1. In a 1817 review of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey coined the term 'Lake School of Poets' grouping...

Wordsworth, Coleridge and Crabbe

Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron

Wordsworth, Coleridge and Hazlitt

Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey

2. "I am the enemy you killed, my friend/I knew you in this dark..." The above lines are taken from...

"The Soldier"

"Dulce et Decorum Est"

"To His Dead Body"

"Strange Meeting"

3. Below are two sets of texts one of which has inspired the other. Match the text with its inspiration
Coral Island
The Odyssey
The Mahabharat
Jane Eyre
The Great Indian Novel
Wide Sargasso Sea
Omeroos
(viii) Lord of the Flies





(viii)



4. "His life was gentle and the elements/So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up/And say to all the world, 'This was a man Who is the speaker, and about whom is this spoken

Enobarbus on Antony

Brutus on Caesar

Cleopatra on Antony

Marc Antony on Caesar

5. "When my love swears that she is made of truth/I do believe her, though I know she lies". The author of these lines is...

Philip Sidney

Edmund Spenser

Christopher Marlowe

William Shakespeare

6. The poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge was notably influenced by...

The Napoleonic Wars

The Glorious Revolution

The French Revolution

Poor Laws

7. "Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide". The above lines appear in...

Mac Flecknoe

Absalom and Achitophel

Essay on man

Alexander's Feast

8. Who among the following developed the term strategic essentialism

Edward Said

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Homi Bhabha

Aijaz Ahmed

9. David Malouf's An Imaginary Life is a retelling of the story of


Aristotle

Juvenal

Ovid

Horace

10. 'Jabberwocky' is a character in....

The Importance of Being Earnest

Fra Lippo Lippi

Through the Looking Glass

Goblin Market

11. Which of the following statements is the most accurate regarding Edward Said's thesis in Orientalism
The Europeans used the East dialectically to describe their self-image as irrational and primitive.
The Oriental people used the West dialectically to define their self-image as irrational and primitive.
The Europeans used the East oppositionally to define their self-image as rational and modern.
The Oriental people used the West oppositionally to define their self-image as rational and modern.





and

and

12. Assertion Literary and historical periodization often has nothing to do with the lifetime of writers. Thus we see two writers born in the same year belonging to two separate periods. Reasoning/ Thomas Carlyle and John Keats were born in 1795. In standard literary Example histories, Keats is a Romantic and Carlyle, a Victorian.

and are correct

is correct; is incorrect

and are incorrect

does not follow from

13. Everyman is...

a medieval play based on an episode from the Bible

a medieval morality play

a Tudor interlude

a miracle play

14. Which of the following sets would you call the poets of the Movement

Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, John Wain

W.H. Auden, Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen Spender

T.S. Eliot, Richard Aldington, Ezra Pound

Alan Brownjohn, C.H. Sisson, Anthony Thwaite

15. Doris Lessing's interest in is widely recognized

Hinduism

Sufism

Zen

Judaism

16. Periphrasis, which is a roundabout way of speech/writing, is also known as...

synecdoche

allusion

understatement

circumlocution

17. Arrange the following in chronological order... The death of Shakespeare
Accession of James I to the English throne

Caxton and the printing press The Norman Conquest of England









18. "The Muse of History" is a classic postcolonial essay by

Ngugi wa Thiongo

Chinua Achebe

Wilson Harris

Derek Walcott

19. "Do I contradict myself Very well then, I contradict myself, am large, I contain multitudes.)" The above lines are from...

Walt Whitman

Edgar Allan Poe

Ralph Waldo Emerson

John Greenleaf Whittier

20. "Verses on the Death of Dr Swift" was written by...

Jonathan Swift

Alexander Pope

Samuel Johnson

James Boswell

21. Match the following elegies with the persons for whom they were written 'Lycidas' Arthur Hugh Clough 'Adonais'
A.H. Hallam In Memoriam Edward King

Thyrsis (viii) Keats









22. Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison is a series of reflections on


Jazz music

Disability sports

Whiteness and the literary imagination

Black American folklore

23. "He's not the brightest man in the world" is an example of

Chiasmus

Hyperbole

Litotes

Simile

24. The term 'horizon of expectations' is associated with...

Wolfgang Iser

Stanley Fish

Harold Bloom

H.R. Jauss

25. The following writers have something in common Mary Seacole J.A. Froude Mary Kingsley Anthony Trollope What is it
They are all Victorians
They are all writers of children's fiction

They are all members of one literary guild They are all travel writers

and

and

and

and

26. The immediate source of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is...

A French narrative

A Dutch narrative

A German narrative

None of the above

27. Who among the following were associated with the Irish Dramatic Movement

Lady Gregory, W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge

Jonathan Swift, R.B. Sheridan, G.B. Shaw

W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, G.B. Shaw

W.B. Yeats, Patrick J. Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney

28. The term diaspora was originally applied to the following ethnic group

Jews

Muslims

Hindus

French Canadians 29. Who among the following is NOT a 'University Wit'

Christopher Marlowe

George Peele

Robert Greene

Ben Jonson

30. When a person has a wooden leg, we are apt to say, has a wooden leg'. Now this wooden leg is... literal
metaphorical

ambiguous neither literal nor metaphorical

and are correct

is correct

is correct

and are correct
31. Prosody studies


Line endings

Meanings of words

Patterns of prose

Metrics

32. Which of the following is a major Jacobean play

Everyman

Gorboduc

Romeo and Juliet

The Duchess of Malfi

33. Understanding Poetry used to be a classic textbook that encapsulates the principles of ...

New Historicism

New Aristotelianism

New Criticism

The New Left

34. What century is variously called The Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Sensibility. The Augustan Age and The Age of Prose and Reason

sixteenth century

seventeenth century

eighteenth century

nineteenth century

35. What is common to the following poems
Wordsworth's "The Recluse" Shelley's "The Triumph of Life" Byron's "Don Juan" Keats' "Hyperion"

They are all elegies

They are all unfinished poems

They are all divided into cantos

They are women-centred poems

36. Who among the following called the novel 'the bright book of life'

D.H. Lawrence

James Joyce

Virginia Woolf

Aldous Huxley

37. "Ripeness is all" is a line from...

Hamlet

King Lear

Othello

Macbeth 38. U.R. Ananthamurthy's Samskara was translated by...

Himself

Girish Karnad

H.S. Shivaprakash

A.K. Ramanujan
39. Abel Whittle is a character in

The Return of the Native

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Far from the Madding Crowd

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

40. In which eclogue of The Shepheardes Calender does Spenser praise Queen Elizabeth I

January

April

August

November 41. Which of the following is NOT the opening of the well-known Romantic poem

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/My sense

Hail to thee, blithe spirit

Margaret, are you grieving/Over Goldengrove unleaving

The world is too much with us

42. "Politics and the English Language" is an essay by

F.R. Leavis

Terry Eagleton

George Orwell

Raymond Williams

43. "The mind-forged manacles" is phrase from

"London"

"Eternity"

"A Poison Tree"

"I Asked a Thief"

44. "He is not fully recognized at home; he is not recognized at all abroad. Yet I firmly believe that the poetical performance of is, after that of Shakespeare and Milton, undoubtedly most considerable in our language." To whom does Matthew Arnold refer in the above statement

Edmund Spenser

John Keats

William Wordsworth

S.T. Coleridge

45. The Globe Theatre opened in

1585

1593

1599

1603 Read the following passage carefully, and select the right answers from the alternatives given below in the questions 46 to 50 We need to begin by casting doubt on the legitimacy of the notion of literature. The mere fact that the word exists, or that an academic institution has been built around it, does not mean that the thing itself is self-evident. Reasons-perfectly empirical ones, to begin with are not hard to find. The full history of the word literature and its equivalents in all languages and all eras has yet to be written, but even a perfunctory look at the question makes it clear that the term has not been around for ever. In the European languages, the word literature in its current sense is quite recent it dates back just barely to the nineteenth century. Might we be dealing with a historical phenomenon rather than an 'eternal' one Moreover, many languages (many African languages, for example) have no generic term covering all literary productions. To these initial observations we may add the fragmentation characteristic of literature today. Who dares specify what is literature and what is not, given the irreducible variety of the writing that tends to be attached to it, from vastly different perspectives The argument is not conclusive a notion may legitimately exist even if there is no specific term in the lexicon for it. But we have been led to cast the first shadow of doubt over the 'naturalness' of literature. A theoretical examination of the problem proves no more reassuring. Where do we come by the conviction that there is indeed such a thing as literature From experience. We study 'literary' works in school, then in college; we find the 'literary type of book in specialized stores; we are in the habit of referring to 'literary' authors in everyday conversation. An entity called 'literature' functions at the level of intersubjective and social relations; this much seems beyond question. Fine. But what have we proved That in the broader system of a given society or culture, an identifiable element exists that is known by the label literature. Have we thereby demonstrated that all the particular products that take on the function of 'literature' possess common characteristics, which we can identify with legitimacy Not at all. 46. This passage casts doubt on

the assumption called literature.

the idea of literature.

the institution of literature.

the notion of literature.

47. Literature is unsustainable because :...

we are unclear as to what it means.

we are unsure as to its message.

we are not persuaded that the claims made for it are allowable and acceptable.

we cannot prove that its definitions are the right and the only possible ones.

48. How does the writer argue that the existence of literature is hardly self-evident by citing reasons for its non-existence.
by citing reasons for interrogating its legitimacy.

by citing reasons and proving by argument that its legitimacy can be interrogated. by citing reasons to show that the label does not match the thing we know to be literature.



and



and

49. "Might we be dealing with a historical phenomenon rather than an 'eternal' one"
What makes this a reasonable question to consider in this context

A historical phenomenon lends itself to better empirical verification than an 'eternal' one.

A historical phenomenon has more legitimacy than an 'eternal' one.

A historical phenomenon can be debated and possibly settled while an 'eternal' one must be taken on trust or not at all.

A historical phenomenon is well above disputation while an 'eternal' one is not.

50. What does "the fragmentation characteristic of literature today" suggest to the writer

the fragmentation of modern consciousness.

the divided perceptions of literature by its readers.

the lack of specificity of literature.

the blur that frustrates further investigation into this concept.