1. The first part of Beowulf opens in a. Norway b. Sweden c. Denmark d. London 2.

Which of the following concept is associated with Rushdie a. Imagined Communities b. Ambiguous Communities c. Parallel Communities d. Imaginary Homeland 3. The Vampire novel has its genesis in the discussion among Shelley, Mary Shelley, Byron and a. Bram Stoker b. Gregory Lewis c. Polidori d. Beckford 4. The term gothic originally referred to a. Architecture b. Painting c. Criticism d. Warfare 5. When Anna Karenina met Vronsky she had......... number of children a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4 6. Jeremy Colliers pamphlet was a direct attack on a. Elizabethan theatre b. Restoration theatre c. Comedy of humours d. University wits 7. Darkling Thrush is a poem looking forward to the a. 17th century b. 18th century c. 19th century d. 20th century 8. When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloomed mourns the death of a. Jefferson b. Abraham Lincoln c. Kennedy

d. George Washington 9. The term subaltern was introduced by a. Paulo Fryer b. Antonio Gramsci c. Spivak d. Bhabha. 10. Sherlock Holmes is partially modelled on Conan Doyles teacher a. T S Eliot b. W B Yeats c. Joseph Bell d. W H Auden 11. The character Marlow narrates Conrads novel Chance ,Heart of Darkness and a. Almayers Folly b. Lord Jim c. Nostromo d. The Arrow of Gold 12. The tramp characters of Samuel Beckett were influenced by a. Sean OCasey b. J M Synge c. G B Shaw d. Albert Camus 13. Erewhon in the novel Erewhon by Samuel Butler is a. Name of a country b. Name of a ship c. Name of a group of mysterious savages d. Name of the protagonist 14. Clarissa is the protagonist of the novel a. Mansfiled Park b. Mrs Dalloway c. Power and Glory d. Finnegans Wake 15. Who describes the artist in the following lines There mark what ills the scholars life assail Toil ,envy ,want , the patron and the jail a. Dr Johnson b. Alexander Pope c. Matthew Arnold d. T S Eliot 16. Which Irish writer explores Irish history and culture in the novel

The Wild Irish Girl (1806), subtitled A National Tale a. James Joyce b. Samuel Beckett c. G B Shaw d. Sydney Owenson. 17. Hannah and Sarah More are associated with............. kind of fiction a. Science Fiction b. Chick lit c. Childrens Fiction. d. Kailyard Fiction 18. Charles Darwins work The origin of Species was written in the year a. 1858 b. 1859 c. 1860 d. 1857 19. Name the sequel to King Solomons Mines (1885) by Rider Haggard a. King Solomons Mines Part II b. Sheba and the Golden Mines c. Allen Quatermain (1887) d. King Solomons Mines III 20. The Strange Case of Dr .Jekyll and Mr.Hyde is a novel that deals with multiple personalities written by a. Lewis Carroll b. Robert Louis Stevenson. c. H G Wells d. Henry James 21. Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) collaborated with which novelist in writing novels like The Inheritors (1901) and Romance (1903). a. Albert Camus b. Herman Hesse c. Hemingway d. Joseph Conrad 22. Which First World War poet writes in his Diaries that he was shocked to hear the stories of women enjoying the tales of violence inflicted on the German Soldiers? a. Kipling b. Edward Thomas

c. Sassoon d. Wilfred Owen 23. James Joyce wrote three stories, "The Sisters," "Eveline," and "After the Race," under the pseudonym a. Bloom b. Finnegan c. Molly d. Stephen Dedalus 24. The character of Katherine Hilbery in Virginia Woolfs Night and Day is loosely based on a. Lady Robert Cecil b. Janet Case c. Anne Thackeray Richie d. Violet Dickinson 25. Who was brave or foolhardy enough to edit Finnegans Wake down into a shorter edition? a. David Lodge b. Anthony Burgess c. Alain de Botton d. Samuel Beckett 26. Tottel's Miscellany (1557) contained the songs and sonnets of a. Wyatt and Surrey b. Wyatt and Raleigh c. Surrey and Sidney d. Sidney and Spenser 27. John Dryden is called the father of English Criticism by............ a. Alexander Pope b. Dr Johnson c. Charles Lamb d. Matthew Arnold 28. Ugolinos brave words and Beatrices loving words to Virgil are cited by Arnold as examples of a. Historical fallacy b. Personal estimate c. Touchstone passage. d. Purple Patches 29. Whom does Arnold call The Pseudo Shelley? a. Swinburne b. Morris c. D G Rossetti

d. C G Rossetti 30. Crites in the Essay of Dramatic Poesy stands for Drydens brother in law. a. Sir Robert Howard. b. Sir Charles Sedley c. Thomas Shadwell d. William Congreve 31. Who says that poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world and makes familiar objects as if they were not familiar a. Shelley b. Coleridge c. Wordsworth d. Keats 32. Who coined the term new criticism? a. T E Hulme b. Joel E Spingarn c. J C Ransom d. F R Leavis 33. Which poem by Chaucer is influenced by Boccaccio...... a. The Book of Duchess b. The house of Fame c. Legends of Good Women d. Troilus and Criseyde 34. Who wrote poems Expressing his love for Penelope Devereux. a. Sir Philip Sidney b. Spenser c. Surrey d. Wyatt 35. Cynewulf is a poet of the ..... period a. Old English b. Middle English c. Elizabethan d. Victorian 36. World Literature is a term introduced by a. Hegel b. Said c. Goethe d. Bhabha 37. Tin Drum and Cat and Mouse are novels written by a. Knut Hamson

b. Albert Camus c. Gunter Grass d. Thomas Mann 38. T S Eliot appreciates the Jacobean dramatists and the ........... poets for their direct sensuous apprehension of thought. a. Cavalier. b. Pre Raphaelite c. Neo classical d. Metaphysical Poets. 39. Which critic thinks that Paradise Lost lacks human interest a. Wordsworth b. Dr Samuel Johnson. c. Pope d. Lamb 40. Which Scottish writer maps Scotlands history and culture in the novel The Scottish Chiefs a. Walter Scott b. Jane Porter . c. James Thomson d. Mac Diarmid 41. The three parts of the novel To The Lighthouse are The window ,the lighthouse and a. The Christmas party b. The Christmas Dinner c. Time Passes d. The Voyage 42. Cardinal Newman was associated with which movement? a. Cambridge Movement b. Reformation c. Utilitarianism d. Oxford Movement 43. Two key texts that are major contributions to feminist theory by Virginia Woolf are A Room of Ones Own and a. Between the Acts b. Three Guineas c. Letter to a Young Poet d. The Years 44. Who refers to the two uses of language, referential and emotive? a. I A Richards b. F R Leavis

c. TS Eliot d. Matthew Arnold 45. The hyacinth character referred to in the Wasteland is a character from Greek mythology who died a. While playing quoits b. During the war with the Titans. c. While trying to rescue his friend d. During his encounter with Zeus. 46. Which one of the following novelists wrote a bildungsroman a. George Eliot b. Thomas Hardy c. Boris Pasternak d. Albert Camus 47. Ambivalence is a post colonial term used by a. Said b. Rushdie c. Fannon d. Bhabha 48. "I guess the man's a genius, but what a dirty mind he has, hasn't he?" this is a comment on James Joyce by a. Nora Joyce b. The Queen Mother c. Val Doonican d. TS Eliot 49. D H Lawrences novels are located in a. Waverly countryside b. Yorkshire countryside c. Wessex countryside d. Nottingham countryside 50. Who wrote the essay "The Day of the Rabblement," attacking the Irish Literary Theatre for catering to popular taste. a. James Joyce b. W B Yeats c. J M Synge d. Sean O Casey ANSWER KEY
1. C 2. D 3. C 4. A 5. A

6. B 7. D 8. B 9. B 10. C 11. B 12. B 13. A 14. B 15. A 16. D 17. C 18. B 19. C 20. B 21. D 22. C 23. D 24. C 25. B 26. A 27. B 28. C 29. A 30. A 31. A 32. B 33. D 34. A 35. A 36. C 37. C 38. D 39. B 40. B 41. C 42. D 43. B 44. A 45. A 46. A 47. D 48. A 49. D 50. A