1.
"Fools
rush in where angels fear to tread." – Who said this words?
a. Alexander
Pope
b. Dryden
c. Samuel Johnson
d.
William Cowper
2.
What is the complete title of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson
Crusoe?
a.
The Life of Robinson Crusoe
b.
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of
Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner
c.
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of
York, Mariner
d.
The Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson
Crusoe of York
3.
Which among the following is a Mock-heroic?
a. Dryden’s Mac Flecknoe
b.
Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
c. Samuel Johnson’s London
d.
All of them
4.
Match the following works with the author :
i.
The Dunciad - (a) Samuel Johnson
ii.
Irene - (b) Jonathan Swift
iii.
The Battle of the Books - (c) Edmund Burke
iv.
A Vindication of Natural Society - (d) Alexander Pope
a. (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c
b. (i)-d, (ii)-a, (iii)-b, (iv)-c
c. (i)-c, (ii)-d, (iii)-b, (iv)-a
d.
(i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-b, (iv)-a
5.
Which among the following is a work of
Alexander Pope?
a. Windsor Forest
b. Elegy
to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
c. Ode on Solitude
d. All of
them
6.
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets is a work
of :
a. Alexander
Pope
b. Dryden
c. Samuel Johnson
d.
William Cowper
7.
Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English
Language was first published in :
a. 1701
b.
1725
c.
1755
d. 1783
8.
Which among the following statement is true?
a.
The Rambler was a periodical published by Samuel
Johnson on Tuesdays and
Saturdays from 1750 to 1752 and totals 208 articles.
b.
The Idler was a series of 103 essays, all but twelve of them by Samuel Johnson, published in the
London weekly the Universal Chronicle between 1758 and 1760.
c.
Samuel Johnson’s writings in The Rambler are
considered to be neoclassical.
d.
All of them
9.
The Vanity of Human Wishes is a poem written by :
a. Alexander
Pope
b. Dryden
c. Samuel Johnson
d.
William Cowper
10.
Which among the following is a work of Samuel
Johnson?
a. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
b. A Journey to the Western Islands
of Scotland
c. Life of Mr Richard Savage
d. All of
them
11.
‘Gulliver's Travels’ is written by :
a. Jonathan Swift
b. Daniel Defoe
c. John Locke
d. Samuel Richardson
12.
Who wrote under the pseudonym 'Lemuel Gulliver', 'Isaac Bickerstaff' or 'M. B. Drapier'?
a. Jonathan Swift
b.
Daniel Defoe
c. John Locke
d. Samuel Richardson
13.
Which among the following is a work of
Jonathan Swift?
a. A Tale of a Tub
b. An
Argument Against Abolishing
Christianity
c. A Modest Proposal
d. All of
them
14.
Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is written
based on the story of the sailor :
a. J.S.Mill
b. Alexander
Selkirk
c. Richard Sterne
d.
Joseph Addison
15.
Which of the following is Samuel Johnson’s
poem based on the translation of Satura III?
a. Greece
b. Rome
c.
London
d.
Athens
16.
Who is considered as the Father of Liberalism?
b. Daniel Defoe
c. John Locke
d. Samuel Richardson
17. John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding deals
with :
a. Tabula rasa
b.
Molyneux’s problem
c.
Liberty
d. Politics
18.
'A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful' is a
work by :
b. Daniel Defoe
c. John Locke
d. Edmund Burke
19.
‘Pamela, Or, Virtue Rewarded’ is a
novel by :
b. Daniel Defoe
c. John Locke
d. Edmund Burke
20.
Which of the following is an epistolary novel?
a. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
b.
Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa
c. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
d.
All of them
21.
'The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle' is a
picaresque novel by :
b. Daniel Defoe
c. Tobias Smollet
d. Edmund Burke
22.
'The History and Adventures of an Atom' is a
work by :
b. Daniel Defoe
c. Tobias Smollet
d. Edmund Burke
23.
Which of the following is a Picaresque Novel?
a. Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders
b. Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
c. Tobias Smollet’s The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
d. All of them
24.
The novel ‘Tom Jones’ was written by :
b. Daniel Defoe
c. Tobias Smollet
d. Henry Fielding
25.
The novel ‘Shamela’ is a parody of
Samuel Richardson’s novel Pamela. Who wrote it?
a. Jonathan Swift
b. Daniel Defoe
c. Henry Fielding
d.
Edmund Burke
26.
'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman' is a novel by:
b. Laurence Sterne
c. Tobias Smollet
d. Henry Fielding
27.
'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is a
poem by :
a. Thomas Gray
b. Collins
c.
Cowper
d.
Burns
28.
'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'is written
following the death of :
a. Richard Bentley
b. Richard West
c. John Giles
d. Horace Walpole
29.
In the poem 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' whose
epitaph was written at the end :
a. Thomas Gray
b. Richard West
c. The Reader
d. The Villager
30.
‘Odes on Several Descriptive and
Allegorical Subject’ is a work by :
a. Thomas Gray
b. William Collins
c. Cowper
d. Burns
31.
'The Negro's Complaint' is a
poem written by :
b. William Collins
c. William Cowper
d. Burns
32.
The English phrase: "God moves in a
mysterious way/His wonders to perform"
is from a Cowper’s poem :
a. Yardley-Oak
b.
The Negro’s Complaint
c. Light Shining Out of Darkness
d. The Castaway
33.
‘Olney Hymns’ is a work by :
b. William Collins
c. William Cowper
d. Burns
34.
Which one is a work of William Cowper?
a. On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture
b.
John Gilpin
c. The
Task
d. All of them
35.
Who among the following is called ‘The
Ploughman Poet’?
b. William Collins
c. William Cowper
d. Robert Burns
36.
'Scots Wha Hae' is
a poem by :
b. William Collins
c. William Cowper
d. Robert Burns
37.
‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’ is a
work by :
b. William Collins
c. William Cowper
d. Robert Burns
38.
'Songs of Innocence and of Experience' is a
work by :
b. William Collins
c. William Cowper
d. Robert Burns
39.
Match the following works with the authors :
i.
Drapier’s Letters - (a) John Locke
ii.
Letters on a Regicide Peace - (b) Jonathan Swift
iii.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education - (c) Daniel Defoe
iv.
The True-Born Englishman - (d) Edmund Burke
a. (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c
b.
(i)-d, (ii)-a, (iii)-b, (iv)-c
c. (i)-c, (ii)-d, (iii)-b, (iv)-a
d.
(i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-b, (iv)-a
40.
The publication Annual Register was
founded by :
b. Daniel Defoe
c. John Locke
d. Edmund Burke
41.
Who among the following wrote a political
pamphlet Reflections on the Revolution in France which led to a pamphlet
war?
b. Daniel Defoe
c. Tobias Smollet
d. Edmund Burke
42.
A Review of the Affairs of France is a
periodical of :
b. Daniel Defoe
c. Tobias Smollet
d. Edmund Burke
43.
Arrange the novels of Daniel Defoe
chronologically :
a.
Robinson Crusoe – Memoirs
of a Cavalier – Moll Flanders – Roxana : The Fortunate Mistress
b.
Moll Flanders – Roxana : The Fortunate
Mistress - Robinson Crusoe – Memoirs of a Cavalier
c.
Memoirs of a Cavalier – Moll Flanders - Robinson
Crusoe – Roxana : The Fortunate Mistress
d.
Robinson Crusoe – Roxana
: The Fortunate Mistress - Memoirs of a Cavalier – Moll Flanders
44.
The novel A Journal of the Plague Year
which is an account of the Great Plague of London in 1665 was written by :
b. Daniel Defoe
c. Tobias Smollet
d. Edmund Burke
45.
Which among the following novel was
undersigned as ‘H. F.’?
a. Robinson Crusoe
b. Moll Flanders
c.
A Journal of the Plague Year
d.
Captain Singleton
46.
What is the alternate title of Samule
Richardson’s novel Clarissa?
a. Virtue Rewarded
b. The History of a Young Lady
c. History of a Lady
d. The True Briton
47.
Match the following works with the authors :
i.
The History of Sir Charles Grandison - (a) Laurence Sterne
ii.
The Adventures of Roderick Random - (b) Henry Fielding
iii.
The Tragedy of Tragedies - (c) Tobias Smollett
iv.
A Political Romance - (d) Samuel
Richardson
a. (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c
b.
(i)-d, (ii)-a, (iii)-b, (iv)-c
c. (i)-c, (ii)-d, (iii)-b, (iv)-a
d.
(i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-b, (iv)-a
48.
Match the following :
i.
Epistolary Novel - (a)
Novels written by, for and about women
ii.
Picaresque Novel - (b)
Focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist
iii.
Bildungsroman - (c) Written as a series of
documents
iv.
Domestic Novel - (d) Depicts the adventures of a
roguish hero of low social class
a. (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c
b.
(i)-d, (ii)-a, (iii)-b, (iv)-c
c. (i)-c, (ii)-d, (iii)-b, (iv)-a
d.
(i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-b, (iv)-a
49.
Which among the following is a work of Henry
Fielding?
a. The Female Husband
b. Joseph Andrews
c. Amelia
d.
All of them
50.
Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey
Through France and Italy is a :
a. Play
b.
Travelogue
c.
Novel
d. Essay
1. A
ReplyDelete2. B
3. D
4. B
5. D
6. C
7. C
8. D
9. C
10. D
11. A
12. A
13. D
14. B
15. C
16. C
17. A
18. D
19. A
20. D
21. C
22. C
23. D
24. D
25. C
26. B
27. A
28. B
29. A
30. B
31. C
32. C
33. C
34. D
35. D
36. D
37. A
38. A
39. A
40. D
41. D
42. B
43. A
44. B
45. C
46. B
47. D
48. C
49. D
50. C