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2022-11-13 13:42:18 DDBDCABDAC Open / Comment

2022-11-12 15:14:52 1. Who is Pip’s friend in London?
A. Pumblechook
B. Herbert Pocket
C. Bentley Drummle
D. Jaggers
2. Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory?
A. A teacher
B. A clerk
C. A thief
D. A dentist
3. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ is a quotation from?
A. Milton
B. William Shakespeare
C. T. S. Eliot
D. Ruskin
4. “Dost thou think, because thou art
virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale.” Who speaks the lines given
above in Twelfth Night?
A. Duke Orsino
B. Malvolio
C. Sir Andrew Aguecheek
D. Sir Toby Belch
5. In Paradise Lost, Book I, Satan is the embodiment of Milton’s?
A. Sense of injured merit
B. Hatred of tyranny
C. Spirit of revolt
D. All these
6. Who calls poetry “the breadth and finer spirit of all knowledge”?
A. Wordsworth
B. Shelley
C. Keats
D. Coleridge
7. Twelfth Night opens with the speech of?
(A)Viola
B. Duke
(C)Olivia
D. Malvolio
8. What was the cause of William’s death in Sons and Lovers?
A. An accident
B. An overdose of morphia
C. Suicide
D. Pneumonia
9. Which poem of Coleridge is an opium dream?
A. Kubla Khan
B. Christabel
C. The Ancient Mariner
D. Ode on the Departing Year
10. Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem ‘Ode to the West
Wind’?
A. Rime royal
B. Ottava rima
C. Terza rima
D. Spenserian Stanza Open / Comment

2022-11-12 15:12:19 B,B,D,D,D,C,C,D,A,A Open / Comment

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2022-11-08 07:26:15 1. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History is a course of?
A. six lectures
B. five lectures
C. four lectures
D. seven lectures
2. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’?
A. Johnson
B. Cromwell
C. Shakespeare
D. Luther
3. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner?
A. The Stones of Venice
B. The Two Paths
C. The Seven Lamps of Architecture
D. Modem Painters
4. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of?
A. Charles Dickens
B. Anthony Trollope
C. W. H. White
D. B. Disraeli
5. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of
‘love and loss’—
A. Tennyson
B. Browning
C. Swinburne
D. D. G. Rossetti
6. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as?
A. Spenserian Stanza
B. Ballad
C. Ottava Rima
D. Rhyme Royal
7. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry?
A. Sir Thomas Wyatt
B. William Shakespeare
C. Earl of Surrey
D. Milton
8. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by?
A. The Pre-Raphaelites
B. Ruskin
C. Pater
D. Matthew Arnold
9. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson
“Faith un-faithful kept him falsely true.”
A. Oxymoron
B. Metaphor
C. Simile
D. Synecdoche
10. W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem?
A. Sailing to Byzantium
B. Byzantium
C. The Second Coming
D. Leda and the Swan Open / Comment

2022-11-08 07:22:19 1.E, 2.E, 3.A, 4. D, 5.C, 6.E, 7. A, 8.A, 9.E, 10.A Open / Comment

2022-10-30 19:02:18 1. Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the
novel?
A. stream of consciousness
B. free indirect style
C. irresolute open endings
D. the “mythical method”
E. narrative realism
2. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new
“mythical method” in place of the old “narrative method”
and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think
about “making the modern world possible for art”?
A. Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
B. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
C. James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake
D. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
E. James Joyce’s Ulysses
3. Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen-Eighty-Four in which
Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic self-consciousness of modernist
writers?
A. George Orwell
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Evelyn Waugh
D. Orson Wells
E. Aldous Huxley
4. Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past
imperial glory?
A. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
B. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
D. Paul Scott’s Staying On
E. c and d
5. When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrence’s novel Lady
Chatterley’s Lover, written in 1928.
A. 1930
B. 1945
C. 1960
D. 2000
E. The ban has not yet been formally lifted.
6. Which of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre?
A. the Irish National Theatre
B. the Globe Theatre
C. the Independent Theatre
D. the Abbey Theatre
E. both a and d
7. How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot?
A. “nothing happens-twice”
B. “political correctness gone mad”
C. “kitchen sink drama”
D. “angry young men
E. “better than Cats”
8. What event allowed mainstream theater companies to commission and
perform work that was politically, socially, and sexually controversial without fear
of censorship?
A. the abolition of the Lord Chamberlain’s office in 1968
B. the illegal performance of work by Howard Brenton and Edward Bond
C. the collapse of liberal humanist consensus in the late 1960s
D. the foundation of the Field Day Theater Company in 1980
E. the establishment of the Abbey Theater
9. Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater
since the abolition of censorship in 1968?
A. the rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos
B. the emergence of a major cohort of women dramatists
C. the diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies
D. the death of the musical
E. all but d
10. What did Henry James describe as “loose baggy monsters”?
A. novels
B. plays
C. the English
D. publishers
E. his trousers Open / Comment