Unit-II Part-VI

1.      When was the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads published?

            a.  1794 

            b. 1798 

            c. 1784  

            d. 1789

2.      ‘I fall upon the thorns of life; I bleed ‘– Identify the poem :

            a.  Ode to Skylark  

            b. Ode to the West Wind   

            c.  Ode to a Nightingale   

            d. Ode on Autumn

3.      Who wrote ‘Confessions of an English Opium-Eater’?

            a.  S.T. Coleridge 

            b. Thomas De Quincey

            c. Edmund Burke 

            d. John Ruskin

4.      “The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock were then to me --------- An appetite”. Identify the author of these lines :

            a.  S.T. Coleridge

            b. William Wordsworth   

            c. Robert Southey

            d. John Keats

5.      ‘The Deserted Village’ is a poem by :

            a.  Thomas Gray 

            b. William Collins 

            c. Oliver Goldsmith

            d. George Philips

6.      “Grow old along with me; The best is yet to be --- ” Identify the poet of these lines :

            a.  Alfred Tennyson  

            b. Robert Browning 

            c. Matthew Arnold

            d. Edward Fitzgerald

7.      Shakespeare has no heroes; but only heroines – These are the words of -------------

            a.  Pepys   

            b. Ruskin    

            c. Carlyle     

            d. Defoe

8.      ‘Negative capability’ is a term associated with :
            a.  John Ruskin
            b. John Keats    
            c. Lord Byron 
            d. Samuel Pepys

9.      The locale of many of Thomas Hardy’s novel :
            a.  Wessex
            b. Sussex 
            c. Essex  
            d. Manawaka

10.   Charles Dicken’s ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ has the backdrop of the :
            a.  Russian Revolution
            b. French Revolution
            c. American Revolution
            d. None of the above

11.   ‘Sprung rhythm’ is associated with the poet :
            a.  John Dryden   
            b. Lord Tennyson   
            c. G.M.Hopkins   
            d. Robert Browning

12.   ‘The design of the collaborators was to include in it two different kinds of poetry; in the one ‘the incidents and agents were to be in part at least, supernatural’, in the other, ‘subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life’. Who made this comment and on which book?
            a.  Wordsworth on The Lyrical Ballads 
            b. Coleridge on The Lyrical Ballads
            c.  Coleridge on The Ancient Mariner  
            d. Wordsworth on The Prelude

13.   Who was expelled from Oxford for publishing a pamphlet on The Necessity of Atheism?
            a.  Byron 
            b. Shelley    
            c. Keats    
            d. Burns

14.   Which period of the history of prose literature saw the rise of the modern review and magazine?
            a.  The Age of Wordsworth 
            b. The Age of Johnson
            c. The Age of Dryden
            d. The Age of Tennyson

15.   Which romantic prose writer has been called ‘the critic’s critic’?
            a.  Lamb 
            b. De Quincey 
            c. Hazlitt  
            d. Landor

16.   ‘He gives us such real immortals as Mr. Pickwick, Mrs. Gamp, Mr. Micawber and Sam Weller – typical inhabitants of his sphere, and worthy of a place in any literary brotherhood.’ Who is the he/his referred to?
            a.  Henry Fielding 
            b. Thomas Hardy 
            c. Charles Dickens
            d. James Joyce

17.   The poem “If-,”which a memorable evocation of stoicism and the” stiff upper lip” culture of Victorian England, was written by :
            a.  Tennyson      
            b. Browning  
            c. Bridges 
            d. Kipling

18.   Match the following :

                           i.          The Old Familiar Faces                                                                -              (a)William Hazlitt

                          ii.          Of Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts                       -              (b)Charles Lamb

                         iii.          Signs of the Times                                                                        -              (c)Tomas de Quincey

                         iv.          The Spirit of the Age                                                                    -              (d)Thomas Carlyle

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

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

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

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

19.   Who is the author of the influential essay On Liberty which addresses the nature and limits of the power that can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual?
            a.  John Stuart Mill    
            b. John Locke
            c. Thomas Hobbes  
            d. Edmund Burke

20.   Which poem did Arnold exclude from his 1853 volume of poems for being too modern and depressive?
            a.  “Despondency”       
            b. “To Marguerite”   
            c.  “Cadmus and harmonia”  
            d. “Empedocles on Etna”

21.   “On Seeing a Lock of Milton’s Hair” is a poem by :
            a.  P.B. Shelley   
            b. William Blake  
            c. John Keats
            d. Thomas Gray

22.   Who wrote the poem “Lochinvar”?
            a.  Walter Scott 
            b. Lord Byron     
            c. Alfred Noyes  
            d. Tennyson

23.   Thackeray’s Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero takes its title from -----------.
            a.  The Pilgrim’s Progress  
            b. The Practice of Piety
            c. Samson Agonistes
            d. Leviathan       

24.   Which poet was described as “the pilgrim of eternity” by Shelley?
            a.  John Keats    
            b. Leigh Hunt    
            c. Robert Southey
            d. Lord Byron

25.   Who among these was not a ‘Lake Poet’?
            a.  Wordsworth    
            b. Shelley   
            c. Southey   
            d. Coleridge

26.   Fra Lippo Lippi, Caliban Upon Setebos, Porphyria’s Lover are all ----------.
            a. Satires   
            b. Allegories  
            c. Dramatic monologues
            d. Lyrical poems

27.   “Cold pastoral” in a famous Romantic poem is a reference to -----------.
            a.  The Grecian urn  
            b. The autumn season 
            c. The river Wye  
            d. The Lake district

28.   Who is the author of Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Suspiria de Profundis?
            a.  Francis Bacon
            b. Thomas Carlyle  
            c. Matthew Arnold
            d. Thomas De Quincey

29.   Who is Elia?
            a.  Walter Scott
            b. Charles Lamb     
            c. Francis Bacon
            d. William Hazlitt

30.   Which of the following novels is a rebuttal of the optimism presented in Robinson Crusoe?
            a.  Barnaby Rudge    
            b. David Copperfield 
            c. Gulliver’s Travels
            d. Adam Bede

31.   Which one of the following was NOT written by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell?
            a.  Wuthering Heights  
            b. Agnes Grey  
            c. Middlemarch   
            d. Jane Eyre

32.   In which poem do the lines “’Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all” appear?
            a.  In Memoriam 
            b. Thyrsis    
            c. Adonais   
            d. Lycidas

33.   Which famous Romantic poet said, “Without contraries is no progression”?
            a.  John Keats    
            b. P.B. Shelley    
            c. S.T. Coleridge
            d. William Blake

34.   Hopkins’s experiments in prosody led to the introduction of -----------.
            a.  Free verse   
            b. Sprung rhythm 
            c. Running rhythm  
            d. Rhyme royal

35.   “Wandering between two worlds, one dead/ The other powerless to be born. . .” Whose are these famous lines?
            a.  Tennyson   
            b. Browning    
            c. Arnold 
            d. Hardy

36.   Whose novels are set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex?
            a.  Thomas Hardy    
            b. George Meredith
            c. Charles Dickens   
            d. George Eliot

37.   Mahatma Gandhi was greatly influenced by Unto This Last. Who is the author of this work?
            a.  Walter Pater
            b. Thomas Carlyle 
            c. John Ruskin
            d. Joseph Addison

38.   Which novel opens with the sentence “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”?
            a.  A Tale of Two Cities  
            b. A Christmas Carol
            c. Bleak House   
            d. Oliver Twist

39.   Mansfield Park, Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility are novels by ----------.
            a.  George Eliot    
            b. Jane Austen  
            c. Elizabeth Gaskell
            d. Charlotte Bronte

40.   “I have felt

A presence that disturbs me with the joy

Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime

Of something for more deeply interfused.” – These lines are an example of Wordsworth’s belief in :

      a.  Hedonism      

      b. Pantheism   

      c. Atheism    

      d. Calvinism

41.   Shelley was influenced by the rationalist utopianism of :
            a.  Godwin        
            b. Hazlitt     
            c. Hunt    
            d. Wordsworth

42.   Which of the following is NOT written by Lord Byron?
            a.  Don Juan      
            b. Prometheus Unbound
            c.  The Vision of Judgement 
            d. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

43.   Who is NOT a prose writer of the mid-nineteenth century?
            a.  Thomas De Quincey
            b. William Hazlitt
            c. Leigh Hunt   
            d. G.K. Chesterton

44.   Identify the character who does NOT figure in Jane Austen’s Emma :
            a.  Mrs. Weston    
            b. Mrs. Cole     
            c. Miss Bates  
            d. Elizabeth Jane

45.   Which of the following characters does NOT appear in the works of Charles Dickens?
            a.  David Copperfield  
            b. Gradgrind  
            c. Miss Haversham 
            d. Mrs. Pendennis

46.   In “Heroes and Hero-worship” Carlyle eulogized which writer?
            a.  Shakespeare    
            b. Tennyson    
            c. Browning    
            d. Eliot

47.   Which is the last novel written by Hardy?
            a.  The Woodlanders      
            b. Tess of the D’urbervilles
            c.  Jude the Obscure
            d. The Return of the Native

48.   Which one of the following novels is NOT by Charlotte Bronte?
            a.  Jane Eyre      
            b. The Professor 
            c. Shirley   
            d. Wuthering Heights

49.   Which of the following poems is an example of a modern ballad?
            a.  “The Lady of Shallott”     
            b. “Dover Beach”
            c.  “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed” 
            d. “The Windhover”

50.   Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” is written in :
            a.  Terza Rima    
            b. Ottava Rima   
            c. Quatrain 
            d. None of these

51.   “Children love to listen to stories about their elders, when they were children; to stretch their imagination to the conception of a traditionary great-uncle or granddame, whom they never saw.” These lines are from which essay of Charles Lamb?
            a.  Imperfect Sympathies 
            b. Dream Children : A Reverie
            c.  Dissertation Upon Roast Pig            
            d. Distant Correspondents

52.   The solution to the problems of the family of Nicholas Nickleby comes from :
            a.  Messrs Gregsbury and Pugstyles
            b. Cheeryble brothers
            c.  Mr. and Mrs. Squeers 
            d. Mr. and Mrs. Crummles

53.   “This grew, I gave commands; // Then all smiles stopped together”. – The ‘I’ in these lines is :
            a.  Fra Pandolf 
            b. Envoy of the Count  
            c. Duke of Ferrara
            d. Claus of Innsbruck

54.   Which of the two works of Charles Dickens were published serially?

i.       Pickwick Papers                ii. Oliver Twist                   iii. Hard Times                   iv. A Tale of Two Cities
      a.  (i) and (ii)    
      b. (ii) and (iii) 
      c. (i) and (iv)   
      d. (iii) and (iv)     

55.   Who is NOT a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?
            a.  Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
            b. Holman Hunt 
            c. William Michael Rossetti
            d. George Gissing

56.   Who amongst the following was NOT a part of the Oxford Movement?
            a.  John Henry Newman     
            b. Edward Pusey 
            c. John Fletcher
            d. John Keble

57.   “He prayeth best, who loveth best // All things both great and small.” – The above lines by Coleridge occur in :
            a.  Christabel         
            b. Kubla Khan
            c.  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner  
            d. Dejection : An Ode

58.   Byron uses the following metrical pattern in the Vision of Judgement :
            a.  Terza Rima   
            b. Heroic Couplet  
            c. Ottava Rima    
            d. Spenserian Stanza

59.   Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe is set in :
            a.  The 18^th century  
            b. The Renaissance
            c. The medieval period   
            d. The 17^th century

60.   “Let knowledge grow from more to more

But more in us of Reverence dwell” – The above lines are written by :

      a.  Matthew Arnold     

      b. Browning  

      c. Emily Bronte

      d. Tennyson

61.   Which of the following novels is NOT an Industrial Novel?
            a.  North and South   
            b. Hard Times 
            c. Oliver Twist
            d. Felix Holt the Radical

62.   Who is the author of Studies in the history of the Renaissance?
            a.  John Ruskin  
            b. Thomas Carlyle  
            c. A.C. Swinburne
            d. Walter Pater

63.   George Eliot’s Middlemarch is characterized by the portrayal of :
            a.  Urban life    
            b. Life in the colonies 
            c. Tribal life 
            d. Provincial life

64.   Which of the following is NOT written by Wordsworth?
            a.  The Prelude  
            b. The Excursion 
            c. A Vision of Judgement 
            d. The Borderers

65.   ‘Adonais’ is an elegy written on the death of :
            a.  John Keats  
            b. Lord Byron   
            c. Edward King 
            d. Arthur Hallam

66.   Which of the following is a parody of a Gothic novel?
            a.  Persuasion    
            b. Mansfield Park 
            c. Northanger Abbey
            d. Sense and Sensibility

67.   Who is the author of The Bride of Lammermoor?
            a.  Walter Scott 
            b. Jane Austen   
            c. Mary Russel Mittford 
            d. Fredrick Marryat

68.   Essays of Elia was published in :
            a.  1823  
            b. 1837         
            c. 1846   
            d. 1857

69.   Name the poem which is NOT a dramatic monologue :
            a.  The Last Rider Together     
            b. Love Among the Ruins
            c.  Thyrsis 
            d. The Grammarian’s Funeral

70.   Which of the following novels has multiple narrators?
            a.  Jane Eyre     
            b. Wuthering Heights
            c. Vanity Fair
            d. Barchester Towers

71.   In which of the following works does the character Old Father Time appear?
            a.  Jude the Obscure     
            b. The Mayor of Casterbridge
            c.  Tess of the d’Urbervilles
            d. The Return of the Native

72.   An Ideal Husband is :
            a. A Genteel Comedy  
            b. A Comedy of Humours
            c.  A Comedy of Ideas
            d. A Comedy of Manners

73.   Which of the arrangements given below is chronologically correct?

i.       Sense and Sensibility        ii. Pride and Prejudice                     iii. Mansfield park               iv. Emma
      a.  2-1-4-3
      b. 2-1-3-4 
      c. 1-2-3-4   
      d. 1-2-4-3

74.   The poem of John Keats were attached in the Quarterly because of his association with :
            a.  Leigh Hunt     
            b. William Hazlitt  
            c. P.B. Shelley   
            d. Fanny Browne

75.   The poem Tintern Abbey describes the visit of Wordsworth to :
            a. Tintern    
            b. Abbey 
            c. River Wye    
            d. River Thames

76.   Ode to the West Wind by Shelley is written in :
            a.  Terza rima   
            b. Rhyme Royale    
            c. Heroic Couplet   
            d. Blank Verse

77.   “…… if poetry comes not as naturally as leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all.” These lines were written by :
            a.  William Wordsworth
      b. John Keats 
            c. S.T. Coleridge
            d. Lord Byron

78.   Mrs. Sparsit conjures up the stairway metaphor in Dickens :
            a.  Pickwick Papers    
            b. Bleak House  
            c. Hard Times       
            d. David Copperfield

79.   Which of the following is NOT a collection of poems of Browning?
            a.  Dramatic Lyric    
            b. Dramatis Personae
            c. Dramatic Romances    
            d. Pippa Passes

80.   Arnold wrote Thyrsis to commemorate the death of :
            a.  Arthur Hugh Clough  
            b. Edward King  
            c. John Keats  
            d. Andrew Young

81.   Arrange the following in chronological order :

a.      Far from the Madding Crowd – The Return of the Native – Tess of the D’Urbervilles – The Mayor of Casterbridge

b.      Far from the Madding Crowd – The Return of the Native – The Mayor of Casterbridge – Tess of the D’Urbervilles

c.      Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Far from the Madding Crowd – The Return of the Native –The Mayor of Casterbridge

d.      The Mayor of Casterbridge – Tess of the D’Urbervilles - The Return of the Native - Far from the Madding Crowd

82.   Browning says, “God is in Heaven and all is right with the world.” Which other Victorian writer propagates the opposite view :
            a.  Charles Dickens
            b. Thomas Hardy   
            c. Matthew Arnold   
            d. Alfred Tennyson

83.   Thomas Hardy borrowed the title of his novel Far From the Madding Crowd from :
            a.  ‘Elegy written in a Country Chruchyard’
            b. ‘Ode to Evening’
            c.  ‘The Seasons’      
            d. ‘The Progress of Poesie’

84.   Who followed Wordsworth as the poet laureate?
            a. Robert Bridges  
            b. Alfred Austin 
            c. Tennyson  
            d. W.H. Auden

85.   Jane Austen’s novels were written during the :
            a.  Anglo-Dutch naval encounters   
            b. Hundred years war
            c.  Wars of the Roses        
            d. Napoleonic wars

86.   Which of the following is NOT written by Charles Lamb?
            a.  Dream Children  
            b. Old and New Schoolmasters                         
            c.  Selected Snowberries    
            d. Valentine’s Day

87.   The poem by Keats in which an allusion to Ruth occurs is :
            a.  ‘Ode to Autumn’     
            b. ‘Ode to a Nightingale’
            c.  ‘Ode to Psyche’                                   
            d. ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’

88.   The major trait of Arnold’s temperament as evident in his poetry is :
            a.  Optimism      
            b. Courage   
            c. Melancholy   
            d. Gaiety

89.   Who wrote the Picture of Dorian Gray?
            a.  Thomas Hardy   
            b. Thackery   
            c. Oscar Wilde 
            d. Jane Austen

90.   Who wrote Jane Eyre?
            a.  Mrs. Gaskell 
            b. Emily Bronte  
            c. Anne Bronte    
            d. Charlotte Bronte

91.   What is the fictional name of Mary Ann Evans?
            a.  Charlotte Bronte   
            b. George Eliot  
            c. Emily Bronte 
            d. Jane Austen

92.   To which literary school did William Morris belong?
            a.  Georgian        
            b. Imagist   
            c. Pre-Raphaelite 
            d. Oxford Movement

93.   Which of Tennyson’s works was a great influence on Queen Victoria?
            a.  Ulysses     
            b. Tithonus     
            c. Morte d’Arthur
            d. In Memoriam

94.   Ulysses is the hero of :
            a.  Dante’s Inferno 
            b. Virgil’s Georgics
            c. Horace’s Carmen Seculare 
            d. None of these

95.   Which of the following is written by George Eliot?
            a.  The Egoist         
            b. Impressions of Theophrastus Such
            c.  The Roundabout Papers   
            d. Alton Locke

96.   Who said about Wordsworth, “His poetry is the reality, his philosophy ………… is the illusion?
            a.  Coleridge     
            b. Ruskin   
            c. Carlyle   
            d. Arnold

97.   The popular short story The Canterville Ghost  is written by :
            a.  Somerset Maugham 
            b. Saki
            c. Oscar Wilde 
            d. O. Henry

98.   Madeline is a character in :
            a.  Tennyson’s The Princess  
            b. Browning’s The Bishop Orders His Tomb
            c.  Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh  
            d. Keats’s The Eve of St. Agnes

99.   About whom does Macaulay say, “A man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection”?
            a.  Samuel Johnson 
            b. Byron         
            c. Byronic hero
            d. Shelley

100.          Who of the following is the author of the book The Lives of the Novelists?

            a.  Walter Scott    

            b. G.K. Chesterton

            c. J.B. Priestley

            d. E.M. Forster

101.          What is the alternate title of S.T. Coleridge’s Kubla Khan?
            a.  A Vision in a Dream : A Fragment  
            b. An Ode
            c.  My Literary Life and Opinions        
            d. A Conversation Poem

102.          Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria is a :
            a.  Long Poem     
            b. Autobiography  
            c. Play     
            d. Short Story

103.          Who wrote the poem 'The Bride of Abydos'?
            a.  Lamb         
            b. Mary Shelley  
            c. Sterne
            d. Byron

104.          Which one of the following is Shelley’s poem?
            a. Ode to the West Wind 
            b. To a Skylark  
            c. Music, When Soft Voices Die  
            d. All      

105.          Shelley’s poem Queen Mab was reworked and a revised edition was published under the name :
            a.  The Daemon of the World   
            b. A Philosophical Poem
            c.  When Soft Voices Die           
            d. A Lyrical Drama

106.          The pastoral elegy Adonais written by Shelley was for :
            a.  Judith Wright
            b. Byron 
            c. Keats   
            d. Lamb

107.          The alternate title of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is :
            a.  Prometheus Unbound    
            b. The Modern Prometheus
            c.  A Romantic Hero     
            d. The Life and Adventures of Castruccio

108.          Which among the following is a work of Thomas De Quincey?
            a.  Lake Reminiscences
            b. The English Mail-Coach           
            c.  Autobiographical Sketches
            d. All of them

109.          Tennyson’s poem In Memoriam A.H.H was written as a tribute to :
            a. Annie Henry Holly   
            b. Arthur Henry Hallam                     
            c.  Ann H. Holly   
            d. Agatha Henry Houston

110.          The Roots of the Mountains is a fantasy romance written by :
            a.  Alfred Tennyson    
            b. D.G. Rossetti   
            c. William Morris 
            d. Robert Browning

111.          Which of the following is a philosophical novel of Walter Pater?
            a.  Marius the Epicurean    
            b. Pride and Prejudice 
            c. Clarissa   
            d. Pamela

112.          "The dismal science" is a derogatory alternative name for economics coined by :
            a.  George Eliot    
            b. George Meredith
            c. R.L. Stevenson
            d. Thomas Carlyle

113.          Match the following works with their authors :

                                     i.          The Poetry of Architecture                                    -              (a) Charles Dickens

                                    ii.          Books and Characters                                           ­-              (b) John Ruskin

                                   iii.          The Playground of Europe                                    -              (c) Lytton Strachey

                                   iv.          A Christmas Carol                                                  -              (d) Leslie Stephen

                        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

114.          'Sydney Carton' and 'Charles Darnay' are characters of which Dickens’s Novel?
            a. A Tale of Two Cities      
            b. Oliver Twist   
            c. Great Expectations  
            d. A Christmas Carol 

115.          All the Year Round was a Victorian periodical founded by :
            a.  Lytton Strachey 
            b. Charles Dickens    
            c. Leslie Stephen 
            d. Walter Pater

116.          The Dynasts is a verse drama written by :
            a.  Thomas Hardy     
            b. Rudyard Kipling
            c. W.H. Auden  
            d. Stephen Spender

117.          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

118.          ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ is a play by :
            a.  Oscar Wilde  
            b. Charles Dickens   
            c. Bernard Shaw 
            d. R.L. Stevenson

119.          "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

120.          ‘Sprung Rhythm’ is discovered by :
            a.  Gerard Hopkins
            b. Rudyard Kipling
            c. W.H. Auden  
            d. Stephen Spender