KNOWLEDGE JUNCTION

Mock Test for Medium Level (II) 3

1. Elton Edward Smith describes the poem The Funeral as ‘a Communist elegy’. Who is
the author of this poem?
a. Robert frost
b. Stephen Spender
c. W.H. Auden
d. T.S. Eliot
2. Hellenism is a characteristic of Greeks adopted by which Romantic poet?
a. Wordsworth
b. Coleridge
c. Keats
d. Shelley
3. To Arnold, culture is…………...and …………...
a. light; sweetness
b. sweet; lightness
c. lightness; sweet
d. sweetness; light
4. Aarti said, ‘I am in a hurry today’.
a. Aarti said that she was in a hurry that day
b. Aarti said that i am in a hurry today
c. Aarti said that she is in a hurry today
d. Aarti said that she is in a hurry that day
5. Whom did Huxley refer as ‘the most bank-clerky of all bank clerks’?
a. T.S. Eliot
b. Ezra pound
c. E.M. Forster
d. Henry James
6. In which work did Wordsworth describe the growth of children into adults and the
loss of pure connection to nature and divine?
a. The Prelude
b. Ode: Intimations of Immortality
c. My Heart Leaps Up
d. Tintern Abbey
7. Who gave the phrase ‘Nature red in tooth and claw’?
a. T.S. Eliot
b. Arnold
c. Browning
d. Tennyson
8. Who has written the work titled as Cathleen ni Houlihan?
a. Eliot
b. Arnold
c. Yeats
d. Tennyson
9. She said ‘You can leave the books here’.
a. She said that they can leave the books there.
b. She said that they could leave the books there.
c. She said that they can leave the books here.
d. She said that they could leave the books here.
10. Robert Frost was the first inaugural poet, at the 1961 inauguration of John F.
Kennedy. He planned the poem…………………… to read but went to recite The Gift
Outright.
a. Dedication
b. Mending Wall
c. The Road Not Taken
d. Woods on a Snowy Evening
11. Three things are indicated in the poem The Indian Weavers by Sarojini Naidu. Find
the odd one.
a. Young age
b. Adulthood
c. Death
d. Teenage
12. The commander said to the army, ‘March forward’
a. The commander asked the army march forward
b. The commander requested the army to go forward
c. The commander ordered the army to march forward
d. The army requested the commander to march forward
13. The Striders is the first poetry collection of which Indian English author?
a. Kamala Das
b. A.K. Ramanujan
c. Sarojini Naidu
d. Nissim Ezekiel
14. Who published his/her autobiography as a series of columns in the weekly
Malayalanadu?
a. A.K. Ramanujan
b. Kamala Das
c. Nissim Ezekiel
d. Arundhati Roy
15. Who said, ‘A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure’?
a. Bacon
b. Shakespeare
c. Tennyson
d. Wordsworth
16. Antonym: Gloomy
a. radiant
b. fragrant
c. melodious
d. illusory
17. Who worked in The South-Sea House?
a. Hazlitt
b. Shelley
c. Byron
d. Lamb
18. Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays by Hazlitt published in which year?
a. 1819
b. 1817
c. 1818
d. 1816
19. Antonym: Blessing
a. dull
b. hurt
c. curse
d. harse
20. Who used the term Neutral Monism in his The Analysis of Mind and The Analysis of
Matter?
a. Bertrand Russell
b. William Hazlitt
c. Charles Lamb
d. John Keats
21. A.G. Gardiner’s fellow-traveller was a……..
a. bird
b. dog
c. man
d. mosquito
22. Which of the following statements is not correct in respect to Hind Swaraj by M.K.
Gandhi?
a. It was written in 1909 in Gujrati and translated into English in the very next year
b. It had no copyright reserved
c. Mainly known for its critique of modern civilization
d. It was dedicated Raja Ram Mohan Roy
23. Antonym: Accomplish
a. fail
b. improper
c. disagreeable
d. scatter
24. Whose autobiography is known as Truth, Love and a little Malice?
a. Arundhati Roy
 b. Raja Rao
c. Khuswant Singh
d. Sarojini Naidu
25. Who translated Moliere’s The Mock Doctor?
a. Matthew Arnold
b. Henry Fielding
c. T.S. Eliot
d. Henry James
26. Theatre Licensing Act was passed in which year?
a. 1737
b. 1748
c. 1743
d. 1735
27. Who said, ‘the Great Historical Calamity, or Clash of Peoples, artificially brought
about some hundred years ago’?
a. Thomas Hardy
b. T.S. Eliot
c. Matthew Arnold
d. Robert Browning
28. The Prime Minister was asked (a)/ to writer a forward (b)/ to the book (c)/ no error
29. Which of the following characters is a painter in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse?
a. Mrs. Ramsay
b. Adrian Stephen
c. Lyly Briscoe
d. Julia
30. Who is the author of the critical work Aspects of the Novel?
a. James Joyce
b. E.M. Forster
c. Henry James
d. Virginia Woolf
31. A part of the training (a)/ they offered was (b)/ real good (c)/ no error
32. He played an important role in the founding of the Progressive Writers’ Association
in London with Sajjad Zaheer and Ahmed Ali?
a. Raja Rao
b. M.K. Gandhi
c. A.K. Ramanujan
d. Mulk Raj Anand
33. Rajam and Somu is the characters of which work?
a. Swami and His Friend
b. Untouchable
c. The English Teacher
d. Coolie
34. The soil was moist as (a)/ there was little rain (b)/ the day before (c)/ no error
35. Who has written the biography of Mahatma Gandhi titled as Great Indian Way: A
Life of Mahatma Gandhi?
a. Mulk Raj Anand
b. R.K. Narayan
c. A.K. Ramanujan
d. Raja Rao
36. This Science fiction by Amitav Ghosh’s is an account of Ronald Ross’ discovery of
the parasite that causes Malaria and its cure drug?
a. The Hungry Tide
b. The Calcutta Chromosome
c. In An Antique Land
d. River of Smoke
37. The White Tiger by Arvind Adiga is a Man Booker Prize Winner novel came in
which year?
a. 2009
b. 2007
c. 2008
d. 2006
38. Synonym: Ill-Bred
a. uncouth
b. well-bred
c. courteous
d. mannerly
39. Who has created the word Bardolatry for the admiration of Shakespeare in Victorian
age?
a. G.B. Shaw
b. Thomas Hardy
c. Henry James
d. Joseph Conrad
40. Synonym: Knack
a. awkwardness
b. clumsiness
c. dexterity
d. disability
41. Which of the following is not the last phase of work by Shakespeare?
a. Cymbeline
b. The Tempest
c. The Merchant of Vanish
d. a & b
42. One word substitution: Dry weather with no rainfall
a. draught
b. draft
c. drought
d. desert
43. In which sonnet did Shakespeare remark that as long as people are alive and can read,
this sonnet will keep the subject alive?
a. sonnet 18
b. sonnet 126
c. sonnet 116
d. sonnet 16
44. Synonym: Laconic
a. loquacious
b. concise
c. rambling
d. verbose
45. ‘Don Juan in Hell’ is related to which work of G.B. Shaw?
a. Major Barbara
b. Caesar and Cleopatra
c. saint Joan
d. Man and Super Man
46. The Room and The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter are the initial plays. How many
acts are there in these plays?
a. two
b. four
c. one
d. three
47. One word substitution: A sly look that is lustful
a. leer
b. lore
c. lark
d. littoral
48. Who has written the play titled as Red Oleanders and The King of the Dark Chamber?
a. R.N. Tagore
b. Girish Karnad
c. Vijay Tendulkar
d. Mahesh Dattani
49. One work substitution: Too much official formality
a. Bureaucracy
b. Red-Tapism
c. Nepotism
d. Formalism
50. Who wrote DAM/AGE: A Film with Arundhati Roy?
a. Mahesh Dattani
b. Vijay Tendulkar
c. Arundhati Roy
d. Pankaj Mishra