1. The lines :

‘Even I, a dunce of more renown than they,

Was sent before but to prepare thy way’ are quoted from :

(A) Pope’s Dunciad

(B) Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel

(C) Dryden’s Mac Flecknoe

(D) Swift’s A Tale of a Tub

Answer: C

2. Fanny Burney’s Evelina is about :

(A) a young lady’s entry into English fashionable society

(B) English refugees in Paris

(C) an English enthusiast for revolutionary liberty

(D) money and the world of the country house

Answer: A

3. The unexpurgated text of Lady Chatterley’s Lover was published after Obscenity trial in :

(A) 1958

(B) 1965

(C) 1960

(D) 1962

Answer: C

4. Sir Andrew Freeport is a character in :

(A) Humphry Clinker

(B) Joseph Andrews

(C) The Coverley Papers

(D) Clarissa

Answer: C

5. In which of the following novels does Stein feature as a significant character ?

(A) Under Western Eyes

(B) Lord Jim

(C) Heart of Darkness

(D) Nostromo

Answer: B

6. The Grand Inquisitor is a character in :

(A) Crime and Punishment

(B) Notes from the Underground

(C) Brothers Karamazov

(D) The Idiot

Answer: C

7. Which modern critic described value judgements as ‘the donkey’s carrot of literary criticism’ ?

(A) T. S. Eliot

(B) I. A. Richards

(C) William Empson

(D) Northrop Frye

Answer: D

8. Select the matching pair :

(A) The Book of the Duchess : Blanche of Leicester

(B) The Canterbury Tales : The Host of the Tabard

(C) Troilus and Criseyde : Squire

(D) The Parliament of Birds : St. Agnes’s Eve

Answer: C

9. ‘The Winter Morning’ forms part of a longer poem by :

(A) Cowper

(B) Blake

(C) Burns

(D) Byron

Answer: A

10. Bradley Pearson is the narrator of Iris Murdoch’s novel :

(A) Under the Net

(B) Bruno’s Dream

(C) The Bell

(D) The Black Prince

Answer: D

11. ‘Victorian Compromise’ is an expression first used by :

(A) David Cecil

(B) G. K. Chesterton

(C) Lytton Strachey

(D) Vincent Buckley

Answer: B

12. More’s Latin Masterpiece Utopia was translated into English in :

(A) 1551

(B) 1498

(C) 1516

(D) 1532

Answer: A

13. The Anxiety of Influence : A Theory of Poetry is written by :

(A) Maud Bodkin

(B) Stephen Spender

(C) Harold Bloom

(D) Frank Kernode

Answer: C

14. Who among the following was not a member of the group, ‘The University Wits’ ?

(A) Thomas Nashe

(B) Ben Jonson

(C) George Peele

(D) Samuel Daniel

Answer: B

15. William Beckford’s oriental fantasy Vathek was originally written in :

(A) Spanish

(B) German

(C) French

(D) Italian

Answer: C

16. The term ‘American renaissance’ was first used by :

(A) R. W. B Lewis

(B) Leo Marx

(C) F. O. Matthiessen

(D) Richard Chase

Answer: C

17. ‘Gladly would he learn, and gladly teach’ is a line from :

(A) Spenser’s Fairie Queen

(B) Goldsmith’s ‘The Deserted Village’

(C) Chaucer’s Prologue to Canterbury Tales

(D) Langland’s Piers Plowman

Answer: C

18. Which of the following arrangement of the English plays is in correct chronological order ?

(A) Justice – The Family Reunion – Saint Joan – The Playboy of the Western World

(B) Saint Joan – Justice – The Playboy of the Western World – The Family Reunion

(C) The Family Reunion – Saint Joan – Justice – The Playboy of the Western World

(D) The Playboy of the Western World – Justice – Saint Joan – The Family Reunion

Answer: D

19. The second part of The Pilgrim’s Progress was published in :

(A) 1690

(B) 1678

(C) 1686

(D) 1684

Answer: D

20. The Egoist is written by :

(A) Blackmore

(B) William Thackeray

(C) Meredith

(D) Hardy

Answer: C

21. Which is the correct chronological sequence of the following novels ?

(A) Decline and Fall – The Time Machine – Nineteen Eightyfour – Brave New World

(B) Nineteen Eightyfour – Decline and Fall – The Time Machine – Brave New World

(C) Brave New World – The Time Machine – Nineteen Eightyfour – Decline and Fall

(D) The Time Machine – Decline and Fall – Brave New World – Nineteen Eightyfour

Answer: D

22. Roland Barthes is the author of one of the following texts :

(A) The Death of Tragedy

(B) The Death of a Hero

(C) The Death of the Author

(D) The Death of Literature

Answer: C

23. The author of the Elizabethan sonnet sequence, Idea, is :

(A) Samuel Daniel

(B) Michael Drayton

(C) Edmund Spenser

(D) Fulke Greville

Answer: B

24. Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a rewriting of the Victorian novel :

(A) Jane Eyre

(B) Villette

(C) Wuthering Heights

(D) North and South

Answer: A

25. The Romantic Imagination is the title of a book by :

(A) Harold Bloom

(B) Graham Hough

(C) C. M. Bowra

(D) M. H. Abrahms

Answer: C

26. ‘Ode on the Spring’ was written by :

(A) Thomas Gray

(B) John Keats

(C) Abraham Cowley

(D) William Collins

Answer: A

27. Which of the following books was not published in 1859 ?

(A) Darwin : The Origin of Species

(B) George Eliot : Adam Bede

(C) Mill : On Liberty

(D) Ruskin : Unto This Last

Answer: D

28. Three Guineas is the title of a book by :

(A) E. M. Forster

(B) Virginia Woolf

(C) George Orwell

(D) G. B. Shaw

Answer: B

29. Harold Pinter’s first four plays are :

(A) The Caretaker, The Room, The Homecoming, The Birthday Party

(B) The Room, The Dumb Waiter, The Birthday Party, The Caretaker

(C) The Homecoming, The Caretaker, Old Times, Betrayal

(D) The Dumb Waiter, The Caretaker, No Man’s Land, Betrayal

Answer: B

30. Identify the odd character out :

(A) Bosola

(B) De Flores

(C) Iago

(D) Kent

Answer: D

31. Select the matching pair :

(A) The Great Gatsby : Chicago

(B) The Old Man and the Sea : Cuba

(C) For Whom the Bell Tolls : Italy

(D) The Sound and the Fury : Boston

Answer: B

32. ‘The page is printed’. This is the last line in a poem by :

(A) Sylvia Plath

(B) Dylan Thomas

(C) Philip Larkin

(D) Ted Hughes

Answer: D

33. T. S. Eliot’s The Wasteland was first published in :

(A) The Criterion

(B) The Dial

(C) The Yale Review

(D) New Yorker

Answer: A

34. ‘Relationship’ is a long poem by :

(A) A. K. Ramanujan

(B) R. Parthasarathy

(C) Jayanta Mahapatra

(D) Kamala Das

Answer: C

35. The phrase, ‘bottomless perdition’ occurs in Milton’s Paradise Lost in :

(A) Book I

(B) Book IV

(C) Book VI

(D) Book XII

Answer: A

36. Which of the following arrangements of American plays is in the correct chronological sequence ?

(A) Mourning Becomes Electra – The Hairy Ape – Death of a Salesman – A Streetcar Named Desire

(B) The Hairy Ape – Death of a Salesman – Mourning Becomes Electra – A Streetcar Named Desire

(C) A Streetcar Named Desire – The Hairy Ape – Mourning Becomes Electra – Death of a Salesman

(D) The Hairy Ape – Mourning Becomes Electra – A Streetcar Named Desire – Death of a Salesman

Answer: D

37. Which of the following arrangements of famous characters is in the correct chronological order ?

(A) Vittoria Corombona – Beatrice – Christiana – Hermione

(B) Beatrice – Hermione – Vittoria Corombona – Christiana

(C) Hermione – Beatrice – Vittoria Corombona – Christiana

(D) Beatrice – Vittoria Corombona – Hermione – Christiana

Answer: B

38. Which of the following is in correct chronological sequence ?

(A) In Memoriam – ‘Lycidas’ – ‘An Elegy Written on a Country Churchyard’ – Adonais

(B) Adonais – In Memoriam – ‘Lycidas’ – ‘An Elegy Written on a Country Churchyard’

(C) ‘An Elegy Written on a Country Churchyard’ – In Memoriam – Adonais ‘Lycidas’

(D) ‘Lycidas’ – ‘An Elegy Written on a Country Churchyard’ – Adonais – In Memoriam

Answer:D

39. The Chartist Demonstration in London involving the third presentation of Charter took place in :

(A) 1842

(B) 1846

(C) 1848

(D) 1851

Answer: C

40. ‘Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it into fragments’ The above lines occur in :

(A) ‘Dejection : An Ode’

(B) Adonais

(C) In Memoriam

(D) ‘Thyrsis’

Answer: B

41. Arrange the following characters in chronological sequence :

(A) Mr. Rochester – David Copperfield – Rosamond – Bathsheba

(B) David Copperfield – Rosamond – Mr. Rochester – Bathsheba

(C) Bathsheba – Mr. Rochester – David Copperfield – Becky Sharp

(D) David Copperfield – Bathsheba – Mr. Rochester – Rosamond

Answer: A

42. The book, The Religion of Man is written by :

(A) Sri. Aurobindo

(B) Rabindranath Tagore

(C) A. K. Coomaraswamy

(D) V. K. Gokak

Answer:B

43. In the poem ‘Windhover’ Hopkins uses :

(A) Alternate Rhyme

(B) Disyllabic Rhyme

(C) Cross Rhyme

(D) Split Rhyme

Answer: D

44. Which Dickens novel attacks the New Poor Law of 1834 in the opening chapters ?

(A) Great Expectations

(B) Hard Times

(C) Oliver Twist

(D) Dombey and Son

Answer: C

45. ‘Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath, O my God, take the gentle path’ These lines are taken from a poem by :

(A) Herbert

(B) Donne

(C) Crashaw

(D) Vaughan

Answer: A

46. ‘Epithalamium’ is a :

(A) song of mourning

(B) song of eulogy

(C) nuptial song

(D) funeral song

Answer: C

47. The Gutenberg Bible was first published in :

(A) 1456

(B) 1516

(C) 1449

(D) 1498

Answer: A

48. Identify the odd one out :

(A) Persuasion : Anne Tilney

(B) Northanger Abbey : Catherine Price

(C) Emma : Jane Fairfax

(D) Mansfield Park : Fanny Dean

Answer: C

49. Which among the following is in the correct chronological sequence ?

(A) Sexual Politics – Thinking About Women – The Second Sex – The Prisoner of Sex

(B) Thinking About Women – The Prisoner of Sex – Sexual Politics – The Second Sex

(C) The Second Sex – Thinking About Women – Sexual Politics – The Prisoner of Sex

(D) The Prisoner of Sex – The Second Sex – Sexual Politics – Thinking About Women

Answer: C

50. Coleridge’s ‘Kubla Khan’ remains ‘a fragment’ because :

(A) He was called by Wordsworth who was living in Porlock at that time

(B) Dorothy Wordsworth was upset over their love affair

(C) He was interrupted by a caller, a person on business from Porlock

(D) He ran out of his stock of opium

Answer: C