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1. The first part of Beowulf opens in

a. Norwayb. Sweden

c. Denmark

d. London2. Which of the following concept is associated with Rushdie

a. Imagined Communitiesb. Ambiguous Communities

c. Parallel Communitiesd. Imaginary Homeland

3. The Vampire novel has its genesis in the discussion among Shelley,

Mary Shelley, Byron anda. Bram Stoker

b. Gregory Lewis

c. Polidorid. Beckford4. The term gothic originally referred to

a. Architecture

b. Paintingc. Criticism

d. Warfare

5. When Anna Karenina met Vronsky she had......... number of childrena. 1

b. 2

c. 3d. 4

6. Jeremy Colliers pamphlet was a direct attack ona. Elizabethan theatre

b. Restoration theatre

c. Comedy of humours

d. University wits7. Darkling Thrush is a poem looking forward to the

a. 17th century

b. 18th centuryc. 19th century

d. 20th century

8. When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloomed mourns the death ofa. Jefferson

b. Abraham Lincolnc. Kennedy


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d. George Washington

9. The term subaltern was introduced bya. Paulo Fryer

b. Antonio Gramsci

c. Spivakd. Bhabha.

10. Sherlock Holmes is partially modelled on Conan Doyles teachera. T S Eliot

b. W B Yeatsc. Joseph Bell

d. W H Auden

11. The character Marlow narrates Conrads novel Chance ,Heart ofDarkness and

a. Almayers Folly

b. Lord Jimc. Nostromod. The Arrow of Gold

12. The tramp characters of Samuel Beckett were influenced by

a. Sean OCaseyb. J M Synge

c. G B Shaw

d. Albert Camus13. Erewhon in the novelErewhonby Samuel Butler is

a. Name of a country

b. Name of a shipc. Name of a group of mysterious savages

d. Name of the protagonist14. Clarissa is the protagonist of the novel

a. Mansfiled Park

b. Mrs Dalloway

c. Power and Gloryd. Finnegans Wake

15. Who describes the artist in the following lines

There mark what ills the scholars life assailToil ,envy ,want , the patron and the jail

a. Dr Johnson

b. Alexander Popec. Matthew Arnold

d. T S Eliot16. Which Irish writer explores Irish history and culture in the novel


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The Wild Irish Girl (1806), subtitledA National Tale

a. James Joyceb. Samuel Beckett

c. G B Shaw

d. Sydney Owenson.17. Hannah and Sarah More are associated with............. kind of

fictiona. Science Fiction

b. Chick lit

c. Childrens Fiction.

d. Kailyard Fiction

18. Charles Darwins work The origin of Species was written in theyear

a. 1858

b. 1859c. 1860d. 1857

19. Name the sequel toKing Solomons Mines (1885) by Rider

Haggarda. King Solomons Mines Part II

b. Sheba and the Golden Mines

c. Allen Quatermain (1887)d. King Solomons Mines III

20. The Strange Case of Dr .Jekyll and Mr.Hyde is a novel that deals

with multiple personalities written bya. Lewis Carroll

b. Robert Louis Stevenson.c. H G Wells

d. Henry James

21. Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) collaborated with which novelist in

writing novels like The Inheritors (1901) andRomance (1903).a. Albert Camus

b. Herman Hesse

c. Hemingwayd. Joseph Conrad

22. Which First World War poet writes in hisDiaries that he was

shocked to hear the stories of women enjoying the tales of violenceinflicted on the German Soldiers?

a. Kiplingb. Edward Thomas


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c. Sassoon

d. Wilfred Owen23. James Joyce wrote three stories, "The Sisters," "Eveline," and "After

the Race," under the pseudonym

a. Bloomb. Finnegan

c. Mollyd. Stephen Dedalus

24. The character of Katherine Hilbery in Virginia WoolfsNight and Dayis loosely based on

a. Lady Robert Cecil

b. Janet Casec. Anne Thackeray Richie

d. Violet Dickinson

25. Who was brave or foolhardy enough to editFinnegans Wake downinto a shorter edition?a. David Lodge

b. Anthony Burgess

c. Alain de Bottond. Samuel Beckett

26. Tottel's Miscellany (1557) contained the songs and sonnets of

a. Wyatt and Surreyb. Wyatt and Raleigh

c. Surrey and Sidney

d. Sidney and Spenser27. John Dryden is called the father of English Criticism by............

a. Alexander Popeb. Dr Johnson

c. Charles Lamb

d. Matthew Arnold

28. Ugolinos brave words and Beatrices loving words to Virgil arecited by Arnold as examples of

a. Historical fallacy

b. Personal estimatec. Touchstone passage.

d. Purple Patches

29. Whom does Arnold call The Pseudo Shelley?a. Swinburne

b. Morrisc. D G Rossetti


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d. C G Rossetti

30. Crites in theEssay of Dramatic Poesy stands for Drydens brotherin law.

a. Sir Robert Howard.

b. Sir Charles Sedleyc. Thomas Shadwell

d. William Congreve31. Who says that poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the

world and makes familiar objects as if they were not familiara. Shelley

b. Coleridge

c. Wordsworthd. Keats

32. Who coined the term new criticism?

a. T E Hulmeb. Joel E Spingarnc. J C Ransom

d. F R Leavis

33. Which poem by Chaucer is influenced by Boccaccio......a. The Book of Duchess

b. The house of Fame

c. Legends of Good Womend. Troilus and Criseyde

34. Who wrote poems Expressing his love for Penelope Devereux.

a. Sir Philip Sidneyb. Spenser

c. Surreyd. Wyatt

35. Cynewulf is a poet of the ..... period

a. Old English

b. Middle Englishc. Elizabethan

d. Victorian

36. World Literature is a term introduced bya. Hegel

b. Said

c. Goethed. Bhabha

37. Tin Drum and Cat and Mouse are novels written bya. Knut Hamson


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b. Albert Camus

c. Gunter Grassd. Thomas Mann

38. T S Eliot appreciates the Jacobean dramatists and the ...........

poets for their direct sensuous apprehension of thought.a. Cavalier.

b. Pre Raphaelitec. Neo classical

d. Metaphysical Poets.39. Which critic thinks that Paradise Lost lacks human interest

a. Wordsworth

b. Dr Samuel Johnson.c. Pope

d. Lamb

40. Which Scottish writer maps Scotlands history and culture in thenovel The Scottish Chiefsa. Walter Scott

b. Jane Porter .

c. James Thomsond. Mac Diarmid

41. The three parts of the novel To The Lighthouse are The window

,the lighthouse anda. The Christmas party

b. The Christmas Dinner

c. Time Passesd. The Voyage

42. Cardinal Newman was associated with which movement?a. Cambridge Movement

b. Reformation

c. Utilitarianism

d. Oxford Movement43. Two key texts that are major contributions to feminist theory by

Virginia Woolf are A Room of Ones Own and

a. Between the Actsb. Three Guineas

c. Letter to a Young Poet

d. The Years44. Who refers to the two uses of language, referential and emotive?

a. I A Richardsb. F R Leavis


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c. TS Eliot

d. Matthew Arnold45. The hyacinth character referred to in the Wasteland is a

character from Greek mythology who died

a. While playing quoitsb. During the war with the Titans.

c. While trying to rescue his friendd. During his encounter with Zeus.

46. Which one of the following novelists wrote a bildungsromana. George Eliot

b. Thomas Hardy

c. Boris Pasternakd. Albert Camus

47. Ambivalence is a post colonial term used by

a. Saidb. Rushdiec. Fannon

d. Bhabha

48. "I guess the man's a genius, but what a dirty mind he has, hasn'the?" this is a comment on James Joyce by

a. Nora Joyce

b. The Queen Motherc. Val Doonican

d. TS Eliot

49. D H Lawrences novels are located ina. Waverly countryside

b. Yorkshire countrysidec. Wessex countryside

d. Nottingham countryside

50. Who wrote the essay "The Day of the Rabblement," attacking the Irish

Literary Theatre for catering to popular taste.a. James Joyce

b. W B Yeats

c. J M Synged. Sean O Casey

ANSWER KEY1. C

2. D

3. C

4. A

5. A


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6. B

7. D

8. B

9. B

10. C

11. B

12. B

13. A

14. B

15. A

16. D

17. C

18. B

19. C

20. B

21. D

22. C

23. D

24. C

25. B

26. A

27. B

28. C

29. A

30. A

31. A

32. B

33. D

34. A

35. A

36. C

37. C

38. D

39. B

40. B

41. C

42. D

43. B

44. A

45. A

46. A

47. D

48. A

49. D

50. A

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