1.

‘Light breaks where no sunshines’ is written by

A). D.H. Lawrence

B). T.S. Eliot

C). W.B. Yeats

D). Dylan Thomas

Ans (D) Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines by Dylan Thomas describes the effect of hope
that springs in a place where there is total hopelessness.

2. ‘Burlesque’ ‘Parody’ and ‘Travesty’. What is common among these three forms? These
terms…

A). Are the literary forms originated by a common writer

B). Are various forms of satire

C). Commonly occur in the novel alone

D). None of these

Ans (B) Satire has been used in literature for centuries—and there’s a reason for its
longevity: Satire is the art of ridiculing or critiquing a person, situation, or social belief
system through storytelling. As long as there has been someone or something worth
ridicule, there has been satire.

3. Who wrote “When a poet’s mind is perfectly equipped of its work, it is constantly
amalgamating human experience”?

A). T.S. Eliot

B). F.R. Leavis

C). I.A. Richards

D). None of these

Ans (A) The central point of T.S. Eliot’s impersonal theory of poetry is that the poet, the
man, and the poet, the artist are two different entities’. The poet has no personality of his
own. He submerges his own personality, his own feeling, and experience into the
personality and feelings of the subject of his poetry.

4. Which of the following poems by Tennyson is a monodrama?

(a) Ulysses

(b) Break, Break, Break

© Maud

(d) Crossing the Bar

Ans © The narrator sees a woman, Maud, with whom he used to play in his youth. When
she blushes and smiles at him, he is skeptical, but he quickly develops feelings for her.
Tennyson convinces the readers (and the narrator) of Maud’s goodness through her singing,
her religion, and her beauty.

5. The Elgin Marbles inspired Keats to write:

(a) Endymion

(b) Lamia

© The Grecian Urn

(d) Melancholy

Ans (-C) To put it simply this particular Ode celebrates the long lastingness and immortal
beauty of things that are crafted by man be it a sculpture, poem or building every art form
adds to the beauty of the original.

6. “Pope could fix in one couplet more sense than I can do in

Six” who said this?

A). Dr. Johnson

B). Addison

C). Dryden

D). Swift

Ans (D) Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish author who is regarded as one of the foremost
prose satirists in the history of English literature. He wrote essays, poetry, pamphlets, and a
novel. He often published anonymously or under pseudonyms, including Isaac Bickerstaff,
and is noted for his use of ironic invented personas.

7. Who is the writer of the sequence of novels entitled ‘A Dance to the Music of Time’?

A). Aldous Huxley

B). Anthony Powell

C). Kingsley Amis

D). John Braine

Ans (B) A Dance to the Music of Time is a 12-volume roman-fleuve by English writer
Anthony Powell. The story is an often comic examination of movements and manners,
power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid-20th century.

8. Name the poet who belongs to the Victorian age, but is a modern in matters of technique
?

A). Swinburne

B). Rossetti

C). Hopkins

D). Hardy
Ans (C-) Hopkins, the poet, is often categorized as both Victorian and modern. He lived
during the Victorian era, but his innovative use of language and form in poetry, particularly
his use of sprung rhythm and intricate imagery, set him apart from many of his Victorian
contemporaries. As a result, he is sometimes seen as a bridge between the Victorian and
modernist periods in literature.

9. Ottava Rima is a __________ stanza in iambic parameters.

A). six-lined

B). eight-lined

C). four-lined

D). ten-lined

Ans (B) ottava rimas: a stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with a rhyme scheme of
abababcc.

10. Shelley dismissed Keats’ Poetry by saying “Inspite of his transcendental genius Keats
never was, nor ever will be, a popular poet”. Shelley disliked Keats’ poetry because:

A). Keats’ poetry is irrelevant

B). Keats’ poetry is devoid of the revolutionary spirit

C). Keats died young

D). Keats too disliked Shelley’s poetry

Ans (B) Born three years apart, Shelley in August 1792, Keats in October 1795, they died in
consecutive years, Keats in February 1821 and Shelley in July 1822. And yet the two poets
were never exactly friends, and their work is fascinatingly different as well as alike.

11. The founder of the Oxford Movement was ?

A). Thomas Huxley

B). Charles Lamb

C). John Newman

D). John Keble

Ans (c-) Leaders of the movement were John Henry Newman, a clergyman and
subsequently a convert to Roman Catholicism and a cardinal; Richard Hurrell Froude, a
clergyman; John Keble, a clergyman and poet; and Edward Pusey, a clergyman and
professor at Oxford.

12. Who admired Ben Jonson but loved Shakespeare ?

A). Pope

B). Hazlitt

C). Coleridge

D). Dryden

Ans (D) Dryden’s love for Shakespeare cannot be better expressed but in these words of
his. “ Shakespeare was the Homer or Father of our Dramatic Poets; Jonson was the Virgil,
the Pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.”

13. How many years did Tennyson take in composing In Memoriam ?

A). Nearly 17 years

B). Nearly 10 years

C). Nearly 1 years

D). Nearly 20 years

Ans (A) Tennyson’ Poem In Memoriam is a very long one. It was written for 17 years from
1833 to 1849 and was published in 1850 as a single poem. The poem is divided into 133
Cantos including Prologue and Epilogue. There are minimum 3 and maximum 36 stanzas in
a Canto , total 723 stanzas.

14. The rhym ing scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is:

A). ab ba, abba, cde, cde

B). ab ba, ab ba, cd cd, ee

C). ab ab, cd cd, ef ef, gg

D). aa bb, bb cc, de, de ff

Ans (C-) Shakespearean sonnets usually have the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
This means that the first and third lines must rhyme, and the second and fourth lines must
rhyme.

15. The term ‘apron stage’ refers to ?

A). Greek theatre

B). Brechtion theatre

C). Greek theatre

D). Elizabethan theatre

Ans (D) The apron is any part of the stage that extends past the proscenium arch and into
the audience or seating area. The Elizabethan stage, which was a raised platform with the
audience on three sides, is an outstanding example.

16. T.S. Eliot’s line “Sweet Thames run softly till I end my song” is a quotation from:

A). Shakespeare

B). Spenser

C). Wordsworth
D). Donne

Ans (B) Eliot took these lines from Edmund Spenser’s The Prothalamion.

17. The group known as the Movement Poets does not include:

A). W.H Auden

B). KingsleyAmis

C). Robert Conquest

D). Philip Larkin

Ans (A) The Movement was a term coined in 1954 by J. D. Scott, literary editor of The
Spectator, to describe a group of writers including Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Donald
Davie, D. J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn and Robert Conquest.

18. Wordsworth was accused of being ‘the lost leader’ by ?

A). Shelley

B). Browning

C). Arnold

D). Hardy

Ans (B) The Lost Leader is a poem by Robert Browning first published in his book Dramatic
Romances and Lyrics. It berates William Wordsworth for what Browning considered his
desertion of the liberal cause and his lapse from his high idealism.

19. Hardy’s title Far From the Madding Crowd is taken from a poem by ?

A). Gray

B). Collins
C). Wordsworth

D). Keats

Ans (A) The title comes from Thomas Gray’s famous 18 th-century poem “Elegy Written in a
Country Churchyard”: “Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife, their sober wishes
never learned to stray; along the cool sequestered vale of life, they kept the noiseless tenor
of their way.”

20. The observation “He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other
poets, is only victory in him” – is about?

A). Ben Jonson

B). Shakespeare

C). Beaumont

D). Fletcher

Ans (A) These words are written by John Dryden in his famous work Essay on Dramatic
Poesy.

21. In Lycidas “the Pilot of the Gallean lake” refers to:

A). Jesus Christ

B). Pontius Pilate

C). St. Peter

D). John the Baptist

Ans C (St. Peter) “Lycidas” is a pastoral elegy by 17 th-century English poet John Milton. The
poem is a lament for the death of Edward King, a young fellow poet whom Milton knew at
Cambridge University.
22. In which of his books does Carlyle discuss “the condition of England question”?

A). Sartor Resartus

B). On Heroes, Hero – worship, and the Heroic in Poetry

C). French Revolution

D). Chartism

Ans (D) In “Chartism,” Carlyle explores the origins and development of the Chartists’
movement, highlighting the social and economic conditions that fueled discontent among
the working class.

23. Whose style Was Praised by Dr. Johnson as “elegant but not oustentatious, familiar but
not ostentatious, familiar but not coarse”?

A). Addison

B). Fielding

C). Dryden

D). Goldsmith

Ans (A) These lines were written by Samuel John in the biography called Life of Addison.
Johnson also said, “His poetry is polished and pure; the product of a mind too judicious to
commit faults, but not sufficiently vigorous to attain excellence. “

24. Who, among the following, is not one of the “The Pylon poets”?

A). W.H. Auden

B). Stephen Spender

C). Day Lewis

D). W.B. Yeats

Ans (D) A nickname for the group of younger left‐wing poets of the 1930s, chiefly Auden,
Day‐Lewis, MacNeice, and Spender, alluding to the rather self‐conscious use of industrial
imagery in their work. Spender’s poem ‘The Pylons’ was published in 1933.

25. By “Pathetic fallacy” is meant ?

A). Building up misplaced pathos

B). Making a sad error

C). Treating inanimate objects as animate

D). Investing objects with human emotions

Ans (D) Pathetic fallacy is the attribution of human emotion to inanimate objects, nature, or
animals. Writers use the pathetic fallacy to evoke a specific mood or feeling that usually
reflects their own or a character's internal state.

26. The Gates of Paradise is by ??

A). William Blake

B). Robet Southey

C). John Milton

D). Dante Alighieri

Ans (A) The central concern of The Gates of Paradise is man’s predicament qua man.
Blake’s engravings are a sequential representation of human experience from infancy to
death, designed to illuminate the reader with moral and spiritual insights.

27. The story of Arnold’s Sohrab and Rustum is taken from ??

A). Omar Khayyam

B). Folk literature

C). The Arabian Nights

D). Firdausi

Ans (D) The story is taken from Firdausi’s Persian epic. It recounts, in blank verse adorned
by epic similes, the fatal outcome of Sohrab’s search for his father Rustum, the leader of
the Persian forces. Rustum (who believes his own child to be a girl) accepts the challenge
of Sohrab, now leader of the Tartars: the two meet in single combat, at first unaware of one
another’s identity, which is confirmed only when Sohrab has been mortally wounded.

28. Identify the critic who has explained the distinction between organic form and
mechanical form ??

A). Eliot

B). Coleridge

C). Lamb

D). Wordsworth

Ans (B) Organic form, the structure of a work that has grown naturally from the author’s
subject and materials as opposed to that of a work shaped by and conforming to artificial
rules. The concept was developed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to counter the arguments of
those who claimed that the works of William Shakespeare were formless.

29. The first-example of blank verse in English is ?

A). Chaucer’s Roman de ta Rose

B). Langland’s Piers the Plowman

C). Surrey’s Translation of the Second Aeneid

D). Michael Drayton’s Shepherd’s Garland

Ans (C-) The first known use of blank verse in English was by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
in his translation of the Aeneid (composed c. 1540; published posthumously, 1554–1557).
30. Miracle plays were based on ?

A). Stories from the Bible

B). Stories from the lives of the saints

C). Marvellous happenings and events

D). Concepts of Christian theology

Ans (B) Miracle plays were a popular form of medieval English drama. These plays depicted
religious stories and events, particularly biblical narratives and the lives of saints.

31. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” This line occurs
in??

A). Animal Farm

B). Gulliver’s Travels

C). The Lord of the Flies

D). Nineteen Eighty four

Ans (A) A proclamation by the pigs who control the government in the novel Animal Farm,
by George Orwell . The sentence is a comment on the hypocrisy of governments that
proclaim the absolute equality of their citizens but give power and privileges to a small
elite.

32. Which novelist is primarily known for his/her epistolary novels ?

A). Jane Austen

B). Defoe

C). Fielding

D). Richardson
Ans (D) Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) is an English author known for three major
epistolary novels: Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa, or The History of a Young
Lady (1748), and The History of Sir Grandison (1753).

33. What does Renaissance mean??

A). Rebirth

B). Back to Nature

C). New beginning

D). Elizabethan age

Ans (A) The Name Renaissance means ‘Rebirth’ in French. It got the name as it symbolised
the beginning of a new era of art, rebirthing the classical models of Ancient Greek and
Roman periods while using modern techniques.

34. “Imagism,” a poetic movement flourished in England and America between 1912-1917.
Who of the following was/were associated with it?

A). D. H. Lawrence

B). Amy Lowell

C). Ezra Pound

D). All of the above

Ans (D) Imagism was a sub-genre of Modernism concerned with creating clear imagery
with sharp language. The essential idea was to re-create the physical experience of an
object through words.

35. A metrical foot containing a stressed, followed by an unstressed, syllable is ?

A). Anapaest

B). lamb
C). Trochee

D). Dactyle

Ans (C.) A metrical foot consisting of an accented syllable followed by an unaccented

syllable. Examples of trochaic words include “garden” and “highway.” William Blake opens
“The Tyger” with a predominantly trochaic line: “Tyger! Tyger!

36. Who is the writer of the following line: “Thoughts that breathe and words that burn” ??

A). Shelley in ‘Defence of Poetry’

B). Gray in ‘The Progress of Poetry’

C). Wordsworth in ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’

D). Johnson in ‘The Lives of Poets’

Ans (B) “The Progress of Poesy” is a brief retelling of poetry’s history. Proceeding in rough
chronological order, the poem’s speaker begins with the ancient Greeks, continues to the
Roman era, and concludes with their contemporary England.

37. Who wrote the following lines on Sheridan: “Nature formed but one such man, and
broke the die in moulding Sheridan.”

A). Shelley in Adonais

B). Milton in Lycidas

C). M. Arnold in Thyrsis

D). Byron in “Death of Sheridan” (1816)

Ans (D) Lord Byron wrote this pastoral elegy on the death of Sheridan.

38. The Gothic novel is satirised in?

A). The Mysteries of Udolpho

B). Northanger Abbey

C). Mill on the Floss

D). The Heart of Midlothian

Ans (B) Northanger Abbey, one of Jane Austen’s first novels, contains some features of
sentimentalism but in particular it is a parody of the Gothic novel, which was very popular
at Austen’s time. The author employs its elements and tries to satirize them. She ridicules
the people’s desire for something mysterious and supernatural.

39. Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus is ?

A). An autobiography

B). A fictive biography

C). A biography

D). A fictive autobiography

Ans (D) Sartor Resartus was intended to be a new kind of book: simultaneously factual and
fictional, serious and satirical, speculative and historical. It ironically commented on its
own formal structure, while forcing the reader to confront the problem of where “truth” is to
be found.

40. Which of the following plays by G.B. Shaw attacks Darwinism?

A). Back to Methusela

B). Candida

C). Man and Superman

D). St. Joan

Ans (A) Back to Methusela attacks Darwinism. In this not-very-stageable play in five parts,
Shaw expounds on mankind and the theory of evolution, from Adam and Eve in the Garden
of Eden to a paradise world 30,000 years in the future.

41. W.H. Auden wrote “Homage to Clio”. Which discipline is she the Muse of?

A). Poetry

B). Dancing

C). History

D). Learning

Ans (C.) Homage to Clio, collection of light verse by W.H. Auden, published in 1960. The
collection is known for its austere craftsmanship, stylistic variety, and ironic wit.

42. The theme of Bacon’s The New Atlantis is ??

A). Pursuit of knowledge

B). Discovery of the new world

C). Advancement of science

D). Democratic political philosophy

Ans (B) The New Atlantis is a symbol of progress, of the faith in science and technology,
which was meant to finally lead to human mastery over nature.

43. The Suffragette movement Was a movement for:

A). Social reform

B). Redress of sufferings

C). Women’s rights

D). Children’s rights

Ans (C.) The Suffragettes were part of the ‘Votes for Women’ campaign that had long fought
for the right of women to vote in the UK. They used art, debate, propaganda, and attack on
property including window smashing and arson to fight for female suffrage.

44. In which of the following plays , Shakespeare attacks the Puritans?

A). Richard II

B). Twelfth Night

C). The Merchant of Venice

D). The Comedy of Errors

Ans (B) Through Malvolio, Puritans were depicted as being social extremist, always dressed
in black, unhappy, and killjoy, believing that distractions were sinful.

45. Milton’s Areopagitica is a defence of ?

A). Reason against imagination

B). Freedom to form unions

C). Freedom of thought

D). Freedom of expression

Ans (D) The major arguments of Areopagitica are those advocating freedom of the press.
Milton argued that the government should not be allowed to punish individuals simply
because they printed text that was controversial.

46. The concept of “mad woman in the attic” can be traced to ?

A). The tenant of Wildfell Hall

B). Jane Eyre

C). Wuthering Heights

D). Villette

Ans (B) Gilbert and Gubar draw their title from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, in which
Rochester’s wife (Bertha Mason) is kept secretly locked in an attic apartment by her
husband.

47. A novel tracing the development of the artist is known as ??

A). Bildungsroman

B). Erziehungsroman

C). Kunstleroman

D). Graeco Roman

Ans (C.) Künstlerroman, (German: “artist’s novel”), class of Bildungsroman, or

apprenticeship novel, that deals with the youth and development of an individual who
becomes—or is on the threshold of becoming—a painter, musician, or poet.

48. Who is said to be the first to translate the Bible into English direct from original Hebrew
and Greek texts ??

A). William Tyndale

B). Reynolds

C). Crammer

D). Parker

Ans (A) William Tyndale (1494-1536), a gifted scholar and linguist, was the first to translate
the Bible into English from the original Hebrew and Greek.

49. Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

A). Chaucer used the rhyme royal, a stanzaic form in some of his major poems.

B). Chaucer was the author of The Legend of Good Women.

C). Chaucer wrote in English when the court poetry of his day was written in Anglo-Norman
and Latin.

D). Chaucer wrote The Book Named the Governor

Ans (D) Chaucer didn’t write any book called The Governor.

50. John Dryden in his heroic tragedy All for Love takes the story of Shakespeare’s ??

A). Troilus and Cressida

B). The Merchant of Venice

C). Antony and Cleopatra

D). Measure for Measure

Ans (C.) All For Love It is a tragedy written in blank verse and is an attempt on Dryden’s part
to reinvigorate serious drama. It is an acknowledged imitation of Shakespeare’s Antony and
Cleopatra, and focuses on the last hours of the lives of its hero and heroine.