sonnet
d) Acrostic
125. What does the phrase "The Second Coming" refer to in the Bible?
a) The second appearance of Jesus Christ
b) The second appearance of moses
c) The second appearance of the garden of Eden
d) The second appearance of the devil
126. In The Second Coming, "The darkness drops" means:
a) The Omen comes true
b) The vision ends
c) Rain starts to fall
d) It gets dark
127. What year was Yeats born?
a) 1865
b) 0 A.D
c) 1823
d) 1919
128. Which is not a word that characterizes "The Second Coming"?
a) Possibility
b) Destruction
c) Silence
d) Chaos
129. What perspective is the poem (The Second Coming) written from?
a) Third person
b) A universal perspective
c) First person
d) Second person
130. When was Sailing to Byzantium published?
a) 1929
b) 1930
c) 1926
d) 1928
131. Byzantium is
 a) A mythical King
b) A mythical city
c) The capital of Greece
d) A modern city
132. At the end of "Sailing to Byzantium," the speaker imagines transformation into
a) An auto
b) A God
c) A mechanical bird
d) A woman
133. In which collection, Sailing to Byzantium published?
a) The Tower
b) The Celtic twilight
c) Easter 1916
d) None of these
134. In "Sailing to Byzantium," the element that death is most associated with is
a) Air
b) Earth
c) Fire
d) Water
135. The direction that the spirits would move around the speaker in "Sailing to
Byzantium" is in a
a) zig-zag
b) gyre
c) straight line
d) curve
136. How many stanzas are there in Sailing to Byzantium?
a) 5
b) 6
c) 7
d) 4
137. What did the poet urge to the sages in Sailing to Byzantium?
 a) To teach him singing
b) To teach him dancing
c) To teach him acting
d) To teach him walking
138. In Sailing to Byzantium, "Mackerel" means:
a) A type of bird
b) A type of animal
c) A type of insect
d) A type of fish
139. Byzantium was famous for
a) Religious activities
b) Non-religious activities
c) None of these
d) Both B and C
140. Figure of speech in "Fish fresh fowl"
a) Assonance
b) Metaphor
c) Alliteration
d) Simile
141. Ted Hughes was born in
a) 1935
b) 1940
c) 1930
d) 1925
142. Cause of death of Ted Hughes was
a) Heart attack
b) cancer
c) liver problem
d) none of these
143. Which of the fox's features is not mentioned by the speaker in Thought Fox?
a) Shadow
 b) Eye
c) Tail
d) Nose
144. (Thought Fox) Symbolically, Fox is signified as
a) Thought
b) seeing
c) sharp
d) None of these
145. Which is not a theme of "The Thought Fox?"
a) Nature
b) The act of writing
c) Inspiration
d) Divinity
146. In "Thought Fox," fox's eye is
a) Black
b) Blue
c) Green
d) Red
147. In "Thought Fox", "lame" means 
a) Slow, Limping
b) Hip, Fashionable
c) Cautious, Considered
d) Quick, Eager
148. "I _______ this midnight moment's forest", from "Thought Fox"
a) Contemplate
b) Imagine
c) Gaze upon
d) Paint
149. The genre of "The Thought-Fox" is modern poetry and _______
a) Ars poetica
b) Eulogy
 c) Sonnet
d) Blazon
150. What figure did Hughes see in a dream? (Thought Fox)
a) A man with Fox's head
b) A talking Fox
c) A Fox wandering in the snow
d) A Man's head on a Fox's body
151. "It enters the dark ______ of the head" (Thought Fox)
a) Night
b) Abyss
c) Hole
d) Forest