801).

The French novelist, Emile zola is a:

A). Realist

B). Naturalist

C). Both 'a' and 'b'

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Naturalist

802). Who among the following is one of the 'University Wits'?

A). Thomas Kyd

B). Shakespeare

C). Both 'a' and 'b'

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Thomas Kyd

803). 'Darkness at Noon' (1941) was written by:

A). George Orwell

B). William Golding

C). Anthony Burgess

D). Arthur Koestler

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Correct Answer: Arthur Koestler

804). 'Cymbeline' was written by:

A). Marlowe

B). Jonson
C). Thomas Kyd

D). Shakespeare

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Correct Answer: Shakespeare

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805). 'Malvalio' is a character in:

A). Romeo and Juliet

B). Two Gentle Men of Verona

C). Twelfth Night

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Twelfth Night

806). For Keats, a good poet is one who responds to life, “what is when man is
capable of being in uncertainities, mysteries doubts, without any irritable
reaching after fact and reason". What is the phrase that Keats coined for this
quality of poetry?

A). Palpable design

B). Intensity

C). Negative Capability

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Negative Capability

807). Who among the following is associated with New Criticism?

A). I.A. Richards

B). Cleanth Brooks

C). David Daiches

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Cleanth Brooks

808). Which of the following novels by Lawrence has an element of

autobiography?

A). The White Peacock

B). Sons and Lovers

C). Rainbow

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Sons and Lovers

809). Name Marlowe's work which was completed by Thomas Nash?

A). The Massacre at Paris

B). Edward II

C). The Tragedy of Dido

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: The Tragedy of Dido

810). James Joyce perfected the following:

A). Science fiction

B). Magical Realism

C). Stream of Consciousness

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Stream of Consciousness

811). The Character 'Prospero' Figures in:

A). Tempest

B). Othello

C). Twelfth Night

D). King Lear

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Correct Answer: Tempest

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812). The sonnets of Shakespeare were dedicated to:

A). His Wife

B). His Father

C). Mr. W.H.

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Mr. W.H.

813). Romantic Movement had its antecedents in:

A). The poetry of Chaucer

B). Shakespearean Comedy

C). The 15th Century Ballad

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: The 15th Century Ballad

814). Shelley in 'Adonaise' implied that Keats death was brought about by:

A). The wife of Keats

B). The indifferent Government

C). Reviewers

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Reviewers

815). The Setting in most of Conrad's novels is:

A). His experiences of the sea.

B). His experiences of Malayan waters

C). Both 'a' and 'b'

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Both 'a' and 'b'

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816). The Cavalier poets' interest was in:

A). Love

B). War
C). Elegy

D). Both 'a' and 'b'

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Correct Answer: Both 'a' and 'b'

817). Joyce's Ulysses is modeled on:

A). Homer's Odyssey

B). Viirgil's Aenied

C). Milton's Paradise Lost

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Homer's Odyssey

818). Can it be said that Henry James' theme is the collision of American
innocence and European experience?

A). Yes

B). No

C). May be

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Yes

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819). Who wrote the following? “Stone walls do not a prison make/Nor iron bars
a cage."

A). Richard Lovelace

B). Robert Herric

C). Abraham Cowley

D). Thomas Carew

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Correct Answer: Richard Lovelace

820). The term, “neo-romanticism" can be associated with:

A). W.H. Auden

B). Ezra Pound

C). T.S. Eliot

D). Dylan Thomas

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Correct Answer: Dylan Thomas

821). The Elizabethan prose writer, John Lily's 'Euphues' gave birth to the word
'Euphuism' because of his ornate style and mechanical devices.

A). Yes

B). No

C). May be

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Yes

823). The novels of the inter War Years (1918-1939) are characteristic of:

A). Expressionism

B). Allusive style

C). Discontinuity of time

D). Formlessness of life

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Correct Answer: All these four

824). Whom did Legouis criticise as one who writes “Charming verses on
nothing"?

A). Marvel

B). John Suckling

C). John Senalam

D). Edmund Waller

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Correct Answer: John Suckling

825). Sir William Thomhill (alias Mr. Burchel) figures in:

A). She Stoops to Conquer

B). Amelia

C). The Vicar of Wakefield

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: The Vicar of Wakefield

826). The Romantic/Pre-Romantic Poetry was influenced by Chatterton's

"Rowley Poems” and Bishop Percy's “Reliques of Ancient English".

A). Certainly yes

B). Certainly No

C). May be

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Certainly yes
827). Who called Chaucer “The father of English Poetry"?

A). Spenser

B). Yeats

C). John Dryden

D). Milton

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Correct Answer: John Dryden

828). Which one of Chaucers tale is in Prose?

A). Pardoners Tale

B). The Cooks Tale

C). The Prioress Tale

D). The Parsons Tale

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Correct Answer: The Parsons Tale

829). Mosca is a character of which writer

A). Ben Jonson

B). Shakespeare

C). Thomas Kyd

D). Samuel Johnson

View Answer

Correct Answer: Ben Jonson

830). Who thinks "Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy
and dead"?
A). James Thurber

B). Spike Milligan

C). T.S. Eliot

D). Ogden Nash

View Answer

Correct Answer: James Thurber

). How many numbers of pilgrims are there in Canterbury Tales?

A). 29

B). 30

C). 60

D). 40

View Answer

Correct Answer: 29
832). Johnsons Dictionary was published in year:

A). 1655

B). 1755

C). 1855

D). 1756

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Correct Answer: 1755

). In whose works does war of roses figure in?

A). Chaucer

B). Shakespeare

C). Sidney
D). Longland

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Correct Answer: Shakespeare

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834). Who wrote, “We all have sufficient strength to bear other people's
misfortune"?

A). Montaigne

B). Bacon

C). Swift

D). La Rochefoucauld

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Correct Answer: La Rochefoucauld

835). Why is Chaucer known as “The earliest of the great modems”?

A). Humour

B). Realism

C). Rejection of Medieval Convention

D). All of these

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Correct Answer: All of these

836). When was “Look Back in Anger" performed

A). 1956

B). 1957
C). 1958

D). 1959

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Correct Answer: 1956

837). Where do the following lines occur: .“Winter is come and gone, But grief
returns with the revolving year”

A). Adonais

B). In Memorium

C). The Blessed Damsel

D). Requiescat.

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Correct Answer: Adonais

838). 'Don Juan' is a specimen of:

A). Narrative epic.

B). Romantic poem

C). Epic satire

D). Heroic play

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Correct Answer: Epic satire

839). Which 20th century poet who alluded to April in one of his poems?

A). Auden

B). Spender

C). Yeats
D). Eliot

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Correct Answer: Eliot

840). Name the poets who wrote “In Memory of W.B. Yeats”

A). Auden

B). Spender

C). Larkin

D). Ted Hughes

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Correct Answer: Auden

841). Who among the following is not a Nobel Prize winner?

A). Thomas Hardy

B). R.N. Tagore

C). Toni Morrison

D). Churchill

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Correct Answer: Thomas Hardy

842). In which year was Shakespeare born?

A). 1564

B). 1965

C). 1566

D). 1567

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Correct Answer: 1564

843). Off the following which one is a Movement Poet?

A). W.B. Yeats

B). Stephen Spender

C). Philip Larkin

D). Ted Hughes

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Correct Answer: Philip Larkin

844). Who wrote the poem 'Light Breaks where no Sun Shines'

A). D.H. Lawrence

B). Dylan Thomas

C). Hardy

D). Kipling

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Correct Answer: Dylan Thomas

845). “My aunt died of influenza : So they said......but its my belief they done the
old women in; who said these lines"?

A). Sam Weller in 'Pickwick Papers'

B). Eliza in 'Pygmalion'

C). Mariam in 'Sons & Lovers'

D). Molly Seagrim in 'Tom Jones'

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Correct Answer: Eliza in 'Pygmalion'

846). Who is not the character of Jane Austen 'Emma'?

A). George Knightley

B). Frank Churchill

C). Catherine Morland

D). Harriet Smith

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Correct Answer: Catherine Morland

847). All about H. Hatler is written by:

A). G.V. Desani

B). R.C. Dutt

C). Toru Dutt

D). R.K. Narayan

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Correct Answer: G.V. Desani

848). When was Tagore's Gitanjali published English?

A). 1905

B). 1912

C). 1915

D). 1921

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Correct Answer: 1912

849). Who are the three Musketears in the novel by Alexander Dumes?

A). Hector, Hestor & Nestor

B). Athos, Porthos & Aramis

C). Arthemidorus, Polybus and Croesus

D). None of the above

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Correct Answer: Athos, Porthos & Aramis

850). Who wrote Great Tradition?

A). T.S. Eliot

B). E.M. Forster

C). F.R. Leavis

D). I.A. Richards

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Correct Answer: F.R. Leavis

851). H.G. Wells has used his novels for the didactic purpose.

A). Yes

B). No

C). May be

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Yes

852). “A selection of the language really used by men", should be the language
of literature. Whose view is this?

A). Coleridge

B). Blake

C). Wordsworth

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Wordsworth

853). More's 'Utopia' shows the influence of

A). Plato's Republic

B). Michiavelli's The Prince

C). Both 'a' and 'b'

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Plato's Republic

854). Which of the following wrote plays that are all tragedies?

A). Shakespeare

B). Marlowe

C). Thomas Dekkar

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Marlowe

855). Who wrote 'Coriolanus'?

A). Marlowe

B). Jonson

C). Shakespeare

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Shakespeare

856). “The principal object..........was to make the incidents of common life
interesting by tracing in them, truely though not ostentatiously, the primary
laws of our nature.” Where do these lines occur?

A). In Lyrical Ballads

B). In Wordsworth's 'Preface' to Lyrical Ballads

C). In Pastorals

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: In Wordsworth's 'Preface' to Lyrical Ballads

857). Who is the writer of “A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever”?

A). John Keats

B). P.B. Shelley

C). Wordsworth

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: John Keats

858). T.S. Eliot compares the evening to “a patient eherized upon a table" by
using the device of a connceit. In which poem do we come across this?

A). The Waste Land

B). The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

C). Four Quartets

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

859). The Pre-Romantics were influenced by the Middle Ages.

A). Yes

B). No

C). May be
D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Yes

860). “Good Morning to the day and next, my gold! Open the shrine that I may
see my saint" These lines are taken from:

A). The Poetaster

B). Cynthias Revels

C). Volpone

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Volpone

861). “Pity would be no more, if we did not make somebody poor." Who wrote
these lines?

A). Wordsworth

B). Coleridge

C). Shelley

D). Blake

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Correct Answer: Blake

862). What is Areopagus?

A). A Work written by John Milton.

B). A movement for the freedom of press.

C). A group of young men who attempt

transplantation of classical metres in English
during the Elizabethan era.
D). None of these

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Correct Answer: A group of young men who attempt transplantation of

classical metres in English during the Elizabethan era.
863). Who is the poet that said, 'I woke one morning and found myself great'?

A). John Keats

B). P.B. Shelley

C). Lord Gordon Byron

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Lord Gordon Byron

864). Joseph Conrad's Technique used in 'Lord Jim' is known as:

A). Oblique narrative

B). Episodic narrative

C). Both 'a' and 'b'

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Oblique narrative

865). 'Utopia' appeared in English translation in the year:

A). 1551

B). 1516

C). 1515

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: 1551

866). Which of the following begins with, “Ours is essentially a tragic age"?

A). Lady Chatterly's Lover

B). Rainbow

C). Under the Greenwood Tree

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Lady Chatterly's Lover

867). The first edition of the 'Encylopaedia Britannica' appeared in:

A). 1815

B). 1717

C). 1771

D). 1900

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Correct Answer: 1771

868). Henry VII, the patron of education came to the throne in:

A). 1485

B). 1414

C). 1458

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: 1485

869). Who wrote “For thy sake, tobacco, would do anything 'but die"?

A). Lord Byron

B). Walter Scott

C). Charles Lamb

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Charles Lamb

870). The Phrase, “Religion by the blood” is associated with:

A). D.H. Lawrence

B). Virginia Woolf

C). E.M. Forster

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: D.H. Lawrence

871). Bacon's 'New Atlantis' which shows the influence of Plato's Republic has
the spirit of Renaissance?

A). Yes

B). No

C). Can not be ascertained

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Yes

872). As a philosopher Coleridge was more interested in the philosophy of:

A). England

B). French

C). German

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: German

873). “Inscape” and “Instress” and “Sprung Rhythm” are associated with:

A). G.M. Hopkins

B). Ezra Pound

C). T.S. Eliot

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: G.M. Hopkins

874). Who employed the Blank Verse firstly?

A). Sackville

B). Norton

C). Both 'a' and 'b'

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Both 'a' and 'b'

875). Keats' Endymion was included in “Cockney school of poetry” of
Blackwood's “Edinburgh Magazine"

A). Yes

B). No

C). Perhaps

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Yes

876). John Drinkwater helped revive the interest in:
A). Historical drama

B). Poetic drama

C). Problem plays

D). Classical drama

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Correct Answer: Poetic drama

877). 'Bartholomew Fair' is a play by:

A). Marlowe

B). Sheridan

C). Ben Jonson

D). Congreve

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Correct Answer: Ben Jonson

878). Shylock, the Jew, is a character in the play:

A). The Jew of Malta

B). The Taming of the Shrew

C). The Merchant of Venice

D). The Alchemist

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Correct Answer: The Merchant of Venice

879). Which play by Shaw is centred round Napolean?

A). Arms and the Man

B). Man and Superman

C). The Man of Destiny

D). The Apple Cart

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Correct Answer: The Man of Destiny

880). .......is the first play by Galsworthy

A). Justice

B). Loyalties

C). The Silver Box

D). The Skin Game

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Correct Answer: The Silver Box

881). The line 'Sweet Helen, make me immortal With a kiss' appears in
Marlowe's play:

A). Doctor Faustus

B). The Jew of Malta

C). Tamburlaine

D). Edward II

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Correct Answer: Doctor Faustus

882). Do G. Rossetti, William Morris and A.C. Swinburne belong to the school of
poetry known as:

A). Decadents

B). Pre-Raphaelites

C). neo-romantics

D). neo-classical
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Correct Answer: Pre-Raphaelites

883). Eliot's 'The Wasteland' concludes with a................word

A). Latin

B). French

C). English

D). Sanskrit

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Correct Answer: Sanskrit

884). Which of these poems has been written by John Masefield?

A). Everlasting Mercy

B). Crow

C). Listeners

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Everlasting Mercy

885). “We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than
to consume wealth without producing it.'' In which play has Shaw expressed this
view?

A). The Devil's Disciple

B). Man and Superman

C). Candida

D). Arms and the Man

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Correct Answer: Candida

886). The first English tragedy was:
A). Everyman

B). Philotas

C). Gorboduc

D). Cleopatra

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Correct Answer: Gorboduc

887). 'Modern Painters' is the longest book by:

A). Hazlitt

B). Leigh Hunt

C). Ruskin

D). Walter Pater

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Correct Answer: Ruskin

888). “That government is best which governs least". Where has Thoreau said
this?

A). Week

B). Walden

C). Civil Disobedience

D). Wild Apples

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Correct Answer: Civil Disobedience

889). Milton's poetic style is usually regarded as:

A). Plain

B). Classical
C). Grand

D). Ornamental

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Correct Answer: Grand

890). Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled

A). Jane Eyre

B). Shirley

C). Wuthering Heights

D). Agnes Grey

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Correct Answer: Wuthering Heights

891). Browning has written chiefly

A). Plays

B). Odes

C). Sonnets

D). Dramatic Monologues

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Correct Answer: Dramatic Monologues

892). 'Thyrsis' and 'The Scholar Gipsy' are Matthew Arnold's:

A). Lyrics

B). Narrative poems

C). Pastoral elegies

D). Dramatic monologues

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Correct Answer: Pastoral elegies
893). Which of the poems mentioned below is not by Browning?

A). Pippa Passes

B). Sordello

C). Empedocles on Etna

D). My Last Duchess

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894). In which poem does Tennyson commemorate his friend Arthur Hallam?

A). The Princess

B). Enoch Arden

C). In Memoriam

D). Maud

View AnswerCorrect Answer: In Memoriam

895). 'Atlanta in Calydon' is the English version of an ancient Greek tragedy,

rendered by:

A). William Morris

B). A.C. Swinburne

C). Arthur Hugh Clough

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: A.C. Swinburne

896). 'Love virtue; she alone is free'. In which work of his has Milton made this
remark?

A). Lycidas

B). Comus
C). Paradise Lost

D). L'Allegro

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Correct Answer: Comus

897). Who is the creator of the character named Sherlock Holmes?

A). Edgar Allen Poe

B). Agatha Christie

C). Arthur Conan Doyle

D). None of these

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Correct Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle

898). Shaw's play 'Arms and the Man' contains a satire on Love and:

A). Marriage

B). War

C). Sex

D). Family

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Correct Answer: War

899). Which modern writer wrote under pseudonym 'Alpha of the Plough'?

A). G.K. Chesterton

B). Bertrand Russell

C). A.G. Gardiner

D). None of these

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900). 'The History of Mr. Polly' by H.G. Wells is

A). a biography

B). a short-story

C). an essay

D). a novel

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Correct Answer: a novel