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1. Name the character in Chaucer’s
Prologue to the Canterbury Tales,
who marries five times :
(A) The Knight
(B) The Squire
(C) The Wife of Bath
(D) The Miller
2. Ralf Roister Doister was written
by :
(A) Thomas Norton
(B) John Heywood
(C) Nicholas Udall
(D) Thomas Sackville
3. Euphues was written by :
(A) John Lyly
(B) Michael Drayton
(C) Richard Hakluyt
(D) John Marston
4. “Age cannot wither her, nor custom
stale her infinite variety.” About
whom is this said ?
(A) Helen of Troy
(B) Cleopatra
(C) Juliet
(D) Queen Elizabeth I

5. Who wrote The Book of the
Duchess ?
(A) Marlowe
(B) Chaucer
(C) Kyd
(D) Boccaccio
6. Which of the following is a
Restoration Comedy ?
(A) Love for Love
(B) Love’s Labour’s Lost
(C) The Changeling
(D) The City Madam
7. The first line of Paradise Lost is :
(A) Of man’s first disobedience and
the fall
(B) Of man’s prime disobedience
and the fall
(C) Of man’s initial disobedience
and the fall
(D) Of man’s last disobedience and
the fall
8. The Country Wife is a play written
by :
(A) William Wycherley
(B) Thomas Otway
(C) William Congreve
(D) George Etherege
9. Bosola is a character in :
(A) As You Like It
(B) The Duchess of Malfi
(C) Everyman in His Humour
(D) The Changeling
10. The characters Passion and Patience
appear in :
(A) The Pilgrim’s Progress
(B) Grace Abounding
(C) Paradise Regained
(D) Vertue

11. Swift’s A Tale of a Tub is :
(A) a pastoral elegy
(B) a social satire
(C) a romantic tale
(D) a religious allegory
12. Which of the following is an
epistolary novel ?
(A) Tristram Shandy
(B) The Vicar of Wakefield
(C) The Scarlet Letter
(D) Pamela
13. The sentence “A little learning
is a dangerous thing !” is
from :
(A) Essay of Dramatick Poesie
(B) An Essay on Criticism
(C) An Essay on Man
(D) An Essay Concerning Human
Understanding
14. The Bee and the Spider episode
occurs in :
(A) Gulliver’s Travels
(B) The Battle of the Books
(C) Moll Flanders
(D) Tom Jones
15. A gothic novel is :
(A) a novel of horror
(B) a novel of education
(C) a novel of art
(D) a detective novel
16. In which of the following does the
young wife choose the old husband
to escape the boredom of country
living ?
(A) The School for Scandal
(B) She Stoops to Conquer
(C) Count Basil
(D) Irene

17. ‘The Vision of Judgement” is a satire
on :
(A) S.T. Coleridge
(B) Robert Southey
(C) William Wordsworth
(D) P.B. Shelley
18. Fanny Price is a character
in :
(A) Sense and Sensibility
(B) Mansfield Park
(C) Persuasion
(D) Emma
19. Which of the following novels of
Walter Scott is set in the 18th
century ?
(A) Ivanhoe
(B) The Heart of Midlothian
(C) Talisman
(D) Kenilworth
20. Charles Lamb wrote under the pen
name :
(A) Eric Blair
(B) Elia
(C) Alpha of the Plough
(D) Amelia
21. In which novel of Charles Dickens
does the character Uriah Heep
appear ?
(A) Great Expectations
(B) Dombey and Son
(C) Hard Times
(D) David Copperfield
22. Lockwood is a character in :
(A) Shirley
(B) Wuthering Heights
(C) Jane Eyre
(D) Villette

23. Who is the young sheep farmer
refused as a husband by Bathsheba
Everdene in Far From the Madding
Crowd ?
(A) Francis Troy
(B) Mr. Boldwood
(C) Gabriel Oak
(D) Jan Coggan
24. Elizabeth Browning wrote :
(A) The Dark Lady of the
Sonnets
(B) Sonnets from the Portuguese
(C) Astrophel and Stella
(D) The Golden Gate
25. “Andrea del Sarto” is written
by :
(A) Tennyson
(B) Browning
(C) Arnold
(D) Rossetti
26. George Bernard Shaw was
influenced by :
(A) Strindberg
(B) Dostoevsky
(C) Ibsen
(D) Ionesco
27. The story “The Selfish Giant” is
written by :
(A) Oscar Wilde
(B) Tolstoy
(C) Hans Anderson
(D) Katherine Mansfield
28. The Gokulashtami festival is
referred to in :
(A) A Passage to England
(B) A Passage to India
(C) Kanthapura
(D) India : a Million Mutinies Now

29. In which poem is modern humanity
described as “stuffed men” with
“headpiece filled with straw” ?
(A) ‘Ash Wednesday’
(B) ‘The Hollow Men’
(C) ‘East Coker’
(D) ‘Little Gidding’
30. “They know and do not know, that
action is suffering/And suffering is
action ....” These lines appear in :
(A) All My Sons
(B) Desire Under the Elms
(C) Murder in the Cathedral
(D) The Hairy Ape
31. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eightyfour
is a novel about :
(A) colonialism
(B) totalitarianism
(C) puritanism
(D) male chauvinism
32. Which of the following is “an essay
on subject of women” ?
(A) A Room With a View
(B) A Room of One’s Own
(C) Room at the Top
(D) Jacob’s Room
33. “The Bear and The Squirrel” game
is referred to in the play :
(A) The Playboy of the Western
World
(B) Strife
(C) Look Back in Anger
(D) Waste
34. “Sir, No Man’s Enemy” is written
by :
(A) W.B. Yeats
(B) Wilfred Owen
(C) W.H. Auden
(D) Evelyn Waugh

35. Mary Turner is the protagonist in
the novel :
(A) Sandcastle
(B) The Inheritors
(C) The Portrait of a Lady
(D) The Grass is Singing
36. The Ambassadors is written
by :
(A) Henry James
(B) William Dean Howells
(C) Samuel Butler
(D) Graham Greene
37. “I’d like to get away from earth
awhile/And come back to it and
begin over.” Who wrote these
lines ?
(A) Emily Dickinson
(B) e.e. cummings
(C) Wallace Stevens
(D) Robert Frost
38. Billy Biswas is a protagonist in a
novel by :
(A) V.S. Naipaul
(B) Arun Joshi
(C) Bhabani Bhattacharya
(D) Rabindranath Tagore
39. Which of the following is
not a feature of Pre-Raphaelite
poetry ?
(A) sensuousness
(B) satire
(C) music
(D) visual beauty
40. Who is an Australian aborigine
writer ?
(A) Patrick White
(B) Judith Wright
(C) Alexis Wright
(D) Bruce Bennet

41. “The birth of the reader must be at
the cost of the death of the author”
is an assertion made by :
(A) Julia Kristeva
(B) Raymond Ticard
(C) Roland Barthes
(D) Z. Todorov
42. With whose theory are the
terms “irony” and “paradox”
associated ?
(A) Roland Barthes
(B) Mikhail Bakhtin
(C) Cleanth Brooks
(D) Allen Tate
43. “Deautomatisation” is a term used
by :
(A) The Prague School
(B) Russian Formalists
(C) French Deconstructionists
(D) American New Critics
44. Who has translated Derrida’s Of
Grammatology into English ?
(A) Ranjit Guha
(B) Homi Bhabha
(C) Gayatri Spivak
(D) Aijaz Ahmed
45. Eliot speaks of “dissociation of
sensibility” in his essay :
(A) ‘The Metaphysical Poets’
(B) ‘Tradition and the Individual
Talent’
(C) ‘The Function of Criticism’
(D) ‘Use of Poetry and Use of
Criticism’
46. Who considered poetry to be “the
best and highest fruit of human
culture” ?
(A) Sidney
(B) Dr. Johnson
(C) Wordsworth
(D) Arnold

47. “Scansion” means :
(A) the study of stress patterns in
poetry
(B) the study of sound patterns in
poetry
(C) the study of alliteration in
poetry
(D) the study of figures of speech in
poetry
48. “Night’s candles are burnt out” is an
example of :
(A) Metaphor
(B) Metonymy
(C) Onomatopoeia
(D) Pathetic fallacy
49. The term “enjambment” refers to :
(A) striding over of a sentence from
one line of poem to the next
(B) different number of syllables in
each line
(C) an over-use of emotive
language
(D) use of blank verse
50. “Inscape” and “Instress” are terms
used by :
(A) Robert Browning
(B) Lord Tennyson
(C) G.M. Hopkins
(D) Walter de la Mare

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