1.
Who is NOT a character in Golding’s Lord of
the Flies?
a. Nick
b. Piggy
c. Ralph
d. Simon
a. Nick
b. Piggy
c. Ralph
d. Simon
2.
Who wrote the controversial work Why I am not
a Christian?
a. Russell
b. Huxley
c. Strachey
d. Golding
a. Russell
b. Huxley
c. Strachey
d. Golding
3.
Sean O’Casey uses --------- techniques in Juno
and the Paycock :
a. Impressionist
b. Imagist
c. Modernist
d. Expressionist
a. Impressionist
b. Imagist
c. Modernist
d. Expressionist
4.
Which of the following was NOT written by James
Joyce?
a. The Yellow Book
b. Dubliner
c. Ulysses
d. Finnegan’s Wake
a. The Yellow Book
b. Dubliner
c. Ulysses
d. Finnegan’s Wake
5.
The pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair is ----------
a. George Eliot
b. George Orwell
c. John Osborne
d. Oscar Wilde
a. George Eliot
b. George Orwell
c. John Osborne
d. Oscar Wilde
6.
Who wrote the poem Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher?
a. Sarojini Naidu
b. Kamala Das
c. Nissim Ezekiel
d. Keki N. Daruwallah
a. Sarojini Naidu
b. Kamala Das
c. Nissim Ezekiel
d. Keki N. Daruwallah
7.
---------- is not one of Seamus Heaney’s
collections of poems.
a. Cliffs of Fall
b. Death of a Naturalist
c. Wintering Out
d. Field Work
a. Cliffs of Fall
b. Death of a Naturalist
c. Wintering Out
d. Field Work
8.
The poem Hawk Roosting was written by
------------
a. Philip Larkin
b. Sylvia Plath
c. Seamus Heaney
d. Ted Hughes
a. Philip Larkin
b. Sylvia Plath
c. Seamus Heaney
d. Ted Hughes
9.
In which play does Edward Bond make Shakespeare
as the central character?
a. The Woman
b. Bingo
c. Lear
d. Restoration
a. The Woman
b. Bingo
c. Lear
d. Restoration
10.
---------- is not a section in Eliot’s Four
Quartets.
a. Ash Wednesday
b. East Coker
c. Little Gidding
d. Burnt Norton
a. Ash Wednesday
b. East Coker
c. Little Gidding
d. Burnt Norton
11.
--------- wrote the biography of Philip Larkin.
a. Stephen Spender
b. Andrew Motion
c. Ezra Pound
d. T.S. Eliot
a. Stephen Spender
b. Andrew Motion
c. Ezra Pound
d. T.S. Eliot
12.
----------- does not belong to the Movement
Poets.
a. Andrew Motion
b. D.J. Enright
c. Elizabeth Jennings
d. John Wain
a. Andrew Motion
b. D.J. Enright
c. Elizabeth Jennings
d. John Wain
13.
Who was the subject of Yeats’ early love poetry?
a. Maud Gonne
b. Lady Gregory
c. Countess Kathleen
d. Anne Haniman
a. Maud Gonne
b. Lady Gregory
c. Countess Kathleen
d. Anne Haniman
14.
Yeats, Synge and Lady Gregory were members of
the Irish National Theatre team who opened the --------- in 1904.
a. Drury Lane Theatre
b. The Globe
c. Irish Theatre
d. Abbey Theatre
a. Drury Lane Theatre
b. The Globe
c. Irish Theatre
d. Abbey Theatre
15.
One of the following is NOT a practitioner of
Confessional Poetry :
a. Robert Lowell
b. Philip Larkin
c. Anne Sexton
d. Sylvia Plath
a. Robert Lowell
b. Philip Larkin
c. Anne Sexton
d. Sylvia Plath
16.
Who are the Brangwen sisters in D.H. Lawrence’s Women
in Love?
a. Ursula and Diana
b. Gudrun and Ursula
c. Gudrun and Diana
d. Diana and Marian
a. Ursula and Diana
b. Gudrun and Ursula
c. Gudrun and Diana
d. Diana and Marian
17.
One among the following is NOT a character in Animal
Farm :
a. Napoleon
b. Snowball
c. Boxer
d. Victor
a. Napoleon
b. Snowball
c. Boxer
d. Victor
18.
In which book does James Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus
reappear as one of the principal characters?
a. Finnegans Wake
b. Ulysses
c. Dubliners
d. Exiles
a. Finnegans Wake
b. Ulysses
c. Dubliners
d. Exiles
19.
Whose words are these in the play Riders to
the Sea?
“No man at all can be living forever, and we must be satisfied”
a. Nora
b.
Cathleen
c. Bartley
d. Maurya
20.
Which is the play which was NOT written by
Beckett?
a. Waiting for Godot
b. Juno and Paycock
c. Endgame
d. Happy Days
a. Waiting for Godot
b. Juno and Paycock
c. Endgame
d. Happy Days
21.
Des Imagistes, an Anthology of Imagist
poetry was edited by ------------
a. Ezra Pound
b. Richard Aldington
c. T.S Eliot
d. James Joyce
a. Ezra Pound
b. Richard Aldington
c. T.S Eliot
d. James Joyce
22.
Identify the title of W.H Auden’s poem with
these lines :
“In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountain start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.”
Let the healing fountain start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.”
a. Lullaby
b.
The Unknown Citizen
c.
In Memory of W.B.Yeats
d. The
Shield of Achilles
23.
The Wasteland is dedicated to ----------
a. Leonard Woolf
b. Irving Babbitt
c. Ezra Pound
d. Virginia Woolf
a. Leonard Woolf
b. Irving Babbitt
c. Ezra Pound
d. Virginia Woolf
24.
The lines given below are from Philip Larkin’s
poem titled ----------
“Power of some sort or other will go on
In games, in riddles, seemingly at random”
In games, in riddles, seemingly at random”
a. The Whitsun Weddings
b. Church Going
c.
Next Please
d. Faith Healing
25.
Andrew Motion is the official biographer
of ----------
a. Ted Hughes
b. Yeats
c. Larkin
d. Eliot
a. Ted Hughes
b. Yeats
c. Larkin
d. Eliot
26.
In the opening of To the Lighthouse who
was asked to go to the lighthouse?
a. Mrs. Ramsey
b. James Ramsey
c. Charles Tansley
d. Lily Briscoe
a. Mrs. Ramsey
b. James Ramsey
c. Charles Tansley
d. Lily Briscoe
27.
Arnold Wesker’s Kitchen was published in
the year -------.
a. 1945
b. 1950
c. 1955
d. 1960
a. 1945
b. 1950
c. 1955
d. 1960
28.
“Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song…”
From which author did Eliot borrow this line for The Wasteland?
a. Alexander Pope
b. Edmund Spenser
c. Lord Byron
d. Cole Porter
a. Alexander Pope
b. Edmund Spenser
c. Lord Byron
d. Cole Porter
29.
Name the protagonist in Osborne’s Look Back
in Anger :
a. Mrs Constant
b. Archie Rice
c. Jimmy Porter
d. Luther
a. Mrs Constant
b. Archie Rice
c. Jimmy Porter
d. Luther
30.
Which of Woolf’s novels is composed of
alternating interludes and episodes?
a. Night and Day
b. To the Lighthouse
c. The Waves
d. The Years
a. Night and Day
b. To the Lighthouse
c. The Waves
d. The Years
31.
Who said the following words: “All the world's a
stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed”?
a. Sean O’ Casey
b. Shakespeare
c. Wesker
d. Shaw
a. Sean O’ Casey
b. Shakespeare
c. Wesker
d. Shaw
32.
What best describes the plot of Orwell’s book The
Animal Farm?
a. Revolution in England that goes sour with
corruption
b. Revolution in foreign states that goes sour with
corruption
c. An account of farming in Norfolk
d. Revolution of animals on a farm that goes sour
with corruption
33.
Who remarked about silence thus: “There are two
silences. One when no word is spoken. The other when perhaps a torrent of
language is being employed”?
a. Wesker
b. Beckett
c. Pinter
d. Bond
a. Wesker
b. Beckett
c. Pinter
d. Bond
34.
“They’re all gone now, and there isn't anything
more the sea can do to me....” The above lines are taken from -------.
a. The Playboy of the Western World
b. Riders to the Sea
c. The Importance of Being Earnest
d. Old Man and the Sea
a. The Playboy of the Western World
b. Riders to the Sea
c. The Importance of Being Earnest
d. Old Man and the Sea
35.
What was the title of the collection of Joyce’s
short stories published in 1914?
a. Dubliners
b. Londoners
c. New Yorkers
d. Parisians
a. Dubliners
b. Londoners
c. New Yorkers
d. Parisians
36.
In The Wasteland, the story described in
“What the Thunder Said” about a scenario between the Creator and his three
offspring: Gods, humans, and demons is originally taken from -------
a. Bhagavat Gita
b. Vedas
c. Upanishads
d. Mahabharata
a. Bhagavat Gita
b. Vedas
c. Upanishads
d. Mahabharata
37.
-------- is a pastoral poem by Matthew Arnold.
a. Dover Beach
b. Sohrab and Rustum
c. Merope
d. Scholar Gipsy
a. Dover Beach
b. Sohrab and Rustum
c. Merope
d. Scholar Gipsy
38.
In Sons and Lovers, Mr. Morel appears in
‘black’ and ‘red’ colours. What do these colours symbolize?
a. His fastidious nature
b. His sophisticated taste
c. His sensual vitality
d. His love of bright colours
a. His fastidious nature
b. His sophisticated taste
c. His sensual vitality
d. His love of bright colours
39.
Which one of his novels did Lawrence call
‘Thought Adventure’?
a. The White Peacock
b. Women in Love
c. Kangaroo
d. Rainbow
a. The White Peacock
b. Women in Love
c. Kangaroo
d. Rainbow
40.
“They know and do not know what it is to act or
suffer. They know and do not know, that acting is suffering and suffering is
action.”- the above lines are taken from T. S. Eliot’s ------.
a. Family Reunion
b. Cocktail Party
c. Murder in the Cathedral
d. The Wasteland
a. Family Reunion
b. Cocktail Party
c. Murder in the Cathedral
d. The Wasteland
41.
The title of the work Arms and the Man by G. B.
Shaw was inspired by :
a. Virgil’s Aeneid
b. Dante’s Divine Comedy
c. Homer’s Iliad
d. Homer’s Odyssey
a. Virgil’s Aeneid
b. Dante’s Divine Comedy
c. Homer’s Iliad
d. Homer’s Odyssey
42.
Who said these words: “If you can't annoy
somebody, there's little point in writing”?
a. Virginia Woolf
b. Kingsley Amis
c. Donald Bain
d. John Dryden
a. Virginia Woolf
b. Kingsley Amis
c. Donald Bain
d. John Dryden
43.
Who said these words?
“The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.”
a. William Golding
b. Graham Greene
c. E. M. Forster
d. Bertrand Russell
“The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.”
a. William Golding
b. Graham Greene
c. E. M. Forster
d. Bertrand Russell
44.
In the following excerpt taken from Ibsen’s
Doll’s House, who does he refer to?
“If I thought differently, I had to hide it from him, or he wouldn't have liked it. He called me his little doll, and he used to play with me just as I played with my dolls”.
a. Nora’s father
b. Nora’s husband
c. Mr. Krogstad
d. Dr. Rank
“If I thought differently, I had to hide it from him, or he wouldn't have liked it. He called me his little doll, and he used to play with me just as I played with my dolls”.
a. Nora’s father
b. Nora’s husband
c. Mr. Krogstad
d. Dr. Rank
45.
Iris Murdoch’s Booker Prize winning work -------
was published in the year 1978.
a. The Message to the Planet
b. The Green Knight
c. Jackson's Dilemma
d. The Sea, the Sea
a. The Message to the Planet
b. The Green Knight
c. Jackson's Dilemma
d. The Sea, the Sea
46.
Who among the following literary figures does NOT belong to the Bloomsbury group?
a. E.M. Forster
b. Lytton Strachey
c. George Orwell
d. Virginia Woolf
a. E.M. Forster
b. Lytton Strachey
c. George Orwell
d. Virginia Woolf
47.
Name the poet connected to Imagism who was also
secretary to William Butler Yeats :
a. T.S. Eliot
b. Wallace Stevens
c. Ezra Pound
d. Hart Crane
a. T.S. Eliot
b. Wallace Stevens
c. Ezra Pound
d. Hart Crane
48.
Name the writer who wrote the essay, ‘Shooting
an Elephant’ :
a. George Orwell
b. E. M. Forster
c. H.G. Wells
d. Oliver Cromwell
a. George Orwell
b. E. M. Forster
c. H.G. Wells
d. Oliver Cromwell
49.
Identify the author whose debut novel, Saturday
Night and Sunday Morning was made into a film :
a. William Golding
b. Kingsley Amis
c. Alan Sillitoe
d. John Wain
a. William Golding
b. Kingsley Amis
c. Alan Sillitoe
d. John Wain
50.
Name the playwright who won both a Nobel and an
Oscar :
a. Edward Bond
b. W.B. Yeats
c. Ibsen
d. G.B. Shaw
a. Edward Bond
b. W.B. Yeats
c. Ibsen
d. G.B. Shaw
51.
The staging of which Irish play in 1907 created
resentment regarding the representation of the peasantry :
a. The Playboy of the Western World
b. The Shadow of a Gunman
c. Cathleen ni Houlihan
d. Spreading the News
a. The Playboy of the Western World
b. The Shadow of a Gunman
c. Cathleen ni Houlihan
d. Spreading the News
52.
Which of these is NOT a characteristic of the
Kitchen Sink Drama?
a. Portrayal of Working Class
b. Angry Confrontations
c. Social reality
d. Absurd Situations
a. Portrayal of Working Class
b. Angry Confrontations
c. Social reality
d. Absurd Situations
53.
Harold Pinter in his Nobel Prize speech
vehemently opposed the power of the ----
a. United Kingdom
b. United States of America
c. West Asia
d. European Confederation
a. United Kingdom
b. United States of America
c. West Asia
d. European Confederation
54.
Doris Lessing’s ------- discusses the racial
politics of Rhodesia.
a. The Grass is Singing
b. Golden Notebook
c. The Good Terrorist
d. The Fifth Child
a. The Grass is Singing
b. Golden Notebook
c. The Good Terrorist
d. The Fifth Child
55.
Who is the narrator and the protagonist in the Buddha
of Suburbia?
a. Charlie
b. Eva
c. Karim
d. Haroon
a. Charlie
b. Eva
c. Karim
d. Haroon
56.
Match the characters and the novels of D.H.
Lawrence :
i.
Sons and lovers - (a) Tom Brangan
ii.
The Rainbow - (b) Aaron Sissoon
iii.
Women in Love - (c) Paul Morel
iv.
Aaron’s Rod - (d) Ursula
a. (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-a, (iv)-b
b. (i)-c, (ii)-a,
(iii)-b, (iv)-d
c. (i)-a,
(ii)-b, (iii)-d, (iv)-c
d. (i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-b
57.
Which of these characters is NOT a part of
Eliot’s Wasteland?
a. Sibyl
b. Tiresias
c. Madame Sosotris
d. Prometheus
a. Sibyl
b. Tiresias
c. Madame Sosotris
d. Prometheus
58.
Identify which of these is NOT a verse drama
by T. S. Eliot :
a. Cocktail Party
b. Portrait of a Lady
c. Murder in the Cathedral
d. The Family Reunion
a. Cocktail Party
b. Portrait of a Lady
c. Murder in the Cathedral
d. The Family Reunion
59.
Which of these is a play by Philip Larkin?
a. Jill
b. Ambulances
c. Whitsun Weddings
d. An Arundel Tomb
a. Jill
b. Ambulances
c. Whitsun Weddings
d. An Arundel Tomb
60.
Zuleika Dobson, the 1911 novel by Max
Beerbohm is a/an :
a. Epic novel
b. Satirical Novel
c. Bildungsroman
d. Tragic novel
a. Epic novel
b. Satirical Novel
c. Bildungsroman
d. Tragic novel
61.
Who were the editors of the anthologies The
Rattle Bag and The School Bag?
a. Philip Larkin and D.J. Enright
b. Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney
c. Thom Gunn and Andrew Motion
d. Sylvia Plath and Simon Armitage
a. Philip Larkin and D.J. Enright
b. Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney
c. Thom Gunn and Andrew Motion
d. Sylvia Plath and Simon Armitage
62.
Identify the novel of Virginia Woolf that has
the first section, titled, The Window :
a. Mrs. Dalloway
b. Orlando
c. To The Lighthouse
d. The Waves
a. Mrs. Dalloway
b. Orlando
c. To The Lighthouse
d. The Waves
63.
Match the poems and the poets :
i.
The Soldier - (a) Siegfried Sassoon
ii.
Dulce et Decorum - (b) Edward Thomas
iii.
Lights Out - (c) Wilfred Owen
iv.
How to Die - (d) Rupert Brooke
a. (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-b, (iv)-a
b. (i)-c, (ii)-a,
(iii)-b, (iv)-d
c. (i)-a,
(ii)-b, (iii)-d, (iv)-c
d. (i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-b
64.
Name the poet who penned a poem in memory of
W.B. Yeats :
a. Cecil Day Lewis
b. W.H. Auden
c. Louis Macneice
d. Stephen Spender
a. Cecil Day Lewis
b. W.H. Auden
c. Louis Macneice
d. Stephen Spender
65.
Match the concept and the type of poetic
movement :
i.
New and unusual or experimental ideas - (a) Surrealism
ii.
Expression of ideas and emotions through clear
precise images - (b) Symbolism
iii.
To release the creative potential of the unconscious
mind - (c) Imagism
iv.
Using symbolic images and indirect suggestions
to express - (d) Avant-garde
a. (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-a, (iv)-b
b. (i)-c, (ii)-a,
(iii)-b, (iv)-d
c. (i)-a,
(ii)-b, (iii)-d, (iv)-c
d. (i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-b
66.
The reason for Britain entering into World War I
was Germany’s attack on :
a. Belgium
b. France
c. Russia
d. Serbia
a. Belgium
b. France
c. Russia
d. Serbia
67.
One of the playwrights associated with the
‘London School of Economics and Political Science’ is :
a. Henrik Ibsen
b. Oscar Wilde
c. George Bernard Shaw
d. John Wesker
a. Henrik Ibsen
b. Oscar Wilde
c. George Bernard Shaw
d. John Wesker
68.
Match the following :
i.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - (a) William Golding
ii.
Young Shoulders - (b) Kingsley Amis
iii.
Lucky Jim - (c) Alan Sillitoe
iv.
Rites of Passage - (d) John Wain
a. (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-a, (iv)-b
b. (i)-c, (ii)-d,
(iii)-b, (iv)-a
c. (i)-a,
(ii)-b, (iii)-d, (iv)-c
d. (i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-b
69.
The following play of Bernard Shaw has Napoleon
as the protagonist :
a. Arms and the Man
b. The Man of Destiny
c. The Applecart
d. Man and Superman
a. Arms and the Man
b. The Man of Destiny
c. The Applecart
d. Man and Superman
70.
------- played an active role in the Celtic
Revival.
a. W B Yeats
b. James Joyce
c. Seamus Heaney
d. Bernard Shaw
a. W B Yeats
b. James Joyce
c. Seamus Heaney
d. Bernard Shaw
71.
The expression “Angry Young Men” was used in the
1950s to describe :
a. Young writers who were disillusioned with
traditional British society.
b. British Pacifist writers who opposed the
militarization of Europe.
c. British postwar Leftist writers.
d. Conservative writers of the British society.
72.
Match the following :
i.
Endgame - (a) Tom Stoppard
ii.
Lear - (b) Samuel Beckett
iii.
The Caretaker - (c) Harold Pinter
iv.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - (d)
Edward Bond
a. (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-a, (iv)-b
b. (i)-b, (ii)-d,
(iii)-c, (iv)-a
c. (i)-a,
(ii)-b, (iii)-d, (iv)-c
d. (i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-b
73.
------- received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
a. Jeanette Winterson
b. Iris Murdoch
c. Doris Lessing
d. Kingsley Amis
a. Jeanette Winterson
b. Iris Murdoch
c. Doris Lessing
d. Kingsley Amis
74.
Which of the following is a novel by Hanif
Kureishi?
a. The Kite Runner
b. Mornings in Jenin
c. The Buddha of Suburbia
d. Vanity Bagh
a. The Kite Runner
b. Mornings in Jenin
c. The Buddha of Suburbia
d. Vanity Bagh
75.
The following is NOT a novel by D H Lawrence :
a. Sons and Lovers
b. The Rainbow
c. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
d. To the Lighthouse
a. Sons and Lovers
b. The Rainbow
c. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
d. To the Lighthouse
76.
James Joyce’s Dubliners is --------
a. A collection of essays
b. A collection of short stories
c. A memoir
d. A travelogue
a. A collection of essays
b. A collection of short stories
c. A memoir
d. A travelogue
77.
Match the following :
i.
Animal Farm - (a) Historical narrative
ii.
Down and Out in London and Paris - (b) Science fiction
iii.
Homage to Catalonia - (c) Political allegory
iv.
Brave New World - (d) Memoir
a. (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-b, (iv)-a
b. (i)-c, (ii)-a,
(iii)-b, (iv)-d
c. (i)-a,
(ii)-b, (iii)-d, (iv)-c
d. (i)-c, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-b
78.
------ is a verse play by Christopher Fry.
a. The Lady is not for Burning
b. The Cocktail Party
c. John Bull’s Other Island
d. None of these
a. The Lady is not for Burning
b. The Cocktail Party
c. John Bull’s Other Island
d. None of these
79.
Match the following :
i.
Churchgoing - (a) Thom Gunn
ii.
My Sad Captains - (b) J D Scott
iii.
The Spectator - (c) Robert Conquest
iv.
New Lines - (d) Philip Larkin
a. (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-b, (iv)-a
b. (i)-d, (ii)-a,
(iii)-b, (iv)-c
c. (i)-a,
(ii)-b, (iii)-d, (iv)-c
d. (i)-c, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-b
80.
Which of the following poets is of Northern
Irish Extraction?
a. Seamus Heaney
b. Andrew Motion
c. Ted Hughes
d. Robert Burns
a. Seamus Heaney
b. Andrew Motion
c. Ted Hughes
d. Robert Burns
81.
Which of the following can be described as a
thinker and social critic?
a. Max Beerbohm
b. A G Gardiner
c. Bertrand Russell
d. Thomas Hardy
a. Max Beerbohm
b. A G Gardiner
c. Bertrand Russell
d. Thomas Hardy
82.
Put the following in their correct chronological
sequence :
1. The landslide electoral victory of the Liberals under Lloyd George
2. Women’s Suffrage bill discussed in British Parliament.
3. Founding of the Women’s Social and Political Union.
4. End of Edward VII’s reign
a. 3,2,4,1
b.
2,1,4,3
c. 3,2,1,4
d. 4,1,3,2
83.
The following was NOT a war poet :
a. Rupert Brooke
b. Siegfried Sassoon
c. Wilfred Owen
d. P G Wodehouse
a. Rupert Brooke
b. Siegfried Sassoon
c. Wilfred Owen
d. P G Wodehouse
84.
Which of the following statements are true?
1. MacSpaunday refers to a group of British poets of the 1930s.
2. The group included W H Auden, Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice and
Cecil Day-Lewis.
3. The group was known for its espousal of Imagism.
4. The members owed allegiance to contemporary Left-wing politics.
a. Statements 1 and 2 only are true.
b. Statements 1,
2 and 3 only are true.
c. Statements 1, 2 and 4 only are true.
d. All the
statements are true.
85.
Dylan Thomas’s poetry is noted for its :
a. Surrealist imagery
b. Ornate diction
c. Overtly political themes
d. Satire
a. Surrealist imagery
b. Ornate diction
c. Overtly political themes
d. Satire
86.
Arrange the following works of T S Eliot in correct
chronological sequence :
1. Preludes 2.
The Wasteland 3. The Hollow
Men 4. Murder in the Cathedral
a. 1,2,3,4
b.
1,4,2,3
c. 1,3,2,4
d. 1,4,3,2
87.
Which myth is NOT used in Heart of Darkness?
a. Myth of Faustus
b. The Quest Myth
c. Myth of Adam and Eve
d. Myth of Sisyphus
a. Myth of Faustus
b. The Quest Myth
c. Myth of Adam and Eve
d. Myth of Sisyphus
88.
Who, in the book Joseph Conrad and the
Fiction of Autobiography locates Joseph Conrad’s fear of personal
disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past?
a. Chinua Achebe
b. E.M. Forster
c. F.R. Leavis
d. Edward Said
a. Chinua Achebe
b. E.M. Forster
c. F.R. Leavis
d. Edward Said
89.
Which of the following films draws on Conrad’s Heart
of Darkness and Lord Jim?
a. Gods Must be Crazy
b. Apocalypse Now
c. The Scar of Shame
d. Intruder in the Dust
a. Gods Must be Crazy
b. Apocalypse Now
c. The Scar of Shame
d. Intruder in the Dust
90.
The three-act play Deirdre of the Sorrows was
written by :
a. John Galsworthy
b. J.M. Synge
c. Lady Gregory
d. Sean O’Casey
a. John Galsworthy
b. J.M. Synge
c. Lady Gregory
d. Sean O’Casey
91.
Who of the following used doubly oblique
narratives in many of his novels?
a. H.G. Wells
b. Rudyard Kipling
c. Joseph Conrad
d. William Golding
a. H.G. Wells
b. Rudyard Kipling
c. Joseph Conrad
d. William Golding
92.
Which of the following poems has been called
Ezra Pound’s “farewell to London”?
a. Ripostes
b. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
c. Cantos
d. In a Station of the Metro
a. Ripostes
b. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
c. Cantos
d. In a Station of the Metro
93.
Ezra Pound’s “Homage to Sextus Propertius” and
“Hugh Selwyn Mauberly,” are responses to :
a. Spanish Civil War
b. Industrial Revolution
c. World War I
d. World War II
a. Spanish Civil War
b. Industrial Revolution
c. World War I
d. World War II
94.
“If the red slayer think he slays,
Or if the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep, and pass, and turn again” – who wrote these lines?
a. Wallace Stevens
b. Walt Whitman
c. Thoreau
d. Emerson
Or if the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep, and pass, and turn again” – who wrote these lines?
a. Wallace Stevens
b. Walt Whitman
c. Thoreau
d. Emerson
95.
Who of the following said, “The ‘greatness’ of
literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards”?
a. Bernard Shaw
b. Oscar Wilde
c. T.S. Eliot
d. Walter Pater
a. Bernard Shaw
b. Oscar Wilde
c. T.S. Eliot
d. Walter Pater
96.
………….. is a metaphor which has lost the original
imagery of its meaning due to extensive, repetitive popular use.
a. Dead metaphor
b. Mixed metaphor
c. Root metaphor
d. Conceptual metaphor
a. Dead metaphor
b. Mixed metaphor
c. Root metaphor
d. Conceptual metaphor
97.
Who said, “I deal with all periods, but I never
study any period but the present”?
a. W.B. Yeats
b. T.S. Eliot
c. G.B. Shaw
d. William Golding
a. W.B. Yeats
b. T.S. Eliot
c. G.B. Shaw
d. William Golding
98.
The Time of the Angels and The Sand
Castle are novels by :
a. Iris Murdoch
b. Muriel Spark
c. Edith Wharton
d. P.D. James
a. Iris Murdoch
b. Muriel Spark
c. Edith Wharton
d. P.D. James
99.
Which of Shaw’s plays offers an Irishman’s view
of Edwardian England?
a. Captain Brassbound’s Conversion
b. John Bull’s Other Island
c. Androcles and the Lion
d. The Apple Cart
a. Captain Brassbound’s Conversion
b. John Bull’s Other Island
c. Androcles and the Lion
d. The Apple Cart
100. Which
play of Bernard Shaw has a plot borrowed from Tobias Smollett’s Peregrine
Pickle?
a. Pygmalion
b.
The Apple Cart
c. Widower’s
Houses
d. Arms and the Man
101. Who
among the following is the war poet who wrote the poem "Anthem for Doomed Youth"?
a. Wilfred Owen
b.
Rupert Brooke
c. Thomas Hardy
d. Siegfried Sassoon
102. Which
among the following statements is true?
a. The
Surrealist movement started in Europe in the 1920’s, after World War I with its
nucleus in Paris.
b. The
French poet, André Breton, is known as the “Pope of Surrealism.”
c. Surrealists
strongly embraced the ideas of Sigmund Freud.
d. All of them
d. All of them
103. Match
the following :
i. Ralph
Waldo Emerson - (a) Transcendentalist
ii. W.B.
Yeats - (b)Naturalist
iii. Ralph
Ellison - (c)Symbolist
iv. Emily
Zola - (d)Harlem Renaissance
a. (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c
b. (i)-a,
(ii)-c, (iii)-d, (iv)-b
c.
(i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-a, (iv)-b
d. (i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-b
104. ‘This
is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper’ – This line is from :
Not with a bang but a whimper’ – This line is from :
a. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
b. The
Waste Land
c. The Hollow Men
d.
Four Quartets
105. Who
among the following is NOT associated with movement poetry?
a. Philip Larkin
b.
Thom Gunn
c.
Christopher Fry
d. Donald Davie
106. The
poem ‘District and Circle’ is written by :
a. Judith Wright
b.
Seamus Heaney
c.
Keats
d.
Lamb
107. Who
is called ‘The Prince of paradox’?
a. Thom Gunn
b.
Philip Larkin
c.
G.K. Chesterton
d. Christopher Fry
108. The
essay On Denoting is considered as the “paradigm of philosophy”. Whose essay is
it?
a. Bertrand Russell
b.
Max Beerbohm
c.
G.K. Chesterton
d. Christopher Fry
109. 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
110. Lady
Chatterley’s Lover is a novel written by :
a. D.H. Lawrence
b.
James Joyce
c. Arnold
Bennett
d. John Galsworthy
111. Dubliners
is a short-story collection written by :
a. D.H. Lawrence
b.
James Joyce
c. Arnold
Bennett
d. John Galsworthy
112. ‘Animal
Farm’ is an allegorical novella written by :
a. D.H. Lawrence
b.
George Orwell
c. Arnold
Bennett
d. Aldous Huxley
113. When
Bernard Shaw was awarded Nobel Prize?
a. 1920
b.
1925
c.
1930
d. 1935
114. When
was Abbey Theatre opened to the public?
a. 1901
b.
1902
c.
1903
d. 1904
115. The
character King Magnus appears in Shaw’s play :
a. Back to Methuselah
b. John Bull’s Other Island
c. Androcles and the Lion
d.
The Apple Cart
116. Which
of the following is NOT true about the play Pygmalion?
i.
There are five acts in Pygmalion.
ii.
Eliza married Freddy Eynsford Hill, not Higgins.
iii.
The play has a Preface and an Epilogue.
iv.
Higgins represents Pygmalion and Eliza
represents Galatea
a. (i) only
b.
(i) and (ii)
c.
(ii) and (iii)
d. None of these
117. John
Osborne’s play Look Back in Anger is a :
a. History Play
b.
Kitchen Sink Drama
c.
Political Play
d. Heroic Drama
118. Which
of the statements is true?
a. The
"angry young men" were a group of mostly working and middle class British playwrights and novelists who became prominent in the 1950s.
b. Kitchen
sink realism is a British cultural movement that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
c. The
term "Angry theatre" was coined by critic John Russell Taylor.
d. All
of them
119. Who
is the author of the play ‘Waiting for Godot’?
a. Harold Pinter
b.
Robert Lowell
c.
Sally Morgan
d. Samuel Beckett
120. Match
the following writers with their native land :
i.
Tom Stoppard - (a)Ireland
ii.
Doris Lessing - (b)Japan
iii.
Iris Murdoch - (c)Iran
iv.
Kazuo Ishiguro - (d)Czechoslovakia
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