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Choose The Best Alternative From The Choices Given:
1. The subtitle for „All for Love‟ is

(A) Love for Love(B) The World well Lost (C) The Lost World (D) Forgotten Love
2. In the prologue Dryden attacks
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3.
(A)
4.
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5.
The Poets (B) The satirists (C) The critics
The play is dedicated to
Earl of Derby(B) Earl of Sussex
The priest of the Temple of Isis is
Charmion
Dryden belongs to
(B) Alexas
(D) The play wrights
(C) Earl of Lanciester
(C) Serapian
(D) Earl of Hamilton
(D) Myri
(A) Victorian Age (B) Age of sensibility (C) Age of Johnson(D) Age of satires
6. Sheriden was the undersecretary to the
(A) Tory Government (B) Whig Government (C) Church (D) Club
7. Duelling, betting, drinking and doing dangerous deeds were the occupation of the
rich English young men of
(A) 17th century (B) 18th century (C) 19th century (D) 16th century
8. The Prologue of “The school for scandal” was written by
(A) Sheriden (B) Goldsmith (C) Darid Garrick (D) Lord Buffalo
9. --------------is the worst of scandal mongers
(A) Lady sneer well (B) Joseph surface (C) Mr. Crabtrce (D) Mrs. Candour
10. The Portrait of „The School for scandal‟ is addressed to---------
(A) Lady sneer well (B) Lady Teazle (C) France Anno Crewe (D) Greville miller
11. „Phoebus‟ is the Greek God of----------also known as Apollo
(A) Poetry (B) Drama (C) Love (D) Prose
12. Sir Oliver visits Joseph in guise of--------
(A) Mr. Premium (B) Mr. Moses (C) Mr. Stanely (D) Mr. Rowley
13. Sir Peter is hiding in the------------in Joseph‟s house
(A) Kitchen (B) Closet (C) Screen (D) Library
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14. Who is the „Rockless spender‟ in „The school for scandal‟

(A) Joseph surface (B) Charles surface (C) Oliver surface (D) Sir peter teazle
15. Who is the Jewish money Lender who coaches sir Oliver?
(A) Premium (B) Moses (C) Stanely (D) Moris
16. Whom does lady sneerwell employs to spread the malicious rumours?
(A) Mrs. Candour (B) Joseph (C) Crabtree (D) Snake
17. who shows of his/her skill at versification in the scandalous gossip?
(A) Lady sneer well (B) Sir Benjamin Back bite (C) Mr. Crabtree (D) Snake
18. „The school for scandal‟ is a/an----------
(A) Romantic comedy (B) Farcial comedy
(C) Sentimental comedy (D) Antisentimental comedy
19. The author of the two notable comedies „The Discovery‟ and „The Dupe‟ is----------
(A) R.B. Sheriden (B) Thomas Sheridan (C) Frances sheridan (D) Gold smith
20. Congreve‟s first comedy is----------
(A) The way of the world (B) The Rivals (C) Incognita (D) The old Bachelor
21. Sir wil full wit would is a nephew of------------
(A) Lady wishfort (B) Sir Rowland (C) Mirabell (D) Foinall
22. Who was the maid of Belinda ?
(A) Brtty (B) Heroic Couplet (C) Pastorals (D) Limericks
23. Which prayer was granted ?
(A) Donne (B) Milton (C) The first (D) Marvel
24. The rape of the lock is a ?
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(A) an epic (B) an ode (C) Mock epic (D) an elegy
25. who is the close friend of pope ?
(A) Andrew Marvell (B) Herbert Grierson (C) Thomas Carew (D) swift
26. Parados is an?
(A) truth (B) love (C) hope (D) Aside
27. Samson laments on the loss of ?
(A) sight (B) simile (C) Pulley (D) allegory
28. Who is the father of Samson ?
(A) Marvell (B) Manoa
(C) Nicholas Ferrar (D) William Blake
29. Ode to evening is written by ?
(A) Tory (B) Whig (C) William Collins (D) Protestent
30. The lamb is written by ?
(A) William black (B) John Gregory C) Elizabeth Brury(D) Samuel John son
31. The bard is written by ?
(B) Thames (C) Ganga (D) Tigris (D) Thomas gray
32. Herbert was ordained as ?
(A)priest (B) Phoenix (C)Griffin (D) Sphinix
33. Afflication has ----------stages?
(A)5 (B)4 (C)3 (D)7
34. Which makes man to think about god?
(A) Philistines (B) Phoenicians (C) Want of rest (D) Sytians
35. What is the first blessing?
(A) Strength (B) Heroic Couplet (C) Pastorals (D) Limericks
36. Which words is used in different senses ?
(A) Ode on Dejection (B) Ode to Nativity

(C) rest (D) Ode to solitude

37. Syllogism is a form of ?
(B) reasoning (C) Lovers (D) ascetics
38. To his coy mistress has -------phases ?
(A) 5 (B) 2 (C)3 (D) 1
39. Who remain Coy ?
A.MissHardcastle (B) Neville (C) the lady (D) Marwood
40. The poem is based upon __________

a) Disease b) Paradox c) Allegory d) None of these
41. Donne was busy writing verses for _________

a) Keats b) Shelly c) Ben Jonson d) Byron
42. Who are canonized in this poem?
a) The Lovers b) The Friends c) God d) Sprites
43. The lovers are worthy of _________
a) God b) Sprite c) Evil d) Poetry
44. Which escaped from the bodies of the lovers?
a) Sprites b) Souls c) Naturals d) None of these
45. Love is not a thing of ________
a) Body b) Soul c) Blood d) Sprite
46. Which issue these spirits?
a) Soul b) Body c) Blood d) God
47. Authentic epic is ________
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a) Oral b) Aural
48. Which devours beauty ana love?
a) Time b) Date
c) Dialogue d) None of these
c) Place
49. Life of Milton can be divided into ________parts.
a) 5 b) 4
50. Book of Martyrs was written by ________
c) 6
d) Minute
d) 3
a) Johnson b) Milton c) Pope d) Foxe

51. How many lions confronted Christian?
a) 4 b) 2 c) 1 d) 3
52. The second part of the Pilgrim‟s Progress came in _________
a) 1685 b) 1683 c) 1682 d) 1684
53. Alworthy was betrayed by ________
a) Bridget b) Blifil c) Tom d) Jonny Jones
54. Samson Agonists is drawn in the story of Samson from---------
(A) The Old testament (B) The testament(C) Paradise Lost(D) The Dunciad
55. Novelist Atdous Huxley used ------------- as the title for his novel in 1936.
(A) Warrior (B) Eyeless is Gaza (C) The Blind Warrior(D) Agonistes
56. Samson Agonistes combines --------tragedy with --------- Scripture.
(A) Roman, Greek(B) Greek, Hebrew (C) Latin, Greek (D) Roman, Latin
57. Gray, Collins, Blake and Burns are regarded as -------------- Poets.
(A) Transition (B) Romantic (C) Victorian (D) Modern
58. Which one of the following is Gray‟s Pindaric Ode?.
(A) The Bard (B) To spring (C) Elegy (D) Ode to evening
59. Collins lyrical Odes Mark a turn away from the ------------- Poetry.
(A) Elizabathean (B) Augustan (C) Romantic (D) Victorian

60. Blakes first collection of Poems --------was printed in 1783.

(A) Poetical sketches (B) Songs of experience
(C) Songs of innocence (D) Jerus alem
61. Herbert‟s collected volums „The Temple‟ Published by.
(A) Marvell (B) Pope (C) Nicholas Ferrar (D) William Blake
62. The first stage of „affliction‟ deals with----------
(A) doubts (B) dilemma (C) sense (D) hopefulness
63. „Affliction‟ is a private communication with -----------
(A) Friend (B) Lover (C) mother (D) God
64. The various blessings are coming out from a------------
(A) tree (B) book (C) hands of God (D) Glass
65. Pondora‟s box which contained all evils in which ---------- is the only blessing.
(A) truth (B) love (C) hope (D) Kindness
66. Marvel uses ----------- in the poem „To his coy mistress‟.
(A) Paradox of truth (B) Paradox of time
(C) paradox of death (D) paradox of love
67. The poem „To his coy Mistress‟ is arranged in the form of -----------------
(A) Ode (B) Syllogism (C) allegory (D) imagery
68. The home of the Poet is in ------------ in „To his coy mistress
(A) Hell (B) Shell (C) Hull (D) Heaven
69. „Manoa‟ in Samson Agonistes means -----------.
(A) rest (B) giant (C) leaf (D) revenge
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70. Who gave the baron a pair of scissors?
(A) Belinda
(A) Adam
(B) Nisius
(B) fan
72. Eve is created from the rib of -------------.
(B) Satan
(C) Clarrisa
71. Ariel him self protect ------------ in „The Rape of Lock‟.
(A) Curl (C) shock
(C) God
(D) Thalestris
(D) watch
(D) Sin
73. Satan says that tree of knowledge is the mother of--------------
(A) truth (B) mystery (C) science (D) magic
74. „Tony Lumpkin‟ of Goldsmith is the kin of shakespeare‟s-----------
(A) Benarbus (B) Iago (C) Othello (D) Falstaff
75. The central character of „she stoops to conquer‟ is
(A) Miss. Hard castle (B) Marlow (C) Mrs. Hardcastle (D) Tony Lumpkin
76. The ------------an actor in a mourning dress speaks the prologue in „She stoops to
conquer”
(A) Warrick (B) J. Cradcock (C) Woodwap (D) Goldsmith
77. “The traveller” was a production to which since the death of pope, it will not be easy
to find anything equal”, who comments these words?
(A) Boswell (B) Smolet (C) Dr. Johnson (D) Thomas percy
78. “she stoops to conquer” is dedicated to---------
(A) Congreve (B) Johnson (C) Dryden (D) Sheridan
79. Whom does Mrs Hardcastle tell that Tony is suitable for her?
(A) Miss Hardcastle (B) Neville (C) Millament (D) Marwood
80. „Marlow and Hastings‟ are informed and directed to certain ----------- Inn, house of
Mr. Hard castle
(A) Holiday (B) Large Head (C) Buck‟s Head (D) Pleasant day

81. The other name of miss Hardcastle is----------

(A) Kate (B) Neville (C) Woodward (D) Lady Teazle
82. Who remains old fashioned and taks in support old timos?
(A) Marlow (B) miss Hardcastle (C) Mr. Hard castle (D) Tony
83. The name of the ale-house where Tony wastes his life is --------
(A) Two pigeons (B) Three Pigeons (C) Three doves (D) Two dove
84. Who among the following wrote The Ice Age (1977)……….?
(a) Doris Lessing (b) Iris Murdoch
(c) H.G. Wells (d) Margaret Drabble
85. John Arden‟s Live Like Pigs is
(a) A Brechtianplay(b) A Freudian play
(c) An Ibsenianplay (d) A Shakespearean play
86. Chips With Everything was written by
(a) John Arden (b) Arnold Wesker
(c) Harold Pinter (d) Tom Stoppard
87. Which of the following is not part of Wesker‟s trilogy?
(a) Roots (b) Chicken Soup with Barley
(c) The Kitchen (d) I‟m Talking about Jerusamen
88. Which of the following is the last of the four plays by Harold Pinter?
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(a) The Birthday Party (b) The Caretaker
(c) No Man‟s Land(d) The Homecoming
89. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967) is based on a play by
(a) Shakespeare (b) Shaw (c) Osborne (d) Beckett
90. Stoppard‟s play, based on Hamlet, is an example of
(a) Imitation (b) Parody (c) Decentring(d) Refining
91. Which of the following plays by Stoppard is about intellectual gymnastics?
(a) Jumpers (b) Travesties
(c) If you‟re Glad I‟ll be Frank (d) The Real Inspector Hound
92. Stoppard‟s Arcadia contrasts his own time with
(a) Sidney‟s time (b) Chaucer‟s time
(c) Burton‟s time (d) Byron‟s time
93. In which of the following plays of Edward Bond is Shakespeare the hero?
(a) The Pope‟s wedding (b) Bingo
(c) Saved (d) Narrow Road to the Deep North
94. Cyril Churchill is a contemporary of
(a) G.B. Shaw (b) Tom Stoppard
(c) Lord Byron (d) Robert Burns

95. Cloud Nine and Top Girls by Cyril Churchill are

(a) Novels of science fiction (b) Plays about gender politics
(c) Poems of children (d) Stories in Gothic style
96. Sylvia plath was married to
(a) Tom Gunn (b) Tom Stoppard (c) Ted Hughes(d) Ted Pole
97. Who among the following is called the poet of animals?
(a) Philip Larkin (b) Walt Whitman
(c) Ted Hughes (d) Tom Gunn
98. The Thought Fox is a
(a) Play by Stoppard (b) Poem by Ted Hughes
(c) Screen play by Pinter (d) Sonnet by Tom Gunn
99. Ted Hughes‟s Birthday Letters (1998) is a
(a) Collection of letters to his wife (b) Robert Burns
(c) Confessional novel about his wife‟s suicide
(d) Sequence of poems about his relationship with his wife
100. Which of the following volumes of poems by Seamus Heaney is his last?
(a) Death of a Naturalist (b) Door into the Dark
(c) Wintering Out (d) The Spirit Level
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1. The two “Lake Poets” are

(A) Wordsworth and Keats (B) Keats and Coleridge
(C) Byron and Keats (D) Coleridge and Wordsworth
2. The theme of “Ode to Dejection” is
(A) Loss of Love (B) Travails of old age
(C) Declining poetic ability (D) Weakening physique
3. Prosody means the study of
(A) Personification (B) Classification of Prose
(B) C) Verification (D) Identification of melody in prose
4. “What Immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Whose lines are these

(A) W. Wordsworth (B) M. Arnold(C) G.M. Hopkins (D) William Blake

5. A limerick is a humorous verse consisting of ------------ lines
(A) Four (B) Six (C) Seven (D) Five
6. What is the monumental work of Wordsworth?
(A) Immortality ode (B) Lyrical ballads (C) Prelude (D) Tintern abbey
7. Who was the first to use mysticism in English poetry?
(A) Dryden (B) Milton (C) Blake (D) Collins
8. Which is the contribution of Wordsworth to English Romantic movement
(A) The acceptance of heroic couplet
(B) The democratization of the subject matter of prose
(C)The introduction of pompous in theme and treatment
(D) The rejection of the 18th century poetic diction
9. The German Idealistic philosophy reached English romantics through
(A) Shelley (B) Keats (C) Byron (D) Coleridge
10. Ode became stylized during the ------------- period
(A) Latin (B) Greek (C) English (D) French
11. Significant contributions were made by one of the following to the growth of
vocabulary
(A) Bible (B) Marlowe (C) Spenser (D) Donne
12. In thy voice I catch
The language of my former heart and read
My former pleasures in the shooting light of
Thy wild eyes
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Who is addressed here?
(A) Coleridge (B) Dorothy (C) Lucy (D) Annette Vallon
13. Identify the character of whom Jane Austen said
“A heroine whom no one but myself will like”
(A) Elizabeth (B) Emma (C) Fanny Price (D) Jane
14. Choose the unfinished poem from the following

(A) Christabel (B) Kubla Khan
(B) (C)Ode to Dejection (D) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
15. When did French revolution break out?
(A) 1786 (B) 1788 (C) 1789 (D) 1785
16. The author of “Decamaron” is ------------
(A) Boccaccio (B) Plato (C) Taso (D) Aristotle
17. Mammon is a God of
(A) Love (B) Wealth (C) Courage (D) Truth
18. Pythagoras is a ------------philosopher
(A) Latin (B) Greek (C) English (D) French
19. Who is regarded as the father of Roman literature?
(A) Virgil (B) Accius (C) Pacuvius (D) Ennius
20. William Hazlitt‟s „The round Table‟ - a volume of literary sketches was
published in the year
(A) 1814 (B) 1816 (C) 1817 (D) 1818
21. Recluse has _______parts.
a) 5 b) 9 c) 3 d) 6
22. Who feels a kind of vaccum?
a) Narrator b) Poet c) Protagonist d) Antagonist

23. Wordsworth visited Tintern second time in __________

a) 1793 b) 1797 c) 1796 d) 1798
24. Wordsworth was a _________
a) Wye b) Lover c) Pantheist d) Nature
25. After __________ years wordsworth visited Tintern Abbey second time.
a) 5 b) 2 c) 4 d) 3
26. Dejection is the ___________of Colerodge
a) Sad Song b)Swan Song c) Wedding Song d) None of these
27. The western sky has a tint of _________
a) Blue b) Green c) Red d) Yellow
28. Kubla Khan wants to construct the palace in ________
a) Palace b) Temple c) Garden d) Ice House
29. The urn tells the story of _______
a) Greek b) France c) Italy d) England
30. Hellas means_______
a) France life b)Greek life c) England life d) American life
31. Autumn is seen in various forms on _________
a) Clouds b) Rain c) Earth d) Fields
32. Who is the University friend of Shelly?
a) Hogg b) Godwin c) Keats d) Harriet
33. The poem was written in _______
a) 1816 b) 1820 c) 1819 d) 1817
34. The West wind treats ________ as its lyre.
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a) Hills b) Forest c) Jungle d) Animals
35. What is the first important poem of Shelley?
a) Promethious Unbound b) The Cenci c) Hellas d) Queen Mab
36. Zeus allowed Adonais to spent ________ with Aphrodite.
a) 6 Months b) 3 Months c) 5 Months d) 2 Months
37. Shelley makes Urania the ________ of Adonais.
a) Father b) Lover c) Mother d) God
38. Christ‟s hospital was founded by _______
a) Edward – IV, 1553 b) Edward – I, 1553
c) Edward – II, 1553 d) (Edward, 1553
39. Lamb spent ______years in Christ Hospital.
a) 6 b) 3 c) 5 d) 7
40. Who dressed like 18 century man?
th
a) Thomas Tame b) Evans c) John Tip d) John

41. Lamb sacrificed his love for _______
a) Mother b) Father c) Sister d) Friend
42. Hazlitt died in ________
a) 1820 b) 1822 c) 1819 d) 1821
43. Hazlitt‟s character was similar to that of _________
a) Jonson b) Milton c) Shelly d) Samuel Johnson
44. Defence was published in ________
a) 1841 b) 1840 c) 1830 d) 1831
45. Defence was published by _______
a) Marry b) Alice c) His Sister d) His Friend
46. The second edition with the Preface was published in ________
a) 1898 b) 1802 c) 1800 d) 1804

47. The preface marks the beginning of ________

a) Old Age b) Middle Age c) Modern Age d) New Age
48. Who introduced “The Heroic Couplet into English Verse?
(A) Lowett (C) Wycliffe
(B) Moody (D) Chaucer
49. Chaucer was called, “The earliest of the great moderns” and was also called,
“The morning star of the Renaissance” who initiated these remarks?
(A) Hudson (C) Albert
(B) Pope (D) Kittredge
50. Chaucer first used his rhyme-royal stanza in his
A) The Canterbury Tales (C) The House of Fame
(B) The Book of Duchess (D) Triolus and Criseyde
51. Which of the following tales is in prose?
(A) The Parson‟s Tale (C) The Cook‟s Tale
(B) The Wife of Bath‟s Tale (D) The Squire‟s Tale
52. The first poem in English to use heroic couplet is
(A) The Legend of Good Women (C) The Parliament of Fowls
(B) The House of Fame (D) The Book of Duchess
53. Who was called the first Protestant and the father of the English-
Reformation? He may be called with equal Justice the father of English
Prose -
(A) Pope (C) John Barbour
(B) John Wycliffe (D) Marlowe
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54. To evoke maximum excitement with minimum information is the chief
characteristic of -
(A) anti-novel (C) biography
(B) dramatic monologue (D) anti-drama
55. The well-known example of Allegory is -
(A) Pilgrim‟s Progress (B) Animal Farm (C) Lord of the Flies (D) All the above
56. Lamb used to spend his annual holidays in the ______ and other part of the
Oxford
a) Ground b) library c) Dining hall d) Campus
57. Lamb use to write under the pen-name of ______.
a) Charles b) Anne c) Elia d) Dyer
58. He tried to amuse the reader with an account of a clerks working in the_____.
a) East Sea House b) North Sea House
c) South Sea House d) West Sea House
59. He used to look forward for holidays to spend times in ____at Oxford libraries.
a) Sleeping b) Chatting c) Surfing net d) reading books
60. _______ feels as if he inhaling learning while in them
a) Lamb b) Dyer c) Some Menials d) Mary
61. Dyer was busy with ______ manuscript at Oriel
a) ancient b) modern c) postmodern d) new
62. Who himself look like an old book badly needing a new cover?
a) Charles Lamb b) George Dyer c) George Eliot d) G.B. Shaw
63. Dyer doing research concerning the past _________ of the two universities.
a) Civil b) geography c) history d) record
64. Lamb cares more for Oxford and Cambridge than he does for fashionable
resorts as_____

a) New York b) Northampton c) Sussex d) Bath

65. Who hung in his uneasy posture in the old Baskett prayer book?
a) St. Peter b) St. Thomas c) St. Mathew d) St.Paul
66. Where “it seems as though all the souls of all the writers”
a) In oxford b) In old library
c) In new library d) In Oxford campus
67. Which poem written by John Dryden regarding successor to Charles II angered
Whigs?
a) Absalom and Achitophel b) Eleonara
c) Love Triumphant d) Cleomenes
68. Who is the main character of this novel?
(a) Alchemist. (c) Santiago.
(b) Gypsy. (d) Andalusia.
69. What is the job of the main character in Part 1?
(a) Gypsy. (c) Shepherd.
(b) Priest. (d) Alchemist
70. How long has the main character been doing his job in Part 1?
(a) 5 years. (b) 1 year.
(c) 3 years. (d) 2 years
71. While sleeping on the stone floor in Part 1, who does Santiago think about?
(a) The merchant's daughter. (c) The gypsy.
(b) The Egyptian pyramids. (d) The alchemist.
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72. What about Santiago does he think will surprise the merchant's daughter
when he gets to the village?
(a) The fact that he wants to become a priest.
(b) The fact that he can speak Latin and Greek.
(c) The fact that he can read.
(d) The fact that he is a shepherd.
73. At what age did Santiago study Spanish and Latin?
(a) 15. (b) 13. (c) 16. (d) 12.
74. Where did Santiago's mother and father send him?
(a) To become a shepherd. (c) To school in Spain
(b) To study at the seminary . (d) To become a translator.
75. Where, according to Mephistopheles, is hell?
A. Everywhere that heaven is not C. Inside Faustus soul
B. Deep below the earth‟s surface D. Directly beneath heaven
76. How many times does Faustus call up Helen?
A. One time C. Three times
B. Two times D. Four times
77. What happens to Faustus at the end of the play?
A. He repents and is saved D. He soul carrier off to hell.
B. He kills himself
C. He become emperor of Germany
78. To Bacon to spend too much time in studies is:
(a) Affection (b) Affectation
(c) Studious (d) Sloth

79. According to Bacon what maketh an exact man?

(a) sleeping (b) eating
(c) chatting (d) reading
80. Bacon suggests that if a man‟s wit be wandering let him study:
(a) Mathematics (b) History
(c) Philosophy (d) Logic
81. According to Bacon what makes men wise?
(A) Physics (B) Mathematics
(C) Philosophy (D) History
82. According to Bacon gentle walking is good for
(a) eyes (b) stomach
(c) brain (d) lungs
83. According to Bacon philosophy makes men:
(a) wise (b) witty (c) subtle (d) grave
84. Bacon suggests that the general counsels come best from those that are....
a. Experienced b. Professionals
c. Learned d. Businessmen
85. To use studies too much for Ornament is _______
a. Affection b. Affectation c. Adornment d. none
86. To Bacon one must read to :
a. weigh and consider b. contradict and confute
c. talk and discourse d. take for granted
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87. Which work was completed last ?English Literature
A. John Milton‟s “Paradise Lost” B. George Herbert‟s “The Temple”
C. William Shakespeare‟s “Tempest” D. Ben Jonson‟s “Volpone”
88. Who said‟ the style of paradise lost is lofty and exalted and show the
influence of Latin writers
a) Leguois c) Shakespeare
b) Milton d) None
89. What is the meaning of Samson Agonistes?
(A) Wrestler (C) Duck
(B) Army (D) None
90. Canonization is-----------------.
(A) a love poem (B) a poem on divine mind
(C) fear of death (D) hero worship poem
91. Who are canonized in Donne‟s Canonization?.
(A) Poets (B) Martyrs (C) Lovers (D) ascetics
92. „The pulley‟ is an example of ----------.
(A) Metonymy (B) Simile (C) Metaphor(D) Metaphysical concei
93. The river referred to in „To his coy mistress‟.
(A) The wye (B) The Nile (C) The Thames (D) The hangls
94. The Rape of the Lock is written in----------------.
(A) Triplet (B) Free verse(C) Blank verse (D) heroic couplets
95. Who is not the precursor of Romanticism?
(A) Gray (B) Collins (C) Thomson (D) Donne
96. Which two characters are applicable to „The rape of the Lock‟?
(A) Satire and the epic B) Mock epic and satire

(C) Epic and Lyric (D) Lyric and satire

97. „Conceit‟ is associated with ---------------.
(A) Romantic school (B) Epic Poetry
(C) Metaphysical school (D)Classical Poetry
98. „Samson Agonistes‟ is --------------
(A) Classical Tragedy (B) Poetic drama (C) Masque (D) an Elegy
99. In the Poem „The Ecstasie‟ Love is a thing of -----------------.
(A) Sex (B) Soul (C) Body (D) Life
100. The Poem „The Rape of the Lock‟ based on------------.
(A) Love between two families (B) quarrel between two families
(C) settlement between two families (D) desire between two families
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UNIT-1,2 ,3 & 4
1. In Matthew Arnold‟s poem “Dover Beach,” the speaker refers to the “melancholy,
long, withdrawing roar of “The Sea of Faith.” This reference alludes to which of the
following ?
A. The Protestant Reformation

B. Religious interpretations of changes to the oceans
C. The decline of religion‟s importance in the modern West
D. His lover‟s betrayal
2.Complete the following sentence. Tennyson‟s In Memoriam and Browning‟s
dramatic monologues can best be seen as combining neoclassicism with
romanticism through their ?
A. neoclassical emphasis on traditional form and romantic subjectivism.

B. romantic rejection of science and neoclassical use of mythology.
C. romantic emphasis on personal feelings combined with a neoclassical focus on
social context.
D. romantic critique of industrialization and neoclassical use of satire.

3.Complete the following sentence. Robert Browning‟s poem “Porphyria‟s Lover”

is_______________?
A. a sonnet expressing his devotion to his wife.

B. a dramatic monologue spoken by a murderer.
C. a dramatic monologue spoken by Browning.
D. an epic describing a great romance.
4. In which of the following ways did Hopkins revolutionize poetry ?
A. He created a radically new form.

B. He used unusual, arcane words.
C. He made obscure allusions.
D. All of these answers
5.'Thyrsis' and 'The Scholar Gipsy' are Matthew Arnold's:
A. Lyrics
B. Narrative poems
C. Pastoral elegies
D. Dramatic monologues
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6.Which of the poems mentioned below is not by Browning?
A.
B.
C.
Pippa Passes
Sordello
Empedocles on Etna
D. My Last Duchess
7- ”For what wears out the life of mortal men? This that from change to change
their being rolls,
A. The Scholar-Gipsy C. Heine‟s Grave
B. Obermann once more D. Dover Beach
8. And we are here as on a darkling plain, Swept with confused alarms of struggle
and flight,
A. Dover Beach C. Sohrab and Rustum
B. The New Sirens D. Balder Dead
9. In Robert Browning‟s “Andrea del Sarto”, with which of the following painters
does Andrea NOT compare himself with ?
A. 1 Michelangelo C. 3 Rembrandt
B. 2 Leonardo da Vinci D. 4 Raphael
10.The Number of Plays produce by Browning
A. Five B. Six

C. Seven D. Eight
11.”Ignorance is not innocence but sin” Who said the above line
A. Robert Browning C. George Eliot
B. Elizabeth Barrette D. Thomas Hardy
12.What is the message of Tennyson poetry
A. Faith and Trust C. Trust
B. Love D. None
13.Which is the first book in English in poetic prose?
A. Morte d’ Arthur C. Vox Clammintise
B. Confessio Amenities D. None
14.Which of the following tales of Chaucer deals with the Chivalric romance of
plasmon and Arcite?
A. The Knight Tale C. The Persons Tale
B. The Miller Tale D. Nun‟s Tale
15.To whom did Spenser write a complimentary letter explaining the plan and
purpose of his Faerie Queene?
A. To Sir Walter Raleigh C. To Lord Leicester
B. To Lord Ormond D. None
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16.Philip Sidney‟s Apologie for Poetrie is a defence of poetry against the
charges brought against it by____________?
A. Henry Howard
B. Roger Ascham
C. John Skelton
D. Stephen Gosson
17.The study of logic and rhetoric develop a man‟s
A. muscles C. debating power

B. intelligence D. none of the above
18. How did Faustus wrote the deal with Lucifer for selling his soul to him?
A. He signed the deed with a pen

B. He signed the deed with a bible
C. He signed the deed on leather
D. He signed the deed with his blood
19.Who said of Shakespeare: “Sweetest Shakespeare, fancy‟s child, Warble his
native wood-notes wild.”
A) John Dryden C)John Keats
B) John Milton D) John Vanbrugh
20.Spenser‟s Epithalamion is____________?
A. a narrative poem C. an elegy

B. a sonnet D. a wedding hymn

21.“We‟ll build in sonnets pretty rooms”. What is the meaning of “room” here?
A. a place in a house C. room in a mansion

B. stanza in a poem D. veranda
22. What is canonization?
A. accepter of a canon C. to make saint of

B. Having a gun D. a priest
23.Who said‟ the style of paradise lost is lofty and exalted and show the influence
of Latin writers
A. Leguois C. Shakespeare
B. Milton D. None
24. A man who studies a lot is temperamentally ___________
A. active C. smart
B. inactive D. lazy
25.Who made the rhymed version of Paradise lost
A. Pope C. None
B. Swift D. Dryden
26. “Samson Agonistes” differs from its source material, the Biblical book of
A.
B.
C.
D.
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“Judges,” in what way(s) ?
In “Samson,” Samson is blind, but he is not in “Judges.”
In “Samson,” Manoa is Samson‟s father, but he is not in “Judges.”
In “Samson,” Samson is married to Dalila, but he is not in “Judges.”
In “Samson,” Dalila cuts Samson‟s hair, but she does not in “Judges.”
27. “Eyeless in Gaza at the Mill with slaves”, this line taken from which poem of
Milton?
A. Paradise Lost C. Samson Agonistes
B. Paradise Regained D. None
28. The "pulley" of the title refers to
A. the balance between God and nature
B. the conflict between beauty and riches
C. the conflict between blessings and curses
D. God's method of controlling mankind
29.Tom Jones‟ by Henry Fielding was first published in______________?
A. the first half of 19th century C. the 2nd half of 18th century
B. the first half of 18th century D. 19th centur
30. What is Constance's inheritance?
A. She is destitute C. A dowry
B. Jewels D. A set of gowns
31.The Rape of the Lock is a_______________?
A. Parody C. Romance
B. Elegy D. Sonnet
32. Who among the following is not the Lake Poet?
A. Wordsworth B) Coleridge C) Keats D) Southey

33. Which German philosopher inspired the Romantics?

A. Goethe B) Schiller C) Kant D) Netszche
34. Which is the birthplace of Wordsworth?
A. London B) Cockermouth C) Tintern Abbey D) Dublin
35. Whom did Wordsworth marry after being sequrared from A Little Vallon?
A. Mary Huthcinson B) Sara Hutchinson C) Sara Fricker D) None
36. Which is the only ply written by Wordsworth?
A. The Borderers B) Cenci C) Prometheus Unbound D) Cain
37. To which poem did Wordsworth actual plan to ……. the pome Prelude‟?
A. Resolution and Independence B) Tintern Abbey
C) Immortality Ode D) The Recluse
38. When was „Immortality Ode‟ published?
A) 1805 B) 1806 C) 1807 D) 1808
39. What is the theme of „Immortality Ode‟?

A. Pre-existence B) Nativity C) Supernaturalism D) None
40. Whose poems the „conversation poems‟?
A. Wordsworth B) Coleridge C) Keats D) Shelley
41. Which appareled meadow, grove, stream, the earth and every common sight‟,
according to Wordsworth?
42.
43.
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A. Infernal darkness B) Celestial light C) Earthly gloryD) None
Fill in the blanks: “The …………… comes and goes and lovely is the .............................. ”
A. Rose, Rainbow B) Rainbow, Violet C) Rainbow, RoseD) Man, Nature
Which two subjects were linked to the personality of Coleridge?
A. Poetry, Prose B) Poetry, History C) Poetry, Geography D) None
44. Where was Wordsworth‟s house situated?
A. Bristol B) St. Aubins C) St. Patrick D) None
45. Who accompanied Coleridge and Hazlitt the walk?
A. John Paul B) John Crester C) John Bull D) None
46. Where did Coleridge go?
A. France B) America C) Germany D) Italy
47. Who is Wopsole?
A. Office clerk B) Church clerk C) Estate manager D) Pip‟s friend
48. Who is Pumble chook?
A. Joe‟s enemy B) Joe‟s manager C) Joe‟s uncle D) Pip‟s uncle
49. Who teaches alphabets and numbers to Pip?
A. Miss. Havisham B) Estella C) Mrs. Joe D) Biddy
50. How do the numbers appear to Pip?
A. Friends B) Theieves C) Relatives D) Divine
51. Who abandoned Miss. Havisham at the time of marriage?
A. Joe B) Abel Magwitch C) Compeyson D) Pumblechook
52. How many lectures on Heroes and Hero Worship did Carlyle deliver?

A) 4 B) 5 C) 6 D) 7
53. What is the second lecture on Heroes?
A. Hero ad Divinity B) Hero as Prophet
C) Hero as Poet D) Hero as Priest
54. Who are the subject in Hero as Divinity?
A. Odin, Paganism B) Mahomet, Islma
B. Dante, Shakespeare D) Luther, Knox
55. Which lecture is Hero as Poet Dante Shakespeare?
A. II B) III C) IV D) V
56. Who is the Scandinavian God?
A. Luther B) Manomet C) Odin D) None
57. Who are Hero as Priest?
A. Mahomet B) Odin C) Luther, Knox D) Dante, Shakespeare
58. Who are Hero as King?
A. Mahomet B) Luther, Knox C) Cromwell, Napoleon D) None
59. When was Hero as Man of Letters delivered by Carlyle?
A) 8 May 1840 B) 19 May 1840 C) 22 May 1840 D) 12 May 1840
60. Which lecture was Hero as man of Letters?
A) 3 B) 4 C) 5 D) 6
61. When was Heroes and Hero Worship published?
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A) 1840 B) 1841 C) 1842 D) 1843
62. Which Canto of Inferno about Brunetto Latini is referred by Eliot?
A. XIV B) XX C) XV D) XVI
63. Who is referred in Canto XXVI of inferno?
A. Agamenon B) Ulysses C) Brunetto Latini D) Paolo
64. Which play of Shakespeare was recorded by Eliot?

A. Hamlet B) Macbeth C) King Lear D) Othello
65. Whose formula is „inexact according to Eliot?
A. Wordsworth B) Coleridge C) Shelley D) Keats
66. Fill in the blanks: “Poetry is not a turning loose of ………but an …………from
emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality”
A. Emotion, escape B) Escape, emotion C) Feeling, escape D) None
67. Fill in the blanks: “The emotion of art is.............................. ”
A. Personal B) Impersonal C) Personality D) Person
68. When was „Dover Beach‟ published in the anthology „New Poems‟?
A) 1865 B) 1866 C) 1867 D) 1868
69. Who was the wife of Mathew Arnold?
A. Frances Mary B) Frances Lucy Wightman
C) Lucy Nancy D) Frances Wightman
70. When was „Dover Beach‟ probably written?
A) 1850 B) 1851 C) 1852 D) 1853
71. Where was Dover Beach situated?
A. English Channel B) French Channel
C) Black Sea D) Mediterrenean sea
72. What „grating sound‟ did Arnold their on Dover Beach?

A. Sea Gulls B) Pebbles C) Tempests D) None

73. Which dramatist was Sophocles?
A. Roman B) Greek C) French D) German
74. On which sea core did Sophocles hear „the tremulous cadence‟ of sea?
A. Aegean B) Atlantic C) Black D) Ionian
75. Fill in the blanks:
“it brought into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of ………”
A. Human life B) Human misery
C) Human complexities D) Human problems
76. Fill in the blanks: “ ……………
Was once, at the full, and round the earth‟ s shore Lay like the folds of
a…………..furled”
A) Sea of faith, girdle B) River of faith, chain
C) Sea of faith, chain D) None
77. What did Arnold hear from the sound of sea waves?
A. Melancholy B) Happiness C) Divine voice D) None
78. Which image that Hopkins to describe the purification of man?
A) Shield B) Sword C) Anvil D) None
79. Who is transformed by God suddenly?
A. St. Paul B) St. Augustine C) Hopkins D) St. Peter
80. Who is transformed by God very gradually?
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A. St. Paul B) St. Augustine C) Hopkins D) St. Peter
81. What is the old name of St. Paul?
A. Saul B) Constantine C) Benedict D) None
82. Tow which Christian order the five nuns belonged?
A. Anglican B) Protestant C) Franciscan D) None
83. From where did the ship Deutschland start on 4th December, 1875 (Saturday)?
A. Breman B) London C) New York D) Berlin
84. Which nationality were the five nuns?
A. French B) German C) British D) American
85. How many people travelled in Deutschland?
A) 200 B) 300 C) 400 D) 500
86. When did the ship stranded on the sandbank?
A. Friday B) Saturday C) Sunday D) Monday
87. In which sand bank of river Thames was the ship wrecked?
A. Kentish Knock B) Breman C) York D) Wales
88. In which poem of Wilfred Owen do you find the following lines: “…, I said, “here is no
cause to mourn” “None‟, said the other, save the undone years,The hopelessness,
Whatever hope is yours, Was my life also”
A) Futility B) Anthem for Doomed Youth
C) Mental Cases D) Strange Meeting
89. How does the poem Strange meeting end?
A. Let us rest now B) Let us sleep now C) Let us go now D) None
90. Fill in the blanks:
“I am the …………. you killed, my ............................................. ”
A. Enemy, friend B) enemies, friend C) enemy, friends D) friend, enemy
91. Which poem of W.H. Auden imitates the speech of John of Gaunt?

A. Prologue B) Watch any day C) Sir, no man‟s enemy D) A Bride

92. From whom did W.H. Auden borrow the title „Sir, No Man‟s Enemy‟?
A. Milton B) Henry Fielding C) Samuel Richardson D) Dickens
93. to whom was “Sir, No Man‟s Enemy” addressed?
A. Madame Mangeot B) Madame Gregory
C) Lady Gregory D) None
94. To whom was the poem „A Bride in the 1930s” addressed?
A. Madame Mangeot B) Madame Gregory C) Lady Gregory D) None
95. When did W.B. Yeats die?
A) 1938 B) 1939 C) 1940 D) 1941
96. In which essay did Bacon mention that poesy is „the wine of devils…..?
A) Of Studies B) Of Revenge C) Of Truth D) Of Ambition
97. ".....O thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars”.
These lines are from ……
A) The Spanish Tragedy B) The Alchemist C) Dr. Faustus D) Of Revenge
98. The general plan of the Faerie Queene is expounded in the author‟ s letter to ……
A) Alfred Noyes B) Sir Walter Raleigh C) Sir Walter Scott D) Queen Elizabeth
99. Which are the two monsters mentioned in The Book of Job?
A) Hippopotamus and Elephant B) Dolphin and Behemoth
C) Whale and Behemoth D) Behemoth and Leviathan
100.“Redeem your brother by yielding to my will, or he shall die tomorrow”. Who speaks
these words to Isabella?
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A) Claudio B) Marianna C) Angelo D) Lucian
Marks :150 UNIT-5
1. Who are the first characters to appear in this play Macbeth ?
(a) Soldiers. (c) Messengers.
(b) Three Witches. (d) Macbeth and Duncan.
2. What is the weather like at the beginning of the play?
(a) Dark and misty. (b) Sunny and bright.

(c) Lightning and thunder. (d) Torrential rain.
3. What do the witches vow to do at the beginning of the play?
(a) Meet again. (c) Confuse the messengers.
(b) Kill Macbeth. (d) Fool the soldiers.
4. When do the witches want to meet?
(a) After a mighty battle. (c) Before the sun sets.
(b) At the turn of the year. (d) The dawn before Macbeth's death.
5. Where does the sun seem to set at the beginning of the play?
(a) The witches' cauldron. (c) The ground.
(b) The ocean. (d) The heath.
6. Where is this play set?
(a) England. (c) Ireland.
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(b) Wales.
(a) He sees it in a dream.
(b) A witch prophecies it to him.

(d) Scotland.
7. How does Macbeth hear that Birnam Wood is moving towards the castle?
(c) He sees it out his window.
(d) His sentry tells him.
8. How does Lady Macbeth die?
(a) Mistaken for a witch by a servant. (c) Captured by the enemy.
(b) Poison. (d) Suicide.
9. What does the army at Dunsinane do when they reach the castle?
(a) Begin bombarding the castle. (c) Rest.
(b) Pound their drums. (d) Wait for Macbeth.
10. What does Malcolm tell the army to do when they reach the castle at Dunsinane?
(a) Put down their branches. (c) Wipe off their camouflage.
(b) Get some good rest before the action (d) Chant against Macbeth.
begins.
11. Who will lead the first assault on the castle in Act 5, Scene 6?

(a) Siward. (c) Angus.
(b) Macduff. (d) Malcolm
12. Why is Macbeth afraid when the army reaches the castle when he has been so confident
until then?
(a) The witches warnings are coming true. (c) He cannot find his good armor.
(b) He didn't realize how large the army (d) He feels helpless without his wife.
was.
13 . Where did the army get the boughs they are holding?
(a) From the forests near their homes. (c) From Birnam wood.
(b) From trees at the castle. (d) At Dunsinane.
14. What were the boughs held by the army used for?
(a) Protection. (c) Camouflage.
(b) Weapons. (d) Shade.
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15. Where is the army at Dunsinane from?
(a) Wales.
(b) England.
(c) Scotland.
(d) Ireland.
16. What does Macbeth decide he must do when he sees the army at his castle in Act 5, Scene
7?
(a) Flee. (c) Make a truce.
(b) Make a stand. (d) Surrender.
17. Who is the first person killed by Macbeth in the battle at his castle?
(a) Angus. (c) Lennox.
(b) Malcolm. (d) Young Siward.
18. How does Macbeth feel about his first killing in the battle in Act 5, Scene 7?
(a) Confident. (c) Repentant.
(b) Overwhelmed. (d) Furious.
19. Who wants to take revenge personally on Macbeth during the battle at the castle?
(a) Donalbain. (b) General Siward.

(c) Macduff. (d) Malcolm.
20. Why is Macbeth not afraid of the man sworn to take revenge on him?
(a) He had a dream in which he defeated this man.
(b) He knows he is stronger than the man.
(c) He is full of confidence.
(d) The prophecy from the witches gives him courage.
21. What does Macbeth say he will not do when he sees two angry and armed men approach
him in the castle in Act 5, Scene 8?
(a) Retreat. (c) Succumb to fear.
(b) Fall on his sword. (d) Lose the battle.
22. How was Macduff born?
(a) Extracted from his mother's dead corpse. (c) Born prematurely.
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(b) Stillborn, and then revived. (d) Ripped from his mother's womb.
23. Why is Macduff's birth so important to the plot?
(a) Macbeth can not be killed by a man born naturally of a woman.
(b) Macduff is related to Macbeth.
(c) His unique birth gave him strength.
(d) Macbeth and Macduff were born the same way.
24. What does Macduff call Macbeth as they fight?
(a) A tyrant. (c) A pussycat.
(b) A child. (d) A fool.
25. What brings Siward comfort when he hears of his son's death?
(a) Macbeth was defeated. (c) He honored his father.
(b) He died nobly. (d) He died quickly and painlessly
26. Who is crowned king at the end of the play?
(a) Siward. (b) Malcolm.

(c) Macduff. (d) Donalbain.
27. What does Banquo say about the motives of the "instruments of darkness?"
a. They often tell of good things without telling the bad consequences.
b. They are greedy and only make predictions when someone pays enough.
c. Good conquers evil, and their predictions will not come true.
d. The witches are crazy, and don't know what they are saying.
28. Macbeth says, "Stars, hide your fires, Let not light see my black and deep desires." What
are Macbeth's desires?
a. He wants to go home to see Lady Macbeth
b. He wants to raise the taxes in the lands he rules
c. He is very tired. He wants the stars to stop shining so he can sleep.
d. He wants to be king
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29.Why won't Macbeth take the daggers back to the scene of the crime?
a. He can't bear to look at Duncan again
b. He is afraid to be seen and look suspicious
c. He thinks it will be bad luck to touch them again
d. He says he has done enough; Lady Macbeth can return the daggers
30. What did Macduff discover?
a. A note containing the outline of a plot to kill Duncan.
b. An unlocked gate and a drunk porter
c. Another omen -- dead flowers in the garden
d. Duncan's body
31.Who (what) did Macbeth see at the banquet table?
a. The three witches laughing at him c. Blood from the daggers in his wine cup
b. Banquo's ghost d. The image of Duncan's beating heart
32. Witch 2 says, "By the pricking of my thumb, Something wicked this way comes." Who

comes?
a. Banquo's ghost c. Donalbain
b. Macbeth d. Hecate
33.Who first fights Macbeth? What happens?
a. Seyton, and he wounds Macbeth c. Ross, and he defeats Macbeth
b. Malcom and they are both wounded d. Young Siward, and he is killed
34.Which Оf thе fоllоwing plаys Оf shаkеspеаrе, Аccоrding tо T. S. Еliоt, is Аrtistic fаilurе?
А. Thе tеmpеst C. Hеnry IV, Pt I
B. Hаmlеt D. Twеlfth Night
35.Hоw mаny Аcts аrе in williаm shаkеspеаrе's plаys?
А. Thrее C. Fivе
B. Fоur D. Six
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36.Whо sаid thаt Shаkеspеаrе in his cоmеdiеs hаs Оnly hеrоinеs Аnd nо hеrоеs?
А. Bеn jоnsоn
B. Jоhn Ruskin
37.Which wаs shаkеspеаrе‘s shоrtеst plаy?

C. Thоmаs cаrlylе
D. Williаm hаzlitt
А. Hаmlеt C. Thе tеmpеst
B. Thе cоmеdy Оf Еrrоrs D. King lеаr
38.Rоbеrt Jоhnsоn cоmpоsеd 'Full fаthоm fivе' Аnd 'whеrе thе BЕЕ Sucks' writtеn fоr
plаy________________ by Williаm shаkеspеаrе.
А. Thе tеmpеst C. Rоmео Аnd juliеt
B. King lеаr D. Mеаsurе fоr mеаsurе
39.Hоw mаny quаtrаins Аnd cоuplеt in Shаkеspеаrеаn sоnnеts?
А. 3 quаtrаins Аnd 1 cоuplеt C. 3 quаtrаins Аnd 2cоuplеt
B. 2 quаtrаins Аnd 2 cоuplеt D. 4 quаtrаins Аnd 1 cоuplеt
40. ________ plаy hаvе bееn pеrfоrmеd by Shаkеspеаrе's cоmpаny Аt thе cоurt Оf Jаmеs I
Оn dеcеmbеr 26, 1604.

А. Mеаsurе fоr mеаsurе C. Hеnry IV
B. King lеаr D. А midsummеr Night drеаm
41. Аt whаt tаvеrn dо fаlstаff Аnd friеnds cоngrеgаtе in Hеnry IV, pаrt 1?
А. Thе bоаrs hеаd C. Thе pеаrl & swinе
B. Thе sоws еаr D. Thе fоrd Оf sеvеns
42. Whеrе dоеs thе finаl bаttlе Оf thе plаy tаkе plаcе in Hеnry IV, pаrt 1?
А. Fаlkirk C. Shrеwsbury
B. Yоrktоwn D. Shrоpshirе
43. Whо wаs king bеfоrе Hеnry IV pаrt 1?
А. Richаrd III C. Hеnry III
B. Richаrd II D. Еdwаrd III
44. In bаttlе, whаt dоеs fаlstаff cаrry in plаcе Оf А pistоl in Hеnry IV ?
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А. А dаggеr
B. А skin Оf winе
45. Whо kills Hоtspur?

C. А pursе full Оf gоld tо bribе his
еnеmiеs
D. Nоthing
А. Kаtе C. King hеnry
B. Fаlstаff D. Hаrry
46.Why dоеs Hеnry dеcidе tо еxеcutе wоrcеstеr?
А. He dеviоusly chоsе nоt tо cоnvеy hеnrys pеаcе оffеring tо Hоtspur
B. He is in lеаguе with frаncе tо оvеrthrоw Englаnd
C. He stоlе hеnrys dаughtеr Аnd hеld hеr fоr rаnsоm
D. He is А sаrаcеn
47. Аpprоximаtеly whеn wаs thе plаy Hеnry iv writtеn?
А. 1564 C. 1596
B. 1582 D. 1612
48. Whаt is Glyndwrs nаtiоnаlity?

А. Irish C. Scоttish
B. Wеlsh D. Sаxоn
49. Whаt is thе dоuglаss nаtiоnаlity?
А. Еnglish C. Frеnch
B. Wеlsh D. Scоttish
50. TО whаt fаmily dоеs Hоtspur bеlоng?
А. Pеrcy C. Lаncаstеr
B. Wооdvillе D. Plаntаgеnеt
51. Whо is Jоhn Оf lаncаstеr?
А. Hаrrys оldеr brоthеr C. Hаrrys nеphеw
B. Hаrrys brоthеr-in-lаw D. Hаrrys yоungеr brоthеr
52. Whаt is fаlstаffs fаvоritе litеrаry dеvicе?
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А. Thе mixеd mеtаphоr
B. Thе mеtоnym
53. Whаt is fаlstаffs first nаmе?
А. Jоhn
C. Thе pun
D. Prоsоpоpоеiа
C. Jоsеph
B. Jаmеs D. Jаspеr
54. Which cаptivе dоеs Hotspurs wish tо hаvе rеlеаsеd?
А. Bоling brоkе C. Еdmund Оf nоrvillе
B. Yоrk D. Mоrtimеr
55. Hоw dоеs thе Аrchbishоp Оf yоrk fееl Аbоut thе king in Hеnry IV pаrt 1?
А. Hе lоvеs him Аs А brоthеr
B. Hе tоlеrаtеs him, but Оnly bеcаusе hеnrys rеign is sо prоfitаblе tо thе church
C. Hе is Аn аctivе pаrticipаnt in thе rеbеlliоn аgаinst thе king
D. Hе prеtеnds tо lоvе him whilе sеcrеtly hоping fоr thе rеbеls tо dеfеаt him
56. Why dоеs hоtspurs fаthеr sаy hе will nоt gо tо bаttlе in Hеnry IV pаrt 1?

А. It cannot bе wоn
B. Hе is tоо sick
C. Hе hаs rеcеntly discоvеrеd thаt hеnry is his cоusin
D. Hе is wrаckеd with griеf оvеr his wifеs suicidе
57. Hоw did hеnry оbtаin thе crоwn?
А. Hе inhеritеd it frоm his fаthеr B. Hе wоn it in А jоusting tоurnаmеnt
C. Hе tооk it in А rеvоlutiоn
D. Hе wаs givеn it by thе Аrchbishоp Оf cаntеrbury аftеr thе dеаth Оf lоrd hаstings
58.Which Оf thе fоllоwing trаits dо Hаrry Аnd Hоtspur hаvе in cоmmоn?
А. Аgе C. Quick tеmpеr
B. Lоvе fоr kаtе D. Sеxuаl prоmiscuity
59. Whо kills fаlstаff in Hеnry IV pаrt 1?
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А. Hаrry
B. Hоtspur
А. Twо
C. Thе dоuglаs
D. Fаlstаff dоеs nоt diе in thе plаy
60. Hоw mаny chаrаctеrs nаmеd hеnry аrе in thе plаy Hеnry IV pаrt 1?
C. Fоur
B. Оnе D. Thrее
61. Whо hаs thе lоngеst spееch in thе plаy Hеnry IV pаrt 1?
А. Princе hаl C. Fаlstаff
B. Dukе Оf yоrk D. King hеnry
62. Whаt is cоmmоnly bеliеvеd tо bе Sir jоhn fаlstаff's оriginаl nаmе?
А. Sir jаmеs fаlstаff C. Sir jоnаh fаlstаff
B. Sir jоеl fаlstаff D. Sir jоhn оldcаstlе
63. Richаrd II wаs writtеn Аrоund ___________.
А. 1592 C. 1594
B. 1582 D. 1595

64. _____________ is thе first plаy Оf williаm shаkеspеаrе's "sеcоnd
tеtrаlоgy," А grоup Оf fоur histоry plаys Including Hеnry IV pаrt 1, Hеnry IV
pаrt 2, Аnd Hеnry V.
А. Richаrd I C. Richаrd III
B. Richаrd II D. Richаrd IV
65. Аt whаt cаstlе wаs richаrd imprisоnеd until hе diеd?
А. Flint cаstlе C. Bаrklоughly cаstlе
B. Pоmfrеt cаstlе D. Bristоl cаstlе
66. Whо sаid, 'swееt lоvе I sее, chаnging his prоpеrty, Turns tо thе sоurеst Аnd mоst...'?
А. Dukе Оf аumеrlе C. Quееn
B. Bishоp Оf cаrlislе D. Sir stеphеn scrооp
67. Hоw mаny sеrvаnts diеd by Richаrd's swоrd bеfоrе hе wаs struck?
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А. 3
B. 2
А. Hеnry bоlingbrоkе
C. 1
D. 4
68. Whо wаs bаnishеd frоm еnglаnd by King Richаrd Аnd wаs nеvеr аllоwеd tо rеturn?
C. Sir piеrcе Оf Еxtоn
B. Еdmund Оf lаnglеy D. Thоmаs mоwbrаy
69. Whеrе did Bushy, grееn, Аnd thе еаrl Оf wiltshirе diе?
А. Оxfоrd C. Bеrkеlеy
B. Еsssеx D. Bristоl
70.Hоw mаny pеоplе, biblicаl figurеs, Оr dеitiеs аrе mеntiоnеd by nаmе in thе plаy?
А. 38 C. 39
B. 40 D. 41
71. Hоw mаny sоnnеts wеrе writtеn by Shаkеspеаrе?
А. 140 C. 154
B. 164 D. 145

72. In which Оf thе fоllоwing dеcаdеs wеrе shаkеspеаrе sоnnеts writtеn?
А. 1580s C. 1570s
B. 1590s D. 1610s
73. In which yеаr shаkеspеаrе sоnnеts wеrе publishеd first?
А. 1600 C. 1619
B. 1609 D. 1630
74. Which Оf thе fоllоwing Аuthоrs did shаkеspеаrе sоnnеts influеncе?
А. Jоhn drydеn C. Sаmuеl tаylоr cоlеridgе
B. Jоhn kеаts D. Аll thе аbоvе
75. Which Оf thе fоllоwing pоеts rеfеrrеd tо thе 'dаrk lаdy' sоnnеt
sеquеncе Аs 'аbоminаbly hаrsh, оbscurе &wоrthlеss'?
А. Miguеl dе cеrvаntеs C. Bеn jоnsоn
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B. Thоmаs cаmpiоn D. Williаm wоrdswоrth
76. Which lаtin cоncеpt еxplоrеd by shаkеspеаrе in his sоnnеts rеfеrs tо А stаtе which liеs
bеtwееn еtеrnity Аnd thеtеmpоrаl еxistеncе Оf mаtеriаl bеings?
А. Аеlus C. Аеvum
B. Аеgае D. Аеdivum
77. Thе sоnnеts includе А dеdicаtiоn tо А mystеry mаn. Whаt аrе thе initiаls Оf his nаmе?
А. Mr. W. H. C. Mr. P. S.
B. Mr. А. R. D. Mr. W. S.
78. Thе bеginning Оf which quаtrаin nоrmаlly mаrks thе 'vоltа' in shаkеspеаrе sоnnеts?
А. Thе fоurth C. Thе first
B. Thе sеcоnd D. Thе third
79. St. Аugustinе Аnd shаkеspеаrе аrе cоnsidеrеd fоrеrunnеrs Оf А grоup Оf philоsоphеrs
which includеd mаrtin hеidеggеr, jеаn-pаul sаrtrе Аnd аlbеrt cаmus. Whаt is thе nаmе Оf
this grоup?
А. Еssеntiаlists C. Fаtаlists
B. Еxistеntiаlists D. Mаtеriаlists

80. Whо is thе аddrеssее Оf pаrt twо in shаkеspеаrе sоnnеt?

А. А fаir lаdy C. А dаrk lаdy
B. А rivаl pоеt D. А fаir yоuth
81. Which Оf thе fоllоwing is А thеmе dеаlt with in shаkеspеаrе's sоnnеts?
А. Lоvе C. Thе pаssаgе Оf timе
B. Mоrtаlity D. Аll Оf thе аbоvе
82. In his sоnnеts, shаkеspеаrе rеfеrs tо twо wаys tо аchiеvе А minоr fоrm Оf immоrtаlity.
Whаt аrе thеy?
А. Chаrity Аnd pеnitеncе C. Litеrаturе Аnd fаthеrhооd
B. Оrgаn dоnаtiоn Аnd еmbаlming D. Sculpturе Аnd music
83. Shаkеspеаrе sоnnеts 18, 60 Аnd 73 Аll еlаbоrаtе Оn thе оvidiаn cоncеpt 'tеmpus еdаx
rеrum'. Whаt dоеs this Mеаn?
А. Timе, thаt dеvоurs Аll things C. Timе, thаt kееps mоving
B. Timе, thаt аlwаys rеturns D. Timе, thаt stоps Аll things
84. In thе sоnnеt 18 'shаll I cоmpаrе thее tо А summеr's dаy', thе tоnе Оf thе sоnnеts chаngеs
tоwаrds whаt?
А. Indiffеrеncе C. Light-hеаrtеdnеss
B. Jоviаlity D. Rоmаntic intimаcy
85. In thе fоurth vеrsе Оf sоnnеt 18, wе cаn find vоcаbulаry bеlоnging tо which Оf thе
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fоllоwing sеmаntic fiеlds?
А. Trаvеl C. Еcоnоmics
B. Militаry D. Fооd
86. Thе 'еyе Оf hеаvеn' in thе fifth vеrsе Оf sоnnеt 18 rеfеrs tо whаt?
А. Gоd C. Thе mооn
B. Thе sun D. А rаinclоud
87. In this sоnnеt, thе pеrsоn hаs cоmpаrеd his bеlоvеd tо А _______
А. Wintеr's dаy C. Аutum's dаy
B. Spring's dаy D. Summеr's dаy
88. Whаt is thе mеаning Оf 'еtеrnаl summеr' in thе ninth vеrsе Оf sоnnеt 18? But thy еtеrnаl
summеr shаll nоt Fаdе
А. Cоnfidеncе C. Yоuth
B. Lоvе D. Hаppinеss
89. Hоw mаny Оf shаkеspеаrе's sоnnеts dwеll Оn А rеligiоus thеmе?
А. Еvеry оnе Оf thеm C. Just 1
B. 126 D. Thе first 17 Аnd thе lаst 17
90. Pаgliа Аnd frаnk hаvе similаr viеws Оn thе rеligiоus rеfеrеncеs mаdе thrоughоut thе ______ Оf
shаkеspеаrе Sоnnеt.
А. 18 C. 29
B. 166 D. 14
91. In shаkеspеаrе's _____________ thе Аuthоr (whо cоuld bе Аny mаn, nоt nеcеssаrily
shаkеspеаrе) stаrts thе sоnnеt by spеаking Оf his lifе.
А. Sоnnеt 29, whеn in disgrаcе with fоrtunе Аnd mеn's еyеs
B. Sоnnеt 18, shаll I cоmpаrе thее tо А summеr's dаy?
C. Sоnnеt 116, lеt mе nоt tо thе mаrriаgе Оf truе minds

D. Sоnnеt 20, А wоmаn's fаcе with nаturе's Оwn hаnd pаintеd

92. Shаkеspеаrе sоnnеt ____ is thе finаl mеmbеr Оf thе fаir yоuth sеquеncе, in which thе pоеt shоws
hоw timе Аnd nаturе cоincidе.
А. 18 C. 126
B. 166 D. 130
93. Shаkеspеаrе sоnnеts 1 tо 126 fоrm А sеriеs, аddrеssеd tо А ___________.
А. Оld lаdy C. Dаrk lаdy
B. Bеаutiful yоuth D. Child
94. Shаkеspеаrе sоnnеts 127 tо 152 аrе аddrеssеd tо А ____________ .
А. Оld lаdy C. Dаrk lаdy
B. Bеаutiful yоuth D. Child
95. Wеstеrn schоlаrs hаvе trаditiоnаlly usеd thе tеrm 'witchcrаft' tо dеscribе ___________
А. Thе usе Оf supеrnаturаl pоwеrs tо cаusе misfоrtunе
B. Fictiоnаl witchеs аssоciаtеd with hаllоwееn
C. Mаgicаl prаcticеs fоr gооd usеd by wiccаns
D. Nоnе Оf thе аbоvе
96. Which is thе swаn sоng Оf shаkеspеаrе?
A. Mеаsurе fоr mеаsurе C. Thе tеmpеst
B. Lоvе lаbоur‘s lоst D. Twо gеntlеmеn Оf vеrоnа
97.thоsе аrе pеаrls thаt wеrе his еyеs. Whеrе dоеs this linе аppеаr?
A. Оthеllо C. Thе tеmpеst
B. Hаmlеt D. Cymbеlinе
98.TО bе thus is nоthing but tо bе sаfеly thus, whо uttеrs?
A. Mаcbеth C. Lаdy mаcbеth
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B. Hаmlеt
99.Chоrus wаs intrоducеd by shаkеspеаrе in…
A. King Hеnry iv
B. Ruchаrd iii
(A) Lady Macbeth

(B) Gertrude
D. Pоrtiа
C. King Hеnry v
D. Mаcbеth
100.Age cannot wither her, nor custom state, Her infinite variety” This line is about
(C) Desdemona
(D) None
101.What is the name of Antony’s Sword?
A. Philippe C. Romulus
B. Actiuman D.None
102. What Character beside Cleopatra dies by the bite of Caranda?
A.Champagne C.Iran
B. Dolabella D. Diomedes
103. ………………. was the chief of all spirits.
(a) Sycorax (c) Ariel
(b) Caliban (d) Prospero
104.Prospero was the Duke of ……………… .
(a) Naples (c) Mulan
(b) Milan (d) Maples
105. Shаkеspеаrе hаs mоstly usеd in his plаys—
(А) hеrоic cоuplеt (C) frее vеrsе
(B) blаnk vеrsе (D) spеnsеriаn stаnzа
106. ……………….. raised a dreadful storm.
(a) Ariel (c) Miranda
(b) Prospero (d) Sycorax
107.Lеpidus is..............
a. Thе mоst pоwеrful rоmаn sincе rоmulus c. Оnе Оf аntоny's trustеd аdvisоrs
b. А lеpеr d. Thе wеаkеst Оf thе triumvirs
108. Prospero ordered Ariel to bring ………………… to his place.

(a) Gonzalo (c) King of Naples

(b) Ferdinand (d) Antonio
109. …………….. had provided Prospero formerly with books and provisions.
(a) Antonio (c) Gonzalo
(b) Ferdinand (d) Antonio
110. The second human being that Miranda saw on the island was …………. .
(a) Ariel (c) Ferdinand
(b) Prospero (d) Gonzalo
111. Prospero and Miranda lived in a cave divided into several ………….. .
(a) compartments (c) vestibules
(b) apartments (d) partitions
112. Prospero released many good spirits like …………….. .
(a) Sycorax (c) Caliban
(b) Ariel (d) Ferdinand
113. Sycorax, a good spirit imprisoned many in the bodies of large ……………. .
(a) animals (c) barrels
(b) bottles (d) trees
114. Ariel tormented an ugly monster called …………………….. .
(a) Miranda (c) Caliban
(b) Sycorax (d) Prospero
115. ……………… was the son of Sycorax.
(a) Caliban (c) bumpy
(b) smooth (d) blunt
116. Mirnda was just ………………. years old when she came to this cell.
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A.
B.
(a) five
(b) three
А pеаrl
(c) seven
(d) twelve
117. Upоn lеаving Еgypt, whаt dоеs аntоny sеnd tо clеоpаtrа Аs А gift?
А gоldеn cоmb C. А snаkе-shаpеd brаcеlеt
D. А cаsk Оf finе winе
118. Prospero had a younger brother by name …………….. .
(a) Antonio (c) Shylock
(b) Caliban (d) Ferdinand
119. Antonio joined hands with the king of ……………… and betrayed his brother.
(a) Maples (c) Milan
(b) Naples (d) Mulan
120. ………………. was a kind lord of Prospero’s court.
(a) Gonzalo (c) Ariel
(b) Ferdinand (d) Milan
121. Miranda was brought to the island …………… years ago.
(a) fourteen (c) twelve
(b) ten (d) five
122.Whаt dоеs chаrmiаn suggеst thаt clеоpаtrа dо in оrdеr tо quеll Antоny‘s аngеr аgаinst hеr?
A. Publicly dеnоuncе cаеsаr C. Writе him А lоvе lеttеr
B. Sеnd him wоrd thаt shе hаs killеd hеrsеlf D. Lеаvе аlеxаndriа
123. Whоm dоеs аntоny оrdеr tо kill him?
A. Еnоbаrbus C. Diоmеdеs
B. Mаrdiаn D. Еrоs
124. Whаt dоеs cаеsаr intеnd tо dо with clеоpаtrа аftеr аntоny‘s dеаth?
A. Mаrry hеr C. Kill hеr
B. Kееp hеr Оn displаy in rоmе D. Sеnd hеr intо еxilе
125. Hоw dоеs clеоpаtrа kill hеrsеlf?
A. Shе stаbs hеrsеlf with А dаggеr
B. Shе jumps frоm thе tоp Оf hеr mоnumеnt

C. Shе lеts hеrsеlf bе bittеn by pоisоnоus snаkеs

D. Shе drоwns hеrsеlf in thе nilе
126. Shаkеspеаrе livеd during...................
A. Thе thirtееnth Аnd fоurtееnth cеnturiеs
B. Thе еightееnth cеntury
C. Thе sixtееnth Аnd sеvеntееnth cеnturiеs
D. Thе fiftееnth cеntury
127-thе wаr bеtwееn аntоny Аnd оctаvius is initiаtеd by
a. Clеоpаtrа c. Аntоny
b. Оctаvius d. Lеpidus
128.Antоny' mаrriеs оctаvius Cаеsаr's sistеr bеcаusе
A. Thе аlliаncе bеtwееn аntоny Аnd cаеsаr must bе sеаlеd
B. Shе is bеаutiful
C. Lеpidus will kill him оthеrwisе
D. Clеоpаtrа hаs bееn unfаithful, Аnd hе wаnts tо mаkе hеr jеаlоus
129.Which Оf thеsе idеаs is mоst clоsеly rеlаtеd tо fаtе in thе plаy?
A. Thе fаvоr Оf thе gоds C. Drаmаtic gооd fоrtunе
B. Histоricаl nеcеssity D. А lоvеr's fidеlity
130. dоmitius еnоbаrbus is
a. А Еunuch in clеоpаtrа's cоurt c. Аntоny's friеnd Аnd А cynicаl оbsеrvеr Оf
b. Оctаvius' sаunа slаvе еvеnts
d. None of these
131. Оnе Оf Antоny's fаvоritе slаvеs 36 chаrmiаn Аnd Irаs аrе
a. Virgin priеstеssеs Оf Isis c. Clеоpаtrа's sistеrs
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b. Twо Оf thе оlympiаn gоds
132-Pоmpеy
a. Is А pоwеr by sеа
b. Bоth is А pоwеr by sеа Аnd killеd аntоny's
mоthеr
d. Clеоpаtrа's lаdiеs-in-wаiting
c. Killеd аntоny's mоthеr

d. Is А pоwеr by lаnd
133.thе аttitudе Оf mоst Оf Antоny's sоldiеrs rеgаrding аntоny's аffаir with Clеоpаtrа cоuld bеst bе
dеscribеd Аs
a. Sаtisfiеd Аnd prоud c. Lоving Аnd plеаsеd
b. Disdаinful Аnd disаpprоving d. Аngry but surprisеd
134.Octаvius cоuld bеst bе dеscribеd Аs
a. Lоving but irrаtiоnаl c. Аmbitiоus Аnd singlе-mindеd
b. Kind but dеcеitful d. Wеаk Аnd nаïvе
135.Clеоpаtrа is
a. Sеcrеtly in lоvе with оctаvius c. А lоvеr Оf plеаsurе
b. А rеsеntful fеminist d. А grеаt nаvаl strаtеgist
136.Age cannot wither her, nor customer stale” About home are these lines spoken
A. Cleopatra C. Desdemona
B.Miranda D. Cordelia
137.—–life’s a tale, Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
A. Macbeth C. Othello
B. Hamlet D-.King Lear
138.—— the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance”
A. Tempest C. Hamlet
B. Twelfth Night D. None
139.—–I’ll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth and deeper than did ever plummet
sound,
A. The Tempest C. Coriolanus
B. The Winter’s Tale D. None

140.How many words did Shakespeare actually invent?

A. About 3000 C. About 5000
B. About 4000 D-.About 7555
141. —– is the swan song of Shakespeare.
A. The Tempest C. The Merchant of Venice
B. Much Ado About Nothing D. Merry Wives of Windsor
142. The duke disguises himself as:
A. a solider C. a friar
B. a chimney sweep D. Windsor
142. What does the Duke ask Isabella to do at the end of the play?
A. Leave Vienna C. Marry Angelo
B. Become a nun D. Marry him
143.What couple does the duke order be married?
A. Angelo and Mariana C. Mariana and Lucio
B. Angelo and Isabella D. Claudio and Juliet
144.What is the setting for this play?
A. Rome C. Venice
B. London D. Vienna
145.What body part is the also the constable's name?
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A. Big Toe C. Foot
B. Pinky D. Elbow
146. What does Angelo tell Isabella she must do to save her brother?
A. Sleep with him C. Admit that he is guilty

B. Marry him D. Confess to murder
147.Where does the Duke say he is going?
A. England C. Spain
B. Denmark D. Poland
148. From what source is the title taken?
A. Christopher Marlowe C. The Bible

B. Plato D. Cicero
149. Why has Claudio been sentenced to death?
A. Impregnating Juliet C. Embezzlement

B. Murder D. Treason
150.Who does the duke deputize to keep the peace in his absence?
A. Angelo
B. Claudio
C. Escalus
D. Pompey

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1.Read the following passage and answer the question that follows it:
―But the ten poets represented in the following pages all
share a technical master of English verse and a broad
enough thematic concern to make them worthy of the
attention of a wide audience.‖
To which of the following categories does the book alluded to in the above
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statement belong?
(A) An anthology of poetry
(B) An anthology of critical essays on some poets
(C) A book of English prosody
(D) A treatise on poetry and its nature
2. Samuel Beckett wrote—
(A) Volpone
(B) Mother Courage and Her Children
(C) A Doll's House
(D) Endgame
3. Which one of the following author book pair is correctly matched?
(A) Elfriede Jelinek - The Pianist
(B) J. M. Cootzee - Shame
(C) Saul Bellow - Herzog
(D) Salman Rushdie – Disgrace
4. The Plough and the 'Stars' was written by-


(A) G. B. Shaw
(B) Sean O'Casey
(C) Lady Gregory
(D) J. M. Synge
5. Willy Loman is a character in—
(A) Waiting for Godot
(B) A Doll's House
(C) The Cherry Orchard
(D) The Death of a Salesman
6. John Evellyn and Samuel Pepys were the famous writers of—
(A) Editorials
(B) Letters
(C) Essays
(D) Diaries
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7. The subtitle of Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel is—
(A) There was no Subtitle
(B) A Poem
(C) A Satire
(D) A satire on the True Blue Protestant Poets
8. Who of the following is not a periodical essayist?
(A) Richard Steele
(B) Lancelot Andrews
(C) Joseph Addison
(D) Jonathan Swift
9. "Did he who made the Lamb made thee" appears in—
(A) "Introduction"
(B) "The Tyger"
(C) "Chimney Sweeper"
(D) "London"


10. Which of the following thinker-concept pairs is rightly matched?
(A) I. A. Richards - Archetypal criticism
(B) Northrop Frye - Practical criticism
(C) Jacqes Devide - New Historicism
(D) Stanley Fish - Reader Response
11. "Essays of Elia" are—
(A) Economic disparity
(B) Literary criticism
(C) Political ideology
(D) Personal impressions
12. Which of the following thinker-concept pairs is rightly matched?
(A) Mamata - Vakrokti
(B) Abhinava Gupta - Kavya Alankar
(C) Bharata - Natya Shastra
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(D) Vaman – Dhwanyaloka
13. Choose the correct sequence of the following schools of criticism—
(A) Deconstruction, New Criticism, Structuralism, Reader Response
(B) Reader Response, Deconstruction, Structuralism, New Criticism
(C) New Criticism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader Response
(D) Structuralism, New Criticism, Deconstruction, Reader Response
14. "Peripeteia" means—
(A) Tragic flaw
(B) Recognition of error
(C) Purgation of emotion
(D) Reversal of fortune
15. "Gynocriticism" focuses on—
(A) Criticism of male writers by women writers
(B) Criticism on women
(C) Criticism by women


(D)Women as writers
16. Samuel Butler's Hudibras is modelled upon—
(A) Don Ouixote
(B) Endymion
(C) "Annus Mirabilis"
(D) Pilgrim's Progress
17. Who was the last of the Christian Humanists?
(A) John Bunyan
(B) Oliver Cromwell
(C) John Milton
D) Richard Crashaw
18. The narrative of Raja Rao's Kanthapura is based on—
(A) The Ramayana
(B) The Mahabharata
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(C) Puranas
(D) Shastras
19. Which of the following author-book pair is correctly matched?
(A)Arundhati Roy - Algebra of Infinite Justice
(B) Shashi Tharoor - Trotter's Name
(C) C. L. R. James - The English Patient
(D) David Madouf - The City of Djins
20. Who wrote 'A tiger does not proclaim its tigretude'?
(A) Derek Walcott
(B) Soyinka
(C) Achebe
(D) Ngugi
21. "Jindiworobak" movement relates to—
(A) Caribbean literature
(B) Canadian literature


(C) Australian literature
(D) New Zealand literature
22. The Montreal group of poets championed the cause of—
(A) Modernist poetry
(B) Imagist poetry
(C) Symbolist Poetry
(D) Nature Poetry
23. The figure of the "Abyssinian Maid" appears in—
(A) "Kubla Khan"
(B) "Frost at Midnight"
(C) "Dejection: an Ode"
(D) "Christabel"
24. Coleridge's statement that imagination "dissolves, diffuses, dissipates in
order to
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recreate" relates to—
(A) secondary imagination
(B) esemplastic imagination
(C) fancy
(D) primary imagination
25. Who among the following is a writer of historical romances?
(A) Walter Savage
(B) Walter Scott
(C) Jane Austen
(D) Emily Bronte
26. Which of the following sequences is correct?
(A) Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond, Middle-march, The Return of the Native
(B) Henry Esmond, Vanity Fair, Middle-march, The Return of the Native
(C) Middlemarch, The Return of the Native, Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond
(D) The Return of the Native, Middle-march, Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond


27. Queen Victoria's reign, after whom the. Victorian period is named,
spans—
(A) 1833- 1901
(B) 1837- 1901
(C) 1840-1905
(D) 1842-1905
28. Pre-Raphaelite poetry is mainly concerned with—
(A) narrative and style
(B) narrative and nature
(C) form and design
(D) form and value
29. The concept of "mad woman in the attic" can be traced to—
(A) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
(B) Villette
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C) Wuthering Heights
(D) Jane Eyre
30. Who among the Victorians is called "the prophet of modern society"?
(A) Ruskin
(B) Carlyle
(C) Macaulay
(D) Arnold
31. Who among the following is not a pilgrim in The Canterbury Tales?
(A) The Haberdasher
(B) The Tapyser
(C) The Blacksmith
(D) The Summoner
32. Bosola is the executioner in—
(A) The Spanish Tragedy
(B) The Duchess of Malfi


(C) The White Devil
(D) The Jew of Malta
33. The mystery plays deal with—
(A) The life of Christ
(B) The New Testament
(C) Psalms
(D) Apocrypha
34. The Faerie Queene is based on—
(A) Utopia
(B) Tottel's Miscellany
(C) Morte d' Arthur
(D) Orlando Furioso
35. Choose the correct chronological sequence of the following plays—
(A) King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet
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(B) Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet
(C) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
(D) Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth
36. Pope's "Essay on Criticism" sums up the art of poetry as taught first
by—
(A) Aristotle
(B) Horace
(C) Longinus
(D) Plato
37. Swift's Tale of a Tub is a satire on—
(A) Science and philosophy
(B) Art and morality
(C) Dogma and superstition
(D) Fake morals and manners
38. Dr. Johnson started—


(A) The Postman
(B) The Spectator
(C) The Rambler
(D) The Tatler
39. Who among the following cautioned against the dangers of popular
liberty—
(A) Mary Wollstonecraft
(B) Edmund Burke
(C) Thomas Hobbes
(D) John Locke
40. Which famous American classic opens with "Call me Ishmael"?
(A) Rip Van Winkle
(B) The Scarlet Letter
(C) The Grapes of Wrath
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(D) Moby Dick
41. Allen Ginsberg's Vision of America is inspired by—
(A)Walt Whitman
(B) Robert Frost
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(D) Edgar A. Poe
42. Who among the following represents the Sri Lankan diaspora?
(A) M. G. Vassanji
(B) Cyril Debydeen
(C) Michael Ondaatje
(D) Arnold H. Itwaru
43. Out of Africa is a film adaptation of a work by-
(A) Alice Walker
(B) Margaret Lawrence
(C) Margaret Atwood


(D) Alice Munro
44. The Empire Writes Back was writen by—
(A) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Ngugi Wa Thinngo
(B) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Stephen Slemon
(C) Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Chinua Achebe
(D) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Gareth Griffiths
45. The Theatre of Cruelty is associated with—
(A) Stanislavosky
(B) Grotovsky
(C) Antonin Artand
(D) Eugino Barba
46. A particle is—
(A) A patchwork of words, sentences, passages
(B) A satirical poem
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(C) A love song
(D) A collection of lines from different poems
47. "Careless she is with artful Care/Affecting to seem unaffected" is an
example of—
(A) Irony (B) Paradox (C) Simil (D) Metaphor
48. A metrical foot containing a stressed, followed by an unstressed, syllable
is—
(A) Anapaest (B) Iamb
(C) Trochee (D) Dactyl
49.Who invented and popularised the phrase, ‗Poetic Justice‘?
(A) Dryden (B) Johnson (C) Rymer (D) Shakespeare
50. A 'Ballad Stanza' is of-
(A) Two lines (B) Three lines
(C) Four lines (S) Five lines

Answers
1. (A) 2. (D) 3. (C) 4. (B) 5. (D)

6. (D) 7. (B) 8. (D) 9. (C) 10. (D)
11. (D) 12. (C) 13. (B) 14. (D) 15. (D)
16. (A) 17. (A) 18. (C) 19. (A) 20. (C)
21. (A) 22. (A) 23. (A) 24. (D) 25. (B)
26. (A) 27. (B) 28. (C) 29. (C) 30. (D)
31. (B) 32. (B) 33. (B) 34. (C) 35. (C)
36. (C) 37. (C) 38. (C) 39. (B) 40. (A)
41. (A) 42. (C) 43. (B) 44. (C) 45. (B)
46. (A) 47. (B) 48. (C) 49. (C) 50. (C)
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1. Choose the best from order the four options in the following
jumbled up sentence:
Of their passions is a knowledge knowledge of mankind
1 2 3 4
a) 3, 2, 4, 1 b) 3, 4, 2, 1
c) 1, 3, 2, 4 d) 4, 3, 2, 1
2. The French writer who influenced Francis Bacon is–
a) Montesquieu b) Ro usseau
c) Montaigne d) Taine
3. Read the lines that follow that answer the question based on
them:
Created half to rise and half to fall;


Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all.
Which of the following statement best articulates the human
condition, suggested in the above lines?
a) Man is a mysterious being, defying all logic
b) Man‘s state in the world is paradoxical
c) Man is doomed to failure
d) Man is a social being
4.The line " Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of
the world" is by–
a) P.B. Shelley b) John Keats
c) Mathew Arnold d) Ezra Pound
5. "Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask: Thou smilest and art still,
Out-topping knowledge."
In these lines from a-poem written by Matthew Arnold, 'Thou'
refers to:
a) Milton
b) Spenser
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c) Shakespeare
d) Wordsworth
6. What is NOT an item or ability brought back by the Gnome to
fight the Baron?
a) Punching
b) Crying
c) Screams
d) Sighs
7. According to Pope, which weighed more?
a) The Parade of Gnomes
b) The lapdog
c) The hair
d) The men's wits
8.What does Belinda's hair become in the end?
a) A group of stars
b) Part of a rug
c) The Baron's necklace
d) A wig
9. During what time period was "the way of the world" written?


a) The rehabilitation
b) The reformation
c) The restoration
d) The reconstruction
10. What genre of play is "the way of the world"?
a) Restoration comedy/comedy of manners
b) Tragedy
c) Commedia Dell'arte
d) Comedy
11. Who is the author of "the school for scandal"?
a) Richard Brinsley Sheridan
b) Madeline Cohen
c) Oscar Wilde
d) William Shakespeare
12.What genre of literature is "the school for scandal"?
a) Poetry
b) Autobiography
c) Drama
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d) Novel
13.How many acts are there in "the school for scandal"?
a) 3
b) 4
c) 2
d) 5
14.How does the play begin?
a) With a portrait
b) With a prologue
c) With act 1, scene 1
d) With act 1, scene 1
15.Who is onstage at the beginning of act 1, scene 1?
a) A.Only lady Sneerwell
b) B.Lady Sneerwell and Snake
c) C.Lady Sneerwell, Snake, and Servant
d) D.Only snake
16.Why does Lady Sneerwell spread rumors about others?
a) A.She was raised without a mother
b) B.She wants snake to fall in love with her


c) C.She thinks its the right thing to do
d) D.Her reputation was ruined when she was younger
17.Who does Lady Sneerwell love?
a) A.Sir Peter
b) B.Joseph
c) C.Snake
d) D.Charles
18.Who does Joseph love?
a) A.Lady Sneerwell's Servant
b) B.Maria
c) C.Lady Sneerwell
d) D.LadyTteazle
19.Who does Charles love?
a) A.Lady Teazle
b) B.Maria
c) C.Lady Sneerwell
d) D.Lady Sneerwell's Servant
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20. Which term in Indian aesthetics refers to the process of
Generalisation?
a) bhavakatva
b) tamas
c) sattva
d) sadharanikarana
21. Which aspect helps the sahrdaya or the aesthetically sensible
person to see the characters presented in a literary work in a
generalised manner?
a) denotation
b) Imagination
c) Inference
d) connotation
22. Who among the following validates how the poetic language
triggers the aesthetic process
through its suggestiveness?
a) Mammata
b) Bhattanayaka
c) Anandavardhana
d) Abhinavagupta


23. Which term is used by Abhinavagupta to denote ―relating‖,
―narrating‖ or ―describing‖ emotive conditions.
a) bhavanukirtanam
b) anumana
c) bhavaktwa
d) bhojakatwa
24. How does Macbeth feel about what his army has done while
the army in Dunsinane prepares for battle?
a) He is proud of their cunning.
b) He cares not at all.
c) He is angered.
d) He is still confident that he will win.
25. Which play of Shakespeare does Northrop Frye use to
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explicate the inductive method of analysis?
a) Othello b) King Lear c) Hamlet d) Macbeth
26. Spenser's---------- is written on the epic model.
a) Prothalamion b) Faerie Queen c) Epithalamion d) Amoretti
27. The theme of the Epic is called ------------
a) invocation b) prologue c) proposition d) epilogue
28. The literary epic begins in the ------------
a) first book b) fifthe book c) tenth book d) middle
29. "The Battle of the Frog and Mice" is a Parody of-----------
a) Homer's Iliad b) Homer's Odyssey
c) Virgil's Aenied d) Aristotle's Poetics
30. The Battle of the Books is written by-----------


a) Alexander Pope b) Swift c) Dryden d) Daniel Defoe
31. The epic has ----character.
a) comic b) heroic c) innocent d) ordinary
32. lliad and Odyssey are----------- epics.
a) literary b) mock c) traditional d) primary
33. Milton's Paradise Lost consists of -----------books.
a) ten b) twelve c) fourteen d) twenty four
34. The setting of an epic is---------
a) vast b) limited c) average d) beautiful
35. The action in an epic involves --------------deeds.
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a) super human b) ordinary c) kind d) violent
36. In the poem, The "Rape of the Lock‖ who was "shock"?
a) The dog
b) Umbriel
c) The Baron
d) The maid
37. What do women of "soft yielding minds" become after death?
a) Gnomes
b) Sylphs
c) Nymphs
d) Salamanders
38. Who adores the "sparkling cross" Belinda has on her neck?
a) Jews
b) Gallant
c) Priests
d) Infidels
39. The predominant literary device in the line "Or Stain her
honor or her new brocade" (canto 2- line 107) is:
a) Repetition


b) Zeugma
c) Assonance
d) Soliloquy
40. What card game do the Baron and Belinda play?
a) Poker
b) Yablon
c) Hearts
d) Ombre
ANSWER KEY
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
B C B A C A C A C A A C D A B D D B B D
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
B D A D C B C D A B A C B A A A C D B D
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Choose the best answers
1. Chaucer wrote in which of the following dialects?
(a) Northern English (b) East-Midlands
(c) West-Midlands (d) south-Eastern
2. The music of the ―Beatles‖ represented

(a) Cult of Youth (b) Culture of sobriety
(c) High moral seriousness (d) Low, irreverent life
3. Cloud Nine and Top Girls by Cyril Churchill are
(a) Novels of science fiction (b) Plays about gender politics
(c) Poems of children (d) Stories in Gothic style


4. Which of the following novels of Steinbeck is considered his classic?
(a) Cup of Gold
(b) The Pastures of Heaven
(c) The Grapes of Wrath
(d) East of Eden
5. Norman Mailer‘s The Naked and The Dead is a novel about
(a) World War 1 (b) World War 2
(c) American Civil War (d) Vietnam War
6. Who among the following is known as the leader of the Beats?
(a) Allan Ginsberg (b) Robert Lowell
(c) E.E. Cummings (d) Randall Jarrell
7. Which of the following tales is in prose?
(a) The Parson’s tale (b) The Wife of Bath‘s Tale
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(c) The Cook‘s Tale (d) The Squire‘s
8. Chaucer was a poet of the

(a)Thirteenth Century (b) Fourteenth Century
(c) Fifteenth Century (d) Twelfth Century
9. Which of the following poems of Chaucer is considered the first novel
in English?
(a) The Book of the Duchess (b) The House of Fame
(c)The Parliament of fowls (d) Troilus and Criseyde
10. Which of the following poems of Chaucer is unfinished?
(a) Troilus and Criseyde (b) The parliament of fowls
(c) The Legend of Good women (d) The House of Fame
11. For the general idea of his the Canterbury Tales Chaucer was indebted
to
(a) Petrarch (b) Dante (c) Boccaccio (d) Virgil
12. Where do the pilgrims of the Canterbury tales meet in London?
(a) Fleet street (b) tabard Inn (c) Grub Street (d) London Club


13. How many tales are to be told by each pilgrim ?
(a) Four (b) One (c) Two (d) Three
14. The pilgrims are going to visit the tomb of
(a) Saint john (b) Thomas Acquinas (c) Saint Mary (d) Thomas a Becket
15. Chaucer‘s Troilus and Criseyde is written in
(a) Heroic couplet (b) Quatrain (c) Ottava Rima (d) rime royal
16. The first poem in English to use heroic couplet is
(a) The Legend of Good women (b) The house of fame
(c) The parliament of fowls (d) The book of the duchess
17. Who among the following is called the father of English prose?
(a) Bacon (b) More (c) Wyatt (d) Wycliffe
18. Dream allegory was a popular poetic form during the
(a) Renaissance (b) Medieval period (c) Ancient period (d) puritan age
19. ―Skeltonics‖ is a form of
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(a) Stanza (b) Metre (c) comparison (d) conceit
20. The first printing press in England was introduced in
(a) 1340 (b) 1505 (c)1422 (d) 1476
21. The term ―poulter‘s Measure‖ was coined by
(a) Shakespeare (b) surrey (c) Gascoigne (d) Sidney
22. Which of the following works of Daniel is a romance
(a) The Complaynt of Rosamond (b) Delia
(c) the Queenes Wake (d) Hymn‘s Triumph
23. Which of the following Elizabethan anthologies of poetry contains
poems on the death of Sidney?
(a) Tottel‘s miscellany (b) The Phoenix Nest
(c) The Passionate Pilgrim (d) England‘s Helicon
24. The ―marlowian hero‖ is known for his hunger for
(a)gold (b) Power (c)Knowledge (d) peace
25. Shakespeare addressed his sonnets to a male named


(a) Mr. W.H (b)Marlowe (c)Mr. H.W (d)Dark Gentleman
26. Characters was composed by
(a)Ben Johnson (b) Thomas Over bury
(c) Robert Burton (d) Francis Bacon
27. ―Drink to me only with thine eyes‖ figures in
(a) Shakespeare (b) Keats (c) Byron (d) Jonson
28. Who wrote the following? ―Cover her face .My eyes dazzle. She died
young.‖
(a) Shakespeare (b) Marlowe (c) Webster (d) Jonson
29. The revised Paradise Lost, issued in 1674, contains
(a) 12 Books (b) 10 Books (c) 14 Books (d) 11 Books
30. Comparison of a pair of lovers to a pair of compass is an example of
(a) Petrarchan conceit (b) Neo-classical simile
(c) Romantic irony (d) Metaphysical conceit
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31. Who among the following belongs to the ―Correct School‖ of poetry?
(a) Donne (b) Milton (c) Dryden (d) Cowley
32. About whom did Dr. Johnson say that he did to English literature what
Augustus did to Rome, which he ―found of brick and left of marble
(a) Dryden (b) Pope (c) Milton (d) Shakespeare
33. Flecknoe of Dryden‘s MacFlacknoe is the ―father‖ of
(a) Shakespeare (b) Absalom (c) Achitophel (d) Shadwell
34. ―Great wits are sure to madness near allied,‖ appears in which of the
following poems?
(a) MacFlecknoe (b) The Dunciad
(c) Abasalom and Acbitophel (d) The Rape of the Lock
35. The Neo-classical poetry is largely written in
((a) Heroic couplet (b) Rime royal (c) Ottava rima (d) Heroic Quatrain
36. The principal aspects of neo-classical poetry are
(a) Ambiguity and paradox (b) Wit and satire


37. Who said ―I shall endeavour to enliven morality with wit, and to temper
wit with morality‖?
(a) Pope (b) Swift (c) Steele (d) Addison
38. Swift‘s The Battle of the Books (1794 ) is about the dispute between
ancient and modern authors initiated by
(a) William Temple (b)Alexander Pope
(c) Jonathan Swift (d) Richard Steele
39. In Swift‘s Gulliver‘s Travels (1726), who represent the giants?

(a) Lilliputians (b) Brobdingnagians
(c) Laputans (d) Houyhnhnms
40. Addison‘s Cato is a

(a) Mask (b) Comedy (c) Tragedy (d) Epic
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41. The Spectator was issued
(a) Thrice a week (b) Daily (c) Twice a week (d) Weekly
42. Steele‘s prose comedies laid the foundation of the Sentimental
Comedy of the Augustan Age. The first of his comedies was:
(a) The Conscious Lovers (b) The Tender Husband
(c) The Lying Lover (d) The Funeral
43. ―Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike‖ describes

(a) Addison (b) Swift (c) Steele (d) Arbuthnot
44. ―True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,/ As those move
easiest who have learned to dance.‖ This statement expresses
the critical credo of
(a) the Elizabethan poets (b) the Metaphysical poets
(c) the neo-classical poets (d) the Romantic poets
45. The title of Hardy‘s Far From the Madding Crowd is derived from


(a) Gray’s Elegy (b) Bunyan‘s Pilgrim‘a progress
(c)Pope‘s Essay on Man (d) Johnson‘s vanity of Human Wishes
46. ―My love‘s like a red, red rose‖ appears in the work of
(a) Browning (b) Burns (c) Blake (d) Bridges
47. Who wrote his novels in epistolary form?
(a) Richardson (b) Defoe (c) Fielding (d) Sterne
48. Richardson‘s novels are known for
(a) Satire (b) Sentimentality (c) songs (d) Realism
49. The rise of the English novel in the 18th century was due to the rise of
(a) Peasantry (b) Middle classes (c) Industrial workers (d) Women
50. Who launched the newspaper, The Watchman, For Converting
humanity?
(a) Blake (b) Coleridge (c) Shelley (d) Byron
51. Which of the following poems of Coleridge was conceived in a dream?
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(a) ―Christabel‖ (b) ―The Ancient Mariner‖
(c) ―Dejection: An Ode‖ (d) “Kubla Khan‖
52. The phrases ―Starlit Dome‖ and ―Road to Xanadu‖ appear in which of
the following poems?
(a) ―Ode on a Grecian Urn‖ (b) “Kubla Khan”
(c) ―The Witch of Atlas‖ (d) ―The Ancient Mariner‖
53. In which Chapter of Biographia Literaria (1817) does Coleridge make a

distinction between Fancy and Imagination
(a) IX (b) XI (c) XIII (d) XV
54. In which Chapter of Biographia Literaria does Coleridge criticize
wordsworth‘s theory of language?
(a) X (b) XII (c) XVI (d) XIV
55. Lectures on Shakespeare by Coleridge was published
(a) In his life time (b) In his mature years


(c) Posthumously (d) In the year of his death
56. ―She Walks in beauty like the night‖ appears in

(a) Keats (b) Shelley (c) Browning (d) Byron
57. Who among the following wrote satirical Poems?
(a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge (c) Byron (d)Shelley
58. Who among the following is known as a peasant poet?
(a) Thomas Hood (b) James Hogg (c) Thomas Moore (d) John Clare
59. Walter Scott‘s The Minstrlesy of the Scottish Border (1802) is a work
(a) Of Scott and his contemporaries (b) Of his own poems
(c)Of editing old material (d) Edited by several hands including Scott
60. Walter scott is known as the father of

(a) Historical novel (b) Biographical novel
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(c) Gothic novel (d) Realistic novel
61. Samuel Johnson wrote the Lives of the Poets. Who wrote the Lives of
the Novelists?
(a) Jane Austen (b) Walter Scott
(c) Maria Edgeworth (d) Robert Southey
62. ―On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts‖ by De Quincey is

about
(a) Shakespearean tragedy (b) Blake humour
(c)Elizabethan comedy (d) Jacobean tragedy
63. Who held ―there inches of ivory‖ as an appropriate canvas for a

novelist?
(a) Walter Scott (b) Jane Austen
(c) Maria Edgeworth (d) Virginia Woolf


64. Who considered ―there or four families in a country village‖ as an ideal
subject for the novel?
(a) Virginia Woolf (b) Jane Austen
(c) Maria Edgeworth (d) George Eliot
66. Who is the most representative poet of the Victorian age?

(a) Arnold (b) Browning (c) Swimburne (d) Tennyson
67. Which of the following ―dramatic monologues ―is best known?
(a)The bishop orders his tomb at saint praxed‘s (b) Fra Lippo Lippi
(c) Rapi Ben Ezra (d) My Last Duchess
68. Who, among the following , was the leading Pre-Raphaelite Poet?
(a)W.B. Yeats(b)G.D. Rossetti(c) William Morris(d) A.C. Swinburne
69. The author of The Blessed Damozel is
(a) Byron(b) Shelley(c) Keats(d) Rossetti
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(c) Earthly Paradise (1868-70) (d) A Dream of John Ball (1888)
70. Bleak House (1852) is a critique of
(a) The Law courts
(c) The industry
(b) The school system
(d)The rich class
71. Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield (1850)
(a) Thackeray (b) Tennyson (c) Dickens’s father (d) Dickens himself
72. Who, among the following, was born in India?
(a) Dickens (b) Browning(c) Tennyson(d) Thackeray
73. A Table of Two Cities (1859) relates to the cities of
(a) York and London (b) London and Paris
(c) Rome and London (d) Rome and Paris
74. Which of the following has for its subtitle ―novel without hero‖?
(a)Vanity Fair (b) A Table of Two Cities
(c) The Virginians (d) Hard Times
75. Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Bronte deals with


(a) The plight of women (b) Corruption in education
(c) condition of prisons (d) Injustice in courts
76. George Eliot‘s First novel was
(a) Adam Bede (b) The Mill on the Floss
(c) Silas Marner (d) Daniel Deronda
77. R.L. Stevenson is best known by
(a) Kidnapped (b) The Black Arrow
(c) Treasure Island (d) Travels with a Donkey
78. Which of the following works of Ruskin is on economics?
(a) Modern Painters (b) Munera pulveris
(c) Unto This Last (d) Sesame and Lilies
79. ―Pathetic fallacy‘‘ is a coinage of
(a) carlyle (b) Beardsley (c) wimsatt (d) Ruskin
80. Studies in the history of the renaissance (1873) was written by
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(a) macaulay (b) Carlyle (c) pater (d) rossetti
81. Who among the following was not an evolutionist or agnostic?
(a) Darwin (b) Macaulay (c) T.H. Huxley (d) Spencer
82. Who wrote Alice in wonderland (1865)?
(a) Lewis Carroll (b) Mary lamp (c) Christine Rossetti (d) Virginia Woolf
83. The actual name of Lewis Carroll was Charles Dodgson who was at
oxford a?
(a) Physician (b) mathematician (c) historian (d) literary critic
84. Oscar wild‘s the importance of being earnest (1895) is a
(a) Classical comedy (b) romantic comedy
(c) farcical comedy (d) pastoral comedy
85. Who is known for the ―Wessex Novel‖?
(a) Walter Scott (b) Thomas hardy
(c) George Meredith (d) Anthony Trollope


86. Tess of the D‘Urbervilles (1891) has for its subtitle which of the
following
(a) A Poor Woman (b) A Countary maid
(c)A Pure woman (d) A Tainted woman
87. G.B.S stands for
(a) garage bishop of Shaftesbury (b) great Britain‘s symphony
(c) George Bernard Shaw (d) George bacon of Stratford
88. New group street (1891) by George Gissing is a
(a) Tragic drama (b) novel about poor artists
(c) history of group street (d) farcical comedy
89. George moore‘s a modern lover (1883) was banned for being
(a) Anti-Christian (b) Anti-Feudal (c) Immoral (d) Anti-Colonial
90. Kipling‘s The White Man‘s Buden (1899) is
(a) A novel about India (b) An essay on imperialism
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(c) A poem addressed to American imperial mission
(d) A treatise opposing colonialism
91. Which of the following is called the ―Decade of Decadence‖?
(a) 1890’s (b) 1920‘s (c) 1880‘s (d) 1910‘s
92. Who among the following was not a member of the ―Rhymer‘s Club‖?
(a) Lionel Johnson (b) Ernest Dowson
(c) W.B Yeats (d) Thomas Hardy
93. ―Preface‖ to which of the following novels of Conrad expresses his
theory of the novel?
(a) Lord Jim (b) The Secret Agent
(c) Under Western Eyes (d) Nigger of Narcissus
94. Mrs. Warren‘s Profession (1894) is a play by
(a) W.B Yeats (b) G.B Shaw (c) Harold Pinter (d) George Osborne
95. Which of the following plays of Shaw has ―An Anti-Romantic Comedy‖
as its subtitle?


(a) Saint Joan (b) Pygmalion
(c) Arms and the Man (d) The Apple Cart
96. Which of the following plays of Shaw is a satire on bourgeois
democracy?
(a) The Apple Card (b) Man and Superman
(c) Pygmalion (d) Arms and the Man
97. Who among the following was a ―Fabian Socialist‖?
(a) Oscar Wilde (b) Bernard Shaw (c) W.B Yeats (d) John Synge
98. The Countess Kathleen (1892) by W.B Yeats highlights injustice to
(a) Women (b) Workers (c) The Welsh (d) The Irishmen
99. Yeats‘s sequence of plays On Baile‘s Strand (1903) is concerned with
the heroism of
(a) MacBride (b) Cuchulain (c) Major Gregory (d) Maud Gonne
100. The Japanese ‗Noh‘ drama, which Yeats and Pound followed, is
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essentially
(a) Impressionistic (b) Expressionistic (c) Symbolic (d) Realistic
101. Whose ambition was it to achieve poetical poetical and legendry
drama?
(a) W.B. Yeats (b) G.B. Shaw (c) J,M. Synge (d) T.s. Eliot
102. Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats set up the Abbey Theatre in 1904 in
(a) London (b) Canterbury (c) Dublin (d) Ezra Pound
103. The symbolic and ritual Noh drama of Japan was recommended to
Yeats by
(a) T.S. Eliot (b) G.B. Shaw (c) J.M. Synge (d) Ezra Pound
104. The Edwardian Age spreads from
(a) 1901-1914 (b) 1895-1905 (c) 1901-1910 (d) 1904-1918
105. Which of the following is a science fiction novel?
(a) The Time Machine (b) Far From the Madding Crowd
(c) Pilgrimage (d) The Three Sisters


106. E.M. Forster did not write which of the following novels?
(a) A Passage to India (b) A Room of One’s Own
(c). A Room with a View (d) Where Angels Fear to Tread
107. E.M. Forster worked as secretary to the Maharaja of
(a) Jaipur (b) Jodhpur (c) Dewas Senior (d) Mysore
108. Jacob‘s Room (1922) was written by whom?
(a) Virginia Forster (b) E.M. Forster
(c) D.H. Lawrence (d) James Joyee
109. Who among the following said, ―I have desired , like every artist, to
create a little world Out of the beautiful, pleasant and significant things of
the marred and clumsy world.‖
(a) T.S. Eliot (b) W.B. Yeats (c) A.C. Swinburne (d) W.H. Auden
110. ―We were the last romantics‖ appears in a poem by
(a) W.B. Yeats (b) A.C. Swinburne (c) John Keats (d) Matthew Arnold
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111. Maud Gonne said the following about whom: ―The world should be
thankful to me for not marrying him ?‖
(a) W.B. Yeats (b) John Keats (c) Lord Byron (d) Robert browning
112. who said that ―in or about December, 1910, human Character
changed‖?
(a) Virginia Woolf (b) Willa Cather
(c) Katherine Ann Porter (d) Edith Wharton
113. ―Modern Fiction‖ (1919) was written by
(a) Henry James (b) Joseph Conrad
(c) Virginia Woolf (d) D.H. Lawrence
114. Who among the following does not belong to the ―Bloomsbury‖
group?
(a) Henry James (b) Virginia Woolf
(c) E.M. Forster (d) Lytton Strachey
115. The ―Stream of Consciousness‖ phrase was coined by


(a) Virginia Woolf (b) James Joyce
(c) Henry James (d) William James
116. Who among the essay ―Surgery for the Novel-or a Bomb‖?
(a) D.H. Lawrence (b) Joseph Conrad
(c) Ford Madox Ford (d) Ernest Hemingway
117. Which of the following is not by D.H. Lawrence?
(a) Why the Novel Matters (b) Morality and the Novel
(c) Modern Fiction (d) Surgery for the novels
118. Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence is a
(a) Novel of fantasy (b) Treatise on personality
(c) Science-fiction work (d) Dream allegory
119. Which of the following novels of Lawrence is autobiographical?
(a) Kangaroo (1923) (b) The Plumed Serpent (1926)
(c) Women in Love (1921) (d) Sons and Lovers (1913)
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120. Which of the novels of Lawrence has its setting in Mexico?
(a) The Plumed Serpent
(c) The Rainbow
(b) Kangaroo
(d) The Virgin and the Gipsy
121. Which of the following novels is a ―sequel‖ to The Rainbow?
(a) Sons and Lovers (b) Kangaroo
(c) Women in Love (d) Lady Chatterley‘s Lover
122. Who among the following is not a Georgian poet?
(a) D.H. Lawrence (b) John Masfield
(c) Walter de la Mare (d) W.B. Yeats
123. Who among the following is not an Imagist poet?
(a) W.B. Yeats (b) Ezra pound (c) Hilda Doolittle (d) Army Lowell
124. Which of the following lines makes an allusion to Cleopatra?
(a) The chair she sat in like a burnished throne
(b) She walks in beauty like the night
(c) Was this the face that launched a thousand ships


d) Beauty like a tightened bow
125. In his dedication of The Waste Land (1922) to Ezra Pound T.S. Eliot
describes him as
(a) The better craftsman (b) The crude craftsman
(c) The last craftsman (d) The careless craftsman
126. Murder in the Cathedral (1935) deals with the death of
(a) Saint Thomas Becket (b) Saint Acquinas
(c) Saint Paul (d) Saint john
127. Which of the following plays of T.S. Eliot is not a comedy?
(a) The Cocktail Party (b) The Family Reunion
(c) The Confidential Clark (d) The Elder Statesman
128. Which of the following by Joyce is a ―mock-heroic‖ novel?
(a) Ulysses (b) Finnegan‘s Wake (c) Dubliners
(d) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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129. Who is the ―hero‖ of Ulysses?
(a) Stephen Daedal us (b) Leopold Bloom
(c) Stephen Hero (d) Molly Bloom
130. Robert Graves‘s Goodbye to all that (1929) is
(a) A volume of war poems (b) A novel about the war
(c) An autobiography (d) A melodramatic play
131. The English poetry of the 1930‘s is called
(a) The poetry of commitment (b) The poetry of war
(c) The decadent poetry (d) The poetry of love and war
132. Who wrote ―The Unknown Citizen‖?
(a) Stephen spender (b) W.H. Auden
(c) Louis MacNeice (d) C. Day Lewis
133. ―September I, 1939‖ was written by
(a) W.B. Yeats (b) Ernest Hemingway
(c) Stephen Spender (d) W.H. Auden


135. Who wrote a sequence of poems on Shakespeare‘s The Tempest (The
sea and The Mirror)?
(a) W.B. Yeats (b) Philip Larkin (c) W.H. Auden (d) Tom Gunn
136. The Shield Of Achilles is
(a) An epic By Homer (b) A poem by Auden
(c) A play by Sheridan (d) A balled by Keats
137. Who among the following migrated to America?
(a) T.S. Eliot (b) Stephen Spender (c) W.H. Auden (d) Henry James
138. ―Modernist Movement‖ is known by
(a) poetic-conservatism (b) all-round experimentalism
(c) songs and satires (d) Epics and tragedies
139. Which of these novels of Golding derives its title from Milton‘s
Paradise Lost?
(a) The pyramid (b) Darkness visible (c) Free Fall (d) The Spire
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140. Who is the most philosophic of the following novelists?
(a) Evelyn Waugh (b) Graham Greene
(c) Iris Murdoch (d) William Golding
141. Who among the following is not a ―Movement‖ writer?
(a) Philip Larkin (b) Kingsley Amis(c) Dylan Thomas (d) Donald Davie

1. Chaucer is called as
a) Father of Essay b) Father of Critic
c)Father of Drama d)Father of poetry
2. Who is the employer of Chaucer?
a) Edward – III b) Edward – II c) Edward – IV d) Edward – I
3. Chaucer died on --------
a) October 23th, 1400 b) October 25th, 1400
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c) October 24th, 1400 d) October 22th, 1400)
4. The Prologue was written -----------
a) About 1400 b) About 1390 c) About 1399 d) About 1395
5. How many stories are actually told?
a) 24 b) 26 c) 29 d) 22
6. The first edition has ----- books.
a) 6 b) 4 c) 7 d) 3
7. Who is the author of Orlando Furiaso?
a) Plato b) Ariosto c) T.S.Eliot d) None of these
8. What is the theme of book-II?
a) God b) Sprite c) Tempers d) None of these
9. The Faerie Queene is an ----------
a)Allegorical Poem b) Elegy Poem
c) Satirical Poem d) Social Poem
10. The Rhyme Scheme of Chaucer is --------
a) abc bc cc b) ab cc dd c) abc bc cd d) ab ab ab cc


11. Spenser has a plan for writing -----books.
a) 8 b) 6 c) 12 d) 10
12. Una stands for-------
a) Justice b) lion c) Friendship d) Truth
13. Which is the Wedding day?
a) June 11, 1595 b)June 11, 1594
c) June 11, 1592 d) June 11,1593
14. Epithalamion was published along with------------
a) Amoretti b) Faerie Queene c) Prothalamion d) None of these
15. Epithalamion has ------------ stanzas.
a) 22 b) 26 c)24 d) 23
16. Who is the better teacher than Scotus or Aquainas?
a) Chaucer b) Spenser c) King Alfred d) Wycliff
17. Prothalamion celebrates -----------
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18.
a) Single marriage
these
b)Double Marriage
-------- is the half mark of Bacon‘s essays.

a) Pithiness b) Brevity c)True
c) three marriage d) none of
d) lies
19. Which is the hallmark of Bacan‘s essay?
a) Knowledge b) Truth c) Wisdom d) Sprite
20. These buggles are cherished by ----
a) Women b) Man c) Woman d) Men
21. Confused thoughts and ideas are cleared by ----------
a) Father b) mother c) foe d) Friend
22. Who is the friend till the death of Sidney?
a) Chaucer b) Dyer c) Spenser d) Wycliff
23. An Apologie is written in -------------
a) 1582 b) 1585 c) 1580 d) 1583
24. The essay has --------- parts


a) 5 b) 3 c) 7 d) 4
25. After the trial Job lived for ----------
a) 140 years b) 130 years c) 150 years d) 120
years
26. The Book of Job was published -------
a) About 1400 AD b) About 1500 BC
c)About 1400 BC d) About 1500AD
27. The most of the book is a kind of --------
a) Dialogue b) Conversation c) Spiritual d) God
28. The total number of chapters in the book is
a) 40 b) 38 c) 39 d) 42
29. Which is the matures of Marlowe‘s plays?
a) Edward – III b) Edward – II c) Edward – I d) Edward – IV
30. Marlowe died at ---------
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31.
32.
a) Suicide
a) Blood
b) Drowning Sea c) Deptford
The contract was signed in ----------
b) Flesh
The contract was for --------
c) Eyes
d) Hanging
d) Heart
a) 20 years b) 25 years c) 22 years d) 24 years

33. Who is supposed to be the collaborator of Kyd in the The Spanish
Tragedy?
a) Keats b) Jonson c) Shelly d) Byron
34. Who is the companion of Don Andrea in the Hell?
a) Revenge b) Bellimperia c) Lorenzo d) Balthazar
35. The false report of Balthazar‘s murder was given by ---------
a) Proserpine b) Hades c) Villupo d) Horatio
36. Bellimperia wants to take revenge Balthazar with the help of ----------
a) Lorenzo b) Hieronimo c) Horatio d) Villupo
37. Jonson has become ------------ in London.


a) An actor b) Writer c) Humour d) Critic
38. Who is the Alchemist?
a) mommon b) captain Face c) Drugger d) Subtle
39. The Alchemist was produced in ---------
a) 1612 b) 1610 c) 1615 d) 1609
40. Who is Epicure Mommon?
a) A layer‘s clerk b) Aunt of Fairy c) A Knight d) A tobacco man
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1. The poem is based upon __________
b) Disease b) Paradox c) Allegory d) None of these
2. Donne was busy writing verses for _________
b) Keats b) Shelly c) Ben Jonson d) Byron
3. Who are canonized in this poem?
b) The Lovers b) The Friends c) God d) Sprites
4. The lovers are worthy of _________
b) God b) Sprite c) Evil d) Poetry
5. Which escaped from the bodies of the lovers?
b) Sprites b) Souls c) Naturals d) None of these
6. Love is not a thing of ________
b) Body b) Soul c) Blood d) Sprite
7. Which issue these spirits?


b) Soul b) Body c) Blood d) God
8. Authentic epic is ________
a) Oral b) Aural c) Dialogue d) None of these
9. Saturn moves in the space for _________nights.
a) 12 b) 10 c) 5 d) 7
10. Book-IX opens after ________
a) Sunset b) Sunshine c) Noon d) None of these
11. Saturn sinks with the river and rises as ________
a) Ashes b) Mist c) Water d) Snake
12. Who made a request of delay the labours?
a) Adam b) Saturn c) Eve d) Balthazar
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13. Did Eve obey Adam?
a) No b) Yes c) Nor
14. What is the name of young man in Belinda‘s dream?
a) Ariel b) Scissors c) Clarissa

d) None of these
d) The Baron
15. Who has cut the curl of Arabella?
a) Lord King b) Lord Christ c) Lord The Barond) Lord Petre
16. Who gave the scissors to the Lord Petre?
a) Sprite b) Clarissa c) Ariel d) The Baron
17. Pope was a poet of _________
a) Society b) Satiric c) Classical d) Historical
18. Who is the close friend of Pope?
a) Johnson b) Milton c) Swift d) Wordswoth


19. Agonistes is a ___________ word.
a) Italian b) Greek c) French d) Dutch
20. Parados is an __________
a) Beside b) Narrow c) Cross d) Aside
21. Samson is in the prison of __________
a) Kommos b) Philistines c) Gaza d) Manoa
22. Shimshon means __________
a) Sunlight b) Daylight c) Moonlight d) None of these
23. Herbert sent to his mother two sonnets at the age of ____________
a) 18 b) 16 c) 20 d) 15
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24. Herbert was ordained as ________
a) Writer b) Story Teller
25. This pulley hoists man upwards to ___________

c) Critic d) Priest
a) Man b) Evil c) God d) sprite
27. Which devours beauty ana love?
a) Time b) Date c) Place d) Minute
28. Life of Milton can be divided into ________parts.
b) 5 b) 4 c) 6 d) 3
29. Johnson‘s inheritance was __________
a) 18 pounds b) 20 pounds c) 25 pounds d) 23 pounds
30. Mrs. Johnson brought a fortune of __________
a) 500 homes b) 800 homes


c) 1000 homes d) 700 homes
31. Johnson died at the age of ________
a) 76 b) 75 c) 77 d) 74
32. Book of Martyrs was written by ________
a) Johnson b) Milton c) Pope d) Foxe
33. How many lions confronted Christian?
a) 4 b) 2 c) 1 d) 3
34. The second part of the Pilgrim‘s Progress came in _________
b) 1685 b) 1683 c) 1682 d) 1684
35. Alworthy was betrayed by ________
b) Bridget b) Blifil c) Tom d) Jonny Jones
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36. Antony has ________ children by Octavia.
a) 2 b) 3
37. Joseph and Charles are _______

c) 1 d) 4
a) Kings b) Enemies c) Brothers d) Friends
38. Who had a soft corner for Mirabell?
a) Mrs. Marwood b) Mrs. Millament c) Lady Wishfort d) None of these
39. Lady Wishfort is a women of _________
a) 50 b) 55 c) 53 d) 56
40. Who are the visitors of Tony from London?
a) Marlow & Bed Bouncer

b) b) Hastings & Young Marlow
c) Marlow and Hastings
d) d) Bed Bouncer & Young Marlow

1. Who is the highest priest of Nature?

a) Youth b) child c) old d) None of these
2. Recluse has _______parts.
b) 5 b) 9 c) 3 d) 6
3. Who feels a kind of vaccum?
b) Narrator b) Poet c) Protagonist d) Antagonist
4. Wordsworth visited Tintern second time in __________
b) 1793 b) 1797 c) 1796 d) 1798
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5. Wordsworth was a _________
b) Wye b) Lover c) Pantheist
6. After __________ years wordsworth visited Tintern Abbey second time.
b) 5 b) 2 c) 4 d) 3
d) Nature
7. Dejection is the ___________of Colerodge

b) Sad Song b) Swan Song c) Wedding Song d) None of these
8. The western sky has a tint of _________
b) Blue b) Green c) Red d) Yellow
9. Kubla Khan wants to construct the palace in ________
b) Palace b) Temple c) Garden d) Ice House
10. The urn tells the story of _______
b) Greek b) France c) Italy d) England
11. Hellas means_______
b) France life b)Greek life c) England life d) American life
12. Autumn is seen in various forms on _________


b) Clouds b) Rain c) Earth d) Fields
13. Who is the University friend of Shelly?
b) Hogg b) Godwin c) Keats d) Harriet
14. The poem was written in _______
b) 1816 b) 1820 c) 1819 d) 1817
15. The West wind treats ________ as its lyre.
b) Hills b) Forest c) Jungle d) Animals
16. What is the first important poem of Shelley?
a) Promethious Unbound b) The Cenci c) Hellas d) Queen Mab
17. Zeus allowed Adonais to spent ________ with Aphrodite.
b) 6 Months b) 3 Months c) 5 Months d) 2 Months
18. Shelley makes Urania the ________ of Adonais.
b) Father b) Lover c) Mother d) God
19. Christ‘s hospital was founded by _______
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20.
b) Edward – IV, 1553
c) Edward – II, 1553
b) Edward – I, 1553
d) (Edward, 1553
Lamb spent ______years in Christ Hospital.
b) 6 b) 3 c) 5 d) 7
21. Who dressed like 18th century man?
b) Thomas Tame b) Evans c) John Tip d) John
22. Lamb sacrificed his love for _______
b) Mother b) Father c) Sister d) Friend
23. Hazlitt died in ________
b) 1820 b) 1822 c) 1819 d) 1821
24. Hazlitt‘s character was similar to that of _________
b) Jonson b) Milton c) Shelly d) Samuel
Johnson
25. Defence was published in ________
b) 1841 b) 1840 c) 1830 d) 1831


26. Defence was published by _______
b) Marry b) Alice c) His Sister d) His Friend
27. The second edition with the Preface was published in ________
b) 1898 b) 1802 c) 1800 d) 1804
28. The preface marks the beginning of ________
b) Old Age b) Middle Age c) Modern Age d) New Age
29. Emma was written between ________
a) 1814 – 1815 b) 1814 – 1817 c) 1814 – 1816 d) 1814 – 1820
30. Who has become Emma‘s protegee?
a) Jane Fairfax b) Frank c) Mrs. Hodges d) Harriot Smith
31. Emma is __________years old.
a) 15 b) 20 c) 25 d) 30
32. Who is the stepson of Mr. Western?
a) Jane Fairfax b) Frank Churchill c) Frank d) Mrs. Hodges
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33.
34.
a) Curet Bell
a) A Orphan
What is the pseudonym of Emily Bronte?
b) Ellis Bell
Who is Heathcliff?
b) A waif
c) Acton Bell
c) King
d) Jane Eyre
d) Theft
35. Who is the principal narrator of this novel?
a) Nelly Deen b) Ellen Deen c) Catherine d) Heathcliff
1.Dover is a ____________
a) Beloved b) Cliff c) truth d) friends


2. The Scholar Gipsy is immortal as the immortal bird of _____________
a) Yeats b) Shelly c) Eliot d) Keats

4. Andrea was born in___________
a) Florence, 1486 b) Florence, 1485 c) Florence, 1487 d) Florence, 1484
5. Morte D‘Arthur was published in _____________
a) 1841 b) 1842 c) 1880 d) 1883
6. Byzantium was written in _______________
a) 1930, Greek b) 1930, French c) 1930, Italy d) 1930, English
7. How many lines in Wasteland?
a) 440 b) 540 c) 340 d) 640
8. Nuns are exiled to_____________
a) England b) Italy c) French d) America)
9. The 2 fallacies are_____________
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a) Real b) Natural c) Lie d) None of these
10. Eliot is the guiding light of _______________
a) Old Criticism b) Modern Criticism
c) New Criticism d) None of these
11. Pip met a girl called ________
a) Estella b) Miss. Havisham c) Biddy d) Cairo
12. Middle March is described as ________
a) Epic b) Modern Epic c) Social Epic d) Home Epic
13. Arabella leaves the Jude and goes to _______
a) England b) Australia c) America d) Friench
14. To the Light House was published in _______
a) 1925 b) 1927 c) 1926 d) 1928
15. Who is the English Dentist?
a) Mr. Tench b) Jose c) Whisky Priest d) None of these

1. Macbeth was composed about________

a) 1610 b) 1603 c) 1606 d) 1604
2. Malcolm escaped to ________
a) Ireland b) America c) Scotland d) England
3. Donalbain escaped to _________
a) Ireland b) Scotland c) France d) England
4. Who killed Duncan?
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a) Lady Macbeth b) Donalbain c) Malcolm d) Macbeth
5. Lady Macbeth, the wife of Macbeth is considered as ________
a) Second Witch b) Fourth Witch c) First Witch d) Third Witch
6. ―I have almost forget the taste of fear‖ – Who is the speaker?
a) Macduff b) Lady Macbeth c) Macbeth d) Duncan
7. Shakespeare arrived in London in _______
a) 1584 b) 1582 c) 1581 d) 1583
8. Tempest is a _________
a) Tragic Comedy b) Romantic Comedy c) Comedy d) None of these
9. The cave is divided into a number of _______
a) Flat b) Apartment c) Villa d) Houses
10. Sycorax is a _______
a) God b) Sprite c) Narrator d) Witch
11. Who is tormenting Caliban?
a) Ariel b) Sprite c) God d) Poet
12. Prospero is attracted towards __________


a) Magic b) His behavior c) Sprite d) None of these
13. Which play is considered as an Epilogue?
a) Henry – VI b) Henry – V c)Henry – VII d) Henry – VIII
14. The plays has a close connection with________
a) Richard – IV b) Henry – II c) Richard – II d) Henry – IV
15. Who is the cousin of Henry?
a) Northamberland b) Mortimer c) Glendower d) Hotspur
16. King Henry wishes whom to be his own son?
a) Hotspur b) Northamberland c) Mortimer d) Glendower
17. The Gang which robbed Falstaff contains _______ persons.
a) 200 b) 300 c) 400 d) 100
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1. Which bird begins the sad song?
a) He bird b) Sea Bird c) She bird d) None of these
2. Who wanders aimlessly along wood?
a) The Narrator b) The poet c) God d) Evil
3. What is the black shoe?
a) The Mother b) The Brother c) Guardian d) The father
4. Which makes a Passage to India?
a) God b)Eating & Drinking c) Suez Canal d) Spiritual Link
5. Harward University is founded by --------
a) 1635 b) 1637 c) 1638 d) 1634
6. The two boys sail down the Mississippi on _______
a) Raft b) Boat c) Craft d) None of these


7. Moby Dick is a _______
a) Black whale b) Red whale c) Yellow whale d)White whale
8. For how many days Santiago had caught a single fish?
a) 83 b) 81 c) 84 d) 82
9. The original Walden has _____ pages.
a) 220 b) 215 c) 210 d) 225
10. Yank is released after ________
a) Two month b) Four month c) One month d) Three month
11. Death of a Salesman is a _______
a) Modern Tragedyb) Modern Epic Modern Drama d) None of these
12. Blanche is a ________

a) Author b) Critic c) Dramatist d) School Teacher
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2. Tagore renounced the knighthood in ________
a) 1917 b) 1919 c) 1913 d) 1912
3. Paraclete is a _____ word.
a) Greek b) French c) Italy d) English
4. The word ‗Scorpion‘ suggests _________
a) God b) Sprite c) Evil d) None of these
5. Munoo‘s wound was treated by _______
a) Ganpat b) Seth c) Parvathi d) Prem
6. Kantapura was written in ________


a) France b) Italy c) England d) America
7. When did The English Teacher appear?
a) 1942 b) 1945 c) 1940 d) 1943
8. Why did the police chase Ravi?
a) For being theft b) For being tease c) For being drunk
d) None of these
9. In the Himalayan dance Shiva has ______ hands.
a) 2 b) 5 c) 3 d) 1
10. Who is the despot King?
a) Abhijit b) Shivtarai c) Ranajit d) None of these
11. Karnad was working with the Kannada stage director ______
a) V. Karnath b) G. Karnath c) K. Karnath d) M. Karnath
12. Baba means_______
a) Suitor b) Tutor c) soul d) God
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13.
14.
Nature is the ______ of mighty power.
a) Body b) Soul c) Sprite
The spirit was moved by the message of _______
a) The God b) The Evil c)The fire
d) None of these
d) The Water
15. The spirit then calls for ______
a) Moon b) Star c) Cloud d) Sun
16. Which country is outwardly fertile?
a) England b) America c) India d) Australia
17. Who is the bale of this play?
a) Baroka b) Lakun Le c) Sadiku d) Sidi
18. Trap means_______
a) Theft b) Evil c) Police d) None of these
19. Who is the priestess of Agbala?
a) Ekweefi b) Obierika c) Akueke d) Chielo
20. Okon Kwo has _____ wives.


a) 5 b) 3 c) 4 d) 2
21. Who is the friend of James?
a) John Harrison b) John Kumalo c) John d) Harrison
22. Who gives the address of the two boys?
a) John b) John Harrison c) Absalom d) Gertrude
1. How may chapters are there in Aristotle‘s Poetics?
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a) 21 b) 23 c) 25 d) 26
2. Which is the comedy of Homer?
a) Iliad b) Odyssey c) Margites d) Frogs
3. How many constituents form the tragedy?
a) 4 b) 5 c) 6 d) 7
4. What is mythos?
a) Plot b) Character c) Diction d) Song
5. Where was Aristotle born?
a) Lyceum b) Stagira c) Athens d) Rome
6. Which word of Aristotle means ‗discovery‘?
a) Hamartia b) Peripetitia c) Anagnorisis d) Mythos
7. Which are produced by ‗spectacle‘?
a) Courge and bravery b) Pity and fear
c) Love and Romance d) Jealousy and fear
8. How does epic differ from tragedy?
a) In length and meter b) Speech and action


c) Spectacle and music d) Fight and love
9. With which god‘s festival was the origin of tragedy linked?
a) Apollo b) Zeus c) Bacchus d) Dionysus
10. What is hamartia?
a) Comic error b) Tragic flaw
c) Melodramatic effect d) Discovery
11. To whom did Dryden dedicate his essay on the Dramatic poesy?
a) Charles Sackville b) Sir Robert Howard
c) Charles Sedley d) Charles II
12. When was essay on Dramatic Poesy published?
a) 1667 b) 1668 c) 1669 d) 1700
13. Which Roman playwright first divided the play into Acts?
a) Horace b) Longinus c) Plato d) Homer
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14. Whom does Dryen praise thus?
―He was the man who of all modern and perhaps ancient poets had the
largest and most comprehensive soul.‖
a) Ben Jonson b) Shakespeare c) Beaumont d) Fletcher
15. Who attacks rhyme violently?
a) Lisideius b) Eugenius c) Crites d) Neander
16. Whom does Dryden compare to Virgil?
a) Ben Jonson b) Shakespeare c) Homer d) Beaumont
17. During which event was the Essay of Dramatic Poesie written?
a) Naval battle between English and french
b) Naval battle between English and Dutch
c) Battle between English and Americans
d) Battle between English and Germans
18. Who was Dryden‘s brother in law?
a) Charles Sackville b) Sir Robert Howard


c) Charles Sedley d) Charles II
19. Which play of Jonson was analysed in Dryden‘s essay?
a) Volpone b) The Alchemist
c) Barthalomew Fair d) The Silent Women
20. Who followed the dramatic rules perfectly?
a) English b) French c) Greeks d) Romans
21. Which genre was discarded by the French?
a) Comedy b) Tragedy c) Tragicomedy d) Masque
22. Which fits only for comedies, according to Neander?
a) Free verse b) Prose c) Blank verse d) Rhymed verse
23. Where is Rhymed Verse used?
a) Comedy b) Tragedy c) Tragicomedy d) Masque
24. Who mostly used the blank verse, according to Dryden?
a) Chaucerians b) Elizabethans c) Puritans d) Metaphysicals
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25.
26.
Whose natural wit was improved by study?
a) Shakespeare
c) Beaumont and Fletcher
b) Ben Jonson
d) Aristotle
When was Biographiia Literaria published?
a) 1816 b) 1817 c) 1818 d) 1819
27. How many chapters are there in Biographia Literaria?
a) 20 b) 21 c) 22 d) 23
28. Which imagination is a gift to poets and artists?
a) Primary b) Secondary c) Tertiary d) Penta
29. In which edition of Lyrical Ballads was the Advertisement added?
a) First b) Second c) Third d) Fourth
30. Which edition of Lyrical Ballads contained preface?
a) 1798 b) 1800 c) 1802 d) 1805
31. How does poem differ from prose according to Coleridge?
a) Meter b) Narration c) Words d) Similes


32. Which is the soul of poetic genius; according to Coleridge?
a) Fancy b) Imagination c) Good Sense d) Motion
33. Whose object is ‗pleasure, but not truth‘?
a) Poem b) Poetry c) Science d) Play
34. In which chapter, does Coleridge analyse wordsworth‘s poetic
diction?
a) XIII b) XIV c) XV d)XVII
35. Whose conception of poetry is ideal, according to Coleridge?

a) Horace b) Aristotle c) Plato d) Longinus
36. Which poem of wordsworth the mother‘s character is not real?
a) Michael b) Brother c) Ruth d) Idiot Boy
36. In which poem of Wordsworth was there the character of talkative?
a) Ruth b) Thorn c) Idiot Boy d) Deborah
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38.
Whose work was the Illustrious Vernacular?
a) Dante b) Petrarch c) Virgil
Which poem from Bible is referred by Coleridge?
a) David b) Genesis c) Isaiah d) Job
d) Homer
39. Which is compared to Adam‘s dream, according to Keats?

a) fancy b) Imagination c) Thought d) Feeling
40. To whom did Keats write about ‗A vision in the form of youth‘?
a) Thomas Keats b) Benjamin Bailey c) Shelley d) John Taylor
41. To whom did Keats write about negative capability?
a) Benjamin Bailey b) George and Thomas Keats c) Shelley d)
John Taylor
42. Who possessed ‗negative capability‘ enormously?
a) Coleridge b) Shakespeare c) Wordsworth d) Shelley
43. To whom did Keats write about the beauty of flowers?
a) Richard Woodhouse b) Hamilton Reynolds c) John Taylor d) Shelly


44. Which should, according to Keats, should come naturally as the
leaves to a tree?
a) Imagination b) poetry c) Prose d) Drama
45. Which takes delight in conceiving Iago or Imogen?
a) Poetical Character b) Imagination c) Fancy d) Play genius
46. Who is the most unpoetical of all God‘s creatures?
a) Poet b) Playwright c) Philosopoher d) Mythologist
47. To whom did Keats write thus: ―My Imagination is a Monastery
and I am its Monk‘?
a) John Taylor b) Richard woodhouse
c) Shelley d) Thomas and George Keats
48. From whom did Keats receive a copy of Cenci?
a) Shelley b) Hunt c) Thomas d) John Taylor
49. For whose edition was the Metaphysical Poets published as a
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50.
review?
a) yeats b) Allen Tate c) Grierson
Whose poetry was ‗the courtly poetry‘ according to T.S.Eliot?
a) Shakespeare b) Ben Jonson c) Marvel
d) Empson
d) Donne
51. In which poem of Donne do we find the images of Geographer‘s
globe, the picture of Great Flood?
a) Valediction : Forbidding Mourning b) valediction of weeping
c) Ecstasie d) Cannonization
52. In which essay, did Dr.Johnson comment on Donne thus: ‗The
most heterogenous ideas are yoked by violence together‘?
a) Life of Milton b) Life of Donne c) Life of Cowley d) Life of Savage
53. Who possessed unification of sensibility?
a) Puritans b) Elizabethans and Jacobeans
c) Neo Classicals d) Romantics


54. Fill in the blanks: ‗A thought to Donne is ___________ ; it
modified his sensibility‘.
a) Feeling b) Experience c) Action d) Imagination
55. Which poem is cruder and less satisfying than to his coy
mistress?
a) Elegy-Country Churchyard b) Hyperion c) Triumph of Life d) Ruth
56. In which century the unification of sensibility declined?
a) 17 b) 18 c) 19 d) 20
57. Which work was quoted by I.A.Richards at the outset of Four
Kinds of Meaning?
a) Leviathan b) Poetics c) Ars Poetica d) Apology for Poetry
58. Which is unmistakably predominant in political speeches
a) Sense b) Feeling c) Tone d) Intention
59. In which does the speaker arrange his words differently as his
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audience varies?
a) Sense b) Feeling
60. Whose remark is ‗Poetry is Spirit‘?
a) Mackail b) Wordsworth
c) Tone
c) Bradley
d) Intention
d) Milton
61. In which critical work you get these words: 'Not completion, Not
rounding off, but opening out.'
a. Aspects of the Novel c. Images of Desire

b. Tradition and individual Talent d. Eminent Victorians
62. Who wrote The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism, Homage to Dryden
and Religion and Literatnre?
a. Aldous Huxley c. Somerset Maugham

b. T. S. Eliot d. Stephen Hudson
63. Match the following:
a. The Sacred Wood i. W. B. Yeats


b. The Celtic Twilight ii. T. S. Eliot
c. The Victorian Age in Literature iii. F. R. Leavis
d. New Bearings in English Poetry iv. G. K. Chesterton
a-ii,b-i,c-iv, d-iii
64. Who was known by the pseudonym, 'A. E.'?
a. George Moore c. Oscar Wilde

b. George W. Russelld. W.B. Yeats
65. Who wrote The Quintessence of lbsenisnl?
a. G. K. Chestertonc. George Bernard Shaw

b. F. R. Leavis d. J.M. Synge
66. To whom do you ascribe these critical works, Psycho-Analysis of the
Unconscious and EllitaSia of the Unconsciow,f?
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a.
b.
W. B. Yeats c. James Joyce
D. H. Lawrenced. Katherine Mansfield
67. In which critical work, story, people, plot, fantasy, prophesy, pattern
and rhythm are analysed?
a. The Novel Now c. Aspects of the Novel

b. The Novelist's Responsibility d. Time and the Novel
68. Who wrote Science .Ind Poen:: Principles of Literary Criticis and Practical
Criticism?
a. F. R. Leavis
b. I. A. Richards
c. T. S. Eliot
d. J. M. Murry
69. To whom do you ascribe A and The Poetic Image Hope lin- Poetry,
Starting Point


a.F. R. Leavis
b.I. A. Richards
c. C. Day Lewis
d.Stephen Spender
70. Who wrote The Seven Types of Ambiguity and The Structure of Complex
Words?
a. Stephen Spenderc. c.I. A. Richards

b. Louis MacNeice d. d.William Empson
a. Robert Graves & Laura Riding i. Poetry of the Present

b. Herbert Read ii. A Survey of Modernist Poetry
c. Henry Treece iii. 'orm in Modern Poetry
d. Geoffrey Grigsoniv. How I saw Apocalypse
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12. Who wrote Art and Action?
a.
b.
a-ii,b-iii,c-iv, d-i
C. H. Sisson c. F. T. Prince
Francis Scarfed. Alan Ross
72. To whom do you ascribe The History of the English Novel?
a. I. A. Richards c. D. Daiches
b. E. A. Baker d. A. E. Morgan
a. D . D a i c h e s i. Introduction to the English Novel

b. R . C hur ch ii. Crisis in English Poetry
c. V. de S. Pintoiii. The Growth of the English Novel
d. A. Kettle iv. The Novel and the Modern World
a-iv,b-iii,c-ii, d-i
74. "The desire of the moth for the star;


Of the night for the morrow:
The devotion to something afar
From the sphere of our sorrow."
75.In which play of Marlowe do these words occur?
a. The Jew of Malta c. Tamburlaine
b. Edward ll d. Dr. Faustus
76. "Still climbing after knowledge infinite,
And always moving as the restless spheres."
In which play of Marlowe is ambition pictured this way?
a. Edward 11 c. The Jew of Malta
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b. Tamburlaine d. Dr. Faustus
77. "It is a blind Goose that cometh to the Fox's sermon."
In whose writing do you find this witty turn of speech called `Euphemism'?
a. John Lyly c. Shakespeare

b. Thomas Lodge d. Marlowe
78. Whose prose was dubbed by Prof. Saintsbury, "a go-cart to habituate
the infant limbs of English prose to orderly movement"?
a. Sir Philip Sidney c. John Lyly

b. Roger Aschamd. Richard Hooker
79. "The poet cloth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect
into the way as will entice any man to enter into it. Nay, he cloth, as if
your journey should lie thro' a fair vineyard, at the very first give you a
cluster of grapes, that hill of that taste you may long to pass further."


In which work do you come across these words?
a. Apologia for Poetrie

b. The Defense of Poesy
c. History of the World
d. Discourse of English Poesie
80. "Against their Brydale day, which was not long:
Sweete Themmes! Runne softly, till I end my Song."
Which work of Edmund Spenser does have these famous lines?
a. Faerie Queene c. Prothalamion

b. Epithalamion d. Amoretti
81. "Sing, ye sweet Angels, Alleluia sing,
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That all the woods may answere, and your echoe ring."
In which work of Edmund Spenser does one come across these beautiful
lines?
a. Faerie Queene c. Astrophel

b. Prothalamion d. Epithalamion
82. "Men at some time are masters of their fates, The fault,
dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we
are underlings." Name the play in which you get these words:
a. As You Like It c. Julius Caesar

b. Antony and Cleopatrad. Henry IV
83. "Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe

to heaven."
Identify the play which uses these words:


a. All's Well that Ends Wellc. c.The Comedy of Errors
b. Love's Labour's Lost d. Hamlet
84."Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from
heaven or blasts from hell?"Who asks this question to the Ghost in a
Shakespeare's play?
a. Julius Caesar c. Hamlet

b. Henry VI d. Antony
85. "Ghosts did shriek and squeal about the street!" Whose death is
anticipated in this line of Shakespeare?
a. Richard ll's c. Hamlet's

b. Julius Caesar's d. Brutus'
86. "...it is a tale
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Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
Whose philosophy is this, about life?
a. Macbeth's c. Prospero's
b.Touchstonme d.Prospero
87. "And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to
hour, we ripe and ripe, And then thereby hangs a tale."
Who views at human life this way?
a. King Lear c. Macbeth

b. Touchstone d. Prospero
88. "Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is
not loveMich alters when it alteration finds."Name the sonnet of Shakespeare
in which you have these lines:
a. Sonnet )0a1 c. Sonnet CXVI


b. Sonnet XXX d. Sonnet XVI
89. "Take, 0, take thy lips away That so sweetly were forsworn; And those
eyes, the break of dayLights that do mislead the morn:"Identify the
Shakespeare's play in which you get these words:
a. The Tempestc. A Midsummer Night's Dream

b. The Twelfth Nightd. Measure for Measure
90."What's to come is still unsure:In delay there lies no plenty,Then come

kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure."Name the play in which these lines occur:
a. As You Like It c. The Tempest

b. Twelfth Night d. The Winter's Tale
91. "Full fathom five thy father lies;Of his bones are coral made;Those are
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pearls that were his eyes;"In which play of Shakespeare these words
appear'?
a. The Tempestc. A Midsummer Night's Dean)

b. The Winter's Tale d. King Lear
92. "Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtile, natural
philosophy deep, moral, grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend,"In
which Essay of Bacon these words of wisdom occur?
a. Of Truth c. New Atlantis

b. Of Studies d. Advancement of Learnino
93.. "Hopeful: Be comforted , my brother, for I forgive thee; and believe,
too, that this shall be for our good.
Christian: I am glad I have with me a merciful brother. But we must not

stand here; let us try to go back again.
Identify the work in which you come across this conversation:


a. Paradise Lostc. The Pilgrim's Progress
b. Paradise Regained d. The Holy War
94.. "Till old experience do attain
To something like prophetic strain. These pleasures

Melancholy give, And I with thee will choose to live."
In which poem does one come across these lines?
a. Samson Agonistes c. L'Allegro

b. II-Penseroso d. Lycidas
95.. "...But chief of all,
0 loss of sight, of thee I most complain!
Blind among enemies! 0 worse than chains, Dungeon or

beggary, or decrepit age!"
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In which poem do you come across these words?
a.
b.
On His Blindnessc. Samson Agonistes
Lycidas d. Paradise Lost
96. "...thousands at his bidding speed,
And post o'er land and ocean without rest;

They also serve who only stand and wait."
Which poem of Milton ends with these lines?
a. Lycidas c. On His Blindness

b. Paradise Lost d. Samson Agonistes
97. "Whoever comes to shroud me—do not harm, Nor question
much,


That subtle wreath of hair which crowns my arm! The mystery,
the sign, you must not touch!" Identify the poem which
contains these lines:
a. The Message c. The Pulley

b. The Funeral d. The Canonization
98. "Fair Daffodils, we weep to seeYou haste away so soon:As yet the early—
rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon" Name the poem which bears these lines:
a. To Daffodils r The Pulley

b. The Retreat d. The Canonization
99. "For God's sake, hold your tongue, and let me love"
Which poem of John Donne holds these words?
a. Good Morrow c. The Canonization
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b. The Dream d. The Message
100. "I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?" Which poem
of John Donne opens with these words?
a. The Anniversary c. The Perfume

b. The Relique d. Good Morrow
1. A ________ is a mythical creature with the body of a lion and the head of
a human.
a) sphinx b) Maximinus
c) mummy d) Pluto


2. How does Hope call the major cities of Australia?
a) teeming sores b) teeming life
c) teeming growth d) teeming blood
3. Where is Cairns?
a) New Zealand b) South Africa
c)Canada d) Australia
4. Australians boast that they __in Australia.
a) survive b) live c) die d) sing
5. Why does Hope call Australians a ―second-hand Europeans‖?
a) Most of them are convicts
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b) Most of them buy second-hand goods
c) Most of them are not from Britain
d) Most of them hate Britain
6. Why do the Australians ―pullulate timidly on the edge of alien shores‖?
a) Not happy with the country
b) The land is fertile there
c) Other places are fallow
d) Timid survival permitted
7. ―Poetry is a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism
by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.‖ Who defines poetry in these
Words?


a)Wordsworth b) Matthew Arnold
c) Shelley d)Walter Pater
8. Who calls poetry ―A Speaking Picture with the end to teach and delight?‖
a)Plato b) Aristotle c) Homer d) Virgil
9. Read these lines from the poem:
Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
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Whom does the word "We" in line 5 refer to?
a)the speaker
c) Death and Immortality

b) the speaker, Death, and Immortality
d) the speaker and Death
10. Sir Philip Sidney wrote a sonnet series addressed to his beloved. What is
the title of that series?
a) Amoretti b) Astrophel and Stella c) Diana d) Delia
11. The sonnet series entitled River Duddon Sonnets was written by
a) Dryden b) D.G. Rossetti
c) Christina Rossetti d) Wordsworth
12. ‗O my love ‗s like a red, red rose.‖
A very popular lyric opens with this line. Who has written this Lyric?


a)William Collins b) Shelley
c) Robert Herrick d) Robert Burns
13. ―……..Soul of the age!
The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage,
My Shakespeare, arise!‖ These lines are quoted from a famous lyrical

poem written by one of the following poets. Mark him out
a) Milton b) John Donne c) Ben Jonson d) Dryden
14. ―Go, and catch a falling star.‖
A very popular song begins with this line. Name the Poet who wrote it
a) Thomas Dekker b) Ben Jonson
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c) Marlowe d) John Donne
15. What is the title of the series of sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett
Browning?
a)River Dud don sonnets b) House of Life
c) Modern Love d) Sonnets from Portuguese
16. A Famous lyric opens with the following line-
―Drink to me only with thine eye‖
Who is the poet who wrote it?
a) Shakespeare b) Ben Jonson
c) Marlowe d) John Donne
17. What is the title of the sonnet series written by Samuel Daniel?


a) Diana (b) Delia c) Phillis d) Caelica
18. What are the first eight lines of a Petrarch an sonnet called?
a) Octagon b) Octagen c) Octave d) Octopus
19. What are the last six lines of a petrarchan sonnet called?
a) Hexagon b) Tercet c) Triplet d) Trilet
20. The last six lines of a Miltonic sonnet are divided into two groups of three
lines each. What is the group of three lines called?
a) Tercet b) Tricet c) Triplet d) Trilet
21. How many sonnets in all were written by Milton in English?
a) 21 b) 24 c) 18 d) 22
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22. How many sonnets in all were written by Milton in Latin?
a) 5 b) 8 c) 10 d) 6
23. How many sonnets in all were not written by Shakespeare?
a) 14 b) 64 c) 154 d) 184
24. Who wrote the sonnet series entitled Amoretti?
a) Sidney b) Spenser c) Samuel Daniel d) Shakespeare
25. ―Smiling they live, and call life pleasure:
To me that cup has been dealt in another measure‖.
From which of Shelley‘s poems have these lines been quoted?
a)Love‘s Philosophy b) Ozymandias
c) Stanzas Written in Dejection d) A Lament


26. Who is the author of the Bridge of Sighs?
a) R.W. Emerson b) William Barnes
c) Thomas Hood d) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
27.‖ For though from out of our bourne of time and place
The flood may bear me fair,
I hope to see my pilot face to face
When I Have crost the bar‖.
These lines are quoted from Tennyson‘s Crossing the Bar. Who is the pilot in
these Lines?
a)Heaven b) God of Death c) God d) Angel
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28.‖The music in my heard I Bore,
Long after it was heard no more.‖
These are the concluding lines of a poem written by wordsworth. Which of

the Following Poems?
a)The Daffodils b) To the Cuckoo
c) The Solitary Reaper d) Lucy
29.‖ O World ! O Life ! O Time !
On whose last steps I climb.‖
Who has written these popular lines?
a) Coleridge b) Keats c) Shelley d) Tennyson
30. ―When I Have fears that I may cases to be


Before may pen has gleaned my teeming brain.‖
Whose popular lines are these?
a) Keats‘s b) Shelley‘s c) Byron‘s d) Chatterton‘s
31.‖What is this life, if full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.‖
These lines have been quoted from Leisure, a poem written by W.H.
Davies. What does the poet want to say ?
a) That we have no free time
b) That we have no peace of mind
c) That we have become too materialistic
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d) That we have become highly industrious
32.‖ I will arise and go now ,and go to innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made.‖
These lines are quoted from W.B. Yeats‘s poem The Lake Isle Of
Innisfree. Where is Innisfree?
a) It is only an imaginary Island b) It symbolises England
c)It is a real island near Ireland d) The Shepheard‘s Calender
33. ―Others abide our question –Thou art free.
We ask and ask: Thou Smilest and art still,
Out-topping Knowledge.‖


These lines are quoted from a lyrical poem by Matthew Arnold. Who
does the Poet refer
To in this poem?
a)Chaucer b) Spenser
c) Wordsworth d) Shakespeare
34.‖Just for a handful of silver he left us,
Just for a rib and to stick in his coat.‖
These are the opening lines of a poem The Lost Leader. Who is this lost
Leader?
a) Robert Southey b) William Wordsworth
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c) Lord Tennyson d) Coleridge
35. What is Una leading along with her on this journey?

a) Everyone, she is the leader of the group.
b) A sly monster who is tracking her without her notice.
c) A dwarf she saved from danger.
d) A White lamb.
36. What does Error vomit up as a defense against The Red Cross Knight's
attack?
a) Moldy books and papers. b) Knives and swords.
c) Skin-searing acid. d) Blood.
37. Who will determine the best tale in the contest?

a) The Pardoner. b) The group will vote.
c) The Host. d) The Narrator.


38. How is it determined that the Knight will tell the first tale?
a) The Pardoner asks the Knight to go first.
b) The Host asks the Knight to go first.
c) The pilgrims draw straws.
d) The Knight volunteers.
39. What is Tagore’s pseudonym?
a) Kalidas b) Birsingha
c) Bhanusimha d) None of these
40. what is super mind refers in the poem “Thought the Paraclete by Sir
Aurobino Ghose “
a) Envelope by Ignorance b) psyclic Mind
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c) Divine d) Sun
41. What does Hope mean by “pullulate”?
a) crowded b)population
c)live timidly d)pull from all sides
42. Who are the “cultured apes” according to A.D. Hope?
a) Europeans b) Americans
c) Indians d) Australians
43.which poem is said ―God, disguised as a raj beggar‖ ?
a) The Dying Eagle b) Thought the Paraclete
c) Song Offerings d) Australia
44. Hope describes the Austrian people describes as_____


a) monotonous tribes b) marvellous tribes
c) fabulous tribes d) spectacular tribes
45.Hope ironically calls the Australians as--------
a) ultimate men b) uncritical men
c) gullible men d) naive men
46.“From the deserts the prophets come”. What is the reference?
a) The Bible b) Desert Digest
c) The New Testament d) The Zend-Avesta
47. Which country is referred to as a barren land by Hope?
a) Australia b) America
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c) India
48. ___ is “the last of lands”.
a) Australia
d) Canada
b) America
c) India d) Canada
49. ―Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its

origin from emotions recollected in tranquility.‖ Who defines poetry in these
words?
a) Matthew Arnold b) Coleridge
c) Wordsworth d) Shelley
50. Who says, ―Poetry is of all human learning‘s the most ancient and of
most fatherly antiquity‖?


a) Aristotle b) Milton c) Sidney d) Matthew Arnold
51.“our ego is dead” who is said this?
a) Sir Aurobino Ghose b) E.J. Pratt
c) Judith Wright d) Wole Soyinka
52. "Time's wingèd chariot" is an allusion to
a) Apollo b) Ares c)Zeus d) Hermes
53.-‖And we are here as on a darkling plain, Swept with confused alarms of

struggle and flight,
a) Dover Beach b) The New Sirens
c) Sohrab and Rustum d) Balder Dead
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54. Death seems a preoccupation of the speaker most likely because
a) he mourns his mother's death

b) he wants to seem sensitive to his "mistress"
c) during his time the plague accounted for thousands of deaths
d) both a and b
55.For what wears out the life of mortal men? This that from change to
change their being rolls,
a) The Scholar-Gipsy b) Obermann once more
c) Heine’s Grave d) Dover Beach


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Choose The Best Alternative From The Choices Given

1. “If Chaucer is the Father of English Poetry, he is the Grandfather of the
English Novel.” Who makes this remark?
(a) Walter Pater (b) Ruskin
(c) G.K. Chesterton (d) Coleridge
2. In which mouth did Chaucer’s Pilgrims go on their pilgrimage?
(a) January (b) February (c) March (d) April
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3. How many pilgrims in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales represent
the knighthood class?
(a) One (b) Two (c) Three (d) Four
4. The Faerie Queene is based on—
(a) Utopia (b) Tottel's Miscellany
(c) Morte d' Arthur (d) Orlando Furioso
5. What is the name of the Inn where the pilgrims assemble for the night?
(a) Southwark Inn (b) Harry Bailly
(c) Tabard Inn (d) St. Becket Inn
6. One of the Tales in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is in prose. Which of the

following?


(a) The Pardoner’s Tale (b) The Parson’s Tale
(c) The Monk’s Tale (d) The Knight’s Tale
7. One of the portraits in the Prologue is that of the Wife of Bath. What is
Bath?
(a) The Christian name of the lady
(b) The surname of the lady
(c) The name of her husband
(d) The name of the town to which she belonged
8.In which of Spenser's poems does the following line occur:
"O helpe thou my weake wit, and sharpen my dull tong."
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(a) Shepherd's Calendar (b) Epithalamion
(c) Lament for Daphnaida (d) Invocation To the Faerie Queene
9. One of the following works is not a work of Chaucer. Which one?
(a)The House of Women (b) The Owl and the Nightingale
(c) The Legend of Good Women (d) Romaunt of the Rose
10. Which of the following is Chaucer’s Prose work?
(a) Troylus and Cryseyde (b) The Legend of Good Women
(c) Treatise on the Astrolabe (d) The House of Fame
11. Chaucer was not indebted for his sources to one of the following,
Identify him:
(a) Homer (b) Virgil (c) Dante (d) Ovid


12. Prince Arthur in the Faerie Queene symbolizes :
(a) Truth (b) Magnificence (c) Knighthood (d) Mercy
13. “………………….Her angel face, As the great eye of heaven shyned bright
And made a sunshine in the shadie place Did never mortal eye behold such
heavenly grace.” Whose beauty is described in these lines ?
(a) Una’s (b) Gloriana’s (c) Duessa’s (d) Abessa’s
14. Who calls Spenser the Poets’ Poet ?
(a) Matthew Arnold (b) Sidney
(c) Hazlitt (d) Charles Lamb
15. In which work did Spenser use the Spenserian stanza ?
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(a) Faerie Queene
(c) The Shepheard’s Calendar

(b) Amoretti
(d) Epithalamion
16. How many Cantos are there in Book I of the Faerie Queene ?
(a) Six (b) Ten (c) Four (d) Twelve
17. A critic says that the Faerie Queene is “downright flattery-gross,

shameless, lying flattery” of Queen Elizabeth ? Who is this critic ?
(a)I.A. Richards (b) Dean Church
(c) F.R. Leavis (d) Walter Pater
18. The Faerie Queene is basically a moral allegory. From whom did
Spenser derive this concept of moral allegory ?
(a) Plato (b) Aristotle (c) Homer (d) Virgil


19. How many ethical Virtues have been highlighted by Spenser in the
Faerie Queene ?
(a) Eight (b) Ten (c) Twelve (d) Four
20. How many ecclesiastical characters are portrayed in the Prologue?
(a) Five (b) Six (c) Seven (d) Eight
21. How many women characters figure in the Prologue to the Canterbury
Tales?
22. Spencer wrote "Amoretti, a sonnet sequence a collection of about

sonnets.
a) 58 b) 68 c) 78 d) 88
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23. To whom did spenser write a complimentary letter explaining the plan
and purpose of his Faerie Queene?
(a) To Queen Elizabeth (b) To Sir Walter Raleigh
(c) To Lord Leicester (d) To Lord Ormond
24. Who is the hero of Spenser’s Faerie Queene?
(a) Morpheus (b) Phoebus
(c) King Arthur (d) Archimago
25. The Faerie Queene is an allegory. In this Queen Elizabeth is allegorized

through the character of :
(a) Duessa (b) Gloriana (c) Una (d) Charissa
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1. Which pilgrim carries a brooch inscribed with Latin words meaning ―Love
Conquers All‖?
a) The Prioress b) The Wife of Bath c) The Monk d) The Squire
2. "The Hound of Heaven" --------------is a ode.
a) Horation Ode b) Regular c) Pindaric Ode d) religious
3. The term "lyric" in Greek signified a song rendered to the accompaniment
of a-----------
a) drum b) lyre c) flute d) horn


4. -------------is a metaphysical lyricist.
a) Milton b) Ben Johnson c) John Donne d) Spenser
5. Lyric deals with --------------
a) a single emotion b) a single theme
c) a single plot d) a single story
6. Wyatt and Surrey introduced the sonnet in England during the century.
a) fourteenth b) fifteenthal c) sixteenth d) seventeenth
7. ordered his sonnets in a sequence under the S. title "Astrophel and
Stella".
a) Spenser b) Surrey c) Chaucer d) Philip Sidney
8. Spencer wrote "Amoretti, a sonnet sequence a collection of about
sonnets.
a) 58 b) 68 c) 78 d) 88
9. One of the Tales in Chaucer‘s Canterbury Tales is in prose. Which of the
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following?
a) The Pardoner‘s Tale
c) The Monk‘s Tale
b) The Parson‘s Tale
d) The Knight‘s Tale
10. One of the portraits in the Prologue is that of the Wife of Bath. What is
Bath?
a) The Christian name of the lady
b) The surname of the lady
c) The name of her husband
d) The name of the town to which she belonged
11. In which of Spenser's poems does the following line occur:
a) Shepherd's Calendar (b) Epithalamion
c) Lament for Daphnaida d) Invocation To the Faerie Queene
12.How many ecclesiastical characters are portrayed in the Prologue?
(a) Five (b) Six (c) Seven (d) Eight


13. How many women characters figure in the Prologue to the Canterbury
Tales?
14. Which detail is least directly connected to characterization?
a. Dress c. Chronology b. Behavior d. Appearance
15. The Wife of Bath is a —
a. pious churchgoer and religious teacher
b. well-traveled vendor of fine silk clothing
c. veteran of several pilgrimages and marriages
d. widow of a prosperous doctor in Bath
16.Immediately prior to joining the other pilgrims in Chaucer‘s The
Canterbury Tale, the Knight had
a. been at court. b. gone to visit his rural estate.
c. been engaged in battles overseas.
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d. bought new clothes for the pilgrimage.
17. ……..are odes written to honour God or to sing the triumphs or victories
of the rulers or athelets.
a) ecclesiastical odes b) philosophical odes
c) triumphal odes d) irregular odes
18. ―Then cride she out, Fye, fye, deformed wight,
Whose borrowed beautie now appeareth plaine‖ who is writer the lines ?
a)Sidney b) Chaucer c) Spenser d) Marlowe
19. by whom write this lines‖ It was a goodly heape for to behould,
And spake the praises of the workmans wit‖
a)Sidney b) Chaucer c) Spenser d) Marlowe
20.The Old and Young courtier is a----------------------
a) ode b) ballad c) elegy d) sonnet
21.Match the following
LIST-1-POEM LIST-2-POETS


(a) Forget Not yet the tried intent -1.Earl of Surrey
(b) And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus? - 2. ballad
(c) The Means to attain Happy Life - 3.Thomas Wyatt
(d) A Praise of His Love -4. Earl of Surrey
(e) The Abbot of Canterbury - - 5.Thomas Wyatt
a) 12345 b) 35412 c)13245 d)54123
22. Prothalamion-------- by Edmund Spenser.
(a) Thalamion (c) spousal verse
(b) wedding. (d) the birds flew
23. Marriage of twin sisters; Lady Catherine Somerset ---------------
(a) with Cynthia (c) with William Peter.
(b) with Spenser (d) withPeter.
24. What is the cor ect chronological sequence in the following :
(a) Alastor--Lycidas--Epithalamion--Lucy Gray
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(b) Epithalamion--Alastor--Lucy Gray-- Lycidas
(c) Lucy Gray--Epithalamion--Lycidas—Alastor
(d) Epithalamion--Lycidas--Lucy Gray-- Alastor
25. Spenser wooed Elizabeth Boyle (whom he later mar ied) in his
(a) Faerie Queene (b) Amoretti (c) Epithalamion (d) None of These
26. In which of Spenser's poems does the following line occur:
(a) Shepherd's Calendar (b) Epithalamion
(c) Lament for Daphnaida (d) Invocation To the Faerie Queene
27.Given below are the title of some famous ballads. Mark the one which is
called "a little epic". It describes the gallant fight between two lords, Percy of
Northumberland and Douglas of Scotland.
(a) Chevy Chase (b) Sir Patrick Spens
(c) Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar (d) Lochinvar
28.Who introduced the sonnet form to England?


(a)Petrarch (b) Wyatt (c) Spenser (d) Shakespeare
29.Who is known for The Schoolmaster, which contains his advice to
teachers on the teaching of Latin?
(a) Roger Ascham (b) Thomas Wyatt
(c) Martin Luther (d) J ohn Wycliffe
30. Besides the sonnet form, what else was introduced by Wyatt to England?
(a) The Italian ferza rima (b) The ottava rima
(c) The elegy (d) Both (a) and (b)
31. Who made the first use of the unrhymed ten-syllabled line in English
poetry through his translations of Virgil?
(a) Thomas Wyatt (b) Thomas Sackville
(c) The Earl of Surey (d) None of the above
32. How many essays were published in Bacon‘s Essays ?
(A) 10 (B) 58 (C) 38 (D) 106
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33. ―We are commanded to forgive our enemies; but never to forgive our
friends.‖ From which essay is this sentence taken?
(A) Of Faction (B) Of Revenge (C) Of Friendship (D) Of Envy
34. Of Studies was the part of a collection of ____________.
a) 12 Essays b) 5 Essays c) 20 Essays d) 12 Essays
35. ―Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god‖ From
which essay is this line quoted?
(A) Of Friendship (B) Of Youth and Age
(C) Of Followers and Friends (D) Of Nature of Man
36. Love is Directly proportional to both prosperity and ______________.
a) Adversity b) Productivity c) Magical d) Arrogant
37.As Jasper Forde put it, "Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. Play
this game to review Poetry.
A) Philip Sidney B) John Dryden C) Alexander Pope D) Dr Johnson


38.Philip Sidney‘s Apologie for Poetrie is a defence of poetry against the
charges brought against it by____________?
A. Henry Howard B. Roger Ascham
C. John Skelton D. Stephen Gosson
39. Poetry is an art of _____________
a)Imitation b)Narration c)Information d)Reformation
40.Gosson offers what is in essence a _____attack on imaginative literature
a)Puritan b)English reformation
c)England d)George Gordon Byron.
41. Which characters are connected to the Church?
(A) The Prioress, the Monk, the Friar, the Summoner, and the Pardoner
(B) The Miller, the Ploughman, and the Reeve
(C) The Knight, the Manciple, and the Host
(D) The Canon‘s Yeoman, the Physician, the Clerk, and the Man of Law
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42. Of studies was revised for the edition in __________.
a) 1612 b) 1613 c)1615 d) 16
43. why is the study writing is used _________
a) To obtain knowledge b) to accuracy
c) both a and b d) noneof the above
44. How did bacon die _________
a) Tuberculosis b) fever c) Pneumonia d) Cancer
45.Poetry, apart from its ability to delight, has an affinity with ________
a)Memory b)Patient c)Cognitive Psychology d)Neuro Psychology
46. Francis bacon is known as father of _______.
a. novel b. essays c. letter d. drama
47. A person who is delighted in solitude is either a beast or ______.
a. Man b. Woman c. ghost d. God.
48. The second fruit of friendship is ______.
a. health b. happiness c. grieve d. enmity


49. Kings and Monarchs selected their friends according to their ____
a. status b. need c. caste d. religion
50. Person who has no friends will not know to whom they should share
their____.
a. happiness b. secrets c. sorrow d. joy
51. ―………..a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coins of gold and silver,
which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.‖ In which
essay of Bacon do these lines occur?
(a) Of Great Place b) Of Truth
(c) Of Honour and Reputation (d) Of Followers and Friends
52. Love is the child of ______________.
a) Father b) Folly c) Man d) God
53. A man Becomes _____________ If he loves a Large number of People.
a) Thin b) thick c) Lose d) kindhearted
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54. Revenge is a kind of ____________ justices.
b) wild d) few c) Some d) Different
55. ―Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and written an
exact man.‖ From which essay is this line quoted?
(A) Of Discourse (B) Of Counsel (C) Of Wisdom for a Man (D) Of Studies
56.What is the disadvantage of the much time study___________.
a) It provides only bookish Knowledge.
b) It waste too much time]
c) It makes a man theoretical and Unrealistic
d) All the above mentioned
57 .___________ is the mother of all knowledge.
a) Prose b)Poetry c)Drama d)Essay
58________ is the imitation of nature
a)Art b)Philosophy c)Ideas d)Ideals
59.An apology for poetry is a work of ___________


a)Criticism b)Literary Criticism c) Philosophy d)Drama
60.An Apology for poetry was published in _________
a)1 595 b)1 585 c)1 564 d)1 546
61.An Apology for poetry was written by_______________
a)Philip Sidney b)Edmund c)Dryden d)Chaucer
62.How many charges was made on poetry
a)6 b)3 c)8 d)4
63.An Apology for poetry is a form of ________ oration.
a)Practical b)Public c)Judicial d)Economical
64.According to Sidney who is the least liar_________
a)Dramatist b)Novelist c)Poet d)Story Writers
65. Where does Faustus grow up?
(a) Wittenberg, Germany (b) Rome, Italy.
(c) Rhodes, Germany (d) London, England.
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66. Who speaks in the Prologue?
(a) Good and Bad Angels.(b) Lucifer (c) The chorus
67. Who is the main character in the play?
(a) Mephastophilis. (b) Dr. John Faustus.
(d) Faustus.
(c) Lucifer. (d) God.

68.The form of ―The Book of Job ― is --------
a) Poetic Drama c) Element
b) Colloquial d) Symbolic
69.Job has -------- pairs of oxen
a) 200 c) 500
b) 700 d) 900
70. The Book of Job is the universal book because it speaks to the universal
need, the agony of the human heart – True or False?
a) True b) False
71.What is the solution given by the book?
a) Citizens should obey the laws


b) One should not question God‘s moral government
c) Government except as serving christ
d) People should not steal
72. What is the moral of the book?
a) I saw the wicked buried
b) God‘s ways are inscrutable
c) A positive outcome will be there
d) God‘s riches and wisdom and knowledge
73.Marlowe is a member of ----------
a) Lard Admirals Company of players
b) God carry out his perfect
c) An individual deserve his sufferings
d) Safe to argue that all human
74. What is the status of Faustus's parents?
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(a) Poor.
(b) Royalty.
75. Where does Faustus go to study?
(a) London.
(c) Rich.
(d) Homeless.
(c) Wittenberg.
(b) Rome. (d) Rhodes.
76. What does Faustus study?
(a) Divinity. (c) Medicine.
(b) Law. (d) Philosophy
77. How does Faustus do in his studies?
(a) Mediocre. (c) He quits.
(b) Financially well. (d) Very poorly.
78. What does Faustus's thoughts soon turn away from?
(a) Magic. (c) Theology.
(b) His family. (d) Philosophy.

79. What general topic does Faustus begin to study while neglecting his
former studies, according to the Chorus in the Prologue?
(a) Philosophy. (c) Magic.
(b) Medicine. (d) Law.
80. What specific topic does Faustus begin to study, according to the Chorus
in the Prologue?
(a) Pediatrics. (c) Necromancy.
(b) Socrates. (d) Astrology.
81.Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of
Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time". Who wrote
above lines for Shakespeare:
a) Jonson b) Bacon c) Wordsworth d) none of above
82.In literature, some of Shakespeare's most powerful plays were written in
that period (for example The Tempest, King Lear, and Macbeth), as well as
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powerful works by John Webster and ________.
a)William Shakespeare b)Ben Jonson
c)Ben Jonson folios d)English Renaissance theatre
83. Jonson was also an important innovator in the specialized literary sub-
genre of the ________, which went through an intense development in the
Jacobean era.
a)William Shakespeare b)Ben Jonson
c)Masque d)A Midsummer Night's Dream
84.John Donne is, in some sense, the originator of metaphysical poetry. But
who is most closely associated with the ―founding‖ of neoclassical poetry?
a)William Wordsworth b)Alexander Pope c)Ben Jonson d)George Herbert
85.His ―To Penthurst‖ is considered to be one of the primary texts of the
neoclassical movement.
a)Sir John Denham b)Ben Jonson c)Thomas Carew d)John Dryden
86.Who began the tradition of revenge play ?


a)Goorge peele b)Samuel daniel c)Phineas fletcher d)Thomas kyd
87.Thomas kyd (1558-95) achieved great popularity with which of his first
work?
a)The Rare Triumphs of love and fortune b)Cornelia
c)The Spanish Tragedy d)Jeronimo
88. Thomas Kyd‘s The Spanish Tragedy shows conspicuous influence of
(a) Seneca (b) Ariosto (c) Homer (d) Virgil
89.Who is Drugger?
a) Man walking c) Dog outside
b) A tobacco man d) Harmful to health
90.For what Drugger approached Subtle?
a) The Philosopher‘s stone
b) Sought goal in alchemy
c) To know the ways of building the new shop
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d) The gold and silver
91.Who is Epicure Mommon?
a) Carter
b) Burwell
c) A Knight
d) Guelders
92.Who is the friend of mommon?
a) Still c) Seriously
b) Surley d) Pavement
93.Surley is a -------
a) Game c) Games
b) Gambler d) Gamester
94.Who is elated to posses the philosopher‘s stone?
a) Mamon c) Wealth
b) Carp d) Mommon
95.Surley comments that the house is a ---------
a) A bawd‘s House b) Home of prostitution


c) Not having any of it d) Best effort to teach her
9. Dol Common is introduced to mommon as -------
a) A courtesy title c) Certain officials
b) A lord‘s sister d) Close relatives
96.Who advises Perseda to murder her husband?
a) Moses c) Jewish
b) Parsha d) Torah
97.Who has actually murdered Erasto?
a) Moses c) Jewish
b) Parsha d) Torah
98.In anger Perseda kills -------
a) Refer c) Place
b) People d) Soliman
99.At the end who has cut his tongue?
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a) Principal
b) Hieronimo
100.The Spanish Tragedy was acted by ------
a) She stabbed herself
c) Horatio
d) Spanish
c) Solimsn & Perseda

b) Her son‘s death d) Lord Strange‘s Men
101.The Spanish Tragedy was registered in
a) Her son‘s death c) Stationer‘s Register
b) Solimsn & Perseda d) Lord Strange‘s Men
102.Who is the hero of the Tragedy?
a) Principal c) Horatio
b) Hieronimo d) Spanish
103.What is the name of an old man?
a) Citizons c) Petition
b) Don Bazulto d) Hieronimo
104.‗The play of ―Spanish Tragedy ―starts with ------------
a) Her son‘s death
b) Soliloquy of a Ghost
c) Stationer‘s Register
d) Lord Strange‘s Men

105.Whiсh is thе соrrесt spеlling?

(А) quintеssеnсе(B) qintеssеnсе(С) quеntеsеnсе (D) quintеsеnсе
106. Skilful‗ is—
(А) аdvеnt(B) аdоpt(С) аdrоit(D) аdvеrsе
107.Whose excellent sonnets were the first to be linked by subject matter
and theme?
A) Sir Thomas Wyatt‘s B) Sir Philip Sidney‘s
C) Sir Edmund Spenser‘s D) Sir Walter Raleigh‘s
108.To whom is Spenser‘s sonnet sequence Amoretti addressed?
A) To the Queen B) To his secret lady-love
C) To a working class friend D) To his own wife
109. One of Marlowe's earliest published works was his translation of the
epic poem 'Pharsalia', written by which Roman poet?
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a)Ovid b)Lucan c)Virgil d)Horace
110. Marlowe's poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' begins with the
line "Come live with me and be my love"; which other English author wrote a
famous poem beginning with this line?
a)William Shakespeare b)Thomas Kyd c)John Dryden d)John Donne
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1. To which shrine are the pilgrims going?
(a) Shrine of St. Agnes at Canterbury
(b) Shrine of St. Lucas at Jerusalem
(c) Shrine of St. Thomas a‘ Becket at Canterbury
(d) Shrine of St. Mark in Southwark
2. ―If Chaucer is the Father of English Poetry, he is the Grandfather of the
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English Novel.‖ Who makes this remark?
(a) Walter Pater (b) Ruskin (c) G.K. Chesterton (d) Coleridge
3. ―He was as fresh as the month of May.‖ This line occurs in the Prologue.
Whom does this line refer to?
(a) Friar (b) Franklin (c) Doctor of Physic (d) Squire
4. ―The seven deadly sins‖-were introduced in the play
(A) The Jew of Malta (B) Edward II(C) Dr. Faustus (D) Tamburlaine
5. Whom of the following is a metaphysical poet?
(A) Andrew Marwell (B) Mathew Arnold(C) John Milton(D) John Bunyan
6. The elegy written by Donne On death of .
(A) John Bunyan (B) John Gregory (C) Elizabeth Brury (D) Samuel
John son
7. In ‗Paradise Lost‘ the Book IX has -------------- lines.
(A) 1159 (B) 1169 (C) 1179 (D) 1189

8. Which English king was associated with the publication of authorized

version of the Bible?
(A) James I (B) Edward (C) George (D) Henry VIII
9. The love poem of Spenser is
(A) L‘allegro (B) Epithalamion (C) Illpensereso(D) Astrophel and Stella
10. ‗Christ Hospital five and thirty years ago is about
(A) School (B) A hospital (C) An office (D) A home
11. The pen name of ―Elia‖ was adopted by
(A) Goldsmith (B) Bacon (C) Charles Lamb (D) Hazlitt
12. The press is called
(A) The first estate (B) The second estate
(C) The third estate (D) The fourth estate
13. The black death occurred-----------times
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(A) 5 (B) 3 (C) 2 (D) 4
14. ―Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to
be chewed and digested Identify the speaker?
(A) Addition (B) Goldsmith (C) Bacon (D) Steele
15. In English literature the sonnet was introduced by
(A) Thomas Wyatt (B) Shakespeare
(C) Philip Sidney (D) Spenser
16. Who deals with ―wife of Bath‖?
(A) Spenser (B) Sidney (C) Donne (D) Chaucer
17. Who called Chaucer ―The father of English poetry‖?
(A) Sidney (B) Spenser (C) Arnold (D) Johnson
18. ―If winter comes can spring be for behind‖ – This line reveals Shelley‘s
(A) Pessimism (B) Optimism (C) Revolutionary ideas (D) All these
19. Who is the writer of ―A thing of Beauty is joy forever‖
(A) John Keats (B) P.B. Shelley (C) Wordsworth (D) Shakespeare
20. Dr. Johnson‘s Dictionary came out in

(A) 1755 (B) 1800 (C) 1766 (D) 1812

21. Which of the following is the work of Chaucer?
(A) Pamela (B) Clarrisa Harlowe
(C) Prologue to Canterbury Tales (D) Sir. Charles Grandison
22. Who wrote the following lines? ―Heard melodies are sweet but those
Un heard are sweeter‖
(A) Keats (B) Byron (C) Wordsworth (D) S.T. Coleridge
23. In which poem of Tennyson do you find this line
―To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield‖
(A) The Lotus Eater (B) Ulysses (C) In Memorium (D) Morte d‘Arthur
24. What is the first part of the sonnet called?
(A) Epilogue (B) Sestet (C) Stanza (D) Octave
25. Commonwealth literature is also known as
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(A) Colonial literature(B) Classical literature (C) New literature(D)
Western literature
26. ---------------is responsible for introducing English studies in India
(A) Winston Churchill (B) Macaulay(C) Mathew Arnold(D) Thomas Carlyle
27. ―To pass away‖ is an example of ------------meaning ―to die‖
(A) Prudery (B) Transference (C) Euphemism (D) Colouring
28. Spenser‘s ―Prothalamion‖ is called -----------
(A) A spousal verse (B) A bridal verse
(C) A spousal song(D) A bridal song
29. Thomas kyd‘s ―The Spanish Tragedy‖ was modelled on
(A) The Senecan tragedy (B) The Greek tragedy
(C) The Shakespearean tragedy (D) The classic tragedy
30. Seneca is a ------------- philosopher
(A) Roman (B) Greek (C) French (D) Idealistic
31. Better form of revenge
(A) Murder (B) Prayer (C) Revenge (D) Pardon

32. Shuhite a friend of Job is

(A) Bildad (B) Eliphaz (C) Zophar (D) Eliheu
33. ―The Advancement of Learing‖ was published in the year
(A) 1605 (B) 1595 (C) 1622 (D) 1626
34. ---------------is a soul of wit
(A) Clarity (B) Adversity (C) Brevity (D) Applicability
35. The friends who influenced Spencer were
(A) Wordsworth and Coleridge (B) Keats and kyd
(C) Sidney and Shelley (D) Gabriel and Harvey
36. Who called Chaucer as ―The poet‘s poet‖
(A) Shakespeare (B) Wordsworth (C) Shelley (D) Charles Lamb
37. The faerie Queene is a/an
(A) Blank verse (B) Allegory (C) Epic (D) Pastoral elegy
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38. Who called spenser as ―poet of delighted senses?
(A) Dr. Johnson (B) Jonson (C) W.B. Yeats(D) T.S. Eliot
39. The rhyme scheme of Decasyllabic Stanza is
(A) ab ab bcb (B)Ab ab ccc (C) Ab ba bcc (D) Ab ab bcc
40. What is the theme in Book-I of Faerie Queene?
(A) Chastity (B) Holiness (C) Friendship (D) Justice
41. The art of compiling dictionary is
(A) Biography (B) Lithography (C) Lexicography (D) Auto biography
42. When was Dr. Faustus first edition appeared
(A) 1602 (B) 1604 (C) 1603 (D) 1605
43. The spanish king is unwilling to take action against
(A) Lorenzo (B) Hieronimo (C) Bel-imperia(D) Balthazar
44. Who is called the morning star of ite reformation?
(A) Wycliff (B) Chaucer (C) Tyndale (D) Wyatt

45. Hieronimo compares Lorenzo to a

(A) A hare pulling of a dead lion‘s beard (B) A lion
(C) A jackal (D) Rampart
46. Which is the hall mark of Bacon‘s Essays?
(A) Wisdom (B) Prudence (C) Holiness (D) Logic
47. Who is the only rational character in ―The alchemist?
(A) Subtle (B) Lovewit (C) Surly (D) Dame plaint
48. When was ―An Apologia for poetry‖ published
(A) 1595 (B) 1690 (C) 1490 (D) 1790
49. ―The pilgrim‘s progress was written by
(A) John Dryden (B) John Keats (C) John Bunyan (D) John II
50. The Father of English Novel is
(A) Walter Scott(B) T.S. Eliot(C) Henry Fielding (D) Frank Kermode
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51. Job lives in the land of
(A) Chieftain (B) France (C) ZU (D) UZ
52. The English pronouncing Dictionary was brought out by
(A) Dr. Johnson (B) Daniel (C) Daniel Defoe (D) Daniel Jones
53. Miracle play deals with
(A) Life of Jesus(B) Life of Poets
(C) Life of Saints (D) Life of common people
54. Surrey was the first to use
(A) Free verse (B) Contracted form (C) Blank verse (D) Sonnet form
55. Pioneer of Elizabethan drama
(A) Dryden (B) Wordsworth (C) Chaucer (D) Marlowe
56. ―A sound magician is a mighty God‖
(A) The Alchemist (B) Dr. Faustus
(C) The book of Job(D) The spanish tragedy
57. Necromancy means
(A) Art of speaking (B) Art of calling up spirits

(C) Art of giving up spirits (D) Art of giving up soul

58. First English tragedy
(A) Roister Doister (B) Ferrex and Porrex
(C) Edward II (D) Julius caesar
59. The Bible is not a book but a
(A) Pleasure (B) Knowledge (C) Library (D) Advise
60. English was introduced in India as a official language by the effort of
(A) Missionaries (B) Foreign invasion (C) Macaulay (D) Wycliff
61. The study of meaning is called
(A) Phonetics (B) Semantics (C) Morphemes (D) Allomorphs
62. The minimum unit of sound is known as
(A) Consonant (B) Vowel (C) Morpheme (D) Phoneme
63. There are ------------- sounds in English
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(A) 30 (B) 44 (C) 20 (D) 26
64. There are ---------------- vowel sounds in English
(A) 10 (B) 5 (C) 20 (D) 15
65. The central point of focus in Bacon‘s Essay is?
(A) Man (B) Master (C) Child (D) Poet
66. How many days the friends stay with job?
(A) 6 days and Nights (B) 7 days and Nights
(C) 8 days and Nights (D) 9 days and Nights
67. ―The Advancement of Learning‖-the work of Bacon is in
(A) English (B) Latin (C) French (D) Greek
68. First real comedy in English
(A) Roister doister (B) Ferrex and porrex (C) Dr. Faustus (D) Othello
69. ―Shakespeare was not of an age but for all time‖-said by
(A) T.S. Eliot (B) Wordsworth (C) Jonson (D) Johnson
70. Alchemist was published in the year
(A) 1640 (B) 1630 (C) 1620 (D) 1610

71. Shakespeare---------------overreaching ambition

(A) Admires (B) Curses (C) condemns (D) Praises
72. The soul of Andrea serves as
(A) A chorus (B) A playback singer
(C) An advisor of Prosperine (D) A contrast to Hector
73. ―Which play of Marlowe was finished by Nash?
(A) Dr Faustus (B) Edward II
(C) The tragedy of Dedo (D) Hero and Leander
74. Who is the hero of ―The Spanish Tragedy‖
(A) Pedringano (B) Balthazar (C) Hieronimo (D) Horatio
75. Who is the author of ―Orlando Furioso‖?
(A) Aristo (B) Spenser (C) Havery (D) Chaucer
76. Who is supposed to be the collaborator of kyd in ―The Spanish
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Tragedy‖?
(A) Dr. Jonson (B) Ben Jonson (C) Spenser (D) Dryden
77. ―If winter comes can ----------------- be far behind‖
(A) Summer (B) Winter (C) Autumn (D) Spring
78. An Apologie for poetry can be divided into -------------- parts
(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 3 (D) 2
79. Which is the first type of literature?
(A) Prose (B) Poetry (C) Drama (D) Lymns
80. An apology is a landmark in the history of English criticism
(A) True (B) False (C) Partly true (D) None of these
81. The end of poetry is to -----------------------
(A) Teach (B) Delight (C) Both a and b (D) Teach morals
82. The Roman call poets
(A) Liar (B) Vades (C) Inspirer (D) Valdes
83. ―The Book of Job‖ is a part o
(A) New testament (B) Old testament (C) Proverbs (D) Psalms

84. Job has -------------- sons

(A) 9 (B) 8 (C) 6 (D) 7
85. The matures play of Marlowe is
(A) Edward II (B) The Jew of Malta(C) Tamburlaine (D) Dr. Faustus
86. Who is Elihe?
(A) Shuhite (B) Namathite (C) Termanite (D) Bystander
87. Who is the servant of Dr. Faustus?
(A) Valdes (B) Cornelius (C) Wagner (D) Mephistophilis
88. Dr. Faustus is a ------------- play
(A) Miracle (B) Morality (C) Mystery (D) Comedy
89. Which the first and only typical work of Thomas kyd?
(A) Cornelia (B) Hamlet (C) The sparish Tragedy (D) Revenge
Tragedy
90. Which is the first tragedy of Jonson?
(A) Volpone (B) The Alchemist(C) Castiline (D) Sejanus
91. Who is the Acchemist?
(A) Subtle (B) Face (C) Dokommon (D) Surly
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92. Which is the locale of the play ―The Alchemist‖?
(A) France (B) Amsterdarn (C) Wessex (D) London
93. Which is not the work of Wordsworth?
(A) Preface to Lyrical ballads (B) Immortality ode
(C) Ode to west wind (D) Tintern Abbey
94. Which is the work of Emile Bronte?
(A) Emma (B) Pride and prejudice
(C) Great Expectations (D) Wuthering Heights
95. Select the work of John Bunyan
(A) The Pilgrim‘s Progress (B) All for love
(B) Prologue to Canterbury tales(D) Tom Jones
96. ―Walden‖ is a work of
(A) James Thurcer (B) Arthur Miller (C)Thoreau (D) Edward Albee
97. ‗Australia‘ is a poem written by
(A) A.D. Hope (B) Abioseh Nicoll (C) E.J. Pratt (D) Judith Wright
98. ―Canonisation‖ is the work of
(A) Donne (B) Milton (C) Pope (D) Marvell
99. Who is the first polished satirist in English?
(A) Wyatt (B) Surrey (C) Sidney (D) Wycliff

100. Who was the first to introduce blank verse as a medium for play
writing?
(A) Chaucer (B) Spenser (C) Marlowe (D) Sidney
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40. The poem is based upon __________

41. Donne was busy writing verses for _________

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60. Blakes first collection of Poems --------was printed in 1783.

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A. a sonnet expressing his devotion to his wife.