Unit-III Part-I

1.      Match the following :

                 i.          Victorian Era                                            -              (a)1939-1945

                ii.          Edwardian Era                                         -              (b)1837-1901

               iii.          First World War                                       -              (c)1901-1914

               iv.          Second World War                                  -              (d)1914-1918

                  a.  (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c

                  b. (i)-b, (ii)-c, (iii)-d, (iv)-a

                  c. (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-a, (iv)-b

                  d. (i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-b

2.      ‘The Soldier’ is a poem written by :
                        a.  Wilfred Owen
                        b. Rupert Brooke
                        c. Thomas Hardy
                        d. Siegfried Sassoon

3.      Who among the following is the war poet who wrote the poem "Anthem for Doomed Youth" :
                        a.  Wilfred Owen
                        b. Rupert Brooke
                        c. Thomas Hardy
                        d. Siegfried Sassoon

4.    "Sherston Trilogy" is an autobiography written by :
                        a. Wilfred Owen
                        b. Rupert Brooke
                        c. Thomas Hardy
                        d. Siegfried Sassoon

5.      Which one of the following is a poem by W.H.Auden :
                        a.  The Age of Anxiety
                        b. September 1,1939
                        c. Funeral Blues
                        d. All of them

6.      ‘Nicholas Blake’ is the pseudonym of which of the following poet :
                        a.  W.H.Auden
                        b. Cecil Day Lewis
                        c. Stephen Spender
                        d. Louis MacNeice

7.      Which of the following is true about Cecil Day Lewis :
                        a.  The Buried Day – Autobiography
                        b. The Otterbury Incident – Children’s Novel
                        c.  A Question of Proof – written as Nicholas Blake
                        d. All of them

8.      The semi-autobiographical novel ‘The Temple’ was written by :
                        a.  W.H.Auden
                        b. Cecil Day Lewis
                        c. Stephen Spender
                        d. Louis MacNeice

9.      ‘Prayer Before Birth’ is a poem written by :
                        a.  W.H.Auden
                        b. Cecil Day Lewis
                        c. Stephen Spender
                        d. Louis MacNeice

10.   Match the war poems with the wars it is associated with :

                 i.          Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps                                               -              (a)World War I

                ii.          Rudyard Kipling’s The Last of the Light Brigade            -              (b)World War II

               iii.          Rupert Brooke’s 1914 and Other Poems                          -              (c)Crimean War

               iv.          W.H. Auden’s September 1, 1939                                      -              (d)American Civil War

                  a.  (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c

                  b. (i)-b, (ii)-c, (iii)-d, (iv)-a

                  c. (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-a, (iv)-b

                  d. (i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-b

11.   Who among the following is NOT a war poet?
                        a.  Rupert Brooke
                        b. Wilfred Owen 
                        c. Seamus Heaney
                        d. Siegfried Sassoon

12.   The Old Vicarage, Grantchester is a poem named after the house where the poet lived. Who is the poet?
                        a.  Rupert Brooke
                        b. Wilfred Owen 
                        c. Seamus Heaney
                        d. Siegfried Sassoon 

13.   Which among the following is a war poem written by Wilfred Owen?
                        a.  Futility
                        b. The Parable of the Old Men and the Young
                        c.  Strange Meeting
                        d. All of them

14.   ‘George Sherston’ is a protagonist in the works of :
                        a.  Rupert Brooke
                        b. Wilfred Owen 
                        c. Seamus Heaney
                        d. Siegfried Sassoon

15.   Which among the following novels is NOT included in the ‘Sherston Trilogy’?
                        a.  Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
                        b. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
                        c.  Sherston's Progress
                        d. The Weald of Youth

16.   Who among the following is NOT associated with ‘Auden Group’?
                        a.  Dylan Thomas
                        b. Stephen Spender
                        c. Cecil Day-Lewis
                        d. Louis MacNeice

17.   The Trial of a Judge is an anti-Fascist drama in verse written by :
                        a.  Dylan Thomas
                        b. Stephen Spender
                        c. Cecil Day-Lewis
                        d. Louis MacNeice

18.   Match the poems of W.H. Auden with the themes it address :

                      i.     Funeral Blues                                                          -              (a)Religious theme

                     ii.     The Schield of Achilles                                          -              (b)Love theme

                    iii.     The Age of Anxiety                                                 -              (c)Social theme

                    iv.     For the Time Being                                                 -              (d)Psychological theme

                  a.  (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c

                  b. (i)-b, (ii)-c, (iii)-d, (iv)-a

                  c. (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-a, (iv)-b

                  d. (i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-b

19.   The Dyer’s Hand is a prose collection of :
                        a.  W.H.Auden
                        b. Cecil Day Lewis
                        c. Stephen Spender
                        d. Louis MacNeice

20.   ‘Nigel Strangeways’ is a detective in the novels of :
                        a.  W.H.Auden
                        b. Cecil Day Lewis
                        c. Stephen Spender
                        d. Louis MacNeice

21.   Autumn Sequel is a long autobiographical poem written in terza rima by :
                        a.  W.H.Auden
                        b. Cecil Day Lewis
                        c. Stephen Spender
                        d. Louis MacNeice

22.   Which one of the following poets is NOT related to Symbolist movement?
                        a. Charles Baudelaire 
                        b. Stephane Mallarme 
                        c. Paul Verlaine
                            d. W. H. Auden

23.   ‘The Second Coming’ is a poem by :
                        a. W. B. Yeats 
                        b. Stephane Mallarme 
                        c. Paul Verlaine
                            d. W. H. Auden

24.   ‘At the Hawk's Well’ is a one-act play by :
                        a. W. B. Yeats 
                        b. Stephane Mallarme 
                        c. Paul Verlaine
                            d. W. H. Auden

25.   ‘Under Milk Wood’ is a play by :
                        a.  W.H.Auden
                        b. Dylan Thomas
                        c. Stephen Spender
                        d. Louis MacNeice

26.   Which of the following is a work of Dylan Thomas?
                        a. Do not go gentle into that good night 
                        b. And death shall have no dominion 
                        c. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
                        d. All of them

27.   Means "advance guard" or "vanguard" and is used to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics :
                        a.  Anachronism
                        b. Catharsis
                        c. Avant-garde
                        d. Vernacular

28.   Which among the following statement is true :

a.      Avant-garde art can be said to begin in the 1850s with the realism of Gustave Courbet.

b.      The avant-garde pushes the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm.

c.      The avant-garde promotes radical social reforms.

d.      All of them

29.   Which among the following statement is false :

a.      Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts.

b.      Symbolism originates with the 1857 publication of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal.

c.      Symbolism was a reaction against spirituality, imagination, and dreams.

d.      Symbolism was largely a reaction against naturalism and realism.

30.   Who among the following wrote the preface for the English translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali?
                        a.  W.B. Yeats
                        b. T.S. Eliot
                        c. Ezra Pound
                        d. Emerson

31.   Match the following :

                      i.     W.B. Yeats                                                -              (a) Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

                     ii.     Ezra Pound                                              -              (b) The Map of Love

                    iii.     T.S. Eliot                                                   -              (c) Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

                    iv.     Dylan Thomas                                          -              (d) The Wind Among the Reeds

                  a.  (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c

                  b. (i)-b, (ii)-c, (iii)-d, (iv)-a

                  c. (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-a, (iv)-b

                  d. (i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-b

32.   Which among the following statements is true :

a.      The Surrealist movement started in Europe in the 1920’s, after World War I with its nucleus in Paris.

b.      The French poet, André Breton, is known as the “Pope of Surrealism.”

c.      Surrealists strongly embraced the ideas of Sigmund Freud.

d.      All of them

33.   W.B. Yeats got Nobel Prize in :
                        a.  1901
                        b. 1923
                        c. 1945
                        d. 1957

34.   Match the following :

                      i.     Ralph Waldo Emerson                                          -              (a) Transcendentalist

                     ii.     W.B. Yeats                                                              -              (b)Naturalist

                    iii.     Ralph Ellison                                                         -              (c)Symbolist

                    iv.     Emily Zola                                                               -              (d)Harlem Renaissance

                  a.  (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c

                  b. (i)-a, (ii)-c, (iii)-d, (iv)-b

                  c. (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-a, (iv)-b

                  d. (i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-b

35.   Sailing to Byzantium is a poem written by :
                        a. W. B. Yeats 
                        b. Stephane Mallarme 
                        c. Paul Verlaine
                            d. W. H. Auden                        

36.   T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland was published in :
                        a.  1915
                        b. 1918
                        c. 1922
                        d. 1941

37.   T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland  is a foundational text of :
                        a.  Romanticism
                        b. Transcendentalism
                        c. Modernism
                        d. Symbolism

38.   The unfinished epic ‘The Cantos’ is written by :
                        a.  W.H.Auden
                        b. Dylan Thomas
                        c. Ezra Pound
                        d. Louis MacNeice

39.   "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is a work by :
                         a.  T.S.Eliot
                         b. Dylan Thomas
                         c. Ezra Pound        
                         d. Louis MacNeice

40.   Which one of the following is a poem by T.S.Eliot :
                         a. The Waste Land 
                         b. The Hollow Men 
                         c. Ash Wednesday        
                         d. All of them

41.   'Murder in the Cathedral' and 'The Cocktail Party' are the plays written by :
                         a.  T.S.Eliot
                         b. Dylan Thomas
                         c. Ezra Pound        
                         d. Louis MacNeice

42.   Ripostes  is a work of :
                         a.  T.S.Eliot
                         b. Philip Larkin
                         c. Ezra Pound
                         d. Christopher Fry

43.   ‘A patient etherized upon a table” is an opening line comparing the evening sky written by :
                         a.  T.S.Eliot
                         b. Philip Larkin
                         c. Ezra Pound
                         d. Christopher Fry

44.   ‘April is the cruelest month’ is a line from which of T.S. Eliot’s poem?
                         a.  The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
                         b. The Waste Land
                         c.  The Hollow Men
                         d. Four Quartets

45.   Which poem of T.S. Eliot end with the Sanskrit Mantra ‘Shantih Shantih Shantih’?
                         a.  The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
                         b. The Waste Land
                         c.  The Hollow Men
                         d. Four Quartets

46.   ‘This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper’ – This line is from :
                         a.  The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
                         b. The Waste Land
                         c.  The Hollow Men
                         d. Four Quartets

47.   Which among the following poems is considered as Eliot’s ‘conversion poem’?
                         a.  The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
                         b. Ash-Wednesday
                         c.  The Hollow Men
                         d. Four Quartets

48.   Arrange the poems in the Four Quartets in chronological order:

a.  The Dry Salvages – Burnt Norton – Little Gidding – East Coker

b.  Little Gidding - Burnt Norton - The Dry Salvages – East Coker

c.  The Dry Salvages – Burnt Norton – East Coker - Little Gidding

d.  Burnt Norton – East Coker - The Dry Salvages – Little Gidding

49.   Match the following poems with the classical elements they are associated with :

                      i.     Burnt Norton                                            -              (a)water

                     ii.     East Coker                                                -              (b)earth

                    iii.     The Dry Salvages                                     -              (c)air

                    iv.     Little Gidding                                            -              (d)fire

                  a.  (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c

                  b. (i)-a, (ii)-c, (iii)-d, (iv)-b

                  c. (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-a, (iv)-b

                  d. (i)-c, (ii)-b, (iii)-a, (iv)-d

50.   Portrait of a Lady is a poem written by :
                          a. Henry James
                             b. Ezra Pound
                             c. T.S. Eliot
                             d. Philip Larkin