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2. She dwells with Beauty Beauty that must die A Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips? Bidding adieu. John Keats
wrote the above lines in the poem
a) Endymion b) Hyperion
c) Ode on a Grecian Urn d) Ode on Melancholy
3. Identify one of the chief journals of the early Victorian Novel among the following.
a) The Spectator b) The Rambler c) Athenaeum d) The Examiner
6. Certain uncommon suggestions for economic reform, focusing on the problems of the Wages and describing
the true nature of wealth occurs in the work . . .
a) Unto This Last b) The Stones of Venice
c) Modern Painters d) Wild Olive
7. Suspiria de Profundis is a work of great sensitiveness on a vast variety of subjects was authored by
a) Matthew Arnold b) Thomas De Quincey
c) Leigh Hunt d) Harriet Monteau
8. Pick out one of Lord Alfred Tennysons poems published in 1832 from the following titles.
a) The Return of the Druses b) Luria c) Oenone d) In a Balcony
12. City! I am true son of Thine Never dwelt! Where great mornings shine Around the bleating pens;
The lines given above are associated with the author
a) Alexander Smith b) Sidney Dobell
c) Sir Lewis Morris d) Sir Samuel Ferguson
16. Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses refers to
a) Shelley b) Keats c) Coleridge d) Byron
17. My hate whose lash just heaven has long decrfeed Shall on a day make sin and folly bleed
The above expression of wrath and agony came from . . .
a) Alexander Pope b) John Gay
c) Mathew Prior d) Jonathan Swift
24. Now I in you without a bodie move Rising and falling with your wings
This metaphysical conceit is associated with . . .
a) George Herbert b) Henry Vaughan
c) John Donne d) Hopkins
25. My vegetable love should grow Vaster than Empires and more slow
Who are these lines from?
a) Abraham Cowley b) Andrew Marvell
c) Thomas Carew d) Richard Lovelace
26. The unheroic- hero in the novel The Man Eater of Malgudi is. . .
a) Nataraj b) Vasu,M.A. c) Sastri d) Kumar
28. On Spring, On a Distant Prospect of Eton College and On Adversity are works of
a) Horace Walpole b) William Shenstone
c) Thomas Gray d) John Dye
29. At thirty man suspects himself a fool: Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fty chides his infamous delay
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve
The above lines are extracted from the poem
a) The Manly Lady b) Night Thoughts
c) A Night-Piece on Death d) The Court of Death
32. Political Register is a weekly newspaper which is very much associated with
a) De Quincey b) Landor c) William Cobbet d) Alfred Tennyson
33. Death is the end of life; ah, why Should life all labour be ?
There is no true joy but calm !
Tennyson wrote the above lines in the poem
a) The Lotos-eaters b) Ulysses
c) The Palace of Art d) The Two Voices
35. Augusta Webster (1837-1894) a famous Greek Translator and was also
a) a woman poet b) a cavalier poet
c) a university wit d) a lake poet
39. Instauratio Magna is a famous prose work of the Elizabethan era, was written by
a) Francis Bacon b) Sir Walter Raleigh
c) Sir Philip Sydney d) John Lyly
41. The Elizabethan Age in the History of English Literature occurred during
a) 15581603 b)16031625 c) 16491660 d) 16601700
43. Spenser wrote a collection of poems in honour of his lady love Elizabeth whom he married in 1594. The
anthology of the poems is known as
a) To the Dark Lady b) Shepherds Calendar
c) Amoretti d) Fairie Queen
44. The rst true play in English with a regular plot and acts and scenes is
a) Magni cence b) Necromancer
c) Ralph Roister Doister d) Soldiers
46. Certain socio-political features marked the Elizabethan Age. The feature that dominated was
a) religious persecution b) religious tolerance
c) lack of patriotism d) politics
49. We know not where to look in history or letters, for a more commanding picture of Man, as he might be than
in the Arthur of this volume. Wherever he appears, it is as the great pillar of the moral order and the resplendent
top of human excellence. Who made the comment?
a) Pit the Elder b) Gladstone
c) Disraeli Benjamin d) William Butler Yeats
50. Look out the poet was associated with the Trossachs, the Lake District of Scotland.
a) Robert Southey b) Walter Scott c) William Wordsworth d) Leigh Hunt
51. 'Say what you have to say, what you will have to say, in the simplest, the most direct and exact manner
possible. was, in fact, a piece of advice given by
a) John Keats b) Matthew Arnold c) Walter Pater d) Ogden Nash
52. Thomas Grays poems The Bard and The Progress of Poesie are of
a) Pastoral Elegy b) Pindaric Ode c) Horatian Ode d) Epic statures
53. In the room women come and go Talking of Michaelangelo are the lines found in
a) The Wasteland b) Sweeny Agonistes
c) The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock d) None
54. Which of the following epithets cannot be applied to Robert Frosts poetry?
a) Regional b) Dramatic c) Conversational d) Neo-classical
59. All sounds, all colours and all forms call down among us certain disembodied powers whose footsteps over
our hearts we call emotions is a view of Yeats on
a) imagery b) symbolism c) word paint d) imagination
61. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. was criticism
against .
a) Matthew Arnold b) Ben Jonson c) T.S.Eliot d) Shakespeare
63. Maintaining an aesthetic distance of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching
after fact and reason is called
a) objective co-relative b) negative capability
c) willing suspension of disbelief
d) dissociation of sensibility
65. Life is a tale told by an idiot, fully of sound and fury, signifying nothing is an extract of
a) The Tempest b) Hamlet c) Romeo and Juliet d) Macbeth
66. The view that better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven was expressed by
a) Belial b) Chemos c) Mammon d) Satan
67. Here is Gods plenty was said by John Dryden about the works of
a) William Shakespeare b) Geo rey Chaucer
c) Ben Jonson d) Marlowe
68. The Ode to Evening was written by
a) Thomas Gray b) Wilkie Collins c) John Keats d) Shelley
71. Ours is essentially a tragic age . Which of the following novels begins with this?
a) Lady Chatterleys Lover b) Rainbow
c) Under the Greenwood Tree d) None of these
72. Name the biographer of the poets John Donne, Hooker and George Herbert.
a) Dr.Johnson b) James Boswell c) Isaac Waiton d) Lord Chester eld
74. Which 20th century poet alluded to the month of April in one of his poems?
a) W.H.Auden b) Spenser c) W.B.Yeats d) T.S.Eliot
77. Which pre-Raphaelite poet was discussed by Walter Pater in the book Appreciations?
a) Morris b) Coventry Patmore c) D.G. Rossetti d) James Thomson
78. The Mill on the Floss is the story of Maggie Tulliver and her brother ............
a) Tom b) Philip c) Dr. Kenn d) None of these.
80. The Peggotys appear in a novel by Charles Dickens. Identify the novel.
a) Bleak House b) Oliver Twist
c) The Old Curiosity Shop d) David Copper eld
83. Name the personality that translated Miltons Areopagitica into Bengali.
a) Tagore b) Sarojini Naidu
c) Dr.Shashi Bhushan Das Gupta
d) Aurobindo Ghosh
85. Mention the time gap that went between Geo rey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser.
a) 600 years b) 500 years c) 150 years d) 200 years
86. He was the senior-most among the Romantic poets and outlived all of them except Landor. He belongs
however by his style more to the eighteenth century and was an anachronism in the nineteenth. Who does the
word he refer to?
a) Thomas Moore b) Samuel Roger
c) Thomas Campbell d) Thomas Hood
87. Which one of the following characteristics of Victorian Age is not correct?
a) The tendency of literature is strongly ethical
b) Science exercises in uence.
c) The best known authors attack materialism and exact a purely ideal conception of life.
d) The literature of this age is removed from the practical problems of life.
88. One of John Mase elds works dismissed by critics was about an artiste. What is the title of the poem ?
a) The Everlasting Mercy
b) The Widow in the Byestreet
c) The Dauber d) Romola
89. Beowulf was composed in Northumbria by a Christian poet working on pagan material in
a) the early 6th century.
b) the end of the 4th century.
c) the end of the 7th century.
d) the early 3rd century.
90. I write plays with the deliberate purpose to convert the nation to my opinion. Which of the dramatists made
this bold avowal?
a) Pinero b) George Bernard Shaw
c) James Barrie d) William Congreve
92. The turn of the phrase The person the story is about is known as
a) Theme b) Protagonist c) Flat Character d) Round Character
93. Who among the following is the critic who nds the basic critical principle in ambiguity ?
a) T.S.Eliot b) Yvor Winters c) William Empson d) J.C.Ransom
96. I am the dials hand, still walking hand, you are the compass. Name the poet.
a) Thomas Carew b) John Donne c) Andrew Marvell d) George Herbert
99. Hearts are not head as a gift by hearts are earned is a line appears in Yeats poem
a) A Prayer for My Son
b) A Prayer for My Daughter
c) The Lake Isle of Innisfree
d. The Circus Animals Desertion
100. A star is gone ! a star is gone ! There is a blank in Heaven; Who wrote the above lines?
a) Charles Jeremiah b) Leigh Hunt c) John Keats d) Byron
101. a sigh for the vanished glory of the past and diagnosis of the spiritual distemper of the age appear to be
criticism on T.S. Eliots
a) Portrait of a Lady b) The Waste Land
c) Journey of the Magi d) A Cooking Egg
102. A Robin Red breast in a cage Puts all heaven in a Rage. Who sang these words?
a) John Keats b) William Blake c) P.B. Shelley d) Lord Byron
104. Tom Jones (1749) is Henry Fieldings magnum opus. Here magnum opus means
a) a great literary work b) a legend
c) mediocre literary work d) popular literary work
105. Which of the following novels is traditionally regarded as the rst epistolary English novel?
a) Tobias Smoletts Humphry Clinker
b) Fanny Burneys Evelina
c) Jane Austens Emma
d) Richardsons Virtue Rewarded
107. The play Witch of Edmonton was written by ?in collaboration with Ford and Rowley.
a) Ben Jonson b) Henry Chettle c) John Marston d) Thomas Dekker
108. The word that I regard is Ifor the other, I use but like my Globe and turn it round sometimes for my
recreation. Sir Thomas Browne wrote the above in his
a) The Garden of Cyrus b) Pseudodoxia
c) Hydriotaphia d) Religio Medici
111. The desire of the moth for the star of the night for the morrow. The devotion to something a far, from the
sphere of our borrow Name the poet of the above lines.
a) P.B.Shelley b) Lord Byron
c) William Butler Yeats d) Gerard Manly Hopkins
114. The name The Grand Lama of the Lake was ascribed to
a) Walter Scott b) Robert Southey c) Wordsworth d) Lord Byron
117. Jane Austens realistic English drawing rooms are theatres in which elemental human folly and inconsistency
play out their eternal comedy is an observation from
a) F.R. Leavis b) Cleanth Brooks c) T.S. Eliot d) David Cecil
120. Spare me the strength to leave you Now you are dead I must go, but my soul lies helpless Beside your bed.
The concept of the above
dialogue goes in apposition to
a) Keats Ode to a Nightingale
b) D.H.Lawrences Sons and Lovers
c) Hardys The Mayor of Casterbridge
d) Shakespeares Julius Caesar
121. The poem that foresees the end of the present civilization is
a) T.S.Eliots The Waste Land b) W.B.Yeats The Second Coming
c) W.B.Yeats Byzantium d) Miltons Paradise Lost
122. The word knell that occurs in the play Macbeth written by Shakespeare refers to
a) death-bell b) sirens song c) blood dimmed dagger d) whisper
124. No , no , the drink, the drink O my dear HamletThe drink, the drink ! Im poisoned The above words
reveal expose genuine remorse on the part of the speaker. Identify.
a) King Claudius b) Gertrude c) Ophelia d) Polonius
125. What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me? are the lines from a poem by Shelley. Identify it.
a) One Word Is Too Often Profaned
b) Loves Philosophy
c) A Lament d) The Cloud
127. The writer of The Man Eater of Malgudi was compared with .
a) Rudyard Kipling b) Jane Austen
c) Shakespeare d) Thomas Hardy
130. The author of Joan of Arc is also the author of Life of Nelson. Who is it?
a) Walter Scott b) Thomas Gray
c) George Crabbe d) Robert Southey
131. The Medal claims some commonality with Aurangzeb in terms of authorship. Find it.
a) Alexander Pope b) John Donne
c) John Dryden d) Rudyard Kipling
132. The author of Steel Glass also produced Supposes . Who is it?
a) Gowain Douglas b) Robert Henryson
c) William Dunbar d) George Gascoigne
133. Which of the following is popularly known as The Father of English Criticism?
a) T.S.Eliot b) Charles Lamb c) Dr.Johnson d) John Dryden
134. One of the following is not a member of Aesthetic Movement. Identify the gure.
a) Earnest Dowson b) Beardsley c) Lionel Johnson d) Campbell
136. The interim period of Common Wealth among the Literary Ages is
a) 16491660 b) 16601685 c) 16851688 d) 15581625
137. T.S.Eliot adopted The Legend of Holy Grail and The Fisher
King in his poem from the source known as
a) Paradise Lost b) From Ritual to Romance
c) Homers Iliad d) The Odyssey
138. The foremost man of all this world is a tribute given by Caesar to someone in a play. Name the character.
a) Antony b) Cinna c) Brutus d) Cassius
139. No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face The above lines are
found in the works of
a) William Wordsworth b) William Shakespeare
c) John Milton d) John Donne
143. Thrice Welcome, thrice blessed The word thrice is often used because
a) it is an auspicious number
b) it is the Hebrew superlative
c) it is the number of Holy Trinity
d) it is the number used oft in the New Testament
145. I dont call him a villain because it would be unparliamentary to do so is an example of the gure of speech
entitled . . .
a) Irony b) Paradox c) Euphemism d) Litote
147. A Thesis Play dealing with a speci c social problem and often o ering a solution occurs in
a) A Dolls House b) Waiting for Godot
c) My Fair Lady d) Strife
148. It is from this hour that I incline to date my Spiritual New Birth, or Baphometic Fire-baptism; perhaps I
directly there upon began to be a Man. We witness the above lines in
a) The Everlasting Nay b) The Everlasting Yes
c) Sartor Resartus d) Life of Schiller
149. Consequently, if a person cannot be happy without remaining idle, idle he should remain. It is a
revolutionary precept; but thanks to hunger and the workhouse, one not easily to be abused; and
within practical limits, it is one of the most incontestable truths in the whole Body of Morality. Whos brainwave is
the above text?
a) R.L. Stevenson b) Samuel Butler
c) George Gissing d) Thomas Hardy
150. The Fortunes of Nigel, St.Ronans Well, Woodstock , Kenilworth and Ivanhoe.are works of a celebrated
writer in The Age of
Wordsworth: The Novel . Who is he?
a) Scott b) Sidney Smith c) Marrayat d) Peacock
ANSWERS
1) a 2) d 3) c 4) b 5) b 6) a 7) b 8) c 9) a 10) b 11) a 12) a 13) c 14) b 15) d 16) b 17) d 18) c 19) a 20) b 21) d 22) a 23) c
24) a
25) b 26) a 27) a 28) c 29) b 30) d 31) c 32) c 33) a 34) c 35) a 36) b 37) b 38) c 39) c 40) a 41) a 42) c 43) c 44) c 45) b
46) b 47) b 48) d 49) b 50) b 51) c 52) b 53) c 54) d 55) c 56) d 57) c 58) c 59) b 60) a 61) d 62) a 63) b 64) a 65) d 66) d
67) b 68) b 69) d 70) a 71) a 72) c 73) a 74) d 75) c 76) b 77) c 78) a 79) c 80) d 81) b 82) b 83) c 84) b 85) d 86) d 87) d
88) c 89) c 90) c 91) a 92) b 93) c 94) b 95) a 96) a 97) b 98) c 99) b100) a 101) b102) b 103) b 104) a 105) d 106)a 107)
d 108) d 109)d 110) c 111) a112) d 113) b114) c 115) b116) d117) d 118) b 119) b 120) b 121) b122) a123) b124)
b125) b 126) b 127) a 128) d 129) a 130) d 131)c 132)d 133) d 134) d135) a136) a 137) b138) b139) d140) b141) c
142) b 143) b 144) b 145) a 146) b 147) a 148) a 149) a 150) a
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