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1. One
of the following dramatists did not belong to the group of ‘University Wits’.
Identify him:
1) Robert Greene ?
2) Shakespeare
3)
Thomas Nash
4)
John Lyly
Answer - 2) Shakespeare
(University Wits were studied either at Cambridge or Oxford University. Prominent members of this group were Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Thomas Nashe from Cambridge, and John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, George Peele from Oxford. Thomas Kyd is also sometimes included in the group, though he is not believed to have studied at university. Shakespeare was certainly not the part of University Wits)
2.
Spenser’s Amoretti is ———————
1) A Collection Of His Poems
2) A Collections Of His Love Sonnets
3) A Collection Of His Miscellaneous Songs
4) An Elegy on the death of Sidney
Answer
- 2) A Collections Of His Love Sonnets
(The
89 love sonnets assert Spencer’s courtship and
eventual marriage to Elizabeth Boyle.)
3. The
Puritans closed the public theaters in ———————
1)
October 1642
2) September 1642
3) February 1642
4) November 1642
Answer - 2) September 1642
4. Who is the author of The Medal?
1) John Wilmot
2) John Dryden
3) Aphra Behn
4) Matthew Prior
Answer - 2) John Dryden
5. ——————— is the best and the most entertaining of Smollett’s novel
1) Humphrey Clinker
2) A Sentimental Journey
3) Peregrine Pickle
4) The Adventures of Roderick Random
Answer - 1) Humphrey Clinker
6. “There pass with melancholy state
By all the solemn heaps of Fate”.
By all the solemn heaps of Fate”.
These lines are from the ——————— poem
1) A Night- Piece on Death
2) A Hymn to Contenment
3) Hermit
4) A Nocturnal Reverie
Answer - 1) A Night- Piece on Death
7. Who is the author of the poem The Giaour?
1) Clare
2) Byron
3) Shelley
4) Keats
Answer - 2) Byron
8. Goethe’s Wilelm Meister’s Apprenticeship is translated by ——
1) Macaulay
2) Ruskin
3) Caryle
4) Dickens
Answer - 3) Caryle
9. William Slubbs, Edward A. Freeman and Samuel R. Gardiner were ——————— of
the Victorian Period
1) Historians
2) Dramatics
3) Poets
4) Painters
Answer - 1) Historians
10. The Parliament Act of ——————— is the most important piece of
legislation in the constitutional history of Britain in the 20th century
1) 1922
2) 1933
3) 1911
4) 1910
Answer - 3) 1911
11. ——————— contributes to the abolition of theatre censorship in UK with
his play, Saved
1) Tom Stoppard
2) Edward Bond
3) Michelene Wandor
4) Samuel Beckett ?
Answer - 2) Edward Bond
12. Shepard received the ——————— for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried
Child
1) Pulitzer Prize
2) Drama Desk Award
3) Emmy Award
4) PEN American Award
Answer - 1) Pulitzer Prize
13. Gayathri Chakravarthy Spivak discusses the “Feminism and Critical
Theory” with the ideas of ———————
1) Karl Marx
2) Roman Jakobson
3) Jacques Derrida
4) Jacques Lacon
Answer - 1) Karl Marx
14. Levi Straes describes bricolage not only as an intellectual activity but also as a ______________ activity
1) Mythopoetical
2) Realpoetical
3) Sociopoetical
4) Culturalpoetical
Answer - 1) Mythopoetical
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15. Shakespeare’s line “To be a comrade with the wolf and the owl” is an
example of ———————
1) Metonymy
2) Synecdoche
3) Antonomasia
4) Epithet
Answer - 2) Synecdoche
16. Treating loft and elevated subject in a low and prosaic manner is known as
1) Mock- heroic
2) Burlesque
3) Ludicrous hyperbole
4) Personification
Answer - 2) Burlesque
17. Euphuism attributes to the labored and affected style employed by
——————— in his “Euphues and his England”
1) Spencer
2) Thomas Nash
3) Oscar wilde
4) John Lyly
Answer - 4) John Lyly
18. Thomas More’s Utopia was published in ———————
1) 1515
2) 1516
3) 1517
4) 1518
Answer - 2) 1516
19. Marlowe's Hero and Leander version is heavily influenced by the work of
the classical poet ———————
1) Homer
2) Virgil
3) Ovid
4) Dante
Answer - 3) Ovid
20. ——————— of Shakespeare’s plays were published during his lifetime in
the small-format, inexpensive books called quartos
1) Eighteen
2) Twenty
3) Twenty-four
4) Twenty-five
Answer - 1) Eighteen
21. The play The Devil Is an Ass is written by ———————
1) Thomas Lodge
2) Thomas Nashe
3) Robert Greene
4) Ben Jonson
Answer - 4) Ben Jonson
22. The Pilgrim's Progress is the most popular allegory in English
and its basic metaphor involves life as ———————
1) a curse
2) an experience
3) a journey
4) a game
Answer - 3) a journey
23. Dryden’s play, All for Love, owes much to Shakespeare’s ———
1) Much Ado about Nothing
2) As You Like It
3) Romeo and Juliet
4) Antony and Cleopatra
Answer - 4) Antony and Cleopatra
24. Pope criticized ——————— in his famous “Atticus Passage” which appears in his “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot”
1) Addison ?
2) Steele
3) Heywood
4) Lord Hervey ?
Answer – 1 & 4
(Atticus passage in the poem referes to Joseph
Addison who was famous for his Attic Prose. Lord John Hervey was called as
‘Sprous’ in the poem. Both are attacked in “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” - Addison is presented as having great talent that is
diminished by fear and jealousy; Hervey is sexually perverse, malicious, and
both absurd and dangerous. Also refer Q. No. 45)
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be challenged.
25. Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France is an
attack on the French Revolution and its —————— sympathizers.
1) French
2) English
3) Whig
4) Tory
Answer - 2) English
26. Byron’s, ——————— is a devastating satire on the life and death of
George III.
1) Don Juan
2) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
3) The Vision of Judgment
4) “When we two parted”
Answer - 3) The Vision of Judgment
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27. In the end of the poem The Princess, by Tennyson, ——————— and
the prince look forward to a future in which man will be "more of woman,
she of man."
1) Lidia
2) Lida
3) Ida
4) Eva
Answer - 3) Ida
28. ——————
is criticized by feminists for both for the sentimentality of its ideal of
woman and for the oppressive effect of this ideal on women's lives
1) Browning’s Men and Women
2) Coventry Patmore’s The Angel in the House
3) John Ruskin’s ‘‘Of Queens’ Gardens’’
4) Mill’s The Subjection of Women
Answer - 3) John Ruskin’s ‘‘Of Queens’ Gardens’’
29. The novella Heart of Darkness deals
with the story of the Seaman ——————— who, fresh from Europe, is sent on a boat
journey up the Congo River to relieve Kurtz
1) Fresleven
2) Kurtz
3) Marlow
4) Brickmaker
Answer - 3) Marlow
30. E.M. Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread is a ———————
projection of conflicts between refined English gentility and coarse Italian
vitality
1) tragicomic
2) comic
3) tragic
4) unfinished
Answer - 1) tragicomic
31. In Endgame Hamm's parents Nell and Nagg live in two ———————
1) garbage cans
2) small rooms
3) corners
4) sacks
Answer - 1) garbage cans
32. Thom Gunn’s ——————— explores the conflict between “instinct” and
“poise.”
1) Black Jackets
2) “On the Move”
3) Still Life
4) The Missing
Answer - 2) “On the Move”
33. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog is an autobiographical
work by ———————
1) James Joyce
2) W.H. Auden
3) Dylan Thomas
4) George Orwell
Answer - 3) Dylan Thomas
34. Hemmingway’s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is about the ———————
Civil War
1) Spanish
2) American
3) French
4) British
Answer - 1) Spanish
35. The Canadian short-story writer Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in
Literature in ———————
1) 2011
2) 2012
3) 2013
4) 2014
Answer - 3) 2013
36.
Similes which are used for the purpose of explaining a subject fully may more
properly be called ———————
1) Demonstrations
2) Demonstrative Similes
3) Illustrations
4) Explanatory Similes
Answer - 3) Illustrations
37. ——————— is a stanza of seven heroic verses, the first five rhyming at
intervals, and the Last two in succession
1) Rhyme Royal
2) Ottava Rima
3) Septian
4) Pertrarchan Stanza
Answer - 1) Rhyme Royal
38. The main part of the first book printed in England The Dictes and
Sayengis of the Philosophers was the work of ———————
1) William Caxton
2) Lord Rivers
3) Reginald Pecock
4) John Fisher
Answer - 2) Lord Rivers
39. Certayne Ecloges by Alexander Barclay is the earliest English
collection of —————
1) Pastorals
2) Masque
3) Satire
4) Elegy
Answer - 1) Pastorals
40. The stock pastoral characters such as Cuddie, Colinclout and Perigot
take part in ———————
1) The Ruins of Time
2) The Tears of the Muses
3) Mother Hubberd’s Tale
4) The Shepheards Calender
Answer - 4) The Shepheards Calender
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41. ——————— gives in the first examples of romantic comedy through his Campaspe and The Woman in the Moone
1) William Cartwright
2) John Lyly
3) John Day
4) John Mason
Answer - 2) John Lyly
42.
——————— was the first great English Neoclassic for whom the chief function of
literature was to instruct
1) Ben Jonson ?
2) John Skelton
3)
Robert Southey
4) Edmund Spenser
Answer – Samuel Johnson
Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson
That
this is a practice contrary to the rules of criticism will be readily allowed;
but there is always an appeal open from criticism to nature. The end of
writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing. That
the mingled drama may convey all the instruction of tragedy or comedy cannot be
denied, because it includes both in its alterations of exhibition and
approaches nearer than either to the appearance of life, by shewing how great
machinations and slender designs may promote or obviate one another, and the
high and the low co-operate in the general system by unavoidable concatenation.
43. Amelioration, a word derived from the latin word ‘melior’ meaning
1) Bitter
2) Better
3) Wholesome
4) Best
Answer - 2) Better
44. Pejoration is a process that attaches ——————— connotations to a word
1) Positive
2) Negative
3) Stipulative
4) Denotative
Answer - 2) Negative
45. Addison is a master of the
1) Tactic prose
2) Attic prose
3) Monic prose
4) Classic prose
Answer - 2) Attic prose
46. Pope’s the Dunciad places ——————— as the favourite of the goddess of
Dullness
1) Theobald
2) Newton
3) Rebold
4) Thompson
Answer - 1) Theobald
47. A group of poets of the 18th century who took death ,loss and mourning
as the theme of their poems were called
1) Graveyard school of poetry
2) Mourning School of poetry
3) Blind faith school of poetry
4) Foreshadowing school of poetry
Answer - 1) Graveyard school of poetry
48. Critics of consciousness are also called as
1) Geneva school of Critics
2) Chicago school of Critics
3) Kitchen school of Critics
4) Russian school of Critics
Answer - 1) Geneva school of Critics
49.
Ecriture is a term which refers to
1) Writing which is creation
2)
Writing which is automation
3)
Writing which is verification
4)
Writing which is moderation
Answer - 1) Writing which is creation
50. Who is the architect of the “Theatre of Cruelty”?
1) Grotowski
2) Stanislavski
3) Eugene O’Neill
4) Antonin Artaud
Answer - 4) Antonin Artaud
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SHORT ANSWER KEY – PAPER
II
1.
2) Shakespeare
2.
2) A Collections Of His Love Sonnets
3.
2) September 1642
4.
2) John Dryden
5.
1) Humphrey Clinker
6.
1) A Night- Piece on Death
7.
2) Byron
8.
3) Caryle
9.
1) Historians
10.
3) 1911
11.
2) Edward Bond
12.
1) Pulitzer Prize
13.
1) Karl Marx
14.
1) Mythopoetical
15.
2) Synecdoche
16.
2) Burlesque
17.
4) John Lyly
18.
2) 1516
19.
3) Ovid
20.
1) Eighteen
21.
4) Ben Jonson
22.
3) a journey
23.
4) Antony and Cleopatra
24.
Answer – 1 & 4?
25.
2) English
26.
3) The Vision of Judgment
27.
3) Ida
28.
3) John Ruskin’s ‘‘Of Queens’ Gardens’’
29.
3) Marlow
30.
1) tragicomic
31.
1) garbage cans
32.
2) “On the Move”
33.
3) Dylan Thomas
34.
1) Spanish
35.
3) 2013
36.
3) Illustrations
37.
1) Rhyme Royal
38.
2) Lord Rivers
39.
1) Pastorals
40.
4) The Shepheards Calender
41.
2) John Lyly
42.
Samuel Johnson ?
43.
2) Better
44.
2) Negative
45.
2) Attic prose
46.
1) Theobald
47.
1) Graveyard school of poetry
48.
1) Geneva school of Critics
49.
1) Writing which is creation
50.
4) Antonin Artaud
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