User talk:MEKAVEMAIAH

TEST ONE 1. Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” is based on _____________. - Boccaccio’s Decameron 2. ‘The Norman Conquest’  took place in the year ___________. - 1066	3. The name of the prioress in “The Canterbury Tales” is _________. - Eglentyne 4. “Piers the Plowman” was written by _________. - William Langland 5. “Morte d’ Arthur” is a prose romance by ___________. .	- Thomas Malory 6. ‘Rhyme Royal’  was introduced into English poetry by __________. - Geoffrey Chaucer 7.” Everyman” is an example of a ___________. - Morality play 8. “The Spanish Armada” was defeated in the year ________. - 1588 	9. Gloriana in “The Faerie Queene” represents ____________. - Queen Elizabeth 10. “Hieronimo is Mad Again” is the sub-title of ___________. - The Spanish Tragedy 11. Sidney’s “Apologie for Poetrie” is a reply to _____________. - The School of Abuse 12. Senecan tragedy of blood is based on the theme of __________. - revenge 13. “The Tempest” is a Shakespearean ____________. - Romance 14.’ The Forest of Arden’ appears in ___________. - As You Like It 15. Bacon’s “New Atlantis” is modelled on ___________. - Utopia 16. The Anatomy of Melancholy is a work written by __________. - Robert Burton 17. “Lycidas” mourns the death of ___________. - Edward King 18. Milton’s “On His Blindness” is _________ that laments his loss of eyesight. - a sonnet 19. There are _______ books in “Paradise Lost”. - 12 	20. The sub-title of Richardson’s “Pamela” is ___________. - Virtue Rewarded 21. Which poet wrote the line, “My love is like a red, red rose”? - Robert Burns 22. “The Lyrical Ballads” was published in the year ________. - 1798 	23. Whom does Keats call, “sylvan historian”? - Grecian Urn 24. “Culture and Anarchy” is a prose work by ___________. - Matthew Arnold 25. The character, ‘Pip’ is the protagonist of Dickens’s ____________. - Great Expectations

TEST TWO 1. ‘Eight iambic pentameter’ lines followed by an alexandrine is called ___________. - Spenserian stanza 2. What is Samuel Pepys chiefly remembered for? - diaries 3. Who wrote the philosophical treatise, “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”? - John Locke 4. Who does the spider represent in Swift’s “The Battle of the Books”? - Moderns 5. What is the sub-title of Hopkins’s poem, “The Windhover”? - To Christ Our Lord 6. ___________ is the narrator in “Wuthering Heights.“					- Nelly Dean 7. The essay “Quintessence of Ibsenism” was written by ___________. - G. B. Shaw 8. Which of Dickens’s characters dared to ask for more? - Oliver Twist 9. Wessex is associated with the novels of ____________. - Thomas Hardy 10. The protagonist of Eliot’s ” The Waste Land” is ___________. - Tiresias 11. _________ is the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. - George Eliot 12. John Osborne’s play “Look Back in Anger” was first performed in the year _____		- 1956 13. The theory of ‘mimesis’ was introduced by _____________. - Plato 14. The term “objective correlative” was introduced by Eliot in the essay ____ 	- Hamlet and His Problems 15. Horace Walpole’s “Castle of Otranto” is ___________ novel. - a Gothic 16. __________ is the author of “A Room of One’s Own”. - Virginia Woolf 17. In which poem does W. B. Yeats use the phrase, “a terrible beauty is born”? - Easter 1916 18. Who is the author of “Seven Types of Ambiguity”? - William Empson 19. “Daddy” is a confessional poem by _________. - Sylvia Plath 20. “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” was a paper      presented by ______  in 1966. - Jacques Derrida 21. “Life is like a dream”, is an example of ___________. - simile 22. The first section of Eliot’s The Waste Land is titled _____________. - The Burial of the Dead 23. “Hatless, I take off; // My cycle-clips in awkward reverence.” These lines are taken from ___________. - Church Going 24. Who is the protagonist in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man? - Stephen Dedalus 25. Frantz Fanon, in his book __________________, written during the Algerian struggle for independence, the  controversial introduction of which was written by Sartre,   said  “Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon. - The Wretched of the Earth

TEST THREE 1. The first English play in blank verse is __________. - Gorboduc 2. The writer of ‘Holy Sonnets’ is ___________. - John Donne 3. Who introduced ‘blank verse’ into English poetry? - Earl of Surrey 4.’ The Peasants Revolt’ took place in the year __________. - 1381 5. “Tottel’s Miscellany” was published in the year __________. - 1557 6. Who called Spenser “the poets’ poet”? - Charles Lamb 7. The line “If music be the food of love, play on” appears in Shakespeare’s _____. - Twelfth Night 8. The famous book “Shakespearean Tragedy” was written by ___________. - A. C. Bradley 9. The Metaphysical poets used the “carpe diem” philosophy which means ___________. - Seize the day 10. The major theme of Milton’s “Paradise Lost “is __________. - Fall of man 11. In “MacFlecknoe,” Dryden ridiculed his principal opponent _____. - Thomas Shadwell 12. The biographer of Dr. Samuel Johnson is ___________. - James Boswell 13. ‘Squire Allworthy’ is a country gentleman who appears in ____________. - Tom Jones 14. “Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience” were written by ____. - William Blake 15. Under what name does Lamb’s sister, Mary appear in his essays? - Bridget 16. What is the sub-title of “Waiting for Godot”? - A Tragi-comedy in Two Acts 17. ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ is a line from _____________. - Ode on a Grecian Urn 18. “The Confessions of a English Opium Eater” published in 1821 was written by_________. - Thomas de Quincey 19. ‘Maggie Tulliver’ is the central character in _____________. - Mill on the Floss 20. The protagonist of D. H. Lawrence’s “Sons and Lovers” is _____________. - Paul Morel 21. What is the sub-title of Hardy’s “Tess of the d’Urbervilles”? - A Pure Woman 22. “Fern Hill” is a poem of childhood memories by ___________. - Dylan Thomas 23. “Nineteen Eighty Four” is a dystopian novel by ___________. - George Orwell 24. Which novel ends with the words, ‘The horror, the horror’? - Heart of Darkness 25. The first regular English tragedy was ___________. - Gorboduc

TEST FOUR 1. Which was the first group of pilgrims to come to the Tabard Inn? - The Knight, The Squire and the Yeoman 2. In which language was John Gower’s “Speculum Meditantis” written? - French 3. ‘The heroic couplet’ was used for the first time in ___________. - The Legend of Good Women 4. What is the verse medium of Milton’s “Paradise Lost”? - blank verse 5. “Utopia” was first published in English in the year __________. - 1551 6. Under what name does Dryden speak in the essay, “Of Dramatick Poesie”? - Neander 7. The topographical poem “Cooper’s Hill” (1642) was written by _________. - John Denham 8. Who wrote the famous line, “God made the country and man made the town”? - William Cowper in “The Task” 9. In which poem do you find the line, “The paths of glory lead but to the grave”? - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 10. Who called Milton “the poetical son of Spenser”? - John Dryden 11. What are the two colours symbolically employed throughout the novel, “Tess of D’Urbervilles”? - white and red 12. How many lyrics are there in Tennyson’s “In Memoriam”? - 132 13. ‘Becky Sharp’ and ‘Amelia Sedley’ are characters in ____________. - Vanity Fair 14. ‘Nothing to be done’ is a line that is repeatedly found in _________. - Waiting for Godot 15. “World Within the World” is the autobiography of __________. - Stephen Spender 16. Which character represents Karl Marx in Orwell’s “Animal Farm”? - Old Major 17. The figure of speech in “Was this the face that launched a thousand ships” is_________. - synecdoche 18. W.B. Yeats received the Nobel Prize in the year _________. - 1923 19. “Gravity’s Rainbow” and “V” are the novels by __________. - Thomas Pynchon 20. Who wrote “Morphology of the Folk Tale”? - Vladimir Propp 21. “An Ode for Ben Jonson” was written by ___________. - Robert Herrick 22. “Culture and Society” and “The Long Revolution” are works by ______. - Raymond Williams 23. Roland Barthes’ essay “Death of the Author” was published in the year _____. - 1968 24. The major feminist text “The Second Sex” was written by ______________. - Simone de Beauvoir 25. “Madness and Civilization”, “The Birth of the Clinic”, and “The Order of Things” are works by __________. - Michel Foucault

TEST FIVE 1. “Cato” is a tragedy written by __________. - Joseph Addison 2. Who of the following wrote an ode on “the birth of Christ”? - John Milton 3. The comic character ‘Tony Lumpkin’ appears in ____________. - She Stoops to Conquer 4. Who said that Shakespeare is above all modern writers “the poet of nature”? - Dr. Johnson 5. Who criticises Sidney NOT draw upon in “Apologie for Poetrie”? - Longinus 6. Shaw’s “Apple Cart” exposes the unrealities of ___________. - democracy 7. “Brighton Rock” is a novel by ____________. - Graham Greene 8. In which Tale of “The Canterbury Tales” does Chaucer present the mob as the “stormy people”? - The Clerk’s Tale 9. Which is Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy? - Macbeth 10. “Alexander’s Feast”, or “the Power of Music” is an ode written by Dryden in celebration of _. - St. Cecilia’s Day 11. Which of the following poems by Browning is on the life of a musician? - Abt Vogler 12. The periodical “All the Year Round” was founded by __________. - Charles Dickens 13. What has been defined as “that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time”? - image, quotation from Ezra Pound 14. D. H. Lawrence’s “Women in Love” is the sequel of __________. - The Rainbow 15. Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass was” inspired by ___________. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 16. Eugene O’Neill is known for having introduced the techniques of _________ to American drama. - realism 17. Who wrote the famous “Life of Charles Dickens” in the 19th century? - John Forster 18. Who of the following is not a Yale critic? (a) Geoffrey Hartman (b) Harold Bloom (c) Paul de Man (d) Barbara Johnson 			- Barbara Johnson 19. The concept of Affective fallacy was clearly articulated in __________. - The Verbal Icon 20. “The Colossus” is a confessional poem by __________. - Sylvia Plath 21.” In Anatomy of Criticism”, Northrop Frye relates tragedy to ____. - autumn (Comedy Romance, Tragedy Satire) 22. “The Deconstructive Angel” is an essay by ____________. - M. H. Abrams 23. The title of “The Waste Land” was derived from ___________. - From Ritual to Romance 24.” In Gulliver’s Travels”, Lilliput stands for ___________. - England (Blefuscu — France) 25. The ‘Peggotty’ and ‘Micawber’ are characters in _______________. - David Copperfield

TEST SIX 1. In which year were the theatres closed down in England after the Civil War? - 1642 2. Which earlier work is the theme of Dryden’s “All for Love” based on? - Antony and Cleopatra 3. “The Vanity of Dogmatizing” was written by ________. - Joseph Glanville 4. Where do you find these lines: “True wit is Nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but never so well expressed?”																	- ”Essay on Man”, by Alexander Pope 5. “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” was written by _________. - John Locke 6. ‘Dr. Primrose’ is a character in _____________. - The Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith 7. Neo-classical satire was influenced by the Roman satirists _______ and ________. - Horace and Juvenal 8. “Moral Essays”, a series of 4 poems on ethical subjects, was written by __________. - Alexander Pope 9. Swift’s “The Battle of the Books” was written in support of his patron __________. - William Temple 10. Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary was published in the year ________. - 1755 11. ‘Blank verse’ was introduced in English literature in Surrey’s translation of _________. - Aeneid 12. In which novel did Thomas Hardy introduce ‘Wessex’? - Under the Greenwood Tree 13. ‘The Woman Writer’ and ‘the Nineteenth Century Imagination’ is the subtitle of the book ____________. - The Mad Woman in the Attic 14. The first mention of Shakespeare’s works can be found in __________. - Palladis Tamia or Wit’s Treasury 15. “Sonnets from the Portuguese” was written by ___________. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning 16. Which of the following is a curtal sonnet (10½ lines)? - Pied Beauty 17. Where did Satan hold a solemn council with the fallen angels? - Pandemonium 18. In which year was “Tottel’s Miscellany” published? - 1557 19. What is the name of the Wife of Bath in “Canterbury Tales”? - Alison 20. Which is the last tale in the “Canterbury Tales”? - The Parson’s Tale 21. Bacon wrote _______ essays in all. - 58 22. What is the name of the play within a play in “Hamlet”? - The Murder of Gonzago 23. The only literary epic in English is __________. - Paradise Lost 24. Which is a Christian humanistic epic? - The Faerie Queene 25. Donne wrote _____ Holy Sonnets. - 19

TEST SEVEN 1. Who said that Dryden and Pope are classics of our prose, not poetry? - Matthew Arnold 2. To whom is Pope’s “Dunciad” dedicated? - Jonathan Swift 3. Who is described by Pope as, “Willing to wound but afraid to strike”? - Addison (caricatured as Atticus in “Prologue to the Satires”) 4. The name assumed by Arnold in “Thyrsis” is __________. - Corydon 5. ‘Bathsheba Everdene’ is a character in __________. - Far From the Madding Crowd 6. “The Life and Death of a Man of Character” is the sub-title of ___________. - The Mayor of Casterbridge 7. The character ‘Lilith’ appears in Shaw’s play __________. - Back to Methuselah 8. In which poem does the line “To purify the dialect of the tribe” occur? - Little Gidding (Four Quartets) 9. ‘Savage John’ is a character in __________. - Brave New World 10. “The Moon and Sixpence”, a novel based on the life of the artist Paul Gauguin, is written by _____________. - Somerset Maugham 11. Which 1945 novel is a satire in fable form on Revolutionary and post Revolutionary Russia? - Animal Farm 12. Who wrote a famous study of Thomas Hardy, which became a statement of his own philosophy of art? - D. H. Lawrence 13. “Essay on Man” is a philosophical poem in heroic couplets by ___________. - Alexander Pope 14. Who translated Montaigne’s essays into English? - John Florio 15. Who first translated Longinus into English? - John Hall 16. The concluding line of Spenserian stanza is called __________. - Alexandrine 17. Who wrote the poem ‘Deserted Village’? -Oliver Goldsmith 18. The first sonnet in English was an adaptation of a sonnet by the Italian humanist_________. - Petrarch 19. A unit of three lines in a poem is called _______. - tercet 20. Which famous Elizabethan man of letters wrote the first masque in English, “The Masque of Blacknesse”? - Ben Jonson 21. The name of Belinda’s pet dog in Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock” is ________. - Shock 22. In which poem does the line, “We can die by it, if not live by love” appear? - Canonization 23. The meaning of the phrase ‘carpe diem’ is _________. - seize the day 24. ‘Asra’ poems were written by ________ as a tribute to his sweetheart. - Coleridge 25. What is the meaning of ‘agonistes’ in Milton’s poem “Samson Agonistes’’? - the wrestler, or champion

TEST EIGHT

1.Who wrote “The Citizen of the World”, a collection of letters claimed to be written by an imaginary Chinaman? - Oliver Goldsmith 2. ‘Bully Bottom’ is a character in __________. - A Midsummer Night’s Dream 3. Keats, Leigh Hunt and Hazlitt were ridiculed in Blackwood’s Magazine as _________. - Cockney School 4. In Wordsworth’s pastoral poem “Michael,” what is the name of the old farmer’s son who has left for the town in search of a job? - Luke 5. Who distinguishes between “mental consciousness” and “blood consciousness”( “sense” and “perception”), the latter of which is a major aspect of his novels? - D. H. Lawrence 6. Somerset Maugham’s autobiographical novel “Of Human Bondage” takes its title from _________. - Spinoza 7. The lusty London woman, Lady Bellaston is a character in ________. - Tom Jones 8. Carlyle describes __________ and __________ as Hero as Poet. - Dante and Shakespeare 9. ________ is the author of the twentieth century poem “I remember, I remember”. Philip Larkin (retelling of Thomas Hood’s poem) 10. The subtitle of Tess of the d’Urbervilles is _________. - A Pure Woman 11. The book “The Elizabethan World” Picture was written by ________________. - E. M. W. Tillyard 12. Chris Wallace’s “Crabbe” is a poet from ______________. - Australia 13. “Praeterita” is the unfinished autobiography of ___________. - Ruskin 14. The symbol “Sick Rose” was famously used by ________. - William Blake 15. The Life and Times of Michael K., the story of a simple, hare-lipped gardener set in the apartheid era, was written by __________. - J. M. Coetzee 16. James Dixon is the central figure in the 1954 comic campus novel ____________. - Lucky Jim 17. Who is the author of “Writing Degree Zero”? - Roland Barthes 18. “My Name is Red and Snow” are works by the Turkish writer _________. - Orhan Pamuk 19. Walter de la Mare belonged to the ________ School of Poets. - Georgian 20. Which novel begins, “I was born in the city of Bombay”? - Midnight’s Children 21. “In An Antique Land” is based on an anthropological project in _____. - Egypt 22. The satirical novel, “Catch-22”, set against World War II, was written by ______. - Joseph Heller 23. Who says his desire is “To follow knowledge like a sinking star, / Beyond the utmost bound of human thought”? - Tennyson’s Ulysses 24. Which of the following poems refers to a painting made by Fra Pandolf? - My Last Duchess

25. In which poem does Keats describe the contemporary world as “where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes few, sad, last gray hairs, Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies”? - Ode to a Nightingale

TEST NINE 1. Who wrote this Imagist-influenced poem: “so much depends / upon / a red wheel / barrow / glazed with rain / water / beside the white / chickens”? - William Carlos Williams 2. In which year was “Things Fall Apart” published? - 1958 3. Anna Wulf, the writer who records her life in four books, appears in ___. - Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook 4. _______ is an influential figure within the New Left, whose work laid the foundations of Cultural Studies, and who wrote novels, short stories and play along with pioneering critical texts like Marxism and Literature. - Raymond Williams 5. In which year did the first issue of “The Tatler” come out? - 1709, (It went on till 1711) 6. “Death is the end of life; ah, why Should life all labour be?”	 These lines are from ________. - Tennyson’s “The Lotos Eaters” 7. “The Ascent of F6” is a play by ________. - W. H. Auden 8. The postmodern work “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller” is written by ________. - Italo Calvino 9. Who ridiculed the Auden group of poets as “Macspaunday”? - Roy Campbell 10. Who is this line about: “Of remedies of love she knew perchance”? - Chaucer’s Wife of Bath 11. Who in The Canterbury Tales was hot and lecherous as a sparrow? - Summoner 12. Who in The Canterbury Tales was fond of playing a bagpipe? - Miller 13. Which character in “The Vicar of Wakefield” is supposed to be portrayal of Goldsmith’s father? - Dr. Primrose 14. John Hall, the Metaphysical poet, is known for his translation of _____. - Longinus’s On the Sublime 15. “Purchas, His Pilgrimage, which influenced Coleridge in writing Kubla Khan”, was written by ________. - Hakluyt. It was not written by, but based on Hakluyt’s works. 16. In which poem does Keats say, “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter”? - Ode on a Grecian Urn 17. ‘Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart.’ Who said this about whom? - Wordsworth about Milton 18. The character _________ in “The Faerie Queene” has been considered a personification of Sir Philip Sidney. - Redcrosse Knight 19. “Do Not Go Gentle into the Good Night” and “And Death Shall Have No Dominion” are poems by ________. - Dylan Thomas 20. Who accompanied Wordsworth on his visit to “Tintern Abbey”? - Dorothy 21. Who wrote this line: “My life closed twice before its close”? - Emily Dickinson 22. Who wrote the massive work, “An American Tragedy”? - Theodore Dreiser 23. Which poem begins thus: “Why did I write? What sin to me unknown Dipp’d me in ink, my parents’ or my own”? - An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot 24. In which work do you find these lines, “Sweet are the uses of adversity Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head”? - As You Like It 25. Which Shakespearean character says, “I am a man More sinned against than sinning”? - King Lear

TEST TEN 1.”Reliques of Ancient English Poetry” (1765), which contained 180 ballads in three volumes, was compiled by _______. - Thomas Percy 2. Thomas More’s ‘Utopia” was originally written in _________. - Latin 3. Who said a woman writer should killing the “Angel in the House”? - Virginia Woolf, in “Professions for Women” 4. ‘Bosola’ is a character who spies on the protagonist and is involved in her murder, in the play ________. - The Duchess of Malfi 5. In The World, the Text and the Critic, ____________ says, “Texts are in the world and hence worldly.” - Edward Said 6. The novel “Rich Like Us”, set in New Delhi in the turbulent time between the 1930s and 1970s, which follows the lives of Rose and Sonali, was written by _________. - Nayantara Sahgal 7. Who said ‘image’ is “an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time”? - Ezra Pound 8. _________ by Thomas Pynchon is set in the final months of the II World War, and the characters are ironically unaware of historical events such as the Holocaust. - Gravity’s Rainbow 9. Ngugi wa Thiongo’s “A Grain of Wheat” is set in __________ during the country’s struggle for independence. - Kenya 10. “The Female Quixote”, an imitation of Don Quixote, and a feminist commentary on women’s estrangement from male society, was written by __________. - Charlotte Lennox 11. The first life in Johnson’s “Lives of the Poets” was that of ______________. - Abraham Cowley

12. Chaucer’s “Troilus and Criseyde” and “Parliament of Fowles” were written in the metrical form __________. - Chaucerian stanza or Rime Royal 13. Which novel by Dickens is the story of an orphan writing about his life, finally becoming a gentleman in London? - Great Expectations 14. Who wrote the early Romantic poem, “The Grave”? - Robert Blair 15. Who famously critiqued Jane Austen for rejecting “even a speaking acquaintance with that stormy sisterhood” of     the    Bronte sisters”? -   (i.e.the Bronte sisters are referred to as “that stormy sisterhood”)Charlotte Bronte 16. Who calls poetry “a speaking picture with the end to teach and delight”? - Sidney, in “Apologie for Poetrie” 17. “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, // Are of imagination all compact”—These are lines from _______. - A Midsummer Night’s Dream 18. Who defined the Essay as “A loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece; not a regular and orderly   composition”? - Dr. Johnson 19. Where does Bacon say: “a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it”? - Of Truth 20. How many acts does the Irish play “Riders to the Sea have”? - one 21. Which fifteenth century English writer was imprisoned for fighting in the Wars of the Roses in support of the Yorkists? - Sir Thomas Malory 22. Who wrote What “Happens in Hamlet”? - Dover Wilson 23. A half-line of verse, followed and preceded by a caesura, is called __________. - hemistich 24. Into how many parts is “Divine Comedy” divided? - three: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso 25. Blank verse first appeared in English poetry in Surrey’s translation of ________. - Aeneid

TEST ELEVEN 1. In which language did Dante write “Divine Comedy”? - Latin 2. Which Jacobean poet wrote “An Ode to Himself”? - Ben Jonson 3. Thomas Occleve’s “The Regiment of Princes “mourns the death of ________. - Geoffrey Chaucer 4. The song “Full fathom five thy father lies” occurs in the play _______. - The Tempest 5. “Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage” — these lines occur in _________. - Macbeth 6. What genre does Shelley’s “Prometheus Unbound” belong to? - Poetic drama (Verse play) 7. Sue Bridehead is a character in ______. - Hardy’s “Jude the Obscure” 8. In which year was the “Globe Theatre built”? - 1599 9. George Eliot’s “Romola” is a historical novel set in the ________ century. - 15th 10. Samuel Butler’s mock heroic narrative poem “Hudibras” derives its name from ____. - “Faerie Queene” 11. The dystopian science fiction novel” Oryx and Crake” was written by the Canadian novelist __________. - Margaret Atwood 12. The book __________ by Michel Foucault is an anti-humanist excavation of the human sciences. - “The Order of Things” 13. Charles Dodgson wrote under the pen name ____________. - Lewis Caroll 14. Which is Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy? - “Macbeth “ 15. Lady Bracknell is a character in the play ________. - The Importance of Being Earnest 16. In which year was “Paradise Lost” published? - 1667 17. The epic novel “The Name of the Rose” is written by _______. - Umberto Eco 18. In which work does Spenser describe Chaucer as “the well of English undefiled”? - “The Faerie Queene” Book IV 19. Benedict Anderson’s book “Imagined Communities” was published in the year _____. - 1983 20. In which year was the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Beckett, assassinated? - 1170 21. Orhan Pamuk is a novelist from _________. - Turkey 22. “The Perishable Empire” and “Twice-born Fiction” are works by _______. - Meenakshi Mukherjee 23.” The Adding Machine” (1923), the first American Expressionist play, was written by ____. - Elmer Rice 24. Buck is the protagonist of a novel written by the American novelist, _________. - Jack London, “The Call of the Wild” 25. Which poem ends thus: “And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night”? - Arnold’s “Dover Beach”

TEST TWELVE 1. ______ by Wilson Knight is subtitled “Interpretations of Shakespearean Tragedy.” The Wheel of Fire. The title means “a chain of tortuous consequences that result from a single action.” Othello’s wheel of fire is his vulnerability to jealousy, for eg. 2. Which is Edward Bond’s political play influenced by Bertolt Brecht, which depicts an aging William Shakespeare concerned more with financial security than with art or the people around him? - Bingo 3. Which critic made scathing attacks on T. S. Eliot in the 1920s, wrote a standard introduction to Aristotle’s Poetics, and is the author of “The Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal”? - F. L. Lucas 4. Who coined the term “objective correlative”? - Washington Allston 5. Who introduced the phrase, “The Empire writes back to the centre”? - Salman Rushdie 6. Which poem has the following line: “We can die by it, if not live by love.”		- Canonization 7. The Victorian comic opera Patience that satirized the aesthetic movement was written by Gilbert and ________. - Sullivan 8. Which verse play by T. S. Eliot dealing with an individual’s opposition to authority, was written in response to the rising Fascism in Central Europe? - Murder in the Cathedral 9. Which is the sequel of Things Fall Apart? - No Longer at Ease 10. Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and Surfacing are examples for the postmodern genre termed by Linda Hutcheon as _________. - historiographic metafiction 11. Which is Shaw’s play based on the Don Juan legend? - Man and Superman 12. The concept of Ubermensch or Superman is related to ________. - Nietzsche 13. The passage beginning “All the world’s a stage” is spoken by- in As You Like It. - Jaques 14. To which country does the absurd playwright Eugene Ionesco belong? - Romania 15. The work Spectres of Marx was written by ________. - Jacques Derrida 16. Carew, Marvell and Suckling are ______ poets. - Cavalier 17. The verse play The Remorse was written by ________. Coleridge 18. Which poet, whose works were sharply criticized by Pope in Dunciad, collaborated with Dryden in completing the second part of Absalom and Achitophel? - Nahum Tate 19. What is the metrical form of Wordsworth’s The Prelude? - blank verse 20. Which book in Paradise Lost describes Satan’s journey to the Garden of Eden? - Book IV 21. Which novel by Dickens follows the life of a wealthy owner of the shipping company, whose dream is to have a son to continue his business? - Dombey and Son 22. The Famished Road is a Booker Prize winning novel by the Nigerian novelist ________. - Ben Okri 23. _________ is the author of the 16th century work Palace of Pleasure. - William Painter 24. The novel Magic Seeds, a sequel of Half a Life, is by the Nobel Laureate ___. - V. S. Naipaul 25. “Microcosmography” was written by the character writer _________. - John Earle

TEST THIRTEEN 1. The Wars of the Roses took place during the period _______. - 1455 - 1485 2. Beau Tibbs and Man in Black are characters that appear in _________. - The Citizen of the World 3. A New Way to Pay Old Debts is an English Renaissance play by _______. - Massinger 4. The character Parson Adams appears in ________. - Joseph Andrews 5. The anti-hero Manfred is a character in ____________. - The Castle of Otranto 6. ______ called Byron and Shelley the Satanic School, provoking Byron to reply in The Vision of Judgement. - Southey 7. Who does Wordsworth call “sweetest thing that ever grew”? - Lucy Gray 8. What is Act III of Shaw’s Man and Superman famously called? - Don Juan in Hell 9. Who of the following was not a member of the Georgian Poets? - Alfred Noyes 10. Which of the following poems uses the refrain “Nevermore”? - The Raven 11. Who is the author of “Song of Myself”? - Walt Whitman 12. Which Nobel Laureate was praised by the Swedish Academy for his affinity with Joseph Conrad? - V. S. Naipaul 13. The satire on contemporary spy novels, Our Man in Havana, is by ________. - Graham Greene 14. A. D. Hope, the poet and essayist with a satirical slant, belonged to ______. - Australia 15. Who Do You Think You Are? is a collection of short stories by _______. - Alice Munro 16. Pulitzer Prize is awarded by _______. - United States 17. _________ is a novel by Rohinton Mistry set in Mumbai during the Emergency. - A Fine Balance 18. The Sahitya Akademi award-winning poem Relationship was written by _____. - Jayanta Mahapatra 19. The Sleepwalkers is a one-act farce by _________. - Nissim Ezekiel 20. J. Hillis Miller’s “The Critic as Host” has been viewed as a reply to ________. - Abrams’s The Deconstructive Angel 21. The __________ School of critics pioneered Structural Linguistics. - Geneva 22. The feminist work ______ critiques male writers like D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller and Norman Mailer. - Sexual Politics 23. In Orientalism and After, _______ critiques Edward Said’s concept of Orientalism for being self-contradictory. -Aijaz Ahmed 24. The metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable is called _____. - trochee 25. Which figure of speech is used in the following lines? “Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral, He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honourable man.”   		-  Irony

TEST FOURTEEN 1. Arrange the following books chronologically: (i) Astrea Redux 							- Anatomy of Melancholy 1621 (ii) Paradise Regained 							- Astrea Redux 1660 (iii) The Way of the World 						- Paradise Regained 1671 (iv) Anatomy of Melancholy						- The Way of the World 1700 2. Arrange the following authors chronologically: (i) Samuel Beckett							- Graham Greene (ii) Peter Ackroyd							- Samuel Beckett (iii) John Fowles 							- John Fowles (iv) Graham Greene							- Peter Ackroyd 3. Which character in The Faerie Queene represents Mary Queen of Scots? - Duessa 4. In which of the following plays does Capulet’s Orchard figure? -  Romeo and Juliet 5. The poem The Mistress, the last and most violent expression of the love affectation of the 17th century, is    by    _______. - Abraham Cowley 6. In which work does Jonathan Swift show a public indignation at England’s indifference to Ireland? - Drapier’s Letters 7. Who praised Addison’s style as “the model of the middle style”? - Samuel Johnson 8. Who wrote this? “Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay ye low? Wherefore weave with toil and care The rich robes your tyrants wear?”           					 -  Shelley 9. What is the sub-title of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre? - An Autobiography 10. The Shadow of the Glen and The Well of Saints are plays by _______. - J. M. Synge 11. Who is the author of the novel Jill, set in Oxford during the II World War? - Philip Larkin 12. Roman a Clef is a French term that means _______. - a novel with a key 13. The title of A Woman Killed with Kindness is an example of ________. - paradox 14. What is meant by a feminine ending of a line of verse? - closing with an extra unstressed syllable 15. H. W. Longfellow and J. R. Lowell are called the _________. - Brahmin Poets 16. The Great Gatsby, a 1925 novel that critiques the American Dream, is by _______. - F. Scott Fitzgerald 17. Chief Nanga is a minister of culture, representing the old style of politics, in the novel. - A Man of the People 18. Who among the following writers is from Kenya? - Ngugi wa Thiong’o 19. The concept of “global village” was propounded by ________. - Marshall McLuhan 20. The play A Dance of the Forests (1960) is a half-satirical celebration of Nigerian Independence written by ________. - Wole Soyinka 21. “Banjo” is the pseudonym of the Australian poet ________. - A. B. Paterson 22. A Bend in the Ganges, a novel that depicts the violence that erupted during the partition of India, was written by   _________. - Manohar Malgonkar 23. Who said: “Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of      elaborate   writing”? - Dryden 24. Who stated that literary meaning has four functions: sense, feeling, tone and intention?I. - A. Richards 25. Which of the following critics was influenced by Kant’s Critique of Judgement? - Wolfgang Iser

TEST FIFTEEN 1. Which dramatist had the avowed aim “to force the public to reconsider its morals,” though he was attacked by    T. S. Eliot for moral degeneracy? - Philip Massinger 2. Donne’s the two “Anniversaries” were written for ________. - Sir Robert Drury, his chief patron. The two anniversaries were An Anatomy of the World and Of the Progress of the Soul 3. ______ is Keats’s poem modelled on Paradise Lost. -  “Hyperion” 4. Who of the following writers did the Bloomsbury group not include? - A. C. Bradley 5. Repetition of the same idea in different expressions to produce a dramatic effect is called ____. - Tautology 6. The novel in which standard components like plot, characterization and time-sequence are dissolved is called ________. - Nouveau roman 7. Which of the following is not a dramatic monologue? - Tithonus 8. “He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul.” Who said this about whom? - Dryden on Shakespeare 9. Which one of the following poems is written in Spenserian Stanza? - Adonais 10. A prominent practitioner of Archetypal Criticism is-- 				-  Maud Bodkin 11. Who wrote this line: All human things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey? - Dryden 12. Which one of the following offered a good-humored satire on the Gothic novel? - Northanger Abbey 13. Who said, “The language of the age is never the language of poetry”? - Gray 14. Who invented the Curtal sonnet?Hopkins, sonnet of 10 ½ lines. - Pied Beauty, Peace and Ash Boughs 15. In which countries are E. M. Forster’s novel A Room with a View set? - Italy and England 16. Which of these is by Cecil Day Lewis? - The Magnetic Mountain 17. In which novel by Anita Desai is Maya is the central character? - Cry, the Peacock. 18. Which of the following is not a short story by Edgar Allan Poe? - The Mezzotint is by M. R. James 19. Aurobindo’s epic, Savitri is in which stanzaic form? - Blank verse 20. Who wrote the play The Return of Ulysses? - Robert Bridges 21. Who criticized Georgian poetry as “the poetry of Rainbows, Cuckoos, Daffodils, and timid hares”? - T. S. Eliot 22. Who said that classicism is “order in beauty” and that romanticism is the “addition of strangeness to beauty”? - Walter Pater 23. The Ideogrammic Method was associated with ________. A.	 Ezra Pound, the technique of dealing with abstract ideas through concrete images 24. “The White Tiger” in the novel of that name is ________. - a nickname 25. Harold Fromm is associated with __________. - Eco-criticism

TEST SIXTEEN 1. Which among these works is by Graham Greene? - The End of the Affair, it is set in London, just after the II World War. It is the last of Greene’s Catholic novels. 2. Who wrote the play, The Entertainer? - John Osborne. It is about an angry middle-aged man Archie Rice, a failing music hall performer 3. “I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.”      These lines are taken from which work? - “The Wasteland” 4. Who wrote the epic poem, “The Wanderings of Oisin”? -W.B. Yeats. This work has a strong Pre-Raphaelite tone. 5. Who created the fictional character Natty Bumppo? - James Cooper 6. Which is the religious work of Jonathan Swift? - The Tale of a Tub 7. “Reflections on the Revolution in France”, one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the - French Revolution, was written by whom?Burke 8. Which event marks the beginning of the French Revolution? - The fall of the Bastille 9. Which is Charles Dickens’s last and unfinished work? - The Mystery of Edwin Drood 10. The official magazine of the American Transcendental Movement. - The Dial

11. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife” is the beginning of the novel, ________. - Pride and Prejudice 12. Who composed the poem “The Lady of the Lake”?Walter Scott. - Based on Arthurian legends 13. Who famously retold the popular nursery tale, “Three Bears”? - Southey 14. Which of the following is an elegy on the death of Abraham Lincoln? - “O Captain! My Captain” 15. In which of these plays does the character Shakespeare appear? - Bingo 16. Who wrote the play Heartbreak House? - Bernard Shaw. This bold mix of farce and tragedy set on the eve of the IWW lampoons British society as it blithely sinks towards disaster. 17. Which American playwright’s debut work is No Villain? - Arthur Miller 18. Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as the poet laureate in which year? - 1850 19. Who composed the epic novel/poem “Aurora Leigh”? - Elizabeth Browning. Nine books, the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl. 20. A Study of Provincial Life is the subtitle of which work? - Middlemarch 21. “The course of true love never did run smooth”. This line appears in which Shakespeare play? - A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Lysander says this. 22. Who wrote the work Apologia Pro Vita Sua? - Cardinal Newman, Latin for A Defence of One’s Life 23. Who composed the children’s poem “Macavity, The Mystery Cat”? - Eliot 24. Byron’s Don Juan has how many completed cantos? - 16 25. The 1798 edition of The Lyrical Ballads start with which poem? - Ancient Mariner

TEST SEVENTEEN 1. Amoretti contains _______ sonnets. - 89 2. Which of the following plays has a play within a play?T				-  he Spanish Tragedy 3. _______ is the only literary (secondary) epic in English. - Paradise Lost 4. How many Holy Sonnets did John Donne write? - 19 5. Which 17th century writer is best-known for having rewritten King Lear with a comic ending? - Nahum Tate 6. ________ wrote the sequel to Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel in 1682 to which Dryden contributed 200 lines. - Nahum Tate 7. In the first edition of the Lyrical Ballads (1798), there are _____ poems by Wordsworth, and ______ poems by Coleridge. - 19, 4 8. The subtitle of Browning’s “Andrea del Sarto” is _________. - The Faultless Painter 9. Sprung Rhythm is the rhythm of ______. - Old English poetry 10. All for Love is written in ________. - blank verse 11. “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” is a _______ by Keats. - sonnet 12. _________ is a city-comedy by Ben Jonson, George Chapman and Marston, that offended King James1 for its anti-Scottish references. - Eastward Ho 13. The idea of the Tabula Rasa put forward by the Enlightenment thinker John Locke is central to ___. - empiricism 14. Closet Drama, which is meant for reading alone, was popular during the _______ period. - Romantic 15. Who of the following is not attacked by Pope in The Dunciad? - Joseph Addison 16. “St. Agnes’ Eve” is a poem by _______. - Tennyson 17. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was greatly influenced by the poetry of ______. - Keats 18. ________ is known as the English Virgil. - Lydgate 19. ______ was an early English comedy written by a schoolmaster to be performed by his students, which illustrates the early Renaissance belief in the educational advantages of acting. - Ralph Roister Doister 20. The first blank verse tragedy in English is ______. - Gorboduc 21. The first pastoral romance in English is _________. - Sidney’s Arcadia 22. A.C. Bradley’s Shakespearean Tragedy consists of _____ lectures. - 10 23. The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog is a collection of 13 stories by _______. -Dylan Thomas 24. Isabel Archer is the protagonist of a novel by ________, which explores the differences between the New World and the    Old. -  Henry James. The novel is The Portrait of a Lady 25. The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was first serialized in ________. - The Egoist

TEST EIGHTEEN 1. The line “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven” appears in _______. - Paradise Lost 2. Astrophel is a pastoral elegy written by Spenser in memory of _______. - Sidney 3. The Second Nun’s Tale in The Canterbury Tales recounts the legend of ________. - St Cecilia 4. “Song for St Cecilia’s Day” by Dryden, which glorifies music, is _______. - an ode 5. Bertolt Brecht’s play Mother Courage and Her Children is a plea against ______. - war 6. The plays of W. B. Yeats were influenced by _________. - Japanese theatre, called Noh 7. Who said, “The hero of Shakespeare’s great classical trilogy is Rome”? - Wilson Knight 8. The Battle of Philippi features in ____________. - Julius Caesar 9. The Battle of Actium waged at sea appears in ___________. - Antony and Cleopatra 10. Circulating libraries came into vogue in Britain during the ________. - 1780s 11. Women Beware Women, a play by Middleton, uses the device of the game of ________. - chess 12. The fictional character, _________, is based on the real life person Dr. Joseph Bell. - Sherlock Holmes 13. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776) was written by the 18th century historian _________. Edward Gibbon 14. “When sorrows come -they come not single spies but in battalions,” is a quote from __________. - Hamlet 15. “The Bishop Orders his Tomb,” is a poem by ___________. - Browning 16. “I awoke one morning and found myself famous. ...” are words of _________. - Byron 17. Tennyson’s In Memoriam was written over a period of _____ years. - 17 18. “Abou Ben Adhem” is a poem by the 19th century British poet _________. - Leigh Hunt 19. Epipsychidion is an autobiographical poem by _________. P. B. Shelley 20. Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick is dedicated to __________. - Nathanial Hawthorne 21. Which of the following novels has extended the use of semiotics to fiction, and combined various genres such as     literary theory, medieval studies, mystery, and biblical exegesis? - The Name of the Rose 22. The revolutionary play A Raisin in the Sun, which defuses idealistic views of race and gender relations, was written by __________. - Lorraine Hansberry 23. The Blue Stocking Circle/ Ladies were a group of women who were active in the second part of __ century. - 18th 24. Who said, “Satan is the real hero of Paradise Lost”? - Dryden 25. “Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,” is a line from _________. - Doctor Faustus

TEST NINETEEN 1. ________ is set against the Second World War, and the Partition of India, and has an unnamed narrator who admires his uncle Tridib. - The Shadow Lines, by Amitav Ghosh 2. On which of the following novels is Deepa Mehta’s 1998 film Earth based? - Ice Candy Man, by Bapsi Sidhwa 3. Gita Mehta’s A River Sutra is a collection of stories depicting the diversity of the Indian society, united by the motif of the ________ River. - Narmada 4. Which novel depicts the story of a young Indian woman in the United States who is struggling to adapt to the American way of life in order to be able to survive? - Jasmine 5. ______ is set in Mumbai during the Emergency and follows the lives of Dina Dalal, Ishvar Darji, his nephew Omprakash Darji and the young student Maneck Kohlah? - A Fine Balance 6. In which of the following novels is Moraes Zogoiby the narrator? - The Moor’s Last Sigh 7. _________ is the first Indian playwright in English to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1998? - Mahesh Dattani 8. J.M. Coetzee’s novel, Foe is a reworking of ________. - Robinson Crusoe 9. Who is the author of the collection of critical essays, The Perishable Empire? - Meenakshi Mukherjee 10. Which of the following novels by Raja Rao is semi-autobiographical and a modern rendering of the Mahabharata   legend of Satyavan-Savitri? - The Serpent and the Rope, where the serpent is illusion and the rope is reality. 11. In which novel do you find the character Moorthy, an idealist and supporter of ahimsa and satyagraha, who wants to cross the traditional barriers of caste? - Kanthapura 12. Who wrote the famous trilogy, The Village, Across the Black Waters, and The Sword and the Sickle? - Mulk Raj Anand 13. R. K. Narayan uses the Bhasmasura Myth in the novel, _________. - The Man Eater of Malgudi 14. What is the name of the tour guide in Swami and Friends, who becomes a spiritual guide in the novel, The Guide? - Raju 15. The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is the autobiography of ______. - Nirad C. Chaudhuri 16. The poems of Gitanjali were translated into English by _________. - Rabindranath Tagore 17. The poet Christopher Okigbo hailed from ________. - Nigeria. - He was a friend of Achebe and was killed in the Nigerian Civil War. 18. Who of the following created the character, Arthur Sammler? - Saul Bellow, in Mr. Sammler’s Planet 19. Pablo Neruda is a poet from _______. - Chile 20. Who wrote the famous work that begins “There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is       suicide”? - Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus 21. Who created the character Mersault who shoots an Arab on a beach without reason or motivation? - Albert Camus, in The Outsider (or The Stranger) 22. Who of the following is a Holocaust writer? - Elias Canetti 23. Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor are associated with ________. - negritude 24. Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage comprises _____ cantos. - 4 25. The seminal 1947 essay “What is Literature?” was written by ________. - Jean Paul Sartre

TEST TWENTY 1. Which of the following novels by Virginia Woolf follows in soliloquies the lives of six persons from childhood to old age? - The Waves 2. Which of the following is a “memory play”? - The Glass Menagerie 3. Who is the author, The Western Canon, a survey of major literary works from post-Roman Europe? - Harold Bloom 4. The epic poem The Song of Hiawatha featuring a Native American hero is by ____. - H. W. Longfellow 5. George Lamming, Derek Walcott and Jamaica Kincaid are writers from _______. - The Caribbean Islands 6. Which novel, set against the II World War, has the protagonist Captain John Yossarian? - Catch-22 7. Who wrote these lines? We live in an old chaos of the sun, // Or old dependency of day and night, Or island solitude, unsponsored, free, // Of that wide water, inescapable. - Wallace Stevens, in “Sunday Morning” 8. Who said the famous statement, “A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”? - Gertrude Stein 9. Who created the 16-year-old character Holden Caulfield who runs away from home to discover himself? - J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye 10. Who explored the themes of mafia, violence, crime and family bondage in the monumental novel The Godfather? - Mario Puzo 11. Who wrote the novel To Kill a Mockingbird featuring the character Atticus Finch? - Harper Lee 12. Jill and A Girl in Winter are novels by ________. - Philip Larkin 13. Who wrote the autobiographical novel, On the Road? - Jack Kerouac 14. What is the name of the protagonist in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House? - Nora 15. The dystopian novel ________ overturns H. G. Wells’s scientific optimism. - Brave New World 16. Which poet uses the symbol of the bog in his poems, the wide unfenced county millions of years old, the starting-point for his exploration of the past? - Seamus Heaney 17. Who of the following created the character Oskar who at the age of three resolves not to grow, and becomes obsessed with his drum? - Gunter Grass 18. Who wrote July’s People, a futuristic novel about white family fleeing from war-torn Johannesburg, seeking refuge with their African servant in his village? - Nadine Gordimer 19. Who wrote the multi-generational Magic Realist story of the Buendia family, who live in the town Macondo? - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 20. Anne Frank’s Diary was written during the ____________. - II World War 21. Who wrote the famous essay, “Two Cheers for Democracy”? - E. M. Forster 22. Who said, “The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice”? - T. S. Eliot, in “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 23. Who wrote the poem “'Safe in their Alabaster Chambers”? - Emily Dickinson 24. Which novel begins thus: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”? - A Tale of Two Cities 25. Which novel begins with the line, “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen”? - Nineteen Eighty Four

TEST TWENTY ONE 1. In which year did the first edition of Hopkins’s poetry come out? - 1918 2. Hopkins’s “terrible sonnets” are characterized by _________. (a) technical innovation (b) religious crisis (c) melancholy (d) all of these			- ans: all of these 3. What according to Hopkins is the only lasting thing in poetry? - inscape 4. Who was the editor of the first edition of Hopkins’s poetry? - Robert Bridges 5. What was Hopkins’s name for the common English rhythm as opposed to the new rhythm he introduced into his poetry? - running rhythm 6. What poetic device did Hopkins derive from Welsh language and poetry? - consonant rhythm 7. Name the 13th century Franciscan religious thinker whose philosophy had a profound influence on Hopkins’s thought. - Duns Scotus 8. Which 19th century poet is famous for his predilection for Anglo-Saxon words? - G. M. Hopkins 9. What according to Hopkins is the very soul of art? - inscape 10. According to Hopkins, ______ is the impression or awareness that is laid deep in the mind by inscape. - instress 11. ___________ is a sonnet by Hopkins that was inspired by his work as a parish priest in visiting the sick and the dying. - Felix Randall 12. Where is this line from: “Glory be to God for dappled things”? - Pied Beauty 13. Which 19th century reformist movement influenced Hopkins? - Oxford Movement 14. In which poem do you have the following lines: “All changed, changed utterly: // A terrible beauty is born.”? - Easter 1916 15. What is Yeats’s symbol of the antithetical era in “The Second Coming”? - rough beast 16. Name Yeats’s long narrative poem which draws on Gaelic legends. - The Wanderings of Oisin 17. In which poem does Yeats prophesy the birth of an era of anarchy? - The Second Coming 18. Which poem by Yeats combines his personal views and impressions with the customs and beliefs of Christian Ireland? - The Circus Animals’ Desertion 19. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst // Are full of passionate intensity.Where does Yeats thus criticize society? - The Second Coming 20. By what name are the seven poems by Yeats called, that are based on a real-life old peasant woman, Cracked Mary? - Crazy Jane Poems 21. Who of the following was not a major influence on T. S. Eliot? - Balzac 22. Which of the following poems of Eliot deals with the concept of time? - Burnt Norton 23. The epigraph to “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is taken from ________. - Dante’s Inferno 24. In which plays by Eliot is the protagonist pursued by the mythical Eumenides? - The Family Reunion. Eumenides are mythical avenging Furies. 25. In which of these plays is the Chorus an integral part, with its voice changing and developing, offering comments about the action and providing a link between the audience and the characters and action, as in Greek drama? -	Murder in the Cathedral

TEST TWENTY-TWO 1. ___________ is regarded as a palinode (retraction of a statement from an earlier poem) to Yeats’s  poem   “September   1913”. - Easter 1916 2. Yeats’s poem “No Second Troy” is an angry attack on _________. - Maud Gonne 3. ______ is Yeats’s daughter, for whom “A Prayer for My Daughter” was written. - Anne 4. In the sonnet ______, Yeats presents two modes of thought—western intellectual and oriental mystic. - Meru 5. In which poem does Yeats give a vignette of himself as a “sixty year old smiling public man”? - “Among School Children” 6. It was ______ who brought French symbolism to the attention of Yeats. - Arthur Symons 7. Yeats’s poem “Byzantium” is a response to the criticism of its companion piece “Sailing to Byzantium” by _______. - T. Sturge Moore 8. In which literary magazine was The Waste Land first published in England? - The Criterion 9. Eliot took the words of the dedication of The Waste Land from ______. - Purgatorio, in Dante’s Divine Comedy 10. ________ parodied Ash Wednesday as Cinder Thursday?Herbert Palmer 11. Who condemned The Waste Land as a “crossword puzzle of synthetic literary chronology, of spurious verbal algebra”? - Wyndham Lewis 12. From where did Eliot take the title The Waste Land? The Legend of the Fisher King described in From Ritual to Romance by Jessie Weston 13. From where did Eliot take the epigraph of The Waste Land? - The Satyricon by Petronius 14. Which is the shortest section of The Waste Land? - Part IV, Death by Water 15. _________ is Eliot’s first published poem. - The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock 16. In the poem ________ Eliot gives us his interpretation of the birth at Bethlehem. - The Journey of the Magi 17. The source for the story of Philomel in The Waste Land is_________. - Ovid’s Metamorphoses 18. In which part of The Waste Land does Eliot refer to St. Augustine’s visit to Carthage? - Part III, The Fire Sermon 19. Eliot took the legend of the Holy Grail for The Waste Land from _______. - From Ritual to Romance 20. The early stories in Joyce’s Dubliners have _________ as protagonists. - children 21. ________ is the only play published by James Joyce. - Exiles 22. Krapp’s Last Tape is a famous play by _________. - Samuel Beckett 23. Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, who is the central character in the Rabbit series of novels, was created by _________. - John Updike 24. Who of the following wrote a novel under the pen name “Victoria Lucas”? - Sylvia Plath 25. The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is awarded to ________ authors. - American

TEST TWENTY THREE 1. Which are the Four Quartets? - Burnt Norton, East Coker, Dry Salvages, Little Gidding 2. Eliot declared himself a ________ in literature, an Anglo Catholic in religion and a Royalist in politics. - classicist 3. In which essay has Eliot presented the famous “catalyst analogy”? - Tradition and the Individual Talent 4. T.S. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize in the year ________. - 1948 5. _______ by Eliot was originally intended as the prologue to The Waste Land. - Gerontion 6. Which part of The Waste Land has the line “HURRY UP, PLEASE, IT’S TIME”? - Part 2 A Game of Chess 7. “This is the way the world ends // Not with a bang but with a whimper.” These lines appear in which poem? - The Hollow Men 8. Which are the German operas from which Eliot has quoted in The Waste Land? - Gotterdammering and Tristan and Isolde 9. Eliot’s poem Marina focuses on the Recognition Scene in Shakespeare’s _______. - Pericles, Prince of Tyre 10. Who of the following wrote a poem set in the Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels? - W. H. Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts 11. Auden’s “Birthday Poem” is addressed to ________. - Christopher Isherwood 12. In ______, Auden satirizes modern society where the individual is unimportant. - The Unknown Citizen 13. Which English poet was a great influence on Philip Larkin? - Hardy. Devotion to English life and landscapes, somber mood, refusal to entertain illusions 14. Auden’s poem __________ re-imagines Homeric descriptions in the 20th century. - The Shield of Achilles 15. Who is the author of the poem “In Memory of Sigmund Freud”? - W. H. Auden 16. ________ by Stephen Spender expresses the tension between the poet’s love for the village and his admiration for the inventions of modern science. - The Pylons 17. In which poem does Stephen Spender expatiate his ideological positions on government, economics, and education? - An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum 18. Dylan Thomas’s poem ________ celebrates the poet’s thirtieth birthday. - Poem in October 19. What does “toad” in Philip Larkin’s poem “Toads” signify? - work 20. In ______, Larkin talks about his boring routine and the unavoidability of death. - Aubade 21. In ____, Ted Hughes gives an apocalyptic, cynical and surreal view of the universe. - Crow 22. Who wrote Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being that explores the idea that Shakespeare has a “myth” of his own? - Ted Hughes 23. Which long poem by Seamus Heaney, which describes a pilgrimage, explores the theme of spiritual and socio- political identity? - Station Island 24. Who of the following has famously translated Beowulf? - Seamus Heaney 25. Which poet, well-known for writing about drug use, homosexuality and bohemian lifestyle, wrote The Man With Night Sweats? - Thom Gunn

TEST TWENTY FOUR 1. In the poem ________, Dylan Thomas re-creates the innocence and happiness of his childhood days on his aunt’s farm. - Fern Hill 2. Which pessimistic poem by Philip Larkin is a meditation on the closeness of death, its randomness and its inevitability? - Ambulances 3. Who wrote the poem “The Fall of Rome” which draws a comparison between the fall of Roman civilization and the decline of the modern? - W. H. Auden 4. In which poem do you find the lines, “The words of a dead man // Are modified in the guts of the living”? - Auden’s “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” 5. Whose painting is described in Thom Gunn’s poem “In Santa Maria del Popolo”? - Michelangelo (The painting is The Conversion of St. Paul) 6. Which poem ends “Nothing has changed since I began. My eye has permitted no change. I am going to keep things like this”? - Hawk Roosting 7. Which animal/bird does Ted Hughes glorify as majestic and eminent in contrast to the apes, parrots, tigers and lions, whose lives, like those of contemporary human societies, have become mechanized and reduced to mere biological functions? - Jaguar 8. Which is Ted Hughes’s poem about writing a poem? - The Thought-Fox 9. Which English poet held Fascism to be the end of an ancient tradition and broadcast Fascist propaganda over Rome Radio during the Second World War? - Ezra Pound 10. Which movement was co-founded by Ezra Pound with Wyndham Lewis? - Vorticism 11. Ezra Pound’s “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” comprises ______ short poems. - eighteen 12. Which poem by Ezra Pound addresses his own alleged failure as a poet? - Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 13. The career of which Nobel laureate, who has written the famous Canopus sequence of science fiction novels, can be divided into the Communist phase, the psychological phase and the Sufi phase (the last explored in the Canopus novels)? - Doris Lessing 14. Which British writer, considered one of the last modernists, was a student, assistant and friend of James Joyce? - Samuel Beckett 15. D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love is a sequel to ________. - The Rainbow 16. D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers is dedicated to _________. - Edward Garnett, who edited the novel heavily. 17. In which novel is the protagonist paralleled with Septimus Warren Smith, who has returned from the First World War bearing deep psychological scars? - Mrs. Dalloway 18. What is the name of the artist who struggles to paint in the midst of the family drama, in To the Lighthouse? - Lily Briscoe 19. Which novel by Virginia Woolf satirizes the techniques used by historical biographers? - Orlando: A Biography 20. Which is Woolf’s last novel that sums up her chief preoccupations in a symbolic narrative that encompasses almost the entire English history? - Between the Acts 21. Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter and The End of the Affair, novels in which religion plays a large part, are called ___________. - Catholic novels 22. Which of the following is a major theme in the poems of Elizabeth Jennings? - Roman Catholicism 23. To the Ends of the Earth is a trilogy of novels written by __________. - William Golding 24. The dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange was written by __________. - Anthony Burgess 25. Which twentieth century British novelist wrote novels set in Malaya? - Anthony Burgess

TEST TWENTY FIVE 1. James Joyce’s Dubliners is a collection of _____ stories. - 15 2. James Joyce’s Ulysses was first serialized in the American journal, _________. - The Little Review 3. Which day is celebrated as Bloomsday? - 16 June 4. Joyce’s Ulysses is divided into _____ episodes. - 18 episodes, in 3 parts 5. Which book did Joyce initially intend to call “Ulysses in Dublin”? - Dubliners 6. Arrange chronologically: (i) Ulysses, (ii) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, (iii) Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners. iv-ii-i-iii Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegan’s Wake 7. In The Golden Notebook, the narratives of the black, red, yellow and blue notebooks are tied together in _________. - a fifth, gold-coloured notebook 8. Who coined the name Vorticism, to connote vital, violent, rather mystical action? - Ezra Pound 9. Who is the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey? - Arthur C. Clarke 10. Which British writer won the Booker Prize for his novel Amsterdam? - Ian McEwan 11. Who has written the following lines: “And immediately I regretted it. // I thought how paltry, how vulgar, what a mean act! // I despised myself and the voices of my accursed human education.”? - D. H. Lawrence, The Snake

12. Who wrote the novel Murphy, the protagonist of which is a male nurse working in a mental hospital, who finds that the insanity of the patients is an appealing alternative to conscious existence? - Samuel Beckett 13. Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnameable form a trilogy of novels by _________. - Samuel Beckett 14. The blind master Hamm who cannot stand up and his servant Clov who cannot sit down are characters in __________. - Beckett’s Endgame 15. In which play by Edward Bond is the protagonist a paranoid autocrat, building a wall to keep out imagined enemies? - Lear 16. Which play by Edward Bond contains the infamous “stoning of a baby” scene? - Saved 17. Whose birthday party in Pinter’s play is turned into a nightmare by two sinister strangers, Goldberg and McCann? - Stanley Webber 18. In Pinter’s The Homecoming, which character comes home to London from the US, with his wife? - Teddy 19. Lord Voldemort is a character in the ________ series of novels. - Harry Potter 20. Who of the following wrote “memory plays”? - Harold Pinter 21. Gibreel Farishta is a character in ______. - Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses 22. Who in Waiting for Godot says the first statement, “Nothing to be done,” which sums up the Theatre of the Absurd? - Estragon 23. Winston Smith is the protagonist of the novel __________. - Nineteen Eighty Four, by Orwell 24. Which poem begins with the line, “In my beginning is my end”? - T. S. Eliot’s “East Coker” 25. In which play does the women of Canterbury play a significant part?Murder in the Cathedral. - They form the chorus.

TEST TWENTY SIX 1. The Legend of Good Women by Chaucer was written for Queen Anne of _______. - Bohemia 2. The School Master by Roger Ascham is _________. - an educational treatise 3. Sir Philip Sidney’s sister, Mary Herbert, was the countess of _________. - Pembroke 4. Thomas Middleton’s The Witch influenced Shakespeare in writing _________. - Macbeth 5. The Globe Theatre was rebuilt in ______. - 1614 6. Lucasta is a collection of poems composed by? - Richard Lovelace 7. The History of Holy War was written by _________. - Thomas Fuller 8. Dryden’s Alexander’s Feast is known to be an excellent ________	. - Pindaric ode 9. Who called Milton ‘the mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies’? - Alfred Tennyson 10. The neo-classical writers were mainly concerned with ________. - human nature 11. The Tatler, which started publication in 1709, appeared ________. - thrice a week 12. Pope translated Homer’s Iliad which was published in instalments between _______. - 1715 - 1720 13. Defoe’s characters Moll Flanders and Roxana are ________. - prostitutes 14. ‘Tom Jones’ by Fielding appeared in ______books. - 18 15. Who is the most important writer of the Pindaric odes in English? - Gray 16. French Revolution is a poem composed by ________. - Wordsworth 17. Shelley was greatly influenced by the rationalism of the philosopher named? - Godwin 18. Endymion in Greek mythology is a beautiful _______. - shepherd 19. Essays of Elia first appeared in ______. - London Magazine 20. Reflector was a weekly periodical by _________. - Leigh Hunt 21. “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, // Or what’s a heaven for?” Who said this? - Browning 22. Rugby Chapel by Arnold is written on the death of his _____. - father 23. The title of the novel ‘Vanity Fair’ is borrowed from _________. - Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress 24. Shirley by Charlotte Bronte is a portrait of _________. Emily 25. Who is the writer of Goblin Market? - Christina Rossetti

TEST TWENTY SEVEN 1. An Ideal Husband and A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde are the _______. - Comedies 2. A. E. Housman was basically ___________. - a Pessimist 3. The members of the Aesthetic Movement shared their mystical sympathies through its magazine _________. - Yellow Book 4. W. B. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in ______. - 1923 5. Who propounded the imagist theory of poetry in the essay “Imagisme”? - Ezra Pound 6. Who wrote in his autobiographical memoir A Sort of Life stating that “success is only a delayed failure”? - Graham Greene 7. Emile Zola was written by Angus Wilson in 1952. It is a _____. - critical work 8. Name Muriel Spark’s autobiography. - Curriculum Vitae 9. Who is the protagonist in John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger? - Jimmy 10. Who of the following is a Movement poet?Elizabeth 					- Jennings 11. Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn appeared in ______. - 1884 12. Which of the following novels is set on the ship “Pequod”? - Moby Dick 13. Whitman’s poem ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” laments on the death of _______. - Abraham Lincoln 14. The Turn of the Skrew by Henry James is a _______. - Ghost story 15. Nathaniel Hawthorne was a great novelist and ______. - Allegorist 16. My Story is the autobiography of _______. - Kamala Das 17. Savitri is the heroine of _______. - The Dark Room 18. A Suitable Boy is written by ______. - Vikram Seth 19. Sarojini Naidu’s The Queen’s Rival is based on ________. - Persian Legend 20. The Exact Name is a collection of poems by _______. - Nissim Ezekiel 21. In which country was Romanticism, in the late 19th century, associated with an innovatory aesthetic creed? - France 22. Who wrote “Poetry is a sword of Lightning ever Unsheathed”? - Shelley 23. Which translation of Aristotle’s Poetics is considered a classic? - Ingram Bywater 24. Who first applied the epithet Augustan to “English poetry embellished by Dryden”? - Dr. Johnson 25. A song of grief, lamentation and mourning is known as ______. - Dirge

TEST TWENTY-EIGHT 1. Which Shakespearean character says this: “As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; // They kill us for their sport”? - Gloucester 2. In which poem do these lines occur? “It is better to have loved and lost // Than never to have loved at all.” - In Memoriam 3. Which of the following novels was influenced by Carlyle’s French Revolution? - A Tale of Two Cities 4. Deism is a manifestation of the Enlightenment because of its _____________. - rejection of revelation 5. Among Carlyle’s works, Sartor Resartus stands out as ___________. - a disguised spiritual autobiography 6. Which of the following philosophers denied the existence of innate ideas? - Hobbes 7. Warwickshire is an important element in the novels of ________. - George Eliot 8. “It was the hour before the Gods awake.” This is a line from _________. - Savitri 9. ________ is R. K. Narayan’s autobiography. - My Dateless Diary 10. The Elizabethan World Picture is written by ________. - E. M. W. Tillyard 11. The major architect for the masque stages in early seventeenth century was ____. - Inigo Jones 12. How many books did the Clerk of Oxford have in his library? - Twenty 13. Culture and Society is a book by _________. - Raymond Williams 4. Byron’s Don Juan is written in _________. - Ottava Rima 15. Which of the following characters is cited by E. M. Forster as the example of round character? - Becky Sharp 16. Which of the English Romantic poets were influenced by John Milton? - Keats 17. Lavinia is a character in the play _________. - Mourning Becomes Electra 18. How many times was Robert Frost honoured with the Pulitzer Prize? - Four 19. A Dance to the Music of Time is a 12-volume cycle of novels by _________. - Anthony Powell 20. Gora by Tagore is a ________. - novel 21. Who said, “to judge of poets is only the faculty of poets; and not of all poets, but the best”? - Ben Jonson 22. _____ was the pseudonym of William Sidney Porter. - O. Henry 23. Sacred Games is a 2006 novel written by ________. - Vikram Chandra 24. Who calls Francis Bacon “The wisest, brightest and meanest of mankind”? - Pope 25. Stephen Crane’s novel The Red Badge of Courage is set against the __________. - American Civil War

TEST TWENTY-NINE 1. In Gulliver’s Travels, Laputa is a __________. - a flying island 2. Who is the melancholy sprite in The Rape of the Lock? - Umbriel 3. “Satire’s my weapon, but I’m too discreet // To run amuck.” Who said this? - Pope 4. The title of Samuel Butler’s Hudibras is derived from ________. - Faerie Queene 5. The name Hythloday in Greek means __________. - speaker of nonsense 6. “Where wealth accumulates, men decay” is a quotation from _________. - The Deserted Village 7. Who said, “Chaucer is a rough diamond; and must be polished e’er he shines”? - Dryden 8. Which kind of meaning, according to I. A. Richards, predominates in poetry? - feeling 9. Words that share the same spelling and the same pronunciation but have different meanings are called __________. - Homonyms 10. The formation of the word “statistic” from “statistics” is an example of __________. - back-formation 11. In which section of The Wasteland is there the mention of Phlebas the Phoenician? - Death by Water 12. Which poem ends with the line, “I should be glad of another death”? - Journey of the Magi 13. Which book does Vladimir read for instruction, and Estragon, to see the coloured maps? - Bible 14. Which of the following plays is based on Aeschylus’s Eumenides, the third part of Oresteia? - Family Reunion 15. Whom does Hardy describe as “less Byronic than Shelleyan”? - Angel Clare 16. Who of the following authors was not included by F. R. Leavis in The Great Tradition? - Thomas Hardy 17. Who described his friend Coleridge as “logician, metaphysician, bard”? - Lamb 18. In which class of the society does Arnold place himself in Culture and Anarchy? - philistines 19. Whom did Thomas Hardy call “the literary puzzle of the 19th century”? - Robert Browning 20. The Gondibert stanza was popularized by ________. - William Davenant 21. Who described Hamlet as “the Mona Lisa of Literature”? - T. S. Eliot 22. What does the word “Lucifer” originally mean? - Bearer of Light 23. The word “honorificabilitudinitatibus” occurs in the play __________. - Love’s Labour’s Lost 24. Who of the following is the Muse of Tragedy? - Melpomene 25. Who first used the expression “Character is destiny”? - Heraclitus TEST THIRTY 1. Who wrote this line, “Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise”? - Gray 2. Which of the following is the first Harry Potter novel? - Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone 3. “The Cry of the Children” is a poem against child labour written by _________. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning 4. Which of the following poems by Wordsworth describes the poet’s youthful encounter with nature? - Nutting 5. Larkin’s poem “The Whitsun Weddings” describes a __________. - train journey 6. The crow in Hughes’s poetry, is a __________. - mythological character 7. Who of the following has won the Booker Prize twice? - J. M. Coetzee 8. Whom does Keats call “Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun”? - autumn 9. Stanley Kowalski, a member of the industrial urban working class, is a character in ____. - A Streetcar Named Desire 10. Which two languages did Toru Dutt write in? - English and French 11. Who wrote the book of confessional poems, Life Studies? - Robert Lowell 12. The book The White Goddess: a Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, which influenced Ted Hughes, was written by _________. - Robert Graves 13. Whose earliest publications were the Gothic novels Zastrozzi (with an atheistic protagonist) and St. Irvyne, or the Rosicrucian? - P. B. Shelley 14. Hardy’s semi-fictional world of Wessex was based on ___________. - Dorchester 15. “Why this is hell, nor am I out of it” is a famous line from _________. - Doctor Faustus 16. The two key symbols in Frost’s poem “Fire and Ice” stand for _____ and _____. - desire and hatred 17. _________ is the longest Book of Paradise Lost. - Book IX 18. Who of the following famous heroines was educated at Lowood School? - Jane Eyre 19. Which character in Midnight’s Children plays the role of the listener in the storytelling structure of the novel? - Padma Mangroli 20. The book of essays titled Uses of Diversity was written by _________. - G. K. Chesterton 21. Who wrote the novel The Light that Failed that is set in London, Sudan and India? - Rudyard Kipling 22. Who of the following was not a naturalist? - Lionel Johnson 23. The Wind Among the Reeds and The Winding Stair are works by _______. - W. B. Yeats 24. The last of the modernist novels, Under the Volcano (1947) was written by _________. - Malcolm Lowry 25. Who wrote the dystopian science fiction Farenheit 451? - Ray Bradbury TEST THIRTY-ONE 1. A. J. Cronin was a __________. - novelist 2. Which witty English playwright wrote works like Hay Fever, The Vortex, Fallen Angels and Bitter Sweet? - Noel Coward 3. Who of the following playwrights expressed the exhaustion of the Post-War world with a play on the medieval witch hunts? - Christopher Fry, The Lady’s Not for Burning 4. What does East Coker mean in Eliot’s poem of that title? - a village 5. Who wrote the poem “Still Falls the Rain” that weaves a tapestry of suffering around the world, starting with the bombing of London during the II World War? - Edith Sitwell 6. World Within World is the autobiography of ________. - Stephen Spender 7. The Faber Book of Modern Verse was first edited by _________. -Michael Roberts 8. The critical work New Bearings in English Poetry was written by _________. - F. R. Leavis 9. “Great wits are sure to madness near allied, // And thin partitions do their bounds divide” — in which book do these lines appear? - Absalom and Achitophel 10. George Meredith, English poet and novelist, lived during the _________. - Victorian period 11. Which Romantic prose writer wrote "Imaginary Conversations," drawing upon a vast array of historical characters? - Walter Savage Landor 12. The “Everlasting No” and “Everlasting Yea” are characters in _______. - Sartor Resartus 13. The Book of Snobs was written by ___________. - Thackeray 14. The first Englishman to write a Pindaric ode was ___________. - Ben Jonson 15. Which of the following works represents Chaucer as a lover? - The Book of the Duchess 16. “He was a man who of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul.” Who said this about Shakespeare? - Dryden 17. Who called Shakespeare, “Sweetest Shakespeare, fancy’s child”? - Milton 18. Who said Shakespeare “grew immortal in his own despite”? - Pope 19. To whom is applied the epithet “Shakespeare of Divines”? - Jeremy Taylor 20. Ben Jonson’s tragedies Sejanus and Catiline have _________ themes. - Roman 21. Which English poet wrote “Prophetic Books”? - William Blake 22. The Fall of Robespierre, written by Southey and Coleridge, is ________. - a play 23. The sonnet sequence The House of Life was written by ________. - D. G. Rossetti 24. The historical novel Lorna Doone was written by __________. - Richard Blackmore 25. “The Children of Violence” is a series of novels written by ________. - Doris Lessing TEST THIRTY-TWO 1. In which Shakespearean play is the Battle of Agincourt a central issue? - Henry 5 2. Arnold criticizes Chaucer for lacking in ______________. - high seriousness 3. Cambridge, the second oldest university in the English-speaking world, was established in the ______ century. - 13th 4. In which year was Francis Bacon’s Essays first published? - 1597 5. Mirror for Magistrates was a _________________ from the Tudor period. - collection of poems 6. Which of the following plays is set in Athens? - A Midsummer Night’s Dream 7. Which of the following Shakespearean plays conforms to the three unities? - Comedy of Errors 8. In Arcadia, Philoclea and Pamela are daughters of __________. - King Basilius of Arcadia 9. In which year was Oliver Cromwell declared the Lord Protector of England? - 1653 10. Arrange the following chronologically: (i) Anatomy of Melancholy (ii) Urn Burial (iii) Euphues (iv) Lycidas iii-i-iv-ii Euphues (1579) Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) Lycidas (1637) Urn Burial (1658) 11. Which playwright gives an honest picture of the underworld in London in The Honest Whore? - Thomas Dekker 12. Who said that the sonnet in Milton’s hand “became a trumpet”? - William Wordsworth 13. Videna is a character in a play by __________.Sackville. - Gorboduc’s wife 14. Horace Walpole published The Castle of Otranto in ___________. - 1764 15. Lady Teazle is a character in ___________. - The School for Scandal 16. The Peterloo Massacre which moved Shelley to write The Mask of Anarchy took place in ______. - 1819 17. “The lunatic, the lover and the poet // Are of imagination all compact” — these are lines from _______. - A Midsummer Night’s Dream 18. The New Pygmalion is a work by ______________. - William Hazlitt 19. In which work is Byron described as the leader of the “Satanic School” of poetry? - A Vision of Judgement, by Southey which provoked Byron to write The Vision of Judgement 20. Harold Skimpole in Bleak House is a caricature of _______. - Leigh Hunt 21. Bingley is a character in __________. - Pride and Prejudice 22. Which of the following novels by Dickens was not set in or around London? - Hard Times 23. Atlanta in Calydon, an imitation of Greek tragedy, was written by ____________. - A. C. Swinburburne 24. Who, in his book "Sign of the Times" said, “It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that word”? - Carlyle 25. “The Weaver of Raveloe” is the subtitle of a work by ___________. - George  Eliot

TEST THIRTY-THREE 1. Expressionism originated in _________. - Germany 2. What does Coleridge define as a “mode of Memory emancipated from the order of time and space”? - Fancy 3. The Uses of Literacy is written by _________. - Richard Hoggart 4. Second Shepherd’s Play is _________. - a miracle play 5. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was published in ________. - 1818 6. Anatomy of Melancholy is an example of ___________. -  Menippean satire (Northrop Frye, in Anatomy of Criticism, called      Menippean Satire, “anatomy,” after the major English  instance of the type, Anatomyof Melancholy) 7. Which of the following was termed “mythos” by Aristotle? - plot 8. The terms ‘vehicle’ and ‘tenor’ in relation to the metaphor were introduced by ___. - I. A. Richards 9. The eulogy of England starting “This royal throne of kings, this scept’red isle” is spoken by the Shakespearean character, _________. - John of Gaunt 10. Walter Pater’s essay, The Renaissance, is primarily on _________. - Leonardo da Vinci 11. Mercutio, who says the famous line, “Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man,” is a character in ___________. - Romeo and Juliet 12. Who is the author of The Art of the Novel? - Henry James 13. Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room was published in the year _______. - 1922 14. Who of the following critiqued “Lycidas” for its “inherent improbability”? - Samuel Johnson 15. The ballad stanza is an example of __________. - quatrain 16. “Or stain her honour, or her new brocade” is an example of ___________. - zeugma 17. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones is a ____________ narrator. - self-conscious 18. Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado About Nothing are examples for ___________. - comedy of manners 19. “ ‘O where are you going?’ said reader to rider” is a line from a poem by ___________. - W. H. Auden 20. Who is the author of the 1975 work, Structuralist Poetics? - Jonathan Culler 21. Which of the following Shakespearean characters is considered a re-rendering of Vice from the morality play? - Falstaff 22. “The woods shall to me answer, and my echo ring” is the refrain of ____________. - Epithalamion 23. Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead is set against the ___________. - II World War 24. The incident of the pathetic death of Little Nell occurs in ___________. - The Old Curiosity Shop 25. “The language of poetry is a language of paradox” is a line from ___________. - The Well-Wrought Urn

TEST THIRTY-FOUR 1. Which critic, in the book, Shakespeare’s Imagery and What It Tells Us, analyzes ‘image motifs’ in Shakespearean plays, such as animal imagery in King Lear and figures of disease, corruption and death in Hamlet? - Caroline Spurgeon 2. In which year was H. J. C. Grierson’s edition of Metaphysical Lyrics published? - 1912 3. The line “The moonlight steeped in silence” from “The Ancient Mariner” is an example of___. - metaphor 4. The term “melodrama” is often applied to plays produced during the ____________ period. - Victorian 5. Georg Lukacs is a Marxist thinker from _______________. - Hungary 6. The French term belles lettres is a synonym for ________. - literature 7. In which book did Noam Chomsky develop his idea of Transformational Generative Grammar? - Syntactic Structures 8. The study of elementary speech sounds is called __________. - phonology 9. Who is the author of the poem Cooper’s Hill? - John Denham 10. Miss Havisham is a character in ___________. - Great Expectations 11. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity is a book by ________. - Judith Butler 12. “Linguistics and Poetics” is an influential formalist essay by ______________. - Roman Jakobson 13. The Adding Machine, an expressionistic play in which the protagonist Mr. Zero experiences a mechanical, sterile and frightening world, is written by __________. - Elmer Rice 14. Which poet illustrated empathy in these lines, “if a sparrow comes before my window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel”? - Keats 15. ASLE is an organization that works in the field of _________. - Ecocriticism 16. Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference and Speech and Phenomena were all published in _______. - 1967 17. The Culture Industry is a book by ______________. - Adorno 18. “My mistress’s eyes are nothing like the sun” is ____________. - a parody of Petrarchan conceit 19. The 18th century poem The Task was written by __________. - William Cowper 20. Possession is a novel written by __________. - A. S. Byatt 21. Annette Kolodny has made important contributions to _________. - Ecofeminism 22. English and Scottish Popular Ballads is a collection edited by __________. - Francis J. Child 23. Humbert Humbert is a famous anti-hero created by _________. - Vladimir Nabokov, in Lolita 24. The line “The chair she sat in, like a burnished throne” from The Waste Land is an allusion to ____________. - Antony and Cleopatra 25. Tom Stoppard’s plays Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Travesties exploit the conventions of _____________. - Absurdism TEST THIRTY-FIVE 1. Who of the following wrote the influential play Dutchman? - Amiri Baraka 2. Blindness and Insight and Allegories of Reading are works on deconstructive literary criticism by __________. - Paul de Man 3. Michael Holquist is known for his editions of __________. - Bakhtin 4. The 1845 work Woman in the Nineteenth Century was written by ___________. - Margaret Fuller 5. “British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing” is the sub-title of a work by __________. - Elaine Showalter, A Literature of Their Own 6. Unlike the Russian Formalists, the New Critics did not apply ___________ to an analysis of poetry. - linguistics 7. Which of the following English poetic movements was influenced by the Japanese verse form haiku? - Imagism 8. Who of the following has written a seminal critical work on Restoration Drama? - Allardyce Nicoll 9. “Tasting of Flora and the country green” is an example of ____________. - synesthesia. The line is from Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale, when he desires a draught of wine. 10. The deconstructivist essay “How to do Things with Texts” was written by __________. - M. H. Abrams 11. “Interpreting the Variorum” (1976) is a critical essay by _________. - Stanley Fish. In this essay he introduced the term “interpretive communities.” 12. In which of the following novels do we have interior monologues by fifteen different characters? - As I Lay Dying, by Faulkner 13. The term “differance” was first introduced by Derrida in the book ____________. - Speech and Phenomena 14. The Female Imagination, a major gynocritical work, is written by __________. - Patricia M. Spacks 15. Phenomenological criticism is associated with the ___________ School. - Geneva 16. The Germ was the literary magazine of the _______________. - PRB 17. In the Castle of My Skin is an early postcolonial novel by _________. - George Lamming 18. “Freytag’s Pyramid” refers to the classical conception of __________. - plot 19. Who characterized pastiche as “blank parody”? - Fredrick Jameson 20. John Cleveland was a ___________ poet. - Metaphysical 21. Isabel Allende and Pablo Neruda are writers from ___________. - Chile 22. Claude McKay is a writer associated with _________. - Harlem Renaissance 23. A novel that recounts the education and upbringing of the protagonist is called __. - Erziehungsroman 24. The term "ecocriticism" was coined by _________. - William Rueckert 25. A World of Difference is a work by the deconstructionist, ___________. - Barbara Johnson TEST THIRTY-SIX 1. John Keats’s “To Autumn” is an example of _________. -  Horatian Ode 2. Who of the following was a religious existentialist? - Kierkegaard 3. John Skelton was an early _________ poet. - Tudor 4. Which of the following writers was praised by Mikhail Bakhtin for the dialogic nature of his novels? - Fyodor Dostoevsky 5. Who coined the phrase “dialectical criticism” to denote a Marxist approach that synthesizes structuralist and poststructuralist methodologies? - Fredric Jameson 6. The term “affective stylistics” is associated with ______________. A.  Stanley Fish. Affective Stylistics refers to the impact the structure of a given text has on the minds of individual readers. 7. Which of the following is Gerard Genette associated with? - (Structuralist) narratology and reader response criticism 8. Susan Bassnett has written famous books on ___________. - translation studies 9. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson are well-known for their work on __________. - autobiography 10. ___________ is the expansion of the abbreviation MLA. - Modern Language Association 11. Ray Bradbury is associated with the genre of _________ fiction. -  science 12. Dorothy Richardson’s novel sequence Pilgrimage is a collection of _____ novels. - 13 13. American Transcendentalism began in 1836 with the publication of __________. - Emerson’s “Nature” 14. “Renaissance” is a ________ word that means “rebirth”. - French 15. Who of the following was active in the Prague Linguistic Circle? - Rene Wellek 16. Which of the following is not a highly inflected language? - French 17. Who wrote the essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936), which anticipated the critical   interest in mass-produced and mass-consumed culture? - Walter Benjamin 18. Which film critic wrote the seminal essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” which develops the concept of      “gaze” in the argument that classical Hollywood cinema puts the spectator in a masculine subject position, looking upon the woman on the screen as an object of desire? - Laura Mulvey 19. Which media theorist is known for the expression “the medium is the message,” meaning that the medium influences how the message is perceived, thereby arguing that it should be the medium itself, and not the message, that should be studied? - Marshall McLuhan 20. Who is the author of Ain’t I a Woman, which examines the impact of sexism and racism on black women? - bell hooks 21. Who advocated a “Dalitization” of Indian culture in Why I Am Not A Hindu? - Kancha Iliah 22. Which Nobel Laureate wrote a trilogy of travelogues to India, which has been criticized for its subjective and pessimistic portrayal of the country? - V. S. Naipaul 23. Which of the following novels has been described by the author as “non-fiction fiction”? - In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote. An example of “faction” 24. Who argues in the book Civilization and Its Discontents that civilizations instill feelings of discontent in their citizens by repressing their instinctual desires? - Sigmund Freud 25. J. C. Ransome, Allan Tate and R. P. Warren have been associated with the ______. - Fugitives

TEST THIRTY-SEVEN 1. Deconstruction and Criticism is an anthology of essays that brought ______________ into prominence. - the Yale School 2. In which year was the First Reform Act introduced? - 1832 [Second in 1867; Third in 1884] 3. _________ refers to popular English novels of the 1830s based on legends of 18th century highwaymen. - Newgate novels 4. A novel with a political or social message is called __________. - romàn a thèse 5. Leopold Sedar Senghor and Aimee Cesaire were associated with __________. - Negritude 6. The term pathetic fallacy, which denotes the convention by which natural phenomena are attributed human feelings, was coined by _____________. - John Ruskin 7. Renaissance Self-Fashioning and Shakespearean Negotiations are works by _____. - Stephen Greenblatt 8. Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More were champions of ________. - New Humanism 9. “On the Genius of Biography” was an important essay written by ________. - Dr. Johnson 10. Which of the following was not a kind of meaning described by I. A. Richards? - Context. The four kinds, according to Richards, were sense, feeling, tone and intention. 11. Who wrote the dystopian novel, When the Sleeper Wakes? - H. G. Wells 12. Which of the following plays a major role in Bakhtin’s theory of the novel? - Menippean satire. Bakhtin argued that the overturning of hierarchies in popular carnival –its mingling of the sacred with the profane, the sublime withthe ridiculous—lies behind the most open (dialogic, polyphonic) literary genres, such as Menippean satire and the novel, especially since the Renaissance. Rabelias’s Gargantua and Pantagruel is an      example of Menippean satire 13. Which of the following is a fictional autobiography? - Jane Eyre (novel disguised as an autobiography) 14. Roland Barthes introduced the terms ‘lisible’ and ‘scriptible’ in the work ________. - S/Z 15. The concept of “deep structure” is fundamental to __________. - TG grammar 16. Oscar Wilde’s “The Critic as Artist” is written in the form of a ____________. - dialogue 17. The heyday of the genre “little magazine” was approximately ___________. - 1890 - 1950 18. The term “ideology” is central to ____________’s work. - Althusser 19. Which theorist described herself as “Jewoman” in an expression of homelessness and hybridity? - Helene Cixous 20. Being and Time is the seminal work of ___________. - Martin Heidegger 21. Who coined the term “contrapunctal reading” to describe a reading strategy that exposes elements of colonial discourse within a text? - Edward Said 22. Who defined the text as “a tissue of quotations drawn from innumerable centres of culture”? - Roland Barthes 23. About who of the following did Friedrich Nietzsche write scathing criticism? - Wagner 24. Who of the following wrote the major work, The Dialectic of the Enlightenment? - Adorno and Horkheimer 25. Bakhtin’s term “chronotope” that denotes “dialogical space” in a novel is borrowed from ________. - Albert Einstein

TEST THIRTY-EIGHT 1. Name the subtitle of the 1852 anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin by the American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe. - Life Among the Lowly 2. Name the founder of the Chicago School of criticism. - R.S. Crane 3. In which year did King James I declare himself King of Great Britain? - 1604 4. RUR, an experimental play in which the term ‘robot’ first appeared is by ______. - Karel Capek 5. Who defined Romanticism as “the renaissance of wonder”? - Theodore Watts Dunton 6. Name G.K. Chesterton’s priest-detective. - Father Brown 7. Which is the first work of the sci-fi-horror genre? - Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 8. Which Victorian novelist is regarded the father of the sensation novel, a precursor of the detective fiction? - Wilkie Collins 9. Who compiled the Cambridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional Usage? - Eric Partridge 10. ______ was the first biographer to use Freudian insights in his analysis. - Lytton Strachey 11. Which literary scholar wrote Towards Greek Tragedy? - Brian Vickers 12. Which mathematician/ scholar wrote the work "The Impact of Science on Society"? - Bertrand Russell 13. What is the major concern of Arnold’s Literature and Dogma? - Theology 14. Which Modernist writer wrote the poem “Coriolanus”? - T. S. Eliot 15. “The Figure a Poem Makes” is an essay by the Pulitzer winning writer________. - Robert Frost 16. Which is the first archaeological treatise in English? - Hydriotaphia or Urn Burial by Thomas Browne 17. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is dedicated to which contemporary American writer? - Nathaniel Hawthorne 18. A.C. Bradley’s 10 essay collection Shakespearean Tragedy was published in which year? - 1904 19. Where was the essay “Hamlet and his Problems,” which regards Hamlet as an artistic failure, originally published? - The Sacred Wood 20. Who called Henry James, “the Victorian of fine consciousness”? - Joseph Conrad 21. Swansea in South Wales figures in the works of ___________. - Dylan Thomas 22. Samuel Butler’s Hudibras is an attack ________. - Puritanism 23. Who coined the term ‘Imagism’? - Ezra Pound 24. Which century is known as the age of circulating libraries? - 18th 25. Who authored the long essay commenting on the Porter Scene in Macbeth? - Thomas de Quincey TEST THIRTY-NINE 1. Who founded the school of Neo-Platonism? - Plotinus 2. Who was the leader of the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381? - Vat Tyler 3. How many works did Caxton translate into English? - 24 4. The Old Testament and the New Testament were originally written in which languages? - Hebrew and Greek 5. What was the name of Marlowe’s theatrical company? - Lord Admiral’s Men 6. Which printer and translator wrote The Game and the Play of Chess? - William Caxton 7. Who wrote the Book of Martyrs which is a record of the killings of Queen Mary? - George Foxe 8. The House of Life is a collection of 101 sonnets by which19th c painter/poet? - D. G. Rossetti 9. Thomas Paine’s The Rights of Man was a reply to __________. Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the French Revolution 10. Which of Kipling’s poems is written in Cockney dialect? - Fuzzy Wuzzy 11. Marmion is a collection of poems by which 19th c novelist? - Walter Scott 12. The Agony and the Ecstasy, a biography of Michelangelo, was written by __________. - Irving Stone 13. From which language did John Wyclif translate the Bible? - Latin Vulgate 14. The Augustan author whose life was like a Marlovian tragedy. - Jonathan Swift 15. In which year did Tagore win the Nobel Prize? - 1913 16. Which is the first English prose-comedy? - George Gascoigne’s Supposes 17. Robert Markham is the pseudonym of which angry young man? - Kingsley Amis 18. Which modernist novel opens with the chapter “1880”? - The Years by Virginia Woolf 19. Who wrote the work of verse criticism "Illusion and Reality"? - Christopher Caudwell 20. Which Elizabethan/ Jacobean writer wrote the comedy The Devil is an Ass? - Ben Jonson 21. There were _________ members in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. - 7 22. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the last unfinished work of which Victorian novelist? - Charles Dickens 23. Who co-authored the tragedy Dido Queen of Carthage along with Marlowe? - Thomas Nashe 24. Who authored the novel Endymion? - Benjamin Disraeli 25. Who wrote the essay collection The English Comic Writers? - William Hazlitt

TEST FORTY 1. The landmark publication of The Interpretation of Dreams was in ________. - 1900 2. Marxist philosophy of history is called __________. - historical materialism 3. Ferdinand de Saussure was a professor at the University of _________. - Geneva 4. Julia Kristeva’s concept of intertextuality is based on the theory of ____________. - dialogism 5. Which is the author cited by Jean Baudrillard in Simulations and Simulacra, in whose story the map replaces the territory? - Jorge Luis Borges 6. With whom is the term “Zeitgeist” or “spirit of the age” most associated? - Hegel 7. The postcolonial critical work, The Intimate Enemy is written by _________. - Ashis Nandy 8. Who famously said, in the book "Keywords", that “Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language”? - Raymond Williams 9. No Man’s Land is a classic three-volume feminist text by ____________. - Gilbert and Gubar 10. Who argued in the book "Anti-Oedipus" that “desire” is not “lack” as Freud saw it, but is “production” and “productive”? - Deleuze and Guattari 11. “Cultural poetics” is a term that has been used in the place of __________. - New Historicism 12. Paul Gilroy is a major scholar in the field of ____________ studies. - race 13. In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens is the defining essay of ___________. - Womanism. It is by Alice Walker 14. Who of the following authors have not been criticized by Edward Said for colonial stereotyping of the Orient? - Henry Fielding 15. CRT is the abbreviation for __________. - Critical Race Theory 16. The term “élan vital” means _________. - life force 17. “Critical Philosophy” is a term that describes the work of __________. - Kant 18. Barchester Towers, a novel in the series called “Chronicles of Barsetshire,” is written by _________. - Anthony Trollope 19. Critical Practice is a major work by _________. - Catherine Belsey 20. The Rainbow and Women in Love were originally planned as one work titled ____. - The Wedding Ring 21. Cartographies of Diaspora is a postcolonial critical work by ________. - Avtah Brah 22. Mudrooroo is a native writer from _________. - Australia 23. Who is the author of the book, The Rise of the Novel? - Ian Watt 24. Who of the following cannot be termed an “anti-philosopher”? - Hegel 25. Who of the following held that human beings have an innate capacity for acquiring, using and interpreting language? - Chomsky

OBJECTIVE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS TEST PAPERS TEST PAPER I 1. Who wrote Don Juan? -Byron 2. Who wrote The Life of Johnson? -Boswell 3. Priest's Nun's Tale was written by				-Chaucer 4. Malvolio is a character in					-Twelfth Night 5. Pip is a character in						-Great Expectations 7. Who is said to have first used the term "Metaphysics"? -Dr. Johnson 8. The writer of Volpone is					-Ben Jonson 9. Which is the correct chronological sequence (a) Spenser -- Chaucer -- Milton — Donne (b) Spenser -- Wordsworth -- Tennyson -- T.S. Eliot (c) Milton -- Shakespeare -- Philip Larkin — Keats (d) Auden -- Eliot -- Shelley -- Keats ans: (b) Spenser--Wordsworth--Tennyson--T.S. Eliot 10. Pilgrim's Progress was written by 				-John Bunyan 11. The writer of the line : "Stone walls do not a prison make" is	-Lovelace 12. "Monkey's Paw" is a						-Short story 14. The writer of 'A Pair of Blue Eyes' is 				-Thomas Hardy 15. Hard Times was written by					-Dickens 16. Elizabeth Bennet is a character in				-Pride and Prejudice 17. Ariel is a character in						-Tempest 18. Which of the following poets was most impressed by the German philosophy? -Coleridge 19. The two cities referred to in "A Tale of Two Cities" are		-London and Paris 20. The Peasant's Bread is a story by				-Tolstoy 21. The Financial Express was written by				-R.K. Narayan 22. "Negative Capability" is a term associated with 		-Keats 23. The  most   impressive   treatment   of "imagination" has been given by			-Coleridge 24. Maggie is a character in					-The Mill on the Floss 25. Who said about poetry "Emotion recollected in tranquillity"	-Wordsworth 26. Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned because it was considered		-obscene 27. For Whom The Bell Tolls was written by 					-Hemingway 28. Who said: "I awoke one morning and found myself famous"			-Byron 29. Paradise Lost comprises							-12 books 30. Who used the expression "unaging monuments of intellect"? -Yeats 31. Which poet was invited by John F. Kennedy to his inauguration ceremony? -Frost 32. The writer of: "A Pair of Mustachios" is 						-Anand 33. Estella is a character in							-Great Expectations 34. The writer of Scarlet Letter is							-Hawthorne 35. In which poem does the following line occur: "To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield"		-Ulysses 36. Rousseau is associated with							-French Revolution 37. Which of the following novelists got the Nobel Prize? -Hemingway 38. Which of the following statesmen got the Nobel Prize? -Churchill 39. Who wrote 'Train to Pakistan'							-Khushwant Singh 40. Henchard is the hero of							-The Mayor of Casterbridge 41. Who is the writer of Azadi? -Chaman Nahal 42. "The God of Small Things" is written by 						-Arundhati Roy 43. Who wrote the poem "Listeners"? -Walter de la Mare 44. In writing "Canterbury Tales" Chaucer was influenced by			-Decameron 45. Which poem starts with "Behold her single in the field...." -The Solitary Reaper 46. 'Animal Farm' was written by							-George Orwell 47. Shobha De is a 								-novelist 48. Dunciad was written by 							-Pope 49. King Magnus is a character in							-Apple Cart 50. Bernard Shaw got the Nobel Prize for						-Saint Joan

TEST PAPER II 1. The Victorian Period is marked by						-Great political upheavals 2. In which play the hero demanded more food from the authorities		-Oliver Twist 3. Swift is known mainly as							-a satirist 4. Who wrote the line : "Slow rises worth by poverty depressed"? -Dr. Johnson 5. Who is the writer of the novel "The Village" 					-Mulk Raj Anand 6. The most famous writer of the heroic couplet is					-Pope 7. Who wrote: "Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter"? -Keats 8. Who used the term "Egotistical sublime" for Wordsworth's poetry? -Keats 9. Into how many acts did Marlowe originally divide his "Dr. Faustus"		-one (no division) 10. Shakespeare died in								-1616 11. Macflecknoe is a poem written by 						-Dryden 12. Who wrote 'Everyman in His Humour' 						-Ben Jonson 13. 'Indian Jugglers' is an essay by 						-Hazlitt 14. In which poem did Tennyson say "Ring out the old, ring in the new"		-In Memoriam 15. Who wrote 'The Gropes of Wrath'						-John Steinbeck 16. Who rendered into English the ancient Greek tragedy "Atlanta in Calydon"	-Swinburne 17. The Deserted Village was written by						-Goldsmith 18. 'Savitri' is an epic written by							-Aurobindo 19. The anthem "Vande Mataram" occurs in					-Anand Math 20. 'All Fool's Day' is an essay written by 						-Charles Lamb 21. The drama Tamburlaine is written by 						-Marlowe 22. The book "Appreciations" was written by 					-Walter Pater 23. "Strife" describes the strike by							-factory workers 24. "The Admirable Crichton" was written by 					-James Barrie 25. "The Death of a Salesman" was written by 					-Arthur Miller 26. Which king of England was beheaded 					-Charles I 27. The Restoration period is said to have started from				-1660 28. Who gave up writing poetry for a long period for the sake of struggle for democracy		-Milton 29. Who wrote "The Lady's Not for Burning" 					-Christopher Fry 30. Who wrote the poem "Brahma"						-Emerson 31. The writer of Walden is							-Thoreau 32. In 'Sons and Lovers' Lawrence has depicted the life of				-miners 33. Who wrote Kim? -Kipling 34. 'The Hairy Ape' is a famous play by						-Eugene O'Neill 35. Who at the time of his death asked a friend of his to pay his debt (a cock) after his death? -Socrates 36. Who is the writer of Frankenstein						-Mary Shelley 37. Which poem was conceived in a dream? -Kubla Khan 38. Lines from a poem by which poet were found written on the writing pad of Jawaharlal Nehru after his death? -Frost 39. Who wrote his own epitaph: "Here lies the one whose name is writ in water?" -Keats 40. Who wrote the 'Cries of Children'						-Elizabeth Barrett 41. Which poet is known as poet's poet? -Spenser 42. Bohemia is a place in the drama						-The Winter's Tale 43. Caliban is a character in							-Tempest 44. Who wrote the maximum number of sonnets 					-Wordsworth 45. Which character in The Merchant of Venice' said, 'The quality of mercy is not strained," 		-Portia 46. Adonais is the eulogy written on the death of 					-Keats 47. Oedipus Complex is expressed most strongly in				-Pride and Prejudice 48. Who was addicted to opium taking						-Coleridge 49. Who wrote Mother 								-Maxim Gorky 50. Who is associated with Malgudi						-Narayan

TEST PAPER III 1. The author of Beowulf is							-Unknown 2. The Anglo-Saxon period is often said to be from 450 to...... -1050 3. The name of the monster in Beowulf is 						-Grendel 4. Who says "Life, life, eternal life"? -Christian 5. Beatrice was the woman whose love inspired a man to write an immortal poem. Who was that man? -Dante 6. Charles I was executed in							-1649 7. Alexander Pope died in							-1744 8. Burns was born in								-Scotland 9. "To a Mountain Daisy" is a poem by 						-Burns 10. Who wrote: "The Devil's Disciple"? -Shaw 11. George Eliot believed in							-A moral law 12. "A foundling" is a part of the name of the novel				-Tom Jones 13. Who wrote "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"? -Edward Gibbon 14. Richard Hooker was a prose writer of the					-Elizabethan period 15. Sir Walter Raleigh died in							-1618 16. D' Artagnan is a character in							-The Three Musketeers 17. Alexander Dumas was							-a French writer 18. Who said about Wordsworth, "He uttered nothing base"			-Tennyson 19. Which one was not one of the Lake poets? -Shelley 21. Mrs. Browning's book "Sonnets from the Portuguese" is an inspiring book of	-love poems 22. D.G. Rossetti was the son of							-An Italian painter 23. The translation of Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister" appeared in			-1824 24. In 'The Doctor's Dilemma' Shaw makes fun of 					-physicians 25. The Theory of Catharsis is associated with 					-Aristotle 26. Who wrote 'In Defence of Poetry' ? -Shelley 27. 'The Playboy of the Western World' is a play by					-Synge 28. For the best condensation of a novel Arnold Bennet won a prize of		-£ 20 29. Who wrote: "The year's at the spring. And day's at the morn." -Robert Browning 30. The Ring and the Book contains how many more lines than the Iliad? -about two thousand 31. In which poem do the following lines occur? "...Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy?" -Lamia 32. Boswell was born in								-1735 33. 'Silent Woman' is a play by							-Ben Jonson 34. The Duchess of Malfi was published in 					-1623 36. Pap is a character in								-Hucklebery Finn 37. A Mad Tea-Party takes place in						-Alice in Wonderland 38. What was the name of the girl whom Kalidas loved? -Kamini 39. "Kidnapped" was written by							-R.L. Stevenson 40. Mr. Collins is a character in							-Pride and Prejudice 41. 'The Prisoner of Zenda' was written by 						-Anthony Hope 42. What was the full name of Cervantes						-Sir Roger Cervantes 43. The letter referred to in 'The Scarlet Letter' is 					-A 44. Robert Frost lived for sometime in 						-England 45. Besides being a poet, Chaucer was						-a diplomat 46. Bacon's essays were influenced by						-Montaigne 47. Charles Lamb worked as a							-clerk 48. Who wrote: "Keep right on to the end of the road." -Sir Harry Lauder 49. Who said: "Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and the one the stars." -Frederick Langbridge 50. In which book does the following line appear: "What a falling off was there." -Hamlet

TEST PAPER IV 1. The meaning of "widsith" in old English is 				-wanderer 2. The name of William Golding's first novel is 				-Lord of the Flies 3. In his "Progress and Poverty", Henry George is influenced by		-The Marxian System 4. The author of Erewhon is						-Samuel Butler 5. Which of the following is a Comedy of Manners? -The Way of the World 6. Which one among the following is not a pessimist? -Browning 7. Charles Reade's drama "Drink" was adapted from a work of		-Zola 8. James Mill was born in						-Scotland 9. The classical theory of rent was advocated by 				-Ricardo 10. Which one among the following was not a utilitarian? -Rousseau 11. Kipling was born in							-1865 12. The monk Augustine came to England in 				-597 13. The Battle of Maldon was fought in 					-993 14. To whom are the following lines ascribed? "When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?" -John Ball 15. 'The Praise of Folly' was written by					-Thomas Moore 16. Who wrote: "In Praise of Idleness"? -Bertrand Russell 17. Which one of the following comprises one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable	-A trochee 18. In which work does the following line occur: "That with no middle flight intends to soar." -Paradise Lost 19. The trial scene in 'The Merchant of Venice' was presided over by	-The Duke 20. The real name of Saki is						-H.H.Munro 21. Who started: "The Tatler"? -Steele 22. The poem 'The Song of the Shirt' was written by 			-Thomas Hood 23; Sir Roger was originally the creation of 				-Steele 24. Who wrote: "Areopagitica"? -Milton 25. Mary Lamb killed her							-mother 26. 'The Selfish Giant' is a story written by 					-Oscar Wilde 27. Which one of the following is not a part of the proverbial "Three Unities"			-Unity of Purpose 28. Which one of the following letters is most often not pronounced before a consonant? r 29. The setting of Walpole's novel "The Castle of Otranto" is		-medieval Italy 30. Who wrote : "Four Quartets"? -T.S. Eliot 31. Who wrote : "Look Back in Anger"? -John Osborne 32. Who wrote : "The Devils of Loundun"? -Aldous Huxley 33. Iris Murdoch was born in						-1919 34. In the 'Heart of Darkness' Conrad has explored 			-Congo 35. Virginia Woolf died in							-1941 36. In which one of the following words 'b' is not silent			-lumbago 37. Who wrote: "Principles of Human Knowledge" 				-George Berkeley 38. Who wrote: "Liber Amoris"						-Hazlitt 39. Fielding wrote Joseph Andrews in reaction against			-Pamela 40. Fielding was a							-Realist 41. "A Railway Clerk" is a poem by					-Nissim Ezekiel 42. Raju is the hero of							-Guide 43. The Indian novelist who won the Booker Prize in 1997 was		-Arundhati Roy 44. Who won The Booker of Bookers					-Salman Rushdie 45. Who among the following is not a pre-Romantic poet? -Byron 46. Disraeli was influenced by						-Burke 47. Dickens died in							-1870 48. Who is not a novelist besides being a poet 				-Jayanta Mahapatra 49. The favourite poet of Jawaharlal Nehru was				-Frost 50. Who wrote: "The Battle of Books"					-Swift TEST PAPER V 1. Which of the following sounds is not a guttural (a) k (b) ng (c) g (d) p						-ans: p 2. Which of the following consonants is not considered redundant (a) c (b) q (c) r (d) x						 - r 3. In which metre is Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind' written		-Terza Rima 4. Who wrote the following lines: '"Tis sweet to hear the watch dog's honest bark Bay deep mouthed welcome as we near our home." -Byron 5. Who wrote the following lines : "The cock's shrill clarion, and the echoing horn, No more shall rouse than from their lowly bed." -Gray 6. In which class should we place Spenser's 'Shepherd's Calendar'? -Pastoral 7. In which book do the following lines occur : "Here is thy footstool and there rest thy feet where live the poorest, and lowliest, and lost." -The Gitanjali 8. Who among the following was the contemporary of Tennyson		-Robert Browning 9. Who wrote the following line: "God made the country and man made the town". -Cowper 10. Which one among the following is the correct chronological order (a) Faerie Queene -- Paradise Lost -- Lamia — Prospice (b) Macbeth -- Canterbury Tales -- In Memoriam -- Waste Land (c) Faustus -- The Duchess of Malfi -- The Eve of St. Agnes — Ulysses (d) Hamlet -- Prelude -- Hyperion -- Comus ans: (a) Faerie Queene -- Paradise Lost -- Lamia — Prospice 11. Who wrote: "Nectar in a Sieve"? -Kamala Markandaya 12. 'The Good Earth' was written by					-Pearl S. Buck 13. The writer of 'The Dove Found No Rest' is				-Dennis Stoll 14. Who wrote: "So Many Hungers"? -Bhabani Bhattacharya 15. The main theme of 'So Many Hungers' is				-degradation of humanity 16. Who said about Shaw: "He studied every known theory of socialism"	-Henderson 17. Who is the writer of "The Middleman and Other Stories "? -Bharati Mukherjee 18. Which one of the following is not an example of "fine writing" according to Prof. Terry Eagleton of St. Catherine College,  University of Oxford							-Darwin 19. Which one among the following cannot be considered an early Indian English poet		-Kamala Das 20. Who declared that he would "sing the song" of his "experience." -Nissim Ezekiel 21. Who said, "I only know how to work at one poem at a time, stitch by stitch"? -A.K. Ramanujan 22. Cicero was a Roman							-orator 23. Who is the writer of "Gita Rahasya"? -B.G.Tilak 24. In Arnold's 'The Scholar Gipsy,' the great modern melancholy is spiritualised into a symbol of? -mystery and dreams 25. 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' was translated into English by		-Fitz Gerald 26. Mayakovsky was the famous poet of					-Russia 27. Marquese originally wrote his "One Hundred Years of Solitude" in	-Spanish 28. The word 'Dialogue' is derived from "dialogos" which is a		-Greek word 29. The word 'strength' is derived from 'strengthu' which is			-An Old English word 30. Who said, "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world"? -Shelley 31. In which of Shakespeare's plays does Lancelott Gobbo appear	-The Merchant of Venice 32. In which year did Tagore receive the Nobel Prize? -1913 33. In which year did the Bolshevik Revolution take place? -1917 34. From the poem of which poet did E.M. Forster take the name of his novel "A Passage to India"? -Whitman 35. Identify Emile Bronte's novel in the following				-Wuthering Heights 36. Which one is believed to be the first English tragedy? -Gorboduc 37. Which of the following works is not by Milton? (a) Paradise Lost     (b) IlPenseroso (c) Lycidas (d) Maud			-Maud 38. 'Music At Night' is a book of essays by					-Aldous Huxley 39. The character of Sherlock Holmes was created by			-Arthur Conan Doyle 40. Who pruned the draft of the 'Waste Land' to about one third of its original length? -Ezra Pound 41. Who wrote the Preface to the Gitanjali				-W.B. Yeats 42. What can be said to be the tragic flaw in Hamlet? -Indecisiveness 43. Who said the following words: "There is Providence even in the fall of a sparrow"				-Keats 44. Who wrote 'The Spanish Tragedy'					-Thomas Kyd 45. Name the author of "1984"						-George Orwell 46. Who is the creator of Wessex						-Hardy 47. Columbus discovered America in					-1492 48. Who said of Keats that he was "snuffed out by an article"? -Byron 49 . Who said, "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"? -Wordsworth 50. Who said that democracy was like a balloon				-Shaw TEST PAPER VI 1. In which poem the following lines occur: "Grow old along with me, The best is yet to be?" -Rabbi Ben Ezra 2. Which of Browning's poems did Tennyson complain that it was unintelligible to him except for the first and the last lines both of which were wrong? -Sordello 3. Which of the following writers did not get the Nobel Prize? -Aurobindo 4. Who wrote the following lines : "The wind disentangles itself from your frenzied body as hurricanes of dreams follow me." -Pritish Nandy 5. Which one of the following is not Gurdial Singh's novel				-Godan 6. Who made the sensational pronouncement of "end of ideology" in 1960? -David Bell 7. Gurdial Singh was born in							-1933 8. Which novel of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaya has caught the imagination of the Indians the most, so much so that even another film bearing this name has been made? -Devdas 9. Whose rendering into English (as given below) are the following lines by Tagore: "What voice is that I hear From     the land of dawn, 'Fear not! Fear not! Who will give up his life Retaining nothing Will never end, never perish!'" -Sir Jadunath Sircar 10. When was the famous Hindi poet Kumar Vikal born? -1930 11. Whose novel "The Foundation Pit?" was discovered only a few years ago? -Andrey Platanov 12. The novel "We" was written by						-Zamayatin 13. Name the writer of "What Is To Be Done"					-Cherneshevysky 14. Who in "Paradise Lost' tells Adam: "Be lowly wise Dream not of other worlds."	-Angel Gabriel 15. Name the writer of the novel "Les Miserables"					-Victor Hugo 16. Who wrote the following lines: "Hurrah for revolution, Let the cannon shoot."	-Yeats 17. Who was the renowned English novelist who became the first great foreign writer to show a keen interest in R.K. Narayan's fiction which finally made the latter so famous-				-Graham Greene     18. R.K. Narayan was a								-Tamilian 19. Which of the following novels is not by Salman Rushdie?			-The Lighthouse 20. Which novel of Salman Rushdie was adjudged the best one to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years -Midnight's Children 21. When was Rushdie awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature	-1993 22. When was Ted Hughes made the poet laureate of England?			-1984 23. In which year between 1921 and 1940 no Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded (a) 1925 (b) 1930 (c) 1935 (d) 1939 24. In which year did Galsworthy receive the Nobel Prize				-1932 25. In which year did Dylan Thomas die? -1953 26. Aurobindo's Savitri is								-an epic 27. Lamb's essays are full of							-humour and pathos 28. Shelley's genius was basically							-lyrical 29. A sonnet comprises								-14 lines 30. Civil war in England was fought in........century					-seventeenth 31. The soldiers of Cromwell were known as					-Round heads 32. Who is renowned for his outstanding work "Holy Sonnets"			-Donne 33. When did Frederic Mistral of France and Jose Eizaguirre of Spain jointly win the Nobel Prize in Literature? -1904 34. Name the Russian who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1933		-Ivan Bunin 35. In what field did Churchill win the Nobel Prize? -Literature 36. From which book are the following lines taken : "And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night........." -The Holy Bible 37. In which book do the following lines occur: "Heavens lights for ever shine, Earth's shadows fly." -Adonais 38. Who wrote the Latin "History of the Britons"					-Geoffrey of Monmouth 39. When was the final result of slow transformation of Anglo-Saxon into modern English felt? -In the sixteenth century 40. Normandy was lost by John Lackland in					-1204 41. Until about the middle of the 14th century English literature was mostly		-religious and didactic 42. The book "Ormulum" comprised forty gospels translated and paraphrased by the monk named			-Omi 43. Thomas Henry Huxley associates						-science with daily life 44. Brave New World was published in						-1932 45. Which of the following is not written by Hugo Charteris? -A Piece of String 46. Cecil Day Lewis's 'The Poetic Image' appeared in				-1947 47. Ann Jellicoe became famous in 1958						-with the production of a play 48. Which of the following statements is not true:					-Shelley was a cricketer 49. Which of the following statements is true :			-Richardson's Pamela was written in the form of letters 50. Which of the following works is by H.G. Wells					-The Invisible Man TEST PAPER VII 1. Who wrote : "The Ideal of a Christian Church"					-William George Ward 2. Which of the following is not the off-shoot of Romanticism (a) Aesthetic Theory (b) Pre-Raphaelitism to Classicism (d) Super-naturalism

3. The greatest worshipper of beauty among the Romantic poets was		-Keats 4. Humanism is most pronounced in						-Renascence 5. When was Hazlitt born								-1778 6. Which of the following odes is not by Keats					-Ode on Intimations of Immortality 7. Which of the following is not a Romantic characteristic? -A conscious adherence to set rules 8. In which country was Romanticism associated with an innovatory aesthetic creed? -France 9. English Romanticism from 1790 to 1830 being a native development, was partly influenced by		-Germany 10. Crabbe was mainly a.........poet. -Realistic 11. Which characteristic among the following is not contained in "The Monk" by Lewis	-Highly religious atmosphere 12. Which of the following works is not that of David Hume				-The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire 13. In Tristram Shandy, the hero is born in						-the third book 14. Don Quixote basically presents					-the contrasting glory and misery of mankind 15. In writing Tristram Shandy, Sterne was mainly influenced by			-Cervantes 16. Tristram Shandy is primarily a.........novel					-sentimental 17. In the 'Vicar of Wakefield' Goldsmith mainly offers a.............figure		-moral 18. What is A.C. Bradley mainly known for						-Shakespearean tragedy 19. Who is the writer of 'The School for Scandal'					-R.B. Sheridan 20. Raymond Williams is primarily a						-Critic 21. Who is the writer of the poem "The Canonization"				-Donne 22. Name the writer of the poem "Wind Hour"					-Hopkins 23. Who is the writer of the poem "Adam's Course"				-Yeats 24. Who wrote the poem: "Lay Your Sleeping Head". -Auden 25. The play "The Birthday Party" is written by					-Harold Pinter 26. Who is believed to be the writer of "On the Sublime"				-Longinus 27. Name the author of "An Essay on Dramatic Poesie"				-Dryden 28. Who is the writer of "Culture and Society"					-Raymond Williams 29. The writer of the 'Mirror and the Lamp' is					-M.H. Abrams 30. The writer of "Provide Provide" is						-Frost 31. In whose essays the idea of the "oversoul" pervades........... -Emerson 32. Who wrote "Desire Under the Elms"						-Eugene O'Neill 33. Who is the writer of "A Severed Head"						-Iris Murdoch 34. 'Das Kapital' is written by							-Marx 35. "Waiting for Godot" is written by						-Samuel Beckett 36. Who is the writer of "A House for Mr. Biswas"? -V.S. Naipaul 37. Name which is not the work of Marlowe					-Richard I 38. Name the writer of the poem "The Weary Blues"				-Langston Hughes 39. Which of the following poems is not written by Robert Lowell			-Good Morning 40. Which of the following poems is written by Wallace Stevens			-Sunday Morning 41. Which of the following poems is not written by Philip Larkin			-Traveller 42. Oedipus Rex was written by							-Sophocles 43. Flaubert's famous work is							-Madame Bovary 44. Northrop Fry is basically a							-Critic 45. The writer of "The Beauty in a State" is						-Ananda Coomaraswami 46. The most important work of K.R. Srinivas Iyengar is				-Indian Writing in English 47. The writer of "The Swan and the Eagle" is					-CD. Narasimhaiah 48. Name the writer of the book "Introducing Applied Linguistics" (Penguin)		-S. Pittcorder 49. Danglars is a character in							-Monte Cristo 50. "A sleepless hour or more has its strange value only in the middle." Name the writer of the lines given above -Nissim Ezekiel

TEST PAPER VIII 1. Who said about Virginia Woolf "She had no taste for rough diamonds"		-H.V. Routh 2. The name of Virginia Woolf's father was					-Stephen Woolf 3. In which work does the following line appear: "Her sympathy seemed to fly back into her face, like a bramble spring." -To The Lighthouse 4. Identify the last line of Whitman's "Passage to India"				-O farther, farther, farther sail! 5. The generally accepted date of the death of Plato is				-348 BC 6. It is generally believed that Aristotle was born in					-384 BC 7. Aristotle was engaged as tutor to						-Alexander 8. What was the most revolutionary deed done by Aristotle, regarding human rights and freedom, which he did before his death? -He liberated all his slaves through his will 9. Which critic is most associated with the view that "Poetry is criticism of life." -Matthew Arnold 10. What did Byron die of? -fever 11. Which among the following critics did not believe in the authority of ancient classics? Wordsworth 12. Which of the following poets made a fortune by translating Homer? -Pope 13. Who is believed to have said : "That which does not concern the common man, is of no significance." -Rousseau 14. Who is stated to have said "Criticism is the art of interpreting art?" -Walter Pater 15. Who wrote the poem: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"? -Yeats 16. Who is primarily associated with the term "Objective Correlative"		-Eliot 17. Who is stated to have said, "What criticism undertakes is the profitable discussion of literature." -F.R. Leavis 18. Who wrote : "The Lives of the Poets"? -Dr. Johnson 19. Who is said to have used the term "high seriousness"? -M. Arnold 20. Who used the term "high disdain"? -Milton 21. Who wrote: "The Interpretation of Dreams"? -Freud in 1900 22. Who wrote : "Principles of Literary Criticism" (in 1924)? -I.A. Richards 23. Who said : "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion"? -T.S. Eliot 24. Who said : "Language may be defined as the expression of thought by means of speech sounds?" -Henry Sweet 25. In what respect among the following do the human beings and animals have at least partly identical station in the matter of language as a means of communication? (a) acquired (b) instinctive (c) grammaticality     (d) behaviourial 26. Who said: "So, Here I am...... Twenty years largely wasted..... Trying to use word......." -T.S. Eliot 27. Who said: "Style is the skin and the mere coat?" -Carlyle 28. When did Trubetzkoy's "Principles of Phonology", appear? -1939 29. Whose book "Language" (1933) is considered "The Bible of American Linguistics"? -Bloomfield 30. Who said: Language is "primarily an auditory system of symbols?" -Sapir 31. Which of the following poems is not by Frost? -Michael 32. What does the term "Deus ex machina" mean? -God out of the machine 33. The famous soliloquy "To be or not to be" occurs in				-Hamlet 34. Who wrote : "Flower in the crammied well Little flower but if I could understand what you are........................... I should know what God and Man is." -Tennyson 35. Which is the 'odd man out' in the following					-Essay on Man 36. Which Italian poet is most famous for his sonnets? -Petrarch 37. Who wrote the following line : "Blow, blow, thou winter wind"? -Shakespeare 38. In which of the following word the adverb form is made by simply applying "ly" at the end? -Present 39. Tetra metre comprises a line with ........... iambus				-Four 40. What figure of speech has been used in the following line: "Milton! thou shouldn’t be living with us at this hour." --Wordsworth (a) Hyperbole (b) Simile (c) Metaphor (d) Apostrophe 41. Under which category should Dryden's Mac flecknoe be placed? -Satire 42. Which figure of speech has been used in the term: "immemorial elms"? -Alliteration 43. Who is the writer of the following line : "Busy old fool, unruly sun"? -Donne 44. What is the name of the central figure in Tagore's play "Muktadhara"? -Prince Abhijit 45. Which play of Shaw is also sometimes called "The Chocolate Soldier"? -Arms and the Man 46. In which episode of "The Merchant of Venice" did the Prince of Arragon make the choice of the silver casket? -The Casket Episode 47. Which one among the following was not the demand of the Chartists in 19th century in England? -pensions to all widows 48. In which category among novelists should Mrs. Gaskell be placed? -humanitarian 49. Which one among the following cannot be deemed to be a writer of the "Problem Play"? -Eliot 50. In which decade of the twentieth century did the group of novelists commonly known as "Angry Young Men" appear? -Fifties

TEST PAPER IX 1. In which year was Magna Carta signed ? -1215 2. To which King of England did Pope give the title 'Defender of the Faith'? -Henry 8 3. When did Mandeville's 'Travels' appear? -1496 4. Who is the writer of "Metamorphoses"? -Ovid 5. When is Wyclif believed to have died? -1384 6. East India Company was set up in						-1600 7. G.M. Trevelyan was primarily a							-historian 8. In which book does the following line appear: "A god is not so glorious as a king." –Marlowe		-Tamburlaine 9. The book "Euphues" was written by						-John Lyly 10. Bacon's essays are the finest example of					-practical wisdom 11. Tamberlaine is basically an expression of the spirit of..........in full measure	-Renaissance 12. In which poem do the following lines appear: "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage?" -'To Althea, from Prison' 13. Which one among the following was not a cavalier poet? -Robert Bridges 14. Which age in English literature is known as the Augustan Age? -That of Dryden 15. Who wrote to Pope in 1706 : "The best of the modern poets in all languages are those that have nearest copied the ancients?" -Addison 16. The Age of Queen Anne in England was an era of				-political stability 17. When was Swift born? -1667 18. Which is Swift's most powerful general satire? -Gulliver's Travels 19. Who characterized D.G. Rossetti's poetry as belonging to "the fleshly school of poetry"? -Eliot 20. In which poem does the following line occur : "The wild wine slips with the weight of its leaves?" -- Swinburne -The Blessed Damozel 21. Which of the following should be regarded as the presiding deity of the Victorian period? Mrs. Grundy 22. Who is the heroine of 'Vanity Fair'? -Becky Sharp 23. The period of Edward VII's rule in England lasted from 1901 to......... -1912 24. When was Old Age Pensions Act passed in England? -1908 25. In which decade in the nineteenth century did the Chartist Movement take a concrete shape in England? -Thirties 26. Which one among the following was not the reason for the failure of the Chartist Movement? -Natural calamities 27. Which age is generally called the Age of Prose and Reason? -Eighteenth century 28. Who can be said to be the greatest writer of the Comedy of Humours? -Dryden 29. Which one among the following is not a play by Ben Johnson? -The Way of the World 30. Who is the writer of the book "Prince"? -Machiavelli 31. Who is the writer of the essay "Simulation and Dissimulation"? -Bacon 32. Name the figure of speech for which Lyly is chiefly remembered-		-Euphuism 33. Utopia was written by							-Sir Thomas Moore 34. The other name for Euphues is						-The Anatomy of Wit 35. Ferrex and Porrex is the other name for					-Goboduc 36. In the 'Spanish Tragedy', there is the ghost of					-Andrea 37. Which one among the following belongs to the group known as University Wits? -Marlowe 38. Astrophel and Stella is a							-play 39. In the Duchess of Malfi, Ferdinand was the Duke of				-Calabria 40. The Alchemist was published in						-1610 41. In the Duchess of Malfi, who spoke the following words "O horror, that not the fear of him which binds the devils can prescribe man obedicence." -Ferdinand 42. In 'Sons and Lovers', Paul Moral is the son of					-Walter Morel 43. Which of the following is not one of the five movements in 'The Wasteland'? -The Joy of Riding 44. When was St. Thomas canonized :						- in1170 45. Who appointed St. Thomas Becket a Chancellor? -Henry III 46. T.S. Eliot died in								-1965 47. When was Erewhon first published? -1871 48. What is the Greek meaning of 'Utopia'					-Not a place (=ou=not; topos=a place) 49. What are the last words of Vanity Fair						-Shantih! Shantih! Shantih 50. 'Virtue Rewarded' is the other name for			-"Pamela," an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson.

TEST PAPER X 1. The word "Volksgeist" means						-(As per) tradition, custom and consensus 2. When did the hundred years' war which started in 1337 come to an end? -1453 (French victory) 3. The Age of chivalry was basically an age of					-love, war and religion 4. Cervantes practically rang the death-knell of					-chivalry 5. The "Black Death" in England as came in 1348 was known by this name because -The whole country became black with dead bodies 6. When did Peasants' Revolt take place in England? -In 1381 7. Who was the king in England at the time of Peasants' Revolt? -Richard II 8. Which one of the following was a contemporary of Chaucer			-John Gower 9. The famous work of Boccaccio is						-Decameron 10. When did Petrarch die? -1374 (born 20 July 1304) 11. Who has written the following line : "Chaucer symbolises, as no other writer does, The Middle Ages." -Compton-Rickett 12. What is meant by "Grub Street"? The literary scene of hacks' crowds during Pope's period. 13. Who wrote: "Idylls of the King"? -Tennyson 14. Who started the Lollards' Movement? -Wyclif 15. Who wrote the following lines : "He loved gold in special, For, gold in physic is a cordial." -Chaucer 16. Sir Andrew Freeport is a member of						-The Spectator Club 17. What could be another name for Renaissance? -The New Learning 18. Who wrote: 'Hudibras'? -Butler 19. When was the poet John Gay born? -1685   (1685 – 1732) was  a member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for "The Beggar's Opera" 20. "London" by Dr. Johnson is							-A verse satire 21. Cowper was born in								-1731 (died in 1800 aged 68)  a poet. 22. Who wrote Moll Flanders? -Defoe 23. The Gothic novel was primarily a novel of					-Terror 24. When did Areopagitica appear? -1644 25. The main plank of Areopagitica's argument was for the freedom of		-the press 26. Philip Wakem is a character in						-The Mill on the Floss 27. When was Walter Horatio Pater born? -In 1839 (died in 1894) was an English essayist and critique. 28. Which one of the following writers is not dealt with in Pater's 'Appreciations'? -Southey 29. 'Unto This Last' is a work by							-John Ruskin 30. Thomas Gradgrind is a character that occurs in				-Hard Times 31. Which one among the following cannot strictly be called the writer of novels of purpose? -Jane Austen 32. Who among the following cannot be termed one of the Four Wheels of English Novel in the Eighteenth century? -Jane Austen 33. Who is the writer of "The Blessed Damozel"? -D.G. Rossetti 34. Which is the correct chronological order? (a) Utopia -- Dr. Faustus -- Areopagitica — Maud (b) Henry V -- The Faery Queene -- Lyrical Ballads -- The Compleat Angler (c) Christabel -- Canterbury Tales -- Queen Mab — Corsair (d) Kubla Khan -- Othello -- Paradise Lost - Michael ans: (a) Utopia--Dr. Faustus--Areopagitica—Maud 35. The word "compromise" is used with...age					-Victorian 36. Which one of the following poets may to some extent be considered a continental poet? -Byron 37. Which one among the following favoured most the imperialistic tendencies? -Kipling 38. Who among the following was not a critic? -Tennyson 39. "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" was the slogan of					-French Revolution 40. Francis Thompson the poet, died in						-1907 (born in 1859 addicted to opium.) 41. The most important aspect of Jane Austen's novels is				-Perfect Plot construction 42. The circle of Jane Austen's novels is						-A limited number of families 43. Which one among the following was not a contemporary or predecessor of Shakespeare? -Fry 44. Who among the following was not a prose writer? -Coleridge 45. Who among the following was not a character writer? -Wordsworth 46. Who among the following was not an essayist of the seventeenth century? -Hazlitt 47. About whom has it been said : "He knew small Latin and less Greek"? -Shakespeare 48. Who said about Shakespeare: "He was not of age but of ages"? -Ben Jonson 49. Pinpoint the correct chronological sequence (a) Petrarch -- Spenser -- Wordsworth — Marlowe (b) Wyclif -- Lyly -- Shelley — Tennyson (c) Pope -- Chaucer -- Donne — Yeats (d) M. Arnold -- Dryden -- Sidney -- Yeats ans: b) Wyclif -- Lyly -- Shelley — Tennyson 50. Who wrote: 'Modern Painters.'						-Ruskin

TEST PAPER XI 1. When was Somerset Maugham born? -1874 died in 1965 (aged 91 in France ). Occupation: Playwright, novelist,  short story writer  Notable work(s) Of Human Bondage, The Letter,  Rain, The Razor's Edge. 2. In which book do the following lines occur : "Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law?" -'Love in the Valley” by George Meredith 3. Who is the writer of the following lines : "Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song. Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong?" John Masefield 4. When did Landon die? -1874 5. Which one of the following is not the work of Lamb				-Of Style 6. Whose is the following line: "A child's a plaything for an hour?" -Mary Lamb 7. Who wrote the following line : "The moon is nothing But a circumambulatory aphrodisiac?" -Fry 8. Who is stated to have said : "veni, vidi, vici?" -Julius Caesar 9. The War of Troy was fought between						-The Greeks and the Trojans 10. One of the heroes in the War of Troy bore the name of a city			-Paris 11. Who wrote : "The Advancement of Learning?" -Bacon 12. Who said : "My essays ........ come home, to men's business, and bosoms?”	-Bacon 13. In which year did the 'Glorious Revolution' take place in England?		-1688 14. Who wrote: "We are hollow men?"						-Eliot 15. Who used the term "The perpetual struggle for room and food?"		-Malthus 16. In which book do the following lines appear : "O thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars?"										-Dr. Faustus 17. Who wrote the following line : "Our swords shall play the orators for us?"		-Marlowe 18. By which character is the following line in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar spoken? "I'm well-armed in honesty." -Brutus 19. Who said: "I teach you the superman. Man is something that is to be surpassed>"		-Nietzsche 20. Who is stated to have called Turkey "a seriously sick man?"			-Nicholas I of Russia 21. Who gave the definition of a gentleman as "one who never inflicts pain?”	-Newman 22. To whom is the statement "Laws were made to be broken" originally ascribed? -Christopher 23. Who wrote the following lines : "My subject is war, and the pity of war. The poetry is in the pity?" Wilfred Owen 24. Who said: "He comes too near that comes to be denied?" -Overbury 25. "Who wrote : "The dropping of rain hollows out of a stone?"			-Ovid 26. In which book do the following words appear: "The mass of men lead dead lives of quiet desperation?" 	-Walden 27. In which book did Jawaharlal Nehru quote the following words of Goethe: "If the Romans were great enough to invent   things like that, we at least should be great enough to believe them?"		-The Discovery of India 28. Who said about Jawaharlal Nehru: "...Thus there emerges the image of Jawaharlal Nehru as a humanist, full of the deepest tenderness for men everywhere, a polytheist who accepted all the gods of the world, a universalist?" -Mulk Raj Anand 29. Who said: "Nothing can harm a good man, either in life or after death?"	-Socrates 30. Who said, "From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr?"		Sir Arthur Pinero 31. 'The Way of All Flesh' was written by						- Samuel Butler  (The Way of All Flesh   (1903) is a  semi-autobiographical novel  which attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. Published in 1903 with 423 pages. 32. In which poem does the following line occur : "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting?" -Ode on Intimations of Immortality 33. In which play does the character "Maura" occur? -Riders to the Sea 34. When was 'The Wind Among The Reeds' written? -1899 35. Who was the chief co-founder of the (Irish) Abbey Theatre with W.B. Yeats? -Lady Gregory 36. When did Alfred Edward Housman die? -1936 born in 1859 a Classicist, Poet) 37. P.G. Wodehouse is generally known as a					-'Funny man' of contemporary literature  38. Who said the following words : "To be alone is the fate of all great minds?"	-Arthur Schopenhauer 39. "There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." Who said the words mentioned above? -George Santayana 40. Who said, "I am the grass; I cover all?"						-Sandburg 41. Who is the writer of the line : "Look back, and smile at perils past?"		-Scott 42. Who wrote: "I must -I will-- I can- -I ought--I do."                                 -(a) Congreve (c) R.B. Sheridan (b) Carlyle (d) Etherege 43. Who is the writer of "The Good Companions?"					-J.B. Priestley (published in 1929. Written in 1929 (in Deal, Kent), it focuses on the trials and tribulations of a concert party in England between World War I and World War II. It is arguably Priestley's most famous novel, and the work which established him as a national figure. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was adapted twice into film. 44. Who among the following poets can be said to be a catalogue writer? -Auden 45. Which poet among the following can be said to be a poet of multitudes? -Whitman 46. Who is the writer of the poem 'Vagabond'? -Masefield 47. Who said, "French is the only modern language fit for literature?" -Conrad 48. Which poem of Kipling was considered an offence to democracy? -A Servant when He Reigneth 49. Which one among the following was not one of the Decadents? -Tennyson 50. "If I should die, think only this of me." Who wrote the above line? -Brooke

TEST PAPER XII 1. Which of the following statements is true : - Browning's work is more original in content than that of Tennyson (b) Wordsworth was the older brother of Coleridge (c) Shelley was a pessimistic poet (d) James Joyce received the Nobel Prize in 1933 2. Which of the following statements is true : - Fanny Burney was a poetess of the first rank. (b) Wordsworth and Coleridge were always at daggers' drawn with each other (c) Keats died at the age of fifty (d) Mrs. Virginia Woolf committed suicide 3. Which of the following statements is true : - Goldsmith hated mankind (b) Horace Walpole is an historian of the second order (c) Crashaw was a Victorian novelist (d) Donne was the grandson of Spenser 4. Which of the following statements is true : - Mrs. Montagu is one of the queens of the Blue Stockings (b) French Revolution had no effect on Shelley (c) Southey fought in the battle of Blenheim (d) Lamb had his hut in a forest 5. Dryden's comedy 'The Wild Gallant' belongs to the year	 -	-1663 The play was first published in 1669 in a quarto printed by Thomas Newcomb for the bookseller Henry Herringman. It is Restoration comedy. It was Dryden's earliest play, and written in prose, not verse. 6. Sir Thomas Browne was overwhelmingly a					-a prose writer 7. "Gallathea" is written by							-John Lyly 8. In which category should Lyly's "Love's Metamorphosis" be counted: Pastoral (Love's Metamorphosis was entered into the Stationers' Register on November 25, 1600, and was first published in 1601 in a quarto issued by the bookseller William Wood. The title page of the 1601 quarto calls the play a "witty and courtly pastoral," and states that it was first staged by the Children of Paul's, the troupe of child actors that was Lyly's regular company, and "now" (c. 1600) by the Children of the Chapel. "Probably the Paul's boys produced it c. 1589–90, and the Chapel revived it in 1600–1." 9. When was James Thomson born?						-1700 10. In which year was Jane Austen born?						-1775 11. Blackwood's magazine was founded in					-1817 12. Which one among the following was a periodical?				-The Spectator 13. The dramas of the nineteenth century England appeal to			-the conscience 14. Who wrote: "The Harp of India"?						-Henry L.V. Derozio 15. "King Porus--A Legend of Old" is written by					-Michael Madhusudan 16. Who is the writer of the poem "The Dance of the Eunuchs"?			-Kamala Das 17. Which Indian poet wrote the poem "The Trojan War"?				-Sri Aurbindo 18. Who wrote: "Jonathan Wild"?							--Fielding 19. Which one among the following is not a Gothic novelist?			Virginia Woolf 20. Horace Walpole was the..........of Mr. Walpole, the Prime Minister of England. -son 21. Which one among the following cannot be regarded as a stream-of-consciousness novelist? -Thackeray 22. What is it to which Stephen Dedalus finally gets inclined in "A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man"? -Art 23. George Eliot's real name was							-Mary Evans 24. Which one of the following novels created a lot of controversy even in America? -Ulysses 25. Which characters does Forster consider better in his Aspects of the Novel? -Round 26. Stephen Guest is a character in						-The Mill on The Floss 27. "Of Revenge" is one of the essays of						-Bacon 28. "Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man." In which of Bacon's essays does the sentence mentioned above appear? -Of Studies 29. In which category should Samuel Pepys be placed? -a diarist 30. Addison wrote the autobiography of a coin. What was it? -a shilling 31. Which one among the following was the periodical to which Addison did not contribute his works? -The Edinburg Review 32. What secured Addison political patronage? -a poem 33. 'Meditation on a Broomstick' by Swift is primarily a				-a bitter criticism of human nature 34. Goldsmith died in								-1774 35. "Beau Tibbs" by Goldsmith is a satire on					-fops and beaus 36. When did De Quincey die? -in 1859 ( Thomas Penson de Quincey born in 1785) was an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). 37. About whom did Wordsworth write the following line? "She was a phantom of delight." -his wife 38. Who is one of the persons described in De Quincey's "Wordsworth's Household?" -Dorothy 39. Who accompanied Wordsworth when he was alone in the lap of nature? -Dorothy 40. Who wrote: "The Confessions of An English Opium-Eater"? -De Quincey 41. Charles Lamb was born in							-1775 42. Who among the following is called the Prince of Essayists? -Lamb 43. In which of his essays does Lamb use the oxymoron "busy-idle" diversions	-Dream Children 44. What, according to Lamb, as in his essay " The Convalescent," comprise the mind of a sick man? -complete self-absorption 45. Who focused attention on the metaphysical poets in the 20th century? -T.S. Eliot 46. Mention the date of Eliot's Hollow Men					-1925 47. Who wrote the poem "Rhapsody on a Windy Day"? -Eliot 48. Who wrote the line : "The weariness, the fever, and the fret?”			-Keats 49. In which poem does the following poem by Keats occur? "For ever wilt thou love and she be fair." -Ode to a Grecian Urn 50. Who was Pericles?								-A great Athenian statesman

TEST PAPER XIII 1. Who wrote : "The Parliament of Foules"? -Chaucer 2. When did Chaucer die? -1400 3. Of the following periods, which does not belong to Chaucer? -The Period of German 4. Who wrote : "Epithalamion"? -Spenser 5. In which of Shakespeare's plays does the following line appear? "Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more." -Much Ado About Nothing 6. In which of Dryden's poems does the following line occur:   "Love is that madness which all lovers have." -The Conquest of Granada 7. Who said, "Pope's poetry exhibits always an equilibrium of many separate forces." -Tillotson 8. When did Spenser die? -1599 born in 1552 9. When was Milton born? -1608 (died in 1674) 10. When did Victoria ascend the throne? -In 1837 11. Queen Victoria's period in literature is generally considered to start from	-1850 12. Who wrote: "How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!?”		-Wordsworth 13. Who is the writer of: "Cast a cold eye on life, on death, Horseman, pass by!?"	-Yeats 14. Browning's Pauline was published in						-1833 15. 'Sartor Resartus' was written by						-Carlyle in 1836 16. When did the French Revolution start?					-1789 17. When was slave trade abolished in England?					-1807 18. Which of the following writers did not belong to the 18th century?		-Pafer 19. Which one of the following poets was not a Victorian poet?			-Keats        20. Name of writer who "tried almost every kind of novel known to the 19th century."		-Bulwer Lytton 21. By writing "Truce of the Bear" which country did Kipling offend?			-Russia         22. Which of Kipling's poems commemorate England's entrance into the First World War?	-For All We Have and Are 23. When did Kipling receive the Nobel Prize? -In 1907 24. Who was the Editor of the Cornhill Magazine? -Cornhill Magazine Victorian magazine, Editor George Murray Smith Categories Literary magazine First issue 1860  Final issue 1975. Country United Kingdom Language English 25. Which of the following is not the work of Bunyan? -Samson Agonistes 26. Shakespeare's use of prose is usually limited to					-comic scenes 27. Who said, "If Pope is not the poet, where is poetry to be found?" -Dr. Johnson 28. "Fans" is a humorous essay by							-Addison 29. To commemorate whose death did M. Arnold write "Thyrsis"? -Arthur Hugh Clough 30. In which year was "The Princess" published? -1847 31. In which book of "The Task" by Cowper does the following line appear? "God made the country, and men mad     the   town". -Book I 32. In which book of 'The Task" does the following line appear? "England, with all thy faults, I love thee still." -Book II 33. In which drama of Shakespeare does the following line appear? "Tu-whit, tu-who--a merry note." -Love's Labours Lost 34. Where is the scene of "The Devil's Disciple" located?				-New Hampshire 35. Who wrote the following line :  "Much have I travelled in the realms of gold."	-Keats 36. Burns' father was a 								-poor peasant 37. Who took Gray abroad?							-Horace Walpole     38. Wilberforce was mainly working for ......... in the eighteenth century		-the liberation of the slaves 39. Who wrote the lines :   "There is not flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man."		-Cowper 40. Which one of the following was not a part of the general nature of the Anglo-Saxons? -fondness for lewd way of living 41. The main aspect of the Anglo-Saxon language was				-Vigour 42. The first important expression of melody is made in the works of			-Chaucer 43. Which one among the following could not be described as the 'matter' of early verse romances		-Spain 44. In which year was Armada defeated? -1588 45. When did Bacon die? -1626 ( born in 1561) 46. When was first the Divine Right of Kings proclaimed? -1604 47. Who wrote the Ode, "Come Leave the Loathed Stage."? -Ben Jonson 48. How many dramatists were with Ben Jonson in fighting against the romantic tendency? -He was alone 49. Which metre has Chaucer used in his Troilus and Criseyde? -Rime Royal 50. Who is the writer of 'Piers Plowman' ? -Langland. Piers Plowman (written  ca. 1360 – 1387) or Visio Willelmi de Petro Plowman (William's Vision of Piers Plowman)   is the title of a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland. It is written in unrhymed alliterative verse divided into sections called "passus" (Latin for "step"). Piers is considered by many critics to be one of the early great works of English literature along with Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight during the Middle Ages.

TEST PAPER XIV 1. Who is the writer of the poem : The Pied Piper of Hamelin? -Robert Browning 2. The sculptures on the gateway of the Sanchi Stupa built by Emperor Ashoka in the 3rd century B.C., illustrate, inter alia, -The Jataka tales 3. In which poem of Shelley does the following line occur :  "O antique verse and high romance." -Epipsychidion 4. Who is the writer of the following lines :   "Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem To copy Nature is to copy, them." -Pope 5. Who wrote about Vivekananda, "If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive, nothing negative." -Tagore 6. When did Swami Vivekananda die? -July 04, 1902 7. In which year did Vivekananda participate in the Parliament of Religions in Chicago, USA? --1893 8. Who wrote : "Science and Life"? -J.B.S. Haldane 9. Who wrote the following line : "History is largely a record of self-deception." -J.B. Priestley 10. Who spoke the following words in his defence in the court:  "I believe that only God is really wise, and...... that man's  wisdom is worth little or nothing." -Socrates 11. In which work does the following sentence appear:  "Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things that seem to us self-evident." -'Brave New World Revisited' by Aldous Huxley 12. What kind of book is "Three Men In A Boat"? -A funny or humorous book 13. Which of the following is not concerned with fun or humour? -Pathetic Fallacy 14. In which book do the following words appear: "...man is a brief episode in the life of a small plant in a little corner of the   universe." -Russell's 'Unpopular Essay' 15. In which of Shakespeare's play does a character speak the following words:   "If your leisure serv'd, I would speak with you." -Much Ado About Nothing 16. Which kind of life can be best described as led by Dr. Jekyll in R.L. Stevenson's "The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." -a double life 17. Who was the founder of the system of philosophy known as "Positivism"		-Auguste Comte 18. What is meant by "sing-song tone?" -a boring childish tone 19. What is meant by 'jink and muck'? -old thing of little or no value 20. Delphi was a place in ancient Greece which was known for the oracle of	-Apollo 21. Who said the following words :  "I must set God's command above everything." -Socrates 22. What is meant by the expression "Homeric Fight"? -a great fight 23. Henry Dunant was associated with :						-Red cross 24. The name of Shelley's wife who committed suicide was			-Harriet 25. The philosopher who influenced Pope was					-Bolingbroke 26. Who is the writer of the book "The Impact of Science on Society"? -Russell 27. Who wrote the following line :   "What, there's nothing in the moon noteworthy?" (in 'One Word More') -Browning 28. Who was Michelangelo? -A painter 29. Mention which of the following Tagore was not--				-school teacher 30. Who is the writer of the following lines as quoted by M. Arnold at the start of his "Thyrsis". "Thus yesterday, today, tomorrow come, They hustle one another and they pass." -Lucretius 31. When did Arthur Hugh Clough die? -1861 32. In which poem of M. Arnold does the following line appear? "Where ignorant armies clash by night." -Dover Beach 33. Who is the writer of the play "The Miracle Merchant"				-Saki 34. 'The Miracle Merchant" was based on the story				-'The Hen' 35. The essay "An Apology for Idlers" is written by					-R.L. Stevenson     36. Who is the writer of the following line in his introduction to a book on social history : "And Reality, if rightly interpreted is grander than Fiction."			-Trevelyan 37. Who used the term "Dry as dust" for the antiquarian or historical researcher?	-Carlyle 38. Who among Chaucer's characters spoke the following lines :        "Wold the see were kept for anything Betwixt Middleburgh and Orewell”. -Merchant 39. Under what category, should Langland's 'The Piers Plowman' be placed? -Religious allegory 40. In which work do the following lines appear: "Labourers that have no land to live on but their hands Deigned not dine a day on worts a night old." -Piers Plowman 41. Wat Tyler was slain at ......... in the presence of the mob be led			-Smithield 42. About which character does Chaucer say the following words : "It snowed in his house of meat and drinke of alle dainties that men could think." -Franklin 43. By whom was Christ's Hospital founded? -Edward 6 44. Kett's rising in Norfolk in 1549 was a						-Peasants' rising 45. Who is the writer of "Angler?" -Izaak Walton 46. Name the writer of the book "Illusion and Reality"				-Christopher Caudwell 47. When did George II die? -1760 48. George IV reigned from							-1820 - 30 49. Who wrote:'Wealth of Nations'? -Adam Smith 50. Dr. Chalmers was associated with						-Evangelical revival

TEST PAPER XV 1. In which play of Shakespeare there exists "The Forest of Arden"? -As You Like It 2. What is the other name for Euphues? -The Anatomy of Wit 3. Heathcliff is the most important character in the novel				-Wuthering Heights 4. 'Wuthering Heights' is the name of a farm owned by				-Earnshaws 5. How many knights enter the cathedral to kill St. Thomas in 'Murder in the Cathedral.'		-Four 6. Which country could most probably stand for Samuel Butler's Erewhon which otherwise means nowhere? -New Zealand 7. In which novel of Hardy does the character 'Arabella' exist? -Jude the Obscure 8. Most of Hardy's novels are							-Tragedies 9. What hastened Mr. Tulliver's death in "The Mill on the Floss"? -His bankruptcy 10. 'Rawdon Crawley' is a character in						-Vanity Fair 11. In which poem do the following lines occur : "Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time,      with    a gift of tears?" -Atlanta and Calydon 12. How many lines does each stanza of the "Scholar Gipsy" consist of		-Ten 13. Milton wrote 'Paradise Lost' mainly to						-justify ways of God to man 14. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (English translation) is written in		-Quatrains 15. 'Maud' is a poem by								-Tennyson 16. In which poem does the following lyric in blank verse appear: "Come down, O maid." -The Princess 17. What is the rhyme scheme of "In Memoriam"					-a b b a 18. Who satirised Wordsworth's poetic diction in the following lines : "Who both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose." -Byron 19. Who is the writer of the following : "Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments..." -Shakespeare 20. Who wrote: "Oh east is east and west is west, And never the twain shall meet." - Kipling, in his poem 'The Ballad of East and West' 21. Who wrote : "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers"				-Byron 22. Who is the writer of the tragedy "Prometheus Bound." -Aeschylus 23. How many poems did Wordsworth contribute to Lyrical Ballads :		-19 24. Samuel Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels is a						-surgeon 25. How many imaginary countries does Gulliver visit				-Four 26. Who is the writer of "Leviathan"						-Hobbes 27. Robinson Crusoe was published						-1719 28. In the Dunciad, Pope has satirized						-fallen literary standards 29. "The Rape of the Lock" is a........poem						-mock-heroic 30. The following lines occur in         "........in Logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic; He could, distinguish and divide A hair twixt south and south-    west side." -Hudibras 31. In which country was TS Eliot born ? -USA (Thomas Stearns Eliot 1888 - 1965 aged 76) 32. The 'Forsyte Saga' was written by						-Galsworthy 33. Arnold Bennet died in							-1931 34. Who is the writer of the comedy 'The Wild Gallant'				-Dryden 35. When was Crashaw born						-1612   (died in 1649 British  metaphysical poet) 36. Who wrote the following line : "Death, thou wast once an uncouth hideous thing." -Herbert 37. Robert Herrick died in						-1674 (born in 1591 aged 83 Poet and clergyman) 38. Thomas Carew died in	-1639 (born in 1595 was an English poet, among the 'Cavalier' group of Caroline poets. 39.  Hobbes can be regarded as a precursor and pioneer of modern		-prose 40. Which of the following is not a comic character?				-Othello 41. To whom can "courtly wit" be ascribed :					-Dekker 42. Who is the writer of the comedy "A New Way To Pay Old Debts."		-Massinger 43.  In one of whose works does the character 'Sir Epicure Mammon' exist		-Jonson     44.  Who is now said to have collaborated with Fletcher in writing the following plays : The False one, The Spanish Curate, The Beggar's Bush, etc.								-Massinger 45. "The Woman-Hater' is a mock-heroic comedy by				-Beaumont 46.  'Four Prentices of London' is written by					-Heywood      47.  In Epicoene, Jonson's chief aim is						-to please the public 48.  In 'The Poetaster' Jonson presents one of the following as a bad poet		-Martson 49. Who is the writer of the following lines : "I'll strip the ragged follies of the time, Naked as at their birth." -Jonson 50. Constantinople fell to the Turks in						-1453

TEST PAPER XVI 1. In whose Ashram did Shakuntala live? -Kanva 2. The name of the king who came to the ashram where Shakuntala lived was	-Dushyanta 3. Meghdoot was written by							-Kalidas 4. Who is the writer of the following sentence: "I think one of the reasons why I stopped writing novels is that the social aspect of the world changed so much." -Forster 5. Who wrote the following: "Agriculture is not one industry among many, but is a way of life." -Trevelyan 6. From which year is the modern period of English literature generally accepted to have started. -1901 7. Who wrote the following sentence : 	"It was in 1915 the old world ended." -Lawrence 8. When did G.K. Chesterton die? -1936 (born in 1874 aged 62, Gilbert Keith Chesterton   Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox". 9. Who wrote 'The Second World War' (in six volumes)				-Winston Churchill 10. In which year was I. A. Richard's "The Meaning of Meaning" published -1923 (The Meaning of Meaning subtitled A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism. is a book by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. It is accompanied by the two supplementary essays by Bronisław Malinowski and F. G. Crookshank. Although the original text was published in 1923 it has been used as a textbook in many fields including linguistics, philosophy, language, cognitive science and most recently semantics. The book has been in print continuously since 1923. The most recent edition is the critical edition prepared by W. Terrence Gordon as volume 3 of the 5-volume set C. K. Ogden & Linguistics (London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1995). 11. When did J.M. Barrie die? -1937 (born in 1860 aged 77) 12. When did Sean O'Casey die? -1964 13. When did John Osborne die? -1994 (born in 1929) 14. Who among the following may be described as a naturalist? (a) Shaw (b) Aldous Huxley (c) Noel Coward       (d) None of these		- None of these 15. Who among the following is a model more of Juvenalian rather than Horatian satire? -Swift 16. Comedy of Manners flourished in the.......... period				-Restoration 17. Which of the following is not a fictional satirist? -Lamb 18. "Sestina"is									-a complex French lyrical form 19. What is meant by "Envoy" in context with 'sestina'? -The last three lines 20. What is the correct chronological sequence in the following : (a) Alastor--Lycidas--Epithalamion--Lucy Gray (b) Epithalamion--Alastor--Lucy Gray—Lycidas (c) Lucy Gray--Epithalamion--Lycidas—Alastor (d) Epithalamion--Lycidas--Lucy Gray-- Alastor ans: (d) Epithalamion -- Lycidas -- Lucy Gray -- Alastor 21. Point out the correct chronological sequence (a) Maud--Shakespeare--To Autumn—Christabel (b) Christabel--To     Autumn--Maud—Shakespeare (c) To     Autumn--Maud--Christabel--Shakespeare (d) Shakespeare--Maud--Christabel—To Autumn ans: (b) Christabel -- To    Autumn -- Maud — Shakespeare 22. When did Coleridge die? -1834 23. In which of the following poems of Chaucer do the following lines occur? "O hateful harm! condicion of poverte! With thrust, with cold, with hunger so confounded." -The Prologue of the Mannes Tale of Lawe 24. Spenser wooed Elizabeth Boyle (whom he later married) in his			-Amoretti 25. In his command of metaphor, Shakespeare					-is alone 26. In which book of Paradise Lost does Milton say--"God is light"			-Book 	 III 27. In which book of Paradise Lost does the following line occur: "A Paradise within thee, happier far." -Book 12 28. In which book of Milton does the following line occur : "All is best, though we oft doubt." -Samson Agonistes 29. Goldsmith's 'The Traveller' was published in					-1764 30. Who said the following words about Goldsmith: "One of the first men we now have as an author." -Dr. Johnson 31. Dr. Primrose is a character in							-The Vicar of Wakefield 32. Who is the writer of "Ode To Duty"? -Wordsworth 33. Who wrote: "The Retreat"? -Vaughan 34. 'The Cloister and the Hearth" is a masterpiece by				-Charles Reade 35. Charlotte Bronte died in							-1855 (born in 1816) 36. Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy appeared in					-1621 37. The first regular newspaper "The Weekly News" appeared in			-1622 38. Bacon died in								-1626 39. About whom can it be most appropriately said, "a man of grief who makes the world glad?”		-Coleridge 40. What is the name of the hero in Shaw's "The Devil's Disciple'			-Dick 41. Who is the writer of "Waiting"							-Katharine Tynan 42. Who is the writer of Novun Organum						-Bacon 43. Who said: "the world owes some of its greatest debts to man from whose memory the world recoils."	-Stubb 44. Who is the writer of the lines : "And as for me, though that my wit be lyte, On bookes for to rede I am delyte."			-Chaucer      45. In which play of Shakespeare do the following lines appear : "On, on, you noblest English, Follow your spirit."				-Henry 5 46. The complete cycle of early Miracle play of England was presented every year beginning on	         -Corpus Christi day 47. Which of the following is not one of the known cycles of the Miracle play in England?		        -  Manchester cycle 48. King Charles I ascended the throne in						-1627 49. Literary tastes of King James I were						-mean 50. Who ruled over England from 1649 – 60? -Oliver Cromwell

TEST PAPER XVII 1. Which of the following was not the one who carried forward the tradition of Donne? -Vaughan 2. Which one among the following was not a Cavalier? -Donne 3. Who wrote 'Cooper's Hill'? -John Denham 4. Name the writer of "Pindarique Odes"						-Cowley 5. Who believed in the hedonist philosophy of 'eat, drink and be merry'? -Cavaliers 6. Name the writer of "Life of Cowley"						-Dr. Johnson 7. Marvell's love poem "To His Coy Mistress" is written in the...........tradition. -metaphysical 8. Who among the following formed prominently part of a Cambridge community of poets known as "the sons of Ben  Jonson"										Herrick 9. Which one among the following should be considered a heroic play rather than a comedy	      - Dryden's 'All for Love' 10. Which poet among the following may be said to be belonging to the Caroline period? -Donne 11. Which one among the following is prominently a satire? -Hudibras 12. Who among the following cannot be said to treat poetry with fashionable irresponsibility? - Dryden 13. Name the writer of "Humphry Clinker"				-Smollett (The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, and is considered by many to be his best and funniest work. 14. William Collins was born in							-1721 15. Boswell died in						-1795 (born in 1740. Occupation: Lawyer, diarist, author 16. Thomas Paine wrote "Rights of Man"				-in reply to Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution 17. According to the French poet Baudelaire, romanticism was situated in		-mode of feelings 18. Who said: "the essence of romantic art is that in it the spirit counts far more than the form"? -Grierson 19. Which one of the following Lamb loved					-old books 20. In which of Lamb's essay do the following sentences occur: "Is the world all from up? Is childhood dead?" -Old Benchers of the Inner Temple 21. Of which play of Shakespeare Desdemona is the heroine			-Othello 22. Napoleon was defeated finally in the Battle of Waterloo in			-1815 23. Swift's Yahoos are creatures of						-impulse 24. Who wrote the following lines : "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven." -Wordsworth 25. In which canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage does the following line occur : "There is a pleasure in the pathless woods" -IV 26. In which poem does the following line occur: "Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird"				-Ode To a Nightingale 27. In which year was "The Origin of Species" published? -1859 28. Who was the most representative poet of the Victorian age? -Tennyson 29. In which work do two sisters Laura and Lizzy exist				-Goblin Market 30. Which of the following works is not by Mrs. Gaskell? -Hypatia 31. Who wrote: "Westward Ho!"? -Kingsley 32. Which one among the following was Dickens' first work? -Sketches by Boz 33. Which is the correct chronological sequence (a) The Happy Prince--The Newcomer-- Michael--Adam Bede (b) Adam Bede--The Newcomer--Michael-- The Happy Prince (c) Michael--The Newcomer--Adam Bede-- The Happy Prince (d) The Newcomer--Adam Bede--The Happy Prince--Michael ans: (c) Michael -- The Newcomer -- Adam Bede -- The Happy Prince 34. Who is the writer of "Vox Clamantis?" -Gower 35. Gower was a contemporary of						-Chaucer 36. Theophrastus was a............writer						-Greek 37. LaBruy'ere was a............writer							-French 38. Who wrote 'The Sound and the Fury?"						-Faulkner 39. Who wrote the character of'Charles II'	?					-Halifax 40. In writing the characters of Virtues and Vices, Hall was influenced by		-Theophrastus 41. A play which is usually written to be read rather than acted or performed is called a -		-closet drama 42. A pause in a line of verse necessary for the natural rhythm of the language is known as-		-a caesura 43. Copernicus brought about a revolution in the field of-				-astronomy 44. Who among the following was not a university wit?				-Shakespeare 45. In literature the term "Purism" inter alia means-		-maintenance of absolute standards of correctness in writing 46. In which play of Shakespeare, does the following line appear: "Doomsday is near; die all, merrily"					-Henry IV, Part I 47. Who speaks the following words in Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral : "We are not here to triumph by fighting.... ...We have only to conquer Now, by suffering." -Thomas Becket 48. Who is the writer of "Frogs"? -Aristophanes 49. Which of the following is not the internal element of tragedy as enunciated by Aristotle? -Diction 50. Which is the only kind of poetry that Plato allows in his Republic? -that in the form of hymn to the gods and praises of famous men

TEST PAPER XVIII 1. Which of the following is one of the two prose stories in the Canterbury Tales? -The Parson's Tale 2. Who is often called the first protestant? -Wyclif 3. While Wyclif translated the New Testament into English who was his coadjutor who translated the Old Testament? -Hereford 4. "The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance, the last half consists of the chance without the capacity." Who is the writer of the lines mentioned above? -Mark Twain 5. Who wrote the following lines : "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain." -Emily Dickinson 6. Who wrote the following lines and in which poem? "Teach us the strength that cannot seek, By deed or thought to hurt the weak." -Kipling in "The Children's Song" 7. Lucilla is a character in							-Lyly's Euphues 8. The Vicar of Wakefield is a							-comedy 9. In which play of Shakespeare do the following lines occur: "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety." -Antony and Cleopatra 10. In which novel of Hardy are the following lines of Shakespeare quoted: "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, They kill us for their sport." -Tess 11. What type of novels did H.G. Wells generally write? -Scientific fiction 12. Who among the following is not a writer of detective fiction? -Arnold Bennet 13. In which novel is Fielding a character? -A Passage to India 14. Mysteries were generally based on						-Biblical themes 15. Who wrote 'Ralph Roister Doister'? -Nicholas Udall 16. What was the chief purpose of Interludes? -Amusement 17. Which of the following depicted the struggle in a human soul between the forces of good and evil? -Moralities 18. In Hey wood's 'Four P's', one of the following is not a participant in the professional discussion. -Politician 19. 'Everyman' was an extremely popular						-Morality play 20. Paradise Regained is a highly.........poem. -unadorned 21. Which of the following novels is generally considered Meredith's masterpiece-				-The Egoist 22. Micawber is a character in the novel-						-David Copperfield 23. Which of the following is not a volume of essays by Hilaire Belloc? -On None 24. Who used the expression, 'something', 'everything' and 'nothing' to explain his name to a telephone operator in America? -Amartya Sen 25. Carlyle's method, as a historian was mainly					-biographical 26. In which of his poems does Yeats talk of a "world more full of weeping than he can understand?" -The Stolen Child 27. Which of the following expressions can be most appropriately used for Walter de la Mare? -A poet of lost paradises 28. Who referred to himself "an idle singer of an empty day?" -Morris 29. Which was not one of the hallmarks of the Pre-Raphaelites? -melodramaticism 30. In which of the following poems Byron does not use the ottava rima? -She Walks in Beauty 31. Which one is not a drama by Byron? -Riders To The Sea 32. 'Mazeppa' is a verse tale by							-Byron 33. Who is the writer of the following line :     "My Love is like a Red, Red Rose." -Robert Burns 34. Which of the following is not one of the hallmarks of the classical poetry? -probing of the human psyche 35. 'Falder' is a character in							-Galsworthy's 'Justice' 36. Which of the following was not a one-act play writer? -Shakespeare 37. Sentimental Comedy flourished in the						-Eighteenth century 38. Who wrote 'The Beggar's Opera'? -John Gay 39. 'The Beggar's Opera' is a							-dramatic burlesque 40. Lydia Languish is a character in						-The Rivals 41. Which one of the following was not a writer of the sentimental comedy? -Marlowe 42. Who is one of the two false friends of Hamlet? -Rosencrantze 43. Benedick is a character in Shakespeare's					-Much Ado About Nothing 44. 'Poetic Justice' is most meticulously worked in					-Macbeth 45. Which one of the following is not a character in King Lear? -Maria 46. Which one of the following covers the bulk of a Shakespeare tragedy? -conflict 47. Write in the correct chronological sequence (a) Cato-A  Doll's   House--Tempest — Gorboduc (b) Gorboduc--Tempest--Cato--A Doll's House (c) Tempest--Gorboduc--Cato--A Doll's House (d) A Doll's House --Gorboduc--Cato-- Tempest ans: (b) Gorboduc -- Tempest -- Cato - - A Doll's House 48. Give the correct chronological sequence (a) Ruth--X = 0--Prisoner of Chillon--The Duchess of Malfi (b) X = 0--Ruth--The Duchess of Malfi-- Prisoner of Chillon (c) Duchess of Malfi--Ruth--Prisoner of Chillon--X = 0 (d) Prisoner of Chillon--Duchess of Malfi--Ruth--X = 0 ans: (c) Duchess of Malfi -- Ruth -- Prisoner of Chillon -- X = 0 49. Who said: "I am willing to love all mankind except an American."? -Johnson 50. Cicero lived in.........century B.C.						-second

TEST PAPER XIX 1. Which of the following is an Indian English poet? -Nissim Ezekiel 2. Who is the writer of "Feminist Criticism in Wilderness.?				-Elaine Showalter   3. Who wrote........ "The Trial"?							-Franz Kafka 4. Who is the writer of "Articulate Energy? -Calvin Bedient 5. Which of the following poems is not by Seamus Heaney? -Wodwo 6. "Last Man In Europe" is written by						-A Sandeson 7. Which of the following is not a poem by Frost? -A Passage to India 8. Which of the following is written by Whitman? -Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 9. Who wrote the pamphlet : "The Supplication of the Beggars?" -Simon Fish 10. Who exclaimed: "London, thou art the flower of cities all?" -Dunbar 11. In the court of which of the following kings was Surrey a courtier? -Henry 8 12. Sir Thomas Wyatt died in							-1542 13. The Tudor age was the great age of						-music and lyrical poetry 14. John Cabot discovered Newfoundland in					-1497 15. Queen Elizabeth I died in							-1603 16. The Elizabethans' cruel nature is most vehemently exposed in their treatment of			-negroes 17. Which country is most notorious for its system of inquisition? -Spain 18. Which one of the following recorded the life of Henry VIII's England? -Leland 19. Who wrote: "From Christmas to May Weak cattle decay?" -Thomas Tusser 20. Which of the following statements is true? In the civil war of 1640's, the royal navy took the side of Parliament 21. Which of the following statements is false? Hawkins, the sailor, was a contemporary of Masefield 22. The Statute of Artificers was passed in England in				-1563 23. James I cut off Raleigh's head to please					-Spain 24. An effective navy let down by James I was restored by			-Charles I 25. Establishment of colonies of America, India and others was an offshoot of the English lifestyle in the....century. -17th 26. Agricultural life and tradition flourished in England until				-later nineteenth century 27. The East India Company was founded by the charter of			-Elizabeth 28. The East India Company had as per the charter, the power of making war or peace beyond -The Cape of Good Hope 29. In whose fictional works can a survey of the England of Queen Anne be found? -Defoe 30. Who wrote: "Life of Pepys?" -Arthur Bryant 31. When did Seven Years' War start? -1755 32. When was Dr. Johnson born? -1709     (died in 1784) 33. Who introduced Chinaware in Europe? -The Dutch (and the Spaniards)) 34. Who introduced umbrella in England?					-Hanway 35. With which activity is John Howard known in England?				-Prison reforms 36. Why had the good Admiral Vernon to suffer during George II's reign? He raised his voice regarding cruelty to -sailors 37. In which poem do the following lines occur : 			-"O wondrous life! though plainly I see, Thus looking back, What evil, end filth, and poverty, In childhood harboured me."		-Walter de la Mare's 'The Slum Child.' 38. In ballads pertaining to whom the character Little John exists?					-Robin Hood 39. Who is the writer of the following lines :       "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air."		-Thomas Gray 40. Name the writer of the following lines:        "He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow."		-Byron 41. Who is the writer of the following line :      "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is." -Sir Edward Dyer 42. Who is the writer of the lines : "I do not envy Aristotle's wit, Nor do aspire to Caesar's bleeding fame." -Sydney 43. Who wrote: "Beauty is but a flower which wrinkles will devour." -Thomas Nashe 44. Name the writer of the poem "Musee Des Beaux Arts." -Auden 45. In which poem of his does Auden say that "Time.... .... will pardon Paul Claudel"								-In Memory of W.B. Yeats 46. Cowper is the writer of: "The Diverting History of..." -John Gilpin 47. 'Glorie' is a character in								      -  Shaw's 'You Never Can Tell' 48. In which work do the following lines appear : "Thy infinite gifts come to me on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass and still thou pourest and still there is room to fill." -Gitanjali 49. Who is the writer of the following lines : "From the murky corridors of this labyrinth, there's no escape." -Shiv K. Kumar 50. The theatres in England were ordered to be closed by the Parliament in			-1642

TEST PAPER XX 1. Who translated Plutarch's lines from the French version in 1579? -Thomas North 2. Who was the writer of 'The Civil Wars'? -Samuel Daniel 3. What type of work is mainly Samuel Pepy's "Diary"? -confessional 4. Hopkins was mainly a								-religious poet 5. Maria Edgeworth's novel "Belinda" is mainly					-an educational novel 6. 'Biographia Literaria' 1817 is a critical work by					-Coleridge (1772 - 1834) 7. Who among the following is the writer of absurd plays? -Samuel Beckett 8. O' Henry wrote his stories when							-he was in jail 9. Who among the following was not regarded as one of the "War Poets"? -Frost 10. Who was the inventor of "Spring Rhythm"? -Hopkins 11. Who is the writer of the following line : "Go and catch a falling star"? -Donne 12. Who wrote: "They also serve who only stand and wait?" -Milton 13. In which poem is Melancholy presented as a pensive noun "devout and pure... with even step and musing gait." -Il Penseroso 14. Who speaks the following words in Paradise Lost: "What though the field be lost All is not lost." -Satan 15. Where was Shakespeare born? -Stratford-on-Avon 16. Uriah Heep is a character in							-David Copperfield 17. Which play is said to be written by Shakespeare in collaboration with (probably) Marlowe? -Titus Andronicus 18. In which of the following plays of Shakespeare is a king assassinated? -Macbeth 19. Louka is a character in Shaw's						-Arms and the man. 20. In one of whose sonnets does the following line appear: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"? -Shakespeare 21. When did Kipling die? -1936 22. On which one of the following flowers is one of Wordsworth's poem captioned? -Daffodils 23. In which year did Paul Heyse receive the Nobel Prize? -1910 24. Who received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995? Seamus Heaney 25. Which one among the following does not belong to "The Theatre of the Absurd"? -Galsworthy 26. When was Wordsworth made the poet laureate of England? -1843 27. When did Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children' appear? -1981 28. When did Rushdie's 'The Moor's Last Sigh' appear? -1995 29. Who is the writer of 'The Essays of Elia'? -Lamb 30. In which of Shaw's dramas a character says, "Let us sit and talk comfortably over it like friends." -Candida 31. In which of Shakespeare's plays does the following line appear : "Times are out of joint?" -Hamlet 32. Which one of the following is not a character in Hamlet? -Gonzalo 33. When did Marx die? -1883 34. When did Dylan Thomas die? -1953 35. Which one among the following cannot be said to be associated with the "Surrealism" movement? -Philip Larkin 36. In which year did Freud die? -1939 37. Who wrote : "Ode on Agricourt?						-Drayton 38. In which poem does the following line occur :      "Where youth grows pale, sceptre thin and dies"				-Ode to a Nightingale 39. Who was the largest contributor to the Spectator?				-Addison 40. Marlow is a character in							-Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' 41. In which novel is Major Scobie the central figure?				-The Heart of the Matter 42. The writer of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' is						-Harriet Beecher Stowe 43. Mrs. Dalloway is mainly a..........novel						-stream of consciousness 44. Who, according to George B. Smith, is "....the Shakespeare of novelists."		-Fielding 45. Who published 'Shamela' anonymously in 1741 ?				-Fielding 46. When was Joseph Andrews published?					-1742 47. Byron was born in								-1788 48. Which of the following : Byron was not?					-a novelist 49. In which poem do the following lines appear: "But the triumphs of love are sung in poems of wifehood and motherhood." - "In A Gondola" by Robert Browning 50. In which work does the character "Pompilia" exist? -The Ring and The Book

TEST PAPER XXI 1. In which poem of Keats do the following lines occur: "And can I ever bid these joys farewell? Yes, I must pass them for a nobler life." -Sleep and Poetry 2. In which work do the following lines occur : "My whole heart rises up to bless Your name in pride and thankfulness!" -The Last Ride Together 3. In which work do the following lines occur : "For who would trust the seeming sighs Of wife or paramour?				-Child Harold's Pilgrimage 4. The first edition of 'Leaves of Grass' was published in						-1855 5. Who wrote the following line : "I am the poet of the body and I am the poet of the soul?"		-Whitman 6. In which work does the character "Umbriel" exist?						-The Rape of the Lock 7. Which of the following characters bears the same name in 'The Rape of the Lock' and 'Tempest'?		-Ariel 8. Who among the following is the writer of "Augustan Satire?"					-Jack, Ian 9. Who wrote "Culture and Anarchy"?								-M. Arnold 10. Which of the following terms is not there in 'Culture and Anarchy'?			-Dissociation of Sensibility 11. Who uses the so-called "Touchstone Method" in criticism?					-M. Arnold 12. What was the name of the girl whom Keats loved?						-Fanny Brawne      13. 'Chanson de Roland' is a .......... epic.								-French 14. Methuselah is a............character						-Biblical 15. Who wrote "Imitation" in Latin? -Thomas Kempis 16. Who wrote "Love's Riddle?" -Cowley 17. In which book of 'Paradise Lost' does the following line appear : "And never to submit or yield."? -Book 1 18. What were Scott-James' views regarding this line in Paradise Lost: "And never to submit or yield?" -poetically, Milton in his weakest vein 19. Which poem did Milton write in memory of his second wife Catherine Woodcock? -The sonnet opening with the line "Methought I saw my late espoused saint" 20. Who is the writer of the epic "Aeneid?" -Virgil 21. Mr. Whittier was								-An American Quaker poet 22. 'Comus' by Milton is								-a masque 23. John Kable was a writer of ......... verses. -sacred 24. Who wrote: "Ars Poetica"? -Horace 25. Pindar was a great.........lyric poet						-Greek 26. Who wrote : "Ecclesiastical Sonnets"? -Wordsworth 27. Who wrote: "Irene"? -Dr. Johnson 28. Ernest Renan was								-a French writer 29. Who said the following : "The greatness of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life." -M. Arnold 30. According Arnold, Chaucer is 						-not one of the great classics 31. Who called poetry "The Mother of lies?" -Plato 32. Aristotle defines the 'ridiculous' as						-"a species of the ugly" 33. Who wrote: "Mysteries of Udolpho"? -Mrs. Radcliffe 34. Which of the following is a woman novelist? -George Eliot 35. Who among the following is known as Christopher North? -John Wilson 36. By what name was Shelley called by the boys at school?...............Shelley. -Mad 37. In which of Shelley's poems do the following lines exist: "While yet a boy, I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin." -Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 38. Who wrote 'Heroes and Hero Worship'? -Carlyle 39. Which of the following can be called "a tale of adventure"? -Rider Haggard's 'King Solomon's Mines' 40. Who says, "A book should help us either to enjoy life or to endure it?”		-Dr. Johnson 41. Who is known for his prejudicial meaning of "oats"?				-Dr. Johnson 42. Who wrote: "But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home?"		-Wordsworth 43. Which poem of Wordsworth has Emerson called "The high water-mark of poetry in the nineteenth century?" -Ode on Intimations 44. Malory's Morte d'Arthur is a collection of					-Arthurian romances 45. In which work does the following line occur :      "The viol, the violet, and the vine."						-Edgar Allan Poe's "The City in the Sea" 46. Who has said, "All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream"?		-Poe 47. In which work does the following line occur :         "He whom the gods favour dies young."					-Plautus's 'Bacchides IV 48. Who said: "Ye gods! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy."		-Pope 49. Who said the following words : "Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains."		-Rousseau 50. Who said, "To famous men all the earth is a sepulchre."				-Thuiydides

TEST PAPER XXII 1. In which poem do the following lines appear : "In a land of anonymity don't look for signposts." '-Disembarkation' by Daruwallah 2. "Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem To copy Nature is to copy them." Who is the writer of the above lines : -Pope 3. Name the writer of "Descriptive Sketches"					-Wordsworth 4. In which poem does the following line occur : "....nature ne'er deserts the wise and pure." -Coleridge's 'This Lime Three  Bower' 5. In which Canto of Don Juan does the following line occur : "Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure." -12 6. Whom does Shelley call "The Pilgrim of Eternity" in his 'Adonais'? -Byron 7. Who wrote the following lines : "Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed." -Shelley 8. In which poem of Shelley do the following lines occur: "That the free would stamp the impious name of KING into the dust!" -Ode to Liberty 9. In which poem does Keats write : "Their lips touched not, but had not bade adieu." -Ode to Psyche 10. Which poet is associated with the style "To load every rift with ore." -Keats 11. In which poem does the following line occur : '"Twas roses, roses, all the way." -Patriot 12. Who is the writer of the line : "To see the world in a grain of sand." -Blake 13. Who says, "We murder to dissect." -Wordsworth 14. Who talks of "sick hurry" and "divided aims" in his poems? -M. Arnold 15. In which work do we find the words: "I grow old, I grow old." -Love Song of Prufrock 16. In which play of Shakespeare do we have the lines : "Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly." -As You Like It 17. In which play of Shakespeare do the following lines occur : "Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure." -Twelfth Night 18. In which work does the following line occur : "The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty." -Milton's 'L'Allegro' 19. Who speaks the following words : "My fifthe housebande, god his soule blesse! Which that I took for love and no richesse." -The wife of Bath 20. In which of Spenser's poems does the following line occur: "O helpe thou my weake wit, and sharpen my dull tong." -Invocation To the Faerie Queene 21. Who has said, "India is simply my environment." -Nissim Ezekiel 22. In which poem of Nissim Ezekiel do we have the lines : "Only the monkeys are sad, Anticipating time for payment, The crowd dissolves." -Entertainment 23. In which poem of Shiv K. Kumar do the following lines occur : "Patiently they sit like empty pitchers." -Indian Women 24. In which period were heroic tragedies generally written				-Restoration 25. Which of the following plays of Wycherley is comparatively a satire than a piece of mere revelry? -The Plain Dealer 26. Who is the writer of 'The Conquest of Granada"?					-Dryden 27. Who said, "Man not afraid of God, afraid of me."?					-Pope 28. In which of Shakespeare's play is Margaret a character?				-Richard III 29. Who is the writer of the critical work "The Lives of the Poets"?				-Dr. Johnson 30. Who among the following was least affected by the French Revolution?		-Keats 31. Which of Jane Austen's novel begins with the lines : "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."?						-Pride and Prejudice 32. Who has said about the plot of 'Pride and Prejudice' that "it is as inevitable as the conclusion of a properly constructed syllogism or geometrical demonstration." (i.e. while talking of the marriage of Elizabeth and Darcy.)			-Cross 33. When did Janes Thompson die?							-1882 34. Whose death led to the writing of Arnold's elegy 'Thyrsis'? -Arthur Hugh Clough 35. Who has said : "The central fact about Emile Bronte is that she is a mystic."? -Walter Allen 36. What metre does Shakespeare apply in his plays? -Blank Verse 37. Who generally sing songs in Shakespeare's plays like 'Twelfth Night' and 'As You Like It'? -clowns 38. When was Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot published? -1835 39. By which of the following the Ancients are not led in 'The Battle of Books'. -Milton 40. By which of the following are the Moderns not led? -Sir Temple 41. Who shoots an arrow at Bacon in 'The Battle of Books'? -Aristotle 42. Who is the writer of "It is Never Too Late to Mend"? - Charles Reade 43. Who is the writer of the following line : "Cloth and alum and plaster are sold to the poor for bread." -Tennyson 44. When did James Macpherson die? -1796 45. Who called Addison's style "The model of middle style?" -Johnson 46. Hume was the greatest philosopher of.......... century. -eighteenth 47. The biography of which of the following was not written by Izaac Walton. -Johnson 48. When was the King's Bible or the Authorized Version published? -1611 49. King James' Bible possesses the excellence of prose of					-sweetness of all ages 50. Who is said to be the first to translate the Bible into English direct from original Hebrew and Greek texts? -William Tyndale

TEST PAPER XXIII 1. Which of the following is not a poem by Kamala Das? -Jejuri 2. In the mid-fifties, the magazine "Quest" was edited by					-Nissim Ezekiel 3. Who wrote the poem "Our Casuarina Tree"? -ToruDutt 4. When did 'Savitri" appear?								-1951 5. In which poem do the following lines occur : "Lightly, O lightly, we bear her along, She sways like a flower in the wind of our song."?									-'Palanquin Bearers' by Sarojini Naidu 6. Who was the editor of the anthology "India in Song: Eastern Themes in English Verse by British and Indian poets in 1920"? -Theodore Douglas Dunn 7. Calcutta was the Capital of British India from -						-1773 to 1911 8. Who wrote: "Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan?"				-Toru Dutt 9. When did G.V. Desani's "All about H. Hatterr" appear?					-1948 10. Who, according to Parthasarthy, is after Furtago, the only poet to have seriously considered the use of pidgin English? -Shiv K. Kumar 11. When was the Constitution of India adopted?						-1950 12. Who is the writer of the following words: "Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, are little masterpieces of atmosphere, of airy gracefulness and melancholy poetry?"							-Legouis-Czamian  13. When was Allen's "Reading a Novel" published?					-1949 14. When did Virginia Woolf die?								-1941 (born in 1882) 15. Which of the following is not a novel by Virginia Woolf?				-Forsyte Saga 16. 'The Dark Forest' by Hugh Walpole is a							-war story 17. Somerset Maugham's first novel "Liza of Lambeth" appeared in				-1897 18. The novelist Arthur Morrison was born in						-1863 19. Shaw was born in									-Dublin 20. Shaw died in										-1950 21. Shaw was a member of the.........society.						-Fabian 22. Who is the writer of the poem "The Land of Heart's Desire"?				-Yeats 23. In which year was the Irish National Theatre Society founded?				-1903 24. Who were the following : "Lover' and 'Lever'? -novelists of nineteenth century 25. When did Mr. T.H. Green die? -1882 26. When was Hegel's 'Philosophy of Mind' published? -1894 27. Who was Kant? -A German philosopher 28. Lewis Carroll died in									-1898 29. Who is the writer of Thalaba"?								-Southey 30. When was Landor born?								-1775 31. Who wrote "Lalla Rookh"?								-Thomas Moore     32. Arthur Young died in									-1820 33. The writer of the novel "The Man of Feeling" is						-Mackenzie 34. "Silvia" written by George Lillo in 1730 is a						-comic opera 35. In "Splendid Shilling" (1705) John Philips imitated the style and blank verse of		-Milton 36. Lycidas appeared in									-1637 37. The following lines were written by : "Happy those early days when I Shined in my angel infancy!"	-Vaughan 38. Who wrote the book of poems "The Wonder"?						-Thomas Traherne    39. The writer of 'Atheists' Tragedy is							-Tourneur 40. 'Vindice' is a character in							-Cyril Tourneur's "The Revenger's Tragedy" 41. In which play does the following line occur : "Mother, come from that poisonous woman there."       										-"The Revenger's Tragedy" by Tourneur 42. Who wrote : 'Catiline'? -Ben Jonson 43. 'Livia' is a character in								-Barrie's 'The Admirable Crichton' 44. 'The Man in the Moon' is a satire by							-Drayton 45. "Ideas Mirror' is a book of sonnets by							-Drayton 46. In which play does 'Sensual Appetite" address the audience directly as under: "For all that they be now in this hall, They be the most part my servants all." -'The Four Elements' by John Skelton 47. Who wrote the following lines : "When these words were spoken, There came thither wending, A little boat moving, On the waters it floated, And two women in it, Wondrously formed." -Layaman (regarding the story of the passing of King Arthur) 48. The romances of 'Havelok' (by W. W. Skeat) and 'Horn' (by J. Hall) were inspired by ........... legends. -Scandinavian 49. The first Saxon king of England was							-Cerdic 50. In which poem do the following lines appear: "O young Mariner, Down to the haven Call your companions,      										-Tennyson's 'Merlin and the Gleam'

TEST PAPER XXIV 1. Point out the correct chronological sequence		-Alexander's Feast -- Prelude - - Adonais -- Rabbi Ben Ezra 2. Of which poem is the following the opening couplet : "Sweet Spirit! Sister of that orphan one, Whose empire is the name thou weepest on." -'Epipsychidion' by Shelley 3. 'Panthea' is a character in								-Prometheus Unbound 4. Who says of Shakespeare: "...Sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild." -Milton 5. Who says the following words in one of Shakespeare's play (when on the point of death): "How oft when men are at the point of death Have they been merry! which keepers call A lightning before death." -Romeo and Juliet 6. Who said : "Shakespeare had nowhere written more than six consecutive lines of good poetry"? -Dr. Johnson 7. Who closes one of his sonnets with the following words: "Where whenas death shall all the world subdew, Our loue shall liue, and later life renew." -Spenser 8. Who said of Chaucer: "Here is God's Plenty"? -Dryden 9. In which poem do the following lines occur: "And smale fowles maken melodye, That slepen al the night with open ye." -Prologue to Canterbury Tales 10. In which play of Shakespeare do the following lines occur: "Full many a lady I have ey'd with best regard.... O you! So perfect and so peerless are created of every creature's best." -Tempest 11. In which play of Shakespeare does the following line occur : "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." -Henry IV 12. In which play of Shakespeare does the following line occur: "This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land." -Richard II 13. In which book of 'Paradise Lost' does Milton use the phrase "human face divine." -Book III 14. The following lines occur in : "There is a pleasure in poetic pains which only poets know." -'The Task' by Cowper 15. In which poem does the following line occur: "The world is poisoned at the heart." -'The Borderers' by Wordsworth 16. In which poem do the following lines occur: "Behold! her bosom and half her side--A sight to dream of, not to tell." -Coleridge's Christabel 17. Who said the following lines : "The seed ye sow, another reaps, The wealth ye find, another keeps." -Shelley 18. The following lines were written by : "Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn." -Keats 19. Who was the king of England at the time of Battle of Norman Conquest at Hastings? -Harold 20. Which king of England signed the Magna Carta? -John 21. In which year was Magna Carta signed? -1215 22. During which king's reign in England did the Hundred Years' war start? -Edward III 23. In which year did Henry V land in France? -1415 24. Who is proverbially known having called Gandhi the "naked fakir"? -Churchill 25. Who was Gandhiji's mentor in Russia? -Tolstoy 26. Who said about Vivekananda? "I have gone through his words very thoroughly and after having gone through them, the love that I had for my country became thousandfold." -Gandhi 27. Vivekananda delivered his lectures from Colombo to Almora during			-1897 - 1898 28. Who is the writer of "Pelican Guides of English Literature"				-Boris Ford 29. Who wrote : "Theory of Literature"							-Rene Wellek 30. Which is not one of the essential characteristics of the prose drama? -Rhyme 31. Who is the writer of 'The Anatomy of Drama"						-Majorie Boulton  32. The author of "The Over-reacher" is							-Harry Levin 33. The writer of "Master of Drama" is							-John Gassner        34. Who is the writer of the poem "Easter 1916"?						-Yeats 35. "Batter My Heart" is a sonnet by							-Donne 36. Who is the author of "The Romantic Image"						-Bowra 37. The writer of "Towards Greek Tragedy" is						-Brain Wickers       38. The writer of the poem "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" is				-Whitman 39. Who is the writer of the poem : "Meeting and Passing."					-Frost 40. Who is the writer of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf."					-Edward Albee   41. The writer of the novel "The Power and the Glory" is					-Graham Greene 42. The writer of the novel "Brideshead Revisited" is					-Evelyn Waugh  43. Who wrote the book: "Gentlemen and Rogues."					-G.D. Philips     44. Who is the writer of the poem "My Cat"? -Nissim Ezekiel 45. Who wrote the poem "On Killing a Tree?" -Gieve Patel 46. "Sahaja" was written by								-Ananda Coomaraswami 47. The writer of "Culture and Imperialism" is						-Edward Said 48. "Gao Xingjuan" who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2000 was a			-Chinese 49. Who is known as the "incorrigible" utopist among the following? -H.G. Wells 50. In which work does the character "Rahul" exist? -Ruskin Bond's "The Prize"

TEST PAPER XXV 1. Who said the following words : "Indo-Anglian literature is a curious phenomenon with a fairly long history." -V.K.Gokak 2. To whom did Thomas Moore say the following words: "How shall we rank thee upon glory's page?" -Thomas Hume 3. Who is the writer of "The King Emperor's English"								-Narain 4. "Literature and Authorship in India" is written by							-Iyengar 5. "One Thousand and One Nights" was written by							-S.K. Ghosh 6. "Indian Detective Stories" was written by						-S.B. Bannerjee 7. Who wrote: "English as an Indian literary medium wore an artificial look, especially when it was realized that the mother tongue satisfied the inner urge for expression better than any other medium." -Gokak 8. Who is the writer of the following line : "Thoughts that breathe and words that burn." -Gray in 'The Progress of Poesy' 9. Who is the writer of the following words: "English literature has benefited a great deal from translations that brought to England the best "freights of worth that other countries had to offer."			-Legouis and Czamian 10. Who has written the following words : "The Authorized Version of the Bible is but a translation and yet, it is an English classic."											-Iyengar 11. Who is generally known as the father of Bengali fiction					-Bankim Chandra Chatterjee 12. 'Nalinaksha' is a character in								-'The Wreck' by Tagore 13. Who wrote the romance 'Bianca' or 'The Young Spanish Maiden'			-Toru Dutt 14. Of which of the following novel of Anand, Lai Singh is not the hero			-Untouchable 15. Anand was born in									-Peshawar 16. Who wrote: "Waiting for the Mahatma"						-Narayan 17. 'Din Gul' is a character in								-The Village 18. In which of Anand's novel does a character say, "They think we are dirt because we clean their dirt." -The Village 19. Who wrote the preface to Anand's Untouchable? -Forster 20. When was 'Untouchable published'							-1935 21. Raja Rao was born in									-1908 22. When did Kanthapura appear? -1938 23. 'Ramakrishna Pai' is the hero of							-The Cat and Shakespeare 24. 'The Serpent and the Rope' was published in						-1960 25. The hero of 'The Serpent and the Rope' is						-Ramaswamy (in short 'Rama') 26. Who is the writer of 'The Man-eater ofMalgudi'? -Narayan 27. Which of the following is not a sentimental comedy? -The School for Scandal 28. 'Joseph Surface' is a character in							-The School for Scandal 29. Who has said, "Byron is one of the most concretely objective of all our poets"? -Henry M. Battenhouse 30. When did Byron leave Harrow and enter Trinity College at Cambridge? -1805 31. Byron wrote: "Maid of Athens, Ere We Part" in						-1810 32. With whom did Byron go on a long journey to Portugal, Turkey, Spain, etc.		-Hobhouse 33. Who wrote the following lines (in 1816): "Every feeling hath been shaken; Pride, which not a world could bow, Bows to thee--by thee forsaken, Even my soul forsakes me now." -Byron 34. In which work does the character Medora exist? -Corsair 35. Whom did Byron address when he wrote (while departing from England in April 1816): "Here's sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate; And whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every   fate!" - (his friend) (Tom Moore) 36. Who wrote the following lines on Sheridan : "....Nature formed but one such man. And broke the die in moulding Sheridan." -Byron in "Death of Sheridan" 37. Byron's 'Cain' is dedicated to								-Scott 38. Who wrote the following lines : "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." -Whitman in Song of Myself 39. "Halfway House" was written by							-Mohan Rakesh 40. Shashi Deshpande's "The Binding Vine" was published in				-1998 41. In which metre is Prelude written? -Blank Verse 42. In which poem do the following lines occur : "Let us go then, you and I When the evening is spread out against the sky.	    -  The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock 43. In which year did T.S. Eliot receive the Nobel Prize?					-1948 44. Who observed the following about Anand ; ....the publication of 'The Bubble' (1984) established once again that the history of Indian English Fiction is "From Anand to Anand."					-Iyenger 45. Mistress Hibbins is a character in							-The Scarlet Letter 46. The heroine of Tom Jones is								-Sophia 47. The writer of "Pilgrimage" is								-Dorothy Richardson 48. Who is the writer of the following lines :        "That (the story) is the highest factor common to all novels, and I wish that it was not so..."	-Forster 49. Who said :        "Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo. -Virginia Woolf 50. Marcel Proust was										-A French man

TEST PAPER XXVI 1. Zola was a											-realist 2. The expression "Interior Monologue" is most prominently connected with	 stream of consciousness technique All of them 4. The madness of which character is mentioned in Mrs. Dalloway					-Septimus Warren Smith 5. In Mrs. Dalloway, the strokes and chimes of the Big Ben announce				-the passage of time 6. R.K. Narayan's 'The Financial Expert' appeared in						-1952 7. The novel "Shadow from Ladakh" is written by							-Bhabani Bhattacharya 8. Which of the following is not written by Manohar Malgonkar? -So Many Hungers 9. Who is the writer of the novel: "The Hindu Wife"? -Raj Lakshmi Devi 10. "Rukmani" is the narrator of the story in the novel  'Nectar in a Sieve' by 			-Kamala Markandaya 11. "A Backward Place" is a novel by							-Mrs. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 12. When was Cry, The Peacock' by Anita Desai published? -1963 13. Who is the writer of the novel "Storm in Chandigarh"? -Nayantara Sahgal 14. What was the name of the actress whom Anand married in London in 1939.? -Kathleen Gelder 15. Who in his novels shows the greatest sympathy with the underdog? -Anand 16. 'Bakha' is the hero of										-Untouchable 17. Who wrote the following lines: "When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me?" -Christina Rossetti 18. The poem "Before I Got My Eye Put Out" was written by					-Emily Dickinson 19. In which poem do the following lines occur : "The second death, that never dies, That cannot die, when time is dead." -'The Dark Angel' by Lionel Johnson 20. Who is the writer of the poem "Mr. Flood's Party"? -Edwin Arlington Robinson 21. Name the poet who wrote the following lines: "Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold". -Wilfred Owen in 'Insensibility' 22. 'Squire Allworthy' is a character in						-Tom Jones 23. "The Unfortunate Traveller' is written by					-Nashe 24. Mrs. Appra Behn generally wrote						-indecorous comedies 25. Mrs. Mauley often wrote novels of						-historical tragedies 26. 'Colonel Jacque' was written by						-Defoe 27. The writer of 'Humphry Clinker' is						-Smollett 28. Who said, "Shakespeare wanted art"						-Ben Jonson 29. Henry VII ended the 'Wars of the Roses' by defeating				-Richard III 30. Which among the following can be the most suitable term to describe the term "local colour" -historical realism 31. In which particular line of 'Merry Wives of Windsor' has "a false emendation of some Shakespeare's editors" been noted, i.e. "for-- to pinch", the second of two infinitives having 'to' where the first is without 'to' (a) IV, hi, 15 (b) III, i, 56 (c) IV, iv, 59 (d) None of these                   ans: (c) IV, iv, 59 32. Name the writer of the following lines : "A scientist played with atoms and blew out The universe before God had time to shout." -SriAurobindo 33. Name the writer of the following lines : "Beautiful eyes are those that show Beautiful thoughts that burn below." -Swami Rama Tirtha 34. The writer of "The Bud and Blossoms" is							-Krishna Srinivas 35. Who is the writer of the following lines : "There will be the cough before the silence, then Expectation;.........." -W.S. Merwin 36. The following lines were written by : "Your slightest look easily will unclose me Though I have closed myself as fingers." -E.E. Cummings 37. The following lines occur in: "This is a wild land, country of my choice, With harsh craggy mountain, moor ample and bare" -Robert Grave's 'Rocky Acres' 38. In which part of the 'The Task' by Cowper does the following line appear : "Great princes have great play things." -Part	v 39. Who said the following words : "The living God is only the English God." -Lyly 40. Who among the following did Bacon often consult					-Bishop Lancelot Andrews 41. Who among the following was both a poet and a preacher? -Donne 42. 'Magnificence' by John Skelton was a							-morality 43. Froissart's "Chronicles" were translated to English from the French by			-John Bourchier, Lord Berners 44. "The Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius" was translated by Lord Berners from the		-Spanish 45. Write in the correct chronological sequence				-Amoretti--Lamia--Dover Beach--Waste Land 46. In which work of Shakespeare does the following line occur: "Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased." -Macbeth 47. In which of the following play does Shakespeare present the most ominous imagery in which he paints the thoughts and fears of his characters									-Macbeth 48. The following lines in the tempest can be described as ".........Oyou! So perfect and so peerless are created of every creature's best." -Spenserian 49. "Annus Mirabilis' is written by								-Dryden 50. In which poem do the following lines occur:       "True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance." -Pope's 'Essay on Man'

TEST PAPER XXVII 1. Who said the following words : "....the Virgin Mary refers to nature, Jesus is the divine soul born in man....." -Sri Aurobindo 2. Which of the following is not the name of a magazine? -The Good Earth 3. "Robber Bride" is written by									-Margaret Atwood 4. Who said the following words : "I do not subscribe to the doctrine of Asia for Asians." -Mahatma Gandhi 5. The poem "The Ghaghra in Spate" is written by							-Daruwallah 6. In which poem do the following lines occur : "Father, when he passed on, left dust on a table full of papers, left debts and daughters...." -'Obituary' by A.K. Ramanujan 7. Who says, "A poem comprises 'games, riddles and accidents.... the poet creates as many accidents as he can." -Arivind Krishna Mehrotra 8. In which poem does the following line occur : "....The best poets wait for words." -'Poet Lover, Birdwatcher' by Nissim Ezekiel 9. Who wrote the following lines : "Have you heard of one Humpty Dumpty How he fell with a roll and a rumble." -James Joyce 10. When did Henry James' "Notes on Novelists" appear					-1914 11. When did H.F. Bates, novel "A Moment in Time" appear				-1964 12. "The Whispering Gallery" is the autobiography of					-John Lehmann 13. "Keats and Shakespeare" was written by						-Middleton Murry 14. Four Quartets is written by								-Eliot 15. Which of the following was a realist? -Hawthorne 16. Which of the following used "symbols which had a deep emotional meaning."? - Hawthorne 17. Hawthorne was born in								-1804 18. Who wrote : "Heloise"	? -Rousseau 19. Who is the writer of "Castle of Indolence"? -Thomson 20. Hawthorne's mother died in								-1849 21. Who is the writer of 'Waverley Novels':? -Scott 22. 'The Life of Walter Scott' was written by						-Lockhart 23. The romance "Septimus Felton" is written by						-Hawthorne 24. American Civil War broke out in							-1861 25. Hawthorne's attitude was								-rational 26. 'Pearl' is a character in (a) Moby Dick (b) The Scarlet Letter (c) Huckleberry Finn  (d) None of these 27. Which of the following is not a character in The Scarlet Letter? -Miranda 28. 'The White Devil' was written by							-Webster 29. 'The Rivals' is written by								-Sheridan 30. 'An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot' is written by						-Pope 31. 'The Spectator' is concerned with							-The Coverley papers 32. The writer of 'Songs of Innocence' is							-Blake 33. Who is the writer of "American Prose Masters"						-Bronwel 34. Robert Bridges died in								-1930 35. Oscar Wilde was a protagonist of the							-Aesthetic Movement 36. Ibsen was a										-Scandinavian 37. Pinero died in									-1934 38. Pinero was the protagonist of								-Social Drama 39. Henry Arthur Jones and Sir Arthur Wing Pinero were greatly influenced by		-Ibsen 40. 'A Woman of No Importance' is written by						-Oscar Wilde 41. Yeats wrote the drama "The Countess Cathleen" in					-1899 42. Oscar Wilde and Pater promoted							-Art for Art's sake 43. Wilfred Owen was one of the								-war poets 44. 'Counter-Attack' is a poem by							-Siegfried Sassoon 45. In which poem do the following lines occur : "In winter trenches, cowed and glum, With cramps and lice and lack of rum, He put a bullet through his brain, No one spoke of him again." -Sassoon 46. Who is the writer of the poem "Goods Train At Night"? -Kenneth Ashley 47. In which poem do the following lines occur : "Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass..." -The Hollow Men 48. Herbert Reade's surrealistic poetry is expressive of					-the unconscious 49. Flecker's "Hassan" was published in							-1922 50. In writing his later plays, John Masefield came under..........influence. -Japanese