1 Matthew Arnold's "touchstones" were "short passages, even single lines" of classic poetry beside which the lines of other poets may be placed in order to detect the presence or absence of high poetic quality. In his "Study of Poetry" Arnold cited "touchstones" from such non-English poets as Homer and Dante and also from the English poets, Shakespeare and Milton. Which English poet did he disapprovingly call "not one of the great classics" in the list below


Chaucer

Sidney

Spenser

Donne

2 Samuel Pepys began his diary on

New Year's Day 1660

All Saints' Day 1662

Thanksgiving Day 1665

New Year's Day 1667

3 On which of the following authors has Peter Ackroyd NOT written a biography

Charles Dickens

William Blake

T. S. Eliot

W. B. Yeats

4 Which group of the following poets was called the Auden Group because they developed a style and viewpoint similar to that of W. H. Auden

Louis MacNeice, C. D. Lewis, Stephen Spender

John Masefield, Edwin Muir, Norman McCaig

MacDiarmid, G. M. Hopkins, Edwin Muir

W. H. Davies, Robert Bridges, John Masefield

5 When one line of poetry runs into the next, with no punctuation to slow the reading, it is a case of .

caesura

consonance

enjambment

hyperbole

6 Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Victorian Age

The rise of a highly competitive industrial technology

An emphasis on strictly controlled social behaviour

A romantic focus on home and family

The growth of rural traditions and movement from large cities

7 In The Heart of Midlothian, Walter Scott deals with real political and personal details, but notable among his characters is the depiction of .

Queen Anne

Queen Victoria

Queen Caroline

Queen Elizabeth

8 Chaucer's first work, The Book of the Duchess is a dream poem on the death of

Duchess of Malfi

Duchess of Lancaster

Duchess of Scotland

Duchess of Paris.

9 What was Charles Lamb's connection with India

He was fascinated by the Indian jugglers and trades-people in London and wrote an essay on them

He was fascinated by Eastern mystical religions, especially Buddhism

He was a clerk for thirty three years in the East India Company

He was clerk in South Sea House that prepared patents and documents for British trading companies in India

10 Find the odd one among the Marxist critics below

Georg Lukacs

Louis Althusser

Raymond Williams

Northrop Frye

11 In the lines "With gold jewels cover every part, /And hide with ornaments their want of art" (Essay on Criticism), Pope rejects

the 'Follow Nature' fallacy

artificiality

aesthetic order

poor taste

12 The opposite of hyperbole is

meiosis

inversion

anagnorisis

synecdoche

13 What significance do we attach to the publication of I Am an Indian in Canada

The title refers to the autobiography of an unknown Indian writer longing for the South Asian countryside

The first ever account of ethnic conflicts within Canada

The first anthology of Native Canadian writing following the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s

The first anthology of writers afflicted by class and gender differences in Canada of the late 1970s

14 What is the moral of "The Nun's Priest's Tale"

Slow and steady wins the race.

Greed is the root of all evil.

Beauty lies within.

Never trust a flatterer.

15 The author of the essay "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" is

George Eliot

Henry James

Oscar Wilde .

Richard Steele

16 The unquenchable spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantial existence on a lonely island reflects .

man's desire to return to nature

the author's criticism of colonization

the ideal of rising bourgeoisie

the aristocrat's disdain for the harsh social reality

17 Who is the author of the collection The Celtic Twilight

J. M. Synge

Sean O'Casey

W. B. Yeats

Lady Gregory

18 In medieval England a was understood to be a trained craftsman, one who worked under a master who owned the business.

pardoner

summoner

journeyman

manciple

19 Christopher Marlowe's heroes are said to be larger than life, exaggerated both in their faults and in their qualities. They have a desire for everything in extreme. In one of his plays the hero wants to conquer the whole world. The name of the play is .

The Jew of Malta

Doctor Faustus

Tamburlaine the Great

Edward II

20 With what does the speaker claim to be half in love in "Ode to a Nightingale"

the nightingale's haunting melody

the scented flavour of early summer

the night sky and all the stars

the peace that comes with death

2 l In which chapter of Poetics does Aristotle use the word 'catharsis' in his definition of tragedy

Chapter IV

Chapter VI

Chapter III

Chapter V

22 Match the following
"The Function of Criticism" Terry Eagleton
"The Function of Criticism at Richard Ohmann the Present Time"
The Function of Criticism From Matthew Arnold 'The Spectator' to Poststructuralism
"The Function of English at the T. S. Eliot Present Time"

The right matching according to the code is











23 Identify the TRUE statement on Thomas More's Utopia.


Utopia is divided into four parts, each dealing with Raphael Hythloday's adventures in the four suburbs of Antwerp.

Utopia is divided into two parts; the first records a conversation between Thomas More and Raphael Hythloday, and the second is Hythloday's discourse on the institutions and practices of Utopia.

Utopia is divided into two parts; the first is Thomas More's discourse on the institutions and practices of Utopia, and the second a conversation between More and Hythloday.

Utopia is divided into four parts, each dealing with the ordered patterns of towns and cities in Antwerp.

24 In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" what disaster befalls the ship and the crew

The ship is caught in ice and breaks into pieces.

A fierce storm batters the ship and drowns the crew.

"Slimy things with legs" attack the ship and kill many of the crew.

The ship is becalmed and the crew dies of thirst.

25 Falstaff is a character in .
Henry IV Part I The Merry Wives of Windsor The Comedy of Errors Titus Andronicus

The right combination according to the code is

and

and

and

and

26 In her essay "Professions for Women" Virginia Woolf finds an analogy between the act of writing and .

driving a motor car

riding a horse

fishing

gardening

27 The ascension of King James I in

1600

1601 inaugurated the Jacobean age.

1603

1609

28 Which of the following is NOT true of the Byronic hero

moody

passionate

repentant

remorse-torn

29 Like many other novelists, Hardy employed language variation (dialect and standard) with a purpose. In this respect which of the following statements is correct

His major characters such as Tess and Jude always speak in local dialects, as per their social positions.

His major characters such as Tess and Jude rarely speak in local dialects, in spite of their social positions.

His major characters such as Tess and Jude rarely speak in standard language in spite of their social positions.

His major characters such as Tess and Jude rarely speak in a mixture of a dialect and standard.

30 "It used to be said," began a famous English writer, "everyone had a novel in them ... Just now, though, in 1999, you would probably be obliged to doubt the basic proposition: What everyone has in them, these days, is not a novel but a memoir". Identify the source


Martins Amis, Experience

Michel Butor, Passing Time

John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman

Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

31 The opening sixteen lines of Paradise Lost comprise

One sentence

Two sentences

Three sentences

Four sentences

32 Who among the following poets compared human tears to "love's wine"

Ben Jonson

John Donne

Andrew Marvell

John Suckling

33 Ernest Pontifex is a character in.

Tono Bungay

The Man of Property

The Way of All Flesh

Nostromo

34 In which of the following stories does Rudyard Kipling present a newspaper editor who recounts his dealings with a couple of "loafers"

"His Chance in Life"

"Thrown Away"

"Lispeth"

"The Man Who Would Be King"

35 Trying to capture the upbeat mood of 1964-65, the poet Thom Gunn said: "They stood for a great optimism, barriers seemed to be coming down all over, it was as if World War II had finally drawn to close, there was an openness and high-spiritedness and relaxation of mood". Who were "they"

The Beatles

The Rolling Stones

The New Left

The Arts Council folks

36 In Paradise Lost Milton presents the action of the fall of man in two stages in Books

IV and IX

IV and VIII

III and IX

V and X.

37 In Gulliver's Travels Struldbruggs are

people replete with abstract learning.

people exempt from natural death.

people persecuted by pets and servants.

people lured by a new ideal..

38 Margaret Atwood has tried a revisionist writing of a crucial scene in Hamlet called "Gertrude Talks Back". The scene in Atwood opens with a reference to the name of an implied listener. Who is this implied listener

Hamlet

Ophelia

Polonius

Claudius

39 Samuel Johnson wrote London in imitation of

Horace

Ovid

Juvenal

Moschus

40 Which of the following is NOT written by Buchi Emecheta

The Joys of Motherhood

Second-Class citizen

A Question of Power

Kehinde

41 Samuel Johnson's use of the term "metaphysical" in a piece of criticism was

approving

disapproving

positive

accidental.

42 "I am not an angel ..... and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself." This is

Maggie Tulliver in Mill on the Floss

Aurora Leigh in the eponymous poem

Jane Eyre in the eponymous novel

Betty Higdon in Our Mutual Friend.

43 Who among the following playwrights was the son of a gardener

Harold Pinter

Joe Orton

Tom Stoppard

Edward Bond

44 "He is the very pineapple of politeness." This sentence is an example of

paronomasia

spoonerism

malapropism

anaphora

45 Ferdinand de Saussure argued that meaning is generated through

a system of structured differences in language

a system of random differences in language

a system of structured references in language

a system of random references in language.

46 Identify the group known as "The Wesker Trilogy"

The Growth of the Soil, Game of Life, In the Grip of Life

Chicken Soup with Barley, .oots, Talking about Jerusalem

The Four Seasons, Chips with Everything, Golden City

Lunatics and Lovers, The Patriots, Dead End

47 Who is the central character of Derek Walcott's Dream on the Monkey Mountain

Diana Guinness, one of the Mitford Sisters

Jordan, a fantasist

Makak, a charcoal burner

Eva Smith, a seamstress

48 The phrase "darkness visible" (Paradise Lost, 1.63) is an example of

periphrasis

pun

oxymoron

transposition

49 What is common to writers such as Sam Selvon (The Lonely Londoners), Timothy Mo (Sour Sweet), and Hanif Kureishi (The Black Album)

All of them are brilliant writers of autobiographies who tell stories and write poetry.

They use Standard English with some Creole inflections peculiar to the Caribbean.

They are diasporic writers who depict postcolonial London very different from its colonial representations.

They contrast the 'First Nations' with local populations of their respective countries.

50 F. R. Leavis and Q. D. Leavis launched a critical journal devoted to the moral centrality of English Studies. Name the Journal.

The English Historical review

The Criterion

Scrutiny

The Edinburgh review