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“History is not made only in statecraft; its lasting results are produced in the ranks of learned men.”
Name the play from which the above excerpt has been taken.

A

Mahesh Dattani’s Thirty Days in September

B

Vijay Tendulkar’s Silence! The Court is in Session

C

Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq

D

Rabindranath Tagore’s Mukta-Dhara

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Which of the following critics preferred Shakespeare’s comedies to his tragedies?

A

Samuel Johnson

B

Alexander Pope

C

John Dryden

D

Thomas De Quincey

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Lyrical Ballads, considered to be the manifesto of Romantic Poetry, was first published in the year ______.

A

1795

B

1797

C

1789

D

1798

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Identify the novel which opens with the following lines:
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

A

Jane Austen’s Emma

B

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

C

Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities

D

H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine

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Match the following authors with their pseudonyms:

Author	Pseudonym
i. George Eliot	a. Victoria Lucas
ii. Sylvia Plath	b. Currer Bell
iii. H. H. Munro	c. Mary Ann Evans
iv. Charlotte Brontë	d. Saki

A

i-d, ii-b, iii-a, iv-c

B

i-b, ii-a, iii-c, iv-d

C

i-a, ii-d, iii-b, iv-c

D

i-c, ii-a, iii-d, iv-b

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Which of the following books is considered as one of the sources behind T. S. Eliot’s poem, The Waste Land?

A

William James’ Principles of Psychology

B

Jessie Weston’s From Ritual to Romance

C

Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis

D

Sigmund Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams

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The epilogue to William Congreve’s The Way of the World, given below, signals some warning(s). What is/are it/they?
“Other there are whose malice we’d prevent,
Such, who watch plays, with scurrilous intent
To mark out who by characters are meant.
These, with false glasses feed their own ill nature,
And turn to libel, what was meant a satire.”

A

Critics should always be supportive of the author.

B

Critics should not look for portrait of real people in the play’s characters and remember that the play is a social satire.

C

Critics should avoid writing malicious reviews, lest they are accused of libel.

D

Critics should try to identify the real life equivalent for each character.

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2023 · English · History of English Literature and Literary Studies · English Literary Traditions across Time

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Who published the novel The Bell Jar under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas?

A

Dorothy Richardson

B

Virginia Woolf

C

Sylvia Plath

D

Alice Walker

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In which collection did Walt Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself” first appear?

A

Two Rivulets

B

November Boughs

C

The Golden Bough

D

Leaves of Grass

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Which of the following is a novel by Charles Dickens?

A

The Old Curiosity Shop

B

The Old Wives’ Tale

C

The Old Bachelor

D

One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Stephen Dedalus is a recurring character in the works of __________.

A

James Joyce

B

H. G. Wells

C

P. G. Wodehouse

D

H. Lawrence

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Which of the following novels opens with the sentence, “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”?

A

Sense and Sensibility

B

Pride and Prejudice

C

Mansfield Park

D

Emma

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Identify the writers who are referred to as ‘metaphysical poets’:

A

John Donne

B

Andrew Marvell

C

Philip Larkin

D

T. S. Eliot

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Which of the following poems did Robert Browning intend to write as a play?

A

“Men and Women”

B

“Dramatis Personae”

C

“The Inn Album”

D

“The Ring and the Book”

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The ‘Age of Reason’ in English literary history is popularly known as:

A

The Medieval Period

B

The Neo-classical Age

C

The Romantic Age

D

The Victorian Age

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Identify the ‘Lake Poets’:

A

Byron, Shelley, Keats

B

Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron

C

Byron, Southey, Wordsworth

D

Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey

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Identify the commonality shared by the authors of Mansfield Park and Middle March:

A

Both the novels were authored by men who were sent on exile.

B

Both the novels were authored by political prisoners.

C

Both the novels were written by children who were not allowed to publish their works.

D

Both the novels were written by women who wrote under pseudonyms.

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Who said, “Poetry makes nothing happen”?

A

Marianne Moore

B

Ezra Pound

C

Wallace Stevens

D

W. H. Auden

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Match the following excerpts with their authors: (P) “He rose from the table; and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand, said: somewhat alarmed at his own temerity: ‘Please, Sir, I want some more’.” (Q) “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.” (R) “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” (S) “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

A

(P)-(iii), (Q)-(iv), (R)-(i), (S)-(ii)

B

(P)-(iv), (Q)-(iii), (R)-(ii), (S)-(i)

C

(P)-(iii), (Q)-(ii), (R)-(i), (S)-(iv)

D

(P)-(i), (Q)-(iv), (R)-(ii), (S)-(iii)

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The 1667 edition of Paradise Lost had 10 books. How many more were added to the 1674 edition?

A

2

B

4

C

6

D

12

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