Unit-II Part-VII

1.      The Pickwick Papers was written by----------
                        a.  Thackeray
                        b. Dickens   
                        c. Stevenson 
                        d. Hardy

2.      The Defence of Poetry is written by------------
                        a.  Coleridge  
                        b. Shelley
                        c. Wordsworth
                        d. Keats

3.      The source of Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound was taken from Prometheus Bound written by-----------
                        a.  Aeschylus   
                        b. Virgil
                        c. Petrarch  
                        d. Boccaccio

4.      ----------- commented about Browning, “a more intense and morbid self-consciousness than I ever knew in any sane human being.”
                        a.  John Ruskin 
                        b. Robert Southey 
                        c. John Forster
                        d. J.S.Mill

5.      The source of Tennyson’s The Lotos-Eaters was taken from-----------
                        a.  Reflections
                        b. Hyperion
                        c. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 
                        d. The Odyssey

6.      The Prelude begins and ends with Wordsworth’s childhood at-----------
                        a.  Cambridge 
                        b. Cumberland 
                        c. Salisbury  
                        d. North Wales

7.      In which poem does Arnold say “Ah, love, let us be true to one another”?
                        a.  The Scholar Gipsy 
                        b. Sohrab and Rustum
                        c. Dover Beach 
                        d. Thyrsis

8.      In which novel written by Hardy does the character Angel Clare appear?
                        a.  Far from the Madding Crowd   
                        b. Tess of the d’Urbervilles
                        c.  Under the Greenwood Tree 
                        d. The Mayor of Casterbridge

9.      Hopkins’ The Wreck of the Deutschland was dedicated to ----------
                        a.  St. Beuna  
                        b. Franciscan Nuns
                        c. Robert Bridges  
                        d. Watson Dixon

10.   The name Elia is associated with ----------
                        a.  Hazlitt
                        b. Lamb 
                        c. De Quincey   
                        d. Bacon

11.   Who is NOT a character in Jane Austen’s Emma?
                        a.  Williams   
                        b. Weston
                        c. Knightley
                        d. Harriet

12.   Which book is NOT written by Mary Anne Evans?
                        a.  Adam Bede     
                        b. The Mill on the Floss
                        c. The Spanish Gypsy    
                        d. Mansfield Park

13.   A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is the subtitle of Oscar Wilde’s play -------
                        a.  Lady Windermere’s Fan  
                        b. A Woman of No Importance
                        c.  The Importance of Being Ernest
                        d. The Duchess of Padua

14.   -------- was initially titled First Impressions.
                        a.  Northanger Abbey 
                        b. Pride and Prejudice 
                        c. Emma    
                        d. Mansfield Park

15.   Identify the autobiographical work of Thomas De Quincy from among the following :
                        a.  The True-born English Man    
                        b. The Life of a Poet
                        c.  Confessions of an English Opium Eater   
                        d. The English Mail Coach

16.   Charles Lamb wrote ------- in collaboration with his sister Mary Ann Lamb in 1807.
                        a.  Essays of Elia 
                        b. Tales from Shakespeare
                        c. Dream Children   
                        d. Christ Hospital

17.   On Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth is written by ------.
                        a.  Charles Lamb   
                        b. Wilson Knight  
                        c. A. C. Bradley   
                        d. DeQuincy

18.   The famous essay The Nature of the Gothic is included in John Ruskin’s -------.
                        a.  The Stones of Venice    
                        b. The Seven Lamps of Architecture
                        c.  Modern Painters  
                        d. Time and Tide

19.   Who among the following is a Lake Poet?
                        a.  Shelley
                        b. Keats       
                        c. Coleridge 
                        d. Byron

20.   -------- by John Ruskin is a study of Greek myths.
                        a.  The Crown of the Wild Olive    
                        b. Sesame and Lillies
                        c.  The Queen of Air  
                        d. Munera Pulveris

21.   Jane Austen’s ------- originated from the story of Ellinor and Marianne which she began to rewrite in 1797.
                        a.  Emma      
                        b. Sense and Sensibility
                        c. Northanger Abbey
                        d. Persuasion

22.   Christabel, the poem tells the tale of how the enchantress -------- deceives all but the virtuous Christabel.
                        a.  Medusa   
                        b. Geraldine    
                        c. Seraphine     
                        d. Lucifera

23.   --------is the spiritual autobiography of Thomas Carlyle.
                        a.  Signs of Times  
                        b. Sartor Resartus 
                        c. Past and Present
                        d. The Crown of the Wild Olive

24.   --------- became a prominent figure in the aesthetic movement with his Studies in the History of Renaissance published in 1873.
                        a.  Walter Pater   
                        b. Carlyle
                        c. Ruskin    
                        d. Matthew Arnold

25.   ------- is a picaresque novel written by Charles Dickens.
                        a.  Oliver Twist  
                        b. Nicholas Nickleby  
                        c. The Pickwick Papers  
                        d. David Copperfield

26.   ------- is praised by his contemporaries as ‘The Shakespeare in Prose’.
                        a.  Walter Scott 
                        b. Hazlitt
                        c. Bacon     
                        d. Lamb

27.   -------- made the observation that ‘Shakespeare has no heroes, but only heroines.’
                        a. T. S. Eliot  
                        b. A. C. Bradley  
                        c. Ruskin
                        d. Wilson Knight

28.   Which work of Thackeray has got the subtitle A Novel without a Hero?
                        a.  Vanity Fair   
                        b. Denis Duval  
                        c. Rebecca and Rowena    
                        d. Barry Lyndon

29.   ------- by R. L. Stevenson prefigures Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
                        a.  The Black Arrow 
                        b. The Ebb- Tide 
                        c. In the South Seas     
                        d. Inland Voyage

30.   ------- is the narrator of the novel Wuthering Heights.
                        a.  Edgar Linton  
                        b. Mrs. Dean   
                        c. Mr. Lockwood    
                        d. Heathcliffe

31.   George Meredith’s novel Sandra Belloni was initially titled -------.
                        a.  Farina   
                        b. Diana of the Crossways  
                        c. Rhoda Fleming    
                        d. Emilia in England

32.   Which of these acts was NOT part of the acts of the French Revolution?
                        a.  Storming of Bastille
                        b. Constitution established and elections held
                        c.  Storming of Royal palace  
                        d. Battle of Austerlitz

33.   Match the poem with the type :

                 i.          Intimations of Immortality                                   -              (a)Ballad

                ii.          Rime of the Ancient Mariner                               -              (b)Lyric

               iii.          Adonis                                                                   -              (c)Ode

               iv.          The Lamb                                                              -              (d)Elegy

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

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

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

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

34.   Match the following :

                 i.          Prometheus Unbound                                                         -              (a)Byron

                ii.          “The Destruction of Sennacherib”                                    -              (b)Sonnet by Shelley

               iii.          “England in 1819”                                                              -              (c)Lyrical drama

               iv.          “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”                    -              (d)Keats

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

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

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

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

35.   Identify the work of Mary Shelley from the list given :
                        a.  Valperga      
                        b. The Mysterious Mother
                        c. Declaration of Rights  
                        d. Dracula

36.   Name the prince regent, later the king who was a fan of Jane Austen :
                        a.  George II    
                        b. George III 
                        c. George IV   
                        d. George V

37.   Who is the author of this line, “Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.”?
                        a.  Leigh Hunt     
                        b. Thomas DeQuincey  
                        c. William Hazlitt
                        d. Charles Lamb

38.   The object of John Stuart Mill’s essay, Subjugation of Women was to explain :
                        a.  The weak status of Women      
                        b. The concept of quality
                        c.  The glory of men    
                        d. The legal subordination of one sex to the other

39.   Match the poem with the background :

                 i.          Charge of the Light Brigade                                                -              (a)Peloponnesian War

                ii.          b) Dover Beach                                                                      -              (b)Battle of Ratisbon

               iii.          c) Drummer Hodge                                                               -              (c)Crimean war

               iv.          d) Incident at the French Camp                                          -              (d)Boer War

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

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

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

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

40.   What was the issue that William Gladstone during his last phase of prime ministership had to tackle during the reign of Queen Victoria?
                        a.  The Irish Question
                        b. The Scotland issue
                        c. The Welsh Identity 
                        d. The British Class Conflicts

41.   The use of a Greek chorus is evident in Tennyson’s :
                        a.  Mariana      
                        b. Ulysses
                        c. Tithonus
                        d. Lotus Eaters

42.   William Morris’ poem, Haystack in the Floods is a poem that reflects the :
                        a.  English-German Problems    
                        b. English-Indian Mutiny
                        c.  French-English Rivalry  
                        d. Austrian-French Pact

43.   Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean is set in ------ during the reign of ------
                        a.  Paris, Napoleon  
                        b. England, King Edward
                        c.  Ireland, King Bruce      
                        d. Rome, Marcus Aurelius

44.   Match the following :

                 i.          Cardinal Newman                                   -              (a)Literature and Dogma

                ii.          Matthew Arnold                                      -              (b)On Heroes and hero worship

               iii.          Thomas Carlyle                                       -              (c)The Idea of a University

               iv.          Arthur Clough                                          -              (d)Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth

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

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

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

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

45.   Josiah Bounderby and Thomas Gradgrind are characters in Dicken’s ------
                        a.  Barnaby Rudge  
                        b. Hard Times
                        c. Little Dorrit 
                        d. Dombey and Son

46.   The first novel in which Hardy uses the word, Wessex to identify the geographical region is -------
                        a.  Jude the Obscure     
                        b. Return of the Native
                        c.  Far From the Madding Crowd    
                        d. The Mayor of Casterbridge

47.   Match the setting and characters in Emily and Charlotte Bronte novels :

                 i.          Lowood School                                       -              (a)St. John Rivers

                ii.          Moor House                                             -              (b)Dr. Kenneth

               iii.          Gimmerton Village                                  -              (c)Gateshead

               iv.          Bessie Lee                                                -              (d)Helen Burns

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

                  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

48.   Complete the line: Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, ------, ------- here/Buckle.
                        a.  pride, plum   
                        b. pluck, pebble
                        c. prose, poesy
                        d. pride, plume

49.   Reliques of Ancient English Poetry is -------
                        a.  A collection of popular songs and ballads.
                        b. A collection of Old English poetry.
                        c.  A study of Old English poetry.
                        d. None of the above.

50.   Lyrical Ballads was published in ------.
                        a.  1798    
                        b. 1793  
                        c. 1789  
                        d. 1814

51.   The line “Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty” is from :
                        a.  Ode to A Nightingale    
                        b. Ode on a Grecian Urn
                        c.  Ode to the West Wind     
                        d. Ode to Autumn

52.   Put the following in correct chronological sequence :

1. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage                                                                    2. The Necessity of Atheism

3. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty.                                                                4. Ode on a Grecian Urn

                  a.  1,3,4,2   

                  b. 1,4,2,3

                  c. 2,4,3,1   

                  d. 4,1,3,2

53.   Match the following :

                 i.          The Mysteries of Udolpho                                                    -              (a)Mary Shelley.

                ii.          The Old English Baron                                                          -              (b)Horace Walpole

               iii.          Frankenstein                                                                          -              (c)Ann Radcliffe

               iv.          The Castle of Otranto                                                           -              (d)Clara Reeve

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

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

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

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

54.   The Heart of Midlothian is a novel by _______.
                        a.  Leigh Hunt    
                        b. Mary Shelley  
                        c. Jane Austen      
                        d. Sir Walter Scott

55.   Match the following :

                 i.          Essays of Elia                                                          -              (a) Thomas De Quincey

                ii.          Free Thoughts on Public Affairs                           -              (b) Leigh Hunt

               iii.          The Examiner                                                          -              (c) Charles Lamb

               iv.          Confessions of an Opium Eater                            -              (d) William Hazlitt

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

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

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

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

56.   The following is NOT a work by J S Mill :
                        a.  The Subjection of Women     
                        b. Utilitarianism
                        c.  Considerations on Representative Government
                        d. The Subjugation of Women

57.   India passed into direct administration by the British Government in ------
                        a.  1837 
                        b. 1867
                        c. 1858  
                        d. 1903

58.   Match the following :

                 i.          Browning                                                                 -              (a)The Charge of the Light Brigade

                ii.          Matthew Arnold                                                      -              (b)The Grammarian’s Funeral

               iii.          Tennyson                                                                 -              (c)I Remember, I Remember

               iv.          Thomas Hood                                                         -              (d)The Scholar Gypsy

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

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

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

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

59.   Who among the following was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Movement?
                        a.  Matthew Arnold   
                        b. D G Rossetti
                        c. Charles Kingsley
                        d. None of these

60.   Match the following :

                 i.          Culture and Anarchy                                                                           -              (a)John Henry Newman

                ii.          On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History                      -              (b)Matthew Arnold

               iii.          The Doctrine of the Real Presence                                                   -              (c) Thomas Carlyle

               iv.          The Present Position of Catholics in England                                  -              (d)E B Pusey

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

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

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

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

61.   Lytton Strachey wrote a collection of biographical sketches titled -------
                        a.  Eminent Victorians  
                        b. Sartor Resartus
                        c. Unto the Last 
                        d. None of these

62.   Put the following events in Victorian Britain in the correct chronological sequence :

1. The Second Reform Act which extended voting rights

2. The Education Act which made primary education compulsory

3. Introduction of the Uniform Penny Post.

4. Compulsory Vaccination Act

                  a.  3,4,2,1

                  b. 4,1,2,3    

                  c. 3,2,4,1    

                  d. 2,1,4,3

63.   Who among the following were Victorian Women novelists?

a. Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte and Jane Austen

b. Charlotte Bronte, Anne Bronte and George Eliot

c.  Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen and George Eliot

d. None of the above

64.   Match the following :

                 i.          Charles Dickens                                       -              (a) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

                ii.          W M Thackeray                                        -              (b) A Tale of Two Cities

               iii.          Anne Bronte                                             -              (c) Under the Greenwood Tree

               iv.          Thomas Hardy                                         -              (d) Vanity Fair

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

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

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

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

65.   Which of the following statements are true?

1. D G Rossetti was a Pre-Raphaelite poet.

2. The sprung rhythm is associated with the poetry of G.M.Hopkins.

3. G M Hopkins’ poetry marked a transition in sensibility.

4. W B Yeats’ early poetry was linked to the Celtic Revival

                  a.  Statements 1, 2 and 4 are true.

                  b. Statements 1 and 2 are true.

                  c.  Statements 1, 3 and 4 are true.             

                  d. All the statements are true.

66.   Rudyard Kipling received the Nobel Prize for literature in -----
                        a.  1888       
                        b. 1903 
                        c. 1867 
                        d. 1907

67.   Match the following characters with the novels :

                 i.          Becky Sharp                                                             -              (a) Animal Farm

                ii.          Snowball                                                                  -              (b) Vanity Fair

               iii.          Thomas Becket                                                       -              (c) A Portrait of the Artist as a Youngman

               iv.          Stephen Dedalus                                                    -              (d) Murder in the Cathedral

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

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

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

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

68.   Match the writers and their pseudonyms :

                 i.          Charlotte Bronte                                                    -              (a) George Orwell

                ii.          Eric Arthur Blair                                                    -              (b) Lewis Carroll

               iii.          Charles Dickens                                                    -              (c) Boz

               iv.          Charles Lutwidge Dodgson                                  -              (d) Currer Bell

                                                                                  -               (e) O’ Henry

a.  (i)-d, (ii)-a, (iii)-c, (iv)-b

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

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

d. (i)-d, (ii)-e, (iii)-a, (iv)-b

69.   Thomas Hardy took the title of the novel Far from the Madding Crowd from :
                        a.  The Deserted Village  
                        b. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
                        c.  The Sleepless Lover   
                        d. At a Solemn Music

70.   Identify the texts in which blank verse is used :

(i) Paradise Lost                                (ii) Prelude                          (iii) Idylls of the King                        (iv) Tintern Abbey

                  a.  (i) and (ii)

                  b. (i), (ii) and (iii) 

                  c. (ii), (iii) and (iv)    

                  d. (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)

71.   The mythical hero who stole fire from heaven and gave it to mankind is :
                        a.  Sisyphus      
                        b. Icarus    
                        c. Prometheus       
                        d. Proteus

72.   Which of the following poems is NOT a dramatic monologue?
                        a.  My Last Duchess  
                        b. The Bishop Orders His Tomb 
                        c. Andrea del Sarto             
                        d. Tintern Abbey

73.   In which poem of Wordsworth does the following line occur?

“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive”

                  a.  The Prelude

                  b. A Morning Exercise 

                  c. Daffodils

                  d. Upon Westminister Bridge

74.   The poem “If” was written by :
                        a.  Rudyard Kipling 
                        b. G. M. Hopkins    
                        c. T. S. Eliot
                        d. None of these

75.   In which poem of Coleridge do the following lines occur?

“He prayeth best, who loveth best

All things both great and small;

For the dear God who loveth us,

He made and loveth all.”

                  a.  Christabel   

                  b. Fears in Solitude 

                  c.  The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner  

                  d. Kubla Khan

76.   In which poem of Keats do these lines occur?

“When, sick for home,

She stood in tears amid the alien corn”

                  a.  Ode on a Grecian Urn  

                  b. To Autumn     

                  c. Ode to Psyche  

                  d. Ode to a Nightingale

77.   Who among the following was NOT a part of the ‘Pre-Raphaelite” movement?
                        a.  Christina Rossetti 
                        b. William Morris   
                        c. George Eliot     
                        d. George Meredith

78.   Fanny Price is a character in :
                        a.  Mansfield Park    
                        b. Emma   
                        c. Persuasion     
                        d. Northanger Abbey

79.   ‘Gradgrind’ is a character in the novel :
                        a.  Oliver Twist  
                        b. Hard Times     
                        c. David Copperfield   
                        d. Great Expectations

80.   The writers, who collaborated in adopting Shakespeare’s plays into stories for children, Tales form Shakespeare are :
                        a.  Mary Lamb and Caroline Lamb    
                        b. Charles Lamb and Caroline Lamb
                        c.  Samuel Johnson and Charles Lamb
                        d. Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb

81.   Ivanhoe is a :
                        a.  Satirical Novel 
                        b. Historical Novel 
                        c. Religious Novel    
                        d. Verse Novel

82.   The “Mad Woman in the Attic” is a specific reference to :
                        a. The narrator of Global Market    
                        b. Augusta Egg’s 1858 narrative painting
                        c.  The Heroine of The Yellow Wallpaper
                        d. Bertha Mason of Jane Eyre

83.   Who among the following was NOT a Poet Laureate?
                        a.  Andrew Marvel
                        b. Ben Jonson  
                        c. Dryden
                        d. Wordsworth

84.   Which of these statements is true of the ‘ode’?

a. The name is derived from Latin

b. The odes are classified into three types (Pindaric, Horatian and Irregular)

c.  It can be generalized as a form of internal dialogue.

d. It is a dramatic poem telling a story

85.   Identify the poem that is a travel narrative :
                        a.  Southey’s The Holy Tree  
                        b. Shelley’s Adonais
                        c.  Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale
                        d. Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

86.   Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein can be considered as a :

I. Gothic Novel                  II. Science Fiction work                                 III. Horror story                IV. Domestic Novel

                  a.  I, II and III  

                  b. II, III and IV 

                  c. I, III and IV

                  d. II, I and IV

87.   Match the novels of Walter Scott with the characters :

I.                 Henry Bertram                                                             -              (a) Rob Roy

II.               Edward Waverley                                                        -              (b) Guy Mannering

III.              Francis (Francis Osbaldstone)                                   -              (c) The Heart of Midlothian

IV.              Jeanie Dean                                                                  -              (d) Waverley

     a.  I-c, II-a, III-b, IV-d 

     b. I-a, II-b, III-d, IV-c

     c. I-b, II-d, III-a, IV-c

     d. I-d, II-c, III-b, IV-a

88.   Identify from the list below the last work of William Hazlitt :
                        a.  Conversations of James Northcote
                        b. Principles of Human Action
                        c.  The New Pygmalion  
                        d. The Spirit of the Age.

89.   The following is NOT a novel written in the Gothic mode :
                        a.  The Castle of Otranto 
                        b. Frankenstein     
                        c. Wuthering Heights     
                        d. Mansfield Park

90.   Identify the characteristics of the Victorian Age :

I.                 The commercial glory was reflected by the Great Exhibit in 1851.

II.               The Origin of Species energized the era.

III.              The Education Act created a new reading public.

IV.              The declining costs of publishing and printing led to the rise of periodicals and magazines

    a.  Only I, II and III

    b. Only II, III and IV   

    c. All of the above

    d. None of the above

91.   Identify which one of these Tennyson’s poems is NOT a dramatic monologue :
                        a.  Tithonus    
                        b. Mariana 
                        c. Ulysses
                        d. St. Simeon Stylites

92.   D. G. Rossetti’s response to Robert Buchanan’s essay, ‘The Fleshly School of Poetry’ was -------
                        a.  The Stealthy School of Criticism  
                        b. The Exotic School of Poetry
                        c.  The Pre-Raphaelite Movement   
                        d. The Romantic School of Poetry

93.   In his ‘Preface’ to The Renaissance, Walter Pater uses the words: “The ages are all equal, but genius is always above its age.” Whose words does he quote?
                        a.  Tennyson 
                        b. Robert Browning
                        c. Elizabeth Barrett Browning   
                        d. William Blake

94.   Connect the writer and their most important themes :

I.                 John Henry Newman                                                  -              (a) Heroes

II.               Thomas Carlyle                                                            -              (b) University Education

III.              Matthew Arnold                                                            -              (c) Painting and Arts

IV.              John Ruskin                                                                  -              (d) Culture

     a.  I-a, II-b, III-d, IV-c

     b. I-b, II-a, III-d, IV-c

     c. I-c, II-d, III-a, IV-b  

     d. I-d, II-c, III-b, IV-a  

95.   The first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography was :
                        a.  Lytton Strachey
                        b. John Ruskin  
                        c. Leslie Stephen
                        d. James Mill

96.   The full name of Hardy’s novel featuring the heroine Tess is ------
                        a.  Tess of Derbyshire   
                        b. Tess of the Durbervilles
                        c. Tess of the D’Urbervilles    
                        d. None of these

97.   In the preface to which novel did Hardy describe Wessex ‘as a merely realistic dream country’?
                        a.  Mayor of Casterbridge   
                        b. Return of the Native
                        c.  Far from the Madding Crowd     
                        d. Jude the Obscure

98.   Which novel ends with this statement, “I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.”
                        a.  Mill on the Floss  
                        b. Jane Eyre  
                        c. Wuthering Heights     
                        d. Tom Jones.

99.   “Wilde is to me our only thorough playwright. He plays with everything: with wit, with philosophy, with drama, with actors and audiences, with the whole theatre”. This statement was made by ------.
                        a.  Dr. Johnson 
                        b. Henry Fielding   
                        c. Bernard Shaw       
                        d. George Meredith

100.  Hopkin’s Windhover, is written using a form and metre called -------.
             a.  Iambic pentameter 
             b. Sprung Rhythm   
             c. Blank verse   
             d. Free verse

101.  Which among the following statement is NOT true?

a.      Romanticism was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century.

b.      Romanticism was partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution.

c.      Romanticism revived realism.

d.      Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature.

102.  “Poetry should begin as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” Who said this?
             a.  Keats 
             b. Coleridge 
             c. Shelly 
             d. Wordsworth

103.  Which among the following statement is true regarding Wordsworth’s The Preface to Lyrical Ballads?

a.      According to Wordsworth, the poetry must concern itself primarily with nature and life in the country.

b.      Through The Preface to Lyrical Ballads, he intends to enlighten his readers as to the true depths of human emotion and experience.

c.      Wordsworth argues that good poetry doesn't have to be overly complicated or ornamental in order to capture the reader's imagination.

d.      All of them

104.  “Water, water everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink” is a line written by Coleridge in :
             a.  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
             b. To William Wordsworth
             c.  Kubla Khan 
             d. Christabel

105.  "Ode to a Nightingale" is written by :
             a.  Judith Wright    
             b. Byron  
             c. Keats       
             d. Lamb

106.  Written After the Death of Charles Lamb­ is written by :
             a.  Coleridge   
             b. Wordsworth    
             c. Leigh Hunt       
             d. Hazlitt

107.  Which among the following is a work of William Hazlitt?
             a.  Liber Amoris   
             b. Table-Talk   
             c. The Plain Speaker  
             d. All of them

108.  Which among the following is a work of J.S. Mill?
             a.  On Liberty
             b. A System of Logic
             c. The Negro Question  
             d. All of them

109.  The epic poem ‘The Ring and The Book’ was written by :
             a.  Alfred Tennyson 
             b. D.G. Rossetti
             c. William Morris    
             d. Robert Browning

110.  Bells and Pomegranates is a work of :
             a.  Alfred Tennyson 
             b. D.G. Rossetti
             c. Matthew Arnold    
             d. Robert Browning            

111.  The periodical associated with Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is :
             a.  The Germ 
             b. The Tatler
             c. The Pearl      
             d. The Spectator

112.  “All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music” – is a quote of :
             a.  Oscar Wilde    
             b. Charles Dickens   
             c. Bernard Shaw 
             d. Walter Pater

113.  Wealth is 'well-being', illth is ‘ill-being’ – Whose quote is this?
             a.  Cardinal Newman  
             b. John Ruskin 
             c. Leslie Stephen
             d. Walter Pater

114.  'The Artful Dodger', 'Fagin', 'Bill Sikes' are characters of which Dickens’s Novel?
             a.  A Tale of Two Cities 
             b. Oliver Twist
             c. David Copperfield      
             d. A Christmas Carol

115.  Which among the following is a periodical written entirely by Charles Dickens?
             a.  Master Humphrey’s Clock  
             b. Evening Chronicle
             c.  Bentley’s Miscellany
             d. Monthly Magazine

116.  The fictional name for ‘Oxford’ in Hardy’s Wessex novels is :
             a.  Casterbridge  
             b. Christminster 
             c. Off Wessex  
             d. Deansleigh

117.  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                    

b.      All of them

118.  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

119.  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

120.  Who wrote the poem If--?
             a.  Gerard Hopkins 
             b. George Orwell
             c. Rudyard Kipling  
             d. Stephen Spender