Q.No: 1 When Chaucer was merely nine years the ‘Black-Death’ swept over England. ‘Black-Death’ is also known by another name :

A The great plague
B The great fire
C The great drought
D The great upheaval

Answer: A

 Q.No: 2 ‘Chaucer found English a dialect and left it a language’. Who said this:

A Legouis
B Hadow
C Lang
D Lowes

Answer: D

Q.No: 3 Who is the author of Piers Plowmen?

A Sir Thomas Malory
B Margery Kempe
C Geoffrey Chaucer
D William Langland

Answer: D

Q.No: 4 Who among the following has been called the ‘Morning Star of Reformation’

A Wycliffe
B Malory
C Chaucer
D Caxton

Answer: A

Q.No: 5 Who among the following was killed in a tavern brawl:

A Kyd
B Greene
C Lyly
D Marlowe

Answer: D

Q.No: 6 Shakespeare makes fun of the Puritan in his play –

A Twelfth Night
B Hamlet
C The Tempest
D Henry I V, Part I

Answer: A

Q.No: 7 Famous satiric drama Volpone is written by?

A Sir Walter Scot
B Christopher Marlow
C Ben Johnson
D George Herbert

Answer: C

Q.No: 8 Whom does the Duchess marry in The Duchess of Malfi?

A Bassanio
B Malvolio
C Antonio
D Mortimer

Answer: C

Q.No: 9 The Jacobean Era refers to a period of time in the 17th century in which of the following countries?
A Jordon
B England
C Malaysia
D Tunisia

Answer: B

Q.No: 10 Who represents Absalom in Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel ?

A The of Duke of Monmouth
B Charles II
C The Earl of Shaftesbury
D Cromwell

Answer: A

Q.No: 11 Who first called the age of Pope and Johnson as ‘The Augustan Age’?

A Steele
B Goldsmith
C Johnson
D Burke

Answer: B

Q.No: 12 Name the protagonist of Pamela?

A Mr.B
B Colonel Jacques
C Lovelace
D John Belford

Answer: A

Q.No: 13 Joseph Andrews is written by whom?

A Samuel Johnson
B Henry Fielding
C John Donne
D Tobias Smollett

Answer: B

Q.No: 14 ‘A book should help as either to enjoy life or to endure it’. Who said this?

A Boswell
B Pope
C Dr. Johnson
D Addison

Answer: C

Q.No: 15 Name the metrical form Pope brought to perfection?

A The heroic couplet
B Blank verse
C Free verse
D The ode

Answer: D

Q.No: 16 Who among the following defied Romanticism as disease and Classicism as health?

A Peter
B Watts Dunton
C Goethe
D Victor Hugo

Answer: C

Q.No: 17 Name the poets who collaborated on The Lyrical Ballads of 1798 ?

A S.T. Coleridge and William Blake
B P.B. Shelley and William Wordsworth
C William Wordsworth and Coleridge
D William Blake and P.B. Shelley

Answer: C

Q.No: 18 Wordsworth describes all good poetry as:

A The rhythmic expression of moral intuition
B The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
C The polite patter of a corrupted age
D The divine gift of age

Answer: B

Q.No: 19 Who is the hero of Childe Harold ?

A Nature
B Tiger
C A Prince
D The poet himself

Answer: D

Q.No: 20 Which of the following pair of writers wrote historical novels?

A Henry Fielding and T. Smollett
B Addison and Steele
C Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
D Stern and T. Smollett

Answer: C

Q.No: 22 Name the ruler who marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era –

A King Henry VIII
B Queen Elizabeth I
C Queen Victoria
D King John

Answer: C

Q.No: 23 Who wrote On the Origin of Species that inspired many novelists?

A Charles Darwin
B Francis Galton
C Michael Faraday
D Alexander Bain

Answer: A

Q.No: 24 ‘Fagin’ is a character from which of the following novels:

A Oliver Twist
B Great Expectations
C David Copperfield
D Hard Times

Answer: A

Q.No: 25 Identify the poem, written by Alfred Tennyson containing the under given line : “To strive, to seek , to find and not to yield.”

A Maud
B Ulysses
C In Memoriam
D Locksley Hall

Answer: B

Q.No: 26 In which poem did W.B. Yeats use the phrase “the artifice of eternity”?

A Sailing to Byzantium
B Byzantium
C The Second Coming
D Leda and the Swan

Answer: A

Q.No: 27 Who wrote Plain Tales from the Hills?

A Rudyard Kipling
B William Watson
C G.B.Shaw
D John Davidson

Answer: A

Q.No: 28 Who is the writer of Riders to the sea’?

A R.L. Stevenson
B Joseph Conrad
C J.M. Synge
D Y.B. Yeats

Answer: C

Q.No: 29 A Passage to India was published in the year:

A 1924
B 1925
C 1926
D 1899

Answer: A

Q.No: 30 Name the play in which following lines occur: “Nothing happens nobody comes, Nobody goes, it’s awful !”

A Waiting for Godot
B The Murder in the Cathedral
C The Caretaker
D Rides to the Sea

Answer: A

Q.No: 31 Who is the author of The Fountain Overflows ?

A Rebecca West
B Elizabeth Bowen
C Compton Burnett
D Rose Macaulay

Answer: A

Q.No: 32 ‘Success is only a delayed failure’ is a famous sentence from A Sort of Life. Who is the author of this book?

A Graham Greene
B Elizabeth Bowen
C John Osborne
D Rebecca West

Answer: A

Q.No: 33 Who is the author of The Female Eunuch ?

A Harold Pinter
B Germaine Green
C Stevie Smith
D Alan Sillitoe

Answer: B

Q.No: 34 Who is the author of Cloud Nine ?

A David Hare
B Trevor Griffith
C Caryl Churchil
D Howard Brenton

Answer: C

Q.No: 35 Who wrote An Artist of the Floating World?

A Salman Rushdie
B Kazvo Ishiguro
C Louis de Benieres
D Shashi Deshpande

Answer: B

Q.No: 36 Leaves of Grass is considered as one of the classics of world poetry. Who among the following wrote it?

A Walt Whitman
B Robert Frost
C T.S. Eliot
D Emily Dickinson

Answer: A

Q.No: 37 Shiva Trilogy is written by?

A V.S. Naipaul
B Amish Tripathi
C Ashok K. Banker
D Shashi Tharoor

Answer: B

Q.No: 38 Which one the following is Sylvia Plath’s novel?

A Ariel
B The Colossus
C The Bell Jar
D Catch 22

Answer: C

Q.No: 39 My True Faces is a novel by :

A Sudhir Ghosh
B Khushwant Singh
C Manohar Malgaonkar
D Chaman Nahal

Answer: D

Q.No: 40 Who wrote The Gift of India ?

A Kamala Das
B Ramanujan
C Toru Dutt
D Sarojini Noidu

Answer: D

Q.No: 41 Which of the following is not by Aristotle ?
A Metaphysics
B Ethics
C Poetics
D Symposium

Answer: D

Q.No: 42 Who represents Dryden himself in An essay on Dramatic Poesy?

A Crites
B Eugenius
C Neander
D Lisideius

Answer: C

Q.No: 43 Which out of the following is not associated with I.A. Richards?

A Principles of Literacy Criticism
B The Meaning of Meaning
C The symbolist movement in Literature
D The Philosophy of Rhetoric

Answer: C

Q.No: 44 The Dhvanyaloka, a treatise on the structure of meaning, written by?

A Anandavardhana
B Bharata
C Bhamaha
D vamana

Answer: A

Q.No: 45 The Vakroktijivitam by Kuntaka propounds

A The theory of aesthetic experience
B The theory of diction
C The theory of figures
D The theory of oblique expression

Answer: D

Q.No: 46 ‘______’ is an extended narrative that carries a second meaning along with its surface story.

A Symbol
B Allegory
C Exposition
D Conceit

Answer: B

Q.No: 47 ‘______’ is a device by which non-human and non-living nature is credited with human emotions:

A Parody
B Pathetic Fallacy
C Objective Correlative
D Unification of Sensibility

Answer: B

Q.No: 48 A Closet Drama is:

A A drama set in closet or in a single room
B A drama intended to be performed within a closet and not on stage
C A drama though written in the dramatic form, intended to be read rather than to be performed in the theater
D None of these is correct

Answer: C

Q.No: 49 Which form of sonnet falls into two main parts _ an octave and a sestet :

A Petrarchan
B Shakespearean
C Spenserian
D None of these is correct

Answer: A

Q.No: 50 Onomatopoeia means:

A Echoing the same sound repeatedly
B Echoing of the sense or the meaning in different words
C Echoing of the sense by the sound, shape, size or movemment
D Echoing of the sense by the movement

Answer: C

                                                                                                                      Part-B

Q.No: 1 At nine O’clock in the morning, towards the end of November, the Warsaw train was approaching Petersburg at full speed. It was thawing, and so damp and foggy that it was difficult to distinguish anything ten paces from the line to right or left of the carriage windows. Some of the passengers were returning from abroad, but their third class compartment were most crowded, chiefly with people of humble rank, who had come a shorter distance on business. All of course, were tired and shivering, their eyes were heavy after the night’s journey, and all their faces were pale and yellow to match the fog. In one of the third class carriages, two passengers had from early dawn been sitting facing one another by the window. Both were young men, not very well dressed and travelling with little luggage, both were of rather striking appearance and both showed a desire to enter into conversation. If they both had known what was remarkable in one another in that moment, they would have been surprised at the chance which had so strangely brought them opposite one another in a third class carriage of the Warsaw train. One of them was short man about twenty seven with almost black curly hair and small grey fiery eyes. He had a broad and flat nose and light cheek bones. His thin lips were continually curved in an insolent, mocking and even malicious smile. But the high and well shaped forehead redeemed the ignoble lines of the lower part of the face. What was particular about the young man’s face was its death like pallor which gave him a look of exhaustion in spite of his sturdy figure, and at the same time an almost painfully passionate expression. He was warmly dressed in a full, black sheep–skin lined overcoat and not felt the cold at night, while his shivering neighbor had been exposed to the chill and damp of Russian November for which he was evidently unprepared.

Choose the right option regarding the space given to the passengers for description in the first paragraph of the passage:

A The passengers of humble rank are given less space than that given to those returning from abroad.
B The passengers of humble rank are given more space than that given to those returning from abroad. C Both the passengers – the passengers of hunble rank and those returning from abroad – are given equal space
D It is uncertain to decide

Answer: B

Q.No: 2 At nine O’clock in the morning, towards the end of November, the Warsaw train was approaching Petersburg at full speed. It was thawing, and so damp and foggy that it was difficult to distinguish anything ten paces from the line to right or left of the carriage windows. Some of the passengers were returning from abroad, but their third class compartment were most crowded, chiefly with people of humble rank, who had come a shorter distance on business. All of course, were tired and shivering, their eyes were heavy after the night’s journey, and all their faces were pale and yellow to match the fog. In one of the third class carriages, two passengers had from early dawn been sitting facing one another by the window. Both were young men, not very well dressed and travelling with little luggage, both were of rather striking appearance and both showed a desire to enter into conversation. If they both had known what was remarkable in one another in that moment, they would have been surprised at the chance which had so strangely brought them opposite one another in a third class carriage of the Warsaw train. One of them was short man about twenty seven with almost black curly hair and small grey fiery eyes. He had a broad and flat nose and light cheek bones. His thin lips were continually curved in an insolent, mocking and even malicious smile. But the high and well shaped forehead redeemed the ignoble lines of the lower part of the face. What was particular about the young man’s face was its death like pallor which gave him a look of exhaustion in spite of his sturdy figure, and at the same time an almost painfully passionate expression. He was warmly dressed in a full, black sheep–skin lined overcoat and not felt the cold at night, while his shivering neighbor had been exposed to the chill and damp of Russian November for which he was evidently unprepared.

Most of the passenger can be said to have hailed from?

A the low backrround
B the high background
C the foreign background
D the strange background

Answer: A

Q.No: 3 At nine O’clock in the morning, towards the end of November, the Warsaw train was approaching Petersburg at full speed. It was thawing, and so damp and foggy that it was difficult to distinguish anything ten paces from the line to right or left of the carriage windows. Some of the passengers were returning from abroad, but their third class compartment were most crowded, chiefly with people of humble rank, who had come a shorter distance on business. All of course, were tired and shivering, their eyes were heavy after the night’s journey, and all their faces were pale and yellow to match the fog. In one of the third class carriages, two passengers had from early dawn been sitting facing one another by the window. Both were young men, not very well dressed and travelling with little luggage, both were of rather striking appearance and both showed a desire to enter into conversation. If they both had known what was remarkable in one another in that moment, they would have been surprised at the chance which had so strangely brought them opposite one another in a third class carriage of the Warsaw train. One of them was short man about twenty seven with almost black curly hair and small grey fiery eyes. He had a broad and flat nose and light cheek bones. His thin lips were continually curved in an insolent, mocking and even malicious smile. But the high and well shaped forehead redeemed the ignoble lines of the lower part of the face. What was particular about the young man’s face was its death like pallor which gave him a look of exhaustion in spite of his sturdy figure, and at the same time an almost painfully passionate expression. He was warmly dressed in a full, black sheep–skin lined overcoat and not felt the cold at night, while his shivering neighbor had been exposed to the chill and damp of Russian November for which he was evidently unprepared.

Who were most conspicuous by their striking appearance in the train?

A the people of humble rank
B the people returning from abroad
C the youngman and his shivering fellow traverller
D the people of humble rank and those returning from abroad

Answer: C

Q.No: 4 At nine O’clock in the morning, towards the end of November, the Warsaw train was approaching Petersburg at full speed. It was thawing, and so damp and foggy that it was difficult to distinguish anything ten paces from the line to right or left of the carriage windows. Some of the passengers were returning from abroad, but their third class compartment were most crowded, chiefly with people of humble rank, who had come a shorter distance on business. All of course, were tired and shivering, their eyes were heavy after the night’s journey, and all their faces were pale and yellow to match the fog. In one of the third class carriages, two passengers had from early dawn been sitting facing one another by the window. Both were young men, not very well dressed and travelling with little luggage, both were of rather striking appearance and both showed a desire to enter into conversation. If they both had known what was remarkable in one another in that moment, they would have been surprised at the chance which had so strangely brought them opposite one another in a third class carriage of the Warsaw train. One of them was short man about twenty seven with almost black curly hair and small grey fiery eyes. He had a broad and flat nose and light cheek bones. His thin lips were continually curved in an insolent, mocking and even malicious smile. But the high and well shaped forehead redeemed the ignoble lines of the lower part of the face. What was particular about the young man’s face was its death like pallor which gave him a look of exhaustion in spite of his sturdy figure, and at the same time an almost painfully passionate expression. He was warmly dressed in a full, black sheep–skin lined overcoat and not felt the cold at night, while his shivering neighbor had been exposed to the chill and damp of Russian November for which he was evidently unprepared.

Which dominant sentiment is experienced in the passage?

A the sentiment of pathos
B the sentiment of wonder
C the sentiment of anger
D the sentiment of laughter

Answer: A

Q.No: 5 “What a piece of work is man” is spoken by

A Hamlet’s uncle
B Hamlet
C Hamlet’s mother
D Horatio

Answer: B

Q.No: 6 Which of the following Canterbury Tales is in Prose ?

A The Pardoner’s Tale
B The Parson’s Tale
C The Monk’s Tale
D The Knight’s Tale

Answer: B

Q.No: 7 The first folio edition of Shakespeare was published in the year :

A 1641
B 1623
C 1665
D 1564

Answer: B

Q.No: 8 Lullaby of a Lover is written by?

A George Gascoigne
B Thomas More
C William Shakespeare
D Laurenee Minot

Answer: A

Q.No: 9 The word “coy” in the poem, “To His coy mistress” means?

A timid
B voluptuousness
C sensuous
D shy

Answer: D

Q.No: 10 The concept of Bacon’s essay is said to be borrowed from?

A Montaigne
B Plato
C Aristotle
D Moilere

Answer: A

Q.No: 11 How many years of happiness was Dr. Faustus promised by the Devil?

A 16 years
B 20 years
C 24 years
D 28 years

Answer: C

Q.No: 12 Which of the following statements about Christopher Marlowe are true

I. Edward II was written in the last year of Marlowe’s life
II. Many critics consider Doctor Faustus to be Marlowe’s best play
III. His Spanish Tragedy comes a close second
IV. Marlowe was less educated than Shakespeare

A I & II
B II & III
C II & IV
D III & IV

Answer: A

Q.No: 13 who said following lines about metaphysical poets? ‘The metaphysical poets were men of learning and to show their learning was their whole endevour … they neither copy nature nor life’

A T.S. Eliot
B Johnson
C John Carey
D John Fiske

Answer: B

Q.No: 14 ‘Shepherdes Calender’ was written is Elizabthan period by?

A George Gascoigne
B Thomas Sackville
C Lord Buckhlerst
D Edmund Spenser

Answer: D

Q.No: 15 ‘Hymn to Adversity’ is poem by

A Alexander Pope
B Thomas Gray
C Edward Gibbon
D William Blake

Answer: B

Q.No: 16 Who speaks the following “Friendship without freedom is as dull as love without enjoyment” The Way of the Word?

A Witwoud
B Millamont
C Mirabel
D Lady Wishfort

Answer: A

Q.No: 17 ‘The Dunciad’, a long and elaborate satire, does not deal with one of the following?

A The bad poets
B Pedants
C Pretntious critics
D Contemporary artitsts

Answer: D

Q.No: 18 Bhaktirasa was given by

A Madhusudan Saraswati
B Rupa Goswami
C Adi Shankaracharya
D Abhinavagupta

Answer: B

Q.No: 19 John Donne “affects the metaphysics”. This remark was made by?

A Samuel Johnson
B Allen Tete
C T.S. Eliot
D John Dryden

Answer: D

Q.No: 20 Inquiry concerning Political Justice by William Godwin is a book that primarily deals with one of the following aspects?

A Political and social ideas
B Literary ideas
C Religious ideas only
D Metaphysic and spirituality

Answer: A

Q.No: 21 Who among the following was most influerned by William Godwin?

A William Wordsworth
B John Keats
C Robert Burns
D P.B. Shelley

Answer: D

Q.No: 22 Alexander Pope’s an Essay in Criticism

I. Purpots to define “wit” and “nature” as they apply to the literature of his age
II. Claims no originality in the thought that governs this work
III. is a prose essay that gives us such quotes as “A little learning is a dangerous thing!”
IV. Appeared in 1701

A III & IV are incorrect
B I & II are incorrect
C I & IV are correct
D only I and IV are correct

Answer: A

Q.No: 23 These are the last words of a Romantic poet. Read the lines carefully and find out who among the following is the poet “I am dying but without capitation of a speedy release. Is it not strange that very recently by-gone images and scenes of early life have stolen into my mind like breezes blown from the spice-islands of youth and hope – those twin realities of the phantom world? I do not add love, but what is love but youth and hope embracing, and seen as one?

A S.T. Coleridge
B William Wordsworth
C P.B. Shelley
D William Blake

Answer: A

Q.No: 26 ‘Cry of the children’ is a poem written by?

A Elizabeth Barrett Browning
B Robert Browning
C Dante D. Rossetti
D Sir Henry Talor

Answer: A

Q.No: 27 Unto this Last (1861) is a well known book by John Ruskin. One of the following Indian leaders was much influcnced by this book. It was

A Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
B Sardar Patel
C Sarojini Naidu
D M.K. Gandhi

Answer: D

Q.No: 28 Who among the following wrote these lines ‘The conduct of the upper classes is screened by conversations , and thus the real character is not easily seen ; if it is seen , it must be portrayed subjectively ; where as in the lower walks, conduct is a direct expression of the inner life ; and thus character can be directly portrayed through the act ’

A Thomas Hardy
B George Eliot
C William Makepeace Thaekaray
D Oscar Wilde

Answer: A

Q.No: 29 In his distinction between imagination and fancy , Coleridge identifies the following

I. It dissolves , diffuses, dissipate in order to create
II. It has aggregative and associative power
III. It plays with fixities and definities
IV. It has shaping and modifying power

The correct combination reads

A I & II for fancy ; III & IV for imagination
B I & III for fancy ; II & IV for imagination
C II & III for fancy ; I & IV for imagination
D III & IV for fancy ; I & II for imagination

Answer: C

Q.No: 30 Which of the following phrases indicates the ‘interior flow of thought’ in modern British literature?

A Automatic writing
B Confused daze
C Total recall
D Stream of Consciousness

Answer: D

Q.No: 32 Who wrote Undertones of War in 1928?

A Edmund Blunden
B Elizabeth Bowen
C Edward Bond
D Malcolm Bradbury

Answer: A

Q.No: 33 The Cantos a long poem based on Dante’s Divine Comedy is written by?

A Ezra Pond
B Ramsey Campbell
C A.S. Byatt
D Peter Carey

Answer: A

Q.No: 34 Choose from the following correct group of Cavalier poets
A Thomas Carew , Sir John Suckling , Richard Lovelace , Robert Burton
B Thomas Carew , Sir John Suckling , Robert Herrick , Richard Lovelace
C Thomas Carew , Henry Vaughan , Richard Lovelace , Robert Herrick
D Izak Walton , Sir John Suckling , Richard Lovelace , Robert Herrick

Answer: B

Q.No: 35 Bertolt Brecht’s play ——- was written against the backdrop of the rise of Hitler?

A Jungle of the Cities
B Man Equals Man
C A Respectable Wedding
D Mother Courage and her Children

Answer: D

Q.No: 36 Giles Cooper’s best known work for television —— depicted relations between Britain and Germany

A Everything in the Garden
B Happy Family
C The Other Man
D None of these is correct

Answer: C

Q.No: 37 Which comedy , among the following, written by Howard Newby , describes the encounter between European and Arabic Culture ?

A A Guest and His Going
B Kith
C A Lot to Ask
D A Step to Silence

Answer: A

Q.No: 38 Which of the following is in chronological order as per their birth?

A Philip Larkin , William Golding , C.S Lewis
B C.S Lewis, Philip Larkin , William Golding
C William Golding, C.S Lewis , Philip Larkin
D C.S. Lewis , William Golding , Philip Larkin

Answer: D

Q.No: 39 Who remained Poet Laureate from 1984 to 1998 _

A Doris Lessing
B Iris Murdoch
C Ted Hughes
D C.S. Lewis

Answer: C

Q.No: 40 Which of the following is not correct about Hardy?

A The interpreter of Life
B The interpreter of Death
C The interpreter of Nature
D The Interpreter of Character

Answer: B

Q.No: 41 Who said these lines about Longinus “ And Longinus , who was undoubtedly , after Aristotle, the greatest critics among the Greeks “

A T.S. Eliot
B W.B. Yeats
C Hazlitt
D John Dryden

Answer: D

Q.No: 42 Robert Buchanan described Rossetti’s poetry as belonging to

A the fleshly school of poetry
B the Platonic school of poetry
C The metaphysical school of poetry
D The romantic school of poetry

Answer: A

Q.No: 43 Who said following lines ‘Those rules of old discovered , not devised, Are nature still , but Nature methodized’?

A Wordsworth
B Alexender Pope
C Coleridge
D Keats

Answer: B

Q.No: 44 “The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry… our race, as time goes on , will find an ever surer and surer stay”. This claim for poetry he has been made in?

A Arnold’s “The Study of Poetry”
B Shelley’s “A Defence of Poesy”
C Sidneys “An Apology for Poetry”
D Eliot’s “Poetry and Poets”

Answer: A

Q.No: 45 Who wrote the History of Australian Literature ?

A Randolph Stow
B H.M. Green
C Handel Richardson
D Francis Adam

Answer: B

Q.No: 46 Who wrote The Histoy of Sexuality?

A Michel Foucault
B Wolfgang Iser
C Stanley Fish
D Gaytri Spivak

Answer: A

Q.No: 47 In Orientalism Edward Said examines

A Indian Tradition of Criticism
B The Tradition of Western Criticism
C The vast tradition of Western construction of the Orient .
D Greek Tradition of Criticism

Answer: C

Q.No: 48 A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable is?

A Trochaic foot
B Iambic foot
C Dactylic foot
D Monosyllabic foot

Answer: A

Q.No: 49 Who wrote Television Culture?

A Susan Bordo
B Riccloto Canudo
C John Fiske
D Andrew Sarris

Answer: C

Q.No: 50 Empire, a collaborative book which deals with :

A Criticism
B Film
C Drama
D Painting

Answer: A

Q.No: 51 Rising measure means?

A The stress as one syllable hovers over the next
B Those feet which end with a stressed syllable
C Those feet which begin with a stressed syllable and fall away to an unstressed syllable
D The stress as one syllable

Answer: B

Q.No: 55 who among the following has written The History of Canadian Literature?

A Margaret Atwood
B W.H.New
C Archibald Lampman
D G.D.Roberts

Answer: B

Q.No: 56 The Mahabharta was written by

A Maharishi Vyas himself
B Ganapati to the dictation of Maharishi Vyas
C Rishi Parashar to the dictation of Mahrishi Vyas
D Shukadev to the dictation of Maharishi Vyas

Answer: B

Q.No: 57 The Tin Drum is written by

A Robert Musli
B Frank Kafka
C Thomas Mann
D Gunter Grass

Answer: D

Q.No: 58 Phantom Dwelling is written by

A Judith Wright
B Rosemary Dobson
C Jack Davis
D Dorothy Hewett

Answer: A

Q.No: 59 Mister Pip – novel by Lloyd Jones came in the year

A 2000
B 2006
C 2007
D 2011

Answer: B

Q.No: 60 Hilde Domin with pseudonym Hilde Palm was born in?

A 1909
B 1920
C 1923
D 1942

Answer: A

Q.No: 62 Who wrote The Life Divine?

A Sri Aurobindo
B Rabindranath Tagore
C Sarojini Naidu
D R.K. Narayan

Answer: A

Q.No: 64 Bharta enumerates in his classical manual to drama?

A ten rasas
B nine rasas
C eight rasas
D seven rasas

Answer: C

Q.No: 65 Kuntaka’s Theory of Vakrokti works at —- levels of language?

A five
B six
C seven
D eight

Answer: B

Q.No: 66 Who among the following was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1950?

A Whitman
B William Faulkner
C Alice Walker
D None of these is correct

Answer: D

Q.No: 67 What was strange about Emily Dickenson?

A She rarely left home
B She wrote in code
C She never attempted to publish her poetry
D She wrote her poems in invisible ink

Answer: A

Q.No: 68 ‘Under the old Elm’ is a/an …

A Lyric
B Sonnet
C Ode
D Ballad

Answer: C

Q.No: 69 Robert Frost got the Pulitzer Pirze —- times?

A Two
B Four
C Three
D Five

Answer: B

Q.No: 70 The Path of Thunder is written by?

A Peter Abrahams
B Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
C Mohammed Nasechu Ali
D Elechi Amadi

Answer: A

Q.No: 71 Anandavardhan’s theory of dhvani is based on?

A abhidha
B abhidha and lakshna
C abhidha and vyanjana
D abhidha , lakshana and vyanjane

Answer: D

Q.No: 72 Which of the following is not included in some larger containing structure by the structuralist critics to analyze prose narratives?

A The convention of a particular literary genre
B A series of random comments on narrative arranged alphabetically
C A notion of narrative as a complex of recurrent patterns or motifs
D A network of intertextual connections

Answer: B

Q .No: 73 To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text may open up , Derrida makes use of the term?

A difference
B erasure
C aporia
D supplement

Answer: C

Q.No: 74 Who wrote these lines- “Yet if the only form of tradition of handling down , consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind or timid adherence to its success, tradition should positively be discouraged . We have seen many such simple currents soon lost in the sand and novelty is better than repetition.”

A W.B. Yeats
B T.S. Eliot
C Harold Pinter
D W.H. Auden

Answer: B

Q.No: 75 ‘S Kopos’ theory relates to?

A Novel
B Translation
C Monologue
D Travelogu

Answer: B