EXAMINATION PAPER OF 2011

Q.1) Select the correctly spelt words:

[1] Appelant

[2] Apellant

[3] Appellant

[4] Appellent

Answer: Appellant

Q.2) Select the correctly spelt words:

[1] Beelzebub

[2] Beilzebub

[3] Bilzebub

[4] Bielzebub

Answer: Beelzebub

Q.3) Select the correctly spelt words:

[1] Exaseration

[2] Exaggeration

[3] Exageration

[4] Exazeration

Answer: Exaggeration

Q.4) Select the correctly spelt words:

[1] Hidrocortizone

[2] Hydrocortizone

[3] Hydrocortisone

[4] Hidrocortisone

Answer: Hydrocortisone

Q.5) Select the correctly spelt words:

[1] Sufragette

[2] Suffragete

[3] Suffragette

[4] Sufragete

Answer: Suffragette

Q.6) Select the correctly spelt words:

[1] Narcissus

[2] Naarcissus

[3] Narcissous

[4] Naarcissous

Answer: Narcissus

Q.7) ‘Vindictive’ means

[1] Windy

[2] Stormy

[3] Revengeful

[4] Peace loving

Answer: Revengeful

Q.8) ‘Tumultuous’ means

[1] Causing disturbance

[2] Causing fear

[3] Causing illness

[4] Causing grief.

Answer: Causing disturbance

Q.9) ‘Reticent’ means

[1] Outspoken

[2] Reserved

[3] Quarrelsome

[4] Benevolent

Answer: Reserved

Q.10) ‘Nauseous’ means

[1] Gaseous

[2] Venomous

[3] Sickening

[4] Generous

Answer: Sickening

Q.11) ‘Hypothetical’ means

[1] Practical

[2] Philosophical

[3] Sensitive

[4] Supposed

Answer: Supposed

Q.12) The murmurous haunt of files on summer eaves. The figure of speech is

[1] Simile

[2] Metaphor

[3] Onomatopoeia

[4] Hyperbole

Answer: Onomatopoeia

Q.13) On fame! __if I e’er took delight in thy praises. The figure of speech is

[1] Personification

[2] Apostrophe

[3] Onomatopoeia

[4] Metaphor

Answer: Apostrophe

Q.14) Which of the following plays is not by Shakespeare?

[1] Much ado about nothing

[2] Edward II

[3] A midsummer night’s dream

[4] King henry IV

Answer: Edward II

Q.15) ‘Cambridge school’ refers to

[1] A group of early twentieth century poets

[2] A group of early twentieth century novelists

[3] A group of early twentieth century dramatists

[4] A group of early twentieth century critics

Answer: A group of early twentieth century critics

Q.16) ‘Catharsis’

[1] Is related to tragedy

[2] Is related to comedy

[3] Is related to sonnettering

[4] Is related to farce

Answer: Is related to tragedy

Q.17) ‘Chorus’

[1] Is a brand of writing inks

[2] Is a group of singers in drama

[3] Is a group of beautiful actresses

[4] Is a group of D.J. dancers

Answer: Is a group of singers in drama

Q.18) ‘Comic relief’ implies

[1] The interval in a play or film

[2] A hilarious tragedy

[3] A short humorous episode, interrupting a tragedy

[4] The effect of catharsis

Answer: A short humorous episode, interrupting a tragedy

Q.19) Morality plays were

[1] Produced in the 15th and 16th centuries

[2] Produced in the 17th century

[3] Produced in the 18th century

[4] Produced in the 19th century

Answer: Produced in the 15th and 16th centuries

Q.20) Name of the figure of speech in the following line: Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate.

[1] Metaphor

[2] Simile

[3] Apostrophe

[4] Oxymoron

Answer: Oxymoron

Q.21) ‘Parable’ is

[1] A poem in paragraphs

[2] A book in an epic

[3] A brief tale illustrating some moral

[4] A cure of paralysis

Answer: A brief tale illustrating some moral

Q.22) They are pulling down the old theatre.

[1] The old theatre is being pulled down.

[2] The old theatre is being pulled down by them.

[3] The old theatre is pulling down.

[4] The old theatre has been pulling down.

Answer: The old theatre is being pulled down

Q.23) The organizers will exhibit the paintings till the end of the month.

[1] The paintings will be exhibiting by the organizers till the end of the month

[2] The paintings will be presented in an exhibition till the end of the month.

[3] An exhibition of the paintings will be held till the end of the month.

[4] The paintings will be exhibited by the organizers till the end of the month.

Answer: The paintings will be exhibited by the organizers till the end of the month

Q.24) He expected us to offer him the job.

[1] A job was expected by us to be offered him.

[2] He expected to be offered a job.

[3] An offer of a job by us was expected by him.

[4] An offer of a job was being expected by him.

Answer: He expected to be offered a job

Q.25) The P.M. was to have opened the dry dock.

[1] The dry dock was to have been opened by the P.M.

[2] It was expected that the P.M. would open the dry dock.

[3] The opening of the dry dock was to be done by the P.M.

[4] The P.M. was scheduled to open the dry dock.

Answer: The dry dock was to have been opened by the P.M

Q.26) An uneasy silence succeeded the shot.

[1] The shot was successful after an uneasy silence.

[2] The shot was succeeded by an uneasy silence.

[3] The shot was succeeded by an uneasy silence among them.

[4] There was an uneasy silence after the shot had been fired.

Answer: The shot was succeeded by an uneasy silence

Q.27) He was made to surrender his passport.

[1] I made him to surrender his passport.

[2] The authorities made him to surrender his passport.

[3] They made him surrender his passport.

[4] We made him to surrender his passport.

Answer: The authorities made him to surrender his passport

Q.28) Speak clearly if you would be understood

[1] Speak clearly if you would be understood.

[2] Speak clearly, if you would be understood.

[3] Speak clearly, if you would be understood.

[4] Speak clearly, if you would be understood.

Answer: Speak clearly, if you would be understood

Q.29) Wealth may seek us but wisdom must be sought

[1] Wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

[2] Wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

[3] Wealth may seek us. But wisdom must be sought.

[4] Wealth may seek us but wisdom must be sought.

Answer: Wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought

Q.30) Perhaps cried he there may be such monsters as you describe

[1] “Perhaps” cried he, “there may be such monsters as you describe.”

[2] “Perhaps” cried he, “There may be such monsters as you describe.”

[3] “Perhaps,” cried he, “there may be such monsters as you describe!”

[4] “Perhaps,” cried he, “there may be such monsters as you describe.”

Answer: “Perhaps,” cried he, “there may be such monsters as you describe!”

Q.31) There is a slavery that no legislation can abolish the slavery of caste.

[1] There is a slavery that no legislation can abolish: The slavery of caste.

[2] There is a slavery that no legislation can abolish: The slavery of caste.

[3] There is a slavery, that no legislation can abolish, the slavery of caste.

[4] There is a slavery that no legislation can abolish, The slavery of caste.

Answer: There is a slavery that no legislation can abolish: The slavery of caste

Q.32) ‘Import’ here means

[1] To bring from abroad

[2] That which is brought from abroad

[3] Importance

[4] To be of consequence to

Answer: Importance

Q.33) ‘So long as soul and body are together’ means

[1] So long as we are alive

[2] So long as we able to meet our expenses

[3] So long as we keep ourselves away from religious disputes

[4] So long as we do not support the fight for freedom.

Answer: So long as we are alive

Q.34) Deliverance implies

[1] The release of the soul from the body.

[2] Freedom from the British domination.

[3] The author’s release from the jail.

[4] Authoritative opinion.

Answer: Freedom from the British domination

Q.35) People hide their own sentiments before an important person

[1] Because they are afraid of him.

[2] Because they do not want to let him know the real position.

[3] Because they are secretive by nature.

[4] Because they want to flatter and please him.

Answer: Because they want to flatter and please him

Q.36) Which is the most truthful dharma?

[1] That which encourages violence

[2] That which discourages violence

[3] That which has nothing to do with non-violence

[4] That which is amoral.

Answer: That which discourages violence

Q.37) Whales are

[1] The largest animals ever existing in the world

[2] The largest animals living on land at present

[3] The largest animals now living in the world

[4] The largest animals living in the Caspian sea.

Answer: The largest animals living on land at present

Q.38) Vegetable oil

[1] Was not known to people in ancient times.

[2] Was well known to people long ago.

[3] Was known only in ancient times.

[4] Is known only to old people.

Answer: Was well known to people long ago

Q.39) The term ‘mineral oil’ refers here to

[1] The oil from which petrol is made

[2] Petrol only

[3] Diesel only

[4] Any oil that burns brightly.

Answer: Any oil that burns brightly

Q.40) Oil-burning lamps

[1] Are in use in more and more homes these days

[2] Are not very much in use now

[3] Burn more brightly than any other type of lamps

[4] Are used by a large number of people, although, not so many as previously.

Answer: Are used by a large number of people, although, not so many as previously

Q.41) The purpose of lubrication is

[1] Production

[2] Reduction of heat and friction

[3] To reach all parts of a machine

[4] Production of the oil having the right thickness.

Answer: Reduction of heat and friction

Q.42) Mineral oil became very important only when

[1] Engineers invented the internal combustion engine.

[2] Scientists in Pennsylvania developed oil wells.

[3] Lubricating oil were made from it.

[4] American Indians promoted its use.

Answer: Engineers invented the internal combustion engine

Q.43) Scientists are of the opinion

[1] Coal was formed from shale lying under the surface of the earth

[2] Large deposits of mud on the sea bed went to form oil

[3] The sea creatures caught between layers of rock went to form oil

[4] Oil was formed from sea water when it was added by the process of chemistry, pressure and temperature.

Answer: The sea creatures caught between layers of rock went to form oil

Q.44) The author opines that where there is shale, there is likely to be oil because

[1] Oil was first formed under the sea

[2] Shale is a sedimentary rock

[3] Oil was made from shale

[4] Shale is a sort of oil

Answer: Shale is a sedimentary rock

Q.45) The oil drill

[1] Should invariably go at least a mile into the earth

[2] Cannot go more than a mile into the earth

[3] Often goes about a mile into the earth

[4] Occasionally goes more than a mile into the earth.

Answer: Occasionally goes more than a mile into the earth

Q.46) The cost of unsuccessful drilling

[1] Is borne by the driller

[2] Is borne by the refineries

[3] Is borne by the government

[4] Is Borne by the consumer of petrol or other petroleum products.

Answer: Is Borne by the consumer of petrol or other petroleum products

Q.47) ‘Sartor Resartus’ is a thought-provoking work of

[1] Carlyle

[2] William Morris

[3] Ruskin

[4] Losen

Answer: Carlyle

Q.48) In the year 1637 Milton confided to his friend that he had fixed his mind upon writing some monumental poetical work. Select among the following, the name of his friend to whom this information was given:

[1] Richard Powell

[2] Edward king

[3] Henry Lawes

[4] Diodati

Answer: Diodati

Q.49) ‘As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, they kill us for sport’

[1] Julius Caesar

[2] Macbeth

[3] Hamlet

[4] King Lear

Answer: King Lear

Q.50) The woman character Delilah appears in

[1] Dr. Faustus

[2] Samson agonistes’

[3] Twelfth night

[4] Macbeth

Answer: Samson agonistes’

Q.51) Galsworthy was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in

[1] 1931

[2] 1929

[3] 1930

[4] 1932

Answer: 1932

Q.52) ‘Will no one tell me what she sings, perhaps the plaintive numbers flow, For old unhappy far-off things, and battle long ago.’ The above lines occurs in

[1] The solitary reaper

[2] Three years she grew

[3] Michael

[4] An evening walk

Answer: The solitary reaper

Q.53) Death of a salesman is written by

[1] Faulkner

[2] Arthur miller

[3] O’Neill

[4] Hemingway

Answer: Arthur miller

Q.54) Who made the following remark about Milton? “Milton was of the devil’s party without knowing it”

[1] Tilliard

[2] Coleridge

[3] Blake

[4] Christopher hill

Answer: Blake

Q.55) ‘The sounding cataract haunted me like passion’ these lines occur in the poem

[1] Resolution and independence

[2] The tables turned

[3] The river dudden

[4] Tintern abbey

Answer: Tintern abbey

Q.56) Find out the figure of speech in the following line: “The waves thundred on the shore.”

[1] Personification

[2] Onomatopoeia

[3] Hyperbole

[4] Metaphor

Answer: Onomatopoeia

Q.57) Tick the correct expressions

[1] I am fed with you

[2] I am fed up with you

[3] I am fed of you

[4] I am fed of with you

Answer: I am fed up with you

Q.58) Tick the correct expressions

[1] Look before you do

[2] Look before you work

[3] Look before you leap

[4] Look first and then leap

Answer: Look before you leap

Q.59) Who wrote the following lines? Fresh spring and summer and winter hoar, move my faint heart with grief.

[1] Keats

[2] Shelley

[3] Southey

[4] Coleridge

Answer: Shelley

Q.60) The author of ‘Nightingales’ is

[1] Robert frost

[2] Rupert Brooke

[3] Robert bridges

[4] John Keats

Answer: Robert bridges

Q.61) Of which poem is the following line a part? For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn.

[1] Lycidas

[2] The scholar gipay

[3] Gray’s elegy

[4] In memoriam

Answer: Gray’s elegy

Q.62) “The alchemist” is a

[1] Novel

[2] Comedy

[3] Book on chemistry

[4] None of these

Answer: None of these

Q.63) An alexandrine is a verse line in

[1] An iambic hexameter

[2] An iambic pentameter

[3] A dactylic tetrameter

[4] A trochaic hexameter

Answer: An iambic hexameter

Q.64) W.H. Auden belonged to the

[1] Present century

[2] Nineteenth century

[3] Eighteenth century

[4] Twentieth century

Answer: Twentieth century

Q.65) For the last thirty years of his life Thomas hardy did not write

[1] Short stories

[2] Novels

[3] Poems

[4] Plays

Answer: Novels

Q.66) Robert browning’s poetry is

[1] Optimistic

[2] Pessimistic

[3] Melioristic

[4] Neither optimistic nor pessimistic

Answer: Optimistic

Q.67) Milton was

[1] An Elizabethan poet

[2] A belated Elizabethan poet

[3] A Jacobean poet

[4] A classical poet

Answer: A belated Elizabethan poet

Q.68) Dryden as a critic was

[1] A blind supporter of Aristotle

[2] An opponent of the critical theories of Aristotle

[3] Unaware of the critical theories of Aristotle

[4] A rational follower of the critical theories of Aristotle

Answer: A rational follower of the critical theories of Aristotle

Q.69) Read each of the following sentences to trace the parts which are incorrect grammatically. The alphabet of the part is to be mentioned as the answer:

[1] The director

[2] Failed in films after film

[3] Which he directed

[4] No error

Answer: Failed in films after film

Q.70) Read each of the following sentences to trace the parts which are incorrect grammatically. The alphabet of the part is to be mentioned as the answer:

[1] No sooner had

[2] The doctor enter the hospital

[3] Than it began to rain.

[4] No error.

Answer: The doctor enter the hospital

Q.71) Read each of the following sentences to trace the parts which are incorrect grammatically. The alphabet of the part is to be mentioned as the answer:

[1] Had he reached the station

[2] A few minutes earlier

[3] He had caught the train

[4] No error.

Answer: He had caught the train

Q.72) Read each of the following sentences to trace the parts which are incorrect grammatically. The alphabet of the part is to be mentioned as the answer:

[1] He committed suicide twice

[2] Before he died

[3] And left the members of his family crying.

[4] No error

Answer: He committed suicide twice

Q.73) Read each of the following sentences to trace the parts which are incorrect grammatically. The alphabet of the part is to be mentioned as the answer:

[1] We congratulated him

[2] For winning a scholarship

[3] And being awarded the governor’s medal

[4] No error

Answer: No error

Q.74) Read each of the following sentences to trace the parts which are incorrect grammatically. The alphabet of the part is to be mentioned as the answer:

[1] The furniture’s purchased by me

[2] Is sub-standard

[3] And not fit for my drawing room

[4] No error

Answer: The furniture’s purchased by me

Q.75) Portia is the heroine of the play

[1] Hamlet

[2] The merry wives of Windsor

[3] The tempest

[4] The merchant of Venice

Answer: The merchant of Venice

Q.76) The lines, “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety,” occur in

[1] All for love

[2] Hamlet

[3] Antony and cleopatra

[4] As you like it

Answer: Antony and cleopatra

Q.77) The lines “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heaven”

[1] Lycins

[2] Paradise regained

[3] Comic

[4] Paradise Lost

Answer: Paradise Lost

Q.78) The lines “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven” occur in the poem of

[1] William Wordsworth

[2] William Shakespeare

[3] John Milton

[4] Christopher Marlowe

Answer: William Wordsworth

Q.79) “Loyalties crisscross each other” is a dialogue in a play by

[1] Shakespeare

[2] Galsworthy

[3] Milton

[4] Shaw

Answer: Galsworthy

Q.80) The author of “Samson agonistes” was

[1] John Fletcher

[2] John Webster

[3] John Milton

[4] Ben Jonson

Answer: John Milton

Q.81) Who of the following poets belongs to the fleshly school of poetry

[1] Edmund Spenser

[2] John Keats

[3] J.S. Eliot

[4] D.G. Rossetti

Answer: D.G. Rossetti

Q.82) E.M. Forster belonged to

[1] The fleshly school of poetry

[2] The Georgians

[3] The Bloomsbury group

[4] The age of interrogation

Answer: The Bloomsbury group

Q.83) Beat writers

[1] Wrote in the 1950’s

[2] Wrote in the 1940’s

[3] Wrote in the 1960’s

[4] Wrote in the 1980’s

Answer: Wrote in the 1950’s

Q.84) ‘Bucolic’ refers to

[1] The poets who wrote in praise of wine

[2] The poets who wrote pastoral poetry

[3] The poets who imitated pope.

[4] The poets who initiated Wordsworth

Answer: The poets who wrote pastoral poetry

Q.85) I don’t understand; what you are getting……

[1] On

[2] In

[3] At

[4] With

Answer: On

Q.86) He shook me……the hand and helped me off with my coat.

[1] On

[2] By

[3] With

[4] Off

Answer: By

Q.87) She is going to have another blouse made to go with her customer, as her old one is quite worn……

[1] To

[2] Of

[3] Out

[4] Within

Answer: Out

Q.88) We set…….as soon as the old man pointed out the way to us.

[1] Of

[2] Off

[3] Towards

[4] For

Answer: Off

Q.89) You must account to the manager……the money you used.

[1] Of

[2] With

[3] About

[4] For

Answer: For

Q.90) The police accused the young man……..murder.

[1] Of

[2] About

[3] For

[4] Amid

Answer: Of

Q.91) The kidnappers said, “If you do not pay the ransom, we’ll kill the boy.”

[1] The kidnappers threatened to kill the boy if they did not pay the ransom.

[2] The kidnappers said that if they paid not the ransom, they will kill the boy.

[3] The kidnappers said to them that if you do not pay the ransom, we shall kill the boy.

[4] The kidnappers threatened that if the parents of the boy did not pay the ransom, the boy will be killed.

Answer: The kidnappers threatened to kill the boy if they did not pay the ransom

Q.92) “ugh! There’s a slug in my lettuce. Waiter!” he cried.

[1] He said ugh that there was a slug in his lettuce and asked the waiter to come.

[2] He exclaimed with disgust that there was a slug in his lettuce and called the waiter.

[3] He said to the waiter that ugh there was a slug in his lettuce.

[4] He asked the waiter that there was a slug in his lettuce.

Answer: He exclaimed with disgust that there was a slug in his lettuce and called the waiter

Q.93) “I hope you’ll have a good journey, “I said. I also said, “good bye”.

[1] I bade him good bye and hoped that he would have a good journey.

[2] I said that I hoped with good bye that he will have a good journey.

[3] I was hopeful that he will have a good journey and bade him good bye.

[4] I said him good bye and wished him a good journey.

Answer: I bade him good bye and hoped that he would have a good journey

Q.94 “You used to be good at grammer,” said I. “why have you neglected it?”

[1] I said that he used to be good at grammer and said why he had neglected it.

[2] I said to him that he had been good at grammer and wanted to know why he had neglected it.

[3] I reminded him that he used to be good at grammer and asked why he had neglected it.

[4] I asked him that why had he neglected grammer when he used to be good at it.

Answer: I said to him that he had been good at grammer and wanted to know why he had neglected it.

Q.95) I invited Rama to come for a drive the following day.

[1] I said to Rama, “will you come for a drive the following day?”

[2] I said to Rama, “will you come for a drive the following next day?”

[3] I put a question to Rama, “will you come for a drive the day following?”

[4] I said, “Rama, would you like to come for a drive tomorrow?”

Answer: I said to Rama, “will you come for a drive the following next day?”

Q.96) “Allusion”

[1] Is another spelling of illusion

[2] Is a grammatical device

[3] Is an indirect or passing reference to an event, person, place or artistic work

[4] Is a dramatic device

Answer: Is an indirect or passing reference to an event, person, place or artistic work

Q.97) Who is known as “the poet’s poet”?

[1] John Milton

[2] John Dryden

[3] Edmund Spenser

[4] T.S. Eliot

Answer: Edmund Spenser

Q.98) ‘Because he possesses my esteem’ means

[1] I hate him

[2] I have great regard for him

[3] He occupies my room unlawfully

[4] He does not like me

Answer: I have great regard for him

Q.99) ‘Humorist’ has been used for

[1] One who loves creating humour

[2] One who writes comedies of humours

[3] One who is capricious

[4] One who loves humorous people

Answer: One who is capricious

Q.100) ‘Parsimony’ refers to

[1] The money that Parsees use for donation

[2] Avoidance of excess

[3] The quality of being a spendthrift

[4] The money that does not belong to the user

Answer: The quality of being a spendthrift

Q.101) ‘Glowing with compassion’ implies

[1] Full of pity

[2] Red with anger

[3] Blushing

[4] Shamefacedly

Answer: Full of pity

Q.102) ‘Reveals him’ means

[1] Exposes his shameful conduct

[2] Evidences his irritability

[3] Makes his latent goodness evident

[4] Manifests his attempt to hide his shameful conduct.

Answer: Makes his latent goodness evident

Q.103) Both

[1] Ram and Shyam

[2] Were not present

[3] In the classroom

[4] No error

Answer: No error

Q.104) It is

[1] Really strange

[2] That he has not

[3] Replied my letter

[4] No error

Answer: Replied my letter

Q.105) Many

[1] Things

[2] Have happened since

[3] I have left the school

[4] No error

Answer: I have left the school

Q.106) He

[1] Told me

[2] That he is not

[3] Interested in games and sports

[4] No error

Answer: That he is not

Q.107) Rewrite the following sentence using ‘too’: he was so excited that he could not think.

[1] He was too excited and so he could not think.

[2] He was very too excited to think.

[3] He was too excited to think.

[4] He was much too excited to think.

Answer: He was too excited to think

Q.108) Tick the correctly punctuated sentence:

[1] They invoked gods who blessed them.

[2] They invoked gods who blessed them.

[3] They invoked gods who blessed them.

[4] They invoked gods who blessed them?

Answer: They invoked gods who blessed them

Q.109) Tick the correctly punctuated sentence.

[1] The ganga rises from the Himalayas.

[2] The ganga rises from the Himalayas.

[3] The ganga rises from the Himalayas.

[4] The ganga rises from the Himalayas.

Answer: The ganga rises from the Himalayas

Q.110) Othello killed Desdemona out of

[1] Anger

[2] Hatred

[3] Love

[4] Ignorance

Answer: Ignorance

Q.111) Shakespeare wrote:

[1] Romantic comedies

[2] Comedies of humours

[3] Comedies of manners

[4] Sentimental comedies

Answer: Romantic comedies

Q.112) ‘The wisest, the brightest and the meanest’ is said of

[1] Defoe

[2] Bacon

[3] Milton

[4] Dryden

Answer: Bacon

Q.113) Complete the following sentence by selecting the correct option:

Shakespeare was born at…..

[1] Stratford-at-Avon

[2] Stratford-upon-Avon

[3] Stratford-in-Avon

[4] Stratford-on-Avon

Answer: Stratford-upon-Avon

Q.114) ‘Our bodies are our gardents, to which our wills are gardeners.’

The above words form the speech of

[1] Hamlet

[2] Lago

[3] Viola

[4] Brutus

Answer: Lago

Q.115) Robert Southey was succeeded by…… as the poet laureate of England.

[1] Tennyson

[2] Arnold

[3] Wordsworth

[4] Shelley

Answer: Wordsworth

Q.116) ‘Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky-like a patient etherized upon a table The above lines have been written in

[1] Unrhymed verse

[2] Blank verse

[3] Free verse

[4] Lambic meter

Answer: Free verse

Q.117) The beginning of the modern realistic drama in England took place with the writing of caste, a play written by

[1] Pinero

[2] Arthur jones

[3] Roberston

[4] Ibsen

Answer: Roberston

Q.118) In which Charles Dickens’s novel we come across a character called Mr. Micawber?

[1] A tale of two cities

[2] David Copperfield

[3] Great expectations

[4] Oliver twist

Answer: David Copperfield

Q.119) To use another person’s thoughts, writings as one’s own is called

[1] Plagiarism

[2] Pantheism

[3] Syllogism

[4] Parody

Answer: Plagiarism

Q.120) ‘Willing suspension of disbelief’ is a phrase coined by

[1] Dryden

[2] Coleridge

[3] T.S. Eliot

[4] Arnold

Answer: Coleridge

Q.121) The Chaucerian stanza or rhyme royal comprises

[1] 7lines

[2] 8lines

[3] 9lines

[4] 4lines

Answer: 7lines

Q.122) ‘The little man’ written by Galsworthy is a/an

[1] Poem

[2] Novel

[3] Play

[4] One act play

Answer: One act play

Q.123) ‘A sudden and ridiculous descent from the exalted to the common-place and ordinary, especially when a writer, striving for the noble or pathetic, achieves the ludicrous’ is best expressed by the term

[1] The comic relief

[2] Bathos

[3] Melodrama

[4] Paradox

Answer: Bathos

Q.124) Who among the following, was the first poet laureate officially appointed by the British sovereign?

[1] Ben Jonson

[2] Robert Southey

[3] Dryden

[4] Wordsworth

Answer: Dryden

Q.125) The phrase ‘objective co-relative’ has been coined by

[1] Ezra pound

[2] Walt Whitman

[3] T.S. Eliot

[4] I.A. Richards

Answer: T.S. Eliot