1. The document provides 30 multiple choice questions about Victorian literature, focusing on authors such as Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Lord Tennyson, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
2. It tests knowledge about the authors' works, including poems like "Fra Lippo Lippi", "The Last Ride Together", and "Dover Beach".
3. The questions also cover the authors' philosophies and styles of writing, as well as contextual details like Elizabeth Barrett Browning's profession and the year of her death.
1. The document provides 30 multiple choice questions about Victorian literature, focusing on authors such as Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Lord Tennyson, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
2. It tests knowledge about the authors' works, including poems like "Fra Lippo Lippi", "The Last Ride Together", and "Dover Beach".
3. The questions also cover the authors' philosophies and styles of writing, as well as contextual details like Elizabeth Barrett Browning's profession and the year of her death.
1. The document provides 30 multiple choice questions about Victorian literature, focusing on authors such as Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Lord Tennyson, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
2. It tests knowledge about the authors' works, including poems like "Fra Lippo Lippi", "The Last Ride Together", and "Dover Beach".
3. The questions also cover the authors' philosophies and styles of writing, as well as contextual details like Elizabeth Barrett Browning's profession and the year of her death.
1.Robert Browning’s tragedy ‘Strafford had been conceived and written in the mid-1830s at the earnest request of one of the great Victorian actors: (A) W. C. Macready (B) Gerald Bulworker (C) Bulwer Lytton (D) Charles Reade 2. Which of the following is not a work of Browning? (A) Paraceleus (B) Porphyria’s Lover (C) A Grammarian Funeral (D) The Brook 3. “Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband of stick in his coat-” Robert Browning wrote these lines about Wordsworth in: (A) Sordello (B) The Last Ride Together (C) The Lost Leader (D) Prospice 4. “God’s in His heaven, All’s right with the world.” These lines appear in Robert Browning’s: (A) The Last Ride Together (B) Porphyria’s Lover (C) Rabbi Ben Ezra (D) Pippa Passes 5. Fra Lippo Lippi is a/an : (A) elegy (B) dramatic romance (C) dramatic monologue (D) allegory 6. Fra Lippo Lippi is a/an: (A) Italian painter (B) German sculptor (C) Greek philosopher (D) French revolutionary 7. Browning had implicit faith in: (A) friendship (B) soul (C) God (D) nature 8. Home They Brought Their Warrior Dead is a poem composed by: (A) Lord Tennyson (B) Robert Browning (C) P. B. Shelley (D) Lord Byron 9. The longest poem in the English language written by Robert Browning is: (A) Sordello (B) The Last Ride Together (C) Evelyn Hope (D) The Ring and the Book 10. Which one of the following poems written by Robert Browning has the following lines: “O World as God had made it! ......and love is duty:” (A) Sordello (B) Andrea Del Sarto (C) The Guardian Angel (D) The Last Ride Together 11. Mathew Arnold is best known for his: (A) poetry (B) drama (C) novel (D) criticism 12. Who said about Shakespeare “Other abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge....” ? (A) Robert Browning (B) Matthew Arnold (C) A.H. Clough (D) Alfred Tennyson 13. What is Browning’s philosophy of life? (A) robust optimism (B) pessimism (C) mysticism (D) realism 14. Who knows but the world may end tonight”: These lines occur in: (A) Porphyria’s Lover (B) Rabbi Ben Ezra (e) The Last Ride Together (D) My Last Duchess 15. What does ‘del Sarto’ in Andrea del Sarto mean? (A) Son of a tailor (B) son of a duke (C) wife of a duke (D) beloved of a duke 16. “O World as God has made it all is beauty. The cuardian Angel And knowing this is love, and love is duty. Who wrote these lines: (A) A. L. Tennyson (B) Mathew Arnold (C) A. H. Clough (D) Robert Browning 17. ‘Poetry is a criticism of life’. The poet who preached this is : (A) Robert Browning (B) Mathew Arnold (C) Lord Tennyson (D) A.H. Clough 18. “In the domain of criticism we are still living in the age of Matthew Arnold.” Who said this about Matthew Arnold? (A) F. R. Leavis (B) T. S. Eliot (C) Wismatt (D) Tilotson 19. The Ring and the Book consists of: (A) 10,000 lines (B) 12.000 lines (C) 18.000 lines (D) 21.000 lines 20. “Rabbi Ben Ezra is the embodiment of all that is deepest in Browning’s philosophy of religion and morality.” Who said this? (A) Cazamion (B) Leigh Hunt (C) Hugh Walker (D) Rickett 21. Which of the following belongs to Browning? (A) The Seraphim (B) Ferishtah’s Fancies (C) Pacchiatrotto (D) All the above 22. “It is better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all.” These lines are composed by: (A) Milton (B) Tennyson (C) Homer (D) Spenser 23. Elizabeth Barret was a/an : (A) singer (B) poet (C) actor (D) advocate 24. Mrs. Browning died in : (A) 1861 (B) 1862 (C) 1863 (D) 1864 25. Name the poem that illustrates the renaissance enthusiasm for Greek learning: (A) Rabbi Ben Ezra (B) Prospice (C) A Grammarian Funeral (D) My Last Duchess 26. Which of the following poems is a tribute to Mrs. Browning? (A) My Last Duchess (B) One Word More (C) The Last Ride Together (D) Pippa Passes 27. Bishop Bloegram’s Apology by Browning is an: (A) dramatic monologue (B) ballad (C) epistle (D) allegory 28. Browning has composed Prospice. What does ‘Prospice’ mean? (A) Optimistic view (B) Tooking forward (C) Godly look (D) pessimistic view 29. Duke of Ferrara occurs in: (A) Dr. Faustus (B) Absalom and Achitophel (C) Morte d’ Arthur (D) My Last Duchess 30. In a Balcony by Robert Browning is a: (A) poem (B) novel (C) story (D) play 31. Browning is considered as the father of: (A) love poems (B) dramatic monologues (C) closet dramas (D) poetic-plays 32. Matthew Arnold is a/an : (A) egoist (B) pessimist (C) optimist (D) mystic 33. Who is the author of Merope, A Tragedy? (A) Matthew Arnold (B) Robert Browning (C) Elizabeth Barret Browning (D) Lord Tennyson 34. Which of the following is a narrative in epic style? (A) The Scholar Gypsy (B) Friendship’s Garland (C) Rugby Chapel (D) Sohrab and Rustam 35. Sohrab and Rustam is written in: (A) Ottava rima (B) Spenserian stanza (C) Blank verse (D) Heptameter 36. Who wrote Culture and Anarchy, playfully dividing English society into three constituent classes-a Barbarian aristocracy, a Philistine bourgeoisie and an unlettered ‘Populace’? (A) A. H. Clough (B) Matthew Arnold (C) John Ruskin (D) A. H. Auden 37. Rugby Chapel by Arnold is written on the death of his : (A) friend (B) daughter (C) father (D) wife 38. Name the elegy by Arnold on the death of Arthur Clough: (A) Rugby Chapel (B) The Scholar Gypsy (C) The Memorial Verses (D) Thyrsis 39. In which poems of Arnold do these lines appear? “Most men eddy about Here there eat and drink Are raised aloft, are hurl’d in the dust Striving blindly, achieving nothing And then they die-perish.”. (A) The Scholar Gypsy (B) Dover Beach (C) Rugby Chapel (D) In Isolation 40. The Princess (1847) is written by Tennyson in a (A) romantic style (B) mock-heroic style (C) epic style (D) comic style 41. Shakespeare by Matthew Arnold is a/an: (A) ode (B) lyric (C) sonnet (D) epic 42. How many poems are there in Tennyson’s The Idylls of the King? (A) 12 (B) 11 (C) 10 (D) 9 43. Identify the poet about whom it can be said that he is the greatest poet among English critics and the greatest critic among English poets: (A) S.T. Coleridge (B) John Dryden (C) Alexander Pope (DJ Matthew Arnold 44. The last poem which Tennyson wrote in anticipation of his death is: (A) The Dreamer (B) Lockley Hall (C) Crossing the Bar (D) Oenone 45. ‘Sohrab and Rustam is taken from: (A) Alam Ara (B) Roshanara (C) Babarnama (D) Shahnama 46. who advocated disinterestedness in literary criticism?” (A) T.S. Eliot (B) Alexander Pope (C) Matthew Arnold (D) William Wordsworth - 47. Which of the following works of Elizabeth Barret Browning was published in Cornhill Magazine in 1860: (A) The Cry of the Children (B) Aurora Leigh (C) Casa Guidi Windows (P) A Musical Instrnment 48. Which of the following is not a work of Charles Darwin? (A) The Voyage of the Beagle (B) American Addresses (C) On the Origin of Species (D) The Descent of Man 49. Identify the writer who visited India : (A) Macaulay (B) Carlyle (C) Ruskin (D) Walter Pater 50. A picaresque novel is : (A) A story told through a series of letters exchanged (B) A story of a rascal who lives by his/her wits (C) A narrative depicted through pictures (D) All the above 51 The poems: ‘Palace of Art’ and ‘A Dream of Fair Women’ were written by (a) Rossetti (b) Browning (c) Arnold (d) Alfred Tennyson 52. George Eliot wrote under the pseudonym of a man. Who was the man? (a) G.H. Lewes (b) G.B. Shaw (c) G. Tillotson (d) W. Allen 53. The Oxford Movement in the Victorian period started in the early (a) 1830s (b) 1840s (c) 1850s (d) 1860s 54. Life of Charlotte Bronte, one of best biographies is written by (a) Mrs. Gaskell (b) Charles Reade (c) Anthony Trollope (d) George Eliot 55. Name of the novelist who wrote Jane Eyre (1847) is - (a) Emily Bronte (b) Charlotte Bronte (c) Thackeray (d) Anthony Trollope 56. “Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers” appears in the work of (a) Shakespeare (b) Milton (c) Wordsworth (d) Tennyson 57. The leading philosopher and ardent advocate of the extension of democracy who wrote the essay On Liberty is (a) George Eliot (b) Matthew Arnold (c) John Stuart Mill (d) Thomas Hughes 58. What is the title of Ruskin’s digressive and evasive autobiography? (a) Essays on Myself (b) Praeterita (c) Loss and Gain (d) Apologia Pro Vita Sua 59. Who is the author of volumes of essays such as Modern Painters, Stores of Venice, etc.? (a) A.H. Clough (b) Matthew Arnold (c) Hopkins (d) Ruskin 60. Whom does Dorothea marry in the end in Middlemarch? (a) Casaubon (b) Lydgate (c) Ladislaw (d) Fred Vincy 61. Middlemarch published in 1871-72 which is very closely related to the determining spirit of the age, is set in the years (a) 1829-32 (b) 1839-42 (c) 1849-52 (d) 1859-62 62. Who wrote Essays on Milton? (a) Carlyle (b) Macaulay (c) Charles Reade (d) Mrs. Gaskell 63. Arnold reflects his despair at common human testing in the following lines: “Most men eddy about Here there — eat and drink Are raised aloft, are hurl’d in the dust Striving blindly, achieving nothing And then they die — perish.” In which poem do these lines occur? (a) The Scholar Gipsy (b) Dover Beach (c) Rugby Chapel (d) In Isolation 64. Who gave up the criticism of art for criticism of society, saying, “no one could go on painting pictures in a burning house”? (a) Rossetti (b) Ruskin (c) Carlyle (d) Arnold 65. Apologia Pro Vita Sua is the spiritual autobiography of (a) Henry Newman (b) Lewis Caroll (c) John Keble (d) Lockhart 66. A name connected with the Oxford Movement, he is the author of the novel Fabiola. Identify him from among the following: (a) W.G. Ward (b) Henry Newman (c) Cardinal Wiseman (d) Charlotte Young 67. Who is the author of poems such as The Blessed Domozel, Sister Helen, A last Confession and Rose Mary? (a) Swinburne (b) Tennyson (c) Morris (d) Rossetti 68. “Man for the field and woman for the hearth Man for the sword and for the needle she, Man to command and woman to obey All else confusion” This is an extract from Tennyson’s poem, in which he displays Victorian conservatism. Name the poem. (a) The Mary Queen (b) The Northern Farmer (c) Village Wife (d) The Princess 69. The Reform Bill in which the power was passed from aristocracy to the middle classes, came into being in (a) 1832 (b) 1836 (c) 1833 (d) 1838 70. Which of the following work of Thomas Carlyle has central figure Herr Teufelsdrock? (a) Sartor Resartus (b) Past and Present (c) The Life of Schiller (d) Ik the Great 71. Matthew Arnold’s “Switzerland” comprises ..........poems. (a) six (b) seven (c) eight (d) nine 72. Which of the following represents rural background? (a) Ramola (1863) (b) The Mill on the Floss (1860) (c) Scenes of Clerical Life (1857) (d) Adam Bede (1859) 73. Which work is considered a dissertation than a novel? (a) Emilia in England (1864) (b) Vittoria (1867) (c) Daniel Deronda (1876) (d) Ramola (1863) 74. Who is known for the ‘Condition of England’ novel? (a) George Eliot (b) Ann Bronte (c) Meredith (d) Benjamin Disraeli W.M. Thackeray was born in (a) Oxford (6) Kolkata (c) Paris (d) Virginia 75. The Egoist is a novel by— (a) W.H. Thakceray (b) Anthony Trollope (c) George Meredith (d) George Eliot 76. Hardy’s novels are known as (a) Waverly novels (b) Malgudi novels (c) Wessex novels (d) Lake novels 77. Which of the following volumes of Browning is best known? (a) Dramatic Lyrics (1842) (b) Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845) (c) Men and Women (1855) (d) The Ring and the Book (1869) 78. Gaskell’s unfinished novel is (a) North and South (b) Sylvias Lovers (c) Mary Barton (d) Wives and Daughters 79. Gaskell’s Cranford (1853) is less a novel than a series of (a) papers (b) speeches (C) poems (d) characters 80. Bleak House (1852) is a critique of (a) The Law courts (b) The school system (c) The industry (d) The rich class 81. Dickens’s Hard Times (1854) is a critique of (a) Romanticism (6) Law courts (C) Public schools (d) Science and industry 82. Becky Sharp and Amelia Sadley figure in (a) The Rose and The Ring (1855) (b) Rebecca and Rowena (1850) (c) The Virginians (1857-59) (d) Vanity Fair (1847-48) 83. Who among the following is not of the Bronte sisters? (a) Emily (b) Mary (c) Charlotte (d) Anne 84. Which of the following novels is considered the best of Thackrey? (a) The Book of Snobs (1849) (b) The History of Pendennis (1848-50) (c) Vanity Fair (1847-48) (d) The History of Henry Esmond (1852) 85. Meredith is best known by which of the following? (a) The Amazing Marriage (1895) (b) The Tragic Comedians (1880) (c) The Egoist (1879) (d) Sandra Belloni (1864) 86. George Meredith is a great .......... novelist of the Victorian Age. (a) historical. (b) social (c) psychological (d) political 87. Meredith’s novels express his attitude towards life. (a) pessimistic (b) optimistic (c) nihilistic (d) opportunistic 88. Erewhon is a well-known novel written by (a) Samuel Butler (b) George Gissing (c) Arnold Bennett (d) None of the above 89. Butler’s Erewhon stands for the country (a) America (b) England (c) New Zealand (d) India 90. The title of Butler’s Hudibras has been taken from (a) The Faerie Queene (b) Paradise Lost (c) The Pilgrim’s Progress (d) The Shoemaker’s Holiday 91. Who wrote The Importance of Being Earnest, mocking at the mid-victorian confidence and earnestness? (a) Oscar Wilde (b) Dickens (c) G.B. Shaw (d) Carlyle 92. Which famous character is always “waiting for something to turn up”? (a) Mme Defarge (b) Quilp (c) Pecksniff (d) Micawber 93. Dickens has attacked some legal or social evil in most of his novels, Identity. A. Oliver Twist 1. Imprisonment for Debt B. Bleak House 2. Workhouse C. Little Dorrit 3. Chancery Courts D. Nicholas 4. Exploitation of Pupils Nickleby Codes: A B C D (a) 2 3 1 4 (b) 4 1 3 2 (c) 3 2 1 4 (d) 1 4 2 3 94. We find the character of Mr. Bumble in (a) Oliver Twist (b) Nicholas Nickleby (c) Martin Chuzzlewit (d) David Copperfield 95. Matthew Arnold preached the value of (a) Hebraism (b) Hellenism (c) Philistinism (d) None of the above 96. Arnold’s “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” makes out a case for (a) the importance of critical activity for the creative output. (b) the value of criticism for market economy. (c) the function of criticism as aesthetic experience. (d) the function of criticism as “touch stone”. 97. Arnold’s “touch-stone” method values (a) All literary pieces (b) Only the best writing (c) Only English Writers (d) Only Greek classics 98. Arnold’s view of culture is best described by (a) Light and dark (b) Sweet and dark (c) Light and sweetness (d) Dark and sweet 99. Who wrote Marius, the Epicurean (a) T.S. Eliot (b) Ezra Pound (c) Matthew Arnold (d) Walter Pater 100. Who says, “To feel the virtue of the poet or the painter, to disengage it, to set it forth- these are three stages of the critic’s duty”? (a) Joseph Addison (b) S.T. Coleridge (c) Walter Pater (d) T.S. Eliot 101. Which play of Wilde has the subtitle A Trivial Comedy for Serious People? (a) The Importance of Being Earnest (b) Lady Windermere’s Fan (c) A Woman of No Importance (d) None of the above 102. Who established ‘Old Mortality Club”? (a) Keats (b) Shelley and others (c) Rossetti (d) Pater and others 103. Who is of the view that “Great art has the soul of humanity in it”? (a) Keats and ads to this? (b) Shelley (c) Coleridge (d) Pater 104. Which of the following is written in verse? (a) A Pair of Blue Eyes (b) The Dynasts (c) Under the Greenwood Tree (d) Desperate Remedies 105. The subtitle of The Dynasts is (a) An Epic-Drama of The War With Napoleon (b) The Story of the Oaks (c) After the Civil War (d) The Saga of a Royal Family 106. How many acts does The Dynasts boast of? (a) Three (b) Five (c) Seven (d) Nineteen
107. “On Liberty” was written by
(a) Carlyle (b) Rousseau (c) Newman (d) J. S. Mill 108. The Origin of Species came out in (a) 1857 (b) 1859 (c) 1858 (d) 1860 109. Uncle Remus is a fictional character created by (a) Harriet Beecher Stowe (b) Joel Harris (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll 110. The name of the magazine concerning the cause of the Pre-Raphaelites is (a) Jenny (b) The Germ (c) Goblin Market (d) The House of Life 111. “Sister Helen” is a poem by (a) John Ruskin (b) Christina Rossetti (c) D.G. Rossetti (d) Matthew Arnold 112. The title Vanity Fair has been taken from - (a) Euphues (b) Paradise Lost (c) Utopia (d) Pilgrim’s Progress 113. Which one is Gaskell’s first novel? (a) Mary Barton (b) Ruth (c) Cranford (d) North and South 114. Dunstan is a character from the novel (a) Silas Marner (b) Hard Times (c) Emma (d) Adam Bede 115. Which movement revived under Whitefield and Wesley? (a) Oxford Movement (b) Pre-Rephalite (c) Methodist (d) Chicago 116. “The Three Way Fairers” is a dramatization of a piece of fiction by Thomas Hardy. Which story is it? (a) Far From The Madding Crowd (b) Tess (c) The Three Strangers (d) Jude the Obscure