MODERN AGE NET QUESTIONS

1. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as part of the London locale in The
Waste Land?
(A)St. Magnus Martyr (B) King Arthur Street (C) St. Mary Woolnoth (D) Lower Thames
Street (December 2014 paper ii)
2. Which of the following novels by H.G. Wells is about the condition of England as
Empire?
(A) The Island of Dr. Moreau (B) The War of the Worlds (C) Tono-Bungay (D) The
Invisible Man (December 2014 paper ii)
3. Listed below are some English plays across several centuries: Twelfth Night, She
Stoops to Conquer, The Importance of Being Earnest, Pygmalion and Blithe Spirit.
What is common to them?
(A) All problem plays; scheming and intrigue (B) All tragedies; sin and redemption
(C) All ideologically framed; class and gender (D) All romantic comedies; love and
laughter (December 2014 paper ii)
4. The Uncertainty Principle is attributed to
(A) William James (B) John Dewey (C) Werner Heisenberg (D) Charles Darwin
(December 2014 paper ii)
5. Dylan Thomas is associated with the group _______.
(A) The New Apocalypse (B) The Black Arts (C) The Movement (D) Deep Image
Poetry (December 2014 paper ii)
6. Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a work associated with _______.
(A) Wilhelm von Humboldt (B) Ernst Cassirer (C) Immanuel Kant (D) Battista Vico
(December 2014 paper ii)
7. Surrealism is associated with
(A) Ernst Cassirer (B) Tristan Tzara (C) Henrik Ibsen (D) Andre Breton (December
2014 paper ii)
8. The Artist Hero is a theatrical creation emphasized by ________.
(A) W.B. Yeats (B) Charles Baudelaire(C) Oscar Wilde (D) Andre Gide (December
2014 paper ii)

9. 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 Goghs paintings. (December 2014 paper ii)
10. Heres a famous exchange from Arthur Conan Doyles Silver Blaze: is there any
point to which you would wish to draw my attention? / To the curious incident of
the dog in the night-time. / The dog did nothing in the night-time. What was
Sherlock Holmes response?
(A) Nothing ? Nothing at all? / Rather unbelievable. (B) That was the curious
incident. (C) Anything else, at all? (D) That sounds rather curious, dont you
think? (December 2014 paper iii)
11. The shrill, demented choirs of waiting shells, / And bugles calling for them from
sad shires. These lines are from Wilfred Owens:
(A)Strange Meeting (B) Futility (C) Anthem for Doomed Youth (D) Duke et
Decorum Est (December 2014 paper iii)
12. While the world moves/ In appentency on its metalled way / Of time past and
time future These lines are from:
(A) Little Gidding (B) Dry Salvages (C) Burnt Norton (D) East Coker
(December 2014 paper iii)
13. While foregrounding the marginal presence of women in history in A Room of
Ones Own, Virginia Woolf refers to ______ History of England.
(A) Campbells (B) Trevelyans (C) Sanders (D) Carters (December 2014 paper
iii)
14. Salonieis a play written by Oscar Wilde written in
(A) English (B) Irish (C) French (D) Italian (December 2014 paper iii)
15. In which of the following works Yeats developed his theory of gyres?
(A) A Vision (B) The Secret Rose (C) John Sherman and Dhoya (D) The Celtic
Twilight (December 2014 paper iii)
16. 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 artists

(A) impersonality (B) absence (C) presence (D) creativity (2014 June paper ii)
17. 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 (2014 June paper ii)
18. Match the items in List I with items in List II according to the code given
below:
List I (Novels)

List II (Characters)

i. Ulysses

1. Mrs. Moore

ii. A Passage to India

2. Molly Bloom

iii. To the Lighthouse

3. Gerald Crich

iv. Women in Love

4.Lily Briscoe

Codes:
i

ii

iii

iv

(A) 3

(B) 2

(C) 4

(D) 1

4 (2014 June paper ii)

19. Which among the following novels was not written in 1922?
(A) Ulysses (B) Jacobs room (C) Aarons Rod (D) A Passage to India (2014 June
paper ii)
20. A sudden blow: the great wings/beating still/ Above the staggering girl, her
thighs/caressed/
By the dark webs, her nap caught in/his bill, / He holds her helpless breast upon
his/breast.
Who is the author of the above lines?