1. Identify the work below that does not belong to the literature of the eighteenth century:

Advancement of Learning

Gulliver's Travels

The Spectator

An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
2. Which, among the following, is a place through which John Bunyan's Christian does NOT pass

The Slough of Despond

Mount Helicon

The Valley of Humiliation

Vanity Fair
3. The period of Queen Victoria's reign is

1830-1900

1837-1901

1830-1901

1837-1900
4. Which of the following statements about The Lyrical Ballads is NOT true

It carried only one ballad proper, which was Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

It also carried pastoral and other poems.

It carried a "Preface" which Wordsworth added in 1800.

It also printed from Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
5. One of the following texts was published earlier than 1955. Identify the text:

William Golding, The Inheritors

Philip Larkin, The Less Deceived

William Empson, Collected Poems

Samuel Becket, Waiting for Godot
6. Who among the poets in England during the 1930s had left-leaning tendencies

T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound,Richard Aldington

Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke

W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice,Cecil Day Lewis

J. Fleckner, W. H. Davies,Edward Marsh
7. Match the following

1. The Sage of Concord 5. Emily Dickinson
2. The Nun of Amherst 6. R.W. Emerson
3. Mark Twain 7. T.S. Eliot
4. Old Possum 8. Samuel L. Clemens


4-7

4-8

4-5

4-6
8. Name the theorist who divided poets into "strong" and "weak" and popularized the practice of misreading:

Alan Bloom

Harold Bloom

Geoffrey Hartman

Stanley Fish
9. In The Rape of the Lock Pope repeatedly compares Belinda to

the sun

the moon

the north star

the rose
10. Which of the following awards is not given to Indian-English writers

The Booker Prize

The Sahitya Akademi Award

The Gyanpeeth

Whitbread Prize
11. Identify the correct statement below

Gorboduc is a comedy, while Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton's Needle are tragedies.

Gorboduc is a tragedy, while Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton's Needle are comedies.

All of them are problem plays.

All of them are farces.
12. W.M. Thackeray's Vanity Fair owes its title to

Browning's Fifine at the Fair

Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice

Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield

Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
13. The Puritans shut down all theaters in England in

1642

1640

1659

1660
14. Who of the following was not a contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge

Robert Southey

Sir Walter Scott

William Hazlitt

A. C. Swinburne
15. Which of the following statements about Waiting for Godot is NOT true

1. It carries a subtitle: "a tragicomedy in two acts".
2. It carries a subtitle: "a tragicomedy in two scenes".
3. It carries a subtitle: "a tragicomedy in two parts".
4. It does not carry a subtitle.

4

2

3

1
16. The Bloomsbury Group included British intellectuals, critics, writers and artists. Who among the following belonged to the Bloomsbury Group

I. John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey
II. E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Clive Bell
III. Patrick Brunty, Paul Haworth
IV. Thomas Hardy, Henry James,Walter Pater

I and II

I

II and III

IV
17. Who, among the following is credited with the making of the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language

Bishop Berkeley

Samuel Johnson

Edmund Burke

Horace Walpole
18. In Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy who opens the discussion on behalf of the ancients

Lisideius

Crites

Eugenius

Neander
19. The term invective refers to

the abusive writing or speech in which there is harsh denunciation of some person or thing.

an insulting writing attack upon a real person, in verse or prose, usually involving caricature and ridicule.

a written or spoken text in which an apparently straightforward statement or event is undermined in its context so as to give it a very different significance.

the chanting or reciting of words deemed to have magical power.
20. Which of the following novels depicts the plight of the Bangladeshi immigrants in East London

How far can you go

The White Teeth

An Equal Music

Brick Lane
21. The year 1939 proved to be a crucial year for two important writers in England. Identify the correct phrase below

For Yeats who died, for Auden who left England for the U. S.

For Eliot who started publishing verse-drama, for Hardy whose Wessex Poems were published.

For Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, each for publishing his first novels.

For Eliot who won the Nobel Prize and Orwell who published his Animal Farm.
22. The Enlightenment was characterized by

accelerated industrial production and general well- being of the public.

a belief in the universal authority of reason and emphasis on scientific experimentation.

the Protestant work ethic and compliance with Christian values of life.

an undue faith in predestination and neglect of free will.
23. Which Shakespearean play contains the line: "...there is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow"

King Lear

Hamlet

Coriolanus

Macbeth
24. Match the following pairs of books and authors
Books Authors

I. Condition of the Working Class in England i. John Ruskin
II. London Labour and the London Poor ii. Henry Mayhew
III. Past and Present iii. Thomas Carlyle
IV. The Unto This Last iv. Friedrich Engels

Codes
I II III IV


iv i ii iii

iv ii iii i

ii iv i ii

iii ii iv iv
25. In which of the following texts do Aston, Davies and Mick appear as characters

Wyndham Lewis's Enemy

Harold Pinter's Caretaker

Katherine Mansfield's "Life of Ma Parker"

Graham Greene's Brighton Rock
26. What is common to the following writers Identify the correct description below William Congreve George Etherege William Wycherley Thomas Otway

All of these were Restoration playwrights

All of them were critics of Orwell's regime

All of them edited Shakespeare's plays

All of them wrote tragedies in the same age
27. In which Jane Austen novel do you find the characters Anne Elliott, Lady Russell, Louisa Musgrove and Captain Wentworth

Emma

Mansfield Park

Persuasion

Northanger Abbey
28. In which of his essays does Homi Bhabha discuss the 'discovery' of English in colonial India

"Signs taken for Wonders"

"Mimicry"

Nation and Narration

"The Commitment to Theory"
29. the first Sonnet Sequence in English.

Edmund Spenser's Amoretti

Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella

Samuel Daniel's Delia

Michael Drayton's Idea's Mirror
30. Which is the correct sequence of the novels of V.S.Naipaul

The Mystic Masseur-Miguel Street-The Suffrage of Elvira A House for Mr. Biswas.

Miguel Street The Mystic Masseur A House for Mr. Biswas The Suffrage of Elvira.

The Suffrage of Elvira Miguel Street The Mystic Masseur A House for Mr. Biswas.

The Mystic Masseur The Suffrage of Elvira, Miguel Street A House for Mr, Biswas.
31. "Kubla Khan" takes an epigraph from

Samuel Purchas' Purchas His Pilgrimage

Hakluyt's Voyages

The Book Named the Governour

Sir Thomas More's Utopia
32. Which of the following author- theme is correctly matched

The Battle of the Books Tribute to "The rude forefathers of the hamlet".

The Rape of the Lock Quarrel between ancient and modern authors.

Gray's "Elegy" Accumulation of wealth and the consequent loss of human lives and values.

The Deserted Village Quarrel between two families caused by Lord Petre.
33. Which among the following titles set a course for academic literary feminism

Nostromo

From Ritual to Romance

A Room of One's Own

A Dance to the Music of Time
34. In which play do we see a reworking of E.M.Forster's A Passage to India as a camaeo

The Birthday Party

A Resounding Tinkle

Indian Ink

Amadeus
35. Shakespeare's sonnets

do not carry a dedication.

are dedicated to James I of England.

are dedicated to Mary Arden.

are dedicated to an unknown"Mr. W.H."
36. Which of the following poems uses terza rima

John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale"

P.B. Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind"

William Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper"

Alfred Tennyson's "Ulysses"
37. When one says that "someone is no more" or that "someone has breathed his/ her last", the speaker is resorting to

euphism

euphony

understatement

euphemism
38. Which of the following are"companion poems"

"Gypsy songs" and "Songs and Sonnets"

"L'Allegro" and "II Penseroso"

"The Good Morrow" and "The Sun Rising"

"Full Fathom Five" and "Hark, Hark! the Lark"
39. What does the term episteme signify

Knowledge

Archive

Theology

Scholarship
40. Which of the following is a better definition of an image in literary writing

A reflection

A speaking picture

A refraction

A reflected picture
41. Whom did Keats regard as the prime example of 'negative capability'

John Milton

William Wordsworth

William Shakespeare

P.B. Shelley
42. Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities begins with the sentence

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

It was the brightest of times, it was the darkest of times.

It was the richest of times, it was the poorest of times.

It was the happiest of times, it was the saddest of times.
43. The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins were published posthumously by

Edwin Muir

Edward Thomas

Robert Bridges

Coventry Patmore
44. Which of the following is the correct chronological sequence

A Poison Tree The Deserted Village The Blessed Damozel Ozymandias

The Deserted Village A Poison Tree Ozymandias The Blessed Damozel

The Blessed Damozel A Poison Tree The Deserted Village Ozymandias

The Deserted Village The Blessed Damozel Ozymandias A Poison Tree
45. The term homology means a correspondence between two or more structures. Who of the following developed a theory of relations between literary works and social classes in terms of homologies

Raymond Williams

Christopher Caudwell

Lucien Goldmann

Antonio Gramsci
46. F. Turner's famous hypothesis is that

the Frontier has outlived its ideological utility in American civilization.

the Frontier has posed a challenge to the American creative imagination.

the Frontier has been the one great determinant of American civilization.

the Frontier has been the one great deterrent to American progress.

47. Which statement(s) below on the Spenserian Stanza is/are accurate

I. a quatrain, unrhymed, but alliterative
II. a stanza of four lines in iambic pentameter
III. an eight-line stanza in iambic pentameter followed by a ninth in six iambic feet
IV. an eight-line stanza with six use of figurative language. iambic feet followed by a ninth in iambic pentameter

I and II

II

III

IV
48. Match the following texts with their respective themes

I. Areopagitica (Milton) i. Fashion, courtship, seduction
II. Leviathan (Hobbes) ii. The liberty for unlicensed printing
III. Alexander's Feast (Dryden) iii. Absolute sovereignty
IV. The Way of the World (Congreve) iv. The power of music

Codes
I II III IV

i ii iii iv


ii iii iv i


iii iv i ii


iv iii i ii

49. The preliminary version of James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was called

Stephen Hero

Bloom's Blunder

A Day in the life of Stephen Dedalus

The Dead

50. A pastiche is a mixture of themes, stylistic elements or subjects borrowed from other works.
It is distinguished from parody because not all parody is pastiche
A pastiche is also known as a 'purple passage'.
A pastiche is given to an elevated style, especially in its


and are correct.

only is correct.

and are correct.

only is correct.