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‘------------ is the first of our really national English poets’.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Caedmon

John Gower

William Langland

2.

The jolly host of the Tabard Inn was ------?

Harry Bailly

Tom Spencer

Henry John

John Wood

3.

Name Chaucer’s contemporary who recorded in spirited narrative the great deeds of

Robert Bruce ?

Wyclif

Robert M anningJohn Barbour

John Lydgate

4.

Who authored Morte D ’Arthur ?

Will iam Caxton

Sir Thomas Malory

Reginald Pecock

King Edward IV

5.



The Complete English Bible of Miles Coverdale was published in ?

1611

1535

1539

1 525

6.

------- was the first English poet to use the unrimed ten-syllabled verse to whichthe name blank verse is popularly applied?

Surrey

Wyatt

Skelton

Aschan

7.

Who is Tottel in Tottel’s Miscellany ?

The writer

The publisher

The translator

The editor

8.

‘The morality play, like the miracle play,was didactic; but its characters, insteadof being taken from sacred narratives, were--------’.

personified abstractions

l egendary saints



symbolic representations

animals and birds

9.

‘While--------aroused the intellect and the aesthetic faculties,------ awakened thespiritual nature’.

Chaucer . . . Spenser

the Renaissance . . . the Reformation

t he Anglo - S axon Literature . . . the English Bible

None of the above

10.

Of the twelve books,which Spenser projected in the Faery Queene ,how manywere published during his lifetime?

6

7

9

11

11.

Which of the following is not ‘sonnets in sequences ’?

Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella Daniel’s Delia

Drayton’s Idea

Warner’s A lbio n’ s England

12.John Donne was a ?



poet and preacher

poet and playwright

playwright and preacher

preacher and sonnetee

13.

Of the following who was not the contemporary of Christopher Marlowe ?

George PeeleThomas Kyd

Thomas Otway

Robert Greene

14.

Lohn Lyly’s Eupheus is -------.

a dramatic work

an epic

an English translation

a prose romance

15.

Downright, Morose, Well-bred, Subtle, Bertinax Surly, Sir Epicure Mammon, arecharacters in the plays of------?

John Ford

Ben Jonson

James Shirley



Oliver Goldsmith

16.

‘The names of ---------are always associated and they did much work incollaboration’.

Beaumont and Fletcher

Marlowe and Jo nson

Sackville and Sidney

Lodge and Nashe

17.

Who among the following is not a University Wit?

John Lyly

George Peele

Robert Greene

Thomas Middleton

18.

‘Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man, and writing an exactman.’Whose words are these?

Francis Bacon

David Lindsay

Thomas Moore

Roger Bacon

19.

Who described Bacon as ‘the wisest, brightest and meanest of mankind’?



John Dryden

A lexander Pope

Dr. Johnson

Jonathan Swift

20.

Which translation of the English Bible is described as the greatest of alltranslations?

The Revised V ersion

The Revised S tandard V ersion

The Authorised V ersion

The New Revised Standard Version

21.

Shakespeare’s Sonnets were published in ----------.

1604

1 609

1612

1614

22.

Which play of Shakespeare begins with the following line:‘If music be the food of love, play on. . .’

The Winter’s Tale



Hamlet

Twelfth Night

The Tempest

23.

Which of the following pairs of plays are the earliest plays written byShakespeare?

The Comedy of Errors , Titus Andronicus

Macbeth, Othello

Measure for Measure , The Merchant of Venice

The Tempest , The Winter’s Tale

24.

Which three plays,ignored byMeres,were included by the editors of the First Folioin the canon of Shakespeare’s works?

Antony and Cleopatra , Coriolanus, Henry V

King John, Richard III, A Mid Summer Night’s Dream

Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear Henry VI Part I, Part II , Part III

25.

‘--------------is more of a lyrical monologue than any other play byShakespeare,with the monologue very exquisitely written’.

Richard II

Romeo and JulietAs You Like It

J ulius Caesar

26.

Which critic of Shakespeare divided his dramatic career into four stages?



Dr. Johnson

Dowden

Quiller Couch

Saintsbury

27.

Which literary historian made the following comment?‘Julius Caesar is fine;Coriolanus is

admirable;Antony and Cleopatrais superb.?

George Samps o n

C.S. Lewis

W.H. Hudson

Emile Legouis

28.

‘---------------is the most voluminously discussed play ever written; and we may sayat once that if people were to read the play itself more often than books about ittheir minds would be less confused ?

Macbeth

Hamlet

Othello

King Lear

29.

'Age cannot wither her / Nor custom stale her infinite variety’. Which character is

described and in which play?

Cordelia in King Lear

Miranda in The Tempest

Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra

None of these



30.

When was theThird Folio of the Collected Plays of Shakespeare first published?

16641666

1669

1672

31.

Which play of Shakespeare is generally referred to as Shakespeare’s magical swan - song?

The Winter’s Tale

All’s Well that Ends Well

Coriolanus

The Tempest

32.

What is meant by ‘feminine ending’ in Shakespeare?

A n unaccented eleventh syllable

An accented eleventh syllable

An unaccented ten th syllable

An accented tenth syllable

33.

Which of the following pairs is not Shakespearean?

Othello, Desdemona

Ferdinand, Miranda



Duke Orsino, Viola

De Flores, Beatrice

34.

Name the author of the most reliable biography of Shakespeare,WilliamShakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems.

Edward Chambers

Geoffrey Bullough

Granville - Barker

G.B. Harrison

35.

The clowning of Dogberry and Verges appears in ------- .

The Merchant of Venice

Much Ado about Nothing

As You Like It

Twelfth Nigh

36.

Name the first editor of Shakespeare ?

Nicholas Rowe

Alexander Pope

Lewis Theobald

William Warburton

37.

Who described Hamlet a ‘ an artistic failure ’ ?



L.C. Knights

T.S. Eliot

Wilson Knight

A.C. Bradley

38.

Name a popular Indian critic of Shakespeare.?"

C.D. Narasim ha iah

K. Nagarajan

Meenakshi Mukherjee

K.R. Srinivasa Iy e ngar

39.

In which tragedy which character describes life as ‘a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing’.?

Macbeth , Macbeth

K ing Lear , Lear

Othello , Othello

Hamlet , Hamlet

40.

In--------we have a Puritanism which is political and ecclesiastical as well asspiritual and ethical.?

L’Allegro

Lycidas

Il P enseroso

Comus

41.



Milton’s Areopagitica was directed against an Order of Parliamentwhichestablished

--------?.

a censorship of book

a curtailment of human rights

a ban on lampooning

a ban on writers ’ involveme nt in politics

42.

Which book of the Paradise Lost describes the fall of Adam and Eve?

Book I

Book II

Book IV

Book IX

43.

Who described Milton as our one acknowled ged master of ‘the grand style’?

Mat t hew Arnold

Joseph Addison

John Dryden

Charles Lamb

44.



Whose secular poetry was published under the title Hesperides ?

Thomas Carew

John Suckling

Robert Herrick

John Dryden

45.

The Metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to show

their learning washeir whole endeavour . . . They neither

copied nature nor life . . .These are thwords of?

Dr. Johnson

J eremy Taylor

Richard Baxter

Thomas Hobbes

46.

Who did John Dryden regard as his masters?

Ben Jo nson and Christopher Marlowe

Walter and Denham

Milton and Spenser

Donne and Crashaw

47.

Dryden’s The Hind and the Panther offers an elaborate argument in favour of-----.

Puritanism



Protestantism

Roman Catholicism

Nationalism

48.

Who is the author of Hudibras ?

Samuel Butler

John Tillotson

Samuel Pepys

John Evelyn

49.

Christian is the central character in John Bunyan’s--------.?

The Life and Death of Mr. Badman

The Holy War

Grace AboundingPilgrim’s Progr ess

50.

In which of his writing s does Pope say that ‘his life was one long disease’?

Epistle to Dr. Arbuth not

Essay on Criticism

The Rape of the Lock

Pastorals

51.



‘From writing biographies with real names attached to them it was but a shortstepto writing biographies with fictitious names.’ Who is the author referred to ?

Colley Cibber

Daniel DefoeGeorge Barkeley

Richard Steele

52.

In which book does Swift describe the voyage to Brobingnag ?

Gulliver’s Travels

A Tale of a Tub

The Battle of the Books

Journal of Stella

53.

The subtitle of Richardson’sPamela is----.?

Virtue Honoured

Virtue Adored

Virtue Rewarded

Vice Punished

54.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave ’is a line from Gray’s?

Elegy W ritten in a Country C hurchyard

The Progress of Poesy

The Bard

The Fatal Sisters

55.



‘The design of the collaborators was to include in it two different kinds of poetry;in the one ‘the incidents and agents were to be in part at least, supernatural’, intheother, ‘subjects were to bechosen from ordinary life’. Who made thiscommentad on which book?

Wordsworth on The Lyrical Ballads

Coleridge on The Lyrical Ballads

Coleridge on The Anci ent Mariner

Wordsworth on The Prelude

56.

Who was expelled from Oxford for publishing a pamphlet onThe Necessity of Atheism?

Byron

Shelle y

KeatsBurns

57.

Which period of the history of prose literature saw the rise of the modern reviewand magazine ?

The A ge of Wordsworth

The A ge of Johnson

The A ge of Dryden

The A ge of Tennyson

58.



Which romantic prose writer has been called ‘the critic’s critic’?

Lamb

De Quincey

Hazlitt

Landor

59.

‘He gives us such real immortals as Mr. Pickwick, Mrs. Gamp, Mr. Micawber andSam Weller

– typical inhabitants of his sphere, and worthy of a place in any literarybrotherhood.’Who is the he/his referred to?

Henry Fielding

Thomas Hardy

Charles Dic kensJames Joyce

60.

While he began as a later Victorian Romantic poet, he ended as a 20 th century metaphysical poet,fully

abreast of the newer generation.’ Identify the ‘he’.

W.B. Yeats

Walter de la Mare

Osbert Sitwell



W.H. Aud en

61.

Which of the following plays of Shaw is devoted to studies of religion?

Arms and the Man

St. Joan

Candida

The Apple Cart

62.

Who is often described as the greatest dramatist in the rebirth of the Irishtheatre?

J.M. Synge

Galsworthy

Henry Arthur Jones

J.B. Priestl e y

63.

Name the author of the book The Postmodern Condition?

Habermas

Derrida

Foucault



Lyotard

64.

Which work of Emerson is described as ‘A Declaration of American Intellectualndependence’?

The American S cholar

The Oversoul

Nature

Journals

65.

H.D. Thoreau’s Walden is otherwise known as ?

Life in the Forest

Life in the Woods

Man in the Woods

Man in the Forest

66.

Which work of Nathaniel Hawtv horne seeks ‘to expunge the whipping of theQuaker woman ordered by Judge William through the writing of his story’?

The Scarlet Letter

The House of the Seven Gables

The Blithe d ale Romance

The Gentle Boy

67.

Captain Peleg, Captain Bildad, Captain Ahab are characters in the novels of ?



Herman Melville

William Faulkner

Hen r y James

D.H. Lawr e nce

68.

‘When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed’ is an elegy written on the death of ?

George Washington

Abraham Lincoln

Thomas Jefferson

None of the se

69.

Mark Twain’s Huckleburry Finnis a sequel to ?

Tom Sawyer

Those Extraordinary Twins

Pudd ’ nhead Wilson

The Stolen White Elephant

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