1 "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" has been commented by

William Wordsworth

Percy Shelley

Byron

Keats

2 Milton rejected and came to stand for all that was lofty, epic and severe in English tradition.

Augustanism

Realism

Romanticism

Naturalism

3 The line 'The things which I have seen now can see no more' is from

She Was a Phantom of Delight

Tintern Abbey

Intimations of Immortality

She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways

4 "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter, therefore ye soft pipes, play on." These lines belong to

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Ode to Nightingale

Tintern Abbey

Daffodils

5 The main character in 'Paradise Lost' is

God

Satan

Adam

Eve

6 Browning's My Last Duchess is

a nature poem

a lyric

a striking ironic character-sketch with circumstantial details

a ballad

7 The theme of evocation of a dream-world is explicit in the following poem by Tennyson:

The Lotus-Eaters

The Lady of Shalott

Tithonus

The Palace of Art

8 Metaphysical poetry is characterised by

nature theme

intellectual over emotional, marked by irony and paradox

philosophical view of world

romantic imagination

9 Lyrical Ballads was published in 1798 by

Wordsworth and Shelley

Wordsworth and Byron

Wordsworth and Coleridge

Keats and Byron

10 Who invented the term 'Sprung Rhythm'

Hopkins

Tennyson

Browning

Wordsworth

11 In "Leda and the Swan", who woos Leda in guise of a swan?

Mars

Hercules

Zeus

Bacchus

12 is a series of poems written in dark fabulist tradition of Eastern European poetry. It is written by

Tony Morrison

Ted Hughes

Sylvia Plath

T.S. Eliot

13 "A Very Indian Poem in Indian English" is written by

Sarojini Naidu

Nissim Ezekiel

Kamala Das

Hopkins

14 W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet who founded

Street Theatre

Abbey Theatre

Open Theatre

Social Theatre

15 Sylvia Plath advanced the genre of poetry.

confessional

romantic

lyrical

rational

16 The epigraph of "The Waste Land" is borrowed from

Virgil

Seneca

Homer

Pelonius

17 "The Nationalism and its Fragments: Colonial and Post-Colonial Histories" is written by

Shri Aurobindo

Edward Said

Bernard Kohn

Partha Chatterjee

18 Following Indian words are incorporated in Oxford Dictionary

Curry, Guru, Bungalow

Masti, Bai

Burfi, Utsav

None of the above

19 Who called "The Waste Land" as music of ideas'

Allen Tate

LA. Richards

F.R. Leavis

J.C. Ransom

20 known for provocative poems, honest explorations of the self and female sexuality.

Kamala Das

Sarojini Naidu

Arundhati Roy

Nissim Ezekiel

21 received the Pulitzer Prize posthumously for the collected poems.

Ted Hughes

W.E. Yeats

Sylvia Plath

Nissim Ezekiel

22 "To His Coy Mistress" is the most well-recognized Andrew Marvell.

short

Carpe Diem

lyric poem in English by

sonnet

23 'Metaphysical poets' is a term coined by the poet and critic

T.8. Eliot

Samuel Johnson

F.R. Leavis

Coleridge

24 "Death Be Not Proud" is a poem by the famous metaphysical poet

John Donne

Andrew Marvell

John Milton

Coleridge

25 "Paradise Lost" is written by John Milton and is

an epic poem in blank verse

a ballad

an epic poem in free verse

a lyric

26 "Paradise Lost" was originally written in

Ten Books

Eight Books

Eleven Books

Nine Books

27 The criticism on Wordsworth's poetry 'Poetry that has a palpable design upon has been by

Shelley

Keats

Byron

Blake

28 Shelley's "Adonais" is an elegy on the death of

Milton

Coleridge

Keats

Johnson

29 Which of the following poets does not belong to the 'Lake School'

Keats

Coleridge

Southey

Wordsworth

30 "Canterbury Tales" was written by

Thomas Lancaster

King Richard II

Dick Wittington

Geoffrey Chaucer

31 Which of the poems by Ezekiel describes the characteristics of a mother who is happy to have faced the danger and not faced by her child?

"The Egoist's Prayer"

"Night of the Scorpion"

"Background Casually"

None of the above

32 What was most frequently considered a source of pleasure and an object of inquiry by Augustan poets

Civilization

Woman

God

Nature

33 Metaphysical poets were influenced by

Neo Classicism

Neo Platonism

New flistoricism

None of the above

34 Which metrical form was Alexander Pope said to have brought to perfection?

Blank verse

The heroic couplet

Free verse

The ode

35 Between 1660 to 1700, the poet and critic who brought modern literature to England was

Dryden

Bunyan

Addison

Crabbe

36 Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London?

Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"

Richardson's "Clarissa"

Pope's "The Rape of the Lock"

Swift's "Gulliver's Travels"

37 Which one of the following poets is not a metaphysical poet?

Andrew Marvell

George flerbert

Robert flerrick

Thomas Traherne

38 Which Romantic poet asserted in theory and practice the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts as the major subject for poetry?

William Blake

Tennyson

Samuel Johnson

William Wordsworth

39 What was the relationshp between Victorian poets and the Romantics?

The Victorians were influenced by the Romantics

Victorians and Romantics were same

Romantics were seen as gifted

Romantics remained largely forgotten

40 The collection of poems making statements on spiritual and artistic rebirth by W.B. Yeats is

"Byzantium"

"A Prayer For My Daughter"

"The Waste Land"

"Crow"

41 In the 1930s, younger writers like W.H. Auden were but less than elder modernists like Eliot and Pound.

popular, reverenced

spiritual, orthodox

brash, confident

radical, inventive

42 Which poet could be described as part of "the movement" of 1950s

Dylan Thomas

Pablo Picasso

Phillip Larkin

All of the above

43 The publication of masterpieces is associated with the in English literature.

Insignificance

Renaissance

Elizabethan Age

Neo-Classicism

44 According to Theatre Licensing Act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by 'legitimate' drama?

Dramaturg and playwright had to be related

All of the actors were male

The play was spoken

All the actors were British

45 Following was the dictum in the Renaissance in terms of art in Italy:

Art for art's sake

Beauty is truth, truth beauty

Art for society's sake

None of the above

46 Which ruler's reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian Era?

King Henry VIII

Queen Elizabeth

Queen Victoria

King John

47 Which of the following COmIC playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions

Oscar Wilde

George B. Shaw

W.S. Gilber

All of the above

48 'Death has a hundred hands and
walks by a thousand ways'
The above lines in ''Murder in the Cathedral" are uttered by

Thomas

Tempters

Chorus

Priests

49 Which of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre?

The Globe Theatre

The Abbey Theatre

The Independent Theatre

None of the above

50 What did T.S. Eliot attempt to combine in his plays "Murder in the Cathedral" and Cocktail Party"

Regional dialect and political critique

Religious symbolism and social comedy

Witty paradox and feminist diatribe

All of the above

51 Sexual jealousy is a theme in Shakespeare's

"The Merchant of Venice"

"The Tempest"

"Othello"

"King Lear"

52 Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" is an example of

Absurdist theatre

Realist theatre

Naturalist theatre

Neo-Classicism

53 Who christened Donne and his followers "The Metaphysical Poets"

Andrew Marvell

George Herbert

Dr. Johnson

John Keats

54 Arthur Miller was deeply influenced by 'Problem Plays' of

Shaw

Ibsen

Shakespeare

Pinter

55 The term 'Stoppardian' was used to describe works of drama

using wit and comedy while addressing philosophical concepts

of black comedy

realistic in nature

None of the above

56 In what decade did the "angry young men" come to prominence on the theatrical scene?

1910s

1930s

1950s

1990s

57 The term 'Theatre of Cruelty' was coined by

Robert Brustein.

Antonin Artaud

Augusto Boal

Luigi Pirandello

58 Shakespeare's "Hamlet" has a hero who is characterised by

ambition

confusion and internal conflict

lust for power

None of the above

59 The audience learns about Hamlet's motives and thoughts through

soliloquies

actions

other characters

None of the above

60 In the plays Alchemist" and Ben Jonson

follows the dramatic unity of time

uses characters of romantic comedy

gives a serious message

None of the above

61 "Volpone" is a by Ben Jonson.

Romantic Comedy

Comedy of Manners

Jacobean Comedy

Tragedy

62 The author of a high-brow sexual comedy of manners was

Ben Jonson

William Congreve

William Shakespeare

None of the above

63 the recipient of Nobel Prize for Literature and an Oscar.

Rabindranath TagBfe

W.B. Yeats

Bernard Shaw

None of the above

64 "The Birthday Party" by Harold Pinter is

a comedy

a deeply political play about the individual's need for resistance

a play about modern age

None of the above

65 "The Birthday Party" has been described by Martin Esslin as an example of

Theatre of the Absurd

Social Theatre

Morality Play

None of the above

66 The review 'The Screw Turns Again' in The Sunday Times helped to revive "The Birthday Party". The review was written by

Frazer

Harold Hobson

F.R. Leavis

None of the above

67 "Though this be madness, yet there is method in it." These lines appear in the following play by Shakespeare

"Macbeth"

"Hamlet"

"King Lear"

"Othello"

68 "Hamlet" is called as the

Tragedy of ambition

Tragedy of power

Tragedy of revenge

None of the above

69 In "The Five and The Rain", Karnad tries to

interpret the past in terms of the present by exploring human emotions

interprets the power struggle

talks about social problems

None of the above

70 In "The Five and the Rain", Karnad uses the typical Indian myth of

Fratricide

Homicide

Suicide

None of the above

71 Which was Christopher Marlowe's first play?

"Dr. Faustus"



"The Tragedy of Dido"

Jew of Malta"

72 Elizabethan Tragedy is centered on

Revenge

Love

Hatred

Greed

73 The first modern Hindi play "Aashadh Ka Ek Din" Was written by

Premchand

Mohan Rakesh

Tendulkar

Dharamveer Bharati

74 The play "Silence! The Court Is In Session" is a translated play of the original play by

Satish Alekar

Vijay Tendulkar

G.P. Deshpande

Shafaat Khan

75 Badal Sircar emphasized the need to bridge the gap between urban proscenium theatre and folk theatre and hence talked about

The Third Theatre

Street Theatre

First Theatre

Art Theatre

76 the famous playwright who put forward his dramatic theory of alienation and epic theatre.

Harold Pinter

T.S. Eliot

Bertolt Brecht

None of the above

77 'Dance Like a Man' is a play written by the Indian dramatist

Mahesh Dattani

Girish Karnad

Kamala Das

Badal Sircar

78 In the began indicating the rise of true Indian Theatre.

New Wave of Theatre

IPTA movement

Experimental Theatre

None of the above

79 The 'American Dream' and the degradation of moral values has been a theme dealt with by

Saul Bellow

Ezra Pound

Edward Albee

Arthur Miller

80 The neo-classical view of literature was dominated by

Aristotle and Horace

Aristotle and Homer

Aristotle and Plato

Samuel Johnson

81 The category of play written mainly in verse is called

Verse drama

Poetic drama

Dance drama

None of the above

82 Willy Loman was a character in " a play which won the Pulitzer Prize.

Death of a Salesman

All My Sons

Seize the Day

None of the above

83 Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux?

Maria Edgeworth

Sir Walter Scott

Thomas De Quincey

Jane Austen

84 Which of the following charges were commonly levelled at the novel by its detractors, at the dawn of the Romantic era?

Too many of its readers were women

It required less skills than other genres

Many of its authors were women

All of the above

85 Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels

Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley

William Wordsworth and S.T. Coleridge

Sir W. Scott and Maria Edgeworth

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte

86 The earliest tract on feminism is I

Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex"

Virginia Woolfs "A Room of One's Own"

Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Women"

Mary Astell's "A Serious Proposal to the Ladies"

87 The novel form is said to have got established with novels by

Henry Fielding

Richardson

Daniel Defoe

None of the above

88 Henry " is one of the great comic masterpieces and a major force in the development of the novel form.

Pamela

Clarissa

Tom Jones

Gulliver's Travels

89 Fielding described his own fictional form as "comic romance" or "comic epic poem in prose" in his preface to

"Tom Jones"

"Joseph Andrews"

"Pamela"

None of the above

90 " is the novel by Jane Austen which is her first. published novel.

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Eyre

Sense and Sensibility

None of the above

91 After how many barren days does Santiago catch a fish?

100

7

74

84

92 On the night before he promises, Manolin, to go far out to sea, what does Santiago dream?

A great storm

A beautiful woman

Lions on the beach

A wrestling match

93 Austen's works of romantic fiction were usually set among the

Industrial Revolution

Pastoral landscape

Slums of England

Landedgentry

94 Conrad's novel based on African setting was criticized by the African writer in a post colonial reading.

Wole Soyinka

Chinua Achebe

Helen Habila

None of the above

95 Austen's works critique the the second half of the 18th century.

Novels of imagination

Novels of sensibility

Novels of crime

Novels of social commentary

96 Hardy's works typically belong to movement.

Structuralist

Modern

Elizabethan

Naturalism

97 " is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and his major literary success; it had appeared anonymously as a monthly serial.

Far from the World of Politics

Far from America

Far from the Maddening Crowd

Far from Asia

98 " by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is a novel which tells the multi-generational story of the Buendia family.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Spirituality

One Hundred Years of History

One Hundred Years of Slavery

99 Doris Lessing's novel " is considered a feminist classic by some scholars, though not by the author herself.

The Golden Eye

The Golden Planet

The Golden Notebook

The Golden Parrot

100 The story of the old man is used to show the horror in struggle and draw biblical parallels to life in "The Old Man and The Sea" by the author.

Herman Melville

William Golding

Ernest Hemingway

None of the above

101 The argument about eradicating the caste system appears in " novel by Mulk Raj Anand.

Untouchable

Samskara

The Sword and the Sickle

None of the above

102 The first novel by William Golding about a group of boys stuck on an island is

"Free Fall"

"Lord of the Flies"

"The Spire"

None of the above

103 Shashi Deshpande received the 'Sahitya Academy Award' for the novel

"The Dark Holds No Terrors"

"The Binding Vine"

"That Long Silence"

"If! Die Today"

104 The 'Queen of Crime' title was given a writer of 80 detective novels and theatre plays.

Agatha Christie

Margaret Atwood

Ian Fleming

Hitchcock

105 George Orwell's vision of a totalitarian state was reflected in

"The Road to Wigan Pier"

"Down and Out in Paris and London"

"Burmese Days"

"Nineteen Eighty Four"

106 The extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialization, issues of emotional health are dealt by D.H. Lawrence in the novel

"Sons and Lovers"

"The Virgin and the Gypsy"

"Dubliners"

None of the above

107 The English humorist of 20th century known for the Jeeves and Blandings castle novels and short stories is

Hilaire Belloc

P.G. Wodehouse

Evelyn Waugh

None of the above

108 The landmark work of James Joyce in which Homer's "Odyssey" is paralleled in .contrasting styles is

"Dubliners"

"Ulysses"

"Finnegan's Wake"

None of the above

109 The narrative technique popularized by James Joyce is called

Archetypal technique

Flashback technique

Stream of consciousness

None of the above

110 The novel "The God ofSmall Things" shows the process ofsubjugation and suppression. It is written by

Kamala Das

Jhumpa Lahiri

Arundhati Roy

None of the above

111 the British author who helped R.K. Narayan find a publisher in Britain.

Graham Greene

William Golding

Henry James

None of the above

112 Amitav Ghosh refused to accept the Eurasian Commonwealth Writers Prize for his book 2001.

"Sea of Poppies"

"Shadow Lines"

"The Glass Palace"

None of the above

113 The novel by Salman Rushdie which was perceived as irreverent depiction of Prophet Mohammad was

"Grimus"

"The Midnight's Children"

"The Satanic Verses"

None of the above

114 The title "Lord of the Flies" is derived from 'Beelzebub' that is

a demonic figure considered synonymous with Satan

a wild animal

a villain

None of the above

115 was a woman novelist known for the realism and psychological insigM who used a male pen-name.

George Orwell

George Eliot

Henry Fielding

None of the above

116 "Wuthering Heights" is the only novel written by the Victorian novelist

Charlotte Bronte

Emily Bronte

Jane Austen

None of the above

117 Which of the following is a Gothi c novel

"Frankenstein"

"Castle of Orlando"

"Northanger Abbey"

"Mysteries of Udolpho"

118 Which of the following is not a partition novel?

"Train to Pakistan"

"In Custody"

"Sunlight on a Broken Column"

"The Shadow Lines"

119 The novel about a westernized Indian Civil Servant, "English August An Indian Story" is by

Amitav Ghosh

Mulk Raj Anand

Kamala Markandeya

Upamanyu Chatterjee

120 The term 'Stream of consciousness' was first used by

Henry James

William James

Robert Humphrey

Virginia Woolf

121 Who wrote "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy" novel that abandons clock time for psychological time?

Henry Fielding

Lawrence Sterne

Samuel Richardson

Jonathan Swift

122 Imperialism in Asia traces its roots back to the late

19th century

15th century

20th century

18th century

123 Edward Said argued not exist without the Orient and the vice versa.

Occident

Accident

Imperial

Victorian

124 Macaulay's aim of his minute was

to form a subculture in India

to rule India

to administer India

None of the above

125 Notably, the concept of the was created by the

Imperialist

Orient

English poet

Essayist

126 The West's claim to knowledge of the East gave the 'West'the power to name and the

power to teach

power to propagate

power to control

power to talk

127 E. Said believes that Europe used Orientalism as a homogeneous "other" to form a more cohesive

Asian identity

Chinese identity

Arabic identity

European identity

128 Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak's main contribution to post colonial theory came with her specific definition of the term

Asian

Subaltern

Imagism

Aesthetics

129 G. Spivak created the which refers to the destruction of non-western ways of knowledge and thereby the domination of western ways of understanding.

Epistolary

Imaginary

Epistemic violence

Surrealism

130 " is a book published in 1978 by Edward Said that has been highly influential and controversial in post-colonial studies.

Orientalism

Imperialism

Surrealism

Realism

131 attempts to revalidate undervalued 'female nature' or 'female essence'.

Orientalism

Imperialism

Cultural feminism

Industrial Revolution

132 G. Spivak criticizes those who ignore the

Dedicated others

Christian others

Fanatical others

Cultural others

133 movement has effected change in western society, including women's suffrage; in education; in gender neutrality; in English among others.

Feminist

Imagist

Cubist

Realist

134 Sir Vidiadhar Suraj Prasad, also known as is a Nobel Prize-winning Trinidian-British writer.

V.s. Andrew

V.S. Narayan

V.s. Naipaul

V.S. Joshi

135 Post-colonial, Indian-origin writer has been short-listed for the Booker Prize three times.

Anita Desai

Kiran Desai

Anita Dhar

Anita Nair

136 In 1930, R.K. Narayan wrote his first novel,

"Swami and Worship"

"Swami and People"

"Swami and Friends"

Swami

137 Amitav Ghosh's latest work of fiction is " (2011).

River of Smoke

River of People

River of Religion

River of Thought

138 "A Passage to India" (1924) is anovel set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 20s.

E.M. Edward

E.M. Forster

E.M. Holmes

E.M. Hulme

139 " is a novel published in 1980 by Anita Desai, set in Old Delhi. This book describes the tensions in a post-partition Indian family.

Clear Light

Clear Light of the Year

Clear Light of Night

Clear Light of Day

140 Bapsi Sidhwa is an author of Pakistani origin who writes in English, perhaps best known for her novel

"Ice and Man"

"Ice Candy"

"Ice Candy Bar"

"Ice Candy Man"

141 What study was specificially directed at elucidating the relationship between the institutionalization of English in India and its exercise of colonial power?

Lie of the Land

Colonialism and its forms of knowledge

Masks of conquest

Orientalism

142 'Second language' is a term referred to

The language not used at the home of the learner

Language which is less important

Less liked language

None of the above

143 Intermixing of Hindi and Urdu in North India has given birth to language in India.

Arabic

Sansrkit

Hindustani

None of the above

144 The status of English today remains in India.

The official language

Fashionable language

Secondary language

Favourite language



145 Indian English is characterized by

strong vowels where other accents may have unstressed syllables

weak vowels and weak consonants

wrong vowels

None of the above

146 In some Indian languages, stress is associated with a

high pitch

low pitch

rising pitch

no pitch

147 Creating class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English opinions, in morals and in intellect' was the purpose of education in

The Manifesto by Britishers

Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Macaulay's 'Minute on Indian Education'

None of the above In taste, In

148 The notion of 'culture' was forcefully introduced by works in 1867.

Matthew Arnold and E.B. Taylor

F.R. Leavis and Arnold

Macaulay and Wodehouse

None of the above

149 The book of Gauri Vishwanathan about relations of culture and power is

"The Masks of Power"

"The Masks of Conquest"

"The Masks of Culture"

None of the above

150 Leela Gandhi proposes the post-colonial theory wherein she points out the lack of engaging with theoretical self-sufficiency of the local cultures in

Post Colonialism

After Colonization

The Post Colonial Theory

None of the above