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(A) JamesI (B) ElizabethI
(C CharlesI , (D) Mary
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3. Epithalamionis a
(A) love song (B) narrative poem
(C) nuptial song : . (D) dirge.
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4. JohnWebster'sWhite Devil is 8,

(A) Brachiano (B) Vittoria

(C) Bosola (D) Julia

5. Which oneof thefollowingis,inprose

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(A) TheMonk'sTale (B) TheKnight,sTale
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7. Whichof the followineis Milton's'l*s work?
(A) L Allegro (B) Il Penseroso
(C) SamsonAgonistes (D) ParadiseLost j:-
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8. Dryden's Mac Flecknoeis a satiredirectedat

(A) Denham (B) Steele
(C) Addison (D) Shadwell

9. Identify the work that is NOT allegorical. :

(A) The Pilgrim's Progress (B), The FaerieQueene
(C) Everyman (D) All for Love

10. The conceitof gold beatento airy thinnessoccursin the poem entitled
(A) A Valediction, Mourning (B) The Extasie
Forbidding
(C) AValediction of Weeping (D) Love'sProgress
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11. In which play doesthe ProvisoSceneoccur?

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(A) The CountryWife (B) The Way of the World

(C) TheMan of Mode (D) Marriagea la Mode

12. The guard at the gatesof Hell in ParadiseLost is

(A) Beelzebub (B) Belial
(C) Sin (D) Moloc

13. Apart from SherlockHolmes,who is the most important charucterin Doyle's fiction?
(A) Dr. Bateson (B) Dr. Watson
(C) Dr. Johnson (D) Dr. Morrison

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L J . Book III of Gulliver's Travelsdepictsthe world of
(A) Lilliput (B) Brobdingnag
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', (C) Houyhnhnms (D) Laputa

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16. Who is knownasthe 'Ploushmanpoet'?
(A) Burns (B) Wordsworth
(C) Southey (D) Thomson

17. Vindicationof the Rights of Womenwas written by

(A) Margaret Fuller (B) Mary Wollstonecraft
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(A) a tragedy (B) a comedy
(C) a novel (D) an epic

t 9 . 'The Bard' is a poem by

(A)- Gray (B) Collins
(C) Young! (D) Cowper

20. The idea of spotsof time occursin

(A) Christabel (B) PrometheusUnbound
(C) The Prelude (D) The Prisonerof Chillon

2 L Becky Sharpis a characterin

(A) David Copperfield (B) Vanity Fair
(C) Middlemarch (D) A Tale of Two Cities

22- which oneof the followingis Nor a work by ThomasHardy?

(A) The Pictureof Dorian Gray (B) Tessof theD'Urbervilles
(C) The Woodlanders (D) The Trurnpet-Major
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(A) Arnold (B) Shelley
(C) Keats (D) Byron

24' Which one of the following is from the later and matureperiodof Dickens' career?
(A) Martin Chuzzlewit (B) PickwickPapers
(C) Oliver Twist (D) GreatExpectations
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25. "The LeadenEcho and the GoldenEcho,' isa poem by

(A) Yeats (B) Hopkins
(C) Auden (D) Hardy
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(A) Mr. BennetandMrs. Brown (B) Mrs. Dallowav
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Room (D) The Waves

27. Whatis characteristic

of Shaw'splays?
(A) Theyarefull of action. (B) They have no stagedirections.
(C) Stagesettingis not important., (D) Theyhqye$ri$1g.nre-faces,

28. 'Thingsfall aparf,th. ..n#.'.urrrrothold,.

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I he hne occursin a poemby
(A) T. S, Eliot (B) Ezra Pound
(C) W B. Yeats (D) Dylan Thomas

29. Theplays of William SomefsetMauglarn resemble

(A) Restorationdrama (B) Sentimentaldrama
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30. The threebestknown JewishAmericannovelistsare
(A) Edith Wharton,GertrudeSteinandWilla Cather
(B) RichardWright, Ralph Ellison and JamesBalclwin
(c) BernardMalamud, SaurBellow and Norman Mailer
(D) NathanielHawthorne.SaulBellow and Herman
Melville

3 1 . Death of a salesmanembodiesthe tragedyof a common

man who believesin materialistic
v a l u e sH. i s n a mei s
(A) Biff ( B) W illy Lor nan
(C) Happy Loman ( D) Char lie

32. HoneyandNick, MarttraandGeorgearecharacters

in
(A) Albee's ,Who's
Afraid of VirginiaWoolf?,
(B) Genet's'Balcony'
(C) Odets''the adding Machine,
( D ) M i l l e r 's'T h eC ru ci b l e '

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33. which of the following is the backgroundin almost
alr of Frost,spoetry?
(A) Califomia l
(B) Georgia
(C) Chicago (D) New England

34. The nameof Tristram'sfatherin TristramShandy

is
(A) Walter (B) roby
(C) Yonick (D) Trim

35. Which of the following is in a dialoeueform?

(A) Apologiefor poetrie (B) Defenceqf Poetry
( C ) Es s a )o, f D ra rn a tiP
c o csi e (D) Biographia
Literaria

36. The useof commonman'slanguagein poetry

wasemphasised
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(A) P.B. Shelley (B) John Keats
(C) William Wordsworth (D) Williarn Blake
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37. Stephen is associated
Greenblatt with
(A) New Historicism (B) Marxism
(C) Formalism (D) Structuralism

38. The concept'Horizonof Expectation'is centralin

(A) Reader-Response
Criticism (B) PostcolonialCriticism
(C) FeministCriticism (D) StructuralistCriticism

39. Which of the following novelshasNOT beenwritten byV. S. Naipautr?

(A) A Housefor Mr. Biswas (B) The Mimic Men
(C) The Mystic Masseur (D) The River Between

40. In 'Prefac'eto Shakespeare',

Dn.Johnson
comic elements. /
(A) admires (B) discards
(C) justifies (D) overlooks

41. The collectionof poemsentitled StationIsland is written by

(A) Louis MacNerce (B) ElizabethJennings
(C) Ted Hughes (D) SeamusHeaney

42. Identifotheauthorwho is NOTAfrican-American.

(A) ToniMorrison (B) JamesBaldwin
(C) MargaretAtwood (D) Amiri Baraka

43. Which of the following is the most recenttravelogueby V. S. Naipaul?

(A) India:A Million MutiniesNow (B) India:A WoundedCjvilization
(C) The Middle Passage (D) An Area of Darkness
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44. Which of the following is NOT a novel by MargaretDrabble?
' (A) The E)'e of the Needle (B) A ClosedElze
(C) The RadiantWa), (D) Reahnsof Gold

45. Which of the following is a novelby Kiran Desai?

(A) That Long Silence (B) Voicesin the City
(C) Rich Like Us (D) The Inheritanceof Loss

46. 'Through every star,througheveryblade of grass,is not a God madevisible?'

This is an exampleof
(A) inversion (B) a rhetoricalquestion
(C) free repetition (D) an exclamatoryquestion

47. 'Belindasmiled,and all the world was gay'.

The line is an exampleof
(A) pathetic fallacy (B) paradox
(C) hyperbole (D) transferredepithet

48. 'The Assyriancarnedown like the wolf on the fold,

And his cohortswere gleamingin purple and gold'.
The basicmetricalpatternin theselines is
(A) amphibrach (B) trochee
(C) dactyl (D) anapaest

49. 'l madea garlandfor her head,

And braceletstoo, and fragrantzone'.
The basicmetricalpatternin theselines is
(A) iambic (B) anapaest
(C) trochaic (D) dactyl

50. 'While meltingmusic stealsuponthe sky,

And soften'dsoundsalongthe watersdie'.
The soundelfectusedin theselines is
(A) internalrhyme (B) consonance
(C) alliteration (D) assonance