1. In Pinter's Birthday Party, Stanley is given a birthday present. What is it?
2. How does Lord Jim end?
3. "Where I lacked a political purpose, I wrote lifeless books." To which of the
following authors can we attribute the above admission?
4. Modernism has been described as being concerned with "disenchantment of
our culture with culture itself". Who is the critic?
5. "Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, still flutters there, the sole
unquiet thing."
The above lines are quoted from
6. Which one of the following modern poems employs ottava rima?
7. John Dryden in his heroic tragedy All for Love takes the story of
Shakespeare's
8. Arrange the following works in the order in which they appear. Identify the
correct code:
I. No Longer at Ease
II. Things Fall apart
III. A Man of the People
IV. Arrow of God
The correct combination according to the code is:
Code:
9. Samuel Pepys kept his diary from
10. In the Defence of Poetry, what did Sydney attribute to poetry?
11. An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot presents portraits of the following
contemporary individuals:
12. Match the following authors with their works:
List - A
I. Alice Walker
II. Ralph Ellison
III. Richard Wright
IV Zora Neale Hurston
List - B
1. Invisible Man
2. The Colour Purple
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God
4. Native Son
Which is the correct combination according to the code?
I II III IV
13. Which of these plays by Shakespeare does not use 'cross-dressing' as a
device?
14. Which of the following works cannot be categorised under postcolonial
theory?
15. Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a classic statement of
_________ Philosophy.
16. "Power circulates in all directions, to and from all social levels, at all times."
Who said this?
17. Which one of the following is not written by an Australian Aboriginal
writer?
18. Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of Surrey jointly brought out Tottel's
Miscellany during the Renaissance.
Identify the name of the Earl of Surrey from the following:
19. Match the following lists:
(Novelists)
I. Margaret Laurence
II. Margaret Atwood
III. Sinclair Ross
IV. Thomas King
(Novels)
1. Surfacing
2. The Stone Angel
3. Medicine River
4. As for Me and My House
Which is the correct combination according to the code?
I II III IV
20. The dramatic structure of Restoration comedies combines in it the features
of
I. The Elizabethan Theatre
II. The Neoclassical Theatre of Italy and France
III. The Irish Theatre
IV. The Greek Theatre
The correct combination according to the code is
Codes:
21. Which American poet wrote: "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of
the world"?
22. The etymological meaning of the word "trope" is
23. Who among the following English poets defined poetic imagination as "a
repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite 'I AM'
"?
24. Little Nell is a character in Dickens'
25. Match the following:
(Schools/Concept of Criticism)
I. Formalism
II. New Critics
III. Psychological Theory of the Value of Literature
IV. Literary art as archetypal image
(Critics)
1. John Crow Ransom
2. The Jungians
3. Victor Shklovsky
4. I.A. Richards
The correct combination according to the code is:
I II III IV
26. In the late seventeenth century a "Battle of Books" erupted between which
two groups?
27. "Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day Love's pleasure
drives his love away...." In the above quote the last line is an example of
28. Match the author with the work:
(Authors)
I. Kingsely Amis
II. Allan Silletoe
III. Doris Lessing
IV. Jean Rhys
(Works)
1. Saturday and Sunday Morning
2. The Golden Note Book
3. The Left Bank
4. Lucky Jim
Which is the correct combination according to the code?
Code:
I II III IV
29. In which of Hardy's novels does the character Abel Whittle appear?
30.The phrase "dark satanic mills" has become the most famous description of
the force at the centre of the industrial revolution. The phrase was used by
31. "Five miles meandering with a mazy motion through wood and dale the
scared river ran." Where does this 'sacred river' directly run to?
32. Who is the twentieth century poet, a winner of the Nobel Prize for
literature who rejected the label "British" though he has always written in
English rather than his regional language?
33. Which of the following statements best describes Sir Thomas Browne's
Religion Medici?
A. It is a story of conversion or providential experiences.
B. It emphasizes Browne's love of mystery and wonder.
C. It is full of angst, melancholy and dread of death.
D.It reports the facts of Browne's life.
34. Which of the following characters from Eliot's Waste Land is not correctly
mentioned?
35. Which one of the following best describes the general feeling expressed in
literature during the last decade of the Victorian era?
36. Which poem by Shelley bears the alternative title, "The Spirit of Solitude"?
37. Which tale in The Canterbury Tales uses the tradition of the Beast Fable?
38. At the end of Sons and Lovers Paul Morel
39. When you say "I love her eyes, her hair, her nose, her cheeks, her lips" you
are using a rhetorical device of
40. The following are two lists of plays and characters. Match them.
