1. William Blake is a critical work by__________.
- Matthew Arnold
- Walter Pater
- A. C. Swinburne
- W. B. Yeats
2. John Drinkwater helped to revive interest in____________.
- historical drama
- problem plays
- poetic drama
- ballads
3. Which literary character said, “My aunt died of influenza but it’s my belief that they done the old woman in”?
- Sam in Pickwick Papers
- Eliza in Pygmalion
- Miriam in Sons and Lovers
- Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger
4. Who /wrote the play Ulysses?
- William Blake
- Alfred Tennyson
- Stephen Phillips
- John Dennis
5. From whom did Queen Elizabeth Il inherit the throne?
- Edward VIl
- Edward VIll
- George V
- George VI
6. Who is the author of The First Man on the Moon?
- A. G. Gardiner
- H. G. Wells
- George Gissing
- William Golding
7. Who wrote the comic novel Antic Hay which depicts the aimless self-absorbed cultural elite in the sad and turbulent times following the end of World War I?
- Arnold Bennett
- Aldous Huxley
- Graham Greene
- Bernard Shaw
8. When did the Blitz-the German bombing of Britain–take place?
- 1910s
- 1920s
- 1930s
- 1940s
9. Who wrote Down and Out in Paris and London?
- Aldous Huxley
- W.H. Auden
- George Orwell
- George Meredith
10. Which of the following plays by Galsworthy deals with the cruelties of solitary confinement?
- Strife
- Justice
- The Silver Box
- 21 Days
11. Who among the following novelists wholeheartedly embraced Darwin’s theory?
- Samuel Butler
- W. M. Thackeray
- Oscar Wilde
- J. B. Priestley
12. Who Empathetically refuted the moto “Art for Art’s sake” thus, “For art’s sake alone I would not face the toil of writing a single sentence”?
- John Ruskin
- G.B. Shaw
- T.S. Eliot
- Matthew Arnold
13. The novels Immaturity, The irrational knot and Love among the Artists were written by _________.
- J.B. Priestley
- G.K. Chesterton
- Bernard Shaw
- George Gissing
14. Which of Bernard Shaw’s plays focus on the problems in parent-child relationship?
- The Misalliance
- The Millionairess
- The Heart Break House
- Candida
15. Mr. Erickwicker is character in ________.
- To the lighthouse
- Finnegan's Wake
- The Rainbow
- Women in Love
16. ‘I am the enemy you killed, my friend/I knew you in this dark…’The above lines are taken from…
- “The Soldier”
- “Dulce et Decorum Est”
- “To His Dead Body”
- “Strange Meeting”
17. The title of “The Waste Land’ was derived from
- The Golden Bough
- From Ritual to Romance
- Charles Dickens
- Baudelaire
18. D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love is the Sequel of
- Sons and Lovers
- The Rainbow
- The Plumed Serpent
- The Kangaroo
19. Brighton Rock is a novel by
- William Golding
- Iris Murdoch
- Aldous Huxley
- Graham Greene
20. Shaw’s Apple Cart exposes the unrealities of
- Elections
- Democracy
- Political Leadership
- The Ethics of Politics
21. Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy. This is the epigraph to
- T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men”
- "Rudyard Kipling’s “The Man Who Would be the King”
- George Eliot’s Silas Marner
- E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End
22. Examine the following statements and identify one of them which is not true.
- Rudyard Kipling died in the year 1936
- He was born in India but schooled in England
- He returned to India as a police constable in Burma
- He is the author of Jungle Book and Barrack Room Ballads
23. The protagonist returns with an admonition, the diamond sent to him for smuggling out a packet of diamonds as bribe. This scene occurs in one of the novels of Graham Greene – Identify the novel
- The End of the Affair
- The Heart of the Matter
- The Ministry of Fear
- Our Man in Havana
24. Which character represents Karl Marx in Orwell’s Animal Farm?
- Napoleon
- Boxer
- Snowball
- Old Major