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4. Who lets Macduff and Lennox into Macbeth s castle n Act II Scene III?I) Donalbain 2) Banquo 3) Porter 4) Malcobn

5. Who among the following did not employ the Epistolary form of the novel?I) Samuel Richardson 2) Smollett3) Charles Dickens 4) F. Burney

6. Who succeeded Dryden as poet laureate in 1689?I) Shadwell 2) Nahum Tate 3) Nicholas Rowe 4) Eusden

7. T. S. Eliot called his five Christmas poemsI) . Religious poems 2) Serious poems3) Secular poems 4) Ariel poems

8. Identify the tragedy which is described by Dr. Johnson as rather a poem in dialoguethan a dramaI) Macbeth3) All s Lost by Lust

2) ato4) Hamlet

9. In how many stanzaic movements is Shelley s Ode to the est tnd composed?I) Two 2) Three 3) Five 4) Six

10. Which of the following is known. as epic of the mind ?I) Don uan 2) The Ring and the Book3) The relude 4) aradise Lost

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11 In Dryden's essay Of Dramatic Poesy Neander refers to1) Charles Sackvil1e3) Sir Robert Howard

2) Sir Charles Sedley4) John Dryden hiroself

12 Who coined the phrase 'negative capability'?1) Keats 2) Wordsworth 3) Coleridge 4) T. S Eliot

13 Which of the following is a voiced consonant phoneme n English?1) Ik I 2) dl 3) Ipi 4) hl

14 How many syllables does the word 'etiquette' contain?1) Three 2) Four 3) Five 4) Six

15 Identify the literary critic who made the following statement :The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

1) Arnold 2) Wordsworth 3) Coleridge 4) T S Eliot16 Which of the following essays is not included n The Sacred Wood by T S. Eliot?

1) The Function of riticism 2) The Perfect ritic3) Tradition nd the Individual Talent 4) Hamlet nd His roblems

17 Matthew Arnold's ssays in Criticism (Second Series) was published n the year1) 1865 2) 1881 3) 1888 4) 1872

18 Milton's ycidas is written on the death of1) Edward King 2) King Edward 3) Chaucer 4) Sidney

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19. Spenser's The Faerie Queene has1) five books 2) six books 3) seven books 4) eight books

20. Who said, Keats was Greek ?I) P. B. Shelley 2) A. L. Tennyson 3) Wordsworth 4) Browning

21. Identify the metrical foot that has two stressed syllables followed by an unstressed oneI) Anapaest 2) Spondee 3) Trochee 4) Dactyl

22. Identify the work which did not use Spenserian stanzaI) hild Harold s Pilgrimage 2) Adonais3) The Eve o f St. Agnes 4) he Rape o f the Lock

23. In Dryden's bsalom and AChitophel Charles is represented under biblical name asI) Zimri 2) David 3) Absalom 4) Achitophel

24. Who among the following is not attacked by Jeremy Collier?I) Congreve 2) Dryden 3) Steele 4) Vanbrugh

25. Who, among the following, is not a 'cavalier poet ?I) Suckling 2) Lovelace 3) Johnson 4) Carew

26. What is the sub-title of She Stoops to Conquer?1) he Mistaken Identity 2) he Mistakes of a Night3) The Mistakes o f a Day 4) He Who commits a Mistake

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27. Which of the following is true about verb patterns as given by Hornby in his book Guideto Patterns and Usage n English1) Patterns 1 5 are of verbs used intransitively2) Patterns 1 8 are of verbs used intransitively3) Patterns 6 21 are of verbs used intransitively4) Patterns 4 25 are of verbs used intransitively

28. Which of the following is the last of Anthony Trollope s Palliser Novels?1) Can You Forgive Her3) The Eustace iamonds

2) The Prime Minister4) The Duke s Children

29. The Oxford Movement isI) a 17th Century Religious Movement2) an 18th Century Religious Movement3) a 19th Century Religious Movement4) a 20th Century Modernist Movement

30. Which of the following is not an example of a Revenge Tragedy?I) The SpWlish Tragedy3) Hamlet

2) The ew of alta4) The Malcontent

31. Samuel Butler s Hudibras is composed inI) two parts 2) three parts

32. Rhyme Royal is a stanza form of(I) seven decasyllabic lines3) eight decasyllabic lines

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3) four parts 4) five parts

2) six decasyllabic lines4) five decasyllabic lines

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33 Tennyson s poem Tithonus relates to the old(I) Roman legend3) Chinese legend

2) Greek legend4) English legend

34 According to Wordsworth poem TintemAbbey he had previously visited the Wye Valleyin the year(I) 1798 2) 1793 3) 1795 4) 1797

35. Hardy s Far rom the Madding rowd was frrst published serially in(I) the London Magazine3) the Comhill Magazine

2) Blackwood s Magazine4) Harper s New Monthly Magazine

36 Steele edited The Tatler under the pseudonym of(I) Rickword3) Issac Bickerstaff

2) Sir Roger de Coverley4) Pinero

37 Which of the following is a one-act play?(I) Candida 2) Emperor Jones3) Look Back in nger 4) Riders to the Sea

38 What is the name of Willy Loman s wife n Death o a alesman ?1) Anna Howe 2) Nerissa 3) Linda 4) Sophia Lee

39 Which of the following is a poem n six cantos?1) The Lay of the ast Ministrel 2) Paradise Last3) The Waste Land 4) Paradise Regained

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40. Who, among the following. was not a member of Scriblerus Club?1) Milton3) Jonathan Swift

2) Alexander Pope4) T. Parnell

41. In Keats s Ode to a Nightingale Flora refers to(I) the Greek God of Wine 2) the Roman Goddes of Flowers3) the Greek God of Universe 4) the Roman Goddess of Beauty

42. In W. B. Yeats s poem Easter 1916, This other man refers to1) Thomas MacDonagh3) John MacBride

2) Patrick Pearse4) Cannolly

43 The epigraph of The Love Song of J. lfred Prufroc c is n1) German 2) French 3) English

44. In Tagore s The Post Office. Sudha is aI) teacher 2) politician3) housewife 4) little flower girl

4) Italian

45. In The Mayor o Casterbridge Henchard swears an oath to abstain from alcohol for1) 21 years 2) 25 years 3) 10 years 4) 12 years

46. Shakespeare s Second Folio was issued in the year1) 1623 2) 1626 3) 1629 4) 1632

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47 Which of the following is not a design feature of human communication?i) Duality 2) Arbitrariness 3) Dispiacement 4) Unproductivity

48 How many morphemes does the word geese represent?i) One 2) Two 3) Three 4) Four

49 Which of the following is an example of inflectional morpheme?i) Happiness 2) Cioudy 3) ooked 4) Establishment

50 Which of the following words does not contain a diphthong?i) Ahead 2) Cow 3) Tabie 4) No

51 Identify the character who is a supporter of Women s Rights in Sons and Loversi) Mrs. Morel 2) Ciara Dawes 3) Annie 4) Miriam

52 Which of the following is the frrst novel of D. H Lawrence?i) The Tresspasser 2) The White Peacock3) Sons nd Lovers 4) Women in Love

53 Which of the following poems of Coleridge is an example of a ballad?i) ubla Khan 2) rost at Midnight3) Youth nd ge 4) The Rime of the ncient Mariner

54 Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphleti) Charies Lamb 2) Coieridge 3) P. B. Shelley 4) Hazlitt

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55 Keats s Endymion is dedicated to1) Leigh Hunt 2) Thomas Chatterton3) Shakespeare 4) Milton

56 Who, among the following, was not educated at Christ s Hospital School, London?1) William Wordsworth 2) Leigh Hunt3) Charles amb 4) S T Coleridge

57 Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the jCockney School of Poetry ?1) Tennyson 2) Lockhart 3) Charles amb 4) T S Eliot

58 Carlyle s work On Heroes Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History is a course of(I) five lectures 2) six lectures 3) three lectures 4) seven lectures

59 Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artistespecially Turner1) The Stones of Venice 2) The Two Paths3) The Seven amps of rchitecture 4) odem Painters

60 In intem bbey dearest friend refers to1) Nature 2) Wye 3) Dorothy 4) Coleridge

61 Identify the writer who used a pseudonym Michael Angelo Titmarsh for much of hisearly work1) Charles Dickens3) W. M. Thackeray

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2) D H Lawrence4) Thomas Hardy

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68 Fled is that music : Do I wake or sleep?

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1) Ode t a Nightingale3) Tithonus

2) The Second Coming4) Three Years She Grew

There's hardly a moment when I m not watching and wanting you.1) Death of a Salesman 2) Look Back in nger3) Candida 4) Macbeth

.. I am here to fmd my way in it.1) Tintem bbey 2) Dejection Near Naples3) Island 4) My Last Duchess

71 Histories make men wisej poets witty;1) Of Studies 2) Walking Tours3) Imperfect Sympathies 4) On Not Being a Philosopher

72 But the tender grace of a day that is deadWill Never come back to me.1) Lycidas3) The Purdah Nashin

2) Ode t the West Wind4) Break, Break, Break

73 II There's no artTo find the mind's construction n the face.1) The Loue Song of J lfred Prufrock 2) Macbeth3) Of Ambition 4) Look Back in nger

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74. It is impossible to take a walk n the country wit an average township-1) Walking Taurs3) An Apology for Idlers

2) The Plea sures of Ignorance4) Sunday in the Country

75. He is the son of a man who was a brother to my wife by village ties.1) The Emperor Jones 2) eath o a Salesman3) The Post Office 4) Ca ndida

76 Earth's the right place for love :I don't know where it's likely to go better.1) Birches 2) Village Song3) The Love Song o f J Alfred Prufrock 4) My Lost Duchess

77. The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, n ahuman figure.1) Ladies Head-Dress 2) An Apology for Idlers3) Of Ambition 4) Poor Relations

78. A heavy weight of hours has chained, and bowedOne too like thee: tame1ess, and swift, and proud.1) The Second Coming3) Tintem Abbey

2) Night o f the Scorpion4) Ode to the West Wind

79. Where is the cattle which these people graze and where are the fields they plough,uncle?1) Oliver 1i.uist3) The uide

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2) The Mayor o f Ca sterbridge4) Coolie

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80. The atmosphere seemed tainted with the smell of coffms. The recess beneath thecounter in which his flock mattress was thrust looked like a grave.1) Sons and Lovers3) Oliver TWist

2) The Old Man and the Sea4) The Mayor of Casterbridge

Instructions : (Question No. 81 to 95 : A character is mentioned in each case. Identify theliterary work in which that character figures.81 Shylock

I) he Merchant of Venice3) Man and Superman

82 PeachumI) Macbeth3) The Beggar s Opera

83 NancyI) The Rape of the Lock3) Middlemarch

84 Amelia SedleyI) melia3) Moll Flanders

85 BliffI) Death of a Salesman3) Major arbara

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2) The Rivals4) She Stoops to Conquer

2) Loyalties4) Dr. austus

2) Oliver TWist4) Sons and Lovers

2) David Copperfield4) The Vanity Fair

2) The Old Man and the Sea4) The Mayor of Casterbridge

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86 Bathsheba EverdeneI) Tess 2) Far from the Madding Crowd3) Emperor Jones 4) Mrs Dallaway

87 BirkinI) Sons and Lovers 2) Women n Love3) The ainbow 4) Kangaroo

88 Mr MenI) The Guide 2) Great Expectations3) David Copperfield 4) Look Back in Anger

89 Daya RamI) oolie 2) The Guide3) Untouchable 4) The Post Office

90 MellefontI) he Way of the World 2) he Old Bachelor3) andida 4) he Double Dealer

91 AmbrosioI) he Portrait of a ady 2) Othello3) The White Devil 4) he Monk

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92 Leopold BloomI) Ulysses3) Hamlet

93 Harriet Smith1) Mrs. Dal/oway3) The Mill on the Floss

94 Sophia Western1) Murder in the Cathedral3) Tom Jones

95 MarchbanksI) Death of a Salesman3) The Mayor of Casterbridge

2) Look Back in Anger4) Sons nd Lovers

2) Lucky Jim4) Emma

2) Provok d Husband4) The Rape of the Lock

2) Candida4) Look Back in Anger

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Instructions : Question No 96 to 110) : Identify the authors of the works mentioned.96 omus

I) Shakespeare 2) Milton 3) Wordsworth 4) Tennyson97 artholomew Fair

I) Jonson 2) Sidney 3) Dryden 4) Johnson98 omen eware Women

I) Middleton 2) Webster 3) Sheridan 4) T. S. Eliot367) 15 P.T.O.)

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99 Jacob s Room1) Charles Dickens 2) Thomas Hardy3) James Joyce 4) Virginia Woolf

100 Robinson Crusoe1) Fielding 2) Meredith 3) Defoe 4) Conrad

101 The Old achelor1) Goldsmith 2) Hardy 3) Congreve 4) Dryden

102 The Sun lso Rises1) Arthur Miller 2) Hemingway 3) O Neill 4) Robert Frost

103 he achelor of rts1) R K. Narayan 2) M. R. Anand 3) Nissim Ezekiel 4) Raja Rao

104 World Within World1) Auden 2) Day Lewis 3) MacNeice 4) Spender

105 Flnnegans Wake1) James Joyce 2) E. M Forster 3) Jane Austen 4) J S. Mill

106 Peregrine Pickle1) Thackeray 2) Dickens 3) Smollet 4) Ruskin

107 Homage to Catalonia1) D. H. Lawrence 2) W. Godwin3) Johnson 4) Orwell

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108 The Countess CathleenI) T. S. Eliot 2) W. B. Yeats 3) Thomas Hood 4) John Osborne

109 The dylls of the KingI) Browning 2) Arnold 3) Tennyson (4) Wordsworth

110 An Ideal HusbandI) Oscar Wilde 2) O Neill 3) Aldous Huxley 4) Mark Twain

111. Identify the writer wit whom Malgudi is significantly associatedI) Raja Rao3) R. K. Narayan

2) Mulk Raj Anand4) Sarojini Naidu

112. Identify the writer with whom Wessex is significantly associatedI) George Eliot 2) George Meredith3) Charles Dickens 4) Thomas Hardy

113. In how many books is Swift s Gulliver s Travels divided?I) Two 2) Three 3) Four 4) Five

114. Which of the following novels by Greene is set in Haiti?1) The Power and the Glory 2) The Comedians3) The Honorary Consul 4) The Human Factor

115. Which of the following characters in Ben Jonson s The Alchemist is a tobacconist?1) Sir Epicure Mammon 2) Dapper3) Abel Drugger 4) Kastril

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116. This royal throne of kings this scept'red isle.This earth of majesty ...The above lines are an example of

I) anaphora 2) simile 3) oxymoron 4) personification

117. Which of the following novels by Jane Austen was published posthumously?I) Pride and Prejudice 2) Emma3) Mansfield Park 4) ersuasion

118. Ave atque Vale' is ajanI) elegy 2) sonnet 3) lyric 4) ballad

119. The tail-rhyme stanza features inI) Ode to the West Wind 2) To Night3) Ode to a Nightingale 4) The Second oming

120. Identify the novel by Anthony Trollope which was published in three volumesI) The Warden3) Ayala s Angel

121. Ballad metre is basicallyI) trochaic 2) iambic

2) archester Towers4) Doctor Thome

3) dactylic 4) spondee

122. Identify the writer who never went to school but was educated at homeI) Robert Graves 2) William Blake 3) S. T. Coleridge 4) A. L. Tennyson

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123. Which of the following poems does not use blank verse?I) Paradise ost 2) The Prelude3) dylls of the King 4) The Rape of the ock

124. What, according to Coleridge, is the 'esemplastic' power?1) Imagination 2) Metre 3) Stanza 4) Diction

125. Identify the literary critic who said that Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of allknowledgeI) Wordsworth 2) Arnold 3) T. S. Eliot 4) Dryden

126. Who felt proud to call himself a High German Transcendentalist'?1) Aristotle 2) Wordsworth 3) Coleridge 4) T. S. Eliot

127. Who defined poetry as 'criticism of life'?I) Dryden (2) Wordsworth 3) Keats 4) Arnold

128. Which of the following does not come under the category mown as 'obstruents'?1) losives 2) Fricatives 3) Approximants 4) Affricates

129. Which of the following is an RP fricative phoneme?1) m 2) I z I 3) Iwl 4) Ik I

130. Which of the following English words does not carry stress on the las't syllable?I) Police (2) Success 3) Parade 4) Pronoun

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131. A figure of speech which replaces the whole by the part, or vice versa is known as1) Synecdoche 2) Metonymy 3) Metaphor 4) Simile

132. Who defined satire as fa poem in which wickedness or folly is censured ?I) Alexander Pope 2) Samuel Johnson3) John Dryden 4) Jonathan Swift

133. Robert Frost's last poetic collection isI) Mountain Interval 2) Witness Tree3) In th learing 4) New Hampshire

134. Identify the poet who ended his poetic career with 'terrible' sonnets1) Shakespeare 2) Hopkins 3) Donne

135. The seven-foot iambic line is known as1) Tetrametre (2) Fourteener 3) Alexandrine

136. Identify the foot in the following line :And his cohorts were gleaming wit purple and gold.

I) Iamb 2) Trochee 3) Dactyl137. Byron's unfinished epic satire on Juan is in

(1) Spenserian Stanza3) Ballad

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2) Rhyme Royal4) Ottava Rima

(4) Wordsworth

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138 Who used the term 'anagnorsis'?1) Aristotle 2) Coleridge 3) T S Eliot

139 Identify the writer who was born in Bengal1) Sir Walter Scott3) George Orwell

2) D G Rossetti4) Edith Sitwell

140 Identify the writer who was born in Bombay1) Henry James 2) Edmund Goose3) Rudyard Kipling 4) Aldous Huxley

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4) Dryden

141 Who, among the following. is not associated with Kit-Cat Club?1) Addison 2) Dryden 3) Congreve 4) Vanbrugh

142 Which of the following is not an example of Citizen Comedy?1) The Shoemaker s Holiday 2) Eastward Ho3) haste Maid in heapside 4) The Country Wife

143 The extended comparison between Satan and Leviathan n Book I of Milton's ParadiseLost provides a famous example of1) mock-heroic 2) epic simile 3) epigram 4) enjambement

144 Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.The style used in this line is

II conversational 2) colloquial 3) epigrammatic 4) descriptive

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145 Which of the following is not a picaresque novel?I) Roderick udson3) Moll Flanders

2) Roderick Random4) om ones

146 Identify the poet with whom Scotland is significantly associatedI) Robert Burns 2) John Keats 3) Dylan Thomas 4) Ted Hughes

147 Identify the rhetorical device used n the following line :I bum and freeze like ice.

I) Metaphor 2) Hyperbole 3) Oxymoron 4) Alliteration

148. Which of the following is a poetic collection of Nissim Ezekiel?I) he Striders 2) The roken Wing3) Love Songs and legies 4) Sixty Poems

149. strophel and Stella by Sidney isI) a ballad 2) a sonnet sequence3) an epic 4) a Christian allegory

150 Identify the meaning of the phrasal verb underlined in the following sentence :A working party has been set up to look into the problems.

I) watch out 2) to ignore 3) to examine 4) to improve

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