Q.1. Simone de Beauvoir is the pioneer of:
(A) feminism
(B) structuralism
(C) poststructuralism
(D) phenomenology
Q.2. George Eliot was the pen name of ………….
(A) Mary Isaac
(B) Mary Ann Evans
(C) Anne Bronte
(D) Evans Ann
Q.3. Which of the following novels is not written by E.M. Forster?
(A) Where Angels Fear to Tread
(B) The Longest Journey
(C) The Room With a View
(D) Lord Jim
Q.4. Who wrote The Life of Samuel Johnson ?
(A) Charles Lamb
(B) William Hazlitt
(C) James Boswell
(D) Oscar Wilde
Q.5.Who among the following is not a British writer?
(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) E.M. Forster
(C) Thomas Hardy
(D) Ernest Hemingway
Q.6…………… is the only play where Shakespeare follows the classical three unities of time, place and action.
(A) The Tempest
(B) Midsummer Night's Dream
(C) Romeo and Juliet
(D) King Lear
Q.7.The term 'objective correlative' is associated with:
(A) Shelley
(B) Arnold
(C) Pope
(D) T.S. Eliot
Q.8. Who is the movement poet among the following?
(A) Shelley
(B) Yeats
(C) Larkin
(D) Hopkins
Q.9. Coleridge draws a distinction between Imagination and …………..
(A) Reason
(B) Fancy
(C) Inspiration
(D) Intellect
Q.10. Robert Browning is famous for his:
(A) ballads
(B) dramatic monologues
(C) odes
(D) elegies
Q.11. Who wrote Wuthering Heights?
(A) Emile Bronte
(B) Charlotte Bronte
(C) Anne Bronte
(D) Jane Austen
Q.12. The meaning of hamartia is :
(A) chorus
(B) imitation
(C) error in judgement
(D) purgation
Q.13. The line "Busie old foole, unruly sunne" is written by:
(A) Donne
(B) Marvell
(C) Herbert
(D) Quarles
Q.14. The author of Christ's Victory and Triumph is:
(A) Phineas Fletcher
(B) Giles Fletcher
(C) William Browne
(D) Joseph Beaumont
Q.15. 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
Q.16. The poem "Passage to India" is written by:
(A) Robert Frost
(B) Emily Dickinson
(C) E.M. Forster
(D) Walt Whitman
Q.17. Samuel Pepys is chiefly known as a:
(A) Diarist
(B) Novelist
(C) Playwright
(D) Poet
Q.18. One of the following novelists is called the poet laureate of market economy. Who is he?
(A) Samuel Richardson
(B) Henry Fielding
(C) Laurence Sterne
(D) Daniel Defoe
Q.19. Dryden's An Essay of Dramatic Poesy was first published in:
(A) 1668 (B) 1582
(C) 1764 (D) 1821
Q.20. ‘Kubla Khan' is written by:
(A) William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(C) John Keats
(D) P.B. Shelley
Q.21. Wagner is a character in :
(A) The Duchess of Malfi
(B) Doctor Faustus
(C) Every Man in His Humour
(D) The Jew of Malta
Q.22. ‘He is the perfect representative of what the age was trying to be, the man who move than anybody else helped society to go the way it wanted to go' is an observation about Joseph Addison's life and works by ………….
(A) Northrop Frye
(B) W.K. Wimsatt
(C) I.A. Richards
(D) Bonamy Dabrée
Q.23. "Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time."
These famous opening lines are from:
(A) Ode to Autumn
(B) Ode to a Nightingale
(C) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(D) The Prelude
Q.24. The Mill on the Floss is a tragic story of ………..
(A) two brothers
(B) a brother and a sister
(C) two sisters
(D) a husband and a wife
Q.25. The Mistakes of the Night is the subtitle of the play ………….
(A) The Rival
(B) The Comedy of Errors
(C) She Stoops to Conquer
(D) The Merry Wives of Windsor
Q.26. Heathcliff is a character in ………….
(A) Emma
(B) Jane Eyre
(C) Vanity Fair
(D) Wuthering Heights
Q.27. "Thus conscience does make cowards of all." This famous line is from:
(A) Macbeth
(B) Hamlet
(C) The Tempest
(D) Othello
Q.28. 'Cultural Studies' takes its outlook from …………..
(A) Saussure
(B) Raymond Williams.
(C) Julia Kriesteval
(D) Jameson
Q.29. 'Intertextuality' is a term coined by …………
(A) Gayatri Spivak
(B) Julia Kriesteva
(C) Jacques Lacan
(D) Roland Barther
Q.30. Practical Criticism was written by ………….
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) Dr. Johnson
(C) S.T. Coleridge
(D) I.A. Richards
Q.31. Saussure was a key figure in the modern revolutionary studies of ..............
(A) language
(B) literature
(C) culture
(D) history
32. The most influential of Homi Bhabha's contributions to postcolonial theory is his notion of ……………
(A) Productivity
(B) Orientalism
(C) Hybridity
(D) Liminality
Q.33. 'Mythos' in Aristotle's Poetics stands for ………….
(A) Plot
(B) Diction
(C) Character
(D) Music
Q.34. Logocentrism', a term ascribed to Derrida, refers to ………….
(A) the nature of western thought, language and culture since Plato's era
(B) the nature of eastern thought, language and culture from ancient times
(C) the values of liberal humanism
(D) the values of Enlightenment
Q.35. 'Structuralist Poetics' stresses on …………
(A) linguistic competence
(B) literary competence
(C) critical competence
(D) ideological competence
Q.36. For the New Critics, a poem is …………
(A) a historical document
(B) a well-wrought urn
(C) an expression of author's personality
(D) a reflection of society
Q.37. Out of 154 Sonnets, 126 of Shakespeare's sonnets are addressed to ………….
(A) Dark Lady
(B) Mr. W.H.
(C) Queen Elizabeth
(D) Lady Penelope
Q.38. The expression "Fair is Foul" occurs in …………..
(A) The Alchemist
(B) The Malcontent
(C) Macbeth
(D) The Broken Heart
Q.39. Everyman is an anonymous …………
(A) Elizabethan play
(B) Restoration comedy.
(C) Heroic play
(D) Morality play
Q.40. The term 'difference' has been coined by …………
(A) Sigmund Freud
(B) Jacques Lacan
(C) Jacques Derrida
(D) Deleuze and Guattari
Q.41. The 'Confederation Poets' is a group of poets in:
(A) Australian Literature In English
(B) Pakistani Literature inEnglish
(C) South Asian Literature
(D) Canadian Literature
Q.42. In "Tradition and the Individual Talent' Eliot presents his :
(A) Theory of Impersonality
(B) Theory of Prose
(C) Theory of Narrative
(D) Theory of Personality
Q.43. George Lamming is:
(A) an Australian poet
(B) a Canadian poet
(C) a Caribbean author
(D) an African author
Q.44. Donald Farfrae is a character in the following novel :
(A) Dubliners
(B) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(C) To the Lighthouse
(D) The Ages of God
Q.45. Treatise on Human Nature is written by:
(A) Francis Bacon
(B) John Milton
(C) David Hume
(D) D.H. Lawrence
Q.46. In Socrates' times rhetoric was condemned as :
the mother of lies
(B) incomprehensible style
(C) cheating
(D) ornate style
Q.47. 'I galloped, Dick galloped, we galloped all three' is an example of:
(A) synecdoche
(B) transferred epithet
(C) euphemism
(D) onomatopoeia
Q.48. Full fathom five thy father lies' is an example of :
(A) Assonance
(B) Alliteration
(C) Enjambment
(D) Apostrophe
Q.49. He shot down all my arguments' is an example of:
(A) Paradox
(B) Metaphor
(C) Personification
(D) Hyperbole
Q.50. ‘Breaking the silence of the seas’-- this line has a metrical variation, because one of the feet is :
(A) anapaestic
(B) trochaic
(C) dactyllic
(D) iambic