17Th century;

18Th century;

20Th century

73. John Donne was a central figure of a group of the 17th-century writers called the

University Wits;

Cavalier poets;

Metaphysical poets;

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

74. John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert belong to a group of the 17th-century writers called the

Metaphysical poets;

University Wits;

Cavalier poets;

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

75. Robert Herrick, John Suckling, Richard Lovelace belong to a group of the 17th-century writers called the

Metaphysical poets;

University Wits;

Cavalier poets;

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

76. The Metaphysical poets used the following in their poetry except a/an

paradox;

everyday speech;

conceit;

kenning

77. The Metaphysical poetry was

intellectual;

satirical;

shallow;

dramatic

78. John Milton wrote the following except

poetry;

pamphlets;

fairy tales;

epic

79. ‘Paradise Lost’, ‘Paradise Regained’, ‘Samson Agonistes’ belong to

John Donne;

John Milton;

Andrew Marvell;

George Herbert

80. John Milton was a

Puritan;

Royalist;

Humanist;

Tory

81. John Milton’s great epic poem ‘Paradise Lost’ was written in

prose;

sprung rhythm;

blank verse;

free verse

82. John Milton’s great epic poem ‘Paradise Lost’ was based on a/an

subject matter of the fall of man;

ancient legend;

popular song;

folk ballad

83. John Bunyan’s ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ is a

scientific essay;

pamphlet;

forceful allegory;

tragedy

84. John Bunyan, an important prose writer of the 17th century, composed his religious allegory

‘Anatomy of Melancholy’;

‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’;

‘Paradise Regained’;

‘Doctor Faustus’

85. He is considered the father of English criticism

John Bunyan;

John Milton;

John Donne;

John Dryden

86. John Dryden, a prominent 17th-century writer, was developing a/an

pamphlet;

ode;

elegy;

sonnet

87. Puritanism was a characteristic of the political and social life in the

Renaissance;

17th century;

18th century;

20th century

88. Robert Burton, Thomas Browne, Izaak Walton, John Bunyan are the main prose writers of the

17th century;

Renaissance;

18th century;

20th century

89. The framework of the 18th century is

1485-1625;

1625-1702;

1702-1798;

1066-1485

90. The 18th century is also known as the

Renaissance;

Enlightenment;

Restoration;

War of Roses

91. The English literature of the 18th century was dominated by

poetry;

prose;

comedy;

tragedy

92. Samuel Johnson composed his ‘Dictionary of the English Language’ in the

16th century;

17th century;

18th century;

20th century

93. ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ made famous this 18th-century poet

Robert Burns;

Thomas Gray;

Alexander Pope;

Jonathan Swift

94. A serious poem lamenting the death of an individual or group is a/an

madrigal;

essay;

elegy;

sonnet

95. ‘The Rape of the Lock’ was written by the greatest verse satirist of the 18th century

Robert Burns;

Thomas Gray;

Alexander Pope;

Jonathan Swift

96. Alexander Pope’s comic poem‘The Rape of the Lock’ is mocking the extravagance of the

drawing room society;

poor;

farming society;

clergy

97. Joseph Addison and Richard Steele are known for the creation of the

political pamphlet;

comedy of manner;

periodical essay;

morality play

98. The following are English periodicals and newspapers published at the beginning of the18th century except

‘The Tatler’;

‘The Spectator’;

‘The Examiner’;

‘The World’

99. A Scottish national hero and a poet of the18th century is

Robert Burns;

Thomas Gray;

Alexander Pope;

William Blake

100. Oliver Goldsmith, James Thomson, Thomas Gray, Robert Burns are the poets of the

16th century;

17th century;

18th century;

20th century

101. These were social centres for discussion of news, politics and the arts in the early 18th century

mead halls;

coffee houses;

saloons;

tabards

102. Daniel Defoe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’ was based on a/an

folk ballad;

ancient myth;

real event;

medieval legend

103. The following literary works are written by Daniel Defoe except

‘A Tale of the Tub’;

‘Robinson Crusoe’;

‘The True-Born Englishman’;

‘Moll Flanders’

104. Daniel Defoe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’ develops the theme of

racial prejudices;

solitary human existence;

love of nature;

war and peace

105. Originally ‘Robinson Crusoe’ by Daniel Defoe consisted of

1 part;

3 parts;

10 parts;

20 parts

106. A kind of writing that uses humour and wit to ridicule or criticize individuals or societies is a/an

parody;

satire;

irony;

anecdote

107. Jonathan Swift is a famous Irish satirist who wrote

‘Robinson Crusoe’;

‘Gulliver’s Travels’;

‘Clarissa Harlowe’;

‘Pamela’

108. Jonathan Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ is a bitter satire on the

doctors;

clergy;

human pettiness and follies;

tradesmen

109. ‘Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded’, ‘Clarissa Harlowe’, ‘Sir Charles Grandison’ are the novels by

Daniel Defoe;

Jonathan Swift;

Henry Fielding;

Samuel Richardson

110. Samuel Richardson’s novels ‘Pamela’, ‘Clarissa Harlowe’, ‘Sir Charles Grandison’ are

psychological and didactic;

humorous;

mysterious;

adventurous

111. Samuel Richardson’s novels ‘Pamela’, ‘Clarissa Harlowe’, ‘Sir Charles Grandison’ use a/an

epistolary technique;

parody;

free verse;

epigram

112. ‘Tom Jones’ was written by

Daniel Defoe;

Jonathan Swift;

Henry Fielding;

Samuel Richardson

113. Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson are the 18th-century

poets;

playwrights;

novelists;

essayists

114. ‘A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy’, ‘The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy’ are novels by

Jonathan Swift;

Laurence Stern;

Henry Fielding;

Samuel Richardson

115. ‘The School for Scandal’ is a famous play by

Richard Sheridan;

Jonathan Swift;

Daniel Defoe;

Laurence Stern

116. The framework of the Romantic Age is

1798-1837;

450-1066;

1702-1798;

1066-1485

117. A literary movement that exhibits a profound love of nature, a focus on the self, a fascination with the supernatural, a yearning for the exotic, and a passionate love of country is called

symbolism;

modernism;

romanticism;

naturalism

118. Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ was a famous

sentimental novel;

gothic novel;

adventurous novel;

didactic novel

119. Mary Shelley, Walter Scott and Jane Austen are the famous novelists of the

Renaissance;

Enlightenment;

Romantic Age;

Restoration

120. Jane Austen’s novels are often referred to as

historical novels;

gothic novels;

science fiction novels;

novels of manners

121. The following novels belong to Jane Austen except

‘Pride and Prejudice’;

‘Clarissa Harlowe’;

‘Sense and Sensibility’;

‘Emma’

122. They are all the characters from Jane Austen’s novels except

Jane Eyre;

Miss Bates;

Elizabeth Bennet;

Emma

123. The Romantic Age began by the product of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

‘Lyrical Ballads’;

‘The Remorse’;

‘Kubla Khan’;

‘Ivanhoe’

124. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats are prominent Romantic

novelists;

poets;

playwrights;

satirists

125. George Gordon Byron’s major works are the following except

‘Don Juan’;

‘Childe Harold’;

‘The Corsair’;

‘Christabel’

126. The essence of the English Romantic Age is contained in the works of

Walter Scott;

Mary Shelley;

Jane Austen;

a group of Romantic poets

127. The framework of the Victorian Age is

1798-1837;

1837-1901;

1702-1798;

1066-1485

128. Charles Dickens wrote the following novels except

‘Wuthering Heights’;

‘The Pickwick Papers’;

‘Oliver Twist’;

‘Great Expectations’

129. Which of the following is not a Bronte sister?

Charlotte;

Jane;

Emily;

Anne

130. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a real name of

Charles Dickens;

Lewis Carroll;

William Thackeray;

Thomas Hardy

131. Oscar Wilde was a representative of this movement

aestheticism;

naturalism;

realism;

impressionism

132. Oscar Wilde wrote the following except

‘The Happy Prince’;

‘An Ideal Husband’;

‘Jude the Obscure’;

‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’

133. In the Victorian Age a group of painters and poets who rebelled against the sentimental and wished to revive the standards of simplicity and directness notable in medieval Italian art before Raphael

the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood;

the Metaphysical poets;

the University Wits;

the Cavalier poets

134. Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Algernon Swinburne, Alfred Tennyson are the

Renaissance poets;

Romantic poets;

Postmodern poets;

Victorian poets

135. They are all the characters from Charles Dickens’ novels except

Mr. Micawber;

Becky Sharp;

Sydney Carton;

Uriah Heep

136. ‘Vanity Fair’ was written by

Charles Dickens;

Lewis Carroll;

William Thackeray;

Thomas Hardy

137. George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle were developing Victorian

novel;

poetry;

drama;

journalism

138. The framework of the Modern Period is

1798-1837;

1837-1901;

1702-1798;

1901-1945

139. The framework of the Postmodern Period is

1798-1837;

1945-present;

1702-1798;

1066-1485

140. They are the most remarkable 20th-century British playwrights except

George Bernard Shaw;

Samuel Beckett;

John Osborne;

Thomas Hardy

141. The group of young English dramatists ‘Angry Young Men’ wrote about the

lives of the working class;

English nature;

lives of the upper class;

scientific inventions

142. A technique of writing that imitates human thought with a continuous flow of thoughts, feelings, images, observations, and memories, mostly developed by James Joyce and Virginia Woolf

stream of consciousness;

sprung rhythm;

satire;

onomatopoeia

143. The novels ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’, ‘Sons and Lovers’, ‘The Rainbow’ belong to

James Joyce;

David Herbert Lawrence;

Joseph Conrad;

George Orwell

144. A recurring concern in David Herbert Lawrence’s fiction is the effect of the

Industrial Revolution;

theory of species;

totalitarian system;

feminist movement

145. The following George Orwell’s novel is a bitter allegory of the failure of Stalin’s Russia

‘1984’;

‘Animal Farm’;

‘Coming up for the Air’;

‘Homage to Catalonia’

146. George Bernard Shaw was a member of the

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood;

Fabian Society;

Bloomsbury Group;

University Wits

147. Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen are the English

Second World War poets;

First World War poets;

Metaphysical poets;

Graveyard poets

148. James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ is based on this ancient epic

‘Beowulf’;

‘Odyssey’;

‘Iliad’;

‘Paradise Lost’

149. James Joyce’s works deal mostly with everyday life in 20th-century

London;

Paris;

Dublin;

Edinburgh

150. This play does not belong to George Bernard Shaw

‘Waiting for Godot’;

‘Widowers’ Houses’;

‘Pygmalion’;

‘Apple Cart’

151. George Bernard Shaw’s plays, ridiculing the conventions of his time, are often called

morality plays;

comedies of ideas;

Restoration comedies;

comedies of manners

152. Iris Murdoch is famous for these novels except

‘The Black Prince’;

‘Under the Net’;

‘Lord of the Flies’;

‘The Good Apprentice’

153. They were awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature except

John Galsworthy;

George Bernard Shaw;

Thomas Hardy;

William Butler Yeats

154. They are all famous Irish writers except

James Joyce;

Charles Dickens;

Jonathan Swift;

George Bernard Shaw

155. ‘The Forsyte Saga’, a study of several generations in one wealthy family, made famous

Iris Murdoch;

John Galsworthy;

George Orwell;

James Joyce

156. Samuel Beckett’s play ‘Waiting for Godot’ refers to the

feminist literature;

stream of consciousness;

theatre of the absurd;

journalist literature

157. The hollowness of the values of the elite is portrayed in the satirical novels ‘Decline and Fall’ and ‘Vile Bodies’ by

Iris Murdoch;

George Orwell;

Evelyn Waugh;

James Joyce

158. Louis MacNeice, Dylan Thomas, Robert Graves are the famous English poets of the

17thcentury;

18thcentury;

19thcentury;