FREDERICK DOUGLASS

PAPER 3

JUNE 2013

Which of these authors is not a writer of African American slave narratives?

A. Solomon Northrop
B. Frederick Douglass
C. Phillis Wheatley
D. Sojourner Truth

HARRIET B. STOWE

PAPER 2

DECEMBER 2015

Harriet B. Stowe had wanted to write a work based on the life of an Afro-American writer which was
later published as:

A. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

B. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
C. Cry, the Beloved Country
D. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

HERMAN MELVILLE

PAPER 3

AUGUST 2016

In Herman Melville’s well-known story “Bartleby the Scrivener”, what does the word “scrivener” mean?

A. Pasting clerks in Dead Letter Office

B. Articled clerks in an accountant’s office
C. Clerks who copy legal documents by hand
D. Clerks who serve as personal assistants to judges

PAPER 2

JULY 2016

What is the name of the boat that rescues Ishmael in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick?

A. Pequod
B. Rachel
 C. Hagar
D. Sphinx

JAMES FENNIMORE COOPER

PAPER 3

JUNE 2015

Which of the American novelists is associated with the series of five books about Natty Bumppo, an old
hunter, also called Leatherstocking?

A. Stephen Crane
B. James Fennimore Cooper
C. Herman Melville
D. Jack London

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT- NO QUESTIONS

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

AUGUST 2016

Which of the following stories in NOT written by Nathaniel Hawthorne?

A. The Minister’s Black Veil

B. Young Goodman Brown
C. The Purloined Letter
D. My Kinsman, Major Molineux

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a … by …

A. Novel, Nathaniel Hawthorne

B. Play, Mrs. Radcliffe
C. Poem, William Blake
D. Sermon, Laurence Sterne

EDGAR ALLEN POE

PAPER 3

January 2017

Poe’s “The Raven” mourns the death of Poe’s

A. Lost Lenore
B. Lost Abigail
 C. Pet animal
D. Lost heritage

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

PAPER 3

DECEMBER 2015

Arrange the following sentences in the order in which they appear in Emerson’s Self-Reliance.

Misunderstood!- It is a right fool’s word- If it is so bad then to be misunderstood!- Pythagoras was

misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and
every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh- To be great is to be misunderstood.

June 2012

Which of the following is not true of Ralph Waldo Emerson?

A. He wrote essays on New England scenery, woodcraft and plantations.

B. He was an eloquent pulpit orator, a member of the Unitarian Church under William Chawming.
C. In essays like Nature, he elaborates on the importance of seeing familiar things in new days.
D. His famous American Scholar was delivered as an address before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at
Cambridge in 1837.

PAPER 2

JUNE 2006

Allen Ginsberg’s vision of America is inspired by:

A. Walt Whitman
B. Robert Frost
C. Emerson
D. Poe

June 2008

Symbolist movement was influenced by:

A. Poetic theory of Edgar Allen Poe

B. Stephane Mallarme’s Poetry
C. Prose of Emerson
D. Ezra Pound’s Cantos

December 2009
Which of the following options are correct?

A. Transcendentalism was a philosophical and literary movement.

B. It flourished in the Southern states of America in the 19th century
C. It was a reaction against the 18th century rationalism and the skeptical philosophy of Locke.
D. Among the major texts of Transcendentalist thought are the essays of Emerson, Thoreau’s
Walden and the writings of Margaret Fuller.

June 2009

“Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes)”. The
above lines are from:

A. Walt Whitman
B. Edgar Allen Poe
C. Emerson
D. John Greenleaf Whittier

December 2012

Match the following:

The Sage of Concord- R.W. Emerson

The Nun of Amherst- Emily Dickinson
Mark Twain- Samuel L. Clemens
Old Possum- T.S. Eliot

December 2014

“And miles to go before I sleep” is a line from a poem by:

A. Emily Dickinson
B. Walt Whitman
C. Ralph Waldo Emerson
D. Robert Frost

HENRY DAVID THOREAU- NO QUESTIONS

WASHINGTON IRVING

PAPER 3

December 2013

The year 1828 is a landmark in the history of American language and literature because

A. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in that year
 B. The Southern Literary messenger gained wide circulation since that year
C. Washington Irving was adjudged the nation’s greatest writer in that year
D. Noah Webster published An American Dictionary of the English Language

EMILY DICKINSON

PAPER 3

July 2016

Emily Dickinson’s use of “open form” or “free verse” is comparable to her contemporary American poet,

A. Anne Bradstreet
B. Robert Lowell
C. Walt Whitman
D. Sylvia Plath

August 2016

The epitaph on her tombstone that Emily Dickinson composed herself reads

A. The List is done

B. Redemption- Brittle Lady
C. Judge tenderly- of Me
D. Called Back

June 2013

Match the following:

“I hear a fly Buzz”- Emily Dickinson

“Birches”- Robert Frost
“Sunday Morning”- Wallace Stevens
“A Supermarket in California”- Allen Ginsberg

June 2012

Identify the correctly matched group.

Because I could not stop for death- Emily Dickinson

O Captain! My Captain!- Walt Whitman
Two roads diverged in a wood- Robert Frost
So much depends on- William Carlos Williams

December 2012

We are likely to misunderstand an Emily Dickinson poem if we take her famous dashes to be
 A. Quite specific and unambiguous
B. Ambiguous and indeterminate
C. Suggestive of both forward and backward movements in terms in sense
D. Suggestive of links but equivocally

PAPER 2

December 2018

What comes “after great pain” in the famous Emily Dickinson poem?

A. The letting go
B. A concrete simplicity
C. Substantial light
D. A formal feeling

WALT WHITMAN

PAPER 3

July 2016

In the opening stanza of “Song of Myself”, Whitman begins his spiritual awakening at the age of..

A. 37
B. 15
C. 24
D. 61

August 2016

The word “calamus”, a kind of water reed referenced in the title Calamus poems, is a symbol for
Whitman for

A. Water nymphs
B. Male companions
C. The spirit of American democracy
D. The impending American Civil War

PAPER 2

June 2008

“The Kelson of creation is love”. This line occurs in Walt Whitman’s

A. Paumonak
B. Passage to India
 C. O Captain, My Captain
D. Song of Myself

June 2013

Which American poet wrote: “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world”?

A. Robert Lowell
B. Walt Whitman
C. Wallace Stevens
D. Langston Hughes

December 2018

What attitude towards death would you find in such poems as Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar”,
Whitman’s “Death Carol”, and Kipling’s “L’Envoi”?

A. Resignation
B. Despair
C. Hope
D. Protest

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT

PAPER 2

December 2018

Identify the Fireside poets of the U.S.

A. William Cullen Bryant, H.W. Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes

B. T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams
C. Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Seaton
D. My Lowell, Emily Dickinson, Philis Wheatley

JOHN UPDIKE- NO Questions

HARPER LEE- NO Questions

TRUMAN CAPOTE- NO Questions

J.D. SALINGER

PAPER 2

December 2011
Who amongst the following is not a Jewish-American novelist?

A. J.D. Salinger
B. Henry Greene
C. William Faulkner
D. Philip Roth

JOHN O’HARA- NO Questions

JOSEPH HELLER- No Questions

JOHN STEINBECK- NO Questions

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

PAPER 3

January 2017

Who among the following is not a beat writer?

A. Jack Kerouac
B. Allen Ginsberg
C. Robert Lowell
D. William Burroughs

JACK KEROUAC

November 2017

Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” a key work of the Beat Movement, was dedicated to….

A. Lucien Carr
B. Carl Solomon
C. Herbert Huncke
D. Jack Kerouac

EDWARD ALBEE

PAPER 3

December 2013

Assertion (A): In Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? George and Martha’s blue and green-eyed son is a
myth .
Reason (R): He is a creation of the couple’s imagination originating from their sense of sterility and
vacuum in life.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation for (A).

June 2012

“Exorcism” is the title of Act III of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? What is the significance of ‘exorcism’
in the context of the play?

A. The casting out of evil spirits

B. Deconstructing of myths involving marriage, fertility and sons
C. Facing life without illusions
D. Exposing all attempts at illusion-making

PAPER 2

December 2008

The plays of Edward Albee deal with:

A. Problems of middle-class
B. Hypocrisy of aristocracy
C. Mechanizations of politics
D. Simplicity of lower class

December 2007

In which of these plays does Edward Albee use the ‘success’ myth?

A. A Zoo Story
B. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
C. American Dream
D. The Death of Bessie Smith

December 2004

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf is written by:

A. Arthur Miller
B. Eugene o’Neill
C. Edward Albee
D. Tennessee Williams

SAUL BELLOW

PAPER 2
JUNE 2006

Which one of the following author-book pair is correctly matched?

A. J.M. Coetzee- Shame

B. Saul Bellow- Herzog
C. Salman Rushdie- Disgrace
D. Elfriede Jelinek- The Pianist

June 2011

The character, Nathan Zuckerman, is associated with the fiction of

A. Norman Miller
B. Saul Bellow
C. Philip Roth
D. Bernard Malamud

RAY BRADBURY

Ray Bradbury has titled one of his short story collections- Golden Apples of the Sun- after the last line of
a W.B. Yeats poem

A. The Death of Cuchulain

B. The Peacock
C. The Hour Before Dawn
D. The Song of Wandering Aengus

ALLEN GINSBERG

PAPER 2

December 2009

Who among the following writers belonged to the American Beat Movement?

A. Allen Ginsberg
B. Mark Beard
C. Isaac McCaslih
D. Charles Beard

December 2006

Who among the following is called “A New England Poet”?

A. Robert Frost
B. Edwin Arlington Robinson
 C. William Carlos Williams
D. Allen Ginsberg

ANNE SEXTON

PAPER 2

SEPTEMBER 2013

Find the poet who is odd one in the group.

A. Wallace Stevens
B. Robert Lowell
C. Sylvia Plath
D. Anne Sexton

December 2014

What common link do you find among “The Disquieting Muses” by Sylvia Plath, “The Starry Night” by
Anne Sexton, “Mourning Picture” by Adrienne Rich, and “Musee des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden?

A. They inspired paintings

B. They are confessional poems
C. They are all inspired by paintings
D. They are all inspired by Van Gogh’s paintings

SYLVIA PLATH

PAPER 3

December 2013

‘The Medium is the message’ is a concept given by?

A. Ernest Hemingway
B. Sylvia Plath
C. Seymour Hersh
D. Marshal McLuhan

PAPER 2

June 2008

‘The Figure a poem Makes’ is an essay by

A. Henry James
B. Sylvia Plath
 C. Robert Frost
D. Wallace Stevens

June 2007

‘The page is printed.’ This is the last line in a poem by

A. Sylvia Plath
B. Dylan Thomas
C. Philip Larkin
D. Ted Hughes

Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song”

June 2010

Which post-war British poet was involved in a disastrous marriage with Sylvia Plath?

A. Philip Larkin
B. Ted Hughes
C. Stevie Smith
D. Geoffrey Hill

January 2017

Which among the following texts can be characterized as a lesbian Bildungsroman?

A. Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop

B. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
C. Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
D. Ruth Pawar Jahbvala, Heat and Dust

ROBERT LOWELL

PAPER 3

December 2013

One of the following was described by its author as “a poem including history”. Identify the poem.

A. Robert Lowell, Life Studies

B. William Carlos Williams, Paterson
C. Elizabeth Bishop, Questions of Travel
D. Ezra Pound, the Cantos

PAPER 2
December 2008

The title Things Fall Apart is drawn from a poem by:

A. W.B. Yeats
B. Ted Hughes
C. W.H. Auden
D. Robert Lowell

ELIZABETH BISHOP

PAPER 3

January 2017

Elizabeth Bishop’s poems are best remembered for their

A. Conversational intimacy
B. Intellectual tenor
C. Astringent satire
D. Urban topography

WILLIAM FAULKNER

PAPER 3

June 2012

The following phrases from Shakespeare have become the titles of famous works. Identify the correctly
matched group.

I. Pale Fire
II. The Sound and the Fury
III. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
IV. Under the Greenwood Tree
V. Of Cakes and Ale

a. Thomas Hardy
b. Somerset Maugham
c. William Faulkner
d. Tom Stoppard
e. Vladimir Nabokov

I—II—III—IV—V
A. e—d—c—a—b
B. d—e—b—c—a
 C. e—c—d—a—b
D. c—d—b—e—a

PAPER 2

December 2005

Select the matching pair

A. Dickens-Manchester
B. Faulkner-Yoknapatawfa
C. Joyce- Belfast
D. Lawrence- Birmingham

June 2008 and December 2010

The title of William Shakespeare’s The Sound and the Fury is derived from a play by:

A. Shakespeare
B. Marlowe
C. Webster
D. Ben Jonson

January 2017

William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying contains one of the shortest chapters in literary history. Which of these
sentences is the chapter in its entirety?

A. For the love of God, where is my hat?

B. My mother is a fish.
C. Addie Bundren was dead, to begin with.
D. Apricot jam is the worst sort of jam.

November 2017

Who made the comment that “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain
called Huckleberry Finn”?

A. Henry James
B. William Faulkner
C. Jack London
D. Ernest Hemingway

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

PAPER 2
December 2006

The line “A man can be destroyed but not defeated” appears in

A. For Whom the Bell Tolls

B. The Old Man and the Sea
C. The Snows of Kilimanjaro
D. The Sun Also Rises

December 2011

Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms is divided into

A. Two books
B. Three books
C. Four books
D. Five books

F.SCOTT FITZGERALD

PAPER 3

December 2015

The Gilded Age refers to a period of American history between 1870 and the first decades of the
twentieth century. Who among the following American writers is credited with the coining of the term?

A. F.Scott Fitzgerald
B. Mark Twain
C. William Dean Howells
D. Theodore Dreiser

GERTRUDE STEIN

PAPER 3

June 2013

In a classic statement that inaugurated Feminist thought in English, we read “A woman writing thinks
back through her mothers”. Where does this occur?

A. Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own

B. Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics
C. Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives
D. Mary Hiatt’s The Way Women Write

PAPER 2
December 2009

“The Lost Generation” is a name applied to the disillusioned intellectuals and aesthetes of the years
following the WWI. Who called them “The Lost Generation”?

A. H.L. Mecken
B. Willa Cather
C. Jack London
D. Gertrude Stein

December 2008

The term ‘a stream of consciousness’ is derived from the writing of

A. Mary Sinclair
B. Dorothy Richardson
C. William James
D. Gertrude Stein

June 2014

Derrida’s American disciples were

A. Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, J. Hills Miller

B. Gertrud Stein, Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan
C. Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan, Mary Ellman
D. Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari

SINCLAIR LEWIS

PAPER 3

December 2014

Here is a list of American words and wordmakers. Match the following.

Babbit: Sinclair Lewis

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

PAPER 3

June 2012

Match the following:

Tennessee Williams- A Streetcar Named Desire

Eugene O’Neill-Emperor Jones
Lorraine Hansberry- A Raisin in the Sun
Arthur Miller- After the Fall

PAPER 2

December 2006

Which of the following is not a play by Tennessee Williams?

A. Night of the Iguana

B. A Streetcar named Desire
C. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
D. The Zoo Story

ARTHUR MILLER

PAPER 3

June 2014

Willy in Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman compares Biff and Happy to the mythic
characters/figures

A. Venus and Adonais

B. Adonais and Hercules
C. Jupiter and Hercules
D. Venus and Hercules

PAPER 2

December 2004

Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman relies doe its tragic seriousness on the fate of:

A. Willy Loman
B. Estragon
C. Vladimir
D. Lucky

December 2005

Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is mainly about:

A. American Dream
B. American Imperialism
C. American Pragmatism
D. American Transcendentalism
EUGENE O’NEILL

PAPER 3

June 2015

What was the name of the experimental theatre group founded in 1915 by Susan Glaspell, Eugene
O’Neill and other dramatists in order to challenge Broadway’s control over American Drama?

A. The Wall Street Theatre Group

B. The Washington Square Players
C. The Actor’s Studio
D. The Provincetown Players

September 2013

Which of the plays in its Preface was described by Eugene O’Neill as ‘a play of old sorrow, written in
tears and blood’?

A. Desire under the Elms

B. The Hairy Ape
C. Long Day’s Journey into Night
D. Mourning Becomes Electra

PAPER 2

June 2014

Among the following playwrights, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1920?

A. Eugene O’Neill
B. Sean O’Casey
C. William Somerset Maugham
D. J.B. Priestly

SUSAN GLASPELL

ROBERT FROST

PAPER 3

November 2017

“You are your words. Your listeners see written on your face the poems they hear like letters carved
in a tree’s bark the sight and sounds of solitudes endured.” These are lines from a poem by ... on the
death of....
 A. T.S. Eliot; Robert Frost
B. Siegfried Sassoon; Wilfred Owen
C. Stephen Spender; W.H. Auden
D. Dylan Thomas; Robert Bridges

PAPER 2

September 2013

Who among the following poets defined free verse as playing tennis without a net?

A. Robert Frost
B. Ezra Pound
C. Philip Larkin
D. William Carlos Williams

WALLACE STEVENS

PAPER 2

December 2009

Wallace Stevens’ “The Man with the Blue Guitar” may be linked to the work of the following artist:

A. Modigliani
B. Chagall
C. Picasso
D. Cezanne

EZRA POUND

PAPER 3

January 2017

Match the periodical with their founder/s:

The Egoist: Harriet Weaver and Dora Marsden

The English Review: Ford Madox Ford
Blast: Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse: Harriet Monroe

PAPER 2

June 2009

Which of the following sets would you call the poets of the Movement?
 A. Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, John Wain
B. W.H. Auden, Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen Spender
C. T.S. Eliot, Richard Aldington, Ezra Pound
D. Alan Brownjohn, C.H. Sisson, Anthony Thwaite

June 2008

‘Il Miglor Fabro’ is the expression Eliot used for

A. Yeats
B. Beckett
C. Auden
D. Ezra Pound

June 2005

The poet who described poetry as “inspired mathematics” is:

A. T.S. Eliot
B. Hopkins
C. Archibald Macheish
D. Ezra Pound

December 2005

T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is dedicated to Il miglior fabro (“the better craftsman”) which refers to:

A. Ezra Pound
B. Baudelaire
C. Hopkins
D. Dante

December 2012

Who among the poets in England during the 1930s had left-leaning tendencies?

A. T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington

B. Wilfred Own, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke
C. W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, C.D. Lewis
D. J. Fleckner, W.H. Davies, Edward Marsh

June 2014

Who among the following is not an American modernist poet?

A. William Carlos Williams

B. Ezra Pound
 C. William Ellery Channing, the younger
D. Marianne Moore

July 2016

Who among the following is not an imagist?

A. Ezra Pound
B. W.B. Yeats
C. Amy Lowell
D. T.E. Hulme

July 2018

Which of the statements on Michael Robert’s Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936) is not true?

A. His anthology canonized modern poetry and poets for quite some decades
B. The Collection begins with the poems of Robert Bridges
C. Roberts omitted the Georgian poets in his anthology
D. Yeats, Eliot, and Pound find a place in the Faber Book of 1936

H.D.

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

E.E. CUMMINGS

PAPER 2

December 2008

Imagism is associated with

A. T.S. Eliot
B. E.E. Cummings
C. D.H. Lawrence
D. T.E. Hulme

EDITH WHARTON

HENRY JAMES

PAPER 3

June 2013

What did Henry James describe as “Loose Baggy Monsters”?

 A. Novels
B. The Spaniards
C. Epic Poems
D. His trousers

December 2013

In Henry James’ Ambassadors, there is a character who never appears in the novel. We get to know
about this significant person, however, from the other characters. Who is this character?

A. Maria Gostrey
B. Madame de vionette
C. Mrs. Newsome
D. Mrs. Sarah Pocock

PAPER 2

December 2013

“The story and the novel, the idea and the form, are the needle and thread, and I never heard of a guild
of tailors who recommended the use of the thread without the needle, or the needle without the
thread.”

This famous passage describing the relation of idea to form is found in

A. Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry

B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia literaria
C. Henry James, The Art of Fiction
D. I.A. Richards, Principles of Literary Criticism

December 2012

The Bloomsbury Group included British intellectuals, critics, writers and artists. Who among the
following belonged to the Bloomsbury Group?

A. John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey

B. E.M. Forster, Roger Cry, Clive Bell
C. Patrick Brunty, Paul Haworth
D. Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Walter Pater

June 2014

“The artist may be present in his work like God in creation, invisible and almighty, everywhere felt but
nowhere seen.” Henry James is talking here about the artist’s

A. Impersonality
B. Absence
 C. Presence
D. Creativity

Identify the incorrect factor in Henry James’ theory of the novel.

A. It should be sentimental
B. It should be objective
C. It should be realistic
D. It should be viewed as an artistic form

MARK TWAIN

PAPER 3

June 2012

Match the correct pair

George Eliot: Mary Anne Evans

Saki: H.H. Munroe
Emily Bronte: Ellis Bell
Mark Twain: Samuel Langhorne Clemens

PAPER 2

June 2005

Select the matching pair

A. Emily Bronte- Yorkshire Moors

B. Hardy- Scotland
C. Walter Scott- Ireland
D. Mark Twain- Yoknapatawfa

June 2012

In which of the following travel books does Mark Twain give an account of his visit to India?

A. A Tramp Abroad
B. Roughing It
C. The Innocents Abroad
D. Following the Equator

JACK LONDON

STEPHEN CRANE
CHARLOTTE GILMAN PERKINS

PAPER 2

December 2015

The following is the classic ending of a celebrated novella in English:

“I kept on creeping just the same, but I looked at him over my shoulder. I’ve got out at last.’ Said I, “in
spite of you and Jane. And I’ve pulled off most of the papers, so you can’t put me back !”

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had
to creep over him every time!”

A. Yellow Woman (Leslie Mormon Silko)

B. The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte P. Gilman)
C. Johny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Sylvia Plath)
D. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (Joyce C. Oates)

THEODORE DREISER

KATE CHOPIN

AMERICAN

PAPER 3

January 2017

Identify the right chronological sequence:

Sister Carrie-The Great Gatsby-Beloved-The American Pastoral

November 2017

Using a non-linear narrative, this American novel explores the psychic damage to a veteran of WWII and
shows how a measure of healing is attained through his acceptance of Laguna myths and rituals. Identify
the work:

A. Dred
B. Beloved
C. Ceremony
D. End Zone

December 2015

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in six volumes was a great achievement by Edward
Gibbon. It was published between 1776 and 1788, two significant dates that.
 A. Signaled the end of the Napoleonic wars and the rise of Feudalism
B. Signaled the American Revolution and the French Revolution
C. Covered the fall of peasantry and the rise of bureaucracy in England
D. Suggest the period of Queen Anne’s reign

American Dictionary of the English Language was the work of …. Published in….

A. Merriam Webster, 1903

B. H.L. Mecken, 1930
C. Noah Webster, 1828
D. Benjamin Franklin, 1768

December 2014

“Nasal tone” in speech is a distinguishing feature of…

A. British English
B. Scottish English
C. Australian English
D. American English

June 2013

Match the following lists:

The Power and the Glory: Mexico

The Quiet American.: Vietman
The Honorary Consul: Paraguay
The Comedians: Haiti

September 2013

Assertion (A): In the 1950s and 60s Baldwin and Ellison returned to universal themes and focused on
innovations in literary forms.

Reason (R): In the 1930s and 40s African and American literature was mostly preoccupied with protest.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

The best source for historical evidence of individual words in English is

A. The American Heritage Dictionary

B. Fennell
C. The Oxford English Dictionary
D. The Online Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary

December 2013
The Oxford Companions are handy reference volumes for teachers and students of English. Identify the
one volume that has NOT yet appeared in this series.

A. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English

B. The Oxford Companions to Canadian Literature
C. The Oxford Companion to American Literature
D. The Oxford Companion to Indian Literature in English

PAPER 2

December 2004

Imamu Amiri Baraka is:

A. A Carribean writer
B. An American writer
C. An Arab writer
D. A Sri Lankan writer

June 2006

Which famous American classic opens with “Call me Ishmael”?

A. Rip Van Winkle

B. The Scarlet Letter
C. The Grapes of Wrath
D. Moby Dick

December 2007

In which of the following American novels does ‘the Valley of Ashes’ occur?

A. Huck Finn
B. The Red Badge of Courage
C. Invisible Man
D. The Great Gatsby

June 2007

The term ‘American Renaissance’ was first used by:

A. R.W.B. Lewis
B. Leo Marx
C. F.O. Matthiessen
D. Richard Chase

Which of the following arrangements of American plays is in the correct chronological sequence?
The Hairy Ape-Mourning Becomes Electra-A Streetcar Named Desire- Death of a Salesman

December 2011

Isaac Bashevis Singer is an

A. African-American writer
B. American-Jewish writer
C. American-Indian writer
D. American-Asian writer

December 2012

F.Turner’s famous hypothesis is that

A. The Frontier has outlived its ideological utility in American civilization

B. The Frontier has posed a challenge to the American creative imagination.
C. The Frontier has been the one great determinant of American civilization
D. The Frontier has been the one great deterrent to American progress