1.

Which of the following phrases best characterizes the late-nineteenth century aesthetic movement
which widened the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the seeds of modernism?
a) art for intellect's sake
b) art for God's sake
c) art for the masses
d) art for art's sake

2. With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentieth-century thinker

Sigmund Freud associated?
a) psychoanalysis
b) phrenology
c) anarchism
d) all of the above

3. What characteristics of seventeenth-century Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of

modernist poets and critics?
a) its intellectual complexity
b) its union of thought and passion
c) its uncompromising engagement with politics
d) a and b

4. Which of the following writers did not come from Ireland?

a) W. B. Yeats
b) James Joyce
c) Seamus Heaney
d) none of the above; all came from Ireland

5. Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature?
a) automatic writing
b) confused daze
c) total recall
d) stream of consciousness

6. Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the novel?
1. stream of consciousness
2. free indirect style
3. the "mythical method"
4. narrative realism
7. Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen-Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates
the heightened linguistic self-consciousness of modernist writers?
a) George Orwell
b) Virginia Woolf
c) Evelyn Waugh
d) Aldous Huxley

8. Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory?
a) E. M. Forster's A Passage to India
b) Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
c) Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
d) Paul Scott's Staying On

9. What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays
Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party?
a) regional dialect and political critique
b) religious symbolism and society comedy
c) iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo
d) all of the above

10. In what decade did the "angry young men" come to prominence on the theatrical
scene?
a) 1910s
b) 1930s
c) 1950s
d) 1970s

11. What did Henry James describe as "loose baggy monsters"?

a) novels
b) plays
c) English Men
d) publishers

12. Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the
Norman Conquest in 1066?
a) French
b) Norwegian
c) Spanish
d) Danish
13. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?
a) Bede
b) Sir Thomas Malory
c) Geoffrey Chaucer
d) John Gower

14. In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the "flowering"of Middle
English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers?
a) Geoffrey of Monmouth
b) the Gawain poet
c) the Beowulf poet
d) Chrétien de Troyes

15. Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife?
a) Dante's Divine Comedy
b) Boccaccio's Decameron
c) The Dream of the Rood
d) Chaucer's Legend of Good Women

16. Who is the author of Piers Plowman?

a) Sir Thomas Malory
b) Margery Kempe
c) Geoffrey Chaucer
d) William Langland

17. Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues?
a) the short story
b) the heroic epic
c) the morality play
d) the limerick

18. Which work of Geoffrey Chaucer is an elegy written in the memory of John of Gaunt’s first
wife, Blanche?
a) Troilus and Criseyde
b) House of Fame
c) The Parliament of Fowls
d) The Book of the Duchess
19. What was the name of the host at Tabard Inn in The Canterbury Tales?
a. Reeve
b. Nicholas
c. Harry Bailly
d. Alison

20. Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife?
a) Dante's Divine Comedy
b) Boccaccio's Decameron
c) The Dream of the Rood
d) Chaucer's Legend of Good Women

21. Short plays called _______ , which staged dialogues on religious, moral, and political
themes, were performed by playing companies before the construction of public theaters.

a) interludes
b) spectacles
c) meditations
d) mysteries

22. What is blank verse?

a) iambic pentameter in rhyming couplets
b) the verse form of the Shakespearean sonnet
c) free verse, without rhyme or regular meter
d) unrhymed iambic pentameter

23. Which writer was not active under both Elizabeth I and James I?
a) Ben Jonson
b) John Donne
c) Francis Bacon
d) John Milton

24. What was the tile of Thomas Hobbes's defense of absolute sovereignty based on a theory of
social contract?
a) The Litany in a Time of Plague
b) Utopia
c) Leviathan
d) The Advancement of Learning
25. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the
issue of religion, just after the Restoration?
a) Butler's Hudibras
b) Fielding's Jonathan Wild
c) Pope's Dunciad
d) Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel

26. Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism?

a) All knowledge is derived from experience.
b) Human perceptions are constructed and reflect structures of political
power.
c) The search for essential or ultimate principles of reality.
d) The sensory world is an illusion.

27. What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil,
Horace, and Ovid?
a) Augustan
b) Metaphysical
c) Romantic
d) Neo-Romantic

28. Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection?
a) the heroic couplet
a) blank verse
b) free verse
c) the ode

29. While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for
his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded?
a) a history of everyday life
b) an instructional manual for manners
c) a book of devotion
d) a book of model letters

30. Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto initiated which literary tradition?
a) Gothic fiction
b) epistolary novel
c) meta-novel
d) medieval romance
31. Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of
the mind in flux?
a) Maria Edgeworth
b) Thomas De Quincey
c) Joanna Baillie
d) Jane Austen

32. Who were the "Two Nations" referred to in the subtitle of Disraeli's Sybil (1845)?
a) the rich and the poor
b) Anglicans and Methodists
c) England and Ireland
d) Britain and Germany

33. What does the phrase "White Man's Burden," coined by Kipling, refer to?
a) Britain's manifest destiny to colonize the world.
b) The moral responsibility to bring civilization and Christianity to the
peoples of the world.
c) The British need to improve technology and transportation in other parts of
the world.
d) The importance of solving economic and social problems in England before
tackling the world's problems.

34. Which of the following terms is defined as the application of a scientific attitude of
mind toward studying the Bible, seen as a mere text of history and not an infallibly
sacred document?
a) New Criticism
b) Critical Inquiry
c) Scientific Bibliology
d) Higher Criticism

35. Which playwright attacked Shakespeare, calling him an “an upstart crow”?
a) Christopher Marlow
b) George Peele
c) Thomas Nashe
d) Robert Greene

36. A mild word or phrase which substitutes for another which would be undesirable because it
is too direct, unpleasant, or offensive.
a) Euphemism
b) Genre
c) Point of View
d) Picaresque Novel
37. Unintentional use of an inappropriate word similar in sound to the appropriate word, often
with humorous effect.
a) Naturalism
b) Modernism
c) Malapropism
d) Postmodernism

38. “Aporia” is a state of

a) Undecidability
b) Apathy
c) Candor
d) violence

39. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by?
a) The Pre-Raphaelites
b) Ruskin
c) Pater
d) Matthew Arnold

40. The epigraph of The Waste Land is borrowed from?

a) Virgil
b) Fetronius
c) Seneca
d) Homer

41. Which of the following novels has the sub-title ‘A Novel without a Hero’?
a) Vanity Fair
b) Middlemarch
c) Wuthering Heights
d) Oliver Twist

42. Which of the following poets does not belong to the ‘Lake School’?
a) Keats
b) Coleridge
c) Southey
d) Wordsworth

43. Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical Sublime’?

a) William Wordsworth
b) P.B. Shelley
c) S. T. Coleridge
d) John Keats
44. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare, according to T. S. Eliot, is ‘artistic failure’?
a) The Tempest
b) Hamlet
c) Henry IV, Pt I
d) Twelfth Night

45. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue?

a) The Tempest
b) Henry IV, Pt I
c) Hamlet
d) Twelfth Night

46. Who wrote 'Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise'?

a) Browning
b) Marx
c) Shakespeare
d) Kipling

47. Who wrote the crime novel "Ten Little Niggers"?

a) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
b) Irvine Welsh
c) Agatha Christie
d) Emile Zola

48. Who wrote this famous line: 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day/ Thou art more lovely
and more temperate…'
a) T.S. Eliot
b) Lord Tennyson
c) Charlotte Bronte
d) Shakespeare

49. Who wrote the poems, "On death" and "Women, Wine, and Snuff?"
a) John Milton
b) John Keats
c) P.B. Shelley
d) William Wordsworth

50. Who has defined 'poetry' as ‘a fundamental creative act using languages’?
a) H. W. Longfellow
b) Ralph Waldo Emerson
c) Dylan Thomas
d) William Wordsworth
51. How did W. H. Auden describe poetry?
a) An awful way to earn a living
b) A game of knowledge
c) The soul exposed
d) An explosion of language

52. Who translated Utopia in English language:

a) Thomas More
b) Thomas lodge
c) Ralph Robinson
d) William Tyndale

53. Which poet was the first to use metaphysical poetry among his contemporaries:
a) Edmund Spenser
b) John Milton
c) John Donne
d) Sir Philip Sidney

54. Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote, "My salad days, when I was green in
judgment." come from?
a) Antony and Cleopatra
b) Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
c) The Winters Tale
d) The Merry Wives of Windsor

55. “Some born great, some achieve greatness

And some have greatness thrust upon them".
Above lines are taken from which of following plays?
a) Macbeth
b) Othello
c) Twelfth night
d) As you like it

56. Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet—
a) P. B. Shelley
b) Charles Lamb
c) Hazlitt
d) Coleridge

57. W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem?
a) Sailing to Byzantium
b) Byzantium
c) The Second Coming
d) Leda and the Swan
58. “My own great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh as being wiser than the intellect.”
Who wrote this?
a) Graham Greene
b) D. H. Lawrence
c) Charles Dickens
d) Jane Austen

59. Shelley’s “Adonais” is an elegy on the death of?

a) Milton
b) Coleridge
c) Keats
d) Johnson

60. In Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” where were the three gallants
going?
a) A funeral
b) A wedding
c) Market
d) To the races

61. “Provincializing Europe” is a concept propounded by

a) Edward Said
b) Paul Gilroy
c) Abdul R. Gurnah
d) Dipesh Chakravarthy

62. Who among the following is associated with the ideology of Utilitarianism?
a) J.A. Froude
b) Charles Kingsley
c) J.S. Mill
d) Cardinal Newman

63. “Imagined Communities” is a concept propounded by

a) Homi Bhabha
b) Benedict Anderson
c) Partha Chatterjee
d) Aijaz Ahmed

64. The author of Gender Trouble is

a) Elaine Showalter
b) Helen Cixous
c) Michele Barrett
d) Judith Butler
65. Which of the following is essentially a Freudian concept?
a) Archetype
b) The Uncanny
c) The Absurd
d) The Imaginary

66. The line “Poetry is a criticism of life” occurs in

a) Culture and Anarchy
b) Modern Painters
c) The Study of Poetry
d) Sartor Resartus

67. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman was written by

a) Sir. Henry Wotton
b) John Bunyan
c) Jeremy Taylor
d) Richard Baxter

68. The term “gynocriticism” was coined by

a) Betty Friedman
b) Elaine Showalter
c) Luce Irigarey
d) Susan Sontag

69. ‘Only connect’ is the epigraph to a novel by

a) George Orwell
b) Joseph Conrad
c) D. H. Lawrence
d) E. M. Forster

70. ‘She is inspired but diabolically inspired’. Who is this lady?

a) Major Barbara
b) Saint Joan
c) Ann
d) Candida

71. The phrase “disassociation of sensibility” was first used by

a) Mathew Arnold
b) John Dryden
c) T. S. Eliot
d) Philip Sydney
72. The term “magical realism” was first introduced by
a) Hannah Arendt
b) Peter Behrens
c) Jean Arp
d) Franz Roh

73. Who coined the term “new historicism”?

a) Louis Montrose
b) Stephen Greenblatt
c) Brook Thomas
d) Clifford Geertz

74. Who coined the term “intentional fallacy” and “affective fallacy”?
a) T. S. Eliot
b) William Empson
c) W. K. Wimsatt
d) Cleanth Brooks

75. The phrase “willing suspension of disbelief” was coined by

a) Mathew Arnold
b) William Wordsworth
c) T.S. Eliot
d) S.T. Coleridge