Q.1) In which year was the King James Version of the Bible first published?

(A) 1526

(B) 153S

(C) 1539

(D) 1611

ANSWER: D

Q.2) To which of the following does Gorboduc belong?

(A) Morality Plays

(B) Senecan Tragedy

(C) Farce

(D) Aristotelian Tragedy

ANSWER: B

Q.3) The Parliament of Fowls was written by………

(A) Chaucer

(B) Philip Sidney

(C) Shakespeare

(D) John Fletcher

ANSWER: A

Q.4) The first story in the Canterbury Tales se Quence is

(A) The Miller’s Tale

(B) The Wife of Bath” s Tale

(C) The Knight’s Tale

(D) The S Quire’s Tale

ANSWER: C

Q.5) Who among the following was described as the “poets’ poet” by the Romantics?

(A) Ben Jonson

(B) Edmund Spenser

(C) Philip Sidney

(D) John Milton

ANSWER: B

Q.6) Who is the author of the prose romance, Arcadia?

(A) Robert Sidney

(B) Philip Sidney

(C) Edmund Spenser

(D) Thomas More

ANSWER: B

Q.7) ………… a thought to Donne was an experience It modified his sensibility” Whose words are these?

(A) Samuel Johnson

(B) Matthew Arnold

(C) T S Eliot

(D) John Dryden

ANSWER: C

Q.8) Tottel’ s Miscellany is a 16″” century collection of………

(A) Poetic works

(B) Essays

(C) Drama

(D) Short Stories

ANSWER: A

Q.9) The Chester, York, Wakefield cycles of plays refer to the of the 14~century

(A) Masques

(B) Interludes

(C) Morality plays

(D) Miracle plays

ANSWER: D

Q.10) ……… his laboring brain Begets a world of idle fantasies To overreach the devil” Who is being referred to here?

(A) Faustus

(B) Gaveston

(C) Barabas

(D) Tamburlaine

ANSWER: A

Q11) Who set up the first printing press in England?

(A) Richard Tottel

(B) Thomas Norton

(C) William Caxton

(D) Johanes Gutenberg

ANSWER: C

Q.12) “Reading Maketh Full man, Conference a Ready Man, and Writing an Exact Man” whose words are these?

(A) Joseph Addison

(B) Richard Steele

(C) Thomas More

(D) Francis Bacon

ANSWER: D

Q.13) John Heywood’s importance in English literature lies in his short dramatic

(A) Farces

(B) Satires

(C) Poems

(D) Interludes

ANSWER: D

Q.14) Thomas More’s contemplative vision of the ideal is presented in

(A) Epistola ad Pomeranum

(B) Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation

(C) Utopia

(D) Encomium Moriae

ANSWER: C

Q.15) Name the 17* century playwright who is also famous as a writer of mas Ques

(A) Ben Jonson

(B) Christopher Marlowe

(C) Thomas Nashe

(D) Robert Greene

ANSWER: A

Q.16) Thomas Thaherne George Herbert, Richard Crashaw and Henry Yaughan belong to the group of writers called

(A) The University Wits

(B) The Metaphysical Poets

(C) The Utilitarians

(D) The University Mummers

ANSWER: B

Q.17) Which one of the following poems does not make use of the carpe diem motif?

(A) “To Daffodils”

(B) “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

(C) “Corinna’s Going a-Maying”

(D) “To His Coy Mistress”

ANSWER: A

Q.18) Who among the following was not part of the group called the “University Wits’

(A) Christopher Marlowe

(B) Robert Greene

(C) Ben Jonson

(D) George Peele

ANSWER: C

Q.19) Religio Medici Pseudodaxia Epidemica and The Garden of Cyrus are works by………

(A) John Locke

(B) Francis Bacon

(C) Thomas Hobbes

(D) Thomas Browne

ANSWER: D

Q.20) Thomas Hobbes was a of the 17″ century

(A) Poet

(B) Playwright

(C) Painter

(D) Philosopher

ANSWER: D

Q.21) The title of Wilson Knight’s The Wheel of Fire comes from the play

(A) Othello

(B) King Lear

(C) Macbeth

(D) Hamlet

ANSWER: B

Q.22) His “legs bestrid the ocean” and his “rear’d arm crested the world”, Who is referred to here?

(A) Julius Caesar

(B) Octavius Censer

(C) Mark Antony

(D) Coriolanus

ANSWER: C

Q.23) Who called Shakespeare “an upstart crow beautified with our feathers-

(A) Robert Greene

(B) Ben Jonson

(C) Christopher Marlowe

(D) Thomas Rymer

ANSWER: A

Q.24) Who plays the character of poor Tom in King Lear?

(A) Edgar

(B) The Fool

(C) Kent

(D) Edmund

ANSWER: A

Q.25) Which one of these is not a source for the play Hamler?

(A) Thomas Kyd

(B) Saxo Grammaticus

(C) F De Belleforest

(D) Plutarch

ANSWER: D

Q.26) Which Shakespeare play has 2 sets of identical win brothers with the same names?

(A) The Two Gentlemen of Verona

(B) The Comedy of Errors

(C) Twelfth Night

(D) Love’s Labours Lost

ANSWER: B

Q.27) is generally considered to be Shakespeare’s final tragedy

(A) Othello

(B) Macbeth

(C) Coriolanus

(D) Hamlet

ANSWER: C

Q.28) Shakespeare collaborated with in writing Henry V7Jl and The Two Noble Kinsmen

(A) Thomas Dekker

(B) John Marston

(C) John Fletcher

(D) Thomas Middleton

ANSWER: C

Q.29) Which Shakespearean character is the “Moor of Venice”?

(A) Othello

(B) Antonio

(C) lago

(D) Enobarbus

ANSWER: A

Q.30) The first work of Shakespeare to be printed under his own name is

(A) A Lover’s Complaint

(B) The Rape of Lucrece

(C) Venus and Adonis

(D) The Comedy of Errors

ANSWER: C

Q.31) The plays Pericles Cymbeline, The Tempest and The Winter’s Tale are generally called

(A) Problem Plays

(B) Comedies

(C) Tragicomedies

(D) Romances

ANSWER: D

Q.32) The notion that Shakespeare’s works were better read and studied rather than performed way part of………

(A) Victorian criticism

(B) Early romantic criticism

(C) Twentieth century criticism

(D) Neoclassical criticism

ANSWER: B

Q.33) “Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly,” sings……

(A) Ja Ques

(B) Amiens

(C) Touchstone

(D) Silvius

ANSWER: B

Q.34) Name the protagonist referred to in the title of the play The Merchant of Venice

(A) Antonio

(B) Shylock

(C) Bassanio

(D) Petruccio

ANSWER: A

Q.35) …………is generally considered to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote

(A) Timon of Athens

(B) Troilus and Cressida

(C) The Tempest

(D) The Winter’s Tale

ANSWER: C

Q.36) The play within the play in Hamler is called……

(A) The Pageant of Nine Worthies’

(B) The Murder of Gonzago

(C) The Mousetrap

(D) Pyramus and Thisbe

ANSWER: B

Q.37) “I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men”, Identify the speaker

(A) Feste

(B) Touchstone

(C) Dogberry

(D) Falstaff

ANSWER: D

Q.38) “He was not of an age, but for all time”, Who said this of Shakespeare?

(A) John Lyly

(B) Thomas Heywood

(C) Ben Jonson

(D) Marlowe

ANSWER: C

Q.39) Which critic wrote The Elizabethan World Picture?

(A) EMW Tillyard

(B) J Dover Wilson

(C) PC Knights

(D) G Wilson Knight

ANSWER: A

Q.40) In which year was Shakespeare’s sonnets first published as a Quarto edition?

(A) 1616

(B) 1605

(C) 1599

(D) 1609

ANSWER: D

Q.41) Which famous poem opens with the words: “Of man’s first disobedience… sing Heavenly Muse”?

(A) L’Allegro

(B) Paradise Lost

(C) Paradise Regained

(D) Heaven and Earth

ANSWER: B

Q.42) Thackeray’s Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero takes its title from……

(A) The Pilgrim’s Progress

(B) The Practice of Piety

(C) Samson Agonistes

(D) Leviathan

ANSWER: A

Q.43) The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence are poems by………

(A) Thomas Gray

(B) William Collins

(C) James Thomson

(D) William Blake

ANSWER: C

Q.44) which poet was described as “the pilgrim of eternity” by Shelley?

(A) John Keats

(B) Leigh Hunt

(C) Robert Southey

(D) Lord Byron

ANSWER: D

Q.45) Who among these was not a ‘Lake Poet”?

(A) Wordsworth

(B) Shelley

(C) Southey

(D) Coleridge

ANSWER: B

Q.46) Fra Lippo Lippi Caliban Upon Setebos, Porphyria’s Lover are all……

(A) Satires

(B) Allegories

(C) Dramatic monologues

(D) Lyrical poems

ANSWER: C

Q.47) The Spectator and The Tatler are journals associated with……

(A) Addison and Steele

(B) Dr. Johnson

(C) Edmund Burke

(D) William Hazlitt

ANSWER: A

Q.48) “Cold pastoral” in a famous Romantic poem is a reference to……

(A) The Grecian urn

(B) The autumn season

(C) The River Wye

(D) The Lake district

ANSWER: A

Q.49) Who is the author of Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Suspiria de Profundis?

(A) Francis Bacon

(B) Thomas Carlyle

(C) Matthew Arnold

(D) Thomas Dequincey

ANSWER: D

Q.50) Who is Elia?

(A) Walter Scott

(B) Charles Lamb

(C) Francis Bacon

(D) William Hazlitt

ANSWER: B

Q.51) Which of the following novels is a rebuttal of the optimism presented in Robinson Crusoe?

(A) Barnaby Rudge

(B) David Copperfield

(C) Gulliver’s Travels

(D) Adam Bede

ANSWER: C

Q.52) Which one of the following was not written by Currer Ellis and Acton Bell?

(A) Wuthering Heights

(B) Agnes Grey

(C) Middlemarch

(D) Jane Eyre

ANSWER: C

Q.53) In which poem do the lines “T is better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all” appear?

(A) In Memoriam

(B) Thyrsis

(C) Adonais

(D) Lycidas

ANSWER: A

Q.54) Which famous romantic poet said, “Without contraries is no progression”?

(A) John Keats

(B) P. B. Shelley

(C) S.T. Coleridge

(D) William Blake

ANSWER: D

Q.55) Hopkins’ s experiments in prosody led to the introduction of………

(A) Free verse

(B)Sprung rhythm

(C) Running rhythm

(D) Rhyme royal

ANSWER: B

Q.56) Wandering between two words, one dead The other powerless to be born……… Whose are these famous lines?

(A) Tennyson

(B) Browning

(C) Arnold

(D) Hardy

ANSWER: C

Q.57) Whose novels are set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex’

(A) Thomas Hardy

(B) George Meredith

(C) Charles Dickens

(D) George Eliot

ANSWER: A

Q.58) Mahatma Gandhi was greatly influenced by Unto This Last, Who is the author of this work?

(A) Walter Pater

(B) Thomas Carlyle

(C) John Ruskin

(D) Joseph Addison

ANSWER: C

Q.59) Which novel opens with the sentence “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”?

(A) A Talc of Two Cities

(B) A Christmas Carol

(C) Bleak House

(D) Oliver Twist

ANSWER: A

Q.60) Mansfield Park, Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility are novels by………

(A) George Eliot

(B) Jane Austen

(C) Elizabeth Gaskell

(D) Charlotte Bronte

ANSWER: B

Q.61) Name the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

(A) Ngugi wa Thiong’O

(B) Chinua Achebe

(C) Dennis Brutus

(D) Wole Soyinka

ANSWER: D

Q.62) Disgrace, Foe and Slow Man are novels written by

(A) Nadine Gordimer

(B) Doris Lessing

(C) J.M. Coetzee

(D) Andre Brink

ANSWER: C

Q.63) Which novel has Hagar Shipley as the central character?

(A) The Diviners

(B) The Stone Angel

(C) The Fire Dwellers

(D) A Jest of God

ANSWER: B

Q.64) Achebe has derived the title of one of his novels from Yeats’ s”“ The Second Coming”, Which is the novel?

(A) Arrow of God

(B) Things Fall Apart

(C) No Longer at Ease

(D) Anthills of the Savannah

ANSWER: B

Q.65) Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” Which novel opens thus?

(A) Heart of Darkness

(B) The Brothers Karamazov

(C) The Magic Mountain

(D) Anna Karenina

ANSWER: D

Q.66) Which of these works by VS Naipaul is semi-autobiographical?

(A) The Mimic Men

(B) A Bend in the River

(C) A House for Mr Biswas

(D) The Mystic Masseur

ANSWER: C

Q.67) Name the Ibsen play significant for its critical attitude towards 19” century marriage norms

(A) A Doll’s House

(B) Hedda Gabler

(C) The Wild Duck

(D) Ghosts

ANSWER: A

Q.68) which one of these playwrights is not associated with “kitchen sink drama”?

(A) J.M. Synge

(B) John Osborne

(C) Arnold Wesker

(D) Shelagh Delaney

ANSWER: A

Q.69) Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe were associated with the…… movement

(A) Absurdist

(B) Symbolist

(C) Naturalist

(D) Realist

ANSWER: B

Q.70) Who coined the term “the theatre of the absurd’?

(A) Samuel Beckett

(B) Albert Camus

(C) Martin Esslin

(D) Jean Genet

ANSWER: C

Q.71) Who among these is not an lris playwright?

(A) Bernard Shaw

(B) J.M. Synge

(C) Sean O’Casey

(D) Edward Bond

ANSWER: D

Q.72) Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is dedicated to the 19” century American writer…

(A) Mark Twain

(B) Emerson

(C) Edgar Allan Poe

(D) Hawthorne

ANSWER: D

Q.73) In which section of The Waste Land will you come across a reference to Phlebas the Phoenician?

(A) A Game of Chess

(B) Death by Water

(C) What the Thunder Said

(D) The Burial of the Dead

ANSWER: B

Q.74) What is the name of the narrative technique that James Joyce and Virginia Woolf used?

(A) Stream of consciousness

(B) Psychoanalytic

(C) Naturalistic

(D) Surrealistic

ANSWER: A

Q.75) Which of the following is a pessimistic satire on the dangers of political tyranny?

(A) A Passage to India

(B) Hemlock and After

(C) Nineteen Eightyfour

(D) The Power and the Glory

ANSWER: C

Q.76) Who among the following was not a Transcendentalist?

(A) R W Emerson

(B) H D Thoreau

(C) Margaret fuller

(D) Walt Whitman

ANSWER: D

Q.77) Which one of The following novels uses magic realism big way?

(A) invisible Man

(B) Midnight’s Children

(C) For Whom the Bell Tolls

(D) Tar Baby

ANSWER: B

Q.78) “I who have lost/My way and beg now at strangers doors to / Receive love at least in small change “From which poem are these lines taken?

(A) The Invitation”

(B) The Sunshine Cat”

(C) The Freaks

(D) My Grandmother’s House

ANSWER: D

Q.79) The Net and Sandcastle are novels by……

(A) Margaret Atwood

(B) Iris Murdoch

(C) A S, Byatt

(D) Margaret Lawrence

ANSWER: B

Q.80) Who among these is not a ‘movement’ poet

(A) Ted Hughes

(B) Robert Con Quest

(C) Philip Larkin

(D) Thom Gunn

ANSWER: A

Q.81) What is the name of the branch of linguistics that studies the process of word formation?

(A) Syntax

(B) Phonology

(C) Semantics

(D) Morphology

ANSWER: D

Q.82) Two or more words with very closely related meanings are called………

(A) Synonyms

(B) Antonyms

(C) Hyponyms

(D) Homophones

ANSWER: A

Q.83) …… is the study of the history of words, their origins and their changes of form and meaning

(A) Etymology

(B) Philology

(C) Pragmatics

(D) Semantics

ANSWER: A

Q.84) A morpheme that can also stand alone as a word is called a……

(A) Allophone

(B) Bound morpheme

(C) Allomorph

(D) Free morpheme

ANSWER: D

Q.85) The relation between the English word friend’ and the German word -friend’ would make the two words…

(A) Cognates

(B) Synonyms

(C) Homonyms

(D) Approximants

ANSWER: A

Q.86) …… is the study of sound systems and the processes affecting pronunciation of a particular language

(A) Morphology

(B) Phonology

(C) Lexicology

(D) Sociolinguistics

ANSWER: B

Q.87) The sounds [p, b, m] are referred to as……

(A) Alveolars

(B) Dentals

(C) Bilabials

(D) Affricates

ANSWER: B

Q.88) A vowel that consists of two components as in [ai] and [au] is called a…

(A) Tense vowel

(B) Lax vowel

(C) Monophthong

(D) Diphthong

ANSWER: C

Q.89) Which of the following is a minimal pair?

(A) Raise Rice

(B) l Eye

(C) Last Lot

(D) Pit Bit

ANSWER: D

Q.90) Allophones are variants of the same……

(A) Morpheme

(B) Syllable

(C) Phoneme

(D) Word

ANSWER: C

Q.91) A grammar should have in addition to the lexical and syntactic components a…component

(A) Prosodic

(B) Phonological

(C) Discursive

(D) Syllabic

ANSWER: B

Q.92) “Juggernaut” is a loan word from………

(A) Sanskrit

(B) Persian

(C) French

(D) German

ANSWER: A

Q.93) How many allomorphs are there for the English plural noun morpheme [s]?

(A) One

(B) Two

(C) Three

(D) Four

ANSWER: C

Q.94) The idiom ‘to cut a long story short’ means……

(A) To cut short a story

(B) To cut up a story

(C) To write a short story

(D) To tell only the main points and not the finer details

ANSWER: D

Q.95) His new house coasts’ a small fortune’ Here ‘small fortune’ means……

(A) Not very expensive

(B) A huge amount of money

(C) Very little money

(D) Hardly any money

ANSWER: B

Q.96) “Without my glasses I am as blind as a bat” The underlined phrase is a……

(A) Simile

(B) Metaphor

(C) Allegory

(D) Metonymy

ANSWER: A

Q.97) Which of the following sentences has a grammatical mistake?

(A) The show is on tomorrow night

(B) The show was on yesterday

(C) Is the show on tomorrow night

(D) The show is on 7 PM

ANSWER: D

Q.98) Choose the best meaning of “own up’ from the options given:

(A) To say that something belongs to you

(B) To admit that you are responsible for something that has happened

(C) To feel pleased about something that has happened

(D) To say that you are the owner of something

ANSWER: B

Q.99) If you fail this examination, you’ll be…… the whole family down

(A) Letting

(B) Cutting

(C) Turning

(D) Moving

ANSWER: A

Q.100) Choose the most appropriate antonym m of the word persuade”

(A) Compel

(B) Dissent

(C) Dissuade

(D) Refuse

ANSWER: C

Q.101) Name the French structuralist theorist well known for his analysis of kinship relations

(A) Lacan

(B) Levi-Strauss

(C) Barthes

(D) Kristeva

ANSWER: B

Q.102) What in Aristotle’’ s Poetics is suggested b) Mythos”?

(A) Plot

(B) Character

(C) Setting

(D) Dialogue

ANSWER: A

Q.103) Which one of the following critics has theorized about the “dissociation of sensibility”?

(A) Arnold

(B) Leavis

(C) Richards

(D) Eliot

ANSWER: D

Q.104) Name the author of A Course in General Linguistics

(A) Bloomfield

(B) C S Pierce

(C) Ferdinand de Saussure

(D) Noam Chomsky

ANSWER: C

Q.105) Who among the following is not associated with Post structuralism?

(A) Cleanth Brooks

(B) Roland Barthes

(C) Jacques Derrida

(D) Julia Kristeva

ANSWER: A

Q.106) Who translated Derrida’s Of Grammatology into English?

(A) Kate Millett

(B) Luce Irigaray

(C) Elaine Showalter

(D) Gayatri Spivak

ANSWER: D

Q.107) Which feminist analysis contributed the slogan “the personal is political”?

(A)The Second Sex

(B) The Feminine Mystique

(C) Sexual Politics

(D) The Mad Woman in the Attic

ANSWER: C

Q.108) Which of the following is an important critical text written by John Dryden?

(A) On the Sublime

(B) An essay of Dramatic Poesy

(C) The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism

(D) Culture and Anarchy

ANSWER: B

Q.109) Name the author of Culture and Imperialism

(A) Homi Bhabha

(B) Raymond Williams

(C) Edward Said

(D) Robert Young

ANSWER: C

Q.110) Arnold wanted literature to remain ‘disinterested’ What does ‘disinterested’ in this context mean?

(A) Aesthetically uninteresting

(B) Politically detached

(C) Socially interesting

(D) Objective

ANSWER: B

Q.111) “Scrutiny” was a journal that propagated the literary principles advanced by………

(A) Romantics

(B) Structuralists

(C) Feminists

(D) New Critics

ANSWER: D

Q.112) ” Which among the following provides a revisionary reading of Freud?

(A) Ecrits

(B) A Room of One’s Own

(C) Positions

(D) Orientalism

ANSWER: A

Q.113) Which of the following is an essential prerequisite for translation as a practice?

(A) Bilingualism

(B) Scholarship

(C) Polyphony

(D) Literary competence

ANSWER: A

Q.114) ……… would help the students get over the initial stages of difficulties in language learning due to mother tongue interference

(A) Contrastive grammar

(B) Descriptive grammar

(C) Traditional grammar

(D) TG Grammar

ANSWER: A

Q.115) Which of the following is also known as the Classical Method’ of teaching English as a foreign language?

(A) Direct Method

(B) Grammar-Translation method

(C) Audio-lingual method

(D) Structural Method

ANSWER: B

Q.116) Direct method of teaching a foreign language is called so because……

(A) Language is taught directly by the native speaker of the foreign language

(B) Language is taught directly by lessons beamed from abroad

(C) Language is taught directly from textbooks prepared abroad

(D) Language is taught directly without the help of the mother tongue

ANSWER:

Q.117) Which of the following approaches has communicative competence as the goal of language teaching?

(A) Grammar Translation Method

(B) Structural Method

(C) Communicative Language Teaching

(D) None of the above

ANSWER: C

Q.118) To be able to use English as a library language implies the ability to………………

(A) Speak the language

(B) Read and write in the language

(C) To attend conferences on the language

(D) None of the above

ANSWER: C

Q.119) In……… method the importance of car training in developing speaking proficiency receives particular emphasis

(A) Audio-visual

(B) Situational

(C) Audio-lingual

(D) None of these

ANSWER: D

Q.120) “Idiolect’ is language variety that indicates the specificities of………

(A) The individual speaker

(B) A community of speakers

(C) A region

(D) Abnormal people

ANSWER: A