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1. In formalistic school of criticism art is :
Entertainment
Preaching
Matter
Style
2. The loneliness of the long-Distance Runner is a novel by :
Alan Sillitoe
Paul Scott
Peter Porter
Muriel Spark
3. Rugby Chapel is a poem by Matthew Arnold in the memory of his:
Mother
Brother
Father
Sister
4. The earliest woman novelist of significance in the 18th century is :
Mary Edgeworth
Aphra Behn
Mary Russell
Mrs Gaskell
5. On seeing whom does Miranda exclaim O father surely that Is a spirit. Lord! How it looks about ?
Caliban
Ferdinand
Alonso
Stephano
6. Secular influences on the early English drama were:
Political squabbles religious sermons and social customs
Rural politicking hypocracy of the elite and falsity of aristocracy
Village festivals folk plays and minstrels
Middle-class life moral beliefs and uprising of the subaltans
7. Tennysons poem about womens rights and womens sphere is :
Maud
In Memoriam
Idylls of the King
The Princess
8. Hymn To Adversity is a poem by :
Thomas Gray
Edward Gibbon
Alexander Pope
William Blake
9. The King James Biere was published in :
1609
1610
1611
1612
10. Panopticism is the title of a chapter in a well- known book by ?
Roman Jakobson
Jacques Lacan
Michel Foucault
Jacques Derrida
11. . The lines She was a worthy woman ai hir lyve:/ Housbondes at cherche dore she hadde five are an example of
blank verse
clerihew
heroic couplet
free verse
12. Who among the following women writers famously imagined the plight of Shakespeares sister ?
George Eliot
Virginia Woolf
Irish Murdoch
Frances Burney
13. Read the following statement and the reason given for it. Choose the right response.
Dickenss novels are called Newgate Novels. Reason (R) : They are called so because Dickens adulates in these novels the careers and adventures of criminals.
Both (Ai and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation. ? (2) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation.
(A) is true but (R) is false.
(A) is false but (R) is true.
14. Who among the following writers does not belong to the group the University Wits ?
John Lyly
Thomas Nashe
George Peele
Thomas Kyd
15. Who amongst the following is not a Jewish American novelist ?
J.D. Salinger
Henry Greene
William Faulkner
Philip Roth
16. A. C. Bradleys Shakespearean Tragedy was published in:
1903
1904
1905
1906
17. Topsy appears in:
Uncle Toms Cabin
History of the United States
Walden
Tom Sawyer
18. Heroic quatrain is:
a stanza in blank verse
eight line stanza in iambic hexameter
four line stanza in iambic pentameter
six line stanza in iambic pentameter
19. Bildungsroman translated literally means:
Development novel
Psychological novel
Autobiographical novel
Campus novel
20. A book that faithfully renders a young mans confused images of love and rejection is:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man
Lucky Jim
Daisy Miller
The brave New World
21. Victorian Age witnessed a clash between:
faith and reason
tradition and modernity
oriental and occidental civilization
romanticism and neo romanticism
22. For gold in Physique is Cordial/Therefore he loved gold in special relates to Chaucers
Friar
Monk
Doctor
Pardoner
23. The historical novel began in;
Restoration Period
Augustan Age
Victorian Period
Romantic Period
24. The term �Campus novel is associated with
Graham Green
Kingsley Amis
Margaret Drabble
William Golding
25. Which of the following author-book pair is correctly matched?
Hard Times - George Eliot
Heroes and Hero Worship - Walter Patar
Sohrab and Rustom - Matthew Arnold
Ethics of the Dust - Macaulay
26. The new humanism school of philosophy and literary criticism was popular in America during:
1920-1940
1910-1930
1930-1940
1900-1910
27. The macabre element in drama was introduced by:
Johft Lyly
Marlow
Ben Jotison
John Webster
28. The line I am no Prince Hamlet nor was mean to be....... appears in T. S. Eliots
Gerontion
The Love Song of J. Alfred Pmfrock
Four Quartets
The Waste-Land
29. Fancy deals with :
Fixities and definities
Imagination and Reason
Judgement and Memory
Structure and Superstructure
30. Swifts Modest proposal is written in the form of a:
Project in political economy
Political allegory
Social Satire
Old-Testament history
31. The main idea of Popes The Dunciad was taken from:
Absalom and Achitophel
Mac-Flecknoe
The Medal
An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
32. The most obvious feature of Johnsons The Lives of The Poets is the equipoise between :
Language and form
Style and content
Biography and criticism
Myth and archetype
33. The Kelson of creation is love. The line occurs in Walt Whitmans:
Paumonak
Passage to India
O Captain My Captain
Song of Myself
34. With whom was Dr. Johnson intimately associated in his personal life?
Boswell
Drydeti
Alexander Pope
Lord Balingbroke
35. The early religious drama is associated with:
Superstitions and beliefs
Mysteries and histories
Interludes and mysteries
Miracles and morality
36. The author of The Provoked Husband was:
Etherege
Colley Cibber
Wycherley
Vanbrugh
37. Who among the boys in Goldings Lord of the Flies is associated with Christ?
Piggy
Ralph
Jack
Simon
38. The complete title of Sternes novel Tristram Shandy is :
The Strange and Surprising Adventures of Tristram Shandy Gentleman
A True Account of The Life of Tristram Shandy Gentleman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman
The Strange and Surprising Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman
39. A curtal sonnet consists of
11 lines
12 lines
13 lines
14 lines
40. The Unfortunate Traveller has been authored by
Robert Greene
Thomas Deloney
Thomas Nashe
Thomas Lodge
41. Who among the following is not a practitioner of Jacobean tragedy?
George Villiers
John Marston
John Webster
Thomas Middleton
42. Where Angles Fear to Tread is a novel by :
Virginia Woolf
E. M. Forster
D. H. Lawrence
James Joyce
43. The plays of Edward Albee deal with :
problems of middle-class
hypocracy of aristocracy
mechanizations of politics
simplicity of lower-class
44. Heptameter consists of
five metrical feet
six metrical feet
seven metrical feet
eight metrical feet
45. The author of Nation and Narration is ?
Edward Said
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Frantz Fanon
Homi Bhabha
46. Which of the following novels has a great impact on the formal experimentation in contemporary fiction ?
Thomas Nashes The Unfortunate Traveller
Henry Fieldings tom Jones
Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy
Samuel Richardsons Pamela
47. The phrase �Only Connect is associated with
D. H. Lawrence
James Joyce
E. M. Forster
Virginia Woolf
48. Which of the following books is by Margaret Atwood ?
The Stone Angel
No Fixed Address
The Edible Woman
Halfbreed
49. The figure of the Warrior Virgin in Spensers Faerie Queene is represented by the character
Britomart
Gloriana
Cynthia
Duessa
50. The book Speech Acts is written by
John Austin
John Searle
Jacques Derrida
Ferdinand de Saussure
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