1) Who belongs to the Absurd School of Drama?
(a) Shaw
(b) Beckett
(c) Pinter
(d) Eliot
(e) None of these
2) To the Light House” is written by:
(a) Lawrence
(b) Dylan Thomas
(c) Hemingway
(d) Forster
(e) None of these
3) I am too much in the sun in “Hamlet” is spoken by:
(a) Polonius
(b) Claudius
(c) Hamlet
(d) Ophelia
(e) None of these
4) “Ullyses” is written by:
(a) James Joyce
(b) Virginia Woolf
(c) Hardy
(d) Forster
(e) None of these
5) Elizabeth is a character from Jane Austen’s:
(a) Emma
(b) Pride and Prejudice
(c) Mansfield Palck
(d) Northanger Abby
(e) None of these
6) “Tear Idle Tears” is a poem by:
(a) Frost
(b) Browning
(c) Yeats (d) Eliot
(e) None of these
7) “Thought Fox” is written by:
(a) Ted Hughes
(b) Philip Larkin
(c) Heaney
(d) Sylvia Plath
(e) None of these
8) “Major Barbra” is written by:
(a) Beckett
(b) Pinter
(c) Eliot
(d) Shaw
(e) None of these
9) Lilliput is a character from:
(a) Gulliver’s Travels
(b) Pygmalion
(c) Sons & lovers
(d) Old man and the sea
(e) None of these
10) “Fire and Ice” is written by:
(a) Eliot
(b) Yeats
(c) Frost
(d) Auden
(e) None of these
11) Swift belong to:
(a) Renassiance period
(b) Restoration
(c) Romantic period
(d) Augustan age
(e) None of these
12) The Novel of Lawrence banned by the government was:
(a) Sons and Lovers
(b) Lady Chatterley’s Lover
(c) Women in Love
(d) The Rainbow
(e) None of these
13) “Undo this Button” is a line from Shakespeare’s:
(a) Hamlet
(b) Othello
(c) King Lear
(d) Julius Caeser
(e) None of these
14) “Ode to Psyche” is a poem by:
(a) Milton
(b) Byron
(c) Keats
(d) Blake
(e) None of these
15) “I am no Prince Hamlet” is a line written by:
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Yeats
(c) Eliot
(d) Auden
(e) None of these
16) “Things fall apart” is a line from Yeats’s:
(a) Among School Children
(b) Byzentium
(c) Sailing to Byzentium
(d) The Second coming
(e) None of these
17) “Good flences make good neighbours” is from Frosts’:
(a) Revelation
(b) Mending
(c) Pasture
(d) Birches
(e) None of these
18) ‘April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliot’s:
(a) The Wasteland
(b) The Hollow men
(c) East Coker
(d) Prufrock
(e) None of these
19) “A Farewell to Arms” is written by:
(a) Faulkner
(b) Hemmingway
(c) James Joyce
(d) Virginia Woolf
(e) None of these
20) “A passage to India” is written by:
(a) Forester
(b) Conrad
(c) Lawrence
(d) Hardy
(e) None of these
21) “Ode to West Wind was written by:
(a) Keats
(b) Shelley
(c) Byron
(d) Blake
(e) None of these
22) Keats was born in:
(a) 1770
(b) 1779
(c) 1795
(d) 1790
(e) None of these
23. Dream Children was written by:
(a) Leigh Hunt
(b) Charles Lamb
(c) Hazzlit
(d) Ruskin
(e) None of these
24) “Picture of Dorian Gray” was written by:
(a) Oscar Wild
(b) Dickens
(c) Hardy
(d) George Elio
(e) None of these
25) Ruskin belonged to:
(a) Romantic age
(b) Modern age
(c) Victorian age
(d) Augustan age
(e) None of these
26) Wordsworth lived from:
(a) 1770 – 1832 (b) 1775 – 1859 (c) 1770 – 1850 (d) 1770 – 1802
27) Heroes and Hero Worship” was written by:
(a) Mill
(b) Carlyle
(c) Macaulay
(d) Coleridge
(e) None of these
28) “Fair Seed time had my Soul” is from:
(a) Ode to autumn
(b) To a Highland girl
(c) Ancient Mariner
(d) Child Harold’s Pilgrimage
(e) None of these
29) “Great Expectations” was written by:
(a) George Eliot
(b) Thackeray
(c) Hardy
(d) Dickens
(e) None of these
30) “Lotus Eaters” is written by:
(a) Tennyson
(b) Browning
(c) Mathew Arnold
(d) Hardy
(e) None of these
31) Lamb, Leigh Haut and Hazzlit are:
(a) Poets
(b) Dramatists
(c) Essayists
(d) Novelists
(e) None of these
32) “My Last Duchess” was written by:
(a) Keats
(b) Coleridge
(c) Tennyson
(d) Browning
(e) None of these
33) Emity Bronte is the writer of:
(a) Wuthering Heights
(b) Emma
(c) Under the greenwood Tree
(d) Mr Chips
(e) None of these
34) “Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling” is a definition of poetry by:
(a) Keats
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Shelley
(d) Coleridge
(e) None of these
35) “Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter” is a line from:
(a) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(b) Ode to a nightingale (c) The Prelude
(d) Ode to Autumn
(e) None of these
36) “Waverley” was written by:
(a) Scott
(b) Hardy
(c) Jane Austen
(d) Dickens
(e) None of these
(37) “We are Seven” is written by:
(a) Keats
(b) Shelly
(c) Byron
(d) Hardy
(e) None of these
38) “Past and present” is written by:
(a) Mill
(b) Lamb
(c) Hazlitt
(d) Carlyle
(e) None of these
39) “Modern Painters” is written by:
(a) Ruskin
(b) Carlyle
(c) Mill
(d) Macaulay
40) “Byron is the” writer of:
(a) Don Jaun
(b) Prometheus Unbound
(c) Adonias
(d) Lucy Gray
41 In Shakespeare’s Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is a remark by:
(a) Nicoll
(b) Goddord
(c) Bradley
(d) Coleridge
(e) None of these
42 “How came he dead? I shall not be juggled with: Tohell allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil! Is a speech in Hamlet spoken by:
(a) Hamlet
(b) Laertes
(c) Polonius
(d) Claudius
(e) None of these
43) Aspect of the Novel is written by:
(a) David Cecil
(b) Walter Allen
(c) Arnold Kettle
(d) E.M. Forster
(e) None of these
44) Lotos Eaters is a poem by:
(a) Browning
(b) Tennyson
(c) Yeats
(d) Frost
(e) None of these
45) ‘The Hollow Men’ is written by:
(a) T.S. Eliot
(b) Ezra Pound
(c) Yeats
(d) Larkin
(e) None of these
46) William Faulkner was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:
(a) 1949
(b) 1950
(c) 1951
(d) 1953
(e) None of these
47) G.B. Shaw was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:
(a) 1925
(b) 1929
(c) 1930
(d) 1949
(e) None of these
48 ‘The Winding Stair’ is written by:
(a) Ted Hughes
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) W.B. Yeats
(d) W.H. Auden
(e) None of these
49) ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is a play written by:
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Marlowe
(c) Oscar Wilde
(d) T.S. Eliot
(e) None of these
50) ‘The Rainbow’ is a novel written by:
(a) Hemingway
(b) Virginia Woolf
(c) E.M. Forster