1.
M.A. Titmarsh is a pseudonym used by who among
the following?
a. William Makepeace Thackeray
b. Anthony Trollope
c.
Rudyard Kipling
d. George
Meredith
2.
Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre was
dedicated to :
b. Anthony Trollope
c. Rudyard Kipling
d. George Meredith
3.
Which among the following is a Bildungsroman of
Thackeray?
a. The Newcomes
b.
The Adventures of Philip
c.
Pendennis
d. Mrs. Perkin’s Ball
4.
Match the following books with their authors:
i.
The Book of Snobs - (a) George Meredith
ii.
The Egoist - (b) R.L. Stevenson
iii.
An Inland Voyage - (c) Oscar Wilde
iv.
Salome - (d) William Makepeace Thackeray
a. (i)–b, (ii)–c, (iii)–d, (iv)–a
b. (i)–d, (ii)–a,
(iii)–b, (iv)–c
c. (i)–a,
(ii)–d, (iii)–b, (iv)-c
d. (i)–c, (ii)–a, (iii)–d, (iv)–b
5.
History
of Henry Esmond is a work
of :
a. William Makepeace Thackeray
b. Anthony Trollope
c. Rudyard Kipling
d. George Meredith
6.
Which among the following is a work of
Thackeray?
a. The Rose and the Ring
b.
The Adventures of Philip
c. A Shabby Genteel Story
d.
All of them
7.
‘Essay on Comedy’ is a work of :
a. George Eliot
b. George Meredith
c.
R.L. Stevenson
d. Leslie
Stephen
8.
‘Modern Love’ is a work of :
a. George Eliot
b. George Meredith
c. R.L. Stevenson
d. Leslie Stephen
9.
‘Kidnapped’ is a historical novel by :
a. George Eliot
b. George Meredith
c. R.L. Stevenson
d. Leslie Stephen
10.
Which among the following is a work of George
Meredith?
a. Evan Harrington
b. The House on the Beach
c.
Beauchamp’s Career
d. All of them
11.
Which among the following is a work of R.L.
Stevenson?
a. Treasure Island
b.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
c. A Child’s Garden of Verses
d.
All of them
12.
Underwoods is a collection of poems by :
b. George Meredith
c. R.L. Stevenson
d. Leslie Stephen
13.
A Footnote to History is a non-fiction
work written by :
a. George Eliot
b. George Meredith
c. R.L. Stevenson
d. Leslie Stephen
14.
‘Mrs. Dymond’ is a novel by :
a. George Eliot
b. Anne Isabella Thackeray
c. Leslie Stephen
d. George Meredith
15.
Which among the following statement is true?
a.
Comedy of menace is the body of plays written by
David Campton, Nigel Dennis, N.F. Simpson and Harold Pinter.
b.
The term was coined by drama critic Irving Wardle,
who borrowed it from the subtitle of Campton's play The Lunatic View: A Comedy of Menace.
c.
Harold Pinter’s The Room is an earliest
example of ‘Comedy of menace’.
d.
All of them
16.
Which among the following play of Harold Pinter
is a ‘Comedy of menace’?
a. The Birthday Part
b. The Dumb Waiter
c. The Caretaker
d. All of them
17.
Which among the following is true about ‘Comedy
of manners’?
a.
The comedy
of manners is a form of comedy that satirizes
the manners and affectations of contemporary society and questions societal
standards.
b.
Social
class stereotypes are often represented through stock characters such as the miles gloriosus or the fop and rake of English Restoration comedy.
c.
A
comedy of manners often sacrifices the plot, which usually centers on some
scandal, to witty dialogue and sharp social commentary.
d.
All
of them.
18.
Which among the following is an example of
‘Comedy of manners’?
a.
Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest
b.
Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer
c.
William Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing
d.
All of them
19.
‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ is a novel
written by :
a. Oscar Wilde
b. Charles Dickens
c. Bernard Shaw
d. R.L. Stevenson
20.
‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ is a play by :
a. Oscar Wilde
b. Charles Dickens
c. Bernard Shaw
d. R.L. Stevenson
21.
'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' is a long
poem about prison life written by :
a. Oscar Wilde
b. Charles Dickens
c. Bernard Shaw
d. R.L. Stevenson
22.
Who among the following was the editor of the
Victorian magazine The Woman’s World?
a. George Eliot
b. George Meredith
c.
Oscar Wilde
d. Leslie Stephen
23.
Which among the following is a work of Oscar
Wilde?
a. The Happy Prince and Other Tales
b. A House of Pomegranates
c. The Portrait of Mr. W. H
d. All of them
a. The Happy Prince and Other Tales
b. A House of Pomegranates
c. The Portrait of Mr. W. H
d. All of them
24.
‘The
Decay of Lying’, ‘Pen,
Pencil and Poison’ and ‘The Critic as Artist’ are essays of :
a. George Eliot
b. George Meredith
c. Oscar Wilde
d. Leslie Stephen
25.
"Until Society is reformed, no man can
reform himself except in the most insignificant small ways."- Who said
this?
a. George Eliot
b. Bernard Shaw
c. Oscar Wilde
d. Leslie Stephen
26.
‘Discussion Plays’ are associated with the plays
of :
a. George Eliot
b. George Meredith
c. Bernard Shaw
d. Leslie Stephen
27.
‘The Habit of Perfection’ is an ascetic
poem written by :
a. Gerard Hopkins
b. Rudyard Kipling
c. W.H. Auden
d. Stephen Spender
28.
In the poem ‘Windhover’, the bird can be
viewed as a metaphor of :
a. Horse
b. Christ
c. Crown Prince
d. Ice skater
29.
‘Sprung Rhythm’ is discovered by :
a. Gerard Hopkins
b. Rudyard Kipling
c. W.H. Auden
d. Stephen Spender
30.
Which one of the following is true?
a.
Inscape – Individual Identity
b.
Instress - the apprehension of an object in an
intense thrust of energy toward it that enables one to realize specific
distinctiveness
c.
Sprung Rhythm - a poetic meter approximating
speech
d.
All of them
31.
Macaulay’s Minute was written in :
a. 1885
b. 1805
c. 1835
d. 1855
a. 1885
b. 1805
c. 1835
d. 1855
32.
According to Matthew Arnold which one of the
following will leads to culture?
a. Machinery
b. Hellenising
c. Clap-trap
d. Hebraising
a. Machinery
b. Hellenising
c. Clap-trap
d. Hebraising
33.
Which one of the following is a work of Rudyard
Kipling?
a. Kim
b. Just So Stories
c. Mandalay
d. All of them
a. Kim
b. Just So Stories
c. Mandalay
d. All of them
34.
Epithalamion is a poem of :
a. Gerard Hopkins
b. Rudyard Kipling
c. W.H. Auden
d. Stephen Spender
35.
Which among the following is a work of Gerard
Hopkins?
a. God’s Grandeur
b. The Sonnets of Desolation
c. As Kingfishers Catch Fire
d. All of them
a. God’s Grandeur
b. The Sonnets of Desolation
c. As Kingfishers Catch Fire
d. All of them
36.
“Terrible sonnets” is associated with who among
the following?
b. Rudyard Kipling
c. W.H. Auden
d. Stephen Spender
37.
In the poem Windhover who strikes Hopkins
as the darling of the morning and the crown prince of the kingdom of daylight?
a. The Horse
b. The Cat
c. The Bird
d. An Ice skater
a. The Horse
b. The Cat
c. The Bird
d. An Ice skater
38.
Whom did Macaulay address his minute to?
a. Lord William Bentinck
b. Lord Ripon
c. Lord Napier
d. Lord Minto
a. Lord William Bentinck
b. Lord Ripon
c. Lord Napier
d. Lord Minto
39.
Which among the following is a recommendation of
Macaulay in his Minute?
a.
Immediate
stopping of the printing by the East India Company of Arabic and Sanskrit books.
b.
Mass
education would be by the class of Anglicised Indians the new policy should
produce.
c.
Needs
to support establishments teaching a Western curriculum with English as the
language of instruction.
d.
All
of them
40.
“Culture
is the best which has been thought and said.” –Who said this?
b. Rudyard Kipling
c. Matthew Arnold
d. Stephen Spender
41.
According to Arnold, the term Philistine means :
a. Someone who is ruling
b. The common man
c. Someone who is ignorant of culture and arts
d. Someone who is anti-social
a. Someone who is ruling
b. The common man
c. Someone who is ignorant of culture and arts
d. Someone who is anti-social
42.
Who among the following defined culture as
‘sweetness and light’?
b. Rudyard Kipling
c. Matthew Arnold
d. Stephen Spender
43.
Which among the following statement is true in
the context of Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy?
a.
The word culture originated in the world of farming, as a term for tending
crops or animals, which is where we get the word agriculture. Arnold object to
this narrow definition of culture.
b.
He
described Britain as suffering from the conflicting interests of three
different classes of people – the land-owning aristocracy called ‘Barbarians’,
the commercial and industrial middle class called ‘Philistines’ and the poorly
paid laborers and unemployed called ‘Populace’.
c.
According
to him, the governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness and
that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.
d.
All
of them
44.
The character ‘Mowgli’ appears in which of the
following Rudyard Kipling’s work?
a. The Jungle Book
b. The Man Who Would be King
c. Captains Courageous
d. Just So Stories
a. The Jungle Book
b. The Man Who Would be King
c. Captains Courageous
d. Just So Stories
45.
Who called Kipling as “a jingo imperialist who was morally insensitive
and aesthetically disgusting”?
b. George Orwell
c. Matthew Arnold
d. Stephen Spender
46.
Kipling got Nobel Prize in the year :
a. 1900
b. 1907
c. 1925
d. 1937
a. 1900
b. 1907
c. 1925
d. 1937
47.
Which among the following is a poem of Rudyard
Kipling?
a. Ganga Din
b. The Gods of the Copybook Headings
c. The White Man’s Burden
d. All of them
a. Ganga Din
b. The Gods of the Copybook Headings
c. The White Man’s Burden
d. All of them
48.
Who wrote the poem If--?
b. George Orwell
c. Rudyard Kipling
d. Stephen Spender
49.
“Kipling,
the supposed expert writer on India, showed a better understanding of the mind
of the animals in the jungle than of the men in an Indian home or the
marketplace.” Who said these words?
a. R.K. Narayan
b. George Orwell
c. Salman Rushdie
d. Stephen Spender
a. R.K. Narayan
b. George Orwell
c. Salman Rushdie
d. Stephen Spender
50.
Naulakha
is the name of a house
associated with who among the following?
b. George Orwell
c. Salman Rushdie
d. Stephen Spender
b. George Orwell
c. Salman Rushdie
d. Stephen Spender
1. A
ReplyDelete2. A
3. C
4. B
5. A
6. D
7. B
8. B
9. C
10. D
11. D
12. C
13. C
14. B
15. D
16. D
17. D
18. D
19. A
20. A
21. A
22. C
23. D
24. C
25. B
26. C
27. A
28. B
29. A
30. D
31. C
32. B
33. D
34. A
35. D
36. A
37. C
38. A
39. D
40. C
41. C
42. C
43. D
44. A
45. B
46. B
47. D
48. C
49. A
50. D