British Literature Solved papers
1.“What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones
The labour of an age in piled stones?
Or that his hallowed Reliques should be hid
Under a star-pointing pyramid?”
These lines are written by
1) Ben Jonson
2) John Milton
3) Robert Browning
4) William Wordsworth
Notes : These lines are from John Milton's poem On Shakespeare. 1630. The poetic persona here focuses on eulogizing the literary contributions of William Shakespeare, thereby making this piece an epitaph.
2.Besides being a playwright, who among the following has translated Homer?
[1] Ben Johnson
[2] Thomas Dekker
[3] Thomas Heywood
[4] George Chapman
Notes: In 1616 the complete Iliad and Odyssey appeared in The Whole Works of Homer, the first complete English translation. Chapman's translation of the Odyssey is written in iambic pentameter, whereas his Iliad is written in iambic heptameter that differs from the Greek original written in dactylic hexameter.John Keats praised Chapman's translation of Homer effusively in his own poem On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer.
3. Who among the following has authored The Revenger’s Tragedie?
[1] Cyril Tourneur
[2] John Webster
[3] John Fletcher
[4] Thomas Heywood
Notes : The Revenger's Tragedy , a Jacobean revenge tragedy with its vivid and often violent portrayal of lust and ambition in an Italian court,is long attributed to Cyril Tourneur, but "The consensus candidate for authorship of The Revenger’s Tragedy at present is Thomas Middleton, although this is a knotty issue that is far from settled.
4. The book Women Beware Women was published in the year
[1] 1657
[2] 1620
[3] 1621
[4] 1622
Notes: Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton tells the story of Bianca, her escape from her rich home to marry her love Leantio, her rape by the Duke, her mistakenly poisoning the Duke and at last her committing suicide by poisoning herself.
5. Which of the following is not true about “Lyrical ballads”?
[1] It is a manifesto of romantic poetry
[2] It turns English poetry away from the social and intellectual sophistication of the seventeenth and the eighteenth-century poetry
[3] It takes poetry out of the confines of reason and intellect to the unravished and unspoilt beauties of nature
[4] It is very particular about the form and structure of a poem
Notes: Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to mark the beginning of the English Romantic Period. The second edition, published in 1800 is renowned for the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, a manifesto of Romanticism. The 1798 edition of Lyrical Ballads contains 23 poems out of which 4 poems are contributed by Coleridge and rest by Wordsworth. This edition begins with Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and ends with The Tintern Abbey( considered as the spiritual autobiography of Wordsworth) by Wordsworth.
6. Who said, “there is, there can be and there ought to be the difference between the language of prose and metrical composition”?
[1] John Dryden
[2] William Wordsworth
[3] S.T. Coleridge
[4] T.S Eliot
Notes: In his A Preface to the Lyrical BalladsBallads, Wordsworth discusses the poetic diction to unleash poetry from the rigidity and ornamentation of the 18th Century. In this regard he said “there is, there can be and there ought to be the difference between the language of prose and metrical composition”.
7. Who among the following praised Chaucer’s translation of Roman de la rose?
1) Eustache Deschamps
2) Boccaccio
3) Jean de Meun
4) Guillaume de Lorris
Notes : Le Roman de la Rose Or, The Romance of the Rose is a medieval dream allegorical poem written in Old French, a notable instance of courtly literature. Its two authors Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun conceived it as a psychological allegory; throughout the Lover's quest, the word Rose is used both as the name of the titular lady and as an abstract symbol of female sexuality. Part of the story was translated from its original Old French into Middle English as The Romaunt of the Rose, Chaucer was familiar with the original French text, and a portion of the Middle English translation is thought to be his work. It is believed that the character "La Vieille" is a source material for Chaucer's Wife of Bath.
Eustache Deschamps was a French poet much influenced by Chaucer. So he praised him in his Ballad 285.
8. Which writer does not belong to the Angry Young Men Movement?
[1] John Osborne
[2] Kingsley Amis
[3] Seamus Heaney
[4] Philip Larkin
Notes : “The Angry Young Man Movement is a dominant British literary movement of the decade,characterized by disdain for the establishment and the snobbishness of British culture in postwar Britain which seems to hold no place for the lower class people. Therefore, influenced by the American Beat Movement, these working class intellectuals of Angry Young Man Movement lashed out their jibes at the post war British society. Representative figures of this movement include John Osborne, Kingsley Amis, John Wain, John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, Bernard Kops and Arnold Wesker.
Even portrayal of common life, shifting away from the upper class complicated intellectual representation of literature, can be witnesses in the works of Philip Larkin, who was a exponent of “The Movement Literature” in 1950s. Philip Larkin, along with Amis and Wain were the labelled as The New University Wits who expressed the gulf between the upper class intellectual university orientation and their middle class upbringings.
8. For The Unfallen is a book of poems written by
1) Ted Hughes
2) Sylvia Plath
3) Geoffrey Hill
4) A. E. Housman
Notes: A collection of 29 poems, starting with the poem “Genesis”. Throughout the collection, pervades a belief that words do not need to have single clear referents. The poem "The Turtle Dove” is probably written as a tribute to John Crowe Ransom's “The Equilibrists”. "Asmodeus” is a sequence of two sonnets about lovers who build a house of love being alienated from the real world around them.
9. The heroic couplet is a pair of
[1] Twelve-syllable lines that rhyme
[2] Ten-syllable lines that rhyme
[3] Eight-syllable lines that do not rhyme
[4] Eight-syllable lines that rhyme
Notes : A heroic couplet is a rhyming couplet, or two lines of poetry, written in iambic pentameter. That poetic meter, iambic pentameter, is what distinguishes a heroic couplet from a regular couplet. Each line in iambic pentameter consists of 5 iambs and totals 10 syllables. It was believed to have been pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales, and generally considered to have been perfected by John Dryden and Alexander Pope in the Restoration Age and early 18th century respectively. Dryden and his followers, sometimes varied the use of the heroic couplet with occasional alexandrine, or hexameter line, and triplet.
10. Tennyson in the following lines:
“Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs.
And the thoughts of men are widen’d with the process of the suns”
[1] Reflects upon secularism
[2] Reflects upon evolutionary faith
[3] Reflects upon utilitarianism
[4] Reflects upon materialism
Notes: This is an excerpt from Tennyson's poem Locksley Hall, which comments against the marriages aim at personal and materialistic gain.
11. Who among the following attached himself to the Earl of Nottingham’s theatrical company?
[1] William Shakespeare
[2] Christopher Marlowe
[3] George Peele
[4] Ben Johnson
Notes: Earl of Nottingham’s theatrical company generally considered the second most important acting troupe of English Renaissance theatre after the company of Shakespeare, the Lord Chamberlain's Men was also known as The Admiral's Men.
12. “The Princess: A Medley” by Tennyson is
1) A Lyric
2) An Elegy
3) A Narrative Poem
4) A Dramatic Monologue
Notes: The poem is a serio-comic blank verse narrative poem, telling the story of a heroic princess who forswears the world of men and founds a women's university where men are forbidden to enter. The prince to whom she was betrothed in infancy enters the university with two friends, disguised as women students. They are discovered and flee, but eventually they fight a battle for the princess's hand. They lose and are wounded, but the women nurse the men back to health. Eventually the princess returns the prince's love.Several later works have been based upon the poem, including Gilbert and Sullivan's 1884 comic opera Princess Ida.
13. Which of the following works is NOT written by P. B. Shelley?
1) The Mask of Anarchy
2) Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem
3) The Vision of Judgement
4) The Revolt of Islam
Notes:
The Mask of Anarchy: This poem of Shelley is a political poem that strongly advocates nonviolent resistance following the event of Peterloo Massacre in 1819.
Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem: This poem foregrounds Shelley's idea of revolution and for this book Shelley was indebted to William Godwin's idea of “necessity”. This poem was published in 1813 in nine cantos but in 1816 ,after the reworking of the text, it was published under the title The Daemon of the World.
The Revolt of Islam: This Shelleyan poem, originally published under the title Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century, centres on two characters named Laon and Cythna, inhabitants of Argolis under Ottoman rule who revolted against their despotic ruler. Despite its title, the poem is not focused on Islam as a specific religion, though the general subject of religion is addressed, and the work draws on Orientalist archetypes and themes. The work can be seen as a symbolic parable on liberation and revolutionary idealism following the disillusionment of the French Revolution. The poem was published in 1817.
The Vision of Judgement: Byron, being provoked by the High Tory point of view wrote this satiric poem in ottava rima against Robert Southey's poem A Vision of Judgement where he portrays the soul of king George gloriously entering Heaven, which is altered by Byron in his poetic version where he depicts a dispute in Heaven over the fate of George III's soul.
14. In whose poem the readers meet Aunt Jennifer’s tigers?
1) Thom Gunn
2) Kamau Brathwaite
3) Roy Fisher
4) Adrienne Rich
Notes: This poem Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers, by Adrienne Rich, addresses the constraints of married life a woman experiences.
15. Philip Sidney’s Arcadia was influenced by
[1] The Spanish Romance of Montemayor
[2] The Italian paintings of Veronese
[3] The Arthurian legends
[4] The Metaphysical poetry
Notes: The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia or called Arcadia is a pastoral romance by Sir Philip Sidney. The Seven Books of the Diana by the Portuguese author Jorge de Montemayor is a pastoral romance in Spanish functions as a major inspiration for Philip Sidney's Arcadia. This poem was dedicated to his sister, Mary Herbert who was the Countess of Pembroke.It is a celebrated work and marks the new genre of prose romance.This pastoral talks about the adventures of the princes Pyrocles and Musidorus, and the fortunes of the Duke of Arcadia.Written in a Hellenistic model, it portrays an idealized version of the Shepherd's life and love story, with a political background.
16.Who among the following has composed the lyrical drama Hellas?
1) Lord Byron
2) P. B. Shelley
3) William Wordsworth
4) John Keats
Notes : Hellas is a verse drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821 and published in 1822 with a view to raising money for the Greek War of Independence.The drama is written from the point of view of the Ottoman Sultan, and was inspired by Aeschylus' Persae. It was to be Shelley's last published poem during his lifetime.
17.Who is the author of the poem “House of fame”?
[1] William Langland
[2] Geoffrey Chaucer
[3] Thomas Moore
[4] Philip Sidney
Notes : The House of Fame is over 2,005 lines long in three books and takes the form of a dream vision composed in octosyllabic couplets.The poem marks the beginning of Chaucer's Italian-influenced period, echoing the works of Boccaccio, Ovid, Virgil's Aeneid, and Dante's Divine Comedy. Its three-part structure and references to various personalities suggest that perhaps the poem meant to parody the Divine Comedy. The poem also appears to be influenced by Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy.
18.“A man can be destroyed but not defeated”. Which of the following texts glorifies this as its predominant theme?
[1] The Old man and The Sea
[2] War and Peace
[3] A Farewell to Arms
[4] For Whom the Bell Tolls
Notes: The Old Man and the Sea,a 1952 novella by Ernest Hemingway tells the story of Santiago, an aging fisherman, and his long struggle to catch a giant marlin.
19.J Hillis miller, one of the leading exponents of deconstruction, makes a deconstructionist
reading of which of the following poems of P.B Shelley?
[1] “The Triumph of Life”
[2] “Ode to the west wind”
[3] “Revolt of Islam”
[4] “The Witch of Atlas”
Notes: The Triumph of Life was the last major work by Shelley, written in terza rima, modelled on on Petrarch's Trionfi and Dante's Divine Comedy.
In his work, The Critic as Host, J.H Miller talks about Shelley's poem "The Triumph of Life", that this poem 'contains within itself, jostling irreconcilably with one another, both logocentric metaphysics and nihilism'.
It presents a mirror image, more like a photographic negative. The poem deconstructs each line.
20.Name the playwright who composed the play “A Woman Killed with Kindness.”
1) Francis Beaumont
2) Beaumont and Fletcher
3) Thomas Kyd
4) Thomas Heywood
Notes: A domestic tragedy that narrates the story of a happy marriage being broken when Anne, the wife, is seduced by her husband’s friend. The title of the play is taken from a proverb in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.
21.Name the celebrated actor who played the leading role in the first production of John Osborne’s The Entertainer (1957).
1) Peter Brook
2) Laurence Olivier
3) Al Pacino
4) Robert De Niro
22.Which of the following statements holds true in regard to “Sentimental Comedy”?
1) It is a dramatic composition which satirizes the manners and affectations of a class.
2) It is a dramatic composition that focuses on characters, each of them representing a type of personality.
3) It is a dramatic composition that depicts how seriously young people take love, and how foolishly it makes them behave.
4) It is a species of dramatic composition in which the virtues of private life are exhibited, rather than the vices exposed; and the distresses rather than the faults of mankind make our interest in the piece
23.“I recognize that its heroine is a little prig and its hero a pompous ass, but I do not care.”
About which novel of Jane Austen is this statement made by Somerset Maugham?
1) Pride and Prejudice
2) Northanger Abbey
3) Sense and Sensibility
4) Mansfield Park
Notes: Mansfield Park is the third published novel by Jane Austen, telling the story of Fanny Price.
24.In which year was R. L. Stevenson’s Treasure Island published?
1) 1893
2) 1886
3) 1883
4) 1896
Notes: A coming-of-age story Treasure Island, originally titled The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys is both an 1883 adventure novel and a historical novel set in the 1700s, telling the story of "buccaneers and buried gold".
25. Jonathan Bate’s The Song of the Earth was published in
1)2001
2)1991
3) 2000
4) 1999
26.“The great object of the British Government ought to be the promotion of European literature and science among the natives of India, all funds appropriated for the purpose of education would be best employed on English education alone” Who made the comment given above?
1) Lord Macaulay
2) Sir Charles Wood
3) Lord William Bentinck
4) Arthur Mayhew
27. The pamphlet The Power of Love (1643) proclaiming the importance of brotherhood as a means of achieving a radical change in social relationships was written by
1) George Saintsbury
2) William Walwyn
3) F R. Leavis
4) Gerrard Winstanley
Notes: "The Power of Love" emphasizes the importance of love and compassion as transformative powers for societal relationships in the critical era of 1643, amid the turbulent times of the English Civil War.
28. Who among the following in the article. “Fleshly school of poetry”. Attacked the pre-
Raphaelites, especially D.G. Rossetti?
[1] Robert browning
[2] William Holeman Hunt
[3] Robert Buchanan
[4] Christina Rossetti
Notes: Buchanan accused the pre-Raphaelite ppoets such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and Algernon Charles Swinburne to be immoral and sensual. So he called them “Fleshly school of poetry”.
29. In which year Miles Coverdale translated The Old Testament of The Bible?
[1] 1533
[2] 1534
[3] 1535
[4] 1536
30. Who among the following is not a recipient of the Nobel prize for literature?
[1] Winston Churchill
[2] T.S. Eliot
[3] W.H. Auden
[4] Madam curie
Notes:
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953 was awarded to Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values”.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1948 was awarded to Thomas Stearns Eliot "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry”.
Together with her husband, she was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.
31. Francis Bacon’s The Advancement of Learning attempted to draw a distinction between two kinds of ‘truth’. Which are these?
1) Theological Truth and Scientific Truth
2) Theological Truth and Aesthetic Truth
3) Aesthetic Truth and Objective Truth
4) Metaphysical Truth and Aesthetic Truth.
Notes: The Advancement of Learning is significant because it introduces the empirical method, which has since become the foundation of the sciences. Bacon argues that the only knowledge of authority is knowledge that's gathered from objective observation.
Bacon delineated two types of truth: Theological and Scientific. Theological truth pertains to divine revelation and spiritual knowledge. Scientific truth refers to facts and truths established through scientific inquiry and rational analysis.
32. “I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables, and in Coffee- Houses.”
To whom do you attribute this famous statement?
1) Dr Samuel Johnson
2) Joseph Addison
3) Charles Lamb
4) Alexander Pope
33.Dr Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language was published in
1) 1751
2) 1753
3) 1755
4) 1757
34. An Essay on the Principles of Human Action was written by
1) Charles Lamb
2) Jean Jacques Rousseau
3) William Godwin
4) William Hazlitt
Notes: “An Essay on the Principles of Human Action",written by William Hazlitt was published in 1805 and is Hazlitt's first published work.In this book, he argued against the selfishness theory of human behavior,and proposed that people's actions are governed not by self-concern but rather by sympathy for others.
35. Which of the following is false about Frederick Douglass?
1) Douglass’s autobiography belongs to the tradition of fugitive-slave narrative popular in the North before the
Civil War.
2) He provides a first-person account of his life spent in slavery.
3) He was famous as an orator, dedicated to a black liberation movement.
4) He wrote Up From Slavery.
Notes: Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington that describes his experience of working to rise up from being enslaved as a child during the Civil War.
36. Under the net (1954) is written by
[1] John Fowles
[2] Iris Murdoch
[3] Edmund Gosse
[4] William Cooper
Notes:Under the Net was Murdoch's first published novel in 1954. Set in London, it is the story of a struggling young writer, Jake Donaghue, combining both the elements of philosophical and the picaresque.
37. Should poets’ bicycle-pump the human heart or squash it flat?
Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart:
Girls aren’t like that
The above lines are written by:
[1] Philip Larkin
[2] Kingsley Amis
[3] Donald Davie
[4] John wain
Notes : These lines are from the poem "Something Nasty in the Bookshop" by Kingsley Amis.
38. Who among the following were poet laureates of England?
[A] Alfred Austin
[B] Robert Bridges
[C] Watts-Dunton
[D] Oscar Wilde
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] (A) and (B) only
[2] (A) and (D) only
[3] (B) and (C) and (D)
[4] (A) (B) and (C) only
Notes: Alfred Austin was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896, after an interval following the death of Tennyson, when the other candidates had either caused controversy or refused the honour.Robert Bridges was the Poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930.
39. “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” is written by
A) John Donne
B) John Milton
C) Adrienne Rich
D) Sylvia Plath
E) Robert Frost
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A only.
2) A and B only.
3) D and E only.
4) B and C only.
40 Which of these are not forms of flash fiction?
[A] Drabble
[B] Postcard fiction
[C] Novelette
[D] Short story
[E] Nanofiction
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
[1] A and E only
[2] A, B and E only
[3] D and E only
[4] C and D only
Notes: Flash Fiction compresses an entire story into the spaces of a few paragraphs. Some commonly used word limits range from six to thousand words. Flash fiction has roots going back to prehistory, recorded at origin of writing, including fables and parables, notably Aesop's Fables in the west, and Panchatantra and Jataka tales in India. Later examples include the tales of Nasreddin, and Zen koans such as The Gateless Gate.
41. Identify the correct combination among the following:
[A] Demons – Novel
[B] The Landlady – Novella
[C] The Crocodile – Short-story
[D] A Writer’s Diary – Essay
[E] Mary Stuart – Translation
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
[1] A, B and C only
[2] C, D and E only
[3] B, C and E only
[4] B, C and D only
Notes:
Demons – Novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Landlady – Novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Crocodile – Short-story by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Writer’s Diary – a collection of non-fiction and fictional writings by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mary Stuart – a verse play by Friedrich Schiller that depicts the last days of Mary, Queen of Scots.
42.Which of the following two poems are linked with each other in terms of form?
A) “The Last Ride Together”
B) “Ulysses”
C) “Upon Appleton House: To My Lord Fairfax”
D) “To Penshurst”
E) “The Waste Land”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and E only.
2) A and B only.
3) A and D only.
4) C and D only.
Notes: Both "Upon Appleton House: To My Lord Fairfax" by Andrew Marvell and "To Penshurst" by Ben Jonson can be grouped into the country-house poetry genre. These type of poems praise idyllic country estates while subtly underlining the owner's wealth, power and cultured tastes.
Tennyson’s “Ulysses” and Browning's “The Last Ride Together” are dramatic monologues and
“ The Waste Land” by T. S. Eliot is an instance of modern poetry broke the conventional rules of poetry.
43.Which of the following poems are written by Alexander Pope?
A) The Dunciad
B) Moral Essays
C) Grongar Hill
D) Cooper’s Hill
E) Absalom and Achitophel
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and C only.
2) B and E only.
3) A and B only.
4) C and D only.
Notes: "Grongar Hill" is a loco-descriptive poem by John Dyer, who gives a romantic description of the landscape from atop a hill in Carmarthenshire, Wales that makes him a precursor of Romanticism.
"Cooper's Hill", by Sir John Denham, is a landmark poem of the topographical genre.
"Absalom and Achitophel" is a political and allegorical satire by John Dryden written during the reign of Charles II on the issue of the succession of throne and Duke of Monmouth’s revolt.
44.Which among the following is true about the Tractarian Movement?
[A] It was widespread across the world
[B] The other leaders of the movement were Paul Newman and R.H. Fronde
[C] The movement began with a sermon by John Keble in 1833
[D] Pusey gave the movement cohesion, fame and a name
[E] The ideal of the Christian church was praised by oxford convocation
45.Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
[1] A, B and C only
[2] A, C and E only
[3] C, D and E only
[4] B, C and D only
Notes: The Oxford Movement was a movement of high church members of the Church of England which began in the 1830s whose original devotees were mostly associated with the University of Oxford, arguing for the reinstatement of some older Christian traditions of faith and their inclusion into Anglican liturgy and theology. They thought of Anglicanism as one of three branches of the "one, holy, catholic, and apostolic" Christian church.
The movement's philosophy was known as Tractarianism after its series of publications, the Tracts for the Times, published from 1833 to 1841. Tractarians were also disparagingly referred to as "Newmanites" (before 1845) and "Puseyites" after two prominent Tractarians, John Henry Newman and Edward Bouverie Pusey. Other well-known Tractarians included John Keble, Charles Marriott, Richard Froude, Robert Wilberforce, Isaac Williams and William Palmer. All except Williams and Palmer were fellows of Oriel College, Oxford.
46.Which of these are correct combination of the works by Doris Lessing and their respective
themes?
[A] The Golden Notebook deals with Johor travelling to Ronda
[B] The Good Terrorist is about a doomed love affair
[C] Shikasta is about a planet, which is cut-off due to the advanced Influence of civilization
[D] Alfred and Emily explores the life of her parents
[E] The Grass is Singing draws from her experiences in Africa
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] B, A and D only
[2] A, B and E only
[3] C, D and E only
[4] E, B and A only
Notes:
The Grass Is Singing, published in 1950, is the first novel by the British author Doris Lessing. It takes place in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), in southern Africa, during the 1940s and deals with the racial politics between whites and blacks in that country (which was then a British Colony). It follows an emotionally immature woman's hasty marriage to an unsuccessful farmer, and her ensuing mental deterioration, her murder, and the colonial British society's reactions to it. This novel is drawn from her experiences in Africa
The Golden Notebook , a 1962 novel of an "inner space fiction";that explores mental and societal breakdown. The novel contains anti-war and anti-Stalinist messages, an extended analysis of communism and the Communist Party in England from the 1930s to the 1950s, and an examination of the budding sexual revolution and women's liberation movements.
The Good Terrorist is a 1985 political novel, the protagonist of which is the naïve drifter Alice, who squats with a group of radicals in London and is drawn into their terrorist activities.
Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta, often shortened to Shikasta is a 1979 science fiction novel featuring the name of the fictional planet.
Alfred and Emily is a book by Doris Lessing in a new hybrid form. Part fiction, part notebook, part memoir, it was first published in 2008. The book is based on the lives of Lessing's parents. Part one is a novella, a fictional portrait of how her parents' lives might have been without the interruption of the First World War. Part two is a retelling of how her parents' lives really developed.
47.Which of the following are the plays written by Robert Greene?
A) The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First
B) Alphonsus
C) A Moon for the Misbegotten
D) The Old Wives’ Tale
E) King of Aragon
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) B and D only.
2) A and E only.
3) B and E only.
4) C and E only.
Notes: The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First is a play by George Peele.
A Moon for the Misbegotten is a play in four acts by Eugene O'Neill. The play is a sequel to O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, with the Jim Tyrone character as an older version of Jamie Tyrone.
The Old Wives' Tale,a play by George Peele has been identified as the first English work to satirize the romantic dramas popular at the time
48.Which of the following two plays were written by W. B. Yeats?
A) The Land of Heart’s Desire
B) Time and the Conways
C) The Silver Tassie
D) The Countess Cathleen
E) The Plough and the Stars
Notes: Time and the Conways is a play by J. B. Priestly
The Silver Tassie and The Plough and the Stars are plays by Sean O'Casey.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) C and D only.
2) A and D only.
3) A and E only.
4) B and E only.
49.Identify the correct ones among the following:
A) The Apologie for Poetrie was written by Sir Philip Sidney.
B) Sir Philip Sidney wrote the Apologie for Poetrie as a counterblast to Stephen Gosson’s The School of Abuse
C) Stephen Gosson wrote The School of Abuse in the euphuistic style
D) Sidney’s style was characterised by neoclassical restraint.
E) Sidney and Gosson wrote their critical treatise in the eighteenth century.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, B and C only.
2) A, C and D only.
3) A, D and E only.
4) A, C and E only.
Notes : An Apology for Poetry or The Defence of Poesy is published posthumously in 1595. partly motivated by Stephen Gosson, a former playwright who dedicated his attack on the English stage, The School of Abuse, to Sidney in 1579, but Sidney primarily addresses more general objections to poetry, such as those of Plato.The work also offers important comments on Edmund Spenser and the Elizabethan stage.
50.Consumerism is a major theme in which of the following works?
[A] Loyalties
[B] Saint Joan of stockyards
[C] Death of a salesman
[D] Candida
[E] Waiting for Godot
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below
[1] A and B only
[2] D and A only
[3] B and C only
[4] A and E only
Notes : consumerism is a trend based on the belief that consuming and owning more goods will bring more happiness and pleasure. The Industrial Revolution played a huge role in shaping the notion of Consumerism, though originated in 1700 in England, but eventually it was spread across Europe and North America.
51.Identify the poems termed as “pastoral elegies”:
[A] Lycidas
[B] In memory of W.B. Yeats
[C] Adonais
[D] Thyrsis
[E] In memoriam
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
[1] A, B and C only
[2] B, C and E only
[3] A, C and D only
[4] C, D and E only
52.Which of the following works have NOT been written by Thomas Carlyle?
A) Of Heroes and Hero-Worship
B) The French Revolution
C) Of Human Bondage
D) The Hour and the Man
E) Hudibras
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and B only.
2) A and C only.
3) A and D only.
4) A and E only.
53.Which of the following works have NOT been authored by John Stuart Mill?
A) Subjection of Women
B) Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform
C) Past and Present
D) Explorations
E) On Liberty
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and B only.
2) A and E only.
3) C and D only.
4) B and E only.
54. Which of the following are written by George Peele?
A) The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First
B) A Moon for the Misbegotten
C) The Arraignment of Paris
D) The Scottish Historie of James the Fourth
E) The Old Wives’ Tale
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) B, C and D only.
2) A, C and E only.
3) A, C and D only.
4) C, D and E only.
55.Anglo-Irish relations in the 20 century have been represented in which of the following
novels?
[A] Elizabeth Bowen – The Last September
[B] May Sinclair – The divine fire
[C] JG Farrell – Troubles
[D] J G Farrell – The Siege of Krishnapur
[E] Jeffery Farnol – Black Bartlemy’s treasure
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
[1] A, B and C only
[2] A, and C only
[3] D, E and B only
[4] B, C and A only
56.Match List I with List II
List I List II
A) Blood I.Phlegmatic
B) Yellow Bile II. Sanguine
C) Phlegm III. Melancholy
D) Black Bile IV. Choleric
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
2) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
3) A-IV, B- III, C-II, D-I
4) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
57.Match List I with List II:
List I
[A] O’ Henry
[B] Rudyard Kipling
[C] Oscar Wilde
[D] Ralph waldo Emerson
List II
I.The Last Suttee
II. Beauty
III. At Verona
IV. Hard to Forget
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
[2] (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)
[3] (A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(II)
[4] (A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)
58.Match List I with List II
List I
A)Some are born great, others achieve
greatness.
B)Love looks not with the eyes, but with
the mind, And therefore is winged
Cupid painted blind
C) III deeds is doubled with an evil word
D)We are such stuff as dreams are made
on, and our little life is rounded with a
sleep.
List II
I. The Tempest
II. The Comedy of Errors
III. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
IV. Twelfth Night
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
2) A-1, B-II, C-III, D-IV
3) A-III, B- IV, C-I, D-II
4) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
59.Match List I with List II:
List I
Hamlet
Macbeth
Julius Caesar
Othello
List II
1606
1599
1604
1600
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] (A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
[2] (A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)
[3] (A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
[4] (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
60. Match List I with List II:
List I
“Faces along the bar/cling to their average day.”
“The awful daring of a moment's surrender.”
“Bent double, like old beggars under sacks.”
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.”
List II
Wilfred Owen
T.S. Eliot
Allen Ginsberg
W.H. Anden
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
[2] (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
[3] (A)-(I), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
[4] (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
61.Match List I with List II
List I
[A] Donald Davie
[B] Philip Larkin
[C] Kingsley Amis
[D] John wain
List II
[I] Against romanticism
[II] Hurry on down
[III] The shires
[IV] The north ship
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] (A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
[2] (A)_(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
[3] (A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
[4] (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
62.Which among the following is an incomplete poem by P.B. Shelley?
[1] “The triumph of life”
[2] “Ode to the west-wind”
[3] “Queen Mab”
[4] “The daemon of the world”
63. The Deserted Village by Oliver goldsmith
[1] Critiques the rural institutions
[2] Voices revolt of the individual man against institutions
[3] Reflects upon different views on the human soul
[4] Advocates urbanism over rural backwardness
64. Match List I with List II
List I
[A] Malcolm Bradbury
[B] David lodge
[C] Kingsley Amis
[D] C P snow
List II
[I] Masters
[II] Lucky Jim
[III] The history man
[IV] Changing places
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] (A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
[2] (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
[3] (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
[4] (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
65. Match List I with List II:
List I
[A] “Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike.”
[B] “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
[C] “Thou still unravished bride of quietness. Thou foster child of silence and slow time.”
[D] “And ice, mast-high, come floating by, as green as emerald.”
List II
I.Irony
II. Simile
III. Antithesis
IV. Assonance
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
[2] (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
[3] (A)-(III). (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
[4] (A)-(I), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
66.Choose the correct chronological sequence in which the following texts were published
A) The Tower
B) The Hind and the Panther
C) The Wild Swans at Coole
D) Mac Flecknoe
E) The Whitsun Weddings
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, B, D, E, C
2) B, C, A, E, D
3) B, A, C, D, E
4) D, B, C, A, E
67.Arrange the following poets in accordance with their years of birth.
A) George Herbert
B) Edmund Spenser
C) Philip Sidney
D) John Donne
E) Oliver Goldsmith
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, B, D, C, E
2) B, C, D, A, E
3) E, B, A, D, C
4) A, D, E, B, C
68.Find the chronological order of publication of the given works:
A) Darwin’s Origin of Species
B) Macaulay’s “Essay on Milton”
C) Stevenson’s Treasure Island
D) Browning’s “Pauline”
E) Arnold Bennet’s Old Wives Tale
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, B, C, D, E
2) B, D, A, C, E
3) C, D, A, B, E
4) D, E, A, C, B
69.Find the chronological order of the writers in terms of their years of birth:
A) Jane Austen
B) Henry Fielding
C) James M. Barrie
D) Richard Doddridge Blackmore
E) William Makepeace Thackeray
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, B, C, D, E
2) B, A, E, D, C
3) C, D, A, B, E
4) D, B, A, E, C
70.Find the chronological order of the writers in terms of the period they belonged to:
A) Richard Steele
B) Charles Lamb
C) John Dryden
D) Francis Bacon
E) Matthew Arnold
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, B, C, D, E
2) B, D, E, C, A
3) C, B, D, A, E
4) D, C, A, B, E
71.Find the chronological order of publication of Charles Dickens’s novels:
A) Oliver Twist
B) Dombey and Sons
C) Pickwick Papers
D) Bleak House
E) David Copperfield
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, D, C, B, E
2) D, E, B, C, A
3) B, D, C, A, E
4) C, A, B, E, D,
72.Find the chronological order of publication of the given works:
A) Boswell’s Life of Johnson
B) Hobbes’s Leviathan
C) Pepys’s Diary
D) Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
E) Locke’s Human Understanding
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) B, C, D, E, A
2) A, C, D, E, B
3) C, D, A, B, E
4) D, E, A, C, B
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