Diwakar British

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British literature
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1. Was an early English comedy written by a schoolmaster to be performed by his

students, which illustrates the early Renaissance belief in the educational advantages of actiong.
Ralph Roister Doister
Gammer gurtton's Needle
The Old Wives' Tale
The Shoemaker's Holiday
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2. Who said, "The hero of Shakespeare's great classical trilogy is Rome”?

Wilson knight
L.C. knights
Dover Wilson
Edward Dowden
Match the following prose writes with their work :
ⅰ. Bishop John Fisher
ⅱ. Roger Ascham
ⅲ. Thomas More
ⅵ. Richard Hooker
Of the law of Ecclesiatical Polity
|Froissart's Chronicles
Toxophilus
History of Richard Ⅲ
ⅰ ⅱ ⅲ ⅳ
(1) b c d a
(2) b a d c
(3) c b d a
(4) d c b a
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4. the poets of the early 16th century, such as Sir thomas Sir thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Sir
Walter Ralegh
Philip Sidney, Mary Sidney, Michael Drayton, and Sir Johm Davies, have in the recent
time been called ------
Poets.
Reformation
Pre-Shakespearean
Golden
Silver
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5. Match the sonnet sequences with their auther:

ⅱ. Samuel Daniel
ⅲ. Michael Drayton
ⅳHenry Constable
ⅰ ⅱ ⅲ ⅳ
(1) b a d c
(2) b c d a
(3) b d a c
(4) c a d b
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6. Which of the following is a feature of the Renausance ?

Individualism
Interest in History
Ptolemaic Astronomy
Sprezzature
All of these
a and b
a,c and d
a,b and d
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7. The phrase "God's anointed" in Absalom and Achitoohel endorses

The politics of the Whigs
The politics of the Tory
divine Right Theory of kings
the ideology of Protestantism
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8. Who is called "the greatest man of a little age" ?

John Milton
John Dryden
Charles Ⅱ
None of these
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9. Was the year of the Ppish Plot.

1678
1668
1665
1664
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10. Was the patron of John Locke.

Earl of shaftesbury
Duke of Monmounth
Duke of Buckingham
None of these
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11. In The Conquest of Granda, who conquers Granada ?

The English
The French
The Spaniards
The Portuguese
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12. The 18th century Gothic novel the Old English Baron was written by
Fanny Burney
Clara Reeve
Anne Radcliffe
Maria Edgeworth
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13. Which of Laurence Sterrne's novels was incomplete at the time of his death ?
A Sentimental Journey
Tristram Shandy
Both of these
Neither of these
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14. Who wrote the poem "Jerusalem" Which was termed "a perfectly mad poem" by Robert
Southey ?
John Keats
Walter Scott
Samuel Johnson
William Blake
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15. Who is considered to be the 'Dickens of the Elizabethan stage' for his intimate knowledge of
the common man ?
Thomes Dekker
Chriatopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
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16. Who of the following wrote a mock-elegy on the death of Horace Walpole's cat ?
(1) Charles Lamb
(2) Lewis Carroll
(3) Thomas Gray
(4)WalterScott
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17. Wordsworth states that central aim of the poem in the Lyrical ballads is to "choose
incidents and situations from
Life"
Everyday
Rustic
Common
Ordinary
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18. What according to Coleridge is " the living power prime Agenda of all Human
perception" ?
(1) Fancy
(2) Primary imagination
(3) Secondary imagination
(4) None of these
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19. There is a strange union of change and stasis in "To Autumn" which Keats himself termed
as
(1) Stationing
(2) Freezing
(3) Flux
(4) Repose
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20. who said, "Poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divine in the man" ?
(1) William Godwin
(2) P.B. Shelley
(3) Matthew Arnold
(4) Leigh Hunt
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21. Who authored the long essay commenting on the 'Porter Scene' in Macbeth ?
(1) Richard Steele
(2) Thomas de Quincey
(3) Oliver Goldsmith
(4) Dover ilson
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22. Harld Skim[pole in Bleak House is a caricature of

(1) Leigh Hunt
(2) William Hazlitt
(3) Charles Lamb
(4) Thomas de Quincey
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23. The New Pvgmalion is a work by

(1) G.B. Shaw
(2) William Hazlitt
(3) G.K Chesterton
(4) J.B. Priestley
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24. which poet illustrated empathy in these lines, "If a sparrow comes before my window, I
take part in its existence and
pick about the gravel" ?
(1) Tennyson
(2) Keats
(3) Wordsworth
(4) Shelley
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25. marry shelley's Frankenstein was published in

(1) 1790
(2) 1806
(3) 1818
(4) 1827
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26. Arrange the following chronologically

1. "Ode to Nightngale"
2. "Ode to Indolence"
3. "To Autumn"
4. "Ode to Grecian Urn"
5. "Ode to Psyche"
6. "Ode to Melncholy"
(1) 4.2.6.1.5.3
(2) 1.2.4.5.6.3
(3) 1.5.2.4.6.3
(4) 1.4.2.5.6.3
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27. In which society does Aronold place himsalf in Clture and Anarchy ?
(1) Barbarians
(2) Philistines
(3) Populace
(4) A fourth class that is yet to emerge
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28. News from Nowhere, which combines Utopian socialism with science fiction, was written
by
(1) Wilkie Collins
(2) Charles Kingsley
(3) William Morris
(4) Charles Reade
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29. who wrote the "Parliamentary Novels"?

(1) Arnold Bennett
(2) Bulwer vLytton
(3) benjamin Disraeli
(4) Anthony Trollope
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30. Life of Chalotte Bronte, one of the best biographies in Engkish, was written by
(1) George Eliot
(2) Charles
(3) Mrs. Gaskell
(4) Anthony Troll
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31. Arrange the following novels chronologically:

ⅰ David Copperfield
ⅱ Pickwick Papers
ⅲ Nicholas Niockleby
ⅳ Great Expectation
(1) ⅱ,ⅲ,ⅰ,ⅳ
(2) ⅱ,ⅵ,ⅲ,ⅰ
(3) ⅲ,ⅱ,ⅵ,ⅰ
(4)ⅳ,ⅰ,ⅱ,ⅲ
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32. Which of the following poems by Alfred Tennyson begins with the words "I hate" ?
(1) "to Virgil"
(2) "Maud"
(3) "The Idylls of the king"
(4) Enoch Arden"
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33. Who of the following had an elliptical style ?

(1) Robert Browning
(2) Alfred Tennyson
(3) Alexeander Pope
(4) John Dryden
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34.Which of the following novels has a "Chinese-box" structure ?

(1) Middlemarch
(2) Jane Eyre
(3) Mansfield Park
(4) Wuthering Heigts
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35. in Jude the Obscure, Jude Dreams of going to the university at

(1) Westminster
(2) Christminster
(3) Oxford
(4) Cambridge
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36. Thackeray's Vanity Fair is a

(1) bildungsroman
(2) romance
(3) social satire
(4) historical fiction
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37. "Mr. Bennett and mrs. Brown" is a satirical sseay whicj is one of the seceral account of
Virgina Woolf about the state
of
(1) contemporary England
(2) women's Education
(3) women's Writing
(4) modern fiction
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38. is an imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel,

written by Virginia
Woolf.
(1) Flush
(2) Orlando
(3) Melvmbrosia
(4) Night and day
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39. Which poem by T.S. Eliot presents the thoughts of " an old man in a dry month " ?
(1) "Ash Wednesday"
(2) "Conversation Galante"
(3) "Gerontion"
(4) "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"
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40. The truth about an Author is a playful " literary autobiography" of

(1) Arnold bennett
(2) P.G. Wodehouse
(3) G.K. Chesterton
(4) Somerset Maugham
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41. Which of the following is Conrad's novel not set against the backdrop of seafaring ?
(1) Lord Jim
(2) Typhoon
(3) The Rover
(4) Under Western Eyes
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42. Who of the following authors greatly appreciated French culture and submitted too
willingly to the influences of French realism?
(1) Arnold Bennett (3) E.M. Forster
(2) Joseph Conrad (4) John Galsworthy

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43. Which of the following works is not by Somerset Maugham?

Corridors of Power
Liza of Lambeth
c. The Razor's Edge
d. An Appointment as Sor
(1) All of these are by Maugham

(2) d and e
(3) c alone
(4) a alone
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44. Edward Thomas, W.H. Davies and John Drinkwater were major writers of the ___ period.
(1) Edwardian
(2) Georgian
(3) I World War
(4) II World War RPSC AP Paper 2021
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45. The Dog Beneath the skin, or Where is Francis ? is a play by

(1) A. A. Milne
(2) Elmer Rice
(3) Auden and Isherwood
(4) John Masefield
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46. Which of the following is in the correct chronological order?

1. The Importance of Being Earnest
2. The Riders to the Sea
3. Back to Methuselah
4. Murder in the Cathedral
(1) The Riders to the Sea, The Importance of Being Earnest, Back to Methuselah, Murder
in the Cathedral.
(2) Back to Methuselah, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Riders to the Sea, Murder
in the Cathedral.
(3) The Importance of Being Earnest, The Riders to the Sea, Back to Methuselah, Murder
in the Cathedral.
(4) Murder in the Cathedral, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Riders to the Sea,
Back to Methuselah.
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47. Who is the narrator in Melville's Moby Dick?

(1) Captain Ahab
(2) Elijah
(3) Ishmael
(4) Gabrial
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48. Who is the representative figure

of the "Jazz Age"?
(1) Sherwood Anderson
(2) F. Scott Fitzgerald
(3) Saul Bellow
(4) Wallace Stevens
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49. American Civil War was fought in

(1) 1815-1820
(2) 1830-1840
(3) 1861-1865
(4) 1825-1833
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50. Who coined the phrase "Lost Generation"?

(1) Hemingway
(2) Gertude Stein
(3) F. Scott Fitzgerald
(4) Sherwood Anderson
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51. Who says the "Earth is the right place for love"?
(1) Silvia Plath
(2) Langston Hughes
(3) Wallace Stevens
(4) Robert Frost
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52. In Saul Bellow's novel Herzog (1964), Moses Herzog is a

(1) Christian (3) Jew
(2) Hindu (4) Afro-American
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53. When did Hemingway receive the Nobel Prize for Literature?
(1) 1952
(2) 1954
(3) 1956
(4) 1958
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54. What was the original title of Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea?
(1) Fiesta
(2) The Assistant
(3) The Sea in Being
(4) Farewell to Arms
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55. Who is the central character in Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea?
(1) Santiago
(2) Marlin
(3) Mandolin
(4) None of these
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56. Who is the narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby (1925)?
(1) Gatsby
(2) Nick
(3) Buchannan
(4) None of these
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57. Which one is a great patriotic poem by Frost ?

(1) "Mending Wall"
(2) "Birches"
(3) The Gift Outright"
(4) "Directive"
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58. Who is the central figure in O'

Neill's The Hairy Ape?
(1) Mildred
(2) Yank
(3) The Secretary of I.W.W.
(4) None of these
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59. Absalom. Absalom is a novel written by

(1) Steinbeck
(2) Faulkner
(3) Hemingway
(4) Fitzgerald
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60. The poem 'Chicago' is written by

(1) Ezra Pound
(2) E.E. Cummings
(3) Carl Sandburg
(4) Carlos William
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assistant professor exam date 2016
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61. The legend of King Arthur and Knights of the Round Table is celebrated in Morte D'Arthur
by
(1) Reginal Peacock
(2) William Tyndale
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(3) Sir Thomas Malory

(4) Thomas Moore
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62. The book Euphues is generally called the precursor of the English novel Who is the author
of this book?
(1) George Gascoigne
(2)John Lyly
(3) Thomas Nashe
(4) Thomas Delany
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63. Thomas Moore's Utopia is set in

(1) "Extropia" (3) "The New Atlantis"
(2) "The Neverland" (4) The New World"
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64. Identify the play by Christopher Marlowe in which these lines occur - "Was this the face
that launch'd a thousand ships..."?
(1) The Jew of Malta
(2) Edward
(3) The Massacre of Paris
(4) Doctor Faustus
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65. Identify the dramatist who does NOT belong to the group of dramatists known as
"University Wits",
(1) Thomas Nashe
(2) R oben Green
(3) Thomas Kyd
(4) Cyril Tourneur
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66. Who among the following is called the "poet's poet"?

(1) Geoffrey Chaucer
(2) William Shakespeare
(3) Edmund Spenser
(4) John Milton
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67. The Redcross Knight in The Faerie Queene represents

(1) Truth
(2) Holiness
(3) Temperance
(4)Courtsey
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68. Which poem pronounces the poet's aim as, "Fierce Warres and faithful loves shall moralize
my song" ?
(1)The Faene Queene
(2) "A Hymn to God the Father"
(3) "A Parting"
(4) "Christ's Victory and Triumph"
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69.Who is the author of the book The Spanish Tragedy?

(1)John Fletcher
(2)Ben Jonson
(3)Thomas Kyd
(4) Christopher Marlowe
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70. Who wrote The Praise of Folly?

(1) Phillip Massinger
(2) Francis Beaumont
(3) Desiderius Erasmus
(4) James Shirley
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71.Of what does Bacon say that it does, "offend the law....putheth the law out of office"?
(1) Truth
(2) Revenge
(3) Envy
(4) Simulation
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72. Ben Jonson's The Alchemist presents tricksters and gulls of whom…………..is the most
masterly
(1) Sir Epicure Mammon
(2) Morose
(3) Subtle
(4) Dapper
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73.Who were called the "Tribe of Ben"?

(1) poets who followed Ben Jonson
(2) dramatists who followed Ben Jonson
(3) courtiers who followed Ben Jonson
(4) admirers of Ben Jonson
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74. "I am a man more sinned against than sinning", is an excerpt from the play…………………
(1) King Lear
(2) Romeo and Juliet
(3) Julius Caesar
(4) Othello
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75. The character Bottom appears in the following Shakespearean comedy:

(1) As You Like It
(2) Twelfth Night
(3) A Midsummer Night's Dream
(4) A Comedy of Errors
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76. Which of the following translated Homer's "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey"?
(1) Ben Jonson
(2) George Chapman
(3) Edmund Spenser
(4) Philip Sidney
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77. The formal structure of a typical Shakespearean Sonnet is:

(1) An octave and a sestet
(2) Three quatrains and a couplet
(3) An octave, a quatrain and a couplet
(4) A couplet followed by three quatrains
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78. the line "stone walls do not aprison make, not iron bar's, are from?
(1) philip Sidney's "Astrophel and Stella"
(2) Edmund Spenser's "Epithamion"
(3) Richard Lovelace's "To Althea from Prison"
(4) Ben Jonson's Everyman in his Humour
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79. Which of Andrew Marvell's poems deal with the theme of "Carpe Dirm" (seize the day) ?
(1) "Thoughts in a Garden"
(2) "To his Coy Mistress"
(3) "An Horatian Ode Upen Cromwell's Return From Ireland"
(4) Upon Appleton House"
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80. Who says of Donne : "He affects the metaphysics" ?

(1) Dr Samuel Johnson
(2) T.S. Eliot
(3) John Dryden
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(4) H.J.C. Grierson

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81. Philip Sidney's Arcadia is ………..

(1) an epic poem
(2) a verse drama
(3) a prose romance
(4) a ballad
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82. which of the following plays resulted in the closure of all theaters ?
(1) All fools
(2) the lsle of dogs
(3) The White Devil
(4) Poetaster
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83. Shakespeare incorporates Livy's account's lust in a narrative work called

(1) Cymbeline
(2) "Venus and Adonis"
(3) "The Rape of lucrece"
(4) Titus Andronicus
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84. The work The Anatomy of Melancholy was written by

(1) Francis Bacon
(2) Thomas Lodge
(3) Richard Booker
(4)Robert Burton
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85. Bacon describes his essays as:

(1) random thoughts
(2) dispersed meditations
(3) set treatises
(4) focussed descriptions
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86. Which of the following plays is NOT written by Thomas Middleton ?

(1)The Spanish Gipsy
(2) The Merry Wives of Windsor
(3) The Changeling
(4) Women Beware Women
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87. The White Devil by John Webster depicts Italian society as

(1) highly progressive
(2) religious and refined
(3) corrupt and evil
(4)honest and ethical
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88. John Milton's 'L'Allegro' invokes which grace with whom he means to live?
(1) Mirth
(2) Joy
(3) Happiness
(4) Love
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89. In which of the following lines does Manoah report the end of the protagonist in Milton's
Samson Agonistes?
(1) "Our cure, to be no cure, sad cure"
(2) "This horror will grow mild, this darkness light"
(3) "Calm of mind, all passion spent
(4) "Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot which men call earth"
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90. In which of his tracts does Milton say "He who destroys a good book, kills reason itself,
kills the image of as it werein
the eye"
(1)Tetrachordon
(2) Areopagitica
(3) Colastenon
(4) De Doctrina Christiana
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91. Which of the following poems was written by John Dryden in praise of the Restoration and
Monarchy ?
(1) "The Hind and the Panther"
(2) "Religio Laici"
(3) "Astraca Redux
(4) "Mac Flecknoe"
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92. Pope in his "Letter to Arabella", in "The Rape of the Lock", states that he borrowed his
supernatural
machinery from-
(1) the Kabbals
(2) the Rosicrucians
(3) Temple Orientis
(4) Thelemicism
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93. In Jonathan Swift's The Battle of the Books

(1) both sweetness and light are associated with the Ancients.
(2) both sweetness and light are associated with the Modems
(3) sweetness is associated with the Ancients and light with the Moderns
(4) light is associated with the Ancients and sweetness with the Modems
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94. The surface narrative of Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel" is taken from:
(1) English History
(2) Plutarch's Lives
(3) Dutch Legends
(4) The Bible
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95. The Spectator by Addison and Steel was published in the…………. decade of the
Eighteenth century
(1) first
(2) second
(3) third
(4) fourth
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96. "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is Man".
Where do these lines occur?
(1) "The Rape of the Lock"
(2) "An Essay on Criticism"
(3) "An Essay on Man"
(4) "Windsor Forest"
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97. Who is Thomas Gray referring to in his lines."Nor second He, that rode sublime, upon the
seraph wings of Ecstasy"
from "The Progress of Poesy":
(1) Shakespeare
(2) Milton
(3) Spenser
(4) Donne
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98. Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer owes its origin to –

(1) Farquar's Beaux Stratagem
(2) Congreve's The Way of the World
(3) Sheridan's The Rivals
(4) Steel's The Tender Husband
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99. What do the novels Pamela Clarissa Shamela and Lady Susan share with each other?
(1) They are all picaresque novels
(2) They are all travelogues
(3) They are all dramatic monologues
(4) They are all epistolary
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100. In which play of William Congreve do the characters Millamant and Mirabel appear?
(1) The Old Bachelor
(2) Love for Love
(3) The Way of the World
(4) The Double Dealer
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101. Which of the following is NOT an elegy

(1) "Lycidas"
(2) "Thyrsis"
(3) "Endymion"
(4) In Memorium
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102. "The still sad music of humanity". In which poem of William Wordsworth does this line
occur?
(1) "Ode on the Intimations of Immortality"
(2) "Ode to Duty"
(3) "Lines Written a few miles above Tintern Abbey"
(4) The Solitary Reaper"
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103"Adonais" by P.B. Shelley is an elegy on the death of

(1) Byron
(2) Keats
(3) Leigh Hunt
(4) Robert Southey
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104. William Blake's Songs of Innocence contains short lyrics embodying his views on-
(1) the contemporary life of London
(2) the pleasures of the Garden of Eden
(3) the original state of human society
(4) the hard life of children
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105. Which of the following is NOT a Gothic novel?

(1) Clara Reeve's The English Baron
(2) Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
(3) Mathew Gregory's The Italian
(4) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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106. Which poem of John Keats has the thease of a fatal, magical love luring a man to his
doom?
(1) "The Eve of St. Agnes
(2) "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
(3) "Ode to Payche"
(4) "Ode on a Grecian Um"
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107. In S.T. Coleridge’s poem " The rime of the Ancient Mariner", acurse falls on the ship
because :
(1) all the sailors hate the innocent mariner
(2) all the sors hate the Albatross
(3) the mariner shoots one of the sailors
(4)the mariner shoots an Albatross
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108. Which one of the following poets is attacked by Byron in his poem "The Vision of
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(1) William Blake
(2) Robert Southey
(3) P.B. Shelley
(4) John Keats
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109. Jane Austen's novels are characterised by:

(1) an element of chance
(2) philosophic reflections
(3) social propaganda
(4) perfect picture of provincial life
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110. In the title "The Essays of Elia", the name Ella stands for
(1)John Carlyle
(2) Walter Scott
(3) Charles Lamb
(4) William Hazlitt
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111. From which poem of Robert Browning have these lines been taken - "So, one day more
am I deified. Who knows but the world may end to night"?
(1)"Porphyria's Lover"
(2)"The Last Ride Together"
(3)"Andrea Del Sarto"
(4) "The Grammarian's Funeral"
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112. "Theirs not to make reply. Theirs not to reason why. Theirs but to do or die". These lines
are from Tennyson
poem-
(1) "In Memorium AHH"
(2) "Locksley Hall Sixty Years after"
(3) "Ullyses"
(4) "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
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113. For what does Tennyson use the extended metaphor of "crossing the bar" in his poem by
the same title?
(1) setting forth in the unknown world
(2) travelling serenely from life through death
(3) defying conventions and leaning towards Pandeism
(4)commenting on the ill-advised' pro- conception of human kind
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114. "this strange disease of modern life, with its sick harry and divined aim", Mathew Arnold
speaks of this malaise
in his poem-
(1) "The Scholar Gypsy"
(2) "Dover Beach"
(3) "Thyriss"
(4) "Suns from the Grande Chartreuse"
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115. The narrative of Thomas Hardy's

The Return of the Native begins on the evening of
(1) May Dance Day
(2) Guy Fawke's Nigh
(3) The Skimmington Ride
(4) Maumbury Rings
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116. The pioneering classic of outdoor literature

Travels with a Donkey in Cevennes is the work of -
(1) George Moore
(2)George Gissing
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(3)Rudyard Kipling
(4) R.L. Stevenson
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117. Whose essay does Walter Pater re-work for the conclusion of his book The Renaissance
Studies in Ant and Poetry?
(1) S.T. Coleridge
(2) Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(3) Johann Winckelmann
(4)William Morris
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118. Match the opening lines with their text

A B
(A) Now what I want is facts (P) Oliver Twist
(B) it was the best of times (Q) Hard Times
was the worst of times
(C) Among other public buildings (R) David Copperfield
there is one a work house
(D) Whether I shall turn out to be (S) A Tale of Two Cities
the hero of my own life these pages
must show
(1) A B C D P Q R S
(2) A B C D S R P Q
(3) A B C D Q S P R
(4) A B C D R P Q S
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119.The continued popularity of Oscar Wilde's plays depends on :

(1) The polish and scintillating wit of his dialogue
(2) A sentimental portrayal of the elite of his times
(3) A realistic portrayal of the middle class
(4) The slapstick mode of humour
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120.In which novel two young girls leave Miss Pikerton's Academy and one of them throws out
of the coach window Johnson's "Dictionary", her farewell gift?
(1) Jude the Obscure
(2) Yeast
(3) Vanity Fair
(4) Foul Play
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121. Between which two 'dark places' does Joseph Conrad in his Heart of Darkness create a
parallel?
(1) Poland and London:
(2) Africa and Costaguana
(3) London and Africa
(4) Costaguana and Geneva
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122. In Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell's novel the location is and its protagonist is
(1) Eurasia Big Brother
(2) Airstrip One: Winston Smith
(3) Ministry of Truth Doublethink
(4) Eustasia: Emmanuel Goldstein
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123. In which novel does Aldous Huxley satirise the idea of progress by creating a fantasy of
the future world?
(1) Point Counter Point
(2) Eveless in Gaza
(3) Antic Hay
(4) Brave New World
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124. DH Lawrence wrote a sequel to his 1915 novel. The Rainbow entitled which continues
with the lives of the sister
(1) Sons and Lovers Morel
(2)Women in Love Brangwen
(3) Lady Chatterley's Lover Mellor
(4) John Thomas and Lady Jane Cresswell
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125. Major Scobie is a character in which novel by Graham Green?

(1) The End of an Affair
(2) The Quiet American
(3) The Power and The Glory
(4) The Heart of the Matter
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126. In which of her works does Virginia Woolf invent the fictional character of Shakespeare's
sister naming he………
(1) Three Guineas Roxana
(2) Flush A Biography Dorothy
(3) The Waves Rhoda
(4) A Room of One's Own Judith
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127. Harold Pinter in The Birthday Party makes Petey remark as Stanley is being taken away
(1) "You're dead, you can't live, you can't think, you can't love. You're dead".
(2) "Don't let them tell you what to do. I've lived that line all my damn life. Never more
than now".
(3) "Let's finish and go. Let' get it over and go. Get the thing done."
(4) "Play up. play up and play the game!"
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128. "Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today?" These lines are from.
……………
(1) T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of Alfred Prufork"
(2) Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
(3) Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
(4) Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth"
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129. Yeats' poem "The Second Coming" prophesises the coming of:
(1) God
(2) Jesus Christ
(3) The Holy Spirit
(4) A new Destructive God
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130. In Bernard Shaw's St Joan the independence of Joan is seen in opposition to the forces of
(1) organised society
(2) materialist ideas
(3) puritanical thinking
(4) anarchy
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131. Who explicates the moral of the poem - The Rape of the Lock' ?
(1) Belinda (2) Clarissa
(3) Miss Fermour (4) Arabella
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132. The social and intellectual life in the 18th Century revolved around
(1) The Tea Club (2) The Coffee House
(3) The Royal Court (4) The Taverns
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133. The literature which emulated Ovid. Horace and Virgil is also known as
(1) Metaphysical (2) Romantic
(3) Pre Raphaelite (4)Augustan
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134. The character Tony Lumpkin features in the play

(1)She Stoops to Conquer (2) The Rivals
(3) The Viggar's Opera (4) The Country Wife
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135. Which of the following is central to Pride and Prejudice?

(1) Depiction of the metaphysical and grand experiences of life
(2) Gelling the two - Darcy and Elizabeth - Married despite myriad obslacles in life
(3) Throwing light on the darker aspects of the couples' lives
(4)Radienting the couple's major weaknesses - especially Darcy's pride and Elizabeth's
prejudice
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136. Whose novels among the following gave the British Historical Novel its established status
(1) Waller Scott (2) Anthony Trollope
(3) W. M. Thaekeray (4) Charles Dickens
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137. Tales from Shakespeare - adapted Shakespeare's plays into stories were authored by
(1) Dorothy and William Wordsworth
(2) B Mary and Charles Lamb
(3) Sara Hutchinson and ST. Coleridge
(4) Mary and PB. Shelley
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138. Who among the following does NOT belong to the 'Lake Poets'?
(1) Coleridge (2) Southey
(3)PN Byron (4) Wordsworth
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139. Which Romantic Poet preferred articulating rustic life and language as a major subject for
poetry?
(1) Blake (2) Gray
(3) Burns (4) Wordsworth
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140. The message of the poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is love and reverence for
(1) The whole mankind (2) All God's creatures
(3) God and his Angels (4) Men living and dead
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141. Which city became the perceived centre of Western civilization by the middle of the 19th
Century?
(1) Paris (2) London
(3) Amsterdam (4) New York
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142. Ruskin's 'Unto This Last' gives us the definition of the

(1) Real sense of Political Economy
(2) Problems of the 19th Century Industrialized England
(3) Adverse impact of Darwin's scientific discoveries
(4) Theory of fiscal inflation and price – indexing
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143. Becky sharp is a character in the novel

(1) Tom Jones (2) Vanity Fair
(3) Sense and Sensibility (4) Adam Bede
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144. Which best describes the general feeling expressed in the literature during the last decades
of the Victorian era?
(1) Studied Melancholy and aestheticism
(2) Sincere earnestness and Protestant Zeal
(3) Raucous celebration blended with self-congratulatory safistication
(4) Paranoid introspection and cryplic dissent
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145. The work which takes up the theme of split personality is

(1) The Way of all Flesh
(2) Frankenstein
(3) Dr. Jakyll and Mr. Hyde
(4) Sons and Lovers
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146. '1914' is a sequence of five war sonnets written by

(1) Wilfred owen (2) Sassoon
(3) Rupert Brooke (4) Robert Graves
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147. The novel The Sword of Honour is written by

(1) Evelyn Waugh (2) Graham Green
(3) Kinsley Amis (4) James Joyce
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148. The Scene related to the seduction of the stenographer by the clerk in the waste land
occurs in
(1) 'The Five Sermon' (2) 'The Burial of the Dead'
(3) 'A Game of Chess' (4) 'What the Thunder Said'
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149. Who among the following wrote under the pen-name 'Alpha of the Plough’?
(1) Robert Lynd (2) G. K. Chesterton
(3) A. G Gardiner (4) H. Belloc
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150. Who among the following was NOT a member of the Bloomsbury Circle?
(1) Virginia Woolf (2) Leonard Woolf
(3)Clive Bell (4) D. H. Lawrenco
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151. Match List-I with List-II and select the right answer by using the codes given below the
Lists:
List-1 List-II
(A) Arthur Miller. (1) Chamber Music

(B) James Joyce (2) Burnt Norton
(C) W. B. Yeats (3) All My Sons
(D) T. S. Eliot (4) The Tower
Codes
(A) (B) (C) (D)

(1) 3 2 4 1
(2) 3 1 4 2
(3) 4 2 1 3
(4) 2 2 1 4
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152.Which among the following is a novel by Galsworthy?

(1) Justice (2) Strife
(3) Joy (4) Fraternity
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153. Which of the following is NOT anthoned by John Arden ?

(1) The Happy Heaven (2) Wet Fish
(3) Exiles (4) The Royal Pardon
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154. Who is the author of 1990 Booker Award Winning Novel 'Possession A Romance'?
(1) Doris Lessing (2) Iris Murdoch
(3) Muriel Spark (4) A. S. Byatt
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155.Anthony Powell worked as the editor of

(1) Times Literary Supplement (2) Punch
(3) The Saturday Review (4) The Encounter
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156. The Strings are false is the unfinished autobiography of

(1) Angus Wilson (2) C. P. Snow
(3) Stephen Spender (4) Louis MacNeice
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157. 'Epiphany' is an aesthetic term brought into literary criticism by

(1) James Joyce (2) William James
(3) Henry James (4) D. H. Lawrence
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158. The book 'Symbolist movement in Literature by G. S. Fraser (1902) was dedicated to
(1)Ezra Pound (2) Robert Bridges
(3) Edgar Allen Poe (4) W. B. Yeats
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159. Identify James Frazer's book on ancient mythology which influenced the writing of Eliot's
The Waste Land
(1) Anatomy of Criticism (2)The Golden Bough
(3) Studies in the History of Oriental Religion (4) The Archeology of Knowledge
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160. Match the following correctly

List-I List-II
(A) E. M. Forster (1) Passage to America
(B) Nirad C. Chaudhari (2) Passage to England
(C) Santha Rama Rau (3) Rough Passage
(D) R. Parathasarathy (4) A Passage to India
Codes:
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(A) (B) (C) (D)
(1) (4) (2) (1) (3)

(2) (1) (2) (3) (4)
(3) (3) (2) (1) (4)
(4) (2) (3) (4) (1)
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161. E. E. Cumming's first book recording the personal experiences in a French Concentration
camp in World War I is
(1) No Thanks (2) Tulips and Chimneys
(3) Tom (4) The Enormous Room
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162. Idea's Mirrour (1594) is a collection of sonnets by

(1)Michael Drayton (2) Sammuel Daniel
(3) Robert Southwell (4) Thomas Kyd
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163. The following text appeared in different centuries Arrange them in chronological order
(A) Pleasures Reconciled to Virtue

(B) The Fourie Queen
(C) Canterbury Tales
(D) Edward Ⅱ
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(1) 4 2 3 1
(2) 1 2 3 4
(3) 3 4 1 2
(4) 3 2 4 1
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164. Which of the following Sixteenth Century works of English Literature was translated into
the English language after its first publication in Latin?
(1) Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
(2) Shakespeare's King Lear
(3) Shakespeare's Sonnets
(4)Thomas More's Utopia
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165. The author of Shoemaker's Holiday is

(1) Thomas Kyd (2) Samuel Daniel
(3)Thomas Dekke (4) Webster
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166. The brightest, the wisest and the meanest of mankind' was said about which Elizabethan
writer ?
(1) Ben Jonson (2) Robert Greene
(2)Francis Bacon (4) Thomas Wyatt
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167. Which of the following is written on the theme of 'Love is Blind'

(1) Tempest
(2) A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(3)The Merchant of Venice
(4) Taming of the Shrew
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168. Which of the following themes or subjects was not common in the works of Cavalier Poets
?
(1) Courtly ideals of good life
(2)Carpe diem
(3) Loyalty to the king
(4) Pious devotion to religious virtues
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169. Disagreement between Dryden and Shadwell led to the writing of

(1) The Dunciad (2) Lycidas
(3) Maclacknoe (4) Annus Mirabili's
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170. "We live in a damned wicked world the lesser we talk about it, the better" This statement
occurs in
(1) The Rivals (2) She stoops to conquer
(3) The School for Scandal (4) The Way of the World
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171. Which one of the following was written by Robert Burton ?

(1) New Atlantis (2) The Anatomy of Melancholy
(3) Aeropagitica (4) Essay on Man
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172. Which of the following plays is based on a Moghul ruler ?

(1) The Indian Emperor (2) Aurangzebe
(3) Emperor's Crown (4) All for Love
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173. What is the title of Milton's blank-verse epic which assimilates and critiques the epic
tradition ?
(1)L'Allegro (2) Lycidas
(3)Paradise Lost (4) The Divine Comedy
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174. Where did Alexander Pope borrow the supernatural Machinery from, in The Rape of the
Lock ?
(1) Religio Medici (2) Paradise Lost
(3)Le Comte de Gabalis (4)Don Quixote
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175. Which novel is generally regarded as the progenitor of the stream of consciousness
technique?
(1) Tristram Shandy (2) Joseph Andrews
(3) Vanity Fair (4) Middlemarch
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176. "The Prince of poets in his tyme". These words about Edmund Spenser are
(1) inscribed on a monument set up by Lady Anne Clifford
(2) inscribed on a monument set up by Chaucer
(3) inscribed on a monument set up by William Shakespeare
(4) inscribed on a monument set up by Ponsonby
177. The known facts of Chaucer's life are well summarised in -

(1) The Regement of Princes
(2) Troilus and Criseyde
(3) The Book of the Duchess
(4) The Riverside Chaucer
178. Who is referred to as 'dead shepherd' in Shakespeare's As You Like It?

(1)Christopher Marlowe (2) John Lyly
(3) Edmund Spenser (4) Clement Marot
179. John Donne's unfinished satirical epic is -

(1) Songs and Sonnets
(2) The Progress of the Soul
(3) Pseudo-Martyr
(4) A Nocturnall upon S. Lucies Day
180. Milton wrote English "like a dead language". Who said this?
(1) T.S. Elot (2) John Donne
(3) FR Leavis (4) William Wordsworth
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181. Who does not belong to the Restoration Period?

(1) Dryden (2) Rochester
(3) Bunyan (4) William Blake
182. Verses to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady is an
(1) Elegy by Alexander Pope

(2) Elegy by P.B. Shelley
(3) Elegy by Thomas Gray
(4) Elegy by Tennyson
183. Hazlitt called him "the poet not of nature but of art". Who does the statement refer to ?
(1) John Dryden (2) Alexander Pope
(3) Charles Lamb (4) Richard Steele
184. A Tale of a Tub is a celebrated satire on -

(1) Corruption in politics and society
(2) Corruption in religion and learning
(3) Corruption in clubs and institutions
(4) Corruption in society
185. Which of the following novels subverts the conventions of novel writing through its innovative techniques ?
(1) Tristram Shandy (2) Humphry Clinker
(3) Pamella (4) The Vicar of Wakefield
186. She Stoops to Conquer's sub-title is -

(1) The Relapse (2) The Mistakes of a Night
(3) The Rehearsal (4) She Wou'd if She Cou'd
187. Who established the form of Historical Novel ?

(1) Robert Falcon Scott (2) Geoffrey Scott
(3) Michael Scott (4) Sir Walter Scott
188. Where do the pilgrims meet in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ?

(1) Canterbury (2) Bath
(3) Tabard Inn (4)The Church
189. The Fall of Robespierre is a play written by

(1) Byron in collaboration with Southly
(2) Southly in collaboration with Coleridge
(3) Coleridge in collaboration with Byron
(4) Wordsworth in collaboration with John Keats
190. Sordello is -
(1) a narrative poem (2) an epic
(3) a metaphysical poem (4) an idyll

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191. Coleridge's Wallenstein is a fine tribute to -

(1) Wordsworth (2) Schiller
(3) Goethe (4) Hume
192. Which work of George Eliot has a parallel in Wordsworth's life?

(1) Adam Bede (2) Silas Marner
(3) The Mill on the Floss (4) Middlemarch
193. Which poetry is strongly pictorial ?

(1) Modern Poetry (2) Pre-Raphaelite Poetry
(3) Romantic Poetry (4) Victorian Poetry
194. The sub-title of Hardy's novel Under the Greenwood Tree is -

(1) A nural painting of the Dutch school
(2) A rural painting of the Wessex school
(3) A rural painting of Bath
(4) A rural painting of London
195."No man is a match for a woman except with a poker and a pair of hobnailed boots... These lines occur in Shaw's
Play
(1) Arms and the Man
(2) Major Barbara
(3)Candida
(4) Man and Superman
196. "I write plays with the deliberate purpose to convert the nation to my opinions." Who said this?
(2) John Osborne
(3) Henrik Ibsen
(4)G.B. Shaw
Directions for Que. No.197-198:
Match List I with List II and choose the correct answer using the codes given below:
197. List I List II
(A) Back to Methuselah (i)John Galsworthy

(B) Escape (ii) Oscar Wilde
(C) A Woman of No (iii) Somerset Maugham
Importance
(D) The Constant Wife (iv) GB. Shaw
Codes:
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(1) (ⅰ) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(2) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(4) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)

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198. List I List II

(A) The Earth Compels (i) Dylan Thomas
(B) Transitional Poem (ii) Louis Mac Neice
(C) 18 Poems (iii) C. Day Lewis
Codes :
(A) (B) (C)
(1) (ⅰ) (iii) (ii)
(2) (ⅲ) (ⅰ) (ⅱ)
(3) (ⅱ) (ⅰ) (ⅲ)
(4) (ii) (iii) (i)
199. Who is the protagonist in John Osborne's Look Back in Anger?

(1) Jimmy Porter (2) Nora
(3) Luther (4) Martin
200.Who wrote Human Bondage ?

(1) Somerset Maugham (2) JB. Priestley
(3) Mackenzi (4) Fitzerald
201. Huxley's Brave New World deals with -

(1) the courageous emerging world and the influence of science
(2) the life in future free from disease
(3) the life in future free from war
(4) the life in future devoid of emotions and spirituality
202. In which poem, evening is compared to "a patient etherized upon a table" ?
(1) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
(2) Journey of the Magi
(3) The Waste Land
(4) Four Quartets
203. In Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad has used the technique of

(1)Oblique narrative
(2) Episodic narrative
(3) Oblique satire
(4) Both oblique and episodic narrative
204. "A cynic is a person who knows the price of everything and the valu of nothing." Who wrote this?
(1) George Bernard Shaw (2) Oscar Wilde
(3) HG Wells (4) DH Lawrence
205. Who used the phrase "Stream of Consciousness" in his book Principles of Psychology?
(1) William James (2) D.H. Lawrence
(3) James Joyce (4) Sigmund Freud
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206. Which of the following novels contains the elements of autobiography?

(1) The White Peacock
(2) Sons and Lovers
(3) Rainbow
(4) The Time MachineF
207. Who used the device of Inscape ?

(1) G.M. Hopkins and T.S. Eliot
(2)Only G.M. Hopkins
(3) G.M. Hopkins and Ezra Pound
(4) Robert Browning and G.M. Hopkins
208. Who among the following is also called a neo-romanticist?

(1) W.H. Auden (2) Ezra Pound
(3) TS Eliot (4) Dylan Thomas
209. Kurtz, a villain, figures in -

(1) Lord Jim (2) Heart of Darkness
(3) The Secret Agent (4) The Portrait of a Lady
210. Who is the author of the world famous Sherlock Holmes stories ?
(1) James Chase
(2) Sherlock Holmes
(3) Both James Chase and Sherlock Holmes
(4) Arthur Conan Doyle
211. "They wholly mistake the nature of criticism who think, its business is principally to find fault. Criticism as it was
first instituted by Aristotle was meant to be a standard of judging well." Who said this?
(1) Alexander Pope (2) Ben Jonson
(3) John Dryden (4) Samuel Johnson
212. Which of the following is a famous rhetorical question?

(1) Aren't all humans mortal?
(2) If Winter comes, can spring be far behind ?
(3) Isn't life an interlude between birth and death?
(4) Don't we reap what we sow ?
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213. Which of the following is a "novel without a hero" ?

(1) Vanity Fair (2) Great Expectations
(3) Mill on the Floss (4) Wuthering Heights
214. Who employs supernatural machinery in one of his poems ?

(1) Cowper (2) Collins
(3) Gray (4) Pope
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215. My Days and Dreams is an autobiography of

(1) Joseph Conrad (2) Kipling
(3) H.G. Wells (4) Mary Arnold
216. In which play of G.B. Shaw, a Professor changes the life of a flower girl?
(1)Pygmalion (2) Candida
(3) Widower's House (4) The Apple Cart
217. "They say my verse is sad: no wonder,

Its narrow measure spans
Tears of eternity and sorrow,
Not mine, but man's"
These lines are written by
(1) A.E. Housman (2) Arnold Bennett
(3)G.K. Chesterton (4) W.B. Yeats
218. Sesame and Lilies is written by -

(1)Firdausi (2) Shakespeare
(3) Carlyle (4) John Ruskin.
219. Hopkins' "Carrion Comfort" is a -

(1) Love sonnet (2) Nature sonnet
(3) Reflective sonnet (4) Mystic sonnet
220. W.H. Auden was the leader of the -

(1)Oxford poets (2) Romantic poets
(3) Pre-Raphaelite poets (4) Victorian poets
221. "He absorbed all his age had to offer him".Who said the above line about W.B. Yeats ?
(1)L.A. Richards (2) David Daiches
(3) F.R. Leavis (4) T.S. Eliot
222. Leopald Bloom and Molly are characters in -

(1) D.H. Lawrence's The White Peacock
(2) J. Conrad's Nostromo
(3) Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
(4)James Joyce's Ulysses
223. "Laugh where we must, be candid where we can

But vindicate the ways of God to Man."
These lines occur in
(1)The Essay on Man (2) The Essay on Citicism
(3) Dunciad (4) Windsor Forest
224. In Gulliver's Travels, Yahoos symbolise

(1) a man's yearning for freedom
(2) the unjustified ways of God to Man
(3) the English imperialistic attitude
(4) the low level to which humanity may degenerate into when the restraints of reason and society are removed
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225. Where was the Irish National Theatre founded?

(1) New York (2) London
(3) Dublin (4) Scotland
226. "Forster is a novelist difficult to assess, he can be easily overestimated or underestimated". Who wrote this ?
(1)Walter Allen (2) E. Albert
(3) Diana Neil (4) Fredrick Karl
227. The First Comedy written about 1550 by Nicholas Udall is

(1)Roister Doister (2) Four P's
(3) Gorbodue (4) Everyman
228. Shakespeare's narrative poem is:

(1)Venus and Adonis (2) Hero and Leander
(3) Romeo and Juliet (4) Cymbeline
229. Which of the following is not true about Spenser's Faery Queene ?
(1) The Faery Queene is a fragment
(2) It is one of the longest poems
(3) Prince Arthur is the central figure.
(4) The underlying theme of the poem was explained in the poet's prefatory letter to his friend Red Cross Knight.
230. Tottel's Miscellany is a collection of

(1)Songs and Sonnets
(2) Prose and poetry
(3) Essays
(4) Essays and short stories.
231. The major works of Christopher Marlowe are

(1)Tamburlaine, Dr. Faustus, The Jew of Malta and Edward II
(2) Tughlaq, Dr. Faustus, The Jew of Malta and Edward II
(3) Tamburlaine, Dr. Harrington, The Jew of Malta and Edward II
(4) Tamburlaine, Dr. Faustus, The Jew of Arabs, Edward II
232. Lycidas is an elegy written in the memory of

(1)Edward King (2) King Charles
(3) Queen Elizabeth (4) John Milton
233. But at my back I always hear

Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
"These lines seem to me the very roof and crown of the Metaphysical love lyric, at once fantastic and passionate". B
Who said this?
(1)Prof. Grierson (2) Prof. Dustoor
(3) John Dryden (4) George Herbert
234. The work The Monarch of Wit is about

(1) John Dryden (2) T.S. Eliot
(3)John Donne (4) Cowley
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235. "Circulating Libraries" were popular during :

(1) the sixteenth century
(2) the seventeenth century
(3) the eighteenth century
(4) the nineteenth century
236. Comedy of Manners was influenced by

(1) Elizabethan Comedy and Tragedy
(2) French dramatist Moliere and Spanish dramatist Caldero
(3) French dramatist Madarin and Spanish dramatist Hugo
(4) John Webster's tragedies
237. Dryden is best known for two artificial lyrics

(1) Religio Laici and Alexander's Feast
(2) The Hind and the Panther and St. Cecilia's Day
(3) St. Cecilia's Day and Alexander's Feast
(4) St. Cecilia's Day and Religio Laici
238. James Thomson wrote

(1) Seasons and Castle of Indolence
(2) Night Piece on Death and The Ballad of Charity
(3) A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels
(4) The Grave and Night Piece on Death
239.In The Battle of the Books, the battle is fought in

(1) St. Stephen's Library
(2) St. Jame's Library
(3) St. Joseph's Library
(4) St. Paul's Library
240. Samuel Johnson's Lives of the poets contains -

(1) Fifty three sketches in ten volumes
(2) Fifty two sketches in ten volumes
(3) Fifty four sketches in ten volumes
(4) Fifty five sketches in ten volumes
241. Which of the following is not true about Oliver Goldsmith ?

(1) He wrote two admirable poems - Traveller and Deserted Village
(2) He wrote a novel - Vicar of Wakefield
(3) He wrote two comedies - Good-natured Man and She Stoops to Conquer
(4)He wrote a famous essay - Chemist's Shop
242. Which poem anticipates the thought of "The Waste Land" ?

(1) Gerontion (2) Hippopotamus
(3) Hollow Men (4) Dans le Restaurant
243. The Castle of Perseverance is a

(1) Morality Play (2) Interlude
(3) Miracle Play (4) Tragi-comedy
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244. Blank verse was used for the first time for dramatic purposes in -
(1) Ralph Roister Doister (2) Gorbodue
(3) Jocasta (4) Spanish Tragedy
245. Sidney's Arcadia is a -

(1) Tragedy (2) Masque
(3) Satire (4) Romance
In questions 246 to 247, match the lists by using the codes given below them.
246. List – I List-II
(A) The Rights of Man (i)Blake
(B) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (ii) Burke
(C) Political Justice (iii) Paine
(D) Amrica (iv) Godwin
Codes:
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(1) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)

(2) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(3) (i) (iii) (iv) (ii)
(4) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
247 List – I List - II

(A) Spiritualism (i) Keats
(B) Intellectualism (ii) Shelley
(C) Sensuousness (iii) Coleridge
(D) Supernaturalism (iv) Wordsworth
Codes:
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(1) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)

(2) (i) (iv) (iii) (ii)
(3) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
(4) (i) (iii) (iv) (ii)
248 List – I List - II
(A) Coleridge (i)1772-1834

(B) Wordsworth (ii)1788-1824
(C) Shelley (iii)1770-1850
(D) Keats (iv)1792-1822
(E) Byron (v)1795-1821
Codes:
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
(1) (1) (iii) (ii) (iv) (v)

(2) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i) (v)
(3) (iii) (i) (iv) (v) (ii)
(4) (i) (ⅲ) (ⅳ) (ⅴ) (ⅱ)
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249 List-1 List-II

(A) Jacob's Room (1) Joseph Conrad
(B) Spring Rays (ii) George Moore
(C) The Shadow Line (iii) Virginia Woolf
Codes:
(A) (B) (C)
(1) (ⅱ) (ⅲ) (ⅰ)

(1) (ⅲ) (ⅱ) (ⅰ)
(2) (ii) (i) (iii)
(3) (i) (iii) (ii)
250. List-1 List - II

(A) The Rock (i) T.S. Eliot
(B) The Poet's Tongue (ii) Dylan Thomas
(C) The Map of Love (iii) WH Auden
Codes:
(A) (B) (C)

(1) (ⅲ) (ⅱ) (ⅰ)
(2) (ⅲ) (ⅰ) (ⅱ)
(3) (i) (ii) (iii)
(4) (ⅰ) (iii) (ii)
251. "After his arrival, the way was prepared, the path was made straight for Shakespeare" Swinburne wrote these lines
for -
(1)Christopher Marlowe (2) George Peele
(3) Robert Greene (4) Thomas Kyd
252. The line I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be' occurs in
(1) Gerontion
(2) The Waste Land
(3) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
(4) The Hollow Men
253. Life of Samuel Johnson is written by

(1) Addison (2) Goldsmith
(3) Gibbon (4)Boswell
254. "In spite of his transcendental genius Keats never was, nor ever will be, a popular poet" said Shelley. Why did
Shelley comment so ?
(1) Keats' poetry does not reflect maturity
(2) Keats died young
(3) Keats wrote only odes
(4)Keats' poetry is devoid of the revolutionary spirit
255. "I describe not men but manners, not an individual but the species". Who said the above lines?
(1)Addison (2) Dickens
(3) Fielding✓ (4) Swift
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256. Romanticism was "liberalism in literature". Who said this?

(1) Victor Hugo (2) William Wordsworth
(3) Walter Pater (4) Southly
258. The error of evaluating a poem by the emotional effects upon the reader
is known as -
(1) Intentional fallacy (2) Pathetic fallacy
(3)Affective fallacy (4) Logical fallacy
259. Which of the following arrangements of Rudyard Kipling's work is in the correct chronological sequence ?
(1) Debits and Credits - Soldiers Three - The Jungle Book - Kim
(2) Kim - Debits and Credits - Soldiers Three - The Jungle Book
(3) The Jungle Book - Kim - Debits and Credits - Soldiers Three
(4) Soldiers Three The Jungle Book Kim - Debits and Credits
260. Rudyard Kipling's The White Man's Burden deals with -

(1) The Belgian Colonial expansion in the Congo
(2) The American imperial mission in the Philippines
(3) The British Imperial Presence in Nigeria
(4) The British Colonial entry into Afghanistan
261. "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of good fortune must be in want of a wife."
In which novel does this sentence occur?
(1) Dickens' Hard Times
(2) Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
(3) Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
(4) George Eliot's Adam Bede
262. "God made the country and man made the town". Who wrote this line?
(1) William Wordsworth (2) Cowper
(3) Blake (4) Thompson
263. "God is in His Heaven

All is right with the world!"
In which poem of Robert Browning do these lines occur?
(1) Grammarian's Funeral (2) Rabbi Ben Ezra
(3) Prospice (4) Pippa Passes
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264. Arrange the following authors in order of their emergence on the literary scene
A James Thomson
B Horace Walpole
C William Collins
D Thomas Gray
(1) BDAC
(2) ABCD
(3) BACD
(4) DCBA
265. Identify the essayist whose essays show a marked sympathy for street children:
(1) Addison (2)Lamb
(3) Bacon (4) Huxley
266. "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world".
This was asserted by
(1) Shelley (2) Coleridge
(3). Arnold (4) Eliot
267. In the Romantic period, which author developed a new novelistic language to express the
working of the mind in a
flux?
(1) William Blake (2) George Byron
(3) Walter Scott (4) Jane Austen
268. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem 'The C Gamma*y of the Children' is concerned with
the issue of
(1) colonial rule (2) child labour
(3) women's rights (4) Victorian orthodox views
269. Which of the following does not match correctly?

(1) Oliver Twist — Charles Dickens
(2) Adam Bede — George Eliot
(3) Wuthering Heights —Charlotte Bronte
(4) Vanity Fair —William Thackeray
270. Choose the option that would fit into the blanks:
Man for the field and woman for the ----:
Man for the sword and for the ---- she
Man with the head and woman with the ----:
Man to command and woman to ----:
(1) home; kitchen; soul; permit
(2) city; sceptre; hand; agree
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(3) school; spear; foot; free

(4) hearth; needle; heart; obey
271. Charles Dickens's Hard Times. centrally deals with
(1) moral problems
(2) religious and church issues
(3) political turmoil
(4)social and industrial problems
272. Who is the exponent of the 'Life force' theory?
(1) Galsworthy (2) Ibsen
(3) Brecht (4)Shaw
273. Match List 1 with list 2 and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the
lists:
List 1 List 2
A. Bernard Shaw 1.Fern Hill
B. W.B. Yeats. 2.The Whitsun Weddings
C Dylan Thomas 3.Arms and the Man
D Philip Larkin 4.When You are Old and Grey
Codes :
ABCD
(1) 3 1 2 4
(2) 2 4 1 3
(3) 3 4 1 2
(4) 1 3 2 4
274. Choose the option that states the chronological order of the publication of the novels
mentioned
(1) Sons and Lovers - The Rainbow - Women in Love - Lady Chatterley's Lover
(2) The Rainbow - Women in Love Lady Chatterley's Lover - Sons and Lovers
(3) Women in Love - Lady Chatterley's Lover - Sons and Lovers - The Rainbow
(4) Sons and Lovers - Women in Love - The Rainbow - Lady Chatterley's Lover
(5)
275. Which of the following novels explores the basic human relationships across three
generations?
(1) Sons and Lovers
(2) The Longest Journey
(3) Ulysses
(4) The Rainbow
276. The line "only through time/Time is conquered" occurs in Eliot's
(1) Gerontion
(2) The Wasteland
(3) Ash Wednesday
(4) Burnt Norton
277. Which of the following novels offers alternative endings?
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(1) Lord of the Flies

(2) The Power and the Glory
(3) The French Lieutenant's Woman
(4) Lucky Jim
278. Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters
(1) is a collection of letters the poet received on his birthday
(2) explores the complex history of England.
(3) describes his relationship with Sylvia Plath
(4) is a collection of letters the poet wrote on his children's birthdays
279. Which of the following is not correct?

(1) 1958 - Harold Pinter - The Birthday Party
(2) 1960 - Harold Pinter - The Caretaker
(3) 1964 Harold Pinter The Homecoming
(4) 1985 Harold Pinter - gets the Nobel Prize
280. Which of the following pieces of travel writing is by William Dalrymple ?

(1) India Unbound
(2) In Xanadu: A Quest
(3) The Grand Tour
(4) Great Indian Railway Bazar
281. The novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is set in

(1) London (2) Oxford
(3) Edinburgh (4) Glasgow
282. The doctrine of empiricism is best described by which of the following?

(1) There is no God
(2) All sensory experiences are illusory
(3) All knowledge is derived from experience.
(4) Political power influences human perceptions.
283. The Spenserian stanza has

(1) six lines rhymed abbcca
(2) seven lines rhymed abcabcc
(3) eight lines rhymed ababcbcc
(4) nine lines rhymed ababbcbcc
284. An allegory can be described as

(1) a conceit
(2) an extended metaphor
(3) an epigram
(4) a transferred epithet
285. A rhetorical question

(1) is a question without any purpose.
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(2) is asked not to elicit information but to achieve a stylistic effect.

(3) is a rhetorical device used to elicit information on some specified point.
(4) a method of seeking the truth by way of questions and answers.
286. Which was not among the new genres promoted by poets such as Jonson, Donne and
Herbert ?
(1) The Petrarchan sonnet
(2) The familiar essay
(3) The letter
(4) The travelogue
287. Gray's 'Progress of Poesy' is an example of

(1) Horatian ode
(2) Pindaric ode
(3) Irregular ode
(4) Regular ode
288. 'The General Prologue' to The Canterbury Tales describes the meeting of the pilgrims in
(1) the Westminster Abbey
(2) the Tabard Inn
(3) the Hyde Park
(4) the Inns of Court
289. In which of the following poems does the author celebrate his own wedding?
(1) Prothalamion
(2) Amoretti
(3) Epithalamion
(4) Annus Mirabilis
290. "Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight And burned is Apollo's laurel bough.
That sometimes grew within this learned man."
These lines occur in
(1) King Lear
(2) Doctor Faustus
(3) The Jew of Malta
(4) Paradise Lost
291. Which of the following plays contains a play (The Mouse-Trap) within it?
(1) The Duchess of Malfi
(2) Pygmalion
(3) a Midsummer Night's Dream
(4) Hamlet
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292. Who among the following was looked upon as a close approximation of the Renaissance
ideal of the gentleman ?
(1) Edmund Spenser
(2) John Donne
(3) John Milton:
(4) Philip Sidney
293. Lovewit is a character in

(1) The Way of the World
(2) Volpone
(3) School for Scandal
(4) The Alchemist
294. Religio Medici was written by

(1) Sir Thomas Browne
(2) Robert Browning
(3) John Milton
(4) Jonathan Swift
295. Who said of Milton's Lycidas' that "the diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, and the
numbers unpleasing" ?
(1) C.S. Lewis
(2) William Wordsworth
(3) Samuel Johnson
(4) Charles Lamb
296. Dryden's All for Love was written in imitation of Shakespeare's

(1) Antony and Cleopatra
(2) Romeo and Juliet
(3) The Merchant of Venice
(4) Twelfth Night
297. T.S Eliot, in his essay 'The Metaphysical Poets' argues that most of the Metaphysical poets
(1) digressed from the main current of English poetry
(2) were in the mainstream of English poetry
(3) successfully achieved a dissociation of sensibility
(4) wrote poetry which was never analytic
298. Sir Roger de Coverley was first introduced as a character in The Spectator by
(1) Joseph Addison
(2) Sir Andrew Freeport
(3) Lord Rochester
(4) Richard Steele
299. The Earl of Shaftesbury sought to exclude James from the throne and supplant him with
the Duke of Monmouth.
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This is recorded in the famous poem called

(1) Absalom and Achitophel
(2) Mac Flecknoe
(3) Religio Larci
(4) Astrea Redux
(5)
300. What was the name of the group of intellectual women who established literary clubs
under the leadership of
Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu?
(1) The Behnites
(2) deg The Blustockings
(3) The Pre-Raphaelites
(4) The Tattlers
301. Who among the following is the odd one out?

(1) Moll Flanders
(2) Colonel Jacque
(3) Gulliver's Travels
(4) Robinson Crusoe
302. Which of the following pairs is incorrect?

(1) James Boswell - The Life of Samuel Johnson
(2) Samuel Johnson - The Vanity of Human Wishes
(3)Henry Fielding - The Fable of Bees
(4) Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
303. The Gothic Novel is associated with

(1) Henry Fielding
(2) Horace Walpole
(3) Laurence Sterne
(4) T.G. Smollett
304. "When nature prompted and no law denied Promiscuous use of concubine and bride; Then
Israel's monarch after
Heaven's own bean, His vigorous warmth did variously impart To wives and slaves."
From which poem are these lines taken?
(1) Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem
(2) Mac Flecknoe
(3) A Song for St. Cecilia's Day
(4) Alexander's Feast
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305. Which of the following poems is written by Oliver Goldsmith?

(1) A Deserted Village (2) A Deserted Villa
(3) The Deserted Village (4) A Deserted City
306. Robert Burns was born inm

(1) Scotland (2) England
(3) Ireland (4) America
307. Who among the following characters personifies necessity in P. B. Shelley's Prometheus
Unbound?
(1) Prometheus (3) Jove
(2) Demogorgon (4) Jeus
308. Who among the following, after watching the performance of William Shakespeare's
play. A Mid Summer Night's
Dream, observed that "it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that I ever saw in my life."
(1) John Evelyn (2) Samuel Pepys
(3) John Dryden (4) Robert Greene
309. Name the playwright who wrote the play Epiccene, or the Silent Woman?
(1) William Congreve (2) Thomas Kyd
(3) Ben Jonson (4) Thomas Farquhar
310. Choose from the following options the correct combination of playwrights who
contributed to the movement called
"Kitchen Sink Drama".
(1) John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney and John Arden
(2) John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Harold Pinter and Shelagh Delaney
(3) John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Antonin Arraud and John Arden
(4) John Osborne, Harold Pinter, Shelagh Delaney and John Arden
311. The theological treatise Ecclesiastical Polity was written by –

(1) Richard Hakluyt (2) Francis Bacon
(3) Raphael Holinshed (4) Richard Hooker
312. Who wrote the popular instruction manual for fishermen titled The Contpleat Angler, or
The Contemplative Man's
Recreation?
(1) Isaac Walton (2) Jeremy Taylor
(3) Richard Baxter (4) Thomas Hobbes
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313. What did Matthew Arnold imply by the term "Hebraism" in his Culture and Anarchy?
(1) Moral education (2) Intellectual autonomy
(3) Rational outlook (4) Pragmatic attitude
314. The journal Scrutiny was founded in 1932 by

(1) I. A. Richards (2) F. R. Leavis
(3) Cleanth Brooks (4) John Crowe Ranson
315. Samuel Pepys' claim to fame rests on his

(1) Biography (2) Autobiography
(3) Diary (4) Speculative Fiction
316. Dr Primrose is a character in

(1) Nicholas Nickleby (2) Adam Bede
(3) The Vicar of Wakefield (4) Joseph Andrews
317. "So the baby was carried in a small deal box, under 3an ancient woman's shawl, to the
churchyard that night, and
buried by lantern-light, at the cost of a shilling, and a pint of beer to the sexton, in that
shab- by comer of God's
allotment where He lets the nettles grow, and where all unbaptized infants, notorious
drunkard. suicides and others
of the conjecturally damned are laid."
From which novel is this excerpt taken?
(1) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
(2) Tess by Thomas Hardy
(3) Great Expectation by Charles Dickens
(4) Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
318. Which of the following plays of William Shakespeare was translated into Bengali and
directed by Girish Chandra Ghosh.
(1) The Tempest (2) Hamlet
(4) King Lear (3) Macbeth
319. Which of the following works of Browning are pure dramas?

A. Strafford
B. The Last Ride Together
C. A Blot in the 'Scutcheon
D. Pippa Passes
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E. Porphyria 's Lover

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) A and C (2) B and E
(3) C and D (4) B and C
320. Which of the following are plays written by Harold Pinter?

A. Family Voices
B. A Moon for the Misbegotten
C. The Room
D. No Man's Land
E. Krapp's Last Tape
(1) A, B and E (2) B, C and D
(3) A, C and D (4) C. D and E
321.. Name the dramas which fall within the category of the Theatre of the Absurd.
A. The Birthday Party
B. Endgame
C. Mrs. Warren's Profession
D. The Rhinoceros
E. Riders to the Sea
(1) A, B and E (2) B, C and D
(3) A, B and D (4) C, D and E
322.. Which of the playwrights have been correctly matched with their works?
A. William Wycherly- The Rivals
B. Ben Jonson - Volpone, or the Fox
C. William Congreve - The Country Wife
D. Aphra Behn - The Dutch Lover
E. Richard Sheridan - A School for Scandal
(1) C, D and E (2) B, C and D
(3) A, C and E (4) B, D and E
323. Choose the plays written by Lord Byron

A. Sardanapalus
B. Hellas
C. Cain
D. The Tiro Foscari: A Historical Tragedy
E. The Cenci
(1) A, B and C (2) B, C and E
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(3) A,B and D (4) A, C and D

324. John Bunyan authored the following:

A. The Pilgrim's Progress
B. Grace Abounding
C. Short View
D. The Holy War
E. Thoughts on Education
(1) A, B and C (2) A, C and D
(3) A, D and E (4) A, B and D
325. Which of the following works have been authored by Thomas De Quincey?
A. Confessions of An English Opium Eater
B. The French Revolution
C. Hudibras
D. Autobiography
E. Suspiria De Profoundis
(1) A, B and C (2) A, C and D
(3) A, D and E (4) A, B and D
326. Which of the following works have been written by Thomas Carlyle?
A. Of Heroes and Hero-Worship
C. Of Human Bondage
D. The Hour and the Mall
E. Hudibras
(1) A and B (2) A and C
(3) A and D (4) A and E
327. Identify the correct pairs:

A. Gabriel Garcia Marquez- The Feast of the Goat
B. Jorge Luis Borges - The Autumn of the Patriarch
C. Salman Rushdie - The Enchantress of Florence
D. EL Doctorow – Ragtime
E. A S. Byatt - Possession
(1) A, B and C (2) A, B and E
(3) B, C and D (4) C, D and E
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328. Match List I with List II

List- I List-II
A. Come what come. may, Time and the hour I. Othello
runs through the roughest day
B. When sorrows come, they come not single II. King Lear
Spies But in battalions!
C. I am a man more sinned against than sinning. III. Macbeth
D. But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For IV. Hamlet
daws to peck at: I am not what I am

(1) A-IV B-III, C- H. D-I
(2) A-II, B-III, C-1, D-IV
(3) A-III B- IV, C-II, D-I
(4) A- I B-II, C-IV, D-III

List-1 List-II
A. You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away ⅰ. Man and Superman
a man is not a piece of fruit.
B. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most II. A Doll's House
men dread it.
C. Nobody thinks, nobody cares. No beliefs, no III. Death of a Salesman
convictions and no enthusiasm. Just another
Sunday evening.
D. Our home has been nothing but a playroom IV. Look Back in Anger
I have been your doll- wife, just as at home
I was papa's doll- child; and here the children
have been my dolls.
Choose the correct answer from the options giver below:
(1) A - I B-III, C - II D-I
(2) A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
(3) A-I, B- IV, C-II, D-III
(4) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II

List-I List-II
A. "Negative Capability" I. Matthew Arnold
B. "Sweetness and light" II. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. "Esemplastic” III. T. S. Eliot
D. "Dissociation of Sensibility" IV. John Keats
(1) A -II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
(2) A -II, B-I, C-IV. D-III
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(3) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I

(4) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
331. Choose the correct chronological sequence in which the following texts were written.
A. Lycidas B. Hero and Leander
C. Masque of Comus D. Paradise Lost
E. The Waste Land
(1) A, B, D, E, C (2) B,C,A,D,E

(3) B.A, E, C, D (4) B, E, D, C,A
332. Arrange the following poets in accordance with their years of birth.
A. Rudyard Kipling B. Robert Browning
C. John Masefield D. A. E. Housman
E. John Donne
(1) E, A, B, D, C (2) E, B, A, C, D
(3) E. B, A, D, C (4) A, D, B, C, E
333. Find the chronological order of publication of Charles Dickens's novels:

A. Oliver Twist B. Dombey and Sons
C. Pickwick Papers D. Bleak House
E. David Copperfield

(1) A, D, C, B. E (2) D, E, B, C. A
(3) B. D. C. A. E (4) C, A, B, D, E
334. Arrange the works in the chronological order of the staging/publication of the following
plays:
A. A Woman Killed with Kindnesses
B. John Bull's Other Island
C. The Double Dealer
D. The Shoemaker's Holiday
E. The Conscious Lovers
Choose the correct answers from the options given below:
(1) B, D, C, A and E (2) D, A, C, E and B
(3) C, D,A, B and E (4) E, B, D, C,and A
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335. Arrange the works in chronological sequence:

A. The Theatre of Revolt by Robert Brustein
B. The Theater of the Absurd by Martin Esslin
C. The Playwright as Thinker by Eric Bentley
D. Modern American Drama by C. W. E. Bigsby
E. Modern Drama in Theory and Practice by L N. Sryan
Choose the correct answers from the options given below:
(1) A. D, C, D and E (2) E, C, D,A and B
(3) B, D, A, E and C (4) C, B, A, E and D
336. What does the word "assonance" mean?

(1) repetition of identical or similar consonants
(2) repetition of identical or similar vowels
(3) repetition of identical or similar phrases
(4) repetition of identical or similar clauses
337. If rhythm, 'preciousness', and style are alien to the novel. in which genre are they
distinctive features?
(1) Drama (2) Poetry
(3) Prose (4) Non-fiction
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338. What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones?
Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-pointing pyramid?
These lines are written by
(1) Ben Jonson (2) John Milton
(3) Robert Browning (4) William Wordsworth
339. Who among the following praised Chaucer's translation of Roman de la rose?
(1) Eustache Deschamps (2) Boccaccio
(3) Jean de Meun (4) Guillaume de Lorris
340. For The Unfallen is a book of poems written by

(1) Ted Hughes (2) Sylvia Plath
(3) Geoffrey Hill (4) A.E. Housman
341."The Princess: A Medley" by Tennyson is

(1) a lyric (2) an elegy
(3) a narrative poem (4) a dramatic monologue
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342. Which of the following works is NOT written by P.B. Shelley?

(1) The Mask of Anarchy (2) Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem
(3) The Vision of Judgement (4)The Revolt of Islam
343. Who among the following has composed the lyrical drama Hellas?
(1) Lord Byron (2) P.B. Shelley
(3) William Wordsworth (4) John Keats
344. Name the playwright who composed the play A Woman Killed with Kindness.
(1) Francis Beaumont (2) Beaumont and Fletcher
(3) Thomas Kyd (4) Thomas Heywood
345. Name the celebrated actor who played the leading role in the first production of John
Osborne's The Entertainer
(1957).
(1) Peter Brook (2) Laurence Olivier
(3) Al Pacino (4) Robert De Niro
346. "I recognize that its heroine is a little prig and its B hero a pompous ass, but I do not care."
About which novel of
Jane Austen is this statement made by Somerset Maugham?
(1) Pride and Prejudice (2) Northanger Abbey
(3) Sense and Sensibility (4) Mansfield Park
347. In which year was R.L. Stevenson's Treasure Island published?

(1) 1893 (2) 1886
(3) 1883 (4) 1896
348. Jonathan Bate's The Song of the Earth was published in
(1) 2001 (2) 1991
(3) 2000 (4) 1999
349. Which one of the following is false about V.S. Naipaul?

(1) He was awarded the Noble Prize in Literature in 2001.
(2) He won the Booker Prize for his novel A House for Mr. Biswas.
(3) He contributed his stories to the Trinidad Guardian.
(4) He won the Somerset Maugham Award for his Miguel Street.
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350. The pamphlet The Power of Love (1643) proclaim- Bing the importance of brotherhood as
a means of
achieving a radical change in social relationships was written by
(1) George Saintsbury (2) William Walwyn
(3) F.R. Leavis (4) Gerrard Winstanley
351. "I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets
and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables, and in
Coffee- Houses."
To whom do you attribute this famous statement?
(1) Dr Samuel Johnson
(2) Joseph Addison
(3) Richard Steele
(4) Alexander Pope
352. Dr. Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language was published in …………….
(1) 1751 (2) 1753
(3) 1755 (4) 1757
353. An Essay on the Principles of Human Action was written by

(1) Charles Lamb (2) Jean Jacques Rousseau
(3) William Godwin (4) William Hazlitt
354. Which of the following is false about Frederick Douglass?

(1) Douglass's autobiography belongs to the tradition of fugitive-slave narrative popular
in the North before
the Civil War.
(2) He provides a first-person account for his life spent in slavery.
(3) He was famous as an orator, dedicated to a black liberation movement.
(4) He wrote Up From Slavery.
355. "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" is written by

A. John Donne B. John Milton
C. Adrienne Rich D. Sylvia Plath
E. Robert Frost
(1) A and C only. (2) A and B only.
(3) D and E only. (4) B and C only.
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356. Which of the following two poems are linked with each other in terms of form? B
A. "The Last Ride Together"
B. "Ulysses"
C. "Upon Appleton House: To My Lord Fairfax"
D. "To Penshurst"
E. "The Waste Land"
(1) A and E only. (2) A and B only
(3) A and D only. (4) C and D only.
357. Which of the following poems are written by B Alexander Pope?

A. The Dunciad B. Moral Essays
C. Grongar Hill D. Cooper's Hill
E. Absalom and Achitophel
(1) A and C only. (2) B and E only.
(3) A and B only. (4) C and D only.
358. Which of the following are the plays written by Robert Greene?
A. The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First
B. Alphonsus
C. A Moon for the Misbegotten
D. The Old Wives' Tale
E. King of Aragon
(1) B and D only. (2) A and E only.
(3) B and E only. (4) C and E only.
359. Which of the following two plays were written by W. B. Yeats?

A. The Land of Heart's Desire
B. Time and the Conways
C. The Silver Tassie
D. The Countess Cathleen
E. The Plough and the Stars

(1) C and D only. (2) A and D only.
(3) A and E only. (4) B and E only.
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360. Which of the following works have NOT been written by Thomas Carlyle?
A. Of Heroes and Hero-Worship
C. Of Human Bondage
D. The Hour and the Man
E. Hudibras
(1) A and B only (2) A and C only
(3) A and D only. (4) A and E only.
361. Which of the following works have NOT been authored by John Stuart Mill?
A. Subjection of Women
B. Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform
C. Past and Present
D. Explorations
E. On Liberty
(1) A and B only. (2) A and E only.
(3) C and D only. (4) B and E only.
362. Which of the following are written by George Peele?

A. The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First
B. A Moon for the Misbegotten
C. The Arraignment of Paris
D. The Scottish Historie of James the Fourth E. The Old Wives' Tale
(1) B, C and D only. (2) A, C and E only.
(3) A C and D only (4) C. D and E only.

List I List I
A. Blood 1. Phlegmatic
B. Yellow Bile II. Sanguine
C.Phlegm III. Melancholy
D. Black bile IV. Choleric
(1) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
(2) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
(3) A-IV, B- III, C-II, D-I
(4) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
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List I List II
A. Some are born great, others achieve greatness. 1. The Tempest
B. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, II. The Comedy of Errors
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
C. III deeds is doubled with an evil word. III. A Midsummer Night's Dream
D. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and IV. Twelfth Night
our little life is rounded with a sleep.
(3) A-III, B- IV, C-I, D-II
(4) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
365.. Choose the correct chronological sequence in which the following texts were published.
A. The Tower
B. The Hind and the Panther
C. The Wild Swans at Coole
D. Mac Flecknoe
E. The Whitsun Weddings
(1) A, B, D, E, C
(3) B, A, C, D, E
(2) B, C, A, E, D
(4) D, B, C. A. E
366. Arrange the following poets in accordance with their years of birth.
A. George Herbert
B. Edmund Spenser
C. Philip Sidney
D. John Donne
E. Oliver Goldsmith
(1) A, B, D, C, E
(2) B, C, D, A, E
(3) E, B, A, D, C
(4) A, D, E, B, C
367. Find the chronological order of publication of the given works:

A. Darwin's Origin of Species
B. Macaulay's Essay on Milton
C. Stevenson's Treasure Island
D. Browning's Pauline
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E. Amold Bennet's Old Wives Tale

(1) A, B, C, D, E
(2) B, D, A, C, E
(3) C, D, A, B, E
(4) D, E, A, C, B
368. Find the chronological order of the writers in Bterms of their years of birth:
A. Jane Austen
B. Henry Fielding
C. James M. Barrie
D.Richard Doddridge Blackmore
E. William Makepeace Thackeray
(1) A, B, C, D, E
(2) B, A, E, D, C
(3) C, D, A, B, E
(4) D, B, A, E, C
369. Find the chronological order of the writers in B terms of the period they belonged to:
A. Richard Steele
B. Charles Lamb
C. John Dryden
D. Francis Bacon
E. Matthew Arnold
(1) A, B, C, D, E
(2) B, D, E, C, A
(3) C, B, D, A, E
(4) D, C, A, B, E
370. Find the chronological order of publication of B Charles Dickens's novels:

A. Oliver Twist
B. Dombey and Sons
C. Pickwick Papers
D. Bleak House
E. David Copperfield
(1) A, D, C, B. E (2) D, E, B, C, A
(3) B, D, C, A, E (4) C, A, B, D, E
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371. Find the chronological order of publication of the B given works:

A. Boswell's Life of Johnson
B. Hobbes's Leviathan
C. Pepys's Diary
D. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
E. Locke's Human Understanding
(1) B, C, D, E, A
(2) A, C, D, E, B
(3) C, D, A, B, E
(4) D, E, A, C, B
372. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: "Anagenesis" is the final part of the drama just after the climax in which there is
resolu- tion for any
conflicts left in the plot.
Statement II: "Anagenesis" is the turning point of the play where audience observes
unpredictable change in the play.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options
given below:
(1) Both Statement I and Statement II are true.
(2) Both Statement I and Statement II are false.
(3) Statement I is true but Statement II is false.
(4) Statement I is false but Statement II is true.
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373. Which of the following is not true about "Lyrical

ballads"?
(1) It is a manifesto of romantic poetry
(2) It turns English poetry away from the social and intellectual sophistication of the
seventeenth and
the eighteenth-century poetry
(3) It takes poetry out of the confines of reason and intel- lect to the unravished and
unspoilt beauties of nature
(4) It is very particular about the form and structure of a poem
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374. J. Hillis Miller, one of the leading exponents of deconstruction, makes a deconstructionist
reading of which of
the following poems of P.B Shelley?
(1)"The triumph of life" (2) "Ode to the west wind"
(3) "Revolt of Islam" (4)"The witch of atlas"
375. The Deserted Village by Oliver goldsmith

(1) Critiques the rural institutions
(2) Voices revolt of the individual man against institutions
(3) Reflects upon different views on the human soul
(4) Advocates urbanism over rural backwardness
376. A. L. Tennyson in the following lines:

"Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs. And the thoughts of men
are widen'd with the process
of the suns"
(1) Reflects upon upon secularism
(2) Reflects upon evolutionary faith
(3) Reflects upon utilitarianism
(4) Reflects upon materialism
377. Philip Sidney's Arcadia was influenced by

(1) The Spanish romance of Montemayor
(2) The Italian paintings of Veronese
(3) The Arthurian legends
(4) The metaphysical poetry
378. Who among the following has authored the Revenger's Tragedie?
(1) Cyril Tourneur
(2) John Webster
(3) John Fletcher
(4) Thomas Heywood
379. Besides being a playwright, who among the following has translated Homer?
(1) Ben Johnson
(2) Thomas Dekker
(3) Thomas Heywood
(4) George Chapman
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380. Who among the following in the article. "Fleshly school of poetry". Attacked the pre-
Raphaelites, especially
D.G. Rossetti?
(1) Robert browning
(2) William Holeman Hunt
(3) Robert Buchanan
(4) Christina Rossetti
381.Which among the following is an incomplete poem by P.B. Shelley?

(1) "The triumph of life"
(2) "Ode to the west-wind"
(3) "Queen Mab"
(4) "The daemon of the world"
382. Who among the following attached himself to the Earl of Nottingham's theatrical
company?
(2) Christopher Marlowe
(3) George Peele
(4) Ben Johnson
383. Under the Net (1954) is written by

(1) John Fowles (2) Iris Murdoch
(3) Edmund goose (4) William cooper
384. Who among the following is not a recipient of the Nobel prize for literature?
(1) Winston Churchill (2) T.S. Eliot
(3) W.H. Auden (4) Madam Curie
385. The "ancient and modern quarrel" in western literary criticism appears during
(1) 100 BC
(2) Fifth century CE
(3) Sixteenth century CE
(4) Twentieth century CE
386. In which year Miles Coverdale translated The old testament of The Bible?
(1) 1533 (2) 1534
(3) 1535 (4) 1536
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387. Who is the author of the poem "House of fame"?

(1) William Langland (2) Geoffrey Chaucer
(3) Thomas Moore (4) Philip Sidney
388. The heroic couplet is a pair of

(1) Twelve-syllable lines that rhyme
(2) Ten-syllable lines that rhyme
(3) Eight-syllable lines that do not rhyme
(4) Eight-syllable lines that rhyme
389. The book Women Beware Women was published in the year
(1) 1612 (2) 1620
(3) 1621 (4) 1622
390. Who is the author of a Literature of Their Own?

(1) Sandra gilbert and Susan Gubar
(2) Elaine Showalter
(3) Virginia Woolf
(4) Sylvia Plath
391. Who said, "there is, there can be and there ought to be the difference between the language
of prose and
metrical composition"?
(1) John Dryden
(2) William Wordsworth
(3) ST. Coleridge
(4) T.S Eliot
392. Who said, "there is, there can be and there ought to be the difference between the language
of prose and
metrical composition"?
(1) John Dryden (2) William Wordsworth
(3) S.T. Coleridge (4) T.S Eliot
393.Stuart hall belongs to schools of cultural studies.

(1) Oxford (2) Cambridge
(3) Birmingham (4) American
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394. Which writer does not belong to the angry young men movement?
(1) John Osborne (2) Kingsley Amis
(3) Seamus Heaney (4) Philip Larkin
395. Should poets' bicycle-pump the human heart or squash it flat? Man's love is of man's life a
thing apart: Girls
aren't like that The above lines are written by:
(1) Philip Larkin (2) Kingsley Amis
(3) Donald Davie (4) John Wain
396. Which of these are not forms of flash fiction?

(A) Drabble (B) Postcard fiction
(C) Novelette (D) Short story
(E) Nano fiction
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
(1) A and E only (2) A, B and E only
(3) D and E only (4) C, D and E only
397. Identify the poems termed as "pastoral elegies":

(A) Lycidas
(B) In memory of W.B. Yeats
(C) Adonais
(D) Thyrsis
(E) In memoriam
(1) A, B and C only (2) B, C and E only
(3) A, C and D only (4) C, D and E only
398. Which of these are correct combination of the works by Doris Lessing and their respective
themes?
(A) The Golden Notebook- ling to Rohonda
(B) The Good Terrorist deals with Johar travel- -- is about a doomed love affair
(C) Shikasta - is about a planet, which is cut off due to the advanced influence of
civilization
(D) Alfred and Emily-explores the life of her parents
(E) The Grass is Singing -draws from her experi-ences in Africa
(1) B, A and D only (2) A, Band E only
(3) C, D and E only (4) C, D and E only
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399. Identify the correct combination among the following:

(A) Spondee: It consists of three stressed syllables
(B) Pyrrhic: It consists of two unstressed syllables
(C) Amphimacer: It is a metrical foot of three syllables
(D) Choriambus: It is a foot of verse consisting of two stressed syllables enclosing two
unstressed syllables
(E) Trochaic: It has a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one.
(1) A, Band C only (2) B, C and E only
(3) B, C and D only (4) C, D and E only
400. Which among the following is true about the Tractarian Movement?
(A) It was widespread across the world
(B) The other leaders of the movement were Paul Newman and R.H. Fronde
(C) The movement began with a sermon by John Keble in 1833
(D) Pusey gave the movement cohesion, fame and a name
(E) The ideal of the Christian church was praised by oxford convocation
(1) A, Band C only (2) A, C and E only
(3) C, D and E only (4) B, C and D only
401. Consumerism is a major theme in which of the following works?

(A) Loyalties
(B) Saint Joan of Stockyards
(C) Death of a Salesman
(D) Candida
(E) Waiting for Godot
(1) A and B only (2) D and A only
(3) B and C only (4) A and E only
402.Which among the following are true about Harold printer?

(A) Harold printer was born in the year 1925
(B) He was influenced by Samuel Beckett and the theatre of the absurd.
(C) The Caretaker and The Alchemist are his famous plays
(D) Stanley is a character in The Birthday Party
(E) Betrayal is a story of a married couple
(1) A, D and E only (2) B, D and E only
(3) B, C and D only (4) A, C and D only
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List I List II
(A) Donald Davie (1) Against Romanticism
(B) Philip Larkin (II) Hurry on down
(C) Kingsley Amis (III) The Shires
(D) John Wain (IV) The North Ship
(1) (A)-(IV), (B)-(1), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
(2) (A)_(1). (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
(3) (A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
(4) (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(Ⅱ)
404. Match List I with List II:

List I List II
(A) "Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike." (1) Irony
(B) "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single (2) Simile
man in possession of good fortune must be in want
of a wife."
(C) "Thou still unravished bride of quietness. Thou foster (3) Antithesis
child of silence and slow time."
(D) "And ice, mast-high, come floating by, as green as (4) Assonance
emerald."
(1) (A)-(11), (B)-(III), (C)-(1), (D)-(IV)
(2) (A)-(III), (B)-(1), (C)-(IV), (D)-(11)
(3) (A)-(III). (B)-(11), (C)-(IV), (D)-(1)
(4) (A)-(1), (B)-(IV), (C)-(11), (D)-(III)

List I List II
(A) Malcolm Bradbury (1) Masters
(B) David lodge (II) Lucky Jim
(C) Kingsley Amis (III) The history Man
(D) CP snow (IV) Changing Places
(1) (A)-(1), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
(2) (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
(3) (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
(4) (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(1), (D)-(II)

List I List II
(A)"Faces along the bar/cling to their average day." (1) Wilfred Owen
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(B) "The awful daring of a moments surrender." (II) T.S. Eliot

(C) "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks." (III) Allen Ginsberg
(D) "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed (IV) W.H. AUden
by madness."
(1) (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(1), (D)-(III)
(2) (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV). (D)-(II)
(3) (A)-(1), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
(4) (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(1), (D)-(III)

List I List II
(A) Hamlet (I) 1606
(B) Macbeth (II) 1599
(C) Julius Caesar (III) 1604
(D) Othello (IV) 1600
(1) (A)-(III),(B)-(IV),(C)-(II),(D)-(I)
(2)(A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)
(3) (A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
(4) (A)-(Ⅳ),(B)-(Ⅰ),(C)-(Ⅱ),(D)-(Ⅲ)
408.Match List I with List II:

List I List II
(A) To the light house (1) 1913
(B) Sons and Lovers (II) 1927
(C) Finnegans Wake (III) 1939
(D) The Waste Land (IV) 1922
(1) (A)-(Ⅰ), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)
(2) (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(Ⅰ), (D)-(III)
(3) (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
(4) (A)-(II), (B)-(Ⅰ), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)

List I List II
(A) O. Henry (I) The last suttee
(B) Rudyard Kipling (II) Beauty
(C) Oscar Wilde (III) At Verona
(D) Ralph waldo Emerson (IV) Hard to forget
(1) (A)-(III), (B)-(1), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
(2) (A) - (II) (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(1)
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(3) (A)-(IV), (B)-(1), (C)-(III). (D)-(II)

(4) (A)-(Ⅰ),(B)-(Ⅲ) (C)-(Ⅱ), (D)-(Ⅳ)
410.Identify the correct combinations:

(A) Dadaism - Tristan tzara
(B) Super realism - Guillanne Apollinaire
(C) Surrealism - Filipo Marinetti
(D) Futurism - Andre Breto
(E) Nihilism - Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
(1) (A), (C) and (E) (2) (A), (B) and (E)
(3) (B), (C) and (D) (4) (C), (D) and (E)
411.Who among the following were poet laureates of England?

(A) Alfred Austin (B) Robert bridges
(C) Watts-Dunton (D) Oscar Wilde
(1) (A) and (C) only (2) (A) and (D) only
(3) (B) and (C) and (D) (4) (A) (B) and (C) only

Statement I: According to W.H. Auden. The Importance of Being Earnest is the purest example
in English literature of a 'verbal opera'.
Statement II: Oscar Wilde possessed profound insight into the range of the arts that in a
combined form make theatre performance possible.
In the light of the above statement choose the correct answer from the options given
below:
(1) Both statement I and statement II are true
(2) Both statement I and statement II are false
(3) Statement I is true but statement II is false
(4) Statement I is false but statement II is true

Statement I: " he who discovers no god whatever, how shall he discover heroes the visible
temples of God" is a statement by Thomas Carlyle.
Statement II: "It is not that men are ill fed, but that they have no pleasure in the work by which
they make their bread, and therefore look to wealth as the only means of pleasure" is a
statement made by john Ruskin.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given
below:
(1) Both statement I and statement II are true
(2) Both statement I and statement II are false
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(3) Statement I is true but statement II is false

(4) Statement I is false but statement II is true
413."It caught to be the first endeavour of a writer to dis- tinguish nature from custom, or that
which is established because it is right from that which is right only because it is established;
that he may neither violate essential principles by a desire of novelty, nor debar himself from
the attainment of beauties within his view by a needless fear of breaking rules which no lit-
erary dictator had authority to enact".
The above passage considered to be the death- knell of the neo-classical criticism is
attributed to
(1) John Dryden (2) Alexander pope
(3) Samuel Johnson (4)Joseph Addison
414. Who among the following was a major advocate of oral history?
(1) Sylvia Plath (2) Esther greenwood
(3) Paul Thompson (4) Carolyn Steedman
415. Hudibras of Samuel butler reflects on the revolt against:

(1) Puritanism (2) Hellenism
(3) Humanism (4) Anglicanism
416. Who among the following is the author of The Steele Glass?
(1) The earl of surrey (2) Thomas Sackville
(3) George Gascoigne (4) Edmund Spenser
417. Sir David Lyndsay's A Satire of the Three Estates is

(1) Political and religious (2) Political and secular
(3) Political and secular (4) Political and religious
418. Who among the following has used lines from the Shakespearean play Othello to critique
racism in one of
His poems?
(1) Edward Braithwaite
(2) Franz Fanon
(3) Derek Alton Walcott
(4) Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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419. The "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is written in:

(1) Quatrains of ten syllable lines
(2) Octave and sestet
(3) Heroic couplet
(4) Alexandrines
420. Who among the following is exclusively associated with diary writing in English?
(1) Samuel Pepys (2) Samuel Johnson
(3) Ben Johnson (4) Samuel Richardson
421. Abt Vogler is authored by

(1) Matthew Arnold (2) Robert Browning
(3) A. L. Tennyson (4) None of the above
422. The predominant emotion running through the poem "Cristina" by Robert Browning is that
of
(1) Sadness (2) Aggression
(3) Love (4) None of the above
423. Which one is correctly matched?

(1) Heathcliff- Mansfield Park
(2) Maggie Tulliver - The Mill on the Floss
(3) Josiah Bounderby - Wuthering Height
(4) Fanny price - Hard Times
424. Who among the following is associated with the 3/5 term 'Intentional fallacy' in literary
criticism?
(1) W.K. Wimsatt (2) Rolland Barthes
(3) I Hillis miller (4) John Keats
425. Which of the following works is set in the backdrop of the religious persecution in
Mexico?
(1) The Power and the Glory
(2) For Whom the Bell Tolls
(3) In Our time
(4) All of the above
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426. Who among the following coined the term 'The B movement'?
(1) F.W. Bateson (2) F.R. Leavis
(3) J.D. Scott (4) I.A. Richards
427. Dev Virahsawmy's Toufann is an adaptation of Shakespeare's play_

(1) Hamlet (2) Macbeth
(3) The Twelfth Night (4) The Tempest
428. "Inane gaudiness" is a phrase used in connection with neo-classicism by __

(1) William Wordsworth (2) S.T. Coleridge
(3) Matthew Arnold (4) T.S. Eliot
429. Which of the following are novels of Irvine Welsh?

(A) The Acid House
(B) Trainspotting
(C) Beside the Ocean of Time
(D) Filth
(E) Maris Belfrage

(1) B, D and E only (2) A, B and C only
(3) B. C and D only (4) A, B and D only
430. Identify the correct ones among the following:

(A) The dramatic monologue ensures the reciprocal dialogue of the narrator.
(B) The nineteenth century poets fully exploited the poetic form of dramatic monologue
(C) The poetry of experience by Robert langbaum outlines a discussion on dramatic
monologue
(D) The linguistic pragmatics make the narcissistic speaker of dramatic monologue speak
exclusively
(E) The speaker and the listener in the dramatic monologues of Robert browning share
the same
pedestal of communication.
(1) A, B and C only (2) B, C and D only
(3) C. D and E only (4) B. D and E only
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431. Which of the following statement hold true with respect to Alexander pope's Essay on
Criticism?
(A) It is "an inquiry into the nature and value of poetry".
(B) It presents "a series of generalizations about good taste".
(C) It explores the challenges of impartial and just criticism.
(D) It underlines the traits of "the good critic".
(E) It critically reflects on Plato's rejection of poetry.
(1) A and B only (2) B and C only
(3) A. B. C and E only (4) B, C and D only
432. Which of the following statements are true in the Bcontext of henry fielding's Tom Jones
(1749)
(A) Tom Jones is comic and moralistic.
(B) Tom and Jones are the main characters of Tom Jones
(C) Tom is caught poaching in neighbor's game pre-serve.
(D) The history of Tom Jones is the full title of Tom Jones.
(E) All of the above
(1) E only (2) A, C and D only
(3) A, B, C and D only (4) B, C and D only
433. The concept of "eugenics" finds its illustration predominantly in the writings of:
(A) John Osborne (B) George Bernard Shaw
(C) Eugene O'Neil (D) Harold Pinter
(E) Arthur miller
(3) B and C only (4) D and E only
434. Which of the following are correct:

(A) Roddy Doyle - The Barrytown Trilogy
(B) Abraham stoker - Confessions of an Irish Rebel
(C) C. S. Lewis -The Chronicles of Narmia
(D) Brendan Behan – Dracula
(E) Eoin colfer - Artemis Fowl
(1) A, C and E only (2) A, B and D only
(3) A, C and D only (4) C, D and E only
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435. Which among the following are true about the figures of speech?
(A) Figures based on sound – Paronomasia
(B) Figures based on construction – Zeugma
(C) Figures based on imagination - Irony
(D) Figures based on association – Chiasmus
(E) Figures based on indirectness – Euphemism
(1) A, B and E only (2) A, B and C only
(3) B, C and D only (4) C, D and E only
436. Which of the following authors have been correctly matched with their works?
(A) Malcom Bradbury - The History of Man
(B) William Golding - Rites of Passage
(C) Seamus Heaney - Darkness Visible
(D) Brian Friel - Dancing at Lughnasa
(E) Molly Keane -The Norman Conquests
(1) A, B and E only (2) B, C and E only
(3) C, D and E only (4) A, B and D only
List-I List-II
(A) Doll Common I. Twelfth Night
(B) Malvolio II. The Alchemist
(C) Mortimer III. The Duchess of Malfi
(D) Bosola IV. Edward II
(1) A-1, B-IV, C-111, D-II
(2) A-II, B-1, C-IV, D-111
(3) A-IV, B-111, C-II, D-1
(4) A-III, B-IV, C-1, D-II

List-I List-II
(A) "The Lion's Skin" I. Washington Irving
(B) "The Man who liked Dickens" II. W. Somerset Maugham
(C) "Rip Van Winkle" III. Stephen Crane
(D) "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" IV. Evelyn Waugh

List-I List-II
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(A) Stephen Spender I. Cargoes

(B) W.H. Auden II. Consider
(C) John Masefield III. Adlestrop
(D) Edward Thomas IV. The pylons
(2) A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
(3) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
(4) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II

List- I List-II
(A) "There is no art to find mind's construction I. Hamlet
in the face"
(B) "Time out of joint" II. Richard III
(C) "The better part of valour is discretion" III. Macbeth
(D) "My kingdom for a horse". IV. Twelfth Night
(1) A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II
(2) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
441. Who among the following refers to "high serious- B ness" as a quality of a great poet and
quotes john Milton
to prove the same?
(A) T. S Eliot (B) Ezra pound
(C) Matthew Arnold (D) I. A. Richards
(E) G. M. Hopkins
(1) A and B only
(2) B and C only
(3) D and E only
(4) C only

Statement I: The theatre was at a greater popularity in eighteenth century England.
Statement II: Theatre had court patronage in and around London.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) Both statement I and Statement II are true
(2) Both statement I and Statement II are false
(3) Statement I is true, but statement II is false
(4) Statement I is false, but statement II is true
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Statement I: Dr. Johnson had an inclination toward the tory political ideology.
Statement II: Dr. Johnson strongly believed in transcendental scepticism.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below
(1) Both statement I and Statement II are true
(2) Both statement I and Statement II are false
(3) Statement I is true, but statement II is false
(4) Statement I is false, but statement II is true
444. In the above passage, Walter Horalio pater's statement, 'imaginative prose should be
special' implies.
(1) Abstract language
(2) Environmental crisis
(3) Intellectual complexities
(4) Metaphorical functions
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445. How did the 'sport with Tess' end?

(1) She was hanged.
(2) She was expelled from Wintoncester.
(3) The tormentor married her.
(4) She died an untimely death.
446. Who are the two speechless gazers'?

(1) Reverend James Clare and Mrs. Brooks
(2) 'Liza?Lu and Angel Clare
(3) Tess's two parents
(4) Parson Tringham and Mrs. d'Urberville
447. his insubstantial pageant' refers to:

(1) the shutdown of Globe theatre.
(2) a non real performance.
(3) the destroyed mother earth.
(4) enactment with support structure.
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448. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on' means:
(1)Human life is full of imaginary colours.
(1)Our life is a text of what happened.
(3) We are a bundle of past reality.
(4) There is no substance to human life.
449. Who among the following compared 'the mind in creation' to 'a fading coal"?
(1) Wordsworth (2) Coleridge
(3) Shelley (4) Keats
450. Who is the author of the essay "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool"?
(1) Aldous Huxley (2) George Orwell
(3) Virginia Woolf (4) Somerset Maugham
451. Which of the following poems by Robert B Browning contains the lines, "Our interest's on
the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, / The superstitious
atheist..."?
(1) "A Death in the Desert"
(2) "Count Gismond"
(3) "Bishop Blougram's Apology"
(4)"Love Among the Ruins"
452. Who among the following edited The Cornhill Magazine?

(1) Charles Dickens
(2) Lewis Carroll do Ho
(3) William Makepeace Thackeray
(4) Anthony Trollope
453. Which of the following novels has its epl Btaken from the Katha Upanishad?
(1) The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
(2) The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham
(3) Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
(4) A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
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454. Erich Auerbach's Mimesis (1946) ends with a chapter on:

(1) Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
(2) Wyndham Lewis's The Apes of God.
(3) James Joyce's Ulysses
(4)George Eliot's Middlemarch.
455. Which two works in the following list are written by Aphra Behn?
A. Rover
B. Oroonoko
C. Soldier's Fortune
D. The Princess of Cleve
(3) B and D only (4)A and C only
456. Which of the following poems contains John 3 Donne's famous conceit bringing a parallel
between lovers and the hands of a compass?
(1) "Negative Love"
(2) "Lovers Infiniteness"
(3) "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
(4) "A Valediction: Of Weeping"
457. Arrange the following essays in the chronological order of publication.

A. T. S. Eliot, "The Function of Criticism"
B. Edgar Allan Poe, "The Philosophy of Composition"
C. Henry James, "The Art of Fiction"
D. Virginia Woolf, "Modern Fiction"
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
(1) C, B, A, D (2) C, B, D, A
(3) B, C, D, A (4) B, C, A, D
458. Arrange the following journals in the chronological order in which they started
publication.
A. The Tatler B. The Examiner
C. The Review D. The Spectator
(1) A, D, C, B
(2) B, A, D, C
(3) C, A, B, D
(4) C, A, D, B
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459. Given below are two statements

Statement I: In Waiting for Godot, it is Vladimir who questions the Boy who comes from
Godot towards the end of
the twoActs.
Statement II: In Waiting for Godot, it is Estragon who says, "Nothing happens, nobody comes,
nobody goes, it's awful."
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given
below
(1) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
(2) Both Statement I and Statement II are false
(3) Statement I is true but Statement II is false
(4) Statement I is false but Statement II is true
460. What was poor Yorick in Hamlet?

(1) Jester (2) Actor
(3) Soldier gils (4) Gravediggermo
461. Which of the following words refers to a sound that is associated with a particular
meaning?
(1) phoneme (2) phonic substance
(3) phonestheme (4) phonemoid
462. Who among the following Dickens characters Bappears as a ghost?

(1) Daniel Quilp (2) Dora Spenlow
(3) Esther Summerson (4) Jacob Marley
463. Virginia Woolf's Orlando opens in 1588 and Orlando, a sixteen?year?old boy, writes a
poem Bcalled:
(1) "The Evergreen Tree" (2) "The Poison Tree".
(3)"The Oak Tree". (4) "The Magic Tree".
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464. What 19th century philosophical term of Russian B origin did Friedrich Nietzsche use to
describe the disintegration oftraditional morality in western society?
(1) absolutism (2) cynicism
(3)hniilism (4) anarchism
465. Which among the following are the works of George Gissing?
A. New Grub Street B. Agnes Grey
C. The Odd Women D. Mary Barton
(1) A and C only
(2) B and D only
(3) A and B only
(4) C and D only
466. Which of the following are novels by Ian B McEwan?

A. Atonement
B. The Man with Two Left Feet
C. The Child in Time
D. The Rachel Papers
(1) A and C only
(2) B and D only
(3) C and D only
(4) D and A only

List-I List-II
A. Sean O'Casey I. I'm Talking About Jerusalem
B. Dylan Thomas II. The Winslow Boy
C. Terence Rattigan III. Juno and the Paycock
D. Arnold Wesker IV. In the Shadow of the GlenE. J.M. Synge Under Milk
Wood
(1) A?II, B?I, C?III, D?V, E?IV
(2) A?V, B?IV, C?II, D?I, E?III
(3) A?III, B?V, C?II, D?I, E?IV
(4) A?IV, B?II, C?III, D?V, E?I
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468. Match List I with List II up

List-I List-II
A. "Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land... I. G.M.Hopkins
B. I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! II. Alfred Tennyson
C. I caught this morning morning's minion III. D.G. Rossetti
D. Look in my face; my name is Mighthavebeen... IV. Matthew Arnold
E. The sea is calm tonight... V. Robert Browning
(1) A?II, B?III, C?I, D?V, E?IV
(2) A?IV, B?V, C?I, D?III, E?II
(3) A?III, B?IV, C?V, D?I, E?II
(4) A?II, B?V, C?I, D?III, E?IV

List- I (Character) List- II (Novel)
A. Winston Smith. I. Sons and Lovers
B. Paul Morel II. Ulysses
C. Whiskey priest III. Nineteen Eighty?four
D. Leopold Bloom IV. Decline and Fall
E. Paul Pennyfeather V. The Power and the Glory
(1) A?III, B?I, C?V, D?II, E?IV
(2) A?I, B?V, C?II, D?III, E?IV
(3) A?IV, B?III, C?V, D?II, E?I
(4) A?V, B?I, C?IV, D?II, E?III
470. Which of the following are features of the "Theatre 3 of the Absurd'?
A. emphasis on the central role of God in the universe
B. presentation of futile actions devoid of any goal
C. portrayal of situations that point to the meaning- fulness of life
D. lacking in conflicts and dramatic tensions
E. presenting players in a stasis or drift without defi- nite roles
(1) A, C and E only (2) B, D and E only
(3) A, B and D only (4) B, C and D only
471. Arrange the following periodicals in the chronological order in which they started
publication:
A. The Spectator B. The Tatler
C. The Rambler D. The Critical Review
(1) A, B, C, D
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(2) B, A, C, D
(3) B, C, D, A
(4) A, D, B, C
472. Which of these does the book How to read Donald Duck identify as an important element
in its analysis ofimperialist
ideology in the Walt Disney comic- book?
(1) impoverished royalty
(2) noble savage
(3) scientific magic
(4) heartless civilization
473. Charles Lamb used the pseudonym Elia for writing in which of the following periodicals?
(1) London Magazine
(2) The Edinburg Review
(3) The Quarterly Review
(4) Athenaeum
474. In "Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown" Virginia Woolf:

(1) responds to E.M Forster's remarks on character in fiction
(2) criticises book buying preferences of the educated English class.
(3) analyses the state of modern fiction by contrasting two generations of writers.
(4) presents modernity as a stable and coherent proj- ect uniting all artists.
475. In "Politics and the English Language" which two of the following 'tricks' are mentioned
by George Orwell
as 'badhabits' of English use?
A. obsolete words.
B. pretentious diction
C. dying metaphors
D. false modifiers
(1) A and B only (2)B and C only
(3) B and D only (4)C and D only

List- I(Essay) List-II(Essayist)
A. "The Tory Fox?Hunter" Ⅰ Francis Bacon
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B. "What I Believe" II. Joseph Addison

C. "The Death of the Moth III. E.M.Forster
D. "Of Ambition IV. Virginia Woolf
(1) A -I, B-III, C-IV, D-II
(2) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
(4) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
477. Arrange the following characters in their chronological sequence of appearance:

A. Mirabell
B. Shylock
C. Jimmy Porter
D. Sir Epicure Mammon
(1) D, B, A, C
(2) B, D, A, C
(3) D, B, C, A
(4) B, D, C, A
478. Which two of the following concepts are deployed in the work of Frederic Jameson?
A. Pastiche B. Hyperreal
C. Schizophrenia D. Habitus
(1) A and B only (2) C and D only
(3) B and D only (4) A and C only
479. Arrange the following plays in their chronological sequence:

A. Sergeant Musgrave's Dance
B. The Playboy of the Western World
C. Look Back in Anger
D. Man and Superman
(1)D, B, A, C (2) B, D, A, C
(3) D, B, C, A (4) B, D, C, A
480. What might the speaker mean when he addresses 'Time' in a Shakespearean sonnet and
declares that
"I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee "?
A. Time preserves human life.
B. With time comes change.
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C. Time creates opportunities.

D. Time removes human life.
(1) A and B only
(2) C and D only
(3) B and D only
(4) A and C. only
481. Which two of the following stage directions are from Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party?
A. The living?room of a house on a seaside town.
B. A garbage pail on the ground next to the porch steps.
C. A light shows from upstairs bedroom, lower floor windows being dark.
D. He hangs the drum around his neck, taps it gently with the sticks, then marches round
the table,
beating it regularly.
(1) A and D only
(2) C and D only
(3) B and C only
(4) A and C only
482. Arrange the following lines of poetry in their chronological sequence:

A. "An aged man is but a paltry thing."
B. "The world is too much with us."
C. "Daddy, I have had to kill you."
D. "After great pain, a formal feeling comes ?"
(1) B, D, A, C
(2) D, B, A, C
(3) D, B, C, A
(4) B, D, C, A
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483. The whole description is an example of:

(1) aporia. (2) image
(3) analogy.. (4) sarcasm
484. What is the 'system' of which Dombey and Sonwere the centre?
(1) The British political system
(2) The country's commerc
(3) The family business
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(4) The workings of nature

485. ‘Is man no more than this?' means:

(1) Man is far more than what he seems to be.
(2) Man is not as well endowed as some other animals.
(3) Accomodated man is well endowed.
(4) As an animal, man is a superior animal.
486. Which one of the following best captures what Shakespeare means?
(1) Man just uses what animals possess.
(2) Animals' attributes are external.
(3) Man can accommodate same properties.
(4) Animals unlike man are more complex.
487. In "The Life of Cowley" which two of the following criticisms were made by Samuel
Johnson against a group
of writers he termed the 'metaphysical poets"?
(A) They made an inappropriate combination of wit and imagination.
(B) Instead of writing poetry, they only wrote verses.
(C) They neither copied nature nor life.
(D) They never tried to be singular in their thoughts.
(3) B and D only (4) C and D only
488. In "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" what is proposed by Matthew Arnold
as the essence of criticism?
(1) affirmation (2) judiciousness
(3)disinterestedness (4) cohesiveness
489. How does T. S. Eliot sum up the peculiar quality of Marvell's "Horatian Ode"?
(1) 'telescoping of images and multiplied associations'
(2) 'a tough reasonableness beneath a slight lyric grace' (
(3) 'a contrast of ideas, different in degree but the same in principle'
(4) 'heterogeneity of materials compelled into unity'
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490. Usage in "You have hissed the mystery lectures." is an example of:
(1) error of lexical choice. (2) inadvertent mistake.
(3) spoonerism. (4) metathesis.
491. Which character in Hamlet utters the line: "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"?
(1) Marcellus (2) Bernardo
(3) Ghost (4)Horatio
492. Who wrote the essay "My First Acquaintance with Poets"?
(1) Charles Lamb (2) William Hazlitt
(3) Thomas De Quincey (4) John Ruskin
493. Who wrote a postmodern reworking of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations without
altering the original title?
(1) Shirley Jackson (2) Kathy Acker
(3) Angela Carter (4) Peter Carey
494. In which book of Paradise Lost does Milton refer to "Agra and Lahore of Great Mogul"?
(1) Book III (3) Book VII
(2) Book IV (4) Book XI
496. Which two among the following condemned the transportation of 50000 slaves into
England in 1771?
(A) Samuel Johnson (B) Alexander Pope
(C) Horace Walpole (D) Thomas Gray
(1) A and B only (2) B and D only
(3) B and C only (4) A and C only
497. Which two are the works of Ted Hughes?

(A) Wildtrack (B) Wodwo
(C) Lupercal (D) Jack Straw's Castle
(3) B and C only (4)B and D only
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498. Arrange the following journals in the chronologiccal order of publication.

(A) Longman's Magazine
(B) Cornhill Magazine
(C) Blackwood's Magazine
(D) Bentley's Miscellany
(1) C, B, A, D (2) C, D, B, A
(3) B, C, D, A (4) B, C, A, D
499. Arrange the following poems by W. B. Yeats in the chronological order of publication.
(A) "The Wild Swans at Coole"
(B) "The Second Coming"
(C) "Among School Children"
(D) "Adam's Curse"
(1) A, C, D, B (2) D, A, B, C
(3) C, A, B, D (4) C, A, D, B
500. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as
Reason R Assertion
A statements: The implied reader shifts attention from the real reading individual to a
disembodied dimen- sion of reception, intricately interwoven into the text.
Reason R: The 'Dear Reader,' invoked in the realist novels, is a fictional representation of the
distant reader. In light of the above statements,
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below
(1) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
(2) Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
(3) A is correct but R is not correct
(4) A is not correct but R is correct
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RPSC AP Paper 2021

1. Was an early English comedy written by a schoolmaster to be performed by his

2. Who said, "The hero of Shakespeare's great classical trilogy is Rome”?

5. Match the sonnet sequences with their auther:

6. Which of the following is a feature of the Renausance ?

7. The phrase "God's anointed" in Absalom and Achitoohel endorses

8. Who is called "the greatest man of a little age" ?

9. Was the year of the Ppish Plot.

10. Was the patron of John Locke.

11. In The Conquest of Granda, who conquers Granada ?

22. Harld Skim[pole in Bleak House is a caricature of

23. The New Pvgmalion is a work by

25. marry shelley's Frankenstein was published in

26. Arrange the following chronologically

29. who wrote the "Parliamentary Novels"?

31. Arrange the following novels chronologically:

33. Who of the following had an elliptical style ?

34.Which of the following novels has a "Chinese-box" structure ?

35. in Jude the Obscure, Jude Dreams of going to the university at

36. Thackeray's Vanity Fair is a

38. is an imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel,

40. The truth about an Author is a playful " literary autobiography" of

(2) Joseph Conrad (4) John Galsworthy

43. Which of the following works is not by Somerset Maugham?

(1) All of these are by Maugham

45. The Dog Beneath the skin, or Where is Francis ? is a play by

46. Which of the following is in the correct chronological order?

47. Who is the narrator in Melville's Moby Dick?

48. Who is the representative figure

49. American Civil War was fought in

50. Who coined the phrase "Lost Generation"?

52. In Saul Bellow's novel Herzog (1964), Moses Herzog is a

57. Which one is a great patriotic poem by Frost ?

58. Who is the central figure in O'

59. Absalom. Absalom is a novel written by

60. The poem 'Chicago' is written by

(3) Sir Thomas Malory

63. Thomas Moore's Utopia is set in

66. Who among the following is called the "poet's poet"?

67. The Redcross Knight in The Faerie Queene represents

69.Who is the author of the book The Spanish Tragedy?

70. Who wrote The Praise of Folly?

73.Who were called the "Tribe of Ben"?

75. The character Bottom appears in the following Shakespearean comedy:

77. The formal structure of a typical Shakespearean Sonnet is:

80. Who says of Donne : "He affects the metaphysics" ?

(4) H.J.C. Grierson

81. Philip Sidney's Arcadia is ………..

83. Shakespeare incorporates Livy's account's lust in a narrative work called

84. The work The Anatomy of Melancholy was written by

85. Bacon describes his essays as:

86. Which of the following plays is NOT written by Thomas Middleton ?

87. The White Devil by John Webster depicts Italian society as

93. In Jonathan Swift's The Battle of the Books

98. Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer owes its origin to –

101. Which of the following is NOT an elegy

103"Adonais" by P.B. Shelley is an elegy on the death of

105. Which of the following is NOT a Gothic novel?

109. Jane Austen's novels are characterised by:

115. The narrative of Thomas Hardy's

116. The pioneering classic of outdoor literature

118. Match the opening lines with their text

119.The continued popularity of Oscar Wilde's plays depends on :