1. “Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”-These are famous lines from____________.
- "A Bishop Orders His Tomb"
- "The Last Ride Together"
- "Prospice"
- "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister"
2. “I was ever a fighter, so-one fight more, the best and the last” In which poem do you find these lines?
- "A Bishop Orders His Tomb"
- "The Last Ride Together”
- "Prospice"
- "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister"
3. The long poem “Bishop Blougram’s Apology” by Robert Browning is a_____________.
- meditation on death and life
- meditation on art and life
- satire on Judaism
- satire on the Roman Catholic church
4. Who wrote the poem “Lochinvar”?
- Walter Scott
- Lord Byron
- Alfred Noyes
- Tennyson
5. Which of the following poets wrote Lays of Ancient Rome?
- Walter Scott
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Alfred Tennyson
- S.T. Coleridge
6. Empedocles on Etna and Merope by Matthew Arnold are_____________.
- epic poems
- poetic plays
- narrative poems
- dramatic monologues
7. William Morris’ The Earthly Paradise is a collection of 24 tales modelled on __________.
- Aesop's Fables
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Boccaccio's Decameron
- Milton's Paradise Lost
8. Who wrote the novel The Tragic Comedians?
- George Meredith
- Sinclair Lewis
- A. J. Cronin
- C. P. Snow
9. Which of the following is written by George Eliot?
- The Egoist
- Impressions of Theophrastus Such
- The Roundabout Papers
- Alton Locke
10. Arrange the following chronologically:
- Desperate Remedies, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D'urbervilles, Jude the Obscure
- The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D'urbervilles, Desperate Remedies, Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure
- Desperate Remedies, Tess of the D'urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude the Obscure
- Desperate Remedies, Tess of the D'urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude the Obscure, Far from the Madding Crowd
11. The popular story “The Canterville Ghost” is written by ___________.
- Somerset Maugham
- Saki
- Oscar Wilde
- O. Henry
12. Who wrote this: “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing”?
- Bernard Shaw
- Bertrand Russell
- Oscar Wilde
- Thomas Carlyle
13. What was the period of “Boer War?
- 1840-43
- 1864-66
- 1886-89
- 1899-1902
14. Charles Surface figures in______________.
- She Stoops to Conquer
- The Good Natur’d Man
- The School for Scandal
- The Rivals
15. Matthew Arnold was associated with the Univesity of_______________.
- Cambridge
- Oxford
- Wales
- Bristol
16. What are the two colors symbolically employed throughout the novel, Tess of D’Urbervilles ?
- Black and Red
- White and Red
- Green and Red
- White and Green
17. What is the Sub-Title of Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles?
- Virtue Rewarded
- Mistakes of a Night
- A Pure Woman
- A Tragi-comedy
18. Maggie Tulliver is the central character in
- Mill on the Floss
- Pride and Prejudice
- Wuthering Heights
- Far from the Madding Crowd
19. _______________ is the pen name of Mary Ann Evans
- Charlotte Bronte
- O. Henry
- Virginia Woolf
- George Eliot
20. Wessex is associated with the novels by
- George Eliot
- Thomas Hardy
- Charles Dickens
- D.H. Lawrence
21. Which of Dickens’s characters dared to ask for more?
- Dombey
- Chockumchild
- Oliver Twist
- David Copperfiled
22. ________________ is the narrator in Wuthering Heights
- Health cliff
- Lockwood
- Nelly Dean
- Linton
23. What is the sub-title of Hopkins’s poem, “The Windhover” ?
- To Christ Our Lord
- God's Grandeur
- To Christ
- The Inscape of a Bird
24. The character Pip is the protagonist of Dickens’s
- Great Expectations
- David Copperfield
- Nicholas Nickleby
- Pickwick Papers
25. Culture and Anarchy is a prose work by
- T.S. Eliot
- Ezra Pound
- Matthew Arnold
- I.A. Richards