49. The heathen Anglo-Saxons had a great spring festival of revival celebrating their goddess of
dawn. It has remained in England even after the advent of Christianity as
A) Christmas B) Doicese C) Easter D) Mass
50. English descended from the Western set (group) of the Indo-European family of languages
which is also called
A) Centum B) Satem C) Armenian D) Albanian
51. The Poetics defines poetry and drama as modes of
A) Copy B) limitation C) Replica D) Creativity
52. Dryden admines _______ but he loves Shakespeare
A) Pope B) Virgie C) Milton D) Johnson
53. Who first used the words ‘fancy and imagination’ in his theory of poetry?
A) William Wordsworth B) John Dryden C) T.S. Eliot D) S.T. Coleridge
54. Who first used the term ‘Metaphysics?
A) John Donne B) Dryden C) Milton D) T.S. Eliot
55. Who is the author of the critical essay ‘The Seven Type of Ambiguity’?
A) Herbert Read B) Kenneth Burke C) George Herbert D) William Empson
56. On which date did Spenser marry Elizabeth Boyle?
A) 25th June B) 11th June C) 19th June D) 12th June
57. In Chaucer’s Prologue to Canterbury Tales’, the shipman is the owner of a vessel called
A) Madeline B) Victoria C) Baltic D) Princess
58. The wife of Bath besides countless lovers has married _______ husbands
A) Two B) Six C) Four D) Five
59. Faustus is advised by his friends _______ and _______ to study necromancy.
A) Horace and Tony B) Abraham and Chaplain
C) Ferdinand and Joan D) Valdes and Cornelius
60. When Faustus signs the treaty with Lucifer, the words that appear on his arm are
A) Homofuge B) Consummatum est
C) Veni mephistophile D) Vis-à-vis
61. Which spirit is described as the “regent of the sun” in Paradise Lost Book IX?
A) Cherubin B) Gabriel C) Uriel D) Samson
62. “The Mistakes of Night” is another title of the drama
A) The School for Scandal B) The Way of the World
C) All for Love D) She Stoops to Conquer
63. Who starts his journey from the ‘City of Destruction’?
A) Christian B) Goodwill C) Evangelist D) Faith
64. Fielding’s approach to his novels are
A) Dull and sober B) Serious and impractical
C) Worldly-wise and genial D) Idealistic
65. Through the character of Belinda Alexander Pope Satirise
A) Ambitious men B) Vicious politicians
C) Women lavishing on their own beauty D) Impoverished women
66. In the esay ‘Of Truth’ Bacon compares Truth to
A) Sun B) Daylight C) Fire D) Candle-light
67. In the essay ‘Of Friendship’ Bacon says that a _________ is not a company.
A) Neighbor B) Relative C) Senior D) Crowd
68. Spenser was buried beside __________ in West Minister Abbey.
A) Shakespeare B) Lamb C) Chaucer D) Sydney
69. In Spenser’s stanza, the last ninth line has twelve syllables. It is called
A) Alexandrine B) Parabola C) Retrain D) Quatrain
70. The first scene in the Alchemist by Ben Johnson opens with the quarrel between _______
and _________
A) Simon and Subtle B) Dapper and Drugger
C) Face and Subtle D) Mammon and Surly
71. Tintern Abbey was composed on revisiting the banks of
A) The Rhine B) The Wye C) The Nile D) The Thames
72. Keats is a ______ poets.
A) Sensuous B) Sensual C) Sensitive D) Sensible
73. _________ has over-brimmed their clammy cells.
A) Winter B) Autumn C) Spring D) Summer
74. Shelley appeals to the West wind to make him a
A) Trumpet B) Flute C) Lyre D) Tabor
75. _________ is the Greek God of Winds
A) Bacchus B) Aeolus C) Apollo D) Venus
76. How does the second witch address Macbeth?
A) Thane of Cawdor B) King of Scotland C) Thane of Glamis D) Thane of Norway
77. “What, will these hands ne’er be clean
…All the perfumes of Arabia will not
Sweeter this little hand”.
These words are uttered by,
A) Macbeth B) Macduff C) Lady Macbeth D) Banquo
78. Who helped Prospero and his little daughter with food, water, books ets., when they were
abandoned on a damaged ship?
A) Francisco B) Alonso C) Stephano D) Gonzalo
79. “…I’ll break my staff,
Bury it certain fadoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I’ll drown my book”
Who utters these words?
A) Ferdinand B) Ariel C) Prospero D) Caliban
80. Why does Prince Harry spend more time in the company of Falstaff?
A) He wants to learn tricks from Falstaff
B) He wants to lower expectations so that when his kingly qualities are revealed, he can
impress all
C) He wants to escape from the control of his father
D) He wants Hotspur to think he is a drunkard
81. “All for Love” is fashioned upon the theme of
A) Troilus and Cressida B) Antony and Cleoptra
C) Romeo and Juliet D) Coriolanus
82. The role of Lady Sneerwell is to
A) Help poor people
B) Show kindness to her relatives
C) Spread scandalous information about people
D) Maintain true friendship
83. The relationship between Mirabell and the elderly Lady Wishfort reflects
A) True love B) Fake courtship C) Genuine friendship D) Deep affection
84. Dr. Johnson is highly critical of John Milton’s poem “Lycidas’ because its
A) Theme is irrelevant B) Technique is outdated
C) Characters are idealistic D) Diction is harsh and the rhymes uncertain
85. Why does George Herbert wish to be a ‘tree’?
A) To bear fruits B) To give shade
C) “Some bird would trust her household” D) All of the above
86. “Datta” in T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste land” means
A) Take B) Protect C) Destroy D) Give
87. “Byzantium” for W.B. Yeats is
A) A kind of death B) A modern city
C) A state of frustration D) None of these
88. “Ah, Love, let us be true
To one another ! for the world, which seems”
These lines are taken from Arnold’s:
A) To Marguerite B) Dover Beach C) The Scholar Gypsy D) Palladium
89. In which of the following year, “The wreck of Duetchland” happened as mentioned by
Hopkins in his poem?
A) 7th Dec., 1875 B) 17th Nov., 1895 C) 17th Dec., 1865 D)7th Jan., 1885
90. “He that can walk, under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the stron man.” These
lines are written by
A) Carlyle B) Bacon C) Coleridge D) Arnold
91. Adonias is an written on the death of
A) Gray B) Wordsworth C) Coleridge D) Keats
dawn. It has remained in England even after the advent of Christianity as
A) Christmas B) Doicese C) Easter D) Mass
50. English descended from the Western set (group) of the Indo-European family of languages
which is also called
A) Centum B) Satem C) Armenian D) Albanian
51. The Poetics defines poetry and drama as modes of
A) Copy B) limitation C) Replica D) Creativity
52. Dryden admines _______ but he loves Shakespeare
A) Pope B) Virgie C) Milton D) Johnson
53. Who first used the words ‘fancy and imagination’ in his theory of poetry?
A) William Wordsworth B) John Dryden C) T.S. Eliot D) S.T. Coleridge
54. Who first used the term ‘Metaphysics?
A) John Donne B) Dryden C) Milton D) T.S. Eliot
55. Who is the author of the critical essay ‘The Seven Type of Ambiguity’?
A) Herbert Read B) Kenneth Burke C) George Herbert D) William Empson
56. On which date did Spenser marry Elizabeth Boyle?
A) 25th June B) 11th June C) 19th June D) 12th June
57. In Chaucer’s Prologue to Canterbury Tales’, the shipman is the owner of a vessel called
A) Madeline B) Victoria C) Baltic D) Princess
58. The wife of Bath besides countless lovers has married _______ husbands
A) Two B) Six C) Four D) Five
59. Faustus is advised by his friends _______ and _______ to study necromancy.
A) Horace and Tony B) Abraham and Chaplain
C) Ferdinand and Joan D) Valdes and Cornelius
60. When Faustus signs the treaty with Lucifer, the words that appear on his arm are
A) Homofuge B) Consummatum est
C) Veni mephistophile D) Vis-à-vis
61. Which spirit is described as the “regent of the sun” in Paradise Lost Book IX?
A) Cherubin B) Gabriel C) Uriel D) Samson
62. “The Mistakes of Night” is another title of the drama
A) The School for Scandal B) The Way of the World
C) All for Love D) She Stoops to Conquer
63. Who starts his journey from the ‘City of Destruction’?
A) Christian B) Goodwill C) Evangelist D) Faith
64. Fielding’s approach to his novels are
A) Dull and sober B) Serious and impractical
C) Worldly-wise and genial D) Idealistic
65. Through the character of Belinda Alexander Pope Satirise
A) Ambitious men B) Vicious politicians
C) Women lavishing on their own beauty D) Impoverished women
66. In the esay ‘Of Truth’ Bacon compares Truth to
A) Sun B) Daylight C) Fire D) Candle-light
67. In the essay ‘Of Friendship’ Bacon says that a _________ is not a company.
A) Neighbor B) Relative C) Senior D) Crowd
68. Spenser was buried beside __________ in West Minister Abbey.
A) Shakespeare B) Lamb C) Chaucer D) Sydney
69. In Spenser’s stanza, the last ninth line has twelve syllables. It is called
A) Alexandrine B) Parabola C) Retrain D) Quatrain
70. The first scene in the Alchemist by Ben Johnson opens with the quarrel between _______
and _________
A) Simon and Subtle B) Dapper and Drugger
C) Face and Subtle D) Mammon and Surly
71. Tintern Abbey was composed on revisiting the banks of
A) The Rhine B) The Wye C) The Nile D) The Thames
72. Keats is a ______ poets.
A) Sensuous B) Sensual C) Sensitive D) Sensible
73. _________ has over-brimmed their clammy cells.
A) Winter B) Autumn C) Spring D) Summer
74. Shelley appeals to the West wind to make him a
A) Trumpet B) Flute C) Lyre D) Tabor
75. _________ is the Greek God of Winds
A) Bacchus B) Aeolus C) Apollo D) Venus
76. How does the second witch address Macbeth?
A) Thane of Cawdor B) King of Scotland C) Thane of Glamis D) Thane of Norway
77. “What, will these hands ne’er be clean
…All the perfumes of Arabia will not
Sweeter this little hand”.
These words are uttered by,
A) Macbeth B) Macduff C) Lady Macbeth D) Banquo
78. Who helped Prospero and his little daughter with food, water, books ets., when they were
abandoned on a damaged ship?
A) Francisco B) Alonso C) Stephano D) Gonzalo
79. “…I’ll break my staff,
Bury it certain fadoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I’ll drown my book”
Who utters these words?
A) Ferdinand B) Ariel C) Prospero D) Caliban
80. Why does Prince Harry spend more time in the company of Falstaff?
A) He wants to learn tricks from Falstaff
B) He wants to lower expectations so that when his kingly qualities are revealed, he can
impress all
C) He wants to escape from the control of his father
D) He wants Hotspur to think he is a drunkard
81. “All for Love” is fashioned upon the theme of
A) Troilus and Cressida B) Antony and Cleoptra
C) Romeo and Juliet D) Coriolanus
82. The role of Lady Sneerwell is to
A) Help poor people
B) Show kindness to her relatives
C) Spread scandalous information about people
D) Maintain true friendship
83. The relationship between Mirabell and the elderly Lady Wishfort reflects
A) True love B) Fake courtship C) Genuine friendship D) Deep affection
84. Dr. Johnson is highly critical of John Milton’s poem “Lycidas’ because its
A) Theme is irrelevant B) Technique is outdated
C) Characters are idealistic D) Diction is harsh and the rhymes uncertain
85. Why does George Herbert wish to be a ‘tree’?
A) To bear fruits B) To give shade
C) “Some bird would trust her household” D) All of the above
86. “Datta” in T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste land” means
A) Take B) Protect C) Destroy D) Give
87. “Byzantium” for W.B. Yeats is
A) A kind of death B) A modern city
C) A state of frustration D) None of these
88. “Ah, Love, let us be true
To one another ! for the world, which seems”
These lines are taken from Arnold’s:
A) To Marguerite B) Dover Beach C) The Scholar Gypsy D) Palladium
89. In which of the following year, “The wreck of Duetchland” happened as mentioned by
Hopkins in his poem?
A) 7th Dec., 1875 B) 17th Nov., 1895 C) 17th Dec., 1865 D)7th Jan., 1885
90. “He that can walk, under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the stron man.” These
lines are written by
A) Carlyle B) Bacon C) Coleridge D) Arnold
91. Adonias is an written on the death of
A) Gray B) Wordsworth C) Coleridge D) Keats
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