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1. Jeremy Collier's A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage attacked among others.

John Bunyan


Thomas Rhymer


William Congreve


Henry Fielding


2. The Crystal Palace, a key exhibit of the Great Exhibition, was designed by

Charles Darwin


Edward Moxon


Joseph Paxton


Richard Owen


3. Influence of the Indian Philosophy is seen in the writings of

G.B. Shaw


Noel Coward


Tom Stoppard


T.S. Eliot


4. In which of his voyages, Gulliver discovered mountain-like beings

The land of the Lilliputians


The land of the Brobdingnagians


The land of the Laputans


The land of the Houyhnhnms


5. Patrick White's Voss is a novel about

the sea


the capital market


the landscape


the judicial system


6. Although Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney writes in English, in voice and subject matter, his poems are

Welsh


Scottish


Irish


Polish


7. To whom is Mary Shelley's famous work Frankenstein dedicated

Lord Byron


Claire Clairmont


William Godwin


P.B. Shelley


8. Which among the following poems by Philip Larkin records his impressions while travelling to London by train

"Aubade"


"Church Going"


"The Whitsun Wedding"


"An Arundel Tomb"


9. The English satirist who used the sharp edge of praise to attack his victims was

Ben Jonson


John Donne


John Dryden


Samuel Butler


10. One of the most famous movements of direct address to the reader "Reader, I married him" occurs in

Henry Fielding's Tom Jones


Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre


Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy


George Eliot's Middlemarch


11. Langland's Piers Plowman is a satire on

aristocracy


chivalry


peasantry


clergy


12. Which of the following thinker-concept pair is correctly matched

I.A. Richards Archetypal Criticism


Christopher Mysticism Frye


Jacques Deconstruction Derrida


Terry Psychological Eagleton Criticism


13. Sexual jealousy is a theme in Shakespeare's

The Merchant of Venice


The Tempest


Othello


King Lear


14. The title, The New Criticism, published in 1941, was written by

Cleanth Brooks


John Crowe Ransom


Robert Penn Warren


Allan Tate


15. Which of the following is not a Revenge Tragedy

The White Devil


The Duchess of Malfi


Doctor Faustus


The Spanish Tragedy


16. Who of the following playwrights rejects the Aristotelian concept of tragic play as imitation of reality

G.B. Shaw


Arthur Miller


Bertolt Brecht


John Galsworthy


17. The label 'Diasporic Writer' can be applied to
I. Meena Alexander
II. Arundhati Roy
III. Kiran Desai
IV. Shashi Deshpande
The correct combination for the statement, according to the code, is

I and IV are correct.


II and III are correct.


II and IV are correct.


I and III are correct.


18. The letter in The Scarlet Letter stands for
I. Adultery
II. Able
III. Angel
IV. Appetite
The correct combination for the statement, according to the code, is

I and II are correct.


II and III are correct.


II and IV are correct.


II and III are correct.


19. A monosyllabic rhyme on the final stressed syllable of two lines of verse is called

monorhyme


feminine rhyme


masculine rhyme


eye rhyme


20. A fatwa was issued in Salman Rushdie's name following the publication of

Midnight's Children


Shame


Satanic Verses


Grimus


21. "There is nothing outside the text" is a key statement emanating from

Feminism


New Historicism


Deconstruction


Structuralism


22. The Augustan Age is called so because

King Augustus ruled over England during this period


The English writers imitated the Roman writers during this period


The English King was born in the month of August


This was an age of sensibility


23. One of the important texts of Angry Young Man Movement is
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
24. Whom does Alexander Pope satirise in the portrait of Sporus

Lady Wortley Montague


Joseph Addison


Lord Shaftsbury


Lord Harvey


25. The hero of Marlowe's Tamburlaine was born as a

carpenter


goldsmith


shepherd


fisherman


26. In a letter to his brother George in September 1819, John Keats had this to say about a fellow romantic poet "He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine Mine is the hardest task." The poet under reference is

Wordsworth


Coleridge


Byron


Southey


27. A sequence of repeated consonantal sounds in a stretch of language is

alliteration


acrostic


assent


syllable


28. Reformation was predominantly a movement in

politics


literature


religion


education


29. The motto "only connect" is taken from

Joseph Conrad's Nostromo


Rudyard Kipling's Kim


H.G. Wells' The History of Mr. Polly
E.M. Forster's Howards End
30. English Iambic Pentameter was brought to its first maturity in

sonnet


dramatic verse


lyric


elegy


31. Who among the following was not a member of the Bloomsbury Group

Lytton Strachey


Clive Bell


E.M. Forster


Winston Churchill


32. The concept of human mind as tabula rasa or blank tablet was propounded by

Bishop Berkley


David Hume


Francis Bacon


John Locke


33. The terms 'resonance' and 'wonder' are associated with

Stephen Greenblatt


Terence Hawkes


Terry Eagleton


Ronald Barthes


34. The rhetorical pattern used by Chaucer in The Prologue to Canterbury Tales is

ten-syllabic line


eight-syllabic line


rhyme royal


ottava rima


35. Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species was published in the year

1859


1879


1845


1866


36. Who of the following is the author of Juno and the Paycock

Lady Gregory


W.B. Yeats


Oscar Wilde


Sean O'Casey


37. The title of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury is taken from a play by

Christopher Marlowe


William Shakespeare


Ben Jonson


John Webster


38. "Silverman has never read Browning." This is an example of

chiasmus


conceit


zeugma


metonymy


39. The term 'Intentional Fallacy' is first used by

William Empson


Northrop Frye


Wellek and Warren


Wimsatt and Beardsley


40. "Recessional A Victorian Ode", Kipling's well-known poem,
I. laments the end of an Era
II. marks a new commitment to scientific knowledge
III. expresses the sincerity of his religious devotion
IV. was occasioned by Queen Victoria's 1897 Jubilee Celebration
The correct combination for the statement, according to the code, is

II and III are correct.


III and IV are correct.


I and IV are correct.


III and IV are correct.


41. Who among the following is not a Restoration playwright

William Congreve


William Wycherley


Ben Jonson


George Etherege


42. Which famous Romantic poem begins with the line 'Hail to thee, blithe spirit Bird thou never wert"

"Ode to a Nightingale"


"To the Cuckoo"


"To a Skylark"


"To the Daisy"


43. Who among the following Victorian poets disliked his middle name

Arthur Hugh Clough


Dante Gabriel Rossetti


Gerard Manley Hopkins


Algernon Charles Swinburne


44. Aston is a character in Pinter's

The Birthday Party


The Caretaker


The Dumb Waiter


The Homecoming


45. Byron's English Bards and Scottish Reviewers is about
I. the survey of English poetry
II. evangelism in English poetry
III. contemporary literary scene
IV. the early English travellers
The correct combination for the statement, according to the code, is

III and IV are correct.


II, III and IV are correct.


I and II are correct.


I and III are correct.


46. Which Eliotian character utters the question "Do I eat a peach"

Marina


Prufrock


Sweeney


Stetson


47. Which among the following works by Daniel Defoe landed him in prison and the pillory

The True-Born Englishman


Captain Singleton


The Shortest Way with Dissenters


Moll Flanders


48. The arrival of printing in fifteenth century England was engineered by

Sir Thomas Malory


John Gower


John Barbour


William Caxton


49. About which nineteenth century English writer was it said that "He had succeeded as a writer not by conforming to the Spirit of the Age, but in opposition to it"

Lord Byron on Coleridge


Coleridge on Keats


Hazlitt on Lamb


De Quincey on Crabbe


50. The Restoration comedy, The Double Dealer was written by

John Dryden


William Wycherley


William Congreve


George Etherege


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