1. In the following cluster of poems by Shelley, which one has the voyage
motif?
2. In Sydney's sonnet sequence, Astrophil and Stella, the final sonnet (#108)
3. Who among the following English writers opposed the Licensing Act of 1643?
4. Who claimed: "I have not published a single paper that is not written in a
spirit of benevolence and with a love of mankind"?
5. A protagonist writes a letter of confession, but it gets lost under the carpet
only to be found on the wedding day. Who is the protagonist?
6. In an age of pressurized happiness, we sometimes grow insensitive to subtle
joys. The italicised words are an example of
7. In Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock, Hale is murdered with the help of
' brighton rock' which is
8. Which poet among this group does not belong to the 'Auden Generation'
group of poets?
9. In Lord of the Flies which character comes to realize that the 'beast' is
actually the evil inside the boys themselves and it is that which is breaking
things up?
10. Which text exempliflies the anti-Victorian feeling prevalent in the early
twentieth century?
I. Eminent Victorians
II. Jungle Book
III. Philistine Victorians
IV. The Way of All Flesh
The correct combination according to the code is
11. What event allowed mainstream British theatre companies to commission
and performs work that was politically, socially and sexually controversial
without fear of censorship?
12. The Wife of Bath' s philosophy ofmarriage shows that she
13. Which of the following characters is killed in Achebe's Things Fall Apart in
conformity with an African tribal custom?
14. " We will do it, I tell you; we will do it." The repetition of a phrase is
15. Find the poet who is the odd one in the group:
16. Which one of the following characters in Shakespeare's Tempest is
associated with the Earth?
17. In the Advancement of Learning Bacon attempted a preliminary survey of
the entire field of learning, by analyzing the principal obstacles to its
advancement. Identify from among the following choices the one that he did
not mention as an obstacle:
18. Who among this group of youngmale characters in Jane Austen’snovels is
not sent to the University for Education?
19. Charles Dickens caricatured utilitarian thinking with telling directness in
his portrayal of
20. Which one of the following playwrights will not be covered under the
category / term ' Theatre of the Absurd ' ?
21. The following are two lists of lines from poems and their titles. Match
them:
(Lines from poems)
I. "The squat pen rests as snug as a gun. "
II. "A serious house on serious earth it is. "
III. "Time held me green and dying. "
IV. "I hold creation in my foot. "
Which is the correct combination according to the above code?
I II III IV
22. _________ is the use of words whose pronunciation imitates the sound the
word describes.
23. Arrange the following books in the order in which they appeared. Use the
code given below:
I. The Dictionary of the English Language
II. The History of Rasselas
III. The Vanity of Human Wishes
IV. Lives of the English Poets
Which is the correct combination according to the above code?
24. Arrange the following forms in the order in which they appeared. Use the
code given below:
I. commedia dell'arte
II. Confessional poetry
III. Agitprop
IV. Picaresque novel
The correct combination is:
Code:
25. Which of the following poems deals with neighbourly relations?
26. The following are two lists of writers and their works. Match them:
(Writers)
I. Katherine Susannah Prichard
II. Colin Johnson
III. Sally Morgan
IV. Jack Davis
(Works)
1. Barungin
2. My Place
3. Wild Cat Falling
4. Coonardoo
Which is the correct combination according to the above code?
I II III IV
27. How does John Stuart Mill define ' happiness ' ?
28. " Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime …
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near." Andrew
Marvell in these lines emphasizes the theme of
29. The following are two lists of dramatists and their plays. Match them:
(Dramatists)
I. George Etheredge
II. William Wycherley
III. John Vanbrugh
IV. William Congreve
(Plays)
1. The Country Wife
2. The Man of Mode
3. The Double Dealer
4. The Provok'd Wife
The correct combination is:
I II III IV
30. The following are two lists of writers and their works. Match them:
(Works)
1. Drums of My Flesh
2. Trishanku
3. Jasmine
4. Anil's Ghost
(Writers)
I. Uma Parameswaran
II. Bharati Mukherjee
III. Michael Ondaatje
IV. Cyril Dabydeen
Which is the correct combination according to the above code?
I II III IV
31. Dryden' s dramatization of Paradise Lost is entitled
32. Two pioneering feminist tracts, Kate Millet's Sexual Politics and Germaine
Greer's The Female Eunuch were published in
33. Who defined poetry as 'the best words in the best order'?
34. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by "Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe"?
35. Conrad's Heart of Darkness presents two conflicting discourses present in
his own culture. Identify the two discourses from the following:
36. Who among the following poets defined free verse as playing tennis
without a net?
37. Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays except
38. According to Barthes, a text which draws attention to its artifice, to the
ways in which it is structured, is called
39. Which of the following descriptions is not applicable to Pope's The Rape of
the Lock?
40. From the following list, choose the work which is not written by E.M.
Forster:
41. The ' Vulgate Bible' was prepared to make the Bible available to
42. Literary works such as Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, Samuel Butler's
The Way of All Flesh and James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
provide examples of which following novelistic form?
43. " I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!" expresses a pathetic cry of a
wounded heart from "Ode to the West Wind" by Shelley. The poem consists of
44. In the Fall of Hyperion Keats's Muse
45. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil
particularly regarding the issue of religion just after the Restoration?
46. Who among the Victorian authors has described himself/herself as an
agnostic?
Preface to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth was written by
48. Who among the following theorists formulated the concept of the utile
dulci, profit combined with delight?
49. Out of the four humours of the body, the Jacobeans thought of themselves
as especially prone to
50. Who among the following Romantic poets ended his life, lauded and
respected as 'The Sage of High gate'?
