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1. Little Nell is a character in Dickens’s
(A) Hard Times
(B) Great Expectations
(C) Oliver Twist
(D) The Old Curiosity Shop
2. Who, among the following Indian
writers in English, has created an
identifiable imagined locale ?
(A) Mulk Raj Anand
(B) Raja Rao
(C) R.K. Narayan
(D) Anita Desai
3. Who among the following is not a
formalist critic ?
(A) Allen Tate
(B) Cleanth Brooks
(C) Stanley Fish
(D) William Empson
4. The rhyme scheme of the Spenserian
sonnet is
(A) abab bcbc cdcd ee
(B) abab cdcd efef gg
(C) abba cddc effe gg
(D) abba abba cde cde
5. Who among the following Marlovian
characters is consumed by greed ?
(A) Barabas
(B) Tamburlaine
(C) Doctor Faustus
(D) Mephistopheles
6. The plan of Arthurian stories has
influenced the composition of
Tennyson’s
(A) In Memoriam
(B) Idylls
(C) “Maud”
(D) “Locksley Hall”
7. There are two lists given below.
Match the authors in List – I with
their nationality in List – II by
choosing the right option against the
code.
(I) Patrick White (1) Canada
(II) Nadine
Gordimer
(2) New
Zealand
(III) Margaret
Atwood
(3) Australia
(IV) Keri Hulme (4) South Africa
Code :
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (2) (1) (4) (3)
(B) (4) (3) (2) (1)
(C) (3) (4) (1) (2)
(D) (3) (2) (4) (1)
8. A Shakespearean sonnet has the
following rhyme scheme :
(A) ABBA, ABBA, CDCDCD
(B) ABAB, BCBC, CD CD EE
(C) ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG
(D) ABBA, ABBA, CDCD, EE
9. “The future of poetry is immense,
because in poetry…. our race, as
time goes on, will find an ever surer
and surer stay.” – This claim for
poetry is made in
(A) Arnold’s “The Study of
Poetry”
(B) Shelley’s “A Defence of
Poetry”
(C) Sidney’s “An Apology for
Poetry”
(D) Eliot’s of Poetry and Poets
10. Which of the following is not about
a dystopia ?
(A) George Orwell’s Nineteen
Eighty-Four
(B) Aldous Huxley’s Brave New
World
(C) William Golding’s Lord of the
Flies
(D) R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral
Island
11. Who among the following is not
associated with the translation of the
Bible ?
(A) Miles Coverdale
(B) William Tyndale
(C) John Wycliffe
(D) Thomas Browne
12. Arrange the following stages in a
sequence in which all Shakespearean
tragedies are structured. Use the
code given below :
I. Denouement
II. Conflict
III. Exposition
IV. Climax
Code :
(A) III, II, IV, I
(B) III, IV, II, I
(C) II, IV, III, I
(D) II, IV, I, III
13. The term, ‘curtal sonnet’, was coined
by
(A) John Milton
(B) William Blake
(C) Gerald Manley Hopkins
(D) Matthew Arnold
14. The author of the pamphlet Short
View of Immorality and Profaneness
of the English Stage (1698) was
(A) John Bunyan
(B) Jeremy Collier
(C) William Wycherley
(D) John Vanbrugh
15. Identify a play in the following list
that is not written by Oscar Wilde :
(A) A Woman of No Importance
(B) The Importance of Being
Earnest
(C) Saints and Sinners
(D) An Ideal Husband
16. Put the following novels by Charles
Dickens in a sequential order with
the help of the code :
1. Great Expectations
2. Hard Times
3. Bleak House
4. A Tale of Two Cities
Code :
(A) 3, 2, 4, 1
(B) 2, 4, 3, 1
(C) 1, 2, 4, 3
(D) 4, 2, 1, 3
17. Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy
was influenced by
(A) Seneca
(B) Tertullian
(C) Virgil
(D) Plautus
18. In its final published version, Eliot’s
The Waste Land contains a total of
(A) 334 lines (B) 433 lines
(C) 373 lines (D) 423 lines
19. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea is
set in
(A) The Congo region
(B) The Niger Delta
(C) The Caribbean
(D) The African Savannah
20. Hamlet, lying wounded, says to his
friend, “Horatio, I am dead.” This is
an example of
(A) protasis
(B) anacrusis
(C) prolepsis
(D) pun
21. The Castle of Otranto is an example
of
(A) Gothic fiction
(B) Romance
(C) Comic fiction
(D) Bildungsroman
22. “The City of Dreadful Night”, a long
poem depicting the late Victorian
sense of gloom and despondency, is
written by
(A) Matthew Arnold
(B) Robert Browning
(C) James Thomson
(D) John Davidson
23. Which of the following novels by
V.S. Naipaul is set in Africa and
carries echoes of Joseph Conrad ?
(A) The Mystic Masseur
(B) A Bend in the River
(C) A House for Mr. Biswas
(D) The Mimic Men
24. In The Rape of the Lock, Belinda’s
lapdog is named
(A) Luck (B) Shock
(C) Pluck (D) Muck
25. You Can’t Do Both is a novel by
(A) John Fowles
(B) Doris Lessing
(C) Kingsley Amis
(D) Irish Murdoch
26. The character, Nathan Zuckerman, is
associated with the fiction of
(A) Norman Mailer
(B) Saul Bellow
(C) Philip Roth
(D) Bernard Malamud
27. Plato censured poetry because he
believed it
(A) eliminates the ego.
(B) promotes sensuality.
(C) distorts reality.
(D) cripples the imagination.
28. Which of the following Tennyson
poems is a dramatic monologue ?
(A) In Memoriam
(B) “The Charge of the Light
Brigade”
(C) “Crossing the Bar”
(D) “Tithonus”
29. The character Giovanni features in
one of the following texts :
(A) John Cleland’s Fanny Hill :
Memoirs of a Woman of
Pleasure
(B) John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a
Whore’
(C) John Braine’s Room at the Top
(D) John Evelyn’s Diaries
30. Which of the following poems
features the phrase, “the still, sad
music of humanity” ?
(A) “Ode: Intimations of
Immortality from Recollections
of Early Childhood”
(B) “Michael : A Pastoral Poem”
(C) “The Solitary Reaper”
(D) “Tintern Abbey”
31. Molly Bloom is a character in James
Joyce’s
(A) A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man
(B) Dubliners
(C) Ulysses
(D) Exiles
32. Eliot uses the term “objective
correlative” in his essay.
(A) “The Metaphysical Poets”
(B) “Hamlet”
(C) “Tradition and the Individual
Talent”
(D) “Dante”
33. Seamus Heaney was awarded the
Nobel Prize for literature in the year
(A) 1995
(B) 1996
(C) 1997
(D) 1998
34. The pamphlet on the Irish condition,
“An Address to the Irish People”
was composed by
(A) W.B. Yeats
(B) P.B. Shelley
(C) Jonathan Swift
(D) G.B. Shaw
35. Which of the following
arrangements of English novels is in
the correct chronological sequence ?
(A) Kim, A Passage to India, Sons
and Lovers, Brave New World
(B) Sons and Lovers, A Passage to
India, Kim, Brave New World
(C) Kim, Sons and Lovers, A
Passage to India, Brave New
World
(D) Brave New World, Kim, Sons
and Lovers, A Passage to India
36. “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift” is
written by
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Samuel Johnson
(C) John Gay
(D) Jonathan Swift
37. Widowers’ Houses was written by
(A) Oscar Wilde
(B) T.S. Eliot
(C) John Galsworthy
(D) G.B. Shaw
38. Who among the following Marxist
critics has reconsidered the classic
problem of ‘base and superstructure”
in relation to literature ?
(A) Edmund Wilson
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Lucien Goldmann
(D) Walter Benjamin
39. “Heteroglossia” refers to
(A) the multiple readings of a text.
(B) the juxtaposition of multiple
voices in a text.
(C) the comments on the margins
of a text.
(D) the gloss or commentary
relating to a text.
40. Margaret Drabble is the author of
(A) The Memoirs of a Survivor
(B) The Witch of Exmoor
(C) The Service of Clouds
(D) The Godless in Eden
41. MacFlecknoe is an attack on
Dryden’s literary rival,
(A) Richard Flecknoe
(B) Thomas Shadwell
(C) John Wilmot
(D) Matthew Prior
42. Eighteenth century writers used
satire frequently for
(A) attacking human vices and
follies.
(B) inciting the reading public.
(C) glorifying the culture of the
upper classes.
(D) pleasing their women readers.
43. Byron’s “The Vision of Judgement”
is a satire directed against
(A) Charles Lamb
(B) John Keats
(C) Henry Hallam
(D) Robert Southey
44. Tom Paine’s The Rights of Man was
published in
(A) 1790
(B) 1791
(C) 1792
(D) 1793
45. Andrew Marvell’s “An Horatian Ode
upon Cromwell’s Return from
Ireland” was written in
(A) 1647
(B) 1649
(C) 1650
(D) 1648
46. “The Rime of Ancient Mariner” is
about
(A) a perilous adventure in the sea
(B) the accidental killing of an
octopus
(C) the curse of a sea God
(D) the guilt and expiation of the
Ancient Mariner
47. “To Daffodils” is a poem, written by
(A) Robert Herrick
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) John Keats
(D) P.B. Shelley
48. Which of the following novels
reconstructs the historical events of
the Indian Mutiny ?
(A) The Jewel in the Crown
(B) The Siege of Krishnapur
(C) The Day of the Scorpion
(D) The Towers of Silence
49. “England, my England” is a poem by
(A) W.E. Henley
(B) A.E. Housman
(C) R.L. Stevenson
(D) Rudyard Kipling
50. Shelley was expelled from the
Oxford University due to the
publication of
(A) The Revolt of Islam
(B) The Necessity of Atheism
(C) The Triumph of Life
(D) The Masque of Anarchy




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