Unit-VI Part-I

1.      Which of the following is not a work of Aristotle?

                        a.  Historia Animālium

                        b. Rhetoric       

                        c. Poetics   

                        d. Apology of Socrates

2.      In Aristotle’s six elements of tragedy ; plot-structure, characters, style, thought, spectacle, and lyric poetry; which is the chief focus of tragedy?

                        a.  characters

                        b. plot 

                        c. style

                        d. spectacle

3.      ‘Protrepticus’ is a work by :

                           a.  Aristotle

                           b. Plato     

                           c. Socrates

                           d. Euclid

4.      ‘Catharsis’ is a metaphor comparing the effects of the tragedy on the mind of a spectator to the effect of a cathartic on the body, originally used in which of the following work?

                        a.  An apology for poetry 

                        b. Rhetoric 

                        c. Poetics 

                        d. Apology of Socrates

5.      Christopher Marlowe’s ‘Tamburlaine the Great’ is a :

                           a.  Comedy 

                           b. Tragedy

                           c. Historic play

                           d. Satire

6.      Tragedy results in :

                           a.  Catharsis 

                           b. Eumenides

                           c. Hamartia

                           d. Anagnorisis

7.      ‘Excellence in language’, the ‘expression of a great spirit’, and the power to provoke ‘ecstasy’ is related to :

                        a.  sublimity

                        b. creativity 

                        c. catharsis 

                        d. ambiguity

8.      ‘This is the first known instance in which greatness in literature is ascribed to qualities innate in the writer rather than his art.’ – Which work is described here?

                        a.  An apology for poetry

                        b. Poetics

                        c. Rhetoric

                        d. On the Sublime

9.      Which one of the following is Philip Sydney’s famous work?

                        a.  A Short Apologie of the Schoole of Abuse  

                        b. The Defence of Poesy   

                        c. Preface to Shakespear

                        d. The death of the Author

10.   "Among [Shakespeare's] other excellences it ought to be remarked, because it has hitherto been unnoticed, that his heroes are men, that the love and hatred, the hopes and fears, of his chief personages are such as common to other human beings... Shakespeare's excellence is not the fiction of a tale, but the representation of life: and his reputation is therefore safe, till human nature shall be changed.” Who wrote this?

                        a.  Samuel Johnson 

                        b. Longinus

                        c. Stephen Gosson

                        d. Philip Sydney

11.   Which one of the following is not a work of Samuel Johnson?

                        a.  Life of Mr Richard Savage

                        b. London

                        c. Irene

                        d. The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

12.   “SLOW RISES WORTH, BY POVERTY DEPRESSED” is a line in :

                        a.  Alexander Pope’s Messiah

                        b. Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man

                        c. Samuel Johnson’s London

                        d. Samuel Johnson’s The Vanity Of Human Wishes

13.   Which of the following is a periodical started by Samuel Johnson?

                        a.  The Rambler

                        b. The spectator 

                        c. The Gentleman’s Magazine

                        d. The Adventurer

14.   When did Johnson’s ‘A Dictionary of English Language’ first published?

                        a.  1798

                        b. 1831 

                        c. 1755   

                        d. 1730

15.   The series of essays ‘ The Idler’ is associated with :

                        a.  Alexander Pope

                        b. Samuel Johnson

                        c. Joseph Addison

                        d. Dr. Robert James

16.   The only long fiction written by Samuel Johnson is :

                        a.  Rasselas 

                        b. Isabella

                        c. Emily

                        d. Stella

17.   ‘The Lives of the Poets’ is written by :

                           a.  John Dryden

                           b. John Milton

                           c. Alexander Pope 

                           d. Samuel Johnson

18.   “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel” is a famous assertion by :

                        a.  Philip Sydney

                        b. Samuel Johnson

                        c. Alexander Pope

                        d. John Dryden

19.   Match the following :

(i)                Preface to Lyrical Ballads(Wordsworth                    -              (a)1817

(ii)              Biographia Literaria(Coleridge)                                  -              (b)1844

(iii)             On Poetry in General(William Hazlitt)                       -              (c) 1800

(iv)             Lectures on Poetry(John Keble)                                  -              (d)1818

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

       b. (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b

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

       d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-d

20.   ‘Shakespeare's Judgment Equal to His Genius’ is a work by :

                        a.  Philip Sydney

                        b. Coleridge

                        c. Samuel Johnson

                        d. Wordsworth

21.   Match the following :

(i)                A Defense of Poetry                        -              (a)Ralph Waldo Emerson

(ii)              What is Poetry?                               -              (b)Edgar Allan Poe

(iii)             The Poetic Principle                        -              (c)Percy Bysshe Shelley

(iv)             The Poet                                            -              (d)John Stuart Mill

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

       b. (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-b,(iv)-c

       c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c

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

22.   Match the following :

(i)                Sigmund Freud                                 -              (a)The Structural Study of Myth

(ii)              Ferdinand de Saussure                    -              (b)Tradition and the Individual Talent

(iii)             Claude Levi-Strauss                         -              (c)Creative Writers and Daydreaming

(iv)             T.S.Eliot                                              -              (d)Course in General Linguistics

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

       b. (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b

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

       d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-d

23.   Match the following :

(i)                On the Principles of Genial Criticism                          -              (a)Matthew Arnold

(ii)              Letters to Benjamin Bailey                                          -              (b)Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(iii)             Symbols                                                                          -              (c)John Keats

(iv)             The Function of Criticism at the Present Time            -              (d)Thomas Carlyle

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

       b. (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b

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

       d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a

24.   The linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry is called :
                        a.  negative capability
                        b. poetic diction 
                        c. archetypes    
                        d. structuralism

25.   ‘Common language in blank verse was more majestic than difficult words in complex rhymes’ is a statement associated with:
                        a. John Milton
                        b. Aristotle
                        c. Edmund Spenser  
                        d. Joseph Addison

26.   ‘Peri Bathos’ a work which satirized inappropriate poetic diction was written by :
                           a.  Joseph Addison
                           b. Richard Steele
                           c. Alexander Pope
                          d. Ezra Pound

27.   Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘Biographia Literaria’ is :
                           a.  Novel  
                           b. Collection of Poems  
                           c. Autobiography
                           d. Play

28.   Which of the following is true?

a.      Coleridge divided the "mind" into two distinct faculties – Fancy and Imagination.

b.      Coleridge regards fancy to be the inferior to imagination.

c.      According to him the primary imagination is “the living power and prime agent of all human perception”.

d.      According to him the secondary imagination is the poetic vision, the faculty that a poet has “to idealize and unify”.

e.      All of them.

29.   ‘Negative Capability’ is a term first used by :
                           a.  Wordsworth
                           b. Keats
                           c. Coleridge
                           d. Sigmund Freud

30.   ‘A rejection of set philosophies and preconceived systems of nature’ is :
                        a.  Ambiguity  
                        b. Deconstruction
                        c. Catharsis
                        d. Negative Capability

31.   Match the following :

(i)                The Statesman's Manual                                              -              (a)Oscar Wilde

(ii)              The Study of Poetry                                                       -              (b)Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(iii)             Studies in the History of the Renaissance                   -              (c)Mathew Arnold

(iv)             The Decay of Lying                                                       -              (d)Walter Pater

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

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

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

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

32.   Match the following :

(i)                Philip Sydney                                    -              (a)The Advancement of Learning

(ii)              Francis Bacon                                   -              (b)An Apology for Poetry

(iii)             Thomas Hobbes                               -              (c)An Essay of Dramatic Poesy

(iv)             John Dryden                                     -              (d)Answer to Davenant's preface to Gondibert

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

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

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

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

33.   Match the following :

(i)                Ion                                                      -              (a)Longinus

(ii)              Art of Poetry                                     -              (b)Dante

(iii)             On the Sublime                                 -              (c)Horace

(iv)             The Banquet                                     -              (d)Plato

      a.  (i)-b,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-c

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

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

       d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a

34.   Who among the following wrote the book of poetry ‘The Strayed Reveller’?
                           a.  Mathew Arnold  
                           b. Francis Bacon 
                           c. Philip Sydney   
                           d. John Dryden

35.   Which of the following is best suited to Mathew Arnold?
                           a.  Comedy writer  
                           b. Sage Writer   
                           c. Mystic Writer  
                           d. Play Writer

36.   Mathew Arnold’s ‘Thyrsis’ belong to which of the following category?
                           a.  Essay       
                           b. Play  
                           c. Autobiography  
                           d. Elegy

37.   Which of the following is a poem by Mathew Arnold?
                           a.  Sohrab and Rustum
                           b. The Scholar Gipsy
                           c. Balder Dead
                           d. All of them

38.   Which of the following is not a work by Mathew Arnold?
                           a.  Culture and Anarchy
                           b. Essays in Criticism
                           c. On Translating Homer 
                           d. An essay on criticism

39.   Which one of the following is not a work of T.S.Eliot?
                           a. The Functions of Criticism at the present time
                           b. Tradition and Individual Talent
                        c. The Functions of Criticism
                        d. Hamlet and his problems

40.   T.S.Eliot wrote the essay ‘The Functions of Criticism’ as a response to which of the following writer’s work?
                           a.  Mathew Arnold
                           b. John Middleton Murry
                           c. Francis Bacon 
                           d. John Dryden

41.   The literary term ‘Objective Correlative’ is first presented by T.S.Eliot in his essay :
                           a.  The Functions of Criticism 
                           b. Hamlet and his problems
                           c. Culture and Anarchy     
                           d. Tradition and Individual Talent

42.   A symbolic article used to provide explicit access to traditionally inexplicable concepts is referred as :
                        a.  Negative Capability
                        b. Practical Criticism
                        c. Objective Correlative
                        d. Pathetic fallacy

43.   Which one of the following is not a work of F.R.Leavis?
                        a.  Nor Shall my Sword 
                        b. Thought, Words and Creativity: Art and Thought in Lawrence                                  
                        c. Revaluation
                        d. All of them

44.   ‘Valuation is the principal concern of criticism’ – who among the following insisted this idea :
                        a.  Mathew Arnold   
                        b. F.R.Leavis
                        c. D.H. Lawrence   
                        d. T.S.Eliot

45.   ‘Something works well in practice, even although the theory says this is not possible’ is related to :
                        a.  Practical Criticism
                        b. Theoretical criticism
                        c. Constructive criticism
                        d. New Criticism

46.   Match the following :

(i)                Kavyamimamsa                                -              (a) Kuntaka

(ii)              Natya Shastra                                   -              (b) Anandavardhana 

(iii)             Dhvanyāloka                                    -              (c) Rajashekhara

(iv)             Vakroktijīvitam                                 -              (d) Bharata Muni

      a.  (i)-b,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-c

       b. (i)-d,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-b

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

       d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a

47.   Match the following :

(i)                Letter to Can Grande Della Scala                                              -              (a)Edmund Burke

(ii)              An Essay Concerning Human Understanding                          -              (b)Dante

(iii)             On the Pleasures of the Imagination                                         -              (c)John Locke

(iv)             A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful – (d)Joseph Addison

     a.  (i)-b,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-c 

      b. (i)-d,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-b

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

      d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a

48.   Match the following :

(i)                Samuel Johnson                               -              (a) Shakespeare's Judgment Equal to His Genius

(ii)              Mary Wollstonecraft                         -              (b) A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

(iii)             William Blake                                   -              (c) Rasselas

(iv)             Samuel Taylor Coleridge                -              (d) On Homer's Poetry

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

       b. (i)-d,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-b

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

       d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a

49.   Match the following :

(i)                The Statesman's Manual                              -              (a)Mathew Arnold

(ii)              The Marriage of Heaven or Hell                   -              (b)Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(iii)             The German Ideology                                   -              (c)William Blake

(iv)             Preface to the 1853 Edition of Poems         -              (d)Karl Marx

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

       b. (i)-d,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-b

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

       d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a

50.   Match the following :

(i)                Letter to Thomas Butts                                                                             -              (a)Northrop Frye

(ii)              Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences    -               (b)Roland Barthes

(iii)             The Structuralist Activity                                                                         -              (c)Jacques Derrida

(iv)             Anatomy of Criticism                                                                               -              (d)William Blake

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

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

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

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