637). Who wrote these lines? “A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed.

One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud."

A). Shelley

B). Keats

C). Byron

D). Wordsworth

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Correct Answer: Shelley

638). Where does these lines occur? “And there I shut her wild eyes with kisses
four"

A). Hyperion

B). Lamia

C). Wasteland

D). La Belle Dame Sans Merci

View Answer

Correct Answer: La Belle Dame Sans Merci

639). Who said: “ 'I'm afraid there's many a spectacled sod Prefers the British
Museum to God”?

A). W.H. Auden

B). W.B. Yeats

C). Philip Larkin

D). Byron

View Answer

Correct Answer: W.H. Auden

640). Who wrote “The Lady is not for burning”?

A). G.B.Shaw
B). Marlowe

C). Christopher Fry

D). Milton

View Answer

Correct Answer: Christopher Fry

641). Curan appears in_____________ Shakespearean play.

A). Hamlet

B). Othello

C). Tempest

D). King Lear

View Answer

Correct Answer: King Lear

642). In which Shakespeare play does Adam appear?

A). As You Like It

B). Tempest

C). Hamlet

D). King Lear

View Answer

Correct Answer: As You Like It

643). Who wrote “Lives of the Ceasers"?

A). Cicero

B). Livy
C). Suetonius

D). Socrates

View Answer

Correct Answer: Suetonius

644). Who wrote “Storm in Chandigarh”?

A). Arun Joshi

B). Anita Desai

C). Nayantara Sehgal

D). R.K. Laxman

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Correct Answer: Nayantara Sehgal

645). Who is the only Foreign Honorary Fellow at the Sahitya Akademy.

A). T.S. Elliot

B). Joseph Brodsky

C). Larkin

D). E.M. Forster

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Correct Answer: Joseph Brodsky

646). In which year was 'Gitanjali' in English published?

A). 1910

B). 1911

C). 1912

D). 1913

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Correct Answer: 1912
647). In which year did 'Tagore receive Nobel Prize?

A). 1913

B). 1914

C). 1915

D). 1916

View Answer

Correct Answer: 1913

648). Who wrote “All About H. Hatter"?

A). R.K. Narayan

B). Arun Joshi

C). Anita Desai

D). G.V. Desani

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Correct Answer: G.V. Desani

649). Which English author had a IQ of 190?

A). Yeats

B). Mill

C). Hopkins

D). Kingsley Amis

View Answer

Correct Answer: Mill

650). Which of the following flowers did Wordsworth write poems on?

A). Roses
B). Lilies

C). Tulips

D). Daffodils

View Answer

Correct Answer: Daffodils

651). 'The Hundred Years War' which began in 1338 was with

A). America

B). France

C). Spain

D). Italy

View Answer

Correct Answer: France

652). The Authorised Version of the Bible came into being in:

A). 1611

B). 1616

C). 1116

D). None of these

View Answer

Correct Answer: 1611

653). The Transition Poets replaced the neoclassical Heroic couplet by:

A). The four lined stanza

B). Spenserian Stanza

C). The Heroic Quatrain

D). The Octosyllabic Quatrain

View Answer

Correct Answer: All these

654). The phrase “Don Juan in Hell" figures in.................of Shaw.

A). Arms and the Man

B). St. Joan

C). Man and Superman

D). None of these

View Answer

Correct Answer: Man and Superman

655). The Waste Land was dedicated to:

A). Camae

B). James Frazer

C). Ezra Pound

D). Jessie Weston

View Answer

Correct Answer: Ezra Pound

656). The socio-political changes of the later half of the Nineteenth century it
may be said, had resulted in the emergence of:

A). A New Woman

B). A New Democracy

C). British Liberalism

D). All these three

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Correct Answer: British Liberalism

657). Who Wrote: “True wit is what oft was thought but never so well
expressed."

A). Dryden

B). Swift

C). Pope

D). None of these

View Answer

Correct Answer: Pope

658). “Stiff in opinion always in the wrong Was everything by starts and nothing
long" Who is the writer of this Heroic Couplet?

A). Alexander Pope

B). John Dryden

C). Abraham Cowley

D). None of these

View Answer

Correct Answer: John Dryden

659). The Norman Conquest Took place in:

A). 1066

B). 1077

C). 1155

D). None of these

View Answer

Correct Answer: 1066

660). 'Urn Buriall' was written by:

A). Francis Bacon

B). John Ford

C). Sir Thomas Browne

D). None of these

View Answer

Correct Answer: Sir Thomas Browne

661). Who among the following can be considered the originator of the
'Picaresque Novel'?

A). Thomas Nash

B). Daniel Defoe

C). Charles Dickens

D). None of these

View Answer

Correct Answer: Thomas Nash

662). In which book Stephen Gosson calls the poets “Caterpillars of the
commonwealth" and “the father of lies"?

A). He does not call so

B). School of Abuse

C). School for Scandal

D). None of these

View Answer

Correct Answer: School of Abuse

663). Milton's Areopagitica was directed against:

A). The ban on the theatres

B). The ban on poetry

C). Censorship

D). None of these

View Answer

Correct Answer: Censorship

664). Who is “a classicist in literature, royalist in politics and anglo-catholic in
religion”?

A). T.S. Eliot

B). Ezra Pound

C). M. Arnold

D). W.B. Yeats

View Answer

Correct Answer: T.S. Eliot

665). 'The Seven Types of Ambiguity' was written by:

A). F.R. Leavis

B). I.A. Richards

C). William Empsom

D). None of these

View Answer

Correct Answer: William Empsom

666). James II ascended the throne in:

A). 1660

B). 1680

C). 1685

D). 1690

View Answer
Correct Answer: 1685
667). “God made the country and man made the town.” This is suggestive of:

A). Neoclassics preference for the human nature

and the town life

B). Preromantics' preference for the physical

nature and the country life

C). The transition from the Neoclassicism to the

Romanticism

D). All these three.

View Answer

Correct Answer: All these three.

668). The 'Castle of Indolence' was written by

A). James Thomson

B). William Collins

C). Oliver Goldsmith

D). None of these

View Answer

Correct Answer: James Thomson

669). What is 'The Fifth Column'?

A). The only play written by Hemingway

B). Radio and TV

C). Churchil's autobiography

D). None of these

View Answer

Correct Answer: The only play written by Hemingway

670). Emphasising the importance of the following characters, which of the
following writer wrote this? “I belive that all novels deal with character, and that
it is to express character-not to preach doctrines, Sing songs, or celebrate the
glories of the British empire."

A). E.M. Forster

B). Virginia Woolf

C). Aldous Huxley

D). None of these

View Answer

Correct Answer: Virginia Woolf

671). Swinburn is known for the:

A). Keen ear for sound.

B). Love Poetry

C). Political passion worthy of Shelley

D). None of these

View Answer

Correct Answer: Political passion worthy of Shelley

672). What is common among Cardinal Newman, John Kable and John Henry
Newman? They were:

A). The Victorian Literary Critics.

B). Poet Laureats

C). The pre-Raphaelites

D). Associated with the Oxford Movement

View Answer

Correct Answer: Associated with the Oxford Movement

673). “Now.............Except the Nocturnal Reverie of lady Winchilsea, and a
passage or two in the Windsor forest of the Pope, the poetry intervening
between............. 'The Paradise Lost' and 'The Seasons' does not contain a single
new image of external nature”. Who wrote this?

A). Wordsworth

B). Thomson

C). Gray

D). William Blake

View Answer

Correct Answer: Wordsworth

674). Sidney's 'Apologie for Poetrie' is a response to the following writer:

A). Stephen Gosson

B). Socratese.

C). John Lily

D). None of these

View Answer

Correct Answer: Stephen Gosson

675). Who Wrote, “My Love is Like a Red Red Rose"?

A). William Shakespeare

B). William Wordsworth

C). Robert Burns

D). None of these

View Answer

Correct Answer: Robert Burns

676). The Oxford Movement was:

A). Opposed to rationalism

B). Anti-rationalisitic
C). Interested in the Biblical Miracles

D). All these three

View Answer

Correct Answer: All these three

677). Who wrote 'Finnegon's Wake'?

A). W.B. Yeats

B). Ezra Pound

C). Yeats

D). James Toyce

View Answer

Correct Answer: James Toyce

678). The author of 'Ass Poetica' is:

A). Virgil

B). Horace

C). Plato

D). Cicero

View Answer

Correct Answer: Horace

679). Who wrote 'Sejanus' & 'Catline'?

A). Dekker

B). Webster

C). Marlowe

D). Ben Jonson

View Answer

Correct Answer: Ben Jonson

680). What did P.B. Shelley wrote in 1811 for which her was expelled from
university?

A). Adonais

B). Alastor

C). The Necessity of Atheism

D). The Revolt of Islam

View Answer

Correct Answer: The Necessity of Atheism

681). Why is John Lyly (1554-1606) remembered today?

A). The developer of Euphuism

B). Poet

C). Dramatist

D). Critic

View Answer

Correct Answer: The developer of Euphuism

682). "A Lioness has whelped in the streets. And graves have yawned and
yielded to the dead". In which of Shakespeare's plays has doom been foretold by
these lines?

A). Macbeth

B). Hamlet

C). Julius Caesar

D). Tempest

View Answer
Correct Answer: Julius Caesar
683). In which G.B. Shaw play we meet Eliza Dolittle?

A). St. Joan

B). Candida

C). Maj Barbara

D). Pygmalion

View Answer

Correct Answer: Pygmalion

684). In which year did Lord Byron die?

A). 1874

B). 1824

C). 1880

D). 1823

View Answer

Correct Answer: 1824

685). Who wrote 'Blessed Damozel' ?

A). Dante Gabriel Rossetti

B). Alexander pope

C). Swinburne

D). Tennyson

View Answer

Correct Answer: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

686). How does swift represent the puritan enthusiasm in 'A Tale of a Tub'?

A). as wind
B). as earth

C). as fire

D). as rain

View Answer

Correct Answer: as wind

687). According to whom 18th century is an age of prose?

A). Lamb

B). Bacon

C). Hazlitt

D). M. Arnold

View Answer

Correct Answer: M. Arnold

688). What is a Canto?

A). A recitable section of along poem

B). A long poem

C). A short poem

D). Lyrical stanza

View Answer

Correct Answer: A recitable section of689). Who introduced blank verse in

England?

A). Dryden

B). Earl of Surrey

C). Marlowe

D). Chaucer
View Answer

Correct Answer: Earl of Surrey

along poem
690). What is 'the Duenna' and 'Patricks Day' written by Sheridan?

A). Novels

B). Poems

C). Stories

D). Plays

View Answer

Correct Answer: Plays

691). “The rose was awake all night for your sake, Knowing your promise to me;
The lilies and roses were all aware, They sighed for the dawn and thee.” The
above lines are from:

A). Prufock

B). Maud

C). In Memorium

D). Shelley Sonnets

View Answer

Correct Answer: Maud

692). Who wrote “Six Characters in search of an author”

A). Pirandello

B). Arden

C). Shaw

D). Isherwood

View Answer
Correct Answer: Pirandello
693). The New English Bible is not recognized by one of the Churches. Which?

A). Roman Catholic

B). Church of England

C). Lutheran

D). Baptist

View Answer

Correct Answer: Roman Catholic

694). Who wrote 'Nightmare Abbey'

A). Jane Austen

B). George Eliot

C). T.L. Peacock

D). Monk Lewis

View Answer

Correct Answer: T.L. Peacock

695). Who is the author of 'Cry, the Beloved Country'

A). Nadine Gordimer

B). V.S. Naipaul

C). E.M. Forster

D). Alan Paton

View Answer

Correct Answer: Alan Paton

696). Which Salman Rushdie's novel was banned?

A). Midnight Children

B). Shame

C). Grimus

D). Satanic Verses

View Answer

Correct Answer: Satanic Verses

697). Matthew Arnold wrote. “It is not small thing to have so loved the principle
of beauty as to perceive the necessary relation of beauty with truth, and of both
with joy.” Who is the poet that has “loved the principle of beauty in all things”?

A). Shakespeare

B). Blake

C). Shelley

D). Keats

View Answer

Correct Answer: Keats

698). Keats “Beauty is truth and truth beauty" and “What the imagination seizes
as Beauty must be truth”, is suggestive of:

A). I think, therefore I am

B). I protest, therefore I am

C). I feel, therefore, I am

D). None of these

View Answer

Correct Answer: I feel, therefore, I am

699). Henry James's creation, Isabel Archer figures in:

A). The Turn of the Screw

B). The Ivory Tower

C). The Portrait of a Lady

D). None of these

View Answer

Correct Answer: The Portrait of a Lady

700). Which of the following is characteristic of James Joyce's style?

A). Broken narrative

B). New, private vocabulary

C). Sardonic humour

D). All these three

View Answer

Correct Answer: All these three