Unit-III Part-VIII

1.      Who is NOT a character in Golding’s Lord of the Flies?
            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

3.      Sean O’Casey uses --------- techniques in Juno and the Paycock :
            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

5.      The pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair is ----------
            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

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  

8.      The poem Hawk Roosting was written by ------------
            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

10.   ---------- is not a section in Eliot’s Four Quartets.
            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

12.   ----------- does not belong to the Movement Poets.
            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

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

15.   One of the following is NOT a practitioner of Confessional Poetry :
            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

17.   One among the following is NOT a character in Animal Farm :
            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

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

21.   Des Imagistes, an Anthology of Imagist poetry was edited by ------------
            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.”

      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

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”

      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

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

27.   Arnold Wesker’s Kitchen was published in the year -------.
            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

29.   Name the protagonist in Osborne’s Look Back in Anger :
            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

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

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

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

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

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

37.   -------- is a pastoral poem by Matthew Arnold.
            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

39.   Which one of his novels did Lawrence call ‘Thought Adventure’?
            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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

55.   Who is the narrator and the protagonist in the Buddha of Suburbia?
            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

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

59.   Which of these is a play by Philip Larkin?
            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

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

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

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

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

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

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

70.   ------- played an active role in the Celtic Revival.
            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

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

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

76.   James Joyce’s Dubliners is --------
            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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 :

                 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