1. Which of the following tales in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is in prose
(A) The Squire's Tale
(B) The knight's Tale
(C) The Frier's Tale
(D) The Parson's Tale
Ans. D
2. Identify the critic who said that Chaucer lacked "high seriousness."
(A) John Ruskin
(B) Coleridge
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) Walter Peter
Ans. C
3. My Fair Lady is a musical drama based on which of the play of Shaw?
(A) Pygmalion
(B) St. Joan
(C) Arms and the Man
(D) Apple Cart
Ans. A
4. Allworthy, Squire Western, and Sophia are the characters in the novel :
(A) Joseph Andrews
(B) Pride and Prejudice
(C) Tom Jones
(D) Clarissa Harlowe
Ans. A
5. " Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world " Who made this statement ?
(A) Matthew Arnold
(B) Coleridge
(C) Wordsworth
(D) Shelley
Ans. D
6. Who was the poet who explained his kind of poetry in terms of ' inscape', 'instress', and 'sprung rhythm'?
(A) Matthew Arnold
(B)Robert Browning
(C) G.M. Hopkins
(D)W.B. Yeats
Ans. C
7. How did the party of schoolboys in Lord of the Flies find themselves on the desert island ?
(A) When the plane carrying them crashed on the island.
(B) When the ship carrying them wrecked near the shore of the island.
(C) When the sea - pirates left them on the island.
(D) When the schoolmaster sent them for a picnic to the island.
Ans . A
8. Identify the poem that Coleridge composed in his sleep and transcribed on waking up:
(A) Christabel
(B) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(C) Kubla Khan
(D) Frost at Midnight
Ans. C
9. In the dialogue form of Dryden's Essay on Dramatic Poesy, Dryden's views are closest to :
(A) Neander
(B) Crites
(C) Eugenius
(D) Lisideius
Ans. A
10. Who defined poetry as " the breadth and finer spirit of all knowledge"?
(A) Shelley
(B) Coleridge
(C) Wordsworth
(D) Keats
Ans. C
11. Riders to the Sea is a tragedy written by :
(A) Sean O'Casey
(B) Synge
(C) Yeats
(D) Isherwood
Ans. B
12. Who is the goddess of witchcraft in Shakespeare's play 'Macbeth'?
(A)Aphrodite
(B)Hecate
(C)Minerva
(D)Mordred
Ans. B
13. Which among the following is an epistolary novel?
(A)Emma
(B)Tom Jones
(C)Robinson Crusoe
(D)Clarissa
Ans.D
14. The author of the Seven Types of Ambiguity is :
(A) I.A. Richards
(B) William Empson
(C)Cleanth Brooks
(D)T.S. Eliot
Ans. B
15. Which of the following is a stream-of-consciousness novel?
(A)The Rainbow
(B)To the Lighthouse
(C)Lord Jim
(D)A passage to India
Ans. B
16. Addison and Steele were joint editors of :
(A) Tatler
(B) The Guardian
(C) The Spectator
(D) The Rambler
Ans. C
17. Eugene Marchbanks is a character in Shaw's :
(A) Arms and the Man
(B) The apple cart
(C) Mrs. Warren's Profession
(D) Candida
Ans. D
18. Fancy and imagination are the central concepts in the criticism of:
(A) Coleridge
(B) Wordsworth
(C) Arnold
(D) Eliot
Ans. A
19. The lines "The best lack of conviction, while the worst/ Are full of passionate intensity" occur in :
(A)' Easter 1916'
(B)' Sailing to Byzantium'
(C)' The Tower'
(D)'The Second Coming '
Ans.D
20. Donne was born in the :
(A)Age of Queen Anne
(B) Puritan Age
(C) Restoration Period
(D) Elizabethan Age
Ans. D
21. " Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representation of general nature" This quotation is from:
(A)Dryden
(B)Johnson
(C)Addition
(D)Fielding
Ans. B
22. Octave is a stanza of:
(A) Five lines
(B) Four lines
(C) Eight Lines
(D) Six Lines
Ans. C
23. Marriage of Heaven and Hell is written by :
(A) William Blake
(B) Andrew Marvell
(C)Matthew Arnold
(D) Dryden
Ans. A
24. George Orwell's Animal Farm is:
(A) a parable
(B) an epistolary novel
(C) an allegory
(D) a political fable
Ans. C
25. " As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, they kill us for their sport" Who utters this line ?
(A)King Lear
(B) Cordelia
(C)Edger
(D)Gloucester
Ans. D
26. Bacon did not write :
(A) Confessio Amantis
(B) New Atlantis
(C)Novum Organum
(D) Advancement of Learning
Ans. A
27. Mephistopheles is one of the most interesting characters in the play:
(A) Thomas Kyd
(B)Ben Jonson
(C)Christopher Marlowe
(D)Webster
Ans. C
28. Apologie for poetry was written by:
(A) Philip Sidney
(B) Ben Jonson
(C)Edmund Spenser
(D)P. B. Shelley
Ans. A
29. The line, ' Fair is foul and foul is fair ' is from Shakespeare's :
(A) Macbeth
(B) Hamlet
(C) Othello
(D)King Lear
Ans. A
30. Theatres were closed in England in :
(A) 1642
(B) 1678
(C) 1605
(D) 1587
Ans. A
