1. Which British University figures in William Wordsworth's Prelude

Durham

Glasgow

Cambridge

Oxford

2. Who is the author of A Woman Killed with Kindness

John Marston

Thomas Middleton

John Fletcher

Thomas Heywood

3. In William Congreve's The Way of the World identify the speaker of the line "One's cruelty is one's power, and when one parts with one's cruelty, one parts with one's power."

Mirabell

Witwoud

Millamant

Mincing

4. T.S. Eliot found spiritual support in

Christianity

Hinduism

Buddhism

Judaism

5. By what name is Gulliver known in Brobdingnag

Grildrig

Glumdalclitch

Splacknuck

Mannikin

6. Who among the following was born in India

Paul Scott

Lawrence Durrell

E.M. Forster

V.S. Naipaul

7. What metaphor does Edmund Spenser employ (Faerie Queene Book 1 Canto 12) to frame his tale and to describe the relationship between the tale and its readers

That of a caravan of lost souls, traversing a desert.

That of a stagecoach, which picks up diverse passengers along the way.

That of a ship filled with jolly mariners.

That of a riderless horse, following his own direction.

8. Who among the following is not associated with Russian formalism

Roman Jakobson

Georges Poulet

Boris Eichenbaum

Victor Shklovsky

9. Which character in Dickens keeps on hoping that "something will turn up"

Barkis

Micawber

Uriah Heep

Miss Havisham

10. What is the name of the boat that rescues Ishmael in Herman Melville's Moby Dick

Pequod

Rachel

Hagar


Sphinx

11. Northanger Abbey is a parody of the romance.

Oriental

French

Gothic

Popular

12. Who among the following authors were greatly influenced by Thomas Carlyle's writings

I. Charles Dickens
II. Elizabeth Gaskell
III. Emily Bronte
IV. Oscar Wilde
The right combination according to the code is

I and II

II and III

I and IV

I and III

13. Which of the following is another term to describe "art for art's sake"

Aestheticism

Didacticism

Realism

Neo-realism

14. The statement that there are "none so credulous as infidels" is an illustration of

Oxymoron

Antithesis

Paradox

Metonomy

15. Who narrates Heart of Darkness

Marlow

Director of Companies

Kurtz

An unnamed narrator

16. The Mistakes of a Night is the subtitle of

The Conscious Lovers

The Good Natur'd Man

She Stoops to Conquer

The Rivals

17. Identify the first novel written by Patrick White

The Living and the Dead

The Tree of Man

Happy Valley

The Aunt's Story

18. In King Lear for what reason does Kent assume a disguise

To continue to serve Lear, though Lear has banished him.

To spy on Edmund.

To antagonize Goneril and Regan.

To revenge upon Lear for banishing him.

19. What is a feminine rhyme

A rhyme on two syllables in which the last syllable is unstressed.

A rhyme on two syllables.

A rhyme on three syllables.

A poem in which every third syllable rhymes.

20. Identify two of the following written by Christopher Fry

I. French Without Tears
II. The Lady's Not for Burning
III. Venus Observed
IV. The Deep Blue Sea

The right combination according to the code is

II and III

I and III

II and IV

I and IV

21. In "Tradition and Individual Talent", according to T.S. Eliot, the term "Traditional" usually means

something positive

something negative

something historical

something old

22. Who of the following is a Cavalier poet

George Herbert

John Donne

Robert Herrick

Andrew Marvell

23. Which of the following is not Jacques Derrida's work

Of Spirit Heidegger and the Question

The Transcendence of the Ego

Of Grammatology

The Work of Mourning

24. In Paradise Lost which character narrates the story of the making of Eve from a rib in Adam's side

Adam

Eve

Raphael

God

25. A.S. Byatt's Possession attempts the imitation of the work of two Victorian poets, loosely based on

I. Alfred Tennyson
II. Robert Browning
III. Christina Rossetti
IV. William Morris

The right combination according to the code is

I and II

II and IV

II and III

III and IV

26. The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a short comedy by

Bernard Shaw

W.B. Yeats

J.M. Synge

John Osborne

27. John Milton's description of gold as a "precious bane" (Paradise Lost, Book II) is best described as

a dactyl

an oxymoron

enjambment

zeugma

28. There is a play on the name of Machiavelli in the prologue to Christopher Marlowe's

Doctor Faustus

The Jew of Malta

Tamburlaine, the Great

Edward II

29. Shakespeare famously neglects to observe Aristotle's rules concerning the three dramatic unities, and Samuel Johnson undertakes to defend Shakespeare from these criticisms in his Preface to Shakespeare. Which of the Aristotelian dramatic unities does Johnson believe Shakespeare to observe most successfully

Time

Place

Action

Johnson does not feel that the Aristotelian dramatic unities are important

30. Who among the following was praised and patronized as a "Ploughman Poet"

John Clare

George Crabbe

Robert Burns

Walter Scott

31. Which novel of Doris Lessing ends with a projection forward in time after a devastating atomic war

The Grass is Singing

The Golden Notebook

The Four-Gated City

A Proper Marriage

32. Name the dominant meter of the following quatrain The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Iambic Hexameter

Trochaic Pentameter

Iambic Pentameter

Terza Rima

33. Which two novels of Buchi Emecheta provide a fictionalized portrait of poor, young Nigerian women struggling to bring up their children in London
I. The Slave Girl
II. The Joys of Motherhood
III. Second Class Citizen IV. In the Ditch

The right combination according to the code is

I and II

II and III

III and IV

I and IV

34. In John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress who keeps Christian's head above water in the River of Death

Hopeful

Helpful

Faithful

Cheerful

35. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a

religious allegory

fairy tale

long poem

Utopian novel

36. In Thomas More's Utopia which of the following leisure pastimes is not a favourite among Utopians

Music

Public lectures

Conversation

Dicing and cards

37. Which of the following statements does not describe Michel Foucault's position

In Foucault's work sexuality is literally written on the body.

Power operates through discourse.

There is connection between power and knowledge.

Where there is power, it is possible to find resistance.

38. In which year did the Great Exhibition take place

1851

1857

1861

1871

39. When Fidessa says, "O but I fear the fickle freakes …./ Of fortune false, and oddes of armes in field" (Faerie Queene, Book Canto this is a fine example of

Alliteration

Allegory

Assonance

Antithesis

40. Match the work with author

I. "The Excursion" A. S.T. Coleridge
II. "Christabel" B. P.B. Shelley
III. Milton C. William Wordsworth
IV. Queen Mab D. William Blake

I II III IV

C A B D

C A D B

B C A D

B A C D

41. Which of the following phrases is not found in Thomas Gray's "Elegy written in a Country Churchyard"

"Far from the madding crowd"

"A youth to Fortune and Fame unknown"

"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen"

"All nature is but art, unknown to thee"

42. Robert Browning's "Rabbi Ben Ezra" is a defence of

youth against old age

old age against youth

power against knowledge

knowledge against power

43. In Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims, like the medieval society of which they are a part, are made up of three social groups or "estates". What are the three estates

Nobility, church and commoners

Royalty, nobility and peasantry

Royalists, republicans and peasants

Country, city and commons

44. Which novel of Toni Morrison tells the wrenching story of a protagonist who murders her child rather than to allow him/her to live as a slave

Sula

Tar Baby

Song of Solomon

Beloved

45. Who among the following translated Homer

Thomas Gray

Samuel Johnson

Oliver Goldsmith

Alexander Pope

46. Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy is a

Picaresque novel

Epistolary novel

Diary novel

Coming-of-age novel

47. When was the English ban on James Joyce's Ulysses lifted

1924

1945

1936

1962

48. Who among the following is not an imagist

Ezra Pound

W.B. Yeats

Amy Lowell

T.E. Hulme

49. Thomas Carew's Poems appeared in print in 1640 and contain a variety of amorous addresses to and reflections on, a fictional mistress known as

Celia

Julia

Anne

Melanie

50. Match the novelists with their work

I. William Golding A. Grimus
II. Salman Rushdie B. Hawksmoor
III. Graham Swift C. Darkness Visible
IV. Peter Ackroyd D. Waterland

I II III IV

D A C B

C A D B

B C A D

B A C D