Unit-III Part-III

1.      Who among the following wrote the short story collection Monday or Tuesday?

                        a.  Joseph Conrad

                        b. Virginia Woolf       

                        c. D.H. Lawrence

                        d. James Joyce

2.      In her 1921 essay “Modern Fiction”, who among the following is called as materialist by Virginia Woolf?

                        a.  Thomas Hardy

                        b. Joseph Conrad      

                        c. H.G. Wells

                        d. James Joyce

3.      Which among the statement is true about Virginia Woolf’s “Modern Fiction”?

a.      Woolf states that a writer should write what inspires them and not follow any special method.

b.      In "Modern Fiction", Woolf takes the time to analyse Anton Chekhov's "Gusev" and in general, how Russians write.

c.      Woolf wanted writers to express themselves in such a way that it showed life as it should be seen not as "a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged".

d.      All of them

4.      Joseph Conrad is writer of which nationality :

                        a.  Polish     

                        b. British             

                        c. American  

                        d. German

5.      The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' is a work by :

                        a. H.G. Wells

                        b. James Joyce      

                        c. Arnold Bennett

                        d. Joseph Conrad              

6.      Which of the following is a work by Joseph Conrad?

                        a. Heart of Darkness

                        b. Lord Jim      

                        c. Under Western Eyes

                        d. All of them                       

7.      Match the following writers with their works:

                 i.          Joseph Conrad                                         -              (a) Finnegans Wake

                ii.          D.H. Lawrence                                          -              (b) Ends and Means

               iii.          James Joyce                                            -              (c) The White Peacock

               iv.          Aldous Huxley                                          -              (d) Nostromo

                  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

8.      Match the following characters with the novels of Joseph Conrad :

                 i.          Captain McWhirr                                     -              (a) Almayer’s Folly

                ii.          Captain Beard                                         -              (b) Typhoon

               iii.          Captain Lingard                                      -              (c) The Shadow Line

               iv.          Captain Ellis                                            -              (d) Youth

                  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

9.      Chance is a novel written by :

                        a.  Thomas Hardy

                        b. Joseph Conrad      

                        c. H.G. Wells

                        d. James Joyce

10.   Who among the following published the essay “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’”, which provoked controversy by calling Conrad a "thoroughgoing racist"?

                        a.  Thoma`s Hardy

                        b. Wole Soyinka       

                        c. Chinua Achebe

                        d. James Joyce

11.   The Arrow of Gold is a novel written by :

                        a.  Joseph Conrad

                        b. Virginia Woolf     

                        c. D.H. Lawrence

                        d. James Joyce

12.   He called his voluntary exile as ‘savage pilgrimage’; E.M. Forster called him as the greatest imaginative novelist of his generation; Bertrand Russell characterized him as a proto-German Fascist. Who is he?

                        a.  Thomas Hardy

                        b. Joseph Conrad 

                        c. D.H. Lawrence

                        d. James Joyce

13.   The famous novel ‘Ulysses’ is written by :

                        a. H.G. Wells

                        b. James Joyce 

                        c. Arnold Bennett

                        d. Joseph Conrad

14.   Which of the following is a novel by James Joyce?

                        a. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

                        b. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 

                        c. The Man With Night Sweats

                        d. Orlando

15.   Which of the following is a novel written by D.H. Lawrence?
                        a. Sons and Lovers 
                        b. The Rainbow 
                        c. Women in Love  
                        d. All of them

16.   'The Prussian Officer and Other Stories' is a collection of short stories written by :
                        a.  D.H. Lawrence
                        b. James Joyce  
                        c. Arnold Bennett 
                        d. John Galsworthy

17.   'Odour of Chrysanthemums' is a short story written by : 
                        a.  D.H. Lawrence
                        b. James Joyce  
                        c. Arnold Bennett 
                        d. John Galsworthy                     

18.   D.H. Lawrence described one of his play as “neither a tragedy nor a comedy – just ordinary”. Which was it?

                        a.  The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd                          

                        b. Touch and Go

                        c.  The Daughter-in-Law                                     

                        d. The Fight for Barbara

19.   Which among the following is a Modernist literary magazine?
                        a.  The Dial
                        b. The Egoist              
                        c. Spectator
                        d. The Germ

20.   Lady Chatterley’s Lover is a novel written by :
                        a.  D.H. Lawrence
                        b. James Joyce            
                        c. Arnold Bennett
                        d. John Galsworthy

21.   Birds, Beasts and Flowers is a collection of poetry written by :
                        a.  D.H. Lawrence
                        b. James Joyce        
                        c. Arnold Bennett
                        d. John Galsworthy

22.   Who coined the term ‘Stream of Consciousness’ in his work The Principles of Psychology?
                        a.  D.H. Lawrence
                        b. James Joyce           
                        c. Virginia Woolf
                        d. William James

23.   Match the following :

                 i.          Stream of Consciousness                      -              (a) Character speaks to oneself

                ii.          Dramatic monologue                              -              (b) A break

               iii.          Soliloquy                                                  -              (c) Poetry written in the form of a speech

               iv.          Caesura                                                    -              (d) Written equivalent to character’s thought processes

                 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

24.   Which among the following novels uses the narrative mode ‘stream of consciousness’?

                         i.  James Joyce’s Ulysses
               ii. Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway
              iii. William Faulkner’s  The Sound and the Fury
                   iv. Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy
              v. Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse

                 a.  (ii) and (v) only

                 b. (i) and (v) only

                 c. (i), (ii) and (v) only

                 d. All

25.   Dubliners is a short-story collection written by :
                       a.  D.H. Lawrence
                       b. James Joyce      
                       c. Arnold Bennett
                       d. John Galsworthy

26.   Which among the following is a complete rewrite of James Joyce’s abandoned novel, Stephen Hero?
                       a.  Ulysses 
                       b. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man                                      
                       c.  Finnegans Wake
                       d. Exiles

27.   Which among the following is a dystopian literature?

                            i.   Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travel

                      ii. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies

                          iii.  Aldous Huxley’s Ape and Essence

                      iv. Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People

                                   a.  (ii) and (iii) only

                                   b. (i), (ii) and (iii) only

                                   c. (ii), (iii) and (iv) only       

                                   d. All

28.   Which of the following will best describe the novels George Orwell’s ‘ 1984’ and Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’?
                       a.  Gothic Novel
                       b. Historical Novel 
                       c. Dystopian Novel
                       d. Domestic Novel

29.   ‘Animal Farm’ is an allegorical novella written by :
                       a.  D.H. Lawrence
                       b. George Orwell   
                       c. Arnold Bennett
                       d. Aldous Huxley

30.   ‘Eric Arthur Blair’ is better known as :
                       a.  D.H. Lawrence
                       b. George Orwell
                       c. Arnold Bennett
                       d. Aldous Huxley

31.   Which of the following is a work of Aldous Huxley?
                       a.  Point Counter Point
                       b. The Doors of Perception
                       c. The Perennial Philosophy
                       d. All

32.   After Many a Summer is a novel that tells the story of a Hollywood millionaire who fears his impending death. Who is the author?
                       a.  D.H. Lawrence
                       b. George Orwell      
                       c. Arnold Bennett
                       d. Aldous Huxley

33.   George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia is a personal account of his experience in :
                       a.  American Civil War
                       b. World War I             
                       c. Spanish Civil War
                       d. World War II

34.   Which among the following writer was born in India? 
                       a.  D.H. Lawrence
                       b. George Orwell      
                       c. Arnold Bennett
                       d. Aldous Huxley

35.   Which among the following is a work of George Orwell?
                       a.  Burmese Days
                       b. Shooting an Elephant
                       c. The Road to Wigan Pier
                       d. All

36.   “Politics and the English Language” and “Such, Such Were the Joys” are essays written by : 
                       a.  D.H. Lawrence
                       b. George Orwell      
                       c. Arnold Bennett
                       d. Aldous Huxley

37.   Who is the protagonist in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?
                       a.  Stephen Dedalus
                       b. Paul Morel               
                       c. Leopold Bloom
                       d. Simon Dedalus

38.   The protagonist of D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers is : 
                       a.  Stephen Dedalus
                       b. Paul Morel               
                       c. Leopold Bloom
                       d. Simon Dedalus

39.   Which novel end with the words, “The horror, the horror”?
                       a.  Lord of the Flies
                       b. The Power and Glory
                       c. Sons and Lovers
                       d. Heart of Darkness

40.   D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love is the sequel of :
                       a.  Sons and Lovers
                       b. The Rainbow
                       c. The Plumed Servent
                       d. The Kangaroo

41.   The dystopian novel …………… overturns H.G. Well’s scientific optimism.
                       a.  Chrome Yellow
                       b. Point Counterpoint
                       c. Nineteen Eighty Four
                       d. Brave New World

42.   Which novel begins with the line, “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen”?
                       a.   Nineteen Eighty Four
                       b. A Tale of Two Cities
                       c. Mrs. Dalloway
                       d. Ulysses

43.   ………. is the only play published by James Joyce.
                       a.  Exiles        
                       b. The Dead                  
                       c. The Black Sun
                       d. Chamber Music

44.   The early stories in Joyce’s Dubliners have ……….. as protagonists.
                       a.  Women      
                       b. Irish peasants
                       c. Children 
                       d. Mythical characters

45.   Which novel by Virginia Woolf satirizes the techniques used by historical biographers?
                       a.  Orlando
                       b. The Waves             
                       c. The Voyage Out
                       d. Night and Day

46.   D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers  is dedicated to :
                       a.  Ezra Pound    
                       b. William Faulkner    
                       c. Horace Liveright
                       d. Edward Garnett

47.   Which is Woolf’s last novel that sums up her chief preoccupations in a symbolic narrative that encompasses almost the entire English history?
                       a.  The Years
                       b. Orlando     
                       c. Between the Acts     
                       d. The Waves

48.   Arrange chronologically :

a.      Ulysses – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Finnegan’s Wake – Dubliners

b.      Dubliners – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Ulysses - Finnegan’s Wake

c.      A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Ulysses – Finnegan’s Wake – Dubliners

d.      Finnegan’s Wake – Dubliners - Ulysses – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

49.   James Joyce’s Dubliners is a collection of ………….. stories.
                        a.  10                     
                        b. 15                           
                        c. 20            
                        d. 25

50.   Which day is celebrated as Bloomsday?
                        a.  16 June                     
                        b. 16 July                           
                        c. 14 June            
                        d. 14 July